The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-24
Reply to ScurriIous Letter
OF Socialist Natl Secretary

IT is a desperate attempt to
j stem the growing proleta-
rian unity of Socialist workers
toward Communist workers
that is revealed in the letter
which issues from the pen of the
National Executive Secretary of the
Socialist Party, Clarence Senior of
Chicago reprinted in full in the ad-
joining columns).
1t is it's very desperateness that
colors it with such cold-blooded mis-
"a 7resentation, such unrestrained
y ION.
We reprint the letter entire. We
want every worker to examine it
with us, patiently and fairly. We
want, once and for all, to place the
truth Of the recent events clearly be-
fore every Socialist worker, for him
to see with his own eyes, what Is
true, what falsehood and SANDER, in
the swift-moving events connected
with the heroic uprising Of the Aus
trian workers.
SANDER /: ''The Daily Worker
greeted the display of heroism Of the
Austrian workers with daily stream
Of the most filthy calunny and lies"
Was 1t filthy calrmny and lies"
! that the Daily Worker strained every
ounce OF its resources to issue two
special editions devoted solely to the
heroic struggles Of the Austrian work.
ers? Was it filthy calumny and lies"
that the Central Committee Of the
Communist Party issued, at the very
moment that the news ..me from
Vienna, a statement hailing the
glorious struggles Of the Austrian
workers for raising high the banner
Of invincibIe class struggle on the bar
ricadeS"?
Was it not the Socialist leader,
Otto Bauer, who pleaded with the
capitalist world in apology, that he
had tried to call off the workers from
taking to arms, that he had urged
them ito be patient under the search
for arms?
Were there any filthy calumny and
lies" to equal this out Of the mouth
Of the leading figure Of the Austrian
Socia1-Democracy, Otto Bauer? Were
there any filthy calumny and lies"
to equal the special pleading of the
New Leader and Norman Thomas
apologizing for the Austrian workers
on the ground that they had not
provoked the battle?
The Central Committee OF the
V,Nf4y1{cf 1-fxy fkaa naS1xy NHIOY-lraY-
the Pravda, leading paper of the
Communist Party Of the Soviet
Union, the millions Of workers from
the biggest factories in the Soviet
Union, sent their admiration and
revolutionary greetings to the embat-
tied Austrian workers ringing round
the world.
But the Socialist papers and lead
ers grovelled in apology for the armed
struggles Of the Vienna and Linz pro-
letariat.
THIS U. S. Socialist official talks OF
} 1 "calumny and lies" Was there
any filthy calurnny and lie to equal
the statement Of his Social-Fascist
colleague in Austria, Otto Bauer, who
befouled the heroic struggles Of the
Austrian and Linz workers, whining
in apology that his orders against
their struggle "had arrived too late!
What WAS it that stung the So
W cialist officials of the American
Socialist Party? 1t was the revela-
tions In the Daily Worker that Otto
, Bauer had only taken the road
: upon which the American Socialist
: leaders are now striving to lead the
: American working class. 1t was be-
cause the Daily Worker persistently
reminded the American working
class that it was the Socialist lead
ers of Germany who Daved the way
: FOR Hitler by supporting Won Hin
denburg, that 1t was the Socialist
leaders Of Austria who paved the
, way for Fascism in Austria by SUD
) porting Dolifuss, and that the Nor
man ThOmases and Seniors in
America arc paving the way for
American Fascism by supporting
the VOLS, the Greens, the Roose-
/ veIts as the Fighters against Fas-
: cism."
The Daily Worker published the