The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

IN AN attempt to discredit,
L the Spanish workers, fight
ing a glorious battle against
the fascist butchers, worthy
descendants of the infamous
Inquisition, true sons of the
fend Torquemada, the Ameri.
can capitalist press is already
spreading the foulest atrocity
stories.
They want the American workers
to believe that the heroic self-sac-
rificing Asturias miners blew up a
miners orphan home. The miser-
able whelps of the vilest prostitute
sheets in the whole world want the
American workers to believe that
the Spanish miners, risking their
lives for a new world, for better
social order, are burning the chill.
dren of their own brothers. No,
gentlemen, with all your war ex-
perience you will have to think up
better ones.
American workers should be ready
for the worst type of horror stories
against the workers. At the time Of
the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia,
the American capitalist press en-
listed every diseased imagination it
could hire against workers upris-
ings. The Spanish ruling class
butchers whose fruitful Imagination
in the past could invent the most
excruciating tortures the human
mind has ever been capable of, Ger
tainly can invent the most fantastic
horror stories.
THAT churches are being burned
may be true, and that some ia
natical priests may refuse to leave
the burning structure is also quite
likely. But when the American
workers know that every inch of
the churches huge estates has been
watered and MANFRED with the
blood and bones of the workers and
peasants for centuries, they can
understand the burning hatred of
the aroused masses fighting against
the establishment of a fascist die
tatorship which is decreeing a new
age of ignorance, superstition and
medieval exploitation
When the workers blew up a truck
containing So armed soldiers sent
against them, this is a matter of
armed struggle; fight to save the
lives of hundreds of workers against
the armed forces of reaction; a fight
for the advance of the workers
cause, fight to prevent a Hitler
regime with its oppression and its
miseries for the whole Spanish toll
ing masses.
The Spanish toiling masses show
ing such great historical initiative,
are the front line fighters of the
working class of the entire world.
They and their leaders remember
the lessons of previous proletarian
! revolutions. They remember the
Paris Commune, when the dogs of
the ruling class, after the leniency
of the working class aided in their
own defeat, mercilessly slaughtered
tens of thousands of unarned and
captured workers in the streets of
Paris. The cutters of Paris ran red
with the blood of men, women and
even children. They remember Hit
ler'S f1endish fortunes and execu-
tons They remember Vienna andT
its bombardment of workers homes 4
| THEY are striving, with these les
L sons in mind, to make events
turn out as they did in Russia, with
the victorious establishment of the
workers state, with a decisive de-
/ feat for all the forces of reaction.
And it is in this light that every
worker will understand the heroic
battles of the Spanish proletariau.
Hail the splendid fight of our
Spanish brothers! They are speed
ing history at express train pace.
they are heroic pioneers in the
rapidly maturing new round of rev.
olutions. Let us now unite our forces
to give them every aid we can and
to smash the efforts of their de-
tractors and their enemies.
AS winter approaches, the news
n from Germany is not startling.
1t is of the nature of that calm
which precedes the tropical hur-
Iicanes. The maturing battle against
fascism in Germany has not yet
expressed itself in incidents, but
that this battle is preparing is adj
mitted by even the most reactionary
writer's for the American press.
Let us read in and between the
lines of the latest dispatch on Ger
many to the New York Times BY
Otto D. Tolischus. He declares Hit-l
Ter will soon make a speech plead
ing for huge collections to keep
pople from starving and freezing
this winter. And here we have the
American correspondents COM
mentS
Numerous difficulties threaten
to make the coming winter one of
increasing discomfort and discon-
tent. Nazi Germany is already suf-
fering by shrinking foreign trade
and her inability to pay for neces-
sary raw materials"
In short, starvation confronts the
masses, and discomfort, class bat
ties are maturing. Mr. Tolischus
next points to great differences be-
tween last winter and this winter,
showing the weakening of the Nazi
grip on the country. There is no
doubt he writes, that sentiment
in Germany is undergoing a change"
The change is against the fascist