The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-07

Killers pre- M Y
ises to gold. The
relentless ticker E. Thaelmann
tapes in Wall
Street reel off the news: Mark
down sharply in exchange here;
laid to fear of German currency
crisis" They so on to particularize
THE ReichSbank's gold reserves
have continued to drop, which led
to a widespread expectation that
German currency crisis was devel-
Oping."
Still this alarming news is only
symptom, a surface indication of
deeper economic crisis racking the
very foundation of German fascism.
1t will cause disintegration in the
mass petty bourgeois base on which
fascism has its shaky foundations.
1t will more openly demonstrate to
these duped masses how fascism
acts as the most brutal, most chau-
whistle dictatorship in the interest
of finance capital and against the
great majority of the people.
We can be sure that silent though
the Nazi press now is on initiation
it will break the news, as it usu-
ally does, with a CORY spectacle like
the Reichstag fire or the Leipzig
trial.
THE confidence council" elections
i in the shops showed that the
majority of the workers were more
actively moving INFO the fight
against fascism; now greater sec
tions of the petty bourgeoisie will
break away from Hitler The leader
of this growing upsurge, on the adj
mission of t he Nazis themselves,
and recognized by the world CAPT
talist press, is the Communist Party
of Germany, whose leader, Ernst
Thaelmann, is Hostage in the
bloody grip of the enraged and
maddened fascists.
The latest news from Germany
leaves no doubt that the Nszi fiends
are planning the murder Of Thael-
mann in an effort to terroriza the
anti-fascist masses in Germany.
Thaelmann to the Nazis is the liv-
ing symbol Of the heroism, the un-
daunted fighting spirit of the revo-
lutionary party in Germany, and in
their insane fury they want to de-
stroy him, hoping thereby to de-
liver a severe blow to the rising
anti-fascist struggle.
The Nazi bloodhounds would
have no hesitation in tearing
Thaelnann limb from limb immedi-
ately, except that they wish to pre-
pare the world bourgeoisie, their
allies, to be able to justify this
plotted murder. But they do not
want to wait much longer. They
have laid all their plans. Thael-
mann is Systematically beaten and
tortured in order to break him
down with the hope that he will be
rendered incapable of turning his
trial into pillory for the Nazis.
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~ the Nazis have manufactured
will not suffice for death sem
tence, the newly established "Peo-
pies Court" in reality Nazi court
martial, has the Job of whipping the
/ Thaelmann trial through.
Only q tremendous world cam
paign, supporting the growing
struggle within Germany against
the plotted murder of Thaelmann,
can save our comrades life. The
Nazis are extremely sensitive to
world public opinion, no matter how
much they may appear to flout it
with their bluff and Dragging man
ner for the amusement of the
Storm Troopers. The secret Fas-
cist police report, recently pub
lished in the Daily Worker, tells
how the Nazis list and record every
protest received from every part of
the world,
The protest campaign in the past
has been carried on persistently.
but with not sufficient force to
meet the danger. Ernst Thaelmann
is in daily, immediate danger Of
death, and all possible means must
be used to save him from the Nazi
lynch court. All forces that were
active in forcing the release Of
Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff must
now exert even greater efforts to
save Thaelmann from execution.
The fight for Thaelmann means the
fight for freedom, peace and So
cialism. Thaelmann is fighting for
freedom for all--everyone must
fight for Thaelnann's freedom
1t is especially necessary row to
arouse the A. r. of l.. locals, to
reach new millions of workers
who in sentiment are against fas-
oism, but who have not been
drawn into the active campaign
against the bloody deeds of Hitler.
1t is necessary to win over TO
some form of immediate action all
sympathetic forces, farmers, in
tellectIals, members of the middle
class, students, in the fight to
save ThaeImann and all the other
anti-fascist fighters in Nazi dun
geons.
Every Consulate in the United
States, every official Nazi agency
as a Hitler bureau must be made
aware Of the growing, nations wids
campaign in the United States
against Fascigm and for the free
dom OF Thaelmann.
Let the whole country ring with