The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-06
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PART l.
A SERIOUS conflict is taking place in the So
n ctAltst party. The old fascist guard, Lee,
EzMquhs, OneaI, Gerber and ClaSsens talk about
splits taking place. They hold up warning fin
gers 10 the young working class elements, who
ere dissatisfied with the petty-bourgeois, liberal
policies and practices Of the socialist party, as
manifest In the activities Of Thomas, Broun etc,
They warn them about the splits of 1919 and
threaten them with the strong arm Of the Party.
what Is the cause of this conflict?
The economic crisis has forced the American
working class 10 think-and TO act In this
crisis, with unemployment greater than ever in
the history OF the country with the misery OF the
most savage character with wage cuts following
In the SharpeSt succession action is demanded of
the working class-militant action, with militant
policy. with war lowering in the as; with this
war directed against the Soviet Union, the
younger working class d 7ments in the socialist
party are asking 9Ur po. and all the leader
ship Of the party can answer is that the Com
snunist Party has established dictatorship over
The working class Of Russia and that the
american socialist party as part of the socialist
and labor international, is against ANY and
every kind Of dictatorship-and therefore
&gainSt the Soviet Union.
This situation must of necessity call forth
struggle in the socialist party. The workers in
lie socialist party are to some extent members
Of the trade unions of the A. F. of L. and Anal
3asiated Clothing Workers. These workers have
geen william Green and his lesser heutenants
and Sidneys Hilman, sell out the workers right
and left. They have seen their open class col
-f5oration with the bosses. They know of the
graft and corruption rampant in these unions
With the heads openly cooperating with gang
sters, the police, the capitalist courts and the
a1iSt
--wye-s-Solornon and Karin in New York-get
llstIlctiorS against the workers. Socialist law
yerS lead the procession of gangsters and police
a5@inst the workers. The socialist workers in
t14eGe Unions, many Of them militant, as well as
osoer progressive workers, are thrown out of the
liz for daring to criticize their corrupt fas-
Est leaders.
Ic1l5 Of thousands of progressive workers
;aSs- ecnScious workers. are unemployed. Among
tnece workers are many socialists and socialist
1IIcvtcrS, members of the trade union and uror-
3~-aGeG workers. They are starving, and yet
-ey o1at the unions do not provide one penny of
re.ieI for their members, that the leaders of the
'1.ions prominently among them the socialist
leaders, continue to pocket their high salaries
and all "sundries," while the rank and file SUI
Ter munger. Many Of these unionists cannot
gay the dues and assessments owing to unem-
laoyz1ent and part-tine work. and are dropped
tcoal the maions-which means stark starvation
To- 5ileIn.
Many Of them have joined the ranks Of the
l-.Iemployed councils in Milwaukee and Reading
nd have seen the unemployed beaten down by
lie socialist police. They have seen their"
-dayor Hoan in Milwaukee flee through the back
door from the anger and rage Of the unem-
5loyed. This is their representative in govern
nlent, who supposed to consider first Of aI
the welfare Of the workers, and especially the
unemployed workers.
While this has been going on in the United
States the leaders of their sister parties in gov
ernlnents in Europe have been savagely beating
down the conditions Of the workers of those
countries. Macdonald in England as head of
the Labor Government, with the FULL COOP
sRATION AND CONSENT of Henderson and
me Independent Labor Party, and today as head
OF the National government forced wage cuts on
the workers. has cut hundreds of thousands off
the dole list. Macdonald, head Of the British