The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28
Against the Capitalists!

The Communist view of the socialist party
expressed in the national platform summed up
is as follows:
The socialist party, which still claims to be
working class party, is party of the lower
middle class, with its leadership part of the
bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. The militant
spirit of Eugene V. Debs has been wiped out
In the city of Reading, Pennsylvania, the city
officials of the socialist party have pledged
themselves to act like capitalist officials rather
than socialists
Norman Thomas, the presidential candidate
OF the socialist party, is declared to be "the
worst kind OF pacifist typical preacher who
performs the greatest service for American
imperialism by creating illusions about the
League of Nations, about the possibility of pre-
venting wars by peaceful means"
The National Platform further declares that
the socialist party is an advocate of the League
Of Nations, supports Kellogg's hypocritcaI ges-
lures towards the outlawing of war, and is cri-
tical of the war against Nicaragua not because
it is an imperialist war but because it is "un-
authorized and unsanctioned by the people or
congress"
The socialist labor party is dismissed with
three lines and a half as a "fossilized" sect
which plays no role in the life of the country
The platform concludes its analysis of the
political parties with the following statement
on the Workers (Communist) Party:
The Workers (Communist) Party is today the
only genuine working class party. 1t is the sole
party which has program for the workers and
working farmers. 1t is the only party which con-
ducts relentless struggle against capitalism
against the old parties of the BOSSES and against
the corrupt labor bureaucracy and the treacherous
socialist party.
THE Workers Communist Party is the party
OF the class struggle. 1t is the deadly enemy of
class collaboration because it is the deadly enemy
OF capitalism 1t is the revolutionary party of the
working class. The Workers (Communis) Party
is the champion of the interests of the working
class and the working farmers. 1t is the advocate
of the most exploited stratum of the working class
the unskilled workers. 1t is the champion of the
oppressed Negro 1t is the organizer of the
struggle against imperialism, against imperialst
wars"
The platform deals extensively with unem-
the open shop wage-cutting offensive
OF the bosses, the miners strike, colonies and
imperiahst war, the defense of the Soviet
Union, the government in its role as a strike
breaking agency, labor party, social legis-
Iatlon, tariff and taxation, the plight of the
farmers, the oppression of the Negroes, the
foreign-born workers, working women, youth,
child labor and education, housing. prohibition.
and ends by urging the workers and exploited
farmers to. organize for the goal of a<Workers'
and Farmers Government.
Every worker loyal to his class should con-
slider it a matter of class pride to make himself
a distributor of this booklet, issued by the Ma
tional Election Campaign Committee, 43 East
125th ST., New York. Since the committee has
accomplished the remarkable feat of pulling
the price down to ten cents, it ought to be pos
sible to give it enormous distribution, and our
lass will gain by every copy that is read by
worker.