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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
On the Neck of LaFolIette

Socialist Party delegates are going to Cleveland
July 4th, placing their fate at the disposal of
LaFollette. On one thing they are divided-some
of them, like the Wisconsin group that has ex-
perienced LaFollette first hand, would demand
guarantees that LaFollette would break with the
republican party; but the national leaders, know
ing the complete bankruptcy of the S. p, throw
themselves completely on LaFollette's neck. The
Wisconsin senator is their final refuge They re-
fuse to believe that he will not save them. On
this they are all united
With the faith born of desperation, Norris Hill
quit, intellectual leader of the S. p, declared on
June Both, that third party headed by LaFollette
is certain. This, in spite of the declaration made
by the men 'who have the votes' at Cleveland that
"t is not contemplated that independent candi-
dates will be put up for senate and house of rep
resentatives." The c. p. p. A. which meets at
Cleveland is inextricably bound up in the old
party machines in the various states 1t is almost
impossible for it, with its bureaucratic leadership,
to make the break necessary for "third party"
But the SIP, having no program but LaFollette,
must whistle and go to its doom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
Negro Emancipation

After generations of chattel-slavery in America
the Negroes were finally "emancipated." Chattel
slavery was abolished The Negroes were given
the privilege of working for wages just like the
white wage-slaves and another page was turned
in Negro history.
But a more important emancipation" is now
occurring 1t is the emancipation of the Negroes
from the domination of the capitalist parties, the
breaking away from bourgeois thinking, the
assertion of the Negroes integral part OF the
whole working class, white, black and yellow. We
see this process of emancipation going on in the
meetings of the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
Yesterday that organization adopted resolu-
ton, greeting the formation of party opposed to
both the republican and democratic parties as a
step toward the political and economic emanci-
patton of the Negro. Both republican and demo
cratic parties were denounced as catering to the
Ku Klux Khan, that secret fomenter of religious
intolerance, race hatred and midnight murder"
The next step for the Negroes is to recognize
that their problem is not strictly raca-it is part
of the struggle between the working class and the
capitalist class. The Negro is suppressed because
he bears the tradition of past slavery, and because
it helps to keep the working class divided and
thus more securely bound in wage-savery. The
platform of the FarmerLabor Party in pledging
its support to full economic and political equality
for the Negro as an integral part of its struggle
for the entire working class has shown the way
to the Negro race in America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
Lenin's Last Political Teaching

best organized propaganda work can
not protect the masses of workers
from the war danger. If class con
ditions do not give rise to wave Of
revolution in every country, we are
not safe against the impending dan
ger of world war, of war which
may come despite the fact that even
the capitalists fear it. AS Lenin
rightly puts it: a war may
break out any day with no further
cause than a quarrel between Eng
land and France with regard to some
detail Of their agreement with Tur-
key, or between America and Japan
over some unimportant difference re-
ferring to a question Of the Pacific
Ocean, or between any of the other
great powers with regard to disagree
ments about colonies, tariffs, or gen.
eral commercial politics."
If revolution does not develop in
the most important capitalist coun-
tries before these latter, having re-
covered from the world war of 1914,
pluu6C dlIC5u lulO duOJu6T WOrlQ war,
then the masses of the workers will
again be confronted by the question
of defense of native country, a ques-
ton which, as Lenin observes: "the
overwhelming majority of the work
ers will inevitably solve in favor of
their own bourgeoisie." This is a
very hard truth. 1t is difficult to pro-
claim this truth after all the lessons
of the war, after ten million victims
have been sacrificed, after half of the
globe has been devastated. But 1
am convinced that Lenin is perfectly
right. When it comes to world war,
the bourgeoisie will not only force
the masses of the people to take part
in it, but will be successful in de-
ceiving them as to it's real nature.
And what then? 1.-THE boycott of war
is an imbecile phrase. Communists
are forced to take part in every reac-
tionary war;" declares Lenin. And
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

Announcement is made by Labor, weekly organ
of the Conference for Progressive Political Action
that anyone tainted with Communism" will be
shown the door at Cleveland, if they have the
temerity to appear To be tainted with Commun-
ISM" in the eyes of William H. Johnston now
means to be in favor of a farmer-labor party to
fight against both old capitalist parties all down
the line.
So the Communists are not welcome. They are
not wanted in Cleveland because they cause work
ers and farmers to become 'tainted" with the de-
sire to build party of their own. And it is in
deed embarrassing to have Communists around
when some dirty political trick is to be pulled,
because the Communists point out these betrayals,
the Communists show how to put up a real fight,
and they lead in the struggle against the traitors
If any faker wants to sell the vote of his group to
some capitalist party, the first thing he must do
is attack the Communists and throw them out
The Communists are welcomed by everyone who
is getting into a fight against the employers, be-
cause they are the best fighters, and struggle
cannot be made effectively without them. But the
Communists, for the same reason are not welcome
when the order of the day. prepared by the
official leaders, of the labor movement, is to
ieliver the labor vote to capitalist party can
didate, and to knife the Farmer-Labor Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
By Karl Radek

fwhy they must take part in it he
further explains definitely by saying(
that the sole possible means of COM
batting war is "the maintenance or
formation of an illegal organization
of all revolutionists taking part in
the war for the purpose of carrying
on unceasing work against the war"
1t might be thought that this is no
very great task. But when we recol-
lect the situation in all countries az
ter the outbreak of the war in 1914,
when month after month passed
away, and there was still no organ
ization of revolutions fighting against
the war; when we remember that the
whole war dragged out to it's end and
still there was no country except
Russia successful in creating such an
organization to any mass extent, then
it must become clear to us that IL
would be Of tremendous Importance,
and constitute an enormous stride for
wards, If we communists could rise
as one man against war, as a compact.
international organization. The pre-
paration for the formation of such an
organization demands closest study
of the total political experience
gained during the last war, and re-
quires that the communist workers
shall become thoroly familiar with
every shade of opinion formed during
the war in the camp of Socialism,
and which form the fundamental prin-
ciples on which political action will
be based in the future.
The tenth anniversary of the out
break of war is approaching. On this
day millionsI of workers will be bet
ter able to mediate over the lessons
taught by the last ten years than
they can on ordinary work days.
The Comintern must utilize this mo-
ment for conducting an extensive
campaign of propaganda and agitation
on the lines laid down by Lenin's last
teaching.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
independence Day

The historical significance of July 4th, and its
revolutionary effects upon the development of
capitalism lies in the fact that the breach between
King George and his American colonies that gave
birth to the United States of America, was the
release of young and rising class, destined for a
time to rule the world, from the dead hand of
feudal aristocracy 1t was the birth Of capitalism
as the ruling system and in conjunction with the
events turnout the world, consigned the rotten
and worn-out system of feudalism to the waste
basket of history.
Today it is capitalism that has run its course
and now stands as the obstacle to further progress
Capitalism, that in 1875 was the regenerating and
revolutionary force, is today threatening to
destroy the world.
In the dialectics of history America has come to
another parting of the ways, to the time for
another declaration of independence. Today it is
the capitalist class that chokes humanity; the
class that is rising to power is the working class.
1t is the proetariat that today must cut all its
connections with the dead past must resolutely
assert it's class will, must take charge of society
and usher in the new era establish the society.
The decaying and corrupt capitalist class at
tempts to use the traditions of it's BIRTH the asso
Citations of July 4th, to bolster up it's tottering
power 1t tries to renew its youth by appealing
to history. But the lesson of July 4th in history
is not the reconsecration of capitalism, but the
inevitability of its downfall, of the necessity of
the rise of the working class to power. The next
independence day in our land will be the day of
the establishment of the Soviet Government of
America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON
LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS

contained twenty holes, and in order
to put out my rate could not miss a
hole, and so had to make 40 pieces a
minute. During lunch the first day,
was reading paper when the whistle
blew, and after l got to my machine
l was told by the strawboss that the
machine should be started the instant
at which the whistle blew.
Another instance OF the grouchiness
of the company is shown when one
boy left his machine to go to the
toilet. After staying there about Z
minutes the strawboss went after him
to bring him back to his machine. The
company employs mostly boys, girls
and old women, who work for a small
salary, and give out a great deal of
work. At the end of the day IL the
employe fails to make his rate he is
severely reprimanded. assure
Everybody that the above facts are
nothing but the truth.
Western Electric Worker.
To the DAILY WORKER-You can
use the following infc~pation in the
next issue Of your paper.
Jack Kennedy, head night paymas'
ter working for the Western Elec-
trio Company, department 50-5O-I, un'
der Mr.. Nelson's supervision was
heard recently to make the following
statement:
He said that no matter how long
you work for the Western Electric
Company, you are never appreciated
In fact, that the longer you worked
for the company the less you were
appreciated.
Mr.. Kennedy works out of Mr..
Peter Hoffman's Office SHERIFF, and
we believe Jack knows what he's talk
Ing about.--Wester Electric Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
"The Men in the Back Room"

Arthur Brisbane, kept writer of the Hearst
Sheets is supposed to be "n the know" on political
matters. He wants his readers to think that all
the mysteries of conventions and deals candidates
and platforms, are open book to him. In the
Hearst papers of July 1st he speaks glibly of the
boys in the back ROOM" of going outside the con-
vention "to get the real news" etc.
Yes, dear Mr.. Brisbane, we know that the lair
Of the Imperial Wizard in the Hotel McAlpin is
only one of innumerable 'invisible empires" all
subject to the superempire Of the "boys in the
back room" who have the direct wire from Wall
Street. But what we want from you is not these
stale generalities but some facts.
Mr.. Brisbane will not, of course, embarrass his
superior officers by disclosing any "deep stuff" if
by chance they we're so careless as to let him in
on it. He is a discreet person. He must write
knowingly and wink a sly eye to his audience. But
actually to trace the wires that reach from 26
Broadway and Wall Street to the Madison Square
Garden-horrors. NO! That would be Bolshe-
vism. Only Communist would be guilty Of that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
Sent With His Verse.

To the DAILY WORKER:-Youa are
calling for the workers to take an in
terest in their daily and help edit it.
1t would be too strenuous job for me
to attempt editing my favorite paper
from this city; and anyway, 1t strikes
me that you are doing pretty good
job as 1t is. l read A. B. C.'s criticism
with much interest. Doubtless, the
paper isn't perfect, and could stand
improving; but ii is so superior to
anything of its kind being published
today in America, that | have nothing
but applause for it. What A. b. G.
really means Is that the paper should
have more pages, and thus be in
position to feature news now neces-
sarily crowded out There is only one
way to do this and that is by boosting
the DAILY WORKER for bigger cir
culation. Yours for a working class
party. Henry George Weiss, Oakland,
Calf.
Western Electric Slavery.
To the Daily Worker: Western
DlectrlC. lHe place Wutrc peOpie are
boarded like cattle and driven like
slaves. The nickname given to
Western Electric by great many
boys is "bandhouse," meaning prison.
am a student, and / secured job
at Westerns" during the vacation at
q cents an hour. After going thru
lot Of red tape l finally ended up by
getting physical examination. The
next day started working. 1t was a
pretty good job but the amount Of
work | was supposed to get out" at
the end OF the day was something
unbelievable.
was feeder to a machine, which
revolved about twice In a minute and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

The Blacksmith's Journal is angry
because Judge Gary would get
Bishop Mcconnell, and in the words
of the title of the article in the cur
rent issue of the above magazine,
wreck the Christian religion" The
Bishop, it is true, was and is friend
of the steel strikers, but If the labor
leaders, instead of depending on God
and bishops to help them, organized
the workers to help themselves, there
would be no necessity of crying to
heaven for salvation from the Steel
Trust demon. During the great steel
strike, when under the leadership of
William q. Foster hundreds of thou
sands of steel slaves were brought
together into a union, instead of Civ
ing real aid, the labor takers were
quarrelling over the per capita and
double crossing the strikers.
Brigadier General Dawes called on
Calvin Coolidge in Washington. He
was accompanied by his brother Hen
ry M. Dawes, comptroller of the cur.
rency. The latter job seems to run
in the Dawes family. Charley had it
once, before he organized the Central
Trust Company. Perhaps Henry may
start another bank when he quits the
job. The General had nothing to say
to questions asked by reporters about
his plans except, II wonder" The
reporters were disappointed that the
usually vocal Dawes was so uncom-
municative. Wall Street, very likely,
advised him to keep his mouth shut
until he was told what to say.
The London Daily Herald is disap-
pointed because the Democratic con-
vention spurned the League Of Ma.
tons plank, supported by former
Secretary of War Baker, the fake
liberal who became the worst of jim
goes and suppressers of free speech
during the war. The British Labor
Party and the yellow socialists OF
Europe are staunch supporters of the
League of Nations and so is Wall
Street. The Democratic convention
did not turn 1t down because it is op-
posed to a Capitalist International
but owing to the traditional hostility
of Americans to "entangling ALI
ances," and to the rival interests OF
the capitalists themselves. But re-
CARELESS of what the Republican and
Democratic conventions do, the bank
ers will have their League OF Nations,
officially or unofficially and the vel.
low socialists of Europe will be
happy.
The Milwaukee Leader is peeved
because the parade Of the members
OF the Socialist Party of Austria. in
honor of the meeting of the Amster
dam and London Internationals, was
not shown on the movie screen. Mill
tary reviews OF the Russian Red Ar
my are featured but the army Of the
yellow socialists was ignored. II il
a sad tale, but true that those who
serve the capitalists best are otter
treated with contumely by them. An
other socialist paper boasted that
several capitalist governments exist
turnout the world today because Of
socialist support. Quite true, but II
is nothing to boast about.
|
South Africa has new cabinet
Gen. James Barry Hertzog, who led
revolt against the British in the
early days of the world war is premier
and minister for home affairs; Col
II. p. Creswell, labor leader, is min.
lister of defense and labor and Thos
Boydel, labor member of parliament
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

telegraphs. The labor takers will take
good care of South Africa for the
British Empire.
Because Premier King Of Canada
failed to welcome the British squad
ron visiting Canada, the opposition
launched a vigorous attack on the
paciflstic policy of the government.
This brought forth vigorous reply
from the government spokesman, who
fayed Vice Admiral, Sir Frederick
Field, who is credited with stating
that Canada should come to the as
sistance of old England with four new
cruisers. Tell the admiral to mind
his own business" said Roche Lane
tot, government member. 1t looks
as if Canada intended to cut the lead
ing strings with the Pirate Empire
before long
Mussolini will not attend the repa.
rations meeting of the interallied con-
ference to be held in London this
month. He is too busy trying to keep
his head above water as a result of
the latest Fascist murder-but one.
The latest atrocity committed by
the Fascist was the brutal killing of
motorman who announced his in
tention of observing the ten minute
no-work period in honor of the
assassinated deputy Because the
motorman was not a millionaire his
death was not flashed to the four
corners Of the earth. Mussolini is on
the toboggan and his fall is hourly
I expected.
The expected has happened in ia
pan. A lingo, perhaps hireling in
the employ of American warmongers.
cut down the American flag from the
STAFF at the United States embassy
and delicate diplomatic situation de-
veloped. The incident will not result
in war NOW, as neither country is
prepared for such a development. But
when the time is ripe and the i'm
perialists of both countries see no
other way to solve their irreconcil-
able problems, such an incident will
not be wanting to provide the excuse
for another bloodletting.
The Irish Free State government
intends to pension those soldiers who
fought in the Easter Week revolution
against the British government, later
on during the Black and Tan strug
gle and again against the Republicans
The government hopes that this pen
sion will help to allay the dissatisfac
ton among those who fought durin,
the civil war, with the recent actor
OF the army authorities in damobiliz
ing large numbers of soldiers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

South Africa has new cabinet.
Gen. James Barry Hertzog, who led
a revolt against the British in the
early days Of the world war is premier
and minister for home affairs; Col.
II. p. Creswell, labor leader, is min
lister Of defense and labor and Thos.
Boydel. labor member of parliament,
was given the portfolio Of posts and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

LaEollette has let it be known, thru his friends,
that he wants no nomination from the Cleveland
conference. All he wants is support. Nomina-
tons mean responsibility, and LaFollette is de-
termined to be responsible only to himself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

After two years Of government by assassination,
Mussolini has, at last, about reached the end of
the road. The proletariat is gathering its forces
to deal the Fascist dictatorship its death blow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

The democratic fight over the Koo Koos was
even more of fake than the fight over the Randi
date. The results of the convention every major
point as charted in Wall Street before the con-
vention opened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

Canadian postal employees got the same kind of
deal from the Ottawa government as the U. S.
postal workers got from the White House They
have the advantage, however, in that they at least
put up fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

VIM. Jennings Bryan, the man who wants to
burn school books that mention evolution, and
wishes compulsory teaching of fundamentalist
religion in the public schools, prays in the New
York convention that religion shall not be made
political ISSUE" 1t is to laugh!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

''War against war" can only be effectively car
ried out by means of "war against capitalism"
The middleclass pacifsts are the advance agents
of imperialist war.
Evening star., 1924-06-05
PACIFIST ACTIVITIES
SCORED AT Meeting
Plans Laid for Forming National
Alliance of Patriotic
Groups.

Pacifsm was roundly scored by a
number of speakers. and plans were
forwarded for the organization of the
National Board of Patriotic Organiza-
tions last night at the auditorium OF
the Interior Department building.
The meeting, called by Mrs. Noble
Newport Potts, president of the Dis
trict branch, United States Daughters
of 1912, was attended by representa- :
tives from practically every patriotic
society and organization in the city.
Announcement was made by Mrs.
Potts OF appointment of the nucleus
of an executive committee of twenty
five to build up the nationwide or
ganization, and the societies in the
District were urged to send in names
suggested for such a committee.
Maj. Gen. George Barnett, u. S. NJ.
c., retired, attacked the Women's In
ternationaI League for Peace and
Freedom, and sounded a call to all
who love America to stand by the
flag and against -pacifistic" tenden-
Evening star., 1924-06-05
La Toilette Group to
Block Unanimous
Vote for Coolidge

Supporters of Senator Robert NJ.
La Toilette of Wisconsin declared
definitely here yesterday that he
will not be formally placed in
nomination as Presidential candi-
date at the Republican convention
at Cleveland and that his dele
gates there will prevent the NOM
ination of President Coolidge from
being unanimous.
Under present plans il is under
stood Senator La Toilette Will re-
ceive. without nomination. the vote
of the Wisconsin delegates, Win
one exception and that the dele-
gates supporting him Will brihs
in his platform to be offered as
substitute for that presented by
supporters OF President COoidSe
When the La Toilette platform
Is voted down. his supporters VIII
remain in the convention but Will
refuse to make the NOMINATION. on
President Coolidge nanilhouS.
Having sat out the Cleveland con
vention, the supporters of the W Is
consin senator are expected "
actively begin to promote ms
campaign as an independent CAN
didate for the presidency.