The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14

coming of new lmperlallst war VIII
American and English imperialists as
the chief contestants. Hence, the
Socialist Parry is trailing behind the
petty-bourgeois pacifists refusing to
mobilize the masses for a militant
struggle against the war danger.
Most outrageous and reasonable
is the struggle of the Socialist Party
against the Soviet Union. Whereas
all honest workers throughout the
world are uniting their forces to de-
fend the Workers Republic against
the threatening imperialist attack,
The Socialist Party is giving aid and
comfort to the enemies of the Soviet
Union despite its hysterical profess
sions to the contrary.
On the burning and fundamental
issue of independent working class
political action, the Socialist Party,
as a party, and its dominant leader
ship have been and are doing all in
their power to sabotage the move
ment for a Labor Party. The Social
list Party today, even more than in
1923-24, is combating all efforts to-
wards the formation of a Labor
Party, maneuvering instead to es-
tablish itself as middle class reform
party, a so-called opposition third
party, whose only function can be to
strive to save capitalism and per-
petuate capitalist exploitation.
Industrial Democracy Under Capital
ism Means Industrial Slavery
The Socialist Party today stands
for a refined and reformed capitalism
which would make the subsection of
the toiling masses to capitalism even
more complete than it is now. This
they advertise as industrial demo-
crazy established by peaceful, parlia-
mentary means as against socialism
leading to Communism through the
establishment of the dictatorship of
the proletariat by the revolutionary
overthrow of capitalist rule.
In championing industrial democracy
without destroying the rule of the
capitalist class the Socialist Party is.
giving its support to the schemes of
Big Capital and its efficiency ex-
perts to foist upon the workers a
system Of "ideal" capitalism where
the workers neel1ly submit to CAPT.
tclist exploitation, carry on no strug-
gle for power and cooperate with the
employers to increase their profits
and strengthen the present system
generally.
Another Step Away From Working
Class.
This national convention of the So
cialist Party will mark another move
towards the middle class and awav
from the working class. Every re-
cent declaration of the National Com
mittee of the Socialist Party. every
recent statement by Hillquit, Berger,
Thomas, etc, point in that direction,
The proposals of Hillquit and Ber-
ger to build up the Socialist Party
organization as a vote-catching ma
chine in elections (by clubs) and to
formulate its program in line with
Petty bourgeois opposition to the Re-
publican and Democratic parties is
before this convention os its main
task.
The Socialist Party of America has
gone the same way as the so-called
socialist and ocial-democratic par
ties of other countries. The ambi-
ton of the Socialist Party leadership
is to become the Hendersons, McDon-
aids, Vandervoldes, and Loebes of the
United States. Henderson and Nc.
Donald have once been the govern
ment of England for the Labor Party
and have proven to be as loyal to the
capitalist system as Baldwin or Lloyd
George.
Vandervelde, leader of the Socialist
Party of Belgium, formerly minis
ter of the Belgian King, IS doing his
utmost to maintain the rule of the
capitalists against the rising work.
ing class. Loebe, leader of the Ger
man Social-Democratic Party, friend