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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
Wall Streets New "Old Guard" By Jay IeSs.sas

alliance with such big financial insti-
tutions as the Chase National Bank
of New York, the Guarantee Trust Co.,
the Continental and Commercial Bank
Of Chicago, and the Girard National
Bank of Philadelphia. Mr.. Stearns is
silent man. He is almost as silent
as Coolidge. But his money has been
doing quite some eloquent talking for
himself and his protege whom he has
pushed into the White House. 1t is
Mr.. Stearns who will be pulling the
purse strings in the coming Republican
campaign and many such golden
threads will have to be woven into
Coolidge's campaign if the coming
months will weave. success for him.
Burton is Regular Devil.
Theodore Burton is one of the "Ohio
gang" Because of his supposed great
culture he was chosen as the key
noter Mr.. Burton is as black as they
come. He has been in the senate and
house for many years. He has been
a prominent figure in the ruling cir
cles of the Republican national con-
ventions for the last twenty years. A
few years ago MIR. Burton served as
president of the Merchants National
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
The Crawfish Is a Funny Critter

tical ipecac.
LaFollette's sudden effort at the
close of the congressional session to
propose something and have it de-
feated merely for campaign thunder
is transparent hypocrisy. His egoist
motion that the farmer-labor move
ment is his personal property is aptly
lampooned by Cramer of Minneapolis,
who said, "The st. Paul Convention
was not called to crown a king but
to build a party" He has the hal
lucination that historical class move
ment should depend upon his Battle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
Force and Violence

The capitalists and the different brands of fax.
ers, liberal and labor who the allies of the CAPT
talists against the radicals seek to poison the
minds of the workers against the communists by
making it appear that the latter advocate the use
of force as a method of advancing the interests of
labor to the exclusion of all other forms of action
The communists do not hesitate to say that the
of force is inevitable in period of revolution
No ruling class has ever surrendered it's power
without resort to force and the rulers of today
are at least assbloodthrsty as any of their prede-
cessors and have more to lose by the change from
the present system of exploitation and production
of wealth for profit to a system under which wealth
will be produced for the use of the producers and
not for the profit of a few, as is the case today
That the capitalist class will resist this change by
force no one who is honest and intelligent will
deny.
The capitalist class murdered millions Of the
flower OF the worlds manhood during the murder
carnival that was let loose when the bugles of war
sounded in Europe in 1914 until the fake truce was
signed in 1918. The victims of that awful butchery
were in the overwhelming majority members Of the
working class but the paid hirelings who lie about
the communists today, instead Of protesting
against the violence Of the capitalist war we're
either silent the tomb or else were vocferously
urging the workers to take part in the killing for
the profit and glory Of capitalism. The capitalists
use violence today to keep the workers in subjec-
ton They will use more violence to preserve their
robber rule
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18

There is an oft-repeated saying in
political circles that the "Old Guard
dies but does not surrender"
The Republican convention Just
closed at Cleveland. brings this ques-
ton into prominence more sharply
than it has been for long time. On
the face Of it the last Republican ma
tional gathering was not run by the
"Old Guard" Quay, Penrose, Knox
and Murray Crane are dead George
Harvey, in whose room Harding was
born, while the 1920 convention was
on in Chicago, was not in the spot
light Lodge, the keynoter of 1920,
took a back seat Except for the
Craftsmanship of one committee falling
to Paul Rowland, Daugherty's private
attorney in the Brookhart investiga-
ton, the "Old Guard on the surface
Of it, did not have a look in at the
show.
Many Of the "Old Guard" have died.
The revelations of the oil scandal, the
disclosures Of the committee investi-
eating Daugherty indicating the
depths Of depravity and corruption to
which the department of justice had
sunk, the serious discomfort amongst
the rural masses as a result of their
being condemned to bankruptcy, the
growing class Consciousness of the in
dustrial workers as a result Of the
giant national coal, railway and textile
strikes of 1922, have all done their bit
towards the disintegration Of the old
"Old Guard"
Wall Street Picks New Ones.
In order to avoid political suicide
the best minds of Wall Street, the real
leaders of the Republican party, de-
cided to remove from the public
scene, at least some Of the dying
figures Of the old "Old Guard" and put
in their place new "Old Guard" In
view Of the tremendous dissatisfaction
amongst the city and rural masses,
the powers behind the Republican
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
MussOIinii's Dilemma

The kidnapping and possible murder of Gioconio
Matteott, socialist deputy in the italian parlia-
ment by a Fascist gang dramatically brings
world attention to the dilemma in which Mussolini
and his cutthroat organization find themselves in,
after three years of dictatorship. Unable to turn
back the hands of progress the dial of time the
renegade socialist is now faced with the growing
wrath of the workingclass which he has ruthless
ly suppressed and the disappointment of those he
succeeded temporarily in seducing with his fine
phrases and specious promises.
When the Fascist came to power, it was over
the PROSTATE body of the Italian workingclass
movement BY the use Of murder and arson, the
black shirt bandits were able to almost completely
crush out of existence the economic organizations
that it took the workers decades to build. The
Fascist were able to do this because of the failure
of the reformst socialists to take action until it
was too late. Even then they did nothing. They
refused cooperation with the Communists in q
united front against the Fascist, who were
financed by the big bourgeoisie.
After the black shirts seized power, they in
stituted the severest terrorism against the Com
munists. For time the socialists were not serious
ly interfered with AIussolini the bloody renegade
dictator purchased some of the yellow leaders and
frightened the rest of them into submission The
rule of blood and steel was for time in full sway
and the workers lay broken beneath the iron heel
of Italian capitalism.
But the Italian workers seem to be recovering
from the Generalization caused by the Fascist
murderers and the treason of their social demo
cratic leaders. They are again assuming the often
sive in spots. Their morale is improving. The
kidnapping and possible murder of the socialist
deputy shows that the Fascist are getting des
perate and the nationwide anger that the latest
black shirt outrage has aroused may be the spark
that will to fan the flames of the smoudering
fires Of Italian class struggle into blaze that
will rae the rotten structure of Fascism to the
ground and with it the capitalist government OF
that country.
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lobby was maintained in Washington
to influence legislation, Burton played
an important role in the investigation.
Mr.. Burton testified that the agents
Of the knit goods, sugar, wire, cloth,
electric light carbon, machine tool,
pottery, sewing machine interests
were in close touch with him while
the tariff duties were being prepared
for the Underwood bill.
An intellectual FipIeaf.
DR.. Marion Burton, president Of the
University Of Michigan, is man of
the type Of the new Encouragement,
Stone. DR.. Burton serves as sort of
intellectual figleaf for the circle of
corrupt politicians forming the Wash
ington body-guard of President Coo
lidge. DR.. Burton has for long time
enjoyed the confidence of the multi
millionaires who are accustomed to
investing heavily in the education of
the country. He is trustee of the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advance
ment of Teaching.
Another supposed newcomer in Re-
publican backstair politics is Major
General James G. Harboard. General
Harboard was prominently mentioned
as a vice-presidential probability.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18

Creek digestion or receive orders
thru his son, whose capacity may be
guaged from the fact that a letter of
five lines sent by him last year to
the writer Of this observation con-
tanned eight major solecisms. His
program clamoring for economic de-
volution like trust-busting, while illus
trating the fiat contradiction of the
whole small business class to laws of
progress, offers no solution to workers
and poor farmers. On May 2S this
false alarm awoke even some radicals
from dreams Of "a LaFollette revolu-
ton"
How little can be expected from
LaFollette is shown by the statement
Of Oswald Garrison Willard, editor of
"The Nation, whose liberal soul, hav-
ing learned nothing since the 1916
election, endorses LaFollette because
his program of reform is much along
the lines Of those urged by Woodrow
Wilson in his first campaign" Willard
evidently wants another war for
democracy" and another Versailles
treaty-but the workers and farmers
don't.
However. the editor OF the Washing
ton, d. G. "Searchlight answered on
March 81, last, anyone who either
fears or expects LaFollette to be "ul-
ira radical" Let no one lose any
sleep on that score" says the Search
light" editor, ''LaFollette is not ultra
radical. He is not even radical. On
the contrary he is decidedly con-
sentative" We agree. What can you
expect from q crawhsh. anyhowl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18

Labor Party government is giving an N ~
lesson in the art of serving capitalism, while osen
sibly concerned with the rights and welfare of the
working class. 1t is only fair to the British La
Dor party government however to state that the
great majority of them have long since eliminated
the class struggle and all that goes with it from
their political curriculum. But when Ramsay Mac
Donald took over the foreign Office, well meaning
American liberals thought departure would
be initiated in the relations between the British
Empire and other countries.
The foreign policy of Britain however, remains,
the same under the socalled labor government as
under the Tories and Liberals Hence the Mexi-
can crisis.
Great Britain has not yet recognized the Next
can government. The British agent in Mexico was
carrying on propaganda against Mexico. 1t is well
known that British money was back of the recent
abortive De La Huerta counter revolution. The re-
volt was also backed by the landed aristocracy of
Mexico and by the Catholic church.
A Mrs Resale Evans born in Texas and mar
ried to an Englishman owns a big ranch in Mexico.
She has refused to recognize Mexican laws and has
turned her hacienda into fortress The British
agent is supporting her in the war against the
Mexican government and his efforts have been en-
dorsed by Ramsay Macdonald The Mexican gov
eminent ordered his deportation, after having ex-
hausted its patience but the British propagandist
and agent provocateur refuses fys the British flag
over his headquarters and challenges the Mexican
government to remove him.
The crime committed by the Mexican republic
was its refusal to turn the wealth of the nation to
the British oil companies at the head of which is
Lord Cowdray Ramsay Macdonald as well as the
liberal and Tory governments that preceded him,
because of this fact refuses recognition and main
tains an agency in Mexico to foster rebellion
against the regularly constituted government OF
that republic
The British Labor Party government is here
shown playing the role of defender of the interests
Of the British capitalists in Mexico as 1t does In
England and all over the world.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
LGwleSs America

One of Wall Streets battleships, while practic-
ing for the next war off the coast of California had
an explosion which resulted in the death of 4S
sailors. According to the evidence so far produced
the accident was due to the ineficiency and neg
Hgence of the ship officers. After the first explo-
sion the ship wandered almost around the harbor
until of the guns went off accidentally, and but
for the fact that the big fourteeninch rife was
pointed seward the shot would have inflicted con
siderable damage on the city of San Pedro
TO offset public indignation against the 'ava
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
AS WE SEE 1T

I'VE will not wait twenty years for
our bonus" One of the bandits who
looted the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul train to the tune Of $4,000, 900 is
alleged to have made the above state
ment. Gas bombs and gas masks
were used in the holdup. It is a rea-
sonable assumption that some if not
all of those who took part in the rob.
berry had experience in the use Of gas
masks during the war. They killed
the Germans then for Wall Street
Now they are willing to kill to rob
Wall Street. 1t is robber system.
and the bandits who hold up trains
are merely robbing outside the law.
The Harding-Coolidge administration
and all capitalist administrations ped.
die the country's raw resources to the
highest bidder. The capitalists Of the
country rob the workers every day Of
millions of dollars. Is it surprising
that bandits who are not on the in-
side of the ring should play the game
on the outside and take a chance on
jail?
Mr.. Coolidge vetoed the soldiers
bonus and postal clerks bills because
the country could not afford the ex
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
BY HARRISON GEORGE

Wisconsin is famous for its craw-
fish, but we never could ingurgiate
'em. Our born dislike to the var
mint's family and features seems just
flied by the way it has crawIed back
ward from st. Paul to the muddy
swamp at Cleveland.
If anything were needed after La
Follette's denunciation of st. Paul to
disillusion his former supporters, it
was furnished by the sickening spec
tacle OF his forces wallowing in the
pig-sty of the Republican convention.
True, the old gang tried to snout them
out OF the swill trough, but 1t was
just between pigs.
/ Some claim that La-Follette's action
was caused by bad counsel" given
him by his spirit medium, ]. A. II.
Hopkins, who materializes ghosts OF
As progressive liberals who dwell in
purgatory, not being able to agree
either with God or the devil. But
LaFollette's own record of class tint.
dity, coupled with purely personal
ambition, is against any such excuse.
His record Of republican regularity
thru thick and thin is no recommend
alton to starving farmers and unem-
ployed workers whom he expects to
worry about the Communists. His
use OF red plot" yarns joins him to
Harry Daugherty and Bill Burns and
Secretary Hughes. His campaign com
mittee consists OF bankers and bust
ness men. His obviously demagogic
talk about "a long suffering and
righteously indignant people" IL poll
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corporations whose resources are
more than $100, 100000.
Frank Mondell is an old-timer. His
record is as black as they come in the
annals of corrupt employing class. Mr..
Mondell has never fought for or pro-
posed a single measure which might
be suspected of being near-progres-
sive. AS congressman, Mondell was
so clumsy in the way he handled deli
cate matters for the big business in
terests that Roosevelt was compelled
to rebuke him openly and to brand
him as reactionary. This is the
Mondell who was defeated so decisive
ly in the 1922 elections. This exceed
ingly lame duck was put in the chair
manship at the Republican conven-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18
By Jay LoUestOne

Harboard is an outspOken reactiOnarys
He is in close touch with the Morgan
interests as president Of the Radio
Corporation of America. owen D.
Young, who along with Dawes, was
member of the Reparation Experts
Committee is co-director of the
Radio Corporation with General Har-
board.
Morgan Rules the Air.
The Radio corporation Of America
is Morgan firm. 1t is controlled by
the following corporations: The Cen
eral Electric Company owns $40, 800
preferred and 1,S76,OOO common
shares Of stock; the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company
owns 100000 preferred and 1000, 900
common shares of stock; the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany owns 100000 shares Of preferred
stock; the United Fruit Company,
largely controlled by New England
banking interests, owns 100000 pre-
ferred and 100000 common shares OF
Radio Corporation stock
1t is obvious that the new "old
Guard" is at least as reactionary as
its predecessor. The old "Old Guard"
may have died but it has not sur
rendered. The capitalist principles
and interests for which the "Oid
Guard" Of yesterday stood and fought
are safe in the hands of the new "Old
Guard" dominating the reactionary
Republican party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18

President Coolidge is a graduate of
the Murray Crane school of politics.
And Murray Crane was the marrow
and essence Of the old "Old Guard"
1t was Murray Crane who projected
Coolidge into national politics.
Charles B. Warren, who was the
chairman of the resolution committee
at the convention, is an experienced
diplomat. Mr. Warren has on many
occasions distinguished himself as an
expert witness before government in
vestigating committees in evading
questions and in answering perplexing
questions with consummate skill in
evasion. Mr.. Warren is reputed to
be the most skilled diplomat in
American imperialist foreign service
silk Stocking Ogden.
ogden Mills is a comparatively
young member Of the old "Old Guard. !"
Tho he has not been in the limelight
as an old "Old Guardist," the New
York silk-stocking district congress-
man has for some time been working
on most intimate terms with the best
brains of the Republican machine. Mr..
Mills is multimillionaire. He is a
director of many banks and corpo-
rations. Mr. Mills is one of the lead
ing spirits Of the New York Central
Railroad and the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, both of which are
sections of the House of Morgan, the
uncrowned royal family of American
finance and industry.
Bill Butler at Helm.
William M. Butler is the man who
has been running the preliminaries to
the costly Coolidge campaign. He will
continue to run "CaPs" campaign un-
til he succeeds in running the strike
breaker president back into the White
House or out of politics. Coolidge
must win the next election to be at
the top in the political game. He was
made by an accident insofar as his
present high position is concerned.
Mr.. Butler, in politics, is a hard
boiled business man. The way he
ran the Cleveland convention, the pre-
ciseness with which he handled the
most irritating details, the despatch
with which he made his decisions, the
swiftness with which he welded
power all bore out the truth of this
characterization.
Played Marbles with "caI."
Mr.. Butler was classmate of Coo
lidge in the Murray Crane School of
Capitalist Politics. He is the presi-
dent and director of more than half
dozen textile mills running about
10000 looms and 100000 spindles. The
total assets of these corporations are
more than $2O,OOOO,OOO. Mr.. Buffers
mills were in the front ranks of the
open shoppers fighting to force
wage cut ranging from 20 to AZ per
cent on the textile workers in the last
great depression. All in all, inclusive
of his railway, electric and other in
ta~aste Mr. p"tlar 10 an nfsca,. in
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officers for their criminal negligence a gang OF
hoodlums inspired undoubtedly by the business
elements and open shoppers, raided meeting
place of the Industrial Workers of the World,
wrecked the hall, scalded two girls with boiling
water, tarred and feathered seven men and left
them in dying condition, and severely injured
twenty men and one child This was the way in
which the gallant sailors vented their wrath on
group of workers who had no more to do with the
accident than Julius Caesar.
One hundred and fifty hoodlums took part in
the raid and not one of them was arrested The
local police were evidently in collision with the
raiders The local papers justify the attack alleg
ing that the l. w. W. planned to blow up the
morgue in which the dead victims of West Point
naval officers were lying.
Of course this was an absolute fasehood, fostered
by the naval officers and their capitalist allies,
calculated to kill two birds with one stone, glut
their hatred on the I. w. w. and divert attention
from the catastrophe.
Barbarous California in lawless America
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penditure, but he did not veto q biz
to appropriate over five million dob
lars for an irrigation plan in Arixona,
and another big appropriation for q
national penal institution for women.
Coolidge is strong for law and orden
Millions for prisons for the poor. bui
not nickel to Jail the rich grafters,A
seems to be his motto.
We are now told that Hen am MARKS
Dawes is always silent when he ID
aiding somebody. He will have aa
much difficulty in making us swallow
that statement as Coolidge's nomi.
nator had in convincing the workers
of this country that Cautious Cars
has soft place in his gizard for
them. 1t is rather pertinent to note
that all the hidden kindnesses Of the
General are coming to light after HID
nomination for the vice presidency.
One Of the Chicago TribuneN
champion liars tells few yarns about
Dawes that are calculated to bring
him the sentimental vote next Novem-
Der.
While Budget Director in washine.
ton a reporter came into his once
for news. He casually mentioned
that an old newspaperman was broke
and about to die. HELL" said Dawes.
hes an old friend of NINE" he gave
the reporter $500 check to bring his
old friend. Come to think OF IL
Doheny, the oil pirate also had soft
spot in his heart for his old friends.
Fall got 100000 out of him Just al
easy as the old reporter got the $500
check from Dawes. Doheny got oil for
his money, of course. Perhaps the old
reporter is writing eulogies Of the
General, now. It's another case Of
casting bread upon the waters.
Magnus Johnson, the political fog
horn from Minnesota whose principal
bid for fame in Washington was hia
milking contest with Secretary Of the
Treasury Wallace in which he cama
off second best, is reported In the
Minnesota Daily Star as having said
that he would refuse to address tho
Farmer-Labor convention in st. Paul
II the communists were admitted. The
senator declares he is for . third
party headed by LaFollette ana foe
nothing else. This means that he ID
for LaFollette. Johnson Is foolish
enough to think that by blowing on
this kind of wind he will increase HID
prestige among the respectable ele
ments in society who only short
time ago kidded him about his vocs
bularly but who would now willingly
use him in order to disrupt the grow
ing farmer-labor movement. The
workers have seen Magnus in action
and can only say for him that he hsl
a loud voice, but has nothing to say
The st. Paul convention will not
miss much is he stages another milk
ing contest while 1t is In session.
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stearns is Very Dry Goods.

Just as Mckinley had his Mark
Hanna and Harding had his Daugh-
erty, so Coolidge had his Frank
Stearns. Mr.. Stearns is the real
angel behind the Coolidge fortune
in politics. Mr.. Stearns is million
aire wholesale and retail dry goods
merchant. He is closely associated
with business interests which are in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-18

Bank of New York, now amalgamated
with the Manhattan Trust Company.
Mr.. Burton is a recognized authority
on money and banking. He has
handled the most delicate financial
problems for some of the biggest in
terests of the country. Then the
Sixty-third Congress, first session in
vaeficatod the charge that a rowore,,I