The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1928, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1928 I i EI Page Five Unmasking Tammany Hall “Socialism” and the “Socialist” Tammany Hall Di re FAKEPOLICIES eee tae Meee eee eee eleeresen eee rip (MONEY IS VITAL eieeeecictecle: Letters and Checks Aid Campaign ‘ Economize— aii ru | fay NO RELATION TO | i q PARTY PLATFORM. E é | 2 ‘ — | = po / : | - ing |i | cers Are ake vantage or Uur Much AdoOverNothing est ee | E But Capitalism | ie gs g eure wae Fata Having-accomplished the tremend- i By MW: WEENSTONE, ous task of collecting over 100,000 An extra show of the big circus signatures of qualified voters, the a that annually performs at Madison Communist message of the class j e Square Garden was put on October struggle and uncompromising war t 22nd, when Herbert Hoover deliv- against the capitalist system is being | ci ered his presidential address to the | brought home to the masses in every a New York “public.” corner of the country by means of Hoover found Al Smith guilty of tons of literature and hundreds | g the great charge of advocating a} speakers. | f ete dace In addition to the cost of setting] ee atc ie ton pete ete the ticket on the ballot, the Party , hor 1 i of fight- Hotel Astor when he declared that he pute ie sea f eae | it is absurd of Mr. Hoover to charge eee Grateiltont ios thtbwing othe z Slhec titae parks iuee oe aetna ticket ‘off on flimsy technicalities. | 2 by Norman Thomas in Syracuse, be- Tacihia Tolan ok tie cae . Ie fore the student body of the Syra- | paign Communist activity must. be| ; cuse University, when he declared | Intenalflad: Ashefold: “Beery ‘Party g that the most Smith ever did was to member must be on the job. Every fa borrow a socialist sock or vest and Hiollki SHA busi’ Pavey. rommber: cai i that the planks of Smith are not ‘spare must be mobilized for the elec- socialism or good sense. A Comedy. Norman Thomas further declared that “there is an unconscious drift toward socialism which events are forcing on capitalist parties through a process of developing collective ownership and democratic manage- ment of what we collectively need for an adequate life.” The whole situation is a great comedy. Hoover’s charge against Smith of being a socialist is, of course, in- tended to frighten away the small i i ith is es- a 2 5 & a ES & 5 s | B = na { pecially“catering by raising the cry | that the property pf the capitalist | @ass will be confiscated if Smith | comes into the presidency. The so- cialist party comes out with its de- nial of this charge against Smith because it wishes to retain the re- §pectability of its brand of socialism and in that way to secure the sup- port of the small business inter- ests of the country and to maintain its respectability as a party of small business men. Much the Same. Al Smith is as much a socialist and stands as much for socialism as does Norman Thomas. The type of socialism which Nor- man Thomas stands for is that of government ownership and control of industries without a workers’ and farmers’ government, a type which is not far removed either from a Hoover or a Smith. The process of the development going on in the world today is for a ten- WM. W. WEINSTONE. dency towards state capitalism which the petty bourgeois socialist party calls socialism. If the New York traction lines would be taken over by Tammany Hall, the socialist party would call that a species of socialism. If the Washington government were to take over the railroads, they would éall that socialism despite the fact that in many European countries the capitalist governments already have control over the railway sys- tem. In the United States, much of such “socialism” already exists. Mr. Mel- Jon, secretary of the treasury, domi- nates mines and big trusts and the bootlegging industry of the country, These trusts are interlocked with the banks and the banks are interlocked with the government. To call that socialism is’ to make a laughing stock of Marxism. Only a party that has abandoned all ideas of revolution can engage in the comedy of clearing Al Smith of Tammany Hall, of the democratic party, ene of the twin parties of big business, of the charge of so- cialism, Don’t “Come”—Must Be Fought For, The first step in the development of’ socialism consists in the ex- propriation of all large scale indus- ] tries, railroads, super power plants, me eat packing plants, grain elevator combines, nationalization of' all large land estates, nationalization of all banks and commercial institu. tions through a genuine workers’ and farmers’ government. Such a government can be estab- lished only by the seizure of power by the working class by the estab- lishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, This can* be brought about, as the platform of the Work- ers’ (Communist) Party states, “by the formation of the proletariat into a class, by its separation from other ~ dD, _ | Workers Responding to | Party Appeal for Funds Campaign Committee of the orkers (Com- munist) Party in response to the no-; tice of the Election Drive—Anti- Terror Emergency Fund. Among these was $5 from the Workn.en’s Sick and Death Benefit Belleville, Ill. One contributior.. of | $1 from Manila, Arkansas, was ac- | | companied by an interesting letter, | and excerpt from which reads: | “I’ve been thinking I .was a so- cialist, but a friend gave me.a tip. I sent for the Communist platform. After reading same, you can count classes, by the development of a consciousness, organization And | fighting capacity, by the organiza. | tion of a mass Communist Party to lead the struggles of the working class against the capitalist parties, | by the representation of the most jgeneral international interests of | ‘the working glass as a whole, as ex- to reach on me. si I could ature, if I could only use lots of lite: pay for it.—R. have been re- coming to the at 43 East onal word gement with the money. The National Election Campaign Committee ask: ributors to send with each eont on a short letter on the local conditions of the Com- ist election campaign. News on of the “Solid ro campaign, as se in Arizona, been so dramatic that they have wded out to some extent news of the campaign in the industrial states and in the important indus- More should be heard from the campaigners. there. Also the nuclei and Party commit- ees “are urged to report on the pro- gress of the emergency drive in par- er contri tion campaign. Money talks, Money writes. Money fights, Without money to get its message to the massesy the Workers (Communist) Party is severely handicapped in the ‘midst of the greatest opportunity it ever had to sink its roots deeper ‘into the ranks of the exploited | masses in.the United States. | Contribute to the Communist Elec- tion Campaign Fund. | Contribute Immediately! Senc all funds to Alexander Trachtenberg, 43) ‘Bast 125th Street, New York City. TEN DAYS FOR TRUANCY NIAGARA FALLS, Oct. 25 (UP). |—Because he missed school for six | jand one-half days, Felix Komkolem- | ski, 16, was ordered to serve ten ‘days in the county jail on a truancy charge. CENTRAL BUSINESS SCHOOL | —Bookkeeping \ | —Stenography —Typewritins Individual Instruction CLASS LIMITED 108 E. 14th STREET * ee eee dee ee ease! ieee Mice ee venereal Fine Hand Tailored Suits—— Topcoats & Qvercoats -. al $29.75 to $34.75 Soe | Meee eee. | \pressed in the principles and prac- | and of the clection campaign , 0096088006090 S8ES902 Pee ee ee Pd PAS le aaeall, Sea th eae ok it ERON | all | struggle in your locality. A The socialist party never dreamed {about such tasks for the working class. | “All Together.” | The foolish socialist party and it: |pacifist candidate for president is |pleased that “socialism” has become jan issue in the campaign. That shows that the socialist party has | | succeeded in making Al Smith a par- | tial convert to the cause of social- | jism. Perhaps in a little while Her- |bert Hoover may be convinced; Ras- jcob may become a convert. If a son jof the great railway crook Vander- |bilt may join the socialist party, |why may not Rockefeller himself |become an advocate of the great \cause of socialism? It is not hard for him to advocate government | ownership when he controls the gov- ernment. It is not difficult for Mellon to favor the government openly tak- | ing over the mines when he already | jcontrols the mines and is a big | |wheel in the government machinery. | | Soon Tammany Hall will put up the | red flag of socialism over its new |building and the republican party adopt the International as its of- ficial song. This will give an op- | |Portunity for Norman Thomas to. ‘sing the Star Spangled Banner and | for Jimmie Walker and Al Smith | to sing the International and all will | be together, as the socialist party | says in the opening of its pream- ble—all will be Americans, there will be no struggle and socialism j will he accomplished. | Only One Revolutionary Party. | The (Communist) Party has long ago exposed the new Tammany Hall | a8 a party of big business, and the so-called liberalism of Smith as so. much demagogy and hypocrisy to catch the support of still uncon. scious workers and it nas been ex- | posing the socialist party as a party | (of small business, ideologically | j bound up with the whole capitalist | ‘system and its political parties as @ party of peaceful evolution of \vapivalism into socialism, a develop- ment which can never come about, Socialism can come only through | the sword of revolution, through a revolutionary working class united together by the Communist Party. | Only the Workers (Communist) Party and '* candidates stand for revolution and for socialism, Only + y hooerves the support of | the workers that desire to emanci-. pate themselves from the slavery of | capitalism, from imperialism and imperialist war, from the oppressive capitalist governmer: praberta oreien Oe Be ee a One. contribution that among others in the penying from Comrade John Tuchel. , Who is now rician in Leningrad, mer member of the Workers (Com- munist) Party, and sends 14 rubles for one and a half day’s pay, with the hope that the Party will sue- ceed in getting on the ballot in Sil the states of the country. 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