The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-04

The workers who filled Ii
ing Plaza Hall voted a resol
ton ending this way at
enthusiastic mass meeting !;
night to protest the presence
Italo Balbo, Mussolini's agent
America.
Before that they had listened
Norman Tallentire, Of the intern
tional Labor Defense outline
broad class basis not only
fascism but also capitalism and i
perialism, of which fascism is I
true self.
Not Like Socialists.
"Not united front such as I
socialists desire, based on a uni
of classes" said Tallentire, "but
united front of the working cl;
against fascism."
"The International Labor Defer
fights fascism and fascism's cl;
brothers, not with acts Of individl
violence, but with organization
organized action. 1t has experiel
in fighting terror, for the capt.
ism that puts workers in jail
murders them in America is Of
another face of the fascism Of NJ
solini."
Big Capital For Beni.o.
VIM. w. Weinstone delivered
sharp analysis of the basis of f
cism. 1t rests now on big capit
ism, and the crisis and unempl
ment forces Mussolini to more &
more imperialistic activity. He
part of the whole edifice of imp
ialism.
1t is not unusual for Tamms
Hall to welcome agents of capt.
ism, said Weinstone. Tammt
and American capitalism are cl
brothers of fascism, and those v
killed Sacco and Vanzetti, and lyl
Negroes, suppress Nicaragua,
shoot Chinese, have every right
shake the bloody hand of fascisl
Weinstone referred to the sente
ing of Communists in Italy to
total of 400 years, some of them
underground dunge eons, VIII
means death. He spoke of Terr
cini and Gramsci, especially, spe,
ing 20 years in underground ce
eve must combine our strug
against fascism with the VIII
struggle against terror of capt.
lists in Poland, Italy, Rumania,
America, war and Imperialism"
said, and ended, "Only worke
and farmers government will fl
protect the working class"
Carlo Tresca, editor of II M
tello, recently suppressed for pri
ing irrefutable proof in his pa
of Mussolini's righteousness
graft, told how Balbo, the sort
fascist who not only glorifies '
lence but practices it, did not
cept his challenge to prosecute
libel but used Mussolini's ambas
dor in Washington to have the
per suppressed.
The hall was surrounded by
couple dozen of Tammany police,
out to protect, if possible, the re
tation Of the fascist, old friends
Mayor Walker. A gang Of
Strong arm squad" stood on
corner of Irving and Fifteer
swinging their clubs and look
disgustedly at the workers stres
ing up to the hall. T. De Fa.
chairman of the joint committee
the International Labor Defense ;
the Anti-Fascist Alliance, un
whose auspices the meeting
held, acted as chairman.
A speaker who knew and suffe
from fascism in Italy was Va
Montana, editor of II Lavoratore
Montana was active in anti-f
cist work in Sicily, took part in
first years of the civil war agai
fascism, was often arrested, u
shot in his native town in Sit
and was tortured by beating and
pert knife slashing by the bla
shirts. Once he was left for d,
on the ground.
He gave a history of fascis)
growth.
The meeting ended with una
nous adoption of a resolution c,
ing on workers wherever Balbo &
to show their hatred and confer
for him and what he stands for,
to form united front of all wo
ers against fascism, calling
freedom of prisoners of capital
and declaring, at is the task Of
American working class to strug