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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Another Political cadaver

The socialist party of Wisconsin Is
dead. 1t is a sinking political cadaver
slowly awaiting scavengers to take
away its decomposing body. Its lead.
ers having betrayed the principles of
it's founders are awaiting the highest
bidder and the first opportunity to
desert the collapsed movement.
After the st. Paul convention when
the promising proletarian movement
was stabbed in the back by the mid.
die class politicians under the leader
ship and with connivance Of the so
cialist party politicians, the Milwau.
kee Leader glorying in its treacherous
murder proclaimed the st. Paul meet
as political cadaver. Little did they
realize at the time that they were
signing their own death warrant and
that the repugnant term will stigmati
ize their own movement. III
The socialist party is still running
some of it's candidates on its/ticket
but Berger is getting desperate. In
criticizing one of the opponents Der.
ger states that II is a very unpleas.
ant duty to criticize the progressives
and he is sorry to say the things he
does. ut would be impossible for
the socialist party to give up its iden.
tity until a new party is formed" he
says. This is an open bid for an UNI
holy alliance and a bid for the salh
OF the socialist party TO the reactioR.
aries Of the republican camp. Todav
every one is conscious OF the betrayal
Even rebellious candidate for gov.
ernor, Quick, is silent. There seems
to be no issue between the candidates
for governor on the republican and
socialist party ticket. Both are La
Toilette progressives. oh yesl there
Is difference; socialists claim 10 be
honest. I'VE are the only dependable
progressives' they say
! A political cadaver indeed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Singapore

When the British labor party government was
allowed to assume Office in order to pull some
chestnuts out of the fire for the British ruling
Glass; among the projects inherited by it from its
predecessor in power was plan to build power
full naval base at Singapore. This project drop
ped by the Macdonald government, tho, in order
to mollify tory opinion it gave orders for the
building of several cruisers and carried out
extensive bombing excursions in India, Egypt and
Mesopotamia.
The Singapore project is directed against Japan
and for the protection of British interests in the
Pacific. The jingoes of Australia and New Yea
land are for it. which is an added reason why the
extreme right wing of British Imperialism should
be willing to spend over $1OOOOOOOO on the singa-
pore base. 1t may keep the Antipodean colonies
closer to Threadneedle's apron strings.
Writers who take most things for granted as
sumed that the serious blow to japanese naval
power by the great earthquake was responsible
for the temporary shelving of the Singapore base.
This is nonsense Japan is not the only power
besides Britain with interests in the Pacific. The
United States is intensely interested in that part
Of the world and it should not be forgotten that
Britain and the United States are watching each
others moves with platonic interest, knowing
quite well, that some day, unless the unforeseen
happens, the rival navies of the two great powers
will battle for the supremacy of the seas.
Today Britain is building the Singapore base
with an eye on Japan, but tomorrow it may be
used against the United States
While the rulers of both empires, the American
and the British, profess the most benevolent in
tentions toward each other; while they shake
hands, they also hold daggers.
After all the peaceful pretensions of the capital
list nations it is quite clear to any thinking work
er that there cannot be any peace until the cap
italist system is overthrow, the world over.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
What Is Efficiency?

To the DAILY WORKER: Quoting
from the proposed program Of the
United States bureau of education for
American Education Week. What is
this thing men call Bolshevism? 1t is
the revolt of the inefficient resenting
the prosperity of the efficient"
And l ask, What is this thing ef-
ficiency? Does it consist Of robbery
and oppression?"
Methinks no class of people can be
called wholly inefficient if they have
enough force and courage to revolt
1t is an evil time indeed that finds
people SO cowed that they will make
no effort towards freedom.
Let us honor revolt. He who would
be free must indeed strike the blow
or remain in chains. Is peace so
sweet that it should be purchased
with the price of chains and slavery?
Fred Cobb, Mariana, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Lodge Goes

Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the symbol Of
blacklist reaction in the republican party, has died.
His passing reminds the political observer of the
almost automatic statement that the old guard
may die but never surrenders.
The death of the senior senator from Massachus-
etts comes at a momentous period in the life of
the republican party. Six months ago all but the
last count had been called on the republican eagle
that was considered down and out because her
talons were sticky with oil. The conspicuous of
yesterday temporarily given back seat, at
least in so far as the public limelight was con-
cerned. So-called new in reality only nationally I'M
known political blood injected into the bird Of
prey. Then the eagles stomach was stuffed with
gold. Soon the bird of prey began to soar high.
Aided by certain transtory economic conditions
and by the incompetency and weakness Of its op-
position the republicans swept the field in the last
election.
The exit of Lodge, one of the stalwarts of the
old guard, comes at moment when the man
agerial Transformation, on the surface only Of
course, of the republican party is complete. The
death of the Massachusetts, senator in fact re-
moves the last of the influential old timers in the
innermost reactionary councils of the republican
party.
We have no desire to insult the memory of the
dead But the dead do not appear to US as the
subjects of acknowledging. Senator Lodge was
the blacklist type of capitalist reacionary to the
very marrow of his bones. Reputed as a statesman
of the first order he in fact the most cultured
ignoramus in the senate. This is certainly an
unenviable position. Lodge has always Loyalty
served the most Grass and unblushing exploiting
group in the country. There is not white spot
on his pitch black record in Washington. He was
sworn enemy of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12

To The DAILY WORKER
have recently noticed that you
have few columns in the DAILY
WORKER devoted to the views on diff
ferent topics of your readers. l wish
to submit few Of my thoughts per-
tanning to Chicago schools.
l am second year student in one
Of Chicago High Schools and thus far
have found school bore. We have
four major subjects and the teach.
ers each seem to think that they are
the only ones who give us homework.
In this way they fill us up with so
much so-called knowledge that as a
result of this we know very little of
our studies. Many pupils get DISCUS
ted with these methods and often skip
classes. (Which they cannot be
blamed for doing) We sometimes
have so much homework that we are
kept busy till eleven o'clock at night.
Then when we get to school, they
teach us that sound body makes
a sound mine. They seem to think
that the measly amount Of exercise
we receive at school is enough for
us l am sure that our Russian Com
rades are treated bettsr than we.
Yours for real schools,
Fred H Herzberg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12

The following letter comes from a
comrade 76 years young, who has
stood the acid test of class con-
scious revolutionist tho she has seen
many. fall by the wayside. Editors
Note.
Keep on, Because We Are Right.
To the DAILY WORKER: -Enclos-
ed find 50 for the Workers Monthly.
also want to tell you how much
appreciate the great work you are do
ing on the DAILY WORKER. l am
truly sorry it is not in my power to
do more. But money is indeed very
scarce now.
1t seems as if the LaFollette furry
has brot the neople's mental condi-
ton to about the same level that it
was at the time of the war-craze six
years ago, and am afraid it will have
to run its course like any other fever.
The thing to do is to keep working
for the cause and not get discouraged,
because we know we are in the right
Reformlst Casualties.
1t just about took my breath away
when / read the article by Kate
O'Hare in the September Vanguard, in
which she tells us that LaFollette is
the man Of the hour, another Lincoln
sent by God to deliver the American
people from evil. Oh, we have to
stand good deal with our, Debs, Rus
sells, O'Hares, Creels and Hillquits.
1t is in times like these that we re-
member that there was time when
Lenin and Trotsky stood alone when
men of lesser strength failed them.
When l left Minnesota, l came to
what l think may be called the very
heart of the ranch country in Mon
tana and it is pathetic to see the con-
ditions prevailing here. I have seen
several big ranches with good build
ings and thousands of dollars worth
of machinery lying around rotting and
places deserted because it does not
pay to keep them going.
Homesteaders and Bankers Go Broke.
Then again there were many home
steads taken, cabins were built and
the homesteader stayed a few years
until he got his deed on the land. He
then borrowed money from the banks
to pay his mortgage on the homestead
But conditions instead of improving,
were getting worse. There was no
money to pay taxes and interest and
so both the homesteader and banker
went into bankruptcy. have seen a
great number Of these deserted homes.
The people that are left here slave
so hard they have neither time nor
energy to study conditions and learn
the causes for what has happened
to them. They are easy prey for
the LaFollette illusion. They look to
him to give them back their property.
But if good times don't come with La
Toilette, what then?
Mrs. Ingeborg Monsen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Young Workers and Unionism

One of the leading programs of Gompers has
been to make a noise about "child labor" 1t would
have been much more logical to organize the youth
and young workers than merely to protest their
existence and sputter around the various legis-
lative bodies and beg the national congress for
prohibitory laws. While all workers must sup
port laws against child labor, such laws are no
solution of the problem which must be treated
more fundamentally by the labor movement.
The place for labor to legslate is in its union
halls and on the job The coming convention Of
the A. +. Of L. at lei Paso has much to do if only
Il viii confront real problems seriously and make
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Not AeeordInu 70 HoxIe.

Editor, The DAILY WORKER
Farmers are soreIy pressed to resort
to every conceivable method to exc
out an existence in the more remote
places here. At Ashmoor, an outlying
country post office, II is reported that
excessive carrying charges were over
come by friendly agreement in which
their local postmaster sells a dollars
worth OF stamps for twenty-five cents
In all cases where the stamps are
used in the shipping Of cream by
parcel post. This may not be strictly
according to hoyle, but the practice
seems to work alright, since the post.
master is paid on basis OF the
amount OF postage cancellation. "A.
D., Fort Benton, Mont
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
By T. J. O'FIGherty

Italian nationalist revolutionary, was
challenged to a duel by a Mussollnl
understrapper. But Garibaldi would
rather try his sword on Benito's hide.
Benito is tough but not impenetrable.
1t is not likely that Garibaldi will be
successful in tempting Mussolini to
take chance on getting some steel
deposited in his anatomy. But he is
lucky if he escapes leaden tenant in
his upper story at the rate things are
going there.
KHUSsoLINI promised to make
lVI Italy prosperous and contented.
But he is dismal failure. While the
dictatorship of the proletariat in Rus.
STA is forging ahead, bring health
and happiness to the workers and
peasants, the blackshirt dictatorship
is up against an economic stone wall.
Mussolini put up the telephone system
for auction. But owing to the threat
ened chaos, the American telephone
company withdrew it's bid. Before
long the American writer's who prev
iously extolled the Italian cutthroat
as man of destiny, will be quick to
find many serious flaws in his char
acter to explain his failure, being
careful to attribute it to personal
frailty rather than to the impossible
ity of reviving system that is doom
ed to death by history, and the rev
dictionary working class movement
led by the Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
AS WE SEE IT

on the LaFollette endorsement was
the action of the socialists in trying
to get their man Thomas over by
treachery and fraud. The socialists
went half way with AL, but the Tam
many labor leaders are whole-hoggers.
The socialists said, that deceit was
only practiced by the Commun-
lists but the old Tammany leaders
were not so easily fooled so they
spent the night hurting insults at the
poor S. P.ites. Figuratively speaking,
Leftkowitz looked like the mudguard
Of Ford on slushy day as he left
the meeting. One year before the
New York Call went out of business,
Charles Erwin, managing editor, spent
most Of his time comforting with the
officials of the Central Trades Coun-
Gil, in an attempt to get that body be-
hind the Call They finally got be-
hind it but so far that they could not
be seen with the aid of a powerful
telescope. They endorsed the Call
in half-hearted fashion and the poor
thing died. Doctor Norman Thomas
came along with 100000 pullmotor
and revived it, but after it took his
medicine for a month it passed in it's
checks and not even Thomas Christ
could now bring it back to life.
MUSsOLINTS power is on the
lVl wane. The war veterans organ
izations are now out for his neck.
Garihaldi descendant of the nntad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
LaFoIIetteIsm and Communism.

To the DAILY WORKER: Inten-
tionally or lin rare cases) unintention-
ally, the capitalist press assumes the
mistaken idea that LaFolletteism, So
cialism (of the socialist party and
Communism are one and the same
thing, that the aim Of any OF them is
to educate the masses and to prepare
them for the overthrow of the pres.
ent state of society and to place the
Red flag on the capitol building at
Washington.
They take for granted that the op.
posite OF repubIicanlsm is LaFolIette.
ism, and at times place socialism or
Communism in that role. Allow us to
differ with them by questioning their
declaration that tho LaFollette raves
about the kept press, he is given as
much publicity as Coolidge or Davis
Is II not obvious that LaFollette is not
a real menace to capitalism or he
would not be permitted to talk so
freely in the press? Are the view.
points OF William y. Foster, Commun
list leader and exponent OF new or
der given a hundredth part OF that
space and are they given as truthful
ly?
Socialist Party Betrayal.
Since the socialist party has betray
cd the working class by giving up the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Neqro Workers Like npaIIvv

To the DAILY WORKER MANY
copies of the DAILY WORKER are
being distributed daily to the indus
trial workers. Everyone who sees a
copy once is willing to have 1t again
and the sale OF the paper is increasing
rapidly. Especially do we find this
among the Negroes here. They snatch
up the DAILY WORKER as soon as
1t arrives.
G. G. Micley and A. Barbat, Rou-
manian Communists have set up a
newsstand on the corner OF Penn and
Washington SITS and they also dis
tribute the paper to the homes in
the evening.
Indiana Harbor is a town with
about 10000 Industrial workers. We
have big task before us to awaken
these workers who have been sleeping
in profound ignorance all their lives
They can see nothing but their dinner
pail and even around that they build
the capitalist philosophy OF saving
their pennies and becoming rich and
their children the potential presidents
Of the United States.
But by our organized campaign OF
spreading the truth thru our daily
paper we are rapidly reaching many
OF these workers. Ted Hader, Indians
Harbor, Ind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12

Al is a less nauseating hypocrite than
Thomas, but if the socialists have
gone so far that they feel comfort
able in the embrace of Tammany Hall,
it is mighty hard for them to sink
any lower. Yet their resourcefulness
must not be underestimate.
THE New York Central Trades and
Labor Council at its last meeting,
took a night off and INDUCED in an
orgy Of socialist batting. The social
lists like nothing better than to see
the Communists getting booted out of
the unions and out of the presence of
respectable labor takers. They were
the trusted stoolpigeons of the G. p.
p A. in ferreting out stray Commun-
lists from central bodies to the G. P.
P. A. convention Now they are at the
receiving end of the mud guns of the
old Gompersian labor takers
XNTHAT trimming they received
wv in New York, with poor Left
kovitz, of the Teachers Union, the
Greenwich Village farmer-laborite
yapping like spaniel in defense Of
his LaFollette sins. The Central
Trades Council, it seems, endorsed AL
Smith. Leftkowitz, being rather lit
crate fellow, drew up the endorse
ment. Then he turned around and
supported Norman Thomas. The Off
Gals of the Central Council denounced
him as double crosser and declared
that one good reason for their flop
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Continued from Page ~
some awkward questions about his
open alliance with Mussolini He
might be asked to take up his bed
and walk after the fashion Of the
miracle-working Jesus. Spain is also
straining at the leash and the liberal
elements who are expected to lead the
revolution against Primo de Rivera
are anti-clerical In the event of the
Pope's monarchist and Fascist allies
getting the heavy end of the stick,
America would be about the only
country that could afford to keep His
Holiness in the pomp he is accus-
toned to.
CHARLES SOLOMON, a prominent
~ member of the socialist party in
New York, bears unwilling testimony
to the truth of the stories carried in
the DAILY WORKER regarding the
deal between the Hillquit socialists
and Tammany Hall, to knife Norman
Thomas and vote for AL Smith.
Thomas was an accommodating fell
low and took all the dirt the socialists
wanted to throw at him. He ran
10000 votes behind Solomon, who is
practically unknown as state figure,
while Thomas is public character
and publicity hound to boot. The
socialists split the ticket for AL, de-
clares Solomon, and insinuates that
between him and Thomas there was
not much to argue about. Personally,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
Letters from Our Readers

fight for the establishment Of a work.
ers' and farmers government and
have surrendered themselves to the
whims Of LaFollette by conserving to
his program, we may safely say that
these two groups aim at the same
goal. Now what is that goal? Read
their program and you find not even
whisper Of advocacy for 3 change
Of the present system of society in
which few money lords exploit the
masses.
Government regulation of railroads
is not Communism, nor is the abolish
ment of monopoly in industry even
progressivism. We have government
ownership of mails under capitalism,
then why not government regulation
of railroads under the profit system?
To do away with monopoly in indus
try is step backward not forward.
The recent merger of two great rail
road systems into the Nickel Plate is
only another sign of the inability of
legislation to stop the advance of the
inevitable capitalistic trend toward
the gathering Of the means Of produc-
ton and distribution into the hands of
fewer and fewer people.
Wants No Change.
The LaFollettes want no change in
the present system of society, they
merely want to make it less polluted.
They uphold the system that exploits
labor for profit, the system that
breeds money lust instead of good will
among men, the system that matches
wars for the control of world markets
like the murderfest of the late world
war. The LaFollettes would doctor
up the ills and try to alleviate the
suffering of the people under capital.
ism, but they do not aim at perman-
ent cure by abolishing the root of the
disease, the profit system.
A victory for LaFollette would still
be victory for capitalism, would still
mean a continuation of the present
system Of wage labor, of commodity
production for profit instead Of for
use, of the ownership of the means of
production and distribution by a few.
If it came to question of permitting
an overload to look after the people
or whether the people should do it
themselves, the LaFollettes would
still maintain that it is better to be
dependent rather than independent.
Wall Street Has Reason
LaFollette is being denounced bv
Wall Street thru its mouthpieces the
republican and democratic parties for
the simple reason that he is the agent
Of the small capitalists and middle
class who are also wringing profits
from the sweat and blood Of the work,
ers. Big business wants it all for
itself, wants to monopolize industry
so that it alone gets all the loot. And
little business is fighting, thru the in.
dependent political group headed by
LaFollette, to keep its hands in the
money bag too, therefore they are
against monopoly. The wolves arc
only fighting among themselves.
Fortunately, there are some who
see thru this fog of criminal and dis.
tructive misrepresentation and come
out openly on the political and In.
dustrial field for the overthrow Of the
corrupt and already decaying capital
list system. These people are united un.
der the banner of the Workers (Com.
munist) Party.-A. b.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-12
For German Workers, Relief.

To the DAILY WORKER-Just re-
ceived your letter with $3.50 worth of
stamps for sale in behalf of the strug-
CLING working masses of Germany.
But in the face of the overcrowded
work market l find it difficult to dis
pose of them. Besides the contingent
of working people am acquainted
with have, like me, only seasonal
work, /. e., harvesting the different
crops in the summer which this year
is harder on us because we are
crowded by other out-of-workers, who
the years past did not follow this line
of occupation, and winter times there
is little or nothing to do.
But such as could contribute their
mite have no international working
class solidarity feeling-at least as far
as have experienced in country dis
tricts.
l am familiar with happenings in
Germany and the danger for the rest
OF the workers Of the world in case
of their being subdued, so l hasten to
send you five dollars, little enough as
a contribution to the German workers
relief.-E. s., California.