The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-19

many other factories where the Com
panies bluntly forbade the organiza-
ton of any workers unions.
The Socialist workers were even
more astonished when they discov-
cred that the milwaukee Leader"
fell in with the obviously drummed-
up publicity of General johnson by
running big headlines about the re-
turn of prosperity, ETC., ETC., and by
proudly flying blue eagle flag.
THIS policy Of the Socialist Party
and the Milwaukee Leader opened
the eyes Of many workers and men,
bers of the Socialist Party who every
where expressed their indignation
and resentment.
This soon found open expression
On Aug. 8, the following letter to the
editor was printed in the Leader:
ITO the Editor:
MAY / ask if my inference biased
on the appearance of recent issues
of the paper is correct, namely,
that the Milwaukee Leader is now
an organ Of the Democratic Party?
Very truly yours,
ROSS STAGNER,
Department of Psychology, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Madison.
And the very next day an active
member Of the Socialist Party, and
an officer OF one OF the locals, sent in
the significant letter which we print
above.
What was the reply of the Leader
to these? In the editorial of August s
the Leader, in a very arrogant tone,
stated:
"We give Franklin Roosevelt credit
for the ability to move along when
pushed"
and furthermore:
"At present, the recovery program
is clearly and openly intended to
stabilize capitalism. But one thing
leads to another. No one can tell
where it will land. 1t may land in
Fascism. 1t may land in Socialism.
We shall do our durndest to see
that it lands in Socialism"
With no intentions of exposing this
slavery act, or of showing UP the war
preparation of American imperialism,
the Socialist Party and the Milwau-
kee Leader are doing everything pos
sible to chain the working class to
the chariot of Wall Street. 1t is no
wonder that the Socialist workers are
asking whether the Socialist Party
has merged with the Democratic
Party. Are we to give up the strug-
gle for Socialism," the workers per-
sist in asking. The Leader, in an
editorial, replies: Why worry about
fighting for Socialism when.
THE growing of the new social
society out of the old has begun.
The MIRA is the first positive evil
dence Of it. And socially conscious
beings, especially socialists, must
recognize that historical fact even
though it was brought about by an
alien hand"
uERE the workers and members Of
ii the Socialist Party can see for
themselves. When the capitalist class
puts into effect the MIRA codes to
increase its profits by increasing the
justification Of capital, when the
capitalist class, through the Roose-
welt administration with its cunningly
false talk about a New Deal" levels
all wages to starvation levels and
through the NJ R. A. codes introduces
the infamous Hoover "stagger sys-
tenn" whereby the starvation Of the
workers is spread among the entire
working class. Then the Milwaukee
Leader, supposedly founded on the
MARKHAM principles OF class struggle,
and supposedly fighting for Social
ism, co-operates with the capitalist
class in putting over this capitalist
program in the name of Socialism!
In their everyday experience 40
workers feel the ruthless capitalist
exploitation that the N. r. A. codes
are intended to mask. And yet their
paper tells them not to struggle, not
to resist this capitalist exploitation,
but to welcome it as positive evil
dence Of the new society,"!
Isn't it clear that this is playing
right into the hands of the Roosevelt
administration and the capitalist
class? Isn't it clear that this is giving
valuable aid to the employers in
putting over their wage-cutting pro-
gram?
While the Wall Street bankers and
the big industrialists make every ef-
fort to bolster their shaken rule over