The daily worker., 1926-09-24
BY eERTRAM D. WOLFE.

THE disintegration going on inside
l. the Socialist Party and the de-
termination of the Forwards crowd to
rule what is left of the party with an
iron hand are reflected in the nomina-
tions just made public by the New
York Socialists for the present elec-
toral campaign.
For some time there has been grow
ing discomfort manifested within the
ranks of New York Socialists, espe-
cially among the younger elements,
against the methods used by the For
wards crowd in fighting the Commun-
lists. in opposing the united front pro-
posals of the Workers (Communist)
Party, in splitting unions and other
labor organizations and expelling pro-
gressive and left wing elements, in
using gangsterism-in short, in all the
methods employed by the old socialist
leadership to ruin the labor move
ment that they can no longer rule.
Forward" Lies.
THE Forwards has degenerated
L very rapidly as It's working class
leaders diminished and it made an
ever greater bid for leaders among
New York's petty bourgeoisie, aban-
doning its active opposition to Zion
ism, it now plays UP Palestine and the
Zionist movement in its columns. It's
obvious lies against Soviet Russia in
which it runs such headlines as Zinc
view Arrested" orN"Mass Uprisings Of
the Unemployed All over Russia" at
he same time that the capitalist press
is admitting the stability, the power
and the growth of the workers rule in
the Soviet Union--these obvious lies
have amazed those few young ele-
ments who have entered into the So
cialist Party since the world war and
do not know of its betrayal during
that period and cannot understand
how a supposed workers paper can
lie so viciously and support such anti
proletarian causes. The gangster tao
tics of Beckerman in the Amalgamated,
the attempt at betrayal of the Fur
riers strike by Schachtman and the
Socialist Party leaders in the Fur
iers Union, the long attempt at un-
ion wrecking which reached its height
n the attempted expulsion of Locals
9 and 22 from the /. L. G. w. u
Ill these have aroused indignation and
5ewilderment in the few honest ele-
saautc f, "a Garta1fut
Even Norman Thomas.
ENVEN a small section of the leader.
II ship, such men as Norman Thorn
as have been criticising these policies
Of lying. disruption, expulsion and
gangsterism because they are causing
a further loss OF membership and a
further disintegration in the Socialist
Party
All this vague and incoherent op-
position. ranging from members Of the
Young Peoples Socialist League "who
cannot understand" why united fronts
80 urgently required by the working
class should be sabotaged and reject
ed by the S. p. leadership, to men like
Norman Thomas who believe that
such tactics as the Forwards trade
union bureaucracy are employing are
not the best methods OF fighting Com.
munism and the Communists, combine
together TO form feeble and family
critical opposition inside the S. p.
Shows lts Claws.
NOW the Forwards crowd is show.
~ ing its claws. Even such feeble
opposition that limits itself 10 secret
protests and questionings will not be
tolerated inside the morlbund s. P.
Norman Thomas, who for the last few
years, has always been made the
standard bearer and head of the tick
ct in each Duliucsl campaign, this