“FOR UNITY IN STRUGGLE”

Published Weekly

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1935

Single Copies: 5 Cents

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This Is Nazi
German Law

Every Newspaper Is
Gagged

The Hitler government Passed a
#eond law in October, 1933, regard-
=: the editors of newspapers. Ac-
dine to this law, only those who
Guply with the following conditions
"1 be allowed to occupy the position
editor: !
i. Phe person in question must be
German citizen. _
2. Must be in full possession of
1 civil rights.
}. Must be of Aryan origin and not
yrried to a non-Aryan person.
Sditors Must undertake to publish
@ything which is calculated to
Waken the German Reich outwardly
Sinwardly, or the German defensive
sce, culture or economy. .
» his is enforced to the extent that
@re is complete gaggine of the
ess. Only the -Illegal Communist
SS opposes Hitler and the terror
the Nazi leaders.

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))eath Call of Nazi
Victim: “‘Avenge
Us, Proletarians!”’

Amongst those murdered by
itler’s Storm Troopers betyreen
7 inuary and March, 1934, were
i.e following:

© August Henning—“Shot while
tempting to escape,” at Son-
ynburg.

Legaily murdered:

Karl Gans — Anti-fascist, be-
» aded February 9, 1934, in Ham-
ire.

| Wilhelm Bieser — Anti-fascist,

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EDITORIAL

In a futile attempt to save capitalism in Germany, not
only were workers of all shades of opinion murdered and
hundreds of thousands placed in the torture chambers
known as concentration camps, but bourgeois intellectuals,
scientists, artists and all other representatives of the best
in modern bourgeois’ culture were either murdered, im-
prisoned or exiled, and all progressive and labor parties as
well as all labor unions and co-operatives were ruthlessly
destroyed and their funds confiscated. .

Among the victims of the Hitler terror can be listed
such internationally known names as Remarque (author
of “All Quiet on the Western Front”), Zweig, Thomas
Mann, Albert Einstein; the greatest scientist of the age,
and others equally noted.

Not only were they subjected to individual ostracism,
humiliation, torture and imprisonment, and, in some cases,
death, but their works were destroyed. Their works were
gathered up out of hundreds of libraries and a savage holi-

>» headed at Dessau, January 17,
34.
Viek — Reichsbanner - comrade,
headed at Eueck on March 9,
34,
Richard Bahr—Beheaded for al-
zed political arson in Berlin,
arch 13, 1934.
Walter Siedelmann — Anti-fas-
st.
Fritz Langs—Anti-Fascist, be-
vaded March 20 at Konigsberg.
Peter Ruppertz—Anti-fascist.
Eniul Schmidt—Anti-fascist.
Otto Luckat—Anti-fascist, be-
Haded at Dusseldorf, March 27.
ne last words of the anti-fascist
shter for freedom executed at
isseldorf were: “Avenge us, pro-
farians! Red Front! Long live
@ Soviet Dictatorship!”

entaneously Adjourn
To Swell Ranks Of

Anti-Fascists

day was declared on which in bonfires the best of German
literature was consumed in flames.

The only writers who are permitted by the fascist Hit-
ler-Goebells-Goering triumvirate mouthpieces and tools of
.the great finance capitalists and industrialists such as
Thyssen_and Company, are those who subscribe to and
propagandize the idiotic Aryan, anti-Semitic and anti-
democratic doctrines of the ruling clique.

Although the Hitler fascist regime cannot feed the Ger-
man working class and have reduced the middle class to
declassed elements, they nevertheless can find funds from
their industrial masters to maintain a world-wide propa-
ganda organization. They are able to subsidize and corrupt
many Capitalist daily newspapers throughout the capitalist
world in order to further Nazi propaganda. These venal
Papers accept the subsidy and kill twe birds with one stone
—they deliver the goods to Hitler, and at the same time
further the movement for the introduction of fascism in
Canada:

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| The “goodwill” visit of the Karlsruhe is nothing more
nor less than a piece of Hitler-Fascist propaganda to divert
the attention of the world from the barbarous and inhuman
acts that the fascist regime in Germany have resorted to
in order to maintain power.

More politically conscious and intelligent, the working
class, together with all the anti-fascist elements, resent
the visit of the Karlsruhe and look upon the official enter-
tainment of its Nazi officers as a gratuitous insult to the
everwhelming population of Vancouver and of Canada.

Despite the shrieks of the “Sun” and despite the lying
statements of the City Council that only $200 is to be ex-
pended on entertainment, the anti-fascists, including the
vast bulk of Ex-Servicemen, will make not only the City
Council but also the Hitler officers know their temper and
attitude toward the open sympathy to fascism.

The opposition is against the officer clique on the Karls-
ruhe, against fascism in general, against incipient fascism
in general in Canada, and against Hitler fascism in partic-
ular. As for the crew, knowing they are workers con-
Scripted under the Hitler terror, to them we extend our
hearty greetings and urge them to continue their militant
struggle against the brutal regime of their oppressors.

INCREASE THE MASS PROTEST AGAINST THE
KARLSRUHE!

NIP IN THE BUD THE IMPUDENT ADVANCE TO
FASCISM BY THE CITY COUNCIL, TOOLS OF THE
SNEAKING UNDERGROUND FASCIST ORGANIZA-
TIONS IN VANCOUVER!

LET THE NAZI BUTCHERS AND THE FASCIST
CITY COUNCIL KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE OF VAN-
COUVER THINK OF THE TWO YEARS OF TERROR
IN GERMANY!

MAKE THEIR SNOBBISH FASCIST FUNCTIONS
TURN TO ASHES IN THEIR MOUTHS!
DOWN WITH FASCISM, WHETHER FULL-

FLEDGED IN GERMANY OR TRYING ITS WINGS IN
VANCOUVER!

WHAT THE “KARLSRUHE”? SYMBOLIZES

PRISONERS BURNED ALIVE

by the name of Schloss.”

This is one of the sworn statements made by victims
of the Nazi terror and collected in a pamphlet, “Letters
from Concentration Camps,” which is shortly to be pub-
lished by Martin Lawrence (London).

A PEASANT’S STATEMENT

OVing to adjourn, the meeting
2d to celebrate International
men’s Day in the Victory Hall on
lay Disht of March 15, moved in
dy to the Moose Hall anti-fascist
onstration where the city was
rtaining the officers from the
ship Karisruhe.
9m Uphill, Labor member of Fer-
was scheduled to be the main

ker, and Helen Gutteridge, of
GCE, was also scheduled to],
k.

A arrival at the Moose Hall, the
cd called upon speakers, who ad-
Sed the gathering of five thou-

1© meeting was sponsored by an
ative committee composed of
sates from the following organi-

pOS:
ae Friends of the Soviet Union,
aen’s Auxiliary of Marpole

(ah Club, The Women’s Labor
sue, Women’s Auxiliary of Rich-
d €.CEF.. Club, The New Era
Re, Women’s Auxiliary of Stan-
Park C.C.E.. Club. .

“On August 1, seven Storm Troopers were brought to
camp WHO WERE ACCUSED of being sympathetic to
the Communists. They were given the same ‘treatment’
as the Communist functionaries that are brought to camp.

“The Storm Troopers, Amschel and Handschuk, were
beaten on the soles of their feet, then Soviet emblems were
branded on their flesh with burning cigars and cigarettes,
and THEIR SEX ORGANS WERE BURNED AWAY.

“When the brown fiends had had enough of the pains
of the tortured victims, THEY APPLIED A WATER
HOSE TO THEIR RECTUMS in order that the strong
Stream SHOULD TEAR OUT THEIR INSIDES COM-
PLETELY.

“Amschel could no longer walk; he had to crawl on
hands and feet to camp, which was soon to be his camp
of death. Amschel died on August 2 and Handschuk on
August 3 as a result of the frightful tortures they had
been through.”

The twenty-six-year-old Ruth M. relates:
“On April 18, 1933, I was arrested at my house by 20

Storm Troopers and two policemen and brought to police
headquarters.
dungeon on General Pape Street.
in a cellar and severely maltreated.”

On April 28 IT was taken from there to the
There I was locked up

She was then kept in a cell with six other women.
“We had only two blankets with which to cover our-

Voices From The Nazi Torture Camps

“In June 1933 two prisoners, after they had first been
fearfully tortured, were brought to a barn in which there
was already another prisoner. In the evening this barn was
burned to the ground. The camp prisoners constituting the
fire brigade were not allowed to open the barn. The charred
remains of three corpses were rescued from the debris.
Among them was that of a Jewish artisan from Nuremberg

The statement in this case is that of a peasant, B.H., who
was arrested and taken to the Dachau Camp. Among other
things, he declares:

selves. We were punched every day and beaten with leather
whips. In order that we should feel the strikes all the more,
water was poured over us and our clothes were fully drenched.

“But the most terrible thing was that we were com-
pelled to witness the scene of several women being strapped
tc a wooden horse (hobby horse) and right there before
our very eyes raped by Storm Troopers.”

ne witness tells how:

“In September, 1933, five workers from Berlin-Rein-
ickendorf were brought by the field police to police head-
quarters in Alexanderplatz. The finger-nails were torn
out from the unfortunate victims with pincers. But the
most disgusting and worst torture they had to bear was
the camphor injections the bestialized wretches made into
their urinary canals.”

It may be thought that such things were exceptional and
unauthorized. But B.L., a Berlin locksmith. says:

“Troop leader of the Berlin Storm Troop section, Ernest.
knew and knows of these tortures, for he very often came
at night for inspection and saw our faces covered with
wounds and dripping with blood. He saw that the walls of

the room were covered with blood.

“He also knew the punishment system. This included the
‘counted off’ blows, 25 to 30, upon the covered or bare body.

| ship,

ANTI-FASCIST FRONT GREETS
HITLER CRUISER "KARLSRUHE'

Mass Resistance Mobilized by Leasue Against
; Fascism

What the pro-fascist daily papers
describe as “thousands greet the
Serman cruiser,” was in réality, thou-
of anti-fascists jalone the
waterfront ready to show fheir hos-
tility to fascism should the Jarls-
rube dock.

Afraid To Dock.

Although full arrangements had
been made for the Hitler Warship to
deck at the Ballantyne Pier, the
plans were changed to fool the anti-
fascists, who were organized 4nd
alert, and arrangements were made
to have her dock at the GC.P.R. Pier
Wo. i, but the workers gathered
there/in large numbers and young
anti-fascistSs addressed the workers.

sands

Whether it was the discretion of
the City Council or the Karlsruhe
officers, the waiting anti-fascist
throng -caused another change of
plans, and the Karlsruhe did not
doek at, all. She anchored out in
the stream where hoots and jeers
could not reach her.

A reception at the Moose Hall on
Gurrard Street to the officers of the
was “rudely” interrupted by
theusands> of demonstraters outside
the hall.

City mounted police tried vainly to
break up the demonstration, ruth-
riding down people in the
Street and on the sidewalks, swing-
ing their clubs. They clubbed the
workers, women included. One
worker Was so badly beaten that
the ambulance had to be called.

lessly

Amnti-fascist speeches were made to
the demonstators from the roof of
adjacent building by a youth
member of the League Asainst War
and Fascism. The workers greeted
the sailors by singing the Interna-
tional and shoutine of
such as Red Front, Free Thaelmann
and Down with Hitler; ete., in both
German and English languages.

an

by slogans,

The City Council and the fascist
sanes behind them had sufficient
warning, and during the week's stay

Gf not made shorter) of the Hitler
Warship, they will get further proof
that the fascist visitors and what
are not wanted
Vancouver or in any port in Canada.

they represent, in

“HITLER'S “CIVIL
PEACE”’

The greatest unprece-
dented terrorist measure
known to the world is the
“law to guarantee civil
peace.” This law was
passed in Hitler Germany
in 1933.

Under this law any dis-
tributor of anti - fascist
newspaper, an anti-fascist
leaflet, etc., can be brought

to the scaffold.

There were the ‘running up and down’ blows from head to
soles of the feet. There was the ‘rubbing down’ with (1)
bare fist, and (2) with brass knuckles.”

A harness maker, Kantov, who was held for ten months
in Storm Troop dungeons and in the Sonnenburg Camp,
writes:

“Once I was informed by the attendant that the leader
of the German Communist Party, Comrade Ernst Thael-
mann, who was also being held in custody at the central police
station, had been visited by foreign correspondents. The
gentlemen of the press wanted to photograph our leader.

“But he refused and remarked: ‘If you do want to take
photos, you might photograph those victims of Fascism who
lie lacerated and mutilated in the other cells. Go there and
do your photographine.’

“When these gentlemen declared their willingness to help
provide him with better food, he refused their offer with the
remark that he would accept no treatment which would ren-
der him an exception to his comrades. He would eat the same
food as his comrades ate.’

Even in chains, Thaelmann remains the leader of the

Court”
SIX

leaflets

workers

‘PEOPLES COURT’
--A TERROR

lwo Years for Criticizing
Hitler Government

Looms

In October 1934

Sentenced

The

thre
for

eritieized

“People’s
workers to

years im jail distributing

which the Hitler

Sovernment.

At Hambure the same month, five

were sentenced to a total

of eleven years in jail for Searching
a Passer-by for arms.

Five miners at Breslau were sen-

German workers. The fight for his release is a fight to
help all the sorely tried thousands of Nazi victims. It is 2
fight to rescue the German masses through the destruction
of Fascism!

tenced to penal servitude for
year and three months to two years

each Suspected of being

one

for Com-

Mmunists during the sanpie month.

EIGHT MILLIONS
IN BONDAGE

3 Millions Condemned
To Starvation

What is the real situation in re—
Sard to unemployment? At the end
of 1934, there were, according to the
government’s own figures, eight mil-
lien unemplyoyed. This great army.
of unemployed is divided into three
new armies as follows:

The bondage army of one mullion=

The starvation army of three mil—
lions;

The transition army of four mil-
lions.

The first army is robbed of its
personal liberty and of its wage, in-
terned in camps, and fed only for the
miaintenance of its capacity to work:
it iS the army of semi-serfs.

Phe second army is outlawed and
officially left to starve it receives pele y
relief, 1S not registered, and counts
aS non-existent; it is the army of

the “invisibles,’’ that is to Say, the
unemployed cut off from the com-=
monwealth.

The third army, the officially ree—
istered unemployed, receives still a
sradually dwindling fraction of its
old wage in the form of relief, in
order to be Kept as an industrial re-
serve-army and later to be trans-
ferred likewise to the status and
character of the first army.

The entire category that here
comes into being is no jonger the
old working class and no longer a
class at all. It is a corps of slaves,
of Semi-slayes without property,
without wage, and without the
right to think. That is the Fascist
Solution of the unemployment Pprob-
Jem-

This is what constitutes that new
sub-human race, which Hitler has
announced—created by Hitler him-
self. That which once appeared to
H. G. Wells in one of his Utopias
aS a ghostly fantasy—the army of
enslaved, inferior, sub-world prole-
lariams, With their liberty and hu_
Taan rights lost—is becoming the
future of the German working class.
That is the Program of Thyssen.
And that is the effect of the great
Hitler Plan for the ‘abolition orf
unemployment.”

Commission
Condemned
Nazi Terror

Procured Evidence from
Scores of Nazi
Victims

The International Inquiry Com-—
mission to investigate fascist terror
in Germany met December 8, 1933:
Lord Marley (England), and Madame
(Professor) Lahy of Paris conducted
the meeting. Lawyers and doctors
from Great Britain, France, Holland,
Switzerland and other countries at-
tended. They listened to the evidence
of witnesses and victims of Hitler
terror; heard of the brutal murder of
2,200 revolutionaries and of the tor-
fures and imprisonment of tens of
thousands.

The task of the Commission was
concluded when they published their
findings which condemned the Nazi
Resime of Terror and exposed it to

the whole world.