POLITICAL NOTES: Ex-Symbol

Unique among followers of Karl Marx in the U. S. are the 3.000 members of the Socialist Labor Party. Unlike either Norman Thomas' plain Socialists or Earl Browder's Communists, the Socialist-Laborites are incorrigibly consistent in refusing to make any temporary concessions to capitalism in the hope of long-range gains. Last week the Socialist-Laborites achieved the absolute in consistency. The party's Weekly People printed an open letter to Labor's recently freed Hero Tom Mooney:

". . . Tom Mooney, the class prisoner, was a symbol of labor's intolerable servitude. But Tom Mooney, pardoned...

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