The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1933, Page 5

DALLY WUKAHN, NEW LUKK, SALUKUAY, SEPLEMBER 2, 1933 Page Five Norman Thomas Sugar-Coats NRA - Codes With ae ¢ Capitalist State Is No| Longer a Tool of the Capitalists, HeSays | By MILTON HOWARD. i CORMAN THOMAS and the entire leadership of the Socialist Sec- ond International think so. | Speaking the other day in Paris | oefore the Congress of the Second International, Vandervelde, Socialist leader, proclaimed joyfully that he could clearly discern in the Roose-| vent NRA codes and program dis-| tinct “anti-capitalist tendencies.” Socialist Stand on | \Wros1d’s Bi Be age ggest Canal Opens NRA Disillusions \Up Wealth of Soviet North «6S ° li 99) Old S. P. Worker. y ALLAN WALLENIUS. Talk of O Cl a usm | “Tt seems to me that the So- | ExNanan. mites: heat = construction of the cialist Party stand on the NRA . ssp goes contrary to all their teachings, cAnal, from the White Sea to Lake Onega was completed. It that the capitalist would never | jz 230 kilometers long and was built in 1 year and 9 months —a speed unsurpassed in history. Through it pass ships, with- willingly give up any of their power or possessions. I have, u ] therefore, been compelled by the | out reloading, from Leningrad to Archangelsk, or from any logic of events to turn to the only | puropean port to the White Sea a — working class alternative, namely | The long route, around the Scan-| opened up its two great swinging the Communist Party.” dinavian peninsula, passing Tromso| “doors.” We steamed in and behind Jt is with these words that, an} and North Cape has been eliminated. | us the “doors” were closed. We were old member of the Socialist Party| A route of 2,900 sea miles has been! imprisoned in a deep chamber, the writes to the Daily Worker. Like! replaced by a sea route of only 675} walls of which reached over the mast- many another Socialist worker, the| sea miles, ‘Tremendous stretches| top of “Karl Marx." Suddenly the enthusiastic support which Norman| of wasteland are now opened up for| water began to bubble and surge at Thomas is giving to the Roosevelt| culture, unheard-of riches are now ac-| the next gate. At an unusual speed NRA slave codes, the sudden dis-| cessible, new views, new perspectives | “Karl Marx” was lifted up until the covery of the Socialist leaders that| have been opened up, which will have) water stood only a couple of band+ in the Roosevelt government are| far-reaching consequences, not only| lengths from the edge of the quary. for the Soviet Union, but even for! We had now taken the first step up such countries as Finland and the| the Povenets “staircase,” from the fop many “socialist” characteristics, re- vealed to him the true nature of other Baltic nations and for Scan-| of which we had a wonderful view Sees in Intensified! Exploitation of NRA,| | “Socialist Influence” | |velt government about a “funda-| | mental change . . . etc.” at its face | | value. They spread and support this | propaganda by developing their own | socialist” theories in order to make the capitalist-Roosevelt program | | palatable to the workers. To put it bluntly, their fine-spun | theory of “state capitalism” becomes an integral part of the capitalist pub- | ieity, necessary for the Pray ot | (application of the capitalist way out of the crisis. And the English Socialist, Brails- ford, thinks he sees in Roosevelt's program “Socialism without Social- ists.” But it is our own Norman Thomas who has given the most open eX- pression to this “Socialist” interpre- tation of Roosevelt's program. Writing in the August 19 issue of the New Leader, he said: “The achieved certain things. It has re- established a banking system when it was on the verge of ruin. It has given hepe and some more substan- | tial ‘advantages to farmers and workers ... these things do not constitute Socialism, but State capitalism, although a kind of Stete capitalism unquestionably in~ fluenced by Socialist influence and agitation.” “It gives the workers a chance | to go forward im an orderly fash- ion. . . . The great hope of the New Deal is that it may make it a Ltile easier . .. to advance to- ward a truly Socialist society.” Such is the picture of the Roose- velt program which the Socialist leaders paint for the workers. s a false pi which fits in beautifully with ruling sevelé purposes of the governmen:. With such tation of the New Deal, ti list leaders do nothing but hand the workers over to their ex- pie! , bound hand and foot. ine hoe &:{FOFE and ‘substantial advantages,” ft says Norman Thomas. Let us The coal and auto codes, be- the thickets of their legal jar- gearante? and legalize the open The coal miners have already @iscoversd thet. ets and m-chii tvenin State e guns of the Penn- rospers, the coal ‘antly learned how t influence” there Program. ioment in Utah, ten thousand miners ere facing the po- lice and armed forces of the State beoaus they dared to join a union— the National Miners Union—not to the + of the State officials. This latest attack on the workers proves, in a Innguage no workers can mis- understand, that the supposed right to -crganize end join unions under the NRA codes is a trap and a fraud. And the entire ‘litery machine of nari 4s ready to crush i of the workers to resist tation of their capitalist Grever Whalen, the former Tammany Folice Chief, and now NRA administratcr of New York, blurted out the cther day, that the outlaw the right to . only declared, in his erudenes at an impartial judge has confirmed in a learned decision. Judge Stone of New York has al- ready declared that picketing of a bakery shop which flies the NRA flag is a “nuisance.” Let but the workers raise their against the exploitation of the ployers, and with unparalleled swiftness the NRA is sending its “arbitrators” d the “arbitrator’ stand 2 and the troops with ma- chine gu! The NRA flag has now become the , Ss over factories pro- workers that “Now we are protected against strikes,” Coated with lying phrases about Roosevelt program has | It is a pic-) In the fixed bayon-| to break the strike. | | OBE national income, by reducing the |total wages of the working class through cheapened money. In the last four months, thanks to the Roosevelt program, food costs have leaped upward 18 per cent. At most, wages have increased 7 per cent, and only for a handful of work- ‘ers at that. | This deadly spreading scissors be- | tween rising prices and lagging | wages is one of the most character- istic results of the Roosevelt “liberal State capitalism.” In fact, it lies at | the very heart of Roosevelt's pro- | gram, “Socialist” Norman Thomas ap- proves of this inflationary robbery. Has he not repeated time and time ‘again that he favors “controlled in- flation”—or controlled robbery? ea ane ‘HE codes are a method of increas- ing the concentration of capital. tho small retailers out of business. Among the railroads, the Roosevelt, program is effecting a tightening of the grip of Wall Street, through forced mergers. Thomas praises Roosevelt for “‘sav- jing the benks.” This is a typical example of “socialist” sleight-of- band. What really happened is that | the state stepped in and with the aid of almost $2,000,000,000 collected from the workers in taxes, saved the bank- ‘ers from any serious locses. The | state assumed the losses of the eapi- | talists, with the workers’ money! | And every capitalist finance ex- pert knows that the Roosevelt pro- gram is leading to a gigantic concen- tration and strengthening of finance And, incredible as it may seem, the | Admittedly, they will tend to drive | monopoly capital, Why, the latest issue of the Kiplinger Letter, a con- fidential Washington news letter states: “The government will become part owner of many banks (under the Roosevelt program) many weak banks, and will use this ownership to ease the weaker banks into mergers within the next few years...” So it is clearly the purpose of the | Roosevelt government to “interfere in business”, not for the purpose of weakening the capitalist class, but to concentrate the power still further in its hands. It is this process of the fusion of | the most powerful section of Wall Street finance capital with the state for the sole purpose of increasing profits of the capitalists, that~is de- scribed by the socialist leaders every- where as “State capitalism . with anti-capitalist tendencies . infiu- enced by socialist agitation .. .!” It is pretty clear that Thomas is trying to get the workers to believe that the state is no longer the op- presser of the workers, but has be- come a “peoples’ state” fighting for the workers against the capitalists. Rooseyelt’s program of active parti pation in the country’s economy? It is essentially the historic continu- ation of its main function—to act as the “executive committee of the capitalist class’ (Marx). It is the continued profound deep- ening of the crisis that makes it im- perative for the capitalists to intro- duce new tactics in its assault on the workers. In addition to the But what is the true meaning of | well-tried “normal” methods of shift- | ing the load of the crisis upon the ' hypocritical propaganda of the Roose- | leads to Socialism. workers through wage cuts, lay-offs, etc., it now becomes necessary for the capitalists to add to their open ruth- less assaults, the weapons of indi- rect attack, the weapons of inflation, | rising prices, legalization of starva- tion wages in the name of the “min- imum wage”, etc, It is just because the conditions of the workers are so unendurabie, 30 fraught with suffering and the danger of their resistance so menacing, that the capitalists need the open and di- rect aid of the state in their at- tempts to drive the workers still lower in order to guarantee and in- crease profit, That’s the meaning of the state’s interference in the eco- nomy of the couhtry. Accordingly the Roosevelt govern- ment becomes active in the economy of the country (avowedly to increase the real profits of the capitalist class) through an enormous swindle, by pre- tending to favor increased wages, while at the same time reducing the costs of production through speed-up etc., at the same time and by de- basing the buying power of the work- ers through a deliberate inflation- ary program of rising prices, To keep the workers in check while all this intensified plundering goes on, the Rocscvelt government emits tremendous clouds of hypocrition! propagenda abou old order” . , , the “assault on the meney changers ... etc.” And above all it masks its harsh ruling class purpose by the adoption of a cun- ningly simulated appearance of fight- ing big monopoly capital. And the treachery, the truly damn- able betrayal of the socialist leaders consi A Socialist ‘Talk of “Overthrow” Who Tries to Get Ou | bureaucratic way) higher profits “the end of the; And finally from all these in- famies, Thomas concludes with the crowning betrayal. He sees in all| this the guranatee of the “orderly | road to socialism.” | In the increasing open Fascist violence of the State, in the mobili-| zation of all the State forces to crush strikes, in the State interven’ tion in economy for the avowed pur~ pose of increasing profits. mas sees the “easy” path to So- cialism. Can one find a more typi- cal mple of Social-Fascism—| Soci: in word, but supporting Fascism in actuality? | * * . : Pan} ‘HE Communist Party sees in Rbosevelt’s New Deal program, in the more active interference of the capitalist state in industry, something quite different. It sces| what Lenin saw, whenever any cap-| italist State comes to the assistance} of industry: “In America as well as in Gere many the regulation of industry and economic life creates for the workers a military ptison, and for the bankers and capitalists a pa- radise. The essence of this reg- | ulation is that it raises the bread. basket of the workers higher out of their reach and guarantees (secretly, and in a reactionaty, to the capitalists.” Which is the correct picture of the Roosevelt New Deal? The Com. munist picture or the picture painted by the Socialist leaders? Is the New Deal leading to So-| cialism? The workers led by the Communist Party are giving the} answer is in the smash'rg of the New Deal that the read to so.) cialism lies. It is not “orderly road to Socialism”—the peaceful submis- sion to the heel of the exploiters— that the workers are taking. It is road of revolutionary struggle for the overthrow of capitalism, the |road upon which the Commu ist) Party leads the way, that the work-| ers are taking. Against the yoke of the Rooseyelt! brand of “socialism,” the miners the textile workers, the shipyard work- ers, the workers and farmers every- where are rising in bitter class re- sistance. A wave of strikes is sweeping the country, rising always higher. To the sorrow of the ruling class, the workers are not accepting the cunning theovics of the Social leaders. On the contrary, the w ers are setting themselves against | the growing fascist actions of the State. | The “Socialist” worship of the) NRA codes, the socialist offer of | class peace, leads to Fascism. Tho. |Y | quaintances eame suspicious, Furthermore, ‘it seemed to me that the Social | Party. the Socialist leadership. The rest, of his letter follows: New York, N. ¥ August 28, 1933 dinavia, One more fact; this new route | makes the northeast passage to Sibe- ria, that the Swedish explorer and scientist, Nordenskjold was the first to navigate, more easily” accessible, making the canal’s importance felt along the whole coast of Siberia and far in!and, yes, even as far as Viadi- vostok. Kar Dear Comrade: I have been a sincere and de- yoted follower of the Socialist Party | since I first understood the ne sity of having a working clas tical party. Through ail these ears it was with a great deal of relish and interest that I read the New York Call and New Leader. While it is true that I was no party| member, (circumstances making it impossible for me to become one)» still, amongst my friends and ac- I ‘steadily preached the gospel of Socialism. in many humble ways I tried to bring fo ward my Socialist ideal of a co- operative commonwealth. When the Socialist Party adopted the principle that the NRA gave| labor a chance to become a power-| ful factor in the governing of the industrial life of the country I b Nor- 's endless primeval forests and Siber' even greater stretches of forests have been opened up. The canal is the new sea-route for explo- ration of these regions,—but not only that, it is also important in that it has strengthened the defense possibil- ities of the Soviet Union, and that minerals will now be mined, new towns, factories, while cities will grow up in the tracts of this canal. On | the battle field of socialism a great victory has been won. It was one of the first days of July. Lake Onega seemed to be lovelier than ever in the early morning sun- shine. The day was hot, hotter than | over the new port of Povenets. A Lamp and a Telegraph Wire At the second sluice we met with a little accident. The captain, before all the overwhelming festivities, the | many greetings, the masses of con- | struction workers crowding on the piers, mus! ongs, huraas—had for- gotten to hoist down the mast. Across the canal are strung telephone wires and the mast got caught in these: | It was bent like a bow, a couple of wires were torn off, but the topmast held. The captain ordered the engines to | back, but for a few minutes it con- | tinued to move forward. In a tug- of-war fashion there was a pulling and straining between the telegraph wires and the metal encasement of the lantern, The mast, bent like-a bow was victorious—but the top lan- | tern was ripped from the mast and thrown a couple of hundred meters | astern fell with a bang against the pier and sank. The mast was hoisted down. At once workers climbed up the telegraph poles and repairs were Thomas’ guarded praise of the| in Moscow this s .| began. We continued from chamber man seamed to me diabolical. | Going about my. w | to chamber, from sluice to sluice, felt that I should have voted for| I had met comrade Gylling, president | higher and higher up the “water- instead of him. Basically,| of the Karelian Autonomous Republic. deen tae ist| He asked me if I wanted to see the i =| newly completed canal? Party stand on the NRA went con’ y | cana ; trery to all their teachings, viz that| And so I became a guest of the the capitalists would never willingly Karelian goverment, jand on board rec arvtang of theix power or pos-| the S. 8. “Karl Marx” together with Laer I therefore have been members of the government I Was compelled by the logic of events to| turn to the only working class al- ternative, namely, the Communist official opening. | When we steamed up Lake Onega, | the sun shone over the wide lake, melting heaven and sea into one. | We steamed northward; soon the coast was visible, and little by little we came to an archipielego. We saw only a few villages. Some- May I state emphatically that it was the clearness of the Communist | tand on the NRA, as expressed in| the Daily Worker that made me see) the inoffectiv of the S. P.| tt " {mes hours passed, without passing SE ape Worker has| iMtnlo habitation, or even boat. | singlenees of purpose, eee Wildnerness and forests, forests as Leader in contrast, is full of con-| present on the occasion of the canals) | steps” of Povenets. | Night Becomes Day Our top lantern was ripped off. How should we get along during the night? I looked at my watch. It was al- ready 10 o'clock in the evening, I thought it was about 6 or 7, The sun was up and shone warmly. I was in the north, not in Moscow. The photographers worked until 12 mid- | night. The sun was away hardly two hours, and during this time we had both morning and evening glow in the sky. On our canal tour we did | not know the difference between night | and day, once we even ate supper | at 4 o'clock in the morning. When we were finally lifted up into the fourth sluice, we saw a sight that py F ene «om | far as the eye could see. However,| none of us will soon forget. In com- flicting idecs as regards the "NCW! in two more months this lake will) parison Switzerland pales, so, does Deal.” Furthermore, th aily| present another picture — steamers,| Crimea, the Caucasus, the most beau- Worker is full of news about the doings of labor, while the New Leader, it appears to me, is woe-| g both in spirit and timberfloats, barges, fisher boats -will travel over this ly route. Wha! will be built in Petrosa- within a short time, towns will enterpr’ . . | arise in the midst of the now deep At present I feel like an immi: | along the coast of Lake Onega, grant. Sorry at the prospect Of/ summer and autumn 1934 will present having to leave old ideas, (for one} y new picture than the sum- cannot break old tics and loyalties! mer cf 1933, vithout feeling pain) but happy in the thought that the future will Cent Son bring forward, through the Cor-| Our steamer with its gt munist Party, that csoverative com=| js the canal’s first regular traffic| |monwerlth that I have always) s'eamer, running between Povenets| drezmed of. | and Soroka, the two end points on| Yours, for the dictatorship of — | the Proletariat. | White Sea. The “Karl Ma old boat with two engines, Cat for 120 pessengers and freight. Now it was clothed in festive gar- MINDENBURG MAKES GENERAL EERLIN, Sept. 1.—President Paul GOERING crew. The Communist call to struggle against the codes is the fight against | m, aSainst ennitalist exploi- The road of revolutionary t in this that they accept the | sir uggle against the New Deal alone yon Hindenburg, elected by Social Demo : vi a ‘dey ap- pointed Herman Goeving, drug fiend nd Nazi leader, a general in the Germen army. Only Bismarck and Chancellor yon Bethmann-Mollveg Pave received a similar honor in the past. a colossal head of Stalin; carved in : held the dominating position, Stal being the initiator of the canal’s con- struction. old boat. t of NRA Mire With Left Phrases sprinkling of holy water on the ma- chine guns and cannons in war time. and soul together.” original), (Emphasis in system on a new foundation, cuttil out the old rotten parts, till Insist Workers only did the engines work excellently, iron and metal construction. electric welding. ship, but nevertheless for a canalboat | t name} the trip from Lake Onega to the | accomo- | lands; flags and transparents, slogans, | etc., were produced as if by magic| by an artist-deckhand, one of the, In the stern of the ship stood wood by an 18-year-old Karelian boy, Stalin I said #hat S.S. “Karl Marx” is an One should add, newly re- built at an electrical shipyard. Not its newness was also visible in the complete lack of rivets and bolts in its Every bit of metal was welded together by It was net a speedy | tiful places I have seen. A sunny summer night, — marvelous coloring over the magnificent stretches, that mile after mile extended in every | direction. Below us Lake Onega, with its ar- chepelago, glittering like silver rib- | bons, as they fade away afar off at the horizon. To the West, Bear Hills, | grandiose, forest clad hills, rolling up- ward, downward, far off in an end- ess chain. In the east, hills, foyests and forests and forests. It was = ada’s greatness and beauty and bal- ance, I thought we have already seen’the loveliest, but little by little we ap- proached the fifth sluice: greater mightier more majestic yet! In com- parison the beauty of our Southland sank to smaller, tinier dimensions— the eye of a tourist cannot behold anything mightier than this North- land has to offer in untouched wild- ness and power, sky and forest and sea, with opaque distances burning in silver and crimson and finally sink- ing deep into the violet of the distant forests. Beautiful Construction How finely constructed the canal was! .| It was made with such precision; the architecture of the cleanest, sim- plest lines on sluice gates and piers, in American style, but simpler. The wooden construction work of the sluice gates and the walls of the sluices resembled the work of mould- But Don’t Mean Capitalism By HARRY GANNES. its little better than 10 knots is suf-| ers. The whole canal is built of stone, ficient. However, it could make an/ timber and cement. The sluices are about-turn in almest the same spot,| mainly of wood. Not a siyye piece | and this is a valuable feat, even in a| is imported, even the iron frames for gigantic canal. | the sluice gates ere of Soviet make: vnions and the right to organize the are a gigantic effort to er the right of the work- Oa 5 fas UT withall, the main purpose of Mr. Baskin is to revive the work- ers’ faith in the NRA, preaching them on the “good” to be expected If there ever was a swindle, here ig’one. In not a single instance un- der the NRA (with its average of $12 minimum wage) have the work- ers received anywhere near enough stituting now dura started piscing it togeth: Capitalism hes not collapsed. Ii! is in a deep, general crisis, but the capitalist class rules, plunders,| the profits of the Should Keep Faith | in Good of NRA British bondhold- And it is not without meaning, that The Sluices Open Up the Roosevelt government has seen fit to clamp the codes down on the workers at this time. For, it is at this time, more than any other time during the last four years of crisis, that the State and the capitalist class are grimly determined to re- store the profits of the capitalists, move grimly. determined than ever to clamber out of the crisis upon the backs of the working class. The capitalist, oppressing govern- ment attempts te crush strikes with machine guns. Norman Thomas pleads with the workers that “this is net the time to strike.” The net, practical result of both is th2 same—strikebreaking, at a time when the capitalist class has a mor- tal fear of strikes. GT ares sSQUBSTANTIAL advantages,” says Norman Thomas. A govern- icnt-sanctioned starvation wage vevel of $11-$15 a week, legalized and fixed under the codes as a minimum, kvt actually as the maximum. Substantial advantages—the legal- ization of the stagger plan through iced working time for every worker. “Substantial advantages”— wage cuts for millfons of workers thrgugh the slashing of the work week without any proportional in- crease in wages. And speed-up such as even the heil factories of Ford have not krown. Such are the substantial benefits of Thomas's “liberal state capitaligm,” unquestionably influenced by Social- ist agitation.” And, on top of all this terrible ex- joit2tion in the shops, it is the eculiar trait of the Roosevelt gove rmment that it assists the capital- the factories, by an enormous cheap- onine ef the dollar, by a program of inflationery price rises. The net re- tlt.being that the capitalist class as o's in their exploitation, outside of | NRA. ECK deep in the mire of the Roose- velt NRA, the Socialist Party is now Straining to save its face before the working masses. When the NRA was first passed, the Socialist Party greeted it with unashamed hozanaas. Norman Thomas was completely en- tranced it. He issued the sweetest words the capitalists wanted to hear from its bulwark in the camp of la- bor—“now is not the time to strike.” Another bright light of the Socialist Party just this last month pleaded with the workers not to struggle against the NRA. The New Leader printed an article which told the workers: “Heeding the letter and spirit of the act (NRA) we shall en- joy the nearest approach yet made in any country to have industry serve the nation.” “Much more danger lies in trying to hamper its tryout.” ‘The Jewish Daily Forward and the New Leader reeked with kowtowing to the NRA. “It will bring you new blessings”, they cried. Strikes Break Out. from the Blue Eagle, while saving the Socialist Party for a parachute leap from the Blue Eagle when its gory tallons become too obvious to all. workers. “We are not inclined to shout that the entire Recovery Act is a swindle designed to blind the eyes of the masses,” writes Baskin, “that the gains of the workers in some indus- tries are completely devoid of value.” It is ironical that William Green is forced to put up the bluff of fight- ing against the whole mess of codes passed because “wages are too low and hours too long,” while the So- cialist cries “bravo” for the gains made. Cheating NRA To leave himself a hole to crawl out of, Baskin does some tall squirm- ing. He first of all defends the gov- ernment against the bosses who are “cheating” on the NRA. He says they rush luction to avoid higher ‘wages. ie NRA is good, it is a gain for the workers. But the bad bosses cheat the “impartial” govern- Hardly is the ink dry on the codes in the basic industries, when the workers throughout the country are against a i the ied em in most bitterly fought strikes yet wists: Two lelphia strikers lie dead, clawed to death by the Blue Eagle. The very William Green, to whom Thomas sent a special telegram of praise, signed the open shop auto code— opening the way for the most vicious attack on the workers. Whalen piles in, An attack is made on all pick- ‘The Socialist Party rushes to cov- er its messy tracks leading to the Joseph Baskin, yellow Soclalist, General Secretary of the Workmen's Circle, writes an article in the Aug. w wpele increases its slice of the tota) 26 issue of the New Leader, filled with “revolutionary” phrases like the ment. “If that isn't putting one over the government, what is?” he asks with the satisfaction of one who has found the real culprit—not the capitalist dictatorship but the individual capitalist who won't play according to the beneficial rules Roosevelt has designed. ‘ ‘Wages and Prices Still fearful that many workers will not undersiand, and insist on striking for higher wages after the Socialists assure them that the NRA has brought them advantages, Bas- kin proceeds to explain: “As regards the workers, prices will soar higher and higher, and the in- crease in wages will in all probability be just enough to make a bare ad- justment of the new conditions, In other words, the capitalist class, no matter how ‘liberal’ it is, will give the worker just enough to keep body to meet the rise in prices. The NRA holds wages down to a minimum starvation level, while Roosevelt with his inflation shoots up the price of toor. The whole program of Roose~ velt connected with the NRA—wheat, cotton, hog tax—it designed to double the cost of living, insuring a drastic wage cut for the whole working cless. Besides, Roosevelt by his stagger plan hopes to be able to fight off the de- mand for unemployment insurance, condemning the unemployed to mass starvation, This, the socialists re- gard as a concession because it will give the worker just enough to keep body and soul together. Ca cand ASKIN wants to assure the work- ers that appearances are deceiv- ing, and that they should not think that the Socialists have swallowed Roosevelt’s program wholeheartedly. “We look upon eyerything with a critical eye,” he says. He advises Roosevelt on how to make it pos- sible for the Socialists to regard his program as a real step toward So- cialism by taking government con- trol of the railroads, telegraph in- dustries and public utilities, But nowhere, net in a sentence, a word, a hint, does he urge the work- ers to resist, to strike, to defend their right to picket, to struggle for higher wages. He tells them to expect gains from the NRA, and then rambles off into an orgy of cheap phrases, Wu ae , to leave the Socialist a trap- door, he garnishes the whole mess with some phrases that might sound left to the unwary. He resorts to chest-thumping. Baskin, in the col- umns of the New Leader, makes short shrift of capitalism, He writes: “The capitalist system! has col- lapsed”—nothing less, in Amorica; but that is not enough so he adds— “not only in America but over the starves the masses even more than/ ever. It prepares for new wor!d| slaughtera. Private properly reia-| tions are’ securaly intact. The grect) task of making it collapse and pul- ting in its place the power of the workers and a new social crdor is} the foremost job of the revolutionary | working class. When capitalism had collapsed in Germany after the world war, “the Socialists shot Com- munists in order to put capitalicm on its feet again. Baskin's Lament But most astcundinzg end reveal- ing of all ig the Socialist’s lament that instead of trying to build up a healthy strong capitalism “cutting out the old rotten parts, and substi- tuting durable ones"—to perpctuaic capitalism—they startcd piecing it together. Baskin wants to tell them} how to rebuild it so it won't ecl!zpr> again, . * IN its collapse, czpilclism, to save | itself, throws the workers a bon says the Socielist apologizer. The NRA is a concession. “Socialists of all countries have always fought for every improvement in the lives of the workers, That is, after all why So- cialists participate in the parlia- meniary fight. We have looked upon Pazliament as.a tribune from which to agitate and gain the ear of the worke-s.” We must congratulate the Sooial- ists for -eing able to compress more lies into shorter space than even Roosevelt. Socialists in all countries have always fought for the preserva- tion of capitalism at the cost of the lives of the workers. The socialist trade union lzadets did all they could to prevent strikes during the crisis and helped the bosses cut wages. They did all they could to prevent a! mass mobilization for unemployment | insurance, Ramsay MacDonald, so-| world, and instead of rebuilding the ts cialist parliamentary leader, cut un- | | Blue Eagle, saying: ers. The socialist-led Labor Party} of England sent troops to shoot down the Indian masses fighting for bread and land, Socialists in Pariiament of the first loc, or s We glided forward towards the gate | being made at the Onega Iron ‘Works. | of Petrosavodsk. i (To be continued) PHILADELPHIA Socialists use parliament in order to deceive the masses into the be- licf that capitalism is a democracy ard not a dictatorship of the capi- telist class. Socialists used parlia- ment to hound the workers into the lest world war on the side of the elaveholders. } Just a few weeks ago James O'Neal | in the same New Leader told the werkers that capitalism could be transformed into socialism through | parliament. | Baskin winds up with a liberal dash | of revolutionary phrases in ordcr to| emphasize his point, that the Secie!- t+ Party is not the left wing of the | 14, ANNIVERSA 810 Locust Str PRO JOHN REED CLUB ..*. WORKERS’ CHORUSES WILLIAM GROPPER ... EARL BROWDER, secretary .. As a Worker You Should Be There. Ycu Are Invited to Attend the RY CELEBRATION of the COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, at Labor Inatitute eet, Philadelphia GRAM ...Main Speaker Special Program sessoues. Workers Songs Proletarian Cartoonist Admission 35 cents “Your complete emancipation ean = only come through bitter struggle end the overthrow of the profit sys- | tem.” | CHICAGO, ILL. Certainly Whaien, Matthew Woll, nnd the leading capitalists will not tremble at vaudeville appeal. ‘They know that the Socialist lead- ers in the trade unions are safely cooperating with Green, Lewis, Du- bincky, Hillman, under the NRA to prevent even the smallest struggles of the workers for increased wages. ‘Tne New Leader is doing some fency window dressing to cover up the fervid support that filled its pages from the day of NIRA’s birth, C A OMMUNIS NNIVERSARY PICNIC AT BIRUTES GROVE, Archer nd 79th St. Sunday, September 3rd, 1633 GROVE OPEN FROM 10 AM. TO 12 P.M. T PARTY The only thing that Mr. Baskin and the Socialists are trying to over- GAMES — DANCING — EATS — REFRESHMENTS throw is the lesson of bootlicking service in the interest of capitalism that the workers may have learned from the Socialist Party's support to Roosevelt's New Deal. | On Saturday the Daily Worker .has employment insurance to preserve 8 pages. Increase your bum@le order PEOPLE'S AUDITORIUM, 2457 W. CHICAGO AVE., CHICAGO, TLL. for Saturday! , P \ q bas Ligh eae been = aon Sy Rian, abana aacreuibesa sant! DIRECTION: Take any Street Car to 63rd St. Then 63rd West to Argo, Ill. — From Argo Free truck transportation to the Picnic Grove. ADMISSION 10c Auspices Central Committce Communist Party, U.S.A. IN CASE OF RAIN AN INDOOR RALLY WILL BE HELD AT THE