The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-17
Getting Too Hot

WAS the appearance OF Clarence Hathaway, editor
Of the Daily Worker and member of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party that tore every
pretense away from the Dckstein Committee yes
terday
It was just as Hathaway began to present the
damaging and irrefutable evidence Of Fascist links
leading to American banks and government officials
that the Dckstein Committee was thrown into panic
and the session hastily adjourned It'll things cool
efT' to quote Mr.. Dickstein himself.
We thus have the spectacle Of the Dickstein Com
mittee adjournng in panic just at the moment when
the Daily Worker editor was beginning to bring to
light what the Committee is supposed to be inyesti-
eating!
The hasty s4uelching of Hathaway's testimony
makes it unqueStionabIe that the Dckstein Commit
tee Is anxious to hide what the Daily Worker doou-
ents provethat the Hitler Fascist agents are aided
and abetted by the most influential sections Of Amer
lean capitalism and the part of the official govern
mental machinery
The Dickstein Committee could not ignore Hath
away and the evidence presented by the Daily Worker
1t the publication Of the Naz secret letter that
forced Dicksten, after much dawdling and evasion,
to call Hathaway to the witness stand.
But what Hathaway put before them was "too
hot to repeat the expressive language Of MIR. Dick
stein.
What did Mr. Dickstein mean by that? Why did
he quickly rush to the defense of Hamilton Fish,
whom Hathaway danged before the eyes of the whole
world as secret accomplish of the Hitler Fascist
agents in this country? What did Mr.. Dckstein mean
by his eager praise of Fish as
." honored colleague a high class citizen
and valuable member of House :"
III these words. forced from him by the unan-
swerabie charges Of the Daily Worker editor, Dick
ssein publicly confesses the futy and bankruptcy of
the Committee any kind of effective investigation
O. Fascist plotting here. ..
Il these words the Committee Confesses that its
real purpose is not to Investigate Fascism but to pro-
tset the N1zis and their American masters in the
pnLted States.
u IS NOT AL accident that the Ham FISH whose
laz links &c the DicEs.en Committee is so anxious
to conceal is also one OF The most rabid supporters
o. the Jm-Crow lynch system in this country and
a. rctorous rsactionary 'red-baiter."
II is because one cannot truly fight the menace
Of Hitler Fascism without fighting against capitalist
reaction and the Fascist menace here at home that
the Dokstein Committee rushes to shield vicious
dictionary and Fascist plotter from the glaring light
Of the Daily Worker exposuresi Dckstein, who is
part Of the American capitalist reactonary govern
nent machine can not and will not expose the plot
tings of German Fascists here.
After all, does not Hitler constantly express his
admiration for the Roosevelt government? After ALL
did ne not add to the Swastika the Blue Eagle? Does
he not point to the American institution of ynching
and Jtn-Crow the justification and precedet for
the maniacal brutalities of his Storm TroopersP
Can one really fight the Fascist hatred poison
of antisemitism, while supporting and defending the
rd1ing class against the oppressed Negro people?
Can one offer effective resistance to the Fascist
reaction abroad and be loyal defender of capitalist
Nsreaction here at home?
MEMBER of the Dickstein Committee shot at Hath
! away the favorite word Of capitalist invectye-
anarchist" And then Hathaway made this ignorant
Congressional tool OF Wall Street imperialism look
foolish by proceeding to give this gnoramus lecture
in the fundamentals of political science.
But there is more than personal venom in that
taunt. It reveals Enthusiastically the temper of the
Committee, and points clearly to the fact that this
Committee is treading the road of all these "investi-
eating" committees That is it is turning this elm
Nvestigaton OF Fascist agents into weapon for the
persecution OF revolutionary and foreign born workers
ID Let it not be forgotten that the Dies Bill still
exists!
The hurried defense of Fish the reactionary char
acter of the Committee and the censorship of the most
damaging testimony. all point to one concusor-that
the Dicksten Committee is fighting not Fascisrn-but
the Daily Worker exposure that links Hitler Fascist
reaction to Wall Street.
1t is not too much to say that the Dickstein
Committee, by its protecting of the German Fascsts
and their American accompices, is assisting IN the
hdeous Fascist reaction against the German working
class aids IN the spread of setism and Fascist
= reactionary propaganda,
rtg is not any capitalist reactionary committee that
hnaS can defeat the menace Of Fascism or save our
heroic comrades from the hands OF the Fascist ex-
,ecuticneri
The fight against Fsscisnn, the light to free Dni-
rrof Torgler, ranen and Popon, must come from the
ivorkers themselves from al those who truly hate Fas-
eaiss lreactionl
The fight against Fascsm Is also the tight against
such committees the Dicksten Committee which
= pieces itself shield before the arch Fascist &C
Il cornplice, Ham FISH
The fight against Fascisn must go ont The ex-
posture of the wall Street link to Hitler Fascsrn must
2 go forward
Workers, farmers inteTectuals, all those who hate
eFascist reaction and brutality We must rouse our
eeves to organized struggle against the Naz savages
or the freedom of comrades in the hands of the
nw@ipzig executioners
: Let every worker remember that section OF the
nd,aily Worker Nazi document which shows Van der
reaubbe to be Nazi tool, and the bestial plot to in
ge ulate heroic German comrades with syphilis
lch rns
oout And certainly, not from the Dckstein Committee