The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-03
On the
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

Danger to Thaelmann
n. Y. Times DistOrts-Again
Purifying" Germany
ALONG with the headsman's
"A axe, the smoking Luger
has become a symbol of Nazi
barbarism. Fascism is using
the approved American gang
ster tactics of "erasing" those
within its ranks whom they
no longer can use, who have
become more valuable to them dead
than alive.
This has not failed to bring forth
a wall of righteous protest from the
piously hypocritical New York Times.
whose every line of type will sane
timoniously condone executions Of
workers. They moan hypocritically
in their editorial OF Monday:
But today the German news Is
stained with blood. This Is
the thing which today shocks and
hOrrifies the outside world"
The Times, be it noted, weeps in
type solely when gentlemen Of the
upper military caste and Junker-
dom are slain. 1t has not done even
as much as complained about the
foul murders of Communist and
Socialist workers by the Nazi fiends.
1t has said nothing about the con-
templated murder of Ernst Thael~
mann, leader of the German work.
ing-class.
Workers will gauge the real note
of sincere "anti-fascist' feeling Of
the New York Times by this.
THE New York Times-and the en-
1 tire capitalist press-does not
give thinkers damn for the lives Of
Thaelmann, Torgler and the thou
sand of anti-fascist workers in Ger
many. 1t is concerned only about the
corrupt scum of its own class mem
bers in Germany. 1t is only the
workers and honest anti-fascists
throughout the world who care and
have the power to wrest Thaelmann
from the blood stained hands of
Hitlers fiends.
If ever the life of Ernst Thael-
mann is in danger it is now!
Already sinister rumors of Thael-
manns death are circulating through
European capitals. These rumors
have their basis in the fact that the
Hitler regime is narrowing. Great
sections of the German population.
and above all the German working
class, at the head of which is the
heroic Communist Party of Ger
many, are stirring against Hitler.
many passively, some actively. The
firing squad and the assassin's re-
volyer remain Hitler's main methods
Of persuasion.
It is moment like this that the
madmen running amok in Germany
will seize the least opportunity to
murder Thaelmann, just as Karl
Liebknecht and Rosa Gutenberg
were done away with in 1919.
The anti-fascists of the whole
world must be ever against. Tho
wave of protests against the MAJ
terror must rise higher. The shout;
of Free Thaelmann" must be lik,
the roar of an angry sea upon TIT
ears Of every Nazi consul in tht
country!
WHERE is the "Anti-Nazi League
W of Mr. Samuel Untermeyer nov
when Thaelmann's life is in the
greatest danger? Has Mr.. Inter
meyr, that self-appointed plumet
knight of the Jewish-Americar
masses, said a word about Thael
mann or the anti-fascist workers
who rot in the dungeons of Nazi
land? He emphatically has not.
AS the Daily Worker stated OF
dozens of occasions, the N. Y. Time
and the wealthy Jewish banker
and lawyers will not and can't leae
the fight against German fascism,
or fascism anywhere. Their Shout
ders will not be perch of safety
for the Jewish masses. These peo-
pie, the Warburgs, the Lehman
Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb and Company
are flesh of the flesh and bone of
the bone of the capitalist class
throughout the world They traffic
in the same bonds that Herr Thys-
sen and Herr Krupp do. The
bloody gold that streams through
the line of Morgan courses through
their financial veins These people
who have supported bloody attacks
upon the workers of the United
States from the docks of Frisco to
the furriers market in New York
are no friends of the working class;
they are pards of faScism. A
struggle against fascism can only
take place despite them and against
: : them.
THE TIMES attempts to place the
l question as if the good knight,
st. Adolph, had gone out and be-
+ headed the dragon of immortality in
his own ranks, thus purifying fas-
, cism.
1t is a matter of public record
; that Hitler, Goering and the lead
ership of the Nazis are, almost to
man, perverts, drug addicts and
, abnormal creatures. These dregs
! of the underworld differ as only
|, in degree, not in kind.
The Times consciously distorts
facts. Hitler cannot clean the fas-
cist cesspool; he is a denizen Of it.
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