The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-13
World Front
New Leader on Spain
For Green, Not Barbados
Omit United Front
= By HARRY CANNES

HVA 0ACCH, wv DdIIICducS
Omit United Front
TOR the past week every honest
Socialist worker has been stirred
to his very depths by the heroic
| struggle Of his brothers in Spain
united with Communists and SYM
dioa.lists in glorious battle against
fascism. He waits hopefully for the
next issue Of the Socialist organ,
The New Leader" to utter its first
words On this united front armed
struggle against the fascist dogs Of
Spain. He takes up his paper, his
heart palpitating. He wants to
read words OF encouragement, Of
inspiration to struggle.
On Friday, the sixth day of the
armed struggles which have swept
Spain, with the Red Flag of the
proletarian revolution flying in
many towns in Spain, with a life
and death battle of over 10000
armed miners going on in Asturias,
with troSpS coming to the side Of
the workers, he looks at the main
headline Of the New Leader" and
reads:
"a. F. of L. Fights Fascism."
Workers shedding their blood on
the barricaGes; Communists and
Socialists, uniting the working class
Of Spain in a heroic struggle to
smash the landlord bourgeois rule
Of Spain, must make way to the
phrases of William Green, agent of
American imperialism,
1 WHEN the New Leader" refers to
" the A. F. Of L. fighting fascism,
they have in mind the strikebreak-
ing bureaucracy. the Mathew VOLS
Of the pro-fascist Civic Federation;
the Germans and Greens who sup
port the fascist attacks on the
Communists.
1t would be wrong to say that the
New Leader" has utterly neglected
to treat the revolutionary general
strike of Spain and the armed up
risinss. That stalwart defender Of
the armed struggles Of the prole-
tariat against fascism, James
Oneal writes the leading articles,
which takes second place to the
announcements Of Citrine, Green,
Dubinsky and Co.
Every capitalist paper repeated,
stressed, reiterated and re-empha-
sized the fact that the armed strug-
gle was led by the united front Of
Socialists. Communists and Syndi-
calists, Oneal sees fit throughout
his entire article not even to men,
ton the Communists. Oneal strives
by the use of printers ink to wipe
out united front against fascism
in Spain that is sealed in the blood
Of thousands OF workers.
Their struggle" he writes of the
! Spanish proletariat, was similar to
the fight of the Austrian working
class against fascism last Feoru-
airy.
EFT us mention a few points OF
l. dissimilarity. y Ca3allero, lead
err of the Spanish Socialist Party,
/ repeatedly, in words at least, re-
buked the Austrian Socialist lead
erS for their reformist mistakes:
Caballero at least talked for the
dictatorship Of the proletariat. D
The united front Of Socialists and
Communists had been achieved in
the Spanish battles, where it had
not in Austria until afterwards. 81
The Spanish Socialists did not offer
q compromise to Lerroux- Robes
providing for period of dictator
ship, as Bauer did to Dollfus5.
q The Spanish proletariat was
not disarmed,, as was the Austrian
proletariat with the aid of Bauer
and Co., but took the offensive N
the battle when the right regime
was installed. 81 Both Socialist and
Communist leaders joined in call
ing a general strike that was 100
per cent effective, when the Aus
TRAN Social Democratic leaders
sabotaged the calling of the gen.
eral strike, which was one of the
decisive causes for the defeat and
The slaughter Of the Austrian work.
ers. 81 The Spanish Socialist work.
ers seized power in many places and
set no barbados. y The Spanish
proietariat has not yet been de-
fe2ted, is continuing to carry on
its struggles, with the bourgeois
press admitting that the battle may
go on for long time.
nNEAL is not alone in neglecting
" the small detail" of the So
c-ali5t- Communist united front in
the Spanish uprising against fas-
cism. William M. Feigenbaum stu-
diously avoids mentioning what
every worker who has followed the
news already knows
The civil war means the she'd
, ding Of much Blood" complains
Feigenbaum. 1T is possible that if
! the Socialists had seized and en-
deavored to maintain power when
the elections showed they were in
S a minority the bloodshed would
have been infinitely worse"
| The only problem it appears here
: IS when is the best time to shed
: blood in hopeless battle.
{ Meanwhile" concludes Feigen-
oaum, the hearts Of Socialists ev-
eryuhere are with their gallant and
| heroic Spanish comrades
Eut is that ell? Are We TO sit
5 b. and Just philocophize over the
! herc'c battles Of the Spanish pro-
le.ariat? What about some sc-
ticn? What about united front
: in defense Of the heroic Spanish
: workers? If their battle gees