The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-13
Party Urges United
Front Fight Against
Borders TreaChery
Chicago Socialist Took
Fat Roosevelt Job

CHICAGO, III, Feb. 1.-THE DIS
trict Committee Of the Communist
Party, Chicago District, has issued a
statement through Bill Gebert. Dis
trict organizer, exposing the record
of Karl Borders, socialist who has
Just taken a lucrative Job with the
Roosevelt government, and calling for
a united front with the socialist work
ers. The statement follows.
Dear Comrades:
Karl Borders, a member Of the So
cialist Party, Chicago Secretary Of
the League for Industrial Democracy
and the chairman Of the Chicago
Workers Committee on Unemploy-
ment, has been promoted to the posi-
ton of o government Field Relief
Representative for his services to the
ruling class in the ranks of the work
ing class, as a Capitalist captain OF
the workers army" The assignment
came from Harry Hopkins, the
starvation administrator Of the
Roosevelt war and hunger govern
ment.
In accepting such position, Mr..
Borders did not betray his past role
1t is the same Mfr. Borders who up
| till now was used by the capitalist
class to divide the ranks Of the un-
employed. He remains the same
social-fasciSt misleader in the employ
Of the Roosevelt hunger and war ed
ministration as he was before.
Borders Fought Unity
All this brings out more clearly
than ever the real role Of Borders
when he fought against the united
front of the workers. He always
stated that it was the Communists
who were responsible for failure to
have a united front because the Com
munists had no faith in the sincerity
Of those whom they invited to the
united front. 1t is absolutely true
that the Communists had no faith in
| the sincerity of Mr.. Borders parti-
cipation in the United front.
But the Communist Party has faith
in the membership OF the Socialist
Party and other workers organiza-
tons that we can unite in common
struggle against the common enemy.
that our interests as workers are the
same. We can and musb unite in
struggle against hunger, starvation.
wage-cuts, faScism and war. We can
unite in struggle against capitalism,
for the overthrow Of capitalism, for q
workers rule In the United States.
| 1t is only the leaders OF the Socialist
I Party, Of the A. r. Of L., etc. who
stand in the way Of establishing such
unity. The Communist Party of the
Chicago District invites you, brother
workers, to join with us in establish
| ing q fighting unity in action Of all
the workers.
On May, 1888, the Socialist Party
leaders prevented their members from
| joining the glorious united front May
Day demonstration. This year, let
us get together and break the bar
riers that stand IN the way for q
solid unity Of the working class, for
our burning demands. A united front
conference viii be held On March
18th, $50 A. M. at the Peoples Audi
forum, PAST w. Chicago Avenue.
Make preparations to send your dele
! gates.
The members of the Socialist Party
| in Chicago must see clearly who their
leaders are, and whom they serve.
Mr.. Borders Is not the only one. PAU
Blanshard of New York is in tho
service of La Guardia. Upton lin
clair in California went over to the
Democratic Party. The rank and file
members Of the Socialist Party are
establishing unity In action with the
| Communists and other workers IN
many places thruout the country
There is beginning Of the disin-
| tegration Of the Socialist Party in the
| United States. Just as in Germany,
| and internationally, where the Social
list leaders serve the interests OF the
fascists, and the rank and file mem
bers of the Socialist Party are going
on the side Of the revolution, into the
ranks Of the Communist Party.
Members of the Socialist Party II
Chicago, follow the example OF the
| comrades in Germany, the comrade,
i'll California, where in protest against
the treachery of Sinclair, 800 Joined
the Communist Party; the comrades
in the Y. P. S. L. Of Chicago, who
found their way into the Young Com
munist League. That is the only
road for you, comrades, workers liz
the Socialist Party. Repudiate Bor
ders, Blanshard, Sinclair, Thomas
etc, and join the ranks Of yom
Party, our Party, the party Of the
working class, the Communist Party
! Join the United Front for May Day