The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-04
BY HARRY CANNES.

EVERY paid agent of the coal operators in
Kentucky is now engaged in a campaign
Of bowling against the Communist Party. Every
pulpit and gutter sheet in Harlan and Bell
Counties, and the territory surrounding the
strike area, spouts about "Roosian Reds" Every
miner who has the CUTS to fight against hunger
is branded "Roosian Red" as if that ends all
his reasons for fighting, as if that were final,
unanSwerable argument to the major struggles
now being carried on by the National Miners
Union in Kentucky and the Communist Party
The operators can no longer answer the charge
OF wholesale, mass starvation. They don't even
attempt it. They cannot deny that the miners
do not earn enough to eat on or feed their fam
lies even when they work long hours at back
breaking toll. The terror reign is too real to
be denied They cannot hide the upsurge of the
miners under the leadership of the National
Miners Union.
1t is precisely in Kentucky, where the capt.
talist system, through its most powerful repre-
sentatives, the United States Steel Corporation
the Ford Motor Co., the Insul utility trust has
brought the greatest misery to the workers, kill
ing off by the hundreds their children muir
dertng the most militant failing the working
class leaders, that the capitalists find it neces-
sary to defend themselves by a scurrilous pre-
judice-inspring dividing and slanderous
campaign against the Communist Party the
stalwart leader Of the struggles against capt.
talism in the United States.
Prejudice and Facts.
The campaign against the Communist Party
and an attempt to brand every miner "Roosian
Red" hoping thereby to cover up with bar
rage of prejudice the real facts behind this issue
began before the present strike
The American Legion in Bell County issued
leaflet and published a full-page advertisement
in the Pineville Sun" quoting from the Fish
Committee Report on the Communist Party, US
ing every lying argument it could find to keep
the miners from knowing the truth.
They quoted the testimony of William q
Foster one of the leaders on the Communist
Party, on religion. The aim of the coal operators
in Kentucky was by this emans of distorting what
Foster said to use religion in an effort to drive
the miners back into the mines at lower wages;
through the use Of religion, and the religious
issue, to keep the miners from knowing the
truth about capitalism the hunger system and
the fight of the Communist Party against it,
Since the American Legion and the Pineville
Sun" brought up the Fish Committee report
and its version of the program of the Commu-
mist Party as contained in this report it would
be well to dwell on it somewhat SO the Kentucky
miners may know what the Communist Party
is, ana what the coal operators mean when they
call miner 'Roosian Red"
The Role of the Communist Party
The Communist Party, as was stated through
its leaders before the Fish Committee and as it
states in its press, and carries out in its daily
struggles, is the revolutionary party of the
working class fighting against capitalism and
all the miseries it brings to the workers 1t leads
the workers to mobilize In a final struggle to
end capitalism and all its destruction its crisis
its wars its periods of starvation, its murderous
attack on the workers.
The Communist Party leads the struggle of