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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
American Capitalists Contribute Millions Chest of German Naz

connection in the United States, how
ever, was that with Henry Ford. The
first link between Ford and Hitler
dates back to the days when the au-
tomobile manufacturers Dearborn
Independent" lambasted the Jews
week after week. After the famous
libel suit brought in Chicago and the
subsequent cessation of publication of
the Independent" Ford entered into
conversation with the publishers of
Hitler's party literature, the firm of
FIR. Eher Nachfolger in Munich.
Ford's proposition was that they
should reprint in the form Of pamph-
lets a selection Of articles from the
Independent" translated into Ger
man, Of course. He gave express per-
mission for the joint use of the names
Ford and Hitler in advertising the
pamphlets and he furnished the
funds for the campaign.
Ford ti-Semitism in Germany
Henry Ford's offer was accepted
with glee. 1t came at a psychological
moment. The Nazi movement was
still young, still provincial in the
sense that little attention was vet
paid to it outside Bavaria; it was re-
garded more as curiosity than a
potentiality. Hitler felt that with
adequate advertising, the pamphlets
would circulate throughout Germany
and provide very welcome publicity.
FIR. Eher Nachfolger received a
cheque for forty thousand dollars to
further the spread Of anti-Jewish
literature IN Germany. This cheque
represents the first financial sup
port Of Adolf Hitler by Henry Ford.
A few years passed, and the Hitler
movement, steadily gathering new
followers. was still being watched by
Henry Ford. Then in 1929 the world
heard that Prince Ferdinand of Prus-
sia had decided to make q career
for himself in the United atatAs and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

had taken up post in the engi-
neering department of the Ford works
in Detroit.
Prince As Nazi Agent.
Today the intimate relations be-
tween the members of the ex-Kaiser's
family and the Nazi leaders are a
matter Of common knowledge. Prince
August Wilhelm, for one, is an active
member Of the organization, while
many people look upon Hohenzollern
and Nazi as synonymous terms.
Prince Ferdinand was the link bring
ing Ford and Hitler into contact
again.
When met the young Princes at
the Drake Hotel in Chicago, and was
introduced to their particular circles,
our conversation occasionally turned
on Henry Ford, and the fact was
impressed upon me that so far as
Selling Hitler" was concerned, De-
troit was special territory OF Prince
Ferdinand. 1t should be remembered
in this connection that since the in
cident Of the Munich pamphlets,
Ford factories had been set up in
Germany. gathered from these
conversations that the SALES talk"
was much the same whether coming
from the grandson Of the fallen war
lord, or from paid agents. In De-
troit, Ferdinand Hohenzollern used
much the same arguments that were
being used with bankers in New
York-"the socialistic and Commu-
nistic menace in Germany will ex-
tend to the whole Of Europe II I'M
checked; socialism means the fur
Their impovertshment Of nations; fur
Their predatory legislation in indus
try and finance" and so on and SO
forth, all the regular stock in trade.
But there were also two additional
personal appeals in the case Of Henry
Ford. prejudice against Jews and the
dansas and possibility Of powerful
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
United Front and
Anti War Struggle
Sabotaged by YPSL
Observation-Disclosures
to Join Young
Communists

READING, Pa, Aug. 28.-The I'M
seated Chicago delegation to the
national Young Peoples Socialist
League Congress, and the other
members expelled from the Y. P. S.
L. for taking part in united front
struggles, have decided to join the
Young Communist League.
The conference of the Y. P. S. L.
yesterday adjourned after rejecting
all concrete proposals for united
action, and without even discussing
the National Recovery Act, the So
Wet Union, the war danger, or the
Scottsboro and Mooney cases.
The conference refused by a vote
of 81 to so to hear a representative
of the Young Communist League
who came with plea for united
action of all youth organizations.
The speeches were featured by vi
cious attacks on the Y. G. L.
The insurgent left wing, including
the expelled members and many
sympathizers, are holding final con-
ference, in which they will make
plans to fight for the united front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

to support 1t and to send delegates.
The United States Congress
Against War will meet in New York
Sept. % to Oct. 1.
Farm States Eject Delegates
NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-Eighteen
or twenty young workers will repre-
sent the state of Nebraska as dele
gates to the q. S. Anti-War Congress
the arrangements committee for the
Congress announced today.
Many Of them have already been
elected, at farmers picnics held in
various parts of the state under the
auspices of the Nebraska Anti-War
Committee, with headquarters at Lin
coin. The whole delegation will be
elected at these picnics at which
funds will also be subscribed to send
them to New York. They will come
together in trucks.
Farmers of Wyoming have also
elected delegate, at a meeting in
Hawk Spring, under the auspices of
the wyoming anti-war committee,
W4A4Skl tlulOullCCo bdldb SEVERAL Otlc-
gates will be sent from that state.
Ammeringer Joins Committee
Twenty-one organizations repre-
Senting 1000 members, including the
Civil War Veterans Association of
Boise, Idaho, and unemployed, farm
ers' prohibition, student, fraternal
and religious organizations have
formed the Idaho State COMMITTEES
Against War which will send ten
delegates to the Congress. -Four have
already been elected The Idaho
committee is carrying on q successful
press and radio campaign to popular
lie the Congress.
Oscar Ammeringer, editor OF the
American Guardian, Socialist pub
licstion and a member of the Social
list Party has joined the arrange
ments committee for the U. s.
Congress Against War.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-An
appeal to President Roosevelt to
stop naval construction, recall
American marines from China, and
to call for repeal of the japanese
Exclusion Act was made today by
the Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

trade unions calling a strike in the
German Ford plant any time they
wished.
100000 from Ford.
To the world in general it was said
that Prince Ferdinand proved such
valuable asset in the Detroit works
that he deserved a large salary, With
important bonuses for expert engi-
neering services. Ford valued the
services rendered to him by the
charming Prussian Prince at three
hundred thousand dollars. This
money crossed the ocean mostly in
the form of notes and found its way
into the Nazi party chest through
the intermediary Of "Auwi" other
wise Prince August Wilhelm, Nazi
deputy in the Prussian diet, officer
on the general staff of Hitler's Storm
Troops and intimate friend Of Joseph
Goebbels, head of the Nazi Propa-
ganda Service, now Reich Minister Of
Propaganda.
There is one thing about Prince
Ferdinand's engineering career" that
I have never been able to elucidate-
why did he enter the United States
otherwise than under the quota, see
Ing that he came ostensibly as a
worker?
Play Social Racket.
When visited Chicago I saw the
two princes working tea parties, gin
parties, the whole gamut of the $50
cial racket. could see that certain
ly they were having a good time.
They did not conceal the fact that
all who wanted to help the cause
were welcome, neither did they hesi-
tate to let people know that bank
Ing account N Chicago was kept well
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Arbitrator Breaks
Cuban Rail Strike
15-Day Truce Accepted
by Workers

HAVANA, Aug. 28.-While most
of the strikes in Cuba remained
solid, the railway workers strike
which had tied up transportation in
Camaguey and Oriente province was
broken by a decision of the workers
to return to work today and wait
Is days for an arbitration commits
sion to take up their demands.
Six hundred men on horseback
gave the proprietors of a sugar mill
near Gle nfuegos "a hours in which
to accept the workers demands. for
a wage increase and better living
and working conditions.
Colonel Charles Muecke, Ameri-
can adventurer, has offered the gov
eminent force of 800 men which
he calls Civil Guard, to be used
against striking workers.
Eleven bodies of victims of Ma
chado in the 1881 revolution were
found in Pinar del Rio province.
Julian Rivero was killed and eight
others injured, two probably fatally,
in a gun fight at the headquarters
of the Havana Labor Federation, a
reformist organization:
NEW YORK, Aug. 2s.-General
Alberto Herrera, Machado's minis
ter of war and acting secretary Of
state, is at the Barbizon-P Plaza hotel.
He landed in New York today from
the liner Haiti" with his wife, four
children, nephew and three serv-
ants, from Kingston, Jamaica. He
was met by heavy guard of police.
y
MONTREAL, Aug. 2S.-Gerardo
Machado, former president of Cuba,
will land here next Sunday on the
S. S. "Lady Rodney" from Nassau,
Bahamas. He has permission to
stay three months in Canada.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

The Morgan Bank gave fifty thou
sand dollars once and thirty-flve
thousand dollars at another time.
q. P. Morgan in London last week
denied having contributed to Hitler
Ed Another issuing house, at the
instigation of Ivar Kruger, also
contributed generously. An American
National Bank whose president made
frequent trips to Berlin, followed suit.
Most Of the cheques were drawn on
other banks. When the contributions
were in cash, they were invariably
sent on to DR.. Schacht by registered
mail and he attended to the transfers.
General Motors Largest Contributor
The largest individual contribution
coming from America was not from
a bank, but came from General
Motors. In 1928, this corporation be-
gan to negotiate the purchase Of the
Opel Automobile concern in Germany.
When the deal was concluded Gin
such a way that a large amount Of
the taxation due was evaded), Amer
lean executives took charge Of the
organization.
1t was natural that General Motors
should be interested in the Hitherto
movement. The assistance Of the
American corporation was solicited In
the United States and it was furnish
ed from the American offices of the
General Motors Acceptance Corpor-
ation. MIR. r. was in charge Of the
transaction, after which he was sent
to Germany, where he was in fire.
quent contact with DR.. schacht. In
all, General Motors contributed two
hundred thousand dollars.
HtlerS most important business
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
U. S. Sources of Hitler Finances Exposed by
Former Secretary of High Nazi Official
Gave Money to Fight Communism

supplied with contributions which
reached their eventual destination IN
Germany through the medium Of
three or four different banks.
German Americans in New York
and Milwaukee, who were in SYM
pathy with the idea of fascism, and
remembered powerful pre-war mo-
narchistic Germany, contributed. A
German American brewer in New
York who was one of the most sued
cessful bootleggers between 1926 antS
1881, paid one hundred thousand dol[
lars into the treasury of the party
when he heard that the mass Of the
Nazis were recruited from the i'm
poverished bourgeois class which d
anti-reyolutionary, and that the pur-
pose of these Nazis was to arrest
the march Of socialism, to repress
Communism and to oppose working
class legislation.
Italian Americans Contribute.
Italians in America who were flat.
tered by the apparent similarity Of
the German and Italian idea, were
especially generous. / recall particu-
larly Mrs. Julia Morosini, Of River
dale-on-the-H Hudson, whose father
came to America when Garibaldi's
legions were disbanded. She helped
the Nazi cause on several occasions1
At the end of 1929, the Nazis
opened an office in N. Y, the idea
being to prove to contributors that
good use was being made Of their
money as this local Office did a good
deal of soliciting among small people
with German connections. But the
directors Of this branch had nothing
to do with big game, with the d.
nancial and business leads'-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
German Economist
Exiled by Nazis
viii Tour America

NEW YORK.-Professor Alfons
Goldschmidt, noted German econ
omist exiled by the Nazi regime, viii
arrive here today on the steamer
Gripsholm.
He will lecture throughout the
country under the auspices of the
American Committee Against Fas-
cist Oppression in Germany, whose
offices are at 551 Fifth Avenue.
Professor Goldschmidt is we'll
known in this country and in Eu-
rope as the author of several books
on Germany.
While here, he will lecture also for
the National Committee to Aid Wet
inns of German Fascism, as well as
other United Front anti-fascist or
ganizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Arrest 3 for Turning
on Gas for JObless
in Williamsburg, Pa

WILLIAMSBURG, Pa. = Three
members of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil here have been arrested, and
the Equitable Gas Co. has had war
rants issued for a large number of
others, on charges of turning on gas
in the homes of unemployed work
ers. The three arrested were
George Lewis, A. M. Collins, and
Peter Mundsinger. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense has furnished
bond pending court hearing. Work
ers are being modified to protest
these arrests and to demand the
release of the three and cancellation
Of the warrants issued.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
France Pledges
Armed Force to
SupportAustria
Premier Inspects Giant
Fortifications on
German Border

PARIS, Aug. 28.-France will
protect Austria against Nazi ag-
erosion by arms if necessary,
Premier Edouard Daladier declared
yesterday, as he left to inspect
Frances completed s100,0O0,000 line
of Notifications which extend along
the whole German frontier, for 125
miles from the Rhine to Luxembourg.
While Chancellor Adolf Hitler
was demonstrating at the Nieder-
valid, just across the Rhine from
the Saar Valley, Daladier was on
his way to Metz, at the German
border.
The new French Notifications are
declared to be proof against any
attack. They include an immense
system of underground barracks and
trenches, without a break along the
whole frontier, and broken at 16-
mile intervals by shell-proof vaults
from which artillery and machine
guns can lay down a permanent bar
rage along the whole line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Regarding the Weather

One of Mark Twain's complaints
was that everyone talked about the
weather, but nobody did anything
about it." Recently, we have been
suffering from bout Of crazy wealth.
er around New York. First, there
was terrific wave OF heat and
humidity. Then there was tropical
gale, raging and smashing down trees,
cracking big plate glass show win
dows in the city, rolling I'D giant
tides. And nobody could do anything
about it.
Strangely enough, this futility In
the face of the weather La one OF the
stock arguments Of religious minded
capitalists. It Is God, so the legend
goes, who makes the storms and the
heat, who sends thunder, death and
capitalism, and who chooses who
shall be slave. In all the religious
creeds there stands high the gospel
OF obedience, of resignation to ones
lot on this earth.
In other words, God gave Cali
fornia the earthquake, Florida the
hurricane, ice storms to the North
west, and prickly heat to New York.
God also gave Harry K. Thaw his
millions, and the coal miners their
painful lack of millions.
But some scientific atheists are
working on the idea that the weather
can be controlled. Recently an Amer
lean aeroplane bombarded the clouds
with tons of dry ice, and started a
much-needed rainfall. Engineers are
also studying the Sahara and Arctic
regions. Maybe it will be possible
to shoot cyclone down at its birth.
before 1t gets chance to do damage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Chinese Red Army
SEXES City in New
Drive Toward Sea
Advancing on Large
Center in Fukien
Province

PEIPING, Aug. 27.-The Chin
csc Red Army has occupied the
city of Wangtai, in northern Flu
ken province, and are advancing
on Yenping, large center on the
Min river, it was reported here
today.
This is the first victory of the
new drive into northwest Fukien
province, from the red districts of
Kiangsi province, Immediately to
the west. This brings them with
in 100 miles of the coast, about
halfway between Shanghai and
Canton, in the fertile valleys to
the east of the Soviet districts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Nazis Seize Wife,
Daughter of PECK

BERLIN, Aug. 28.-The wife and
daughter of Wilhelm PECK, leading
Communist Reichstag deputy, were
arrested yesterday in a raid on his
house. A third person whose name
was not given was arrested at the
same time.
Twenty-eight men and ten women
were arrested in Remscheid, as
Communists by police
Mass arrests of Communists were
made in Lauban, according to the
police, who said they were held
without charges in retaliation for
the death of a man who was "sup-
posed to have been killed by Com
munists or sYmpathizers.n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29

Bob Minor, who is Communist can
d4dsSe for Mayor Of New York, came
down 30 Staten Island to speak last
weekend. It was at the camp grounds
o6 the Scandinavian Workers Club.
Standing on the tailend Of a truck,
against the booming waters Of Rari-
tan Bay, the tail Texas artist made a
sober speech anaIyzing the NRA and
pointing out that 1t was nothing but
great wage-cut.
At one point he did an effective
thing. There were some 300 workers
IN the crowd, mostly building trades
workers, and Bob asked anyone in
the crowd to raise his hand If he
had received a raise since NRA and
the Blue Bu8zard Only two workers
raised their hands. 1t was a graphic
Illustration Of what NRA really was
accomplishing. These two workers,
husky young men, were getting s12
and S18 week each. AS Bob pointed
out, the SO raise given them didn't
cover the spread in the rising price
OF food and clothing. They were
really getting 4 wage-cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
What
a
World
BY Michael Gold
The SkHvsks OF yass

Wahl wafal mourn the jackad
saxophones
Brown old scavenRers
Waiting for man 70 1as
Waiting for man 10 dta
In the bleached American de0SVt
And the skunks of jazz draw near
Pretty soft-furred darlings
Spraying venom
Beware their acid p
Beware the hot cha cha ~ hoo
OF the jazz skInksl
Cheek to iowi and belly 30 gta
In tinsel chop suey heIlS sQtirfn the
Americans
Dumb young Caliban slaves
Eunuchs of capitalism
Castrate OF soul
Knowing but wahl wahi
Jazz, jazzl rafting skeletons st play
Who never can find human Joy
Wah, wah! o the jazz torment
Capitalism is the world grave
Where man moulders and waits q
resurrection
Wah, wah! in skrieking dance halls
I hear that sad mean capitalist wah
wah
Yet under it great and unborn
Ever the Lenin harmonieS
The Lenin Beethoven music
Listen friend and you will hear n
How clear, how pure, o Lenin
Beethoven music
True bridal Of the earth and sky
Flutes and trumpets to drown forever
That waf wah world of the Yahoo
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Zionists Hear Charges
of Palestine Fascism

PRAGUE Aug. 2S.-The General
Council of the Zionist Congress,
which has just voted down a boy
colt of Germany and arranged ne
gotiations with the Nazis to expa-
triate all Jews from Germany was
concerned today with the question
of Jewish Fascism in Palestine.
In a dramatic all-night session,
charges that the Zionist Fascists,
who are anti-labor and anti-Semitic
so far as the Arabs in Palestine are
concerned, are carrying on a cam
paign of terrorism in Palestine
were heatedly attacked and de-
Tended. A committee was elected to
go to Palestine to investigate.
Charges were made that Revision
list terrorists had been the murder
ers of Chain Arlosoff, chief of the
political department of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Say Arms Struggled
in for Irish Fascists

CORK, Irish Free State, Aug. %.
"A report was widely current here
today that 1850 rifles and eight
cases of ammunition had been SNUG
gled into Ireland at Mizen Head
Cork county, by a trawler from Bel
GUM. They are believed to be con-
signed to the Irish Fascist Party,
the National Guard"
General Owen O'Duffy, leader of
the Irish Fascist National Guard,
fooled the police and addressed two
meetings of his blue-shirt followers
yesterday, at Bandon and Crooks
town. Detectives who were ordered
to stop meetings followed a decoy
car while O'Duffy's car doubled
back to the place of meeting. The
Fascists have been declared illegal
by President Eamonn de Valera.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
An Meditation

l am certain of at least dozen
letters asking What the foregoing
poem means. Pieass, comrades, dc
not ask me to fully explain. It is
headache enough to write these
things, without being forced into ex-
ira verbiage.
But it is a free versa impression
OF a wasted evening in a dance hall
I do not always hate jazz; I think
il has some merit as a source Of new
rythms Jazz may be good also to
dance TO, but on the whole, 1t is fairly
tawdry and cheap, and has no real
depths of emotion. Jazz is a kind OF
lumpen- proletarianism in music, the
pattern Of cheap Broadway crook.
Jazz has no roots in anything en-
cept the Broadway pavement. II
hasn't the profound sincerity of folk
music or of primitive music like the
Indian or African dances. And It
hasn't the high lofty imagination OF
Bach or Beethoven; in other words
it is neither worker nor intellectual
but a kind of commercial product
rootless, meaningless, adulterated.
like to dance to jazz occasionally
But what Art Young, the cartoonist
once said impressed me: TT tries
to be gay, but jazz is the most pathe-
tic music ever heard, like an ape
trying to make human sounds
Now here is the invitation. II you
disagree with these views on jazz
write us letter. Jazz Is important
In American life, and is worth dis
cussing. In the Soviet Union jazz
was otitlawed for many years as a
source Of bourgeois corruption.
used to thirk that foolish attitude,
but nov AIN not SO sure. Because
own a radio and once after listen
ing to several hours Of jazz from a
dozen different stations, I wanted to
go somewhere and shoot my lunch
But wrote that poem instead; poetry
is q relief for the emotions; cathar-
tn for the mind
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
Urited Front Parade
To Be Held in Fort
Worth on Labor Day

FORT WORTH, Texas.-A Uni
ted Front Labor Day parade will
be held here of the Unemployed
Councils, Socialist Party local, Com
munist Party and Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League. On this same
day the American Federation of
Labor will parade through the main
streets of Fort Worth together with
the American Legion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
5OJObless Women Back
From Camp; Picked
from 1900 Registrars

NEW YORK.-Fifty unemployed
women returned from Camp Mt. Ivy
relief camp yesterday. These 50
were hand selected out of a group
OF 1900 jobless women who are re-
gistered with the Emergency Work
and Relief Bureau.
Commenting on these women.
William Matthews. director of the
Bureau said, that the girls selected,
ARE the ones who derive most bene-
fit mentally as well as physically
from a country atmosphere"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-29
New Taxes Asked to
Meet French Deficit

PARIS, Aug. 28-Facing a deficit
OF s,6OO,0o0,0o0 francs (s545, 280, O0O),
the French government will demand
the imposition of new taxes and the
cutting of government expenditures,
Lucien Lamoureux, budget minister
declared yesterday.
He said the government might 20
under otherwise, as capitalists who
did not receive interest on their gov
eminent investments would refuse To
lend the government any more
money. Nearly $58,000,000. of this
deficit Is now overdue as interest to
capitalist investors.