The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-01
Officials In California
Paving Way for Fascists

not risen to any appreciate extent
ID These fascist bodies frequently
have local law officers as members
50 that the extra-legsI body does
the work Of suppression which tbs
legal body cannot, at this time, Uu-
dertske.
81 The legal authorities are trying
to pave the way for the fascist
groups by passing local ordinances
designed to stop organizat0ns1 sc-
tivities. Should fsscists forciblv at
tack organizers or meetings they
would be condoned because they
we're 'upholding the law"
g. The employing class, realizing
that one Of the chief reasons Come
munists we're able to make eonsid-
cradle progress among migratory
workers as well as gain the sympa-
thetic ear Of conservative labor, was
the utter absence Of intensive anti
red propaganda, have now started
It with a vengeance.
l0) Newspapers today are filed
with snti-red stories, exposes" and
editorials. The radio, too, is COM
stantly blaring forth news Of Cone
munist plots" and Communist &C.
tivities. real and fancied.
ID There are three out-and-out
fascist organizations active in SOUTH
ern California besides the sntl-
Communist and scattered vigilsnte
groups. These are the Friends Of
New Germany, the Crusader White
Shirts, also known as the "Ameri-
can Reds" and the Silver Shirts.
12) The Friends of New Germany
is part Of the nation wide props-
ganda organization Of that name,
the aim Of which is to populsrize
the Hitler government. It's coast
branch is rather weak here.
49, The Crusader White Shirts
here is branch Of the body with
national headquarters in Chatts-
nooga. Tenn. This organization is
weaker even than the Friends Of
New Germany.
IA The Silver Shirts here were
formerly a branch Of the national
! organization with headquarters in
Asheville, N. c. Recently, control
of the California branch was cap
tured by a soldier of fortune who
admits using it as q racket to get
money. 1t still considers itself a
branch Of the national organizsti ton
though it maintains It's own control
over the state.
49, This raCketeering organization
has between 500 and 500 members
in the entire state and is weak
numerically. The only thing Of i'm
portance about IT Is the trend it
shows towards fascism and the
propaganda it spreads at It's weekly
meetings.
16) These weekly meetings are
we'll attended, about 1000 persons
being present.
I'D Anti-Jew and Communist
literature, usually purchased in lot
quantities from the national head
quarters, is widely sold at these
meetings.
49, This literature, the work Of
the national leader, William Dudley
Policy, is quite obviously the product
Of a deranged mind.
19) Pelley claims that the system
Of government his fascist body pro-
poses to enforce was given him in
q vision and that voices told him
details about it. This followed =
visit he made to God during which
he had q friendly heart-to-heart
talk for seven minutes with him
2o) Pelley also claims that the
system he proposes existed 100000
years ago in Atlantis, that legendary
land supposed to have sunk in the
Atlantic aeons ago, and that college
professors, international bankers,
Jews and Communists are suppress
ing the fact.
2D And there are nuts who be-
lieve him.