The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
The Workers and LaFoIIette

THE great fraud of the 1924 election the Labor"
dorsement of LaFoette. It is the deceit against
the workers practiced every country by business
class the petty capitalists get by false preenses help
of the working futile political struggle to sub
ordinate big capitalism to little capas-an attempt to
reverse the evolution of productive forces by busting the
trusts"
This is benefit the workers. to give to small
business the chance of sweating the workers sweated
by big LaFoette and his kind are not strong
enough to fight big business successfully they speak
lying words to the working class making promises to get
Listen to Barrons Financial Weekly, bankers paper
tell how LaFoette acts "LaFoette talks times radio
al he acts Unless you class the Railroad Valuation Act
things happened for the railroads
as radical his name is identified with scarcely single
ure that t truly goes to extreme rem.
lumber baron named Stephenson gave him his start years
ago. Now Frank Vanderbilt President of the National
City Bank, backs him. Rudolph sprecEes the sugar king
owner OF Hawaiian plantations where strikers last week
by the and Dy hundreds backs
LaFoiette machins has Wisconsin, for thirty years,
and he says it "modeI commonwealth" Ask LaFoete
why machine in the Wisconsin Legislature in 1928 de-
feated the following bills: For 8hour day public works.
for shour day printing! for one day rest in
pensation; for old pensions for general 6hou day in
factories to abolish private detective agencies Ask LaO
right this year. meeting on July 1913 1924 said of Lao
ettes state legislatures mo recognition has been given
labor Labor encouraged but finally ignored" Ask La
Folette Ask him it fact that today the ma
tonal election labor is encouraged only to be Finally
ignored"
Another strong LaFoIIette hacker is W. T. Raleigh
patent medicine millionaire who in his factories Freepor
La Toilette about this friend of labor"
La Toilette rails at "monopoes" Ask him why Daniel
Hoan mayor of Milwaukee, socialist who book
on LaFolette called Failure of Regulation said mot only
trusts not prosecuted while LaFoette governor in
spite of the statute Section 1791-j but when Attorney
General Morgan of Wisconsin tried to some of the
big trusts with fines and dissolution ORDERS LaFoette then
SENATOR huredy left Washington defeat Morgan for
reelection"
In LaFollettes model commonwealth in which image he
promises to make the whole United States the average
is only $o169 per month, while in the whole country the
average wage is $500 $685. Ask La Toilette if he
thinks labor wants its wages reduced the Wisconsin
In LaFolette's model commonwealth" only 31.3 per
cent of the workers have EghHou Day. the country
whole 486 per cent have the EghtHour Day. Ask La
Toilette if he will engthen the work day throughout the
United States!
In LaFolette's model commonwealth" nearly a thou
sand more children working than in New York
which has four times the workers. Ask LaFolee why he
hasn't stopped Child Labor in Wisconsin,!
LaFoette has praised the fake labor government" of
England Ask him what difference there is between Prime
Minister Ramsey Macdonald, who sold baronetcy for
$4,000 worth of stock owned by Sir Alexander Grant
Secretary Falls bride by Doheny Ask La Toilette who says
MacDonads government like his would be- if he and Mac
Donald not representatives of the petty bougeose
not of the workers. Ask LaFoette if he is fraud
these things # you want to support worker in the cleo
ton-Joint the Workers Party!
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