The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-27

H. OAe OACNuIONJ CVO cal VI
L imprisonment-that is the
balance sheet of Nazi justice
for September. The Red Aid
of Germany reports that
those executed were the anti
fascists Hans Schidzik, Gre
gor Meissner, Will Jaspar, and
Ottmar.
Hundreds of workers, Communists
and Socialists, were sent to prison
for terms ranging from one to 20
years.
While the terror machine grinds,
there is a deadly silence about the
fate of Ernst Thaelmann. Every
once in a while the Nazis issue trial
balloons in the form of announce
ments of his trial before the special
death tribunal, called the Peoples
Court. And when the world protest
demonstrations respond, there is
more silence.
What is being done with Thael-
mann? Where is hep These are
questions which should be thrust
before every Nazi official agent in
every country, with the mass de-
mand: Free Ernst Thaelmann and
all other anti-fascist prisoners"
ok South African fascists, who
y instead Of adopting Hitler's
brown shirt, took over the Amer
lican-style Silver shirt, were arrested
for safe-robbery. Their organiza-
ton particularly carries on a rabid
anti-semitic campaign. Recently six
of them broke into a synagogue,
assaulted the rabbi, and stole the
safe. In their defense they pro-
duced documents which they alleged
they found in the safe. These con-
sisted of copies of the notorious
Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
The expert who in 1908 examined
the Protocols" for the London
Times happened to be in South
Africa at the time and gave evid-
ence against the Silver Shirts. He
proved the document forgery. The
outcome of the case is that the Sill
yer Shirts were found guilty Of
assault, HOUSEKEEPING, theft, libel,
perjury, and one or two other Of
lenses. Damages were set at $780,
900 and they were given heavy terms
in prison.
EVERY paper coming from Japan
Il adds to the evidence of increas-
ing starvation in that country.
1885, 900 babies starving" is the head
line on an article in the latest issue
of the Japan Weekly Chronicle to
arrive here. We quote from the
article: "a Morioka dispatch to the
Mainichi says that an inquiry by
authorities of Iwate prefecture in
the Northeast has disclosed the
shocking fact that through the un-
dernourishment of their mothers,
over $4,000 infants are on the brink
of starvation. The alarmed prefec-
tural authorities, it is said, have de-
cided to open 459 relief stations F..
mfr. Niwa, Westminster of Home
Affairs, is quoted by the Mainichi
as saying that the distress of the
farmers in the North East province
is beyond description. 1t is i'm
possible to hear tales Of their misery
without tears"
This is similar to Secretary of
State Hall reporting on the condi-
tons of the hungry American work.
ers and farmers. If the Japanese
minister is forced to shed crocodile
tears, imagine what the real state
of affairs must bel
The lies spread by the bourgeois
press on the "cruelties" alleged to
have been committed by the revo-
lutionary workers in Asturias have
collapsed beneath the witness borne
by representatives of the govern
ment itself, and by a number Of
sincere bourgeois journalists, but no
one can deny the actuality of the
atrocities committed by the govern
ment forces in this province.
1t is an established fact that Gen.
eral Lopez Ochoa, on marching into
| Oviedo at midnight, caused 200 i'm
prisoned workers to be shot against
the wall of the Pelajo barracks. One
of the men thus shot was the So
cialiSt leader Bonifacio Martin.
Ochoa attempts to justify this mass
shooting as necessary to force the
revolutionists to surrender who were
still masters of the coal field" But
in order to cover the traces of the
crime, he caused the houses of all
journalists to be searched by For
eign LegionarieS, and the Journal
lists warned against spreading this
false report" In the case of the we'll
known journalist Louis de Sirval,
report was found in his room at a
hotel, not only about this mass
shooting, but about the looting and
robbery committed by the Foreign
Legionairies. Sirval's reports ac-
cused White Guardist Russian
officer of the Foreign Legion, Dimitri
Ivanov, of raiding matchmaker
shop in company with others, and
stealing numbers of gold watches
and other valuables. Louis de Sir
val was at once confronted with
Ivanov, who shot him dead after
brief exchange of words. Other re-
publican journalists, as for instance
Eduardo de Curman and Ezequid
Enderer, were threatened with death
if they did not leave Asturias. They
arrived yesterday in Madrid.
A hospital in Oviedo, for instance,
was stormed by the officer Ivanov
with number of Legionaries, who
shot II wounded reYolutionists and