The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-30
Mahoney Sa!s There Is
No Place in Minnesota
For the SociaAt Party
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHA

TODAY Minnesota labor passing udgmeh on the efforts
of Eugene Debs to revive the Socialist party organ
zaton in that state The OF Workers in the city
and on the land gave their verdict when theytaed com
pete to attend not only the membership conference
ooaed but also the picnic gathering oddrsssd BY the
large muttudes in the Twin Cities OF Minneapolis md ST.
Paul.
William Mahoney, editor of the Minnesota Union Ad
vocate official organ of the Minnesota Federation of Labor
and the ST. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly speaking for
the officiadom of labor declares that:
"outsde ambition the deuson Of few Of the IeAers
place in Minnesota for the socialist party andua
factor!'
Mahoney ought to know. He has been socialist" HIM
SELF But those days long gone by He has slipped
the way back into the old parties atho he still tries to retain
foot Farmer-Labor Party doubt to betray
again at the next opportunity
Mahoney quotes Abe cahan, editor Of the Jewish Daily
Forward support of his argument credtng the anti
Communist head of this socialist organ the statement that
the socialists had been cheshng deuson and that there
place now for party like the one they had been
nurturiug In effect, cahan is said to have admitted that
either the Communist group or farmerabor progressive
group met the situation
Mahoney does not seem to be aware of the fact that
is his friend and fellow antCommunist editor Cahan who
is repued to have turned over to Debs and his $50
cast party for its present Reorganization campaign.
Not that Cahan has any illusions about rebuilding the $50
calist' party. Only Debs harbors these. But cahan
the socialist party as weapon now more bunted than
ever in his losing against the mtants in the needle
trades unions the Amagamated Clothing Workers. the In
ternatona Ladies' Garment Workers. the Furers and the
Capmakers None of these unions have any great
ship in Minnesota the workers of that do
This permitted the workers only in the large clothing
ters, like New York City and Chicago, while it becomes
visible to the nation only in such Cahaninspred propaganda
tours that carried by the counter-revoItonay,
Abramovitch specially imported for the occasion. There
FORE the socialist party has mission weapon in the
hands of the most reactonay labor bureaucracy be used
against militant labor. "a
Debs has willingly lent himself to that campaign. If
his trip to Minnesota had any effect strengthen
ents that trying drive the Communists
trade unions But this result small be
noticeable
Mahoney also lends himself to the same reactonary
crowd that would rather destroy the organized labor
ment than develop really class conscious character
But labor in Minnesota elsewhere forward in
spite of the desperate efforts of Debs and Mahoney with
others like the put the brakes the wheels progress
The Workers (Communst) Party stronger than ever in
Minnesota today spite of the attacks Of Deb Mahoney
and the subversive campaigns financed by cahan.
class struggle develops the class conscious spirit
of labor grows and strengthens, RELOCATING monde
script aggregation of socialists to the scrap heap
exposing such renegades Mahoney and unmasng them
agents of the putocracy inside Iabors ramparts.
While the Minnesota socialists" openly fIaunt their
alliances with the republicans and the democrats Mahoney
still frts enegetcaly with the armer-abor party But the
movement for independent political action by the workers
in Minnesota will in time, dump Mahoney into fitting
roundngs Mahoney may claim truly that there no "pace
in Minnesota for the socialist party but with equal truth
abos side of the class struggle for Editor Mahoney He is
trying keep his feet in the camps of both the workers and
the bosses But enlightened labor will he fails in
this that he is pushed into the ranks of abors enemy
where he really belongs.