The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-29

AS WE SEE IT
sy T. J. o'FLAHERTN.

nOBERT M. LaFOLLETIE seems
~ to think that the 100000 voters
who cast their ballots for him ON cleo
tio4 day have nothing much too worry
about until two years from now In
an article in his own magazine, the
alleged progressive leader calls on his
cohorts to prepare for battle in 1925
He wants them to concentrate their
minds for two years ON one election
day During this time, millions OF
those who voted for him will be up
against strikes and lockouts, wage
cuts and unemployment Bob" will
be hraying about the supreme court
and the private monopoly system but
the Workers Party will be on the Job,
giving the workers leadership in their
struggles against the boss on the in
dustrial field
The workers who are not class con-
scious and who see in LaFollette
the Disqualification Of this vague farm
er-labor movement they have in mind
as weapon that will help them, may
rest content to wait for 1926 and put
on another squirt of activity to elect
their friends to congress- But goodly
number Of them will hear the Com
nunist message Of the Workers Party
on the line Of struggles, in strikes, and
when the workers are in a battle,
names have not much terror for them.
Thev know their friends
49,
vKIHEN the Boston police were on
wv strike in 1919 they applauded
sneakers from the Communist left
wing And this is true Of every strike
whether of the garment workers IN
Chicago or the silk workers in Pater-
son. And this is how a Communist
Marty Is built The takers may fatter
themselves that they have isolated the
Communists, but while the takers anc
the petty bourgeois leaders are at
tending strictly to the business OF
anassing money and giving hand TO
the ruling CLASS, the conaniusaasts Ttlil
he with the masses IN their struggle
~UT of this constant battle, reDeis
~ and militants win develop; the
stuf that good Communists are made
of. They may not be able to quote
Marx at first, but they Will possess
one quality without which a Commun-
ist Is but a dry document that is, the
snirit Of rebellion and class hatred
When LaFollette killed the farmer
labor party, he did not kill the reVo-
Iutionary working class political move
ment. He merely kicked corpse ou'
Of the way and left the road open LOT
tha workers Party Who win dare
cav that the Workers Party does not
represent working class political
action?
-THE s. l.. p walls in a most heart
rending manner about the small
ness Of its vote and the fact that the
'stalwarts" split the ticket To think
that scientific well-trained members
of the s L. p and their shop keeper
sympathizers should be carried away
by the LaFollette illusion or the Al
Smith Illusion instead of standing vi
under the farm and hammer Of the
lighting S L. P.i" looks rather
dreary for those who expect to turn
the working masses into scientists be-
fore they accomplish the revolution
The proletarian party and the s. L. p
should get together and pool their
grouches.
EMMA GOLDMAN is still doing her
Z bit in London in behalf of the
czarist counter-revolutionarie She
should be able to sell herself at a good
price now, with tory government IN
power and relations between Russia
and England very strained. Emma
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