The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
BY JOHN PEPPER.


socialist party of America.
We have to believe it, because nc
less an authority than McAI.stel
Coleman, socialist candidate fol-
United States senator from New
York, so announces.
WI the bic news VIII -,les
the spokesman cf the socialist party
so jubilant and causes their outburst
about the Renaissance" of the mort
bund socialist party? Mr.. McAllis.
ter Coleman is not stingy with his
words, and breaks the good news:
"For Frederick Vanderbilt Field,
descendant of one of the worlds
richest men, joined the socialist
party a week ago and in the man
ner with which he is pitching in.
there is something of the old capt.
talist's and financier's swift
paced organizing ability"
The young millionaire, who is be-
ing feted by the socialists as a
great statesman, must have gathered
much political knowledge and politi-
cal experience, since he is already
as the friendly and over-joyous Mr.
Coleman tells US twenty-three
years old and has studied four
years at Harvard and had not less
Than one whole year Of travel in
Europe.
There is a real Renaissance" of
The socialist party. Workers are get
ting very scarce around the head
cua. ters of the honorable and re-
spectacle followers of the Second In
ternational, but what does that mat
ter? The sins : fact that "descen-
dant of one of the worlds richest
men" Joined the socialist party will
make up for the running away of
lousands of workers from the
worthy fold.
The socialist party is a lucky
Uunch. Mr.. Coleman tells US, terror
-tr'cken, of the narrow escape the
0alist party had with the young
anderbilt Field. The young man
studied in Great Britain, and did
not make up his mind until the last
minute whether to join the demo.
cratic or the socialist party. We
cannot resist the urge to quote Mr..
c., ans own words:
when he started back to Amer
lea, he had a first-rate economic
equipment and a letter from a
Smith liberal to some one at
democratic headquarters here.
Luckily for the socialists and I'M
y for them. the dem o~:.'jc
workers whom he met did not
strike him as being one whit more
liberal than their republican fell
low-workers across the way. He
says that he went home and slept
over the matter and the next
morning awoke."
= so he became a socialist!
Who dares after all this deny the
correctness of the statement that
there is genuine renaissance of the
socialist party? And Mr.. Coleman
assures US that "going in and out
of headquarters, not only in New
York, but in Kansas City, Chicago
and Los Angeles, as well, are young
sters who think and act very much
like young Field" Mr.. Coleman as
sures us-and we can we'll believe
him, for, as he asserts in the same
article, he "is not exactly senile"--
there is genuine prospect of the
socialist party becoming a party of
young millionaires.
But our fairness compels us to
tell the workers of the steel mills,
textile towns, and coal mines that,
desp,te the feet that tie socialist
party is fast becoming a party of
young nj onairrs, there is still real
democracy in the socialist party
The inimitabler Mr.. Coleman relates
in his narrative:
To-day he carries the red card
of membership in the socialist
party. which he Joined last week,
pays his fifty cents monthly dues.
and is addressed as 'comrade' nv
needle workers, house painters and
machinists."
Certainly there is no other party
in this country which can offer such
an attraction TO pricked- fingered
needle workers, paint-besmeared
house painters, and greasy machin-
lists as that of buying for fifty cents
. monthly dues the privilege Of ad.
dressing a Vanderbilt (mind you, a
genuine, living, gilt-edged Wander
bilt) as "comrade."
Mr.. Norman Thomas, the former
preacher who, on the side. is the
presidential candidate of the social
list party today, in one Of his cam
paign leaflets calls upon the rich
youngsters;
Even if it hurts your wealthy
friends to be criticized hy Your
yrte. vote for the socialist party"
Young Vanderbilt Field is the first
result of the urgent appeal of Mr.
Thomas end his fellow socialist lead
ers for the support of the young
70 alton of millionaires. We dc
not know how much Fl ncial aid
that support will mean to the So
cialist party, but certainly young
Vanderbilt Field will not be stingy
lie knows vcsy well that the social.