The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-23
Chicago Tribune Tries
to Parade as Fighter
for New Against Old
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the Chicago Tribune, sestyled Worlds Greatest
Newspaper" unblushingy admitted let's out awful
howl in the best trust-busting style of the ampagng
ator from Wisconsin, It wild against monopoly" this
time the socaIIed monopoly Of the newsgaheng agency
the Associated Press, its dispatches.
The Tribune the Associated Press stuff only
for publication in its pages but also send thru its
broadcastng station to listeners in the RADIO
going to fight it out in the courts.
1t sounds rather strange for The Tribune proclaim
that 1.-THE issue regarded in effect clash between
old and the new" The Tribune claims is side Of
the RADIO that the people, that Is for pro-
gress.
Just little study of the situation will show that The
Tribune just playing its old hypocritica game of trying
to put itself in favorable light before public.
This is The Tribune that robbed the school children OF
Chicago thru midnight land deals in the board Of education
This the Tribune champion of the Lands open shop"
schemes. This is the Tribune that erecting its build
ing with scab labor This is the Tribune that labels
Boshevik" every little change that hits in the slightest
things they Now this Tribune claims to be the
advocate of THE New"
The Tribune is member Of the Associated Press, per-
haps worlds extensive newsgatheng agency The
Associated Press is not profit-makng institution be-
longs its newspaper members the largest capitalist
papers in the nation They direct its affairs and share its
expenses. Its nearest competitors the United Press
Association and the International News Service both money
making propositions, the later owned by William Randolph
Hearst While the service of the last two agencies be
bought by newspapers, is impossible for any newspaper
in any city to get franchise in the Associated Press with
out the consent of all other "A P newspapers in that CITY,
OF this happens since newspapers already in
the field, do not want competitors.
Hearst has secured Associated Press franchises only
thru buying entire already possessing such
franchises costing him millions OF dollars.
But it is inevitable that Associated Press
papers should be stronger and weather. than Others It is
the most powerful that have most money to spend to en-
trench their positions 1t is like the Standard Oil trust
fighting to maintain its position against its smaller
pettors, battling for their very lives
The Tribune is strong and powerful. Its profits
into the millions annually It has spread out into other
publications 1t is quick to utilize any scheme for its
own aggrandizement.
the RADIO has its broadcastng station which
sought to send out the proceedings in the recent
Loeb-Leopod murder trial. 1t costs a huge to keep
such broadcastng station in operation There returns
Radio pay subscription price, There adver
tsers But there return in the enhanced prestige OF the
newspaper doing the broadcasting.
The Chicago Tribune no more than the Daily News.
any other capitalist newspaper believes in the radio
instrument of progress 1t is merely for building
its power 1t is weapon with which crush
of its competitors also members of the Associated Press
But every "A. p" member has vote in determining the
policies of the organization The little fellows, in self
Defense demand that "a Pr be not used for the pu
poses of the radio.
The ISSUE therefore, is "a clash between the Old
and the New" but warfare between the factions in the
Associated Press the rich and powerful newspapers srv
papers, with diminishing crculaons and constantly the
verge of bankruptcy, ready for capitalist press
sOlidaton
1t is we'll for the workers. half million of whom daily
buy the Chicago Tribune that the warfare in industry
tends to newspapers WE'LL 1t is warfare in which the
workers have interests than they interested
in the struggle between Standard Oil and Sinclair OIL bet
ween United States Steel Bethlehem Steel or other
groups of capitalists That the dog dog" struggle
within the capitalist social order.
The workers have but interest. That is to build
their power Part of that effort be the building
of uncomfortable press of their to make it the
most powerful That Is the only struggle between the old
the new that worth while; the suppantng Of capital
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