The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-07

ly linked with the FaSciSJ Dictator
ship in Italy.
The suppressed testimony and
other facts assembled in this series
show that the dictatorship con-
spiracy is of much more serious
import than is indicated by the
testimony published by the Con-
gressiOnaI Committee. 1t shows
that this secret plot was not an
isolated incident, but part of a
general open conspiracy by the
finance capitalists to get out of
the crisis at the WORKER expense.
1t shows that, to do this, the big
capitalists at least two years ago
began to resort to weapons of min
gled demagogy and terrorism
which led step by step to open
dictatorship. It was in anticipa-
ton Of the day when the anti
labor policies now in action could
no longer be put over under New
DEAF demagOgy that the specific
Wall Street dictatorship plot was
conceived.
The same crowd who backed the
fascist army effort have been seek
ing a mass base, to help them carry
out their long established, belliger-
ent policies against a Dor and
against liberal as well as radical in
tellectuals and all other dissenters,
ever since the Bonus March of 1882.
They had been trying for two years
to get Butler to lead such a force.
The U. s. Secret Service knew that
Butler had received many overtures
Of this kind. Among the most i'm
portant new potential Fascist o.
CARNATIONS backed by BIZ Business
are the American Liberty League,
Crusaders, Committee for the Ma
ton, and the Union for Social Jus
tice. All of these are sponsoring
programs essentially fascist in that
they e IN ploy popular sounding
phrases and fake promises to ad-
vance the most reactionary objects.
Seek Mass Base
The telltale mark common to all
Of them is that they try to mobilize
masses behind the defense of prop
erty rights to the point of guns
when necessary. They are drawing
in key military men and wealthy
boys from private military acad-
emies. Their Fascist portent is fur
Their demonstrated by the way in
which most of their leaders ex-
pressed admiration for Hitler and
Mussolini. opposition to working
class leadership, and skepticism as
to the existence of a fascist often
sive. They stand also for some of
the main elements of this fascist
offensive, especially the lowering of
the living standard and the restric-
ton of the civil rights of the masses.
The reason why the capitalists re-
sort to such Semi-fascist measures
is that they stand in terror of the
peoples struggles for bread and
work and against war. These mass
struggles have taken on unprece-
dented aspects in recent years, pro-
ducing such militant climaxes as the
Bonus March, the farm strikes, the
students national anti-war strike.
Last years industrial strike wave
especially enraged and frightened
the Wall Street lords, for in it the
workers struck and restruck over
the heads of their own bureaucrats,
and despite the use of extreme cap
italist violence against last years
strikers, thousands of workers in
basic industries are on the picket
line again today. Striking, many of
them against the Roosevelt labor
machinery's attack which was Sc
deliberately bundled up in New
DEAL demagogy In addition, the
numbers and influence of the Com
munist Party have grown.
Developments in the fascist Of
fensive in the United States paral-