The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27

high wages in industry because thai
makes for the high cost of industrial
products which they need. And. they
are in favor of high prices for their
own produce, which then contributes
% the high cost of living of the wage
workers. They are in bad way his
torically.
16. Every now and then a man who
is losing out in the game of big pol
itics, like Bryan, Roosevelt or LaFol-
lette comes along and wants to cap
Italize their resentment against the
law of economic evolution. But pol
itically as well as economically they
are marching from one failure to an
other. These groups are continually
declining in Importance intellectual
ly economically, politically, organ
izatory and numerically.
o. The Political Parties in the U.
S. A.
II. Big business wants big profits;
these are procured on the economic
field thru wage slavery and imperial
ism, and secured politically thru
pretense of democracy and the sub
s.ance of the dictatorship OF the
bourgeoisie.
40. 4ne labor bureaucracy is fairly
satisfied with its social position of
procurers for the real masters of the
Icountry; eunuchs who have sold their
manhood. 1t is their function to
IngnGen their wards into the beliea
that they are protecting them botn,
from the too greedy masters in the
industry, as well as from the outlaw
who would unreasonably STIR up strife
| in the industry. The labor bureauc-
racy is usually satisfied with a small
commission from big business; but the
bigger the business the bigger the
commission.
| ~. The labor aristocracy is poten-
tally somewhat uneasy. They can
live comfortably on the pay they make
while working; but not too well.
And often the men are not working.
But considering the fact that they are
better off than so per cent OF the
people they prefer Coolidge to Chaos.
20. The wage worker that rests his
case not with any priviledged group
but with his class constitutes the LETT
wing, both economically and political
.ly.
q. Substantially labor bureaucra-
lcy's economic interests are politically
Expressed thru the parties Of big bus
liness. Such difference as does exist
between those two groups is usually
depressed in either one or both of the
following ways: One the one hand
they are usually with the democratic
party as the smaller one of the two
big parties; on the other hand they
are for the left wing" within either
party.
| rhis suffices as popular conces-
sion; and it is quite an elastic meth
lod.
%. Small business Farmers, sub
contractors, manufacturers, store-and
observation-disclosures, even small bank
Iers) are losing the economic race, 80
it tries to take it out Of the hide Of
the workers. They are really task
masters Of big business, and deyel-
Top all the characteristics that come
from such function: cringing com
Ipliance with the imposition of their
lsuperiors, and a ferOcious. cunning on
Ipression of the workers under their
immediate control. But they are still
losing. And so they come to see their
lsalyation in certain political measures
that are economically reactionary, and
of others, especially thru the vehicle
of popular and labor parties, that are
meaningless in the long run.
%. Little business is opposed to
big business and its big political par
ties; especially 10 the big wings of
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