The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-11
Understanding Social Fascism.

Understanding Social Fascism
In the city of Chicago in connection with the
counter Olympics whom do we find put on the
executive board? Carl Borders, member of the
Socialist Party, secretary of the League for In
dustrial Democracy, and also head of the Work
ers Committee for Unemployment. In the Young
Communist League as Comrade King reported,
we have in our anti-War work. members who
have been in the League a long time, but who
say that in order to get broad united-front
against war we cannot bring in the Soviet Union.
In Wisconsin there, as in many other places,
our main task is the concrete exposure Of the
Socialist Party. We have excellent opportunities
to expose the Socialist Party. For instance as
was reported to me in Milwaukee, Hoan cam
paigned in Milwaukee on the slogan ELECT So
cialist Supervisors because workers will then be
able to dictate the question Of control of unenr-
ployment relief, and no more than one day after
this, these same socialist supervisors came out
with proposal for forced labor in the city of
Milwaukee. Only two or three days ago the coun-
Gil voted for a sx-hour day for all city workers.
But actually the workers understand this and
are against it because it means in plain words,
the stagger SYSTEM cutting of wages of the
workers.
How about Melrose Park: I do not think we
sufficiently exposed the fact that the hail which
was rented to us for May Day and then denied
to us and resulted in the massacre, is owned by
the Worknens Circle in Melrose Park which is
controlled by the Socialist Party. This plainly
shows the connivance between the Socialist
Party leadership there and the boss government
Here we have excellent opportunity to ex-
pose the Socialist Party not only in Melrose
Park which is a small town, but here in Chi
cago and all over Particularly the comrades in
the Jewish field, in the Workmen's Circle who
tend to think we have finished our work among
the Jewish workers because we built up the
I. w. Q.
Concrete Struggles to Defeat Social Fascism.
In Southern Illinois, certainly the main enemy
is Pat Ansbury. In my opinion he is the new
Edmondson Edmondson is discredited and that
is why Ansbury is there. He makes nice speeches
but he does not take position on the basic is
sues confronting the workers. 1 am sure that
there are some hesitations and illusions amongst
our own Party members with reference to the
role Of Pat Ansbury.
In the South Side of Chicago we have to carry
on sharp struggle against the Negro reform
lists who are very active against us. But specifi-
cally in connection with the war situation---we
see the Garveyites increasing their activity man
uOlQ. lney nave lunQTeQS OF meetings. Far
ticularly dangerous are the well-trained Japan
ese orators lecturing under the auspices of the
Garveyites, talking Of Japan unifying the darker
races for struggle against whites. Imagine, i'm
perialist Japan with its imperialist offensive of
Corea; its slaughtering of Chinese masses; its
war in Manchuria, becomes the champion of
the darker races, with relation to white i'm
perialism and we are not exposing them.
The point am emphasizing is that we have
tendency to think that the social-fascists have
no influence, because in our sectarian isolation
we do not see what is taking place. BIT when
the City Council of Chicago holds an open hear
ing on unemployment relief, we find Carl Bor-
ders is on the job with reference to his fake
unemployment relief. But neither the .Commu-
mist Party, Unemployed Council or Trade Union
Unity League is there with our program. We
find the Borders led COMMITTEE for Unemploy-
ment" is growing today.
We are able to win workers over from that
movement when we make a real effort. When
we take the miserable little May Day parade
Of the Socialist Party we nevertheless can see
that there was one division of 20 American
workers under the leadership of Borders who
all came from this movement.