The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-04
The 'fProIetarian" Part,
Joins the Mt4rbhy>Ford
Front
BY WIN. REYNOLDS

kOtt many years. Ine So-cAlled ~EFOHe&MgSNM
Party" has been leading quiet inconspdciosg
existence in Detroit delivering abstract lectures
wherein ex-storekeepers and realtors explained
with great profundity that Marxism was the
key to understanding society but that any re-
evolutionary action at this period was adyen-
turism And that they, the true believers would
lead the workers out of the wilderness Of wage
slavery when the time was ripe for action.
AS the crisis deepened, as the class struggle
Sharpened, as tens of thousands Of workers be-
come disillusioned with the promises OF HooveR
and Ford, and with MWphy's demagogy cha
Proletarian Party began to lay the basis Tor
active leadership In the Social Fascist 'front.' OF
the bosses.
This preparation took the form OF sidicuSang
the efforts Of the Unemployed Councils to get
unemployed relief thru demonstrations, hunger
marches and other struggles. The Proletaria1
Party wanted a method as safe as selling SUBJ
division lots to workers, deluded with prosperity
bunk, and they proceeded to organize Unem-
ployed Forums with the consent OF the bosses
In Flint, the Proletarian Party's safe and sane
law and order unemployed forums" function
With the full consent Of the thug Scavarda.
while all Communist activities meet with the
most extreme terror. Similarly he butcher Clyde
Ford Mayor of Dearborn welcomes tho Pro-
letarian Party into tle G5-,ccl houses to talk
but meets the Hunger MarcherS, I'D by Com
munists, who came to demand food with ma.
chine guns. The agents of Ford and General
Motors can distinguish between talk and action,
even though some honest workers in the Prole-
tartan Party are still fooled by left phrases
The Proletarian Party is united with the most
reactionary A. F. of L. bureaucracy and through
them with the bosses. We see this in a recent
issue of the A. F. of L. rag, the Flint Weekly
Review" wherein full-page attack on the Sow
let Union Is thanked by ads from every General
Motors Unit and the front page carries an an
nouncement that AL Renner, Realtor "Comn1u-
mist" or Communist" Realtor, will talk on un.
employment. The Proletarian- Weekly News the
same week carries the boast that the Proletarian
Party and the A. F. of L. are working har-
moniously Sure! Why not9
We see this orientation in the Social Fascist
front by the harmonious participation of the
Party in the pacifist meeting along
with the socialist party and the pacifist Berg
man. Since when have Communists and revo-
tionists been pacifists. 1t remained for a Com
munist to expose these preachers, professors,
P. P. takers and non-resisters Of the Gandm
type.
The Proletarian Party united front extended
all the way to Mayor Walker and Governor
Rolph when at a trial" of Tom Mooney in the
Cas- High Auditorium the Proletarian Party
leaders refused announcement that Mother
Mooney would speak at the same place few
days later. Such tripe fits easily into the role
Of Oxman, Ffckert and Estele Smith and they
are the bearers Of the Mooney persecution in
real life.
How luckily these renegades, publicly and un-
masked, repudated everything Communist when
the class war famed forth in the Ford massacre
and then, as quickly though secretly recanted
when the workers with mass fury turned ter
rifle offensive upon the murderers and all their
lackeys, including the Proletarian Party.
Keep away from our dead roared the workers
to the Proletarian Party at the meeting Of the
workers organizations to arrange the mass
funeral, and in the silence one could hear the
Tapping OF vultures' wings
But the glaring example of the service of these
political prostitutes came when the pale acade-
mic takers Of the Proletarian Party step from
the cuass room and lecture platform and oblig-
ingly take Grand Circus Park on the great day
OF revolutionary struggle, May Day CN1ay Ffrst>
to accommodate Mayor Murphy, the A. r. OF L.
the American Legion and the bosses in their
attempt to keep militant workers from demon
strating.
The Unemployed Councils and the Auto
Workers Union, under the leadership Of the
Communist Party, smashed Murphy's attemps
to deny the workers the use Of Grand Circus
Park last ..ovember. Now these agents. spout
ers Of the radical phrase, step forward as Police
Commissioner Watkins leaders of revolutionary
May Day. No doubt MIR. Hoovers Child Wei
fare" the American Legion and the socialist
party will have their spokesman.
The Proletarian Party is the Pink Pimpie6
rash on the corrupt body OF developing Social
Fascisnl. 1t is the psuedo radical front OF the
crystallizng Murphy, A. F. Of L.. socialist party,
pacifist face Of American Imperialism Their
function is to fool the workers and deliver them
disarmed confused and helpless to the trenches
in the incorporating war.