Word: socialists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three factions divided the Left Wing of U. S. politics. Biggest and strongest of the three was the Left's Left headed by Norman Thomas, twice Socialist nominee for President. This faction two years ago, after a bitter struggle, got the party to adopt a radical platform including "mass resistance" to war, last year agreed to a "united front" with Communists in such specific matters as May Day parades, demonstrations against Fascism and support of the unemployed. The Left's Left went to Cleveland last week already in control of the party's National Executive Committee...
...approved the credentials of the 44 Leftist delegates from New York, leaving 44 Rightists without seats. But there was a bigger division on the question of compromising with Communist methods of violence. Said Mr. Waldman scathingly of the Left: ". . . their so-called mass war resistance program is not Socialist, for it fights against one specific agency of the Federal Government, instead of attempting to get control of the entire Government by democratic means. "When they say they are against the present bogus democracy of the present system and are for a workers' democracy, it is again a cowardly compromise...
...representatives of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, California, Missouri, Illinois and Texas, met to form a new party, the "Social Democratic Federation of the U. S." on "democratic socialist principles and seeking to unite all farmers and workers with hand or brain." Said Norman Thomas bitterly: "I can almost find it in my heart to be sorry for them. ... At best it is a face-saver. At worst it is a mere spite party doomed to futility." Left to itself, the remainder of the Socialist party shouted down an invitation to join the Communists on a common ticket. Slated for adoption...
...historic bad blood that exists between Frenchmen and Germans is no more bitter than the hatred between French Socialists and French Royalists. Last week furious Editor Charles Maurras of the Royalist Action Française was led into a Paris court to answer charges that an editorial of his had incited Frenchmen to attack rich Socialist Leader Leon Blum, who is slated next week to become France's first Jewish Premier. Three months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give...
...tall, bespectacled Socialist Premier-designate last week told a U. S. radio audience : "The recent French elections . . . mean first a victory for the republican form of government, of democratic institutions and of freedom, both civil and personal, over all forms of autocracy, oligarchy and Fascism. ... I believe that the will of the French people is closely related to the will of the American people." Two days later M. Blum reviewed a Paris march-past of Communists and Socialists, joined the marchers in singing the Internationale, waving his arm to keep time...