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Tory Press Declares for Laguardia As Mayor Enters G. 0. P. Primaries SOCIALISTPublished Weekly as the Organ of the Socialist Party ofAPPEAL New York, Left Wing Branches. — — ■ — .............. - . - -------- .. 1 'I VOL. 1. - No. 2. 401 Saturday, August 21, 1937 5 Cents per Copy Tory Press Declares For LaGuardia As Mayor Enters G. 0 . P. Primaries iTribune’ and ‘Times’ for Browder-Thomas-ALP People’s Front Candidate As if derisively answering the Oneal, Earl Browder and Jay “People’s Fronters" in all camps Lovestone. A ll of them are as­ who have advertized him as The Capitalist Press For LaGuardia sociated ih a policy and move­ "Labor’s Candidate", Fiorello H. ment which the convention of the La Guardia threw off all pretense Socialist Party almost unanim­ by entering the race in the New The New York Times: The New York Herald-Tribune: ously condemned— the policy of York Republican primaries in the People’s Front, ranging from “The alternative to both Mr. Copeland and “The leaders of Fusion and their allies within order to win the Mayoralty no­ Thomas and Altman, through Mr. Mahoney is Mr. LaGuardia, on the Fusion the Republican party have every reason to be mination of the party of Landon, Lovestone and Browder, to La ticket. During the early days of his adminis­ Hoover, the DuPonts, Ford, Mel­ proud of their tic k e t.. , There have been nerv­ Guardia and the Republican Par­ lon and Mills. tration it was apparently his belief that trade ous moments in the last week, but the result is ty machine. A t the same time, not only the unions could do no wrong, even when they resort­ what counts. That could hardly be better. The main organ of American capital­ ed to vidlence in the pursuit of their objectives, ticket that will be offered the city, given the People’s Front Line Fatal ist “ Democracy", the New York and his action in the taxicab strike reflected this cooperation of the Republicans in their primary, Instead of emphasizing to the Times, but also the leading reac­ conviction. Fortunately, his opinions on this will be the ablest and best that local politics has working class the imperative tionary Republican organ and point are undergoing an unmistakeable change. ever achieved. •. They Mayor, rejecting the ad­ need for independence from the chief spokesman for Landon in His handling of the. attempted sit-down strikes vice of some of his closest advisors, remained in capitalist class and all its polit­ the last presidential campaign in this community last Spring— and his present the Republican primary. Thereby he turned his ical institutions and organiza­ the New York Herald-Tribune, handling <tf two great strikes in the dockyards back on a smart political trick to play fair with tions, they help implant the di­ came out flatfootedly an en­ of Brooklyn and Richmond— has shown admir­ his many Republican supporters. As usual, the sastrous illusion that these or­ thusiastically for the candidate ganizations can be utilized by of the New York bankers and able firmness. M r. Dewey’s presence adds Mayor’s final decision is the right one. We great weight to the Fusion ticket, which, with shall hope and expect that M r. Dewey’s entrance labor. Instead of enhancing the real estate men. LaGuardia has class consciousness of the work­ its other sterling candidates, now offers the into the primary will mean a sweeping victory already been endorsed by the ers, they help to blunt it by voters of this city an opportunity to put in com­ Fusion Party, the Seabury “pro­ for the Mayor ever Senator Copeland. Sur­ smearing over- a ll class lines. On gressive*’, the Simpson Republi-' mand of the municipal government for tjbe gext rounded as he will be by a predominantly “Re­ an American scale, the People’s can machine, the American Labor four years an administration which is honest publican tfidket of extraordinary ability and Fronters of all varieties are Party, the Communist Party, the and humane, non-partisan and capable:" staunchness and pledged to devote himself com­ smoothing the path for the same Lovestone group, the Old Guard — N. Y. Times, Aug. 15, 1937. pletely to local affairs for the next four years, catastrophe that befell the work­ “ Social Democrats” and the Ita l­ M r. LaGuardia is entitled to ask for votes upon ers of Germany and Austria and ian “ socialist" daily, La Stampa the basis of the city’s welfare." which now threatens the workers Libera, edited by G. Valenti (fin­ —N. Y. Herald-Tribune, Aug. 15, 1937 of Spain. ancial wizard of the Altman- What a revealing commentary Thomas caucus). on the right wing in the Socialist Thomas View Rejected with the Tory press has given its of membership in it was support tions , now also, as an obstacle Party that, while it is ready to LaGuardia apparently did not support of his candidacy, em­ for Roosevelt and Lehman. To­ in the path of independent work­ dissolve the movement for the read Norman Thomas’ column in phasizes more plainly than any­ day it is support for working ing class political action and as sake of supporting the Repub­ the Socialist Call of August 7, thing else that LaGuardia is a class ‘ political action.” This ar­ a means of keeping the workers lican nominee for Mayor of New when he wrote of the ALP that capitalist candidate, running on gument is now more plainly re­ subordinated to one or the other York, it cannot abide for another “This year for Mayor it endor­ a capitalist platform, with the pealed as utterly false in face of of the two old capitalist parties. instant the presence in the party ses La Guardia who has publicly direct support otf the class con­ the fact that the “working class The role of the right wing in of the revolutionary socialists! expressed his general support scious capitalists. political action” of the ALP con­ the Socialist Party today with Is it not significant that simul­ for the ALP, who is fighting the In the article referred to, Nor­ sists merely in anticipating the regard to the election campaign taneous with the bureaucratic leaders of the Republican Party, man Thomas argued for the key nominations of the Repub­ is thus entirely indistinguishable mass expulsions of the left wing and may not run in the Prim­ withdrawal of an independent lican party. As in the presiden­ from that played by the Old militants comes the disgraceful ary.” The Mayor’s eagerness to socialist ticket by comparing the tial campaign of 1936, when the Guard in the 1936 elections or sell-out of the party to LaGuar­ obtain the nomination of the Re­ ALP last year with the ALP this ALP corralled the labor vote for from that played at the present dia that the right wing is car­ publican Party and the vigor !year. “A year ago the condition the Democratic Party, it func­ time by Chamey Vladeck, James rying out? NEC Suspends Stalinists Applaud Ousting California Violent Crisis Drives Japanese Charter of Left wing from S. P. By Glen Trimble Imperialism to Invade China The charter of the Socialist The Communist Party bureau­ within their ranks. It is now The world crisis of 1929 drove Party of California has been By James Wills possible— by cleansing all traces Japan to find new markets and cracy, which has spared neither suspended by the National Ex­ Goaded by an internal economic of Trotskyism from the SP or­ new sources of raw material. energy nor funds in its efforts ecutive Committee! On Wedns- crisis that has become intoler­ ganization— to strengthen the But there is no room in the pre­ to undermine and corrupt the So­ day, August 11, the Clarity fac­ ably acute, Japanese imperialism prestige of the Socialist Party sent-day imperialist world for cialist Party has put the stamp tion openly placed itself at the has struck again at continental and give it new health. peaceful expansion. Thus Japan of of hearty approval on the ex­ head of the party splitters and China in a supremely desperate has been compelled to erect a pulsion of the revolutionary left "Not only is it necessary to wreckers. Ward Rodgers, author effort bo find a way out by estab­ m ilitary and naval machine ut­ wing of the SP by the Altman- throw out Shachtman, Burnham, of the suspension resolution has lishing its mastery over all Asia. terly disproportionate to its eco­ Thomas combination. Abem and their tools. It is also been appointed “im partial” ex­ Coming late upon the scene of nomic capacities and to seek the “We greet the New York local essential, in the interests of the ecutor of the possessions, locals the capitalist world and lacking expansion it desperately needs of the Socialist Party", says the Socialist Party and of the work­ and members of the state party. the natural resources vital to the by resort to force. Yet precisely leading editorial of the Daily ing class, that all ideas and prac­ With this action last lingering development of the basic indus­ this resort to force has aggra­ Worker, on August 1.4, 1937, "for tises of Trotskyism and the Trot­ doubt as to the complete alliance tries, Japanese capitalism very vated the economic difficulties its expulsion of 54 counter-revo­ skyists be cleaned out entirely between the Altman-Thomas early in its life found it necessary and hastens the day when this lutionary Trotskyists as conspir­ from within the Socialist Party.” social-patriotic party liquidators to embark upon the path of im­ weak and top4ieavy structure atorial enemies of the Socialist By purging the SP of "all ideas and the “C larity” NEC majority perialist 'expansion.
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