The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-10
The Red-Baiters Meet in the
Capitol

"a Of the Program, as follows:
1.-THE conquest of power by the proletariat does
not mean peacefully capturing the ready-made
bourgeois state machinery by means of parlia-
mentary majority. The bourgeoisie resorts to
every means of violence and terror to safeguard
and strengthen its predatory property and its
political domination. Like the feudal nobility of
the past, the bourgeoisie cannot abandon its his
torical position to the new class without deS-
perate and frantic struggle. Hence, the violence
of the bourgeoisie can be suppressed only by the
stern violence of the proletariat."
''Now" said Foster, "in the struggles against
wage cuts the workers are met with the most
brutal violence In Danville the strikers are
threatened by the armed militia. On March 9th
a peaceful demonstration in New York of 10000
workers, on the admission of eX-police commits
sioner Whalen himself, is slugged by thousands of
police. 1t is the bosses, who to perpetuate their
system of exploitation, resort to the most brutal
violence against the majority of the workers"
DO you believe in the establishment of Soviet
government in the United States" was Fish's next
question.
Foster replied: First I want to say that the
Soviet regime is whole era in advance of the
capitalist system in the United States. We be-
lieve in the abolition of the decaying, rotten sys-
tenn of capitalist which is bankrupt and the
establishment of workers and farmers govern
ment here"
Then began Fishs series of "allegance" ques-
tons Instead of asking about giving allegiance
to the bosses their system of exploitation and
their government, Fish waved the flag in Fosters
face.
do you give allegiance to the Soviet govern
ment in Russia" he asked in manner which
indicated that now I've got the goods on you'll"
Eve are guided by the furtherance of the in
terest of the workers all over the world. We
believe in the international solidarity of the
workers in their struggles against the bosses
wherever they are The Soviet government is the
only workers government in the wordld. The
Soviet government is the beginning of new sys-
tenn of society in which the exploitation and
degradation of the workers is abolished. The
workers of the whole world look upon the Soviet
Union as their country, and the workers of the
world will defend it against the attacks of the
capitalists who are only waiting for favorable
moment to renew an armed attack"
The flag is Fishs strong point. DO the workers
look upon the Soviet flag as their fag?"
THE workers of this country, and the workers
Of every country" said Foster, "have only one
flag. That is the flag of the proletarian revolu-
ton 1t was also incidentally the flag of the
American revolution in its earlier stages. The
red flag been the flag of every workers revolu-
ton. 1t is the flag of the Russian revolution"
After few sorties about allegiance to the
American flag, or the red flag, Fish concluded
his examination by asking: "As a Communist,
you look forward to the coming of the world
revolution, do you?"
To this Foster answered: GAS Communist l
know that the capitalist system is bankrupt. All
we have to do is to look out upon the world
today and see it in state of collapse. In China
the masses are forming Sovets. Revolutions in
Latin America; revolutionary upheavals in Spain,
in India. Political and economic crises in Ger
many and Poland. The capitalist system is crack
ing"
All the while that Fish was questioning Foster
the room was filling up until every inch of space
was taken. In this room of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives
never before had anything like this happened.
The old toadies of the bosses government looked
as if they could not understand it all Strange
days had descended on capitalism.
The questioning was next taken up by the old
bourbon from the South, Congressman Hall of
Mississippi.