The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06
ManyO rganizationsBehind
Powerful Drive In the US.
To Free Ernst Thaelmann
Broadest United Front
Under Way Against
Hitler Fasclsm
HOLD MASS TRIALS
Stream of Resolutions,
Meets Against Fascism

NEW YORK. - A stirring,
nationwide campaign to save
the life of Ernst Thaelmann,
imprisoned and tortured lead
err of the Communist Party
of Germany. as the spearhead
of the widest united front
struggle in the United States against
bloody Hitlerism, is now under
way in the United States.
The impressive and far-reaching
drive has been organized by the
Committee To Aid the Victims of
German Fascism, the International
Labor Defense, Workers Interna-
tional Relief, American League
Against War and Fascism. Trade
Union Unity League. Committee for
the Defense of Political Prisoners,
and the Marine Workers Industrial
Union
Supporting to the fullest extent
all of the measures of this united
front action against Nazi rule in
Germany. and against the threat
ened execution of Thaelmann, will
be the Communist Party, with ali
of its forces.
Mass Trials
One of the outstanding features
OF this huge campaign will be the
conducting of mass trials of the
Nazi rule in Germany to expose
the frame-up torture and execution
methods Of the Hitler regime.
Besides a flood of resolutions,
which will be presented at every
meeting, at every strike, at every
workers gathering, stream of del
egctions will be sent to all German
oonsulates throughout the United
States. Special efforts will be made
to obtain delegates from A. +. of
L. locals and cultural organizations.
Copies of all protest resolutions,
cables and kilograms should be sent
to the Committee to Aid the Victims
OF German Fascism, $40 Broadway,
New York City, in order that they
should be given the widest publicity.
1t is significant to remember that
the recent Nazi secret police report
on anti-fascist activity paid the
closest attention to the flood of
protest resolutions pouring into
Germany from all over the world.
SLOGANS
The central slogans for the
campaign worked out are: ~
Against trying Thaelmann before
the special Nazi execution court,
~ free defense and safe conduct
for witnesses; (3) admission of
representatives Of world public
opinion; az abolition of the retro
active power of all decisions under
Nazi law; 81 public pleading OF
the case; (6) freedom for Thael-
mann, down with the fascist MUIR
der plans; (7) Thaelmann is fight
ing for freedom for all-everyone
must fight for ThaeImann's free
dom; (S) workers, farmers, intel
Iectuals. members of the middle
class, fight to save and free
Thaelmann.
Efforts are being made to extend
the continuous picketing now going
on at the German consulate to the
German Embassy in Washington,
and to consulates in the leading
cities of the United States. Petit
tons for the collection of hundreds
of thousands of signatures demand
ing the release of Thaelmann will
be circulated among all workers
organizations.
Under the leadership of the John
Reed Club, special cultural groups
will be organized, composed of
writers. intellectuals, artists, to
rally thousands of their colleagues
into the service of this gigantic
campaign.
The object of the entire campaign
will be to bring before the largest
masses in the United States the
situation in Germany under Hitler
fascism, and how the Nazi rulers,
faced with rising revolutionary
struggles. are beginning new cam
paign Of bloody terror, to be mi
tiated with the threatened execu-
tion of Thaelmann.
The impetus for this energetic
drive is the alarming reports that
come from Germany, which show
beyond question that the Nazis, in
the face of their growing difficulties
and the Using anti-fascist wave,
are determined first of all to rush
the farcical trial of Thaelmann, i'm
mediately followed by his execution.
Only the most energetic, the
deepest and brcadest campaign,
rallying all anti-fascist forces, can
save Thaelmann from the ax-men,
and block new reign of the bloody
terror in Germany