The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
World Front
MOsley's Decline
How 1t Came About
'.MOpping Up" In Spain
BY HARRY CANNES

! NlOSIey S Decllne
How It Came About
'MOpping Up" In Spain
WHATEVER mass influence
" Sir Oswald Mosley, Brit
ish Fascist who strove to ape
the role of Hitler, had is
dwindling, according to re-
cent cable reports to Amer
lean capitalist newspapers.
The American newspapers, how
ever, seek to get their readers to
believe that the healthy, natural
democratic instincts" of the British
public are responsible for the decline
of attendance at Mosley's rantings.
Nothing is farther from the truth.
Mosley received the support of lead~
ing finance capitalists in Britain.
The police helped him by beating
up anti-fascists. His mass support
didn't dwindle by itself. 1t was
smashed by the persistent mass
struggle against him, led by the
Communist Party of Britain.
That only 1000 came to Albert
Hall last Sunday, as against 5000
last Spring, is due to persistent an
ti-fascist struggle carried on by the
Communist Party which strove to
organize the united front against
fascism. while the policy Of the Britt
ish Labor Party leaders was to let
the fascists breed their murder
gangs without hindrance from the
labor movement.
hNTT-FASCISTS stormed Mosley's
"A first Albert Hall meeting and
battled the police and Mosley's
thugs in their efforts to expose his
role On September 9th, the anti
fascist united front foremost
among which was the Communist
Party-mobilized 10000 anti-fas~
eists at Hyde Park in counters
demonstration to one arranged by
Mosley. Mosley was driven away
like a beaten dog.
From every industrial center in
England reports were arriving be-
fore Mosley's last meeting of grow
ing anti-fascist activity. In Plym~
outh, on Oct. IL, when the Black
shirts met, the workers modified
crowd of 10000 blocking traffic.
Not single blackshirt was allowed
to speak. The fascists had to flee
for their lives.
AT STEPNEY, London, 5000 work.
n ers arrived at a spot where a
blackshirt meeting was advertised
to be held Not a single fascist had
the nerve to show up. The police
thereupon drew their clubs and as
saulted the crowd.
The successful anti-fascist agits-
ton in North Shields has made it
impossible for the fascists to con-
tinue there. A ito let" notice was
hung out on the local fascist bar
racks.
That's how Mosley's mass influ-
ence "dwindled" in England. But
that by no means signifies the end
of British imperialism to build it's
fascist reserves. Mosley will be re-.
habilitated or another leader"
chosen to replace him. The fight
goes on despite the Labor Party
leadership's sabotage of the united
anti-fascist front.
WHEN the armed miners of AS
w turias, Socialists, Communists
and Syndicalists, were defeated in
their uprising against the Fascist
Lerroux- Robes regime, the picked
cut Threats of the African Foreign
Legion were sent into the district to
mop up" In their thirst for work.
ers' blood they shot men, women
and children who had taken no part
whatever in the fighting General
Lopez Ochua, who commanded the
! troops against the Asturias miners.
wants the world to believe that the
Foreign Legion was sent ahead by
some accident.
But history shows that the ems
ragged bourgeoisie whenever it de-
feats the workers in an armed strug@
gle. always picks It's most relentless
cutthroats to teach the workers q
lessen" In the Paris Commune
every tenth worker arrested was
picked out and shot dead in the
cutters. Women and children were
not exempt. The Spanish bour-
geoisie did not dare to use the reg
ular troops for this job, but picked
out its armed criminals. Murderers
and the worst condemned criminals,
foreign mercenaries and adventurers
compose the African Foreign Legion.
They are sent to Morocco to ter
rorize the colonial peoples by the
worst show of savagery and brutal
! ity.
Early in the fighting these troops
were rushed to Asturias, when the
government did not dare risking
the regular army against their
brothers on the barricades. After
the fighting was over. the brave
Legionaires entered workers homes
and without trial or question shot
the inhabitants. The New York Times
correspondent, who in all of his
stories has shown his pro-fascist
sympathies, is forced to report at
least one of these depredations.
When the African Foreign Legion
entered Ovieda on Oct. 10. they
seized "a men, women and children
in one house. All the neighbors say
not one of them took any part in
the fighting. They had locked them
selves up in their home because they
were afraid of the Foreign Legion.
They were dragged out and, with-