The daily worker., 1934-07-21
SATURDAY, JULY d, 1884
Fight Terrorism

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In the Communist Party and the class struggle
unions their most deadly and determined enemies
who will not stop until they have won for the
workers their demands in the strike.
The New York Times itself. careful in its
living and discreet viciousness, must admit in its
columns that thugs disguised workers began
the violence against the radical strike leaders
The attempt to drive a wedge of lynch hatred
between the strikers and the Communist Party
is the main strategy of smashing the immediate
demands of the strikers as we'll the revolutionary
vanguard the Communist Party, the most valiant
and resourceful fighters for the interests OF the
working class.
THE drive to outlaw and destroy the Communist
L Party will also fail, for the Communist Party
Is not some outside influence that can be exter-
minated by terrorism and murder.
The Communist Party is the expression OF the
needs of the exploited led by the proletarat
the property-less workers who sell their labor power
in wage slavery to handful of monopoly employers
and finance capitalist plunderers.
The Communist Party consists Of the bravest
most developed, self-sacri1cing members Of the
proletarat who place themselves in the forefront
of the suffering masses in the fight against daily
exploitation, against hunger and misery, for the
overthrow of the Wall Street system and the es
tablishment of new system of society that will
forever end the curses of capitalist unemployment
and starvation.
In its ferOciOus assault the Communist
Party, the ruling class, through the Roosevelt
government therefore is striking not only at the
revolutionary vanguard of the working class, but
is driving forward to smash every vestige of
elementary civil right every vestige of honesty
in intellectual life, every element of democratic
rights.
There can be no mistake about this. The history
of German Italian and Austrian fascism ought
by this time to burn this historic lesson deep into
the consciousness of every honest person. The
most reactionary degenerate forces in the ruling
class of a capitalist country invariably prepare for
the crushing of all civil rights by first attempting
to cripple the Communist Party.
The attempt by Roosevelt to crush the Com
munist Party, the spear-head Of the struggle
against oppression of every kind, is the prelude
to a widespread assault every other section of
American life that is not openly prOsttuted to
the service Of big capital
THERE must be immediate alarm and action on
the part of the working class and its allies to
halt this new Roosevelt wave of terrorism against
the militant trade unions and the Communist
Party.
For it is not only the Communist Party that
is menaced 1t is every trade union, every closed
shop agreement, every workers mass organization
and club. It is every intellectual group, magazine
society or enterprise which faces the menace of
fascist barbarism in the attempt to suppress the
Communist Party
The whole working class, every worker, Party
or Party Communist or non-C Communist, must
rush now to the defense of the Communist Party
Every trade unionist fighting to defend the
right to organize, to picket, to fight for better
wages and conditions must defend the Communist
Party which leads in the fight against the employers
To defend the right to hold open meetings, to
fight factory spies and stool pigeons to demonstrate
in the streets, the working class must fight to
defend the Communist Party
In the fight against the shipowners, the Fink
Hall" slave drivers, the Communist Party must be
defended, for the Communists the only deter
mined fighters against these cruelties of capitalist
exploitation.
Every worker who is jobless, hungry whose fam
lily suffers the horrors of the capitalist crisis must
defend the Communist Party, which leads the fight
for relief for unemployment insurance.
THE members of the Socialist Party and the rank
and file of the trade unions in particular, face
a grave responsibility in this situation. For the
ruling class terrorism will inevitably smash down
upon them with a fury no less than that prepared
for the Communist Party. In this situation the
united front of the working class becomes some
thing more than a matter for postponement and
endless debate. 1t becomes life and death matter
for immediate action.
Not only must the White House, Governor Mer-
riam and Mayor Rossi be bombarded by torrent
of kilograms and resolutions denouncing the vicious
batting" and gang rule, but in every trade
union, in the A. F. of L. locals where meet the
workers who every day face the exploitation of
the employers there must be practical steps for
the pedgng of aid in the fight against the new
terrorism directed against the working class and
its vanguard, the Communist Party.
This is not only the fight of the Communists.
1t is the fight of every person who works for a
living, every toiling farmer every honest person
vitaly interested in seeing the maintenance of
elementary democratic rights against the march
of fascism