The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03


published in the Daily Worker for
Nov. A., it is stated in reference
to social legislation and the labor
aristocracy (the analogy between
tbs high wages of skilled and priv
legged workers making up the A. F.
Of L. unions during the boom period
is not exact but is close enough to
serve as striking comparison)
"These achievements functioned
as a sort of sluice mechanism
through which, in a falling labor
market, the employed and firmly
organized part of the working
class enjoyed graduated, but
nevertheless considerable advan-
tage compared with the unem-
ployed and fluctuating masses of
the lower categories and were
relatively protected against the
full effects Of unemployment and
the generally critical situation of
their standard of living. The
political frontier between social
democracy and Communism runs
almost exactly along the social
and economic line of this sluice
dam, and all the efforts of Com
munism, which, however, have SO
far been in vain, are directed to-
wards forcing a breach into the
protected sphere of the trade
unions (Our emphasis)
This is clear and requires no addi-
tional comemnt except to say that
the effect of the social democratic
betrayalS on the masses and the
heroic struggles led by the German
Communist Party are now forcing
a breach in this fertilization of
capitalist reaction.
A FURTHER COMPARISON
Another quotation from the same
source is equally interesting and
important.
There are four important con-
illusions resulting from this an
alysis: - The policy of the
lesser evil' Gin this country I'M
employment insurance by states
because of the constitutional
difficulties" allegedly facing fed
eral insurance-B.D.) is not tao
tic, it is the political content of
social democracy. % The tying
OF the trade union bureaucracy to
the State ''from above" is more
constraining than the tying of the
trade union bureaucracy to the
social democracy, and applies to
every bourgeois State which
wishes to tie the trade union bu-
reaucracy to itself. 81 The tying
OF the trade union bureaucracy
to the social democracy stands
and falls with parliamentarism.
~ The possibility of liberal
social constitution of monopoly
capitalism is determined by the
existence of an automatic mech
anism which disrupts the work
ing class. A bourgeois State
based on liberal bourgeois con-
stitution must not only be par
Hamentary, it must rely for sup
port on the social democracy
and allow the social democracy
adequate achievements: (Hence
the clamor of Thomas and the
Socialist Party for a place in the
sun; hence his insistence upon
the preservation of capitalist
democracy and his warnings of
the dangers to it; hence Hillquit's
mailing of state unemployment in
surance as step to Social
ism.-B. d. bourgeois-e regime
which destroys these achieve
,nents Tor prevents them-B.D.)
must sacrifice social democracy
and INSTRUMENTATION, must Gre
ate a substitute. for the social
democracy and must go over to
a restricted social constitution"
(Our emphasis)
FURTHER INTO THE
CAPITALIST CAMP
The step that has been taken by
the Socialist Party is not in the
direction of the working class, but
toward capitalism. 1t is now com
PEELED to dress up the A. F. of l..
bureaucracy in the tattered gar
ments of socialist philosophy" in
an attempt to conceal it's unity
with ii in the sabotage of the in
terests of the working class on the
issue of unemployment insurance,
TO conceal the fact that it is aiding
the campaign to split the ranks of
the WORKING clacc tn divida ar1.