The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-24
This La Toilette Red
Herring Also Distracts
Labor From Real Fight
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the Liabilities are furnishing little comcaI side
light to the presidential campaign by trying expose
the financial support of its opposition What confession Of
bankruptcy of prncpIe Nothing to do but grab off little
campaign publicity from carefully nutured sensation
LaFoIiette defender Of capitalism. But he does
want the mutt nionaires whom capitalism produces, to
wealth. Perhaps he would have them their gold in
game of Tipping coins in back alley somewhere But that
would be forbidden doubt under the anti-gambling
statutes.
One of LaFoIette's most enthusiastic publicity men,
Laurence Todd the Washington correspondent of the Fe
derated Press recently spread the story that the Communists
raising million dollar fund promote the campaign
of the Workers Party ticket Foster and CtoW Todd went
seriously inform the world that $4,000 Communists
contributing $40 each to the Workers Party campaign
fund.
to the credit Of Carl Haesser managing editor
of the Federated Press that he dumped this into
the basket reached Chicago 1t significant
LaFoIette probers have made effort,
yet investigate the Workers Party campaign fund.
they did they find it is made up exclusively of
contributions from workers in the United Staes that the
sums exceeding small due to the unemployment that
is avagng the land the increasing cost OF living and other
scourges that LaFoetes capitalist system continually
visiting upon the plundered masses
1t is interesting to behold the array of miOnaes back
ing LaFoette The only complaint the Wisconsin senator
have that coodges parade Of PutOcrats little
longer than his Otherwise they both in the
political puddle.
There IS Samuel Untermeyer the millionaire New York
big holder of stock the Steel Trust who has been
called in to aid Attorney Frank P Walsh conduct the La
Toilette grill of miIIonaires backing Cautious CAL"
trust laws against labor unions while his steel stocks bring
him in huge profits from this cayzed industry It should
sugar magnate r G. Rawegh the patent medicine million
ae, and other wealthy supporters of the LaFoette camp
agn LaFoIette has not rejected any contributions from
mionaes In this respect he is exactly in the boat
with Davis and Coolidge.
f In the words of Lawyer Untermeyer, addressed to
Samuel NJ vaucain head Of the open shop" Baldwin Lo-
connective Works Money Talks That Is Why the million
ington parrot their orders
Money wants Coolidge It could get along with Davis
Ebert in Germany, HerrOt in France and Macdonald in
Great Britain.
The big capitalists will spend just much money as
they is to investigate how much
how little they spend If money will not make the elect
resort to other methods Ebert Gary head of the steel
trust supporting Coolidge but he has greater admiration
If the Morgans the Rockefeers, the oarys, the
Schwabs the Vaucains the Stotesbuy the Crundys and
ons they the elections aside and rule by their own
might thru their Capitalist Dictatorship In that hour
Lar gillette will be at Morgans side; just the Liabilities
in Italy lined up side by side with MussolnI against the
Communists.
The big fact for workers always remember is that
LaFoette for the capitalist social order that ensaves
labor. -
police system of capitalism, all weapons OF the Capitalist
State Wall Streets Dictatorship.
LaFolettes Investigations mere sham battles Iney
do not hurt They merely provide Roman circus for dull
electoral struggle In this instance they constitute announcer
LaFoette red herring distract the workers and farmers
their real struggle against the whole capitalist system
Only the Communist candidates present the working
issues clearly Only the Workers Party rayng labor
in the cities and the land the Communist standards,
builds the power that will abolish capitalism and all its
evils Only the victory of the workers in the class war
against capitalists will feed the mouths of the hungry
and bring the great change-that will usher in the
Communist era-when both the OF money in elections,
with LaFoettes Investigations will constitute equally inter-
esng studies of how capitalism ruled the days of its chaos
and approaching collapse