The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-23
by BHrck.

throughout Inc Wn0le world In Or
der that the last decent, honest per-
son may recognize the infamy
which is being prepared against
ThaeIm2nn. Is it not clear that the
whole Dimitrov- Torgler trial would
have taken a completely different
course if Goering and Goebbels had
been able to produce an authentic"
plan for Communist instruction?
That would have been the sensa-
ton of the prosecution
Eleven months after the fascist
government came to power not a
single document and not a single
witness could be produced in the
most sensational process of the CEN
tury to support the lying contention
that the Communist Party had
planned an armed insurrection. The
national socialists had to swallow
a signal defeat in the eyes of the
whole world.
After twenty months, however, a
plan for armed revolution" has
been discovered Just in time for the
Thaelmann trial and witnesses"
have also been discovered to sup
port it!
No, the world will not let this
shameless forgery pass without pro-
test. We shall break the back of
the precious plan" which the forg-
ers have produced in eighteen
months of hard and painful work
before the forgers have a chance to
use it in order that world public
opinion shall not be confused and
misled. The production of this
shameless plan" is an indication
of the great danger which is threat
ening Ernst Thaelmann and of the
Gunscrupulousness which we may
still expect.
Temporary Conclusions
The Leipzig trial, in which Dimi-
, trov fought and won with the sup
port of millions of men and women
throughout the world, has proved
that apart from the general politi-
cal movement of solidarity with the
accused the concrete legal struggle
against the fascist adventures is
of the greatest Importance. This
will also be the case in the coming
trial of Ernst Thaelmann. However
the legal arguments also must be
placed before the broad masses of
the people in order that mass ac-
ton may support the actions of the
lawyers and of the juridical COM
missions and encourage them in the
attack.
1t has further been shown that if
we use the correct arguments we
can extend our influence far be-
yond the ranks of the working
classes and win broad sections of
, the intelligentsia, the middle classes,
the bourgeois radicals, the demo-
Gratis and the republicans for our
cause and for the international &C
ton to secure the release of the
anti-fascist prisoners.
Therefore we must popularize
these arguments and these facts in
protest resolutions and meetings, in
protest kilograms and through pro-
test populations, and we must urge
on the anti-fascist lawyers to pro-
vide still further such legal argu-
ments. This is also important for
o6her reasons. In all capitalist
countries fascism is making great
progress i'll the State organs. Laws,
justice. constitution, emergency de-
crees, exceptional laws, concentra-
ton camps, terrorism and legal
murder-these are no longer purely
German questions" German fas-
cisn is finding apt pupils all over
the world.
When we enter the lists against
German fascism and German fas-
cist Justice" in the Thaelmann
process we are winning greater
clarity and forging the weapons for
the struggle against fascist Gus
tice" and against the advance of
fascism in all other capitalist coun-
tries.