The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

Communist Party U.S.A., and Sam Darcy dis
trict organizer and Communist candidate for Gov
erDOr of California, at the height of the terror,
is reprinted from the special August 1 issue Of the
western Worker"
THE efforts of the Industrial Associ-
alton, the shipowners, and Chamber of
Commerce, to whip up frenzy against the
Communists, is part of this drive to
destroy the trade unions, to keep down
wages, to build up their monopoly profits.
Such shameless lies and ISLANDERS as fill
the columns of the San Francisco daily press have
rarely been seen before. This campaign is from the
school of Hitler
These gentlemen know full well that they are
lying and that their ISLANDERS cannot stand .
moments investigation That is why they carry on
a terror campaign which has converted San Fran
cisco into a kind of Little Germany"
While the vigilantes, organized by the police
and paid by the shipowners are raiding private
homes, burning libraries and printing plants chop
ping up pianos and smashing typewriters in work.
ers halls it is such moment they choose to charge
the Communists with advocating violence
But they have been unable to bring one single
definite case of single act word to support their
charge. All concrete cases OF violence are those
where violence is used against the workers
Why this frenzy of hate against the Commu-
nistS' Are the Communists proposing to make a
revolution now, beginning in San Francisco? No.
that is absurd nonsense The Communists do not
propose to make a revolution until by comradely
discussion and conviction of the toiing masses they
have majority support securely behind the Party
We have not yet got this support. But we will get
it, and the more the bosses rage, the earlier And
the terror, suppression Of the shipowners the po-
lice, the vgilantss the gunner, will only help us
to convince the toing quicker that this sys-
tenn of misery, starvation, suppression of the poor
has to be changed quickly as possible in the in
terest of the overwhelming majority of the popu-
laton of this country against the handful Of bank
ers, against Wall Street and their lackeys Rosss
vandeleurs, etc.
WHAT WE FIGHT FOR
Now, the Communists are fighting to help the
poor farmers who are being crushed beneath the
burdens of mortgage charges, taxes marketing
monopolies and drought
Now, the Communists are fighting to protect
the small home-owners whose taxes are being
doubled to pay the strkebreaking bills Of the rich
shipowners.
Now, the Communists are fighting to recover
the savings of the small depositors which have been
confiscated by the big Wall Street banks who closed
down the little banks
Now, the Communists are helping the veterans
to fight for their back-wages 1.-The bonus
The Communist Party alone fights with all it's
energy for these things
The monopoly capitalists fight against these
things. That's why they hate the Communists
That's why they lie about us That's why they
raised fund OF five million dollars to drive the
Reds out of California. But gentlemen, you won't
succeed in making California yellow.
That is why the Luckenbacks and Fleischackers
give such high praise to Vandeeur, Ryan, Lewis
Casey and their kind. These takers, who pretend
to be trade union leaders, use their position to
break strikes, to defeat the demands of the work
ers. 1t is true these strikebreakers are not reds
They are also yellow
LABOR LEADERS" SELL OUT
For the same reason that the capitalists praise
the labor leaders" the Communists fight against
them and expose them. They are yellow They are
paid stool pigeons of the capitalists So long as
the workers follow them defeat is inevitable When
they stand at the head of strike it is not to win
it, but to smash it-just they did in the San
Francisco General Strike Just the British labor
takers did in the British general strike
But every time these gentlemen hit the workers
and every time they hit the Communist Party they
are only furnishing new proof to the workers that
what the Communist Party told them is correct
The Communist Party has pointed out to the
longshoremen and sailors how arbitration was used
to smash and defeat the auto workers, the Min
neapols drivers and the steel workers BY soldiers
police, clubs gas, bullets terror the employers have
forced the workers to accept arbitration Now, they
will have to prove to the workers that the Commu-
nists were right when they warned them against
arbitration.
THE workers learning by bitter experience
that if they do not want yellow leadership, then
they must choose Red leaders, and the fully mill
tant workers.
1.-The shipowners boast that they will drive out
all Communists. 1t can't be done. Hitler tried it
in Germany and failed So also the little Hitler
limitations in California will fail The Communist
Party is of the bone blood and flesh of the work
ing class. The capitalists must always have the
workers to feed them-that's why they can never
get rid Of the Reds
1T is to be regretted that free speech and civil
rights in California so crushed at the moment
that it was impossible to obtain a hall for meet
ing Comrade Browder could publicly discuss these
questions. But this will not always be So Cali
fornia workers will not be content until they regain
freedom Of speech and sweep aside the fascist as
semblage.
I'VE are certain that many tens Of thousands
of California workers will register their indignation
at the Hitlerism of the powers that now are in
California by voting for the Communist ticket in
the coming elections-and that this will be the first
step for thousands of them to join the Communist
Party.
Long live the brave LongshOremen and Sea-
rzI.H.