The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1934, Page 6

Page Six Daily,QWorker GRETRAL COGAN COMMUNIST PARTY ELSA (SECTION OF COMMUNIST METEBMATIONSAT “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: ALgonquin 4- 7954. Cable Address: “Daiwork," New ¥ Washington Bureau Room 954 léth and F St., W Midwest Bureat Telephone: Dea Subscription Rates: except n and Bronx), 1 year, $6.00: $3.50; 3 $2.00: 1 month, 0.75 cents Bronx, and Canada: 1 year, $9.00 $5.00; 3m $3.00. Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 78 cents TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934 —— Boston Replies! 1OMRADE Sparks, the Boston District organizer, has replied to our editorials the failure of his District to take up on \ seriou the circulation of the Daily Ww r in the textile strike area. BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 10.—Meeting yesterday Buro and leading strike forces, all agreed splendid job of Daily Worker strike news and especially editorials and directives stop Heartily approved Saturday editorial all report Daily eagerly received by strikers stop Task consists mainly organizing distribution apparatus stop Lowell inereasing from one hundred fifty to seven hundred New Bedford increasing next few days from five hundred to one thousand stop Additional forces Lawrence Providence Pawtucket Fall River will increase or- ders next few days stop Bloomfield going today Worcester mobilize membership on Daily Worker stop District Bureau utilizes this opportunity ap- peal all members sympathizers in district all forces take initiative multiply many times circulation Daily in non textiie towns also as best means helping strike and fighting red scare, The comrades in the Carolinas are also much more sensitive than the leading com- rades of some of the other Districts. They real- ized that in speaking directly to Boston, the weak- est district, we were really talking to all textile Districts, to the Carolinas, to Connecticut, to New Jersey, to Pennsylvania. The Carolina comrades, unlike the comrades from each of these other tex- tile centers, responded with increased orders. Following yesterday's editorial we received the following telegram: “Increase N. C. bundles to following figures: Charlotte, Burlington, Concord, 300 each; Dan- ville, Va., 490, and Clover, S. C., 50.” should not be necessary to urge old es- tablished districts to learn from the young Party organization in the South. But all districts must learn to move in critical strike situations like the present! We again inform all comrades: The Central Committee expects you to double the present Daily Worker circulation in the textile areas by Wednesday (tomorrow) and to triple it by Satur- day of this week. Every reader of the Daily Worker now awaits the answer from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut oe eee A Significant Victory HE speedy and complete victory of the united front struggle around the Em- pire Cafeteria in Harlem for jobs for Ne- groes has dealt a tremendous blow against the ruling class policy of excluding Ne- groes from the better paid jobs. Tho victory is a direct result of the bold application of the correct revolutionary tactic of the fighting alliance of Negro and white workers for their mutual interests against the common enemy. It is a smashing refutation of the lies of the Ne- gro reformist leaders that the white workers cannot be won for the struggle for Negro rights. It pro- vides a brilliant example of how properly to con- duct the fight against job discrimination. In sharp contrast to the reformist-controlled boycott movement, the struggle around the Empire Cafeteria was carried out on the basis of uniting the working. class in a relentless fight for Negro rights, against firing or other victimization of the White employees, and by linking the demands of the White employees for shorter hours, better condi- tions, etc., with the demand for jobs for Negroes. As @ result, the fight for the hiring of Negroes was actively supported by the white employees of the cafeteria and by the white workers patronizing the pla The fight must now be carried further, cementing the unity of Negro and white workers, and draw- ing into the united front movement ail organiza- tions willing to struggle for Negro rights. Gorman’s Advance Notice R. FRANCES J. GORMAN, head of the strike committee of the United Textile Workers, has declared that he is in favor of arbitration providing the mills are all closed down, while the arbitration is going on. With closing the mills down effectively we Communists have no quarrel. We have pointed out the need for this day after day. But what does Mr. Gorman’s proposal actually mean? Just this. First you textile workers by your mass Power will close the mill gates and, then, after the machines are silenced, when the employers are compelled to deal directly with you, to meet your demands— then Mr. Gorman will hand over the | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1934 power of settlement to a third body, the Roosevelt board of three Every textile worker can see clearly that once the mills are shut, the o' they w to reopen their plants. ust deal with you and you alone Why hand ove! power of settlement to a board once the mills are shut? This plan is Mr. Gorman’s advance notice of his plans te send the workers back without win- ning their demands This plan must be workers. Shut the mills tight! Keep them shut until the employers meet directly with you and concede your just demands, signing on the dotted line the agreements embodying the demands you yourselves voted for at the U.T.W. convention! This way—and this way alone—can you be sure of victory! rejected by the textile Richberg’s Blarney ONALD RICHBERG, executive director of Roosevelt's “Executive Council,” in a final report to President Roosevelt yes- terday, claims that 4,000,000 jobless have found jobs in industry, a like amount have been given jobs in “temporary pub- lic employment,” and 675,000 have found jobs on permanent public works after one year of the Roosevelt “New Deal.” As in his past reports, Richberg is content to merely cite these “advances”; authoritative facts are not a part of his reports. Even the most super- Imperialist Plot Shown at Inquiry By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Continued from Page 1) | | sources close to the Senate Com- mittee, that it will be “impossible” | to go far into the business of the| steel ie both of} the mun and of -Am- erican capitalism was learned | also that the committee has no in- tention at this time of inquiring in- to the manner in w! cial of the War Department is in- rolved in contracts of the war de- | Partment with American firms | The whole emphasis of the com- mittee thus far has been upon the fiction that European, particu- larly British, munitions makers are even more venal than Anierican imperialists in the same business. This pondent also has in- formation that there is a definite chauvinist determination upon the part of c in of the committee | to concentrate upon showing up! the corruption in South American itions dealin; jto tend to imperialists —and thereby | whitewast American | by contrast. Have To Soft-Pedal Inquiry | The fact is that the Nye-anden- | | berg investigators cannot touch the se depths of thei j ficial examination shows up these “advances” a8 | ite reason nga ce eee oe ballyhood reminiscent of that which the Hoover : ae Cee regime splashed over the front es of the capi- | talist sheets to bolster up its blarney. Thus, to take the employment figures of the A is to probe the scandal of basic | American capitalism—in which, the |line between “honest” and dishon- F. of L., not only have no gains been made in in- | est” graft is mythical. dustrial employment during the past year, but a Bothering the committee, too, is period of recession has actually set in. This is |*he question of what they can rec- amply borne out by the figures of the National In- Rie bee — the situation: dustrial Conference Board, which cites a job decline \oatsaae A be ees mere | in July through which 675000 workers lost their |i." °eeaune’ Sue for danger: Jobs. today. One member of the com- Yet, the figures of both these groups do not take into account the 250,000 youth who each year be- come of working age, the farmers who have been ruined by the drought and A.A.A, “crop reduction,” and the tenant farmers who have been driven off the land where the large land owners have found it more profitable to take land out of production. As the figures of the Labor Research Association prove, no appreciable gains have been made in em- ployment by the Roosevelt administration. Richberg’s figures on Public Works, modeled af- ter those of Secretary of the Interior Ickes, include 375,000 young workers in the C.C.C. camps. On relief work, which he auphemistically calls temporary public employment,” Federal Relief Ad- ministrator Hopkins, on the day before Richberg’s report, issued statements that at most, 1,600,000 were on work relief throughout the country — these, it must be remembered, are working for their barest “budgetary needs,” anywhere from $2 to $12 a week, Were Richberg not being trifling with human misery, one would be inclined to scoff at his report. Instead, one must characterize it as the worst sort of deception intended to bolster up the Roosevelt regime, In the blunt language of millions of ruined farmers—it is what is spread over the ground to make the roses grow. Calling U.S. Troops S preparations are being made by the employers to reopen the Southern mills, spokesmen for the Government are al- ready speaking quite openly of the “men- ace of new outbreaks.” By this they mean the renewed menace of more killings of strikers by Govern- ment troops, Now Gorman and his fellow officials of the U. T. W. are calling for Federal troops to “protect” the strikers from the National Guard! As if it makes the slightest difference whether the troops are State or Federal! Government trops, whether State or Federal, have but one func- tion in a strike—to break the strike by attacking picket lines, permitting scabs to work, and crushing all resistance by open violence, Was not the Minneapolis strike crushed by a similar trick, the trick of calling in the State troops to “protect” the strikers against the Minneapolis police? And did not the “protecting” §State troop- ers protect, not the strikers, but the scabs? Federal troops, like State troops, are part of the strike-breaking machinery of the government, of the real dictatorship which the employers wield over the workers through the forms of their “demccratic” government. * * * 'HE Southern ruling class, which is the backbone of the Roosevelt Democratic Party, is already mobilizing its Governors, courts, police and State troops to open the mills-by force. In the South it is Roosevelt's Democratic Party which murders workers to protect the profits of the bosses. In California, it is the Republican Party which sheds the blood of the working class in de- fense of capitalist interests. Differing from these two openly strike-breaking parties, the Socialist Party, under the cover of a mild “criticism” of the government, actually sup- ports the strike-breaking policies of William Green, Gorman and company. The Socialist, Emil Rieve, in the U. T. W. acts, by his failure to expose the Gormans, as the fig-leaf for strike-breaking policies. Of all the political parti the Communist Party alone has boldly and unequivocally come out in ac- tion to help the strikers win their demands ex- pressed in the U. T. W. Convention for better wages and an end of the speed-up. The Communist Party alone has placed itself on the side of the strikers against all the terrorism, and the “arbitration” trickery of the government. and the Gormans. And through its fight for better wages, and against the Roosevelt terrorism, the Communist Party alone fights to end altogether the whole sys- tem of capitalist wage slevery. Students Hit Usury Of Tuition Fee System At N. Y. University NEW YORK.—Demands that the Administration institute a new sys- tem for tuition payments have been made by the Student Council of Washington Square College, New York University, Evening Organiza- tion, backed by the student body of the school. The council proposes that: 1, All matriculated evening stu- dents shall be permitted to re- Yegister whether or not they are Paid up. 2, Evening students, because they ! are largely self-supporting and are |paid weekly wages, shall be per- mitted to pay their tuition in weekly installments instead of in lump sums. cent to 40 per cent on a yearly basis, shall be abolished. 4. An interest rate of no more 'than six per cent per annum may be levied on tuition balances ex- tending beyond the close of the year for which they are owed. ‘A bulletin urging s‘udents to ce- lay their registration until the ad- | ministration has acted on th> pro- posals, and calling on the student clubs of both day and evening ses- sions to support the proposals has been issued by the Evening Council. 3. The extortionate and usurious | | extension fees, ranging from 24 per , Slavic Groups Will Meet in Los Angeles Sept. 19 on Job Insurance Bill | LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 10— | All Z Slavic workers’ organizations here are being urged to elect dele- gates to a conference on the Work- jers Unemployment Insurence Bill | which will be held Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 8 p. m., at the Polish Audi- tcrium, Avalon Boulevard and For- tieth Street, The conference wil be a continu- ; ation of the federation formed when | delegates from several Slavic or- | ganizations met here on Aug. 22, \endorsed the workers’ bill, Jof bail at $1,000, mittee has remarked already that jthe evidence now in the record |“makes a paradox of Government | efforts to establish national or in- | ternational control of the arma- |ments business.” Today’s record is replete with | jfactual material which, no doubt, | jill be explained and analyzed by the Second American Congress | Against War, at the end of this |month in Chicago. There, anti- |imperialists who don’t have to worry about the effect of their con- clusions upon business interests will |adopt a program of action based upon conditions such as are now | being disclosed. The British firm in today’s testi- mony was that of the Soley Arma- | ment Co., Ltd., London, whieh con- jtrols one of the world’s | stocks—that held by the Bri office. Their American agent, the American Arms Corp New York, | | Was on the stand, the chief witness being A. J. Miranda, Jr. | Tt was to Miranda that the Soley’s jdirector, ironically named John | Bail (almost John Bull), wrote the | letter concerning China, Japan, the | Chinese Soviets, and the U. S, This document read in part: “As you are no doubt aware, ;China (the Nanking and Canton | | governments) consumes a vast quan- | tity of small arms per year, and they have bought large quantities |of rifles from us, mainly Mausers (over 100,000 in 1931-32) but have |slacked off lately owing to the loss of Manchuria, and the shortage of ready money in the South, ie— |Canton and Nanking. In spite of all the dreams of idealists, who im- agine that Homo Sapiens is filled with honor, justice, love and self- sacrifice, Japan is going to take a still larger slice of China, and com- paratively shortly, while the getting | |is good. To place herself in favor- able position, Japan must either buy | over the Soviet or fight them—and | | Japan will do one or the other be- | fore attending to some more of China. | “Such a move on Japan's part would seriously affect the United | States interests in China and we think that the United States would | under the above circumstances sup— port the Chinese (Nanking), supply them with arms, ete. ... We think | it might be very advisable for you to approach the U. S. Department. for Foreign Affairs and the War Department and hand them a list lof what stocks there are over here, informing the departments at the same time that you are the sole re- | resentative for the U. S. A. “This is only our suggestion to you, and you may possibly have lother ideas .. . It might be better |to bring the stocks to the notice only of some of the ‘big business’ gentlemen...” How intimately this British firm was associated with the official Brit- ish government was indicated by Ball’s notes to Miranda in discuss- ling making the latter the American agent. Ball said that due to the ‘size of the stocks involved ($30,000,- | {000 worth) that “the sale of a big block of them could alter the poli- tical balance of power of the small- | er countries. Therefore, said Ball, | \swe are toa very great extent con- ‘trolled by the varying policy of the government.” He added, “Arms |for other destinations (besides | Latin-America) such as China or Furopean states could not be of- fered by you without our previous consent.” | Oto Popovich Freed on Bail Following | Militant Mass Action Otto Popovich, militant New York anti-fascist, who was sentenced to \six months and ten days in jail for the distribution of anti-Nazi leaf- |lets, was released yesterday from | Welfare Island on $1,000 bail as a result of the mass action carried on | by the Popovich Defense Committee jend the International Labor De- fense. Popovich, candidate for Alderman on the Communist Party ticket in | Queens, was given this vicious sen- t ¢ by Magistrate Alfred Hofi.n, an appointee of Mayor LaGuardia, | who attacked Popovich for his polit- ical beliefs and his militant stand. | Mass indignation over this de- | cision resulted in the granting of a | “Certificate of Reasonahie Doubt,” pending the appeal, and the fixing | biggest | ish war | auch / be | “THs STORM TROOPS STILL MARCH ON 1">— Adolph Hitler National Textile Union Position On Unity in the General Strike By EDITH BERKMAN | N. T. W. U. Organizer | The National ‘Textile Workers | Union, which was born in the great i strike of 1928, today is playing a very important part in present textile strike. The N. T. W. U. was formed be- cause the United Textile Workers Union (A. F. of L.), had not carried on any struggles of the workers, or | workers in many vicinities in strikes were betrayed by the officials of the U. T. W. The whole program of) the U. T. W. was to organize most | skilled crafts. They carried on no campaign to organize the unor- ganized, In its four years’ existence the N. T. W. U. ied some of the greatest | struggles of the textile workers: | Gastonia, New Bedford, Lawrence, | Central Falls, Pawtucket, and in the last strike of the 70,000 textile silk | workers in Paterson, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, It was through | the efforts of the N. T. W. U. that | the dyers joined the last strike. It was through the efforts of the N. T. W. U. that the Arbitration Board, through Mr. Wagner, was forced to | state that the textile workers are entitled to a $25 minimum. The N. T. W. U., in the last strike, was ready and willing to unite all the textile workers to help win the strike. The A. F. of L. officials were in the way of this unity. | In the last year, the growth of the U. T. W. has been tremendous, | especially with the promises of the | NRA and the forcing of many) workers into the U. T. W. through agreements, The recent U. T. W. convention with its 560 delegates | proved most convincingly that these workers will not stand for any sell- out actions of the highly-paid big officials. It was this convention that forced the issuance of the strike call. Cail For Unity The National Board of the N. T. W. U. in preparation for this gigan- tic strike, and having the interest of the workers in mind, decided to issue a statement to the general strike committee, offering to unite all its forces and throw in all of its organizers, to help win this strike. The National Board also decided to urge all locals of the N. T. W. U.) to form a united front with locals of the U. T. W. in the various lo- calities. | active participation in the strike) Series by Bela Kun In Daily Tomorrow The third installment of the series of articles by Bela Kun entitled “The Most Burning Question—Unity of Action,” is omitted in today’s issue of the Daily Worker due to other im- |) mediate material. The series will || be continued tomorrow. How it this working out? In | Easton, Pa., our union, the N. T. | W. U,, has elected a commiitee of six, the U. T. W. elected a com- mittee of six, this committee to be a Strategy Committee for the Easton strike. Of whom does the Committee of six, representing the N. T. W. U., on this Strategy Committee, | consist? Five workers from the mills of Easton and the organizer | of the N. T. W. U,, Walter Trum- bull. | Why did we enter this united front? We entered this united front | in Easton because we realized that it was the desire of all the textile workers in Easton not to be divided, but united in one solid body, against the mill bosses. We united because the policies of the N. T. W. U. can best be represented through a united | front of all the workers and through | an elected strike committee repre- | senting each and every mill in the strike. | Many workers ask, what assur- | ance have we that even though we! are united in the strike, the U. T.| W. officials will not sell out this strike as they did in the past? To this we can answer, that only by} committees, on the picket line, in| the strike meetings, of all the mem- | bers of the N, T. W. U.,can we win over all the workers against any | scheming and betrayals of the offi- cials of the U. T. W. Only through | this united effort can we improve our conditions in the mills, in this greatest struggle in the history of the textile workers. It is the duty of the N. T. W. U. members, in this united front in Easton to guard against any arbitration schemes and to be prepared to win the majority of the workers to stay on strike un- | til they win their demands, : The N. T. W. U. is not giving up any of its policies, The N. T. W. U. is entering in this strike for ene set of demands, for one strike committee, for one picket line, but it is in the strike to fight in the interesis of the workers and at all times to represent the in- terests of the workers What holds true of Easton holds true of New Bedford, the cotton center in the North. There the N. T. W. U. will follow out the-same policy; that of at all times repre-| senting the interests of the workers. In Easton, the majority of the textile workers are unorganized. Here the locals of the N.T.W.U. and the very small locals of the U.T.W. must unite to organize Easton 100 per cent. The National office of the N.T.W.U. welcomes the decision of the Easton workers to form one united front to win the strike in Easton. In Patterson, where the majority of the workers are organized today in the ranks of the U.T.W., and | only the most militant workers re- mained in the ranks of the N.T.W. U., the decision of the National | Board was to merge with the U.T.W. in order to unite all the workers in Paterson. The main task of the workers in Paterson today is to get the dyers to join the strike and to come out of this strike with an agreement for the silk and dye workers to ex- pire at the same time. To unite | the dye workers the N.T.W.U. is calling upon the dyers in Lodi, too, to merge with the U.T.W. local. Unity Essential It is true that the N.T.W.U, has prestige in Lodi; it is the union that organized the last strike and won demands for the workers, It is true that in Lodi the workers have no faith in the officials of the U.T.W., but the Lodi mill is a part of the United Piece Dye which has two mills in Paterson, whose work- ers belong to the U.T.W. And be- cause of this, the decision to merge with the U.T.W. is an important decision for unity of all the workers. This is the greatest strike in the history of the textile industry. United we can win the strike. The members of the National, or former members of the National, U.T.W., let no-one split this unity. Forward on the picket lines and to a suc- cessful strike. Organize for Victory in the Textile Strike by Burck, (Continued from Page 1) rank and file mill committees in the neighboring mills; invite them to join with you in setting. up local strike committees representing all the mills in the county with, say, two representatives or three from each mill committee. This committee should be in charge of the strike in the county, it should maintain closest contacts with the mill committees and regularly report on all activities and proposals to all.the strikers, 5. These county or city strike committees should likewise quickly reach the strike committees in neighboring cities or counties and prepare for regicnal conferences; with representatives present if possible from every mill and at least from every locality where regional strike committees, say, one for New England, one for New Jersey, one for Penn- sylvania, one for the Carolinas, and one for the lower South are established. Such regional committees, truly representative of the rank and file, and made of honest, mili fighters, could, within a few days, set up a N Rank and File Strike Committee which could really lead the strike to victory. * * * 'OMRADE textile workers, this job can be done by you. You have shown your ability to organize mass picket lines, flying squadrons and mass picket lines, Through your efforts hundreds of mills have been closed, In the same determined manner you can or- ganize the leadership of your strike, You can take it in your own hands. You can set up a leadership that will lead to victory, and to a powerful organi- zation capable of maintaining your gains. Don’t wait for some one to come in to help you. If there are those there who agree with this policy so much the better. But at any rate follow out this method of organizing your strike and victory is sure. You should also take up the organization of re- | Hef. The farmers, workers in other industries, large sections of the lower middle class are ready to help you. Organize relief committees. Recruit strikers to visit workers’ organizations, trade unions, farmers, small storekeepers. Ask them for relief. They will help. Keep up your spirits. Hold regular meetings. Develop sports. Take up singing and other such activities. Draw in the women and children, Make this a fight in which all strikers and their families are rallied for a fight to victory. Finally, the Communist Party urges you to reach the other workers to aid you in the fight for your civil rights, for your right to hold meetings, to picket the mills, and for the freedom of the workers’ pr. The workers stand shoulder to shoulder with you. They will join with you in protests againct the terror. They can be brought into sympathetic strikes and even into a general strike to aid you on to victory. Stand firm for your demands. Organize your strike. Arouse the workers in other industries. The Communist Party pledges its ald. This is the road to victotsia On the | World Front HARRY GANNES. By A Friend of Mosley’s | What Happened in London Two News Reports |QIR Oswald Mosley, the Brite | ish aspirant for the Hit» |lerian post in England, has a | very good friend working for |the New York Times. | When over 100,000 anti | Fascists in London on Sunday |met in a counter-demonstration against the Fascist concentration, Mr. Charles A. Selden, London core respondent for the Times, came to |the aid of Mosley by deliberately | distorting ing news of the demon- stration. } For weeks before the fascist meeting the Communist Party led the mobilization of a united front | counter-demonstration to Fastism |in Hyde Park. Mosley, who \ex- | pected 10,000 black-shirted Fascists |to march, could muster only 5,00¢ | (that is, according to the count of his friend Selden). Whereas, ac- |cording to other capitaist sources | between 100,000 and 150,000 people |massed to boo Mosley and to ex- press their hatred of Fascism, | ees ete | THE Times story reports 5,000 Fa- | 4 scists, well protected by 7,000 | Police, “and an equal number of anti-Fascists, mostly Communists.” Selden cannot overlook the 150,000 people massed in Hyde Park, and, since he cannot attribute their presence to the support of the Fascists, he declares: “All, except a few thousand of these, were spectators who had no use‘ for either Fascists or Communists.’ To show his impartiality still further, he quites Mosleys state- ments, and omits a single word of the anti-Fascist spokesmen. Now we have not yet received cable reports from the London Daily Worker on what actually happened, but we have enough information to show that the Times story is a tissue of lies. eee |] HE anti- Fascist mobilization, which was fought by the British Labor Party o-ficials and the trade union leaders, was effective in pre- venting Mosley from sneaking, and was a militant massing of anti- Fascists, who turned out 20 to 1 against the Fascists, despite huge provocative police organization to aid the Fascists. The United Press is no more friendly to the Anti-Fascists and Communists than is the Times, Yet we get the following details as published by the U. P. in the New York Herald Tribune. The headlines read: “Mob in London |Pelts Mosley with Tomatoes. 11 Hurt in Riot of 100,000 Jamming Hyde Park To Boo Young Fascist Chief.” Which is quite a different story from Mr. Selden’s. Selden makes the crowd of 100,000 anpear as spec- tators who came to see the sport, a cricket crowd with the good old English spirit of “fair play,” not concerned with whether Fascist terror advances or not. He stresses ‘the imaginative peacefulness of the meeting, which, of course, is far from the facts. We quote the United Press: “Sir Oswald Mosley was pep- pered this afternoon with very ripe tomatoes and fruits, hurled at him during rioting in which eleven persons were injured while he attempted to address a huge gathering of his Fascist felowers in Hyde Park. Mounted police charged the milling throng . . . Thousands of police guarded Hyde Park, where 100,000 persons jammed a Fascist mass meeting, most of them present to boo Mosley.’ OST of the 100,000, it is clear from this report, came to ex- press their hatred of Fascism, came in response to the united front appeal issued by the Communist Party leaders and other anti- Fascists; and they effectively kept the Fascist whelp from speaking, despite the 7,000 police and their auto-gyro. The U. P. cable tells how the meeting was broken up: When Mosley attempted te speak, the anti-Fascists left their own meeting to join the crowd around the Fascist platform, and started the tomato barrage. They could not get to the rostrum, which was guarded by a square of black-shiried Fascists six deep. The demonstrations lasted one hour, after which the Fascists, headed by Mosley, and followed by a jeering crowd, marched to their headquarters in Chelsea and dispersed, while the police shooed the anti-Fascists in other directions,” This is a victory for the anti- Fascist concentration, no matter how the Times correspondent would eg to pooh-pooh the whole affair, * +e | MOSLEY, as R, Palme Dutt in his book, “Fascism and the Social | Revolution,” shows, was nurtured and trained by the British Labor Party. While he was one of the outstanding leaders of the British Labor Party, the Communist Party exposed his Fascist trends, while various Socialist leaders were claim- ing him as their very own. Dutt quotes the New Leader, organ of the Independent Lagor Party, who wrote of the Mosley Memorandum, just before he left the Party to organize his fascist bands: “In the main, as is known, his scheme followed Independent Labor Party lines.” Fenner Brock- way, ancther Labor Party leader, ; who admires Roosevelt so much, (wrote: “In the dicas of the I. L, P. Group and the smaller Mosley Group there is a good deal in common. . . .” | Today these people who claimed Mosley as of their flesh and blood do everything possible to keep the workers divided in their fight against Fascism, \