The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-01
AS WE SEE IT
BY T. J. c'FLAHERTY.
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the tribune and moved that the So
cialists have nothing to do with the
liberals.
THIS is generalship of a very high
/ order indeed. Grand Duke Nicho-
las Nicolavietch, of the cars armies
used to pull OF similar stunts when
his long legs were breaking all speed
records in getting as far from the
German armies as possible. When the
capitalist press carried the news that
the grand duke was 20 versts nearer
the Ural mountains on a certain day
than he was the day before, his pub
licity expert made it appear that the
general was pulling of very dirty
trick on the Germans, that mick"
had all this planned out a long time
in advance and that his retreat was
merely a sprint TO carefully prepared
positions"
XKTITH Hillquit and his disappoint-
wv ed maneuvers it is a case Of
sour grapes. They chased the liber-
ais and labor takers for three years
and boosted about their success in
remaining on good terms with them,
while they pointed with scorn at
the Communists, saying: you damn
revolutionists, who take your orders
from Moscow We have you isolat-
ed. We have kept you out of the
C. P. P. A. and therefore out of con-
tact with the American working class.
We are now in the labor movement.
Our goal is reached"
DUT odds bodlxins, It IL not so.
While the socialists were fawn-
ig on the labor takers and holding
up LaFollette's vestments the Com
munists were going TO the masses Of
the workers and poor farmers. The
result can be seen in the virility and
vigor of the Workers Party; it's sure
and steady growth; the strength Of
its press and the success of its cam
paigns. A few years ago the social
lists had a daily paper. Today they
have only one weekly and that exists
only on the Bounty of the Jewish
Daily Forward. The Forward would
have dropped the liability long ago,
but for hatred Of the Communists.
THE Workers. Party, that was ESQ.
l lated from the masses" by the so.
cialist stool pigeons of the labor fax
ers, has a powerful daily paper that
relies for its support on the revolu-
tionary workers Its campaigns for
the defense of the Michigan defend
ants, for Sacco and Vanzetti, against
child labor and Irish famine relief
are reaching millions. 1t is the only
party in America that stands on the
class struggle and is organizing the
workers for the overthrow Of capital
ism. 1t cannot be isolated from the
masses because it fights for the in
terests Of the masses and knows how
to reach them. 1t is true that it is
isolated from the labor takers and the
oeoOA PA6OOAn Va CaPAloAAou III Inc H.
Dor movement. But that is its SINGER
est wish.
XNIHAT has the socialist party
wv gained by its betrayals? 1t has
not gained In numbers. A few of its
leaders undoubtedly have made ma
terial gains. Entirely disregarding
the treason of the socialist party to
the working class, the brilliant man.
euvering of Hillquit in trying 70 trans
form the socialist party into an Am
erican labor party, by slipping the
metamorphosis over on the labor Of.
flcials ended in a glorious fizzle. The
socialists are back now where they
started from, minus their principles,
which they threw overheard long ago,
and their army, which either Joined
the Workers Party, kept on going, or
deserted the working class political
movement altogether. II this is sue
cess, then Morris Hillquit is a bril-
liant leader.
THE Milwaukee Leader rejoices
i that there is no new party but a
bigger socialist party. Both Berger
and Morris Hillquit declared before
the elections that LaF'ollette was a
socialist. Yet both now denounce the
new progressive party. that was born
without name under the inspiration
Of LaFollette. The socialist party
now consists Of group of old lead.
ers anxiously scanning the horizon
for followers. Moses" Hillquit in.
stead of leading them into the prom.
Used land, led them back into Egypt
only to find the Nile run dry.