The Daily Worker

for Thaelmann

Fascist Greets Workers Delegation With Loaded Revolver

Anti-Fascist Parade Tonight

An anti-fascist parade to demand the release of Ernst Thaelmann, called by the Young Communist League and Communist Party, will be held tonight, 7:30 p. m., at 603 E. 136th St.

PARIS, May 27.-Nazi officials refused to permit foreign workers to see for themselves the condition in which Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany, confined, according to the special delegation of Alsace-Lorraine workers just returned from Berlin.

The delegation reported that Kuhn, a Nazi Circuit Court Judge threatened them with a loaded automatic pistol on his desk, and refused to furnish any information on

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Nazis Rush Death Trial of Thaelmann

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Thaelmann's condition, saying:

The trial will start in two weeks; then you can see him and get an eyeful of your Thaelmann!

The Berlin "Volkszeitung" admits that the Thaelmann trial "will be the first big trial conducted by the newly established 'People's Court.'"

This Nazi dispatch means that Ernst Thaelmann will be deprived of even the most elementary rights as a defendant, rights which even the Nazis have not dared to abolish up to now.

The court is empowered to start the trial without notice, in a desperate effort to catch the whole world by surprise and rush the death sentence through before world opinion can be mobilized in his defense.

Only the most determined protest of the best-organized sort—delegations to German Consulates, letters and telegrams to the German Embassy and to the Nazi Minister of Justice in Berlin—paralleled by mass demonstrations in factories and collection of protest signatures can stay the hands of Thaelmann's executioners.