The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-31
Y:4SUNDAY
MISSING FROM
S.P. revival
Thousands limited to
Hit SawduSt Trail
CONTINUED from page u

l.
sion OF the 60th anniversary Of the
services and sacrifices Of this unique
lover OF the common people," Eugene
v. Debs, bring about the resurrec-
ton of the socialist party, now SO
peacefully at rest, with flowers on it's
chest and everything? The corpse
looks mighty yellow, but then, it's
understood that this is its natural
complexion.
Is the socialist party dead? In
Cleveland, where Debs will spear
shortly, that old vote-catching war
horse, John willert, chants It's dirge
every chance he gets. At the metal
trades council, at his union meeting,
he constantly harks back to the good
old days when he was elected a So
cialist councilman. He was thrown
out Of the council upon order of the
chamber Of commerce. But this is not
considered an honor by him. This
was an awful mistake. Willert still
holds that eventually he will sneak
up on the chamber of commerce, grab
a seat in the city council unbeknownst
to It, and make the revolution.
That the sneaking-up policy is be-
ing tried out is proven concretely. In
recent elections in Cleveland the so
cialist party candidates were, the
same as all other capitalist candi-
dates, Just a picture and a name to
the workers Of this industrial center.
Nothing appeared upon any election
literature which would give any one
to understand that the socialist party
was operating for either reform or re-
volt. Its name did not appear.
The Party is Hidden.
And now comes this revival, or
rather an attempt at it. There are
cards in the windows. There are
sheets upon the billboards. The name
of Debs is flashed in big red letters.
But the name Of the party he wants
to bring back to life is not mention
ed. Then look at the literature, the
letters of the Debs meeting commit
tee. Mind, 1t is not the socialist party
that is conducting the meeting. There
is a local Debs meeting committee. 1t
has sent out hundreds of letters, ask
ing all and sundry to come and see
and hear "the best loved man in
America" In these letters there is
much talk of the tremendous heart,
of weary souls, Of social wrong, Of
oppressed humanity, Of liberty and
justice loving people-but not a word
about the class struggle, or the work
ing class and the capitalist class, and
not word about the socialist party.
It's name does not appear.
This gumshoe method of trying to
rope in votes and members will not
prove successful. Workers who are
for the revolution know that there is
an enemy, that there is a struggle
ahead, and this attempt to obliterate
class lines and to soften and human
ize the conflict will not win any adj
herents that are worth a whoop.
Nice gentlemen and ladies will go
to the meetings and take a look and
feel, for a moment, real sympathetic
with the aged spiritual leader of this
decrepid party, but there will be moth
ing more to the party, no more red
blood in 1t after the meeting than
before.
The socialist party all over the
world, has accepted the job Of hand
maiden to the capitalist class. In
Finland it helped to defeat the revo-
lutionary masses in an attempt to es-
tablish the Soviet. In Germany Lieb-
knecht and Luxembourg, the leaders
of the revolutionary workers, were
murdered under a socialist regime
and that arch monarchist Hindenburg
is president there today because the
German social democracy believed in
the bourgeois order rath-
er than in establishing the proletari-
an dictatorship. In Hungary they
helped to overthrow the Soviet gov
eminent and then, to save their own
skin, entered into an agreement with
that murder Horthy, promising to be
good little boys under the Horthy re-
gime, If Horthy only would allow
hem to play a bit in their usual
yellow way.
HIIIquIt For the Bosses.
While the spiritual leader holds
forth in Cleveland, Hillquit, the theo-
retical leader, writes memorandum
In New York. AS counsel for the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union to the New York governors ad-
visory commission, investigating the
garment industry, he speaks as fol-
lows: "The union emphatically denies
that charge that it persues a policy
Of antagonism towards the employers.
On the contrary, the whole record of
the International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union in this city is a con-
Linuous effort to cooperate with the
employers on the basis Of justice and
fairness"