The daily worker., 1924-08-11
New Morgan Merger
Unrnasks LaF gillette
Back to '76!" Bunk
BY J. LOUIS ENopAHL.


TODAY witnessing the interesting developments in
the largest railroad merger in American history
That should prove stratIng awakener for You Work
and Farmers in these days when you beeng
screen slogan Of Bao to 76 when big capitalism IS moving
forward with giant strides.
The consultations of E. H. Hartman, Jay Gould, Jim
Hill and other railroad Cars of the past outrvaed in the
combination engineered by Orrs p Mants j. Van
ngen OF Cleveland, owners OF the Nckle Plate System
Railroad workers. you, who have enlisted under the La
Toilette banner of free competition, awaken to the
into fantastic political dreamiand Wall Street IS going
ahead with its great mergers in and out Of campaign times
in spite of the wild and meaningless believing of the little
busnessi politicians
You Railroad Workers. split into 16 craft unions with
hundreds of thousands of your kind noganzed Behold the
mmens and the compactness OF this new consolidation OF
your masters.
The combined capitalization of this new ideal" in cap
tasms game against you will total 81 900 10000 and
the will bring under direction $4,000 miles of ine
including not only the Ncke Plate Chesapeake and oho
Hooking Valley Erie and Pee Marquette railroads. but also
the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Wheeling and Lake
Erie and Virgnian Railroads.
Wall Street says that these young Cleveland rail-
@ Gag % m are of Gn 5 hus nsn m MSw
ing their grip the Pacific Coast opening the first single
railroad route the continent.
Wall Street knows! Because the Van Swerngen Broth
e are not lone agents They are mere putty n the hands OF
the House OF Morgan and its New York First National Bank
Van Swerngens began stock accumuatons in the various
lines they wanted to control They didn't put down single
private property already existing The larger stockhold
ers note the larger have been the big Morgan
pan and the consolidation going thru with the consent
of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Morgan-Van Swerngen classification will tighten
the grip of the great nancers securely than
the throats not only of the railroad workers. and all indus
trial labor but also upon the farmers Morgans laughter
be heard rumbIing the Atlantic from London
he behods Johnston Stone and other railroad union Off
cas whoopng up for LaFoee and the little stockholders
the little bankers and Legitimate business"
LaFoIettes ideas Of regulating big business have been
put into effect nationally thru the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and this august body, that renders every decision
the side Of business says all right for Morgan and the
Van Swerngens to go ahead
Communists say that LaFoettes program is the most
reactonary program in this campaign This latest
of Wall Streets activities in the railroad world prove it,
just similar developments in other industries will teach
the esson and over again. in the days Immediately
ahead
Communists say that the and farmers
follow LaFoee back $50 years into the days of the stage
coach and the village blacksmith shop.
Communists say that the pundered masses must move
forward effort protect LaFoettes little bus
the winning Of all power for themselves for
the liberation of their class from the bondage of all capital
ists both big and little
Coolidge the strikebreaker president, says AI power
in the hands of the big capitalists"
Davis who would be strkebreaker president echoes
"A power in the hands OF the big capitalists
LaFoette the betrayer of the masses, coin the
discomfort of obess workers and andess farmers into sup
port Of his pet appeal Give little business chance!"
The Communists call for struggle against all these
uphoders of capitalism under the slogan Of AI power to
the workers and farmers"
The Morgan-van Sweringen railroad consolidation will
help expose the treason of will reveal the poison
in his teachings 1t will bare the real nature of capitalist de-
veIopment It will help drive the workers and farmers into
the Communist of the sheer necessity Of pro-
tectng their own interests
Two steps forward! One step backward!
Labor slipped step backward when It lent an ear to
the siren appeal of LaFolette.
But in time it will two steps forward again.