'Militant' Charge Branded A Deliberate Falsehood
'Militant' Charge Branded A Deliberate Falsehood ABOUT the most infamous thing that has occurred in the *T fight-to^prelreat the Commanist-'*lniiitant,* alliance from wrecking the Socialist Party...
...Is it because your motley following of parlor Bolsheviks and splinter Communists realize their defeat in New York State...
...Mr...
...Thomas, and your poison brigade to explain your fraternization with splinter Communists in New York and other states...
...It is because you want to divert attention from this conspiracy to control the Socialist Party with the aid of these elements that you give currency to infamous falsehoods...
...We think so...
...Rogoff also went on to say that the United Mine Workers' convention had practically voted a blank check in support of Roosevelt...
...The party members in every state, thanks to The New Leader, now know what the isstMl are...
...Into these quotations the Thomas publicists read that Rogoff and The New Leader will support Roosevelt...
...That statement is literally true...
...Is it because they now understand that the party membership in New York does not consist of cattle to ,be driven by unscrupulous party bosses...
...Do not be one thing outside your secession organization and another thing insice...
...You know that your leading Trotsky general in the Chicago party organization is demanding that the doors be thrown open for the admission of every splinter Communist throughout the country...
...Militant' Charge Branded A Deliberate Falsehood ABOUT the most infamous thing that has occurred in the *T fight-to^prelreat the Commanist-'*lniiitant,* alliance from wrecking the Socialist Party was a statement released in the capitalist press last Sunday by these pseudo-revolutionaries, saving, that the fighting Old Guard will support President Roosevelt for re-election...
...No such editorial has appeared or will appear...
...This statement was attributed to The New Leader...
...Indeed, your Chicago Trotsky general announces that if y0§ can get rid of the fighting Old Guard the road will be open ti the accomplishment of your purpose...
...It is for you and your allies to answer the charge that you are inviting these destructive elements to join the Socialist Party...
...Our contributor, Harry Rogoff, declared that the mass of workers and farmers "will judge the Roosevelt administration not on the basis of Thomas theories concerning fascism and the collapse of fascism, but on the basis of their own experiences and observations...
...The Socialist Party will remain the Socialist Party and all those who seek to barter it in unscrupulous trades and deals for personal prestige and "leadership" will fail and they deserve to fail...
...The quotations used in the press release were not from an editorial but from an article by a contributor who criticized a muddled speech by the leader of this Communist^mnitant" alliance, Norman Thomas...
...In New York City your followers also make goo-goo eyes at these same elements...
...It is a falsehood and its authors know it to be such...
...We will have nothing to do with them...
...Lovestone and other Communists in the name of an "inclusive party...
...There was not a line in that article that justified the Communist-"militant" falsehood...
...It is for you, Mr...
...They did not work for years to build a Socialist organitt* tion only to have you turn it over to Trotsky...
...That is the iMpUtt and all the falsehoods that you circulate cannot conceal it...
...Face the voters with the things that you frankly advocate...
...Behind the poison screen which you erect against us is this quiet scuttling of the Socialist movement of this country...
...But you will not succeed...
...This is also true...
...Thomas, why do your half-baked Communist followers resort to this infamy...
...You have brought iafe the party built by Debs, Berger, Hillquit, Hanford and other noble men the worst practices of capitalist political rings...
...You want the splinter Communists wjtk you...
...The statement sent to the press declared that The New Leader had published an editorial indicating that it would support Roosevelt for President this year...
...You want to destroy all who stand in the way of that aim...
...Their infamy is all the more evident considering that in the same article Rogoff presented his own view in the following words: "CERTAINLY, SOCIALISTS CANNOT BE SATISFIED WITH THE NEW DEAL...
...By sending the lying story you did to the daily press you have placed yourselves :n the pillory...
...In lower California this conspiracy against the party has also begun...
...This hi conscious lying and its authors know very well that it is...
...It is not for us to explain anything...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 9
