The daily worker., 1930-10-23
HOW THE SOCIALIST PARTY
WAS ACCEPTED INTO THE
FAMILY OF CAPITALISM

No, the socialist" party must not die! The
manufacturers and their press were deter
mined,
The friendship made during the fights on
the left wing-Matthew Woll acted as the go
between when necessary-grew into love- The
fruits appeared in full bloom during the 1928
election campaign. Norman Thomas, who
never had much of a chance before and who
was considered by the Socialists" an unlucky
preacher that had entered the party on black
Friday in order to bring the daily New Leader
into an early grave and the socialist vote
to its lowest ebb, suddenly was raised on stills.
Norman Thomas was discovered" by the capi-
talist press. The Socialists" realized that
daily paper of their own, something for which
they struggled from the beginning of this CEN
tury up to 1924, was just one of them" young
and foolish ideas Why, the capitalist papers
Love Grows Stronger.
The further the parties of the second inter-
national, of Zoerbiebel and Macdonald, had
sunk, the more they suppressed the revolution
ary workers and colonial peoples with blood
and iron, the stronger grew the love of Amer
lean capitalism for the socialist" party. The
once hated name, socialist" the name that
was about to be discarded by that party at
one of its conventions only several years ago,
began producing quite different sounds, sounds
of delight and hope
Ask any manufacturer, particularly a small
manufacturer, for his opinion on the Social
ist' party and he will tell you that the party
is COX" with him. If he will not be voting
for that party, he will be happy to see his
workers vote for it, if they will. consider
able vote of the Socialist" party this year
will come from manufacturers and all kinds of
exploiters. This Socialist party is openly
the third party of capitalism, the more lib
eral" party.
Comparisons.
Compare the platform of Roosevelts Bull
Moose Party of 1912 with the present platform
of the socialist" party, and you will find no
difference. 1t any, it will prove that the
party of the arch-faker Roosevelt was more
militant and spoke more of the "poor people"
than the socialist" party does.
Officially, the socialist" party has discard
ed the worker. Mr.. Waldman, Socialist" can
didate for governor of New York, in his "mes-
sage" printed in the booklet Campaign Issues
of $780," published by the Socialist party
does not even pretent to talk to the workers,
as class, to represent the workers. 1t talks
of the people, as Roosevelt did, as the repub-
icans and democrats do. Of course, it tries
to fool the workers into voting for the social
lists" With the publicity obtained in the capi-
talist press it reaches the workers who still
read that press and who until now were vot-
ing for the democrats or republicans. But
so do the old parties try to get the workers
vote in the name of the people"
Respectable Now.
The Socialist" party has become respectable.
The weekly New Leader, official Socialist"
paper, does not use the word "comrade," as
the old Call did. 1t is "Mr. Thomas" and "Mr.
Broun." That in1becile, Abraham Cahan, ed
itor of the socialist" organ, the Jewish Daily
Forward labelled above) writes on the front
page of that paper October 18:
"The most intelligent and best Americans
come to our party"
"Once the rule 1Uas: Socialists are for
eigners real Americans haze nothing to do
1oith the socialist party.
Times change, and rules charge.
"The hUely campaign noW conducted By
the socialist party is distinguished by the
lively interest. real Americans take in that
campaign. These are mostly representatives
of the American Observation-Disclosures,
progressive people, the best class of people,
IN the best sense of that word-the cream
of America
"The best the American nation possesses
is participating in our agitation, is helping
Nth word and deed, spiritually and fin
oncially
In the entire front page "box" not once the
WOTu WOTkeTS Is HleHLlOIleu. rOT ADTdndm
Cahan of Pedberedze, went in for "real Amer
icans,' for "the best class of people!"
The name of the Socialist" party is sooth-
ing to the wounds of capitalism. With the two
old parties utterly discredited, with the pillars
of capitalist society shaken by crisis the
Socialist" party provides consolation. Every
manufacturer will tell you that there is still
some hope as long as there is socialist"
party. For, look what blessing the social-dem-
ocracy was to German capitalism
Is there any wonder that the organs of Wall
Street, the Times, Herad-Tribune and the
other metropolitan papers, as we'll as the mag
azine american Business World" organ of
the open shop manufacturers sing their praise
for Broun and Thomas, Vladeck and Panken?
The socialist" party is boss party. The
working class has but one Party, the Commu-
mist Party. Smash all capitalist parties Vote
Communist November 4th