The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-31
Behind the Fable of Kidnapping the President
Is Dire Threat Against American Labor
An Editorial

Soviet regime would have no need for kdnap-
ping, which is typical feature of corrupt An1eri-
can capitalism Composed of the workers in the fac
tories organized in their councils acting as the ru
ing force, Soviet power would end capitalist domi-
nation. 1t would take over the factories the mines
the mills the banks and transform them into prop
erty of the people not as they are now the private
property OF the du Points with their 900 per cent
war prohts), of the Morgans Rockefellers Raskobs
MELONS, and their ilk, who bleed the workers in
war and drive them to starvation in peace" in
order to pile up their profits
AND Soviet power could not be achieved by kid
IA mapping the President as anyone with intell-
gence above the Dckstein committees fary-story
writer's would know Soviet power is the power of
the revolutionary toiling masses convinced in their
majority that capitalism should be ended 1t is the
organized ruling will of the aority of toilers 1t
could not be achieved by such silly coup as kid
mapping the President" if all of the armed forces
OF oppression of the workers the capitalist courts
the army the navy, the militia the police are still
IN the hands of the class for which President Roose
welt thinks, speaks and acts, the employing class.
No such plans be found either in Mime
apolis or New York or Chicago They grow only out
OF the frantic imagination of the poison props-
gandists for the employers who do not dare answer
the questions brought up by the Communist Party
working class-the question of the struggle for So
Wet power, by the winning of the majority of the
toilng population in the United States
The kidnap plot story will be laughed to ridcue
by the majority of the American people. Not even
the most hardened fascist will believe it, but will
recognize it part of fascism's stock n-trade.
But what the Dckstein committee is trying to
achieve by this slimes of tricks is something more
substantial which threatens the whole American
ooY1t irI lie ril
smoke screen will go the preparation of anti
Communist legislation in order to hit the vanguard
of the American working class in their fight against
capitalist slavery.
The hope of the employers is that by these vile
methods they can blind the American workers to
the historic fact that every fascist drive labor
always begins by directing its brunt against the
Communist Party. This is then followed up by an
onslaught against the trade unions which would be
underground.
Answer this latest proyocation of the Dcksten
committee by more intensive struggle for the united
front against fascism. The Communist Party calls
on all workers, all antifascists, to give these forces
Of ignorance and oppression who think that Ameri-
labor is stupid and credulous enough to believe
such fairy stories, their proper reply Smash the
red-baitng drive in the trade unions in the schools
everywhere
Workers. Defend the Communist Party against
the attacks Of the powerful employers and their
red-baiting apparatus in the government.
Join the Communist Partyf