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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
Our Demands for the Jobless

TILE Communist Party the New York City cleo
lions pledges itself and all of its candidates when
elected to ONCE to work to the bess of its ability to
carry out the following platform within the halls of
the Assembly and Aldermanic chamber and to rally
broad movement in the shops and the
streets for the following
Immediate cash relief for all unemployed without
discrimination at the rate of 81 per week to each
unemployed worker and S. per week for each depend
ent under fourteen years Of age
This cash relief provision to apply also to all single
unemployed workers Relief allowances to be adjusted
monthly in accord with the increase in the cost of
living,
Full union wages to all workers employed relief
projects in case less than S. per day for not
than seven hours per day, with IL days work per
month guaranteed
All relief allowances to apply without distinction
as to race, nationality, religious political beliefs
Affiliations, citizenship or length Of residence
Absolute prevention Of any evctions of unemployed
or part-time workers Such eviction to be made a
criminal offence.
Public works on an extensive scale to be started
Immediately. The immediate tearing down of all
sanitary and unsafe tenement houses and for the
Inauguration of vast program of building modern
apartment houses at rentals covering only cost plus
maintenance. The immediate building of schools
parks and Fairgrounds in working class districts The
schoobuildng program to provide for seat for every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30

school child and to employ all New York teachers
unemployed or unappointed.
AL vacant apartment houses TO be thrown open to
the unemployed without charge.
Universal free and adequate medical and dental
service to all school children and to the families OF
unemployed and low paid workers. The abolition OF
all fees and charges to unemployed and their families
in all hospitals, clinics, etc. The city government to
obligation for all medical charges Of private
physicians in the homes Of unemployed and low paid
workers.
Free hot nourishing lunches; shoes, books and
school supplies to all children Of unemployed and low
paid workers.
No tuition fees for workers in institutions OF higher
learning. "a-
Full support of the demands Of the veterans
for the full and immediate payment Of the bonus by
the Federal government
No discrimination against Negro veterans. No dts
elimination against unmarried veterans
Immediate moratorium on payments OF mortgages
stopping Of all sales seizures Of homes fore
unemployed workers.
THE Communist Party undertakes to mobilize the
workers national scale for system Of unem-
ployment and social insurance by the United States gov
eminent, guaranteeing insurance to the amount of
average wages Of all unemployed workers. insurance
against old age and disability, the entire cost to be
borne by the government and the employers. In the
absence Of the system Of social insurance by the Fed
eral government propose that the city government
of New York should endorse the Workers Unenploy-
ment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
"Flying Dutchman Fails" Says Radek
BY Burck

has been blown up in Bulgaria. Ger
event. 1t remained only to link the
BulgarianS with the Reichstag fire to
give them a world significance. But
here the fascists again met with
failure.
True, they did manage to bar from
the trial free-lance lawyers who could
have revealed clearly the fallacy of
the whole case. But instead of these
lawyers, there was Dimitroff. The
Fascists saw at once that Dimitrof
would smash all Van der Lubbe's
evidence and Van der Lubbe might
have begun to tell the truth. There
was nothing for 1t but to order Van
der Lubbe to play the fool.
Van der Lubbe Feigns Idiocy
That is why we are now witness
ing scenes unprecedented in the his
tory of legal trials. Van der Lubbe
sits feigning sleep and instead of
putting him questions and compell-
ing him to reply, the Judge reads
him the evidence written In excel
lent German by the investigator
evidence alleged to have been given
by Van der Lubbe whose German is
very poor. Van der Lubbe raises his
head from time to time and num-
bles: yes" no." perhaps" And
the sum total of this farce is called
a trial.
On the whole the trial is being
very unpleasant for the Fascists. But
unpleasant or not, it is too late to
change matters. Under cover of the
Reichstag fire, behind the scenes of
the brilliantly lit courtroom, the Fas-
cists are re-arresting thousands of
Communists, numbering tens of thou
sands Of workers and terrorizing the
whole country. A bad trial, but a
| good pogrom, seems to be their OBJ
ject.
Let the psychologists of the press
rack their brains over the strange
behaviour Of Van der Lubbs. 1t is
a most engrossing subject and will
divert attention from the real issues
The gentlemen who guide the
/ NNobhAASo Vi N'NAhAcliy hAlOW liOlll
history that unpleasantness has
never yet caused a government to
fall. That is why no matter how
distasteful this trial may be to them,
the Fascists will be saying to them
selves: What is a little unpleasant
ness more or less--it is unavoidable
in such an important business"
The most important outcome of the
Leipzig trial is the warning which
| 1t provides the working classes of
the whole world that they must not
be deceived by a single word or &C
ton of the leaders of Fascist Ger
many. Such mistrust at time when
the world is shaken by epoch max
ing events, will undoubtedly seal the
fate of German fascism From
"Pravda," official organ Of the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
Stage Directors of Leipzig Frame-Up Flop;
Radek Refers to Nazi Book Exposed by
Daily Worker in Todays Issue

lunatic, could doubt that this is a
tale worthy Of the madhouse itself.
1t is not even worth denying. 1t is
necessary however to discover whence
it comes and how it originated.
Nazis Feared Press Comment
These fantasies are the result of
the serious position in which the true
organizers of the fire found them
selves. To begin with, immediately
after the fire, the official press of
German Fascism let the cat out of
the bag 1t was incapable of giving
a satisfactory reply to the innmer-
able questions which arose to how
the incendiary or incendiaries man
aged to penetrate into the Reichstag
building without attracting attention,
Since at that time the Fascists had
not yet gained control of the entire
press it would have been rather
awkward for them to have come out
with the funny story about the half
blind creature who scaled the wall
and gained an entry into building
SO strongly guarded as the Reichstag.
The Fascist feared that one of the
many people who were familiar with
the interior Of the Reichstag build
ing might have drawn attention to
the existence of a secret passage
leading to the house of Goering,
President Of the Reictstag. Such
statement would have produced
startling sensation, especially as at
that time Hugenburg and his group
were still in power and were waging
a struggle for supremacy against
Hitler and Goering. Hugenbug was
supported by President Hindenburg
whose attitude was not yet clear. 1t
was also uncertain at that time what
attitude the Reichswehr would
adopt.
On March /, 1888. an item ap-
peared in the "Vossische zeitung,"
alleged to emanate from government
sources. The text of the item was
as follows:
Moreover, the other participants
in the fire could have made their
exit from III seichstag through the
undergo ind passage in which the
heating system of the Reichstag :
installed, and which connect the
building with the house of the Presi-
dent
Who Gave the Information?
Now this item could have been
given to the press either by the Fas-
ciSts themselves in order to show
that they had nothing to hide-were
indeed assisting in the Investigations
OR it is just possible that the in
formation could have come from per-
sons belonging to Hugenbergs group,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
General Political
Strike to Begin
Tonight in Cuba

HAVANA, Oct. "a general poll
tical strike against the suppression
campaign Of the Grau San Martin
regime begins at midnight Monday.
The decision was made at an all
night secret conference of delegates
of the Confederation Nacional OBJ
rera de Cuba. While the stated time
for the strike varies from 48 to 70
hours, the leaders of the various
strikes are empowered to continue
them indefinitely if their demands
are not accepted
Soldiers continued rounding up all
known leaders Of the working class
Among the strike demands are for
hands of all workers. organizations
and leaders, withdrawal of all troops
from strike areas, against all terror
against the working class, against
the deportation of non Cuban lead
ers.
The strike is expected to tie up all
transportation and industry in the
island. A strike of electric power
workers impends, which would cut
of the electric supply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
What AboutIt, Mr.. Dickstein

THE sensational exposures of Nazi activity in the
United States first made public by the DAILY
WORKER, in the new notorious secret Nazi letter
finally beginning to force the United States gov
eminent and the capitalist press to sit up and take
notice.
Public hearings before the House Committee on
immigration on the subject of NaH plotting in this
country will begin November Il, it announced
today by Samuel Dckstein, Chairman of the Com
mittee.
The Committee will no doubt expose what the
Daily Worker has fully exposed already. It will
doubtedly be able to prove what the Daily Worker
has already proved with the publication OF the secret
Naz letter.
than that The stage of merely exposing Nazi actiy
ties is passed The Daily Worker has already
laid all the facts before the American working class
Something must be done. The intimate
financial links between Hitler and the leading capt.
tslist financial money masters of Wall Street must
be exposed,
THE Daily Worker has already given the lead in this
matter it gave the lead in the revelation of the
Naz plots
The Daily Worker has shown that Albert H. Wig
gin former head of the Rockefeller Chase National
Bank has secret conferences with the German fascists
and that in secret meeting here In Wall Street. he
urged American financial support to she Hitler regime!
s. Grover Whaen-The Daily Worker proves that this
high official of the Roosevelt NFA has fingers in plans
to assist the Nazis in this country.
Ralph Easey-The Daily Worker proves that this
arch red-baiter high up in the circles of the CAPT.
taIst employers, Is actively assisting the German
fascists i'll their plots in this country.
Leading officials of the A. r. of L.. Matthew Vol,
and Ellis Seares-aSsociated with Easley on the Ma
tiopal Civic Federation professional red baters-what
about them and their connections with Nazi propa-
ganda in the United States?
Hamilton Fish--Menlber OF the House OF Repre-
senatyes also associated with Easey the National
Civic Federation and a notorious "red-bater'-what
about his silence Easley's Nazi connections?
What about all this, Mr. Dicksten?
The workers of the United States want to know
al about the connection of these native capitalist
oxpoiters with their fascist colleagues of Germany.
The workers want to know all about the direct
teup OF the reactonary Wall Street rulers OF America
with the butcher fascist Hitler in Germany.
They want TO bring to light the obvious class
unity between the hated fascist murderers of Hitler,
and tbs strikebreaking murderous eXploers Ct Wall
Street.
If you sincere in your desire to fight the
fascist anti-semltic barbarans, if you really want to
the fascist murderers destroyed, you must show
the link between these fascist butchers and the Wall
Street capitalists who support themi
Investigate the Rockefeller link with the fascLss!
Expose the Wall Street link to Hitlerl Expose how
Wall Street helps Hitler!
$780, about it. Mr.. Dicksten?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
Mexican Students
On Hunger Strike
Use Troops to Attack
200 When They
Demonstrate

GUADALAJARA, Mexico, oct. II.
More than 200 students Jailed for
striking In the University of Guada-
lajara, went on hunger strike today
after a stormy demonstration in
prison. Prison furniture wsI smashed
after the students we're arrested.
Troops sent against the stu
dents captured the university, and
several students were shot defending
themselves.
The first group Of soldirs sent were
disarn1ed by the students.
TIL students demanded the resigna-
ton Of the Rector Of the University,
Disz, who ruled the students with an
iron hands.
Troops are patrolling the streets II,
anticipation OF further demonstrations
by the students
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30

Approval of this ticket, the only
choice, is thus made to seem APP
prevail by the German electorate of
the Nazi offensive against the Soviet
Union.
Carrying out Hitlers policy OF
seeking support at home by the ges-
ture of an aggressive" policy abroad,
Germany has now Withdrawn both
from the World Court at The Hague,
and from the International Labor OF
flee at Geneva, thus completing the
formal breach begun by withdrawal
from the League Of Nations on the
issue of disarmament.
Simon Warns Naxis
LONDON, Oct. "a sharp warn
ing to Nazi Germany was made yes
terday by Sir John Simon, In con-
nection with the arrest In Munich OF
Noel Painter, British correspondent,
on charges of treason" N
Simon told the German Arnbassa-
dor in London that Great Britain
would not tolerate "farcical trial"
The reference Is TO the Reichstag fire
trial. which all of Great Britain rec
ogr1izes as pure frarne-up.
Painter was arrested for having
sent to London dispatches describing
the military character OF Nazi rally
1T which TitIer srok-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30

who knew the truth.
The FascistS are now having a
tough time trying to wriggle out OF
this delicate situation, to put it
mildly, since Goerings house is
guarded by Storm Troopers who
would have denied entrance to any
one save National Socialists OF their
associates. .
But no matter how they try to
dodge and eyade the issue, the or
ganizers of the Reichstag fire cannot
wipe out the existence of these I'M
dergroupd. passageways. The pas
sages exist and there is no getting
away from it. But who submitted
the information to the press? Why
does its author not figure in the trial
as a witness?
Avoid Real Issues
These are the questions which the
Leipzig trial will not raise, although
the editors Of the %Vossische zeitung'
are no doubt in a position to divulge
the source of the information.
The organizers of the Leipzig trial
are, OF course, avoiding these ques-
tons like the plague for they are
well aware that the slightest men,
ton OF them is fraught with serious
consequences. The Leipzig trial is
adopting exactly the same position
as Van der Lubbe who prefers tc
create the impression of a half-wit
rather than raise the veil behind
which the true criminals are con-
cealed.
1T is this very impossibility of ap.
preaching the truth about the fire
that has given rise to all that is SC
incomprehensible in the Leipzig
trial.
Haunted by the fear of making
some discriminating slip, the court /:
obliged to twist like an eel and to
compel Van der Lubbe to act the
part Of a half-wit.
Press Publicity Defeated Plot
Had the world press not graspec
Immediately the significance of what
had taken place in Berlin, had il
not at once started widespread
campaign in the matter, the CASE
would have ended quite simply: Var
ger Lubbe would have COMMITTED
suicide in prison. But the import.
ance attached by the world press tt
the burning of the Reichstag pre-.
vented Van der Lubbe from taking
his own life.
Fortunately, there appeared on the
scene some Bulgarian revolutionaries
who happened to have been arrested
at the time. Having locked then
UP, the Fascist police concocted g
brilliant plan. In 1925 a cathedra
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York Times feels compelled to COM
ment on this that despite this sum-
nation Of the case, the jeopardy Of
the defendants cannot be overesti-
mated"
The role Of the liberal Hays thus
becomes that of an assistant
prosecutor, who establishes a reputa-
ton as defender" of the de-
PENDANTS, only to use his influence to
divert the worldwide mass protest
against the pre-judged frame-up.
Hays is the man who played the
same role at the Decatur trial of the
Scottsboro boys, declaring that Judge
Horton, the chief lyrcher Of the De-
catur court. was "a fair Judge"
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in the German trial, and the evidence
given in London before the interna-
tional commission of jurists, who
heard many witnesses who dare not
return to Germany.
In spite of his three weeks obser-
walton in the court in Berlin, how
ever, his previous experience In at
tempting to be recognized as de-
Tense attorney, and in spite of the
fact that Leo Gallagher, San Fran
cisco attorney, and three other for
eign lawyers were expelled from Ger
many for protesting against the un-
fairness of the trial, he adds:
'I believe they dhe four Commu-
nists) will be acquitted"
Even the corresnnndent Of the New
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
Hitler Anti-SOviet
Spokesman Put on
Nazi Election List
Hugenberg on Ticket
With Hitler; Asked
War on USSR

BERLIN, Oct. 29.--Alfred Hugen-
! berg, German nationalist leader, is q
d candidate on the all-Nazi ticket
! which the German voters are called
! on to approve, along with Germany's
7 foreign policy, at the Nov IL refer
J endum.
Hugenberg is the man who voiced
: Adolf Hitler's bid to the capitalist
! powers TO help Germany TO seize the
7 eastern section of the Soviet Union
when he spoke as Hitler's represent
Q tative at the London Economic Con-
y ference last June.
Q His name is now high up on the
I only list Of candidates to be pre-
: sented to the German voters, a list
! headed of course by Hitler.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
By KARL RADEK

I wish to remind you of the thesis
which the initiators of the Reichstag
trial attempted to utilize to prove
their point. The thesis itself was
rather stupid but very simple-the
Central Committee. of the German
Communist Party had resolved to
instigate a proletarian uprising and
the burning OF the Reichstag was to
serve as the signal for mass revolt
Now this is absurd in the first
place because Germany is not land
Of wide open spaces, forests and no
madic peoples which must give the
signal for battle by lighting fires
from the hill-tops 1t is absurd also
because before propounding it some
sort of proof ought to have been OBJ
tanned to show that the Central Com
mittee of the German Communist
Party considered the moment ripe for
revolt. But such proof was not and
could not have been obtained.
The pamphlet written by that
Baltic scoundral. Ehrt, and published
by the Nazi police authorities, in
dictates three different dates on which
the uprising was to have taken place,
purported to have been fixed by diff
ferent Communist leaders, The lat
est date cited by Ehrt, was March
S. But why should it have been
necessary to give the signal on Feb
27 for a revolt that was to have
taken place on March S? Neverthe-
less, absurd though this may sound
1t is doubtless very convincing to the
man in the street whose knowledge
of revolutions is based chiefly on
opera bouffe and.scomic farces.
Stage Directors Fail
However, We shall see how the
fascist regisseurs failed with their
thesis at the trial. 1t appears that
the Central Committee of the Ger
man Communist Party, working I'M
derground. at the time, entrusted the
preparations for the fire to Torgler
the chairman of the Communist
group in the Reichstag.
The leader of the Communist
group in the German parliament was
at that time the only member OF
the Party who still functioned legally
Spies followed his every movement
He it was, then, who must have en-
gineered the burning of the Reich
stag. Is-it necessary to dwell upon
the utter idiocy of such a hypothesis
And what does Forgler proceed tc
do? Whom does Torgler, leader
of an important political party with
Is years organizational experience
and tried membership, choose fol-
the task of setting fire to the Reich
stsg2 A half blind. Dutchman, hobo
ing through Germany. Who can
believe such nonsense?
And how does he set about it--this
flying dutchnan" who has been Sc
lected as the organizer of such 9
difficult business as the burning OF
the Reichstag which is guarded from
within and without? He makes hi,
way to the labor exchange, we are
told, where he converses with the
unemployed about the necessity Of
burning the Reichstag.
Why does he. talk to them about
it at all, especially on the street
where he is surrounded by strang,
people2 Surely he must have realized
that there must have been somt
police agents among the unem.
ployed2
Who Could Swallow That?
! Having spread the news about tht
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-30
Hays Holds Communists
In Arson Trial Innocent
But Says. Nazi Court Will Free Them, Thus
Diverting Mass Defense Actions

NEW YORKArthm Garfield
statement in Berlin Saturday reprinted the Sunday,
which he declares his firm
yass Tanef BIagoi
The Washington times., 1933-08-24
RAMS To START.
DRILLS SEPT. z

Football practice will start at
Fordham University on Septem-
ber 2. when the varsity squad will
report for uniforms and a light
Ndrill at Fordham Field.
Jim Crowley, starting his first
season as Maroon coach, has sent
so invitations to last seasons let
ter men, reserves and members Of
the 1882 freshman contingent.
Departing from the system in
troduced at Fordham six years
ago by Maj. Frank w. Cavanaugh,
the Maroon squad will enter upon
a new venture in the way of the
Notre Dame system. Although the
teams drilled in the basic funda-
mentals of this brand of football
for more than a month last spring,
a process of polishing plays and
formations is imperative, accord
ing to Crowley.
The Maroon eleven will face AL
bright in it's first encounter, at
Fordham Field on September 80.