The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27

( speech, individual liberty the right
to own property and the protection
Of that right.
q. What change in the status Of
man did this make? A. II freed
man from being the property Of the
state and gave him the power to
own property.
! %. What alien ideas. contrary
to this purpose, have been projected
into American minds? A. The
doctrines Of socialism, communism,
pacidsm, and other forms Of sub
versiViSm.
%. What is supposed to be the
basic doctrine Of socialism, COM
munism, fascism, etc.2 A. That
the property be owned or con-
trolled by the state and that the
people give up their individual
rights, liberty Of thought and action
to conform to a plan Of life de-
signed and enforced by the rulers"
Chicago Tribune 5-31-34.
HAVING successfully cloaked their
IA fascist tendencies by condemn
ing faScism together with other
"subversive" movements, the Paul
Reveres inadvertently 'let the cat
out Of the bag" by expressing their
opposition to, among many others,
the following three measures:
l. Pensions for aged and ex-
hausted workers.
3. The initiative, referendum and
recall
3. The graduated tax on incomes.
inheritance and land. (Cni. Trib.
5-31-34.
Clearly, fascist tendencies are
evident in the above. The rich
must not be overburdened with too
much taxes, with payment for pen
sions; the masses must not get too
much power.
Enough for the theoretical as
poets Of the Reveres. What Of their
activities?
According to a reliable source.
the organization is allegedly re-
Sponsible for breaking up an outdoor
meeting in Evanston last year held
under the auspices Of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, a meeting
protesting injustice to working class
prisoners.
On November /, 1893, the Paul
Reveres sent a telegram of protest
to President Roosevelt against rec
ignition of Soviet Russia. New
York Times 11-2-33).
Recently, the Chicago chapter has
been conducting meetings which
feature prominent speakers, with
the Chicago Daily Tribune con-
tributing generously as regards
in addition to lending the
services of its cartoonist, Caroy Orr,
for speaking engagement. Two
clear-cut illustrations of the fas-
cist character of those meetings are
indicated in the following
Robt. E. P. Kline, farmer presi.
dent Of the Executives Club.
speaking at an outdoor meeting in
Highland Park on May %, is quoted
by the Chicago Tribune of the fol-
lowing day as saying: The mis-
takes of government, and not those
OF big business men, have weakened
the economic conditions of the ma
ton in recent years. Let big busi-
ness men alone. They're loyal and
know what to do" In other words.
leave business alone, and rugged
will find a way out
to fascism.
David P. Livingstone, insurance
man and former farm paper ex-
ecutive, goes one better. He traces
the origin of farm relief to small
town business men who specuiated
in heavily mortgaged farms, but
who began to clamor for relief
when the prices of farm products
fell. Meanwhile, the real farmers.
who had been able to keep their
free from debt, were still
able to make good living" (Chi-
cago Tribune 6-1-3D,
Mr.. Livingstone appears to be I'M
aware of the literally millions of
small farmers, not small town busi-
ness spectators, who are being
showed under" by mortgage fore
closures, falling prices, and failing
crops. Those are the real farmers,
not the handful of virtual planta-
ton owners, who had been able
to keep their property free from
debt" and still able to make a
good living"
AS self-styled defenders of the
constitution with the en-
dorsement of the D. A. R. and the
Legion, the Paul Reveres
obviously are concerned with pre-
serving and maintaining the present
order of things In the name of
they wish to be
another barrier in the path of the
workers revolution. But the true
heirs of the revolutionary Paul
Revere, the revolutionary American
worker, will know how to answer
this fascist enemy.
prepared by Workers Reference