The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-10
AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. }. o'FLAHERTY

Strikebreaker Coolidge should getsa
real thrill out of Cleveland when he
arrives there to accept the nomination
for the presidency from the G, o. p.
convention. He may see trolley cars,
manned by strike breakers and armed
with machine guns trying to handle.
the extra traffic caused by the pres
ence of hundreds of delegates to the
great strike breaking political machine
of Wall Street. The traction company
refused to abide by the decision of the
arbitration board which--a very I'M
usual thing for an arbitration board to
do-decided in favor of the men and
granted twelve cent an hour raise
Arbitration is fine for the capitalists
when it suits them but when in rare
cases, they get the worst of it, they
resort to force which the workers are
informed none but Communists be-
lieve in.
The Macdonald government is again
playing the role of strike breaker, this
time in the struggle between the Lon
don subway employees and the bosses.
In order to provide an excuse for their
perfidy the labor takers and cabinet
officials have charged the strike with
being under Communist leadership and
inspired by the Third International.
Even the Daily Herald, official organ
of the British Trade Union Congress,
ridicules this story and asserts that
the men have genuine cause for COM
plant The National Union of Rail-
waymen, of which j. H. Thomas was
until recently the head, is as usual
scabbing on the strikers but other
unions are refusing to work with
scabs. The government has appointed
a pIenary committee to deal with the
strike.
Labor banking is good, says War
rem S. Stone. grand chief Of the Loco.
motive Engineers union, because 10
gives the workers chance to become
capitalists. No such thing as clash of
interests between capitalists and
workers. The only solution to labor's
troubles is to have all the poor become
rich. Let the workers become capi-
talists and this class struggle will ha
at an end. The way to do it is to
organize labor banks. deposit your
money with the labor leaders and
watch yourself get rich. 1t will never
do, Mr.. Stone. No doubt this is a
very good scheme for labor bankers.
There is nothing to stop them from
becoming capitalists. They are capi-
talists in many instances. But the
great masses of the workers cannot
be emancipated from wage slavery,
periodic unemployment and poverty by
any magic bootstrap lifting device
under the capitalists system. This
system is based on production for
profit and the exploitation Of the
workers and until the workers abolish
that system and organize society on
the basis of production for use, there
will be great wealth in the hands Of a
few and great misery and poverty for
the many.
Frank o. Lowden, former governor
of Illinois, is acceptable to Calvin
Coolidge as running mate. Lowden Is
notorious reactionary and thru hiZ
wife, the daughter of Pullman, thk
sleeping car magnate, is very wealthy
He runs an Ideal Farm" where the
hogs are treated much better than
the children Of the workers, who slave
in his industry. Lowden is quite satis-
factory to the money powers.
A miner writing to the United Mine
Workers Journal. states that the pow
erty of individual miners is the result
OF their own folly or negligence. 1T
Is nobody's fault but my own II Il
blow in every cent make" he SAYS.
And again, IL look back and see where
l drank and gamblcd and threw my
money. away, but there was no one to
blame but myself" This is a very
comfortable philosophy for the capi~
talist class. The latter drink and
gamble and live in riotous luxury. yet
they cannot escape getting richer,
while the workers get poorer and
poorer, in spite Of customary thrift.
Harry Thaw's fortune increased from
one to five millions while Re was in
an insane asylum. It did not increase
because OF any physical or mental
effort on Mr.. Thaw's part but because
workers like the miner who libeled
himself, worked in mills and mines
tvhara Than hod Ito t,.flltot tnuoof n