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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
MILK PRICES UP
HIT CHILDREN
5 Cents;
Higher Prices Loom

NEW YORK. Following the ac-
ton of the State Milk Control Board
in fixing minimum prices for milk,
effective today, the retail price of
milk scared in many cities Of the
state. Milk has been selling for 4
and cents q quart in sections of
Brooklyn and the Bronx and on the
East Side of Manhattan. The new
minimum price drives the costs Of
milk for the toiling masses up to 9
cents for store milk and 10 cents for
milk delivered at horne. That the
minimum price is merely a starting
point for continued price increases is
evident from reports that the price
of milk is expected to rise to IL or
10 cents before the end Of the sum-
mer. Thousands Of children Of the
working class, already undernour-
ished from lack Of sufficient food will
be deprived of this essential food and
thousands more will now be exposed
to malnutrition and other serious d.
seaSeS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-18
TammanyHaUPlays
With the Lives of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Vim. Patterson, National Secretary of /. L. ID.
Exposes Politicians

NEW YORK.-Tammany made a
grand stand play, Sunday night, to
turn the issue of the lives of nine
innocent Negro boys facing death in
Alabama into its own political foot
ball.
The issues of life and death TO the
Negro people, art to the poor white
workers of the South and of the
United States, we're sldetracked for a
lying eulogy of Tsmmany by Mayor
O'Brien, John H. McCooey, Brook
lyn Democratic leader, in what was
supposed to be a Scottsboro protest
meeting at Arcadia Hall in Brook
lyn.
William l.. Patterson, national sec
rotary Of the International Labor De-
Tense, billed to speak at the meet
ing, was put off by the Tammany
politicians until 1 o'clock in the
morning, when over half of the fif-
teen thousand who jamned tie hall
to hear about Scottsboro, had left.
In stirring speech, which held
the 5000 Negro and white workers
in the hall glued to their seats even
at that late hour, he exposed the
maneuvers Of Tannmany, in lash
ing attack upon O'Brien, McCooey,
and the other denagogues, exposing
their lies and their motives Of di-
verting the huge surge OF anger Of
the masses against the Scottsboro
lynch verdict
O'Brien Praises His Relief"
When Patterson rose to speak, the
Tamr1any demagogues, who had al
ready spoken, and who we're on the
platform with him, rose and left the
hall.
Mayor O'Briens speech was a full
some eulogy of the relief system"
OF New York city, which keeps thou
sansd of Negroes and whits workers
in starvation, and has resulted in
thousands of deaths in Harlem, the
East Side, Brownsville, and other
poor sections Of town from hunger,
cold and sickness,
81 haven't read the record, so
can't say much about Scottsboro,"
Mayor O'Brien said
This country was founded on
justice" Magistrate Sabatini, no.
toriousfy vicious in his treatment Of
Negro and white workers, said, plead
ing with the workers present 10 pat
thssr fAith b tbs q, 9. AxHe1es
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
PdctfSm!

AT THE present moment warship with unmuzzed
q guns of the United States fleet is anchored in the
waters near large Cuban plantation where the
workers have seized the sugar mills.
The mills are owned by Percy Rockefellef and Vim
sent Aston, two American mult1-milhonatres OF the
wall Street financial clique wasn't Roosevelt guest
on Vincent Astor's private yacht recently?)
Twenty other American destroyers within gun
fire Of the workers quarters Of Havana ready to open
up bombardment at any moment
Why? To protect private property"-'to maintain
law and order" SAYS the Roosevelt government.
But it is to protect the sugar plantation invest
nnents of the Morgan National City Bank, and
Wall Street finance that the United States fleet is in
Havana It is to force the Cuban sugar workers back
on to the slave plantations where Wall Street can
again sweat enormous profits out of them 1t is to
protect Wall Street loans that Roosevelt sends the fleet
70 Cuba.
And on top of ali this group of paciflsts from the
Peace House send the following congratulatory tele
gram to President Roosevelt;
eve representatives Of peace and religious
organizations extend you our hearty congratula-
tons upon your avoidance OF armed intervention
in Cuba. We urge the withdrawal of battleshps
as soon as their need for relief of refugees per-
nits"
How typical this is Of pacfsm! The presence Of
gunboats carrying regiments of marines with I'M
Esaeathed bayonets-ths Is not intervention!
If the Japanese inperalist government to send
twenty batteShips to New York Harbor to maintain
Mw and order and TO protect refugees" would the
ladies and gentlemen Of the Peace Society consider 1t
armed intervention not?
To protect refugees! What Is this If not playing
right the hands of the imperiast Roosevelt gov
ernment? it not by exactly such that every
raperaIist country has always justified its armed
trstion of other countries?
Did not Japan rape Manchuria and lombard Shang
hal protect japanese citizens and to maintain law
and order?"
The Cuban workers who the long shining muzzles
Of the American fleet and hear the cank of machine
guns aboard know that the Roosevelt government has
already declared WAR against the revolutionary up
rising Of the Cuban workers and peasants.
DACIFISM always denounces tbs inperialist aggres-
sion of other countries To the innperialist inter
vention of its own government it is always blind
That is why part of the fight against war Is fight
against pacfist Illusions
What must do is not to congratulate Roosevelt,
but to rouse the of this country to the fact
that Roosevelt has already interviewed in Cuba that
of armed forces in Cuba means WAR against
the Cuban
We must expose merclessly every war move every
war preparation of the Roosevelt government.
And not the least of tasks is to reveal the true
meaning of such kilograms as the Peace Society sent
TO the White House.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
Hold Conferences
ON .Jobless Aid in
Detroit, Cleveland

DETROIT, Mich.-Workers and
farmers delegations from all parts
Of the state are expected at a con-
ference called for October and
s in Grand Rapids, Mich. A state
wide campaign for unemployment
insurance and against the vicious
state sales and head taxes which
affect both workers and farmers
will be discussed.
A call issued by the committee
states:
''The sales tax and head tax, put
across by the Constock admins
tration under the mask of taxing
rich and poor alike, relieves the
rich bankers and manufacturers of
millions of dollars in taxes and
further places the full burden of
the economic crisis upon the al
ready impoverished, over-burdened,
industrial workers and farmers.
The head tax serves to cleverly dis
franchise the unemployed workers
and farmers who have no cash"
The conference will be held at the
!. S. and D. Hall, 1857 Hamilton
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
Meeting the "Red Scare

GOING into its fourth week. the strike of the LOO
Walworth Foundry workers in South Greensburg
Pa under the leadership of the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union is solid Many valuable lessons
can be learned by our whole trade union movement
from such strikes these The greatest lesson of all
is the splendid results of the fight against the cred
scare which met and defeated by the strikers In
. decisive manner, Linked up with the fight against
the red scare the valuable lessons achieved in
combating the illusions regarding the NRA and its
agents who attempted to enter and crush the strike
through "a mediator"
The s.M.WIU held its first meeting of the Wal
worth strikers, significantly enough through the aid
Of the former Unemployed Council members who were
re-empoyed by the company in the beginning of July
this year. The union faced with the problem of
organizing workers who in the majority had never had
organizational experience before and who therefore
very backward and hesitan in the beginning of
the drive.
At the first organization meeting the red scare
was raised by company agents In attempt to break
I'D the drive Many workers hesitated confused; some
even were antagonistic toward the union The union
Immediately adopted the policy of meeting the red
scare head without evasion and without compro-
mise. The role of the Communist PARTY in the s M
WIU was spoken of openly at the meetings and
certain leaders Of the union openly admitted member
ship In the Communist Party. The workers sensed
the aggressive policy of the union recognized the mean
ing of the class struggle program of the union in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
The City Tax Stumble

THE FIRST act of the Tanmary- Street tax comedy
is over. It has been eminently successfu-for Wall
Street. The second act is beginning.
From the very first day which Untermyer an
nounced his "tax on Wall Street" the Daily Worker
alone exposed it fraud, temporary drug to lu
the vigilance and anger Of the workers while the real
thrust of the increased water rates slipped over
Now that the increased water rates have been
securely fastened the backs of the workers the drug
is withdrawn. Mayor O'Brien vetoes the Wall Street
taxes But the s1250o0o0 slice to out of the in
creased water rates-ths is here to stay permanently
And the city government will have handed over to
the Wall Street banks by the end Of the month the
sum Of $30000o00 in interest payments and loan pay
ments.
Now the city is borrowing another s124oooOoO from
the bankers-in order to pay back the bankers ping
Up loans loans, with ever increasing interest
burden.
No wonder Wall Street smiles.
ONE exceedingly Illuminating incident in this crude
brutal swndle is the part played by the Socialist
Mayoralty Candidate, Charles Solomon. While the
Communist Party, in the person of its candidate
Robert Minor, was tearing the Untermyer tax program
to tatters, the socialist candidate declared:
cit is very, very good program"
The Socialist Party leaders obviously did their part
in leading the workers into the Tammany-wa Street
trap.
Today with the city government determined to full
fill It's promise to the Rockefeller Morgan banking
clique the danger of heavy taxes and drastic wage
sashes in the Civil Service payrol1s greater than
has ever been.
Untermeyer has already sounded tbs signal by his
latest deal with the Rockefeller Morgan banks This
deal certainly more taxes increased subway
tare, and more wage cuts for the Civil Service en-
ployees. That will be the second act of the Tamnany
tax program.
The fight against the city government agents of
Wall Street must rise to tremendous heights
The Communist Party leads Uav ,ds
that the city government lay It's hands at once on
Rockefeller Morgan millions lying in the bank yauIts
The Communist Party demands the immediate STOP
ping of all payments to the Wall Street bankers!
This is the only program in the interests of the cys
toing population.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
Pittsburgh Freshmen
Asked to Fight War

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. %
Freshmen, why be cannon fodder?
Don't join the R.O.TC.," was the
theme of 500 handbills passed out
by National Student League mem
bers on the campus of the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh and Carnegie
Institute of Technology.
Oscar Gru1net of the League re-
ports that "the freshmen read the
handbills and then folded them
and put them in their pockets"
although Dean Tarboll of Tech
claimed that "our students ignore
such radical groups"
The college authorities, who have
an evil reputation for the repres-
sion of free speech, having had
students arrested for distributing
similar handbills last year, did not
interfere with the NSL students
under the powerful impact of anti
war sentiment throughout the stu
dent body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
BY ROBERT HAMILTON
frT

An essential part of the Goebbels-
Goering plot to burn the Reichstag
was to find some way of pinning the
blame on the Communists. There was
no point in setting the Reichstag on
fire unless the crime could be used to
crush the Communist Party organiza-
ton throughout Germany.
One of the links to the Commu-
nists forged BY the Nazis was the
alleged connection between van der
Lubbe, the eX-Communist renegade,
and high leaders of the Communist
Party. This the Nazis tried to show
by broadcasting to the world the
lie that van der Lubbe had been
continuously present at the meetings
of the Communist Action Committee
"a wholly mythical organization in
vented by the Nazis) and was drawn
In to carry out the incendiary act"
Why Torgler Was Framed
But this wasn't enough for Goebbels
and Goering. Their frame-up re-
quired that high official of the
Communist Party be directly involved
in setting the Reichstag on fire.
Goering, as Speaker of the Reichstag,
had access to the records of when
deputies entered and left the build
ing. When he learned that Ernst
Torg1er, chairman of the Communist
deputies in the Reichstag, and Will
helm Koenen, another prominent
Communist deputy, had been the last
Communist deputies to leave, moth
ing was simpler than to have the off,
cia1 Prussian Press Service issue a
statement on March - two days
after the fire, while all Germany was
whipped into a fury of lynch enthu-
siasin, with thousands. of Commu-
nists being arrested wholesale--that
Torg1er and Koenen had helped to
set the torches.
The same official statement said
that no less than three witnesses
saw the arrested Dutch criminal in
the company of the Communist dep
uties Torgler and Koenen in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
Fabricate Flimsy Evidence" to Railroad
Communist Leaders to GalloWs

Reichstag at about PM
But it is one thing to cook I'D a
frane-up and another thing to make
it hold water. There is a German
proyerb that says, Lies have short
legs"-they don't get very far. And
although not newspaper in Germany
has dared to print the truth about
Torglr's complete innocence, the truth
did leak out nevertheless.
The Nazis' Lies Disproved
First, van der Lubbe has had to
state during examination that
he never saw Torgler Cor the three
Bulgarian defendants) in his life.
Second, the official Prussian press
statement of March has Torgler
and Koenen leaving the Reichstag at
about 10 pm, after the fire had been
burning for over As minutes with
thousands of storm troopers, police
lines and flremen surrounding the
Reichstag. Is it plausible that two
such well-known Communist leaders
as Torgler and Koenen could have
quietly left the Reichstag at that
time, which was surrounded by a
police Gordon, without anyone ask
ing them single question?
Torgler's Alibi
Third, Torgler and Koenen left the
Reichstag at 8:15 that evening, and
this is confirmed by two aff1davits by
walters in a Berlin restaurant, swear
ing that Torgler ate supper there no
later than $3.50 pm. This is borne
out by an affidavit by Koenen, whom
the Nazis were unable to grab, which
Is published in full in the Brown
Book.
Fourth, the same official statement
on March said that Torgler did not
present himself at police headquar-
tiers to refute the charge that the
Communists had burned the Reich
stag, but that he was seized by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30

snip. The letter. Just made ~
here, follows:
Berlin-Moabit, August sl.nor
M Roman ROLAND,
Lucerne,
Dear Mr.. Roland:
l feel myself bound to express to
you my sincere thanks for your reso-
lutte defense of my innocence. l have
already requested my official defend
ing counsel, DR.. Paul Teichert 0eip-
zig, Otto-Schill- Strasse p to give you
my thanks, and at the same time to
inform you as to the concrete state
ments made in substantiation of the
accusations brought against me in
the Indictment.
The defending counsel chosen by
me; the Bulgarian lawyer, DR.. Det-
chef. and the French, lawyers Moro
Giafferi, Campinchi, and Torres, have
been refused by the Supreme Court.
The reason given in Detcheff's case
is that the "barrister does not know
the German language" in the case
of the French lawyers, that apart
from it's not being known whether
these barristers know German, OF
whether the German counsel il
agreed with joint defense, there i:
no visible reason why these harris,
ters should act in addition to the
appointed counsel"
The trial is fixed at last for 21st
September AS l had nothing what
ever to do with the burning of ths
Reichstag, I await the trial calmly
and confidently, for its result--in ac-
cordance with the facts-is bound to
lead to my release. The treatment
which I have received in prison, with
the exception of strictly isolated soil
tary confinement, and of CHAINED
HANDS, with which I have been tor
mented day and night FOR FIVE
MONTHS (since 4th ApriD, and
which has only been put an end to
today by decision of the Supreme
Court, has been humane.
I should be very glad to receive a
few lines from you, and to hear some
thing about your health and ability
to work.
Many greetings to our friend Bar
busse.
With best greetings,
g. Dimftroff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
$4,000 Paris Workers
Protest Nazi Frame-up
In Reichstag Trial

PARIS, Sept. 28. - More than
$1,000 French workers and SYM
pathizers with the anti-Fascist
movement gathered last night in
the Sale Wagram here to protest
against the Reichstag fire frame
UP of Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff
and Taneff. This huge meeting
served as a preparation for an even
larger demonstration which will
take place as soon as -Giafferi
ard Henri Torres, internationally
famous French lawyers, return
from the London counter-trial held
by the international Jurists' Com
mission of inquiry into the Reichs-
tag fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
Roosevelt Plan for
Credit Initiation
Expected Shortly

NEW YORK, Sept. %. - Having
presided at an exclusive send-off
party for his son, James, who left
last night for Europe on holiday
trip. President Roosevelt will soon
issue a statement on money policy,
it was reported today,
Roosevelt's statement will be an
indirect attack on those who want
to get money into the hands of the
people through direct currency in
f1ation, it was said, Instead Roose-
welt will urge still further subsidies
to the large banks which have frozen
billions of dollars of deposits. This
would have the effect of protecting
the capital investments of the bank
ers, and cheapening the value of the
deposits, through raising prices.
Roosevelts plans of credit expan-
sion also have the effect of provid-
ing easy loans for the big banks
who will be given chance to specu-
late with the governments money.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30

police. The Brown Book reprints an
affidavit by DIR. Kurt Rosenfeld,
noted Berlin attorney, deposing that
he accompanied Torgler to Berlin po
lice headquarters on the morning
after the Reichstag fire, to protest
the Nazi charges. After Torgler had
made the protest, he was simply de-
clared under arrest to keep his
charges against the Nazis from be-
coming public.
This brief summary - which could
be expanded to three times this
length with further proofs of Torg-
ler'S nnocence-sufflces, however, to
show how the Nazis hoped to build
up a case against Ernst Torgler as a
firebug.
Framing Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff
They had no better luck with their
charges against Dimitroff, Tanef and
Popoff, the three Bulgarian Commu-
nists. On March %, the notorious
Communist-baiter, Examining Magis-
trate Vogt, charged that van der
Lubbe had also been in contact with
Bulgarian Communists connected
with the explosion in the Cathedral
in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1925.
He also charged that a witness had
seen Dimitroff in van der Lubbe's
company in Berlin on Feb. 26, the day
before the fire.
The third link In the Nazi chain
Of evidence-and the only link that
really rnattered tn then1--was that
all three Bulgarians were Commu-
nists, and they needed some foreign
ers to prove the existence of a "giant
international Red plot to burn the
Reichstag.'
Smashing the Nazi Charges
First, Dimitroff has not been In
Bulgaria since 1928, the year of the
nationwide workers and peasants
revolt. Popoff enigrated to Jugo-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
The Nazis Frame Torgler and the Bulgarians

slaYia in 1924 and only returned to
Bulgaria in 1880; therefore, neither
of them could possibly have taken
part in the Sofia Cathedral explosion
as they were out of the country at
the time. Taneff is Bulgarian work
er who was never even charged by
the Bulgarian police with completely
in the explosion.
Second, when Judge VOgt con-
fronted his alleged witness" with
Dimitroff, the latter was able to
prove conclusiveIy that he had been
in Munich, Bavaria, on Feb. 26,
therefore the witness" couldn't
have seen him with van der Lubbe
in Berlin.
Nothing more was ever heard of
this witness she dropped from
sight. Nor can the Nazi inquisition-
ers ever get van der Lubbe to say on
the stand that he ever saw Dimitroff,
despite all the pressure put upon him.
1t wasn't enough to provide a
mentally deranged Hollander as the
Reichstag firebug-the NaZis had to
find some way of linking the fire up
with the German Communist Party
and the Communist International.
That is why they framed Torgler,
Dinitroff and the other two Bulga-
rians. That is why every paper in
Nazi-ruled Germany has had to
scream day after day for the past
seven months that "the Communists
burned the Reichstag"
But Goebbels' and Goering's frame
up is just little bit too shaky and
thin. 1t was completely punctured by
the evidence brought out at the Lon
don counter-tria1 on Sept. IL. It cam
not even stand examination in a
brutally biased, Nazi-controlled court
in Leipzig. Although no one in Ger
many dares say 1t aloud--the concen-
tration camps are too near-even the
most reactionary newspapers in Eu-
rope outside of Germany must admit
that Torgler and his Bulgarian COM
rades are innocent.
Next --- What Happens to Men Who
Know Too Mncbl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
New Nazi Code
InyentS Grimes
Severe Penalties for
"Adulteration of
Aryan Race"

BERLIN, Sept. "a whole flock
of newly coined "crine" has been in
vented in a new Nazt penal code is
sued today by the Prussian Ministry
of Justice.
Among the new crimes" for which
extremely severe penalties are dis
Indignation and adulteration of the
Aryan race" attacks on the nations
moral and patriotic feeling" and
utilization of natrimony and moth
erhood." Treason will be punishable
by death. Practically al the new
penalties are aimed at anti-Fascists
and Jews.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30
i. S. Court Leyies
Tax on Soviet Coal

NEW YORK,-Soviet coal can be
subjected to discriminatory tax, the
United States Customs Court ruled
here today, unfolding the collection
of ten cents revenue on every hun
dred pounds of Soviet coal imported
into the United States.
The Customs Court decision JUS
titled the assessment on the ground
that no terms of international
friendliness" exist between the
United States and the Soviet Union,
and therefore the discriminatory i'm
port duty applies.
This decision, handed down at the
demand of the coal barons, means
raising the price of coal to the Am
erican masses, as cheap Soviet coal
is practically excluded from the AM
erican market by this additional tax.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30

tions), the mobilization possibilities
OF the aforementioned five powers
has greatly increased. In 1914 these
countries modified approximately
ftve-and-a-half million soldiers. At
the present time, in the course of the
first one or two months of war, they
hope to bring the number of soldiers
in the ranks up to nine million.
The armies of the smaller coun-
tries as well as the colonial armies
of the imperialists, are not tagging
behind the Great Powers. This can
be seen from the following statistics
published in the bourgeois press:
Numerical strength of Armies 1000
Cyr,itLaJl