The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-10
The Socialist Leaders and the
Roosevelt War Machine

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In the immediate future it will be Norman Thomas
who will advise the young workers OF America to do
their part to defend democracy against dictatorship
to forego any real struggle against the Roosevelt
machine it punges into action driving ahead against
the Soviet Union.
The Socialist Party leaders in their paper the New
Leader run grandose headlines about the danger of
another world They pride themselves, in
recent issue on Playing the Military Policies Of the
Roosevelt Administration"
But it is grim reality that behind all his Socialist
pacifsm, Norman Thomas Is striving with might and
main to conceal from the American working class that
Roosevelt and his NR.A-New Deal program are geared
and directed toward major obiectye-imperialist
war and intervention against the Soviet Union.
Listen to Norman Thomas in the New Leader OF
January 20:
Remembering that world trade Is still in the
grip Of crazy capitalist system, the Presidents pro-
pOsaI for devaluatng the dollar in terms Of gold
lessen rather than the danger Of between
currencies and for world trade. !"
AT the very moment that Roosevelt plunges out
ward toward imperialist with the weapons of
ruthless initiation, Norman Thomas Socialist leader,
dsarms the workers by praising this step lessen
ing the danger Of war for trade ." What is
this not playing TIE part Of advance publicity agent
and salesman for the Roosevelt war machine, which
the New Leader "hays?"
Is it not in Just this way that the Socialist
Party leaders of Germany hailed the various semi
fascist governments Of Bruehing Scheicher and Won
Papen 9essening the danger of Fsscism?" The
results of this every worker knows
0R ANOTHER example from the New Leader Of
" February g. The leading editorial quotes Assistant
Secretary of War, Woodring who in article quite
frankly stated that the New Deal is deal, with
the Roosevelt government holding the army in readi
for any social revolution Now remembering that
Thomas only week or so before had praised Roose-
welt for "lessening" the danger listen to this
comment of the New Leader:
Here we have frank pronouncement Of a
military fascsm yet unrebuked by the President"
(our enphass).
In these words the Socialist Party leaders doing
their bit to mask the brutal imperialist visage
Of Roosevelt by pretending that the Of fascs
and war come not from the very heart of the Roose
vel6 government, from Roosevelt himself, from his
whole N.RA.-New Deal program but from the out
side" from few mitarisS who happened to stray
into the Roosevelt government
The Socialist New Leader pleads with Roosevelt,
the leader of the Wall Street imperalst machine to
'rebuke" Of his own agents and heutenants who
is executing the full intent and purpose Of the Roose
Welt policy. They actually strive to paint Roosevelt
as the one wins will lead the fight against war and
fascis.n!
Is it not in just this way that the German
Socialists painted Hndenburg the who would
lead the fight against Hitler?
The Socialist leaders defend the MIRA strikebreak-
ing machine, that very industrial Strikebreakng
chine by which the Roosevelt government is miitsr-
izng the entire economy Of the country the MIRA
machine by which fascist reaction Is being put into
effect by the Roosevelt administration.
And then they pretend to "hsy" the Roosevelt mill
tary policyl
THE next imperalst war conhagration will converge
upon the Soviet Union, the land Of victorious
fr,anFiN nT1r
doom Of world capitalism The Socialist leaders protest
that they favor the Soviet Union.
But listen to Norman Thomas in the New Leader
of January az:
What trust would the farmers have in workers
dictatorship when they know that the Russian work
ers' dictatorship with all that be said in its
favor, by It's mistakes in policy and laundering created
famine in the Ukraine and other fertile areas Of
Russian"
Doesn't Norman Thomas know th&t the fascist
Rosenberg, HitIers foreign affairs specialist organ
lied kulaks in the Ukraine into
plots in order to exploit the difficulties Of the agr
cultural situation? Doesn't he know that it these
foregn-f financed kuiak plots which responsible
for the counter resistance Of the last
remnants Of exploiting landlords in the Ukraine?
OF he knows it, And is not unwilling
to spread this vile anti-Soviet intervention props-
ganda,
The New Leader speaks of the "war danger in the
reaconary-capitast sheet the peace policy Of the
Soviet Union, the greatest bulwark Of world peace
And particularly at this moment when japanese I'M
periasrn is already bringing its columns up to the
Soviet borders the Socialist leaders mask In deep
silence the firm proletarian peace policy of the Soviet
Union, while they redouble their ISLANDERS about the
"famnes" In the Ukrainel
Can any doubt that Norman Thomas silence
the Soviet peace policy while he spreads famine
propaganda Of the greatest assistance to the inter
VentioniSts?
The final touch to the Socialist Party Leadership
Eight" against comes from its latest announce
ment that all Socialist branches must withdraw from
the American League Against War and Fascism the
only true United Front organization fighting against
the Roosevelt war program. And the reason given
by the Socialist leaders is that the Communists who
are part of the United Front are "criticizing the
Socialist leaders!
Well might they fear criticism! For their policies
the continuation of the chauvinist counter
tionary treacherieS OF 191417 when they drive the
working class Of the world to the imperiast slaughter
Sin the name Of the capitalist Fatherland"