The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-30
The Lynch Call of Growing
US. Fascis4n

WITH the agonized body OF another young
W Negro flung to the flames by lynch
mob ia Missouri, only one day after the
now historic lynch utterance of Governor
Rolph Of California, there can no longer be
any doubt as to the true state of affairs,
There can no longer be any doubt that
ruling class masters of this country have
given the signal for the unleashing of
wave of FASCIST violence, terrorism, and
savagery against the entire working class.
There can not be the slightest question
tMat we are witnessing the speedy emer-
gence of deliberately instigated Fascist
brutality and terrorism.
THE statement Of Governor Rolph,
''That was fine lesson to the whole
nation. They did good job"
is nothing more nor less than the ruling
class signal that the menace of Fascism, of
open Fascist reaction and barbarism, is sin
isterly close.
1t is blunt, unmigtakabIe evidence Of the
growing Fascination Of the American State
power, of its increasingly open use of Fas-
cist methods Of capitalist rule, of its grow
ing Capitalization, as 1t unIeashes that naked
violence upon which It rests.
The immediate occasion Of RoIph's lynch
utterance, the crime of two obscure crimi-
mails against the son Of q wealthy merchant
is not relevant to the major purpose of the
lynch wave that has been launched. The
choosing of such case for the launching
of organized mob violence is merely
shrewd tactic on the part of the ruling
class, deliberately chosen to obscure the
suppressiye ruling class purpose behind the
act
For, with Governor RoIph's statement
the American ruling class not only sane
tons and reinforces the age long lynch sys-
tenn of the Southern landlords, but openly
proposes to intensity Fascist violence
against the entire toiling population, Ne
gro and white, in their struggles against
capitalist starvation and exploitation.
LYNCH violence has been traditional
part of the American ruling class arsenal
M its domination over the oppressed Negro
masses. 1t has also played a part in the
suppression Of the struggles of militant
white workers.
But why does Governor Rolph choose
Ahis time to set off new wave of lynch
berror? What is this 'Gesson" that he is
80 anxious to teach the "rest of the coun-
try"? Why does he want to teach it lust
1T this moment?
1t fs because the American ruling class
y preparing to meet the rising resistance
OF the starving, oppressed toiling masses
rising in resistance and counter-offensive
against the whole Roosevelt hunger pro-
gram.
II he OF extraordinary significance that
0e scene of the recent kidnapping lynchinq
In San Jose, is also the scene of the recent
powerful strike of the agricultural workers
against the landlords II was here that strike
leaders were seized and kidnapped It is
here that strike leader is in Jail framed on
charges of murder.
Can the sinister meaning of the Royph
statement as 1t refers to these agricultural
workers be lost on any one? Can there be
the slightest doubt but that Rolph is deIiber-
ately putting forward Fascist lynch violence
as weapon against the militant workers of
California fruit plantations and canneries?
1t is because the whole Roosevelt pro-
gram, the N.R.A., the initiation measures
ETC., have failed miserably to fulfill single
promise of Roosevelt to alleviate for the
toiling masses the crushing weight of the
capitalist crisis, that the ruling class pre-
pares to unleash Fascist violence.
And 1t is the enormous strike wave of
resistance, now temporarily lulled, but
which will inevitably rise again with grow
ing Intensity. that brings from the capital
lst state machine from the capitalist rulers,
the answer of increasing Fascist violence.
1t is the powerful struggles of the steel
and coal workers, in Ambridge, in Gallup,
that force the capitalist rulers to bare more
and more the Fascist violence which is the
mainstay of their dictatorship.
The shooting of the coal pickets at Am
bridge, the martial law in New Mexico. the