The daily worker., 1924-07-14

tial nomination on the democrati
ticket, is vice-president of the Fidelit,
and Deposit Company, New York He
mixes politics with business. In an
advertisement, calling the attention Of
the public to his business, he uses the
headline, "John w. Davis Nominated" !"
and then goes on to say that the re-
publican and democratic conventions
having nominated their candidates,
business interests could go ahead with
the business of making money. There
was no real cause for worry over who
should be the lucky one. Roosevelt is
in the business of offering protection
to business men against loss by ac-
cident. John w. Davis and Calvin Coo
lidge also, will insure business against
any loss that might result from dis
obedient servants getting into the
White House. Now that business has
taken care of its political insurance,
it is urged to take care Of its indus
trial business.
The anti-Ku Klux Klan resolution
passed by the socialist party conven-
ton after heavy fighting led by George
Goebel, of New Jersey who by the way
was one Of the leaders in the drive
against the Communists in the Book
keepers and Stenographers' Union, is
highly praised by theNew York Times,
not so much because the resolution
condemns the terroristic methods en-
ployed by the Klan as for the sugges-
ton contained in the resolution that
the Communists are also included
within the scope of its condemnation.
The Times notes that LaFollette was
too busy observing other alarm sig
nails on the American political horizon
to notice an issue that almost split the
democratic convention in twain be-
fore it left Tex Richards circus audi
torium.
In proportion as the socialists lose
the confidence of the workers they
| gain the support and the compliments
of the capitalist organs. They are well
come to it.
"With the coming of the great busi-
ness corporations managed by few
captains of industry and the advent of
labor unions, to say nothing of the one
big union and the l. w. W., what
chance has the single employe for
freedom of contract? He must join
the union and pay it's dues and obey
its rules or be called scab and
treated as a traitor. When the only
accessible employer is large corpora
ton with virtual control of an industry
the individual liberty of contract is
reduced to vanishing point.
"The things which are permanent
and must remain forever are justice
and honesty, fair days work for a
fair days pay, freedom from personal
violence and oppressive treatment"
This is not Samuel Gompers talking,
but reporter for a committee of the
American Bar Association, meeting in
Philadelphia. That law concerns it.
self chiefly with property rights and
not with human rights was plainly
shown when the first matter to come
under the consideration of this power
full body was the question of how to
solve the constant turmoil in industry
which causes large losses to capital.
The above statement il left by IT.
self might be considered sign of
progress on the part Of these agents
of the capitalists. A liberal would
surely say that long step was taken
in the direction of peace, which is
about all the liberals seem to worry
about. Peace to enjoy the fruits Of the
labor Of others, without any unneces-
sary messing up the place with blood.
But what remedy do these gentlemen
offer for the industrial civil war? They
suggest that the most effective ma
chinery ever set up for establishing
peace in industry is the Kansas Indus
trial Court law, established by that
state in 1919. That law tried to estab-
lish the principle that employers and
employees should hold the public well
fare supreme, give power to the courts
to deal with group organizations in
industry, and remove the courts from
politics. The first and last Of these
so,called principles are jokes. The
second one is not. 1t is the mailed
fist.
The Kansas Industrial Court law
needs no introduction. It did not bring
peace but war. It's author was a Mr.
Allen then governor, and aspirant fol-
the White House. His stocks were al
most as high for time as those OF
Strikebreaker Coolidge, but Alexander
4 Howat kicked Allen into political OBJ
scurity when he broke the back oi
the Industrial slave law tho II cosi
him many months in jail to do It, Ii
keeping Howat in jail, Governor Aller
had the unstinted support Of John l.
Lewis of the United Mine Workers o.