The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-14
S. P. BETRAYER OF
LABOR, WORKERS
PARTY CHARGES
Scores Socialist" Con-
ventiOn Here

tions, police, courts, jails, etc, a
struggle against the agents of the
coal operators in the miners union
the Lewis machine.
In this struggle the Workers (Com-
munist) Party is putting in every
ounce of its energy and all its or
ganized strength. In this struggle
every honest and militant worker is
lining up behind the Save-the-Union
movement which organizes and leads
the fight of the miners against the
operators and the Lewis machine.
Where is the socialist party as
party and its leadership lined up?
They are lined up behind Lewis and
against the miners. Their support,
as much or as little as it is worth,
goes in the last instance to the coal
operators. Because the socialist par
ty opposition to the Save-the- Union
movement means support for the
Lewis machine. Because support of
the Lewis machine means support for
the coal operators.
The days are gone by when the So
cialist party had in the miners union
militant and progressive fighters.
Most of these militant workers are
today outside the socialist party
They are either in the ranks of the
Workers Party or are closely collab-
Grating with the Communists in the
Save the Union movement which
leads the struggles of the miners. The
few socialists in the miners union
that may still be in the socialist par
ty and yet are lined up with the pro-
gressives, are doing so against the
policies of the socialist party and IN
opposition to the wishes Of its lead
ership.
Then examine the record Of the So
cialist party in another important
struggle of the workers, the glor-
ious fight of the masses in the nee
die trades.
Here also the masses have been
struggling against the offensive of
the employers supported by the agen-
cies of capitalist government, among
theln the governor of New York,
&ifred Smith. Here, as in the min
is. the rank and file rose up against
he reactionary bureaucracy, the
agents Of the bosses in the union, and
Under the leadership of the left wing,
proceeded to fight the employers.
And who is that reactionary bur-
eaucracy in the needle trades that
fights in alliance with the employers
against the workers? These bureau
Gratis are leading members of the So
cialist party. These socialist" lead
ers in the needle trades, who once
upon a time stood upon the platform
of the class struggle, who were diff
ferent from the reactionaries of the
old Gompers machine, are now the
same as the reactionary gang IN the
American Federation of Labor, are
completely merged with them.
Here, too, the socialist party and
its leadership are lined up behind the
treacherous union officials and the
employers. The left wing and the
Communists are leading the workers
against the employers.
Lackeys Of Capitalism on Political
Field.
Proceeding from the record of the
Socialist Party in The struggles of the
masses in individual industries to its
role in the struggles of the American
working class as a whole, on such |
burning issues as unemployment, |
Imperialism, the war danger, the de-
tense Of the Soviet Union, the La
Dor Party, etc.-what do we find?
Nearly five million workers and |
their families are suffering the |
agonies of unemployment. Millions of +,
this unemployed army have become
permanently dislocated from industry
due to basic changes in American |
capitalist economy and fundamental
crises in several basic industries. The
Increasingly sharpening contradictions
of world and American capitalism are
bound to-. produce crisis for which
there is no other solution save the !
overthrow of the capitalist system
and the establishment of a workers
and farmers government.
The Workers (Communist) Party is |
educating and organizing the toiling
masses in the struggle for such gov
eminent. The Socialist Party is
lining up behind the ruling class in
favor of the existing capitalist demo
cracy" and against the working class
democracy of a Soviet System of
government.
The Workers (Communist) Party, |
in cooperation with all the militant, |
left wing and progressives, is organ
izing councils of unemployed. These |
organizations are modifying the un-
employed masses and leading them in
struggle against the employers and
against the government for i'm
mediate unemployment relief.
The Socialist Party wages no real |
struggle against American imperial
ism, as is seen from it's position on
Wall Streets war in Nicaragua. The
Socialist Party accepts American i'm
perialism. 1t only wishes to make the
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