The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1934, Page 6

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 (SECTION OF COMMUNIST leTERWATIONAS ) “America's Only Working Class Daity Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAHLY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E, 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: Algonquin 4-795 4. New Press Building Room 705, Chicago, Ti. Subscription Rates: an Bronx), 1 $2.00 month, 0.75 and Canada: 1 ths, $3.00 monthly, 75 cents. FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 Meets in Convention ‘OMMUNISTS from every part of the country, from the stormiest centres of the class struggle, will open the 8th Convention of the Communist Party beginning April 2 in Cleveland, Ohio. In the Communist Party now there is the widest discussion on all problems facing the American working class in their struggle against capitalism and for the establishment of Soviet Power. No one can deny that the Communist Party has been the vanguard of the working class. The Com- munist Party led the fight against the whole New Deal program and the N.R.A., being in the fore- front of the most decisive strike struggles. Only the Communist Party from the beginning tore the mask of demagogy from the Roosevelt regime and rallied the workers for struggle. Only the Commu- nist Party has relentlessly fought against fascist development, and against war. When the American section of the Communist International meets in convention it is a matter of the greatest importance to the whole working class. A convention of the Communist Party is a po- litical event that should get the attention of every worker. The only party leading the day to day struggle of the workers for the revolutionary over- throw of capitalism will gather its best forces in highest council to hammer out the most decisive questions of struggling against capitalism and for the victory of the workers and farmers. What the Communist Party decides will have deep going results on every struggle of the American workers. : hare COMMUNIST PARTY has no interests aside from the interests of the working class as a whole. And this 8th Convention of the Communist Party, in all its decisions and actions, will express the best and most revolutionary interests of the American workers. No matter where you work, no matter whether unemployed or employed, the most militant and trustworthy of your fellow workers will either be at this convention or will be represented there. The last convention of the Communist Party was held in 1930, a few months after the present economic crisis began. Tremendous revolutionary events have since taken place. As the Communist International pointed out, the world economic crisis | is now rapidly maturing into a revolutionary crisis. Fascism and the powerful struggle against it are now dominating the entire capitalist world. In the United States, the Roosevelt regime is rapidly moving along the road towards fascism. Major battles loom before the workers. The Roose- velt regime, as General Johnson and Senator Wag- ner make clear, is moving towards blocking these struggles in order to preserve capitalism by the economic “peace” of the fascist graveyard. An examination of the agenda of the 8th Com- munist Party convention shows that every word spoken affects the life, the interests and the entire future of the American workers. The first question to be discussed, and program worked out on, is the Struggle against war and fascism, and the revo- lutionary solution of the crisis. Weer the Communist Party proposes to do about war and fascism, how in this country the Com- munist Party works to rally the workers against towards fascism, deserves the most serious hearing of all workers. The German, Austrian and French events, the problem of the seizure of power and | the development of socialism by the Russian work- ere, will be discussed in order to learn revolutionary lessons for the American workers. The Austrian workers’ uprising, which electri- fied the whole working class into enthusiasm and Struggle against fascism, will be contrasted to the miserable, treacherous betrayals of the Socialist leadership. The 8th Convention of the Communist Party will discuss the heroic struggle of the Amer- ican workers against fascism, drawing the most im- portant lessons for the struggle in America against the social-fascists. In this country we have Social- ist leaders like Abe Cahan, Norman Thomas, and Louis Waldman supporting the N.R.A. to the extent of ordering the workers to submit to the most das- tardly outrages. Norman Thomas tells the workers now is not the time to strike,” while Waldman Pleads with the workers to keep their faith in Roose- velt and the N.R.A. The 8h Convention will not only draw the most important lessons from these events for the speed- ing of the revolutionary struggle here, but will work out the best methods of arousing and welding in- ternational class solidarity im the rising revolution- ary battles. 'HE second point on the agenda is: Economic struggles and building of the class struggle trade union movement. We have the admission of Sen- ator Wagner and General Johnson, chief Roosevelt spokesmen for the N.R.A., that the country faces the “worst epidemic of strikes in its history.” The A. F. of L. leadership in auto, steel, the Brother- hood leadership in railroads, are striving with might and main to block the economic struggles of the workers precisely because they fear these struggles | will lead to major battles against the whole Roose- When the Communist Party velt policy of preserving capitalism. What the Com- munist Party in its 8th Convention says and does on all these questions certainly is of major sig- nificance to all workers. Other points to be dealt with are the tasks of the Party in winning the youth, and the forth- coming 7th Congress of the Communist Interna- tional. President Roosevelt in his last N.R.A. speech was forced to discuss the question of the Commu- | nist way out of the crisis. The revolutionary road out of the corroding capitalist crisis, that is rapidly driving to war and fascism, is being eagerly looked to by new millions of workers throughout the world. More millions, without as yet a conscious under- standing of the necessity of a revolutionary struggle, are nevertheless entering into battle against fas- cism, against the smashing down of their living standards, their civil and trade union rights, and against company unions. When the highest authoritative body of the Communist Party, U.S.A., meets in Cleveland it will be a gathering of the most advanced, the most mili- tant, most devoted and disciplined fighters of the American working class. Comrade Stalin pointed out at the 17th Con- gress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that the question of organization for carrying out the correct revolutionary policies now becomes de- cisive. American capitalism has much to fear and the American workers much to hope and expect from the 8th Convention of the Communist Party. Under the banner of the Communist Interna- tional, under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, the 7th Convention of the Communist Party will be a momentous step forward toward the revolutionary victory of the American working class —towards the winning of the American workers and all exploited people for Soviet power in the United States. The N. Y. Conference Against Co. Unions Tt broad conference of trade unions and labor organizations called by the Taxi Drivers Union of Greater New York to support the strike of the Parmelee drivers against the company union, which will be held in Manhattan Lyceum, at 11 a.m., Sun- day, March 18, will be an event of the utmost im- portance to the workers of New York and through- out the country. In initiating this conference the Taxi Drivers Union is not only blazing the way to smash com- pany unionism in the taxicab industry, but it is opening up a wide militant campaign of struggle against the menace of company unionism in all in- dustries in New York. The cab drivers through their militant strike have tied up the Parmelee system. Mrs. Herrick has attempted to hoodwink them back to work with- out a guarantee that their demands will be granted. Company union officials have launched a slanderous, lying attack against the leaders of the Taxi Drivers Union. But the strike remains solid and effective. It is dealing heavy blows against the company union. Mass support of all the workers, all organized labor in New York City, must now be rallied in | Support of the struggle of the Parmelee men to the Roosevelt war preparations and the rapid strides | deal the final death blow to the company union. Every local of every trade union must send not less than two delegates to the conference on Sunday. All A. F. of L. locals, locals of independent unions, locals of T.U.U.L. unions, branches of the Inter- national Workers Order, Workmen's Circle, Work- ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League Posts, League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights and all workers’ societies and clubs should elect delegates at once for the confer- ence. Money should be collected in the shops and union halls and brought by the delegates to the con- ference. Financial support of the Parmelee strik- | ers is absolutely necessary. The organized might of the workers can defeat the so-called Drivers’ Brotherhood of New York, the Parmelee company union, and company unions in general, ‘Series of N. Y.| ‘Mass Meetings| ‘On Cuba Called | Webster Hall, Brooklyn, | Park Palace Meets Next | | Wednesday Night | NEW YORK.—A series of mass | |meetings, to protest the savage at-| ; |tack of the Mendieta government | jon the Cuban strike movement and the interventionist tactics of Jef- ferson Caffery, Wall Street emis- sary, have been set for next Wed- nesday evening, March 21, by the Anti-Imperialist League of the U.S. and the Trade Union Unity Council. One meeting has been scheduled at Park Palace, Harlem, which will be held under the joint auspices of the Anti-Imperialist League, the | Trade Union Unity Council, the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Julio Mella Club, the Centro Obrero and other colonial organizations. The downtown meeting, to be |held at Webster Hall, has been ar- ranged by the Anti-Imperialist League, the T. U. U. C., and Sec- tions 1 and 2 of the Communist } Party. Arrangements are now under way for a similar mass meeting in Brooklyn, in which the Filipino and Porto Rican Anti-Imperialist Leagues will play a large part, On the date of the meetings the Anti-Imperialist League will initi- ate a wide distribution of protests printed on a postcard and addressed | to President Roosevelt. All organ- izations, including those affiliated with the League, are urged to place their orders at once. The initial rate is 70 cents a hundred, to be| sold at one cent apiece. Sweden to Make $26,280,000 Loan to Soviet Union To Promise Trade by Building Soviet State Bonds (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 15 (By Radio) —Authoritative sources in Stock- holm announce that the Swedish government has decided to place at the disposal of the Soviet gov- ernment a@ loan of 100,000,000 Swed- ish kronen ($26,280,000), ‘The loan is to be employed by the Soviet government for the pur- chase of Swedish manufactured goods. The loan is to be made in exchange of Soviet state bonds maturing between August 15, 1939, and May 15, 1941. A complete agreement is expected to be drawn up within the next few days. Sandino’s Children Reported Murdered SAN SALVADOR, March 15.— Gregorio Sandino, father of Augus- tos Sandino, anti-imperialist leader murdered by the Nicaraguan Na- tional Guard, has learned that his niece, his year-old grand- daughter, and the children of Au- gusto Sandino’s deceased wife have been murdered by the National Guard. No attempt whatever has been made to arrest the murderers of Sandino, who are well-known, proving that the murder of San- dino was on the order of President Juan B, Sacasa, whose guest San- dino was just before he was kid- napped and shot down with his brother and two aides. Swiss Voters Reject FORK IT OVER! —By Burek N.Y. District Gains 3,201 New Readers in “Daily” Sub Drive NEW YORK.—A gain of 3,201 new readers is recorded by the New York district in the Daily Worker circulation drive from Feb. 1st to March 8th, with 2,266 of these for the Saturday edition. This district also shows a gain of 166 new subscribers by mail for the daily edition and 24 for the Satur- day issue. Fifteen of these subs were secured by Comrade Newton, a Daily Worker volunteer. The Office Workers Union secured 4; Section 1, 10; Unit 10, Section 11 obtained 5; Sec- tion 10 secured 4, Section 4 Leads Section 4, which includes Harlem, boosted its daily sales by 761 and its Saturday ‘sales by 579, or 1,340 in all. In this section, Unit 415, which used to sell only 35 copies weekly, now sells 4C0, This Unit has been chalienged by Unit 400 to revolutionary competition in the circulation drive. Unit 400 pledges to boost its sales to 500 by May Ist. Unit 415 states it will increase its sales to 500 oy April Ist. Section 2 is next to Section 4, with a gain of 900 new readers, 723 of these for the daily edition. Sec- tion 1 gained 683 new daily and 189 new Saturday readers, or 872 in all. Section 1 carriers are doing splendid work showing a gain of 685 new readers. Of the total gain of 1,340 made by Section 4, gaims on carricr route; account for 165. Daily sales by Section 15 from March ist to March 8th show a rise of 925, but Saturday sales went down by 313, giving it a net gain of 612. In the same week, Section 14, formed recently by dividing Sec- tion 15, boosted its daily sales by 514. In Section 3, Brownsyille, Louis Bunkin, member of Unit 4, is doing fine work in gaining new readers for the “Daily” on Crown Heights, a@ Negro neighborhood. But other members in the Unit are reported doing poorly. From Feb. 1st to March 8th, Sec- tion 8 shows a gain of only 163 new daily and 229 new Saturday readers, or 392 in total. “Daily” Affair Al members of Units are invited to attend a Neighborhood Get- Together which Unit 415, Section 4, will hold Friday, March 16th, 8 p. m., at the Harlem Palace, 27 W. 115th St. with James W. Ford as the main speaker, to see how workers in the neighborhood are gathered on the basis of the Daily Worker. Premium The District Daily Worker Office has secured several hundred Lenin medallions for premiums in the cir- culation drive. A medallion will be given for each new subscriber ob- tained for from three months to a year. Call for these premiums at the Daily Worker District Office, 35 East 12th St. Hunger Island SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, March 15. —“This island has wonderful pos- sibilities for pleasure, I’m so sorry I can’t stay longer,” said Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as she got ready to leave this island of starva- tion, disease, and misery. “Oh no, I'll have no recommenda- tions to make, that’s not my prov- ince,” she declared after a week’s stay in this island whose inhabitants are rotting away, choked by Ameri- can imperialism, which drains the island of all its resources and al- lows its toilers not even an acre Fascist Amendment BERNE, Switzerland, March 15— Two former presidents of Switzer- land, members of the Federal Coun- cil, have resigned following the sweeping refusal of the Swiss masses to endorse at last Sunday's plebis- cite a constitutional amendment giving the federal executive special Powers against “political agitators and threatened coups d'etat.” on which to grow food, She said she found the children in less serious condition than she had expected, and declared herself very much pleased and surprised that the Porto Rican workers kept themselves clean. The vast majority of the Porto Rican toilers live in one room “Hooverville” shacks; the children are chronically undernour- Place,” Mrs. Roosevelt Finds Is “Wonderful ished, and almost all of them suffer permanently from hook-worm, which cannot be eradicated because they cannot afford shoes to protect them from being infected with these para- sites from the ground. Japan Buys 4,000 Tons Scrap Iron in Trinidad PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, March 15.— Japanese agents are buying up immense quantities of scrap iron here and in the Wind- ward Islands and Venezuela. Al- ready 4,000 tons of old sugar milling and oil refining machinery has been bought and will be shipped on the S. S. San Francisco Maru. Scrap iron is essential to Japan’s war plans, and the government’s agents are scouring every corner of the world for scrap iron and ship- ping it to Japan by hundreds of thousands of tons. Daily Worker Features Page of Articles About the Paris Commune Sat. Saturday’s edition of the Daily Worker will feature an entire page on the Paris Commune. There will be articles by promi- nent writers and leaders of the Communist Party. Nazis Appoint 14 Capitalists To Run German Industry Order Reveals Close Tie-up of Nazis With Trusts BERLIN, March 15.—A further step toward placing the most power- ful cliques of monopoly-finance capital in open control of the Nazi Hitler government was taken today when Hitler's Minister of Economics, Dr. Kurt Schmitt, announced that all of Germany’s industry will be Placed under the control of 14 ap- pointed industrialists. These 14 industrial capitalists will have full power to “regulate” com- petition, fix prices, establish quotas of production, etc., in a manner re~ markably similar to the present eco- nomic program of the Roosevelt N. R.A. codes. In actuality, these powers have been granted by the Hitler government to fortify the po- sition of German monopoly capital- ism (big trusts) against the com- petition of non-monopoly capital in the domestic markets. It is noteworthy that the Hitler government, which has become a byword for the savage persecution of the Jews, has omitted Jewish industrialists from the ban on gov- ernment bodies. This latest order specifically omits Jewish capitalists from the ban, Protect Capitalist Property The concentration of economic power into the hands of so small a clique of monopoly capitalists is also an indication of the steady narrowing of the social basis of the Hitler government which has failed to redeem one of its promises to the starving, ruined masses in the cities and in the countryside. The Hitler government is preparing to meet the steadily rising disillusionment of the masses by concentrating the econo- mic and state power into a small clique of ruling monopoly capital. In contradiction fo the Hitler promises of “Socialism” and a fight against capitalism, the Schmitt or- ders re-affirm that Hitler’s govern- ment is based upon the principle of the protection of private capitalist property. Nazis Refuse To Tell Where Thaelmann Is Philadelphia Meeting Saturday to Demand His Release PARIS, March 2 (By Mail).— “Ernst Thaelmann is guilty of high treason; it is no foreigner’s business what we do with him.” This was the answer of Diehls, head of the Nazi Secret Police, and detective couficillor Heller, a former Social Democrat, to Dr. Cord, weil- known Paris physician sent to Ger- many by the International Juridical Association to make a medical ex- amination of the German Commu- nist leader. Dr. Cord has returned to Paris, not having been allowed to see Thaelmann. Diehls and Heller, whom Dr. Cord visited several times, refused even to say where Thael- mann is being kept. a The refusal to let Thaelmann be seen, even to let his whereabouts be known, and the statements of the Nazi butcher Diehls about him to Dr. Cord sharply emphasize again the imminent peril in which Theel- mann stands so long as the mass demands of the world proletariat have not forced the Nazis to let him go, as they were forced to release Dimitroff and his two comrades, ee eer Philadelphia Protest Meeting PHILADELPHIA, March 16.—A mass meeting to demand the release of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German Communist Party, and to protest the arrest of six workers ar- rested in a demonstration at the German Consulate here last Satur- day will be held this Saturday, March 17, at 8 p.m. at Columbus Hall, 3015 Fox %. The meeting is called by Young Communist League. A. W. Mills, district organizer of the Com- munist Party, and Joe Carvin, dis- trict organizer of the Young Com- munist League, will speak. Soviet Air Here Missing On Trip Tolce-FloeGroup (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 15 (By Radio). —Liapidevsky, the Soviet airman who recently rescued the ten wo- men and two children from the ice- floe camp of the polar expedition whose ship, the Chelyuskin, sank in the Behring Sea, is believed to have made a forced landing on a second trip to the Chelyuskin camp. He left Cape Wellen yesterday by plane for Cape Van Karen, but did not arrive. Sleighs have been sent to the region where he is thought to have landed, to look for him. Rome Parleys Plan Danubian Bloc To Isolate Germany ROME, March 15.—The failure of Hitler's foreign policy, and the isola- tion of Germany by the other con- tinental imperialists is being under- lined here today as Premier Musso- lini discusses with Chancellor Doll- fuss of Austria and Premier Gom- boes of Hungary a Danubian block against Nazi expansion in this region. Although official announcements say that the discussions now go- ‘ing on are entirely around economic measures, all observers agree that the real aim of this parley is to es- tablish a political bloc in opposition to the ambitions of German impe- rialism. Some commentators eyen suggest that Italy will invite France and its Danubian vassal states, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, and Jugo- Slavia to join in this agreement. ~ FORMER NEW YORK—The following i letter from an old member of the Socialist Party, who was active enough in the Party to receive the nomination for Mayor in one of the eiection campaigns, is signi- ficant of the gulf that is develop- ing between the rank and file and lower official ranks of the Party and the upper leadership. The opportunism and complete be- trayal of the class struggle which characterizes the policies of the Socialist Party leadership is arous- ing, particularly since the Aus- trian situation, a rising resent- ment of the S.P. rank and file against the Norman Thomases, ete. The following letter was writ- ten in reply to the recent circular letter, filled with distortions and slander, sent by Clarence Senior, National Secretary of the Socialist Party, to all the locals and the press. The letter follows: Bit eee 25 Genesee St. Hornell, N. Y. March 3, 1934 Clarence Senior 549 Randolph St. Chicago, Tll. Mister Senior: After ten years experience in in- dustry—working at all sorts of jobs, such as production clerk, stock clerk, machinist, expert typewriter mechanic, timekeeper, office man- ager—and seeing the rottenness of our capitalistic system, I studied for and entered the Universalist min- istry with the hope of doing some- | thing about helping people secure the abundant life. In the time that has passed since my entrance into | the ministry I have devoted long | and serious study to causes and | effects. I have sought to compre- | hend_ the forces which play into | life. One purpose has guided me in \Iny search—to know the truth, | When I discovered that some re- ligious doctrine was baseless or er- roneous, I discarded it. When I rec- | ognized a prejudice, I abolished it, so that after several years of con- | centrated study and thought on | history, philosophy, theology, sci- ence, logic, dialectics, ete, I gradu- ally and irresistably came to a re- alization that Socialism was the only way out of the rottenness of the capitalistic system, About a year ago I had abolished enough of my bourgeois prejudices | to openly profess my stand for So- cialism. Being an American of Eng- lish ancestry which dates back to the colonial days of this country, I had plenty of conceits and pre- judices. But following truth, those prejudices had to fall. Last fall I was candidate Mayor of this city on the Sociahs ticket. Since then I have read the New Leader and the American Guardian and several books on Socialism with an eye for methods and policies as well as cheories. I have been impressed with the large amount of bourgeois pre- Judices possessed by the Socialists I have met. I conceived Socialism as being International in scope and yet I find many Socialists terribly nation- alistic. Furthermore, I found them to be lacking in enthusiasm for their cause. They seemed to take their Socialism like a Rotarian takes his club. When I spoke in the park and criticized John D. Rockefeller, Mor- gan, Mellon, Schwab and other in- dustrialists and bankers, an old party member and local leader came to me and told me I should not talk that way. He said that these men were good but forced to be bad by the system. I conceived Socialism to be the workers’ party in a struggle against the oppression, coercion, exploita- tion, corruption and graft of a cer- tain class of men. In other words, I recognized a Class struggle, but this old time Socialist tried to tell me that these potentially good men, who were made bad by the system would be good to cooperate for So- cialism as soon as the majority ex- pressed their will for Socialism. I had an idea that men had some- thing to do with creating and main- taining the system. I recognized a certain amount of truth in the statement that the sys- tem made potentially good men bad, but I realize from conversations with bankers and industrialists that they have incurable conceits about their rights, abilities, positions, etc. They look upon the average worker as a lazy bum who has never tried to get anywhere. As an example of the brainless- ness of some of this class I would point out a statement made by a president of a bank in a talk with me. He said that he would like to see everyone a millionaire. I said, “Why, that is impossible.” He said the only reason people were not millionaires was that they were lazy. When I tried to point out how the struggle for existence, losing of savings and homes crushed the in- itiative and ambition of workers, he boasted about his own rise in the world—self-made man and all that nonsense. As for these capitalists and in- dustrialists relinquishing their hold on the means of production and distribution once the people have expressed their will for Socialism— it is just an illusion based upon re- ligious sentimentality, and other idealistic conceptions. The error of the belief is revealed in the conduct and attitude of cap- italistic elements in trying to sabo- tage Russian industry, lies about re- ligious persecution, misrepresenta- tion of the facts of the Five-Year Plan, boycott of Russian goods, six- teen years of non-recognition of Russia, whereas a Cuban govern- ment which suits the capitalistic purpose can be recognized in a few days, the sending of U.S. and other capitalistic troops into Russia in an effort to crush the beginning of So- cialism, and many other practices which prove conclusively and ir- revocably that the capitalistic class will never peacefully submit to So- cialism that is Socialism as long as they are able to fight it. During the past few weeks, I have been reading the Leader, Guardian, and your circular letter with the growing conviction that the Social- ist Party of the U.S. is a traitor to the working class. Norman Thomas hhas shown the cheapest kind of op- portunism. He has revealed that he has what I call a theological mind, ie, one which cannot recognize cause and effect. I have watched closely the Social- ist attitude toward European affairs, especially the latest trouble in Aus- tria, and now I register my protest against the traitorous character of the Socialist leadership in the U.S. as well as the leadership in Ger- many, Austria, and England. Your organs have criticized Ramsay Mac- Donald and other Socialist leaders for their betrayals, but fail to an- alyze and criticize your own policies so as to discover how and why such betrayals are possible. The record of Socialism in the world has been one of sentimental- ity, compromise, 0] and betrayal, so that in countries and localities where Socialists have been in power, the workers have eventu- ally been crushed by (not the dis- honesty, etc.) of others, but the compromising leadership of the party. A Socialism that cannot learn from its mistakes, that cannot an- alyze and criticize itself, and alter its policies and methods according- ly, has the same characteristics of the world’s religions which have be- trayed, enslaved, cheated, and de- secrated human life. It is like re- ligions which have instilled belief in the human mind that man was depraved, and haye used every method to increase fear, ignorance and superstition and caused untold misery in the world and then boast- ed of its contributions to civilization. Every worthwhile advance in hu- man _ knowledge, social justice, etc., has been through the work of here- tics. New beliefs have been erected on the teachings of these heretics, and then the sect thus created be- gins to boast that it produced the advancement instead of realizing and admitting that it was a product of advancement which took place in spite of the most vicious, cruel, and often bloody opposition by the then organized and accepted brand of belief. Several times lately I have been tempted to register my protest against the massacred reasoning, misrepresentation, prejudice, etc., which has been revealed in the Leader and in your letter. However, I did not wish to be premature. I waited to see if the Socialist Lead- ers had merely gone off on a tan- gent temporarily or whether they were expressing basic attitudes and opinions. I am quite satisfied that they have meant what they said and that my impression of them is not false. The Socialist leadership of this country is betraying the workers’ cause. I detect in the Socialist leaders the same kind of misrepre- sentation, tricky rhetoric, demagogic phrases employed by capitalists and religionists who are seeking to maintain their particular cause re- gardless of their effect upon hu- manity. Some workers have em- braced Socialism because they be- lieved that it had a revolutionary policy, and it seems to me that whilethe Ladr spaks offiically for the party, the American Guardian is used to hold the more revolution- ary element in line, with a more radical (altho not official) character. would make note of the idiocy of some Socialists, in the instance of a local leader seeking to get groups of Socialists together to lis- ten to that Radio Priest Coughlin spew his poison propaganda over the radio to the millions of revolt- ing, hungry, unemployed workers. ‘This leader has set Coughlin up as @ good: Socialist. But a superficial consideration of the Radio Priest's purpose can be noted in such in- stances as his recent appearance before the House Judiciary Com- mittee relative to birth control. Al- though representing a church which has done considerable mouthing about universality, democracy, and brotherly love, he seeks to stir up racial animosity to keep the workers unorganized and easy victims of ex- ploitation, by appealing to fear and prejudice, with talk about this country being overrun with aliens and N Nearly every exploiter employs of Working Class SOCIALIST PARTY MAYORALTY CANDIDATE REPLIES TO LETTER OF NATIOAL S. P. SECRETARY; DENOUNCES BETRAY AL OF CLASS STRUGGLE other, resisting one another. If it is not the boasts of one church sect about its superiority over another, or the DAR.s, or Ku Klux Klan, or employment of such names as Micks, Pollacks, Guinies, Dagoes, Wops, Huns, Frogs, Limies, Crack- ers, Chinks, etc. it is something else. Now the Leader, because (like most groups) it cannot answer cer- tain things satisfactorily with facts. and reasons begins employing the use of Swine, Scum, Lepers, etc., in speaking of another group which really has a revolutionary policy / which is winning the workers, I can see nothing in U.S. Social- ism but a beastly betrayal of the workers. papas hae I gual, bags nothing to do with it except to try to reveal to the present Socialists and other workers the traitorous character of its leadership, I am convinced that the workers who be- long to the Socialist Party are largely revolutionary and have em- braced Socialism because they had been lead Je believe through am- biguous tings, and letarian phrases, thet i Was & tre worker, Ye The Socialist leadership in this country is greedy, opportunistic, compromising and traitorous to the workers, From now on I shall fight it for the menace it is to the workers of the world. Earnestly and sincerely for the appeal to prejudice to keep workers | overthrow of capitalism, [ CLAYTON VAN B, WELASEN, hating each® other, opposing | 4 } _—e