The Daily Worker

or work on Sunday when the union does not permit? No. For that they would have a fine of only $15 and no suspension. Their "crime" consists of refusing to attend the well known protest meetings against Communist leadership in the trade unions. That is not all. For the same and similar "crimes" something like 15 other well known members were fined and suspended, so that Shiplakoff finds it quite comfortable to attack these individual's opinions without giving them a chance to answer. That is only a small fraction of what is really going on in the Pocketbook Workers' Union not mentioning the Amalgamated, Furriers' and Garment Internationals. These socialists believe in democracy at any price (but let anyone within the socialist party or any other place where socialists have leadership get the floor on any question and speak a little different from their point of view and he will find that every minute there will be a point of order, point of enlightenment, objection, time limit, etc., and keep it up until with parliamentary tricks stop the speaker from expressing his view.

I mentioned above that at the Young People's Socialist League's conventions resolutions are passed against the C. M. T. C., Boy Scouts, etc., but can any member show me where and when any concrete work was done against these organizations? Just what is the Y. P. S. L. doing (not saying) against the growing reaction in our country? What are they doing against the miserable exploitation of our youth in the cotton fields, textile, mine and other industries? What are they doing in order to organize youth against the impending world war? I would not be out of order to ask what are they doing outside of hiking, running dances (and giving loving cups for the best Charleston dance) and discussing current events at their meetings? If you cannot do anything else, then why call yourself a socialist organization?

Now it seems to me that the sooner the workers who are still in the socialist party and the Young People's Socialist League will realize that beautiful and revolutionary phraseology are meaningless unless followed by deeds the sooner these workers will help build the Workers Party and the Young Workers' League, which today embodies the real immediate and future demands of the American working class, and that way be on the right road to our final emancipation.