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The debate ingly answered thousands of The plans of the Nazis to hold their national convention in St. Louis on March 11 was, quite class of St. Louis.

The Nazis selected St. Louis proper because of the excessive unemployment, and South St. Louis in particular because of the nineteenth century background of many of the workers who live there.

These considerations, plus the fact that in the state of Missouri the employers have rganisea a nignly tinancer campaign to instill "right-towork" laws directed against the unions, were the basic components of the Nazi formula.

And for the first time since 1945 they were given a permit to march and rally in a major US city.

The debate among leftist and centrist organisations, as a whole opposed to the racist of the Nazis, around 1) whether should be permitted in South St. Louis if the Nazis were whether this should mplished by the d courts or by the working class in Hostility was resoundin pr Ictice by wor] ers and youth.

They lined the "parade route"-some just to see what was going on, but most to register their hostilit y to the fascists.

By 12.00 noon hostility had reached the point that the police contingent sent to protect the Nazis decided that for their own safety the fascists had best climb onto a truck and be driven down the "parade route"

The crowd was more incensed at this display of cowardice and weakness by the Nazis.

Huddled on the back of an open truck, the Nazis formed a target for any missiles that could be found. Snowballs, bottles and bricks rained down on them, and they were forced to use their "white power" placards as shields.

Hundreds of workers and youth chased the truck down the "parade route"

Squads of police Rather than stop at Gravois Park, where they had planned a rally, the Nazis stayed on the truck and drove on.

Squads of police rushed to protect the Nazi headquarters from the angry crowd and eventually loaded the fascists into police vans for protection.

The grand Nazi revival had turned into a fiasco in which the fascists had even had to flee from their own offices.

This lesson must be made part of the preparations in the Chicago labour movement to counter a fascist march scheduled to go through the suburb of Skokie on April 20.

Mass action by the working class-and not passive appeals to the bourgeois courts that have begun granting the Nazis permission to march-shows the way to crush the fascists and strengthen the workers movement.

This must be combined

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simply, a declaration of war against the working

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