The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
Defending Radio Stoolpgeonsm in the Name Of Debs-
g The Latest Infamy Of Socialist Party Leaders

workers is the latest slogan OF The New Leader organ
the socialist party.
WEVD the radio station erected to the memory OF Gene
Debs allowed R. oBren to defend the conquest of Mica
thru its boadcasng apparatus recently and The New
Leader for February compliments the management and
marks:
"The station is living up its claim that all opinions
expressed through and it the only station in this
country of which this be said"
oBren is professional stoopgeon and agentovocateur
of the lowest type Leader claims that ne spoke for the
American Legion this only that Brlen has
attached himself organization because offers nm
an opportunity get its backing for his soogeon activities
In 1e2o2l OBrien acting police nformer among the
Republicans and in such organizations OF revolutionary
American Labor League At the hegnt OF the
prosecutions which followed the during the crisis
by the Wall Street explosion and the attempt OF Wa
J. Burns to use for prosecutions OBen connected
with and speaking such anabor organizations as the Con-
sutiona League the National Security League ETC.
shrekng for the falling and deportation OF all work
did the arrests and the open hop oe
blessing.
Varney the miserable degenerate who left the W. W. became
spy and who specialized in turning over irish ana
Hindu revoutionists to the British authorities
From time to time O'Bren tried to set himself in
business as the head of independent sopgeon but
these attempts apparently not successful since ne
the agent OF some estapsneo spy
land propaganda agency
The body of Debs the grand old fighter bounded by
soogeons day of his DEATH must have turned over IN MS
the voice of professional povoateur went out from the
station which Many crimes have been committed
in the speech but this latest action of the socialist
party bureaucracy only crime against the working class
insult the OF Deb and TO every WORKING CLASS
fighter living and dead.
By process reasoning does The New Leader arrive
at the that allow known stoopgeon to use the
radio station defend the OF Nicaragua and the
murder Nicaraguans by Wall Street imperialism is service
to the who must make against imperaist war?
From every other the United States with the
possible exception the station of the Chicago Federation of
Labor go speeches uphong Wall Street and its Government in
their bloody mperaistic Ncaraguan adventure the DeDs
station anything else than camouflaged adjunct OF the lmpe
ras propaganda apparatus IS It's duty to na no
the task of workngclass institutions IN
situations devotion to free speech in the abstract
their capacity their to counteract the flood OF
imperiaist propaganda
bureaucrats WEVD permitted
lowest varieties of stoopgeon justify the Nicaragua
and of Wall Street being from the station that
the the revouonist who served three years
Atlanta for his opposition to imperialst war.
If the socialist party leadership puts speech the
strS before struggle against mperast then they will
calmly allow recruiting appeals be broadcased This will clnch
still further their claim be he only sincere advocates of free
speech"
The right of way given to OBren the professional stool
pigeon by radio station which claims have workngcass
for the purpose of strengthening Wall Streets
Is nauseatino incident but no accident II is an in
abe indication of what is to be expected from the socialist
party leadership the plans of American Imperialism
and the begin mobilize for against them
Masking themselves with pacst and democratic phrases
these socialist leaders will act agents of the mperiaist
machine The OBen incident and the shameless
action by New Leader while little imperiast
progress But the with the navy
Imperialism in Nicaragua the little preliminary training
big The recent exercise in radio oopigeonism by the
socialist party leaders while this t war goes on is setting
up fit them for ambitious efforts when the big
breaks out.
Debs station either be rescued from
ANperiaisms Socialists exposed camoufaged Wall
Propaganda outpost
Stoolpigeonism of Debs should
workers still accept the leadership of the socialist party
stern protest against the of the glorious Debs tradition by
socialist working