The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07

IN'11L eIOlSIl VI AuSlS Del, a
L woman worker tortured
after her arrest by the Mus
solini government, and later
sentenced to Is years impris-
onment, is shown by the re-
port of her trial published by
"Soccorso Rosso," organ Of the Red
Aid Of Italy.
"Soccorso Rosso" was able to OBJ
tain excerpts of Comrade Bets tes-
timony before the fascist special
tribunal, where she was charged
with having carried on Communist
activity in Italy. A mother of two
children, Adele Bel, faced her ac-
cusers like Georgi Dimitroff, proud
ly proclaiming her membership in
the Communist Party. We quote
from the record:
Judge: Why did you leave Italy
and go abroad with your family?
Defendant: Because my children
had no bread. My husband and I
were not fascists and this is sufi-
cient to be denied work.
Judge: How have you lived
abroad?
Defendant: Working. I am a
worker and always worked for
living
Judge: What were your political
activities abroad?
Defendant: I have always been
interested in the labor movement,
that is, the working class to which
belong.
Judge: You declared, when you
were questioned, that you were a
Communist. Do you affirm that to-
day?
Defendant: Yes. A worker cannot
be anything else.
Judge: Why did you return to
Italy? What tasks did you intend
to carry out in Italy?
Defendant: The tasks which rest
upon every member of the Commu-
mist Party that is, to be at the
head of the workers in the struggle
which they carry on every day.
Judge: Did you not think that by
so doing you were neglecting your
duties as a mother, inasmuch as
that would lead you to abandon
your children?
Defendant: Aiming at carrying
forward the proletarian struggles
against fascism, with my experience
as revolutionist and a Commu-
mist, 1 was also fulfilling my duties
as mother, s-nce the task of my
party is to give, through the prole-
tartan revolution, better life for
the workers and greater security for
the children of the proletarians now
dying of hunger.
Judge: Who are the ones whom
you approached in your work?
Defendant: The elements who
make up the toiling masses; my
function is not that of specifying
who among them.
Judge: DID you know that with
your activities you we're commit
ting crime against your country
and faScisne which has given Italy
and the Italian people security and
well-being?
Defendant: I knew and know
that the work of Communist is
not against the workers, but against
those who exploit them. 1 knew,
and know that my activities were
helping to break the regime of OPP
preston and hunger that fascism
forced upon the workers, the peas
ants, the small business men, and
all toilers. know
Judge: Enoughl I forbid you to
speak!
Comrade Adele Bel then was
pushed aside. With the customary
speed of the special tribunal, this
woman worker of Cantiano (Pe-
saro) was sentenced to 10 years in
the worst dungeon of Italian fas-
ciSm.
THE war plans of Hitler for seizure
1 of the Saar have gone so far
that the leading capitalist newspa-
pers of Europe speak frankly on the
question. That the future of the
Hitler regime rests to large part
on its plans for armed seizure of
the Saar is admitted by the Neue
zuericher Zeitung, of Zurich, Swift
zerland, which a few days ago, edi-
torialized as follows:
1.-THE NaZi regime and its politi-
cal prestige are so bound up with
the question of the Saar and the
problem of economic reserves SO
deeply inset therein that violent
military struggles are automatically
drawing near.
When the workings of all indi-
vidual modes of procedure of the
regime are considered and when
their inevitable consequences SO
completely overshadow everything
else, one is left with the frightful
impression that National Socialism
! Is carefully reckoning on the COM
ing explosion and regards it as un-
avoidable. Danger in the Saar is
matter of hourly contingency and
Germany considers it worthless to
hide her preparations any longer,
feeling that the final decision must
rest with the nation using the most
extreme measures and is preparing
herself accordingly.
During the months of October
and November these preparations
must play an obviously important
role. This new twist to the Saar
question, that is, the demonstrative
publicity which France has given
to her military preparations, has af-
forded the Nazi regime the oppor-
tunity to redouble her own efforts.