The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-16
BY HARRY IARlS.

THE recent Red Plot exposure OF WhaIen
and the proposed Congressional lnvest1ga-
ton of Communist activity in the U. ,. bring
to the fore a problem of great Importance. TINS
is an undoubted attempt to drive our Party
into a state of illegality
The statements of Representative Fish (N.
", who for years has been playing a leading
role in all anti-Soviet and anti-Communlst &C
tivty. are of great significance in bearing out
the above. In speaking Of his bill proposing
an investigation into Communist activities Fish
declares that he
"Wil seek to legislate the Communist Par
tv from the ballot make membership in the
Third International penal offense even
for a native born American, and move to
establish a distant colony for Communists
who cannot be deported to Russia" On. Y.
Daily News May g..
In his desire to completely liquidate Commu-
nism Mr.. Fish attempts to steal some OF Mus
solini's thunder by proposing similar system
for handling Communists to the one carried out
in Fascist Italy. In place of the island IN
the Mediterranean where thousands OF courage
Gus Italian Communists are rottlng because OF
their activity against Italian fascism, Fish pro-
poses that,
1--WE could take an island in the Pacific
somewhere and send all Communists there
lNA''4NN'A
and social plans
However, Fish hastens to add that this treat
rent is not meant for liberals socialists ad
pacifists, but only to outlaw Communists. This
hasty addition will undoubtedly gain the sup
port of these elements for this proposal to
outlaw Communists.
No Mere Accident.
It is no mere accident that at this stage
the American capitalist class is intensifylng
its anti-Red activity and Fastening its prepare
tions to drive our Party into illegality. This
is an outgrowth of the increased activity of
the Party among the American workers, espec-
tally our struggle against unemployment, Tor
work or wages, unemployment Insurance and
the 7-hour day 5-day week. Even though our
organizational strength has not kept pace our
Party has through its recent activity establish
ed itself as the political leader of large masses
of workers. Hundreds of thousands are today
realizing for the first time that there is an
organization in this country fighting for the
interests of the working class despite all the
terror of the ruling class The success of the
March 6 and May l demonstrations all over
the country are remarkable proof of this. The
CAPITALIST class too, realizes this and also its
natural consequences. They fear this growing
influence of the Party and therefore their pres
ent activity and "Red Plot" exposures
The mobilization of The working class and
struggle against this attempt to drive under
ground the revolutionary organizations of the
working class becomes one of the major tasks
of the Party at this time. The Whalen Tor
geries are undoubtedly part of the prepara-
lions for firstly, the breaking off OF business
relations with the Soviet Union, and secondly
part of the imperialist war preparations
against the Soviet Union. In pointing this out
oil However there
is one other side actually these are very closely
connected to the forgeries, especially when
taken in connection with the Bills authorizing
investigation into Communist activity now be-
fore Congress- This is what is brought out
in the above quoted statements of Representa-
tive Fish. and the activity Of Whalen and the
New York police. The capitalist class fears
our Party and wants to drive it underground
Unless this is Brought out to the Party and the
entire working class we will be unprepared to
carry on struggle against this action OF the
capitalist class
The answer of the Party must be the mob
iization of broad masses of workers IN cam
paign against the Fish investigation, against
the Whalen forgeries, against the criminal
svndicalist law which is now being applied on
a wide scale throughout the country, and
against the capitalist terror which has caused
thousands of arrests in the first four months
of this year.
All working class organizations, especially
the unions, must be rallied to struggle against
these plans of the capitalist class. We must
utilize the present favorable situation IN the
country to build the revolutionary unions, the
legal defense organization, and other auxiliary
organizations Thousands Of workers through
out the country, who are not yet willing to
Join the Communist Party would flock to these
other organizations if only these workers were
reached, not through the showing of moving
pictures but through working class activity.
In time of illegality some of these organiza-
tons would be the sole legal expressions OF
the revolutionary working class. Especially
-sust we CONSOLIDATED and strengthen the Party
organizationally. The 5000 new members re-
cruited in the recent drive must be kept not
only on the list but drawn into the regular
everyday activity of the Party. Many of these
workers have already been dropped from the
lists due to the fact that they were not drawn
into the activity of the Party, were no fol-
lowed up properly or because they do not at