The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
THE SOCIALISTS"
HELP THEBOSSES
BY MAX KAGAN
Serving in Milwaukee Socialist" jaiD

THE sharpening of class antagonisms, due to
the economic crisis more than ever exposes
the fascist role of the socialist party, its unity
with the bosses and its police government in
its attacks on the workers who refuse to ac-
cept quietly, increasing unemployment, wage
cuts, speed-up and longer hours te
Five hundred workers of Seaman Body
Corp. are threatening to go out on strike
against another wage cut. A shop gate meet
ing was held there last week at which the
Party and T.U.U.L. speakers presented fight
ing demands The slogans of no wage cuts
but wage increase, no speed-up, unemployment
insurance, join the Auto Workers Union OF the
T.U.U.L., etc., were greeted with fine spirits.
few DAYS later, AL Benson, '1eft' social
list fascist appealed to these workers to be
peaceful, not to go on strike. HMr. Seaman
(the boss) is good fellow" said Benson Hell
give you square deal" When he was asked
about the last wage cut and the lay offs, Ben
son let loose long TRADE against the Com
munst Party and left the meeting in Acharge
of the police who quickly dispersed the crowd.
The brutal beating of Labor Defender"
agent by the socialist controlled Amalgamated
Clothing Workers gang when he came to their
meeting with Labor Defenders" is another
lesson to the workers of Milwaukee as to the
Shop gate meetings by the PartylT. U. U. L.
and the /. L. D. being broken up and speakers
arrested, has been common event in this
stronghold of socal-fascism and its main
spokesman, Business Booster Mayors Hoan-
At one of the meetings. in front of the Inter-
national Harvester, Al Benson came along in
time to see our speakers arrested as soon as
they mounted the platform. When Benson got
up to speak, he shook hands with the police,
saying he was for 'free speech" and was
sorry" the Communists did not get this free
DOM" He was booed by the workers and most
of them walked away.
The workers of Milwaukee will never forget
the unity of the socialist party with the bosses
and the police on March 6. The demonstration
was brutally attacked by the socialist police"
Negro and white workers, women and children
were dubbed and arrested, while the socialist
party in the person of Mayor Hoan (Hokum)
rebuked the police for "having been too lenient
with the workers." The raid on the Com
munist Party headquarters and the arrest of
68 workers, including the leaders of the de-
monstration was highly gratifying to socialist
Thurber head of the Federated Trades Coun-
Gil The social-fascists, bosses and police Choir
used in unison: "Thats the end of the Com
munsts in Milwaukee No more meetings, no
workers was-huge demonstrations on May 1,
August 1, August % and September 1.
Thus the workers are learning from life the
lesson of betrayals by the social-fascists. The
workers who still follow the socialist party
are fast being disillusioned also.
The capitalist united front of the socialist
party against the militant advance of the
workers brings out the social-fascists in their
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system The peaceful" revolution by means
of the ballot advocated by the socialist party
means peace for capitalism, force to be used
against the workers and poor farmers when
they refuse to submit to starvation. .s
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farmer labor party having taken at first too
general character. The Communist Party
has succeeded in filing it's State and four
Congressional candidates with double the num-
Der of signatures required, two weeks before
the close of filing. In September, tours were
conducted by the candidate for governor, by
Rudolph Harju, candidate for U. S. Senator,
and by Mother Ella Bloor. Tours have already
been arranged for October, covering especially
Western and Southern Minnesota, territory
never before touched by the Party. Organza-
tionally, the campaign so far has not brought
cofi facfn fc L. Tee.