The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
OLCIN RIPS INTO
FISH COMMITTEE
Hits Their Lies and PrOpa'
ganda
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class nature of the Wall Street gov
eminent, the tremendous unemploy-
ment and war preparations Of the
bosses, the Fish Committee parted
by f1ag-waving.
do you teach in your paper the
organization of the workers for the
ultimate overthrow of the capitalist
system of America ?" was the next
thrust of Nelson.
II say that the workers must or
ganize to fight their employers; that
against the capitalist government
which Expresses them, which cuts
their wages, throws them out onto
the streets to starve, and prepares
to rush them to war for new mar
kets."
They didn't relish this answer of
Olgin. They didn't want Olgin to
show how the bosses control the leg
islstures, the Fish commission and
yields this as deftly as the boss cops
WELD their clubs against the workers.
When Olgin pointed out that 16
workers had been killed during the
past year for their working class
militancy; that Foster, Minor, Am
ter and Raymond were in Jail for
lighting for unemployment insurance,
the bloated committee members tried
to make a quick switch. They in
sisted on Eyes or no" answers to their
fake questions. They threatened Oh
gin with contempt proceedings. Sar-
castle laughter spread through the
room, to the discomfort of the com
nittee, when Olgin quietly told Nell
son that as a capitalist lawyer he
ought to know that questions cannot
always be answered with yes or no.
answers. you are using the tactics
Of a police court here" said Olgin.
The inquisitors who had called this
fred" in to make short work of him
were getting hot under the collar.
Things were not going just their
way. Olgin was exposing capitalism,
was exposing crude propaganda of
the committee, showed up the tissue
of lies that had poured into the rec
ord, and refused to be entrapped by
their flag waving maneuvers.
Then Fish himself began to invade
the province of religion. do you
believe in the abolition of religion"
II believe with what Marx said"
Olgin replied, that religion is the
opium of the people. 1 believe in en-
tightening the masses and abolishing
the poison and danger of igno-
rance spread by religion against the
workers"
Then the Great Big Man from the
South, Bachman, took up the trail.
The others had failed miserably, and
so this exploiter of the Negro work
ers in West Virginia, who was quite
confident that 'the niggers wouldn't
take to Communism" cooked his left
eye and began his particular TRADE.
DO you believe in the equality of
white and Negro?" he asked in a
tone which showed he was about to
evince proof enough to hang Olgin.
eyes, the Communist Party be-
lieves in the full social and political
equality of the Negro and white and
fights for it in the South and the
North"
Bachman spent most of his time
waving flags. He wanted to know II
Olgin believed in the red flag as OPP
posed to the red white and blue. He
was asked which flag he owed allie
glance to.
Il recognize that the red flag" Oh
gin answered, Us the symbol OF the
struggle of the revolutionary work
ers throughout the world against
their capitalistic masters. It is I'M
der the red flag that the workers in
the Soviet Union have won their
freedom from Czarism and capitalism
in Russia; 1t is under the red flag
that millions are fighting against i'm
perialism in China, as well as against
their own exploiters."
Bachman's tactics were obvious.
He wanted to manufacture testimony
against Olgin's citizenship. Twenty
times he asked, DO you recognize
the American fiag?" and when Olgin
snapped back, This question is
propaganda" Bachman threatened
contempt proceedings.
This gave Fish an opening to re-
fuse to permit Olgin to read his
statement exposing the tremendous
unemployment existing in the United
States and the real aims and tactics
of the Communist Party in mo-
bilizing the workers to struggle
against 1t. you won't answer our
questions as we want you to-" said
the ex-football player, 80 we won't
let you read your statement"
Two long winded statements by
counter revolutionists and scah
herders had been read with no OPP
position. George Djamgaroff, a
white-guard forger, was allowed
even urged and coached in reading
statement against the Communist
Party. Searles' statement went into
the record in full. 1t had been pre-
pared with the aid of the Depart
ment of Justice, who work with the
fascist scabs in the United Mine
Workers of America.