The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19

ing their hatred for the sJkebreaking VOL and their
indignation that Socialist leaders had dared to insult
the working class, Socialist and Communist workers
alike by inviting him to the platform while the work
ers Of Austria at the very same moment were being
murdered result Of the treaehery Of precisely such
labor takers VOL
Upon the heads Of the soclsliSt Party leaders the
Less the Pankens the Crosswaiths, the trade union
ocialdom the DubinskyS the schlossbergs rests the
blame for the disorder at the meeting For it they
who tried to bring the hated Vol to the platform
Of the workers leader against the Austrian Fss-
cist teFTorisml
IT was upon Hathaway that the Socialist Ofcisls and
trade union bureaucratS vented their hatred OF the
thousands Of workers In the Garden who would not let
them praise the VOLS the LaGuardias and the RooSe
Yelts as the new knights against Fsscisn.
Hathaway, they say, wanted 10 ~SeiSe the uAest-
ing" Already, in OflciAI statement they have
declared that "the Communists Party deliberately
planned to break up the meeting"
But this is only shameless Islander to excuse
their xangster brutality against Comrade Hathaway,
editor of the Daily Worker, and Of the OutStand
ing leaders Of the working class in AmeEiC&.
Hathaway rose 70 go to the platform precisely
TO save the meeting 70 keep IL from breaking up. He
went to the platform to ask for permission TO speak
for minute to plead against the proVOcAtions
against unity, TO plead for order, for working class
unity and solidarity Hathaway str0ve to dtssp4te the
poison of sneering and provOcatiOn spread BY the
speakers to urge the workers not 10 be provoked BY
making short plea for real solidarity in order that
the meeting could go forward
Hathaway knew who the platform. He knew
that these trade union and Socialist officials had long
experience in the corrupt gangstersm Of the trade
unions He knew that they hated him, and that he
was rsking bodily harm in going up to the platform.
Yet he went up alone, simply and earnestly, asking
hat AlQeTnOn him moment
to lend his influence restore order to the meeting
and cement its unity realizing that this unity alone
can defeat FasciSm.
But they met him with Fascist vicousness with fists
and flying chairs smuggling him with gangster brutality
They showed In this fare-up Of gangsterSn that al
ready in their blood the SocialFascist brutality
that has forever branded their SocalDemocrac col
Severngs and the Grsezinsks who drowned the prole-
leagues in Germany the NoskeS the Schetoemanns, the
tartan revolution in blood
The Socialist Party leaders have already seized
upon the Garden meeting to drive deeper wedge
Of disunity between the Communist and Socialist
workers. Unity, they tell the Socialist workers. is
impossible with the Communists
But we must not, we cannot, permit them -
succeed In driving apart The working class
can and must unite. That Is the only way will
defeat the menacing monster Of Fascism in this
country. That Is why the Communist Party In the
latest statement of its Central Committee, printed
in the Daily Worker Of Saturday, strives with the
prosoundest sincerity with the most earnest eager
ness for the precious unity Of the working class.
Communist and Socialist workers! We must not
let the Social-Democratc leaders who try to break
our unity trap us into their provocations Let US
be on guard against all those who talk spitefuIly
against the possibility Of unity" all those who de-
clare that unity impossible These people enemies
of the working class.