The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-21
Class Lines Divide the
Vote Of Germans in u. S.
and Berger Is Worried
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, many echoes are still to be heard reverberat-
ing different reactions caused by the results Of the
given to the lamentations Of socialist congressman
Victor l. Berger editor Of the Milwaukee Leader
berger eels and he feels It strongly that he has not
only been by the LaFoee forces but that
large hosts Of Germans have also given him the thumto-
Quite number Of German sheets over the land sur
rendered to the Coolidge treasury in the campaign
Cincinnati Free Presse and the Omaha Trbuene are con-
spcuous examples Khe Progressive organ Of the Ger
selout of the Humorous Phases Of the CAMPAIGN
But Berger comes to bat strongly with the declaration that
we can see nothing humorous in such trades"
Berger Iaents the lack Of in the forces that
one of its leaders in Milwaukee, who failed Of nomination for
congress as progressive and therefore
Coolidge camp.
Bergers socialist education has taught him nothing
cause the United States made Germany 1915 he
expects the Germans In the United States to block
against the two Wall Street parties He no class dv-
sions separating German workers, small business
big capitalists in the United States He the myth
THE German boc that perhaps did exist in greater
extent during the war.
Berger continues his illusion by procamng that he is
sincere friend of Germany and the German people, He says
he is IAN absolute and mpIacabe enemy Of the heish pact
Of Versailles But his friends Of Second (Socia-
ist international who helped frame the Treaty Versailles
Berger forgotten at least in the article from which
we quote his hostility to the Dawes Plan 1t may be
has discovered that the German socademocracy in
Of the MorganDawes pan along with the socialists of other
countries ~
Communists easily understand Bergers hopeless po-
ston in the camp Of the middle enemies OF labor They
willing to accept and exploit his treason the workers.
But they certainly will not help him get socialist votes
build even socialist organization except where rebounds
to their immediate benefit.
The Germany that Berger defends is the Germany Of the
German capitalists supported by German socialists These
the German capitalists in league with the capitalists of
France England and the United States for
of the German workers.
Class interests greater than any allegiance
color nationality Moneyed Germans In the United States;
capitalists in industry and the wealthy farmers the land
supported Coolidge Some middle class La
Toilette That stripped Berges socialist ranks pretty cean
especially in view of the fact that class conscious
workers and bitterly oppressed farmers turned to the Com
munists
The complete bankruptcy Of Bergsrs socialist party is
thus revealed in the confession Of the Milwaukee
congressman The socialist organization with the
phantom results gained by the socialist appeal to middle
class support
Only the Communists, this situation clearly reveals
carry the class fight against capitalism The Workers
(Communst) Party makes its direct and exclusive appeal to
the exploited workers in industry and the poor
land The socialists the class fight against abors
enemies in every crisis Communists utilize every crisis
rally the workers and farmers for renewed and increasing
struggle to end the capitalist social order.