The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-01
Who Organizes Lynch
Violence?

l Rolph for Fascist volence-unmistak-
ably aimed at the Negro masses and the
rising resistance of the working class-has
provoked warnings from two leading New
York newspapers, the World-Telegram and
the Evening Post.
With obviously fearful glances toward
the spectre of mass resistance to the Roose-
velt hunger program, and working class
resistance to growing Fascism, the liberal
World-Telegram states:
''This is time of vast unrest. Other
wise law-abiding citizens are taking the
law into their hands. Farmers are using
violence against officers and judges. for
many months whole communities and
classes have been under nervous tension
almost TO the point of breaking, and now
we enter q winter of mass suffering
those who raise up the mob, must be pre-
pared for the destruction of the nation"
nd the Evening Post is even more ex-
plicit:
IF people are hungry, shall they not
Join mobs to get food If workers are
unemployed, shall they not join in mobs
TO take possession of the factories and
Offices. the mobs to whom he (Rolph)
offers his nulla osta are not likely to stop
to think when they start being violent"
To these papers the menace comes not
f.om the Fascist lynch call of Rolph, not
from the organized terrorism of the cap
talist class, but from the hungry" mob.
According to the '1iberal" World-Tele-
gram, it is from the striking farmers fight
;re; against monopoly capital, and not from
The deputized gangs of the milk monopolies
n fLn dancer of J1iolnTca connect
According to the Post, it is from the job
less and hungry, and not from the
capitalist smuggling police charging unem-
ployed demonstrations, that the danger of
violence comesl
It is in this way that these capitalist
papers, liberal" and reactionary, not only
attempt to conceal the growing organiza-
ton of Fascist violence by the government,
but prepare to justify it as it is being I'M
leashed
It is because they are fearful that the
American working class will organize to
meet the challenge of Rolph's Fascist pro-
vocations, it is because they are fearful
that sinister lynching, following so closely
on the lynch call of the California governor,
will rouse the mass anger and indignation
of the masses to a pitch dangerous to the
ruling class, that these two leading capital
ist papers warn against the crude charac-
ter Of Rolph's Fascist incitation.
THE Post and the Telegram refer to the
! recent mass actions of the workers and
farmers as dangerous actions of a "mob,"
against which the capitalist state power
must prepare.
These actions were not the action of a
mob, but the organized actions of the toll
ing masses against their exploiters.
The recent strikes of the coal, steel, tex
tile and auto workers were not the actions
of mob. They were disciplined, organized
actions of the Proletariat, conscious of their
interests, and struggling against the ex-
ploitation of the Wall Street monopolies.
The mob violence" in Ambridge, Gallup,
Paterson, came from the deputized thugs
of the employers, not from the workers.
The recent strike of the Western farm
ers was disciplined, organized action of
the impoverished farmers against the Wall
Street monopolies. Whatever violence and
mob action existed in these areas, was in
cited and organized by the milk monopolies
and their auxiliary organizations. It was
proved that the rowing gangs of strike
breakers seeking to engage in armed COM
bat with the farm pickets were subsidized
by the big dairy companies.
The Communist Party supports these
struggles of these toilers. The Communist
Party seeks to arouse the militancy of the
toiling masses and to give it disciplined, or
ganized, revolutionary direction. The Com
munist Party firmly and unequivocally op-
poses all acts of individual terrorism and
violence, not because of any sentimental
pacifist considerations, but because these &C
tons hinder the revolutionary movement of
the working class.
AT the present moment, the American
ruling class is planting provocateurs in the
ranks of the workers in an attempt to in
cite individual acts of violence precisely to
provide the occasion for the unleashing of
Fascist terrorism and for the justification
of ruling class terrorism. The Communist
Party takes the lead in exposing the actions
of these agents of Wall Street in the ranks