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The daily worker., 1924-08-30
Facts UerSuS Illusions

The cardinal feature Of LaFollette's economic
program is return to the state of free competition
in which American industry once found itself.
In the face of a century of industrial develop
ment this effort of LaFollette to turn back the
hands of the clock of economic progress is doomed
to instant failure
Much food for thought over this Utopian at
titude towards highly organized production and
exchange is afforded by the present marked ten
dency towards railway mergers The Interstate
Commerce Commission has not yet made public
its plans for the consolidation of the railroads
into limited number Of systems. Until this plan
is announced railway consultations are pro-
hibited. Yet, since the enactment of the Esch
Cummins law, the trend toward railway mergers
has been rather strong.
Under the guise of one section another Sec
ton of the Transportation Act, there have taken
place such consultations as the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Louisville and Nashville taking over
the Carolina, Clinchfeld and Ohio rail properties
for 999 years. The recent Nickel Plate merger put
over by the Van Sweringen interests, is another
railway consolidation which did not take into ac-
count the so-called anti-rail trust laws. At the
same time the two biggest roads in the country
the Pennsylvania and the New York Central have
been Tightening their grip on their numerous sub
salaries.
These conditions are the natural outcome of the
evolution of American industry. No law, no La
Toilette, no HillquitWheeler alliance hold
back the wheels of industrial progress. But be-
hind the ridiculous LaFolette economic program
there turks tragic fact. We have in mind the
fact that the political program of the Wisconsin
senator rests on this fundamentally unsound eco
nomic doctrine.
Millions of workers and farmers are being i'm
plored by the LaFollette organization to accept
a political program based on such economic fall
lacies. Herein lies the real menace In the end
Illusions must yield to facts. LaFollettes thunder
will be dissipated at the first flush of his success
in national politics. But it is the workers and
poor farmers who will pay the price for any prac-
tical demonstration of the failure of LaFollettsm
as road to their freedom.
The daily worker., 1924-08-30

tween the Italians and the Serbians.
Spread data among the SerbIans
that the Italians are going back to
work. Call up every question you
oan In reference to racial hatrde be-
tween these two nationaIIties."
This sounds just like the Ku Klux
Klan. And just like the Klan, these
crime meters of the Sherman agency
were never punished, altho it's Chicago
office was raided by the military in.
telligence of the federal government
and the county authorities. Capitalist
government is not built to punish cap
italists or their stool pigeons. Butler.
then as now big man in the republic.
an party and in the Sherman detective
agency, knows it.
The Sherman Service, Incorporated,
has been and is the underground Sec
tion" of the republican party. 1t has
been and is, along with William Nor.
gan Butler, the backer of Calvin Cool.
idge, the strike breaker, for president.
The Sherman detective service and its
stool pigeons have been and are, along
The daily worker., 1924-08-30

British government fully informed Of all details
Of the impending Franco-German commercial
treaty. Macdonald had, previous to this, declared
that Herriot made such a promise to him. The
British imperialists becoming uneasy. They
fear that the French interests may use their oc-
cupation of the Ruhr as a crowbar with which to
force special trade and finance concessions by Ger
many
Fearing that the wrath of the British ruling
class will fall on his head, Macdonald is panic
stricken The Labor" premier has appointed a
special committee to study the possible effects of
the London treaties on British foreign trade Snow
den, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is even more
vigilant in guarding the interests of the English
imperialist junta This so-caled socialist financial
wizard is now in session with the leading British
steel, coal, dyes, textiles and pharmaceutical
porations investigating the outlook for British
trade.
The ruling class of Great Britain entertains
serious fears of unfavorabe reactions on its role
as an outstanding force in the struggle for world
commercial, financial and industrial supremacy
Indeed, it is clear that the Dawes peace pact
was only curtain raiser for the eminent war
drama that will soon be staged in Europe and
elsewhere.
The much-heralded peace plans Of the employing
class have proved once more that they are only
the preludes to and more Internal wars.
The daily worker., 1924-08-30

BOURGEOIS criminal justice" in
ID Germany has never allowed itself
to be troubled by either humanitarian
or legal scruples when it is matter
of taking vengeance on class enemy
for some attack or other directed
against the sacred institution of the
capitalist state. Under the rule of the
kaisers, Draconian verdicts against
honest workingmen often reused the
indignation of the civilized world.
But everything that happened then
seems paltry and inconsequential in
comparison with the disgraceful scan.
dals of Justice" which we are wit.
Messing with our own eyes in this new
neutrality-suspicious. Germany, now
ruled by the socialist, Fritz Ebert,
and which has seen at its head for a
number of years a whole series of
social-democratic popes.
At the present time the prisons and
the jails of Germany are once more
filed, nay, in some cases they are lit.
orally jammed, to the extent of hold
ing twice the number Of prisoners
authorized by law. And, at the doors
of the prisons, thousands upon thou
sands of proletarians await their
turn!
The lodging, the food and the treat.
ment of the imprisoned victims are re-
pellant to the most elementary notions
of decency and of kindness. After the
orgy of swindling arising out of the
imitation of her currency, Germany
ought indeed to be miserly in her ex-
penditures. But the bourgeoisie re-
frains from economizing where it
could really do so. 1t does not touch
the gigantic and extravagant ma
chine which it keeps for purposes of
oppression: the army, the police and
the courts. It economies only at the
expense of the weakest: the aged,
the invalids, the cripples, the war wild
ows and the war orphans, the unem-
ployed, etc, and above all at the ex.
pense of the most helpless of all-the
thousands Of poor victims of the
courts, who are languishing and rot
tening in the dungeons which are so
many sores on the body Of the infa
nous German republic.
What is the reason for this crowd
ed condition of the prisons and the
jails of Germany? Is it due to the
increase in crime-an increase which
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
Contradictions of LaFoIlettism

The movement of LaFollette is a strange chaos
of conflicting policies and elements. 1t demands
the support of the Farmer-Labor parties-but it
proceeds to destroy these parties. LaFollette is
violently opposed to the League of Nations but he
joins hands with Gompers, the violent defender of
the league. LaFollettes program calls for rigid
enforcement of the antitrust law-Gompers wants
to eliminate all such restrictive legislation. LaFol
lette obtains the endorsement of the G. L. Z. A.
on the basis of a prOgram-and then abandons that
program soon afterward and turns over his cam
paign in the states to Gompers machine, scrapping
the C. z. p. A.
And so it goes, with the widest inconsistencies
and antagonism tied together, harmonized only
by the beautiful eyes of Bob The socialist party,
already over its head in this political sea into
which it rashy ventured, still plantively walls that
it is going to get labor party out of this petty
bourgeois melange. If there is anyone still so to
believe that such result is possible it should also
be easy for them to repeat the articles of faith
of all the religions without suffering.
The miracles attributed to Jesus, turning water
into wine raising the dead, and little feats of a
similar magnitude, would fade into insignifcance
beside the wonder of anything like labor party
coming out of this LaFollette movement 1t may
develop many things of which it carries the germs
American Fascism is strongly represented in its
ranks, and it might turn in that drection it might
turn into "liberap party of American capitalism
it may easily find it possible to retain its present
nesting place in the bosom of the old parties but
for it TO become a labor party movement is beyond
the widest stretch of probabilities.
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
What Is Labor Day?

This day that has been assigned to the workers
by their employers, the first Monday in September,
and called Labor Day." is sign of the enslave-
ment of the working class 1t was given to the
workers. as the price for abandoning the revolu-
tionary May Day, the original Labor Day and the
only day that really expresses the aspirations OF
the working class.
The exchange of May Day, with all its glorious
traditions for the fiat and coloress day in Septem-
Der, was the outward symbol of the inward change
that had gripped the American labor movement.
1t stood for the exchange of the policies of class
struggle for the policy of class collaboration; it
meant that the labor movement would no longer
fight for better conditions and against the exploita-
tion of capitalism, but that it would beg for
crumbs from the rich table of rising American i'm
perialism.
In keeping with the servie spirit that intro
duced this 'legal" holiday, the day itself has be-
come a. day of determination between capitalist
politicians and their labor ieutenants Every labor
day celebration in the country that is held under
the auspices of the Gompers bureaucracy is a love
feast between the labor officials and republican and
democratic candidates for office. 1t is a sort of
market day. when the votes of the workers are
pedded to the highest bidders and where the price
is not even delivered to the voter but to his 1ead
ers in the form of policical patronage if not direct
purchase by money.
And so the revolutionary workers of America
have no enthusiasm for this so-called labor day,
which is really brand of shame upon the labor
movement. May Day, the day that was selected
by the workers themselves, and baptised in the
blood of thousands in struggle against the CAPT
talist expoiers is the only Labor Day that arouses
the enthusiasm of the revolutionists that of the
working masses
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
Class Struggle Is Sharpening in Germany
GERMAN PRISONS ARE FILLED TO OVERLOOKING WITH COMMUNISTS
IERL Lcommuna

objective and subjective guilt of each
individual defendant-the infamous
legal twist which permits the courts
to declare collectively guilty whole
political group, for the purpose Of de-
priving the entire Communist move
ment of its leaders-and finally the
more and more frequent seizure of
hostages during the course of trials
for the purpose of forcing from faith
ers, mothers, brothers and sisters, ETC..
testimony discriminating the accuses
proletarian-all these denominations
represent just so many stages in the
complete moral and legal prostitution
of bourgeois justice in Germany in
this fight that is being directed against
the proletarian revolution.
How are we to explain this policy
of legal and political terrorism against
the revolutionary proletariat? The an
swer is simple: this policy of terror
ism is the very obvious expression of
the fact that in Germany we find our
selves in the midst of very highly
developed stage of the class war
The German bourgeoisie feels that it's
privileges of exploitation and domina-
tion are threatened 1t neither can
nor will give up without making
every effort. To the end that it may
preserve its class rule over the inter.
ior of Germany, it is ready to deliver
the entire working mass of Germany
into the hands of international finance
capital. 1t is iron in its determine
tion to make its people obey; even at
the price of bloodshed, at the com
mand of the foreign capitalist dicta-
tors whose interests demand that the
social and political status quo in Ger
many shall not be menaced. That is
why, for months, we have been wit
Messing a campaign of calumny
against everything Communist that is
without parallel. That is why the gov.
ernment wishes to start mass prose-
cution, this fall, against the members
of the German Communist Party. Here
is the mysterious meaning Of the
fragrant attacks of these past months.
This is the real reason for the terror.
ism, becoming more noticeable every
day, which is striving to apply the
Justice" of the bourgeoisie to the
working masses of Germany.
(Sigend) Emile Hoellein. Commun-
ist Deputy in the Reichstag.
The daily worker., 1924-08-30

Even more revolving and disgraceful
is the attitude of the police and the
judges towards the innumerable secret
counter revolutionary organizations
which are committing systematic mur.
der and whose members carry weap-
ons; but who not only are never pun
ished, but who actually receive the
open protection of the government,
the police and the courts-to the ex-
tent that anyone who dares to make
public the crimes of these secret as
sociations is relentlessly perescuted
for treason to the fatherland!
In comparison with the leniency and
the indulgence accorded transgressors
of the common law, and counter-revo.
lutionists, we must note a revolving
administration of JUSTICE" vengeful
in its motives and terrorist in it's
method, which is brot to bear on the
honest militant proletariat which
dares to protect itself actively against
the moral and physical murder which
the capitalist system inficts upon it.
The lies told about the armed at
tack on the seat of the Russian com.
mercial embassy at Berlin and on the
neighborhood where live the Com
munist faction in the Reichstag, all of
whose wardrobes and closets were
rified,-the openly avowed determine
ton to save the capitalist state by the
use of spies and for this purpose to
contrive, according to needs Of the
police and the courts all necessary
crimes, plots and assaults-the viola.
tion, becoming every day more open,
Of the most elementary of the princi-
pies Of law, which states that the
court is under obligation to prove the
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
BY EMILE HoELLEIN Communist Deputy German Reohstag

is an established fact in all the bel
ligerent countries as result of the
war and of the social deterioration
which followed the war? Not at all!
And if in Germany, too, the period
after the war is to blame for a very
great increase in crime, nevertheless
the largest proportion of the inmates
Of the Geman prisons consists of DO.
litical criminals--that is to say, of SOL
diers in the army of the class war, of
members of the honest, militant prole.
tariat.
1t is noteworthy fact that at this
moment there exists in republican Ger.
many very clear tendency to leni.
ency toward those who transgress
common law, and, on the contrary,
tendency to an excessive and bitter
severity toward political offenders.
Numerous murderers some of
them of the most horrible kind-go
unpunished in Germany OF are dis
covered only by accident after the
lapse of number of years. Only
call to mind the scandalous case of
the homo-sexual murderer, Haarman,
who, thanks to the watchful compile.
ity of the police, was able for many
years to indulge his murderous sadis-
tic desires!
The same leniency and the same in.
diligence are under other circum.
stances used toward political offenses
+. provided that these offenses
have been committed by anarchists or
Fascists-that is to say, by the enc
mics of the proletariat and of the
German republic. The trial of the
Fascist leader, Hitler, in Munich is
most enlightening in this respect.
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
The Storm Gathers

The London Reparations conference is now well
over. The peace boom that was launched and was
waxing while these sessions were on is distinctly
on the wane. Worse than that. The aftereffects
of the reparations gathering slowly, but surely,
taking a dark outlook.
--iready it is obvious to many observers that the
peace efforts made by the international fnanciers
in the last London conference wholly ephemer-
al. Their detectives are now transparent In short,
the Macdonald Herriot confab instead of making
for the permanent peace of Europe has actually
sown new seeds Of dissension, has opened new
avenues Of intense commercial rivalry between the
various national capitalist groups
Herriot has denied TO the French Chamber Of
Deputies that he has undertaken to keep the
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Butler never g;veth. The New Bed
ford textile workers suffered several
terribl slashes in wages under the
stool pigeon regime of the Sherman
Butler-stool pigeon republican com
bine. Not for nothing did the New
Bedford Cotton Manufacturers Asso.
citation pay to the Sherman Service a
sum approximating 100000 to wreck
the New Bedford unions and discour.
age workers from striking against
wage cuts-to win Cooperation" as
Sherman blithely puts it.
We have already given the names
of several of the stool pigeons Mr.
Butler, head of the republican party
who asks the workers to vote for Cool.
idge, placed in control of the Textile
Council of New Bedford. But there
were. others. For instance, there was
the vice president of the Loom Fix
ers' Union, George Smith, and work.
ing with him in the same union was
Herbert Pemberton, its treasurer, an
able pair of stool pigeons as ever be-
trayed the workers into Cooperation
with the employers" Another union
official fink was Anthony Astershew-
sky, secretary of the Amalgamated
Textile Workers.
The interest of Mr.. Butler in having
his puppy dog, Cal Coolidge, for presi-
dent, may we'll be imagined from the
way he used these labor leaders"
when the Fordney-McCumbe tariff
bill was up in congress. This epi.
sode is enough to raise Homeric laugh
ter over the mechanism of our great
democratic institutions so sacred to
all capitalists, little and big, from But
Ter to LaFollette. 1t is also illustra-
tive Of the sinister forces behind the
class collaboration policies of many a
Tabor leader" who breaches that "the
union must help the bosses so that the
boss can make money enough to pay
good wages" etc. In fact, one can
detect in such things as the "B. e. O.
Plan" OF William H. Johnston for eco.
operation with the railroads to in.
crease output" the odor of the Sher-
man skunk.
Here is what the multi-millionaire
hacker of Mr.. Coolidge used his con.
troll over the unions for. He fixed It
up so that the Sherman stool pigeons
in the unions, John Silver and Abra-
ham Binns, went down to Washington
and appeared before the senate com.
mittee then considering the Fordney-
McCumber tariff bill don't forget that
McCumber used stool pigeons in the
North Dakota elections)
In the name of the Textile Council
OF the New Bedford unions, these
flnks appeared as the sturdy sons OF
labor" Silver and Binns, to depict
the horrors which would fall upon the
workers Of New Bedford IL the textiles
Of Mr.. Butler were not protected
from cheap foreign labor" Silver and
Binns duly went, depicted and con.
quered. The Fordney-McCumber bill
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
Buffers Finks Paid to Stir Up Race Hatred

was passed, the finks got their ex-
pnses paid both by the union and by
Mr.. Butler, they got their pay from
both the union and the Sherman
agency, Mr.. Butler got his protection
and the textile workers got-several
wage reductions.
To get the textile workers back to
normalcy" was the aim of Fink Boss
Butler. It meant to get the weavers
back to the 1913 wage of $12.O9
week, and the girl trimmers at $3.50
week. That is the acme of repub-
lican party "normalcy." The whole
force of stool pigeons was largely en-
gagged in this work. getting "co-opera-
tion" of the Sherman Service style.
The lower caste stool pigeons would
boldly come to the defense of the
poverty-stricken mill owners" and
would kick about the union asking
too much," grumble about the high
dues, etc.
The stool pigeons who were union
officers naturally had to go a little
slow on this matter. The rank and
file" stool pigeon could openly and
freely talk for the boss. If, however,
a rank and file" union man talekd
otherwise, wanted raise or wanted
strike, to prevent a wage reduction,
the union officials promptly treated
him with hostility, he became known
as a "Bolshevik" and lost his job or
was sat on in the union, or both. BY
this process the union officers" were,
first, in doubt, then wavered, then be-
came convinced "by the membership"
that wage reductions should be ac.
cepted because, as they said, ''if the
mills can't make money, then they'll
shut down and we1l all be out of
work.
But this by-play is the more pleas
ant side of Buffers adventures in
Stool Pigeon Land. The Sherman
Service, despite its Nazarene protes.
tations, is a sinister force for dirty
intrigue and crime. Butler knew it
when he gave approval to a plot for a
squad of stool pigeons, led by Joseph
Bocherski, Polish member of the
l. w. W., to break into the l. w. w.
offices in New Bedford in the middle
Of the night, destroy the books and
raise havoc generally. This is the
kind OF man Mr.. Butler, chairman
Of the republican national committee,
is. This is the kind of work the Sher-
man Service does not advertise, but
practices.
In the great steel workers strike Of
1919, when w. 2. Foster, now chair.
man OF the Workers Party, was lead
ing the fight against the steel trust,
the Sherman agency, then and now
aligned behind the chairman of the re.
publican party, was planting its spies
in the steel workers unions to fight
Foster and to break the strike.
It's stool pigeons weer given the
following orders to precipitate race
hatred and possible violence:
1--WE want you TO stir up as much
bad feeling az you possibly can be-
The daily worker., 1924-08-30

with Butler, whose plots against the
textile workers you have cad in this
exposure, against William 2. Foster,
worker, steel strike leader and Com
munist candidate for president.
The capitalist government never has
and never will punish either Sherman
or Butler for their crimes against the
workers But the capitalist govern
ment has even now an indictment and
ten-year term of prison hanging over
the head of William O. Foster because
he was present" when other Com.
munists were discussing how to dis
place the stool pigeons of Mr.. Butler
and put honest workers in union Of.
fee. That is criminal syndicalism."
Which will you choose, workers, the
candidate Coolidge, backed by Butler
and his Sherman stool pigeons, or
William 2. Foster, candidate backed
by the Communists of the Workers
Party of America?
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
Take a Vote in Your Shop

Low your shop presidential election
L eampaisn?
How of shop still they
accept the leadership Coolidge and
How fellow
pleas of LaFolIete middlecass
In shop
working
its candidateand
for PRESIDENT?
Take your shop. N to WORKER. We
will compile II with all the give you
thinking and
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
IN THE WORLDS RICHEST COUNTRY

HHE workers and exploited farmers Of the United
able only bare
existence Millions of workers long
working conditions, Millions periodically
poyed present with all the
for themselves their families
from millions
compelled strike greedy
of farmers
inability
Platform Of the Workers Party America.
The daily worker., 1924-08-30
Join the Workers Party and subscribe to the
DAILY WORKER!

S. Glenn Young was mighty brave man, when
he was shooting up miners in the dark, assassin
ating workers, and spending the money of the coal
operators The coal operators put up millions of
dollars Of coal lands, banking upon Young's
"bravery" and their own control of the courts But
Young must have got cold feet, and now some
bosses are worried.
The daily worker., 1924-08-30

Another great railroad merger has taken place,
with the unifcation of the Pere Marquette, Nickel
Plate, Chesapeake and Ohio and Hooking Valley
Systems But there is still news of the great
merger OF the workers unions that is so vitally
necessary. Amalgamation is still the most burning
union issue before the railroaders.