The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10
World Front
2 New Leaders"
On the United Front
2 Boss Witnesses
Ry HARRY CANNES

L Leader is not its brothers
keeper. In fact, when the
London New Leader, organ
of the Independent Labor
Party, has a cogent word or
two to say on the united
front. the New York sheet. true to
the glorious principles of Waldman,
Gerber, Oneal & Co., roundly be-
rates its British brother spokesman,
1T is time that the members Of
the British workingclsss movement
realize" wrote the London New
Leader that the Labor Party is
now the main obstacle to united
action by the working class forces
in the world"
Now when the British left group
in the Socialist movement have the
honesty to criticize the policy OF a
leadership which produced such
sterling lackeys for King George
and British imperialism as Ramsey
Macdonald, ]. H. Thomas and
Philip Snowden, the gentlemen in
this country who pay homage to
Bill Green and Matthew VOL, be-
come very indignant.
After all, argues the American
New Leader, where things are nor
NAL, or where the socialist parties
and the trade unions are function
ing normally" as in the U. S.,
why is the united front necessary?
Is it normal for Wall Street bankers
to prepare for fascism and spend
millions to mobilize their armed
bands? Is it normal for Roosevelt
to carry out the pre-fascist measures
of the big trusts and open up a new
drive against the workers living
standards? Is it normal for Roose-
welt to inaugurate the most gigantic
war construction program since
Wilson plunged the American peo-
pie into the last slaughterp The
line of the New Leader seems to be
that when fascism conquers land
there's nothing else to do then
maybe the united front can't be
avoided. But so long as there is
shred of democratic demagoguery
covering the development of the
Roosevelt regime towards fascism.
then the united front must be
fought tooth and nail.
HERE it would be well to call in a
III couple Of witnesses from the
enemy ranks (from the Scandi-
naVian countries where the Socialist
Party leaders fight against the
united front with the COMMUNISTS
and hear them on the question.
Let us hear from the influential
capitalist sheet in Stockholm,
Dagens Nyheter. Estimating the re-
fusal of the Second International to
accept the united front proposals Of
the Communist International, they
write:
"The continental picked troops
of the Socialists army are de-
stroyed and dispersed. Worse still.
The groups Of the Second Inter-
national are but heterogeneous
mass kept together by superficial
formulas and etiquette. The boil
shevization of the European So
cial democracy has undermined
the basis of the Second Interna.
tional.
seen from the general demo-
cratic point of view, the proceed
ing bolshevizati0n of the Second
international is a very sad story.
1t is therefore with joy that one
receives the nevis from Paris that
the Communist counting was NOT
answered in the affirmative. 1t is
only regrettable that one cannot
really believe that the decision of
the executive will be of deciding
Importance for the future devel-
Opment."
THE Swedish bourgeoisie, it is plain,
1 feel very grateful to the So
cialist leaders for being so active
against the united front of the
workers on an international or
national scale, but still roundly fear
the last word has not been said
by the rank and file.
They know the united front is an
effective weapon against capitalism
and all its efforts at fascination.
For example, we have professor
Book, writing in Svenska Dag
bladet, central organ of the Con-
sentative Party of Sweden, relating
his impression of united Socialist
and Communist demonstration in
France:
THE feelings of the Socialist,
Communist and petty bourgeois
demonstrating for peace anS
against fascism. were much NOR,
sincere and determined than TIL.
fascist demonstration on the same
day-H. G. The shouts of this
audience at the Arc de Triomphe
tfascist) sounded hollow and hesi-
tating with those to be heard at
the Column of July united 'front.'
There had been much talk of the
patriotic leagues walking into the
streets and taking up the fight
against parliament and corrupt
democracy. I am no. of the
opinion that this would be good
for them. Perhaps they could be-
come masters of the inner center,
but round about old Paris there
are the workers quarters and
suburbs and If the workers bat
talions would march up they
would certainly, without any diff
cuIties, suffocate the fascist re-
volt. -
THE spokesman of the exploiters
have good reasons to sigh with