The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CQ 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. (Phon Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 montha By mail (in Chicago only)? $4.50....6 moths $6.00 per year 68.00 per year 2 Ay Ry ARK See RR Aaa a SEED Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, tInole J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. D zt MORITZ J, LOES. Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, IL, under the act of March 3, 1879 —— <p 290 Advertsing rates on application el Shaving the Injunction .. editors Business Manager The decision of the United States supreme court, holding that under the provisions of the Clayton Act those charged with a violation of an injunction in labor disputes are entitled to a trial by a jury, | is a piece of political strategy of a very high order. It kills two birds with one stone. The lower courts have refused the right of jury trial to workers haled before the bar of capitalist justice for violation or alleged violation of the in- famous injunction. This summary treatment in- creased the resentment aroused among the work- ing class over that very effective strikebreaking weapon. But if there are some who believe that the su- preme court decision impairs the efficiency of the injunction, they have jumped to a hasty conclusion. On the contrary the nine more or less wise and aged men who are. considered capable of inter- preting the laws, in accordance with the constitu- tion of the United States simply gave the injunc- tion a clean shave and made it look respectable. As far as the operation of the injunction is con- cerned the decision maintains the status quo, The clubs of the police and the rifles and bayonets of the national and state soldiery will be available for use against the strikers. The only difference is that whereas previously the trial court could refuse a worker, arrested for violation of. the in-| junction, a trial by jury, the ruling of the supreme court make a jury trial mandatory on demand of the defendant. But it is not hard to get juries to convict and anyhow the injunction has done its dirty work in the meantime. It has broken the strike, unless the masses of workers ignore the in- junction, which they should do. From the standpoint of political strategy the decision proves that the Supreme court is the will- ing servant of the American ruling class and particularly of its most dominant faction, repres- ented by the elements supporting Coolidge and Dawes in this election campaign. The two most vulnerable points in the G. O. P. front in this election fight are the injunction and the supreme court. Both are defended by the re- publican party without reservations. The bour- geois opposition, particularly the LaFollette party, have sounded the alarm on those issues in order to catch the labor vote. This decision therefore has the double effect of polishing up the injunction, making it look more civilized and at the same time placing the august supreme court in the position of being the defender of the people’s liberties and an impartial tribunal to which the workingman and the capitalist can come and have their disputes decided with the as- surance that their rights under the constitution will be protected without regard to class or station in life. : This view of the decision may be taken by thou- sands. But it is the wrong view. The fact is that even an honest attempt to reform capitalist insti- intions is as futile as trying to change the nature of a tiger by clipping his claws. In order to begin the task of solving the social problem in the in- terest of the producers of wealth, the workers must first take the governmental power away from the capitalists and substitute for the present capitalist institutions the workers’ own organs of, govern- ment, the Soviets. In this campaign the only presidential ticket that points out the way the workers must follow in order to win their emancipation from wage slavery and the exactions of capitalist rule in- cluding injunctions and supreme court, is that of William Z. Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, the Com- munist candidates for president and vice-president on the Workers Party platform. State’s Attorney Crowe, “Big” Bill Thompson, Len Small and others of the Minois G. O. P. had salt together 1 few evenings ago. ‘The report did not say whether they rubbed the salt into the wounded feelings of the Chicago labor fakers who hate Crowe for his espousal of the Landis award: What about it, Messrs. Fitzpatrick and Nockels? How do you like your united front with Crowe, the blaekest bird in Cook County? Friendly liberals often charge the Communist press with excessive optimism and a faculty for seeing things as they are not. As prephets we are supposed to be excellent Tutologists. But Heber Blankenhorn, a “respectable” liberal, writing for “Labor” of Washington, from London, predicts that there ‘will be no election in great Britain this fall. There will. Editor Lochray of the Mid-West Labor News did not hit the bottom when he turned his rag over to Coolidge. Judging by the latest issue of the sheet, he is still going down, At the rate he is going, Jake Spolansky should have a rival by Christmas, Ourselves and the Prince A Canadian capitalist paper is terribly. dis- | tressed because we took editorial cognizance of the perigrinations of His Royal Highness the. Prince of Wales, who recently visited the money: hogs of New York, and the fonr-footed Long Island, |species in the Chicago stockyards. What we had $2.50....8 months | to say about E if ears of our Canadian contemporary. dward P. did not please the loyal What could we say about the prince except that | he danced frequently, how well we do not know, | but apparently to the satisfaction of the American |female parasites who waited in line to receive the |royal terpsichorean attentions? We said the prince could punish his liquor, which is no disgrace to royalty considering ‘the reputation enjoyed by “Merry King Hal.” It /is even rumored that Queen Elizabeth, the reputed virgin, could hide away a hooker of booze prepara- tory to embarking on one of her very unvirgin-like escapades. Indeed, we are afraid that her virgin- ity was as mythical as Calvin Coolidge’s wisdom. | What more can be said about a prince who has nothing to do? If he can drink and make life more agreeable for the female section of the parasite |class, he is worth his booze money. For us he pro- | vided an excellent object lesson ; to show the Amer- jican workers how their masters live. We can assure the irritated Canadian editor that |The DAILY WORKER would like nothing better |than to have half a dozen princes as dumb and as chronically drunk as the Prince of Wales making the rounds of our big cities from one year to the other. He would provide us with excellent propa- ganda material. We hope the prince will drop around again when- jever Haig and Haig loses its kick and the home- \brew of our American patriotic law abiding boot- |leggers appeals to him. Ramsay MacDonald and the other socialists will look after his empire, so H. R. H. should worry. The Bill Collector While the stoolpigeons under William J. Burns and Harry Daugherty were busy investigating radicals, other investigators were on the job inves- |tigating the investigators. One of those whose |past history was dug into happens to be Calvin Coolidge the mythical Samson of the republican party. * The current issue of The Searchlight, a Washing- ton publication that noses around’ in the séwers of capitalism and likes it, is almost entirely de- |voted to telling “The Plain Truth about Calvin | Coolidge.” “Cal” has led’ such a colorless life, that there is not much to be told. But for thé myth that his banker friends have built up around him, there would not be enuf of a story in his life to coyer a postage stamp, Coolidge was a very small bore lawyer. Even the corporations would not hire him. Tho they are not in the market for honesty, they insist on brains. Calvin’s specialty in the legal line was collecting bills. He never got beyond that uritil ' Murray Crane, the Mark Hanna of New England republi- canism picked him up as a likely cog in his ma- chine. His political career was the result of his “regu- larity” and the Boston police strike, which found favor for him in the eyes of the capitalists thruout the country. As a president Coolidge makes a good bill collee- tor for the capitalists and what more do‘ they want? Smoked Out Congressman LaGuardia of New York is one of the cleverest demagogues in this country. In the early days of the world war he could not wait until Morgan was ready to jump in on the side of his millions, so LaGuardia offered his services to the King of Italy and had a fine time making recruit- ing speeches in that country with the nutty poet D’Annunzio. But after*the war was over, La- Guardia kept his political ear to the ground and heard the rumblings of the workers’ discontent against those who led them into the war and forced them to endure the privations of unemployment and want after the war. The wily demagogue LaGuardia became a “progressive,” the kind that progresses backward. He is-now endorsed by the socialist party of New York, and the manager of this faker’s campaign is the professional political pie-eater and yellow socialist, Marie MacDonald. LaGuardia’s op- ponent on the Workers Party ticket is Juliet Stuart Poyntz. © Comrade Poyntz challenged LaGuardia to de- bate, but instead of debating with her, he incited the police to arrest her. He did not get away with it, however, as the workers began to look on him as a coward, so now he has decided to accept the challenge. Major LaGuardia will be shown what kind of a freak a capitalist progressive really is. How did Spolansky learn that the fellow who exploded the bomb in Wall Street “rubbed his chin” as he peered around the corner of a building at the destruction caused by his act? Spolansky admits “he was observed by nobody” and. was never arrested. It looks bad for Spolansky. Coolidge looks after the nation’s nickels, said Dawes. Perhaps—after they are gone.. Silent Cal is just about the kind who would busy himself saving nickels while some Jess Smith was getting away with the dollars. “A nickelodeon for presi- dent” would make a good campaign slogan, ~ THE DAILY WORKER By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER Workers-Party Candidate for President UR_biggest*task today is to com- bat and destroy the LaFollette illusion. This is the greatest obstacle to: the development of a working class conscious of its interests and pre- pared for serious struggle with Amer- ican capitalism. The LaFollette program accepts capitalism as its starting point. It complétely ignores the fact that all the ills of the working class spring from the capitalist system and can only be abolished with the system that causes them, LaFollette wants to tinker around the capitalist machine and repair it. He wants to soften some of its more glaring evils and make it more beautiful and palatable to the masses. He wants to extend the demo- cratic forms, and lead the workers to look to their reforms for relief, in- stead of struggling to establish their own power to control society. Never, however, does LaFollette or his program touch the vital question of power—which class is to rule. He throws a mask over the brutal and obvious fact that the present system is a dictatorship of the capitalist class. He'does not propose a single measure that so much as hints at overthrowing that dictatorship. No Blows at Capital LaFollette’s backers boast that 15 out of 18 measures formerly advocated by him have been enacted into law. They were all of the same sort that he advocates now. One would think, from the boasts of the boosters, that these measures had been a blow at the rule of capital. Nothing of the sort. Capitalism is stronger today by a hundred times than it was when La- Follette began his work, and his measures, so far from weaking the capitalist dictatorship have strengh ened it. Take, for example, the direct elec- tion of senators. Formerly senators were elected by the legislatures, and the corruption, the open.purchase. and sale of votes by means of which the capitalists determined who should fill the offices, constituted a festering sore and an incitement to revolt to the masses. LaFolletteism “cured” this sore, but did the capitalist lose their control of the offices? Not a dit of it. With their control of party machinery, of the press, of the schools, of the ideas and the means of spread- ing ideas to the masses, with their complete and undisputed control of in- dustry—the capitalist class continues its dictatorship undisturbed, while the masses are fooled into thinking that something has been fundamental- ly changed. But it is the same old capitalist system, fitted out with a new dress by LaFolletteism. It is a great mistake to ‘suppose because the big capitalists oppose La- Follette now, that this proves LaFol- lette represents the workers. Capi- talism is still arrogant, and thinks it can rule thru a Coolidge, German capitalism also used to oppose the social-democrats of Germany; they hounded and outlawed the socialists; but when ¢heir hour of crisis came, and capitalism could have been oyver- thrown in Germany, the ruling class turned to the social-democracy, which deliberately saved capitalism, which shot down revolting workers by the thousands, and turned to patching up the shattered system. The capitalist class of America will similarly turn to LaFollette, and LaFollette will-per- form the same service for them in America that Ebert and Scheidemann performed for the German capitalist class. “War Referendum” Is Joke LaFollette says he is against war, but his program leads directly to war, just the same as that of Coolldgé or| of Davis. He proposes a referendum on war, but not the slightest move to control and remove the cause of war, capitalism. Such a referendum {is more} than a ghastly joke; it 1s designed as! an instrument of war itself, for it will become merely a means of more ef- fectively mobilizing the masses for the coming world imperialist war, hy fooling them into thinking that they have something to say about the de- cision, Even now, so early in the game, the capitalists are quite widely beginning to recognize how valuable LaFollette is to their class interests, and their antagonism to him is being softened| @ great deal, while a few big ones, like Spreckles and Vanderlip, actually go along and receive decisive voices in LaFollette’s councils. But the work- ers are building up a Frankenstein, by supporting LaFollette, that will turn and devour them, just as did the mon- ster of social-democracy with the Ger- man workers in 1918. Again all this reformism and class collaboration the Workers Party, raises the slogan of the class strug- gle. We know from history that ruling classes cannot be driven from power by a slow process of reform. In every case that a ruling class has been deposed in the past, it has been thru the open struggle by the rising class. Capitalism’ itself came into being thru a series of revolutions, that made one world revolution against the prevailing feudal system. American, German, French, Italian and English capitalism were all born in civil war. Every day get a “sub” for the DAILY WORKER| We live under the most ruthless, the best organized, the richest, the most intelligent and militant ruling class that world history has ever re- corded. In can be absolutely de- pended upon that our ruling class will not yield its powér without a strug- gle. Even if the workers should elect their own men to office, the capi- talist class would throw aside its mask of democracy and resort | to force to maintain its rule. We saw this happen in Italy, where, when the workers threatened the capitalist sys- tem, the murdetous Fascisti, agents of capitalism, restroyed even the pretenso of demacratic government and drowned the workers’ movement in blood. Th same thing is being prepared by the capitalist class of America, behind the protective mask Friday, October 24, 1924 = ct “progressivism,” and the American working class must prepare itself to meet it. Workers Must Take Power There is but one way in which the workers will ever gain power, and that is thru sufficient . organization, jintelligence and militancy, to take |power from the capitalist class in open struggle. The world war..was..a crisis for | capitalism, The working class could havé™ won its freedom at this time by a bold and courageous struggle. Heniersons, the Vanderveldes, were controlling the workers’vorganizations. Instead of leading the workers to the battle against capitalism, they took But the LaFollettes, the Eberts, the | Destroy the LaFollette Illusion up the battle for capitalism. They be- trayed the working class, just as La-* Follette will betray the working‘class, But since that time a new power has~arisen Int the wortd>In—all coun- tries» Communist-parties--have “been organized, and have’ been erystatiized in the Communist International. This is the greatest fact in history. For it means-that-whert the next great war, how definitely in preparation, is launched upon the world by. capital ist imperialism, the Communist Inter- national will raise the slogan of World- | wide proletarian revolt, will lead the working masses against their oppres- |sors, and smash.once for all the cap- jitalist dictatorship and the~capitalist system, and will establish thruout the world the rule-of the workers, Ge Okt i eee eT eer eee JUDAS KISS By BENJAMIN GITLOW THE Drawn especially for the DAILY WORKER by K. A. Suvanto. ers Party Alone Fights Labor's Battles tion of the unions thru the organiza- * | tion of the unorganized and the amal- “Workers Party Candidate for Vice |gamation of the existing unions as a President measure against the open shop war. APITALISM in the United States} Against the capitalist dictatorship, a is going thru a crisis. The win- ter of 1925 will see factory after fac tory shut down. The streets will be full of hungry men looking for jobs. About seven to eight million workers will be unemployed. As a regult of all this situation po- verty and untold misery is confront- ing the workers. The campaign to re- duce wages will be pressed with Tre- newed vigor by the capitalist class. Workers in every line ot industry will have their wages greatly reduced. No Relief for Agriculture Every attempt on thespart of the workers will be brutally suppressed by the capitalists. The crisis in agri- culture will not be ended because of the slight inerease in the price of wheat because it is based on the economic demoralization of Europe. The crisis in industry in America coupled with the crisis in agriculture will greatly intensify the class con- :flicts going on in capitalist society. The producers, that is, the workers and farmers, in desperation and revolt against the intolerable conditions that the crisis will produce, will become factors in big mass struggles against the caiptalists who dominate the econ- omic and political life of the country. All Power to Workers! The only pai that is organized to battle in the interests of the workers is the Workers Party. It is the only party in the United States in the face of the crisis developing in the United States that has the courage to come out flatfootedly for the working class, The Workers Party proposes to lead the workers in a struggle against unemployment, wage reductions and the, attempt of the capitalists to smash workers’ organizations. The slogan of the Workers Party is work or relief for the unemployed at the union rate of wages. No wage cuts under any price. The solidifica- workers’ and farmers’ government with all power in the hands of the workers and poor farmers. The Workers Party is also part of the international Communist move- ment. The Workers Party, the Com- munist Party, is proud. to adhere to the Communist International because the Communist International is more than an expression of internationa! working class solidarity. Organize World’s Workers The Communist International is a militant, revolutionary, international organization of the working class. It is preparing and organizing the work- ers of the world for the final strug- gle to wrest control of the earth from the capitalist exploiters and butchers of the workers, The Communist International is that world organization of the prole- tariat that points out to the workers world war. It shows the workers that war, is the final culmination of capitalist glory, that it results in the butehery of the worgers, and in the creation of untold misery for them. The Commun- ist International shows the workers of the world how capitalism is lead- ing the workers of the world into an- other imperialist world slaughter, For the World: Revolution And the Communist International is the organization that will turn such a world war into a war against the capitalists. It will help thé workers turn the war into a world revolution to abolish capitalism the world x pineal a Let the Battle Start. NEW YORK, Oct. 23. — Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador to the United States, declared in a speech here today that the world’s greatest need was an international trade ar- rangement for the development of “an open door with a fair field and no fa- vor” for all countries to all countrioe > Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lod, of the world the lesson of the last Room, Ashland Auditorium. IN THE NEXT The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section J SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 ISSUE OF THE 1, The Program of the Communist international. “(Draft adopted at Fifth Congress.) 2. 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