The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1935, Page 2

i Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935 Gen. Butler In Daily’ Interview Describes Fascist Proposals Butler for haviig seh and garding certain literature w over.” This literature megazines which Houghton Page 1) * Operative Greene, “re- for me to look to Washington Youth Sentenced To Cruel Or deal By Indiana Judge SECRET SERVICE IS “IN THE KNOW” Anti-Filipino Bill Introduced U. S. Knew of Activities j oa | C THis letter establishes that the United States government kx j pena hy (ae ams ; TREASURY DEPARTMENT nto ongress this time that many organizations Were turnitig to General Buti Because hé was found guilty o Pie renee that at least one of therh was openly Fascist in character. This Secret Sérviée Operativé, Ho any inforn “would be glad to reséive” FOUt possession ih the future which to us.” I asked cerning Wail Street's Géfiéral Butler whether specific effort He replied hé had not, becuse at this time he had nothing s on, also told Butler that he ation Which might “come into your 6pihion would be of value in he had tutied over to get him to } anyth ng con- army cific robbing a gtocéty store, 16-year- || old Edward Foster has beef sen- || tenced to the cruel and wittiéual |] punishment of walking 12 filles every day for two months while || carrying @ %0-found lead of bricks. He must spend his nights in thé coufity jail in Anderson. | | Ma Jor Caneel Smedley D, Butler, fowton Sqn Penneylvania. Division BF GBdRer MAviC€ wey 18, | A bill designed to facilitate the drive against Filipinos in the United States has been introduced intd the House of Representatives by labor - hating Representative Dickstein, it Was reported here yes- terday by thé International Labor Defense. The bill, which was intro |duced into the House on Jan. 9, on it. “Besides,” “I never made any secret of any of this | Hou stuff. I told every! t: I discussed it h many people. ‘The barbarous punishment was |) Dear General Botier: | calls for Be gem oe return “eat is suffitient, howeve:. to ihe imposed on young Foster by Cit- Gate, te Phitpsine tached “T understafid that,” I said, “be- I want to thape you for the cotittesy wnish | bead ns pause I heard it ifi Washington be- fore it was published, and I heard It.also in New York. The question all this raisés is how nitich did the Government do, DF Will it dé to place responsibil: ty | for these organizations, and, more important, how much did the Gov- is EATHERNECE” | Youtig Foster, who will have Walked 720 miles with a load totaling 1,260 pounds, started on the first of his 66 trips today. | | cuit Court Judge ©. E. Smith. | | | this find saying that if they courd | | use his testimony or wishéd to ques- | |tion him about it, he would be glad | Esta | @xtonded our OpéFative Greehe on his fesent tisit to } garding certain literét oh you turhed over | Mia fer Re to lodk eter, I Rive the liberty of the t¥o megiaifies én the Silver shite $6 the Offies, Machingtons According to your request we are returning thie litefatire intedt with the exoeption of the two nagasines and ghotld aty iftormation dope inté your posession in the fottre WhiGh in Jour 6Piniow would be of Value to us, we would be Mad $6 receive its on Army ttansport ships. | The bill hypocriti¢ally states that |deportations Will take place ofly |when Pilipifties “voluntarily” apply |for hélp to return to their native |country. But a forced deportation drive agaifist these colonial work- | @fs is already under way, with one | Paipino already shipped out from ermment do when evidence ; of 4 \to have them send for him, But | Ellis Island and another, Jose R. specific plot to form a Fascist army |Lepper said the eommittes never | Very tfuly youre, | Padilla, held in Phoenix, Arizona, actually came to light? The latter sent for him.” charged with membership in the 4s an éffott by a few financier: “overthrow the government” 80) | ‘The Bankers’ Meeting | I asked General Butler whether WS ots Wn, H, Bonehten ali val Communist Party. The new Anii-Filipino measure is ‘thing which ifi the opinion of a 3 CpaFati¥e in CheEM. part of the wholésale drive against Teast one person close to the Wa eee hae toe Cetin’ foreign-borh workets in the United Department is a violition 6f Set- States and thé growing attack on tion 6, Title 19 of the federal penal | named Flagg told hini about a Wall Street baitkers’ meeting. (the Amétican working class. code. # «] The International Labor Defense Cbdviously nothing will be done thiteaaaeae vg boot 1§ hse to | . lis appealing to ll Workets’ organi- Geout it<uhiees corititued «ifives- eo cha ane Photostatic copy of letter from William H. Houghton, secret service | zations to send protests immediately tigation” bécorfies necéssAty to fu ther whitewash it, as the C: sional “investigating” Committee did. The class which Murphy and Mac- Guire represent and 6n whose b: half théy acted actually control the key positions in the Government, es T'shali show. It is moving toward Fascism both through the Roosc- Major-General Smedley D. Bittler addressing the veterans at Ana- riding in A car with several peo- ple, the man who was dri gan telling me that a Wali treet crowd Had had a meeting, and that they had 93,000,000 for or: | ganizational purposes. 1 didn’t know who this fellow was. But | operative, 16 Genetal Butler, acknowledging receipt of propaganda material sent by the Silver Shirts to Butler, The letter ¢ confirmation that appeals have come to Butler from ntimerous faseiet ofyanizations | ealling upon him to “seoumne Naeeernip 4 | ment which we expect to sweep the | nected with this organivation in any Smedley D. Butler costia Flats i during the Bonas Eaempment in Washington in 1932. | in September, atid whfie I was | | r | | | 4s we got out of the car I asked one of those with us whe he was, | Nation and-save an unorganized, | shackléd and helpless people from | manner, it 16 absolutely frée from any personal or sélfish motives, in- | to their congressmen against the |new Dickstein bill. Protests against | the deportation of Padilla and |three Mexican workers held with |him in Phoehix should be addressed to the Labor Department, Wash- ington, D. C. + a ¥elt government and thfough o t was tot the dictatorship of special interests.” | terests, cranks " is | y flatly refused to ganizing to have Faacist a-mies| them, as I utiderstend you were? T| great faith of thé soldiers in their those, can you tell me whether Mr.| pewspaper am ane "suutheiae ge |. Latet I will explain How “special | coy che motive and thet ine dee (cues nutler simply fal teady té—in the words of Mac-| have heard that you thought some |demceracy. The tramp, tramp, tramp | MeCotmack told you that he would | fnajanapotie.” | iiiterest”—and actually Ariti-union|veion an organi¢ation of the peo-| “What did all these people want Guire — “support” the Pzesidert | of these ‘patriotic’ outfits, for ex-| of a million ufafméd mén will make| call them?” General Butler, however, could | *Mployers—run the Key Men of | ies pees lyou to do about these veterans all whenever such armed “stippott” ample, might have other purposes | any dittator sit up and take noties,| “qo,” said the General. “The only not recall telling the Oongressional | América, | |tnis tines” T aaked, Against the wrath of the people besides patriotism. T've said—and it will, too!” | thing ‘that happened was that be Committee about this—he thought, | Jérrell’s letter says a great deal| In a diseussion of a number of | putter gad he did not kiiow, exe may be necessary. Il the evidence gatheted in this I was just about to éxplain to him e ignored the class content of | “I thought all of them would bear looking into,” he replied, additig, «1 reminded me I had spoken in an in fact, it “might be just hearsay.” executive session. I wanted them to Efforts to chéck on 4 Publisher about “existing intolerable abuses,” | and about how “we are sésking a| |the ofganigations and individuals who contacted Butler, I will ex- cept that obviously the Pennsyl- vania Railroad wanted to get the Touiry shows that the Coferes-| didn’t know then ahd I d6f’t know democracy, but he went! produce some big fellows, of course. | Flagg since then, in fact, disclosed | Tl leader who will grasp the de-| plain how this Jarrell letter in it- | veterans out of Johnstown, sional Committee which “inver-| now what they are. That's it. Th : “I'm still hanging to the |} Have said all along that if we no such publisher. |mand of the people... . a leader | self screams fascist ideas. In the| «pig eal of atiy of them ever tiated” the activities of Gerald C.| backers and real purposes are ob- of public epinion, for| don't, we'll be just where we were| The Charles Bemburn letter to |WHo Mill give to the masses the op- | discussion I had with General |tet you they were interested if MaeGtiire, Wall Street bod sAler- seure.” the protection of otit demoers last summier—with nothing but a General Butler, written from 1313 | | portunity te subscribe fo a new dec- Butler on Saturday, he told ma that And when f say democracy, my iden | laration of rg aiiar tor from or- t| forming a fascist organization?” I ‘man, Grayson Mallet-Prevost Mur- “Did you tll Coitimatider James little Cg 4 Massachusetts Aventie, Washing- |this man. Jarrél!, contacted ea ed, : i i Tan Bat ah 7 i anized crit ‘ SI ef-banker art ober runs | eigh Wart, and Haold Brobeck, | Uo PBs deamiy a igiys | AHOthSr way in Wien: it is ‘appar- stiggestion that the former Marine | 1G , jutler continvally refused to have ri rire Clark, sewing machine millionfire.| their legislativ é réptessntati right to speak fresiy, and the right ttt 7 leader “head” a so-called “National | longressional chaos. Oné Who i8/anything to do with Jarrel’s or-|_.1 had information which I shall deliberately stippressed instead of | about this thing, aé I have fh to vote. No dictator can exist and| fht te 5 ranean bores ner eh Bonus Committes” which would be |G¥namic, fearless, strong, deter-/|canization plan, he said, He went |Bive later, that some of these peo- faites through vital testimony | you did?” allow those rights, I am not elaim- aier testified that raraaeaiiee had ‘independent’ although, the writer jmined and knows his owi liné, Who |te Washineton to cpsak to the |Dle said flatly, about the time of the and evidence. Possibly the Department of Jus- tice or.the War Department is go- “Yes, I told them and I warned them,” Genéfal Butler answered em- phatically. “I warned them against ing that these rights éxist fully now, | but my ambition is to see them pro- tected. I sey 1ét at ie speak freely and if he has anything that’s right | fleshed a lsrge number of $1,000 bills in @ hotel in Newark, suggest- | ig the money weuld pay Butler's | thinks, William Randolph Hearst | Would back it! It reads: | Might Interest Hearst can heip the rank and file break with past allegiances and form a | hew center of political action and | national affairs.” Jarvell added “the bonus marchers simply beoase he was interested in service men and because Commendss W. W. Waters Bonus March that they were in- | terested in forming a fascist move= ment. He repeated he hed never heard of it. At the cnd of the cén- ing to the bottom of this Mac-| what people who had come to me expensts if he would go to the] “Looking over the ground here, | peopl if “ oe rae ha acini, Donte marchers | ction, also, fh 2d, even over Guire-Mutphy plot. But that is/ had said. 1 told them thet 1| NCu, abt ont ween a ee | Ameticah Legion convention es I feel sure that the national worus | couse. there i sthall Hepa ee [ten a to hear the General speal:. | oijeetion ‘of “Mis, Bublet; WHO NOt a zéasonable concltsion from though: some of these people pos- | nt We wont improve them by|MAacGuire suggested. | question will be settled at the next | things from the older generation of Did you go to Johnstown. Penn-| had just come in, that I might use the mafinér if hich high officials sibly might come to theni, and I) ‘session of Congréss—éd. Besides | sylvania. to speak to the veterans, leaders. . Politics should be and ting a dictator.” | “MeceGuire denied that,” Builer what hé said about it. eoh-poohed it whefi asked Aboit’ « fia) when they were éneam the: ae Peportert, you say. Gah real Yu bred rege What can vou tell me,” T asked | pee iS Soke bea an borers sre a tha the | pane tine most patriotic and Oe after the B. WF, eee sare Aé I left the General's house that aetainiv F ‘ Sct seit thant BALL 2 “shout reports fh heard | Yécerd in an effort to show that * orablé profession to cle: + | nade? ir i morning, I asked him, “Tell me, Gettainly there is no public in- but toll them nothing. Hee eae W Lamont, in4 Mor. | Re Wes in Chicago at the time. of Legion, I believe that the veterans trenchsd ctiminals, to weed out in- |°Ut of Washington,” T asked. Beebst oka wala Vek ase 16 se a ee ee nee pana “4 Mateh of My Own” lgan patines, had somethine t+ do| Cotte he was in Newark. The/a8 a Whole Wotild be well to ¢on-|competents, to throw out grafters, The Johnstown Trip carte to A choles betwean assis Ceeinet thie coma with the upecd | ‘Then Tasted the Cenérai whether with this MacGiilre-Mutphy buel- | Commiites didn't clear up that | sides the old “National Bonus Com- to replace vote buying methods aiid | uo putier replied. He ex-| ANd Working class fevoltition and a h im h it reg-|Hé Cotild help me cvaluate many ne hat Lariont’s iaéimé was | Point. Now, soon after it was pub- pac organiz e |srea | interests with well consid-| sained that Mavor Joe MéClosky | Working cless dictatorship?” and fierceness with which it reg- I : P “tb lished in the press that MacGuire | Hearst _papérs back in 1920, 22-24, | ered legislation that looks to the | Tl ps titarly moves to help arrest and con- Ete I hdd héafd that, while on | mentichicd to you? denied th t ieee t ete, This Was @ nofi-dués paying | interests of the people as A whole, |Of Johnstown. which is a steel town, ‘I'm for the preservation of dem> Vict foreign-born workers during | 2,5 ng tour for the Véetsrans of| Lamoni’s name was never iy seeeibar ea ie aay “e mine ‘from ofganiaation with fio funds to be | We feel that hoe ae re ortunity [ned Asked him to do that. but that jocracy—and you can quote that!” Pkipikes, expecially under state ¢fimh- Foreign Wats, he had fishtloned| mentioned in my presence,” he fain in the reserves—tola mae he Taised extept that Mt, Hearst put |for a red blooded American patriot, (Hetefused. MeCtorky hed publicly |he exclaimed. “I am opposed to iflal syndicalisth laws. Something about a march of vet-| said emphatically. “It was f4VOr|/haq written to the Concressional |i. With the 38 Hearst papers back | ’ |Gnvited” the B. E. F. to Johnstown. | anything or anybody who . woh't Hearst and the Vets “General,” I asked, “what can you téll ms about reports I have heard that William Randolph Hears was ““ifiterested in fottiihg some kind of ..@f ofganization out of the BEF.°” “That letter from Pembtitn is abou‘ that,” he said. Then he ex- plainéd that Pembtitn came to sée ._ him two yeafs ago and “strongly _ implied” that he, Perhburh, wes working for Hearst at the time, and ‘that he was interested in forming a vétérans’ society. “What can you tell me about ail “thesé o:ganizaiions which I unde: erans to Washington next stiffimer.' mentioned by anyone bi ho came to “T do not recall anything of that|seé me in the inte f ati of sort,” He d quitkly “but I my-| thesa societies. In f of the self have fteqieritly said that if| people méntioned was of any stib- anybody starts to destroy ouf de- | stanée extépt Murphy and Cia: mocracy, I'll get @ millioh soldiers Commitiee Dodgec Kvidenté if I can, and I'll have a mareh of) “Since the Dickstcin-McCormatk my own as a demonstration of the’ Committee never called cee of TO BE RAISED ) EXCEPT WHAT M R. HEARST PUT iN a Committee recalling that he knows | of it, we had some very good CAfti- MacGuire and had seen him sit-|Dalgns. I think I cowd get Mr. ting with me at breakfast in the | Hearst interested in it again, as the | hotel in Newark that morning, In| hatiohal sééretary, Which I have fact, Lepper came over and stopped |éld for the past 16 years, I think | at the table where MacGuire and 1| if & man like yourself Would head | Were sitting. ner told me he | stiéh an itidapsidéent cofimittee, I Wrote the Committee explaining | COtuld gét the money to back it up, pa | this Would bé a great way to fiot only Goritaét every pést in the| eotintry, but all division associa- | ‘NO FU Washington D.C, | ti6his, seinii-political vetetan organi- | ‘ations, and Would metin sighing up | htindreds of thotisands of véterans, | this could be followed up by calling together ovér 5,000 small veteran a man of your character.” |. Jarrell writes that he has devoted lhis personal time “to this work” | for the préceding ten months and | that he found “the people are \teady, anxiously waiting for some jorganization to show the way.” Describes Methods | “It is our putposs,” Jarrell wrote, |“to Ofgenize the péople by Gon- | | gressional Districts.” Hé said “there late no professional organizers con- E Butler stid that a sihetinterdent of thé Pennsvivania Railroad, & |Mr. Sinclair, also urged him to go to Johnstown, as did Waters and Jarrell Finally Butler agréed to meet them Hear Johnstown and | whatever they might want to do for | the B. ¥. F., but, when they insisted when Waters telephoned he could not be at the meeting, Butler simply ‘flatly refused togo, in telephone conversation ‘YOU MUST TAKE COMMAND, GENERAL! talk over | abide by the constitution. It ought to be chansed in many ways, it’s trué, bitt it's there and we've got to abide by it.” He's For “Democracy’ “But when you say you are for a democracy do you include the kind of ‘democtacy’ they have now in | Germany?” “Oh, you mean if it came to & choice would I be for Nazism or | Communism?” “Yes,” “Why,” he exclaimed, “Im for demotticy. I think there will al- ways be three.” He paused, a8 stand have been sending you liter- Hovesbar 14 1934 units of no national importance at thotgh thinking this over and " v . this time, into a political action - . "= ature, corfespondence, ete., and as sroup web could take national ad- WILLING TO 62 INTO THE DARKNESS OF DEATH THAT AMERICAN LIBERTY MIGHT LIVE added, “There's bound to be tore ing you t6 lead them?” Asked to be Leader “T have héard from about 100 ot- Ranizations in the past couple of years or more,” hé said. ‘“Mariy Wrote and asked me to lead them. I Nevér replied unless some persona’ ffiénd of mine was there and : Gon, Smedley D, Butler Kewton Square Pa, Vy Dear jene Pal; = Sorry 1 #a@i't able to ses more Of you in Levieville,! tion by 1836. This woild be in | when I tisited you two 1éars 9g6.” | Pemburn eémphasizés that this would “in no way hurt the V.F.W. thet can't covee—a fleld fof diféct line with our talk at your home | or légion. but would fill a void that | ey {eat than just Fascism and Conmmut~ ism, and Tin with democracy.” “You think that despite the fact, that both in Germany and Italy facoism was reésofted td to head off Communist revolution, and thé So- cial-Democtats who urged ‘deioc- Knew they were all Heht. Why, was so busy that I hadntt neh tire to aparesThitge weref't éo hot finantisly political action.” He also says that) fi MMAR Des varraes civic WELFARE ria sheeas of Ceemisieee really Rad absolute records, eotrespona. an Loutavilié #hen I left Oct.20th.end they were several thousand coilsrs if he would be “Willifig to devote my) Nr helped the fascists’ oe on About forty of them at one “Were you suspicious of some of ~New Trial Won For 2 Negroes In Detroit Case. By A. B. Magii DETROIT, Jan. 25.—Matirice —Stgar, noted labor attorney and thé hole,alse a little pesved. I ah sony that you were cut off the alt ty MPLCyeni I don't know who pulled the boner of having & story go out céfacring you,it wns a territle boner ati when I heard about it,called up sore of the national officers that 1¢ was bad publicity, As you no doubt know,while I was handling the publisity for the 35th Natiofal Bhcampment Corpel had nothing to dé With the convertion publicity after Barney arrived,ae far ae the c@avontion segsicds and natim@al acticn was COncerend, Looking over the grount here,I feel cure the national bone question will be settled at the ngxt sessions besides the recégnized veteran Organisations as the VF. fend ihe jezion, believe that the veterans as @ ahcle sould be wall €0 Ctieider the old T organized _ time ih gStting them organised if I érs. I am for you any time I can be of service.” | 3s Agett of Hearst | I asked Gene*al Butter to tell me what he could about this tan. | Pemburt, and what hé tas up fo. The Genstel said that Pétmburh did fo to see Butler tivo years ago, At that time, said Butler. Bembttrn | “strongly innpl'ed’ that he was \“working for Hearst.” He suoke of wa’ @ to oftabize vétershs. Gen- ‘evel Butler added, snd said that he j had started from Oregon with the | BEF. of 1932 and. “styong im- Plicetion* was tha’ hé acéombaricd |the BEF. to Washington and that Gan liné uh thé right kind of lead-| My dear general Your létter of Nov. FEDERATION $6 FIFTH AVENUE Seite 906-7 New York City MuUney Hill 2.8469 Novecber 9, 1934 Waj, Gens, Smediéy 0, Butler, Goshen Road, Newtown Square, Dslawaré County, Pennsylvania, Butlér: 7th, 1934 hand, and contents carefully noted; aa suré was glad to hear from you, pS you a present system of "governnent wos organized, He cording to Gen. Hugh H. i ty ee - fiinistrater of “Oh, that was Germany, girl,” he exclaimed. “We're not Geriiany!” Thus, Géneral Butler himself characterized his political attitude =fn attitude which. all I know of him indicates, is full of danget to working pecple. In the conversation absve he completely ignored the demonstrable fact that “democracy” under capitalism is freedom for the fulihg class to exploit pnd brow- Beat and send armed sttike-break- ers against labor. He ignored the historical truth that both in’ Ger- many and in Italy, the fascist em- ployers oppressed the working class throtgh “democratic” forms, until the people rose against them, and | then the fascists used the private the N. Ry A candidate for judge of Recorder's for the yearet papors teck in 192Cp22-24— % ete. This #as a non—dues paying this time also was working for cturis | armies which they had carefully Gourt, yesterday won his fight for Sees With 40 Tums to te raiced excopt What Wrfoares put inFith tho- He tat. |finenced in the meentime. He ianor- ~ -&, néw trial for two Negro workers, t mapets feck of it,we had sore ve Oe. ae ary | This. combined with ths Istter, ed the fact that nrecisely this is . Gharles Lee and Monroe Brown, WH6 Afé fiott serving ninéty days in ocd Campaigns,! 1 in it again,as the national secretary, which I have held ia eare,I think if a ran like yourselt Weuld head such’ es “andep afd a ctrone’'y indicates that - Willtam | happening in the United States to- Rendolph Mearst 1s émplovitie Pem- dey, although he himeclf earlier "jail. The two workers were sen- "the past ike | SUM AS af Sent to lhe 1p vaterads In other words, a ee te Soue~ jsaid he knew that “Acmcoratic” tenééd on Jan. 8 by Jtdge V. cpnn ttee,T could ae Zet tha money to back it up, tiie ould be a great way to not ii A AFOUA PIER Beatst woul Be z fy [rights do net now exist here “fully.” .-<Vicious) Brennan after an out-| _Tageous so-called trial, lasting only | “@ few minutes, because they had ““"ne job, no horné and no ‘visible .. Means of support.” , Jidge Thomas M. Cotter was Comipélied to grant a new trial and “os6t thé daté for Mofiday, Jan. 27, at 9 Am. Wofkers, Negro afd White, are urged to pack the court- | room. The International Labor Defense | is backing up Sugar’s fight to free the two workérs with a mass pro- “46st campaign. The labor attorney, | as in hundreds of other cases that | ‘ “he has defended, is serving withut =... Sugar is running for the very ___gttice Whieh Judge Brennen now, The primary élections take | Mach 4 arid the fitials Avril 2. | eandidacy has been endorsed by jotiecally every section of the De- | it labor movement, including the | trots and Wayne County Pedera- | of Lasot, the Mechanics’ Bdu- | only Contact évery post in the country but @1] di@ition associations, ts itital veteran Le STELTCT RTE TET eases Up hundreds of thousande ef veterana, His ecul follofed up by Calling together over ef £000 chs eres units of 0 ational ifportance at thin time tate Tt that teure take Aati sal action hy 1936,This weulo be in 1h your home When T visited you It foula in no s@y hurt the V.F.Peer Legton but. fill a void the that they can't coverea field for direct poiltical eile watched with interest your campaign in New Jersey for fafold Hoffman, 300d works! was in Kew Yort the last seek of tha ¢ampaigh and if it find bet been t6 late te jump ia and help out in Jersey,vould have done ao. 1 shall be glad t¢ hear from you,if I can be of any earvice at any time,lot fe know,I think the time is rips fpr veterans to get organi cea politi¢aly anu milling to devote 7% time in getting them organ up the mght kind of leaderest am for you any tire I can te ¢f ser ill do here for some tine white LY Disa Charles &Pemurn 1323 Mase hie. %, Fast, SOC BS | “ititersstaa ‘finensing them. | ‘This grovn is to take “diredt) | folitieal petion.” Pembuth writes. Tt mictht take action in 1936, A'- though Permburn frites suphosédly | t6 the éxtént of | teade~ | Hearst, anototious snti-usion ev | Dlovér. wenits to get the vetoes of- epee ih a group which Hearst | finan: | During the B.EF. énoampment. General Butler to'd me, ha was an- | proached by oné, Thomas N. .1rr4I1 | who said he was conriected wth the Key-Men of America, and thet he | wented to organize a socisty out of a EF. But'er told te that Jrrtell “wanted me to hen jeround and sussk with then,’ Seeking “Real Tester? A letter from Jafre!l to Butler, cn | Kev “Men of America stationérv, from tha viswpoift and in the in-| “terest of veterans, I lente it th Hie! to Saeeins WHE publisher | | him organi>2, or aed » grotip. of go | motith Pee: | | ig on_of th down 6 ai Lien Corsa itd [eilivs, na ehetaves then, tana ut joliticially. They are tri ‘Aaaitiag furtber Orden Yours £6 command, @ ee ative” Secretary, I believe thet General Butler dors not recognize fundamental facts which the Américan people must recognize to guard themsé!ves against this menace. Generel Butler is aware, a8 h4 hitiorly said to, me, “Bverybody’s tryitg to use me,” bitt he evidently does not tedcenize hw }o> for what fAutsos*s ie might be used. Although hea himscif hes been a focus ¢f efforts to advonze faccism in thé United States for two years, he rémoarksd. “I think our demod- racy is safé.” As I left the General after our Second conversaticn, I asked him why he thought the Congressional Committee went into the specific Mac@uire-Murphy dictatorshin plot, in view of #11 tite evidence that it did not want to #9 to the top of the thing, He said. ‘Maybe I telk too much,” and bads ms a cordial good- bye. ta ae In Monday's Daily Worker Mats | } | Lape ot Society of Amérita, Letter to General Butler from Charles S. Penibern, who eaid he wa 1932, | e the “workitig for” William Ren- O*'*1 Washington, July 13, Photostatic 6 steer bet x a x Society for Designing Engineers, ihe coe ene adders the otzanization of the vetersns if “I can line up the right kind of leaders,” “We are not sesking to relaty of the Prete nani tits Wace Reade se hi ak poe foie Rp sei Oe unre j “International Workers’ Order, the | The letter reveals that Hearst put up the money for 9 “National Bonus Commities” that Pembarn of- | y.\% apes peat tea aie pee Tie Bia iat ' piper ssteeiave jesadhshg rapa teppei Bee seal sna i ~ Communist Party and others, ganized “for the Hearst papers back in 1929-22-24-30, etc.” aes, as eréet as it is, We want rdley D. Butler urging him (> ‘lead the millions of Christians im | tions which avpreached General f is you to actually direct this move- t their fight for liberation against this peril, which is at our door.” Butler during the past’ two years,