The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-15
BY HARRY CANNES.

The counter-resolution shows more sstuteness
in blindfolding the workers. Its trainers know
that the vast majority of the workers through
out the world have their eyes glued on the Five
Year Plan and what is going on in the Soviet
Union They know that the capitalist press is
rife with discussions on Communism VS. Capital
isnn-based on the visible decay of capitalism and
the advance of socialist construction in the So
Wet Union The question for them is how to
utilize the inescapable facts for the advance of
socialist poison in the United States
The opposing" resolution starts off with some
unusual admissions that will never get by the
fine-sieved minds of the ruling powers in the So
cialist party. 1t admits that the US.S.R sis
q workers government" that Its economy is
based on the elimination of private ownership
and private profits Of the means of production
end distribution; its economic system is found
ed upon planned production for use" But why
these admissions? The resolution answers very
clearly on this point--"for furthering the spread
Of socialism in the United States"
Of course, there are many questions the back
ers of this resolution overlook, for which Hill
quit and others, during the course of the dis
cussion, sharply called them to task. Don't
forget" said Eiquit his shrewd lawyers coun-
tenancc screwed up for emphasis his finger ex-
citedly agiatng the air, Don't forget, the Five
Year Plan is advancing under Communist lead
ership 1t is the success of the Communist
philosophy and not the socialist"
Hanging in the Air.
The dilemma was not solved. Both resolutions
hang in the air, since no vote was taken on them.
Meanwhile the New Leader bubbles with excite
ment over solution of the question: How shall
the socialists recognize and acknowledge the adj
vantage to the workers in the Soviet Union and
throughout the world of the advance of the Five
Year Plan and use it to the advantage of the
socialist party betrayals? The main resolution
says it can't be done Its sponsors reasoning is:
Keep your mouth shut about the five-year plan,
and aid the preparation for intervention against
the Soviet Union by screechng for free speech
and against terror"
The Mail Bag"
The discussion in the socialist press can be
summed up by few quotations. 1t all falls into
two patterns, along the lines of the two resolu-
tions. The fact that the greater portion Of it
is for revision" of the socialist attitude shows
their need of new weapons with which to baln-
boozle the workers. For instance McAllster
Coleman, who is not exactly rank and filler
but is closer to ONeal, Hillquit, Norman Thomas
and their Xix than William Green's belly is to
s,e floor when he greets Hoover, sums up the
former position OF the socialists as follows;
Il now find myself cheek by jowl with Ham
Fish. Matt Vol, Ralph Easley, Archie Steven
son and other persons highly obnoxious to me
and with whom have had little to do as
possible. 1 do not like my new bed-fellows.
resent being forced to occupy the same room
with them and I have the sneaking suspicion
that my resentment is shared by large ma
jority Of the socialist party who like myself
have preserved decent silence up to now"
It is not McAlister's nodesty that makes him
cry out when he is caught in bed with Easley
Fish and VOL, but he is afraid when the cover
is thrown off completely his shame will be too
widely known among the workers. So he pleads:
"The sooner we dig out of this mess into
which we have been led by a little group Of
6issyuxAled and discredited prophets, soge b.