The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-24
On the
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES
Guatemala Executions
ooh My Berlin Girl :"
A Correction
A Correction

OH Wy OC1uh VIII
A Correction
DRESSED in full Presi-
- Dental regalia, President
Jorge Ubieo of Guatemala
graciously attended the fu-
neral of the IL opponents Of
his regime whom he has exc
ecuted in the style of the
Roehm massacre in Germany. Fol-
lowing the slaughter of his fellow
members of the ruling class, whom
he charged with a pilot" to bomb
him out of existence, Ubico started
reign of terror against Commu-
nists.
The banana republic Of Guate-
mala is under the thumb of the
United Fruit Co. and Wall Street
bankers; and very much as in the
case of the execution of Sandino
in Nicaragua, if the source of the
murder is traced it will lead right
into the Office of the United States
minister to Guatemala. Whoever
rules in the Central American re-
publics rules only with the OK Of
the U. s. State Department and
the Wall Street bankers.
tsnO you think, oh my Berlin girl,
y that because I dance with YOU
III marry you tooP" With such
sacred and appealing music Reich
Bishop Ludwig Mueller still was
able to rally only 5000 Of that
100000 he expected to crowd the
square before his cathedral. Tbs
capitalist press reports indicate that
the loud speakers blared to open
spaces. The holy man was bitter
with rage at the failure Of the
faithful to flock to the cross and
the swastika.
All of the pandering music, de-
signed to appeal to the lascivioEs
thoughts of religious and 1rregiitous
alike, fell on deaf ears.
RUT that won't make much differ
ence so far a. the news and
photographs OF the events printed
in Germany are concerned. An
American seaman who has just re-
turned from Hamburg brought US
documentary proof showing how
Hitler and his fellow bloodhounds
get over such little embarrassment.
We have before us the Hamburger
Fremdenblatt, which contains a
rotogravure section. Three quarters
of the photos are of Hitler. The pic
ture we are particularly concerned
with here is the one of the Blohm
& Foss shipbuilding yard which de-
clares: Der Fuhrer (Hitler), at the
left speaks to the employees of the
Bohm & Voss CO." Now one of the
shipyards workers who was present
at the meeting was astounded when
he looked at the picture to see it
portray four times as many work.
ers as were present on the occasion.
He examined the photograph very
carefully and was able to discover
that the entire crowd was synthetic.
By a very crude montage, the Nazi
press merely made four prints of
the scene and pasted them together
in order to enlarge the crowd for
publicity purposes. If you examine
the extreme right of the picture you
observe one worker with smashed
fedora hat, virtually the only one
in the picture; next to him is an
other worker scratching his head
while the majority raise their arms
in Nazi salute.
If you look carefully over to the
right, the same funny hat and the
same worker scratching his head
reappear three times! At the eg-
IRENE right of the picture, the Nazi
takers did bad job. There Is a line
through the photo slicing off HANDS,
heads and bodies.
WHEN the photograph OF Bishop
" Mueller'S flop Is printed In Ber-
lin. the Nazis will have no difficulty
filling up the square. At least they
avoid ancient technique when deal
ing with propaganda.
1T Is officially admitted in France
that unemployment Is growing by
leaps and bounds. The latest gov
eminent statistics issued show an
increase Of 81 per cent in the ranks
of the 1obless during the past year.
Government figures say 325, 800 are
without jobs. Estimate of the Com
munist Party declare that more
than 100000 are unemployed.
m the basis OF cable report Of
Havas, semi-off1cial French tele-
graphic news agency, the Daily
Worker published and commented
on news of Swedish elections,
enormously believed to be elections
for the Riksdag, Swedish parlia-
ment. We herewith print correc-
ton sent us by Comrsde Albert
Pearson, editor of Ny It'd, weekly
newspaper in Swedish, Norwegian
and Danish languages.
Tn the Daily Worker, Sept.
goth, news item was published
about the election in Sweden and
it says that the Communist Party
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