The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-19
REVIEW WHALEN
FORGERIES FOR
WAR ON SOVIET
Fish's Secret Session to
Hide Crude Work

ment that these Whalen "docu-
ments" proved the need of an in
vestigation. This resolution estab-
lished the Fish committee.
Whalen Dodged Proof.
The Graphic printed the state
ment of its reporter that when
Whalen was summoned to Washing
ton to testify to the truth of his
documents, the reporter tried sew
eral times to get him to listen to
proof that they were false, but was
turned down.
Originals Would Show Fake.
The originals of Whalen's for
geries can not be produced because
the slightest inspection of them will
show that they are proofs and not
printing. The photostats do not
show this, and for that reason,
after bluffing for months that he
has the originals, Whalen now tells
the world through the Fish commit
tee that Amtorg gets rid of the
discriminating originals by sending
them back to Russia" and then with
most amazing stupidity, keeps pic
lures of the discriminating material
in its files for any one to steal!
A War Move.
The attempted revival of these
already dead and sinking lies
launched on the world on May 2,
1880, through the combined activi-
ties of Whalen's administration in
the police department and the Rus
sian white guard forgers, indicates
only too clearly the second purpose
of the Fish committee. It's first
business is to accumulate testimony
from police and reactionaries of all
sorts on which anti-labor legislation
can be based. Its second purpose
is to lay propaganda basis for
war against the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics. The two purposes
coincide, for suppression of the
American workers, forcing their
party underground, falling their
union leaders, mass deportations of
foreign-born for terroristic affect on
the remainder is necessary to get
that lower standard of living and
docility without which a first class
imperialist war against any country
can not be prose cuted.
Demonstrate August 1.
Against this whole war prepare
ton scheme the Communist Party
calls the workers to fight. There
will be international mass demon
strations against imperialist war
and for the defense of the Soviet
Union on August 1. In America
these demonstrators will demand
that all war funds be used or i'm
mediate relief of the millions Of I'M
employed.
Whalen Coy.
Apparently it took some time to
persuade Whalen to go ahead with
the dirty work. Whalen nay be
getting a little scared. When tie
congressional committee, Fish ut its
head, met yesterday morning, with
the press carrying for a week an
nouncements that the former police
commissioner would testify then,
there was no Whalen.
The congressman scowled and the
audience fretted. An announcement
came down that there was some
in dates. Fish wrote out
formal subpoena for Whalen to ap-
pear, under pain of being neld in
contempt.
They put on a side-show:-a GER
tain S. Stanwood Menken, president
of the National Security League,
as a voluntary witness. He
said his organization had 100000
members during and shortly before
the war when it campaigned for
preparedness" 1t has $4,000 to
10000 now, he said, and is an "edu-
cational body" He said it had
corps nf 800 speakers, and had spent
$l,500,000 campaigning for compul-
sorry teaching of the constitution in
public schools.
His recommendations for ending
Communism, outside of lots Of con-
stitutionalism chow he explains that
clause .hout trial by jury he didn't
say), were deportations. Fish asked
him If he didn't agree that the alien
Russian Communists, who can't be
deported to the U. S. S. R., and the
American Communists, who can't be
deported at all, should be sent to "a
distant island possession of the
U. S. and never allowed to set foot
on the mainland again"--quaran-
tined, you know.
Set Adrift,
But Menken was worried about
the "indirect influence" of these
Communists, no matter how well ex-
lied. Also, when you make mar
tyrs even by putting them in Jail,
it makes more Communists"
Menken suggests, in all serious
ness, that they simply be chucked on
board ship and not allowed to land
here. Let 'em drift on the high
seas, "men without a country"
Some Of the congressman opined it
might require changes In that same
constitution in order to work that
game.
Finally Whalen came, towed along
by Inspector Lyons. A ten-minute
session brought out nothing new,
and Lyons had Whalen around again
for the afternoon session. He sat at
Whalen's elbow, and occasionally