The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
Brisbane Predicts Day
of Workers Rule But
Sees 1t Very Far Off
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, Mr. Arthur Brisbane, editorial dictator Of the
Hearst newspapers, saves the fears of the upper
clawse to which the Hearst-Brs outfit trying to
cater by promising that Workers the United States
is long way off.
But what startling confession to come even from
Brisbane that Workers Rule is coming at all.
This is the Brisbane who has become millionaire and
piled up more millions for William Randolph Hearst thru
the worst prostitution Of the yellow press
This is Brisbane the conservative and careful investor
IN New YORK real estate who the pIauds the
wan street Journal Tor his sagacy in making investments
In his own words, Brisbane conesses that "The next
step will come eventually and the crowd the bottom
WORKERS, will rule But here in America that long
way Off Men of different races languages and religions do
not trust each other and will that any among
them shall lead ALL And for the present barring great
sruploy on the part OF finance that finance, thru its
representatives will rule"
Brisbane merely restates policy that the great en-
poyng interests in this country have always carefully and
ruthlessy followed and will continue to follow until their
day OF DOOM and that is divide the workers along the lines
OF race language and religion, and then will be easy to
conquer them, and keep them in subsection"
Every great unorganized industry STEEL packing shoe
textile, to mention only few, have used these divisions
among the workers to shatter the keep
restriction of immigration from Europe is the herdng of
great masses Of Negroes into the Northern industrial
But these very tactics Of the bosses have taught the
their winning of power The workers better today
than before that they get together in spite Of
race, language, color, religion TO tight The Boss
The great strikes in the packing industry The last
great steel strike The gPrsngs OF the workers in the shoe
Paterson New Jersey All testimony to the fact
that workers developing solidarity in spite of differences
in the face of the enenly's attack
Great labor organizations stand as an encouragement
to the workers convincing proof that unity be
The United Mine Workers of America is made up of
workers speaking many languages protesting many reI
gions, religion and of many coors 1t is against this
unified that the bosses now hurting their most
vicious open shop attack
Clothing Workers of America and the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union, have widely diversified member
ship But these organizations should give Brisbane
siderable for thought.
The great membership of these organizations decide
continuously that lone among them shall lead ALL" The
members of these unions do trust each other spite of
is accepted and the unity of the organization is inn
paired because of the racial religious differences that
exist between the Polish, Italian Czech Jewish, German
Lithuanian or Negro workers.
Capitalism cannot eliminate thru its oppression, race
nationality religious and color lines. Those divisions will
remain.
But thru its oppression capitalism driving the work.
ers together into solid fighting in spite of these
differences.
This welding of the forces of American labor has been
proceeding for hundred years, in this country
than before shown by the fact that the workers of
all nations upon earth have built the closely knit well dis
the loose in form and chaotic in action Second Socaist)
International.
Let Brisbane breathe not so easily
The mothers of Labor in New York City may yet take
Side" babies.
The workers may not be long in running up the Red
publications. and claim them their own, and the
plants therein to turn out their publications.
Brisbanes day Of great disappointment may be much
nearer than he thinks or even, Dreams
1t isn't safe for prophet of the capitalist social order
make conservative predictions these days rapid pro-
gress.