The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-25
When Socialists Speak
for Themselves We Find
Comment Is Unnecessary
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

1T is not difficult to in every issue of the few remaining
socialist publications. and in their every public uerance,
how the socialists playing the employers game.
have just come from the Passaic strike zone where
10000 workers the battle line fighting against wage
reductions They came out without organization They
are Wagng brave fight
In The Passac strike the mill owners their press
using every available divide and confuse the work.
ers Denounclng the Communists and claiming that is
Communist strike, of these methods used by the
BOSSES in the hope that that will brighten the strikers Yet
does not have that effect The strikers keep their eyes
their demands for the 10 cent wage increase and the
shorter work-week, stick together and fight on
Yet when return to New York City and pick up copy
of the local socialist Sheet The New Leader and
page carrying department with the heading 1.-THE Socialist
Party at Work., surely very dirty work, read the follow
ing:
"Mie
mills led by publicity
for themselves than anything else $3.50"
Evidently the socialist editor in New York. who per-
mtted that to get into his paper thinks is light matter
engage struggle concerning lives and welfare of
10000 workers. men, women and children. This may help
account for the deliberate tearing to pieces OF workers
ganzaons by the socialists when they behold their policies
OF betrayal being overwhelmingly repudated
Thus natural that in the issue there should be
gIocaton of the fact that the left wing spokesman in the
Scranton convention of the anthracite miners denied the
right to speak and unseaed in the convention Here is what
The New Leader has to say:
zone Communist by delegates Scranton.
june 1929 another
town. An organization whose publications continually all
scoundres beayers working
class has only itself to thank when retaliation"
Workers may be prepared to have the socialists rewte
their attitude in past in other labor disputes At the
present rate they may be expected to gory the kid
mapping and placing trial for murder of Meyer Haywood
and Pebone, for instance for wagng struggle against
the enemies of the metal mine workers of the
Anything is possible it for the socialists. Their
entire change of policy within few years the question of
the league of nations is very good example. In the mani
esto of the socialist party adopted in 1919 there is found
the following;
league nations the capitalist black inter
national against the rise Of
alliance the capitalists against
nations"
Yet already in it's convention of 1920 is calling upon
the capitalist government of the United States Initiate
movement to dissolve the mschevous organization called
the league of nations and to International paa
ent composed of democratcay elected representatives of
all nations of the world"
This would of course still be capitalist international
warning against the only workers International the Com
munst International Now the socialists throw off the mask
completely and thru their chosen spokesman Morris Hquit
that they want the United States join the league
of nations.
Further comment should certainly not be necessary