The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-29
BY VERN SMITH.


without regard to politics, are being
showered with long blue documents
sent out by The American Defend
ers" CThe Blue Shirts, whose print
ed slogan is For God and Country"
and Loyalty to Industry Is Loyalty
to Country" Stamped around over
the literature is the remark: "Eisen-
stein went Amtorg must go!" The
first patches of the stuff had a let
terhead address: ''NIarblehead, Mass,
Birthplace of the American Navy"
but later offerings have this address
pasted over with a slip reading, p.
o. Box 80, Station o, New York City"
Part of the literature is usually
letter addressed to factory owners,
and offering to Scab on the private
detective companies: You must be
aware that hitherto a great deal OF
expense and effort have been put
forth in corrective and punitive ac-
tivities. Our purpose is to make
a direct working connection between
loyalty to industry and loyalty to
country. We show employees
that it is entirely in their own in
terebts that the shop be purged and
kept free from agitators. .. We hold
it is better that a shop full of Blue
Shirts makes it impossible for a
red to work and agitate in the same
plant with them, than for a dis
charged red to win the power and
sympathy of 'nlartyrdom' because,
as he always claims, he has been
arbitrarily fired by the Front Office.
Industrial self-discipline, autonomous
shop morale, maintaining economic
sobriety in the plant by harmony
between the Front Office and the
shop and the suppression Of all in
dustrial racket, these are part Of
our purposes"
Bold Boosting
With this stuff goes a card which
says. I'VE obtained for that I'M
patriotic anti-military propaganda
film, All Quiet On the Western
Front, its wide prohibition in Amer
lea and its complete suppression in
Germany, and the expulsion from
America of Eisenstein. Next. AM
kinos imported Red Propaganda film
must be excluded Also Amtorg
must go"
Eisenstein is the great director Of
Soviet Union films, recognized as the
master Of technique, who came to
America on a contract with Para
mount films last year to produce
Dreisser's American Tragedy" was
double-crossed and sabotaged for
months, and finally driven out, and
another director put in charge of
the American Tragedy, evidently
with orders to ruin it. Amkino
films are known to many workers
as almost the only really vital and
honest movies on the screen today.
Antorg is the agent of the Soviet
Union industries in America and
handles practically all trade between
Russia and America.
The Blue Shirts" program, there
fore, is to do injury to the workers
and peasants of the Soviet Union in
whatever way it can.
The man who signs as National
Commander all the Blue Shirt
stuff is Major Frank Pease.
A Censorship.
This individual appeared before
the Fish Commission September 26-
q, 1880, at its open hearings in
New York as President of the
Hollywood Technical Directors AS
ISOLATION" The Blue Shirts were not
at that time formed, and seem to
be a secondary racket, probably an
outgrowth Of the first Major Pease
swore that ne was not a director,
but "a writer by profession" that
he had organized the directors "es-
pecially from the physical aspects,
technical direction, to prevent the
occurrence of radical propaganda in
the film" He said that he had been
in Hollywood for two years, that he
was American by birth, had served
in the American armies during the
Spanish American war, had lost q
leg in the PHILIPPINES, and Served
IN the world war, also, with one
leg"
kilograms and cablegrams read
into the record by Pease told Of his
connections with the international
Entente Against The Third Inter
national" which has a permanent
bureau in Geneva, and whose pres
ident is Theodore ALBERT,
For Pogroms.
One letter from Pease to Jesse
Lasky, president of Paramount Pic
lures, brings in the anti-semitic
angle, thus: Israel is forever COM
planning that it is an innocent VIC
tim of other races. Yet 1t is just
such unrestrained, lawless and So
cially irresponsible acts as Lasky's
brazen importation of an avowed
Communist enemy (mearlng Eisen-
Stein) of America which has made
and can again make Israel the scape-
goat of history"
At other points in the Fish tes-
timony, Pease boosted of his in
fliicncc with the French Belgian