The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-17
Facing The Facts
With PHILIP PEARL

IlliS country now CndC Jumping Joe
Stain is getting kicked in the face by
Hitler. We don't think we are get
ting too far out on a limb with this
forecast because it has been the logi-
cal thing for the Commies to be illog-
| ical. Anyway, here is our slant on
the new Red program for America:
Immediate American interven-
ton in the war.
Enactment of law forbidding
lstrikes.
"a 10-hour work day and a g.
lday work week.
Before you start asking how come,
We'll do it ourselves. Up until now
the Communist Party has been the
leader in the phony "peace" front. 1t
has organized dozens of undercover
outfits like the American Peace Mo-
bilization. 1t has denounced British
| imperialism. 1t has opposed aid to
Britain. 1t has branded the Euro
lpean war as "imperialistic. But that
was while Jumping Joe was Adolph's
pal. Now it's different story alto
gether. Now the war is a peoples
war for democracy. Now Great Brit
/ ain is Soviet Russia's involuntary ally.
Now the war is holy crusade. Now,
at last, Hitler is the arch-enemy.
So much for principles. Next
comes action. Up until now the Com
munists have openly and secretly en-
icouraged and fomented strikes of all
sorts to impede the national defense
program. Taking advantage of their
strategic position within the CIO,
they have sought to tie up produc-
ton of vital defense materials wher-
ever possible.
Death to Strikers
But what now? Now it's an en-
tirely different story. Now we may
expect the Communists to join with
Congressman like Carl Vinson and
Clare Hoffman and even outdo these
reactionaries in thinking up compul-
sorry work legislation. All Vinson
suggested was to put working men
and women in Jail if they exercised
their rights as free American citizens
and refused to work under conditions
that appeared to them intolerable. But
we may count on the Commies to GO
a lot further. We can confidently ex-
pect them to take up the cry of that
unfortunate congressman who was
carried away by his own oratory a
few weeks ago and recommended the
electric chair for strikers. Why not
Isn't that the policy in Soviet Rus
Isia? Aren't workers in that country
: who fall out of the party's good
Igraces for one thing or another sub
ject to execution? Why not do the
same thing here?
Finally, the Communists are un,
questionably going to start a drive
to abolish the S-hour day and the 5,
day week. For this they have ample
: precedent in Jumping Joe's own ball.
| yard. There the work-day was ex,
= tended to twelve hours long ago. II
wasn't done by collective bargaining
1t was done by edict. The defense
program of the Soviets was not pro,
I ceeding rapidly enough. SO Dictator
: Stain just issued orders abolishinq
the eight-hour day. Very simple, in.
deed. And a very fine precedent fol
the Communists in this country. But
t what about all the fine speeches by
+ Communist orators about how they
proposed to improve the conditions OF
+ American workers? Well, that was
! before Soviet Russia was endangered
Will We Crawl!
!, All of this, if it happens as VIC
think it will, ought to be quite educa.
tional to the American people and tc
American workers, especially.
We don't believe the American
= workers will take the Communists
sudden conversion to democracy toe
! seriously. We don't believe they viii
, want to clasp Jumping Joe's disciple.
y. to their hearts as blood brothers
After all, we must remember tina
Russia is not fighting Germany
through choice. The war was force,
| upon them by Hitler. For year!
/ Stain has tried to appease Hitle,
{ even more than the Munichmen whom
@ the Communists now profess to de
| SplSt. oIdllu NOT OlllS COMPROMISED
a with Hitler; he helped him. Stain
=, signed trade treaty and a non-ag
gresson pact with Hitler. He CAV,
Germany vital supplies, food and OF
l and minerals. He collaborated will
l Hitler in dividing up Poland and Ru
mania. 1t was only when Hitler de
. cided the partnership was not as prof
table for him as monopoly would
be that the Communists discovered
anything wrong with the Nazis. I
was only when the Communists hat
war forced upon them that they de
{ cidcd to fight Iiitlerism.
5 The question now before our coun
o try is whether we can afford to craw
= as the Communists crawl Are w
G gong to scrap our principles an,
= make common cause with Jumping
Joe Stain?
E The answer must be an emphati
NO! So far as we're concerned lie
. Stain and Hitler fight each othe
Il groggy. SO far as we're concerne,
{ their quarrel is a break. 1t will Civ
US more time to build up our own de