The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1925, Page 10

Mera se te By SYLVAN A. POLLACK . JT is interesting to compare the mayoralty platforms of the social- ist and Workers (Communist) Party _in this campaign. In the socialist. party platform we find the slogan; “Win New York for the people.” In contrast with the Communist slogan of “A workers’ and farmers’ government.” For a Labor Party. In the socialist platfogm no mention is made of the labor party. To the socialist party that is a dead issue while on the other'hand in the Work- ers (Communist) Party platform we find a readiness to withdraw their candidates at any time during the campaign in favor of a united labor ticket, as the platform says plainly: “The Workers (Communist) Party has) for the past three years been the fore most fighter for the formation of a labor party. At the earliest oppor- tunity this year, it proposed to the wotkers of New York the formation of a united labor ticket for the pres- ent campaign as a first step for the complete unity of labor’s political forces in a labor party. It proposed to the socialist party at its confer- ences in June, the calling of a con- vention ofall labor organizations for this purpose. But the socialist *party in its servility to the labor bureau- erats and in its complete heedlessness of the elementary needs of the work- ers, gave no answer to this proposal. Therefore the socialist party must bear jointly With the labor bureau- crats the responsibility for dividing the forces of labor and preventing the realization of a united labor ticket against capitalism, r HE Workers Party has therefore been compelled to put forward its own candidates. But it realizes the erying need for working class politic- al unity, and continues to call upon the. socialist party and all other labor erqups to joint togetherfor a united latpr campaign against the. capitalist class for the immediate needs of the divided and exploited workers. THE WORKERS PARTY STANDS READY TO WITHDRAW ITS CANDIDATES IN FAVOR OF ONE UNITED LABOR TICKET AT ANY TIME DURING THIS CAMPAIGN. Workers of New York, raise this demand for a united labor ticket leading towards a labor party in all of your organizations and compel. the labor bureaucrats an treacherous socialist leaders to cea dividing the workers. Qut of this cam: paign'must emerge concrete steps to- wards the formation of a labor wana Child Labor On the question’ of child labor Em read in ‘the socialist platform: pledge ourselves to maintain the New York standards and work for the idoption of the federal amendment.” So we see thatthe socialist party has sunk so low and has become s0 meek and submissive that it is SATIS- FIED with the child labor laws of 7 w York. Everything is so perfect t théré “can be no improvement, is id line of ‘reasoning! in@eed, for ah organization that claims to -represent the working class that it accepts the laws of capitalism without one bit of criticism or sug- gestions for improvement. HE Communist platform demands the abolition of all child labor under the age of sixteen, and a sys- tem of compensation for those famil- ies upon whom such a law would work a hardship, Municipal Employers” On municipal employers the social- ist party writes vaguely. on no_politic- al) interference and speaks of ade- pay and the recognition of abil- ity, while the Communist platform comes out openly with a proposal for the right to strike for municipal em- ployers, the prevailing union rate of wages and the 44-hours week, all of which are ignored in the socialist quate party. platform. Housing On the question of housing the so cialist party provides for the building “these should be which the rent should not exceed the rent of nine or ten 4 ae v Nee ERaR IR RR TSI eH eR gH SRN “we Very fitting dollars per month, Higher rents are beyond the reach of 69 per cent of our population with family, incomes below $2,500.00.” (From the socialist party platform.) Even Gov. Smith’s housing commis- sion is more “revolutionary” than the socialist party for it says, “The aver- age family in old law-housés, (these are the bulk of the working class) cannot afford more than seven dollars per room.” This governor’s commis- sion also suggests that by tax exemp- tion on buildings it will be possible for landlords to-build new houses get 6 per cent interest on their money, rent rooms at $7.50 and &till make a legitimate profit, HE Workers .(Communist) Party proposés the construction of dwellings for the workers by the city to be rented to them without profit and what is much more important for the immediate terrible housing situa- tion, “the fixation by the state of low rent scale based upon the earn- ing’s- of workers’ families and their ability to pay.” (From the Workers Party platform.) This of course, is a revolutionary demand, whereas the so- cialist party does not even prapose 1 reformist demand as moderate as that of the commission on housing, appointed by the democratic governor. Health. On the question of health, we see that the socialist party does not view that quegtion from a working class point of view, their entire health pro- gram could be adopted by any cap- italist legislature with a guarantee that no representative of the bosses would ever have any remorse as to have violated the interest of the class he represents. Various “practical” measures for the consolidation of hospitals, for a change in the number of bureaus of the health department; for a deputy commissioner to serve as general business manager under the commissioner; for the VE aes the policen! comarissiener-. ~ board of uvaith; for the * the board of health from detail, and finally, “more clinics should be esta- blished where needed to deal with the cancer and heart diseases.” (From the socialist platform.) THE socialist party is so far re- moved from the workers that it eating Forward to League Unity! “In the League there are no longer any differences on political ques- tions! The League completely «and unquestionably accepts the decisions of the E. C. C. L! A decisive strug- gle against the right danger—against ‘the right elements which openly or covertly lead “@'fight against the line of ‘the Executive of the Comintern! The unity of the League! The solidation and utilization of all Com- munist, forces! The tnanimous sup- port of the N. E. C.! work!. A mass League!” the slogans upon which the remains of factionalism generated almos two years of struggle in the League and Party’ and remaining after the recent Party and League conventions have finally béen ‘‘liqui- established in the ‘Young ‘Workers (Communist) League of America, Altho the decisions ‘of’ the Com- intern, the fourth convention of the W. P., and the third convention of the Y. W. L. had removed the polit- ical basis for the internd) differences in the organization, the remains of the factional spirit naturally hung over and did not disappear immediately in the ranks of our League. It also be- tion of Comrade Foster and those who agree with him in his attitude on the relation of the Comintern to thé American Party was becoming the center of crystallization of a right wing fraction and was tending to ngthen and group around itself he right wing elements of the Party. On the other hand, signs began to Real mass These are dated and complete, organic; » unity gan to grow apparent that the posi- |" The Communist and Socialist Platforms Compared forgets that there are specific work- ing class industrial diseases, and when it finally mentions two ailments they are, cancer, and heart disease, that are common to all society, and therefore naturally taken care of by the bosses. They forget altogether industrial accidents, industrial dis- eases, the prohibition of dangerous chemicals and industrial devices, fac- tory inspection to eliminate such dis- eases and special clinics in the work- ing class quarters to treat them. Loony gas poisoning, painter’s colic or lead poisoning, furrier’s consuption, hatter’s’ mercury. poisoning, these. dread diseases of the working class un- der capitalism are completely forgotten by the socialist party, while in’ the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party,.we find planks covering all of the above mentioned, which are con- spicuously absent in the socialist plat- form. Unemployment, On the question of unemployment, there is no mention of it in the social- ist platform, while the Workers (Com- munist) Party demands the establish- ment of a system of unemployment insurance, maintenance of the unem- ployed by the city at trade-union rates until work can be found for them. Also the complete elimination of the employment agency sharks thru the establishment of a city monopoly in job placements, with workers’ control of the agencies thru participation in the management. It also demands two weeks’ pay for all workers dis- missed from their jobs. Schools, LSO on the question of schools the socialist party is strangely quiet, no mention being made of it. The Workers (Communist) Party calls for the abolition of religious and military training in the public schools, the unrestricted right of the teachers to organize in labor unions, no teacher ‘to, be: expelled for holding beliefs in- amir to the present” system. Also aye pth /imn increase of the teach- “ofl ing staff; building of néw schools and full maintainance of all workers’ children up to the age of sixteen, when poverty wouldyotherwise com- pel such children to leave school be- fore that time. The Overthrow of Capitalism. Once more the socialist party is not appear of the crystallization of an intermediate group and a new frac- tion, It was onthe basis of the com- plete liquidation of the .remains _ of factionalism, the struggle against the right dangers involved in the “posi- tion of the group that continues tc follow the line of Comrade. Foster after the cabled decision of the C. I.,” “the decisive. struggle against the formation of an intermediate group,” and the consolidation of all Bolshevik elements in the League, that unity was finally accomplished in the Thru the initiative of the Executive Committee of the Young. Communist nternational, the political committee of the N; E. C, in conjunction with all the members of. the N,.E, C. who could be summoned considered. the situation: in ‘the “League and finally came to the conclusion recorded in the unanimously accepted resolfition printed elsewhere in this ey ’ This resolution, providing polit- itical basis for unity, is a registration of the fact. that henceforth there are no longer any “groups” .in the Y. W. L.; henceforth there will not be any, “groupings” on committees and in the units of the organization. Henceforth, the League is a united whole. ; With the factional struggle a thing of the past, the League is now. turn. ing its face,to real mass work. “The N. BE. ©. declares,” the resolution reads, “that the first task on the basis of the accepted political line is to con- centrate all efforts to accomplish real mass work by the League. The work in the mills, trade unions, sport or- ganizations and others, reorganization interested and has notning to say on this question, The socialist party deliberately deludes the workers into believing that their interests can be realized under capitalism and neither makes such demandssas expresses the crying necessities of the workers, nor points out that only by the overthrow of capitalism can they be realized. It limits itself to petty reforms—so petty that perhaps this time its pro- gram IS realizable under capitalism, It does not express the needs of the workers, Of the socialist party and its program nothing socialist is ee but the name, $ the platform. ofthe ‘Workers (Communist). Party, says: .,, “In proposing the. above demands... the Workers Party points out. that even such elementary demands of the workers can only be realized and maintained thru the establishment of a workers’ governvent. We propose them, not as a complete expression of the aims of the working class, but as an expression of their most element- ary needs, knowing that the workers, in struggling for these demands will inevitably come to understand that they cannot be realized and main- tained under capitalism, but only thru the overthrow of the capitalist system, the establishment of a government of workers and poor farmers, and the adoption by this government of such. measures as will lead toward the introduction of a Communist sys- tem of society. To this full program the Workers (Communist) Party is pledged.” A Comparison. After reading the above comparison any working man or working women can easily see that only the Commun- ists with Ben Gitlow, as their stand- bearer, stand as the representatives of the working class in this campaign, and as such, should support its can- didates. More than that, they should contribute to. its: campaign fund, and. join the Workers ¢Commuynist).. Barty 4 me j and help actively in, the struggle for... a Soviet republic and the dictator- ship of the proletariat. As I. Stalin, secretary of the Communist Party .in Russia, correctly said, there are no Communists outside of the Commun- ist Party! Join the Communist Party and fight for the rule of the working class! UNITY RESOLUTION UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE Y.W. L. of the League on the basis of shop nuclei, economic. and educational work, work among the Negroes, work in. the opponent organizations, etc.— these are the tasks which must be made the center of our attention.” A new page has been turned in the history of the Communist youth movement in this country. With unit- ed forces, forward to the building of a mass Leninist League of Youth in erica! Our strength lies in unity under ” the leadership of the Comintern” ind the Y. ©. [. ue The » Unity Resolution. of the Young Workers (Communist) .. League, after considering and disc ing the situation in the Young Work:. ers. (Communist) League, Pane to the follow ine conclusions: The National Executive Committee . Pics 1. In the League there are no. loi... uuy Gilerences on political questions. The League completely and unquestionably accepts the de- cisions of the Executive Committee of the Communist International and. the Fourth Convention of the Workers. (Communist) Party and greets the beginning of the process of Bolshevi- zation. 2. Considering that the right dan- ger is great, the N.E.C, declares that, it will lead a decisive struggle against ali. right elements, elements will openly or covertly lead a ‘fight | against the line of the Hxecutive of the Comintern. The position of as group which continues to follow the line of Comrade Foster after the car bled decision of the ©. I. tends to (Continued on page 5) alaaeinaemmennenemmanes nal