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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

There Is perhaps no other example
IN history OF secret revolutionary
movement with completely equipped
organization and an effective influ-
ence extending over the whole coun-
try, being able to develop in SO short
time. Practically every one of the
larger factories contains secret
revolutionary group; in almost every
district in the larger towns illegal
organizations and printing presses are
at work; almost every day in Berlin,
Hamburg, Essen, Leipzig and other
industrial cities, anti-Fascist hand
bills, leaflets and posters appear in
the streets, local strikes break out
in all directions; and the feelers of
this organization are manifestly
stretching right into the cohorts of
the Nazi Storm Troops.
This entire movement has come
into existence in within three or four
months Of Hitler's coup d'etat. And
1t will be stronger than any of its
forerunners.
Its characteristic is that OF a sober
minded, scientific organization of
struggle and conspiracy and a milf
tary mass formation, which lays hold
not Of small individual groups, but
Of an entire social class. This or
ganization, which socially and polit-
ically is not based only upon the
thirteen million former Socialist and
Communist electors in Germany is
today logging Hitler's every footstep.
In few months time 1t may become
more dangerous for him than all the
old parliamentary opposition parties
which he has hurled with xucn ease
into the abyss. 4sss
Revolutionary Groups Of Five
It's core lies In the so-cal!ed revo-
dictionary groups OF FIVE. a novel form
of anti-Fascis, organization, which,
under Communist leadership. has
taken the place of the former party
unions and associations. These
groups of five cover practically the
whole of German industry; almost
ell the factories and the majority
of the more important ofnces are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

Socialist Workshop Organization
(N.S.B.O). In most cases the entire
staff is simply forced to come into
the N.SBO. by the summoning OF a
detachment of armed Storm Troops
or by the threat of instant dismissal
But at the same time there enters
the revolutionary group of five,
which often Immediately becomes
the most active element inside the
N.S.B.O. They begin Sin the name
of National Socialism" by urging the
N.S.B.O. to put forward demand
for an increase of wages-for before
his victory. Hitler promised higher
wages for all workers. They force
the N.SBO. always, in the name
and under the protection OF the
former Nazi program, to demand the
fulfilment of the old demagogic
promises, shorter working hours, i'm
proved working conditions, and the
removal Of unpopular directors OF
officials.
Wave of Strikes Result
The result is that in the last few
weeks the first wave of strikes since
Hitler's victory has broken over Ger
many (though strikes are forbidden
in the Hitler State), that in numer-
Gus cases the management in Nazi
factories has been compelled Off
cially to postpone" the intended
wage reductions for two months
that the Nazi "Reichs Association OF
Industrial Employers" addressed a
protest to the Chancellor against the
attitude of the N.S.B.O. and that
Hitler has come into conflict with a
large number Of his own local
NS.B.O. organizations, and indeed
has been obliged to dissolve some OF
them for being tainted with Marx
ISM"
Thus the revolutionary groups Of
five who are concealed inside the
Fascist N.S.B.O. achieve twofold
result; they disorganize the National
Socialist economic and party appa-
ratus, and they dispel the illusion
spread among ~ maAsss a The
AQl1HM r NJ 6mn0uoW
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Louisville Relief
Workers Charged 40
PC. More for Scrip

Louisville, KY.
Dear Comrades:
The State Relief Director, lib
eral lat a $4,000 a year plus all
expenses salary got a write-up in
one of our strongest capitalist
papers here. I want to expose some
of his lies.
In this city we unemployed never
did receive 25 cents per hour till
August 7th. Then we got raise of
5 cents for s hours per day. In
the county sections they receive Is
cents per hour for ten hours per
day. building fine roads for the rich
to drive over.
He says they paid from 81 to $40
for relief work per week: another
d. lie. The most any of us ever
got was Sc. Then you had to have
about ten kids to get that. The
average would run about 81 per
week. The rest of the $40 was
graft for the bosses.
We are charged % to 40 per cent
more by the groceryman on the
lousy scrip than if we had cash
So don't be fooled by this liberal
write-up by the bosses agents.
You will notice also that Mrs
Woods has done good job starv-
ing the children of the workers.
Now they are going to advance her
to the job CT starving the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

honeycombed with them.
Each group comprises approx
inlstely five persons, who as far as
possible are employed in the same
section, industrial and Office workers,
who formerly belonged to bodies OF
varied political complexions-.to the
Social Democratic Trade Unions, to
the Reichsbanner, to the Christian
Societies, to the Communistic R. G.
o. Red Trade Union Opposition)-
or even were quite unorganized and
politically indifferent. Together
these persons form small, compact,
secret brotherhood, who In their
hatred of the Hitler dictatorship and
in defense against Nazi terror have
become completely amalgarnated
have buried all previous differences
and pursue only one policy-anti-
Fascism.
Police Proof Organization
Because each group Of this kind Is
limited to just a few persons, 1t is
almost invisible from outside and al
most unsuitable; how can one follow
up and control conversations and
meetings of four or five persons
during a rest interval inside fac
tory. in a private house during 9
radio performance, or on an excur-
sion into the woods on Sunday?
In the larger workshops there are
dozens Of such groups of five, which
work independently Of each other
as far as possible and often are not
mutually acquainted. Should group
be discovered and arrested (or
elected from the shop the others
carry on. But they are co-ordinated
from above. the leadership and cen
trail direction of all the groups Of
five in a town or in local indus
trial establishment are in the hands
of higher authority, of a narrower
and more exclusive conspiratorial or
ganization, the "sub-district COM
mittee," consisting of q few expert
enced revolutionaries.
New Forces Always Available
The contact between this local
center and the workshops Is gener-
ally maintained by one individual,
the revolutionary workshop inspec-
tor" who holds the threads of all
the groups of five in one single
workshop THIS works inspector ha
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Italy, Hungary and
Austria Aim Blow
at Hamburg Trade

VIENNA, Aug. 24-DiverSion OF
Central European overseas exports
from Hamburg to the Italian port
of Trieste is one of the anti-German
measures in the Italian Austrian
Hungarian bloc which Mussolini has
finished negotiating with Chancellor
Dollfuss of Austria and Premier
Gomboes of Hungary.
In order to gain the traffic for
the Italian port, they will offer
great advantages, including special
tariffs for all Austrian and Hun
garian traffic to the Adriatic Sea.
The Austrian Federal Railways
will gain in another way, since the
road to Trieste from the chief pro-
ducing centers of Austria is much
longer than the road to the German
or Czechoslovakian frontier.
This blow to German trade is ac-
centuated by the fact that Poland
is also carrying on a trade war
against German ports
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

have gathered in years OF struggle
against the capitahst-landlord die
sstorship.
The ABC secret society was re-
ported ready to agree to this, and to
allow the army and police to carry
out their work, now that both are
In its control through the govern
nent, in which the ABC plays a
chief role.
Soldiers Patrol Streets
Soldiers and police are patrolling
the streets and parks of Havana and
Santiago, with orders to break up all
demonstrations Of workers.
While the Abe party announced
its plan to carry out Fascist scheme
of reorganization of the workers, fol-
lowing the recognition Of the revo-
lutionary Confederation Nacional
Obrera de Cuba through the dock
workers strike, the reactionary or
ganization of a section of the stu
dents of the University of Havana is
sued a manifesto demanding a die
tatorial government.
This was a response to demon
stration recently of 1000 students
led by the revolutionary student or
ganization, who demanded that the
government take an anti-imperialist
stand, and carry through the division
Of land among the peasants.
Revolutionary demonstrations con-
tinued in Santiago, where the mayor,
De las Vegas, was reported barricad-
ed in the city hall, refusing to sur
render.
More than 1000 men seized two
prisoners from soldiers and killed
them. The prisoners were Victor
Vizcay, former mayor of San Luis,
and Joaquin Ramos, former army
sergeant, both supporters Of Ma
chado.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Rule Forces Palisades
Relief Workers to
Work In Rain

NEW YORK-Relief workers In the
Palisades Interstate Park were given
the following notification recently:
NO employees will leave the job
on Rainy Days without the permis-
sion of his Foreman or SUBJ Forman.
Any employee taking leave on these
days without such permission will bs
paid for the actual time he worked
on the job
The purpose of this ruling Is to
make the foreman the judge as to
how hard it must rain before he tells
the workers to knock off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
In Groups of Five, Led by Communists, Anti
Nazi Forces Penetrate Everywhere, Fight
Hitler on All Fronts, Despite Terror

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those who. have accepted the Ma
tional Socialist regime.
Constant Anti Fascist Action
The groups Of five flood the fac
tories with anti-Fascist propaganda
material which they receive from the
local anti Fascist centers. Even the
Fascist newspapers in Germany have
lately mentioned this pest" and
have demanded 'Draconian counter
measures" Revolutionary factory
newspapers Oittle handwritten or
typewriter sheets, which are pub
lished for a single workshop, hand
bills, leaflets, small paper strips with
few fighting slogans or bits of news
are stuck up daily in the factories,
pasted on the walls, on the machin-
cry, in the lavatories, on the doors
of the workers home before he leaves
in the morning. The whole fronts
Of houses in the working class areas
are covered with revolutionary slo-
gans in paint which is difficult to
wash off.
The Nazis have caught dozens OF
people, especially youths, at this job
and have sent them to concentration
camps or penitentiaries (the average
punishment for such acts or for dis
tributing revolutionary literature in
connection with this has been raised
during the past few weeks from six
months to eighteen months impris-
onment); but the walls Of the houses
and the fences still continue their
protest against Hitlerism. In this
way it has been possible to revive
courage and give q fresh assurance
to the masses OF the workers who in
the first days Of the revolution and
the terror seemed to be paralyzed by
fright.
Work Inside Trade Unions
But still more important is the
other effect Of the groups of five.
The whole official Trade Union lead
ership IN the factories, the settle
ment Of wage rates, relationship
wfb ths employers and 20 On, are
~ bAn ~ hAad9 q ~ xD1iolml
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Wheat Surplus" Grows

the most dangerous post in the en-
tire anti-Fascist organization, for he
knows both the staff in the work.
shops and the secret addresses Of
the local centers. The whole atten-
ton of the Hitler police, and of the
factory management which the Nazis
appoint, is mainly directed to, the
discovery of these people. But that
only happens in the rarest cases, and
the anti-Fascist fighting spirit is so
strong in the German factories that
reinforcements and substitutes are
always to be found-frequently from
the ranks Of those who used not to
be in the least interested in polit-
ical affairs. The whole Of this secret
machinery is in fact now the sole
practical form in which the political
thought and will OF millions Of men
who have been reduced to silence in
Hitler's "Totalitarian State" can re-
alize itself. -0
Aim to Win All Workers
The purpose of the groups of five
is to revolutionize whole workshops,
whole groups Of industrial and Of
flee workers, and to undermine the
new economic organization Of the
Hitler State, which, like Mussolinis
prototype, must be founded on the
Fascist corporations of the workers,
of the so-called National Socialist
Workshop Organization" (N.S.B.O).
The Nazis, who have suspended all
Trade Unions and independent labor
bodies, are endeavoring by means of
coercion and propaganda to force all
the workers into their N.SB.O. or
ganization, where under the COM
mand of Na1 leaders they will be-
come the second line of the "Totali-
tartan State" Of which the Storm
Troops and the 8. s. form the first
line. And the revolutionary groups
Of five are in fact nothing else than
the opposite poles Of these State Or
CARNATIONS Of the Nazis in the fac
tories. They constitute a serious
danger to the entire Hitler expert
ment of the corporate State" for
their work consists not merely in
bringing together and holding to-
gether the elements which we're al
ready anti-Fascist, but also in lead
ing an offensive for the moral cap
ture Of the remaining WQgA 1R.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Chinese Red Army
Begins New Drive
in Fukien District
Swatow Under Martial
Law-Crops Saved
from Officials

SHANGHAI, Aug. 24-Swatow, on
the Chinese coast north of Hongkong,
was under martial law today as the
workers started an uprising,
This action will divert the anti
Communist 10Th Route Army from
the regions north of Annoy, in Fukien
Province. where the Red Army from
the Soviet districts of Kiangsi is
starting another offensive
The recent drive toward Lungyen
which the Red Army held week and
then gave up, was not failure. 1t
succeeded in its purpose of covering
the gathering of the crops on the out
skirts of the Soviet district.
Word was also received yesterday
that Chingwangtao, in Chingkin
province, North China, which is held
by the Japanese, had also been placed
under martial law.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
MussOlini Combines
All War Forces, Makes
Himself War Minister

ROME, Aug. 24.-Premier Mus
solini will take over the new minis
try of national defense, under which
all Italy's land, naval and air forces
will be concentrated, it was learned
here today.
General Italo Balbo will be made
chief of staff of the amalgamated
forces. Dino Grand, turned out of
the post of foreign minister some
time ago, will be given the post
back. Almost all other heads and
under-secretaries of departments
will be shifted in a wholesale
shake-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Government Will Demand
Wheat Destruction Soon
Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, Threatens
Wholesale Dumping and Acreage Cuts in
Effort to End Farm Crisis

: ment pays for the difference between
the world price and the price at
which the wheat is dumped.
Wheat Surplus" Grows
LONDON, Aug. 24-Dismayed by
the largest supply of unused wheat in
the history Of the world, delegate;
from thirty -one countries met here
yesterday to decide on some plan OF
price regulation and production res
friction. The Soviet Union, one OF
the three largest producers of wheat
in the world, has not been invited
The delegates meet at the moment
when the reports indicate that in the
last month the worlds enormous sup
ply of surplus" wheat has been in
creased by another 100000 bushels
The United States has 40 per cent
of the billion bushel world surplus,
it was announced.
The largest capitalist wheat pro-
ducers, the United States, Argentina
Australia, and Canada are trying to
establish some kind of division OF
markets for their wheat. Their an
tagonisms, have only resulted in the
raising of higher wheat tariffs, wheat
dumping, and price wars.
The wheat tangle is still further
complicated by the attempt of each
country to guarantee itself wheat
supply in case of war.
Meanwhile, the price of bread is
being raised in all countries as a re-
suit of the tariffs and processing
taxes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Colombian Crowds
Drive Judge Out at
Foreclosure Sale

CALI. Colombia, Aug. a. - Hun
dreds of small property owners in
his city of 10000 drove local judges
and their secretaries from town on
Aug. IA when an attempt was made
to foreclose a mortgage against Mario
Botero. and to auction off the prop
erty of Manuel Collabos.
Exploding giant fire-crackers, the
pre-arranged signal that the cases
we're coming up in court, brought
thsongs hurrying to the court, where
the proceedings were broken up.
Almost every small property In the
city is heavily mortgaged to the
banks, and the whole city is aroused
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

!. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-As it be
comes clearer every hour that the 81
capitalist nations now trying to es-
tablish some kind of wheat agree
ments are hopelessly deadlocked,
Secretary of Agriculture, Wallace, an
nounced today that he is prepared
to demand the destruction of Is per
cent of the U. s. wheat crop.
In addition, he declared that the
United States will embark on an ex-
tended program of wheat dumping
in foreign markets. He called his
dumping" proposals Subsidized ex-
ports, a plan whereby the Govern
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Capitalist Writer Says Party Has Created
Revolutionary United Front in All Big Fac
tories, With Mass Revolutionary Basis -

Editors Note.--OnIy few weeks
ago, the capitalist press of the
world was still declaring that the
Communist Party of Germany had
gone the way of all other political
parties but Hitler's, to. death.
Meanwhile, from day to day, the
Daily Worker has been printing
factual accounts of the widespread,
heroic activities of the Communist
Party.
Today the capitalist press is COM
PEELED to recognize not merely that
the Communists of Germany are
indicated, but that they eonsti-
tute the most powerfully organized
revolutionary force in the capital
ist world, that they are rapidly
preparing for the day when they
will smash Fascism.
We reprint below a non- Com
munist account of the Party in
Germany, which is published in
two Of the leading European jour-
nails of capitalist opinion, the
"Neuwe Rotterdamsche Courant,"
Hollands greatest newspaper, and
the New Statesman and Nation"
Great Britain's leading liberal
weekly, whose editor writes about
it:
"The facts as set out by the
writer are, we believe, not open to
question"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
Review Is Climax of
Japanese War Games

TOXIC, Aug. 24.-More than 100
Japanese warships, returning from
Japan's most impressive sea maneu-
vers, will be reviewed tomorrow by
Emperor Hirochito off Yokohama.
This years maneuvers, carried out
with the whole battle fleet, under
the greatest secrecy, were designed to
work out tactics against an invasion
from the American side of the Pa
cific.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25

CHICAGO, III. - A hunger march
will be held Aug. 80, demanding adop-
ton of the Chicago Workers Relief
Ordinance, Is per cent increase in
relief and no discrimination against
Negro workers. The Mayor has been
forced to grant permit for the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
CUBAN CHIEFS PLAN TO
DISARM WORKERS AS Abe
OFFERS FASCIST SCHEME
soldiers Patrol Streets to Break Up Workers
Demonstrations -Reactionary Student
Group Calls for Dictator

disarm the revolutionary workers and
by the Cpedes cabinet
capitalist Landlord party announced Fascist
to "syndcaize'
military
military
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
HITLER PAL JAILED

VIENNA, Aug. "a. - Councillor
Mayrhofer, son of Adolf Hitler's
former guardian, and a close friend
sf the Nazi chief, was arrested at
linz todar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-25
BY ERNST HENRI

Is there still a Germany today
apart from Hitler? 1t appears to be
unthinkable. The news which comes
from Germany daily speaks of sud-
den transformation of an entire ma
tion-of the end of all parties, of the
disappearance of all non National
Socialist organizations and leaders.
of the cessation of all non-Fascist
thought. There is nothing outside
Hitler. That is the truth, but it is
only half the truth. The other half
is the existence Of new subter-
ranean revolutionary Germany.
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which the wheat is dumped.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
SEATTLE WOULD RUN
PHONES AND SELL GAS.
City Already in Light and Power,
Water, Street Car Businesses,
Plans New Ventures.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCldteQ fTeSS.
SEATTLE, October 20-Already in
the light and power, water and street
Car businesses, Seattle now is considering
two more propositions operation of its
own telephone exchange and retail SELL
ing of gasoline.
City officers say the municipalities
business ventures have been in the in
terest of reducing the high cost of liv-
ing. but the consequent expansion of
credit often has made it difficult for
city employees to get their salary war
rants cashed. Bankers have been eye
ing the mounting debts with disfavor
The proposed telephone business is
the brain-child of the Board of Public
Works. The board asked the City
Council Wednesday for $500 to study the
feasibility of the city operating its own
telephone exchange to connect city hall,
police and fire departments and school
district offices-this to counteract an
anticipated yearly bill of something like
$4,000 from the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph Co.
Free service has been given the city
by the telephone company as compen-
sation for the use of Seattle streets for
telephone poles since the expiration OF
the telephone franchise several years
ago. The city intends to present
the telephone company a bill for $44l
a day for using the streets, and the
company is expected to retaliate with
q bill for its service.
Evening star., 1933-10-20
INSURANCE OFFICIAL
LOOKS FOR RECOVERY
Franklin B. Mead Doubts Whether
It Will Be Advanced
Under N. R. A.

B. the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 2O.-Regardless
Of the outcome of the national re-
coVery act in restoring business pros
perity to the country Franklin B.
Mead, vice president of the Lincoln
National Life Insurance Co. said he
looked for a continuance of recovery
Speaking before the convention of the
American Institute of Actuaries. Mead
said that, while he doubted that
recovery would be advanced under
the N. R. A., he believed it might elm
mate injurious competitive conditions
In business.
In criticism of the N. R. A. he said:
You cannot increase purchasing power
by decreasing production you cannot
increase wealth by curtailing produc-
ton for the sake Of increasing price,
nor will a nation become wealthy by
having more dollars; you canont in
crease the purchasing power or raise
the standard Of living of community
except by increasing the goods and
services it consumes"
Evening star., 1933-10-20
Sisters Inherit Strauss Estate.

NEW YORK, October 20 [P1.-Nathan
Strauss. an organizer and first presi-
dent of the Free Synagogue OF New
York City and former president OF the
Chamber of Commerce OF Portland
Greg. who died last Saturday, divided
his estate equally among his three sis
ters, Bella, Clara and Ella Strauss. all
of New York. in his will. filed yester-
day. The estate was valued formally
at over $4,000"