The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-19

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IW.W. had done it's work. When
the writer, for example, who was
born in Kansas and whose American
ancestry goes back to colonial times,
was arrested, the jailer insisted on
booking him as German" and re-
corded the charge that he was a
German spy"
The I.W.W. felt the full brunt
of capitalist war propaganda. But
what about the real German spies.
M. Viereck, who calmly admits his
role as one of the chief German
spies, in his book above cited, tells
US that he:
q. was never indicted or ar
rested. His office was never raid
ed. His papers were never SEIZED"
and be adds, ''to this day he finds
impossible to convince most people,
sucked on propaganda, that he
did not spend several years in
jail and that his publication was
not suppressed"
Terror Hit Only workers.
In fact, if there were any real
German spies jailed during the war,
they were very small fry and got off
with a scare, while the I.W.W. was
raided, its papers suppressed, its
leaders imprisoned and murdered,
its striking members beaten up,
tarred and feathered, corralled in
vile bull-pens, violently deported by
hundreds into the desert lin the
case of Bisbee, Arizona's mine
strike), all by actual order or with
the express approval and open as
sistance of the capitalist govern
ment, which let real German spies
go scot free, while British spies
practically took over the United
States government.
This may give present day read
ers of the growing torrent of lies
about "Bolshevik plots" of Elihu
Roots sneaking lie about Commu-
mist propaganda" in the United
States being backed by "the re-
sources of a great empire" some
idea of where this is all leading.
1t may be interesting to know
that Viereck, who has checked up
all the secret service activities of
foreign governments in America
during the war by friendly COM
parison of notes with his enemies"
of the last war, says that British
propaganda, spreading its web from
London, was active at all times, be.
fore, during and after the war"
Busy, that is, in America.
Spies Still Busy.
| We hereby flatly assert that it
is still busy. The name of any per-
son appearing as active in the Com
munist movement, is registered in
every British consulate in America
and in Scotland Yard. British spies
check the whereabout and activities
of every American interested in
freedom for colonial peoples. All
in close cooperation with the U. S.
secret service, though the U. S.
knows full well that corps of other
British spies are busily engaged at
this moment in actual military
espionage aimed at preparation for
!; the inevitable war between Amer
lean and British Imperialism.
Sir Gilbert Parker, says Viereck,
was head of the British secret SER
vice and propaganda in the prep
|, aration of American "public opin-
ion" for war until 1917. Then Sir
, William Wiseman took the job, Will
son giving him the key to the White
! House, SO to speak. No American
could board ship in any American
port without a British Provost Mar
shall named Thwaite, giving his APP
ploval. Sir Wiseman gave Arthur
Woods, Assistant Secretary of War
"a list of dangerous persons to be
arrested at once" And they were
arrested.
But Viereck, still loyal scoundrel
to capitalism, is very careful to
keep out of his exposures" the
fact that real spies were let go with
scare even when arrested while
militant work ers, fighting for
wages, hours and conditions, were
: ruthlessly suppressed. He is very
careful not to reveal the anti-work-
ing class nature of the whole secret
service gang of all capitalist powers.
Secret Service Against Workers.
But with the plot which every
child should understand, Matched at
London for imperialist war against
the Soviet Union, being carried out
before our eyes, only simpleton
would deny that the furious anti
Communist drive now being carried
on, is free from deliberate and con-
scious secret service backing. 1t is
, against these nefarious war plots,
against the fortress of working class
freedom, that American workers
protest on August l.
; 1t was not for nothing that Sir
Henry Defending, who has financed
numerous anti-Soviet forgeries in
Europe, forgeries publicly exposed
a. his work and not denied by him,
hos made two recent trips to Amer
lea.
. 1t is not for nothing that in his
wake the infamous "Whalen for
geries" appeared. And it was not