The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14

letter sets forth. 1t is as FOL
lows
Comrades and Fellow Workers:
We assume that you are sufficiently
enlightened and conscious of the in
terests Of your class to have cut loose
from the parties of bosses, the re-
publican and democratic parties. We
assume that you do not desire an
other four years of injunctions
against picketing, police breaking up
of meetings and picket lines and a
city government at the service of the
bosses. There are two tickets claim
ing your support and offering them
selves as parties Of the Workers
the candidates Of the Workers Com
munist) Party and those Of the So
cialist Party You must choose be-
tween them.
The Socialist Party Against the Unity
of Labor.
There should not have been two
sets Of candidates dividing labor's
forces in this campaign. The differ
ences between the Workers (Com-
munist) Party and the Socialist Par
ty are profoundly fundamental, but
the weakness of labor in this city
state and nation; the powerfully or
ganized drive of the master class
against labor resulting in lowering of
wages, open shop conditions, injunc-
tions and police clubbing, persecu-
tions and deportation OF militant
workers, the menace of new wars
compel every section of the labor
movement to join together in united
action against the employing class.
The Workers (Communist) Party
proposed to the Socialist Party at its
convention in June the calling of a
conference of all labor organizations
for the formation of a united labor
ticket in the present campaign as a
step in the direction of a Labor Par
ty This proposal the Socialist Party
rejected. The Socialist Party last
year joined with the republican poll
tician LaFollette, with the repub-
lican war jingo La Guardia, with the
democrat Wheeler and with the ex-
ploiters of labor who supported them
and betrayed the movement for La
Dor Party; but the Socialist Party re-
fuses to- join with militant sections
of the labor movement for the unity
of the working class and for the
building up of a Labor Party in the
United States.
This year, the Socialist Party con-
tinues its betrayal of the LABOR Par
ty movement by completely emitting
the Labor Party in its platform. To
gether with the wreckers of the la
Dor movement, the Greens, Berrys,
Wolls, Johnstones and other labor
takers, it divides labor's forces and
helps keep labor tied to the capital
list parties. The Socialist Party has
completely deserted the path leading
toward working class freedom and
has gone into the camp of the small
business men, the labor bureaucrats,
the professional elements who de
ceive the workers and who support
the capitalist system.
Thomas Supports League Of
Nations.
The reverend Norman Thomas is a
sky pilot, respectable" liberal min
lister who can steer the workers on
heavenly matters, but knows nothing
about plotting labor on earth. Nor
man Thomas is a member of the
committee supporting the world court
Of the league of nations. Only a few
years ago when the socialist party
still had breath of working class
spirit, it condemned the league OF ma
lions as the "black international"
Today Norman Thomas is a mem
Der of the committee to support the
world court and his fellow members
are Thomas Lamont of the House of
Morgan and other money masters of
America and the world.
The Socialist Party for Sigman and
Labor Bureaucrats.
Thomas and the socialist party sup
ported Sigman Of the needle trades
in his long fight against the rank and
file Of the union whereas the Work
ers Party supported the rank and file
which has at last become victorious.
With Thomas as candidate for
mayor, stands lawyers, professional
elements, small business men and
labor bureaucrats. Behind Thomas
and the socialists stands the yellow
Forward which has become huge
capitalist investment and fights TO.
gether with the discredited Sigmans.
Breslaus, Kaufmans, and Hillmans
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