The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

class betray al. The leadership of the
A. F. of L. does not conduct any
struggle against wage scuts or for
higher wages and shorter hours. The
trade-union bureaucracy sabotages
the great task of organizing the I'M
organized. The worthy heirs of Com
per-Green, Vol and Co--are the adj
vocates of the Monroe Doctrine of
Labor" are the Spokesman of a Ga
Dor imperialism" They have come
out openly for a policy of common
exploitation of all Latin-American
peoples by the capitalists and work
ers of the United States. The B. and
0. plan, the Mitten plan, compulsory
arbitration, the transformation of the
trade unions into semi-Fascist and
semi-company unions-is today the
policy of the A. F. of L. These cor
rupt misleaders of labor are helping
to keep the workers in the camp of
the old capitalist parties by main
tanning the sterile and treacherous
policy of Reward your friends and
punish your enemies" within the cap
italist parties. There cannot be a
successful revolutionary mass move
ment of the working class in America
without smashing the whole edifice
of the labor aristocracy and its cor
rupt bureaucratic leadership.
The Socialist Party of America,
which still claims to be a working
class party, is in fact party of the
lower middle class. It's leadership
has become part of the bureaucracy
of the A. F. of L. It's whole ambition
is to inherit the traditions of the La
Toilette third-party movement. The
militant spirit of Eugene Debs has
been completely wiped out from the
Socialist Party. In Wisconsin the
Socialist Party is an official party of
the capitalist administration. In New
York the Socialist Party has substi-
tuted the red-white and blue flag of
patriotism for the red flag of revolu-
ton. In Reading the city officials of
the Socialist Party have pledged
themselves to understand that their
responsibilities will be those of CAPT
talist officials rather than of Social
list Party members" James H. Maur-
er, one of the councilmen elected by
the Socialists in Reading and Vice
presidential candidate of the Social
list Party, declared: eve are going to
give the workers a typical working
class government, but if there is a
strike in Reading while we are in
power, the capitalist employer will
have his property and life protected
as never he had it before
The Presidential candidate of the
Socialist Party, Norman Thomas, i,
the worst kind of pacifist, a typical
Preacher, who performs the greatest
service for Mexican imperialism by
creating illusions about the League
of Nations, about the possibility of
preventing wars by peaceful means.
The Socialist Party today is an ad-
vocate of the League of Nations, and
is a supporter of the hypocritical
peace offensive" of Secretary of
State Kellogg. The Socialist Party
is uttering some critical phrases
about the war in Nicaragua not be-
cause it is an imperialist war in the
interests of Wall Street but only be-
cause it is unauthorized and INSANE
toned by the people or Congress-"
The Socialist Party of today is for
the protection of capitalist law and
order, is against revolution, is against
the working class government of So
Wet Russia, and supports every meas
ure of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy for
class collaboration. The Socialist
Party has transformed its party or
ganization from membership or
ganization into ward organization
of voters. 1t has shifted its class
basis from a working class entirely
and definitely to the lower middle
class. The last national convention
of the Socialist Party in April, 1928,
went so far as to drop the class strug-
gle pledge that applicants for men,
bership had to sign in the past.
The small sects, the Socialist Labc,
Party and the Proletarian Party have
become completely fossilized, and do
not play any role in the political life
of the country or in any of the strug-
giles of the working class.
The Workers Communist Party
is today the only real revolutionary
working-class party. 1t is the sole
party which has a program for the
workers and working farmers. 1t is
the only party which conducts re-
lentless struggle against capitalism,
against the old parties of the bosses
and against the corrupt labor bureau
crazy and the treacherous Socialist
Party.
The Workers Communist Party is
the party of the class struggle. 1t is
the deadly enemy of class collabora-
ton because it is the deadly enemy
of capitalism. The Workers Commu-
mist Party is the champion of the in
terests Of the working class and the
working farmers. It is the advo-
cate Of the most exploited stratum of