“FOR UNITY IN STRUGGLE” Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1935 Single Copies: 5 Cents aS 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. 1 SNR os Shwe 7 Pag bd ST at wh, sg &®. ))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, © 66 oo 38g eae Be SS Gee ae See 3 Hitl * eS 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: Karlsruhe” er Warship, Reversion to ' Get Out! “5 >E 6 mbol of Barbarism E sk 4 t ; } ‘ ; \ | 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.