The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

ly-proclaimed fight against police
spies, provocateurs and terrorists.
What, therefore, was the attitude
of Ernst Thaelmann, who is a dis.
ciple of Marx, Lenin and Stain, tt
individual terror? A report delivered
by him was printed in February
1882, in a 100,000-edition pamphlets
and reprinted in newspapers with 6
total circulation of 100000. In this
report Thaelmann stated:
There are people who are of
the opinion that the Central Com
mittee adopted this decision
against individual terror solely for
tactical reasons, in order to secure
the legality of the Party. Com
rades, in face of such views we
must make it perfectly clear that
our decision against individual
terror is meant quite seriously,
and that we are not afraid to
draw the organizationaI conse-
quences from it. The party does
not tolerate any social revolution
airy tendencies in its ranks!
by ruthlessly fighting against
acts of individual terror and
against thoughtIess and adventur-
ist putschist tendencies in general
in our movement, we at the same
time see to it that the bourgeoisie
is not given an easy pretext for
prohibiting the Party.
'Lenin taught us quite clearly
that we Communists are opposed
to individual terror, not because
of any servile, cowardly attitude
towards the bourgeoisie, but be-
cause this attitude of ours CORE
spends to the real interests of the
revolutionary mass fight"
"Thaelmann's high treason" il
proved to be pure demagogy. TN
"C.P.G.'s plan of Instruction" ha!
proved to be patchwork of for
geries. Now further main pillar O
the case" for the prosecution, thu
charge of individual terror" ha
collapsed.
We declare quite openly anC
plainly; 1t is no use your trying tt
besmirch Ernst Thaelmann will
your own shame and disgrace. I
is you who are the individual ter
rorists.
You have fascist murder-detach
ments in every Brown Shirt Troop
in every police presidium, in ever,
concentration camp!
You beat the member of tn
Reichstag Schultz in Koenigsberi
into mass of bleeding pulp which
could only be carried away in
sheet.
You flung the member of tn
Reichstag Funk out of the windoy
of the High Court so that he wa
smashed to pieces on TIE pavemen
below.
Beat SIZZLING
You beat SIZZLING, a member o
the Reichstag, to death, sewed hi
body up in sack and sank it in tn
water.
In the Columbia House, in Gen
eralpapeStrasse, in Oranienburg, il
Brandenburg, Dachau and Papen
burg, you set up torture chamber
in comparison with which the In
QUESTION was paradise.
You sent out murder detachment
who shot down not only Genera
Schleicher, but also his wife, an
also killed the Catholic Klausner.
You tortured John Scheer t
death and arranged shootin
competition, using his body as
target, in order to shoot away" tn
traces of your terror.
Thaelmann the Traitor"
THE fascists, who realize the weak
ness of their position in tn
Thaelmann trial, are dragging in
further crime: Treason! Thi
charge may, in certain circumstance
even mean death sentence if tn
Nazis succeed in taking interna
tional public opinion by surprise.
Ernst Thaelmann fought pas
sionately against the danger of wa,
in defense of peace, against i'm
perialist ornaments, against tn
plundering of Germany by the die
tated peace of Versaillei