The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

! which a million and a quarter
'of the jobless came cut and
proved their existence, had
smashed through this conspir7
acy of silence, some new meas
ures had to be taken.
The Fish Committee was blum i
derbus, intended to scatter, its shot
and bring down whole flock of OBJ I
| jectives. 1t was intended to lay the
basis, in LOCALITIES as well as in. propa I
ganda, for war on the Soviet Unionl
1t was intended to turn the rising
wrath of the farmers toward Russia
as an enemy and away from the
Hoover administration. 1t was in
tended to cripple workers organiza-
ton by terrorizing the membership
of militant unions and failing and
deporting their leaders and providing
national labor spy service.7~
Unemployment AT the Center.
But the center of the charge was
directed at the unemployed. Every
one of its detectives had to take into
consideration the millions of unem-
ployed.
To make war on Russia, where
there is no unemployment. you must
mir, ot,or fo e0y,o rJao,aa al Iaae+ a.
American millions of unemployed
The Fish Committee tried to. convince
them of convict labor in Russia, triec
to make them think that the Soviet
Unions Five Year Plan was flooding
American markets with cheap good
and depriving American workers oil
their jobs. Fish had no use for thd
governments own figures, that thd
Soviet Union buvs five times as much
in the United States as it sells herel
Instead, the Fish committee wanted
tc talk only about fictitious cruelty
of the Soviet Government towardI
workers, denying or ignoring all thosi
who wanted to tell of the rising wagi
in the U. S. S. r., the cultural ad
vances, the seven-hour day, the con
troll of industry and government b
the workers in the Soviet Union.
The Fish committee was embar
raised by the testimony of big brok
ers that Russian wheat sales. did nd
lower the price of wheat for tl1
American farmer. 1t wanted the pod
farmers, starving and betrayed b
Hoover's promise of farm relief, d
forget that promise and regard Rus
STA as the source of all their trouble
To Smash Unions.
Capitalism looks toward war as
! way, a dangerous way. but wal
out of the economic crisis. But va
means nothing but misery for III
workers, and strong, military uniod
stand in the road of q successful wal
The federal spy service, the easiS
deportation laws, the suppression 4
the Daily Worker, the barring fro5
the ballot of the Communist Part5
all advocated in the Fish Conlmittd
report, were to smash the organize
tions that fight alike for short4
hours thus reducing unemployment
and oppose war on the Soviet Uniof
With the country full of helpless, VI
organized unemployed, both low
wages and war were easy.
To Keep Them Helpless.
And this last part Of the Fish pr
gram, the smashing of the WORKED
organizations, was a"direct blow
the organizing unemployed. For
is the Communist Party and tf
Trade Union Unity League that lea
the way to organize the jobless.
The Fish committee did not do
good job, because the facts are 4
against it, and because the. .men7
ycaliber of its members was pretI
low, But, good or bad, capitalist
I proceeds with its original plaI
There is already suppression of Il
communist papers. DeportatlonS
foreign born workers haye be1
speeded up in the last few days Thu
did not even wait for the adoptid
Of the Fish proposals. The supprdI
sions and deportations are intend
rarity rs propaganda for adoption
the Fish proposals Thy showing u
| frt
they are the main purpose of caH
taIism, to which the Fish cominit1
and all its program is incident
The answer OF the workers must
further organization, into unemployI
councils, into militant unions, III
the Communist Party, It. must
struggle, demonstrations for rel
Ard insurance. strikes against wa9
riI,z