The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-30
The POhce-ization of the Socialist Party

party benefit affair for that partys weekly
organ quarrel served bring sharp
expression the character of that party the American
bourgeose
Hlqut Agernon threw open the gaze of
unduy astonshed working class supporters
attitude favorng and militant action
against the of Socialist Soviet Republics Only slightly dis
gused the of the leader of this socialist party
Hqu his showed plainly is actively planning
militant campaign against Socialist Soviet Repub
lies And tho he does admit the connection he would make
VOLTS drive against the recogn
on of the Soviet Union by the United States
The greatest misfortune that in the socialist
movement according the little lawyer and coal dealer is the
victory of the working class of November 1917 which founded
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
Against the mild-mannered, compromising Norman Thomas
who thinks it tactful for his party to be Sympathetic
to the workers Socialist Soviet Union, Hqu made clear his
position Even the reservation the viruent expressions of
counter revolutionary sentiments by the petbourgeos patriot
Agernon Lee aroused his wrath Hquits position is to this
effect
1. 1t is all fooishness to pretend that you be
friend the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and at the
time enemy of the revolutionary movement of the
workers. We must be open enemies of BOTH
O. Indications being found on all hands that there is
tendency toward recognition of the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics, and since such recognition would help
the workers republic to strengthen ITSELF and since the
triumph of the Workers Republic is misfortune for
therefore WE, THE SOCIALIST PARTY must out
openly in favor of the mperial encrclng and economic
strangulation of the Workers Republic.
good This of Mr. Hiquit leads directly
the policy of putting the socialist party openly line with the
reaconary American capitalist society Hquit
making strong gesture for the closest ceentngn the open
of the socialist party with the F. of bureaucracy and the
most reactionary elements it, represented by Mathew Wo
The long and short of it is that the extreme reaction
in the socialist party leadership determined to take be-
the coming presidential election long and bold step
the open of shadowy that that party
in fob
under PRESSURE admittedly they that the who followed
them the past elections will desert to the Tamany candidate
of the democratic party Smith They must quickly dress
themselves for the of such lower middle class voters
by bourgeois Tammany demagogue Having
rreparaby bound up with the eanay bureaucracy of the A
F. L. in the strebreang drive of the Sgmans the John L.
Lees and the Greens and the Wo and having lost thereby the
last of what looked like wongcass support the
cat party bureaucracy compelled to drop peences and
dress it's line to the line of the GreenWoews gang in all
essential respects.
At the time, Hqut it, it necessary
phasze sharply the fact that the socialist party
supporter of fnancecapita in international affairs, with
Recommendation that the United States join the
League of Nations least the international court of
justice without impossible reservation.
In order consistently to live up to it's role reaconary
force working against the poticazation of the American work.
ing class the socialist bureaucracy must knife the
ment for labor arand the knitting can be done only thru
pretending to be for labor party in such to show
that labor party is mot possible" at present
The little the another
socialist party compelled by events show itself clearly
in its yellow coo before the of such workers continue
to be it's dupes.
And by the ripening Of these events the American
workers gain They by learning that the socialist
party of the bourgos against the working class
luton party the alliance of the trade union bureaucracy with
employers party of the police
How workers in the socialist party ready follow
the hyster lawyers of that drive against the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics?
How willing to follow the drive in favor Of the
plunderbund of imperiasts-the league of nations?
How many will follow Hlqut openly into the
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