The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-27
United Front->With Whom

" latest issue Of the Socialist New Leader some conf
ment on the recent events in Madison Square Garden
Remarkably enough he maintains an alright 81
lence the brutal assault Of the Socialist and trade
union ohciah against Clarence Hathaway.
But silent he is on this vicious act of provoca-
ton against the united front Of the working class
he becomes voluble indeed the very point which
the Of the oubts Of anger Of the workers
at the Garden. He Is volube in his defense OF the
Socialist leadershipis invitation to Matthew Vol and
LaGuardia to sit the platform and to address the
anu-Fascist meeting. He not only defends this act
this united front" with Vol and IAGuardia but he
repeats once again his plea 10 Roosevelt to act as
the leader Of the protest against Fascism" Once
again he to the leading representatives of Wall
Street capitalist reaction, calling upon him to help In
the night OF the working class against Fssctan.
He states:
1T happens thA4 / do NOT hike the posicies that
Matt Won stands for in the A. r. Of L. buf even
the Communists IL they sincere in fighting Fas-
cisms ought to understand that when right-wiuS
no-socialist labor elements join M In fRFtanx Fas
cisrns It Is not we who have surrendered 10 them
but they who have to see the force of our no
siton. If we cannot get such q united front we
small be united in common disaster. II 10 United
Front on great issue.
Here, in bald language, is the classic, gtock-in-
trade theory Of Social the tactic that led the
German working class into the trap Of Fasclsn and
into the Fascist hands Of Dollfuss and Prince Won
Starhemberg.
Tt is not we bat they who have surrendered.-
so runs the universal song of the Socialist leaders In
every country as they strive to bind the anti-Fsscist
workers to the leadership OF capitalist reactionary
agents
THE SOCIALIST leaders strive TO break the United
Front Of the workers, Socialist and Communist
Instead they try to bind the Socialist workers 10 a
United Front with capitalist sgents-wtth Vol La
Gusrdis, etc.
LaGuardias police dubbed 1000 anti-F Fascist work
ers demonstrating before the Austrian consulate hs
Socialist leaders invited him to the Garden for "a
united front on great issue"
Vol Is the representative Of everything that Is
reactionsry corrupt, tratorous in the upper ocial
dom OF the A. F. of L. bureaucracy He is q profess
sional red batter" and racketeer. His hands are
nthy with traffic in anti-soviet forgeries
It is with this advance agent Of American Fas-
cisn that the Socialist leaders urge the workers to
form United Front-but not with Communists
ut Is united front on a great ISSUE" saws
Thomas Here is revealed the technique Of binding
the workers to reactonary leaders I disagree with
won" says Thomas, but am willing to form
united front with him this great issue"
That is what the German Socialist leaders also
sale. They also admitted that they disagreed with
Hfndenourg but they urged united front with hin,
on the great issue of defending bourgeois democracy
in the fight against Fascisn
This was the program of the German Socialist
leaders, the program that crippled the fighting resis
lance Of the German working class and permitted the
Fascist seizure Of power, ushered In by Hindenburg
The Austrian Socialist leaders followed the same
tactic with Dollfuss They formed united front with
MIN on the great issue" Of defending the bourgeois
republic. And 1t precisely this united front with
Dofuss that permitted him to rally the forces Of Fas
clst reaction against the Austrian working class
social-Democracy the world over meets the menace
OF Fascsm not by uniting the fighting resistance of
the masses but by Gripping this resistance through
splitting the ranks Of the workers by the infamous
mechanism Of United Front with democratic" or fright
wing" agents Of capitalist reaction It is therefore
the actual payer Of the road on which Fascsrn adj
vances. Tt is the main social support Of advancing
Fascisrn permitting 1t to advance against divided
working class It Is, in other words, social-Fascsn
NORMAN THOMAS calls upon Roosevelt to make
~ diplomatic representations" against the Fascist
terror in Austria. This may sound as II Thomas is
really helping the Austrian working class and giving
proper leadership to the American AntiFascist move
ment. But this is only the same old socal-Democrac
tactic Of calling the representatives Of the bour
geoisIe to fight against capitalist reaction
Roosevelt is the arch-representative OF Wall Street
capitalist reaction. He is the most cunning agent and
tool Of Wall Street imperialism that has ever sat in
the White House. His entire NRA.-New Deal pro-
gram program Of brutal assault against the work
ing class in the interests of Wall Street monopoly
capital
To go to Roosevelt and call upon him to 'pro-
test against Fascist terrorism is not only to cripple
the real mass struggle against Austrian Fascsn but
to play right into the hands Of developing American
Fascist reaction right here at home.
To call upon Roosevelt to fight against Dofuss
is like the Austrian Socialist leaders calling upon Doll
fuss to fight Austrian Fascism It is like calling upon
Hndenburg to fight Hitler. 1t Is the old Socia-Fascist
trap Of choosing agent Of the bourgeoise to lead
the working class fight against Misunderstanding the
working class in the END at the mercy Of both
The American working class cannot permit itself
to be deceived the way the German and Austrian work
ers were by this trickery Of socialFascisr Norman
Thomas is treading the same road as the Welses in
Germany and the Bauers in Austria-the road of the
lesser evil" the road Of the peaceful path to So
cialism," the road of United Front with the bour-
geoisie-the road that leads to Fascism
The United Front Of the working class not with