The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-03
On the
World Front
Fighting" Fascism
BY Expulsion of
The Enemies of Fascism
= By HARRY CANNES

HIS Britannia Majesty's Of
H ficial la Dor opposition
leaders have their own pecu-
liar way of fighting" fas-
cism. None of your rowdy,
mass tactics, none of your
crude mobilization of the
working class to disturb England's
quiet streets with howls and IN
seemly shouts against the fascists
can be considered by these gentle
men who have worn his Majesty's
livery.
At the 34th annual conference Of
the British Labor Party, just opened
at Southport, a paper resolution
against fascism Gin the hypocr1ticaI
style of the British labor leaders,
was passed, and then the confer
ence went into action. Those forces
in the Labor Party who were prinH-
inent in the actual fight against
fasciSm were brought up for ex-
pulsion. The convention authorized
the party executive to take discip-
linary action against Lord Marley
and Ellen wilkinson, former mem
Der Of Parliament, on the ground
that they favored the united front
with the Communists in the fight
against fascism.
THEIR worst crime, in the eyes Of
the hckspittles of his Imperial
Majesty, was that they actively
worked on the Committee for the
Relief of German and Austrian
Victims of Fascism, and thereby
embarrassed Hitler and Schnush~
nigg.
The Labor Lord quite correctly
denied that he had any affiliations
with the Communists, pointing out
that as a representative of British
labor he favored a united struggle
against the fascist menace every
where.
NOW let's return to the literary
~ war Of the Labor Party confer
ence against fascism and estimate
its meaning 1.-THE area of the black
plague of fascism," said w. r.
Smith, the party's chairman, has
been extended with contamination
of dictatorship in Austria. De.
spite its outfit of shirts, slogans and
salutes, we recognize fascism for
what it is-old deadly reaction, his
toric enemy of workers"
No new situation conIrontS these
gentlemen who consider the British
empire as imperishable as the sun
which never sets on it, Fascism is
not for them manifestation of the
exploiters driven to frenzy in this
period of the growing general crisis
of capitalism against the proletariat
moving for the overthrow of a sys-
tenn becoming unbearable to life
itself. Just the cold deadly reaction"
which requires no united front CT
the whole working class but only
beautifully worded resolutions.
Passing to the question of war,
Mr.. Smith, shielding of the role Ct
the British imperialists, declared:
IF war is in the air"-cautious
fellow this Mr.. Smith, with his "if"-
"it is primarily the result of head
strong, grasping imperialism in the
Far East and the barbarous, brutal
izing fascism of Europe"
pUT the peace-loving lion of Brit
u ish capitalism, with its support to
both Japan and Fascist Germany,
of course, works only for peace.
That accounts for the tremendous
increase in British ornaments,
especially in its air and naval forces.
That accounts for its maneuvers in
Japan and Manchuria.
No, there mus be no struggle
against British fascism and British
war preparations, in the opinion of
the British Labor Party leaders.
And woe to him who tries to step
out of these bounds as did Lord
Marley and Ellen Wilkinson.
That the issue of fascism came
up so prominently at all is due to
the tremendous anti-fascist activi-
ties Of the Communist Party of
Great Britain. This action culmin-
ated on Sept. in a demonstration
of 100000 workers in Hyde Park,
London, against Sir Oswald Mos
ley'S fascist concentration, which
modified at most 5000 of his fol-
lowers.
pOOSEVELT'S reciprocity trade
~ treaty with Cuba, which was to
have spread Oil on the troubled
political waters of that country, has
in no way allayed the rising revo-
lutionary storm The Mendieta
government is entering the worst
crisis in its history Revolutionary
struggles have been going on inces-
sanity among the workers and
peasants in Oriente Province, where
the majority of the population are
oppressed Negroes.
Now the fight against the Men,
dieta regime has spread to the ex-
IRENE western province of Pinar del
Rio. with a general motor trans
portation s.rike gripping the whole
country. Mendieta's answer, quite
in keeping with the deeds of his
master, Roosevelt, is to suspend
civil rights in the provinces of Ha-
vana and Oriente, and an order for
the arrest of all Communists, as
well as followers of Antonio Gui-
teras, leader of the left" Au en-
ticos, a splinter off the old Grau
Sen Martin block
The strike Of the chauffeurs Is
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