The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-20
PUTRID CORPSE OF S. P. PAST SAVING


cannot purge the tribe led by Bastis,
of its political filth.
Debs Shields Such Filth.
That part of the working class
which is politically conscious, knows
full we'll that IL Debs is to be honest
with the working class movements, it
is his revolutionary duty to lash these
traitors as he did in the past. How
ever, since Debs has permitted him
self to be made pawn in the yellow
hands of the Cahans and the Hill
quits, nothing of such a nature is ex-
pected Of him, we must confess.
When Paul ]. Smith, Sam Gompers'
representative, opened his drive on
the left wing in 1921, had the Bastis.
Thompson group really been social
lists, Smith could have been stopped
at that time. However, instead of
| blocking Smith, whose reports on the
various Reds in Minneapolis, found
their way into the archives of the de-
partment of justice, they consorted
with Smith and became his secret
allies.
Socialists Vote For Scab.
Lynn Thompson as a socialist men,
Der of the board of county commits.
sioners, voted to let the contract for
the construction of the Mendoza
bridge, to the big rat firm of Kuss
Construction Co. This firm is actively
hostile to all union labor. But the
board has so.called labor majority
OF three. Common labor is paid thirty
cents an hour. The skilled crafts are
getting forty cents per hour. No union
workers are allowed on the job. This
Is sample of Thompson's interest In
the working class.
| Not only that, but all of the county
appointments were handed on a sill
yer platter to members of the Lincoln
Club, which Is the political expression
of the Citizens Alliance. Lynn
Thompson voted approval for all OF
them, as the record shows. 1t is
favorite pastime Of Thompson, to hide
under the past red mantle of Debs,
and let the workers gaze at him while
he is doing that. Thompson is as
socialistic as yellow lemon is a red
apple. His treacherous actions as
member of the board of county COM
missioners, have inspired even the re-
dictionaries in the unions to protest
against him on more than one occa-
sion. Thompson is a whitened sepul-
chre of fakerism.
Opposed United Front.
This Bastis-Thompson outfit reject
ed the united front proposals of the
! Workers Party, on the question of
mayor this spring. 1t was a PROPOSE
ton to unite all working class ele-
ments on labor candidate for mayor.
These tactics would have netted the
workers a candidate.
However, these gentlemen turned
down the unification of labor, for the
capitalist method of splitting the
workers. The socialist labor alder
men gave the workers two republican
candidates; Leach and Elwell. A
united front would have saved all this.
! This, then, is the gentry that Debs
is coming to save. 1t certainly is a
bad mess that Debs has on his list.
1t is indeed very regretable thing
to behold-Debs in this last role Of
his. He ought to have been spared
the task of throwing his former red
mantle, over the hideous political car
casses of these political takers.
But Debs is not privileged to fool
the workers consciously or uncon-
sciously. The class struggle is mex
orable. And if Debs can stand up for
these tools of capitalism, then Debs is
acting against the best interests of
the working classes. No man is great
er than the working class. In fact,
Debs himself, in the past, used to en-
phatically stress this sentiment.
Communists Are Workers Defenders
/ This treachery is not something pc
culiar to the Minneapolis socialists.
II is worldwide. It is the work of
the Second International. Witness
England, Germany and France. The
only socialism that is socialism today,
is the socialism of the Communist In
ternational.
The s. p. of Minneapolis died in
1923. Debs comes here to revive it
again, so that the stis-Thompson
gang can continue to betray the work
ers under its banner, as they have
in the past. No real socialist no
class conscious worker, will become
party TO this move.
The Workers (Communist) Party
is the place for all class conscious
workers imbued with genuine social
ism.