The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1926, Page 7

cone ah ata Buylimente + THE DAILY WORKER. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926 ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor. EGFP 290 Booze, Prohibition and the World Court Vare, or Pepper, cr Pinchot, Who Is Worse? A lesson to be learned by every working man in the United States from the Pennsylvania Senatorial primaries. THE institution of primary elections is supposed to be one of the main props in the so-called democratic structure of party gov- ernment in the United States, It was supposed to insure the peo- ple against boss domination in political parties, What it actually did, howeyer, was to supply the political bosses of the capitalist parties with one more instrument to befog and befuddle the people and to force upon them the will of the rich and the pow- erful. ety tr In this fact there ts only a minor lessen for the people of the United States, The big thing to know about political struggles in the United States, as well as anywhere else, is that political arties are class organizations. They fight for and defend the in- erests of the class that controls and dominates the political party. The republican senatorial primaries in Pennsylvania are typical of many more and similar performances that are taking place thruout the United States, Three Candidates But None of Them Good, (CONSIDERED from the point of yiew of the mere number of candidates, the republican primaries in Pennsylyania were not so bad, Three candidates for the senatorial nomination with sup- posedly three distinct platforms, struggling desperately between themselyes for the favors of the yoters, should offer some sort of a choice to a worker who is still supporting the republican party. But it didn't offer any choice because all three of the candidates were capitalist candidates. Why are they capitalist candidates? First, because of their own personal political records. Second, because of the class na- ture of the political party whose nontination they souht. The second reason is the more important one which does not mean, however, that the first reason can be overlooked or minimized, Lf _, Congressman Vare, for example, the man who was success- ful in the contest for the republican senatorial] nomination in Pennsylvania—who Is Congressman Vare? A rich and wealthy man, One of a family of capitalists, exploiters and oppressors of labor. The unscrupulous boss of the republican party machine in Philadelphia, As great an enemy of organized labor and trade unions as can be found in any labor-baiting clique in the country. The corruption of the Vare machine fn Philadelphia smells to heaven, His political misdoings are equalled only by Tammany Hall of New York or by the old party politicians in Chicago, Un- der the rule of the Vare family, shameless exploitation of the working masses, undisguised crime, graft, intimidation of the poor and weak, and general corruption of all sorts are proudly march- ing and dominating the city of Philadelphia, This man Vare was one of the candidates for the senatorial nomination in the republican primaries in Pennsylvania. Can a workingman or poor farmer endorse the candidacy of Vare without thegeby hurting himself vitally as a member of an ex- (Continued on page 2)