The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-30
Go1npers andDawes;
Twin Supporters of
Capitalist System
BY WILLIAM z. FOSTER

IN the Aug % number the American Federation f bor
Weekly News Service" official organ of the arch-reac-
Foster Join Hands to Defend Labor Injunction" What
tasty morse if true But everyone with the exoen+ion o+
0ompers hopeless dupes will that the Islander
contained in this headline is only more instance of the
desperate and unscrupuIous efforts of the omners
TO stay the progress of the efwng by carving
on an organized campaign of libel and Misrepresentation
:, The headline is followed by a screed accredited to a
Chicago nobody by the of Mr. WISE nferng that in
the recent Judicial elections in Chicago co-operated with
General Dawes to secure the election of Dennis E. Sullivan
notorious Injunction Judge This is, of course lie of
whole cloth. The facts are these:
In the aforementioned elections, which occurred about
year ago. John Fitzpatrick fresh from his collapse the
Federated Farmer labor Party Convention July 35 aban
doned the policy of independent working political action
and had the Chicago Federation of Labor readop dsas
tous Gompers nonpartsan policy by endorsing 10 judicial
candidates the republican and democratic tickets This
treason to the Labor Party idea supposed be for the
purpose OF defeating Judge Sullivan But several of the
candidates endorsed themselves almost equally motor
ous as injunction judges In this situation the Communist
delegates to the Chicago Federation of Labor
Fitzpatrick for leading the back into the old party
political shambes and demanded that Federation stick
true TO its former Labor Party policy They pointed that
was exactly the Gompers non-parsan method which was
responsible for the political mpotency of the and
for the presence of such Sullivan bench For
thus uncomproisngy defending principle of the Labor
Party which the Chicago Federation itself had advocated
tor several years. the Communists denounced as
having helped Sullivan his hacker Dawes Can reach-
erous sophistry go further?
In his lying headline connecting my name with Dawes
Gompers follows out his usual tactics of trying prove
community OF interest between the big capitalists and the
Communists as against the unions What sIv ARGUMENT
Compers himself is of the greatest allies of Dawes and
his like against everything progressive in country and the
labor movement Dawes is militant defender of the
lean Legion and so Gompes both looking upon this
organization valued prop of their beloved capitalist
government. Dawes is against the amagamaon Of the
unions the formation of Labor Party and the recognition
OF Soviet Russia So Gompers; he froths the mouth
when any of these vitality necessary progressive
are mentioned Dawes supporter of the Civic Federation
and the United States Chamber of Commerce. Gompers
member of both. Dawes ardent red fighter and
defender OF the capitalist system and in this he
done by the pseudo-Ieader Gompers.
The Communists would destroy the Industrial and social
system which produces the parasitic Dawes But
Gompers and Dawes there real quarrel They both
stand for the social system and the exploitation
OF the workers. They agreed that the workers
remain in wage slavery The only difference between them
the degree OF this slavery Dawes would give the
rough and heavy shackes, while Gompers would the
shackes lighter and polish them up trfIe. That is all
there is to the sham battle going between them
Gompers and Dawes props of the capitalist system
Every time that the etWng against that system
these two worthless to be found fighting shoulder
shoulder to protect it, The alliance between Dawes
and the Gompers will become palmer and firmly
cemented as the class struggle hapen until the aroused
under the leadership of the Communist party finally
smash it and the system of exploitation behind it.