The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-10-12
Facing the Facts
With PHILIP PEARL

OuCll T6CSlIly lHG CldSSlC ShdiilplC Was
the spectacle of Charlie Chaplin get
ting pasted in the face by custard
ipie. But this has now been surpassed
by the performance being put on in
Europe by two ham-actors bearing q
close physical resemblance to Charlie.
We mean, of course, Hitler and Stain.
Their act is tragic. At the same
time it is terrifically funny. Natural
| ly, the democratic nations of Europe
who were stabbed in the back by the
Hitler-Stali alliance couldn't see any
thing comic in it. Even we in Amer
lea were profoundly shocked. But we
couldn't help laughing. For the whole
hing was too funny for words. We
'lad heard Hitler denouncing the Com
nunists day after day, year after
1ear, as the enemies of civilization.
We had heard Stain saying even
worse about the Nazis and Fascists.
Then, all Of a sudden, we learn that
The boys were just putting on an act.
They hadn't meant a word they said.
Actually, they were pals and together
they were going to save the world
from a new manace-democracy. To-
gether they were going to preserve"
peace.
How were they going to preserve
peace? The answer was not long in
coming Hitler invaded Poland with
the full strength of the German army
and German air forces. He destroyed
peaceful villages and murdered thou
sands upon thousands of defenseless
civilians in the name Of peace, forcing
the Polish defenders to back up
against the Russian wall. And then
Russia sent its army into Poland and
stabbed the Poles in the back. The
German and Russian generals met in
Brest-Litovsk and decided how to
carve up Poland's territory between
them. Thus was peace preserved.
Brass And Baloney
There was nothing funny in all this.
1t was horrible, almost unbelievable in
its treachery and cruelty. But then
the Daily Worker spoke up. In a
front-page editorial, this official organ
Of the Communist Party and Moscow
hailed the invasion of the Red army as
CELEBRATING" Poland. 1t explained the
Reds were going to protect the White
Russian minorities in Poland - those
very White Russians who had fled
from their Soviet conquerors as they
would from a plague. The editorial
was such colossal concoction of brass
nerve and baloney that we feel i'm
PEELED to quote a few paragraphs from
it here:
Freed from the tyrannical rule Of
the greedy landlords" says the Daily
Worker, "and the corrupt nobility, all
these minorities ftn the first time can
chart for themselves life of freedom,
happiness and peace as have their
brothers in the land of socialism,
Freed from the chains of exploitation,
they can now enjoy real self-determi-
nation, a chance to choose their own
future and decide their own fate.
"Truly the Soviet Union has scored
triumph for human freedom-destined
for the brightest page in world his
tory. 1t is in accordance with her
steadfast, unshakable peace policy and
with her policy Of neutrality already
proclaimed"
We also read in the newspapers
that Stain has now entered into an
alliance with Japan. The next thing
we expect to read in the Daily Work
er is that Japan is bringing the fruits
of enlightenment and civilization to
China and is fighting to free China
from traitorous leaders who are re-
sisting this great boon.
Ye Gods and little fishes, do these
mentally perverted wretches think
they can insult the intelligence of the
American people with such scummy
hypocrisy?
Labor's Problem
Mind you, this same Daily Worker
has for the past three years carried
on a bitter campaign against the
American Federation of Labor. These
same Reds have tried to tell American
workers that the G.. |. O. was formed
to "liberate" them. This same crowd
has contributed its key men and sub
istantial funds to wreck the American
Federation Of Labor and supplant il
with the c. /. O.
Brothers and sisters, they are try
ing to CELEBRATE" the American worker
the same way they are "liberating'
) Poland today.
The Reds are working with the C. l.
O. in America the same way they are
working with Hitler in Europe.
Their purpose is to destroy the
l American labor movement.
Their aim is to stab democracy III
the back.
Their objective is revolution. They
have organized the first unit in their
revolutionary forces in the c. |. 0.
The c. |. 0. appears to be just as
blindly obedient to the Communist
Party in America as the Daily Worker
j lis to Stains policies in Europe. The
&C.. |. o. has failed to lift up its voice
jim denunciation of the Stalin-Hitlel
alliance. 1t has failed to say a single
harsh word about the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
,IOf Poland 1t has yociferouSly aSSail