The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-13
5000 at New York
Meeting Vow Fight
ON Fascist Terror
Continued from PAGE H.

on Wednesday morning and of the
sharp fight against the Nazis which
his union was conducting. He tolc
of actions which resulted in NaziS
being ousted from ships.
Halls Mutiny
Hailing the mutiny on the British
warship Hood" Lorenz said that this
action was but an omen of the fight
ing mood of the men on the seas
Attorney Levinson described his ex-
periences with the Nazi lawyer
Teichert, assigned by the Hitlerites tt
defend Dinitroff, Popof and Tenef
and showed the crude manner ir
which the Nazis were seeking tc
frame up and hang the Communists
now on trial in Leipzig.
Hathaway Gets Ovation
Hathaway, who received an ovation
when he arose to speak, told of the
significance of the Nazi documents
and the storm of indignation which
their publication has aroused thruout
the United States.
He told of the pressure of big Wal
Street interests which is determining
the capitalist press playing down
of Nazi activities, and said that ir
spite of this fact, some of the press
has been compelled to take notice Of
the Daily Worker expose.
Referring to the activities of Naz
agents in the U. s., Hathaway
charged that the Capitalist class
here, headed by Franklin D. Roose-
welt, is protecting them, and thus
giving their tacit approval to this
campaign, which includes a wide
spread anti-Semitic drive"
The whole policy Of the Roosevelt
administration, with the MIRA. as its
weapon, is taking'on more and more
of fascist character, Hathaway said
THE Roosevelt government has used
the same kind of demagogy as Hitler
and if its policy is not yet fascism
it is rapidly paving the way for it.
"The N.R.A. program is a war
program" the speaker declared. ut
is directed against the workers here
and is arming U. S. capitalism to
the teeth for a war of aggression"
Hathaway cited five recent speeche;
of administration leaders as evidence
of this: RooSeyelt's speech before the
American Legion; Roosevelt's speech
at the unwilling of the monument tc
Samuel Gompers; Frances Perkins
speech at the A. F. of L. convention
and the speeches of Gen. Hugh John
son, and Edward F. McGrady, assist
ant secretary Of Labor before the
same gathering.
Hathaway concluded his speech by
a call for continued and intensified
solidarity actions with the German
Communists on trial in Leipzig as
we'll as for a sharpened fight on the
N.R.A.-precursor Of naked fascist die
tatorship in the United States.
Calls for Unity
j. B. Matthews declared that the
fight against fascism in the U. S
calls for an energetic fight against
the anti-strike MIRA. 1.-The only
force which will stop fascism here
will be the class-conscious organiza.
ton of the workers" he said.
Matthews significantly declared
that situation must not be per.
mitted to develop similar to the one
which made possible the accession O.
Hitler to power. He warned that thu
Socialist Party Of the U. S. must bt
careful not to play the same role II
relation to the MIRA. that the So
cial-Democratic Party of Germany
played in relation to the coming Il
power of Hitler.
eve must not have a misled, div.
ided working class" he said.
Matthews rejected the reliance of
the Socialist Party on bourgeois
democracy, and emphasized that the
goal must be prOletarian revolution
and prOletarian democracy. On this
basic point, in fact, he put forward
the position held by the Communist
Party.
Minor Cheered
Arriving in the hall from an cleo
ton meeting in another part of the
city, Robert Minor, Communist can.
didate for Mayor, received a tumult.
Gus ovation when he entered the hall
In his speech Minor said that Tam.
many Hall is the ideal swamp ir
which the foul weeds of fascism are
being cultivated"
The courts of New York, Minor
charged, sell justice to the highest
bidder; the judges themselves are