The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-07


Weinstene charged that President
Robinson was carrying out the will
OF the Wall Street interests that do
inmate the College of C.C.N.Y. THE
dismissal of Oakley johnson is a de-
IbeFate attempt on the part of this
political henchman of Tammany Hall
to suppress revolutionary activities
and to intimidate teachers and stud
ents WHO join up with workingelass
organizations Johnson was dismissed
for political reasons, because he
coprageeusly joined up with the anti
war struggle, backed up the Ken
tueky miners and because he is sup
porting the Communist Party in the
present election campaign,
Robinson Tammany Henchman
THE barring of political meet
ing called by the Student Forum of
the School, by President Robinson, is
a further act of repression. Robin
son wishes to have only the view
point of the capitalist parties, and
of Tammany Hall, of which he is a
political appointee. The Student
body should reply to this attack up
or their rights by holding mass meet
ings and demonstrations and by de-
1eloping a strike similar to the mea-
sures taken by the Columbia students
in a case of even lesser Importance.
To allow these tyranical actions by
the City College authorities to go by
Without struggle" said Weinstane,
would mean that the College stud
ents ere to be put under lock and
key without any protest
Weinstene then proceeded to talk
upon the issues of the political cam
paign, as one of the candidates in
the Symposium The Republican and
Democratic speakers failed to show
up The Socialist candidate who was
scheduled to appear, MIR Chas. Solo
mon, did not come on account of the
weather. and Paul Blanchard of the
Socialist Party spoke in his place.
Debate Develops
The symposium turned into de-
bate between Weinstone and Blan-
chard, much against the will of the
Socialists who tried to make the
meeting into a free speech" fight
OF the League for Industrial Demo-
crazy, and to bar the platform from
Weinstene. It was only upon the
insistence of Weinstone and the
students that the debate developed.
After dealing with the role of the
Republican and Democratic parties
as open tools of the capitalist class,
Weinstone in his fifteen minute talk
e1an 11n CT Do,
following in the footsteps of the cap
italist parties, with the special task
of suppressing workingelass struggles.
He cited the 10 per cent wage ecut
IN -EfilWa uhee carried thru by the
Eoan administration against the city
employees, the smashing of u1am-
r'o-ed demonstrations, and stated
that the Socialists in no way acted
differently than the capitalist ad-
r'tnis5ration, except by their pretense
cf being a vorkingclass party They
se;fls the opposition against the OPP
prlsscrs," he said. BY referring to
the role of the Macdonald govern
p1ent in Great Britain, Weinstone
F1ewed that the Socialist argument
t'7at they were unable to carry thru
tfe]r program because they were in
cfSce but not in power did not hold
water. The Macdonald government
reYer attempted to put into effect a
program of Socialism. 1t used it's
RIVER to put over the program Of
the bosses which the open capitalist
parties of England were unable to
20 without mass resistance from the
workers" he said
Expose Socialist Party Attacks en-
U.S.S,R.
Weinstona eXpes3d the Socialists
alleged friendship for the Soviet IN
icn pointing out that they are pre-
tending this sympathy because of the
great support for the Soviet Union
among the American ma ssss. but that
tAcy are in reality deadly enemies of
the Soviet Union and puryeyors of
the capitalist ISLANDERS as shown in
the statement of Norman Thomas
that the Soviet Union is a govern
nlent resting upon terror used against
the Russian masses. Weinstone
stated that the major tasks at the
present was to develop a united front
struggle against the capitalist attacks
and to organize the workers for the
overthrow of this system, as the ONLY
way to escape from the growing mis-
cry of capitalism
Paul Blanchard who at first at
tempted to keep the meeting from
developing into political debate,
found himself compelled to take the
platform to refute the indictment
made against the Socialists by Vein
stone. In his defense of Milwaukee,
he said he did not know whether