The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
By CARL REEVE

\ more bodily every day in the Unit
ed States" Earl Browder said in his
report to the Eighth National Con-
vention of the Communist Party.
In all parts Of the country, evidence
accumulates daily, supporting the
Communist analysis of the grow
ing fascist danger. Comrade BroWder
points out in his speech that "capi-
talist democracy is not the enemy.
but the mother of fascism; is not
the destroyer but the creator of
fascism." Fascism is the open, ter
rorist dictatorship of the most re-
dictionary, most chauvinist and
most imperialist elements in finance
capital" It's aim is to bolster
finance capital by sinking the work
ers to the lowest possible living
standards and physically extermin-
ating its leading cadres, the Com
munists.
Those workers who still believe
that the Communist Party "exag-
gerates" the danger of faScism, that
the Roosevelt New Deal" that
bourgeois democracy, is opposed"
to fascisnl, should carefully study
this evidence of the growth of fas-
Cisn. Foremost proof of the fact
that the Roosevelt government. dis
plays increased fascist trends. is
seen in the new course" of the
government. centering around the
modified Wagner bill, so ably an
alyzed by Comrade Browder, which
is supported by Green, Thomas and
the other social-fascists of the So
cialist Party and A. F. of L. leader
ship. This new course" embodied
in the Wagner bill, binds the COM
pany unions and the trade unions
both together, in constantly closer
association, and In preparation for
merging the two under government
auspices" The war preparations of
the government proceed hand in
hand with these increased fascist
preparations.
Govt Encourages Fascist Groups
Increased police violence and or
ganization of fascist gangs is be-
ing encouraged and protected by
the Roosevelt government. The basis
IS being laid by the Roosevelt gov
eminent for the establishment of
an open fascist dictatorship, the
scrapping of bourgeois forms of
democracy, when the capitalists feel
this is necessary for them, They
are now laying the groundwork for
the physical determination of the
Communists and other militant
leaders of the workers, when they
feel it necessary for them.
Take for example, the recent
statement Of the chief of police of
Atlanta, Georgia, chief Sturdivant,
q democratic politician and sup
porter of Roosevelt. He said, "If
Communist activities continue, the
police will find themselves in
situation soon which will call for
he use of tear gas, sawed-off shot
guns and reyOIvers. Communists
are concentrating their activities
among C.W.A. workers. The situa
tion is such that we must be ready
ut all times for serious emer-
gency."
But this Roosevelt politicians
proyocation to fascist violence is
lot strange when we consider the
record of the entire ruling demo-
cratic (RoosevelD party of the en-
tire south. The increase in lynch
ng, increased terrorization of Ne
yroes CTampa, Florida Times, April
8, melting violence against Negro
unemployed demonstrators the de-
garment of justice activities in
rounding militant C.WA. workers
n many states, are well known.
The Roosevelt C.W.A. apparatus,
The ruling democratic regime of
he South, is the fertile breeding
ground giving birth to fascism.
The thesis of the 18th Plenum
of the Communist International,
which deals thoroughly with the
Increase in fascisn, states that the
I'D bourgeois democratic forms are
destroyed by means of setting up
open fascist dictatorship and by
wide application of both police
violence and the terrorism of fas-
cist gangs" These fascist gangs are
now being prepared in the United
States.
In New York City, the left wing
took a prominent part in the lead
ership of the militant taxi drivers
strike. The militant workers in the
leadership of this strike Gilbert
Orner, etc. followed a fighting
policy. Police terror failed to break
the ranks. The New York Daily
Mirror on April IA characterizes
these militant leaders as "gangsters,
as "racketeers" and continues:
&c. Let us have an emergency
law that will reach out to these
snakes. Let us have law under
which aliens can be deported, and
under which those who are citi-
zens under our law but traitors
in fact can be stood against
wall. We have temporized long
enough. The youth of our land is
threatened now"
Encouraged by and in league
with the government, such news
papers, with millions of circulation,
attack all strikers, and call for the
blood of the fighting leaders of the
working class, cambridge, Pitts
burgh, Minneapolis, etc. These
mouthpieces of finance capital are
preparing the fascist gangs, are
preparing the basis for the physical
determination of the Communists
and the rest of the militant work
ing class leaders.
Fascists Anti-Negro, Anti-Jew
The anti-Negro, anti-foreign-horn
and anti-Jewish gangs of fascism
are now forming throughout the
country. They are indirectly and
often directly linked up to the gov
eminent apparatus. The Silver
Shirt Legion movement, whose sub
c;r3;o,-1y ic co1Ied tho Foundation for