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Show OPEN LETTER TO TIE SOCIALIST PARTY MEMBERS Once again, in somewhat amblgu- ; ous language, the spokesmen of the ' local Socialist party are calling on you to "vote the Socialist ticket." The last paragraph in their address to the voters, published in the Standard Stand-ard Tuesday evening, reads: "Do your duty, workinmen, the the polls and also bo sure' ajid write to your respective congressmen, both state and national, urging them to vote an embargo on foodstuffs and other much-needed supplies so that America may not be starved in the in-terest in-terest of tho war In Europe. America, First, Last and Always." The above paragraph is a concentrated concen-trated extract of treason to the working work-ing class or just plain ignorance under un-der a cloak of Socialism. Writing to "your respective congressmen" may appeal to reformers but self-respecting Socialists stand on the rock, "No Compromise No Political Trading." The Socialist party emblem of hands clasped across the globe and the words, ""Workers of the World Unite" has no significance for the leaders of the Socialist party. "America "Amer-ica first, last and always," is but another version of "Germany Ueber Alles," "Rule Brlttanla" and patriotic bunco which helped to give the lie to the "great Socialist vote of Germany" Ger-many" and lurch the "workers of the world" at each other's throats. "Now we willarrlve at the point," says these psoudo Socialistls. "We, the Socialist party, make up the party hat stands directly for the people. Yon are all collectively and indiv idually one of US, and we as well are none other but one of YOU. : We in this glorious land, with its wealth and abundance, produce each and every year enough to sustain us for three years." What is the Socialist party trying to work, a confidence game? The writer refuses to be taken in as one of us." , , . "The people," in the broad claim or the Socialist party, Includes the ma-nipulators ma-nipulators of Wall Street, yet, the Socialist party sees no inconsistency in polling a "Socialist" vote ostensibly ostensi-bly for tho purpose of bluffing Wall Street. The class conscious worklngman, or woman can have nothing in common with a party. That gasps in horror about a war made possible by "immediate de mands" policies like its own. That spends its energies in a Poulist tirade against Wall Street. That is the catspaw of its privately owned, but official, press. That Is Involuntarily committed to the traditions of the middle class and therefore, Can have no adequate conception of the working class ideal of the Socialist Social-ist or Industrial Republic, and is bound to roveal its Identity and intellectual in-tellectual status by catch-penny, vote-getting vote-getting schemes and jingo patriotism. The Socialist Labor party, though small in numbers, has been true to the workingclass. With bogus "So-clalists" "So-clalists" labor faker and capitalist' politicians on every hand, the worklngman work-lngman is between the devil and the deep sa, Workingmen and women, rally round the banner of the fighting Socialist Labor Party! (Signed) EUGENE A. BATTAELL. no |