The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-06

speeches at the Nuremberg
Fourth Congress of the Nazis,
will be the spectre Of the
100000 officially admitted
opposition votes to fascism in the
plebiscite.
Even in the ranks of the deci-
mated Storm Troops the class bat-
tie against fascism is shaking the
Hitler regime, and leading to an
enlarged repetition Of bloody June
Both.
CEVEN speeches by Hitler or any
y body else will not be aba to
feed the starving millions in Ger.
many this winter. An inkling Oh
what the German masses face TIL,
winter is outlined by the New York
Times Berlin financial corresponds
ent, Robert Crozier Long, in an
article in Current History entitled
"The Real Crisis in Germany"
There he speaks of the onrushing
imitation which would cause a ma
tional panic" resulting in the urban
population suffering doubly- thru
shortage of food and thru loss Of
employment" Drought" he says,
''has reduced the German crop Of
1884 to rs per cent of 1885," and
Mai policy aggravated this trouble
by making it difficult to import food
and fodder from abroad"
BY way of the saar, we have just
received an interesting letter from
German worker about how the
Communist Party conducted its
propaganda in Berlin against Hitler
in the plebiscite. We quote the LETT
ter in full:
MO FOREST of flags could weak
~ en- the tremendous impression
made by the brilliant activities Of
anti-fascist workers in every part
of Berlin, and especially in the
workers districts.
I'm spite of the innumerable
patrols sent out by the police,
Storm Troops and Guard Corps,
the anti-fascist workers were inde-
fatigably at work during the last
few nights before the plebiscite. In
hundreds of places the fences, pave
ments, and house walls have been
painted with red lettering: No votes
workers!'-'A vote for Hitler is a
vote for the CATASTROPHE - Red
Berlin gives its reply to the bloody
chancellor: No! mol No!'-'The Red
Front Fighters League Liyes!'-
Release the workers candidate for
the presidency, Ernst Thaelmannp
Release the political prisoners!',
and many other slogans. In some
places there we're even red BAN
ners with anti-fascist slogans. The
whole city was covered with stick
ers, which were continually being
removed, but as continually reap
peared.
1.-THE police and the fascist bands
instigated savage hunt for the
bill-stickers and painters (our COM
rades were joined by many social
democratic workers in this work,
which was carried out with the ut
most daring). The emergency
squads dashed through the streets
in the police lorries, with drawn
revolvers and carbines, and fired on
workers whom they suspected Of
having posted bills. Many non
participant paSsers-by were injured
by this wild firing.
During the night from Saturday
to Sunday, large attachments Of
police, Storm Troops and Guard
Corps held the streets. They pushed
their way into the workers houses
in Wedding, Neukolln, Friedrichs-
hahn, Lichtenberg, etc. and arrested
thousands of workers.
THE pressure put on voters in
Berlin. and according to our
information in all other parts of the
country, is beyond description. Early
in the morning the drive COM
menced by the Storm Troops, Guard
Corps, and Hitler Youth, against
the non-voters. These bands march,
ed through the streets everywhere,
shouting in chorus, threatening slo-
gans against the traitors to the
state and the nation who remain
at home, or vote with mo- They
even made tests unexpectedly en-
tering houses and demanding to
know if and when the inhabitants
had been to the poll. One of their
slogans, shouted in chorus, was:
Listen, Communists and Marxistsi
To the wall with traitors to the
people, the No voters
Large bodies of selected Storm
Troopers and Guard Corps stood i'll
front of all the polling booths.
When workers arrived, the Nazis
told them: You needn't think that
you can vote a single mo- without
our knowing it. We shall arrest all
you swine if there is as much as
one no vote cast in our polling
| BOOTH
I'm many districts we organized
our own illegal control system, and
kept close watch for falsifications
Our calculations enabled us to as
certain that this time three to four
times as many mo- votes were cast
as at the last election. 1t is inter-
esting to note that many workers
remained in the polling cell for
several minutes, careless of the
Nazis waiting outside, and wrote
down sentences on their voting pa
per, stating the real opinion of the
people with regard to the Hitler die