The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
BY BILL DUNE

MUSTEISM in Seattle is trying to
IVA substitute class cooperation for
struggle in the ranks of the unem-
ployed workers of Seattle and vicin-
ity. Charlatans, demagogues and
fascists of all stripes are making
every imaginable appeal to the 49,
100000 unemployed workers.
On the north Pacific Coast - the
Puget Sound area-Seattle, Tacoma,
Portland, Everett, etc, and precisely
because here there is an old and
strong revolutionary tradition, these
demagogues and charlatans are I'M
usually busy.
The leaders of the Unemployed
Citizens League, in Seattle. the lead
ership of the so-called Liberty Par
ty," etc, are in this category.
They are consciously and deliber-
ately using for the purpose of side
tracking the struggle of the unem-
ployed the militant spirit which
brought about the general strike of
1919 in Seattle. they are utilizing the
militant traditions of the lumber
workers when they fought the Loyal
Legion of Loggers and Lunbermen,
the fascist unions" organized by
Colonel Disque during the war; they
are utilizing the militant traditions
of the Centraha battle of the lum-
Der workers against the American
Legion and the gunner of the lum-
Der barons when the IWW. was still
an honest revolutionary organization
They are utilizing the militant tradi-
ton of the struggle for the release
of Tom Mooney. of which the Puget
Sound territory was always strong
hold.
These demegogues are utilizing the
militant spirit of workers which in
1920 stopped the shipment of NUM-
lions for the counter-revolutionary
forces in Siberia.
The leaders of the, Liberty Party"
are using for their own purposes
which are the purposes of the ex-
nIoiters-the traditional nilitancy of
the Washington stump" farmers,
many of them workers blacklisted
out of industry. which has time and
time AGAIN BROUGHT them to the sup
Lort of the workers.
These leaders of the U.CL. most
Of them middle class elements and
professional labor leaders" whose
opposition to the bureaucracy of the
American Federation of Labor lead
ership and the more open reaction
airy capitalist forces represented by
the Seattle Times and Post-Intelli-
gencer has been merely cover for
their own competing for the profit
able enterprise of betraying the
working class and exploited farmers.
They have working alliance with
the leaders of the "Lierty Party"
The Liberty Party" is not con-
fined to the sttae of Washington.
Il
1t is operating with its program of
the Common Good" i.e state capt.
alism, in oregon, Idaho, and the
western part of Montana. Its en-
blem is "the Statue of Liberty with
the Dove Of Peace in her hand"
Like all American reforrnist agrarian
movements its program is directed
mainly against the bankers and rail-
roads. Coin" Harvey is one of its
theoretical leaders. It's role is to
divert the revolutionary energies Of
the exploited farming population,
whose militancy reaches high point
as a result of the long continued and
acute agricultural crisis bringing the
ruin OF hundreds Of thousands Of
independent" farmers, into futile
and non-revolutionary channels.
For all these reasons our comrades
in the Unemployed Councils, and
those who are working among the