The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-02
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chief or Consul" "a title taken out
of the vocabulary Of italian faScists,
explained that the organization's
program is that Of fighting the
Communists of every nationality
and struggling against the Jews not
so much because of their nationality
but because of their Communistlc
ideas. This is significant.
II am against the Communists
no matter what their nationality
and intend to use the organiza-
ton to prevent the rise and prog
ress of Communism in the United
States" he stated.
From the interview in the Jew
ish Daily Bulletin, which, of course,
cannot be accused of being sympa-
thetic to Communism, it appears
also that this American Concen-
tration, Inc" has inherited almost
the entire outfit of the Khaki shirts,
composed for the most part of
Italians in black shirts. The origi-
nator of the organization is Ger
tain Raffaele Mucili who hesitated
in revealing its existence. He said,
'I started this movement about
three years ago. On June r. 1888,
I obtained State charter for the
organization. You can see it on
the wall. True, most of our mem
bers are Italians and fascists, but
1 kept the movement quiet until we
could get genuine native Americans
into our organization"
Recruited for Fusionists
Interesting but not strange for us
is the statement that the recruiting
into the organization was done
mainly within the Fusionist Clubs
of La Gusrdia. I'VE have several
tn ousand members" 1ushewits
quotes Mucilli. II can't tell you
exactly how many, that is a secret.
But I can tell you that we are
making tremendous inroads among
the Italian Fusion Clubs here in
New York City. Only few days
ago 500 members of these Clubs
came over as a group to our or
ganization."
This IS easy to understand At
the head of the Fusion Clubs (to
which belong many italian work
ers who had believed in La Guar
dia's promises in good faith) are the
Prouts, who now are among the
"consuls" and "vice-consuls" of the
American Concentration Ino.", and
are turning the Fusion Clubs to the
Italian-Ameriean fascist gangs. This
is one of the most recent develop
ments Of La Guardia's Fusionism
which La Stampa Liberia, edited by
| Girolamo Valente, during the recent
elections hailed as anti-fsseist. Dur
! ing the last elections, La Guardia
gave sanction to some of the most
rabid fascists in black shirts, among
whom we find also Mr. Rosario In
! gargiola, who started a libel suit
against L'Unita' Operaia to silence
its anti-fascist voice. Here we are
dealing not with a turn of the fas-
cists towards La Guardia's liberal
ism but with further proof of
our contention that La Guardia,
faced with the mounting wave of
workers struggle, is rapidly discard
ing the mask of liberalism" and
"anti-fascism" and shakes the hand
of the fascists in black shirts in the
struggle against the Communists of
every nationality.
Italian-U. S. Tie-up
The fasoists imported hsra from
Italy had already offered their help
ing hand to he leaders of Amer
lean fascism, at the time when they
dissolved the "Fascist League of
North America" in 1929 Up to that
time this outfit operated on the
fringes of American politics. Lately
they renewed the offer in an edi-
torial full of venom written by Ago
stino De Biasi for the last issue of
II Carroceio, a fascist magazine
printed here which boasts of the
fascist endorsement of II Duce of
Italy.
AS to the "battle of fascism in
the United States of America" Mr..
De Biasi declared in the editorial:
TN the defense of Italian faseism
lies implicitly the secret of Amer
ioa's salvation"
He sees in Roosevelt's policy ga
policy which is altering step by step,
Realistically, the face of the coun-
try" He therefore suggests that in
order to defend this policy the
Americans must assure italian fas-
eism sort of protection, and that,
in order to obtain and strengthen
this protection italian fascists living
in the United States of America
must take their place of honor" in
the battle of Roosevelt against Mos
| COW.
No Fear of Dickstein
Mr.. De Biasi dismisses the fears
of diplomatical complications held
by some italian fascists here in the
face Of the Diekstein Committees
so-called investigation, with the fol-
lowing words
Fear Of international complica-
tions? Old scruples on which has
already passed the place or ex-
periencel The struggle exists and
it needs to be fought"
How cock sure is this fascist of
the first hourl" And how sig
nificant Is his utterancei 1t reveals
the existence Of common interests
uniting the American and italian
bourgeois politicians in the world
wide struggle represented by the
dilemma: Rome or Moscow"
One thing is clear. We are facing
a new challenge by the fascists in
black shirts, who are made bolder
by the increasing march toward fas-
cism in the United States of Amer