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Call for Action to
Force Safe Release
OF Four at Leipzig
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quick actions in line with this pro-
gram.
7. That funds are urgently needed
for defense, relief and to save the four
defendants and to aid all victims and
that therefore every city organize a
broad collection campaign for the
week Of January 81 to % inclusive.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-At least 11s
kilograms protesting the Reichstag
fire trial and demanding the safe re-
lease of the framed Communists were
sent by organizations to proper chan
nels in Germany and the United
States during the past ten days, it
was announced by the Chicago Com
mittee to Aid the Victims of German
faScism.
Many protests were sent which the
Committee has no record of. 1t was
also announced that at least is COM
mittees visited the local German Con-
sulate protesting the frame-up. The
Committee also pointed out as sig
nificant the recent protest of the
Consul, who said he was sick and
tired Of being beseiged by commit
tees, when visited by a committee of
artists.
Beside reaching many union locals
and organizations the committee has
established a research branch, pro-
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Boston Trial Tomorrow
BOSTON, Dec. 26.-Trial has been
set for tomorrow morning (Wednes-
day) for six workers arrested during
the demonstration last week in pro-
test against the Nazi Reichstag fire
and for the immediate and safe re-
lease of the four Communist defend
ants, admission of whose innocence
the worldwide mass protest has
wrested from the Nazi Supreme Court.
The six workers are Anna Halpern,
Sara Barr, Alice Burke, George Rob-
bins, Saul Gilman and Charles Car
roll. The trial will take place in
Room los, Pemberton Square Court,
at $3.50 am, before Judge Carr, who
has just sentenced five workers to
three months in Jail for demonstrat-
ing against the appearance of the
Nazi agent Schoenmann at the Ford
Hall Forum.
They will be defended by Benjamin
George Love, Boston Commander Of
the Jewish War Veterans, who has
volunteered his services, and by DON
aid Burke, District Secretary Of the
LID, who, although not an attorney,
has been given power of attorney by
three of the defendants.
All workers and anti-fascists are
urged to pack the court in militant
protest against the railroading of
these workers to Jail.
ERIE, Pa, Dec. 26.-Twenty-two
resolutions demanding the release of
the four framed Communists in the
Reichstag trial were passed at organ
izations and mass meetings here.
More extensive plans were made for
further protest at a successful meet
ing of the Committee to Aid the Vic
TINS of German Fascism last Thurs
day.
Support in the task of aiding fas-
cist victims in Germany is being
given by many Ger1nan-American
The Floyd Odell, Negro club, is
arranging a bazaar for this week, half
of the proceeds to go to aiding Of
victims of fascism.
ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec. 26.-The
Finnish Federation subdistrict of the
Pacific Coast has cabled Leipzig,
Germany, and Hans Luther, German
Ambassador in Washington, demand
ing the immediate release Of the four
trial victims.
NEWARK, Dec. 26.-The Arbeiter
Saenger Bund of America national
organization with membership of
5000, has passed a resolution de-
manding the immediate safe release
of Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff and
Popoff.
SUPERIOR, Wis, Dec. 26.-The
Workers and Farmers Cooperative
Unity Alliance, in the name of its
1000 members sent resolution to
Hans Luther, German Ambassador
in Washington, charging the Nazis
with being the incendiaries of the
Reichstag fire and demanding the
immediate and safe release of the
four innocent Communists.
BUSH PRAIRIE, Wash, Dec. 49,
The Hackinson Farmers Club of
Brush Prairie, Washington, at their
regular meeting voted to send a pro-
test against the atrocities of the Hit
Ter regime, against the beheading of
the six workers in Cologne, against
the mass arrests of anti-fascists, and
for the immediate safe release of
Torgler, Dinitroff, Taneff and Popof.
BOSTON, Dec. ga mass meeting
last Thursday under the auspices OF
the Communist Party, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and the Boston
Committee to Aid the Victims OF Ger
man fascism enthusiastically accepted
the patronage on behalf of New En-
gland workers over the victims of
fascism in the district of Saxony,
Germany.
Fifty dollars was raised as the first
step towards helping the wives and
children of political prisoners there.
A group of students and professors
from nearby universities contributed
SIS.
WORCESTER, Dec. 26.--Two hun
bred workers raised Sis for the VIC
TINS of German fascism and changed