The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-28
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

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in deadly earnest on the Khan ques.
ton tho It is hard to believe that men
like Fitzpatrick, Harrington, Nockles
and John L. Waller can be in earnest
about anything oxcep. holding their
jobs.
n T the last state convention Of this
~ Illinois Federation Of Labor anti
Khan resolutions were introduced by
miners delegates, but Harrington and
VICTOR Olander tried to block their
Introduction. The DAILY WORKER
was the only paper to publish this
story. and the takers denied it, but
had to admit that they thought it
good policy to ignore the Khan question
altogether. 1t is now perfectly clear
that Walker, Olander and Harrington
were acting under the instructions of
Grand Dragon Palmer of the Illinois
Khan, and his paymaster Small How
does such a situation appeal to the
members Of the Illinois Miners Union?
'uEARST has come to the conclu.
/ / sion that Coolidge is going to win
out in the coming election. The pub
Usher of yellow journals is secretly
for Coolidge tho he has not dared to
come out in the pen. His chief edi-
torisl writer, Arthur Brisbane, a most
unprincipled hireling, is boosting
Silent CAR in his daily column.
Hearst was undecided in the early
days whether he should support La
Toilette or not but Bob" was running
one man show and Hearst did not
care to play second fiddle. He is
having good time playing UP Cos
mopolitan pictures and particularly
Marion Davies his pulchritudinous
star in his fifteen daily newspapers.
.nUDoLPH sPRECKLEs is very
IN busy in California roofing for La.
Toilette. Spreckles is a bitter anti-soc.
ialist, yet he is going to vote the
socialist ticket this year in order to
save capitalism" That, is the way
he puts it. The socialist ticket comes
in handy A man like Spreckles is
entitled to admiration. He is out
spokenly truthful and one is able to
know where to find him. He is per-
fectly right in his reasoning on the
LaFollette movement The continued
reign of Big Business under a nonen-
tity like Coolidge will foster discon-
tent faster than under the direction
of a clever faker like LaFollette.
Therefore lSpreckles knows that it is
better for capitalism in the long run
to have an alleged "reformer" in the
White House than an out and out con-
sentative.
THE British capitalists, when in
l danger allowed Ramsay MacDon-
aid to steer the empire because his
presence at 10 Downing Street al
layed the discomfort of the masses.
Now that the empire is getting a bit
coekier, other rival servants of cap
ita,ism want to throw Ramsay out.
Our American rulers cannot yet stom-
ach even a mild critic like LaFollette.
nEIGH1IN' Bob" has a different
l speech for every section Of the
country. In some places he is hard
on the supreme court. but in Neb-
raska where there is German pop
ulation which suffered from war hys-
terra to the extent of having a law
passed prohibiting the teaching OF
German in the public schools, Bob"
was very kind to the supreme court,
because that august body declared
the anti-German law unconstitutional,
thereby making thousands of voters
for Coolidge. Bob" wanted these
votes so he declared he would not
abolish the supreme court but would
reform 1t a little.
LIS position on the railroads has
l also undergone change. He is
no longer shouting for government
ownership. He has even raised the
railroads which were once his pet aver
sion. But IL one looks over a record of
LaFollette's speeches in Wisconsin he
will find that Bob" said kind words
about the predatory interests" and
was really very good to them. This
does not mean that LaFollette is liked
by Wall Street. No, he is very much
hated by them just now, but so was
Roosevelt once and Woodrow Wilson.
But Wall Street is some lion-tamer. A
Bobcat looks easy for them.