The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-17
AS WE SEE IT
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trade delegations headquarters in
Berlin on long vacation. It is pre-
dicted that his political career is fin.
ished. He is made scapegoat for
crime committed under the orders OF
the German government. CHIEF
Weiss was unfortunate. Had he
strong military power behind him and
had Russia been an anaemic country
without powerful Red army to make
its demands for satisfaction heard
the subordinate official who carried
out the orders of his superiors would
be promoted instead of sent to SAM
tarium. AS told in the Berlin dis
patches to the DAILY WORKER,
Germany business realized that the
raid was blunder, and business
rules Germany. Late dispatches indi
cate that a critical situation faces in
dustry in that country, as many as
thirty bankruptcies being reported In
one day. While Soviet Russia ia
making the nations Of Europe crawl
before her mighty power, we have the
spectacle here in America of labor
takers passing resolutions opposing
Soviet recognition. AS we'll try keeT
back the waves of the ocean.
Trying to guess whether LaFollette
will run on a third party ticket, as
an independent, or whether he will
run at all in the presidential Mara
thon, is becoming almost as popular
a diversion as nah jongg. Nobody
seems to know whose banner he will
carry. The senator is adopting pol
icy of watchful waiting Like Barkia
in the Dickens novel, he "is willinP
to bask in the political sunlight But
not Internationally. Various labor
leaders express the joy that would be
theirs could they have the pleasure
Of voting for him as head of the Re.
publican ticket, or any old ticket
But perhaps his health will not allow
him to run. In which case the labor
leaders have the trusty "nonpartisau
policy" of Sam Gompers. They will
urge labor to cast their votes for the
capitalist friends Of the labor fakera
So long as the workers and farmers
Of the United States are depending
on some Moses like LaFollette to lead
them out of the wilderness in which
they are now, into the promised land,
so long will the capitalists laugh up
their sleeves at them. To depend on
LaFollette or any other liberal CAPT.
talist supporter is to build on quick
sand. The workers of England for
years were tied up to the Liberal
party, and they got nothing but in.
functions and other anti-Iabor laws.
After considerable lessons in the hard
school of experience they organized
their own party, and today, while the
workers are far from being the ruling
class in England, as the Russian
workers are in their own country,
British labor is a power to be reck-
oned with. In the United States the
workers are placed on the market by
their leaders at every election, vot-
ing like cattle to be sold to the high
est bidder. And like thousands of
southern slaves during the civil war,
who fought in the ranks of the Con-
federate army, millions of American
workers are yet satisfied to be placed
on the auction block and in return for
a glittering promise they vote for
their enemies, the capitalists, and
scorn the advice of the Communists,
who urge them to stand on their own
feet and use their mass power in or
der to free themselves from wage
slavery and all its evil consequences.
The war veterans would not even
have an insurance policy if Calvin
Coolidge could help it. And Calvin
was carrying cat the orders of the
bankers, for whom the veterans
fought in the louse-infested trenches
of France. 1t would cost the country
too much money to give the ex-sol-
diers an insurance policy on which
they could borrow a few dollars after
two years ION reasonable rates of in
teerst." There was no objection,
however, from the same government
to give the railroads billions of dol
lars for the use of the roads after
guaranteeing them fixed profit dur
ing the war. The owners of the rail
roads did not go over to France.
They had plenty of slaves to send
there, who worked for $50 a month.
saving democracy. A grateful coun-
try would take care of them! But
now we are told that you cannot put
price on patriotism" The presi-
dents veto will be overridden because
an election is approaching and con-
gressmen and senators want to get
elected.