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Evening star., 1933-06-23
OLD DOMINION GLASS
COMPANY REORGANIZEO
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, June 23-The
Old Dominion Glass Corporation will
resume operations soon and start
making beer bottles. This was a prof.
liable business before the eighteenth
amendment.
Under the new organization Frank w
Ball, geologist and chemist, is to be
president; Paul j. Murphy, attorney
secretary and treasurer and Lorenzo
Wolford, former president Of the cor
poration, factory superintendent.
The new factory will occupy the site
of the old one and modern machinery
will be installed. A variety Of products
will be made. including glass caskets
and glass refrigerators, officials said.
Evening star., 1933-06-23
REBUILDING OF GLASS
PLANT is CONSIDERED
Special Dispatch to The Star.

LONACONING, Md, June 23.-At a
meeting of minority stockholders of the
Lonaconing Glass Co. the matter of
rebuilding the plant destroyed by fire
a year ago was discussed. 1t was de-
cided to appoint committee to audit
the books and investigate the loss and
insurance The committee is composed
of Robert McIndoe, Robert Glenn, Will
liam Walters, William Orr and William
Love. Robert McIndoe presided.
Evening star., 1933-06-23

Dividend rates in dollars based on last
quarterly or semi-annual payment 'Ex
dividend. tPartly extra. tPlus ~ In stock.
= Payable in cash or stock. b Payable in
stock Adjustment dividend. I Plus 81
in stock. & Plus SO in stock h Plus q
in stock. Plus q" N stock. Plus 10%
in stock. m Plus 80 in stock. n Plus So
in stock. Paid last year-no regular rate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Soviet Purchases Of
Copper, Cotton, Held
BackPending Credit
Immediate Placing of
Orders Await Govt
Action on Credits

NEW YORK, Sept. %. - Al
though the Soviet Union is ready
to place orders Immediately for the
purchase of S20,000,000 worth of
copper, the present negotiations
between American and Soviet rep
resentatives may fall through be-
cause of lack of credit facilities,
it was reported today.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration is negotiating credits for
Soviet purchases, it was reported,
but the copper producers are not
satisfied with the present arrange
ments.
Soviet proposals for the imme-
date purchase of 100000 bales of
cotton are also being held up be-
cause of inadequate government
credit facilities.
The extension of normal COM
mercial credit by the Government
to float Soviet purchases would
enable many American manufac-
turers to sell their present stock of
Surplus" goods, with the conse-
quent employment of American
workers, it was pointed out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
[. A. Hunger March
to Be Held Oct. 2
Will NJ ak e Demand
for Jobless Insurance

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Sept. e.
Sunny California, playground, for
tae rich and lend Of starvation for
The unemployed win witness a huge
hunger march on October 2. This
decision was reached at a conference
representing 60 A57 workers, which
v'es attended by 233 delegates from
1A3 organizations.
The conference crafted a bill 10"
state unemployment insurance and
gave its endorsement to the Federal
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
A telegram supporting the Cuban
workers in their struggle against
imperialism was adopted. Also reso-
lut;ons demanding the releaTe o.
Tom Mooney, Sccttsooro BOYS and
militant unemp.oyed workers in jail
here.
Fifty ~dollars was collected imme-
diately to print leaflets for the coun-
ty hunger march.
A good representation of Mexican
workers at the conference assured
a large number of these oppressed
workers as participants in the march
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Emergency Relief
Stops Orders for
10000 Families
Doomed to Starvation;
Urge Campaign for
JobIess Insurance

NEW YORK.-Food and clothing dis
tributed to the unemployed by the
Emergency Unemployment Relief
Committee to an average of 10000
families week was stopped yester-
day. Coming on top Of the wholesale
relief cuts and evictions instituted
by the city through the Home Relief
Bureaus and the elimination of the
Gibson committee. which has also
distributed relief, this will add ire
mendously to the misery of the mil
lion and a half jobless in this city.
The emergency committee was the
recipient of Surplus" government
wheat which was later turned into
flour. Part Of the wheat was bar
tered for other staple food articles
and distributed among the jobless.
In the beginning of the month pre-
dictions were already forthcoming
that the committee will exhaust its
reserves in a few weeks Yet no mea-
sures were taken by Mayor OBrien
and the city officials to continue re-
lief.
The Unemployed Councils continu-
ally demanded that the city take
steps to assure that no family shall
remain without relief. 1t proposed to
the municipal assembly a Workers
Relief Ordinance providing mini
mum maintenance allowance" to all
jobless. This ordinance would make it
mandatory for the city to assure "$7
per week in cash for each unem-
ployed worker and IS for each de-
pendent" with graduated reduction
for smaller children.
The ordinance is conditional pend
ing the adoption of federal unem-
ployment insurance. The precarious
condition of the unemployed with the
constant menace that even the starv-
alton relief will stop, makes it necss-
sary to develop wide movement to
force the government TO adopt un-
employment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

the following declaration to the Jap
anese ambassador in Moscow:
According to reliable information
received by the Soviet government,
the Manchukuo authorities, under in
structions from the Japanese gov
eminent, propose the nearest days,
unilaterally, to carry out the various
changes in the management of the
Chinese Eastern Railway, completely
breaking the established order, par
ticularly proposing by this course the
violation of the rights of the Soviet
manager, placing the latter practi-
cally under the dependence of a
Manchukuoan assistant
'"T7he Manchukuo authorities, I'M
der the instructions of the japanese
government, also outline various po-
lice measures against Soviet en-
ployees of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way.
'The Soviet government has en-
powered me to give its warning that
the carrying out of these or similar
measures at Hardin, violating the
existing status of the railway by es-
tablished agreements, shall be re-
garded by the Soviet government as
a fact contradictory to the obliga-
tions undertaken by the Toxic and
Mukden governments and qualified
as an objectionable attempt of seizure
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Who Set Fire to the Reichstag Building?

constantly guarded by a special staff
guard of thirty troopers. How could
Communist incendiaries have es-
capped from residence guarded by
thirty armed Nazis?
The Gang Enters Through the Tunnel
The truth is that, as the famous
Oberfohren Memorandum points out,
Lieutenant Heines. Silesian Storm
Troop Leader, Reichstag Deputy and
Chief of Police OF Breslau, led a
picked band of storm troopers through
the tunnel from Goering's house,
where they had stored the infiamma-
BILE materials, into the Reichste g
through tire tunnel, each man carry
ing part of the load into the build
inc. Van der Lubbe was part OF this
group, and was taken along to be
The so-called Communists" flrebrsnd.
Ee was left behind in the building
as "evidence" that the Communists
we're the incen6iaries when Heines'
gang escaped through the tunnel
again.
Only leading Nazis could have en-
tered Gcerings house without al
tracing the suspicion of the storm
troop guards. Once in the Re.chstag
building thsre was no danger of dis
GOVERN by the watchmen, for these
had been sent home for the de- by
the Nazi inspector of the building
Distributing the incendiary material
and pouring gasoline over 1t must
have taken some time. Then the
torch was applied at various points
and the Reichstag was in flames.
Mcnday-How the Nazis planned
the Reichstag Fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
RED MILITIA
IS ORGANIZED
BY STRIKERS
San Martin Govern
ment Bares It's Teeth
to Workers
Special Correspondence TO the
Daily WOrker)

HAVANA (By MaiD. - The Grau
San Martin government is showing
its teeth. Unable to stop the strug-
giles of the sugar workers and to get
them to give up the sugar plantations
they have seized, it sent a whole
trainload of soldiers and student
members of the Ejrecito Caribe,
The army troops have been
surrounding the plantations. The
Communist Party and the Confed-
eracion Nacional Obrera are calling
for determined resistance and are ap-
pealing to the soldiers not to fire
against their fellow workers.
On September IL a general strike
was called for five hours in honor
of a worker killed at the Cristo mine.
About 10000 workers attended the
funeral. Soldiers sent a wreath and
fraternized with the workers and
strikers.
On September II the workers took
over the sugar central Malay. The
management, fearing destruction, of
property, gave out $3.50 worth of food
to the strikers. On the 14th the
strikers chose delegates to divide the
lands, also deciding to turn part over
to the soldiers. They decided to or
ganize a Soviet of workers and peas
ants and soldiers delegates. At a
great mass meeting three soldiers
spoke in favor OF support of the
workers struggle. The management
fed. The rural police guards the
officers. However, there is large
number of armed workers who smash
the doors of the storehouses when
the sergeant in charge refuses to
yield the keys. The strikers are di-
viding up the sheep, cows, etc.
In the plantations Tacajo and Ba-
guanos the strike began on the 18th
and ended on September 9th, win
ming all demands. In the whole re-
gion there is a Red militia. On the
roads between centrals there are pa
trolls of the Red Militia which allows
no one to pass without permission
of the strike committee.
The central Tacajo was seized by
the workers, and turned into the
headquarters of the Red Guards. In
Banos 5000 sugar workers from the
plantations Boston and Preston held
mass meeting and decided to open
their headquarters in the centraLs.
The bourgeois opposition tried to or
ganize a counter demonstration but
contingent of armed workers put
them to flight.
In Banos, in suburb called ANA
rillo yellow, live Americans, all en-
ployees of the United Fruit Co. This
section was seized by the workers
who placed Red Guards everywhere.
They called out on strike all cooks,
househelp, etc.
On September 8, Soviet was es-
tablished in Banos. AL taxes were
abolished but 10 per cent tax was
established to help the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
BY ROBERT HAMILTON

The question, "Who Burned the
Reichstag?" now up for a highly one
sided examination before the Leipzig
Supreme Court as part of the Nazis
carefully-laid plans for sending Ernst
Torgler and the three Bulgarian
Communists to the headman's block,
is the core of the entire Reichstag
fire frame-up.
The cable dispatches from thor
oughly sifted corps of correspondents
in the Leipzig courtroom will give us
only what Nazi Prosecutor Werner
and Chief Judge Buenger want the
rest of the world to believe. 1t is
all the more necessary, therefore, to
disclose what the Investigations of the
International Committee for the Vic
Tins of Hitler Fascism and the testi-
mony of the London inquiry by the
commission of noted international
jurists have brought out regarding
the fire.
How the Reichstag Is Built
The Reichstag building, which took
ten years, 1384-1894 to build, is one
of the biggest edifices in Berlin, with
frontage of 450 feet, eliminating in
a dome rising nearly 270 feet above
the ground. The Reichstag chamber
proper is in the center, directly I'M
der the dome, with hundreds OF
rooms, corridors and auxiliary halls
on all sides. There are five portals
or entrance floors, only one Of which
was open to the general public.
Passes we're required for entrance to
the building, and a twenty-four hour
guard was kept at this portal.
A subterranean tunnel leads from
the Reichstag basement to the off,
cial residence of Captain Goering,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

all gone now. I don't care what hap
pens. don't want to go on as | am
now, just existing. My wife and chill
dren might as well have the benefit
of my $4,000 insurance policy"
Sledas wife, Stella, is "a. Their
children are Robert, two years old,
and Richard, seven months. The fam
lily was living with Joseph Koperski
at 1903 Eureka Ave. Koperski him
self has three children and is de-
pendent on welfare. He has shared
his welfare order with the Sleda fam
lily.
ForcefuI Feeding
When Sleda was on the fast for
nearly week, the doctor was called
and he was taken to the hospital
There the doctors gained a victory"
Sleda was forcibly fed by injections
Of egg nog as well as saline and glu-
cose solutions. The forcible feeding
will make it possible for Sleda to re-
cover.
The young auto worker will then be
released from the hospital to return
to his wife and children and starve
together with them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

\ LII DCOGCI Oll uCdN. 1aU tCdoU lily WllC
will have the money from my insur-
ance," the worker remarked when
taken to Receiving Hospital.
I'm tired of tramping the streets
looking for job" he continued. For
the last four months I've been going
from one automobile factory to an
other looking for work, and I can't
find any"
Sleda had worked in Ford's River
Rouge plant from 1926 until 1929.
Then together with tens of thousands
of other auto workers he was thrown
out of job. In search of a means to
make living for himself and family,
he found job on a farm in Sanilac
County near Sandusky, Mich. But
even this job is now gone and the
family has been without any means
for over four months.
Sold Furniture to Feed Family
All could do was bring my family
back to Detroit" he said. my par
ents live on a farm near Bad Axe, but
they are poor themselves, and can't
help me support my family.
81 sold our furniture and our auto
mobile" he explained, "and we lived
on that money for awhile, but it is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
'ENazis Led Picked Band of Storm Troopers
Thru Tunnel from Goering's House.

anyone besides Van der Lubbe at the
scene of the fire, by declaring that
"the other criminals may have been
able to escape through the under
ground passage which connects the
Reichstag building with the building
of the Reichstag's Speaker"
In other words, the Nazis' own first
version of the fire, Qater revised as
too compromising was that the in
cendiaries escaped to the residence
Of Capt. Goering, head of the Prus-
sian Police, Prime Minister of Rsus-
STA, and one of the chiefs OF the
Storm Troopers. But Goering has
a special storm troop of his own,
Detachment G, while his house is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

Nazi speaker of the Reichstag, across
the street from the building. This
tunnel carries the heating pipes to
Goering's residence from the Reich
stag main heating plant.
The Reichstag is such a huge
building that hundreds of pounds of
inflammable material had to be
struggled into the building, together
with hundreds of gallons of gasoline,
to set it on fire effectively. How
did all that material get into the
building. 1t could hardly have gotten
past the watchmen at the only two
open portals. The official Nazi YER
sions of the fire, two days later. ex-
planned the police failure to capture
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

of the railway.
'"The Soviet government is of the
opinion that the direct responsibility
of these violations lllls on the Jap
aneSe government.
mot Manchukuo, which Is power
less and unable to answer for the
events in Manchuria, but the jap
anese government, the actual master
in Manchuria, must bear the direct
responsibility of all violations Of
agreements of the Chinese Eastern
Railway, and also the seizure of the
railway which is being prepared"
The Soviet ambassador in Japan,
Tmurenev, was instructed to make
the same statement to. the Japanese
government at Toxic.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Govt Orders 50 Per
Cent Slash in Vet
insurance. aymentS
Will Affect $4,000
Veterans With a Cut
of S36,600,000

WASHINGTON, Sept. pas a re-
suit of economies instituted in the
Veterans Administration of the
Roosevelt government, war veterans
will have their insurance policy divi-
dends slashed SO per cent,
About $4,000 veterans are affected
by the order. They will lose about
So, $780, 900.
The United States Army has just
been granted $54,o00,0o0 for equip
ment in addition to the regular Army
budget appropriation of 1926, 900, 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

perhaps, but real.
Being casual, comradely and hui
man, not becoming self-conscious in
ones dealings with other races, is a
very necessary accomplishment for a
Communist in America. 1t is an art
that has to be studied and learned;
and it can't be met by lot of me-
chanical phraseology.
To say I am a white chauviniSt Tor
making such a remark is about the
limit. 1t is a SANDER made with some
malicious object I can't understand.
I don't need Comrade Anon to tell
me to become a fighter for Negro
rights" It is more than ten years
since 1 Wroio GO r' the first revolu-
ionary poems in defense of the Ne
gro WORKER. --- = written a play
on this theme, and many short
stories. worked with Claude Mckay
for several years as co-editor of the
Liberator, and we dealt with the Ne
gro problem before the Party had
fully awoke to it.
1 don't need Comrade Anon to tell
me to Jump at the throat of those
who discriminate against Negroes"
What Threats has he, an anonymous
hero, jumped at?
And, of course, the Party is the
leader of the oppressed races. OF
course, one must fight bitterly in
defense of the Negro worker-to the
uttermost limit.
But only a conscious Slanderer
could find basis in my paragraph
for anything to the contrary.
Being Personal.
may be too personal and sub
jective" as Comrade Anon charges,
but it is better to be that way
openly than TO disguise ones per-
sonal malice in the form of an "ob-
jective" heresy-hunt like Comrade
Anon's. I am attempting humor-
GUS and literary column in the Daily
Worker. Some people think it should
be written in the style of the sterile
pedants, the comma-hunters and in
grown cultists, whose dead hand has
been SO dangerous to the movement.
l am trying TO write simply. I am
trying to be human and casual" SO
that some outsiders may be per-
suaded that Communism isn't the
exclusive property Of little cult
speaking a peculiar jargon.
I am sure to make many minor
deviations, but they are not worth an
anonymous theorists study. Let him
study the new attitude in the Soviet
Union toward literary men; they are
not watched like prisoners for devia-
lions, but are given some creative
freedom. AS long as their funda-
mental loyalty is sound, they are
trusted. But, Comrade Anon doesn't
tru7t me; his letter is not a comrade-
ly disagreement but the spiteful at
tack of a foe.
Why 1t was printed with an edi-
torial note Of approval, is also an
other OF these deep mysteries, will
never understand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

The first article of this series,
published yesterday, outlined the
political background IN Germany
on the eve of the fire and showed
how the Reichstag fire was the
signal for an unprecedented reign
of Fascist terror. Today's article
describes the actual burning of the
Reichstag. Editorial Note.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Mayors Conference
Faces Relief Problem

CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 22.-Mayors
of 1870 cities are meeting here to dis
cuss the acute relief situation fac
ing their municipalities this winter.
Two Federal officials, Harry Hop
kins, Federal Relief Administrator,
and Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of In
terror and Public Works Administra-
tor, will address the mayors tomor-
row.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Comrade Hamilton,s series of

Ccmrade Hamilton's series OF
articles on the Reichs.ag fire is
based upon the exhaustive ma
teri-l contained in t'rc "E~own
Beck On the Fc'-hst-g Fire and
Hitler Terror" published by the
international Committee for the
Victims of Hitler Fascism, and
upon information gathered from
German refugees In several cap
itals of Europe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
Tries Suicide by Hunger
to Give Family Insurance

DETROIT MchWth relief denied him and his family
with finding Sed
strike
little babies
support wife properly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23
SOVIET UNION CHARGES
JAPAN SEEKS TO SEIZE
CHINESE EASTERN R. R.
Issues Sharp Note Accusing Japanese of
Using Puppet Rulers in Manchukuo
BY vERN SMITH.
Especial Cable to the Daily Worker)

2Chargng
anchuokuo attempting to seize the Chinese
issued
autho ambassador
Affairs Sokolnikov
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-23

by Comproday sunday at
City 47S55 Cable "DAiWo
Daily so 18th St. New York
Evening star., 1933-05-23
SAIE-AUTO TRICKS.

CHEVROLET LIGHT DELIVERY PANEL. az
ton ] 933 model. demonstration. unlettered.
United Food Stores colors, run less than
500 miles: will sell at a substantial re-
duction Apply H. Rosenthal, Mandel Chev-
rolet 18th and Good Hope I'd. Sc, Atlantic
4406
s. o S. GOOD USED TRUCKS.
Vans, stakes. dumps. deliveries: open and
closed Recon6itioned.
S1ERRETT OPERATING SERVICE
Met O505 80 M ST. NE.
Evening star., 1933-05-23
SALE-AUTOMOBILES.

SPECIAL! SPECIAL!
H. de luxe type: new tires; mileage, 5000;
body damaged by FIRE; for quick sale. S415.
CAD1LLAC-Six wire wheels. de luxe
short-coupled 5-pass. sedan trunk and trunk
rack: new tires. best looking car. in the
city; perfect with written guarantee. Car
must. must be seen to be appreciated: terms or
CADILLAC SPORT PHAEToN-prettiest
car in the city; new tires: wire wheels:
de luxe; $50 worth of extras: privately
owned. with written guarantee: $500.
HUPP straight So 1891 sport touring.
brand-new, tires: needs a little work on
motor; S32l
CHRYsL $3.50 Imperial Victoria
Coupe-Sl15.
CADILLAC PHAETON-Six wire wheels;
de luxe tnnd series: S115.
RENAULT 6-cylinder convertible coupe
with rumble seat; good tires: in good run
ming order; 500 Chrysler Roadsters C3).
S45 to 500.
BUICK Master sedan-S45: Q Buick
tourings. $40 each.
sTuTZ sedan-s-cylinder-
ROBERT HERSONS AUTO EXCHANGE,
- Florida Ave. NE.
Evening star., 1933-05-23
RooMs-FtJR. AND UNFuR.

JUST OFF NORTH CAPITOL ST large
rooms, Ink. newly papered; ami; rSa-
sonable; adults. Decatur 0593. 90
LARGE. FRONT, first-fioor room, next bath.
In private apt; close to White House. DI.
5l20. evenings.
3545 10th N.W.-Several renowned lg h.k,
sink, b.. gas range good location; reason
able. Call 4 to 7:3O adults.
COLORED, Kenyon 81. near l3th-One
room, kitchen and bath. front: newly paint
ed; reference. Call Columbia 1909 23s
Evening star., 1933-05-23
ROOMS-UNFURNISHED.

CHI CHI. D. c.. detached house: > attrac-
tive rooms with private bath: cool and airy;
bed room furnished II desired: no kitchen;
refined Young people preferred; $50 mo.