Khaki Shirts of America
Khaki Shirts of America Incorporated and Disguised Fascists Present a Stupid Appeal to Workers and Reactionaries for "Equality of Opportunity" and Against "Subversive Doctrines" ANY stupid...
...Muste and the C.P.L.A...
...The First Session First session of the Continental Congress opens...
...We plan to dominate the Congress and introduce « call for a mass Labor Party...
...have their own patented forms of reaction and do not like competition from upstarts, while the capitalist parties have to be cautious about tying themselves to any particular type, especially something new that has not yet...
...The Khaki Shirts organise upon the basis of power at the top in the hands of commanders...
...At no time has the Young Peoples' Socialist League of Los Angeles County or of the State, or any of its circles, ever stated any Intention of going into a United Front with the Communists or any of that patty's subsidiaries," said Hyman Sheanin, state secretary of the Y.P.S.L...
...But "United Front" are long on tactics, if short on other things, so on every seat when Congress reconvenes is a copy of "Labor Action," organ of the C.P.L.A., containing a special message and address to delegates and Continental Congress...
...On the basis of the reaction represented by the Khaki Shirts, their agents approached the Ku Klux Kian, the D.A.R...
...No working class organization will open its doors to such an organization...
...The Khaki Shirts then turned to the Socialists, presenting themselves in another light...
...Redjuced to Serfdom » Once it acquires power the workers are reduced to serfs in a Fascist State...
...At strategic and psychological moments Muste will call for the need of the hour, the new party, the Labor Party...
...At the May 6 meeting of the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party a motion was passed Instructing me to requeef* all locals and branches of the Party to refrain from Joining In any United Front movements of any nature until the S.E.C can make a careful study of the problem," stated Harold J. Ashe, state secretary...
...clubs of America and the L.I.P.A...
...Of course they do...
...That is Intended for conservative and reactionary people and there is not a sweater of labor in the United States who would not accept it...
...By Willi™ Bcedie A Sidelight on United Front at Washington •THE "United Front" is the slogan of the hour...
...He makes an impassionate speech, but alas...
...It also seeks alliances with reactionary organizations...
...Thus we find George Anthony, a C.P.L.A.'er, listed as Associated Silk Workers' Union...
...is conspicuously absent...
...Not So United , Delving deeper into the burning question of a Labor Purty it appears that the "United Front" are not so clear nor so united...
...found a large number of purchasers...
...What caucus meeting...
...A Double Appeal The above is intended to appeal to the working masses...
...The" United Front" master strategy swings into action...
...The Labor Department's Bureau of Statistics, Women's Bureau and Children's Bureau wilt conduct th investigation...
...That is what the caucus meeting is for, to arrange strategy...
...the L.I.P.A...
...The petition is endorsed by the C.P.L.A., the I.L.P...
...Coast Socialists Reject "United Front" Move I OS ANGELES, Calif.—Vigorously denying any alliance with Communists or with United Fronts, the state secretary of the Young Peoples' Socialist League and the state 'secretary of the Socialist Part/- assert that at no time was there any foundation for announcing that the Young Peoples' Socialist League would participate in a United Front meeting at San Diego, May 80...
...clubs of America...
...The scheme or organization is adapted for control by ambitious adventurers should it become general...
...Poor Salesmen The agents did not prove to be very good salesmen ss they made no headway with these organizations...
...Its apostles work unceasingly, and it was therefore no surprise to meet on the B. & O. Continental Congress Special a convert full Of evangelical zeal...
...Fascism always starts with a program some part of which is intended to appeal to the workers and dying sections of the middle and professional classes...
...The capitalists and • bankers are also brought under this control but they continue to exploit the workers...
...and Walter E. Peck, In the name of the three paper organisations, dramatically calls for a Labor Party to save the workers...
...It's a long wait now nntil the strategic and psychological moMent comes for the "United Front...
...The leader of this, queer combination, A. J. Muste of the C.P.L.A., is indeed a humorist, for in addition to his own ex tremely weak organisation he puts on the map the I.L.P...
...At the opening session Muste or one ©f his lieutenants will gain the floor and sound the key note...
...The "Khaki Shirts of 'America," incorporated in the District of Columbia in August, 1^32, is the latest attempt but it aoes not appear to have made much headway...
...First on the floor is a little man with a big voice, Louis F. Budenz of the C.P.L.A...
...But Louis Waldman steps up and in a few well-chosen words destroys the argument and beats the strategists to it by having the final word in the final session...
...Workers everywhere will be on their gusrd against the Khaki Shirts, who seek recruits among the robbers snd the robbed, radicals and reactionaries, and whose aim is a strait jacket for the working masses in the hope that capitalism may be perpetuated...
...The United Front of Muste, the C.P.L.A., the L.I.P.A...
...Its constitution presents the "principles" of the Khaki Shirts...
...obtains the floor, but the long session has defeated bis purpose and the attack Is weak...
...The Khaki Shirts propose to organise in cities, towns and local political divisions under "local leaders" and "under authority issued from national headquarters and under supervision of the state commanders...
...They wanted to be a part of a proletarian movement...
...The Cream Lead by A. J. Muste and L. F. Budenz of the C.P.LA., an organization with "national" membership of approximately 800, there follow 15 names of organizations under the signature of the C.P.L.A...
...Working Conditions in Shirt Industry Will Be Investigated WASHINGTON.—An Investigation of hours and wages paid employes In the men's shirt industry has been ordered by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, who said that swestshop conditions snd incredibly low wages for women and children prevail In New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New England States...
...vision the British Labor Party in the American scene...
...A. J. Muste of the CP...
...Here the objects are denned as maintaining "universal respect" for the U. S. Constitution and "dilligent opposition to the spread of subversive propaganda and doctrines aimed at the overthrow of constitutional government...
...In the May 19 issue of the American Guardian under the head: "Western Coast Youth to meet in United Front" by Ellis O. Jones, the statement was made that the Y.P.S.L...
...However, it is peddling its wares and even trying to get the support of Socialists and other radical organizations...
...Edmund Ryan, Jr., a C.P.L.A.'er, American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, and so on down the list an assortment of "innocents' clubs" that exist solely on paper...
...It is purported to be signed by 83 individuals on behalf of their organizations...
...Are you attending the caucus meeting in the hotel before Congress meets...
...Like all Fascist organisations, it appeals to radical and conservative opinions alike...
...The methods employed in getting recruits are evident from the policy followed in West Virginia...
...stand for a revolutionary party...
...The Klan and the D.A.R...
...In the closing session of the Continental Congress the "United Front" desperately fires its big round, banking on the closing note as on the opening...
...This request is In harmony with similar ones made by the Labor and Socialist International and the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America...
...L.A...
...Labor Action* Is followed by the handing out of a circular "Message to the Delegates to the Continental Congress, in which the Socialist Party is attacked...
...This exploitation is enforced by Fascist military and police rule...
...Naive delegates at the Congress from perusal of their circular are misled into the belief that organizations listed under names of individuals endorse this "Message...
...clubs of America, now a totally nonexistent organization that had more delegates in attendance than ever attended any of Its business meetings...
...In the past ten years local attempts have been made to imitate Mussolini's Fascists In this country, but with little success...
...But Congress is called for specific objective purposes and will not be stampeded into worthless debates...
...and the I.L.P...
...Don't the Khaki Shirts say that they want to "insure all men an equal opportunity to earn the just reward for their respective efforts and ability...
...The following is offered to the workers who may be dissatisfied with the capitalist system: An applicant for membership is required to subscribe to the U. S. Constitution and the constitutions of the States "to insure to all nun an equal opportunity to tarn the just reward for their respective efforts and ability, and, through equality of opportunity and just reward, to bring about the greatest possible good for the greatest number of our people...
...would be among the organizations sending delegates to the conference...
...During the mass meeting In the evening petition forms are passed out to delegates requesting them to sign a resolution that the Congress declare for a Labor Party...
...The constitution also urges "the intelligent exercise of our constitutional franchise...
...An ancient Chinese proverb reads: "Like bull frog,-blow big make big noise, they make think you big...
...this initial success is defeated by the eold reasoning logic of the Congress Chairman, who declares the speech irrelevant and out of order...
...All long in names but short in membership...
...but the cream of the "United Front" is in the remaining signatures...
...Khaki Shirts of America Incorporated and Disguised Fascists Present a Stupid Appeal to Workers and Reactionaries for "Equality of Opportunity" and Against "Subversive Doctrines" ANY stupid movement eppearing in one country is likely to be imitated in other countries...
...Analyzing the circular "Message," 18 are "innocents' clubs" of the Communist Party...
...for a liberal safe and orderly labor party, and the I.L.P...
...and the headquarters of the two capitalist parties in Charleston...
...A committee of Young Communists solicited our participation, but we refused...
...Evidently the responses and tactics are not gaining headway, for on the following day at the United Front Caucus the L.I.P.A...
...Later on the objects of the Khaki Shirts are again outlined in Article III...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 22
