The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-02
Thomas Refuses to Defend His Partys
Record in Debate with VIM. Weinstone

ing the police force in New York
City by 700 men,
"The socialist party in its position
on the League of Nations is funda-
in agreement with the posi-
ton of the democratic party and the
party, and its tactics in
the everyday struggles of the work
ers, as in the case of the issue of
Sacco and Vanzetti, have not served
to free the workers for more vigor-
GUS and energetic struggle against
their capitalist enemies.
The Parties Differ.
"You say, Il suppose since you
agree with US pretty we'll on the i'm
mediate issues in this campaign you
have to have something to talk about
We wish most emphatically to state
that fundamentally our position on
immediate issues and yours do not
by any means correspond. In the
current issue of the New Leader you
declare for an increased wage for the
governor of New York State to $685.
600 year; you also state it is your
opinion that frequent elections for
governor and other officers mean ex-
penditure of extra money and result
in inefficiency, and lead one to believe
You are for the 4-year term for gov
ernor. We are fatty opposed to the
increase of the term for governor to
four years, and to the whole series of
reactionary laws and concentration
of government power, Of which this
frightening Of the term Of office is
an important point in the program of
the capitalist parties.
Oppose Soviet Russia.
while your party is nominally in
favor of Russian recognition, the
actions of the socialist party and of
its leading Jewish organ, the New
York Daily Forward, show that it is
fundamentally opposed to recognition
of Soviet Russia and to the defense
of the first Workers and Peasants
Republic.
''In this election campaign the is
sue of injunetions, police violence,
proposed anti-foreign born legislation.
the campaign of the open-shoppers
against the unions, are all issues -af-
fecting the workers. Any party claim
ing to be workers party must pro
pose measures to counter-act these
attacks against the working class. We
contend that the socialist party in its
trade union program, in its support
of the reactionary Greens and Wolls,
is preventing the workers from fight
ing against these injunctions and po-
lice brutality, the open-shop cam
paign and the policy of the employ
ers in industry. The program of the
socialist party is Numerically OPP
posed to that of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party and for that reason
we have proposed to you that you
present your program and activities
to the workers from the same plat
form with representatives of the
Workers (Communist) Party SO that
the workers may have placed before
them the positions of these two par
Ties. we therefore repeat again our
proposal for debate between the rep
resentatives of your party and ours
and that either yourself or another
representative of the socialist party
debate with candidates of the Work
ers (Communist) Party the issues out
lined above.
S. p. Like Tammany.
"You say in your letter that Vein
stone is spending his time not in dis
cussing the election issues and attack
ing Tammany Hall, but is attacking
the socialist party and yourself per-
sonally, sometimes on the basis of a
misrepresentation of what you have
said. Weinstone is attacking Tam
many Hall, the republican party, and
the socialist party and its reactionary