The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06

it obviously becomes the task for all
who are sincere in the struggle
against war to unite ranks.
The Socialist Party leaders who
last year pretended that the United
Front with the Communists and the
militant workers was made impos-
sible owing to the "old-guard" lead
ership of the S, p, now are in I'M
disputed control of the Socialist
Party. Yet they sabotaged the Con-
gresS of the League Against War
and Fascism only recently in Chi
cago. Not only did they sabotage it,
thereby splitting the working class,
but at the same time they have ex-
PEELED militant members of the S. p.
and threatened with expulsion 9TH
ers who participate in the united
front. Thus, three days before the
Congress, Rev. Compere, Socialist
minister of Milwaukee, was expelled
from the S. P. for the united front.
Mrs. Victor Berger and Mrs. Barr,
Socialists of Milwaukee, face expul-
sion. The members of the Y. P. S. l..
of New York, who are active in the
formation and building up of the
American Youth Congress, have
been threatened by the leaders of
the S. P. with expulsion from the
Y. P. S. L. unless they cease their
activities Members of the Y. P.
S. L. in the League for Industrial
Democracy who favor unity with
the National Student League are
likewise threatened with expulsion.
When the Bridgeport workers pro-
tested against the permission given
to Consul-General Borchers of the
fascist Hitler government to speak
in Bridgeport, and when they de-
manded a permit to hold protest
demonstration, Jasper McLevy, So
cialist Mayor of Bridgeport, de-
clared that his policy is hands off
the police department'-with the
result that the workers were dubbed
and arrested. This is the Socialist
Party leadership in the struggle
against fascism and war!
S. p. and the Negroes
When the Communist Party ap-
pealed to the leaders of the S. P. to
form the united front in support of
the Socialist, Communist and other
workers in Spain who went out in
revolt against the fascist LerrouX
government, the answer of Norman
Thomas and the N. E. C. of the
S. P. was silence.
The State Platform of the S. P
says not a word about the masses
of the Negroes in the State of New
York. At a time when the lynch
terror is growing, also in New York
Brooklyn, Niagara Falls, when the
attempt to electrocute the Scots
boro boys is assisted by the Demo
cratic lawyer Leibowitz and Negro
betrayers, the S. P. continues its
acts of sabotage to the militant de-
Tense both in the courts and on the
streets that has been afforded the
ScottSboro boys by the Communists
and the International Labor De-
Tense. At time when the Negro
masses are openly Disseminated
against in the codes; when hundreds
of thousands are denied relief, ano
starvation and disease as a conse-
quence are rampant among them;
at time when Mr.. R. R. Motion
president of the Tuskegee Institute
proposes THAT the Negro workers
should be paid less on the ground
that they are less efficient" pitts
burgh Courier, the S. P. continues
to Jim Crow the Negroes and tc
carry on campaign to separate
them from the white masses, who
under the leadership of the Com
munists, are ready to fight for Ne.
gro rights.
But it is left to Frank Crosswaith
Negro Socialist, to express the full
Jim Crow policy of the S. P. Ir
the New Leader, CrosSwaitl1 says
when it is understood that all Ne.
gro NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., religious
fraternal, etc.-depend for theil
strength and durability on the earn.
Ings of Negro workers, we then be.
gin to appreciate the Importance o.
] the Negro workers to the entir,