The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-05
Father Coughlins Latest Propaganda Sounds War Note

I tered into by Nat Ross. Communist
Party organizer in the South. on
the one hand, and certain out
standing revolutionary Socialists on
the other, must bring grave concern
to all sincere advocates Of the unity
Of labor
It's Immediate Effect
What already has been the eff
" feet of the Chattanooga Con-
ference? The united front develop
ment has generated tremendous en-
thusiasm among large sections of
workers, who seem to grasp in
stinctively the Importance of these
actions. At the same time this
united front progress has stimulated
real political and theoretical discus
sion among the southern workers.
Such questions as the difference be-
tween the S. P. and G. p, questions
concerning the state, the dictator
ship Of the proletariat, bourgeois
democracy, and so on, are more and
more being discussed as result Of
the united front progress.
The biggest step forward in re-
gard to the united front has been
the enthusiasm with which trade
Unionists have embraced these first
steps toward the united front Per-
haps the most significant step in
this direction. growing out of the
united front developments between
the G. P. and the s. P, in connec-
ton with the Congress for Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance, is
the fact that whole bloc of MEM
bers of the Birmingham (Ala),
Trades Council, who represent the
most militant and honest unionists
in important unions in the indus
trial heart of the South, came out
openly in support .of the Congress
and in the struggle for unity in the
trade union and unemployed move
ment, which is now under way In
the Birmingham region.
Expect Mass Conference
The results of the Chattanooga
conference is seen by the endorse
ment given it at the Highlander
conference, the acceptance of the
program Of six demands. the laying
of basis for further conferences
to carry out the proposals adopted,
and to develop broader mass action
in the South, and especially in par
ticipation in the preparations for
the South-wide conference against
lynching and for trade union and
constitutional rights, TO be held in
Chattanooga in the Spring.
Here it is hoped to involve the
International Labor Defense, Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, League
Against War and FasciSrn, c. L. u,
a vast number of other cultural, So
cial, religious, fraternal and unem-
ployed organizations, and above all,
the trade unions. Referring to this
conference, Ray Koch, writing for
Commonwealth College, says: Such
a conference is really a good move
to consolidate the very scattered
forces in the South that are opposed
to terror and the open shop. You
have my full cooperation (and that
of Commonwealth College,"
Already in its first stages the
united front struggle in the South
is completely rejecting the advice
of the Lovestone disrupters of the
united front, as well as the unfor-
tunate statement appearing in
recent bulletin of the R. P. c. which
states that: The fundamental
basis of the southern undertaking
Chattanooga conference) is ineor-
rect"-a statement which will please
the heart of the Socialist old guard.
More and more the southern
masses demand unity. The southern
rank and file Socialists are de-
manding the united front. Many
Socialists in the South are work.
ing together honestly and sincerely
with the Communists. The C. p,
with all the forces at its disposal,
and with every ounce of it's energy,
will carry on tireless fight to unite
the southern workers by building
the main instrument that can unite
them--a powerful united front of
militant struggle.