The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
Means, the Detective,
Decides to Stick by
His Pal, Daugherty
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL


central figure of the presidential campaign
His name is CASTOR B. Means. The labor batter Burns,
at one time referred him Americas greatest detective
CASTOR enters the back door Of the president
a campaign thru the fact that he before the
Wheeler Committee investigating the department of Justice
IN the language OF his profession he peached Burns and
Daugherty Like all stool pigeons he has had change
Of heart and repudiates his testimony There is some talk
that Means is planning to repudate his reputation This is
In the meantime subsidized press is busy publishing
denas and CONFERENCE.-The statements and counterstate
ents aldavlts and counter afdavs with the result
mud sticking everywhere notably on Senator Burton X
Wheeler vce-presdenta candidate the LaFoete ticket.
Wheeler is held Trainer of witnesses and fxer
of testimony The whole capitalist press gets another OPP
Potuny to betog the class issues involved in the Teapot
on Scandal and the corruption in Daugherys department
of justice.
Wheeler has himself the best ally of his Friendly
enemies IN the opposition capitalist political parties.
Wheeler prepared the trap in which he has been caught
IN his campaign pamphlet Where "' [aFo % Stands on
Fifty Living Issues the Wisconsin senator quotes himself as
saying under the heading, Communist Dictatorship the
If Of Russia should resist this oonnunistto
dictatorship
men democratic govern-
men BY class, denying other participate
tyranny"
The above paragraph appeared in LaEOIsttes series Of
papers the extract being taken from the Washington Herald
It not an isolated expression of opinion It is state
Wheeler political philosophy
so ne fights the organization of the FarmeLabor Party
betrayng at every opportunity into the hands Of its
June 7th Faer-Labor Conference LaFoette has never
raised The class issue in behalf Of the workers and farmers
during his whole political His refusal to do this has
made him of the best supporters of the Wall Street social
order
Similarly with Wheeler AS prosecutor of the department
OF justice he spent his time chasing booeggers and under
world characters of kinds instead of using the oppor
tunty to place the American capitalist government trial
It was Daugherys department of justice that helped
Daughery acting behalf of the biggest moneyed
But Wheeler claimed investigation Of Daughers record
railroad workers against the railroad capitalists Especially
i would show that the government was but an instrument
in the hands of money oigarchy of Wall Street
American working class Knocked at Wheeers inquston
cass-the capitalist class He would not attack his
government-the American capitalist government showing
it to be the enemy of the workers and farmers
Instead he spent his time in dabbIing with characters
like CASTOR B. Means the detective of Daugher and Burns
with Roxe Snson the widow of Jesse Smith, pal of Daugh
erty, who made half million in one year thru issuing
whisky permits; George Remus the millionaire bOOtegger
Howard Warrington the keeper OF THE little Green House
on K. Street and host OF others
But never at any tme did Wheeler call single witness
to the stand to expose the strkebreakg activities of the
department of Justice
expose the ed batting activities Of Burns and Daugherty
against militant labor.
the capitalist attack that would have brought
fetal results for the American working class; attack that
pigeons and other rfaf of the underworld that has
wormed its way into the upper social strata
The Communist fight makes that class cleavage. That
is why it fights LaFoette and Wheeler, we'll Coolidge
and Dawes, Davis and Bryan all uphoders of the OPP
pressve class rule in all history the American capitalist
dictatorship.
The class struggle leads triumph of the Workers
Dictatorship the Capitalist Dictatorship But where the
dictatorship Of capitalism is instrument for maintaining
capitalism in power the dictatorship of the workers
y transition period ending the Communist Society where
all classes have dsappeared where there are no parasitic
producers in full enjoyment of their labor.
Only the Communist candidates in this campaign,
William z. Foster, for president and Benjamin Ctlow for
vice president carry the standards of the class fight against
capitalism.
LaFoIette and Wheeler, republican and democratic
themselves have helped the Wall Street parties better than
they know to muddy the waters in this years presidential
struggle They have created confusion that will help the big
open shoppers, more successfully than ever carry