The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-07
N. Y. SOCIALISTS
AT SWORD POINTS
WITH LIABILITIES
lspsaIsI % The palIx work.r,

tions between the LaFollette regulars
here and the socialist party are not
as regular as could be desired. Tie
latter nominated DR.. Norman Thomas
for governor of New York State.
This difference has reached the
point where the socialists have an
nounced that they will remove them
selves from the LaFollette- Wheeler
headquarters at rs West 4Srd Street
and find place where their presence
will be more wleome.
viii TakeyThelr Dough.
LaFollette is Perfectly willing to be
the heir to whatever voting strength
the renegade socialist party can
muster. He is also willing to be the
beneficiary of the collections that may
be raised by the Schlesingers and
Cahans and the other yellow leaders
of the needle trades unions.
But when it comes to a question of
allowing his candidacy to be pol
luted" with the suggestion of social
ISM" the Wisconsin senator draws
the line pretty hard His friends in
New York are not willing to allow the
socialists to get away with clear
road for the governorship in that
state. fW IA
Charged With Trickery.
The Tammany crowd in the New
York G. P. P. A. are charging the So
cialists with doing the very thing
they accused the Communists Of try
ing to do, that is, run the whole show
Of course, the Tammanyites are jus
tilted in their criticism. The New
Leader, weekly organ of the social
lists, frequently boosted that, with their
superior machinery and propaganda
ability the. socialists would capture
the c. P. P. A. and control it Just as
the Independent Labor Party in Eng
land secured control of the British
Labor Party.
Tammany's labor leaders will not
tolerate any such sharp practice on
the part of the socialist hucksters in
New York. Thinking that having a
candidate for governor in the field
would compel the c. P. P. A. to en-
dorse their man, the socialists were
jubilant and thought they had put one
over on their friends, but they reck-
oned without their host or counted
the chickens before they were hatch
ed. They were warned that the so
cialists would not be allowed to
speak for the G. P. P. A. in New York
and get all the publicity, and as a
first installment of the medicine
which is coming to them before this
campaign is over, they were summari
ly kicked out Of the LaFollette-
Wheeler headquarters as they were
bounced from the c. P. P. A. confer
ence Of New York last fall.
Worst Yet to Come.
The Gompers endorsement Of La.
Toilette does not improve matters for
the socialists. Gompers hates the
very name of Socialism" and even tho
the thing is now scarcely recognizable
due to the punishment it has received
at the hands of the socialist party
nothing short Of it's decapitation will
satisfy the irreconcilable Sammy
Rumors OF bad feeling between the
socialists and the Tammany labor
chiefs became so widespread that
Hillquit got Norman Thomas to is
sue a public statement, which shows
that the apple Of discord is doing its
fell work. The Reverend gentleman
says:
ITO set at rest unfounded rumors,
! desire to state with all emphasis
that no single group is trying to
run the whole LaFollette campaign
nationally or in this state. Still less
are any OF the elements seeking un-
fair advantage over any other group
in the progressive rank. We are all
cooperating enthusiastically in the
campaign to elect LaFollette and
1T is the general policy Of the Prog
ressive National Committee not to ex-
tend its endorsement to state tickets
II has enough TO do in federal mat
ters."
Such is the position the socialist
party finds itself In after betraying
the workers in order to win temporary
gain. But II seems about the thing
II has ACCOMPLISHED is TO speed its
deeth.