Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1926-10-01
COUNTERFEIT AMERICANS
ENDORSE MUSSOLIN.

The very dollar patriots who were
Growing about a war for democracy
when they were profiteering while
the boys were bleeding and sacrificing
on the other side, assert, with an
audacity that is nursed by greed and
snobbery, that the Mussolini Dictator
ship is good thing for Italy.
Democracy, never practiced in
italy was not granted the slightest
opportunity when the propitious time
came. To add insult to injury even
men who claim to be Americans con-
slider the Mussolini brand of govern
nlent the panacea for the ills Of the
sorely tried people Of Italy. The
Italian people no longer have what
was een sidered q constitutional mon
afchy, bat Afsstoffnehted with the I'M
position Of an absolute autoeracy in
stead. To the sting of poverty was
added the iron, relentless rule of ad-
venturer Mussolini.
When American financiers commit
themselves in favor of the Mussolini
brand Of government, regardless Of
their former cry for democracy, there
is room 70 the justifiable suspicion
that the Unsuitable desie for riches
was the father of the thought when
they cried for war for democracy.
American labor has ample reason
to entertain nothing but contempt for
the counterfeit Americans who in
dorse an autocratic form Of govern
ment even in a foreign country. They
deserve condemnation because they
are approving tn ereign of terror of
the Black Shirts with Mussolini at
the helm and are In harmony with a
form of government that is not in ac-
cord with the principles upon which
our government is founded.
The harm done by Fascism in
Italy and the Mussolini propaganda
in the United States, reviewed in the
A. F. of L. News Letter in a COM
munication from New York, is as fol-
lows:
Trade unionists Of Italian birth who
are watching events in their native
land call attention to Mussolini's pro-
paganda in the United States. These
workers are supporting the Ameri-
can Anti-Fascist Alliance, whose re-
cent convention in this city was ad-
dressed by President Green of the
A. F. Of L. He reaffirmed organized
labor's opposition to the Fascist pro-
gram.
"In Italy the voice of labor is stiff
led by the dictatorship Of Mussolini
and his henchmen," said Justice, Of
ficiaI magazine Of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union. "In
Italy labor organizations are outlawed
They are snpplanted by Fascist trade
unions, led by Fascist marionettes
who dance as the strings are pulled
by castor-oil heroes. The eight-hour
day had been destroyed, women suf-
frage has practically met the same
fate and freedom of the press, speech
and assembly are relegated to the
past.
"But Fascism is not content with
dictatorship in Italy. They seem an
Mous to spread their poisonous pro-
paganda into other lands. The Fas-
cist dictators are conducting an en-
ergetic press propaganda everywhere.
This would make them appear as
'saviors' Of Italy, as restorers Of ma
tional prosperity and economy, even at
the cost Of every elemental right of
Italian citizens.
''To offset this propaganda, to ex-
pose the blaekshirt dictators, and TO
check the gangrene of Fascism in the
labor organizations Of Italian COM
position in the United States, the
Anti-F Fascist Alliance was formed
three years ago."