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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
The Changing Mussolini

While past" may be romantic thing to have
in the sunny land of Bohemia, to politician it
is anything but asset. To renegade politician
it is a milestone around the neck
Benito Mussolini who has cut a black streak
across the political horizon, was not always black
He was once red but he does not like to have that
period of his political career brought to public
notice. Today he is the champion of militarism
but he was not militarist in 1910 when he made
a speech patriotism, of which the following is
a part:
''The republicans defend the fatherland. We rise
superior to it and deny it. The proletariat has no
fatherland; nor in truth has the bourgeoisie In
case of we socialists will not go to the front
we will raise nsurrection within borders. The
proletariat must no more shed its blood for the
1Iooch of patriotism"
Hot stuff The kind of militant language that
the Fascist patrons, Ebert Gary and Charlie
Schwab, would not like. 1914, however, found the
once radical Mussolini receiving pay from the
French government and leading movement to
get Italy into war on the side of the Allies. The
movement was successful. But Mussolini had
greater ambitions than to serve the master class as
a lowly propagandst and stoolpigeon. In 1919 he
raising the banner of republcanism. The fol-
lowing is excerpt Of a speech delivered by him
in that year:
"The senate must be abolished-we demand that
this feudal survival disappear We demand proper
tional representation! Faced with the question,
'Monarchists or Republicans? we reply from hence
forth, Republicans We utterly oppose all ideas
of dictatorship. We demand the confscation of
riches illgotten during the war"
Now that the great Mussoini sees his house of
cards-long propped up by the bayonets of his
blackshirted cutthroats-toppling about his ears
speculation as to what the mountebank's next
move will be is in order. 1t is safe to predict
however, than this notorious murderer traitor and
charatan will sink into oblivion fast as he rose
to world prominence, and the organization that
he built to keep the iron heel of the capitalists on
the neck of labor will be smashed by the iron fist
of the italian working class
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The group of grafters that runs Roumania, be-
ing needy as grafters usually are, decided to lay
violent hands the properties of the Standard
Oil Company located in that country. To decide
was to act, the Bratiano brothers being quick of
brain and light of foot, also of fingers.
Several million dollars worth of oil properties
belonging to the INDECENT John D. Rockefeller were
therefore taken unto themselves by the 100 per cent
Roumanians, to wit the Brothers Bratiano, to-
gether with their friends and poor relations.
Standard Oil raised an awful howl and while it
yentured to state that this action was not Boil
shevism in the Russian sense yet in the Standard
Oil sense it meant one and the same thing. 1t was
ronfscaton of property, and could not be tolerated
The American minister in Bucharest was called
to Washington. This action had double signi-
cance First, it meant that the United States gov
eminent, had heard from the Standard Oil Com
pany and taking steps to express its dis
pleasure to the Roumanian government. When the
American minister bought his ticket to Washington
the boys who run Roumania knew that there would
be something doing.
Secondly: the American minister to Roumania
was expected to have accumulated lot of useful
information which the Standard Oil Secretary of
State needed in order to make up his mind as to
the proper course of action to take in compelling
the Roumanian government to cough up John
DPS OIL
Evidently the American minister reported that
the Roumanian government almost dead
broke and would do anything for money, therefore
we are not surprised to read in the papers that
the American government presented note to
Bucharest politely but firmly suggesting that
the s4O,OOO,OOO war loan which Uncle Sam lent
to Roumania during the days when battling for
democracy a favorite outdoor sport would
look better in the treasury at Washington than in
the vaults of the BratianO Brothers in Bucharest
This is the club. 1t is an effective one 1t has
been used on France and other countries. 1t will
be interesting to watch the Roumanian government
getting John DIS oil out of it's system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
BY ARNE sWAREcK.

XNTHILE the decrepit leadership of
wv the socialist party is actively
engaged in selling the ragged rem
nants of their party to the highest bid
der from among the politicians drag
ged out from the republican and
democratic sewer pipe to adorn the
LaFollette progressive" slate; while
the trade union politicians are en-
gagged in the noble task Of attempting
to whip their membership into line
for the support of the friends of these
leaders, members of the Workers
Party and other militant workers are
plugging ahead to establish the real
working class ticket in the central
states included in District No. of
the Workers Party.
Communists to Be on Ballot.
Foster and Gitlow will be on the
ballot in Illinois where the coal min
ers in particular have felt the scourge
of unemployment and misery Of the
capitalist system of production and
are beginning to appreciate the real
significance of working class candi-
dates and working class election
program.
The Workers Party candidates will
be on the ballot in Wisconsin where
the outright betrayal of the socialist
party and its complete desertion from
the struggles of the workers to the
bosom of the LaFollette combine is
leading the more conscious working
class elements toward the Commun-
list position. Sufficient signatures to
enter the candidates on the ballot in
these two states have now been Sc
cured.
Prospects are very good to enter
the Hammer and Sickle on the ballot
in Indiana and thus give the steel
workers in the Lake County region an
opportunity to cast their vote for a
candidate who by actual deed showed
his belief in the need of organizing
and solidifying the workers ranks and
now presents program calling upon
these workers to organize for a fight
to the finish against the gang which
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stole industry and controls the gov
eminent. In Missouri, party members
and the other militants are visiting
factory and farm to obtain the neces-
sary number of signatures with an
even chance to reach their goal.
S. P. Must Swallow Pill.
In Illinois the labor movement as
well as the former supporters Of the
socialist party are being asked, in re.
turn for some scant representation on
the LaFollette campaign committee,
to swallow, not only, LaFollette, but
Governor Small and all the other re.
publican and democratic candidates
which will be Endorsed by the LaFol.
lette combine. AS far as the socialist
party is concerned, this horse trading
will amount to a quiet burial of their
own state ticket and with it the last
remnants Of their party. In Wiscon-
sin, however, these astute politicians
have found the art of horse trading
altogether too Anticipated and they
are now engaged in stealing mules,
while the socialist party, under the
Leadership of Messrs. Berger and
Hoan, is knitting it's own candidates.
Mr.. Comings, the present Lieuten-
ant Governor, has long and persis-
tently nourished aspirations to be-
come governor Of the state of Wis
consin. He announces his candidacy
on the progressive" republican ticket
and received the support Of the state
G. P. P. A. composed mostly of lib
eral petty bourgeois elements) as well
as Of the socialist party politicians in
control Of the Milwaukee trade unions
This despite the fact that the party
already had nominated it's own ticket
with Attorney VIM. Quick for gov
ernor. Mr. Blaine, the present incum-
bent Of the governors mansion, also
announced his candidacy as a PRO
gressive" republican. Everybody in
Wisconsin, even the socialist party, is
becoming progressive" republican
Mr.. Blaine received the personal in
dorsement Of LaFollette, despite his
we'll known anti-labor record often re-
ferred to in the past by the socialist
party.
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Communist Clarity and Progressive Horse Trading

their hands; but LaFollette will NOT
tolerate any such adjunct to his cam
paign.
To the truly progressive elements,
who have been swayed by the present
stampede, and those who supported
the socialist party because of their
belief in socialism, some rude awaken.
ing is in store when the Vaccinations
of the poor" capitalists and rich la
Dor leaders Of the La Toilette, S. P.
and small bankers combination be.
come clear. The process of clarified.
ton has already set in. The cam.
paign for the Workers Party candi.
dates is in full swing The message
of Communism is reaching these
workers who are gradually turning
toward the Communist position.
Must Clear Workers. Minds.
AS important as making clear-cui
Communist fight against capitalism
and it's candidates in this election
campaign is the task Of helping in
this process of Qualification and disil.
lusionment These are the tasks to
which our members of District are
bending their energies. Our comrades
realize full well that it cannot be &C.
complished by utilizing purely propa
ganda methods. No,-the real task is,
while we are attempting to bring the
Communist message to the workers
thru the avenue of the parliamentary
election; while comrades Foster and
Gitlow and the local Party candidates
are being entered on the ballots in
order to participate with full force in
the campaign, we must also stimuli
taneously engage in the struggle for
the every day needs of the workers,
and to take the leadership for revolu.
tionary measures representing the
only concrete solution. That is the
point of real value. That is the way
in which a Communist Party connects
the struggle of the workers with the
election campaigns and make cam.
paigns worth while.
This our comrades understand and
it is the reason why they have in
Cured the bitter enmity of the labor
takers turnout the central states.
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Continued from page y

CONTINUED from page u
The vote was: Foster, So; LaFollette,
200; Coolidge, "a; Davis, 10, and Andy
Gump, 1.
Kuppenhemer Plant Visited.
At the Kuppenheimer clothing es-
Establishment, workers stood around in
groups discussing the DAILY WORK
Err, the chances of LaFollette, and
the trade unionism of Foster, the only
trade union candidate for president.
Some who voted for LaFollette adj
mitted that Foster had the more con-
structive principles, and was the only
one hundred percent advocate of the
rule of the working class. However,
they declared they would give LaFol-
lette a trial first, because Foster
has no chance"
IF LaFollette goes back on the
workers, then I'll be a Bolshevik in
the next election" one tailor from
the Royal Tailors said as he dropped
his ballot in the box.
One man in coming out of the Kup-
penheimer plant was caught stuffing
the ballot box with three votes. AS
was to be expected, he voted for
Coolidge.
The results of the first day Of the
straw vote show that the race will
be between Coolidge and LaFollette,
with Foster getting more votes among
the workers than Davis. The workers
realize that the issue of the campaign
is between Coolidge, the Wall Street
candidate, and LaFollette, the psuedo-
progressive, middle class candidate,
and Foster, candidate of the workers.
In the Hart, Schaffner and Marx
plant, the large proportion of the
votes of the white collar Office slaves
and straw bosses went to Coolidge.
A messenger by about twelve years
old, stopped in front Of the Hart,
Schaffner and Marx clothing factory,
and asked to be allowed to vote. This
lad was evidently well trained by the
scab, Morgan-controlled Western I'm
ion Telegraph company, for he was
one of the few in front of this factory
who cast his vote for Coolidge.
Andy Gump Led Cal.
A syndicalist evidently works in
the Kuppenheimer factory, for he
wrote across the ballot: 1.-THE hell
with them ALL" Probably after sew
eral of the special shop campaign is.
sues of the DAILY WORKER are Civ.
en- to him, this worker will learn the
value of political as well as industrial
organization of the workers and will
fall in line with Foster.
Another worker in the Kuppenheim.
er factory sarcastically voted for La
Toilette and wrote across the ballot,
"Hurra for the workers Illusion" Still
another, so that there would be no
mistake, wrote twenty crosses oppos.
lite Fosters name.
Andy Gump was leading John w.
Davis on the early returns.
Throwing It Away.
Many Of those in front OF the Kup-
penheimer factory who voted for La.
Toilette declared their sympathy for
Foster and the Workers Party, but
did not want to waste their vote"
They threw 1t away anyhow, by de.
claring for the champion of the indie.
pendent manufacturers.
An old man with civil war but.
ton on declared, IL want to vote for a
working class candidate" as he drop.
ped his ballot for Foster. A Negro
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
Take Straw Vote in Many Factories

of the most intelligent, however, cast
their votes for Foster.
The DAILY WORKER straw vote
will be continued every day this week,
different set of factories being COW
cred each day, until every large indus
try in Chicago, and all the large trade
unions are covered. Special issues of
the DAILY WORKER will be distrib-
uted to the workers in these factories.
Many of the workers have already
asked to see the DAILY WORKER
and are interested in Fosters mes
sage.
Volunteers are asked to report at
II a. m. every morning at 166 West
Washington st., Room 300, to help
distribute the ballots.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
Thot He Didn't Have ANY

The Prince of Wales took few minutes off
from his favorite pastime, dancing, while attend
ing party at the boathouse of Rodman Wanna
maker II. at Oyster Bay in order to have his mind
read.
This will be startling news to those who have
followed the career of His Royal Highness with
more or less care since he became world figure
His actions had not hitherto indicated that the
young man had anything in his head that a comb
could not relieve him off, But it appears that either
mistaken or the prince is suffering from a
phantasy. In these days, when the opinions of
alenists be secured for the triHing fee of
$25OO0 a day, anybody can learn whether the
prince really has brains or whether he is not suf
fering from decisions a result of the constant
wear and tear his glands as a result of wine and
dancing.
Rodman Wanamaker is the gentleman who owns
the great department stores in New York and Phila
delphia where thousands of young and old human
beings are sweated to pile up the wealth that their
master squanders in the entertainment of royal
and other parasites. The prince may not have any
gray matter under his slouched hat But he has
something-call it what you will-which, we must
admit is lacking between the ears of the thousands
of slaves who are toiling for the Wanamakers. He
is class conscious by instinct. He refuses to work
at useful occupation He knows that he will not
have to work so long as the working class keep
their backs bent in toll and allow their masters
to rob them of the greater part of the product of
their toll.
When the Wanamaker slaves begin to feel an
itching back of their eyes; when they begin to
question the right of the few to revel in luxury
at their expense; when they understand that the
money spent by Wanamaker on the puny prince
was taken out of their bodies then the prince will
have good and sufficient reason for going to mind
reader He will then be faced with the task Of
working for his eats or starving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
Hergeresque BurIesque.

AT the primary recently held, Com
ings was defeated and the socialist
party now finds itself in a dilemma.
While nationally it has become part
Of the LaFollette small capitalist COM
bination, the latter Endorses Blaine.
And while some of the disgruntled G.
p. P. A. elements, under the leader
ship of Chester Plat (small banker
and owner of few provincial news
papers) are preparing to support At
torney Quick, the S. P. leaders as
practical" politicians are quietly
ditching their own candidate for gov
ernor and lining up to support Blaine.
Attorney Joseph A. Padway, another
s. p. politician and political boss of
the Wisconsin State Federation of La
Dor, has accepted appointment as
manager OF the LaFolIette-B Blaine cam
paign funds for the Milwaukee Con-
gressional District and pledged him.
self to raise $4,000. Whether this
sum is to be collected from the labor
AAONOhhOAb Vi 1AOAn Iuo IlCll l1dr Oll6ILc-
Blaine supporters remains to be seen.
At the meeting Of the campaign com
mittee, where this appointment was
made, personal contributions amounted
to $4,000.
Milwaukee is one of the few cities
where the socialist party exists as an
organization, purely a machine how
ever, with which to gain political Of
fees. 1t has already become a third
capitalist party paying no attention
whatever to the struggles of the
workers and making no further at
tempt to interest itself in their con-
ditions.
Machine Gets Bob's Purgative.
The LaFollette political lieutenants
have already taken steps to change
the labor complexion of their Missouri
campaign committee, by removing
President Wood of the State Fedora
ton Of Labor and other labor repre-
sentative and substituting some
liberal" elements. The LaFollette
supporters of Indiana find themselves
with local labor party ticket on
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silently took ballot and without a
word Of comment, voted for Foster.
The large vote cast for Foster and
LaFollette, and the small vote cast
for Davis and Coolidge, demonstrates
that large masses of workers are
breaking away from the two old
parties of Wall Street and are on their
way to independent working class pol.
itical action.
Women Are Backward.
The women working in the offices
of the clothing factories evidently be.
lieving that women's place is in the
home, even tho they have to leave
home for factory work, for the most
part waddled by, turning up their
noses at entering into politics. Some
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
PUSH HARD!
Congressional Districts Out Get All Candidates Over!
Do Your Share to Make Good!
Presidential Electors and State Candidates Over the Top

The encouraged
climbing
placing Workers ballot
efforts Party League member
District Gordon Owens, candidate district
candidate obtain
number district
districts and district will
quota Of signatures With
the other districts beginning activity
bent candidate getting
ballot In Illinois
otIow State candidates will
2soo
FosterGow
State illinois ballot
proceeding all PETITIONS
job for the the Workers
The job little
said branches failed
anything ALL Many others
nearly two weeks Party League branch
membership and get them the job
THE DAYTIME WITH THE PETITIONS
In
Women this The
the petitions
doubt Congressional District
assigned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17

Once, while General Butler was making court
plea in Boston, two cats began to wall in the alley
beneath the window. The audience laughed and
the laugh was on the General. Old Ben soon turned
the tables his competitors, however, by remark.
ing; Gentlemen, please pay no attention to the
noise on the outside. 1t only more CATS The
counterrevolution in Georgia only means that
more paid hirelings Of the capitalist governments
will lose their heads.
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AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

CONTINUED from Page IL
nomic depression.
DREMIER Herriot is running Ram.
say Macdonald a close second In
showing up the bankruptcy Of reform
ism. The A. P. reports that "The gov
eminent went on the warpath against
the high cost of living at a four-hour
cabinet meeting. Appeals were
made to merchants to aid the govern
ment in reducing prices. S. Chiefs
of Police have been instructed to en-
courage public markets" In Soviet
Russia the Chief of Police also has
occasional relations with food pro-
fiteers. The government fixes wages
and prices in definite ratio to one an
other. The violators are arrested and
their stocks confiscated. Not so good
for business" but the workers are
able to buy food.
CPEAKING of Macdonald, in add
- ton to his job of Prime Minister
ing to the convalescent capitalists of
Great Britain, he keeps up his literary
pursuits. In writing a new preface to
his book on Socialism," he defends
his philosophy as evolutionary. not
revolutionary, and expresses the fear
that present tendencies among the
workers threaten the ideals" of his
own brand. 1.-THE revolutionary and
materialistic frames Of mind created
by the war are becoming a serious
menace to the socialist spirit of serv-
ice. Profiteering has become uni
versal -. not confined to the classes
generally designated as profiteers, but
has infected all sections"
VAIHEN the coal miners go on strike
wv they are naturally "profiteers"
in the eyes of the Laborite premier.
What he is in the eyes Of the miners.
and our own-but we don't print that
kind of language.
COTHAM is not behind the times
" either. A comrade who attended
a LaFollette-W Wheeler meeting sees
the chairman put his foot in it" and
sends in the following:
n T Observation-Disclosures meeting to-
n night, the chairman, McAllister
Coleman, spilled the beans all over
himself when he said, I'VE have only
the simple people to support u.s."
have an idea that what Mr.. Coleman
wanted to say was "the plain people,
but he is so simple that he could not
get his tongue around it. Simple" ia
right, tho he cannot be given credit
for cleverness. Mr. Coleman must he
complimented for telling the truth
even tho he did it unconsciously.--s
Jergens.
Let the contribs keep coming
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The government of Queensland, Australia, is a
Labor government but it is in a bad fix 1t has no
money. The bankers have. But the bankers keep
firm grip on the money bags and the Labor gov
eminent just twiddles its thumbs. 1t is all dressed
up but lacks carfare. The Bosheyiks took the bank
ers by the scruff Of the neck and made them cough
up Afterwards they were allowed to choose be-
tween earning an honest living or starving in
decently. But the Queensland laborites are demo
cratic and dictatorship is abhorrent to them. The
bankers are not worrying-yet.
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MEMBER FOR THE PARTY AND
ANOTHER READER AND sua
sCRisER TO THE DAILY.
RkER.
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Get member for the Workers Party and a new
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Send in that new Sub" today
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comrades
Workers (commun Party the ballot
made big there Now let's
going be the first Congressional your
sgnaurcsl
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Let the contribs keep coming.
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religious revival, it is a sign of eco
nomic depression.
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