The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-09
SOCIALISTS Are
DOWN And OUT
SAYS GOMpERS
Rubs Salt in Socialist
Party Sores
Especial to The DAILY woRKER)

ATLANTIC CITY, August 8.
The latest publicity blast to
Issue forth from the secret
meeting place Of the executive
committee of the American
Federation Of Labor, is a vici-
GUS attack on the continuous
ly diminishing and completely
dIscredited socialist party" to
quote the statement made pub
40 by Matthew Woll, messenger
boy Extraordinary. and publicity
agent for Sam 0ompers.
Kicked for Their Pains.
After what the socialists have
done for Gompers and his re-
dictionary crew In expelling
Communists from the unions,
their complete reputation by
the old faker is considered one
of the most striking pieces of
'treechery in the history of the
lAmerican labor movement.
Not that the socialist party has not
deserved the medicine 1t received at
the hands Of Doctor Gompers, but the
punishment is cruel and unusual, and
some say, unconstitutional
After tapping his patriotic fms over
Mobilization Day." and kindly giving
the Communists credit for all the anti
war propaganda there is, comph-
ment which does not seem to ruffle
the feelings of the Communists, Com
pers In order to show how nonparti-
san he can be when he tries hard
enough, used the report of the Fed
eral Council of Churches to lacerate
the socialist party.
Expected To Dominate.
The report holds that the LaFol-
lette movement will develop into a
Tabor party" dominating the Ameri-
can workers and dominated by the
socialist party as the British Labor
Party is dominated by the Indepen-
dent Labor Party, the British proto-
type Of the American S. P.
Gompers did not at all relish the
idea Of being 'come-on" for Morris
Hillquit and the budding "MacDon-
aids" Of the socialist party Gompers
is out to lead the forces of organized
labor behind LaFollette as he for
meFly led them behind Wilson into
the World War and behind Cox into
ignominous defeat in 1920. Gompers
Is grasping the leadership In the La
Toilette movement from William H.
Johnston and the G. P. P. A. and woe
unto those who dare cross Sans path.
The socialists being the easiest
marks, Sam eats them up first He
makes 1t quite clear that unless they
conduct themselves and forget the
ambition to dominate the LaFollette
movement that he will give them the
same medicine he gave the Commu-
nists. In fact candidate for once
in New York State on the socialist
party ticket, who is also a member
of union 10 threatened with expul-
sion because he made an attack on
conservative labor leaders.
Won't Take DIctatIon.
The American Federation Of La.
Dor has never tolerated dictation by
any force outside Of the labor move
ment and such an attempted inter-
ference is none the less unwelcome
when II comes from one of the great
church Organizations Of the country.
We cannot and will not accept the
imputation that Fhile one policy is
being pursued by organized labor an
other is being covertly fostered.
"The idea furthermore OF domina-
ton of the American Labor
trades union movement in its politi-
cal activity by a continuously dlniln-
ishIns and completely dlsovdlted So
eisIIst party IL too ridiculous for con-
sheraton. The socialist philosophy
will never become the political or in
teIlectual guide of American labor"
VIII Socialists Reply?
1t is not expected that the socialist
weeklies will give the same publicity
to this broadside that they have given
70 the anti-Communist rantings OF
Gompers and LaFolette. 1t will be
interesting to read what comment, II
any, the complainant DR.. Norman
Thomas will make on the A. #. Of L.
statement. II am the Lord, thy Cod"
says Gompers to the American work.
ers. Thou shalt not have any other
gods before me-"
Cynical reporters who have express.
ed their contempt for the cheap antics
OF the socialists and their shameless
crawling to Gompers are enjoying the
discomftures Of the Hillquitites.
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