The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

why don't they join in ralying the longshoremen 10
refuse unload load these ships; why don't they
organize the tugboatmen to refuse to dock the Ger
man liners? This would be serious, anti-fascist
action
Such action would place the struggle in the hands
of the workers. where alone it be made an efec-
tive struggle But Green doesn't want such working
class action any more than the big bankers want it,
1t would set q precedent that would determine the
forms of struggle against the rapidly developing fas-
cst trend of the American bourgeoisie Green would
limit the anti-fascis protest of the toers to mere
repetition of the empty phrases and the futile gestures
of the petty bourgeosie,
now could it be otherwise when Mr.. Green now,
Al through his own strkebreaking activities under the
NFoA. and through his support for the fascist pro-
posals of Roosevelt johnson, Perkins and McGrady, is
in the forefront of those forces working to introduce
a counterpart of the Hitler regime based the per-
secution of the workers. the Negro masses, and the
foreign born, here in the United States?
Green refers, in his speech, to the German trade
unions as lone of the finest organized trade union
movements established" He sings the praises of
the splendid officials who have led them (the Ger
Workers-Editor) well and who have admins
tered their affairs ably" 1t is today well known
fact that these leaders during the past took one step
after another which prepared the road for Hitler;
they capituated completely at the moment the fas-
cists came to power, and like cowardly rats, they
deserted the unions when the Nazi terror began.
BY such statements Green not only wishes TO
whitewash the vicious selout Of the workers to fas
cism by his German counterparts, Theodor Lepart
and Peter Grassmann, but he tries to justify his
role in the fascist Developments in America.
MIR GREEN delivers IAN nnpassioned speech" against
wi GERMAN fascsul. AT the same time he warmly
endorses the corporate state" idea of Secretary Of
Labor, Francis Perkins, the mo strike" edcts of Cen
eral johnson and Assistant Labor Secretary Mcrady
and the literal merging of the trade unions with the
government apparatus-au fascist proposals.
In practice Green and the other A. F. of L, bureau
Gratis go still openly fascist They the prin
Cipal tools of the bosses in hogteing the workers
der the NRA. codes, they have openly served the
bosses srikebreakers in the strikes of steel workers.
coal miners, auto workers. textile workers and in all
the present and recent strikes They have not uttered
single whisper of protest against the shooting club
bling and gassing of American workers. They openly
participate in the fascination OF the United States
Yet they pretend to fight GERMAN fascism, but
only to cover up their own fascist course.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY is for the most deter
mined and relentless action against fascsm against
fascism in Germany, and particularly against fascist
developments in the United States, We against
the bearers of fascism the Roosevelts, the Green's
the VOLS and will fight to expose their every act of
betrayal their every step toward fascs. Particular
ly the workers must their present maneuver to
empty protest against Hitler to conceal their
fascist course here.
boycott is inadequate. The Communist Party
supports the boycott movement only with the objec-
tive of Transforming it into fighting move
ment against fascism and against every step toward
fascism.
We urge the workers into this fight using protest
meetings, demonstrations and strkes-all forms that
really arouse the masses that set them into motion
They, not the waverng petty bourgeoisie, will be the
Ve-diggers of capitalism in its fascist garb