The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-05
"Gabriel Over White House"
Is Fascist Anti>LabOr Film

while speeding ninety miles an hoW
to Annapolis, he suffers q conclusion
OF the brain. When he regains con-
seriousness, the divine spirit" of the
Angel Gabri3l has managed to slip
into his body in order to provide him
with sufficient spiritual" power to
weld the forces of the nation together
and thereby pave the way for the re-
turn Of prosperity.
What happens from now on is pro-
phetic in more than one way of what
the American masses may expect
from the present Roosevelt admins
tration, unless they do something
about it. And there is more than
coincidence in the similarity of some
of the proposals Of the two presi-
dents-"Gabriep and F. D. Gabriel
Over the White House MUST have
had the official sanction of the Roose-
welt administration before it was re-
leased to the public.
Becomes Dictator
Under the guise of acting solely in
the interests OF the people, the new
president, under strict orders from
Gabriel, the sweet voice of Wall
Street, declares himself the sole die
tator of the nation, for the good of
the suffering millions. Under the e.
fusion that he is George Washington,
he proceeds to disperse his cabinet,
diSsolveS Congress and declares the
country under martial law, all out of
sheer love of the people.
he issues an order for the militar-
ization of the unemployed in Army
barracks under federal control.
RooSeyelt's plan also). Gabriels
harp plays ever more sweetly be-
cause now the moneyed interests di-
rectly, without any Intermediates in
Congress, will assume full RESPONSE
bility for the affairs of the country.
Forced labor camps will solve the
problem of unemployment. There will
be no more need for hunger marches.
Food will cease to rot on farms.
Wages will increase. Prices will come
down. Prosperity will come out of
hiding. Very simple. All we have to
do is supply the angels with plenty
or harps and all will be we'll
War Propaganda
The President wipes out gangland
under the light Of the Statue of Lib
erty All in the name of liberty"
A prophecy that Communists and
Anarchists" will suffer the same
fate-also in the name of liberty"
The President demands full payment
of war debts in the name of peace
and fraternity. Pay your debts, he
cries, or we'll build ornaments so
heavy that you will be forced to pay
or fight. This is an enormous piece
of propaganda, calculated to impress
the people of America with the need
for building up the naval and air
fleets against the other inperialist
powers, as well as warning to these
powers to pay their debts to Wall
Street.
There is one fantastic scene in the
picture showing a gang of bootleggers
firing upon the leaders of the hunger
march to Washington for no reason
except that they we're disturbing their
business by attracting so much atten-
ton. A vicious SANDER against the
working class.
When the bonus narchers came to
Washington last summer they WE'RE
fired upon by q gang of cut-throats-
but the criminals responsible for this
were not bootleggers, but high gov
eminent officials and their capitalist
masters. The big gangsters who sit
in Wall Street and Washington and
not the bootleggers are the real en-
enies of the workers.
Gabriel Over the White House is
more than film. 1t is a pernicious
attack against the working class and
deliberate war propaganda. 1t should
be thoroughly exposed wherever it is
shown.