The Socialist Party Attitude Towards Soviet Russ
Oneal, James
The Socialist Party Attitude Towards Soviet Russ By James Oneal OW I N G to the rise of the Russian question in recent months within the Socialist Party we. promised to present a review of...
...And the "suckers" win be "skinned" coming and going...
...The thieves in this big Instance are not confidence men of the common and well known variety...
...And now the gang is preparing for the biggest "killing" of their lives...
...There it was pointed out that while the Socialist parties were striving to obtain a legal status for Communist parties in Europe, in Russia Socialists were jailed as in Hungary and Italy...
...In 1922 the character of the terror came home to the Socialist and Labor world with full force with the trial of the twelve Social Revolutionists in Moscow...
...they are the men of real wealth and legitimate enterprise, who exploit the people in spite of or with the protection of the law...
...These thieves are the gentlemen who initiated and put through the legislature the infamous Criminal Syndicalism Law, according to which it is a crime punishable with fourteen years in the penitentiary, to question the wisdom or justice of the institutions which enable plunderers to freely operate...
...In the year of the fight with the Bolshevik factions that had appeared in the party, 1919, our national convention declared: We emphatically protest against all military or moral support which our government is extending to czarist counter-revolutionists in Russia and reactionary powers in Hungary and ^ - • " " H the immediate lifting of the indefensible and inhuman blockade of those countries...
...2. A friendly policy of supporting recognition of Soviet Russia...
...Even our frionij| Stanley may yet admit thai reference to me as just "them leal organizer'' was a trifle, mj and probably would not htfmj (CntlaaaS M I T*f W»twJ THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL TO THE WORKERS OF SOVIET RUSSIA rmpHE NEW LEADER in recent years has not availed itself of many important documents mud articles received from the Labor ami Socialist International relating to Soviet Russia...
...No more mans executions' An amnesty for the political prisoners...
...This Socialist policy was again approved by our last national convention in 1928 in the two resolutions quoted above without any dissenting votes and it represented the views of delegates from all over the country...
...We certainly could not have those shreds of contact and good will that we do possess and cherish if we really were so lamentably remiss in our duty as our critics claim...
...The "Unions Dismissed" (Continued from Page Fear) made if he was better informed as to my trade union activities...
...Has he served any of his sentence...
...Could you really believe that these millions of fighting workers do not understand their own interests, and "betray" themselves...
...This performance has been repeated over and over again for thirty years, and continues with full speed ahead...
...Let there be an end to the scandal that men and women wleT IkfUn the prisons of the Tear mm fighters for the freedom of the working class, languish today in the prisons of the Ogpu, in the concentration camps, and to the places of banishment in Siberia...
...Within a few months after this Trotsky, Rakowsky, Radek and other leaders were banished because of their disagreement with certaiu Bolshevik policies...
...which Joined the Workers Party in the following...
...It is estimated that In that time not less than a million persons have been fleeced in this manner by the leading and most respectable citizens of California, who today are literally wallowing in wealth stolen from gullible easterners...
...We hod hoped that the interest of the party would thus be cantered upon our problems and work at home but instead of this Russia had again emerged as a theme of party discussion...
...Free and secret elections...
...During the past five years that I have been executive secretary and later organizer, it has been my aim to establish every contact with the Labor Movement in this city and vicinity...
...So inseparably Intertwined are the interests of these financial and industrial buccaneers, and so enmeshed are they all in crime, that when one of them has his toes trampled upon, instantly and unitedly the whole gang recoils...
...Candidly, if there is a crime in the calendar these wolves of California have not committed, or stand ready to commit in their mad pursuit of gain, it has been inadvertently and unintentionally overlooked...
...What are the factors in this policy agreed to over and over again by our party and the Labor and Socialist parties of the world...
...What urges me to refer to this matter again and at length is Comrade Thomas' comment in his "Timely Topics...
...On their behalf the L 8. L is always prepared to extend a helping hand to the class comrades in the Soviet Union...
...These, them are the facte in the case and they seldom reach the limelight There is no high-powered super-critical publicity bureau interested in these honest chores done...
...The "suckers" come, bite at the bait offered, are caught, duly "skinned," and nonchalantly thrown aside to starve or get back east the best way they can...
...Other officials of the Association, undoubtedly involved in this gigantic fraud, went scot-free...
...When the people are apprised of what is happening, they watch their step and ruard their valuables...
...Workers of the World, Unite...
...We also helped in organization drives and in trade union educational work and our speakers and writers are everlastingly pouring enthusiasm, spirit and idealism into the rank and file of the trade unionists whenever and wherever we find the opportunity to do so...
...One may hewjH confidence in its sueejfl matter of opinion b aH branch has adopted |B declaring that any pejH ganinatioa "condenmtnfl tions of the principalj|H which is making geaahfl toward Socialism" is dW conduct unbecoming MM 1st...
...That is, while one man is actually extracting the pocketbook, watch or diamond pin, another engages the attention of the victim, and keeps him employed, so he will not know he is being robbed...
...I shall not attempt to retffl activities in previous years, • cially our help in numerous M glee in the needle trades...
...They are the politicians who make the laws and the judges who give the laws interpretation...
...When that canard exploded, they regaled their readers with spicy stories to the effect that women in Soviet Russia were common property, and that all children were illegitimate...
...THE EXECUTIVE OF THE LABOR AND SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL...
...Ignoring this barrage of falsehoods, our party in its national convention of 1920 made the following declaration: The United States should immediately make peace with the Central Powers and open commercial and diplomatic relations with Russia under the Soviet Government...
...At the s e j | movement is ranged] perialist tnterventioa 1 Guard plots and snpSH tattoos with t s o j l The Five-Year PlsjVJ matter...
...Within the past few months other Bolsheviks have been ousted from responsible posts, imprisonment or banishment may follow unless they "recant their heresies," and Socialist groups are facing a renewed terror...
...Since then more Communists have been imprisoned and exiled which shows that the terror Is aimed not only at the Socialists but at Communist leaders and members who may differ with Stalin, It isn't a matter of "counter-revolutionary" actions but of dissent with Stalin and his supporters that is crushed...
...Freedom of speech...
...Meantime the Bolshevik chieftains in Moscow and the peeudo-Bolsheviks in this country were roundly denouncing the Socialist and Labor parties as "counter-revolutionary...
...As an introduction to the subject we reprint the appeal of the executive of the Labor and Socialist International to the workers of the Soviet Union adopted at Its Berlin session last May...
...M ally, I can show no medals fl ing cups, but I have a pfl collection of honorary trades membership cards which 'fm that your servant is not H member of the Teachers' I but also an honorary menfl the I. L G. W. U., the CUM and Cap Makers, the Autsfl craft and Vehicle WorkeS Brotherhood of Pa?sJsaH Plumbers Assistant ana smaller unions...
...Repairmen...
...We shall strike down the hand of international capitalist reaction with att our strength if it attempts to take advantage of your difficulties in the interests of the counterrevolution...
...Brouckere and Crispien wrote Kalinin in December, 1927: "We are striving against this infamy, we are fighting to secure ful> legality for the Communist parties in all countries...
...And I am happy to say* we always did our duty in fine Socialist fashion...
...They are the thieves who are doing the big stealing, and growing rich from their thefts, while successfully distracting public attention from their robberies by raising a smoke screen of Socialism and Communism, or else ordering the corporation controlled press to wage mighty war upon hungry gunmen who hold up their victims for thirty cents...
...Economic freedom ana the right to the free disposal of the produce of his labor must be restored and guaranteed to the peasant Only in this way can agriculture be built up again, foodstuffs assured for the towns, and the peasant won over as a friend and ally of the worker...
...And yet, no Socialist should refrain from criticising certain trade union practices and policies and every one of us is eager to bring into the labor movement our view-* point, our hope and optimism, our conception of the ultimate goal and the idealism needed to attain it But every experienced Socialist knows that we can only attain that position of influence, power and respect by earning it Our European comrades have it and we have also had that position in a lesser degree some years before the war...
...Using the sunshine and scenery of California as bait, the business men, bankers, real estate dealers and newspaper publishers, with large numbers of the professional classes, lure to the state annually multiplied thousands of eastern home seekers and investors, not for the purpose of enabling these newcomers to establish homes and find prosperity, but purely and exclusively to inveigle them into schemes by which they can be separated from their money...
...Then the uprisings of starving employed workers in America gave them an excuse to charge Communists with the responsibility...
...One of these gentlemen, a theater magnate worth millions, was convicted a year ago of rape...
...It is the province of the subsidized organs of publicity to distract the attention of the people with irrelevant matters while the big men of the community and nation skin the little fellows to a frazzle...
...It is also the record (and there to even more of it) of the splendid work of Comrades Thomas, Panken, Waldman, Shiplacoff, Solomon and the many more known and unkown Socialists who are always rendering such services...
...At the Brussels ccn^ress of the Labor and Socialist International in 1928 the same questions came up...
...drives and educational works tablished unions...
...We condemn the policy of the Washington administration in withholding recognition of the present Russian Government as hypocritical and dishonest and tending to embitter relations between the American and Russian peoples...
...Not so anyone can notice it Instead, he is out on bail awaiting the disposition of his case at the hands of the state supreme court From one end of the state to the other a whispering campaign has been going on for several years, and continues unabated, to the effect that one of the biggest newspaper publishers in the United States killed his man in cold blood off the California coast and that the California authorities dare not even order an investigation, much less make an arrest When one of the gang does have to occasionally submit to a conviction, as in the ease of the district attorney of LOB Angeles County, and actually enters San Quentin, is he accorded a treatment in kind with the other and leas influential prisoners...
...These men who got their money through most reprehensible forms of theft are the men who instigated the frame-up of Mooney and Billings...
...year...
...The psychology involved here is invariably and successfully employed by the "malefactors of great wealth," our captains of industry and finance, in their larger fields of exploitation...
...This volume of 817 pages contains documents, letters, reports, photos of illegal Socialist and Anarchist publications and all carefully sifted and authenticated as genuine...
...We make oar appeal to you at a serious moment We are well aware that attempts have been made to persuade you that the Socialist parties of the world are "Social Fascists," ''Lackeys of Capitalism" and "Traitors to the Working Class...
...Let there be an end to the death penalty...
...During ttfl year considerable aid was fmj the strikes of the CToesjsJB Dressmakers, Barbers and eel units...
...There has been practically no disagreement in the party on this issue since the appearance of a small party group, the "Workers Council," in 1921...
...Rape and murder, however, are trivial offenses compared to the greater crimes of wholesale exploitation of which these men are guilty...
...Whatever may be your'opinions, whether you are Communists, or whether, you belong to no political pasty, you mast ratty with the Socialists in order to save the revolution...
...Then the C. P. UM ed a resolution with mH berg present declartng^H in the ultimate s^ccess^H periment," Le., the PiveJH Not satisfied with that tkM tions "brand as traitejS world labor movement ! • under present condltioajB the hue and cry agalmtfl So the whole Labor anffl movement of the world iaS of and our own SociallstjM years is suddenly discowjH a terrible mistake...
...With our present smaller organization and influence and with vastly changed conditions we are carrying on in relatively effective fashion...
...s e e The L S. I. fears that the continuation of this fatal policy could open up a cleft between the two classes on which the Russian revolution is baaed —the workers and the peasants...
...Apparently there to no militant aroma attached...
...May, 1930...
...In a "jam" three "stalls" are used, one of whom quickly takes the purse from the "tool" so'that if the latter is "grabbed" there will be no evidence...
...These bono**] been showered upon me lea because no material compenel was acceptable...
...I have no quarrel with their proposals generally and I am ail for most every plan that may increase our effectiveness in trade union contracts...
...With The Los Angeles Times and The Sen Francisco Chronicle as their official newspaper champions, these are the men who brought to its perfection in California the "American Plan" of "the Open Shop, in which only the most servile labor is employed at the lowest possible wages...
...In my capacity as the official head of the party in this city I rendered constant service to the trade union movement and while some of this work was creefl me personally by our own <M the trade unions on the Othffl more rightfully gave mcetl credit and thanks to osafl Our office files contain mmR letters of appreciation...
...My record as stated above to not unique...
...The big fellow is given the best the hospice affords, and if he doesn't see what he wants all he has to do is to make his wishes known to have them grantedf His brief prison term is regarded hs a vacation...
...Yet in spite of thse facts some members objected to some twenty-odd party branches participating in a conference a few weeks ago to consider ways and means of helping our Socialist comrades in Russia who are victims of the terror...
...These men are the law...
...I can hardly believe that Comrades Thomas and Stanley are unaware of the fact that the party is always rendering just such services...
...Either they get themselves elected to the legislature, or placed on the bench, or they have their representatives put into positions of legislative and judicial power...
...Such is the curse of private ownership, unregulated initiative, Hoover individualism, and the planlessness and irresponsibility of Jeffersonian democracy hi sunny and scenic California with the ***** - . "Unions Dismissed" The Record of Some Socialist On Trade Union Activity J ~*mmm ~ By August Claessens SO reads a headline in last week's Issue of the "New Leader...
...they are the leading citizens • of the state, members of the chambers of commerce, leaders in the most influential clubs and churches, the dollar a year patriots, the defenders of home and country, the loud shouting worshippers of the cross and of the nag...
...3. A friendly attitude of opposing all forms of intervention in Russia...
...To the contrary, the inference is so plain and so misleading that many of our new members are quite justified in the impression that the party is woefully negligent in these matters...
...These big men, so-called, are not a class apart taking chances with the law...
...When the logic of this proposal is pressed home they do not accept itThey cannot be friendly to terror...
...Those who want authentic information of the terror should consult "Letters from Russian Prisons" compiled by the International Committee for Political Prisoners in 1925...
...As long as they could continue the agitation with interest, the newspapers filled their columns with lurid acctfcints of religious persecutions In Soviet Russia...
...Never before in the history of this country has a precisely similar situation developed, not even in the rotten boroughs of Chicago or New York...
...Pocketbook Makers...
...The intervention of the imperialist powers in Russia had failed by 1920 and the Socialist parties of the world, including our own, turned to the work of urging recognition of Russia and trade relations with that country...
...4. A friendly policy of supporting trade relations by Russia with the rest of the world...
...It is to laugh...
...The moment a strike was announced or an organization campaign begun by any union or group of workers, it was my duty and pleasure to immediately inform them that the Socialist Party and all its resources, speakers, halls, press, etc., were at their command...
...What riles me most, however, Is the rather sudden and remarkable discovery that such an organizer "might be so useful in bringing help in time of strike, In giving friendly aid in organizing campaigns...
...Anything ana everything was printed and elaborated to the minutest detail that would take the minds of the people away from the real business in which the bankers and busine: men were engaged: that is, in completing the hundred million dollar robbery, and legally getting a w a with it which they did...
...Through the realization of these demendi, fcppeoples of the Soviet Union will go forward in a peaceful manner, bat conscious of their aim, towards democracy, in order to release on the basis of freedom the creative forces of the masses for the establishment of Socialism, The hearts of the Socialist workers of the whole world wffl be with the workers of the Soviet Union in this fight for the salvation of the Russian Revo- . lution...
...Cleaners and Dyers...
...While in durance vile he is treated more like a king than a convict And well may he expect this treatment...
...On behalf of appeal to yon...
...My reservations are regarding the following: I am not so sure whether a special trade union organizer employed by the party would be a blessing or a nuisance, and I am suspicious about "a clearing house on tactics...
...The committee then consisted of 41 noted men and women, including the following eleven Socialists: Max Danish, Eugene V. Debs, Charles W. Ervin, Elizabeth Oilman, James H, Maurer, Norman Thomas, Girolamo Valenti and B. Charney Vladeck...
...These bankers and business men are the conscienceless scalawags Who offer lip service'to democracy when their daily lives are a continuously consistent betrayal of the principles they pretend to espouse...
...The section referring to Russia reads: The Socialist Party of the United States, through its national convention in New York City, unites with the trade unions, Socialist and Labor parties, and humane people all over the world in condemning the Soviet Government of Russia in its policy of imprisoning and exiling Socialists and others because of democratic opinions opposed to the ruling Communist Party...
...That we should do more and better, we all agree...
...Due to the world protest at that time, which included cables to Lenin by Debs and ether noted Socialists, the accused were saved from execution but they have been held as hostages all these years and recently they were again jailed...
...There were different conditions and we were also a much larger party...
...When one of them happens to get caught promoting some unusually outrageous swindle, either he or a substitute accepts full responsibility, submits to a weak prosecution, and receives a light sentence, which generally is remitted after a short imprisonment The members of this interlocking directorate of crime simply cannot afford to permit any fellow criminal to sustain a real prosecution or to receive a real punishment Each one knows too much on the other, all are equally guilty, and all have to fight each other's battles through and stand by each other, though the heavens fall...
...There must be an end to forcible collectivisation, to any expropriation of the peasantry...
...We too wish the peasantry to achieve the development of their economic system on cooperative lines...
...The general attitude and policy of the whole world Socialist movement expressed in this appeal does not differ from our Socialist policy since the various phases of the Bolshevik program emerged years ago...
...Included mm these are: Auto Mechanics;%M and Novelty Workers...
...the WM the Butchers', Bonnes BBltfl erg...
...1MB Bronze Workers...
...Journeyanfl lore...
...It lies in your power, workers of the Soviet Union, to compel it to take the necessary steps...
...On the matter of recognition of Russia and the Bolshevik terror the party attitude has been the same since the Bolsheviks seized power...
...Sheet Metal M the Shirt Makers...
...In the world of petty crime no me fears publicity more than the housebreaker or holdup man...
...This documentary work shows that all the horrors and saddist brutalities of the czarist terror continue under the Bolshevik terror and they are aimed against tested fighters against czarism who had served time in czarist prisons or in Siberian servitude It is this shocking thing against which the Socialist and Labor movement of the w f l | tested...
...That the scheme works to perfection is attested by the widespread poverty that exists in the presence of concentrated wealth...
...The continuance of this despotic and brutal policy of terror is responsible for thousands of noble men and women wasting away in Soviet prisons or hi isolated regions where exile is a living death A systematic policy or organized terror which stifles the Initiative of the working class, which deprives it of the right of organization, the right of a fret press and public meetings, cannot be reconciled with the best interests of the workers and of Russia herself...
...The Soviet Government pretends to govern in the name of the working class...
...The victory for the White counter-revolution would be an enormous catastrophe, not only for the peoples of the Soviet Union, who would be robbed of the fruits of their great revolution, not only for the working class of the Soviet Union, whose heroic fight would be devoid of result hut also for the Labor movement, for democracy and for peace throughout the world...
...Bat tils must be done in a voluntary manner...
...They are the bankers, business men, realtors, newspaper publishers, and those who own and manage the various industrial enterprises in the state...
...As the title of this articl phrase it the pig men in the lead of California capflQiam constitute an interlocking directorate of crime, with their respective headquarters in Los Angeles and San Francisco...
...Oufl mous resolutions in oarl tional convention were a • blunder...
...In brief, we must devote all we have to the success of the labor movement then there must also be many more thousands of us before we can hope to guide the destinies of the American Labor JHQFBH JT\ ftTl mm th in wa Th ask in fro fee of be of in...
...It is a piece of hypocrisy to Isolate Russia from the family of nations on the ground of its form of government...
...promised to present a review of the party's attitude as expressed in national conventions in recent years...
...The author of the present article drafted the above resolution which was adopted without a dissenting vote...
...We urge the speedy recognition of Russia, not as an expression of approval of the Bolshevik regime, but as a contribution towards the establishment of international stability and goodwill all over the world...
...The Socialist Party of the United States unites with the organized Socialist and Labor movement of the world in condemning this barbarous policy and urges a policy of amnesty, the release of all political prisoners in Russia and the abandonment of the regime of terror, exile and persecution that disgraces the present government of RussiaConsidering the long and consistent record of the party and of the Labor and Socialist International in relation to Russia and considering that the above two resolutions were adopted in our last convention a little over two years ago, it is astonishing that some comrades do not appear to know it...
...That would be to abandon the views of the Socialists of all countries: • • • What is desired is not a friendly or unfriendly policy towards Russia...
...True, they all act as individuals and are often credited personally for what they do, but in the aggregate they constitute a goodly portion^of the Socialist Party...
...While the people were thus distracted, the president of the defunct Association presented a plea of guilt and took a sentence that will enable him to regain his liberty in six years and six months, provided a corrupted court does not order an earlier release...
...Workers of the Soviet Union, unite with us for the salvation of the Russian Revolution and for the fight for democracy and Socialism...
...Some party members assert that our attitude toward Russia should be a "friendly" one...
...Hence THE NEW LEADER will again present important material on this matter received from the L. and S. I. The first document, which appears below, is an appeal sent to Ike Russian workers by the Executive of the International at Us session in Berlin, May 11-13, 1930.—Editor of THE NEW LEADER...
...Against this sin of omission I register an emphatic protest V Assisting the organization of unorganized workers, aiding trade unions in every phase of their many activities always has been, is, and I trust always will be, the duty and joy of the Socialist Party and its devoted members...
...It should be a Socialist policy, one that represents Socialist philosophy and principle...
...It can not be obtained by magic phrases or formulas...
...We who...
...This caption is, of course, an error...
...It strikes me rather unfortunate that he enters the controversy in almost the same vein as Comrade Stanley did at the convention...
...strike on the B.-M T. liasfl the two strikes on the Infl ough lines...
...The American government did not find it difficult to recognise the despotic government of the Russian Czars and since the end of the World War it has extended recognition to such cruel despotisms as Hungary and Italy...
...As the newspapers display big headlines telling of the operations of in "organized gang," when the probability is that one man, not nore than two, committed* the depredations, the crook grows sick it heart...
...The "tool" takes the "poke" from the "kick" while the1 "stall" diverts the alter f->n of the "sucker...
...In fact they are the very substance and spirit of the party...
...So petty are these labors compared to making faces at Matthew Woll, plotting programs for A. F. of L. progress, applying the new research method of finding rackets in every form at behavior, and banding together all and kindred holy souls into a mutual admiration society to preserve the purity of the labor movement—that these glamorous pursuits appeal ever so much more...
...But that is not implied in their statements and proposals...
...During the time the principal business men and bankers of Los Angeles were under indictment for stealing more than one hundred million dollars from forty thousand stockholders by wrecking the Julian Petroleum Corporation, and until the expiration of the statute of limitations, the Los Angeles newspapers and radio stations, with one exception, exhausted every known resource to divert the attention of the people from the robbery...
...I fear, however, that this erratic summation is quite symbolical and there are some innocents in our ranks who may read into the decision of the recent convention of the Socialist Party of New York City the dismissal of our relations to the trade unions and labor organization in general...
...and they are the men whose permission must be secured if ever the victims of their perfidy* are released...
...If this should happen, if the peasants of the Soviet Union were ruled with hatred against the working class and the revolution, then the danger would arise that the embitterment and desperation of the peasantry would be misused by the White counterrevolutionaries fen- their aims: the horrible danger would arise of a new civil war in the Soviet Union...
...Above all, the alliance of the workers with the peasants must be re-established...
...Sometimes we assisted even our worst enemies...
...They hear with horror of the continuation, indeed of the intensification, of the bloody terror...
...They are as follows: 1. An unfriendly attitude towards terrorism...
...They bear of the hunger in your towns, They knew that your conditions of labor are often more unfavorable than those" of the wujheta la the "^p***1*** countries...
...Like famished gourmands, members of the gang are sharpening their teeth in anticipation of a feast Real estate subdivisions are being laid out old ones are being revamped, literature will be issued, the newspapers win-be filled with lies, and high pressure salesmen are putting themselves in readiness tor the slaughter...
...rthe Workers of the Soviet Union...
...Do New York Sodalftafl the view that support o f jH of the Bolshevik progrsjM cialist virtue and a crtttfl tude toward it is a SociaUefl The issue Is certaiaufl put and that is all that lM tempted to do in this M f l An Interlocking Directorate of Crime Capitalism In Southern California Follows The Psychology of the Pickpocket By George H. Shoaf •w^ICKPOCKETS, as a rule, JL "work" in "mobs" of from two to four...
...Freedom, which is as indispensable to the workers and peasants as air and water, must be restored to the peoples of the Soviet Union...
...But millions of workers, who have been welded together in the hard school of the political and trade union struggle, have overcome the greatest difficulties and created powerful trade union, economic and political class organizations in order to fight with their help for the ideals of Socialism...
...Some of our members do not appear to understand what this position is and this is especially true of new recruits in recent years...
...The Socialist Party's attitude is easily ascertained by its declarations in each national convention...
...There were times when these tasks were performed on a larger scale and more effectively...
...asjiii'lit by defease of experience gained la the political stragglee em the put of the working dans of Europe, the L. 8. L flocltros to you, week ere of the Soviet Union, that it rests with you to aave the Russian lesolution, that the moor is m your hands to avoid a catastrophe and bring about a peaceful solution of all the great problems of the revolution...
...We offered our help at all times and it was always accepted...
...are not of the labor movement must first be useful to it before we can afford to be critical...
...His success depends up>n the ignorance of the people retarding his work...
...It is when hey go to sleep, or are thinking if something else, that the crook unctions with profit • • • Several days following the failire of the Hollywood Building and irfsen Association, wherein twentywo thousand investors lost more ban eight million dollars, the sack paragrapher for The Los Angeles Times advised the people o stop talking about the matter, ad to forget it With one or two xceptions, the other Los Angeles apers handed out similar advice, mat the people might be helped i to forget the newspapers immediately laid down a tremendous news and editorial barrage, with Soviet Russia as the objective It was charged that Soviet agents, by circulating rumors, brought on the Hollywood collapse...
...Freedom of association...
...They know of the failure of the forcible methods adopted for the collectivisation of the peasantry...
...Jn 1932 the International Olympic Games will' meet in Los Angeles, to which will come, it is claimed, hundreds of thousands of sportsmen from over the world...
...but we demand the same legality also for the Socialist parties in the Soviet Union...
...The brief account of my report to the convention only helps to bedevil the matter for I did go into some detail and presented some facts to indicate that we are constantly on the job and doing just that work that militant Socialists should do in and with the trade unions...
...The Socialist Party Attitude Towards Soviet Russ - By James Oneal OW I N G to the rise of the Russian question in recent months within the Socialist Party we...
...The convention of 1922 demanded unreserved recognition of the Russian government and in 1923 the convention declared that If the revolution had done nothing more than to overthrow the czarist despotism this alone would remain a "glorious" achievement The resolution added that "differences in working class organizations never Justify 'support of the common enemy.' ' The convention of 1926 demanded immediate recognition of Russia and in 1928, the following was the party declaration: The Socialist Party of the United States joins with the Socialist and Labor parties of the world In demanding the recognition of the Soviet Government of Russia...
...Then, to be sjfl let me quote the record ejfl one year, the one just eadjH your officer, I was able tsJU the following organizations mm tempts at organizing sonefl ganized and in aiding meat...
...Our Socialist men and women trade unionists must be active, courageous and outstanding characters in their unions—and be known as such trade unionists primarily...
...The convention then took up a resolution on political prisoners and persecutions in Russia, Hungary and Italy, also drafted by the writer which was also adopted without dissent...
...for are not those in charge of the penitentiary under obligation to him and his gang for their jobs...
...Deep concern for the fat* of the Bosnian revolution weighs upon the Socialist workers of an countries...
...The fine art in picking pockets, or perpetrating any piece of rascality, lies in keeping the victims busy with some matter foreign to what actually Is going on, so that those robbed will be unconscious of the process...
...the TsgfJ and Taxi Drivers...
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