The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13

the railroad here in Germany, made
by perfectly psychopathic individ-
ual, an adventurer, provocateur. At
that time the contention was circu-
lated for weeks, not only in Germany,
but in other countries as well, that
this was the work of the German
Communist Party, that this was a
terrorist act perpetrated by the Com
munists. Later it was discovered that
the psychopathic adventurer Matus-
chka was the culprit and he was ar
rested and convicted.
will remind you of another case,
the murder of the French President
by Gorgulov. At that time also they
wrote for weeks that the Commu-
nfsts were to blame for the assass-
ination. Gorgulov was represented
as = Communist, a Soviet agent.
And what turned out to be the
truth? 1t was proved that the deed
had been organized by the white
guards and that Gorgulov was an
agent prOvocateur who wanted to
bring about a breach In the rela-
tions between France and the So
Wet Union.
JUDGE STOPS LISTING OF
POLICE PROVOCATIONS
I wish to recall likewise the at
tempt to blow up the Sofia Cathe-
dral. This attempt was not the work
of the Bulgarian Communists. The
Communist Party was accused of this.
Thousands Of workers and peasants
fell victim to such accusations. This
attempted explosion of the Sofia
Cathedral was a provocation organ
lied by the police.
The Presiding Judge interrupted
DimitrOff, saying that this had
nothing to do with the trial.
Dimitroff continued:
Police officer Heller spoke here
about Communist propaganda, and so
forth. 1 asked him whether there
had not been bases when fires car
ried out by the owners themselves
were later attributed to the Commu-
mist Party. The "Voelkische Beo-
bachter" of Oct. 5 stated that the
Stettin police -.
The Presiding Judge cut Dimi-
trofi short, stating that this point
had MT been presented during the
Court Investigations. Dinlitroff at
tempted to proceed, but the presi-
dent again intervened. "YOu must
not speak about this here, since it
has not been read during the trial"
Dimitrcff continuing: "a whole
series of fires )" But the Presid-
ing Judge interfered.
1 wish to say, stated Dimitroff, that
this has been the object Of discussion
because a large nunbe> Of fires were
blamed on the Communists. Later
it had turned out that The owners
themselves were responsible.
CITES THE FORGED
"ZINOVIEV LETTER"
One more point in this connection
the fabrication of documents. A
large number of forgeries have been
used against the working class. Such
CdoSo are lllllI1lleIdUle. Will IGCdll
only one, that of the "zinoviev let
ter This letter was never written
by zinoviev. 1t was forged. The
forgery was utilized by the Conserva-
tives against the working class. /
will remind the court of a number Of
documents, forgeries and so on, which
have figured here in Germany.
The President again refused to al
low him to continue, stating that he
was exceeding the limits of the dis
CUSTOM"
1t has been commended here, con-
tinued Dimitrofi, that the Reichstag
fire was to have served as a signal
for an armed uprising. The argu-
ment was as follows:
Goering told the court that at the
time Hitler came to power, the Com
munist Party was compelled to rally
the masses and decide upon action.
He said that for years the Commu-
mist Party had advocated the strug-
gle against the National Socialists
and that when the National-Social-
lists took the upper hand the Com
munist Party had no other alterna-
tive than to act at once. The prose-
cutor attempted to formulate this