= The
witch-hunters

By LESLIE MORRIS

Will you, by registering, plead guilty to the findings of
Board? If you don’t — life imprisonment!

_ That is what the government of the United States and its
ubversive Activities Control Board is saying to the mem-
of the Communist Party of the United States.

Gus Hall, Benjamin Davis and other US. Communist
ders have refused to register. In meetings across the United
States, including one of 12,000 students in
the football stadium of the University of
Wisconsin, Gus Hall is fighting the battle
of liberty and the U.S. Constitution.

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Listen to this former steelworker, one
of the founders of the Steelworkers’ Union,
tell public meetings what the McCarran
and Smith Acts, those monuments to the
deaq Senator McCarthy, really mean.
“Under this law, the issues have never

ssn tried, Under this law, the issues will never come into

b
— Court,

Sheen know that such a procedure was thrown out in our
_2¥-in the 17th century.
‘the st € victims of the Salem witch-hunts were burned at
Tefusea not because they were witches, but because they
_ —“,@ to plead guilty to being witches.

Cause. ne victims of the Inquisition were destroyed, not be-
suis, “ey were guilty, but because they refused to plead
; “Y to something of which they were not guilty.

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ae Do
«Card ¢,

you need to have a Communist Party membership
© be a subject for registration?
3 The Supreme Court has said that membership in the
~ vnist Party “is a state of mind.” ee
. thous, Hall is being asked to list the “state of mind” of
to UGS of Americans; if he missed any he would be liable
k Ve years in jail for every day he failed to register any
of these thousands, plus a one thousand dollar fine.
S he says: “If I miss a thousand people, that’s five thou-

: sib Years and one million dollars fine. That’s just an impos-
na le thing,”

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: When ne Crazy as well as deadly all this is can be realized
howe is remembered that ex-President Truman and Eisen-
been 22d of all people, the late John Foster Dulles have
—* 8Ccused of being members of Communist organizations.
ting a Hall says: “I don’t mind going to prison for oe
time Pe eteel workers. But I wouldn’t like to spend a it .
Prison for forgetting Eisenhower, Truman and Dulles!
‘Same + Own red-baiters and witch-hunters use exactly the
_ Rot ®chniques as their U.S. counterparts. While they have
‘ Succeeded in putting McCarran and Smith Acts op
3 happen tutes of Canada, nobody can say that it wouldn’t

Dr He Once had Section 98, with the same built-in weasel
: Visions. ’

unigie SeBhower, Truman and Dulles can be called “Com-
va. . Why not Tommy Douglas, Bill Sefton and even
Ry ey - Jodoin? There is no stopping the witch-hunters once
. shouig « Started. Their helpers in the N.D.P. and the unions
*emember that.

* * *

described

+7. if ae ,
4s ‘S the technique of the hysterical accusation,
notice of.

0
No trig, Gus Hall, that we should take special n os
Ccusatic No discussion, no opportunity for defense—just wil
deneg ns against the Communists, unsupported by evr
the, 4 with all the brainwashing of the cold war to assist
ty, tbat is the technique of the witch-hunters.
up 4>0U don’t plead guilty to all the wild charges, off with
Mot) -°2! Give him a fair trial and hang him!—that’s the
; of the read-baiters.

SN
°f hi ceeommunist asks for anything more than a penne:
BSEfor Canada, for peace, for labor unity. He does no

together the people who disagree with conn
gr

—

ang
With ‘ae anti-communist hysterics. A person who disa
a Can Communist Party, and there are millions of them
ng 28 is not automatically a red-baiter, a witch-hunter
eer communist. Anti-communism is the RenpenasS
a ‘d campaign agaist discussion, working uP reaction

Ws, falsifying issues and demanding a plea of guilty eh
2 heating to every inane and insane accusation, withou

* * *

is tne baiting is hysteria, blind prejudice, an obsession. It
bor dern, specialized agency of monopoly inside the la-
ang Split €mocratic movements, aiming to sap them, avEERED
Ritle, 5 and ultimately destroy them just as effectively as
Munigt Scism smashed the German labor movement, Com-
ethene Social-democratic alike. Capa
“tates un) fan be no democracy in Canada, or 1n the Un
Unis es the people have a right to openly discuss com:
to hear the Communist viewpoint. That's the
Gus Hall and his comrades are teaching Ao any

Who dre’ willing to. listen.)

hich

‘ate

_.Rosa Luxemburg has found a haven in West Germany says Trib-}

The man who ordered the murder of Karl Liebknecht and

une correspondent Max Reich. Left to right in the photos are

Ernst Thaelman, Luxemburg and Liebknecht. Thaelman was mur-
dered by the Nazis in 1944.

Bonn becomes a haven
for political murderers

By MAX REICH

Tribune Correspondent
Liebknecht 6d.D

The Fourth Reich has sur:
passed itself. It has given of-
ficial sanction to a brutal
murder committed in 1919, a
murder which shocked and
was condemned by the whole
world with the sole excep-
tion of the Nazis.

The criminal deed had at
that time outraged public op-
inion so much that even the
reactionary German army
had to set up a court martial
against its perpetrators. Now
it has been elevated by the
West German government to
the status of a legal execu-
tion, for the salvation of Ger-
many!

Here is what the Globkes
call legal execution.

In Jan. 15, 1919, Karl Lieb-
knecht and Rosa Luxemburg,
the revered leaders of the
German workers, were “ar-
rested” by soldiers under the
command of a certain captain
Waldemar Pabst. After in-
terrogation by Pabst at his
“headquarters”, the Hotel
‘Eden in Berlin, the “prison-
ers” were supposedly going
to be taken to jail.

After leaving the hotel,

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Liebknecht was hit over the
head by a_ soldier whose
name was Runge, and later
shot in the back by another
soldier. Rosa Luxemburg was
beaten unconscious by the
same Runge with the butt of
his rifle, then shot by a lieu-
tenant Vogel. Her body was
tossed into the river.

These facts were establish-
ed by the military tribunal of
the reactionary German
army. The man at whose be-
hest the murders took place
was Faldemar Pabst, then in
command of the unit which
carried the murders out.

The name of Pabst reap-
peared often in the headlines
after that.

In 1920, he was the chief
organizer of the Kapp putch,
an attempt by the army to
overthrow the German re-
public and replace it with
a military dictatorship. The
putsch was only defeated be-
cause of an effective general
strike and the armed resist-
ance of the German workers.

Pabst fled to Austria,
where he became the leading
organizer of the Heimwehr, a
fascist military organization
styling itself after Mussoli-
ni’s blackshirt militia. Pabst

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came to power after Dollfus
liquidated Austrian democra-
cy in 1934.

After World War Two,
Pabst, fearing the Allies
might hand him over to the
Soviets for his murder of
Luxemburg and Liebknecht,
stayed in Switzerland until
1955.

By that time, he realized
that his fascist past was his
best recommendation for
“free America’ and that he
was the kind of builder of
the new West German “dem-
ocracy”’ they needed. He re-
turned to Dusseldorf, where
he still resides.

In @anuary, 1962, Pabst

wrote in a newspaper that
the murder of Leibknecht
and Luxemburg had been in
the national interest of Ger-
many. The official Bonn gov-
ernment bulletin of Feb. 8,
concurred. In order to give
the brutal murder the cloak
of legality, the bulletin falsi-
fied it into an “execution by
court martial.”
- In an interview in the West
German magazine, Der Spie-
gel of April 18, Pabst express-
ed satisfaction that at last
the murder has been acknow-
ledged by a German govern-
ment as a deed of national
salvation.

Now Sophie Liebknecht,
the widow of Liebknecht,
has laid charges with the
chief prosecutor of Bonn
against State Secretary Von
Eckardt, head of the Bonn
government information de-
partment and responsible for
the official bulletin. She has
charged him with “glorifica-
tion of murder,” a punishable
crime under the West Ger-
man criminal code.

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