The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Bro'Oder Flags Foes
Of the Workers. Bill

] pOodAo VI Tie SQDhCoALAGAA 4oA 0AAS
! AIcCormack-Dickstein Committee
the legal prohibition of the Com
munist Party after its fnvestiga-
ton refused to hear the official
Spokesman of the Communist Party
ALLOW me to denounce all these
current ISLANDERS against the Com
munist Party. We Communists
yield to no one in our love for our
country. 1t is because we love our
country that We fight for the
Workers Bill, which alone can save
millions of men, women and
children from utter degradation
When we declare our love for our
country, we mean we love these mil
lions Of people who are being re-
duced to an Asiatic standard OF
/ living: we must seriously doubt the
quality of that love for country
which says that profits must be
maintained even though these mil
lions starve.
WeaIthiest Country
This country has half the ac-
cumulated wealth and productive
! forces of the entire world, with
much less than ten per cent of the
population. Yet we are told that
the country cannot afford to
guarantee its workers a minimum
standard Of decent living! 1t is
clear that this phrase, cannot af-
ford has a special meaning 1t
/ does not mean that the country
has not the necessary resources; it
means that those who rule the
country, that small infinitesimal
fraction of the population which
owns all the chief stores of wealth
and means of production. considers
it contrary to their selfish class in
terests.
This ruling class, monopolists,
the Wall Street financers, have die
tated the administration program
They do not hesitate to condemn
tens of millions to a degraded
standard of life, just too much to
die on but not enough to live on
These are the real enemies of
America; here is the real menace
faced by our country.
Millions DisiIIuSiOned
"If revolution, or the threat OF
revolution has become a ma or
problem of this country, this is only
secondarily the result of the work
of the Communist Party. In the
first place, it is because millions
have lost their last hopes of relief
after being disillusioned with all
promises, one after another, based
upon the present system. Commu-
niSm, and the threat of revolution
will not be crushed by outlawing
the Communist Party; it will grow
in spite of everything, unless the
conditions of life of the masses are
improved, unless real social secur
/ ity is provided.
Precisely because those who ruiz
are determined not to grant any
real measure of social security, thai
is the reason for the attacks upoT
the Communist Party. These at.
tacks are designed to prepare re
lection of any real unemployment
/ insurance. When the ridiculou
charge is made that the Commu
nists are plotting to kidnap tn
President, that is only cover TO
a real charge that the Communist,
are arousing great mass demand
for the Workers Bill, H.R 1927, tina,
is only cover for the open shop
and the conpany-un drive, ex
hibited in the renewal of the autt
code and the Wolman anti-Laho
Board which threatens destruction
to the American Federation Of La
Dor. Even those stauch servants o
the President, the Executive Coun
Gil of the A. F. of L., have beer
forced to recognize in these event
the beginning of fascism in th,
United States. Germany taught tn
whole world to understand that fas
cism, beginning with the demant
to crush the Communist Menace
ends with the crushing of all trad
unions, all civil rights, even all re
ligious liberties. Fascism can onl
be halted if determined resistanc
is made to its first steps. Tha
holds good for the U.S.A. as we'll a
it did for Germany.
Fight For Security
1.-THE demand for enactment o
the Workers Bill, HR. 1927, tn
fight for the only proposal of res
social security, is the front-lin
trench today in the battle for pre-
serving a measure of life, libert
and the pursuit Of happiness il
this country. 1t is the essentia
foundation for preservation of
measure of civil liberties, for re
sistance to fascisn and war. 1t
a fight for all those good things @
life, which the masses TO the people
as distinguished from the profes
sional patriots, mean when the
speak of 'Americanism.'
IF real unemployment insuranc
is denied, this will only add fuel t,
the fire of discomfort, Sweepin
through the working population to
day, rising into waves of struggl
and rehabilitation The American
masses are approaching that moot
and temper. in which our ancestor
penned those immortal words of tn
Declaration of independence. Thes
words have been outlawed in man,
states of this country, but I hop
that it is still possible to quote then
before a subcommittee of Congress
The declaration contains the fol
lowing words:
The Right to Revolution
Whenever any form of govern
ment becomes destructive of thes
ends Qife, liberty and the pursui
of happiness), it is the right of tn
people to alter or abolish it, and t.