The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12
.LAFOLLETTE HIT
BY RUTHENDERG
AS FAKE LEADER
Exposes BOb's Silence
on Unemployment

Four thousand friends of the
Workers Party, the largest
crowd that ever gathered at a
Workers Party picnic, spent
Sunday at the Press Picnic in
Riverview Park, which Melted
two thousand dollars to the
DAILY WORKER, besides CIV
ing aid to the other party publi-
cations.
The DAILY WORKER carried
off the popularity contest, with
30,205 votes. The Lettish Work
ers Party paper, Strahdneek,
won second place with 1905
votes, and the Labor Herald,
due to the last minute cleo
pioneering of the canny Jack
tombstone for the Liberator,
carried off the BOBBY prize with
$50 votes. Comrade tombstone
pleaded so eloquently that the Liber-
ator received 145O votes and was done
out Of the BOBBY prize.
"AlI Power to Workers"
c. E. Ruthenberg, executive secre-
tary Of the Workers Party, speaking
to three thousand people who massed
around the bandstand, declared, 1.-THE
Communists will not rest until the
mass power of the workers wrest the
government out of the hands of the
capitalists puppets and put it in the
hands of the workers organs-the
Soviets-- under the leadership of the
Workers Party"
1.-THE day is coming when the work
ing class will stand on it's own feet
and say, If we must have dictator
ship, let us have a dictatorship of
the workers. )" said Ruthenberg.
He showed how the American gov
eminent as it is at present consti-
tuted, with the Democratic and Re-
publican politicians at the helm, is
a dictatorship of the capitalist class,
with Coolidge, the strike breaker, the
figurehead with the Republicans, and
Davis, the Morgan lawyer, the rep
resentative of the capitalists in the
Democratic camp. Ruthenberg then
paid his respects to LaFolIette and
the Socialist Party.
Denounee LaFoIIette Dictatorship.
Germany has its Scheidemann;
France its Herriot; England its Ram
say Macdonald" said Ruthenberg,
And we have our Robert M. LaFol-
lette" Ruthenberg said that LaFol-
lette, in spite of his statement that
he is against dictatorship, is in favor
of the individual dictatorship of Rob-
ert LaFollette. He said the central
point Of LaFollette's stated platform,
is the antiquated trust-busting idea.
LaFollette, he declared, wants to en-
force the SS-year-old Sherman anti
trust laws, which have proved so fu-
tile In the past in stemming private
monopoly.
S. p. Has Kicked Bucket.
THE Socialist Party now takes its
place In the LaFollette camp" Ru-
thenberg added, "after for twenty
years declaring for the principle that
the workers should control the trusts
which have already been built up.
The Socialist Party, by dissolving it.
self in the LaFollette back to 1875
middle class theology, demonstrates
its inter bankruptcy"
Ruthenberg said that LaFollette
maintains silence on the question of
unemployment. "The workers want
the opportunity to work and produce
wealth and earn living" he stated.
But LaFollette says nothing about
governmental action to create unem-
ployment funds" Ruthenberg de-
manded that workers be paid their
salaries while unemployed.
Reason for Deep Silence.
Ruthenberg declared that LaFol-
lette is maintaining silence on these
vital questions because he stands
with Colonel Rudolph Spreckles, the
California sugar king, and neither
Randolph Spreckles nor the small bust
ness men backing LaFollette want to
pay wages to the unemployed.