The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-02
a Challenge!
The Readers of The Daily Worker Must
Make an Immediate and Effective Reply!

that also publish the New YORK Daily News, and the
weekly magazine, Liberty have today issued chal-
enge to every reader of the Daily Worker through
nouncement the publication of the fiction story The
Fed Napoleon" poisonous mperialist propaganda in
preparation for the against the Union of Soviet Re-
publcs.
This is the latest malicious manifestation of the de-
berae drive American greed is developing against
the Workers Republic 1t must be combated, defeated!
"The Red Napoleon is pictured "Karakhan of
kazan, a TartarMongol leader, with Red armies num-
berng millions of men,, sweeping Europe Thus
attempt is made to give reality to this fiction by using
the name of Karakhan, former Soviet ambassador to
China and Germany and at present assistant commssar
OF foreign affairs.
The diseased of the renegade socialist editor of
the magazine Liberty Joseph Medil Patterson heir to
the edi millions Chicago gives the full weight of the
Chicago Tribune New York Daily NewsLiberty interests
approval to this drive against the Soviet Union to
the publication of this nightmare.
The whole campaign bases itself on fomenting hatred
between the The fulpage advertisement in the
New York Times Monday, April First which has doubt
been inserted also in other capitalist dales over
the land at an expense of tens of thousands of dollars
declares that this fictitious Red Napoleon believes
That the supremacy of be ended that
all should be put in the melting pot that only one human
emerge with this object in yew nyades America
to kill the white and capture the white women"
Race hatred and the threat of war to women, with
all the accompanying insnuations. The cry that 'Whe
civilization seems doomed" is intended to whip up the
fear of the reader. This capitalist intellectual swi
tinues follows:
"only America stands in the path of Napoleon
His armies invade Canada They southwark.
American resistance is rolled back New England is de-
Air raids kill hundreds of and children in
Ro7ton New York is in ruins Washington is evae
the Mexico is invaded 100000 Americans are
arms. The nation turns to the Confronted
by the combined British and Japanese fleets now Red hands
vastly outnumbered-our navy must out and fight
United cac5 power holds the fate of white eivization
And much more rot to the same effect. 1t win be
remembered that it the American army and navy
that invaded the Soviet Union, both through Archangel
Vladivosto killing and outragng the inhabitants of
all ages and both sexes devastating the countryside put
ting the torch villages destroying factories bridges
and in every way seeking to crush the working and peas
ant population the czarism that had been dis
placed by the Workers and Peasants Government.
This attack was waged the only basis that divides
the world oday-the class basis The war in the world
today is the class war, the struggle of workers. poor
and oppressed coonias against the mperiaist
oppressors. The fake ssue-the cry that White
civilization doomeds false issue raised by the
capitalist masters today in effort to divide the work
ers and continue their class rule their expoita
ton and pEunder of labor When American capitalism
falls it will be the magnificent accomplishment of Amer
cas workers. poor farmers soldiers and sailors at nome
The working class must not be divided. must be
mperialist
Labor can only be united by understanding its own
struggle. 1t only understand through getting the
facts The immediate need powerful antidote to the
poisonous propaganda being distilled by this widely
advertised fiction story, 'The Red Napoleon.
The Chicago Tribune and it's offspring the New York
Daily News and the magazine, Liberty in which the
story appears, have grown rich into many millions
through robbery of the workers. The Tribune has stolen
millions from the school children of Chicago through
fraudulent leasing of school lands 1t has grown rich
from Chcagos money makers-the stOckyards, farm ma
chnery plants steel mills banks department stores. Be
fore the American entry into the world it
kasers After the United States got into the world car
mage it became the worst ngo in support of the British
and French imperiaist 1t has competitor, not
even in William Randolph Hearst in its continuous
pagn that the United States invade and Mexico
1t has waged endless campaign against the Soviet
Union.
We must fight back Our chief weapon TODAY is
the Daily Worker 1t must be strengthened for the
struggled 1t be made equal to the battle Build its
circulation increase its of readers and the march
forward conquest against the lies of this flood of
capitalist war propaganda will not be in vain.
This attack must be stimulation to the Subscrip
ton Drive started yesterday, and that will continue
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