The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-28
''Goo-G Goo" Socialists Offer Themselves

THE Good Government Goo-Goo) socialists, by their
admission have been asked by eXMayor John F. Hyan,
who found the socialist platform acceptable to give him
place on the proposed socalst-beralabor municipal
paign fvver The socialists claim speaking for the liberal
and the abor elements of the combination that Hylan
was given polite rap the knuckes that he was def
ntey repealed" by the "GOo-Goo leaders, who claim they
could find nothing satisfactory in his record Tammany
mayor.
Yet there nothing in the socialist program that Hyan,
Walker LaGuardia any other capitalist politician could
accept platform which to ride into the city hail.
The socialists at building third bourgeois party separate
from republican and democratic parties demanding city
ownership and operation of public service enterprises and
third chat the candidates must have reputation Tor public
service which would the people that they would give
the city cleaner administration than New York has under
Tammany rule Philadelphia Chicago has under repub
lcan rule
All of which presented under the seal of the socialist
party headquarters East Fifteenth Street. and counter
signed by Marx Lewis executive secretary and only serves
recall the odous memories of the William Randolph
Hearss Independence League of 1909 organized after the
yellow newspaper publisher in his pamiest political election
eerng days had been defeated for 1905 demo
cratic candidate running municipal ownership ticket
But it is not necessary to go back more than of
years find duplicate of the regime that socialists
promising New York labor and to place the Hearst
label to which entitled At about the time that the
ballot boxes being thrown into the East River and
Hearst declared defeated in 1909 socialist administration
being ushered into power in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1910) and the socialists have remained less in
power there SINCE nearly 20 years And there they
stand The googoo socialist administrators of Milwaukee,
and Milwaukee county, and Victor Bergers legislators
the state capitol although he has lost his job
gresham in Washington. Even the municipal ownership
of the socialists dead letter Labor unorganzed in
few other American cities The big capitalist interests
satisfied with their socialist politicians who do not interfere
with their business for their profits.
1t is clearly that among the three points raised
by the socialists in New York the basis for the soaed
socialistberallabor unity mention made of the bit
ter struggle raging between the workers and the expote
between the capitalist class and the working class. This
is in harmony with the socialist parys program, that
jecs the class struggle but at the time actually joins
with the capitalists the struggle against the workers.
They headoverheals in the class struggle but the
side of the exploiters
The Communist Party alone raises the standards of the
workers in the New York municipal campaign for work
ing class program the questions of transit, housing
schools police brutality recreation and other problems The
working class approach to all of these problems made
the perfect understanding that they cannot be solved under
capitalist rule. Thus the municipal campaign becomes
mobilization for the greater struggle to win all power from
the capitalist power that rules against the workers. for
the destruction of that power and the triumph of the rule of
the working class