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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 22,1964
Organizer to Speak
Ideas of Socialists Clash
By Dave Pomeroy
The Socialist Labor Party is quick to point out in its official newspaper, the Weekly People, that the views expressed by their national organizer, John P. Quinn, at the SUA Minority Opinions Forum Friday will differ with those of other political parties describing themselves as "socialist."
The Weekly People says that the SLP, which was organized in 1890, is the only bona fide party of socialism in the United States and has no connection with other parties or groups that call themselves socialist —primarily the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party.
THE SOCIALIST Labor Party organ describes the Socialist Party as a reform group whose principals are the same as Roosevelt New Deal policies. Instead of furthering the cause of socialism, the Socialist Party in reality has openly admitted its program was used to save capitalism, the program it was supposedly designed to destroy, says the Weekly People.
In proof of these statements the Weekly People says the Socialist Party "has for decades advocated a hodgepodge of national ownership, state ownership, municipal ownership, cooperatives, etc." Such policies, the paper says, call for the continuance of capitalism and not the abolition of capitalism and the establishment of the "Socialist Industrial Republic" that the SLP advocates.
THE SOCIALIST Labor Party also attacks the Socialist Workers Party and says it is equally as fraudulent in its presumptuous use of the term "socialist."
According to the SLP paper, the Socialist Workers Party is a "Communist splinter group. It subscribes to all the familiar Russian 'Communist' tenets and many, if not most, of its tactics have been borrowed from the Russian Revolution."
Laird M. Wilcox, chairman of the Minority Opinions Forum, said the
Socialist Workers Party is included in the "Attorney General's Subversive List."
The Weekly People also denounces any connection between the Socialist Labor Party and the Communist Party.
"THE COMMUNIST Party has become thoroughly discredited in the eyes of decent, thinking people," says the paper.
The Socialist Labor Party feels that there is no possibility of any real or lasting improvement for the working class within the structure of capitalism. The longer capitalism lasts, the paper says, the more difficult the transition from capitalism to socialism will be.
Capitalism cannot be abolished by a political party, but must result from a united effort by workers as a class as advocated by the Socialist Labor Party, the group says.
"It is the aim of the SLP to create a society in which wars will be but evil memories, a society in which poverty will have disappeared, in which freedom will have been made secure, and in which democracy will have become the prevailing society for all," says the Weekly People.
THE SOCIALIST Labor Party platform says there will be no private ownership of the land and industries in a socialist society and no wage system where the workers receive in wages only a fraction of the goods they produce. Instead, there will be a complete democracy where people will vote from where they work rather from where they live.
The Socialist Labor Party is organized nationally, but does not appear on the ballot in all states because election laws vary locally.
In at least half of the states it is virtually impossible for a minority party to qualify for a place on the ballot. In Ohio, the law does not provide for a write-in vote. Because of these laws, the SLP has never been able to appear on the ballot in all states in a national election.
ARNOLD PETERSON, national secretary of the SLP, said candidates for the 1964 Presidential election will be nominated at the national convention which will convene in New York City on May 2.
Quinn spoke at Friends University in Wichita on April 21 and at the University of Wichita the following day.
Pi Sigma Alpha, national honorary political science fraternity, honored three outstanding members and presented faculty awards to four more Tuesday at the annual initiation banquet.
THE FRATERNITY honored Martha Allen, Lawrence senior, as the outstanding woman in political science by presenting her with the American Legion Auxiliary (Girls' State) award.
Faculty awards of subscriptions to professional journals were presented to Carl Stephen Long, Mission senior; Charles A. Marvin, Lawrence senior; Alan L. Roff, Winfield senior, and Ann Victoria Sheldon, Independence senior.
William Joseph Cibes Jr., Altamont junior, received the Gustafson scholarship and Donald Fraser Martin, Kansas City senior, received the Pi Sigma Alpha award as the outstanding man.
Political Scientists Honored
New officers were elected for the year, and 32 students were initiated into the fraternity.
IN ELECTIONS, Walter Van Asselt, Grand Haven, Mich., graduate student, was elected president; Hugh Jeffrey Taylor, Enson, Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduate student,
President's Advisor Sees No Future Inflation Signs
Leland J. Pritchard, professor of economics at KU, is president of the association.
There are no significant bottle-necks to justify an opinion that the American economy is on the threshold of another round of inflation, was the report given by the chairman of President Johnson's Council on Economic Advisers Friday in Chicago.
MICHAEL MALONE, Overland Park graduate student; Joseph D. McGratch, University of Chicago Lawrence instructor of political science; D. Farrell Munsell, Hays graduate student; Kenneth Ostrander, Wallowa, Oreg Graduate student, and Alan L. Roff, Winfield school
W. Merrill Downer, Topeka graduate student; Gerald William Dykes, Leavenworth senior; Nancy Jo Eggy, Topeka professor; Rober E. Harmon, Newton senior; John Otis Kent, Kansas City senior; James Willkam Kola, Eau Claire, Wise. graduate student; Kimpe, Kansas City, Mo. graduate student, and Tracey Love, Wichita junior.
Ann Victoria Sheldon, Independence senior; Seffi Shibru, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Jeffrey Terry, Beethoven, both Sowers, Kansas City, Mo, junior; Hugh Jeffrey Taylor, Enson, Stoke-on-Trent, England graduate student; Frank Witty, Temple University, Van Assell, Grand Haven, Mich, graduate student; W. L. Van Nieuwenhuyse, Shawnee senior; Franz von Sauer, Lawyer; James Fitzpatrick, Daniels, Wanamakake, Salina junior, and Wayne J. Zuck, Merriam senior.
Martha Allen, Lawrence senior; Ben F. Barrett, Topeka graduate student; Ken F. Burke, Topeka graduate student; Linda Kay Cash, Fairview Park, Ohio senior; William Joseph Clibes JB Jr., Altaqua junior; Oval G. Clanton, Pittsburg graduate student, and Babette Cowley, Downs senior.
The report was made Friday at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economic Association, where five KU professors spoke. The report was made by Walter W. Heller, chairman of the President's Council.
Other KU professors at the meeting were Ronald Olsen, assistant professor of economics; Darwin Daicoff, assistant professor of economics; Ronald Calgaard, assistant professor of economics; Charles B. Saunders, professor of business administration; and Harold Krogh, professor of business administration.
was chosen as vice president, and Ella Kline, Wichita junior, was elected secretary.
Thirty-two students initiated into the fraternity are:
About 90 members attended the meeting, according to Pritchard.
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