The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-22
CIoaking the Advance of
American FdSCiSm

HINDER cover of an attack against Naz propa-
ganda in this country, the House has just passed
a resolution introduced by Representative Dcksten
of New York, which is aimed Squarely at the revo-
lutionary labor movement and the Communist Party
in particular.
The resolution provides for a committee in
vestgation into the extent and character and OBJ
ject of Nazi propaganda in the United States" But
this is not all The loyal capitalist politicians who
fill Congress also provided that the Committee in
vestgate "the diffusion within the United States of
subverSive propaganda that is nstigated from for
egn countries and attacks the principle Of the form
of government guaranteed by the Constitution"
There can be no mistaking the reactonary in
tent of this clause Its very phrases echo the time
halowed stale verbiage of professional Red
baiters." This ostensiby liberal and progressive
resolution against Fascist activities in this country
is, in reality aimed at the very forces that are in
the forefront of the fight against Fascsm the mill
tant working class movement and its vanguard, the
Communist Party.
Unmistakable evidence of this is that one of
the leading reactionary Red baiters" in the con-
try Ham Fish has already responded eagerly to the
House resolution with a telegram to Dcksten
stating enthusiastically, IT favor the resolution
There is no more room for Hitlerism in America
than there is for communism. Both of these are
foreign forms of dictatorship"
LIAM FISH deliberately Jumps Fascism together
Al with Communism. He knows that they are as
far apart as day and night, sky and earth, that
in fact they direct opposites, deadly enemies
Fascism is the undisgused dictatorship of the cap
itsst class against the working class. Fascism is
the rule of the billionaires longer concealed by
any of the trappingS of democratic parliamentarism
1t is the open rule of the most powerful capitalist
reaction against the workers and impoverished
farmers, buttressed and concealed by deliberately
melted reactionary race hatreds, chauvinism, etc.
Communism is the direct antithess of every
that Fascism stands for. Communism is the rule
Of the proletariat the working class over the ex-
ploters, the capitalist class 1t is the setting up
of the dictatorship of the proletarat in place of
the present dictatorship Of the Wall Street billion
aires, which is quite brutal and ruthless in its
oppression and exploitation as real as the Fascist
Hitler dictatorship for all that it Is hidden by
bourgeois democracy. Fascism is what exists in the
prison-house hell of Hitler Germany. Communism
is what is being created in the Soviet Union. AS
far apart death from life.
Fish and his colleagues pretend to fight the
Nazis. Let remember that Dolfuss, the Aus
TRAN Fascist, also claimed to fight the Nazis-and
slipped over his own Fascist terrorism while he was
doing it. The people who sponsoring the Dick
stein resolution are not and cannot be real fighters
of Fascism. For the simple reason that they them
selves are easing in American Fascism right here
at home! Fish and many of the Congressman who
voted the Dickstein bill themselves the advance
agents of American Fascism. 1t is they who are
melting militarsm chauvinism, reactionary terror
ism against the militant working class fight on Wall
Street exploitation How then can they fight Fas-
ciSfn?
The Dickstein bill and the trickery of the Ham
Fishes surrounding it is a reflection Of the wide
spread hatred for Fascism that exists among the
masses. The political tricksters in Congress are
trying to capitalize this anti-Fascst hatred and
turn it away from real struggle against Fascism and
its American advance agents.
The real fight against Fascism comes from the
working class and its revolutionary vanguard, the
Communist Party. The Ham Fishes ct al who are
trying to crush the Communist Party are doing
large service Tor advancing American Fascsm That
is what makes the Dickstein resolution menacing
the working class.