The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-28
World Front
Hearst and Hitler
The Visit Bears Fruit
What We May Expect
: By HARRY CANNES

uEARSTS visit to Hitler IS
H bearing poisonous fruit
in the United States. Early
in September of this year,
William Randolph Hearst
held a series of conferences
with Rosenberg, Nazi foreign
propaganda specialist. Later Hearst
visited der feuhrer" himself. He
refused to reveal the substance of
his conversation. though in COLI
umn at that time, from an UNDER
standing of Hearst's anti-labor poll.
cies, I tried to approximate the
conversation. What has actually
happened since is far beyond the
worst anybody could then imagine,
Hearst not only has placed his en-
tire powerful press, reaching over
100000 people daily at the serv-
ice of Hitler's war policies, but has
become the mass propaganda organ
for the creation of fascist murder
troops in the United States.
NO more open call for the organ
~ ization of fascist shock troops
was ever made in the United States
on serious scale than in Hearst's
instructions to his editors on No
vember 26.
Hearst deliberately began his
campaign for fascist mobilization
long before the Butler revelations.
He did it by a series of articles at
lacking the Communist Party in the
most vicious and insane manner.
Never a day, for weeks, but that
the Lenin quotation" was plastered
on some editorial, under some car
toon or picture. At first it was sup
posed to be merely a quotation"
from Lenin. Then it became a
definition of the dictatorship OF
the proletariat, and finally Lenin's
definition" of Communism.
When Butler made his sensational
revelations, Hearst felt he had to
oSb Oub III OpCLls I1C loSuCA d
letter of instructions to all his ed
itors, which was published as an
editorial on the front page of every
Hearst newspaper in the country.
That instruction was understood by
every editor to mean that in inter-
national policies, the Hearst press
supports Fundamentally the war
plans of Hitler. Nationally, the pro-
gram of organizing the shock troops
against labor for the finance CAPT.
talists.
HEARST did not limit his attack to
III the Communist Party. He attacked
the workers. BY the use of the word
'proletariat,' which he traces to
its Roman origin, he resorted to the
lowest abuse against what he con-
sidered the lower orders, the rabble,
the scum of society-those who toll
to create the vast riches on which
Hearst builds his fortune, and
spends for his riotous orgies and
filth.
His whole diatribe was: Labor
must not rule in the United States.
1t will rule only when it follows
the program of the Communist
Party. Therefore, smash the Com
munist Party. To do that, organ
ize your fascist bands and wipe
them out. Then labor will not be
able to rule because it will not have
its vanguard, it's most capable, in
telligent and equipped leading
force.
We can safely predict, this is only
a mild beginning for Hearst Like
the Daily Mail in England, he will
pick out his prospective Hitler. The
Daily Mail picked Sir Oswald Mos
ley, trained in the ranks of the La
Dor Party, to become the fascist
chief.
THE Hearst press will begin def
1 mite provocations against the
revolutionary workers and their
leaders, as they already, in a Shiny
hidden way, have already under
taken.
Hearst wants the Communist
Party stamped out, legally if pos
sible, and by extra legal force
through the attacks of fascist
groups, if needs be.
Hearst did not mention the So
cialist Party, but there is no doubt
that once the attack gets under way
against the Communist Party, it
will be aimed at the Socialist Party,
and all trade unions, with as great
vehemence. Here we must point out
the danger of the criticism of some
Socialist leaders against the Com
munists. Hearst, for example,
says that the reason for fascism is
Communism. He denies that the
decay of capitalism, its desire to
preserve itself against the growing
struggles of the workers, is the basic
cause for fascism. He says: "Fas-
cism is definitely a movement to
oppose and offset Communism, and
so prevent the least capable and
least creditable classes from getting
control" In his pamphlet: THE
New Deal Socialist Analysis"
Norman Thomas wrote; "The Com
munist emphasis on dictatorship
and revolutionary violence today in
America awakens a reaction which
plays into the hands of fascism and
not Communism"
Only by a united front of the So
cialist and Communist Parties now
can the danger be met, danger
that will grow daily, that is even
greater now than we can realize be-
cause we do not know how far the
rnal ralanar for actual armed faSciSt.