The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
$500 Brooklyn Workers Rally
To Counter Nazi Meeting
Workers Put Up Resistance Against Brutal Police
Provocation Al Mass Meet


NEW YORK.-In spite of the po-
lice attempts to ban the meeting,
$4,000 workers at the call of the
German Anti-Fascist Committee,
met outside of Schwaben Hail.
Brooklyn, Friday, where the Nazis
were celebrating Hitler's birthday
An iron disciplined ring of pro-
letarian youth, hands interlocked,
surrounded the workers speaking
stand, Mute and determined, re-
fusing to speak to any one who APP
preached them they guarded the
speakers stand to ward off any at
tacks,
AS the meeting was in progress
500 young workers from the National
Blue Minute Men Of America Joined
the demonstration. Circling the hall
in which the fascists met to cele-
brate Hitler's birthday, the National
Blue Minute Men, carrying a coffin
in which rested an ef1igy of Hitler,
applied torch and burned Hitler in
efigy before the Hall in which the
Hitlerites met
The 70 police who surrounded the
hall were reinforced by scores of de-
tectives and the 18th and 18th
emergency squads" of police. who
Immediately started to provoke the
workers meeting and dubbed the
National Blue Minute Men,
Fascist Attacks on Workers
The principal steakers at the
meeting we're Otto Durick, of the
German Anti-Fascist Action Com
mittee, and Martha Stone, organizer
of Section 6 of the Communist Party.
Otto Durick, who addressed the
workers in German, dealt with the
results Of IA months of Hitler re-
gilne, particularly in the economic
field. In dealing with the new bud
get of the Fascist government, he
pointed out that while the military
budget increased by 1,117000,000
marks, the money allotted for social
welfare was decreased by 100000
marks and the sum for unemploy-
ment insurance was decreased by
so per cent.
Othsr speakers were Sidney Spen-
Ger, Negro leader of the Young
Communist League of Brownsville,
Justin of the Committee to Aid the
Victims of German Fascisu, Charles
Hansen of the Workers Ex- Service
mems League, and Hillerstein of the
American Civil Liberties Union. Also
Ben Lazare of the National Blue
Minute Men, who spoke briefly stat
ing that his organization will boy
colt and combat Fascism to the
limit"
Most Of the speakers called for
the building of the Anti Fascist or
ganization and the freedom of Ernst
Thaelmann. At the mention of
Thaelmann the crowd cheered loudly
and expressed further their solidar-
ity with the victims of German Fas-
cisn and with the Fascist
movement. by contributing gener-
ously to the collection made by Mar
tina Stone, which amounted to $40.
The effect of the loud speaker and
the militant program of struggle,
rallied hundreds of German work
ers of RidgeWood from their homes,
for the first time gathering in such
large numbers in the heart of the
German territory which the Nazis
menaced for the last few months.
AS the workers meeting came to
close, the workers left in orderly
groups at the advice of their lead
ers. Other groups not affiliated with
the organizations sponsoring the
meeting, fingered behind and con-
Quoted g guerilla warfare with the
Nazis. Nazi provacatuers, who APP
| preached the groups and shouted
Hell Hitler we're treated without
mercy. Aided and abetted by the
/ hundreds OF police an attack was
begun on these groups. Several were
/ beaten badly
AS the meeting of the Nazis drew
to a close more police arrived to
protect" The Nazis. Scouting cars
carrying plain clothed police thugs
swooped down on unsuspecting
| groups of onlookers. Suddenly, the
doors of the police cars would burst