The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-11
On the
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES

A Friend of MOsley's
What Happened in London
Two News Reports
CIR Oswald Mosley, the Brit
~ ish aspirant for the Hit.
lerian post in England, has q
very good friend working for
the New York Times.
When over 100000 anti.
Fascists in London on Sunday
met in a counter-demonstration
against the Fascist concentration,
Mr.. Charles A. Selden, London corr
respondent for the Times, came to
the aid Of Mosley by deliberately
distorting ing news of the demon-
stration
For weeks before the fascist
meeting the Communist Party led
the mobilization of a united front
counter demonstration to Fascism
in Hyde Park Mosley, who ,ex-
pected 10000 black shirted Fascists
to march could muster only 5000 ,
Chat is, according to the count Of
his friend Seldom. Whereas, sc-
cording to other capitalist sources
between 100000 and 10000 people
massed to boo Mosley and to ex- ,
press their hatred of Fascism.
THE Times story reports 5000 Fa-
1 scists, we'll protected by 1000
police and an equal number of
-Fascists, mostly Communists.
Selden cannot overlook the 10000
people massed in Hyde Park, and,
since he cannot attribute their
presence to the support of the
Fascists, he declares: "All except
q few thousand of these, were
spectators who had no use for
either Fascists or Communists
To show his impartiality still
further, he quites Mosleys state
ments, and omits single word of
the anti-Fascist spokesman.
Now we have not yet received
cable reports from the London
Daily Worker on what actually
happened, but we have enough
information to show that the
Times story is tissue of lies.
THE anti Fascist mobilization,
L which was fought by the British
Labor Party officials and the trade
union leaders, was effective in pre-
venting Mosley from speaking, and
was a militant massing of anti
Fascists, who turned out 20 to l
against the Fascists, despite huge
provocative police organization to
aid the Fascists.
The United Press is no more
friendly to the Anti Fascists and
Communists than is the Times,
Yet we get the following details
as published by the U. P in the
New York Herald Tribune. The
headlines read: Mob in London
Pelts Mosley with Tomatoes. II
Hurt in Riot of 100000 tanning
Hyde Park To Boo Young Fascist
Chief"
Which is quite a different story
from MIR. Selden's. Selden makes
the crowd of 100000 appear as spec
tators who came to see the sport,
cricket crowd with the good old
English spirit of fair play" not
concerned with whether Fascist
terror advances or not. He stresses
the imaginative peacefulness of the
meeting, which, of course, is far
from the facts. We quote the
United Press:
"Sir Oswald Mosley was pep
pered this afternoon with very
ripe tomatoes and fruits, hurled
at him during rioting in which
eleven persons were injured while
he attempted to address a huge
gathering Of his Fascist followers
in Hyde Park. Mounted police
charged the milling throng
Thousands of police guarded
Hyde Park, where 100000 persons
jammed Fascist mass meeting,
most of them present to boo
Mosley.'
MOST of the 100000, It is clear
l'l from this report, came to ex-
press their hatred of Fascism, came
in response to the united front
appeal issued by the Communist
Fascists; and they effectively kept
the Fascist whelp from speaking,
despite the 1000 police and their
auto-gyro.
The U. P. cable tells how the
meeting was broken up:
When Mosley attempted to
speak, the anti Fascists left their
own meeting to join the crowd
around the Fascist platform, and
started the tomato barrage. They
could not get to the rostrum,
which was guarded by a square
Of black-shirted Fascists six deep.
The demonstrations lasted one
hour, after which the Fascists,
headed by Mosley, and followed
by a jeering crowd, marched to
their headquarters in Chelsea
and dispersed, while the police
shooed the anti-Fascists in other
directions"
This is a victory for the anti
Fascist concentration, no matter
how the Times correspondent would
like to pooh-pooh the whole affair.
MOSLEY, as F.. Paine Dutt in his
w book, "Fasoizm and the Social
Revolution" shows, was nurtured
and trained by the Rr.itish Labor