The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-28
Sees Socialist arty
Bankrupt as Party
OF WorkingcIass

and active Socialist Party worker,
George Brunswick of Connecticut,
writes to the Daily Worker pro-
claiming his resignation from the
Socialist Party and his joining the
Communist Party after what hap
pened at the recent Detroit Con-
Yention.
Comrade Brunswick, who was sent
to the Continental Congress as the
delegate of the Connecticut Social
ist Party, repeats what his fellow
member of the Socialist Party, Dick
Farber, stated in his resignation
statement printed in the Daily
Worker last week. that the Detroit
convention revealed the complete
bankruptcy Of the Socialist Party
as a revolutionary working class
party.
Comrade Brunswick is well known
to the Socialist Party workers in
his own State. His full statement
is therefore of political Importance.
The text follows:
By GEORGE BRUNSWICK
former Sec'y Y.P.SL.; Treas.
Y.P.SL.; former Executive Com.
member, SIP. local, Hartford;
delegate to Continental Con-
greSs, Washington, d. C.
To the Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades:
The results of the Socialist Party
Convention in Detroit. June 1-3,
prompt me to withdraw from the
S,P. and Y.P.SL.
No concrete program. based on
revolutionary principles, was
adopted The burning issues of
present day working class struggle,
namely the fight against fascism,
the building of the united front,
were practically ignored by the SIP.
leadership. Much left talk pre-.
vailed and phrase mongering to the
ninth degree by the so-called mill
tants, headed by Thomas and Hoan
who covered up very effectively any
genuine attempts to press forward
real revolutionary program.
Squash United Front
The same policy of working hand
in hand with the A. F. of L. bu-
reaucrats still remained. The Nc
Levy, STARTS, Lees, ETC., still re-
main. When Socialist mayors en-
dorse the beating up of unemployed
workers, when Socialist candidates
for public office endorse a nation
alistic program, when fascists en-
dorse the SIP. candidates, as in
Pennsylvania, it is high time for
every honest revolutionary worker
to leave such a party For here in
America We see the SIP. openly fol-
lowing the line of the Social-Dem-
ocracies of Germany and Austria.
The resolution dealing with the
united front was referred to the N.
&c. This automatically withholds
the rank and file of the SIP. from
entering any united front, even as
members of other organiza lions.
without the consent of the NEG,
I have always opposed this gag
rule policy and have always ad-
yocated the united front.
The constitution of the s.P. still
remains the same, with only some
reWording of a few meaningless
phrases. Any person who signs an
application card can become a mem
Der.
Aid A. +. of L. Bureaucracy
The relation between the S.P. and
the A. F. of L. also remains the
same Although the SIP. SAYS it is
for industrial unionism, among its
membership can be found paid func-
tionaries Of A. F. of L. craft unions.
who certainly are not in favor of
industrial unionism.
Here in Connecticut we find Dan
Donovan and Fred Cedarholm. or
ganizers of the I. M. A. and S. P.
members, doing their utmost to
form craft unions among the work
ers in the state and also doing their
utmost to keep the principles of in
dustrial unionisn away from these
workers Such splitting tactics arc
allowed in the S.P. at such crucial
time when fascism is rapidly spread
ing throughout this world.
At a time when workers. organiza
lions are being endangered by the
spread of fascism the S.P. stands
b. in silence; at time when fascist
terror is being used against work
srs as in Toledo. Minnnannlis. etc