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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
Socialist Brands
Action of S.P.H Heads
at Garden Meeting
(ContinNed from Paae y


cialist leaders are lying. Can any
one believe that Clarence Hatha-
way wished to signal for a breakup
of the meeting when he came to the
platform? Can anyone be so made
to believe this when it was Hath
away who at the Bronx Coliseum
meeting gave an eloquent and plead
ing appeal for working class soil
darity and specifically for main
tanning order at the Madison Square
Garden meeting at all cost
"a committee OF the Y. P. S. l.
leaders who came to see Hathaway
later and reported back that Hath
away attempted to quiet his COM
rades, had his report squelched.
When I later inquired at the Rand
School If the report Of this commit
tee had been made, 1 was answered
by a YP.S.L. leader to the effect
that no official recognized commit
tee was sent; therefore, no report to
be divulged.
mo, the Communist Party cannot
be blamed. Its sincerity was unques-
tionable. Nor can the Socialist
workers be blamed. In such sit
uation in which there were object;
flying through the air hitting them
and the majority did not know what
would have really happened, it was
natural for one to find himself in an
hysterical state striking out uncon-
sciously with both fists. No one can
be blamed.
But 1t is certain that had oul
leadership in the Socialist Party, in
stead of calling a united front with
the A. F. Of L. bureaucracy, to which
not only Communist workers OBJ
jected, but Socialist workers as
well, called a united front with the
Communists, all trouble would have
been avoided
ION to the United Front, Com
radeS. Madison Square Garden does
not impede our progress. 1t hastens
final action towards the establish
ment of a real united front. We
cannot permit our right wing leader
ship to mock the united front now
II need be, we must drag our leader.
ship with us to effect it. On tx
the united front, comrades"
(Signed) BERNARD MISHKIN
I. p. S. L. Manhattan No. II
S. P. Lancaster, Pa.
TRANSFER Pendng)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
Hamburg Socialist
Workers Fight for
ThaeImann Defense
Report Nazis Plan Big
''Show'' at Trial of
Communist Leader

BERLIN, Feb. IS. - Social-Demo-
cratic workers of Hamburg have is
sued an appeal for the defense of
Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German Communist Party, it has
just be learned here.
This appeal reveals once again the
unity of Communist and Socialist
workers which is becoming a powerful
reality in the course of the struggle
against Hitler in which the Social
Democratic leaders have betrayed and
abandoned their followers.
The treason" trial of Thaelmann,
which will open soon, will be made
into an deliberately staged show,
according to the Nazi newspaper,
"Krsuz Zeitung." Parts of it will be
recorded with soGnd-f1lm. and picked
delegations of workers will be brought
to witness the trial
The Nazis, baked in their effort to
make political capital cut of the
toelcnSCag IRE CrlaI, WHICH Cne COM
munist defendants turned against
them, are making elaborate efforts to
stage a more effective frame-up at
this trial, using Trotskyist and Brand
lerite ISLANDERS in a gigantic effort to
besmirch the Communist Party.
The great danger to the Nazis Of
attempting such a frame-up i'm
mensely increases the danger that
they Will make an occasion to muir
der Thaelmann while trying to
escape"
The world protest against the
frame-up of Thaelmann must be in
tensifled constantly. That is the only
force which can snatch Thaelmanr
alive out of the hands of the Naz
butchers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
II Must Die for
.EachDead Nazi,
ROehln Orders
Savage Murder Order
Reveals Deep Fear
of Anti-Fascists

BERLIN, Feb. ls.-The deadly zeal
Of revolutionary workers which the
Ea5i storm troop command feels 4;
attested by a savage order issued by
Captain Roehm, Storm Troop CHIEF
Of staff, ordering the murder Of Il
anti-fascists every time storm
trooper is killed.
An official order signed by Eoehn
says in part:
81 am ready TO assume respOn-
sibility for actions on the part of
Storm Troopers which are not in
accordance with legal regulations,
but are actuated solely by service
In the interests Of the storm
Troopers,
"Under this heading there comes
for instance the atcnement for the
murder Of = Storm Trooper. In
such = case the competent Storm
Trooper commands that up to IL
members OF the hostile organiza-
ton responsible for the murder are
10 be executed. This execution Is
TO be commanded by the leader,
and to be carried ont Immediately
with soldierly discipline"
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people; the ratings on the gallery
disappear under people hanging over
them; the orator speaks and draws
together into one mass these $4,000
people, and there is a crackle Of ex-
CARNATIONS, and finally the crowd
bursts out-into the night, in great
throngS along PotSdamer Street, into
the Potsdamer side Streets-a flood
that often becomes dangerous, Then
naotor-car omnibuses and trolley cars
stick in the mass of human beings
like corks, cannot move forward nor
backward, and the coursing flood
bursts past them.
The whole region around the
SportpalaSt huns. The beer halls
ful, the windows occupied with curl
Gus onlookers, police at the Eek on
balconies, city jewellers Strolling on
the roof and looking down into the
valley Of asphalt. At the corner of
Buelowstrasse the press really breaks
loose, down Potsdamer strasse one
route to the Sportpalast is obviously
shown across Potsdamerplatz they
even go in closed ranks, with flag
staffs on their shoulders, in spite of
the fact that it lies within the mile
limit; on Potsdam bridge stands a
sign within the mile limit; on Pots
dam bridge stands a sign with two
police, Attention. Mile limit!") But
they also come from Nollendorf
Platz, bicyclists ahead, announcing
a greater troop to come; even as far
away as Wittenberg Platz you can
see clearly that something is doing
today in Sportpalast. Also from
Schoenenberg a whole flood is rolling
in here; the street corners are
swarming with people; the police
have let down the storm straps on
their shakos-they are in the war
zone; increasingly small police cars
and police wagons go whirling by.
1t was our last meeting"
Bicycle racing, ice carniyals, box
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19

been planned, OF a criminal provoca-
ton against the Communist Party.
They are planning unheard
of murder, slaughter, terror. :"
The inspector snaps at the word,
has jumped up, but now applause
sets in, an enormous pressure, that
forces him helpless back again on
his chair.
There he sits again: he can hang
on to his thin pencil but to nothing
else; he is sitting alone, solitary,
and is supposed to dissolve the
meeting, that is, fight against
thousands.
To be sure, he remembers, outside
there are also standing thousands,
ruber clubs, pistol barrels; they will
come to his help in time. But how
far is that? and he springs up again
and again sinks before the pres
sure OF the applause.
Comrade PECK is saying, Il am
coming to the conclusion"
Conclusionl Conclusionl Conclu-
sion!
There the butterfly is fluttering off
high into the blue, never to be seen
again flunked his exam.
Comrade PECK speaks without
wavering. Sentence by sentence he
draws toward the conclusion. AS on
; flight of stairs. He is climbing up
to the conclusion. He is talking like
a straight road; you can see the end
the words go on, grow faster, I'M
ceasingly.
Comrade PECK brushes the sheets
of notes together. Nonsense! there
isn't any snow there, there isn't any
SNOWFALL, and you can't SO simply lei
fly ball from your hand at the
broad back there, drawing It's coil
clusion, talking right on. He see'
the hat lying on the chair beside
him. His careerl" The pencil still
whirling through his outspread fin.
/ gers. His handkerchief slips out o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
Belgian King, Brutal
Slave Owner, Army
ExecutiOner, Dead
Congo Slave Master Had
Revolving REGIMENTS
Shot in Back in War

BRUSSELS, Feb. liking Albert
Of Belgium. one of tho greatest slave
owners Of modern times, was in
stantly killed yesterday when he fell
while climbing a mountain near
Namur, Belgium.
King Albert personally owned vast
tracts in the Belgian Congo, where
thousands of slaves worked on rubber
plantations under conditions OF such
extreme brutality that his African
slave holdings are q by-word
throughout the world.
During the world war, when he
commanded the Belgian army, sew
eral whole regiments were murdered
at his orders, by shooting In the back,
for refusal to FIGHT against their Ger
man fellow workers.
He was SO years old. His throne
and slave-holdingS are inherited by
his son, Leopold, 80 years old.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
oA~49 Frm Meeting A spFa

The following story by Johannes
X. Becher, one of Germany's most
beloved proletarian writers who
escaped the Nazi murder net, de-
Scribes a united front meeting held
in the Berlin Sportpalast, where
Social Democratic leaders, acting In
unison with Greszinsld, Social
Democratic police chief. attempted
to break up huge mass gathering
OF workers similar to the recent
Ma isoD Square Garden meeting.
The story is reprinted from "Mur-
der i'm Camp Hohenstein," a book
Of short stories giving "A Cross Cur
fsnt of the Hitler Regime" pub
nshed in the United States BY In
ier1iational Publishers.
BY JOHANNES r. BECHER
ydIS time we had not quite filled the
4 SporTpalast. We had not been able
70 conduct any proper publicity for
3aF final meeting" Only the evening
oe9ore, the rumor was that it was
forbidden, then it was suddenly per-
ni5ted, but we no longer had time
ia insert notices in the press, and the
1ualcity was left in the hands of the
spar2te wards. There were empty
sa5s, and there was nothing to do
bout IL, but when the band struck
lp with our battle marches, the room
lnivered with enthusiasm and the
APPS filled up.
Our Comrade PECK was to speak.
Hitler was in power; it was time
Of suspense. Everybody was asking
Himself what would come Of it-but
We were now standing firm on our
feet, prepared not to yield one step.
When meeting takes place on the
Sportpalast, the whole region around
the Sportplast is in connection.
~usere in the middle of a residential
section lies this colossal hall, holding.
when it is quite full, around 10000
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has in front of him some sheets for
notes and is twisting a pencil around
his fingers; it is evident that he has
instructions, cost what 1t may, to dis
solve the meeting as soon as pos
sible, and without fail, before the
concluding speech. He is fidgeting
about with his instructions.
Comrade PECK speaks in slave
language"
I am delighted to see with what
life and persuasive power he can
talk In this language which has been
forced upon us. He brings in pic
lures and comparisons that every
one can understand; he makes refer
ences which the law cannot touch
but which every one of us can grasp;
he says, "Our speeches will not be
broadcast by radio, and SO our
mouths, comrades, SO you yourselves
must become transmitterS, which send
their waves everywhere and are not
liable to interference"
rOMARDE PECK has been speak
ing a quarter of an hour.
He turns again to the comrades of
Reichsbanner man Schlombach and
speaks Of the great, mighty united
front of all workers; he speaks out
beyond the limits of the hall, into
the distance, 70 all Social-Demo-
cratic workers and Reichsbanner
comrades.
The inspector drums with his fin
gers! He is drumming out his own
drum fire, for he must dissolve the
meeting whether it is legal or not
He sits there tensely and looks for q
place where he can cut short the
speech of Comrade PECK. He has
laid his pencil down and spreads his
fingers out like q pair of shears. The
thread runs and runs; where can he
cut off the word? The thread slips
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
League Official Wants
Army for Order in Saar

GENEVA, Feb. 18-Naz terrorism
in the Saar region was reported to a
special League Of Nations committee
here yesterday by Godfrey Knox,
League Commissioner for the Saar,
who demanded League army to
restore order in that region.
The Saar, q rich coal and iron basin,
Is supposed to vote next year whether
1t wishes to join Germany or France.
The Communist Party OF the Saar,
resisting annexation OF the region to
either imperialist nation, Is fighting
for its demand Of autonomy for the
Saar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
Paris Workers
In Big Funeral
For Six Victims
Masses March to Bury
Workers DOumergue
Police Killed

PARIS, Feb. 18.-Workers Of Paris,
thousands upon thousands, marching
under q sea Of banners to revolu-
tionary dirges played by many bands,
yesterday took their six Communist
dead, murdered Feb. by the Dou-
mergue government. to Pere LachaiSs
Cemetery.
The police who murdered them do
not dare show themselves on the
streets as the gigantic cortege wound
through the city
The six were buried in Pere La
chaise Cemetery, not far from the
wall which still bears the bullet
marks OF the massacre Of French
workers after the Paris Commune Of
1871.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
AL. Local Unions
In DriUe for Workers
J0bLess Insurance

AKRON, Ohio, Feb. 1S.-The A.
F. of L. Federal Rubber Workers
Union sponsored the meeting here
ut which Louis Weinstock of the
A. f. of L. Rank and File Trade
Union Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance was the principal
speaker. The A. r. of L. union
Jailed the meeting for the purpose
Of securing action on the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance Bill Oh. R. 1881 and the
o+he- demands of 4he A. F. of L.
rank and file. Weinstock Is to
speak at meetings arranged by
A. F. of L. locals in Chicago,
Kenosha. Wis, Milwaukee and
ether cities. The A. F. Of L.
central body is sponsoring the
meeting in Great Falls, Mont.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
To Export 1000 Tons of
Cotton for Gunpowder

NEW YORK.--An unnamed Euro
~ean country is seeking to buy 600
tons of cotton for war explosives. The
r. D. Whitmore Co., lit Z. S0th b.,
New York, has Just sent circular 70
domestic dealers in raw cotton, as
follows:
1--WE have Just received cable from
our principals abroad inquiring for
cotton linters suitable for gunpowder
manufacturing They are inquirng
for approximately 1000 tons for de-
livery beginning April"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
C. c. c. MEN QUIT IN SUB-ZERO
WEATHER

LORETTA, Wis. Thirty-thr
youngsters In Civilian Conservation
Camp 648 quit the Roosevelt forest
army when Lieut.. M. B. Fierke Or
dered them to do extra work in q
gale with the mercury Is below zero.
A hundred others are reported ready
to quit if the army officers unreal
sonable work requirements are not
modified. Most of the boys in the
camp are from the Milwaukee area.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
British Fascists Bid
For Farmers Favor

LONDON, Feb. 1S.-British Black
Shirt fascists, seeking to utilize the
discomfort Of the British farmers TO
build their organization, are taking
part in the "tithe war"
Eighteen OF Sir Oswald MosIev's
black-shirt gangsters were arrested al
Workman, Suffolk, yesterday, wnere
they were guarding livestock SEIZED
by bailiffs for the 1.-THE, which is 3
state tax for the support Of the
church.
The Black Shirts did not resist
when police seized them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
Yorker Cuts Tongue
to Protect Comrades

LISBON, Portugal Rather
than risk breaking down under
police torture and giving the
names OF his comrades, Jayne
Rebelo, fisherman of Setubal,
near here, arrested as leader of a
Communist group, cut off his
tongue with a razor blade, on
February Z, it is reported here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
SUPERIOR GAINS SUBS

SUPERIOR, Wis. Enclosed is
check for four new subs obtained
here for our Daily Worker to help
put the circulation drive over the
top. These are not our last new subs
either.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
TACOMA TO PASS QUOTA

TACOMA, Wash-we are enclos-
ing money for two new yearly subs
to the Saturday edition Of our Daily
Worker. Our Unit here will endeaY-
or to SurpaSS our quota of new subs
as soon as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
.AngIO-SOviet Trade
Agreement Signed
Especial 10 the Daily wOrker)

MOSCOW, Feb. 10. (By RADIO -
The Anglo-Soviet trade treaty was
signed at the British foreign office
Friday by Ambassador Maisky and
trade representative Ozersky for the
Soviet Union, and Sir John Simon,
foreign minister, and Walter Runci-
man, chairman Of the Board OF
Trade, for Great Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
COCIALIST workers.

The menace Of FascisIn in America NJ ssA ~ .
in the shops, in the factories, in the day to day
hourly tight against the capitalist employers attack in
the fight against the MIRA slave codes, against the
Roosevelt jngoism and NFsA srikebreaking, that We
Communist and Socialist workers must bind with
hoops Of steel our firm, unbreakable working class
United Front against the capitalist exploters
We repeat, Socialist and Communist workers. We
belong together side by side in the life and death
struggle against Fascsm. 1t Is true that we have
differences. The workers who follow the Socialist
leaders do not yet agree with that their path Is
the path Of the preservation of capitalism. But all
workers proetarian class comrades The great
est patience the greatest sympathy and understand
ing must go into the most detailed discussion with
our fellow workers all the questions that knock
ing at the minds Of the Socialist workers
We appeal to Socialist workers to write to us,
to lay frankly before the working class the differ
ences the objections the questions that divide U.s.
We ppeal to them to refuse to accept the provoca-
tons Of the Lees and Pankens against unity We
appeal to them to awaken to the terrible meaning Of
the road which European Social Democracy has al
ready TAKEN the road which has led to Hitler and
Austrian Fascism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
Legion To Sponsor
 Local Drum Corps
Thirty Men Enlisted Community Welfare Committee
 Nets $25O From Two Benefit Events
WATERVILLE

A great deal of interest is bein, shown in the organization of the . Fife, Drum and Bugie Corps which is being sponsored by the Casper s. Davis, Jr, post of the American Legion in Watefville. Through the efforts of the Post Drum Corps committee, John Marshall Me- Mahon, George Goggins and John Byrnes, a group of nearly thirty young men have been enlisted and are already hard at work under the competent direction of David Grenier and John Brenneis. The next meeting of the corps is sched- uled for tomorrow evening at the rooms of Court Welch, Foresters of America. Director Gretlier is enthusiastic about the splendid re- suits already accomplished by his charges within the space of two weeks and predicts that the Water vile Corps will be second to none by the time the winter rehearsal season will have come to a close. The Corps will be a self-supporting unit acting under the sponsorship of the local Legion post which has granted permission for the use of it's name by the corps.
 Committee Plans Relief
 A meeting of the Waterville Christmas Community Welfare Committee was held last night at Foresters' hall on Boyden street. Reports were submitted on the card party and dance which were held last week and 1t was most gratifying to note that nearly two hundred fifty dollars were netted as the results of the committee ef- fort in connection with the two events. The executive committee of the council will serve as the disbursing committee for the fund and will meet at the same place at 7:30 o'clock on Friday evening of this week to pess upon the Water vile cases which should be as- sisted by the committee at the holiday season. The Everyman's Bible class of Watervil1e has don- ated ten dollars to the Christmas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
|HADLEY CONTEST
 WINNERS CHOSEN
Mrs Carl DeeIey Awarded \, First Prize-TwO Meri-
 den Women Get Prizes

It was a long and tedious job the judges had in deciding the win- ners of the Hadley Philco Contest which closed midnight, December 12. The judges, John Dougherty, account executive of the Repub- lican-American and Harry DeVor- ken, advertising manager ot the Democrat, had thousands of en- tries to exanine before making their decisions.
 Here is the list of winners: First prize, $1O0 Model 118x Philco radio to Mrs Carl Deeley, 167 Beecher Avenue, Waterbury; sec- ond prize, $75 Model 29X Philco radio to Emil Didier. 67e Prospect St, Torrington; third prize, $59.95 Model 45L Philco Radio to w. s. Cirillo, 11S South Broad St, Meri- den; fourth prize, $50, Model S9L Philco Radio to Mrs Kurt H. Brenner, Vale avenue, Meriden; fifth prize, $42.50 Model COL Phil co radio to John w. Kruipa, 61 Hill St. Waterbury; sixth prize; $29.95 Philco radio to Mrs Edward c. Terrence, Box 112, Marion, Conn, seventh prize, $2O Philco radio to Mvs Alice Rogers, 101bh West Main street, Waterbury.
 There was great skill and origin ality shown by many contestants. First and second prize winners built miniature homes and furnish ed them completely; there was original drawings, handcraft and needlecraft.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18
Pensions For War
 Mothers VIEW. Aim
Wheeler Young Post Commander Voices Approval of
 n-Membership Campaign Discussed

For the first time, major vet erans' organization has incorpo- rated in its national legislative program, government responsibility for the dependent mothers of de- ceased or totally and permanently disabled war veterans.
 In making this statement at a membership rally of Wheler- Young post, No. POI, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Commander Charles Leppert voiced his organizations conviction that the dependent mothers of veterans killed or disabled in war should not be left to the voluntary care of friends or organized charity.
 "The dependent widows and or- pinans of Americas veterans are, to some extent at least, the as- sumed responsibilities of the United States government" Commander Lcppert said. But no federal pro- vision has ever been made in this country for the woman whose son and sole support was killed or per
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-18

manently disabled in his country's armed service. Her sacrifice was as greaet as that of the woman who gave her husband to the war. Her sorrow was as great when that son fell 'on the battlefields or was returned to this country with his health permanently shattered. Why should the mothers of war vet erans have to lose the very mate rial necessities of life as we'll as their sons? The least their coun- try can do for them is to give them bare living in lieu of their sons care and comfort they sacrificed in the war"
 Commander Leppert's address was feature of the first of a se- ries of metings planned by post No. POI in the interests of na- tion-wide membership campaign being conducted by the V. F. W. A greatly augmented membership is important to the success of the point legislative program which the V. F. W. is placing be- fore congress in January, Com- mander Leppert stated.
 Only overseas veterans are elig- ible to membership in the organi- zation, which now includes more than 3,100 local posts in all parts of the country.