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TIM BUCK CALLS FOR UNITY

‘We still have time to make our choice—the road to the
left to Socialism, or the road to the right to Fascism and
degradation.”—(Tim Buck at the Massey Hall before an au-
dience of 3,500, Jan. 27.) This is the question the workers
and farmers of Canada must ask themselves in 1935—now.
All the forces of reaction are attempting to force the workings
class along the road to the right. R. B. Bennett, the leader
of the capitalist class, under the cloak of “reform iS pre-
paring to drive down the standard of living of the working
class through legal measures. Surely the leaders of the
C.C.F. can see that Bennett is attempting to further fascise
the State apparatus, and driving rapidly towards Fascism.
In the first of the broadeasts by Bennett he stated: We
cannot continue to make believe. We cannot continue to
play with this problem. Bold action alone can bring victory.
This should be enough to proye to the average student of
present day society that preparations are being made to
¢ake that “bold action,’ which will further lower the stan-
dards of the working population, unless united struggle
checks the growth of Fascism in Canada. 2 ane

Tim Buck exposed Bennett as the leading Capitalist
politician who is fighting with his back to the wall, for the
right of the capitalists to further exploit the workers. Tim
exposed the danger in the statements of Mackenzie King and
of Woodsworth, when they say that “Bennett cannot carry
out his program.” This is dangerous because it attempts to
make the workers believe that things will go on as they are.
It is the same as Saying that “The relief cannot be cut any
lower, because we don’t get enough to live on now.” When
reielf workers in Vancouver had two dollars a day, six days
a week (married men) and one dollar a day (single men) we
heard the same story from many people who failed to under-
stand the life and death struggle that capitalism finds
itself in.

Bae Buck concluded his speech with a new appeal for the
United Front, and appealed especially to the hundreds of
C.C.F. workers present, to work for working class unity
against the common enemy. This appeal represents the senti-
ment of every sincere representative of all militant working
class organizations. In another eolumn of this paper we print
the statement of Scott Nearing regarding the road for the
workers to follow, the road of unity. French workers are
adopting it. British workers are moving towards it. Spanish
workers utilized it to good effect. Let us profit by the ex-
periences of those workers, and not wait till Bennett and the
Capitalist Class of Canada begin their new offensive. The
basis of struggle against the Bennett program is working-
class organizations, united.

Build the United Front now!

WORKERS’ CLUBS AS ASSETS TO THE
REVOLUTIONARY LABOR MOVEMENT

Ukrainian Labor Temple Ass’n. Has Held Banner
OE Militant Labor High for 17 Years

1924 it was decided to centralize and
to incorporate these organizations for
the whole of Canada under the name
of “The Ukrainian Labor Farmer
Temple Assn.’ (U.L.F-2.A.), because
at that time organizational work had
been started among the farmers.

In 1918, leading members of S.D.
Party of Ganada decided to form an
organization in Winnipeg, “The Uk-
rainian Labor Temple Association,”
and erect a building for this organiz-
ation and at the same time a print-
ing place for the Ukrainian workers’
paper called ““Working People.” In
starting this work the comrades had
no idea that it would be the begin-
ming of a solid organization through-
eut the whole of Canada, with hun-
dreds of branches and thousands of
members,

In 1924 it was decided to form the
“Workers? Benevolent Assn.” In
short time this organization had the
Jargest membership. In 1926-27 there
were organized Ukrainian Branches
of the G.L.D.L. Im 1931 it was de-
cided to form one more organization,
“Society for Assisting the Liberation
Movement in Western Ukraine” (fo-
dowyrnazu), ang in a year and a half
it grew into a membership of 7,000-

a

Of the Ukrainian immigration into
Canada, the majority were peasants
svyho could neither read nor write.
Drinking, card playing and fist fight-

ing is what they jndulged in. The The U.l..E-.T.A. has been organized

in the period of post war crisis and

Ganadian capitalists use them for
the heaviest work and paid them the
jowest wages. This did not give them
chance to learn apy better, as
no organization of any
Ukrainian bourgeois in-
and priests immigrated
at the
Canadian bourgeoisie to
exploit the Ukrainian workers and
farmers by keeping them belieying
in old traditions and spreading hatred
among them on the basis of the
different religious beliefs. That was
the reason that the class conscious

a
there was
king. The
telli¢entsia
to Canada
helped the

same time and

svorkers realized the necessity of
forming the Ukrainian language
Svorking class cultural and educa-

tional organization.

Tater in 1918, the Canadian bour-
geoisie declared the Social Demo-
eratic Party of Canada an “illegal
organization.” Part of the members
joined the Ukrainian Labor Temple
Association of Winnipeg and others
throughout Canada started to form
different workers’ educational or-
ganizations.

The first conference was called in
1921, and decided to broaden the or-
Eanization, U.L.T.A., in the Province
of Manitoba and later all over Cana-
da. From that time conferences were
held every year, which made the
basis for strengthening the organiza-—
tion aS a whole, by setting up by the
D.L-2.A. of Dramatic Clubs, Ukrain-
jan Workers’ Children Schools, Wom-
ens’ Sections and Mouth Sections.

AS a result of the growth of this
roganization throughout Canada in

of the revoultionary uprising of the
proletariat of the whole world, as
the result of the revolution in Rus-
sia. The aims and tasks of this or-
fanization is to spread among the
workers and farmers, working class
education, to cultivate the feeling of
collective life and true
iis

solidarity,
comradely relationships among
members and solidarity with the in-
ternational revolutionary labor move-
ment. To give moral and financial
support to the working class struggle
as a whole is still another precept.
The U.L.F.T.A. with the other revo-
lutionary organizations stood in de-
fense of the U.S.S.R., demanding the
withdrawal of enemy troops from its

borders. Funds were collected for
the famine-stricken in the U.S.S-R.
in 1921. Women’s committees were

set up by the U.L.F-T.A. that took
an active part in collecting funds
feollectinge $60,000), and at that time
the Women’s Section of the U.L.F.
T.A. was set up.

Almost in every working class
struggle the U.L-E.T:-A. played an
important role, but in the second

Post-war period of a temporary capi-
talist the social demo-
eratic remnants and traditions were

stabilization,

rooted in the mass organization. The

property of these organizations at
that time grew to about eighty build-
ings throughout Canada. Workers
Benevolent Assn. bought a farm and
buildings for an orphanage and old
age home. This was one of the reas-

ens that the membership of these

HOW TO GET 40%
FUEL ALLOWANCE

Vancouver, B.C., Feb. 6, 1935-

Editor, B.C. Workers News:

Sir—In view of the present cam-—
paign for Non-Contributory Unem—
ployment Insurance, and the de
mands being raised in every locality
for an increase in relief, I wish to
bring to your attention how relief is
administered in Some of the B.C.
Goast towns and villages.

In a recent tmp from Vancouver
to Sointula and way points it was
found that not in one of the places
touched at was the provincial relief
scale lived up to as regards to the
40 per cent clothing allowance. Gib-
sons Landing has since formed an
unemployed organization and have
ben successful in having several de-
mands granted, as well as the pay-
ment of the 40 per cent. This shows
that only through organization is it
possible to bring pressure on the re-
lief authorities in every locality and
force the payment of the 40 per cent
clothing allowance.

properties which caused legalism
that lead to opportunism and isola-
tien from the working class move-
ment as a whole. It shows itself at
the time of the deepening crisis and
sharpening of class struggles and
caught our ogranization unprepared
to meet this situation, as in Toronto
U.L.F.D.A. they were not in favor
of giving the Ukrainian Labor Tem-
ple for mass meetings, on warning
of the police that the hall should not
be rented for such meetings. It was
explained that we are liable to lose
“our property,’ and that we are
“foteigners’’ and we can’t take a
leading part in the class struggle and
that the U.L.F.T.A. is only a cul-
tural and educational organization.

At the 12th National Conference
in 1931 it was decided to make a turn
tewards mass revolutionary struggles
and full participation of all mass or-
ganizations from day to day for the
economic needs of the Ukrainian
workers and farmers. Only by link-
ing itself with the whole reyolution-
ary working class movement will we
be in a position to meet the attacks
of the Canadian Capitalist Class.
From 1931 the Ukrainian mass or-
ganizations made noticeable progress
giving leadership and taking an ac-
tive part in the struggle for immedi-
ate demands of the working class as
a whole.

In B.C. the Ukrainian Mass Or-
ganization with the W.U.L. assisted
in organizing the M.W-.U.of C.
Princeton and Anyox; F.U.L. in Rev-
elstoke and Canyon, organization a
group of Y-C Ju. in Reverstoke and
Vernon, organized branches of the
C.L.D.L. in Vernon, Ganyon, and
Kamloops, organizing farmers and
leading demonstrations for increase
of relief in Canyon and Revelstoke:
B.C. District of Ukrainian Mass Or-
ganizations is affiliated with the
B.C. League Against War and Fas-
cism.

in

In every strike our
gave support. Mor the strike in Any-
ox we collected $100. At the time of
the Evans case that took place in
Vernon, our Ukrainian workers gave
their great help in collecting funds
and food for the workers who came
there for the case. In the loggers’
strike the Ukrainian Mass Organiza-
tion $25 for preparation of
strike and at the time of the tag day
over 100 members were mobilized in
Vancouver alone, including the youth
in collection. We donated $10 to the
W.U.L. for preparation of strike in
Cumberland. In Vancouver the U.L.
E.T.A, assisted in organizing other
language mass organizations such as
Russian, Jugoslayv, Polish, Italian,
and Hungarian. We gave the hall
free for many mass meetings and
for the relief camp strikers at the
time they marched to Vancouver.

organizations

gave

In making these many achieve-
ments we still haye many shortcom-
ings.
ganizations we are still partly iso-

Through looseness in our or-

lated from the mass revolutionary
movement. Lack of solidarity in the
fight against Ukrainian fascist ele-
ments and in forming a united front
with the Ukrainian working masses
around their immediate needs is one.
There also has been a lack of in-
terest in regard to organizing the
youth, and this will have to be over-
come in the future, if we are going
to build our
should.

organizations as we
the Ukrainian Mass
Organizations recognize in full the
ideological leadership of the Com-
munist Party of Canada.)

(In general,

DANCE

ORANGE HALL
Gorner Gore and Hastings
EVERY
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday
from $ to 12
ae
Music by
ORANGE HALL ORCHESTRA

organizations paid more attention to

"THE COMMONWEALTH,” REACTION

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[EAST OF ROCKIES

stated that “Bennett was urged to jom the C.C.F.” Maybe
they didn’t interpret Angus correctly, but “a hint is as good
as a wink to a blind horse.” The article quoted is “The C-C-F.
says that the only motive that will meet the situation is that
of use. That means not reforming the present system, but
abolishing it. If that-is what Mr. Bennett means by reform,
I welcome it.” No doubt Angus will tell us that he was only
fooling, and never expects Bennett to abolish the present
system by reforms, etc.; but if that is the only way which
Macinnis fights the Bennett program, by “playing with
words,’ then his wife shouldn’t kick when the capitalist
press plays with them too. ;

Another article quoted by Grace, with which she wishes
to reassure us that Woodsworth is opposing Bennett, and
taken from the “Montreal Gazette,” reads: “Complimenting
Mr. Bennett for going directly to the people, and stressing
that the C.C.F. would endorse the proposed measures when
and if they were brought up in Parliament, but criticized
what he called ‘an attempt to patch up an unworkable sys-
tem’.” Does this sound like supporting Bennett? What are
the C.C.F. leaders kicking about! They are reported fairly
correctly by the Capitalist rags. The headlines in the capi-
talist press have no more garbled the speeches of the G.C.F.
leaders than “The Commonwealth” garbles and cunningly
misrepresents through various Means the struggles of the
workers. We will prove it with the following story of the
struggle of 800 starving Chinese workers in Vancouver, and
we brut the story as run in the last issue of “The Common-
wealth”:

Chow Chokes Chinks,
Police Are Called
To Stop Revolution

An ineipient riot was quelled
Tuesday by police at the soup Iit-
chen for Chinese, 143 East Pender.
The mission which is under Anghi-
can Church auspices supplies meals
to Orientals for which it is reim-
bursed by relief authorities at the
rate of eight cents per meal.

The Ghinese claimed that the fish
supplied for supper was rotten, and
that the Chinaman who does the
buying for the institution was pro-
fiteering. They refused to eat the
fish, and attempted to mob the
buyer, but police were called in and
order restored. No arrests were
made.

At a meeting later in the Chinese
section it was charged that -the
Chinese were being exploited, and
supplied with very inferior food.
An attempt is being made to in-
vestigate charges by working-class
organizations.

ger were printed. This story
pressed at great lensth the suffer-
ings and hardships, aud struggles of
the loggers since the last big strike,
which was organized and led by the
Lumber Workers’ Industrial Union.
Throughout the whole story, which
depicted very correctly the abomin-
able conditions existing, was con-
tained not one word of the Union or
its activities in attempting to rectify
the miserable conditions. Pritchard
knows very well that the Union or-
Sanized and led the strike, and that
the union is in the camps. The fail-
ure to mention one word of the
union in this struggle of the loggers
is not accidental. It is with the same
studied purpose as the ‘apitalist
press suppresses or distorts a Story
of facts regarding a labor struggle,
when the fact would bring out the
justification of the workers’ cause.
This is what the newspapermen call
“giving it the right slant,’’ which
means sticking to the policy advo-
cated by the owners of the paper.

ex—

The Editor, as stated at the begin-
ning of this article, is a thoroughly
experienced and well read individual
with many years of Marxist study.
He knows very well that the title to
that story is downright chauvinism.
The story itself is garbled to try and
mislead the readers to believing that
“it is a Chinaman who is grafting
on the food supplies,” and that “‘the
heads of the Anglican Chureh are
exempt.”’ The Editor knows well that
the term “‘Chink’’ applied to Chinese
workers is the same derogatory epi-
taph as applied to black
wworkers. But Pritchard knows as
well as Woodsworth knows, that the
Chinese workers have no vote
Canada, and it’s “votes”? that count
with those leaders of the C.C_F. That
article “The Commonwealth”
brands it as opposed to the struggles
of the working class just as much as
the dirtiest tory rag in the country.
There is no wonder many workers
in the C.C.F. Clubs denounce it, and
refuse to subscribe to it.

C.C.F. Rank and File
Should Act

Tim Buck recently announced that
“there is yet hope that the leaders of

the C.C.F. will come closer to the

workers’ struggles for unemployment
by the
bosses, and to the struggle against
fascism.’’ We echo that sentiment,
but we must expose such anti-work-
ing class taetics as carried out by
“The Commonwealth.” The real
measures to be adopted in bringing
about the united front of the work-
ing class for better conditions and
in checking the growth of fascism,
rests with the rank and file. The
first thing the rank and file of the
C.C.F. in B.C. should do, is to de-
mand a turn about in the policy of
“The Commonwealth.” If, on the
other hand, the position of the paper
Is such that it is in complete control
of Pritchard (and the two thousand
progressive Canadians, whatever that
means), then the rank and file of
the €.C.F. should get together and
organize a real mouthpiece that will
five expression to the interests of
the rank and file, and isolate those
who would mislead the workers.

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Emasculating Loggers’

News
In the last two issues of ‘The
Commonwealth” a story of the loe-

ging camps of B.C. as seen by a log-

TORONTO, Jan. 28—{ALP)}—A
joint committe of American Federa-
tion of Labor, All-Canadian Congress
of Labor and Workers Unity League
painters’ unions, has been formed for
the purpose of submitting a joint
agreement to master -painters and
painters’ contractors here. The
agreement, worked out by a confer—
ence attended by official delegates
from each of the organizations has
been sent to the union locals for rati-
fication.

TORONTO, Jan. 30—{ALP)—Dele-
gates from International Painters
Local 557 have been expelled from
the Toronto Building Trades Coun-
cil (A.Flof Ll.) because their local
participated in the united front set
up here recently and composed of
All-Canadian Gongress of Labor,
American Federation of Labor and
Workers Unity Lease
locals.

painters

MONTREAL, Jan. 28.—(ALP)—The
Tetreault shoe workers here* have
come out in a spontaneous strike
demanding a 20 per cent increase in
pay, union recognition and adher-
ence to the Arcand Act (not the Ar-

cand Bill) agreement. Forced by th

t ‘

Tank and file the leaders of tk

support of the Workers Uni
League in the strike. About
Tetreault workers are out.

At amass meeting held on Sundad E
speakers urged the spreading of th) 3
Strike to ofher shops in the city. Th
priest who is the secretary-treasu
of the Catholic Syndicate was one
the speakers with Harvey Murphy
the W.U.L.

TORONTO, Jan. oe
Workers used the telephone to Ee0}
advantage here recently when
worker was arrested during a mes
picket demonstration at the Park
dale Bakery, where a strike was
prosress. The sergeant at the polic)
station refused to grant the worke
bail, whereuon the Canadian Labg |
Defense League organized a veritabl)
flood of protest. Workers in all pa
of the city began phoning the poli¢
station and demanding the arrestel |
worker's release. For hours the polia |
Station’s phone was ringing cor
stantly. Finally the harrassed poli
officials surrendered. Low bail
set and the worker was freed. i

The Parkdale Bakery’s appeal £9):
an Injunction against picketing ¥/
being opposed jointly by the C.L.D.1i!
and the Food Workers Industrial
Union.

“GESTAPO”

STATE SECRET POLICE

FORWARD

What is the “Gestapo?” This
mysterious word is more and more
creeping into the press to con-
found its readers. The answer is
given in this pamphlet; a2 pamph-
let written by a German worker
who has suffered in his own per-
son the fiendish work of this sinis-
ter organization.

The Gestapo is the “inner core”
of Hitler’s gigantic apparatus for
suppressing all oppesition to this
murderous regime. This body of
specially picked men is given the
task of “liquidatine’’ the most im-
portant of the enemies of fascism
by means of the bullet, the rope,
and other more “refined” methods
of murder.

“GESTAPO”

State Secret Police
By EMIL WINKEL
FROM THE DEMOCRATIC TO THE

STATE GESTAPO
Gestapo is the official abbrevyia-
tien for the Secret Police of Ger-
many (Geheime Stastspolizel), the
mysterious police, for the Third
Reich keeps the nature and activi-
ties of its Gestapo a carefully guard-—
ed secret from most people in Ger-
many and even more so from the
world abread. To entirely remove
the veil of secrecy is as yet prac-
tically impossible. Wevertheless,
thousands who have fallen victim to
the Gestapo have gained a glimpse
of the inside workings of this ap-
paratus, giving some insight into its
operations.

The wide masses have only hatred
for the Gestapo; it is the heavy in-
dustry magnates, great landowners,
and bankers who appreciate the

Gestapo; it is their Gestapo; their
own tool. Wherever workers and
employees revolt against their be-

ine forced more and more into hun-
ger and misery, the Gestapo has its
work to do. Wherever small peas-
ants and disillusioned petty artisans
dissatisfied with

As chief of police in* Cologne, Berli
and Dortmund, he had performe:
his full duty as required by capital,
ist Germany.
only left scot free, but was ¢
awarded a pension by the Natio
Socialists. Now, pensioned by the
Third Reich, he leads a calm an
Peaceful existence. The German
bourgeoisie has rewarded his former :
services as if he were one of their
own. But he is not the only indi
vidual who has received g00d money
for his services. Not to mentio;
Woske, there are still a great num-
ber of such patriotic social demo-=
cratic leaders, who are reaping their
reward for haying understood how,
under cover of democracy they could
Since November, 1918, protect the
fatherland of the rich from the pro-=
letarian revolution. Hitler gaye them
this reward above all in appreciati
of their services in having kept
ready the whole apparatus designes:
to protect the power of the rich:
Part of this powerful apparatus is
the Gestapo. 1
The Gestapo’s headquarters it
the days of the Imperial Germany
were at the ‘Royal Headquarters.
At that time the Gestapo was

When in November, 1918, the work—
ers and sailors stormed the “Royal
Police Headquarters,” they unfor=
tunately limited themselves to dis-
arming only the uniformed police

was then little known. During the

inte safe hiding. The

“Secret Political Police’’ so that they

out interruption.
man poletariat should

He was, therefore, not

spoken of only as the Secret Police:

would carry on their activities with—
And if the Ger—

some aay)
have the chance of finding out what
really took place during this time,
it is extremely likely to be discoy—.

eadres, and did not penetrate :
through the ‘“‘Secret-Political Po-
lice.” This department and its role)

revolution of 1918 the “Secret Poli-
tical Police’’ managed to creep away |
Cavalry
Guard Shock Division protected the

ered that the murderers of Kart)

Power Of The
Indian Agents

Bennett’s Own Arrogant
Despots

Vancouver, B.C., Feb. 6, 1935.
Editor, B.C. Workers News:
Sir,—While making a purchase at
the store at Egmont, B.C., the fol-
lowing facts regarding a case of an
Indian womian asking for relief and
the miserable amount granted by the
Indian Agent, together with his
bureaucratic show of authority and
callousness in the face of direst po-
verty, shows to what extent the In-
dians of the Coast are suffering at
the hands of their “big white chiefs.”’
The woman was accompanied by an
Indian interpreter who stated to the
Agent that woman had two
small children and that they did not

“this

have a thing in the house.’ The
Agent answered, *‘No! No! No more
relief.” But after the interpreter

said that if he did not grant her re-
lief she would be begging her relief
the Agent laughed and
said, “Gh, well, being it's you, Mr.
and So Fill give her $5.00, but
the last; tell her.” And turn-
the storekeeper he told him
$5.00 worth of

from him,

So
that’s
ine toe
to give this woman
groceries, and instructed him to
spread it over @ month. And then,
as an after-thought, “Oh, you bet-
ter make that two months. If she
gets it all at once, all her relations

Saanich Vote

(Continued from Page 1)

individual seme had expected to see
as a Communist!

The speaker had not gone far on
his discourse before I was aware of
the fact that a tranfsormation had
come over his listeners. There was
a new alertness in the audience; I
Saw in their faces that expression of
rapt attention as they continued to
listen, deeply engrossed, to the con-
elusion of his speech, the final re-
mark of which was the sienal for an
outburst of applause which for down-
right sincerity I would scarcely have
believed could have expressed itself
in so small a gathering.

A friendly reporter from one of the
local dailies who was covering the
election campaign ventured his opin-
ion that not only would the CGom-
munist candidate trail the other three
Reeve candidates but he would not
poll a dozen votes in the whole mu-
nicipality.

He
did not arail,

was wrong. Comrade Wilson
he came third, one
hundred and twenty-nine votes be-
ing polled for Communism.
Ando in Saanich, of all places!
Comradely yours,
Saanicus.

will be in and eat it all up in one
meal." The interpreter remonstrated
with him, asking him, “Haven't you
got a heart?” The Agent then turned
back to the store clerk and told him

begin to zrumble,
the Third Reich, the Gestapo has its
work cut out for it. Wherever in-
tellectuals use plain language about
the “‘national-socialism’’ of the arm-
aments and heayy industries of
Germany, the Gestapo has its way
of silencing them. The Gestapo is
not a new phenomenon in Germany.
It has only been developed, in or-
ganization as well as in the scope of
its power.

There was a State Secret Police in
the Germany of the Empire days
just, as also under the democratic

Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Leo:
Jogiches, Walter Vobach and many
other leaders of the revolutionary
workers and sailors were perpe-)
trated not without assistance frons:
the “‘Secret Political Police,” who, atl
the very least, shielded the murder—|
ers and helped them to escape into!
safety. 2

After the November days in 191s"
it was a Social Democrat who legal-
ized the Secret Political Police ang
built it up again, namely, the Ber
lin Chief of Police, Wilhelm Richter,
the purely sociak

republic. And when the fascists} Im this work,

took over the government power democratic government of Prussia
from the German bourgeoisle’s| Save him full rein. The chief offi-
faithful servants, first from the|cials in the former “Royal Secret
Democratic and Zentrum (Catholic| Political Police,” that is, these of
Center Party), later from the Social| them who had not compromised

themselves with the working-class,
and had taken into account the new
Situation as it actually was, were
taken over by the Social Democrats—

Democrats, they found a complete
catalofue of “‘enemies of state” on
the morning after the Reichstag
Fiire of February 28, 1933. It fur-

ther developed that the democracy] The compromised ofticials were
had not only Communists in the] “superannuated” and put on pen—-
register of State enemies, but oppo-| Sions. Social Democrats and Demo-

sitional social democratic workers| crats who were “loyal to the gov—-
and employees and oppositional| ernment’? were taken into the inter—
bourgeois intellectuals were also mediate apparatus of the Secret
catalogued. These catalogues were State Police. As assistants and vigi-

lants, however, there were many
more employed. All this was up to:
1932, when Baron von Papen ac—
companied his coup @etat. Phen the
Moors had done their duty and they
could go. Those who are now i=
the services of the fascists are the
old tried and true chief officials of
the Gestapo of the democratic era.

drawn up by order and under the
direct supervision of the democratic
and social democratic chiefs of police
and secretaries of the interior of
the various provinces in Germany.

It was not by chance that the so-
cial democratic chief of police
Zoergiechel—-was not harmed at all
during the bloody and cruel days of

to make lt do for one month.

terror following February 28, 1933. (fo be continued)