The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
The Panken Credo and Our Answer.

No more complete exposure anti-workngcass char
campaign conducted by Judge Panken could be made
than that furnished by himself to the statement issued
Oct II and published in the New York Times for Oct r.
From this report appears that the tone Of the Panken reply
to the Workers Commun Party offer of united front against
Tammany Hall reaction decided upon not by the socs
party but by the nOnparsan campaign committee dominated by
republicans to which the socialist party has entrusted the for
tunes of its leading candidate
Panken therefore and the party leaders,
the point they united front against
ton with working political party but enter into united
front with members of capitalist parties More than this they
have allowed their campaign for Panken to be quidaed by
temporary organization of capitalist party politicians
Panken does mention in his published statement the vital
issue of labor para major proposal made in the letter OF the
Workers (Communist) Party.
United with middle and capitalist elements rejec
ton of the united front with workersth is the policy of Pan
ken and the socialist bureaucracy
Panken goes further He himself enemy of the
American working class and an agent of the bosses by announcing
his allegiance e principles and practices of social democracy
in the following categorical statement:
believe that whatever social changes
United States be the result of education and by the
political nsumentates at disposal By the intelligent
of the ballot" Coolidge will say to this credo.
The theory voiced here by Panen has brought misery
millions European workers who followed the democrats
and the greatest euon prevailing in the ranks of the labor
movement that responsible IN large measure for the ex
IRENE political bacwardness OF the working class anken de-
brat fosters this deuson and because he does he receives
the support of elements which essentially anwong class
in character
still possible for ofceeekers ride into office the
basis of subservency capitalist democracy and Panken and
the socialist party leaders making the most of it.
which will be great
workers who the thought that Panken did
of the united front with the BOSSES the police the
and the reactonary oadom of the American Federation
Labor entered into in the labor movement and especially the
needle trades, by the socialist party leadership.
1t is necessary review here the whole list of union
smashing activities and atrocities perperated thousands Of
workers by this combination These facts weknown
require detailing and explanation
is sufficient point out here that Panken in his published
statement the hue and of reaction against the Comu
mist workers in the needle trades and by implication gives his
sona approval carried for months against
rank and file of the furrs and coamakers unions Panen
says:
Sc" cannot accept endorsement from them (the Commu
nsts in the face of what they have done the labor
that is dear to me- Would Panken reject
from Judge Rosalsky?
According to Panken it the Communists workers
who supported the left wing that made the united
with reaction and launched errorsc campaign needle
trades The fact that hundreds of Communists wing
workers the victims of the pogroms nothing
Panken
And labor to him. his campaign
is the control of band lawyers whose
labor consists of addresses of offices which
they send bills.
Panken is rejecting endorsement which get
The Workers Communis Party has made it clear and will
tnue make it clear that Panken pro-
gram, his record his integrity
1t offers to the socialist party the Panken united
front against capitalist reaction but it will same
time explain the working that Panen does
the workers but middle class elements who
reaction.
The Workers (Communs) Party unlike the socialist party
leaders, views the campaign from the working class stand
point and not from the standpoint by Pankenha
maintaining and strengthening the vicious fiction that unda
mental social changes be achieved by the of the ballot