The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-02
Will Lift
Labor's Burdens Only
Under Rule Of Labor
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY announcements are made Of greater super
power projects Plans for the the
United States be extended parts nation
call for the construction and development of tremendous
sc has sod @
coal miners that recommendations made by expert eng
say this will 100000 of coal annually
Another fact is that the plan will the Of cleo
trciy generally to farm That ought to interest the
farmers.
It was during the May convention at Peoria, of the
rngton hopeessy reactonay urged support of spepowe
projects because they would call for an increase in the use
The DAILY WORKER, at that time, issue of Thursday
May 49, exposed this attempt of harrington blind the
members of the miners union Unemployment is the great
problem among the coal Miners everywhere turnout the
nation is especially acute in Illinois harrington had
offer something. So he presented this lie.
super-power of the hopes of the New Day.
Russia rapidly being electrified The burden of toll in the
who labor In Soviet Russia supepower developing in the
control of the workers and peasants and being used for
their benefit.
Super-power in the United States also be in the
control of the workers and farmers This means that they
the workers and farmersmust establish their Workers
and Farmers Rule over the Land-SovIET RULE.
Under the capitalist Of Coolidge and Davis super
power will be in the control of the big profiteers.
dreams of La Toilette, built Of my clouds called free
unlimited competition, they would be in the hands of little
profteers This would result in:
FlRST:-No benefit to the workers. The Wor<-day
would be shortened Instead hundreds of thousands If
not millions OF workers would lose their jobs The expert
engineers that their superpoWer project would
result in decrease of human labor But theydo say it
will give leisure the workers. They con-
fess that it will throw workers the scrap heap
industry.
SEcOND:-No benefits to the farmers. The farmers
will be compelled pay for their superpower a the traffic
will bear" They will go into bankruptcy usual They
will become mortgages always. They will be thrown
into the renter class and not only pay the landlord
but also high prices to the trust in which the landlord
may be stakeholder.
This will be true as long capitalism lasts.
While capitalism rules at Washington, national
ship or naturalization OF superpower will be of avail
The workers who slave in the government postal
service have their demands rejected with the brutality
that the of private industry the mines
stance fight the demands of their workers. Efforts the
postal workers to organize, and their rights
posed just bitterly by the Judge Gary wars
upon labors effort to organize in the steel industry.
This will also be true as long capitalism lasts
Electric power the superpower of the New Day. But
1t offers relief for labor under capitalism 1t takes
count under capitalism of the hundreds of thousands
miners unemployed The miners fight always under
capitalism for the shorter wor-day for the hour day.
for The Four-Hour Day., in which the late Charles P
Stenmetz, the Wordfamous electrical wizard said all the
useful labor of the world could be accomplished.
SuperpoWer will free the shoulders of labor from tolls
heavy burden when the Rule of the Workers
compished But in order to usher in that New Day the
workers and farmers must dump the whole capitalist class
off their backs