The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-30
Hearst Host
To Fascist
Ambassadors
BY Marguerite Young
Continued from Page u

q dictatorship and the steps toward
it. In these journals any class
conscious reader can follow the
Fascist planning Of Wall Street.
t Circulated mainly in the street, 4"
they speak from the among our
selves" viewpoint.
Soon after the San Francisco
general strike, BarrOn'S Weekly car
ried an article which declared:
IF history is a safe guide for
those seeking a way to preserve a
social order and a political re-
gime, the dictators in Europe are
certainly on the right track"
This bold suggestion of dictator
ship, to readers who can be in
terested in only one kind-capital-
list dictatorship-was made. strik-
ingly enough, by Robert Hunter,
once a member Of the National
Executive Committee Of the So
cialist Party. He referred, in the
above quotation, to the European
dictators "rightnesS" on the none
e tary question. But certainly none
who has at least rubbed elbows
with Marxism can make such a
statement in any connection with
e out implying more.
49, In the past few months, Barron's
and The Wall Street Journal have
put forward even more sharply
'- characteristic Fascist ideas or more
We. truly, Misrepresentation. They COM
manded the perpetual war; be-
tween capital and labor to cease,
precisely as Adolf Hitler did, some
thing by which they mean that
labor must stop striking back. The
Wall Street Journals Review and
- Outlook for October 5, 1884, COM
planned of this perpetual war"
after saying that increasing wage
r. rates and shortening hours" is the
cause of "out" trouble. What it did
not explain is that the increasing
wage rates and shortening hours, :"
- the New Deal way of spreading
work and spreading wages, didn't
fatten the pay envelope of the in
~ dividual worker.
One of the most essential fictions
of Fascism, is that the govern
ment, ." the dictatorship on behalf of
the biggest capitalists, stands above
the perpetual war" between capital
and labor, and arbitrates with an
gelic impartiality. Hence the Wall
>, Street Journal appreciatively re-
ported the speech made by Secre-
tary of Labor Frances Perkins to
, the American Federation of Labor
convention: The message which
she pointedly referred to several
times was that the government will
=, not and cannot be expected to
coerce either capital or labor in
industrial disputes"
Justify FasciSm
rA In one breath these financial
journals speak of developing new
economic system; in the next they
militantly defend, in so many
words, the capitalist system" In
other words, they want new" but
still Capitalist system. Or Fascist
dictatorship! The conclusion is
strengthened when one reads on.
For example, in Barron'S of Au-
gust 20, a eulogy of the Warlord
President Hindenburg of Germany
drew domestic moral:
ut is true not alone of Ger
many, but of other nations in dis
tress, that only step by step in
orderly and logical progression,
may the goal of stability be
reached. 1t takes firmness, and,
as Hindenburg SO wistfully per-
ceived, unification; and unifica-
ton 10 a specific which is all
inclusive, and comprehends both
Jew and Christian, banker and
wage-earner, capital and labor. 1t
remained for an ignorant poll
tically speaking) old soldier to
E recreate this simple truth, pri--
marily for Germany, but actually
for the whole world to ponder"
1t was not Hindenburg idea to
force this "unification' of capital
and labor in Germany, OF course;
1t was the Thyssens and the Krupps.
The "unification" means forcing of
labor all the way under the heel of
capital, with all civil rights abol-
ished. While thus mulling over the
methods and demagogy OF full Fas-
clsm, these newspapers also mill
family promoted the preliminaries-
= the restriction of labor's right to
:. strike, to demand higher wages, to
receive unemployment relief and
in other ways to fight off both the
final and the intermediate de-
preston.
Labor must purge its ranks of
un-American demoralizing forces, -
Barron's prominently quoted SEN
ator Borah of Idaho on September
10. Notice the Hitleresque word,
purge" and the attack upon mill
fancy under the cover of chau-
= vinism.)
Would Bar Aid to Strikers
Il would not say that federal re-
lief should never be granted to men
on strike" the same paper empha-
sized a statement by Henry I. Harri-
: man, president of the big business
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, but do affirm that policies
of the federal government should
not be such as to encourage strikes
and industrial unrest" In other
words, they don't admit denying re-
lief to strikers, but they don't want
it to be allowed in any except, say,
strikes authorized" by employers!
Here we see the main organs of
the first lords of the United States
and their journalist lackeys both re-
fecting and agitating for the i'm
mediate steps toward Fascism, and
mulling over the final set-up.
have cited these-instead of the
general press which circulates
among the masses - because 1
wished to show how the decisive
financiers are thinking among
themselves. Any class conscious