The daily worker., 1934-09-04
On the
World Front
BY HARRY CANNES
Sept. 9 in England
A Fascist Test
The Life of DimitrOv

~ VIII De q udy Ol severe
test of the mobilization of the
forces against Fascism. On
that day, the British Hitler,
Sir Oswald Mosley, has called
for the mightiest concentration of
all fascist groups ever held at Hyde
Park under the auspices of the
British Union of Fascists.
Mosley's display of Fascist force
is not an isolated exhibition. IT is
the spearhead of the rapid drive to-
ward fascism by the National q tov-
ernment. The stronger Mosl6y's
demonstration, the more successful,
the easier the National Governmapt
will find it to put over its fasciaSt
Sedition Bill, aimed against tha
Communist Party and militants
workers.
TOR this reason, the Communist
L Party of Great Britain, has been
arousing the workers to a monster
counter demonstration at Hyde .
Park to show that the working class
is ready to take up the fight against
fascism and to overwhelm this Iass
cist concentration by superior massn
ing of anti-fascist forces.
To achieve this end it has ad"
dressed itself to all working g-clasI
organizations, especially the trade
unions and the Labor Party, calling
for united front on Sept. against
fascism.
CUFFICIENT~ locals and executives
y of trade unions expressed their
determination to fight this fascist
threat to arouse the Labor Party
officials to take some counter-
measures. These lackeys of British
Imperialism, aping the German So
cialist trade union leaders, pleaded
with the workers to stay away from
the anti-fascist demonstration.
They want to give Mosley a free
hand to mass his forces, gain
strength and to build up the shock
troops of British fascism.
Responding to the statement OF
the National Council of Labor, the
Communist Party of Great Britain
declared:
"The astounding statement pub
lished by the National Council Of
Labor against the Anti Fascist
Rally in Hyde Park on Sept. 8 is
one of the most outrageous ac-
tions ever committed by the lead
ership of the Labor Party and
Trade Union Congress against the
working class movement"
THE Labor Party belly-crawlers
/ argued that to preserve The
blessings of democracy" the Fas-
cists should be given the right, un~
molested by the workers, to meet
and speak freely, without counter
demonstration. To this the Com-
munist Party replied:
'Tt is sheer hypocrisy to describe
the rally which Mosley and his
thugs are now planning for Hyde
Park as representing a right OF
public meeting. 1t is big boost
for brutal Fascist violence which
MosIey aims at, and his whole
movement is being organized to
crush and destroy the labor move
ment."
THE original letter to all labor or
1 ganizations for the united front
against fascism was signed by
broad group, including Communists
and non-C Communists. Among them
was the famous author, John Stra-
chey, who issued the following
statement against the Labor Party
officialdom's injunction:
"The attitude of the leaders of
the Labor Party and Trade Union
Movement is, fear, a disastrous
one. They evidently think that
they can ignore fascism and that
they can attempt to restrain
working class anti-FaScist activi-
ties.
"This is precisely the attitude
adopted by the German Trade
Union and Social Democratic
leaders. 1t led to the triumph of
Fascism in Germany, and it is
the one thing which could possibly
lead to the success of FaScism in
| fhic nou1,fr.v
Despite the officialdom's treach-
cry, the British workers are massing
their forces for the greatest Anti
Fascist Rally on Sept. 9 ever held in
England.
IN a previous column, announcing
the news that a book on Dimitrov
was being published in Moscow,
expressed the hope that it would be
printed in English likewise. 1t
seems my hope was realized before
1 expressed it. International Pub
fishers, in fact, today issues the
book "Dimitrov," a Biography, by
Stella D. Blagoyeva, 124 pages, at
/ ~ SSAAVo a SOPys
have an advance copy, and I
want to urge all who followed Dimi-
troy during the Leipzig days to get
better acquainted with him through
this book. The first part of the
book is really history of the Dimi-
trov family, who are all, from the
old mother to the youngest daugh-
ter, Lena, revolutionists. Four of
Dimitrov's brothers were killed for
their revolutionary activities. one
of Dimitrov's nephews, the son Of
his sister Magdalene, is now being
tortured to death in a Bulgarian
prison for distributing Communist
leaflets for the defense of the Soviet
Union.
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