Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-03-31

A m e r lean
rightiSts and
C o n SerVa-
tives. CIaytnn w
If you Fountain
must use imported terms like
Fascist, confine them to people
who favor the totalitarian
state, the abolition of legal
projections for individuals,
violent dictatorship and indus
trial syndicalism," says the
SEP.
You will find precious few
people like that in Wall Street
or in the ranks of traditional
American conservatism" SEP
concludes.
Being one of those who in
sist on accusing others in
America of Fascist tendencies,
find that the SEP shoe fits
me.
AMERICAN FASCISTS
1t is with pleasure, there
fore, that | 60 merrily on with
my business of blasting Amer
ican Fascists, because that is
what l believe them to be.
We have had many mani
festations in America of be-
lief in the Fascist totalitarian
state.
In pre-war days, the power
of the state was used on nu-
merous occasions to break
strikes. The police, the mill
tia and the armed thugs en-
ployed by private employers
often united to use force and
violence against union picket
lines.
Did SEP's sinless lilies of
Wall Street abstain from the
bloody beatings and shootings
perpetrated upon worker
whose only crime was a de-
sire to better their lot through
organization?
Not by a long shot, they
didn't The records of the La
Toilette Committee show that
Wall Streeters were the prime
movers of these displays of
Fascist brutality.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
And what about the SEP
assertion that ''you will find
precious few people in
Wall Street or in the ranks of
traditional American conser-
vatism" who favor abolition
of legal projections for in
dividuals ~
The Negro in the American
south has no such legal pro-
lection" He has little chance
for justice in the courts; he
is victimized by lynching bees
and the sanity conserva-
tives whom SEP canonizes do
their demndest to keep the
poll tax in force to prevent the
Negro from attaining adequate
legal projections"
Racism is Fascism, in Ger
many or in Georgia. And do
the Southern Conservatives
conspire to abolish legal pro-
tectionS for Negroes? He'll, nc,
sub! They have a totalitarian
dictatorship of white suprem-
scy in the south that even the
United States Congress can't
crack.
Southern industry, which
plays potent role in the poll
tics of white supremacy, is a
,reature of Wall Street. Big
money talked for Thyssen in
Germany; and it talks for
Morgan in Georgia. Fascism
feeds on big money.
LABOR SMEARED
If SEP and its Wall Street
associates object to the use of
imported political terminol-
ogy, let them first put their
own vocabularies in order, be-
fore they set out to censor the
utterances of others.
Conservatism has for years
indiscriminately smeared labor
organizations with the red"
brush. There has never been
any hesitancy on the part of
Wall Streeters when it came
to spreading lies about the po-
litical motivationS of organiz-
ed labor.
The unions have long been
branded as "Communistic" by
conservatives who we'll knew
that the term was a misnomer.
We democrats did not start
the game of importing poll
tical terms, but we will play
it to a finish.
No matter what you call the
conservative will to maintain
control of wealth and privilege
in the hands of plutocratics
minority-through violence,
poll-taxes, lynchings and what
have you-it is still Fascism to
me.