Silver Shirts, Latest Facisist Racketeesrs, Spread Brutality, Hate and Anti Semitism in Many States
King, Murray E.
Silver Shirts, Latest Facisist Racketeesrs, Spread Brutality, Hate and Anti Semitism in Many States Frankly Admirers of Hitler They Parade Pseudo- Radicalism By Murray E. King Salt Lake...
...BLUM HAILS BRITISH LABOR VICTORIES | EON BLUM, perhaps the fore~ most personality among French Socialists, has an article in the Populaire hailing the election if Arthur Henderson to the British parliament by an overwhelming majority in his district as an event of international importance...
...It is an industrial organization...
...It is difficult if not impossible to regulate a thing you do not own...
...At the same time the International News Service announces the Silver Shirts had opened headquarters in Oklahoma City to "save America as Mussolini and his Black Shirts saved Italy and Hitler and his Brown Shirts saved Germany...
...Anna Bowles Wiley, in a recent issue of the Terre Haute Tribune, recalls some memories of 'Gene which The New Leader is glad to pass on to its readers...
...So long...
...a common struggle, supplemented with Socialist education, that tends Krmake progressive and revolutionary unionism...
...Take the Mine Workers," Bill replied...
...His captors left him tied to the tree and returned in the night, beat him again unmercifully and kicked him over an embankment The bridge of his mouth was broken and his face "and head cut and bruised in a ghastly manner...
...You're conservative," said Joe...
...Well, if I had a chance to organize a plant, you Wouldn't object, would you ?" asked Joe...
...Then follows Borne choice history of the rise of the Silver Shirts...
...I am wondering if he is not one ef the nnsnrinl angels of the Silver Shirt movement...
...0>t...
...And he named his hastilyimprovised party the Municipal Ownership League...
...I would join you...
...There ewe," says Blum, "no irreparable defeate for Hotialist parties except those which btetktkoir contact with the working elsmt...
...Save America...
...In California they hare 200,000 members...
...Now it is this solidarity of the working class in...
...He admitted to the editor of the Deseret Evening News that nothing has been done toward the arrest and punishment of the kidnapers...
...It gives away its racket by informing the rich, the well-to-do and the prominent that "death lists" have been prepared in which any of their names may occur, and gallantly offers the services of the Silver Shirts to save these imperiled persons—undoubtedly at a price...
...Regulation after repeated experiment will fail utterly...
...And those masses were led into the brothels of Tammany, into the mazes of imperialism, into the bogs of nationalism, into the tangles of Hearst's crazy personal ambitions...
...You would still have a vast job of education ahead before that union would become the kind we prefer...
...Words Mid Deeds UUNDREDS of thousands took his words at their face value, and said, Look, do wc need the handicap of the name of the Socialist Party...
...And it has never yet happened that such a leadership did not lead those who followed into the morass, For those idesls that summed up we .call Socialism there it/but .one wsy, and that'll the way of 4a* Organised working class...
...The foundations had been laid for a permanent party of "Socialism without the name...
...He press in the chanf calendar el cial life, j impending i will also to life and Ml These will I industrial to be the real...
...Hearst, himself a multimillionaire, and J. G. Phelps Stokes, his "Socialist" running-mate, also a millionaire, demanded municipal ownership, the ousting of Tammany, political democracy...
...The coal Industry is utterly bankrupt in the present system...
...This man," he writes, "who showed such a calm and resolute spirit in the terrible crisis of two years ago" [the desertion of the party by MacDonald and his group] "has well deserved th'a glorious vindication...
...Bunk I We'll organize progressive and revolutionary onions," said Joe with some heat...
...In a bookshop which is the principal point of distribution of The Liberator, official organ of the Silver Shirts, the proprietor, who claims he has followed this movement from its inception, informed me that 700 copies are distributed in Salt Lake City each week, and he says the organisation here has about a thousand members...
...The Socialist Party had polled close to half a million votes for 'Gene Debs, there was a flickering revival of Populism under Tom Watson, and in New York masses of people were becoming increasingly receptive to Socialist ideas...
...Facts and arguments seem to be useless...
...In 1925, he told the Terre Haute Tribune: "During the next 25 years I anticipate certain changes in Terre Haute that to others may seem visionary, foolish and impossible...
...A Vision of the Future Recalled On the Birthday of Eugene V. Debs On November 6, 1855, Eugene V. Debs was born in a little frame house in North Fourth Street, Terre Haute, and Sunday it the 78tA anniversary of his birth...
...I guess you are right about that," said Joe thoughtfully...
...The Road to Solidarity "THEN when the union faced strikes, even in the days when it was filled with Socialist sympathies, it wasn't the Socialists, or Republicans, or Democrats, Catholics or Protestants who were called out on strike but the whole membership...
...What applies to the coal industry applies to every industry in a greater or a lesser extent...
...been place* plant gen population...
...One can feel this rising tide of hate...
...The Silver Shirts here carry In their pockets reprints from the poisonous articles formerly appearing in Ford's Dearborn Independent to "prove" their points against the Jews...
...The reporter recalls that at this period Debs paused and gazed through the door of the James Whitcomb Riley room adjoining his den at the home seeing afar iflto the future...
...Oh, I see," said Bill...
...Remembering, I stand in the terrible eweet silence with you...
...Black has made out an affidavit giving every detail of the crime and repeating the questions of his torturers...
...I shall welcome my new adventure with open arms...
...Let 'em slide and let's go out and organize real unions...
...I Un than whitper them...
...Their founder, William Dudley Pelley, we learn, was a "Red Triangle Man" in Siberia with the American and Japanese forces during the war, and Pelley, after the war, "carried on eight years of under-cover i n v e s t i g a t i on throughout every large state in the Union...
...With the application of machinery steadily increasing, the army of unemployed grows apace and there will never come a time when there are jobs enough to go around...
...William Randolph Hearst, a young man of 42, is still smarting under his defeat for the Democratic presidential nomination the year before, unsolaced by his return to Congress for a second term by virtue of the favor of Charles F. Murphy and of Tammany Hall...
...This is one of the poorest Silver Shirt states," he told me...
...It was "Socialism—only without the name...
...Remembering, I know a vision holding more than states...
...Bill Teats Joe's Proposal *yOU are just a little muddled," said Bill...
...If you organize what you call real unions you will organize human material of the same type the present unions contain or you will not have an organization as effective as these unions...
...1 am as anxious to get a class-conscious unionism as you are, but I know that when you undertake to organize workers in a plant you will get the same human material the old unions have and you will still have the job of educating that new material before you can have revolutionary unionism...
...Progressivism" is in the air...
...They knew they were due...
...Certainly not," Bill replied, "but don't begin by thinking that you are going to shape Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Catholics, Jews, Protestants and atheists into a progressive union even if it is industrial in form...
...Emphasis mine...
...Of these, 266 "came from New York's lower East Side...
...for that is how he died, holding fast to his favorite poem, "I am the captain of my soul, the master of my fate...
...Although Black named them, Chief of Police Payne has not yet placed them under arrest...
...Arthur Brisbane, chief editorial writer, fed his readers a brand of Socialism very little diluted, Day after day a million New Yorkers read his semiSocialism written in crystal-clear English and talked about his editorials over the dinner tables and in the shops...
...O. 3. Fischer, Dr...
...So am I, very tired," iai<l Bill...
...i "After there- has been sufficient failure at attempt of regulation, the demand will be made for public ownership of these utilities, such as water works, gas plants, street railways, municipalities and railroads, mines, mills, factories, etc., in the nation at large...
...His vision of his own passing is a beautiful one, for he said to the reporter on this date: "When I go, I shall be going, not stopping...
...That was the end of Hearst's "Socialism without the name...
...This must ultimately come to pass as the present system is breaking down as being the result of being outgrown and no longer in harmony with the progressive forces of the age...
...An industrial type of organization does not mean that it will necessarily be progressive...
...I'm tired," said Joe «u> he ascended the steps to his •Qoro...
...Hearst was probably elected, although some weird Tammany arithmetic counted him out...
...Henderson's victory, in a campaign which turned largely on his record as chairman of the Disarmament Conference, seems to Blum to be a clear declaration from the British working class that it Is opposed to the half-veiled jingoism of the present government...
...That is a state of mind, not a revolutionary view," Bill replied...
...This is shamelessly evealed by a recent order of Chan¦ellor Adolf Hitler to Include the tames of the leading German mnkcrs in the roster of the Cerium Labor Front, the newly created entral organization in place of the lissolved Federation of German Trade Unions...
...He has been pro-war and anti-war...
...to make I conquest at Ai It sayil ftwitM from la Printed I Shirts of M. <V (their iMdcjoerteri...
...Let's take an example," said Bill...
...to a temporary decrease in the vote, but they also knew the Hearst movement would die out, and Socialism would still be there...
...shall take old Father Time by the arm with a smile and—make a Socialist out of him," chuckled this man with an indomitable spirit which nothing was ever able to daunt, even his last enemy—death...
...I'm in earnest," said Joe...
...You have to take them all in, regardless of their views on religion or politics...
...Haeffner, Dr...
...But many M.O.L...
...Without the Name They Wanted Socialism, but Not the Party—and Then What...
...THE Silver Shirts of America have come out into the open here, proclaiming their admiration for Mussolini and Hitler, using the same methods of hate-incitement against Jews and Communists and threatening an early Christian-Protestant"American" upheaval...
...About the time of the outrage the Silver Shirts circulated inflammatory leaflets announcing I their intention of "coming out in the open"fa the Reds (Bj four-pag, across the i cial Duptjj America, A present sj 'Stamped is i "Silver Sab Box 1354, i noma...
...Sure, but it would at least be an industrial union," said Joe...
...Old Pal's Corner Joe Will Organize Progressive Unions and Show the World and Bill How It Is Done By Autolyous "I'M getting revolutionary on this trade union question," said Joe to Bill as they left the union meeting for their rooms...
...I hope that it isn't dyspepsia," said Bill...
...It grows until it becomes a nightmare, swallowing up every other consideration...
...K. Tewaag and Relnmrd...
...All except the "unpopular" name of Socialism...
...Remembering, I could not speak these things to you...
...The leaflet goes on to say that while "under cover" the Silver Shirts perfected a great national organisation in 46 of the 48 states, "drawing people of importance from the highest walks of life . . . some of them are now high in government . . . It grew steadily, inexorably during 1930, 1931 and 1932," while the organization and its "key men" were being established and contacts made "with influential Protestant Christians in Washington," and then—suddenly —"on January 31, 1933—the day Hitler came into power in Germany— Pelley came out from under cover with hie Silver Shirt national organization...
...Everything they said, Hearst's speakers ami writers said to vastly larger audiences...
...Silver Shirts, Latest Facisist Racketeesrs, Spread Brutality, Hate and Anti Semitism in Many States Frankly Admirers of Hitler They Parade Pseudo- Radicalism By Murray E. King Salt Lake City...
...OW that so many of us, in so many parts of the country, are engaged in Socialist municipal campaigns it may be worth while to throw our minds back and see if there may not be a lesson to us in events of other years...
...He was evidently left for dead...
...We learn that Soviet Russia is ruled by Jews and that the Russian Revolution was financed by Jacob H. Schiff...
...it was a crusade...
...They are strikingly similar to questions asked Socialists, Communists and Jews by Nazi hoodlums in Germany under umilar circumstances...
...This morning a message came to Theodore Debs from George Hibner, Buhl, Idaho, a friend of both 'Gene and his brother...
...Since then Hearst has traveled far . . . and wide He has been nationalistic and militaristic as well as antimilitaristic...
...People began to say, "The Journal stands for Socialism only without the name...
...This poetic remembrance of the great Socialist read: "Remembering, 1 know a voice that was joy to Beethoven...
...I wish it was as simple as that...
...Suppose we organize all of them, regardless of skill, into one union, an industrial union...
...The Hearst newspapers had an enormous circulation and influence...
...asked Bill...
...All the imbeeilic old stories upon which the anti-Semitic hate movement is based are revamped...
...One meets people in increasing numbers whose obsession is fixed belief that Communism is an...
...Here is a plant employing 5,000 workers...
...Many readers will recall that about this time Pelley's magazine, "The Liberator," appeared advocating spiritualism and "Christ Democracy," a cooperative system which would succeed capitalism...
...Socialists are battling for great and shining ideals that will set mankind on the road to emancipation, and there always come others—some shabby adventurers, some genuinely sincere men—who say, Follow and you will get everything but the "unpopular" name...
...Isn't that so...
...Kollantai," expelled from Mexico, was poisoned at a Jewish banquet in New York...
...At the offices of the Progressive Independent, joint organ of liberals and radicals, and at the .campaign headquarters of the municipal ownership movement, I meet these dupes in disquieting numbers every day...
...The latter was named mem>er of the executive inner council f the Labor Front In the meantime, the number of he former trade union officials In he JUtler concentration cantst Is Imsttyiuiiiiasing...
...The whole story was prominently headlined in the Deseret Evening News, which demanded that the brutes be apprehended and punished...
...BANKERS MASTERS OF GERMAN LABOR AMSTERDAM/—The German ;rade union movement, once the >owerful citadel of German labor, las at last been put officially in .lie keeping of financial magnates ind overlords...
...They are being systematically incited to a point of murderous violence by incessant reiteration of their statements...
...In human compostiion and views it will be about the same as the old unions...
...At this hour of so-called prosperity (this was in 1925) there are two million of able-bodied men and women is e there are » at enforced' should be « schools...
...let us follow Hearst and we will get all we crave, excepting only the "unpopular" name...
...In 1929 he started the League for Liberation" "Its 'surface* purpose was metapsychical research...
...He has supported both Coolidge and Hoover...
...POR seeing into the future, induced by his sagacity and research, into the affairs of mankind, 'Gene Debs predicted the depression through which we have been passing...
...fanew, after he had saved Mexico from Communism and had had "the Red harlot, Mme...
...It was not a political battle...
...For Mayor ?SUDDENLY Hearst had himself placed in nomination for Mayor, with a recent convert to Socialism out of the ranks of the "liberal" bourgeoisie as running-mate,., and a full slate of judges, Assemblymen, Aldermen and county and borough candidates...
...Oh Yealu Have you observed how much headway the Communists liavf made with you by such methods...
...One could In fancy almost vision 'Gene Debs, so lovingly called that, gazing' over the battlements of Heaven, into a really strange world, one besought with foes within and without, struggling with major problems, many of which he foresaw perhaps cognizant of the meeting held here marking his passing, with a pitying smile— 'Gene Debs' smile—at the futile struggle which humanity is making to throw off the very yoke of bondage the struggle in which he himself played a big part while he walked the earth...
...tmUmmm 1.11...
...In this vast transformation the labor movement will have a far greater part than most people imagine, for this movement embraces the great bulk of humanity which is in very truth the raw material of the new civilization...
...But it will be fresh material without old prejudices," Joe replied...
...Only, he has been steadfastly for the pathetic ITylan...
...artificial Jewish creation which is enabling international Jewish bankers to capture and enslave the world...
...And then, a year later, Hearst accepted the Tammany nomination for Governor at the hands of that same Murphy whom his cartoonists had so often depicted in prison stripes...
...Socialists were beginning to feel, wherever they went, a ready response to their propaganda, but not to the party...
...Salt Lake City liberals and radicals believe there is a connection between these abductors and the Silver Shirts...
...An appalling number of former radicals have been swept into the crazy Silver Shirt movement here, first by offering them something which sounded radical, as Hitler did in Germany, and then inciting their prejudices against Jews, reds, foreigners snd Negroes...
...Joe inquired...
...The fires had burned out in him...
...Cut the kidding...
...The trade unions are reactionary...
...i«Kh copy is, pjte, ft a i City, Oklep , that Red KraltMnal end rtr • » w*+ (Mease germ BMf "every ii animal life itattty in four n tad infecud Jem, it I for the foot tick destroyed | Beds have H fsctories to Wnyintr the utiles," (111) •jnift-Jewish ewy...
...Half the mines are closed and half Ih...
...This advocacy of a system superficially resembling Socialism fooled many radicals and swept them into the Pelley movement, exactly as did Hitler's fraudulent "National Socialism...
...You will go to those who as yet have not seen the necessity of organizing any union and you will organize them into progressive and revolutionary unions...
...What a campaign he waged...
...otherwise you will not have a real or effective union...
...A Salt Lake City Communist, Daniel Black, who had driven 1'aUl Crouch, a strike leader, to Price for his hearing on charges of "criminal syndicalism" and riot, was kidnaped in the presence of officers and many spectators in front of the court house in Price, carried twenty miles in an auto at the point of a gun to the hills, tied to a tree and beaten on the head and face with pistol butta and brass knuckles until he was unconscious, in an effort to make him confess to the whereabouts of an alleged cache of Communist arms...
...He is pro-Negro and Jim Crow, pro-utility and anti-utility...
...Along with the concentration that has taken place in industry, there will arise a demand for public regulation of great corporations and monopolies which have control of social agencies and utilities...
...dossier, Dr...
...men were elected to legislative, county and borough offices...
...It is, he says, a complete answer to the predictions which were rife after the election in November, 1931, that the Socialist and Labor movement had received a mortal blow, and foreshadows S Labor victory in the next general election...
...All else If futile . .. and wot...
...Simultaneously came one of the most shocking and barbarous acts of terrorism in the history of Utah upon a prominent Communist, obviously intended as murder, which circumstances indicate was the deed of this same crew...
...It is 1905...
...I can remember when it was largely progressive and Socialist, but in the post-war period it became very conservative and has ultra-conservative leaders, and yet the organization in structure is today what it was in 1912...
...The new "labor" leaders of Gernany are the bankers August Ton •'inkh, Kurt von Schroeder, Dr...
...aye, m» i and Burnt* 4 much lives...
...When asked whether he saw revolution, strife, bloodshed, he replied: "Oh, no, but no one can accurately predict the future...
...The leaflet declares that America will be saved by the Silver Shirts "without alterjng our form of Constitutional Government, if it can be managed...
...Perhaps we can jolt the old conservative crowd by (denouncing them for what they arc," said Joe...
...The underlying evil is the private ownership of a public necessity...
...This let] Russia, tkc' the Gonmn paring to i capable sj vestige of | with 100 pi hours aft* tion" (I...
...It was recently revealed in letters written by Payne himself that he'is a strong sympathizer with the Silver Shirts, who have been claiming him as a member for some time...
...You won't ask them whether they are Socialists, Democrats or Republicans, nor will you ask them whether they are Jews, Catholics or Protestants...
...How do you figure that out...
...The solemn assertion is made that the present Russian government is composed of 871 Jews and only 16 "real Russians...
...In focal affairs he has been pro-Tammany and anti-Tammany, savagely anti-Smith, anti-Walker, anti-O'Brien, and on occasion pro-Smith and pro-Walker...
...They were fighting for Socialism, and they knew the Cause would live on...
...PI.— I- — -— " edy and only one, and that is the taking over of the mines by the people...
...Brave Heroes Returning to consciousness, Black crawled painfully toward the road and was picked up next day by a passing autoist and taken to the hospital at Price in a serious condition...
...He assailed the corruption of Tammany with a ferocity (and truth) unheard of in the city (while still holding his Tammany seat in Congress...
...The Party, under the inspiring leadership of Algernon Lcc, candidate for Mayor, waged a great battle for Socialism WITH the name...
...The Socialists found themselves baffled...
...Industrial Unionism •"THAT would be creditable and an advance beyond the old type of organization," said Bill, "but it would not I make it a progressive or revolutionary union...
...He added taess while iWe children • when they poinds or in I awakening N taw on the •ages in soofisg to the dunge there to the social I the people, t s wake of MS snd will If a* economic problem is solved and life is no longer a catch-as-catch-can struggle for existence, men and women will have more leisure time and the inclination, as well, to concern themselves with the higher problems of life and the vital issues of civilization...
...I claim no prophetic gift and I judge solely by what I conceive to be the drift and tendency of our time in the source of evolution unceasingly in operation...
...and he fought the big utilities...
...We might be able to afford a good laugh at all this, had we not observed the devastating effects of these unspeakable lies in inciting prejudice and race hatred in this sober and staid community of Salt Lake City...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 19
