The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-28
Mr.. Hillquit Puts On His Police Uniform

This an episode in the struggle of the working class
with the capitalist class and its auxiliary organization the
Socialist Party the leader of which, Morris Hlout is the
direct agent in causing the indictment and arrest of the
editors of the Communist press.
AS stoolpigeon at work under cover" in the labor
movement in his profession of betrayng the workers. when
once he is exposed police agent will then put ON his
police uniform to continue his trade in the open-ust so
Mr. Morris Hllquit the socialist leader has been com
PEELED to come out before the whole working class as an
open police agent of the capitalist class
Mr. Hlquit, of course cannot be considered merely as
an individual but is the head and the symbol Socialist
Party. When he appeared complaining witness before
the New York County Grand Jury to testify against the
editors OF the two largest Communist papers-t in
reality the Socialist Party which wildly revealed its true
character as another arm of the ruling capitalist along
with the police in the suppression of the working class We
do not mean to imply that the Socialist Pary usefulness to
the American bourgeoe an end with this one ex
posre the contrary the class struggle continues to
sharpen and the rehabilitation of the proetaran masses
proceeds the capitalist class and needs and
and will the services such sociarefomist Or
CARNATIONS of treason within the working class This is
not the first but of open actions the Socialist
Party OF this country in the outright police role Another
case OF the kind was the despicabe action 1920 when
after the red raids in which thousands of Detroit workers
were thrown into JAIL Seymour Stedman Cater Socialist
Party candidate for vcepresden learned of the criminal
charges against the workers of advocating the
throw of the u s. and rushed to Detroit to file
duplicate charges in civil suit to obtain for the Socialist
Party the club house property of the Communist workers
And ever rapidly such have piled up in the stg
giles of the needle trades workers in New York and else
where. We remember the promise made publicly bv the
Socialist Party in the Albany trials to support war of the
United States mperat government against the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics and do forget the Socialist
Parys support of the League of Nations The Socialist
Party still will play many times and larger SCALE
the role of open betrayer of the working class
The exposure of the teacherous role of these vutures
In the labor movement of the important tasks
of the workers revolutionary press.
The Program of the Communist International recently
adopted at the Sixth World Congress of the International
gives the analysis of this phenomenon of paralysis of the
labor movement by the bourgeose working through the
socialist and trade union bureaucratic agencies amongst
the workers After describing the revolutionary forces lead
ing to the overthrow of the capitalist GLASS; the program
says:
However this fundamental revolutionary tendency is tenn
poany paralysed by the fact that certain sections
pn North American and Japanese proleara bribed by
the imperials bougeOe and by the reahery
bouseoise in the semioOnal and colonial
scared by the revolutionary bourgeoe in
imperial countries which additional surplus
profits position it holds in the world market (more
developed technques capital higher
rate Of profit etc. and from the proceeds its plumber the
own workers out Of these surplus profits thus giving
workers interest in the development home
the plumber of the colonies being imperial
list states This systematic bribery being
pacced in the most powerful mpaist
most striking theology practice the
labor aristocracy and the bureaucratic working
class l. the social democratic
proved to be the direct of
the proletarat and sawar pillars of the system.
by stimulating the Of upper
OF the working class however, imperialism
its influence the working growing
tradctions of Imperialism worsening conditions
the broad the among
the proletariat the of military conflicts
burdens they entail the fact that certain
monopolsc position in the world market the breakaway
the
the
Throughout the whole world the exposure of the yellow
Socialist parties and the yellow trade union bureaucracy
must now be carried before Such honest work
may still be deuded by these Socialist leaders
be made to that by supporting such agents of the capital
list class they berayng their class Especially
with the rapidly sharpening contradictions of the capitalist
world system with the rapid development of the mood for
struggle the part of the working Glass; with the approach
Of the coming mperast with the tremendous duties of
revolutionary action the part of the working cass is
necessary to reveal to the workers the character of these