The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER ) | RAISES THE STANDARD ' gror ‘A WORKERS AND | FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Hl. No. 197. —_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. AMSAY MACDONALD tried the same stunt in the. British elec- tions that LaFollette tried here in America. Both failed disastrously. They expected to win the favor of the capitalist class, by denouncing the Communists... The capitalist ‘press gave these denunciations wide pub- pointed out that they prefer polit: icians who are 100 per cent for them and who defend their system from al) St. Paul in order to win fayor with the masses, oe 8 yet in a condition which would | 4; force it to use a LaFollette to pull its disclosed yesterday. chesnuts out of the fire for it. It is sirong and confident, so strong in fact that not even the most brazen orgy of its fortunes. This: Masses are not political puritans o1 worshippers of abstract ideals. They believe the G. O. P. can bring them Yrosperity and that a change of gov. ©.nment would mean greater unem yicyment and a shutting down of fac- tories. Alienist Attacks Worker. rae S a half year old child.” the® railroads, in fact every- tig,” declared the G. O. P. strate- gists in effect. Dawes or prepare for the bread line.” train, when they expect Coolidge and | tr: Dawes to keep.-tl there are no. mai factories. open, if| approximately 40 feet The workers promises and nothing from the capital- ists but slavery and exploitation. i it ds switched, were both ignored by the ig T seems that the “LaFollette Ilu | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- eS sion” was dut a puling infant com-/road, and no information was given a rared to the Coolidge illusion. Silent}to the employes that these ordinances i Cal received 18,000,090 votes, while |existed and were being violated. The L.aFollette received only four milhon. Granted that at least the G. O. P. }aves Cal thirteen millions ahead of|by the city ordinance. the Wisconsin senator, LaFollette poll- ed the so-called progressive vote, out- (Continued on Page 2.) | (Continued on Page 2.) SSSR Rien "SPEAKERS: “William Z.Foster j Jay Lovestone aN Oliver Carlson Martin pe * mf, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, RAILROAD PUTS WRECK BLAME ON WATCHMAN First He Was Drank, | }}—) lieity and took advantage of them to , th Point out that Communism was so Now He s Moron! ‘Wicked that not even LaFollette could | atand for it, But the big capitalists} The Chicago, Milwaukee & railroad violated two city ordinances and one state law, in adition to illegal. mans attack, than those who attack them agement previously disclosed, testimony at-the coroner’s in- quest at City Hall on the train APITALISM in, America is not} wreck which ‘killed ten people Evidently despairing of prov- ing that Watchman John Brahe was drunk while on duty, those corruption in the history of American |Who are trying to hide the cri- folitics had any damaging effects on|Minal negligence of the rail- proves that the /road, switched their attack, and put Dr. Hickson on the stand. Dr. Hickson, who aided Darrow to save the necks of Leopold and Loeb, called Brahe a “high grade moron, with the mentality of an eleven and Bernard McGraw, one of the brake- ‘ E have the factories, the banks,|men who was on the train which crashed into the trolley on a North Ave. crossing last week, declared the “Blect. Coolidge and|company officials did not give the trainmen any information or instruc- "the masses have a holy terror of un-|tions about the city and state laws employment as well they might, but/which the railroad violated. . The tes- they are suffering from an illusion|timony of McGraw and several other that will bring misery and want in its/switchmen revealed that the freight train was 58 cars long, each car being tongs ‘Thus the city ofdinance declaring will ultimately learn that they can get/that no freight trains more than 20 nothing from the capitalist parties but}cars long shall be switched, and ‘an- other city ordinance that no freight train longer than 700 feet shall be freight which crashed into the tPolley was approximately 2,320 feet long or stole one million votes from Bob, this | 1,620 feet longer than the limit fixed John C. Steinhofer, 819 Center Ave., another brakeman on the train which si hace ‘HE victory of. reaction in the elections strengthens big capital in the seat of power in the United States. It demonstrates the trem- endous power of. the ruling class, thru its ma- chinery for moulding opinion, the press, the radio, ete., combined with the ability to manip- ulate the economic factors of society, to com- pel the masses to follow its lead. The economic basis for the victory of reaction was, to a con- siderable extent, the slight revival in agricul- ture and industry, enlarged and magnified by capitalist manipulation and publicity.. The election demonstrates also the cowardice and political the weakness of middle classes, which, altho dissatisfied with the hegemony of big capital, and in spite of their grievances pro- duced by the agrarian and industrial crises for which the republican party offered no remedy, refused to follow even such a mild course of protest as the one expressed by the LaFollette movement. It further demonstrated the com- plete inability of the official leadership of the labor movement to enthuse the working class - for any kind of action. Big capital has there- by completed its task of mobilizing its forces for continued oppression and exploitation of the working masses. It is now the duty of the workers and poor farmers to awaken to the real state of affairs and to begin the mobiliza- tion of their own forces for the struggle against their oppressors. In the election the interests of the working class were fought for only by the Workers Par- ty. Only the Communists held aloft the ban- ner of the proletarian revolution. For the first time in history Communism was an issue in a national election campaign, represented by an organized Communist Party. In this sense the election was a great step forward, a great victory,for the revolutionary movement of the 7 roekerts for the world revolution. ‘The’ election has furnished ‘striking justi” fication of the policies of the Workers: Party, and complete confirmation of the carrectness of the advice of the Communist International. It placed the Workers Party in the forefront of the struggle as the representative of the in- terests of the working class, gave it political experience, established it before the masses, gave it an exceedingly good opportunity to present its program to hundreds of thousands of workers. None of these things would have been accomplished in anything like the same degree should the campaign have been carried out under the name and with the program of a farmer-labor party that was rapidly becoming non-existent. While the Communist vote will be small, this can be no measure, in this cam- paign particularly, of the importance of the campaign. It is well known also that the ‘cap- italist int votens America will never count Communist votes. An outstanding feature of the election result is its demonstration of the extent to which the capitalist press controls the minds of the masses. This is seen in its ability to magnify the insignificant little strikebreaker, Coolidge, into an heroic figure. Luckily for the success of this object of the capitalist class, Coolidge talked very little in the campaign, but still the creation of the myth of the “strong, silent leader” around this petty servant of capital- ism, is ‘a great testimonial to the power of the capitalist press. The slogan of “Coolidge or chaos” was un- doubtedly effective in terrorizing great masses of voters. It was a threat against the working class that industry would be closed down and millions more of workers would be added to the ranks of the unemployed, were Coolidge not,elected. At*the same time it served notice upon the middle classes that their only pro- tection against the rising of the working class, against the spectre of Communism, was to be found’ in a strong, militant, “open shop,” “strikebreaking, reactionary government of big capital, personified in Coolidge and Dawes. In the absence of arguments that could convince the masses of these things otherwise the ar- THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 31, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ulimois under the Act of March 8, 1979. “FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1924 GE 290 guments of terrorization were quite effective. The capitalist dictatorship is prepared to use terrorism much more drastic than this if necessary for its continued rule. The reactionary officialdom of the labor movement, which only with the greatest re- luctance, and under severe pressure, broke with the old parties in this campaign, and which itself is responsible in a large measure for Coolidge’s victory, may now be expected to try to convince the workers that even the mid- die-class revolt is hopeless and that they must return to the back door of the old party coun- cils, there to beg for crumbs in the time-hon- ored Gompersian manner. Among large sections of the working class there will appear a dangerous tendency to de- precate all kinds of political action as futile, as leading nowhere, a tendency resulting in mplete indifference and abstention on their part from political action. The fact that the LaFollette movement, supported by these work- “ers, altho objectively a movement of the middle classes, the well-to-do farmers, and certain sec- tions of the labor aristocracy, failed to get the * expected mass support in the election, will un- doubtedly- create a spirit of pessimism as regards the possibility of creating & new mass party within the frame of “democratic” eapi- talist government. Among some sections of militant workers it will strengthen the syn- dicalist tendencies of conscious opposition to working-class participation in politics. All of these reactions—the Gompers’ return to the old parties, the rank and file indifference, and the syndicalist opposition to politics—alike play into the hands of big capital. We warn the workers against all of them equally. To permit Gompers and his lieutenants to switch the labor movement back to the old cap- ae pee ety would be to leave the working \ its worst eremiés! “In- po lige oa dete abstention from political action means the voluntary withdrawal from the most important field of struggle, which is tan- tamount to surrender to capitalism. The syn- dicalist tendency, altho dictated by a healthy reaction against the illusions of parliamentar- ism, yet strengthens the reactionary elements in the labor movement and thereby plays into hands of labor’s worst enemjes. Pine demonstrated weakness of the LaFol- fe movement, as compared to the pre-election estimates of all sides, not only seriously retards the development of the so-called “third party,” but also completely eliminates the. immediate possibility of the growth of a mass farmer- Jabor party of industrial workers and poor farmers, distinct from the Workers Party. A general agitation campaign by the Workers Party under the slogan of “For a Mass Farmer- Labor Party,” would not be profitable or suc- cessful. The policy of applying the united front tactic by attempting to form a mass farmer-labor party of which the Workers Rarty would hg.a part, is not adaptable to the present peri ur chief task in the immediate future is no building of such a farmer-labor party but the strengthening and developing of the Workers Party itself as the practical leader of the masses and as the only party that repre- sents the working-class interests and knows how to fight for them. The best means to this end is to agitate and fight for the united front from below with the rank and file workers in their daily struggles, in the spirit of the Fifth Congress of the Communist Intern lon This election will be interpreted by strikebreaker Coolidge, and the “open shop” per” Dawes, as a mandate to crush the labor movement of America and to extend the rule of Morgan-Rockefeller capitalism abroad. It will be taken as a blank check, drawn upon the American working class, for increased exploita- tion, for lower wages, for longer hours, for per- secution of militants, for breaking up of unions, for inténsification of imperialism and militar- - ism, for preparation of new wars, and for every (Continued on page 2) TA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 8 P.M. é ‘ ? ‘ ‘ é ’ | ASHLAND AUDITORIUM South Ashland Blvd. and West Van Buren Street, Chicago Published Daily except Sunday by THE PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., PREPARE FOR and farmers to oppressors.” allow them to follow even such movement failed to enthuse the masses for any kind of action. | Carried Revolutionary Banner. “In the election,” continues the statement, “the interests of the work- ing class were fought for, only by the Workers Party. Only the Communists held aloft the banner of working class struggle: and working class solidarity, the banner of. the proletarian revolu- tion. For the first time in history | Communism was an issue in a nation al election campaign, represented by | an organized Communist Party. In this sense the election was a great step forward, a great victory for the revolutionary movement of the work ers, for the world revolution. Policies Justified. “The election has furnished striking justification of the. policies of the Workers Party, and complete confirm: | ation of the correctness of the advice placed the Workers Party in the fore- front of the struggle as the represent- ative of the interests of the working class, gave it political experience, es- \tablished it before the masses, gave it an exceedingly good opportunity to | present its program to hundreds of jthousands. None of these | would have been accomplished in any- | thing like the same degree should the campaign have been carried out under |the name and with the program of a farmer-labor party that was rapidly becoming non-existent. Pg The Communist statement points out that the workers were terrorized ing down the industries unless Cool- idgé was elected. The little insigni- |ficant strikebreaker was magnified in- \to an heroic figure. The middle class- (Continued on next page.) LOS ANGELES COMMUNIST LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATE PILES UP 1,400 VOTES (Special te the Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 6.— Communist candidate, Comrade Biell, from the Los Angeles 66th as- sembly district, surprised everyone by polling 1,400 votes, The Workers Party In this city ended the campaign of Communist education In the capitalist elections with great enthusiasm. Many speak- ers were out, Including Comrades Schneiderman of the Young Work ers League, A. Levin, Fred Bieden- kamp and Mother Bloor. On Monday, the big anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik revolu- tion was very successful. Com 1s Minor and Bloor were the speakers. Ninety Workers’ Monthiles were sold to the packed house, which greeted the seventh birthday of pro- letarlan victory with joy and ap- plause. Music by Young Workers DAILY WORKER of the Communist International. It | things | by the employers with threats of clos-}{ Freiheit Singing Society Admission 25c Auspices: Workers Party, Local Chicago Proceeds to THE beat vim rteny JOIN SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! RUSSIAN SOVIET RULE TODAY, NOV. 7, 1924 IN THE Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. RALLY LABOR IN NEW STRUGGLES The Results of the Elections Statement by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party | WORKERS PARTY €. E. C. ISSUES APPEAL TO WORKING CLASS T0 BIGGER BATTLES Declaring that the victory of Coolidge and Dawes, the out- standing spokesmen of open shop strikebreaking capitalism, was the victory of Wall Street, the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, issued a statement calling on the workers “awaken to the real state of affairs and begin the mobilization of their own forces for the struggle against their The statement declares that the basis of the republican party victory was in a considerable degree due to the slight revival in agriculture and to their ability to manipulate the machinery for moulding public opinion, thru press, radio, pulpit and the thousand and one means at their disposal. The cowardice and weakness of the middle classes, did not a mild form of protest as that represented by LaFollette. The *— official leadership of the labor | CAL’S VICTORY - ENTHUSES U. S. WIPERIALISTS | LaF olletteites Are Tak- ing Heavy Flop (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Im- |perialist capitalism is sitting |pretty. With a nonentity for | president whose road from a bad bill-collecting back country jlawyer. to, the chief executive's chair was made easy by break- ig a strike of policemen, and sured by a dish of bum crab meat eaten by “NorMalcy” | Harding, Wall Street is in high |feather and stocks and bonds are climbing higher every hour, There has, however, been no in- créases of wages announced. Same Crowd in the House. The presidential race has |been. settled. The only little corner left the LaFollette crowd is the U. S. senate. In the house of mis-representatives the old guard will hold ’er down with the old republican majority. The parcel of fake insurgents LaFol- lette endorsed were returned to their old places. Nothing more. They will still be able to get much out of big business for little business even by combining with the democrats. The LaFollette group of twenty, in- cluding the yellow ‘socialist Berger, and consisting chiefly of 16 disgrunt* led republicans, even if they form a coalition with the democrats, can mus- ter only 206 as against an old guard line-up of 229. That's that. The Senate Line-Up. In the senate it looks like 54 repul licans, 41 democrats and one phoney “farmer-laborite.” In this republican majority, of course, are listed the vacillating middle elass elements. The margin of straight reactionary control is so slim that at times the LaFollette tribe may be able to get something across. And then again, maybe not. The LaFollette bloc is preening tt self on the alleged ability to throw Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa out of the position of presiding officer of the senate in the second session which opens next month. Cummins is a bitter foe of Brookhart. As to Brookhart, this timid son of the golden standard west is leading by the skin of his teeth against his dem- ocratic opponent, Steck, in Iowa. The (Continued on next page.) League Orchestra and the a ss