The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-12
A Letter to August Claessens

The following is letter from Comrade W. Brod-
owsky, English Branch A, Section s. Bronx Workers
Communist Party, to August Caessens of the So
cialist party. Claessens wrote to Comrade Brodow-
sky inviting him to take the leadership in organic
ing branch of the socialist party
Dear Comrade Claessens:-In reply to your letter in
which you invite me to your apartment for Thursday
evening" April 28th, find it to reply to your
letter.
You state in your letter that you got address thru
the enrolment board and that you noticed that enrolled
for the socialist party.
did that as protest against the other two parties,
but comrade, pleased to tell you that voted a
straight Workers (Communst) Party ticket.
About fifteen years ago Joined the socialist party
but class conscious worker, could not remain in
your party for have since that party works
hand in hand with all the enemies of the workers To-
day. your party is working hand in hand with the reac
onaries to bacma the militant workers and the lead
of party to sentence them to long terms in jail
and why Because they strive to show the class conscious
workers how organize to better their conditions The
party you represent does not like to that because it
is composed of traitors to the entire working class. All
the world your party betrays the working class in
every way supporting the reactonary capitalist class
against the working class.
The class conscious workers understand this and they
bringing this message to the rest of the workers
Why the liberals protesting against the brutal
and your party doing about it? You stand aside If
you had the power, like your friends in Germany to
slaughter and shoot down workers in the Streets
would do the same Since you cannot do it this way,
you do it in other ways.
You support the enemy class against the working
class Did your party protest against the Fascist
in Italy? Did your party protest against the bloody
actions Of the Lithuanian hangmen the Hungarian
barbarians when they murdered workersf Did your
party protest to government when they
sentenced and jailed militant workers and at
tempted to kill workers in the Sacco-Vanzetd case?
Did your party protest against the brutaties
itted in West Virginia? In Passaic? Did your party
protest against governments intervention in
China, in Nicaragua, in Mexico. Your party did notl
And it calls itself Socialist What farce In fact,
your party in conjunction with bureaucratic union labor
leaders in with the tactics of the United
States government in their support of the capitalist
class.
You state in your letter should to your apart
ment to try to work out ways and means to organize
socialist party branch in the section in which you live
Comrade, it is useless The workers of today will dc
better to join real workers party which is fighting
day in and day out for the working class party whose
leaders giving their lives for the working class. You
all must admit that. A party which is affiliated with
the Third International The workers not only try
ing to join the Workers Party but they joining it
When the call will for real struggle they will be
ready to fight and die for their class