The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
The Socialist Press in
Service of Capitalism
Joins With Boss Publications i'm SlanderOus
Attacks Against Soviet Union
By H. M. wICKs.

Oy H. W. WINS
IN the nine years of its existence
1.-The DAILY WORKER has carried
on :, a struggle against the trickery
and receptions of the socialist press.
In the course of these nine years
there have been times when the
anti-working class activity of the
Socialist press (Which reflects the
leadership of the Socialist Party
was not clearly exposed. For ex-
"A lple, during the Passaic strike of
1926 Norman Thomas and other
leaders of the S. P. were regarded
as honest, but confused individuals
who were actually concerned about
defending the interests of the work
ing class. When, during that same
period the DAILY WORKER, then
being published in Chicago editor
tally attacked the socialist con-
gresham, Victor l.. Berger, for his
attempts to head off a senatorial
investigation of Passaic, Bertram
D. Wolfe as agitprop director of
New York district of the Workers
-(CommunisO Party wrote strong
protest to us, saying that we ought
to encourage Berger, instead of at
lacking him. Thus, even then, three
years before their expulsion from
our Party as renegades these lead
ers of the Loyestone group opposed
a. consistent exposure of the ma
cIlinations Of the Socialist Party
leaders.
BETRAY SACCO-YANZETT
STRUGGLE
Again, during the worldwide
mass struggles to save Sacco and
Vanzetti we only belatedly proved
that the Socialist Party leaders and
the socialist press, by sowing legal
istic illusions among the masses
about the fairness of capitalist
courts, we're trying to defeat and
disintegrate the mass movement,
thereby aiding the capitalist eX-
ecutioners who were plotting to
shoot chained lightning through
the tortured bodies of these two
WOIhlLlS CldoS 11SllUC1Ss
WHAT we failed to see clearly in
W many instances In the past, and
what many do not understand to-
day Is that the Socialist Party lead
erS and the Socialist press are not,
as some would have us believe, "hon-
est, but n1isinformed individuals"
1t is not stupidity, or Ignorance, or
mistakes and errors that account
Sor the receptions of the Socialist
press. Everything they do and say,
everything these people print Is
carefully prepared and is part Of
esdefinite line; against the working
class. Everything they do is for
the purpose of deceiving the mass
es, to try to defeat the strug-
giles against capitalism, to try to
help the irnperialist ruling class
find capitalist way out of the
crisis. 1t is this fact that must
always be kept in mind when deal
ing with the Socialist Party leaders.
1t; Is from this standpoint that all
Communists, all supporters Of our
Party and Of the DAILY WORKER
must unmask these leaders and
their press before the rank and file
workers who are deceived by them.
No impute to these leaders the
slightest honesty of purpose is to
aid them in their attempts to con-
zeal their betrayal of the workers.
NDss PRESS
FUBLICIZES S. P.
Today, more than ever, at time
when the toiling masses are, in
ever-larger numbers enlisting in the
fight against the hunger and war
program Of Wall Street, the social
list betrayers are needed to try to
stem this movement. At a time
when capitalist sterilization has
come to an end, at a time when
we are in transition to new stage
y wars and revolutions, the social
Mt betrayers are needed more than
ever by the capitalist class. The
fact that the capitalist press print
G0 ICoilic VI PubilSlVy liOl oiiC foO-
cialist Party during the past cleo
taon, thereby aiding them to in
crease their vote, shows that the
capitalist class knows how useful
ss the demagogy Of Thomas and
company, and also that the CAPT.
t,alist class Is building up this S.
r. leadership as a reserve for use
in the sharpening class conflicts.
VIE great achievements of social
j list construction in the Soviet
onion, the completion of the first
Ffve-Year Plan and the launch
ing Of the second Five-Year Plan
which will lead to the abolition of
classes and the building OF a class
less society, is one OF the mightiest
revolutionizing forces in the world.