The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-30

come Of the New Deal with the development of
powerful labor movement in this country would
be Socialist Transformation Of the United States"
NOW there can be no doubt as to the sinister
~ meaning Of the recent Butler revelations The
Congressional Committee ITSELF which does not like
to expose the advance of fascisn too much. was
forced to admit the nmstakable truth of Buffers
charges
Dickstein himself, who is trying to shield the
biggest Wall Street monopolists and Roosevelt
agents mentioned in the Butler expose has had to
admit the substantial truth Of Buffers charges and
has become too frightened to print the full report
made by Butler.
But for Norman Thomas he Just laughs at
them"
Is there = class conscious worker who will not
that this opinion of Norman Thomas, Socialist
Party leader plays into the hands of the Wall Street
monOpolies just at this moment when they have
been caught in the act of fascist plotting?
The capitalist class of this country tried to
laugh it off" when their brutal reactionary schemes
we're for moment brought to light
And here we have a Socialist Party leader whose
comment falls in with this hoodwinking tactic of
the Wall Street clques
Since when is it the task of a working class
leader to minimize the danger of fascism in this
country, especially at this time when reactionary
terrorism organized by the employers and the
Roosevelt government is steadily rising? What does
this do if not to permit fascism to advance upon
a disarmed and unprepared working class9
IT WILL be noticed that for Thomas the menace
of fsscism comes solely from these private gangs
and not from the Roosevelt government at all!
Thomas argues that if these gangs are not power
III xsat tnay,f gz ~ foe
But is is precisely Roosevelt's entire economic
program which is fascist in content giving the big
gest Wall Street monopoies an ever tightening grip
on the whole life Of the country.
And it is just these Wall Street monopohes. who
dictate Roosevets economic policies who have been
exposed the most active organizers of secret fas
cist-mllitary gangs to smash the labor movement.
Let us not forget the blunt statement of Mac
CURE, at is to sustain him (ReoseveIt that
organlzing!"
Is it now clear what Thomas and Modigliani
are doing in effect They are doing in this country
exactly what the al-Democratic leaders did in
Germany when these leaders supported Bruenng
Won Papen, and Hindenburg against" Hitler. They
are concealng from the masses the MAIN SOURCE
OF THE MENACE OF FASCISM THE CAPITAL
IsT GOVERNMENT. They are describing as $50
calism what is, in reality the advance to fascism
through the reactionary maneuvers of the Roose-
welt program.
They keep the eyes of the working class looking
for the menace of fascism in one direction while
the actual fascist development organized by the
leading capitalist groups in the government is
rapidly stealing up behind their backs.
They try to hide from the masses in this cou-
try just as The Socialist leaders in Germany and
Austria did, that it is the White House that is The
central headquarters of the advance of fascism
And this is what makes it necessary to form
the united front of all workers ready to fight
AGAINST and not for the Roosevelt reactionary
program, to fight fascist developments at their
source in the Roosevelt New Deal.