The Daily Worker

Socialist Groups
Cheer Communist
Election Program

NEW YORK.-Charles Solomon,
Socialist Party candidate for mayor
of New York City flatly refused to
appear at a symposium arranged by
Locals 2 and 3 of the Socialist-controlled Workers' Committee on
Unemployment before which Robert
Minor, Communist mayoralty candidate spoke last Saturday night to
250 workers at the Henry Street
Settlement.
The Fusion representative, La Guardia
Post, who Mr. La Guardia had promised would be present, failed to appear as did Mr. O'Brien. O'Brien
sent a telegram which arrived at
10 a.m., stating that he "had a previous
engagement." Mr. A. M. Orange
spoke for the Socialist-Labor Party.
Though Minor centered his attack
upon exposing the misleadership on
the workers by the Socialist Party,
the many Socialist workers at the
meeting were also given a clear picture of the reactionary opportunist
program presented by the Socialist-
Labor Party.
Minor proved with photostatic
copies of city court records the tie
between Tammany and Solomon. He
laid bare the injunction record of
the Socialist mayoralty candidate.
"And now do you know why Mr. Solomon didn't come today?" asked
Minor.
Mr. Orange's program of "no struggle for immediate demands-just
stand by until we make the revolution" was torn to shreds by the Communist candidate, who concluded by
turning to Orange and saying:
"By fighting, the workers develop
the capacity to make a revolution.
They don't read your Daniel McLeod
books-they read the bread line and
the policeman's club."
The Communist program was
cheered so enthusiastically by both
Socialist and Communist workers
that a planned straw vote became
unnecessary.