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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
L Burned the Reichstag!'
Full ConfessiOn by
Karl Ernst, Dead
Nazi Leader

BY the Daily Worker Correspondent
Paris, France.
DEAD men are supposed to tell
y no tales. Now one dead man
has spoken. The silence Of the
grave, meant to cover the ugly
truth about the burning of the
Reichstag, has been suddenly
broken. "How I Fired the Reich
stag is the title of an astound-
ing series of revelations published
in the Paris newspaper, Journal"
this morning.
The author of the article, signed
and counter-signed by two other
Storm Guard leaders, Is Karl
Ernst, the perfumed dandy Of the
Berlin storm Guards, who was
the especial pet of Captain Roehm,
and was murdered on June 80.
The document has been in ex-
istence since June 2, the date
when Ernst first realized that he
was being put on the spot by his
fellow gangsters Of the Nazi re-
gime.
In it Ernst, himself one Of those
who set fire to the Reiehstag, tells
when ana how the plot was laid.
This full confession from the
grave into which Ernst was
hurtIed by "the men higher up
to stop him talking finally drives
home the truth about the Reich
stag fife. as it was already revealed
in the Brown Book Of the Nazi
Terror" ana the magnificent
analysis of Georsi Dimitrov at the
Leipzig trial.
In this amazing document Ernst
tells from the inside of the Nazi
organization Just how the fire was
planned by Goering, Goebbels and
Heines, and how Ernst and others
carried 1t out.
Ernst explains how the Nszi lead
ers hit on this plan in order to
frame up a case against the Com
munistS, to rally riiddle-class sup
port to the Nazi Party, and to give
the signal for the outbreak Of the
Hitler terror.
Fielder and Mohrenschild we're
the two other Storm Troop leaders
associated with Ernst in the actual
carrying out of the crime. They
all acted, says Ernst, in the convic-
ton that they were striking a deadly
blow on behalf of 1.-THE Leader" and
against Communism.
Ernst, the ex-page-boy, whom
Roehm picked up and turned into
one Of the most luxurious rufIians
of the Nazi regime, discussed the
plan with Goering, Goebbels and
tIeines.
Goering and Goebbels first
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Questions and Answers

Detailed figures cannot be pre-
sented here in answer to the last
question. A few statistics will serve
to illustrate the NAL distribution Of
income. According TO Dr.. Nor
decai Ezekiel, Of the Department of
Agriculture, the lower so per cent
Of American families in 1929 re-
ceived only Is per cent of the ma
tional income, while the top IL per
cent received a fourth of the ma
tional income. And the conserva-
tive Bookings Institution in a
study found that in 1929, seventy
five per cent of American families
were living on incomes that were
on or below minimum standard
of health and decency. Even in
that year of so-called prosperity,
the OIL per cent of the richest fam
lilies received as much income as
the poorest AZ per cent of families
at the bottom of the economic scale.
During the crisis, wages fell so
per cent and small salaries 40 per
cent. But the income of the coupon
clippers held to the highest levels
Of the twenties. In 1888, the first
year of the New Deal, real wages
fell, and small incomes also de-
clined. But corporation profits and
dividends rose to the highest point
since 1881, and the number of mil
lion dollar incomes increased from
twenty in 1892 to forty-six in 1898.
The tempo Of the concentration of
wealth was accelerated by the mon
opolistic drive of the New Deal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

KARL ERNST, former storm
troop leader, shot during Hitler's
blood purge and one of those
who set fire 10 the Beichstag.
thought fake attempt on the life
of Hitler would be the best thing.
However, E1eines, the l1omosexual
murderer whom Hitler had made
police chief at Breslau, preferred the
fire plan.
At the third meeting, in Goering's
house, the actual firing of the
Reichstag was arranged, with Van
der Lubbe as f1gurehead.
Goering provided them with pet
rol, and other inflammable stufs,
which we're taken into the Reich
stag through the famous passage
from Goering's cellar to the Reich
stag cellars.
The date was originally fixed for
February Is, then put off until Feb
ruary rs, and finally arranged for
February 27. Goebbels, professional
publicity expert of the Nazi Party,
fixed the actual date, by pointing
out that February IS was on Sun
day. Since most German news
papers are not published either on
Sunday evening or Monday morning,
Goebbels suggested that for publ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

WOR-Hillibilly Music
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CHANGE
-THE
WORLD!
: III
By MICHAEL GOLD

HERE'S interesting letter the LevyAexander
"A troversy over "Gold Eagle Guy
81 went to Melvin Levys Gold Eagle Guy the
other night and I'd like to put my two cents into the dis
cussion which went between Levy and Leon Axanders
review Of the play.
I friend who solitary criticism
thing he reads If it's book short story
anything it, and dolefuy
"A swell idea, it..
MY friends criticism out of the fact that he often reads
opinions people things
little attention the problems the author has set himself
to solve.
Nevertheless, that about Levys play
friend always swell idea but he mued It. The in
Levys that feeling understanding
myself mine, the social forces which
possible modern pirate Of the high like Gold Eagle
Guy Button but false emphasis upon what Levy
understands drama TO mean in play
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

I NEW MOGlNt FD4HllAE O. " ulIlBtL Il
Distributed through the Workers
Music League. 75c copy.
Reviewed nv
LEAH ADOMIAN
NEW MUSIC is a quarterly pubh-
" cation. not Of literary works,
/ but of musical compositions. It is
the only thing Of its kind in the
world. It was founded, and is
owned and edited, by Henry Cowell
as -prof1t-making venture to
afford "a means for the publication
Of ultra-modern compositions" Prof
its. If any, will be devided among
the composers whose works are
printed New Music specializes in
the work of Americans, but pub
fishes occasionally the compositions
of foreign musicians. The prime
requisites for inclusion are: contem-
porary idion, or some detail Of tech
nique that has been treated expert
mentally. One often regrets that
the editor has only these consider
atoms to guide him. for quite fire.
quently, works Of very slight merit
from whatever viewpoint-f1nd in
clusion alongside Of serious and
valuable contributions.
The most recent volume contains
choral and instrumental music mot
selected in America. but chosen
by the Soviet Union Composers
Group as being the most represent
tative selection of different new
composers and tendencies. In
exchange for the representation of
Russian composers in New Music,
contemporary American composers
works are being produced through
publications and concerts in the
Soviet Union"
This reviewer must declare from
the outset that, in his opinion. this
is not the most representative Sc
lection of Soviet composers. In
looking over the works under review
one misses such names as Shost2-
koyich, Knipper, Shebalin, Miaskov-
ski, Borisov, Sheinin, and Shenshin
to mention just few. The com
posers represented in this volume
are Davieenko, Khachaturian Mos
solov, Polovinkin and veprik.
KHACHATURLAN'S "Danse 3" for
a piano does not open new hori-
IONS for Soviet music. One won
ders at the motives for the inclu-
sion Of this work in the book. II is
unimportant-with slight tinge of
impressionism, but, for the most
part about as representative of So
Wet musical trends as those of any
other country. We feel that some
of Khachaturian' other compost
lions are more worthy and typical
(his Red Army Marches" for in
stance)
The other piano composition in
this volume is of a more advanced
nature. 'Humoresque Philosophique'
by Polovkinin, reveals a composer
with keen sense for the theatrical.
The hooking character of this piece
combines subtlety with clsar-cut
rhythmic and melodic line, that line
that will easily make itself under
stood by the casual listener.
In the present state of revolt
tionary musical criticism it is diff
f1cult to oe too positive about stand
ards. The tradition of the bourgeois
critic is an old one. He has
"thesaurus' of critical cliches that
generally makes good copy. He does
not seem to feel the need for con-
sidering deeply the fundamental
critical issues.
The revolutionary critic, on the
other hand, is bound not only by
these standards, but must contribute
creatively to the building of new
musical critique and a new musical
style. This is especially true where
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

This department appears as
a daily feature on this page.
All questions should be addressed
to Questions and Answers Depart
ment. Daily Worker, IS East 12:h
Street, New York, N. Y.
QESTION: What are the number
of employable people in the United
States? How many people we're I'M
employed in 1928? What is the
number Of unemployed today?
What was the distribution of in
come in 1929 and what is it today.
"A. M. w,
Answer: The number Of employ
able people in the United States to-
day is over so million, and is in
creasing at an annual rate Of about
eight hundred thousand.
There we're between three and
four million unemployed during 1928
according to conservative sources
like the Labor Bureau, Inc. They
constituted permanent army of
unemployed.
At the present time there are over
Is million unemployed according to
estimates made on calculations
made by the Labor Research Asso-
citation. In November, 1888, the L.
r. A. made a careful study of I'M
employment, and estimated the
total as being close to 100000.
Today the A. F. Of L. bureaucracy
admits that the number of unem-
ployed is greater than it was a year
ago by more than half a million.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
WORLD Of the MOVIES

Chdlidpin as Don QuirOte
DON QUIxOTE, directed by G. w.
Pabst. Featured player, Feodor
Chaliapin. Adapted by Paul
Morand. English dialogue. Now
playing at Cameo Theatre.
Reviewed by
DAVID PLATT
THERE are some fine touches in
4 the new Pabst film playing at the
Cameo. 1t is not great film nor
a good conception of the book. 1t
is built too much around the per-
sonality Of Chaliapin to offer more
of the quality of the original.
Nor does it have the sureness or
dizziness of approach Of the direc-
tors earlier "Kammeradschaft" or
Comrades of 1918" And there is
no attempt to present Quixote in
terms of the present. PabSt has not
allowed the unhinged idealistic
child of the seventeenth century
TO grow up TO pc at least an anti
Nazi. The outcome is at times a
splendid film, but without the de-
cisive social meaning it otherwise
would have had.
In an attempt of the producers
TO build up a strong part for Cha
liapin they not only failed to ex-
tract the principle of Cervantes'
great social document, but they
went slightly backwards in the
bargain. Chaliapin's Interpretation
makes Quixote out to be too much
of mailman and fool, who
blindly secs injustices in wind
mills and wineskins, as well as in
jailers and rulers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Workers School
NeeUS from East
To West Coast
NEW YORK
WORKERS SCHOOL


Registration is still going on at
the New York Workers School, IS
East 18th Street. over 1000 have
registered to date. Glasses are fiji
ing up rapidly and being closed
daily. Avoid the last minute rush
by registering now. There are many
classes still open; such as, Principles
Of Communism, Political Economy
Marxism -Leninism, Colonial Prob
lens, Agearian Problems, Social and
Political Forces in American His
tory, History of Glass Struggles,
Social and Political Geography, His
tory Role and Structure Of the So
VETS in China, Revolutionary Inter
probation Of Modern Literature, ard
others.
An unusually interesting course
is one called Current Strategical
Problems of the Revolutionary
Movement which will deal with
pressing immediate questions con-
fronting the revolutionary move
n1ent.
The New York Workers School is
realizing its plan of organizing
classes in the various trade unions.
Glasses in The History of the Amer
lean Labor Movement. Principles of
Glass Struggle and English have
already been organized for the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union. These classes begin tonior-
@ow. Plans for organizing similar
classes in the Steel. Metal, Cafeteria
and Shoe, Unions are nearing COM
pletion.
Granville Hicks, Author and Critic
of the New Masses, win speak on
the Revolutionary Trends in Amer
lean Literature" this Sunday eve.
ming, December s0th at the New
York Workers School, 35 East 18th
Street, Second floor.
The Friends of the New York
Workers School, 116 University Pl..
are now conducting a campaign to
raise money for the National Train
ing School. All members of the
F.W.S. who have not, as yet, secured
lists for this purpose are urged to
do so Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
REGISTRATION AT NEWARK
WORKERS SCHOOL

The Workers School of Newark
will open its winter session tie week
of January 6, 1898, with classes in
the Fundamentals of Communism.
Party Organization, Trade Union
ism, Problems Of Negro Liberation,
Political Economy and English. At
tractive school rooms have been
secured at 90l Broad Street and at
sic Clinton Avenue.
Supporters Of the Workers School
are urged not only to attend the
classes themselves, but also to make
a serious effort to popularize the
school everywhere. Spread work of
the school among your fellow work
ers and friends in the shops. offices
and stores.
Registration for the classes to date
numbers over rs. In addition to
these individual registrations, sew
eral organizations are arranging
classes for their entire membership
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Frisco in the Seventies

THIRST summary Of the story Gold Guy the
the power wealth poor sailor in San
the period following the Civil War pcr
town those times Brawng rugged feveris its streets and
filled with motley and coorfl collection of char
all the lands the world Men filled with
the wealth California waiting eXploa
ton period, with all pioneering goldprospectng times
class yet firmly and sharply formed
when, speak society, capitalist society
in the making between for the right to control
the production 1t to accumulate private
in the majority Of not the sailor the
lonely popcor the family coming west by prairie schooner who
rich powerful but the of wealth
capital with the backing the
railroads purchase the ships trading with China and
Japan.
However there who, stricken owning
nothing the clothes their the their pockets
did rise the heights Such Guy
the of the Lines with
ships in every port and carrying every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
QUEENS WORKERS SCHOOL

The Workers School of Queens
announces the opening of its winter
term on January 7, 1885. The term
will continue until March 30, 1895.
The school has just completed its
first term. The records indicate that
the average attendance was approx
imately 80 per cent of those who
registered.
A four-weeks course is being Of
fered on the subject of War and
Fascism. The Sunday evening for
ums of the school each week grow
in popularity and is becoming an
established institution in Queens.
The school also announces the for
nation OF Queens Laboratory
Theatre which meets regularly at
the school,
Those who want to register can
do so every evening between the
hours of $50 and 1000 at $500
Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, Long
Island.
Registration is continuing at the
Brownsville Workers School, 1855
Pitkin Avenue New courses have
been added to the curriculum.
Students are urged to register early.
The school is conducting a lee
ture on the Revolutionary Theory
and the Glass Struggle" which will
be held Thursday evening. December
n at the Premier Palace, Suffer
Avenue, corner Hinsdale Street. The
speakers will be Max Bedacht, Alex
ander Trachtenberg and Abraham
Markoff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Gold Eagle Guy

at WAS 1evys problem to explain show sailor
had just deserted ship could become shpowner Of the world
wide Lines to study Of the origins
American capitalists Of dramatzaton Of primitive
accumulation of capital America like Gold Eagle
Guy Button typical phenomena Of the early days Of the develop
mnt Of American capitalism Levy summarizing whole class
after colorfu Mantle old
which the social weller the to
explain what characteristics that Button possessed
which enabled him the nagnAts OF shipping
Button with ruthless determination to make
his brutal destroyer of fine things ethical monster
with religious obeon that God his side like Napoleon
is destined to rise His star calling him. His destiny ordained
by Jehovah.
I'VE how this sailor ruhessy climbs the backs of others
whom despises Men who unwilling coolies
in the holds of rotten boats Men who unwilling to betay
trust Men with of dency and honor in business
tons Button the with vision Button the
understands the path history travelling He knows that America
will become the greatest nation earh that the railroads will
destroy conalism machinery change
technique Of the profit system
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
The Climax


WYE HAVE then division between capitalists Buttons
not fail because he sinks ship carrying gold from Alaska
first stealing the gold from the hold The soft bankers
of corruption and blackna finds himself face with
his hates the father
mother through neglect The discovered that
the ship stole the gold threatens bray
nate. will not betray him
surrender the ownership the lines him. father
"And while both fighting
Lines Frisco rocked earthquake symbol
the Line gold piece
Button cries. God will then crumbling bury
and the son and his business in crash of debris
Earthquakes and Justice
II HAVE only the skeleton plays
trkeries of Button play But
from the synopsis have outlined things open
criticism First that it Buttons characteristics
most time The
each other through Button through glass;
understand the
glamorous business Napoleon
that did not
and Button a capitalist
think the climax of the
The earthquake Buttons punishment
his ruhesness brutality
indulge constantly
the social solution the problem
anthropomorphc trick wings with
the help skilu stagehand
Perhaps would that earthquake symbol
of the Judgment earthquake
ringer professional dramatic the
contradictions in Levy conception of
Like my friend said, "A swell idea. but it,
&C. RATHER"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

NEW MUSIC, Volume 8. Number /.
Distributed through the Workers
Music League. 75c a copy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-07

mex with the story that her wares
were the finest Swedish lace made
at Limerick"
When word of that reached Mrs
Hogan it was bit too much. She
got hold of the girl and heard hel
tell it before she could believe il
true.
Are you an Irish girl?" Mrs
Hogan asked.
When the young saleslady heard
that brogue she said:
mo; but I went to the lace max
ing school of Lady Aberdeen in
Scotland"
Scotland, indeed" Mrs. Hogan
cried. when did the Scotch learn
how to make anything but big boats
and whisky and things of that sort?'
1t takes the talent of the Irish to
make anything so fine as lace. Give
me that bundle till T turn it over
to the police"
The next thing, the bundle of
nice machine-made lace, was in
Mrs. Hogan's hands and the girl
was fleeing down the corridor, her
face the color of an Easter rabbit.
"She said she was going after her
mother Mrs. Hogan later ex-
planned. But I waited a long time
for them and they never came
back"
Thereupon she pulled the ma
chine-made lace patterns apart and
declared diSguStedly:
THE idea, calling such stuff
IriSh!'