The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-20
AS WE SEE 1T

The local American Legion, mostly
composed of swivel chair warriors wi
never heard any noise more closeM
resembling the boom of cannon thay
one Of the frequent bomb explosions
which bootleggers in Chicago indulge
in, to give the police something to get
excited about, are all het up over the
announced opening next Saturday Of
an international summer school, Aid
ing the American Legion is an aggre-
cation of mentally fozzilized females
representing various antique societies,
such as the Daughters of 1912. These
bloodthirsty Legionnaires have no OBJ
lection to the internationalism Of
Hell-and-Maria Dawes and the interna-
tional bankers but they fear a spread
of knowledge Of the economic causes
Of war would bring the military bust
ness into disrepute But behind the
puppets who protest against peace
propaganda, are the capitalists who
ear their supply of cannon fodder ms.
be polluted, so the brave heroes VIII
fought in Washington during the wal
are trotted out to do their stuff.
Even Labor" leading organ in
boosting Senator LaFollette for the
presidency, is not certain that the Wis
consin progressive will run even il
nominated by the Cleveland confer
ence of the c. P. P. A. If there are
any who are not yet fully convinced
of the futility of expecting action from
the c. P. P. A. for Farmer-Labor Par
ty, the leading editorial in the May 10
issue of the above paper should COM
plete their establishment. In order
to help Labor" convince the workers
and farmers that the c. P. P. A. is a
delusion and fraud we are reproducing
its leading editorial on this page
Read it carefully and then forget July
4, and get ready for ST. Paul, where
the largest auditorium in the Twin
Cities is engaged for the biggest Farm
er-Labor convention ever held in the
United States. That convention is 60
ing to act.
John L. Walker does not like to be
referred to as renegade Socialist"
The definition of renegade" given in
Funk and Wagnall's New Standard
Dictionary of the English Language"
is zone who selfishly or wickedly de-
/ G re Ysfu nd sosv
deserter." Walker was member Of
the Socialist Party and quit it for the
Farmer-Labor Party. He left the
Farmer-Labor Party and lined up with
the Small wing of the Republican Par
ty of Illinois. He has left party that
stood for the interests of the working
class and Joined party that repre-
sents the interests of the capitalists.
Walker will not get away with his
treason to the workers by flood of
crocodile tears and outbursts of moral
indignation.
Had Walker changed his allegiance
from one working class political party
to another, his explanations that he
changed his ideas on tactics could be
accepted in good faith provided his
actions squared with his words. But
he did not do that. He has lined up
with the party which speaks for the
Chamber of Commerce that Walker
pretends to be so much opposed to.
That Walker protests against being
called renegade shows that the mas
SEES are beginning to call him to book
and that the workers, particularly the
miners of Illinois, no longer refer to
him as Honest John" but as the man
who sold out his political convictions
to the bosses.
Delegate Mercer, chairman of the
resolutions committee at the Illinois
Miners convention, proved how ignor-
ant a payroll patriot can be when he
explained the insulting resolution on
the recognition of Soviet Russia he
managed to sneak over on the conyen-
ton. Soviet Russia should be recog-
nized of course, Mercer argued, provid-
ed the Soviet government is willing to
A~SC6AANO OehCA COuulllCo. IL mercer
had knowledge instead Of cunning he
would know that Russia was the only
country in the world to recognize the
right of seif-determination, one of VIII
sons Fourteen Points. Russia freed
several small countries long held in
bondage by the Cars. The other capi-t
talist nations, instead of freeing the
subject peoples under the rule added
more to their list And the United
States is not tagging behind. Soviet
Russia is no longer begging for recog-
milton from capitalist nations. Euro
pean governments are falling by the
wayside because of their non-rccogni-
ton policy and Senator Borah is writ.
ing Soviet recognition plank for the
next convention of the Republican
Party. The labor takers are as usual
behind the times.