The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
u. S. Fascist Elements
Meet in Gathering of
the American Legion
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


business house has been decorated The Legonaes have
been given the freedom of the city.
1t only three short months ago that the June 18th
Convention Of the National labor forces gathered
streets The business houses decorated.
instead the newspapers were openly hostile even the
was threatened to drive the convention from the Municipal
Auditorium thru the of the police, if the militia
ing TO build class party OF their own would be driven from
the city or thrown in jail
But armer-Iabor forces were striving to make pro-
gress for labor They planning to build iberating
Warbeedng hate-creating capitalism reason the
forces of capitalism fought them.
Capitalism opposes progress. 1t worships those who
fight its wars That why it showering its hospitality
the American Legion meeting it St. Paul
Morrow Krum in the Chicago Tribune, today tells of
the invasion OF St Paul by the friends Of the Fascist Charles
Gates Dawes, republican Vicepresdentia candidate reads
like the reports in thumbnai FORM of the American
press in telling Of the German Invasion Of Belgium in the
early days of the in 1914. Morrow Krum says
at reported frankly has a appre
hesve of the Yan convention Things have said
have discussed Even the where this
early.
This night before
from that the
dice the hotel Hobbies
ing, there is little evidence Of It."
But the gathering of the Fascist LegiOns just
friends of vicePresdentia Candidate yet parade
the streets committing the many crimes that only drunken
mopS craven defenders
things they always in mob whether they
the hood and cloak of the Ku Kux Ka the badge of the
American Legion.
The cups will be filled to OVERLOOKING The dice games
will run "a hours day in all hotel lobbies Communists will
be denounced IN speeches and resolutions on the convention
floor. The women and girls of the working class the
Streets will be nsuted and worse they have been in
ready met Soviet Russia will be scourged in varied
Citations with the ISLANDERS that superpay always call
to their aid in the absence OF facts.
The annual report of these American Fascist proudly
procams that 1--WE have been unreIentng In campaign
against revolutionary radcaIism"
Some so-caed abor may be expected to pre-
cpitae themselves into this of capitalist hoodums in
order to give labor atmosphere to this annual bacchana
Major" George l. Berry, head of the Printing Press
tried win the job of leading the organization He had
the Legion support his drive for the vcepresdena nom
his democratic affiliations and his endorsement of the Davis
Bryan ticket will not prevent him from hob-nobbng with
Sam oompers president of the American Federation of
Labor has also been regular visitor at these affairs He
has urged what he calls "soldier-labor alliance"
The American Legion not rank file organization.
It has Henry Dubb rank and fers but is Ofcercon
goose-steppng soldier ofciadom that Compes would link
up the American Federation of Labor.
1t is we'll for the workers, as the American Legion
gathers remember the denunciaton Of this organization
resolutions adopted the Second General Conference of
the Trade Union Educational League The Legion Is here
denounced as having engaged since it's formation in the
ing strike movements, and various other antabor activities
is shown to have given abundant evidence Of hostility to
ing interests which finance it so literally.
1t will be remembered that last year the American
Legion invited Bento Mussoni bloody Fascist dictator
of Italy, grace its gathering along with Berry and Com
pers But Musson too busy cnging to his totterng
power at home
Mothers may fear for their daughters in ST. Paul. dur
ing the days ahead result of the invasion of that city
by the American Legion. That is an imminent danger
But broader menace faces the whole working class.
Labors growing power confronts standing threat from
the great obber interests long this Fascist
exists Labor best fight this menace now by making