The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-14
VETERANSP ON
PATRIOTIC STUNT
TODUPE WORKERS
But Communists Will
Fight Back

In statement issued by the
John ]. Dwyer Post of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars, under which name
the democratic machine of Queens
broke up a meeting and assaulted
the speakers of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party last Thursday at the
corner of Steinway and Jamaica
AYES, Astoria, vicious attack is
made on Communism, and at the
same time disclaiming responsible
ity for the brutal attack on the
speakers of the Workers Party.
The statement, issued by County
Commander Van Etten, cited as
proof" of the American fascists'
so-called fairness the giving of their
platform to a Communist" speaker
by the name of Paul Newman after
the Communist platform had been
assaulted and The speakers beaten
up. Newman, who is not and never
was a member of the Workers
(Communist) Party, was given the
Tammanyites' platform and allowed
to make false statements concern
ing the Communist platform and
the ultimate aim of Communism in
order that semblance of fair play
might be given. Newman was yes
terday characterized as an inposter
at the District Office of the Work
ers Party.
Evidence of the fear into which
the democratic machine of Queens
was thrown by the meetings being
held by the Workers (Communist)
Party is given in the organized and
systematic way in which so-called
"free speech parties" are being held
in Astoria to offset the exposures
of graft and corruption made by the
Workers Party. An appeal is made
by the Dwyer Post to all corrupt
and grating Queens political clubs
to cooperate in meetings to spread
capitalist lying propaganda to "the
same rank and file citizen who is
being reached by the undermining
propaganda of the opposition"
Other means of spreading the lies
of the democratic party will be
used, such as pamphlets, booklets
and the radio.
"The invasion in our. community
by the disciples of revolutionary
Communism" the statement goes on
to say, ''has awakened US to the need
of developing an effective and con-
structive Americanization program
in broad and practical manner"
With barefaced hypocrisy the
democratic machine of Queens,
which broke up the Workers Party
meeting last week, rolls off such
phrases as ''life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness" The same cor
l'upt organization which made off
With millions of dollars in sewer
specifications graft talks glibly of
equality of opportunity" in its
statement, issued under the name
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The platform of the Workers
(Communist) Party will be again
set up next Thursday, August is,
at the corner of Steinway and ia
maica AYES, and the platform Of
the Workers Party will be ex-
pounded by prominent Communist
speakers, among them Robert
Minor, editor of the Daily Worker
and Communist candidate for U. S.
Senate. Other speakers will be
Rebecca Grecht, Communist candi-
date for Assembly from the Fifth
Assembly District of the Bronx;
Abraham fairfield, one of the speak
ers who was beaten up by the "ad-
vocates of free speech and personal
liberty" last week, and Communist
candidate for Assembly from the
First Assembly District of Queens;
Max Schachtman, editor of the La
Dor Defender; Verne Smith, editor
of Labor Unity; P. Shapiro and
donald Burke.
Workers of Astoria are asked to
Iattend the Communist meeting next
Thursday as a demonstration of
protest against the action of the
Astoria democrats, hiding unoer the
cloak of the Veterans OF Foreign
Wars.
The speakers will devote large
part Of their talks to the exposure
of the graft and corruption which
rule Queens County. Workers of
Queens will be reminded, also, that
the country of the democratic and
republican bosses was born in rev.
olution. Part of the attack on the
Communists made by the demo-
cratic machine of Queens was based
on Communism being not "reforma-
tive and progressive" but revolu-
tionary.