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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Why This Neglect?

THE last two Saturdays, the Daily Worker came out
in larger editions and contained special material
of immediate and vital Importance to the American
working class.
These two issues should have broad circulation
comparable to the sale of our Tenth Anniversary
edition. But the orders that came in were dsap-
pointingly low
New York. largest district recorded an increase
Of only 1000 by the Units for the Lenin Memorial
edition, and rise OF $500 in street Sales $500 in all
At the same time, Chicago, with population and
Party membership below that of New York increased
its order by 10000 Clearly New York as well as
other districts do the very thing warned against in
the Open Letter. They underestimate the political
Importance of Daily Worker as an effective weapon
in struggle to gain the American masses on our
side against fascism and war
IN its call for successful circulation campaign the
Central Committee of the Communist Party, USA
specifies increase of 10000 new readers for the
Saturday edition. as well as 10000 new readers for
the daily edition. Our Saturday editions comrades
are planned as to provide an especially popular
approach to the working class With our Saturday
editions interest the workers in reading our
Daily Worker every day. In this way we can gain
the in revolutionary battle against fascn
and war.
We call for immediate awakening on the part
Of comrades and synpathizers Enter the circuIa
ton campaign with Bolshevik enthusiasm and yigor
Increase your orders for the Saturday and daily edi
tons. Get your friends and fellow workers in the
shop to subscribe to the Daily Worker Answer the
Central Committees call for 10000 new subscribers
for the daily edition and for 10000 new readers of
the Saturday edition Of our Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Bulgaria Fails to
Reply to DimitrOff

PARIS, Jan. 2i.-Seyeral weeks
ago Georgi Dimitroff who, with the
three other Reichstsg Communist
defendants is still held in jail by
the Nazis despite their acquittal,
wired q challenge to the Bulgarian
government for a free entry into
Bulgaria
1t was learned today that the
Bulgarian government has not re-
piled to Dimitroff's challenge, which
read as follows:
Because 1 intend to return to
Bulgaria, in order to live there and
take up again my political work. I
repeat my statement which I made
before the Federal Court in Leipzig:
That I wish to go back to Bulgaria
after the end of the trial, in order
to seek the withdrawal Of the SEN
tence which was handed down
against me in my absence for par
ticipation in the revolutionary
struggles in 1928. For this purpose
I demand the right Of free entry,
guarantees for my personal secur-
ity and the right of a public trial.
I await the decision of your gov
ernment"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

Worker itself has made the mistake Of stressng this
phase Of conscious constant recruiting and not carry
ing on persistent campaign necessarily for Party
recruiting.
A turn to broader mass work, appealing to the
widest sections Of the workers in the name Of the Party
means spreading the influence and leadership OF the
Party and attracting to it more and more workers.
But this must be connected with the increase in mass
work must go the conscious recruiting of new members
by every member Of the Party, and with the recruit
ing must go intensihcation of mass work and the
broadcast agitation in the factories.
In the discussion of the tasks of the 9th Party Con-
vention which begins in the Daily Worker shortly we
urge all Party members to deal with the concrete prob
lem OF the rapid recruiting of new Party members in
connection with the development Of the broades agta-
ton and leadership Of struggles in the basic indus
tries
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Anti-W Body
To Fight PWA
War Contracts
Committee to Report on
Monday After Trip
to Capital

NEW YORK. - Immediate with
drawal of all U. S. armed forces from
all foreign lands and waters, and i'm
mediate cancellation Of all war
contracts which have been financed
by grants from the Public Works
Funds will be one of the demands
of the united front committee Of the
American League Against War and
Fascism which will go TO Washing
ton next Monday, January %.
Simultaneous mass meetings in
support of the delegations demands
are being organized in many parts
Of the country.
Additions to the committee of IT,
announced yesterday, are Dorothy
Deter, executive secretary Of the
Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom, and Professor
H. w. L. Dana of Boston. The COM
mittee will call on President Roose-
welt, Speaker Rainey of the House,
and other administration officials.
Members of the Committee will fly
back to New York to report at the
meeting at st. Nicholas Arena on the
evening Of Jan. 20, where the fol-
lowing will be the main speakers;
Earl Browder, General Secretary,
Communist Party; ]. B. Matthews,
chairman of the American League;
Leroy Bowman, member Executive
Board A. F. of L. Teachers Union
and Vice President N. Y. Urban
League, and Harold Hickerson of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League.
DR.. Addison T. Cutler of Columbia
University will act as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Inhuman Brutalities Are
Daily Part of Fascist
Prison Regime

beaten that their condition was pitt
able.
Brutal TOrtures
In the "Altes zuchthaus" at Bran
denblrg, where the camp now is, the
food and the sanitary conditions are
tolerable. ReVeille is at 4:30. At Z,
after some work has been done, the
prisoners parade for drill. Some
times one of the Storm Troop in
structorS will allow himself a little
joke--thus on one occasion a prisoner
was made to inspect a squad that
was standing to attention. There was
slight irregularity in the line, and
the prisoner was ordered to strike the
man who had caused it. He gave
him a feeble imitation of a blow.
whereupon the Storm Trooper struck
the prisoner in the face with his
clenched fist and said: THAT'S the
way it's DONE" The prisoner was
then forced, under blows from the
Storm Trooper present, to strike his
fellow prisoner in the ranks.
Beatings TOO Terrible to Describe"
One OF the worst DULLES is a man
VINO seems to belong to the Storm
Troops but wears civilian clothes. He
runs about with heavy riding whip
and superintends the severer beatings
that take place in the cellars of the
prison. These beatings are too ter
rible to be described.
4 There are about 20 Jewish pris-
oners. They are treated with special
cruelty and are compelled to perform
the hardest and most disagreeable
tasks. In one section of the camp
.there are six Jews who do not get a
regular food ration but only what is
left over by the other prisoners. These
!eavlngs are thrown into a receptacle
from Which the six Jews are com
PEELED to eat without knives and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
England Illegally
DetainS Canadian
COmmuniStLeader
Gaelic Refused Right to
Go to the Soviet
Union

HARWICH, England-Tom Cacic,
Canadian Communist leader, is held
here while British authorities are ar
ranging for his deportation to Fas-
cist Yugoslavia.
He was recently rushed out of Can
ada several weeks after the expira-
ton of prison term imposed under
the Infamous Section SO, which has
been used to illegalize the Canadian
Communist Party. Despite the gov
ernment's efforts at secrecy, he was
discovered on landing IN Liverpool
by the vigilance of the Liverpool
workers, who arranged for a visa to
the Soviet Union.
Although in England he Is out of
the jurisdiction of the Canadian au-
thorities who ordered his deportation
and cannot be legally deporetd out Of
England, the British officials are still
trying to send him to Jugoslavia,
where the white terror is raging. The
British International Labor Defense
has organized campaign of mass
protest,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
HirOta Talk
Alarms the
Chinese Press
Hirota's Speech Seen AS
Prelude TO Attack on
Soviet Union

SHANGHAI, Jan. 24-The speech
Of Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota
demanding China cooperate with
Japan has greatly excited the Chi
nese press, which considers 1t as
alarmingly reminiscent of similar ut
terances by japanese imperialistS
preceding the seizure of Man2huria,
One local paper compares Hirota's
demand for cooperation to the act
of a murderer imposing cooperation
upon his intended victim. This re-
fleets the general tone of that ssc-
ton Of The press which is increasingly
critical of the policy of the Marking
Kuomintang government of non-re-
siStance (actual co-operation) to the
proceeding dismemberment Of China
by Japan and other imperialist pow
ers.
Interest in Hirota's speech and the
threatening Japanese attack on the
Soviet Union is overshadowing the
plenary session of the Kuomintang
Executive Committee, despite its
demagogic gesture calling for "a
shorter political tutelage" dictator
ship by the feudal bourgeois landlord
cliQues) over the Chinese people and
its promise to establish popular gov
rnment before 1886" Local bank
ers and merchants, both foreign and
native, make no attempt to disguise
their delight over the prospect Of
japanese armed intervention against
the Soviet Union, seeing Shanghai as
trading center for food and war
supplies and Yisioning vast opportuni-
ties for wartime proflteering. This
delight is dampened somewhat, how
ever, by the fear that the fierce anti
imperialist, anti-Japanese sentiments
of the Chinese masses would sooner
or later give rise to a peoples revolu-
tionary national war against Japan.
Session Seeks to Deceive Chinese
Masses.
The plenary session adopted a pro-
posal sanctioning IAN extension Of
civil rights, freedom of speech and
press and freedom Of organization
and assembly" in an attempt to over
come the growing hostility in prac-
tically all stratas of the population to
the bloody dictatorship or Chang
Kai-shek. 1t did not say. however,
how this proposal was to be carried
out, nor did it revoke the existing
anti-labor codes prohibiting the right
Of Chinese workers to organize in
unions of their own choice. 1t also
abolished the plan of provincial COM
n1ittee governments, which has eX-
listed on paper only, and openly sup
ported the present warlord dictator
ships in the provinces. A plan was
also adopted dividing the country
into strategic military districts on the
pretense of organizing defense against
foreign aggression, but aimed in re-
ality at recognizing the shattered
Sixth Offensive against the Chinese
Soviet Republic and to crush the in
creasing peasant insurrection in
Kuomintang China.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Writer Tells of Torture Murder in Nas Concentration Camps

tiers and artisans and has certain
privileges. The Seventh Company is
the "Strafkompanie" OF refractory
men. The First Squad of this COM
pany is made up of members of trade
unions and OF Socialist and Commu-
mist Party officials; the Second
Squad is made up of Jews.
The prisoners are housed in ten
barracks. Each squad has two tubs,
six wash-basins, and two pals run-
ming water is available, but the
swimming bath shown in the "Muen-
chener Illustrierte Presse" is for the
use of the Nazi guards only.
Damp, Cold Cells
All officials of the Communist
Party who refuse to give the political
information the Nazis demand are
sent to the cells C'Arrestzellen") So
are the prisoners who have committed
offences such as making political re-
marks in their letters. The cells are
OF concrete, they have one barred
window each (Which can be dark
eneO, they are damp, and without
neaClng arrangements. One OF the
cells is totally dark. The sleeping
accommodation consists of wooden
planks without blanket. A prisoner
sentenced to detention C"Arrest") in
one of these cells gets nothing to eat
on the first day, then bread and
water for three days, and 9 bot meal
every fourth day. Those seiSsunced to
"Mittelarest," milder fot \ of de-
tention, are allowed straw sack to
sleep on, while their cells are not
darkened. Prisoners may be SEN
fenced to detention for as much as
three months.
Communists Flogged on Arrival
Besides detention in the cells there
is corporal punishment. This consists
of a flogging with an ox-hide thong
that has strip of steel, three or four
millimeters wide, running along its
whole length (these thongs are made
by the prisoners). The number of
blows varies from Is to rs, according
to the sentence. Officials of the So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

PARIS, Jan. 24-Fierce street
fighting continued all yesterday and
last night as workers protesting wage
and unemployment relief cuts by the
government, together with small in
vestors looted of their savings in the
Bayonne Credit Municipal swindle
demonstrated against the govern
ment, shouting demands for the res
ignation of the Chautemps Ministry
and furiously defending themselves
against the charges of mounted
police. The main demonstrations
were organized by the French Com
munist Party. Smaller dencnstra-
tons, mostly of students, occurred
under the leadership Of the royaists,
who are desperately striving to divert
the mass unrest away from the revo-
lutionary struggle and into reaction
airy channels.
Yesterdays demonstrations were
the largest and most militant in the
past three days of almost continuous
street fighting. Time and again the
workers, driven back by the charges
Of mounted police, reformed their
ranks and pressed forward again to-
ward the Chamber Of Deputies build
ing. They showered the mounted
police with torpedoes and rushed
them as the exploding torpedoes
demoralized their horses and caused
the unseating of many of the riders.
The effect of the iron persistence of
the workers is already noticeable in
the growing Generalization of the
police. The streets of Paris resemble
battlefield, strewn with the debris
from the fighting.
The Chamber of Deputies, guarded
by huge Gordon of police, cynically
passed a vote of confidence in the
Chautemps government by 367 to 201,
with the Socialist deputies continu-
ing to link their fate with the bour-
geoiS government. News of the vote
caused q new outburst of furious in
dignation, further intensified today
by revelation of new swindle Of
investors in the crash of the Banques
de Fonctionaires, entailing a loss Of
200,000,000 francs to depositors.
Premier Camille Chautemps was
directly linked to the Bayonne Credit
Municipal swindle in charges made
by PHILIPPE Henriot, a right-wing
deputy, in the Chamber yesterday.
Others named as protectors and
beneficiaries of Serge Stavisky, head
Of the looted bank, were Eugene
Raynaidy, Minister of Justice; Joseph
Paul Boncour, Minister of Foreign
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cialist and Communist Parties are
usually beaten on arrival, without
having committed any special Of
Tense. On August Is, 25 men who
had arrived on the previous day re-
ceived Is to rs blows each on their
barred bodies for no apparent reason.
Prisoners Whipped to Death
In addition to the regular punish
ments there are special forms of ar
bitrary ill-treatment. Thus prisoners
are sometimes beaten with wet towels.
Sometimes they are bastinadoed I'M
Ill the soles of their feet are lacerated.
Seven S. A. men Drown Shirts who
arrived in the camp on August were
baStinadoed as well as being NAL
treated in other ways. Two of them,
Amuschel and Handschuck, died of
their injuries. The Communist Fritz
Schaper was so beaten that he was
PROSTATE for eight weeks. On Sept.
2 one of the Nazi guards broke a
prisoners jaw with blow of his fist.
On June 80, 20 prisoners were so
beaten in the cellar under the kit
chen that their cries could be heard
by the other prisoners. Some pris-
oners have also been beaten with
lengths of rubber hosepipe. Some
have been burnt with cigarette ends
and some have been put to what
Americans call the water torture"
Fifty Murdered
Among the prisoners who have re-
ceLved severe injuries are L. Buch-
mann, Georg FreischuetZ, and a jour-
nalist named Ewald Thunig. The
Munich Communist, Sepp Goetz, was
hlled after being so beaten that he
could no longer stand. The student
Wickelmeier was killed by bullet.
The Communist Fritz Dressed was
beaten to death. Leonhard Haus-
mann, municipal councillor. Lehr-
burger Aron Ca member of the Bam-
berg Reichsbanner), and Stencil were
killd. Willy Franz was killed in
September-he was officially re-
ported to to have hanged himself,
bu the nost-mortem. showed no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
British Puppets
Control Sinkiang
Province Dismembered
from China

SHANGHAI, Jan. PA new gov
eminent, declaring its independence OF
China, has been set up in Sinkiang
Province Chinese Turkestan), on the
borders of the Soviet Union by a coup
carried out by agents Of British i'm
perialists and local feudal bourgeois
landlord chques.
The new government is supported
by Hotan Enlir, whose domain lies
close to the borders Of British India.
His protege, Savit Domula, a mer-
chant, heads the government. A dele
cation, headed by the assistant Min
lister of War has been sent to Kabu,
capital of Afghanistan, to negotiate
for recognition. The delegation plans
to go to India, whose British masters
are confidently expected to extend
aid and recognition. The new gov
eminent has published a slogan:
Danish the Chinese from Sinkiang!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Police Attack Workers
Protesting Japan's New
Robber War i'm No. China

NEW YORK. La Guardia's police
attacked $50 workers who had assem-
bled last Saturday afternoon on
Doyers and Pell Streets to protest
against the new Japanese invasion of
China. The police broke up the
demonstration with the excuse that It
was "congesting traffic"
The workers, refusing to dispense.
moved to Mulberry and Bayard
Street, where Hank Fuller of the
International Labor Defense and
Mills Of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League addressed the meeting. A
resolution was passed demanding a
stop of the terrorist tactics of the
police. 1t will be present to Police
Commissioner Organ by a workers
delegation.
The demonstration was called by
the Chinese Anti-Imperialist League,
and supported by the Downtown Sec
ton of the I. L. D., the Chinese
Branch of the I. L. D., and the w. E.
S. L,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25

traces of hanging, while the face was
stained with blood and the clothes
blood-sodden. At the end of Novem-
Der the Communist official Buerk
(from Memmingem was killed. The
total number of prisoners who have
been killed or who have died Of their
injuries at Dachau cannot be far
short of so.
Forced to Lie About Conditions
The names Of nine persons who
have actually maltreated or murdered
prisoners are in the possession Of
your correspondent.
One of the prisoners was a doctor
named KATE, of Nuremberg. He was
to have been released in October, but
is alleged to have hanged himself
just before. Until his death he
treated the injured prisoners. His
successor Is q certain Munzer.
Precautions are taken to prevent
the facts about the camp from be-
coming known. The prisoners are
told, under menaces, that they must
always deny having been beaten. Two
of them have been forced to write
articles giving favorable account Of
Nfe in the camp, and their names are
in the possession of your correspond
ent.
The Brandenburg Camp
The following account of life in the
concentration camp at Brandenburg
has been received by your CORES
pendent from a prisoner who was dis
charged recently after an internment
of two months.
The ex-prisoner from whom your
correspondent has received his in
formation is an educated man and
once held high position in a certain
German firm. He was arrested be-
cause he was suspected of having
Socialist sympathies. He and num-
Der of other prisoners were beaten
by Storm Troopers soon after their
arrest. Some young prisoners who
arrived at the "Polizeipraesidium"
police Headquarters in Berlfn) while
he was defined there had been so
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Mass Work and Recruiting

I'VE WANT TO DISCUSS with Party members and
all readers of the Daily Worker the question Of
recruiting members for the Communist Party.
All readers Will readily agree that the best
guarantee Of speeding the fight against Roosevelt's
hunger, fascism and war program is by building
strong, mass Communist Party particularly among the
workers in the basic industries
The Daily Worker has recently published the reso-
luton OF the Executive Committee of the Communist
International which stresses the rapid development of
fascism the onrush of war. The first two tasks
outlined in this resolution in connection with winning
members for the Communist Party
These two tasks as follows
THAT the content and language of agitation and
the press must henceforth be addressed the broad
est strata of the proetariat and the toers showing
the FACE Of the Communist Parties both in agita-
ton and in actions demonstrations strikes and
other actions.
Securing within the SHORTEST TINE pos
sIBLE decisive turn to the WORK IN THE FAC
TORIES, concentrating the forces Of the Party or
ganzaton in the decisive enterprises and raising the
political level Of the leadership given by the factory
nuclei to the daily class struggles"
THESE TASKS are extremely important in the light
of the broadest appeal of the Party and in actually
recruiting workers for membership in the Communist
Party.
In the past strike wave in the United States and
in many other actions, good attempt was made
to speak to and lead broad sections of the workers
III srlkes But most frequently the face Of the Com
mnist Party hidden in order to avoid the "red
scare" Together with this went failure to recruit
members for the Communist Party explaining to the
workers the role of the Party in strikes in particular
and in the general struggle for the overthrow of capt.
tasy1 in general the revolutionary way out of the
Crisis
1t is precisely in carrying out the broadest mass
work and agitation that must bring forward the
Communist Party and win workers for its ranks
At the same time, securing within the shortest
time possible decisive turn to work in the factories
centering agitation and activity in the in
dustries, making direct appeal for membership in
the Communist Party, consciously, daily, persstently
recruiting workers for our ranks
nURING periods OF recruiting campaigns there is US
ually furry for joining up members The Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Powers Passing Buck
on Responsibility for
Building War Machines

LONDON, Jan. PA German ap-
peal to Great Britain yesterday was
the latest move in the complex ma
neuVering of the capitalist powers to
increase their ornaments while max
ing the other powers responsible, thus
covering up the war preparations in
which all are feverishly taking part.
France having rejected further dis
cussion of a disarmament" agree
ment with Germany, and brought up
the idea Of a "standstill'' agreement
under which Germany would have
to undertake not to increase its ann
aments, the Na1 government has put
it up to England to suggest some
counter proposals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Milwaukee Worker
Dies of Clubbing at
AntiNazi Protest
u. S. Worker Gives Life
in Struggle Against
Fascism

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 24.-John Pia-
secki died yesterday in the County
Hospital, murdered by the Milwaukee
police for taking part in an anti
Fascist demonstration.
He was one of the workers beaten
by police when they demonstrated
against the appearance of Hanz Lu-
Their, Nazi ambassador, at a dinner
here Sept. q. The workers succeeded
in preventing Luther from speaking.
Piasecki was one of seven workers
beaten by the police and later sem
fenced to six months in Jail. He never
recovered from his injuries. The APP
peal of the other six will be heard
Jan. %. The International Labor
Defense has Called on all workers to
wire protests to Socialist Mayor Dan
iel Hoan, and Chief of Police Lauben-
heimer.