The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-19
SPIES OF A GREAT EMPIRE; :
SECRET SERVICE AIDS BOSSES
Demand For "Anti Red Police" Hides Present
Spies Plotting War On Soviet Union
By HARRISON GEORGE

look over the Fish Committee
Ia anti Communist publicity, the
whole "Bolshevik gold" fairy tales
now running in the capitalist press
from Maine to California, the yelp-
ing wolf-pack headed by Matthew
Woll, of the fascist American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor officialdom, peddl-
ing anti-Soviet forgeries with Ralph
M. Easley, Whalen and Co. Look
over the lot, and let your mind go
back to 1917, and even earlier, when
British and German propagandists
were battling for control of pub
lie opinion" in the United States.
A certain M. Viereck, one of the
chief German spies and propaganda
lists, in a recent book ("Spreading
Germs of Hate" - published by
Horace Liveright), very stupidity
for supposedly clever gent, infers
that the British won and the Ger
mans lost American public opin.
ion," merely because German spy
named Albert lost his brief-case and
the contents were made public in
1915. Every schoolboy should know
what President Wilson said-after
the war was all over-that it was
"a commercial and industrial war"
and Saving the world for democ
racy" had nothing to do with it.
American bankers had invested bill
lions in Allied loans, and America
went to war to guarantee the secur
ity of those loans.
But looking back (And those
of you whose memories are poor,
or who were then too young, need
a heavy anti-dote against the pres
ent swelling wave of war propa
ganda against the Soviet Union. . }
Looking back, one recalls the ter
rifle fuse made about German
gold" and German spies"
The capitalist press was full of it.
There were German plots" on
every page. The town constable in
every Nebraska village was look
ing for German submarines along
the prairie horizon.
Moral Preparation"
Long before America went into
the war officially, the moral prep.
aration" was being pumped into
public opinion" In fact public
opinion" was manufactured. There
were "Flag Days." Preparedness:
Parades"-out of one in San Fran,
cisco there grew the Infamous frame
up against Mooney and Billings.
But foremost of all, the German
gold" was tagged onto the I.W.W
Industrial Workers of the World)
Though the I.W.W. has become only
a memory today, in those days, il
was, in very confused and clumsy
but earnest way, trying to organize
fighting industrial unions.
Some few hoped that it might d.
something effective against the
world slaughter AS a purely pro
letarian organization its natura
membership reaction was against
imperialist war The screaming cap
italist propaganda against it as /;
"disloyal body, won it great favor
among wide MISSES of workers. Blu
tho syndicalist tendency of the lead
ership, obsessed by the idea tina
revolutionary unionism chad nothing
to do with politics" SHE'D ava!
from any really anti-war policy, be
cause that would be against tn,
government" and that was mot tn
business of industrial unionism."
And in the great five-months Ion,
Chicago trial for "seditious con
spiracy" the governments auditor
Of I.W.W. bouks, plainly stated tina
the organization had been finances
solely by its members and sympa
thizers, while no evidence was eve
given that any member of the /. W
w. was German spy" or receives
German gold" The auditor state,
that such claims were ga myth"
Nevertheless, 101 leading member
of the I.W.W. were convicted afte
the long and farcical trial, and sen
fenced to as much as twenty year