The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-15
Iheater Bombing Used
By Police in Boston
To mcite Red Scare
Facts Reveal No Labor
Groups Involved in
Explosions
BY EUGENE GORDON

HearStS Boston American winch
on Tuesday carried screaming head
lines proclaiming the BONO expio-
sions in Boston, Lynn and Paw
tucket theatres to be the work of
Reds" in a general terrorist plot"
yesterday printed, along with other
Boston papers, what appear to be
the real facts in the bombings.
At the same time, the District
Committee of the Communist Party
issued a statement stressing the
universally known fact that indi-
vidual terrorism is contrary to the
aims and principles of the Com
munist Party, and exposing t n e
Hearst ISLANDERS as another step in
the fascist campaign of the Hearst
press against the working class, and
its Communist vanguard.
Planted BY Thugs
Statements by the owners of the
bombed theatres reveal % q fierce,
cut-throat competition of ION g
standing between the so-called in
dependents and the chain theatres;
% that gangsters employed by rival
theatre owners had threatened to
blow up all houses operated by a
certain group, go that the explo-
sives we're planted. by hired thugs
who we're paid $3.50 bomb" "a
that no labor group was involved IN
the bombings,
Although the American prints the
revised version along with the other
capitalist papers, 1t does not, as
some of the others do, openly admit
that the Communists were not
involved.
Boston police lost little time in
promoting the red scare set off by
the Hearst paper. A worker riding
on a trolley car who heard one of
the blasts and commented that it
sounded like bombing was prompt
ly arrested. The fact that he was
Communist was used to suggest
Communist plot 1t is also signifi-
cant that the red squad" was put
to work on the bombings.
Governor Ely also issued a state
ment yesterday covertly attacking
the Communists, although not men
tioning them by name. The Ameri-
can and all the afternoon papers
gave the attack first-page promi-
/ nence.
The two Boston theatres which
were bombed are operated by F. E.
Lieberman, on an open shop, cut
price policy. Both houses were badly
damaged, with windows and doors
in the lobby blown out and parts of
the cellar ripped to pieces.
Owners Expose Police
E. M. Lowe, owner of the two out
of-town theatres which we're bomb
ed, and Lieberman, were b o h
responsible for exposing the police
attempts to promote red scare, -
in the realization that while the
police we're frittering away their
time trying to pin the outrage on
the Communists, the real bonhcrs
and those who hired them were
being left unmolested.
The statement issued by the Dis
trict Committee of the Communist
Party points out that Hearst's fas-
cist campaign against the working
class was redoubled the moment
Hearst returned from his conference
with Hitler in Germany and wrote
his Infamous letter instructing all
his papers to carry on a campaign
for faSciSm and against the Com
munist Party as the only method Of
crushing the struggles Of the work
ers.
! Cites Moro Castle, Reichstag Fires
Not a single disaster or major
crime resulting from capitalist cor
rupticn and greed takes place today,
without attempts to use it as an
occasion to accuse and attack the
Communist Party. The lead in this
direction has been given directly by
the government. We have only to
recall the recent attempt of Mr..
Hoover of the Steamboat Inspection
Service to cover up the criminal
greed of the Ward Line which was
responsible for the MORO Castle
fire, by accusing the Communists
of causing the fire. This outrageous
charge (also especially featured by
the Hearst press has since been
thoroughly exposed by the evidence
which has placed the blame defin-
itely on the company.
THE Communist Party repeats,
as it has done and has proved hun
dreds Of times before, that it totally
rejects and fights against any
methods of individual terror. Such
methods can be of no use to the
working class, but are used contin-
ually by the capitalists as p:ovoca
ton against the workers The
Reichstag Fire, which was set by the
Nazis themselves as an excuse for
attacking the Communist Party OF
Germany, was an object lesson for
the whole world in this regard.
Exposes Ely as Strike Breaker
The statement of Governor Ely is
another example Of the aid given
by government officials to the fss-
cist campaigns against the workers
The whole statement is an attempt
by implication to lay the blame for
these atrocious crimes upon those
having radical IDEAS" Radical and
revolutionary ideas have nothing in
common with gangsterism, corrup-
ton and crime that is typical OF
American capitalism today. T h e
fascist Indictment contained in Gov
ernor Ely's statement is in complete
accord with his use of the State
police to attack the Southbridge
strikers-a policy of increased vio-
lence in an attempt to crush the
struggles of the workers against