The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
We Must Win These Four
Million Voters for Our
Struggle for "All Power"
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, Victor l. Berger socialist boss Of Milwaukee,
recovered sufficiently give his views of election
Not the national election the state the Milwaukee county
elections But the immediate political msfortunes Of Berger
himself in "the Fifth Wisconsin District"
Berger claims his reelection The police returns reveal
he $50 ahead the final showing But the Coolidge
LaFoette politicians have given up. They still trying
to count him OUT That Bergers bitter pill And up
time Of going press he had been able
low it.
Berger admits that when the socialists went into the
alliance with LaFoIette it nothing less than
political trade The socialists to aid LaFoIette.
Then the LaFoIette strength go the socialists
Berger himself admits, his signature that vctor
Berger was entitled to the full LaFoette vote"
But capitalist politics played that way Berger
found that LaFoIete leaders in Milwaukee advertised in
the newspapers calling the voters put their
the G. O. P circle, and to vote er straight That meant
knitting the socialists. Berger's lament follows:
of Milwaukee (and
Wisconsin for that mat loyalty Robert NJ La
Toilette with their organization their their
while the socialists all their
LaFOIee, Eugene
Debs for that mattersome petty LaFoette leaders Mil
waukee-and Of these leaders small boreObviousy
did reciprOcae with the socialists We blame La
Toilette personally for this"
And why blame LaFoIette as we'll as his petty
henohmen! LaFolIette his consequential
ward heee party to the IDEAL" with the socialists
The big fact is however that aFoIette and his political
machine remained loyal to the class they representative
small business class Berger betrayed his socialist principles,
yellow they when he entered into class collaboration
deal with LaFoIIette Berger turned traitor to the work.
and exploited farmers Them in order IDEAL"
go over he thought LaFoete would be big traitor
he LaFoette, however, remained loyal his class inter-
ests did his followers They knitted the socialist cand
dates for the straight republican ticket
Bergers little bit collaboration in politics failed
just all efforts link the interests of labor with those of
capitalism against the working class
LaFolette votes did not go to the socialists In
stead Berger admits his signature "Some 10000
voters changed from the socialist ticket republican
ticket apparently in fear that the tremendous
campaign in behalf of the yellow paint Lueck-democratc
and Coolidge candidate for the governorshipwoud elect
him."
Thus socialists helped elect the LaFoIette candidate
Blaine, whom the socialists, especially Bergers Milwaukee
Leader had bitterly fought the primaries denouncng him
enemy of the workers and farmers.
Bergers class collaboration with LaFoette's republican
party resulted in large masses of socialist voters who had
broken with the capitalist political parties going back
the Wall Street political fold
In his alliance with LaFoIIette Berger carried out little
National Civic Federation stunt all his Berger
denounced Gompers and other Labor Ieutenants of the
capitalist class for banquettng under Civic Federation
auspices with the biggest capitalists charging this would
blunt the edge of the working class struggle But the La
Toilette Berger alliance In Wisconsin has brought
greater confusion into the ranks Of labor in that state
They have been led to accept LaFoette and his noums
as something Just as good even BETTER than ndepen
dent political action.
These Berger policies the policies the socialists the
political struggle, different than any other class col
laboration policy
They smell of the surrender the enemies of
labor that finds under the so-caed 3D. & O." Pan in
the industrial field by which the railroad workers called
upon to surrender the interests of their class struggle for
power to the interests of the Baltimore Ohio railroad
capitalist institution The railroad corporation, privately
owned, gains, while the workers lose.
The condition arises in the arbitration Of labor
n a