The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-02
The Socialist Neav Leader -.
This Week!

wick Papers" Of Charles Dickens
But one reads further and it becomes serious
matter Here are some samples:
Before the meeting had opened, these ghouls
IKE swine tramptng flower garden began their
hideous performance Joy possessed all but the Com
nrmists that prOletarans attacked BY Fascists had
displayed such sublime courage
Or this:
Like bolt Of lightning that clears marsy
@aOsphere this ghasty debauch brought retribution
Everywhere the Communists we're branded as moral
sepers And what do civilized communities do when
eprosy Is detected? 1t Is isolated; 1t is qusrsn-
tined.
or this
They came to the meeting with kuivea scissors,
Sackjacks, stink bombs, bottles, Kisses boos yeEs
and" and. what do you think most terrible Of
an-'1terature!"
But the Socialist editor of the New Leader prob
snly felt chat he still had some steam left in his
vocabulary and so he took leap into the air with
this:
ewhat is this thing that emerged at the Garden
meeting? II is the pathoogic spawn Of the depres-
sIone
These are only samples Of the issue II Is literally
filed with such things 1t would take a volume to
refute each single statement OF fact each distortion
and misquotation.
But the New Leader does not stop at wild and
udierous rhetoric It goes further It spills deadly
political poison. Listen to this:
They hunt in packs. Lenin taught them that
lying intrigue, and cunning Communist methods"
Or this
In their brief tenure Of power In Bavaria and
Hungary they needlessy shot thousands Of human
beings. The working class victims OF the Cheka and
GPU. reveal the sads5 soul Of this hateful thing
And finally:
Stain may spend more millions upon them in
thi country but they are henceforth Ishmaels
branded moral lepers, unfit TO associate with
human beings. -"
Who would want to the ghouls of the Gar
sn masters Of the United States transforming it
into prison, crushing every organization of the
workers. etc. etc"
Here 1t is no longer funny Here the New Leader
performing political task. The task is to repeat
the vicious Islander Of professional red baters" Of
Ee Easeys the Grover Whalens the stool pigeons OF
the Department of Justice the police Of the Red Squad
laid Matthew VOL It is wonder that the So
ciaist leaders found Matthew Vol fitting guest Of
honor at the anti-Fasest meeting at the Garden Vol
specialzes in this kind Of an5-Sovet traffic this kind
CT reacUonary provocaton against the working class
no The editors OF the New Leader think that by these
rantings chat they can divert attention from the
vicious hooganis that characterized the assault of
che Socialist and trade union officials against Clarence
Hathaway editor Of the Daily Worker? Do they think
that by these rantings that they make the work
ers forget that the Socialist leaders ordered the cap
tais police to frsk and search every worker enter
ing the Garden2
heroic Soyiets of Hungary and Bavaria, when the
working class smashed the bourgeois dictatorship and
seize4 power, only to be crushed in a sea of blood
IS the coalition of the White Guard reaction and
Social-Demoeracy! 1t Social Democracy that
led the counter-revolutionar assault against the
heroic Bavarian Soviet in 1921, saushterng thcu-
sands Of workers, and it Social Democracy that
helped the beast Horthy strangIe the Workers and
Peasants Government in Hungary. Now they gloat
over t. while the proetarat Of Austria is paying In
41a Fankf that S,etv; nal
Democracy crushed the attempts to set up Workers
ana Peasants Soviet in Austria!
with what ugly hate do they defame Lenn, revo-
utonaTy genius OF the proetaran revolution beloved
Of the working class Of the world.
And the ludicrous SANDER Of Moscow gold. :"
stains millions =" Could Ham Fish or Grover
gvnaien say more?
TsTaY DOES the New Leader write this way? Why
" has it 50 utterly lost its head so that it cannot
even see the absurdity of this frerfzy2
IL IS because the New Leader is unwilling to face
m real political issues involved in the Austrian crisis
ara the Garden affair. 1t is because the New Leader
b striving through seizing the turbulence at the
Ca.den to break the movement toward unity with
Communist workers which is growing among the So
eaIist workers. The Socialist Party in California is
already split the question of United Front, with
Tire locals breaking away from the top leadership
The Socialist leaders think that they will be able
rs mask their deadly silence in this weeks New Leader
on otto Bauers statement by raising hue and cry
Of fantastic proVocatlon But the very frenzy OF tner
rhetoric only baTes markedly their evasion
of every single important political issue raised by the
events in Austria and Germany.
n IS in this issue OF the New Leader that can
sae il It's purity that social-Fascist reactionary
revocation that responsible for the indignation
a he workers at the Garden.
socialist workers! Let the officials clasp hands
with VOL and Huey Long. We will clasp the
hand OF pro1etarian unity in class struggle against
everything that VOL LaGuardia and Long stand for.
We raise the banner Of eternal honor to our heroic
comrades in Austria betrayed by their leaders, but
rising over this betrayal
Tne hgat against the menace Of fascSn cannot
he won without working class unity. That is his
toric reality. Unity must not be broken. The Com
murist Party urges all workers to ignore the provoca
lions Of the Socialist leadership and to build the unity
Of the working class