The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-27
Capitalist Journalism

AN. organized deliberate and persistent conspiracy of
III sencel Typical capitalist journalist distortion and
dishonesty!
conspicuous suppression of news, vital 10 the in
teress of every worker small farmer intellectual pro-
fessional man, ETC. in the country!
This is the only way can describe the way the
largest newspapers Of New York City handled the
events Of the recent hearing the plans for the
ing Nazi meeting in New York
Before the assembled Tammany politicians, who
could but i'll conceal their establishment and chagrin,
Samuel Untermyer finally had to concede the
thenciy of the secret Nad letter intercepted by the
Daily Worker by reading its shocking contents into
the official City records
Even to the most prejudiced observer at the hear
ing, it obvious that Untermyer's reading of the
Daily Worker letter was by far the most sensational
feature Of the afternoon.
And yet not once in the long detailed reports that
every New York newspaper printed Of the entire hear
ing-not once, except for a passing mention in the
New York Times this most sensational incident
Of the hearing given any publicity
Not oncc was the account given of the whitening
attack made by Robert Minor, Communist candidate
for Mayor, on the Fascists both here and abroad
given any space in the capitalist pressl
The New York Evening Post-so conscious of its
connection with the better sort of peopleprned
single solitary word. The editors of the Post faxed
the story of the hearing by emitting the whole Daily
Worker Nazi letter incident from its reports
The taboids the Mirror, the Daily News-an these
peddlers of filth and poison, all hungry for news
sensation-au silent This was kind of sensation
they didn't care to handle for their working class
readers
The World Telegram---so sensationally and hypo-
critically virtuous so '1iberal-t too sank to the
tabloid depths of deliberate lying by concealng from
its readers the blazing incident of the Daily Worker
letter Like all so-called capitalist journalist virtue
1t skated warily away from this damning truth when
It was revealed by working class paper, the Daily
Worker
And the Evening Sun tried another way OF living.
1t mentions the letter But in q yelled obscure way
and without mentioning the Daily Worker as the dis
coyerer and without giving any clue to its devastating
contents
The New York Times proud puryeyor OF all the news
that's fit to print printed thousands Of words in
sixcournn report Of the other details of the hearing
But this is what gave to the most spectacular event
of the afternoon
mfr. Untermeyer also read from a much discussed
letter published weeks ago In the Communist
Daily Worker, purportng to be stolen original of a
communication from Mr.. Spanknoebeps Office in New
York to a secret Office In Berlin reporting on the
progress of the formation of storm troops and sus-
agestng method of smuggling certain persons into
the United States to assist in the work here"
Out Of six columns-that is all! Not word about
the tie-up of Van Der Lubbe with the Nazis In the
present Reichstag trial Not word about the rest
of the extraordinary contents OF the letter. short
paragraph-and it passes quickly on the complete re-
porting of OBriens speech
s The way the Times mentions the incident Is only
refined method of suppression the vital Inn
plications Of the whole incident.
TfE incident is lesson that must be carried TO every
part of the country
IT reveals that the capitalist press whatever their
differences may be, whether dgniAed tabloid, or