The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
~ PAUL NOvICK
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hit is how tn preamble 10 III,
l.at1srnl Of the socialist party be
GINS.
We AMERICANS, in capital let
ters. Watch is July milne with tn
.>~rceselt situation IN "iaternational
SOCIALISM"
At the recent International social
1st congress at Bl1lsse.s, the STYLE
wss We Germans, we Frefshmen
We 6g'tishers. etc. When the "com.
rades' from Germany asked that tn.
congress adopt a resolution urging
1he withdrawal of French troops
from the Rhine territory eve
French" were against such a reso-
luton. Macdonald, on his recent
visit to Canada, was hailed by the
entire capitalist press. across the
border as "the builder of the British
empire" GIVE BRITISRERS."
Therefore-WE AMERICANS.
And there IS another reason for
beginning socialist" platform in
such international styles: The social
ist party, the party of Morris Hill
cult, Abe Cahan and Victor Berger.
has been trying very hard to con-
vince the Great American Public
including Matthew VOL, that it is
not a party OF foreigners" When
the socialists were holding their
nominating convention in New York
a truly lHa per cent American paper
Ike TIE Jewish Daily Forward kept
aos ing e the fact that there are
les foreigners" among the dele
tss han at previous. socialist con-
Helticss.
Foreigners" Dent. Count.
Yea ago, when De'is vas q lead
iils it in the socialist party and
whe raat party had a membership
Of ar hundred thousand, the
'f, isue,s" in the mines, mills and
S did count. In the days of
d S the socialist party was at war
VII re 400 per centers of the
American federation of Labor.
Nov. vine the handful that is left
g tn socialist parry has fully sue
cVmbed o the leadership of Morris
HIM that party Shas. become so
lcanized' thai the miners,
textile -gorkers. needle workers,
Traction workers and other "fcreign-
ef DO not count any longer. Only
TIE A2leficans court-Green, Vol,
Levi Betty, McGrady, etc.-WE
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X|EN the socialist party was
- mass party with a. revolutionist
ike Debs as it's standard bearer
thece was no need for putting
dericanism" to the front. A
mass party in America cannot be
anything else Int an American
patty. The workers, who dig coal,
Weave and prepare the textiles,
make the garments and run tire rail
roads and subways are Americans
not in tie jineoistic sense. They
are ne bGilders and the makers Of
America! TIE wills and their like
are mere -Amscica.' jingoists, Ameri-
ear supe1' patriots. It is because
the socia.is- party ceased to be a
barss sld because the only thing
Hft Of that party is the Forward
crowd in Kew York and she Berger
cro,ld IN Mily aukee, that that party
has b. -un S. sing its American
ISM. and it IS tacause instead of
the prnlctarian rebel Debs, the COR
por&tioa iawyat N6.Tis Hillquit is
thu lea1-og spirit o. he. party, that
tie p7rty has tprred 70 tie Ameri-
c7pisnl Of Matthew Voc
he ''ftordic" COr.ylex.
icy the, could The "true-Amer-
lean" SOC, ist parry Rave come out
IT s; n a1i1l? How could
IA IT, hat S aating from the hands
Of reaction 1r1es Of The american
F. alton of Lator l-4Ne co1ae out
lst the present aape ns.5riotic
a 4'ace-dl.cri.n4natinr inn igratiou
re- srTctions and in.r'ier9 ion quo
tGs?
nc EVER ii justice to the so
al els ist yarty arI ln0-ris tyirIu,t
We mus SIS e, Ch 5hSr czrt. par.
ti~l,lar is leader oisplaye6 d ten
ENC owalde r. nlsc44i..na on
as far ask s 1901. l. that yea
the mt rr.at' Ia ccislist congress
5r SrIttga,'t, Germany. took place.
There IL tt commission on iumi-
sr r. the America delegate had
asze1 i0r support m restricting the
INN gra hol Of yellow races to the
United States. The delegate name
YVES Hillquit
That support he d,d not get, how
egsc Those were tfz days of Kerr
HARDY Bebel. Iensa and Luxen-
burg. Two other dsi ecatea, Charles
Rappoport oe Franco and Eugene
Gieser o Inc Blud in Russia took
the stand again BilIquit and the
conf isslon sided with them Nj.
Hili7Uit had to g'~a IN mis- race dis
eliminating policy .and the national
committee Of the fsS'sEsr party Of
America was forced 10 DO likewise
after the protests o. Debs ard The
RANK and file Of he party.
f.R. HTLIQUlT'S sgand Tor restric-
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