The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-16
Facing the Facts
With PHILIP PEARL

May Day hos come and gone with
out casualty or bloodshed but the
demonstrations put on by the Com
n,unists this year have left bad taste
In the mouths Of the great mass Of
loyal American workers.
The Communist International issued
q manifesto from Moscow on April 30,
the eve Of May Day, which said:
"The Americ IN bourgeoisie is
stretching its hand to Iceland, Green
land and the Anglo French possessions
in the Caribbean"
Isn't that mouthful? ? Can you beat
the nerve of these Soviet leaders,
whose hands are still dripping blood
from the pillage of Poland and the
rape of Finland, daring to impute i'm
perialistic motives to our country and
our people?
The signers of this manifesto in
cluded Joseph V. Stain and Earl
Browder. The next morning Mr.
Browder, out on bail pending appeal
of his conviction for passport fraud,
was bravely marching the streets of
New York at the head of contingent
of open and secret Communists in a
May Day parade.
The keynote of this parade was
"peace." 1t is amusing yet horrible
to see how glibly the Communists
adopt the theory Of peace for their
party line in countries outside of So
Wet Russia while that totalitarian
state wages murderous warfare
against any of it's neighboring coun-
tries weak enough for the Communist
bullies to tackle.
The Stalin-H Hitler Alliance
Soviet Russia's own policies are bad
enough. But it's alliance with Nazi
Germany is completely indefensible. A
typical illustration of how the Stain
Hitler pact affects the Communist
Party line is found in another para
graph from the May Day manifesto:
"Countering the Anglo-French vio-
lation of Scandinavian neutrality, the
Germans occupied Denmark and seized
strategic positions in Norway"
Apparently the only country in the
world which dares to defend the Nazi
invasion of Norway and Denmark is
Soviet Russia. No other nation is
ruled by despots so contemptuous Of
human decency.
In Soviet Russia the workers cannot
speak out. There isn't the slightest
pretense of free speech. Civil liberties
are non-existent because Dictator Stall
in can and does line up anyone who
offends him before firing squad.
Yet the May Day manifesto exhorts
workers if the United States to fight
for free speech and defend civil rights,
privileges which are accorded freely
to all American citizens, including such
as Earl Browder
In this country certain labor organi-
-zations follow the Communist Party
line dictated from Moscow. These or
ganizations are aligned with the CIO.
The leader of the CIO, Mr.. John l..
Lewis, is following the party line him
self. His actions and the actions of
Communist leaders of the infested CIO
unions are disgrace to the American
labor movement Even in the CIO dis
gust with such policies is spreading
and rebellion within the CIO ranks
against such leadership is daily grow
ing more imminent
Reds March in Cuba and Mexico
1t is also interesting to observe the
celebrations of May Day in other
American countries. In Havana, Cuba,
the labor movement staged four-hour
parade and all work was suspended
Lazaro Pena, Communist secretary of
the Cuban labor movement to whom
John l.. Lewis sent his official regards
recently, charged that the policy of the
United States was "to get control of
alp the countries Of the Americas
Senor Pena declared that the United
States was preparing rapidly to drag
American nations into the European
war.
There we see evidence of Soviet Rus
sian hostility to the United States and
the desperate effort Stain is making
to stir up animosity against the United
States among our neighbors to the
south.
Would you think that any group of
Americans would lend themselves to
further such anti-American activities.
Significantly enough, we read in the
New York Times that "a contigent of
CIO marine workers from American
ships" in Havana harbor took part in
the parade. The National Maratime
Union, to which these sailors belong,
is dominated by Communists.
In Mexico City the workers militia"
organized by the Communist wing in
the labor movement marched in May
Day Parade. There, too, the same type
of banner and propaganda following
the Communist Party line were every
where evident. But it was somewhat
encouraging to note that Vincente
Lombardo Toledano, the Red dictator
of Mexican labor and pal of John l..
Lewis, got pelted with orange peels
and other refuse thrown by some of
the marchers. Apparently, the work
ers are getting fed up with Commun-
ist leadership in Mexico, too.