Socialist Party Continues War Upon War
Socialist Party Continues War Upon War THE Socialist Party will con* tinue its consistent battle against war in the future as in fee past, and will continue to cooperate with all...
...Hut we know that we are fighting in the spirit of mil' lions of (In until workers...
...Come to our aid, that the heroic efforts of the persecuted and tortured Socialists and Democrats in Germany may win the day...
...Our struggle 1. your struggle, our aims are also : ours...
...Books by the greatest minds of all the ayes are prohibited and burned...
...Socialist Party Continues War Upon War THE Socialist Party will con* tinue its consistent battle against war in the future as in fee past, and will continue to cooperate with all organizations ami groups in that battle that genuinely desire joint action against war...
...The triumph of Fascism would be a disgrace to Kurope and to the civilized world...
...The Socialist Paarty thereupon declared that "The Communists have betrayed the United States Congress Against War by attempting to make It a tool .o be used against the Socialists...
...Tens of thousands are languishing in jails, prisons and concentration camps, merely because their opinions are displeasing to the present rulers, because they have worked for peace and mutual friendship among the nations, or because they are of Jewish race, though born of German mothers and on Gerinan soil...
...The Communist Party either believes the statements in the Daily Worker that Socialists are •upporting war preparations, addbig open provocations against the Soviet Union and preparing for imperialist war against the working class, or they do not believe them...
...The persecution is growing day by day...
...The League Against Fascism, which is carrying on a campaign to finance underground Socialist activities in German, was set up by Socialists, trade unionists and liberals from all sections of the United States...
...In their name, in the name of all the forces of liberty among the German people, we turn to the liberty-loving elements in the United States with our plea for comradely help...
...Now, as in the past, we strive for a social order which will bring peace and freedom for those people, employment and bread for the working class...
...The Communists have not even hesitated to attack the Socialist Party in connection with the United Front itself...
...Hundreds of men have been done to death in the prisons, shot while trying to escape, or put into sacks and thrown into the rivers to drown...
...The Socialist Party is eager to build s broad united front...
...The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition are being re-enacted...
...Women and children are being imprisoned an hostages...
...The report concludes: "The Socialist Party of America will continue its consistent struggle against war, symbolized by its opposition to the World War...
...The National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party appointed a sub committee consisting of Julius Gerber, Harry W. Laidler and Edward Levinson to represent the party and to secure assurances that there would be good faith Upon the part of the Communist elements—the Communist Party, its affiliates and its "innocents' clubs"—toward the Socialists...
...German Fascism has brought bloody terror, hitter need and boundless misery upon millions of men, women and children...
...They are for the time silenced by an unheard-of reign of terror, but the most brutal oppression cannot shake their faith in democracy...
...The Socialist Party has How entered the committee to Prepare the Anti-War Congress on September 1st...
...led across the frontier, without means to support themselves or their dependents at home...
...Hundreds of thousands have lost their means of Subsist ' lire...
...That there is and never has been an honest desire for unity of action with Socialists on the part of the Communists wits made plain again after Socialist delegates entered the preliminary Meetings of the Congress...
...lit us defend it...
...In the face of those elements that would prevent the union of the working' class ranks, the Socialist Tarty raises Ha historic slogan: 'Workers »f the world, unite 1 '" Wels Appeals to Americans for Help TPO the American People...
...With an invitation to unity," said the statement of the party's committee, "there must he a wish for unity...
...The battle of the workers sgslnst resetlon will continue, in spite of the blindness of Communist political , strategists who cannot see the necessities or the working-class towering above one organization or group...
...Unity of action on an issue upon which all elements are agreed is possible, the Socialist Party's committee said, only when all are animated by good faith and intend to keep their word...
...We German Social Democrats remain true to our ideals...
...An Illogical Attitude "If they believe these statements to he true, how can they call for a United front with these 'advocates of war,' in a fight against war...
...In a document •n the subject of war, issued officially by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States, the following statement is made under the subheading 'Socialists Aid in Carrying Through War Plans': 'Under cover •f "pacifism" the Socialist leaders, in the last World War, make themselves the most useful supporters of the Wall Street war plans...
...It is for those reasons, the party's sub-committee reports, that it is impossible to work against war, or for any other cause, with Communists who make a principle of impugning the good faith of those whose aid they seek...
...Otto Wels, Chairman...
...In this struggle it will gladly cooperate with all organisations that genuinely desire Joint action on such Issues...
...It demonstratea it daily in the fields of struggle in which the workingclass is engaged today...
...If they do not believe them—and how can any sane man or woman who has followed the activities of the American Socialists believe them ?—why are they constantly spreading these falsehoods and, particularly at the present time, disrupting the united front against war...
...That is the answer of the party to the United States Congress Against War in announcing its withdrawal because of the constant and persistent bad fuith of the Communist elements within it...
...We will see by their participation in this movement to what extent they dare Continue their old policies openly before the worker members who are demanding a real united front struggle against war and Fascism.' "Such is the 'United Front' as the Communist Party sees it...
...For all liberal minded men the watchword is: The honor of humanity is entrusted to us...
...Same Old Story The party's committee reported that immediately after the conferences began the official organ of the Communist Party began a peculiarly poisonous barrage against the Socialist Party and its War record...
...This came us the deadly enmity of the present" regime in Germany...
...The Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany...
...I The vivos and children of these captives are in dire want...
...Knormous is the number of those who are in hiding in fear for their lives, enormous also tho number of those who have...
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Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 6
