The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1924, Page 4

rl i Page. Four eo ee ee THE BAILY WORKER. | ee er Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, ML (Phone: Monroe 4712) ° SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail $3. 50.26 Seite ; ~ .00....8 months B ail (in Chicago only)? if m3. 60. .6 morths $2.50...3 months $6.00 per year $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER #113 W. Washington Blvd. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Bait WILLIAM F. DUNNE erence EON OES MORITZ J. LOEB. Business Manager Chicago, IMilnels ——— Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879, ———————_— ee <i 290 Advertising rates on application NCE ESSE INAS IIT STIL ETRE The Coolidge “Landslide” The expected has happened. The reactionary republican party has carried the election. Coolidge and Dawes will now direct the capitalist cause for the coming four years. It is yet too soon to tell the exact number of votes the various candidates polled. But one can already safely estimate the significance of the re- wults of the contest. The superior political organ- ization, the unexcelled publicity machine, the un- limited financial resources of the upper crust of our ruling class have carried the day. The employ- ing class control and ownership of the. workers’ jebs was never more ruthlessly utilized than in this election. In no previous campaign was money more lavishly expended by the biggest business in- terests.than in this campaign. The slogan of “cash or chaos” has won. The disastrous showing made by the democrats under the leadership of Davis was a foregone con- clusion. Widely touted as a candidate of reaction, Mr. Davis could not make as effective an appeal as Coolidge for a multitude of reasons. First of all, the employing class could not and would not so readily invest their resources in removing Cool- idge from the White House and placing in his stead one just as black. There is no use in disturb- ing machinery when it runs smoothly was the be- lief of the bankers and manufacturers who run the country. Then, the lower layers of the owning class, which as a rule are in the democratic fold, certain- ly could not be attracted to Davis by his record and campaign. Present indications point to surprisingly small strength for the so-called LaFollette progressive party. Between the LaFollette assurances not to disturb anything fundamentally, not to resort to any “radital changes,” and the republican and democratic pleas to save the constitution and con- tinue or restore prosperity, the inertia of the great mass of voters could not but come into play heavily in behalf of those who would have things remain unchanged and untouched. The dismal failure of the LaFollette party to approach having even the slightest influence in the electoral college will only tend to lend further confusion to the chaos already prevailing in the Babylon of the self-styled pro- gressives. The failure of the LaFollette movement to carry certain sure northwestern states will go a long way toward divorcing a large section of the masses who were misled into the Wisconsin sen- * ator’s camp and toward promoting genuine class political organization amongst the exploited work- ers and poor farmers. In so far as the Communists are concerned this campaign is to be judged not by the number of votes officially recorded for the Workers Party by the bosses’ political machine. It is to be judged solely by the opportunity afforded the Communists to utilize the election campaign for bringing their program to the masses and for enhancing the cause of Communism amongst. these masses. With this as our criterion, the election campaign has proved “of eonsiderable, aid in helping build a powerful Communist Party in the United States. Lessons in Democracy For many months nearly 20,000 Filipino sugar workers have been on strike in Hawaii. These workingmen rose in revolt against the American sugar barons amorg whom is to be found United States Governor Farrington of the islands. The working and living conditions of the Filipino wage slaves on the sugar plantations are too deplorable, too gruesome to face description. As soon as these brave Filipino workers declared their strike they were immediately subjected to all the vicious blessings, to all the lessons in the purest of American democracy. First of all, they were evicted. Secondly scabs. were brought in in| great numbers. Thirdly, the courts were brought into play against them. Last and worst, the entire military power of the U. 8S. government in the islands #as mobilized against them. The working- men were jailed, clubbed and hounded, Recently matters took a most serious turn. Fail- ing in their attempt to drive the Filipino strikers | into submission, the American capitalists openly resorted to unrestrained violence against the work- ingmen. Pablo Manlapit, the léader of the strikers, in discussing the brutal attack made by the armed gunmen of the United States government on the Filipino strikers, has declared that the dead and wounded workingmen were shot in the backs. The hospitals in the neighborhood of Liuhe, Hawaii, have, since mid-September, been crowded with de- fenseless strikers who were wounded by the strike- breaking military forces. The United States gov- ernment is now making an attempt, thru acting Adjutant-General Bolton, to collect from the sugar planters the 3,000 odd dollars which were expended in the murderous strike-breaking expedition. The wholesale wounding and slaughtering of Filipino strikers in Hawaii should rouse every workingman and poor farmer in the United States to immediate effective protest. The words of Karl Marx that no country can be free as long as it is ruled by a government which oppresses other people and countries, are brought out in their painful truthfulness in this incident. Likewise the Filipino nationalist leaders should not lose this opportunity to.unmask and denounce the. Yankee imperialists as hangmen of defenseless colonial peoples. November 7th This issue of The DAILY WORKER is one of the two editions gotten out this year to celebrate the greatest event to the working class in all history. That event is of greater significance to the work- ers of the world, including American, than any- thing that could happen on November 4, except the establishment of a Soviet Republic in the United States. The class conscious workers of America, who are not carried away by the LaFollette illusion, or the Coolidge illusion, will celebrate November 7 as the day on which the first working-class government in the history of the human race was founded. They will come together in mass meetings thruout the country, listen to speeches, telling the story of the Russian reyolution, distribute literature and coin the enthusiasm engendered at those meetings into members for the Workers Party, _ and new readers for The DAILY WORKER. This issue of The DAILY WORKER will reach thousands of exploited all over the United States. On the heels of the, victory of Teapot Dome govern- ment at the polls, this special edition will raise the hope of those who are depressed and urge the workers on to battle for their freedom in the only way it can be won, by fighting the capitalists with the object of overthrowing their robber system and organizing a workers’ and farmers’ government. Congratulating the Victor With the transmission of congratulations by John W, Davis to Coolidge, even the shouting of the campaign is over. The mere congratulation by itself is a formality. No one considers it in any other light. But in view of certain events which transpired in recent weeks, the centents of the Davis congratulation to Cool- idge are instructive. The disgracefully defeated democratic candidate now expresses the hope that the Coolidge administration “may by its success ensure the welfare of the country.” We wonder what happened to all the long speeches of Mr. Davis urging the voters not to en- dorse Coolidge because of his failure to measure up to the democratic standard of “common hon- esty” amongst big capitalist thieves. We wonder whether Mr. Davis would have the world believe that the overwhelming endorsement accorded Cool- idge by the mass of misled, confused and cajoled voters has made him honest over night. The Davis telegram of congratulation merely adds further evidence to the truth of our conten- tion that in the mud-slinging contest between the democrats and republicans the country was treated merely to another case of the teapot calling the kettle black. When Davis speaks of the “success and welfare” of the country, he has in mind precisely. the success and welfare of the uppermost group of .the employing class which has engineered the return of Cool- idge to the White House. When Coolidge answers Davis and appreciates “the patriotic sentiments” of his political adversary of yesterday, he is merely chiming in with the sentiments directed towards the success and welfare of the monarchs of American finance and industry who rule this country. This incident illustrates the indisputable truth of the essential unity of class interests between the democrats and the republicans. We now expect that Mr. LaFollette will run true to his color and also transmit congratulations to Mr. Coolidge on his sweeping victory. This would complete the entente cordiale of the standard bearers of Ameri- can capitalism. It would put the finishing touches on the political picture as it appears today after the election campaign. As a.good patriot and loyal citizen, LaFollette will in all liklihood not delay long in joining the Davis prayer for the success of Coolidge and reaction. The qualifications of an election judge are now known. It is to be able to count up as far as three. That makes three political paties recognized. Then divide the total vote cast between the three by shooting dice for the first and second place. Some people think the workers can win this way. Funny, isn’t it? Coolidge attributes his election to a “divine pg providence.” But we remember that his campaign manager, Wm. Morgan Butler, is a textile multi- millionaire of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who got rich by working girls and men, also, for from $6 to $15 a week, LaFollette can now feel himself given a mandate. by the nation to lay himself away beside old King Tut. But Tut, poor chap, was really a progressive compared to the Wisconsin crawfish. Those liberty bells, those liberty bells, How many a yarn the darn things tell, Of votes and jobs and lots of jack, But, drat the luck, look at that crack! aii. DAILY CE WORKERS PARTY |P CELEBRATES END Communist Candidates Give Impressions It was a Coolidge landslide, Silent Cal: roped. in the moron vote, There was much noise on the streets of the Windy City. In the G. 0. P. head- qnarters there was rejoicing. Teapot Dome had won. In the democratic headquarters there was gloom. Ditto for theLaF'ol- Jette headquarters, But there was one bright spot in Chicago where an election victory was not celebrated, but rather the end of a splendid Com- munist campaign. That spot was Im- perial Hall, On short notice, an advertisement in the November 4 issue of The DAILY WORKER, hundreds of Work- ers’ Party members gathered to hear the election returns and listen to snappy speeches from leading ‘party workers and those who carried the Communist banner im the campaign. Singing and Eats. It was not all speeches either. There was the singing of the Interna- tional and also snappy Communist campaign ballads-by two mombers of the Junior League. There was roast beef, sandwiches and coffee. The comrades who did the hard work of the campaign in Chicago were satisfied that they did ‘their work well and the various speakers dwelt on the "| tremendous organizational and propa- ganda value of the campaign to the Workers Party, Comrade William Z. Foster spoke briefly on his impressions of the elec- tion campaign and particularly the condition in which the bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor find themselves in now, He declared the prospects for building up the Work- ers (Communist) Party were bright. Socialist Party Hard Hit. Comrade Cannon, back from New York, where he ran for governor, told of the splendid fight made by our par- ty there, practically delivering a solar plexus blow to the socialist party, which is emeshed in the La- Follette entanglements and has com- pletely turned its back on the class struggle and every forme of working class independent political action. Max Shachtman, Arne Swabeck, Al- fred Wagenknécht, Sam Hammers- mark, Walt Carmon and Joseph Man- ley made short talks. After the speak- ing, dancing was enjoyed and then we all walked nto the , and learned that we must keep Kool with Koolidge for four more years. 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