The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-25
Coolidge Crowd Invites
LaFolIette Group Into
the Republican Caucus
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL.

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representatives, are packing their grips and returning
to Washington for the session opening Monday This
me meeting OF the new congress elected early this month
1t is the congress that on vacation six months
ago. that its members could the election campaign
rule in power
The so-caIIed wise forefathers," who framed the
sacred American constitution thought that the hot temper
OF the masses stirred to white heat might occasion
not have time to cool during the month from the November
elections to the early days Of December So the congress just
elected viii not go into office until March 1924 when
Coolidge is inauguraed, and it be regularly called
into session until next December.
Perhaps Coolidge will call special session in the spring.
Wall Street has nothing to fear from the congress- It
has 100 cent control No Communist will have place
there. The ST. Paul machnst j. F. Enme, defeated by
small margin He would have been power for the
of the workers. His defeat great part to the
traya of Iabors by the Magnus Johnson Hendrix
Shpsead elements in the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Atho Communist Emme was nominated on the Farmer
But the pussyfootng reactonaries in the Minnesota
FarmerLabor movement would rather the democratic
spokesman of the landlords the railroads. the banks and
grain gamblers elected, than the Communist champion of
the working class.
Shpstead is already back in Washington awaiting his
reward Magnus Johnson who originally claimed he lost
because Of the handicap of the campaign going
vote took it from him.
Shpstead complains that the workers and farmers went
to Coolidge because of dstrust in their ability to
their affairs better than the bankers running them
it the Shpsteads and the ohnsons who have fought every
effort of the workers and farmers build up their class
power that they would have weapon with which they
could confidently the struggle against their capitalist
oppressors
very significant that invitations have been sent to
Senators LaFoette Ladd Frazier and Brookha
the conference of republican to be held Friday
This quartet fought the Coolidge ticket in the campaign La
Toilette promised THE party after the elections He
said mo new party organized before the cleo
tons But he has received invitation Join with the
other republican supporters of the stikebeake president
just as if he had been regular all during the campaign
Up the writing of these invitations has been
rejected.
All indications that the LaFoIette group in the
house and senate will accept every crub that thrown
Them All threats of reading the Liabilities out of the G.
O. have died down. Instead there Is the weaker threat
that of their committee assignments will be hit But
Representative John M Nelson LaF oIettes campaign
ager, confidently procams from Washington where he has
also arrived early that the republicans will be too wise for
that"
This is Nelson's confession that the republican
in congress know that they the LaFoette
group for their purposes that they safely ham,
string them when occasion demands.
Gompers, in the American Federation OF Labor conven
ton, at FL Paso, Texas declares he deserted his
nonparson policy of boring within the old parties Under
his direction the convention takes stand against new
So the LaFolIette elements in congress- with hat in
hand will return to the republican fold claiming they had
had any serious intentions of leaving it. They will
be received with Joy according the reception given all pen
tent homereturnng prodgals Laid and Frazier will take
another weekend trip down the Potomac River, with the
"Strkebreaker Coolidge their host on the presidential
yacht, "MayfIower".
All this must be revealing to the great masses of work.
and farmers who thought they being led into real
struggle against big business under the LaFoee standards
These find themselves betrayed and deserted
The overwhelming majority, the class conscious workers
and farmers among them will not return to the Wall Street
parties They must turn to the Communist leadership of the
Workers Party They and will organize their class
for real victories in the future under the standards OF
the Workers (Communist) Party
stealing Pittsburgh Dance Tomorrow