The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
No ProVOcationS Can Halt
the March of Working Class
Unity Against FaSciSm!
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press is rabid with vicious gloating at the riot Its
hack writer's at the "enmity between the So
cialst and Communist workers"
But this is only the same note OF provocaton
that set by the Socialist speakers at the Garden
who from the very hrst sought to poison the spirit
Of unity that growing between the Socialist and
Communist workers, stirred by the flaming heroism
Of the Austrian workingclaSs
The workers at Madison Square Garden sought
unity. That is why thousands of Communist and
Socialist workers believe in unity with their very
Socialist workers dropped their tools at O'Clock and
to the meeting though "tbey were not in
vited" The Communist and Socialist workers believe
In unity with their very hearts blood II is the So
cal-faScist leaders who hate and fear this unity.
Why else did the Socialist leaders give the New
York ruling class police the orders to search all work
ers who entered the Garden '1or Communist ntera-
ture"?
why else did Agernon Lee, Socialist chairman,
the who warned the United States government
not to recognize the Soviet Union, why did he send
into that worngclass audience seeking for unity
the poison Of his reiterated warnings against dis
rupters'2 when it was obvious that hatred oY the
"disrupters" was directed against the reactionary-
fascist WOLF
Why did the Socialist leaders use the New York
ruling class police thugs to assist them in stripping
all workers Of their banners upon which were the
slogans Of hatred for fascism2 What does 1t mean
to strip the workers Of their bannersP Does II not
mean to throttle their voices to cripple and casrste
their demonstration Of anti-fascist hatred2
At a meeting called to protest the police brutality
and reaction OF fascist police, what does It mean for
the Socialist leaders to the notorious New York
ooce to institute systematic searching Of the pockets
OF entering workers. Is 1t not to emulate the very
ascisr police whom they are supposed to hghtP Is
i this way that they strive to foster the ties OF pro-
letarian comradeship among the Socialist and Com
nunist workers?
This is the way, deliberately chosen, BY the
Socialist leaders to foster suspicion n-vin enmty.
and friction between Socialist and Communist
MyAS it in the interests of unity, that Frank R
= Crosswaith, Negro Socialist spat at the audi
ence:
Communists are pigs who will always remain
pigs. because it is in the nature OF Communists to
be pigs"
Was it OF the Communist workers in the heart
OF the South daily Drawing lynch terror in the fight
for Negro rights that Crosswaith was speakingP Was
1t Of the white Communist workers who everywhere
are the first to leap at the threats of the -crow on
pressors and ynchers that this Socialist leader was
speaking? Was it Of the white Communist workers all
over the world whose mighty and ncessant fight for
the Scotboro boys has stayed thus far the hands of
the lynch executioners that this Socialist leader was
speaking? Was in the interests of proetaran unity
Of workingcass unity in the fight against iin-crow op
preston and lynch terror that this Socialist leader was
speaking?
With Matthew WolL ilmcrOw head Of the lin
crow, NegrO-hatng labor bureaucracy of the A. F. Of
L., the Negro Socialist Crosswaith could form a
united front, with the man whose labor takers are
part and parcel Of the whole system of jmcrow op-
preston of the Negro masses. But the Communist
workers who stand at the head of the fight for the
liberation of the Negro people. Crosswaith condemns
and curses as pigs"
The Communist workers at the Garden were vent