The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-01
NRA ASSAILED
AT CONVENTION
OF SOCIALISTS
Party at Threshold Of
Great Opportunities,
Leader Says.

By United Press
DETROIT, June socialists
enthusiastic at prospects of grasping
the opportunities of the present un-
rest, opened their biennial national
convention here today.
Delegates from forty-two states
the District of Columbia, and five
foreign countries, opened the meet
ing with the singing of "Interna-
tionale."
Delegates were seated with only
one contest: George Gobel retained
his right to represent New Jersey
after his residence there was chal-
lenged. After convention rules were
adopted, Leo Krzycki, Milwaukee.
national party chairman, mounted
the roStrum to deliver the keynote
address.
1.-THE Socialist party of America
faces the greatest opportunity that
WI have ever had" Mr.. Krzycki said.
THE vindication of all Socialist the
DRY rests in u hands, since our
comrades across the sea have
fallen"
Glass lines are being drawn more
sharply, he explained.
Before long the bitter opposition
which has long been gathering on
the farm and labor fronts will reach
a climax. The Socialist party must
be ready at that time" he said.
The government has revealed
itself as still under the thumb of
capitalism, Mr.. Krzycki said. The
NRA is exposing itself as an enemy
of the working class. The Socialist
party, guided by lessons learned
from the downfall of party brethren
in Europe, is growing stronger; pre-
pairing itself for the final test.
Warns of Compromise
After that test, he said, the men,
bers will have established a Socialist
commonwealth in America, or else
they will have dwindled to unim-
portance, possibly being thrown into
Jail OF forced into exile.
1.-The country has passed through
a year of novel experiments put
over by huge publicity campaigns
which covered up the essential facts
that workers were being robbed of
their share of the product of in
dustry and that owners were reap
ing big rewards for doing nothing"
Mr.. Krzycki said. 1.-The attitude Of
large masses of workers toward the
new deal is changing"
He warned that there can be no
arbitration or compromise, although
the NRA is seeking it, Of the work.
ers' demand for union recognition.
He cited the Toledo and Mime
apoliS strikes as evidence that
workers are intent upon securing
their right to independent union
ISM"
1.-THE government under the new
deal is the same old government,
with a new mask. It's intervention
in industrial disputes is on the side
of industry against the worker. The
government is owned and con-
trolled by the same class that con
trolls industry"
Sees NRA %Crumbling
1.-THE NRA is crumbling before
our eyes, exposing itself as an
enemy of working class organiza-
ton and a stumbling block to the
building up of purchasing power for
the masses. The Weirton Steel Com
pany dispute with NRA indicates
quite clearly that the codes + be-
ing converted itno scraps of paper"
American Socialists learned two
great lessons from the fall of So
cialism before Fascism in Europe, he
said.
"The first is their failure to re-
alize the scope of the working class
and to appeal to the farmers and
the white collar workers. q. We
must refuse to accept the old idea
that you can't organize farmers.
49,. The second is that we
must never forget that we IRE a
broad national and international
movement, and that sectionalism or
nationalism in any form would be
fatal to us"