The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-08
A. Cutler of Columbia
to Speak at John Reed
Club Farm Symposium

CLuD L arm symposium
NEW YORK.-The symposium on
the farm question has aroused SO
much interest that the John Reed
Club has secured as another speaker
Or. A. Cutler Of the economies de-
partmept OF Colun bia University.
DR.. Cutler has recently made trip
through the South studying farm
conditions. He will speak, on white
and Negro Farmers in the South"
The other speakers will be John
Moore of the SharecToppers Union;
Milton Howard, Of the Daily Worker;
Ben Field, frateynal delegate To the
Farm Conference, and John Wezley,
the chairman The symposium VIII
be held Sunday at $3.50 pm. at the
John Reed Club, 40 Sixth Ave,
under totally different surface sur
roudings, diffeAnt looking buildings,
streets, dress Of the people. Yet here
hunger and misery, a proletarlat. And
we three all felt as deeply the playing
of the TnternationaIe but perhaps
Frau and Herr fish felt it a little
more deeply, they certainly have gons
through more and are preparing for
more than we in the States are right
now.
TITE talked awhile, turning music ON
w the radio Frau Tish nlonkeyed
with the dial. A mans voice speak
ing. Frau Tish listened. Her face
suddenly lit up. "Dimitroff is going 10
speak. Dinitroffp Her hus-
band spun around on his chair where
he was loungi1g. 'Dimitroft ;
Dinitroff"
Their quick reaction had left me
bit upset. The name Dimitroff. The
trial The Bulgarian Communist who
was raising the devil with the Eazi
court OF the Reichstag burning. We
listened.
Herr Tish translated for awhile.
Goebbels was going to question Dimi-
troff The trial was being broadcast.
A swift voice spun out in German.
"Goebhels," said Herr fish. A mo-
ment's silence, then deep voice
speaking very slow. 1t was apparent
even 10 my ear that it Yves very bad
German being spoken. That's Dimi-
troff." said Herr Tish.
For q few minutes Herr fish trans
lated. Dimitroif was giving them hell
again. lie just answered Goebbels'
questioning with the most courageous.
brilliant answers. Gcebbels spun out
his fast fine German again. could
understand from GoebbelS' tone that
he was ridlcuIing Dinlitroff's poor
German, and attempting TO pull over
his audience with his own speaking
OF German. Herr and Frau fish were
now SO engrapped they were not
translating, leaning close over the
radio to get every word. The slow
picking OF words, the deep brave voice
Of Dinitrcff. In the very den Of the
Nazis. They could murder him at
their leisure if they were angry
enough, they only sought TO beat
themselves TO the point where they
had the courage to murder Dirnitroff.
Torgler, Popoff, Taneff. They fear
the mass reprisals if they do.
So they put them up in court
and try to frame them. But they
are not even clever. Rather, they
are clever, but being clever still makes
them unable to score with the masses
when they are face to face with more
honest men who are more intelligent
and have only to expose the true
conditions. Goering, angered at Dr.
mitroffs calm facing of him at the
trial several weeks ago, told Dimitroff
he would have to watch out or he,
Goering, would get him when he got
out Of jail. Fine fellow, When Goer-
ing entered the court, the entire
courtroom stood up and saluted him.
The entire courtroom with the ex-
ception Of the prisoners. And the
prisoner Dimitroff made an ass out
Of Goering, the great man of the
Nazis, side-kick to Herr Adolf.
THE voices continued GoebbeIs
L then Dimitroff, I couldn't
forget for moment where I was.
The brown uniformed Nazis parading
in the streets. The workers misery.
The upsurge in the last few weeks
in the work OF the Party. And the
Nazi leader with his armed Aunkeys
trying to COW the workers leader.
Dimitroff. And 1 felt like laughing
or yelling with the sure, quiet way
the workers leader expressed the feel
lnes of the German workers, despite
torture, despite murder, despite his
Sufferings,
M E n T S