The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30
Fascist Groups in
US. Exposed In
Labor Fact Book IL

THERE are over a hundred fascist
organizations in the United
States, according to Labor Fact
Book III by Labor Research Asso-
citation, just published by Interna-
tional Publishers. These budding
storm troops are being prepared 10
be used when necessary by the cap
italists." Detailed descriptions Of the
activities of the best-known fascist
outfits, the Khaki Shirts and Silver
Shirts, are followed by an account
of the anti-labor activities of other
such organizations.
There is The Order of rs which
operates secretly in and around New
York City. 1t claims to be enrolling
200 members a day and aSsignt
tasks of petty espionage to each in
oividual 1t is anti-Jewish and at
tempts to expose the Jews as fac
tor in American banking.
"The Crusaders for Economic
Liberty, also called White Shirts, led
by W. Christians, maintain head
quarters in Chattanooga, Tenn, and
are strong in Idaho, Oregon and
Washington. The organization
claims two million members and has
recently announced a ssible
merger with the Silver Shirts.
Christians is praised by Oscar C.
Pfaus, commander Of the German
Alliance, fascist organization, and
another Nazi representative Is re-
ported as greeting Christians with
the following: Let me salute you as
you will be saluted in the days to
come. Hail! Christians"
National Watchmen led by F. M.
Cox, national commander, present
a seemingly radical program called
a Plan for Economic Rehabilitation
in the United States 1t talks about
naturalization Of property and
100 per cent tax on incomes above
$4,000 a year, Is is reported as pen
etrating the factories, where workers
we're addressed with the permission
Of the management.
Nationalist, with headquarters
in Jacksonville, Fla, are directly in
the tradition Of the Ku Klux Khan,
with Colonel william Simmons,
founder of the Khan, as their COM
mander-in-chief. 1t issues a call to
any truly white American citizen
to join, and claims that 100000
members have quietly organized
brigades in the chief cities of the
United States formed with the
greatest secrecy in the past 70
months, i.e., during 1888"
1.-THE American Blue Corps has
distributed fascist literature among
the steel workers of Youngstown,
Ohio, with the statement; The
American Blue Corps is opposed to
the diabolical sabotage of our
United States government and the
rights of its Christian Gentle
American citizens by the detri-
mental and traitorous undetermined
activities of all the INSCRIPTIONS
plundering worshipers of the golden
calf, the international and I'M
American Jews, Politicians and
MonopolistS, breeders of Red-Com-
munism, Crime and War
THE Awakener is the name of an
openly fascist monthly paper, pub
lished in New York City and edited
by Harold Lord Varney, Lawrence
Dennis, Col. Milford w. Howard
and Joseph P. Ramp, Dennis, the
intellectual spokesman for fascism
in the United States, is a Harvard
graduate, formerly employed by J.
g. w. Seligman, New York bankers,
and for seven years representa-
tive of the U. S. diplomatic service
in Nicaragua, Haiti and Honduras
The Awakener announced itself as
for the Americanism of the right"
and against the socialism Of the
left The executive editor, Kamp,
is the head of an anti-labor racket,
the Constitutional E due tional
League, which hold patriotic meet
ings in front of plants where work
ers are on strike. Ramp was active
against the strikers at the I. Miller
& Sons, Inc, plant in Lor.. Island
City in 1882, and has recently dis
tributed leaflets against the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union in