The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
Italian Fascist Coming
to United States as the
Ally of the Boss Class
BY ]. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

TODAY Italian fascsm is making great preparations
send its foreign envoy the United States propagate
the growth of fascism in this country
Americas workers must not mistake the meaning Of
this move is thrust at their power in this country APP
proved by the strkebreaker at Washington
The immigration authorities at Ellis Island New York.
will not attempt to stop this envoy of the italian antiabo
terror the Fascist Deputy Bastann the secretary and head
of fascist organizations abroad He will be Welcomed with
open by the American open shoppers They will greet
valuable ally his propaganda of hate against militant
workers.
The United States dsportsd Ludwig Martens the repre-
sentative in this country of the Soviet Republics refused
admission to this country to Mrs. Michael Kann, wife of
the president of the Union of Soviet Republics Comrade
Martens was merely seeking to develop trade between the
United States and Soviet Russia that would have given Jobs
towoks here and aided Russian reconstruction corade
the conditions of Russian children Immediately following
revolution and to raise funds for their But that
workers and peasants the enemy Of American capitalism
These were not permitted to cross the American threshold
Capitalism breeds fascsm.
Fascism makes labors interests
Fascism outlaws workers organizations not only the
Communist Party but the trade unions and cooperatves
WE'LL
Fascisms army, in Italy stronger than the
regular army, which also under the command of the fas
cist dictator Musson murders workers who dare resist it's
power Thousands have been slain In Italy Tens Of thou
sands have been imprisoned Tens of thousands exIed
Fascism has swept Italy with the TORCH destroying with
fire hundreds of workers buildings chambers of labor.
libraries clubs, co-opeates and abors newspaper offices,
with their printing equipment.
Fascism has done this thing in Italy. It has repeated
in SPAIN Hungary, Greece and every other nation where
has to power Its mission the in the United
States; to keep labor ensIaved to the boss class.
America throws open its doors to receive Bastann the
international spokesman Of this fascsm, because American
capitalism seeks every method for the suppression of the dis
contented American worker and farmer masses.
Bastanin comes to study the activity of the fascist
CARNATIONS in the United States against which American
workers have already waged many and brilliant battles To
be sure 6astanin under the camoufage of being
member Of the Italian Parliamentary Mission that will par
tcpate in the socaIed annual nterpariamentary Union
that gathers in the nations capital Washington D. c.
month But Bastannis purpose in coming here is known.
It is the purpose of all other italian fascsts who
these shores to aid in the against American labor
All workers must join in offering energetic resistance.
They cannot remain silent the fascist grows
the bureaucracy of the American Federation of Labor
fuses to act then the membership speak thru the local
unions American labor must hur the challenge into the
teeth of American capitalism, that Bastianin the italian
fascist comes here only the ally Of capitalism, the
enemy of the workers. 1f