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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
The Baldwin Government

The composition of the Baldwin government in
dicates that the British ruling class feels itself
strong enough to dispense it's socialdemocratC
camoufage. The new cabinet is all-tory.
1t is significant that the second most important
position in the cabinet is given to Winston
Churchill, the most notorious antilabor batter in
Britain Of the greatest criminals of the world
war and the leader in the movement to unite the
conservatives and right wing liberals against the
labor party. Churchill is chancellor of the ex-
chequer.
Lloyd George did not even get look in. That
discredited prostitute is meeting the fate of
his type. Raised to prominence and power on the
shoulders Of the Masses who took him serious
ly when he attacked the British ruling Glass; like
Woodrow Wilson, he turned out to be one of the
most despicable traitors that ever deceived the
masses, and like Wilson, he was ditched by the
very class he served so well when they no longer
needed him.
The tory government will carry out "strong"
foreign policy The Singapore naval base will be
developed and Britain will make a gallant attempt
to win back of the prestige it has lost to it's
greatest rival and most powerful foe, the young
and lusty capitalist giant Of the West, the United
States.
But there are one million and "a half unem-
ployed in Britain there is trouble in Ireland, In
dia, Egypt Mesopotamia China and in every part
of the world where the flag Of the pirate empire
flies. Ramsay Macdonald pulled some very hot
chestnuts out of the fire for the British capitalists
The tories are trying their hand at getting the
rest. But they will get badly burnt. The British
Empire has seen its best days. So has capitalism.
The power of the workers is growing, slowly but
surely. The Soviet Republic of Russia stands firm
as capitalist governments rise and fall desperately
trying to find way out of the impasse in which
they find themselves Soviet Russia stands as
beacon light to the workers of the world and ter
rible challenge to the capitalists. The Baldwin
government will CO. other governments will follow.
But the British working class will have their day,
when under the direction and leadership of the
Communist Party of Great Britain and the Com
munist International, they seize the power which
so long has been used against them, and organize
the Soviet government on the ashes of the robber
empire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
Caution No Longer Needed

Now that Coolidge has been given a decisive
mandate to occupy the White House for four years
more there is every likelihood that his highly over
advertised virtue of caution will tend to vanish
At least we feel certain that it will be crowded
into the background by maze of new "virtues"
which the employing class will invent for its po-
litical mouth-piece.
We are certain that in California, Mr.. Coolidge
will cast aside this reputation before he does it
elsewhere. Hiram johnson has not been losing
love on Coolidge for many months. 1t will be re-
called that Hiram johnson was offered the vice
presidential nomination at the republican conven-
ton in 1920 but had turned it down to permit
Coolidge to have it. 1t will be further recalled
that Herbert Hoover has delivered California to
Coolidge despite the tacit and overt opposition of
Senator Johnson Under these circumstances
Coolidge need no longer be cautious with Hiram
Johnson.
No will attempt to interpret the fight of
johnson against Coolidge a contest between
progressivism and reaction johnson is much
a progressive as Coolidge and vice versa johnson
is the man who had Daugherty appoint VIM. J..
Burns to position in which he could utilize all
the governmental powers of espionage for strike
breaking purposes. Senator johnson has won the
well-earned reputation of being an artful dodger.
The fight between Coolidge and johnson, if it
ever should materialize into struggle will simply
be conflict between two reactionaries Of funda-
mentally stripe Had johnson assepted the
vicepresidental nomination in 1920, he instead of
Coolidge would be at the head of the repub-
ican party and serving the very blacklist interests
that the so-called Sphinx of the Potomac is now
serving We sincerely hope that the two cham
pions Of capitalist reaction should succeed in
blackening each other sufficiently to make them
both stand out before the masses in their true col
ors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
The Professors Go to School

There have been many funny sides to the LaFol-
lette movement. One of them is the way the pro-
fessional classes rallied to the standard of the
cracked liberty bell. Among these were the wise
professors of political economy in the great uni
versities, and after them they dragged an assert
ment of enthusiastic middIeclass students.
In the campaign for LaFollette, few were more
indignant at the Communists than these profess
sors for the Communists pointing out the frailties
of democracy for their insistence that there ex-
lists dictatorship of the capitalist class and that
the only way to defeat its purposes is to overthrow
it and establish in its place the dictatorship of the
proletariat.
No, sir. The professors knew better. They
knew that this is free country where the workers
could change things by the ballot peacefully and
by due process of law, etc. They had studied
Adam Smith and they had proved, yes sir, proved
that Marx was wrong They were motorists,
not revolutionists.
With this in mind the professors-and the
students out to vote, and 400 students to
watch the polls. liberal education in the fallac-
les of political economy as taught by liberals re
suited. Husky football quarterbacks got rough
housing by the Orderly forces of democracy" in
the shape of wallops from hired toughs who threat
ened worse punishment if they 'failed to vote
right"
Two professors, of political economy, Jerome G.
Kerwin and r. L. Mott, received postgraduate
lectures upon the futility of parliamentary means
as method of social change when they were
kicked out of polling places by policemen who
strange to say did not fulfill their expectations of
the role of the state a neutral agency above dis
orderly class divisions, but who summarly hustled
them onto the sidewalk when they protested at the
brazen frauds being put by the election judges
and gunner.
The professors have been to school and taken
little lesson in dictatorship viii they revise their
attitude toward Leninism and the program of the
Communist International?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
The Menace of MiIitarism

The menace of American militarism to the peace
Of the world was very forcefully pointed out the
other day by Comrade Trotsky, the Soviet Minister
Of War Speaking the aim of the Red Army,
Trotsky showed that the American mperialists are
now building a huge military machine and that
they are at work fostering discussions and division
in the ranks of the other national groups for their
own interests of world supremacy
Divide and conquer has often been the motto of
ruling classes. At home our employing class pur-
this policy in keeping the workers and poor
farmers hOpelessly divided, pitted against each
other and presenting broken ranks in every test of
class strength. Abroad our imperiaists resort
ing to essentially the same practice Germany will
be strengthened against France France will be
thwarted in her effort to crush Germany. France
viii be supported against British capitalist imper-
ialist ambitions. Poland will be backed against
Germany and on down the line of national
capitalist groups But all in all American money,
Yankee gold, will be modified to unite the very
groups now being divided when it concerns chal-
lenge to an attack against the Union CT Social
list Soviet Republics
The menace of American miitarism is part and
parcel of the menace of American Imperialism.
Militarism is a special violent form Of capitalism.
Capitalist exploitation rests on the bayonets, on
the threatening cannons, the policemen's clubs
lin short on highly organized force and violence
of the employing class.
The menace of American militarism is an inn
mediate one. 1t is most serious one. Yankee
militarism is long out Of its infancy. 1t is now a
titan. American military and naval forces ac-
tVally and potentially are growing at astounding
proportions. Our exploiters have sufficient re-
sources to continue this mad race for many years.
Only the working masses can stay the Jland of our
profttaking and war-making class. Every battle
ship, every soldier every marine, every military
and naval air pilot in the uniform of the American
government is link in the chain that is now being
forged to bind the workers to the imperiaist plans
Of our ruling class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
Az W. SfF By ~ OFahery
By T. J. O'Flaherty

capitalists after they had served their
purpose.
NKIHETHER the takers who control
Wv the G. P. P. A., organize q de-
finite party or whether they continue
as now playing with the democratic
party and with progressive repub-
leans, one thing is sure. and that is
that they will not organize labor
party" The only party in the United
States that fights for the interests
of the workers and farmers is the
Workers (Communists) Party. This
party is broad enough for every toiler
in industry or on the farm, who wants
to fight against the capitalist class
and for the establishment Of a work
ers' and farmers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
German Communists Fight Morgan Coalition

and on the Rhine. The representa-
tive personalities Of the center" are
Erzberg, With, Marx.
Jews Democratic.
In Germany too we have a "derfo
cratic" party. 1t draws its demo
cratic inspiration from the Jewish in
dustrial and banking bourgeoisie, and
from the democratic-reput lean city
bourgeoisie. 1t is a sad and charac.
terless crew, trying to play the part
Of democracy that does not and can
not exist and of a republic born OF
proletarian weakness and INDIGESTION,
and social democratic treachery.
These are the bourgeois parties
that openly acknowledge their bour-
geois composition and bourgeois in
terests.
There is yet the social democratic
party, which still is able to mislead
millions of workers with the lie that
it is serving the interests of the pro-
letariat. It's shameless and cynical
betrayal of the working masses is by
now so notorious that we need go into
no details or recapitulations.
Parties Unite on Dawes Plan.
We said above that in reality there
was unanimity between all the bour-
geois parties, including the social de-
mocracy, as to the ACCESSIBILITY of
forming big coalition for the carry
ing out of the Dawes plan. The social
democrats consented to sit in the
same cabinet with Tirpitz, Hergt and
Westarp.. The nationalists on their
part declared their willingness to ac-
cept the helping hand of the social
democrats in the rather difficult Job
OF subjugating the German proletar-
lat and reducing it to the status of
colonial slaves. Why then, in the
name of Ebert, did this splendid coali-
ton scheme fail to realize? The ans
wer to this question is contained in
the small word fear. The social dem
ocrats fear the wrath Of the misled
proletarian masses; the nationalist
fear the disappointed followers whom
they demagogically promised, only a
few months ago not to vote for the
Dawes plan, and never to ally them
selves with the social democrats. But
we have lived to see both nationalists
and social democrats voting for the
Dawes slave plan, and both social
democrats and junkers proclaiming
their willingness to coalesce for the
dirty work. The Communists have re-
peatedly demanded the dissolution of
the Reichstag, but the bourgeois par
ties and the social democrats always
voted this proposal down-only to go
into dissolution themselves a few
weeks later - though they never
feared the devil more than new cleo
lions.
How do we Communists look upon
the coming elections? The Dawes
report stands accepted-on paper.
That was the sole function of the
Marx cabinet after the May elections.
Won Tirpitz and Kautsky, Hergt and
Crispien, all shook hands on the hang
mans pact. Macdonald, Herriot.
General Nollet, and Morgan were jubi-
liant. Capitalism, they naively be-
believed, was again savedl But
they have forgotten in their calcu-
lations the most important factor of
the whole scheme, namely the work
ers. They have forgotten that there
is limit even to the great patience
OF the German worker; they have for
gotten that even the memory of the
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to perform some dirty work against
the working class.
In recesses between such counter
revolutionary jobs, the social democ.
racy acts the ideal lickspittle and
fink, bidding for job in some police
presidium or in the department of
that prostitute called bourgeois JUS
tice."
Explains the German Parties.
In order that our American COM
rades may better understand the So
cial structure and class content and
interests of the political parties in
Germany, shall enumerate the most
important of these and analyze their
class composition.
Heading the extreme right is the
Fascist Dsutseh-Volkische" party.
This party is the result of fusion of
the former Volkische" and
misunderstanding parties. 1t draws
its strength chiefly from the nation
alist agrarian and bourgeois
elements, the VIGOROUSLY reactionary
students, and the nationalist sections
of the petty officials. The leading
lights are Otto Won Bismarck, and
Ludendorff.
The Deutsch-Soziale" party is a
purely petty-bourgeois party; it is
also nationalist and notorious for its
anti-semitism. In it we find nation
alistic workers. The spiritual leader
of this party is a certain Kunze, who
is the personification Of interruptions
demagogy itself; all sorts of shady
elements, and degenerate petty-bour-
geois are the lieutenants Of Herr
Kunze.
ationale-Landowner
We now come to the second strong
est party in the old Reichstag-to the
"Deutsche-Nationale or nationalist
party. This is the party of the junker,
the big and middle landowner. 1t is
1anked by the higher bureaucratic
officialdom and commercial bourgeois
lie. Tirpitz, Heret, Count Westarp,
and Won, Kanitz, the food minister in
the Marx cabinet, are the pillars of
this party. The nationalists have
been thirsting for the sole control Of
the government for long time; as it
is, without a minister in the Marx
cabinet, they have the judiciary com
pletely in their hands, and are the
executioners of the white terror.
In reality only the industrial wing
of the nationalist party, is the
"Deutsehe Volkspartei" peoples par
ty), which is based on the heavy in
dustry and city bourgeoisie. It was
this party that really represented the
nationalist in the Marx cabinet, and
furthered their interests.
Catholics in Center.
The government party, the "Zen-
trum" (center) is the clerical, Catho-
lie party. 1t is the unholy defender
of the holy Vatican, the counterpart
Of the Austrian Christian party.
The German Chancellor Marx (Wil-
heinz is the political twin brother of
Seipel, the Austrian chancellor. Both
are the quintescence of mediocrity,
which has been called upon by the
bourgeoisie to keep the suffering and
rebellious masses in subsection.
In this party we also find big indus
trials, and. sections of the petty bour-
geoisie; its main strength is drawn
from the Christian trade unions,
which are especially strong in Silesia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

IlabOring masses suDllmateS ana re-
tains sort of chronicle of the wrongs
and sufferings and betrayals inflicted
upon them. The monarchists, fas-
cists, junkers, anti-semites, national
lists, clericals, Jewish bankers, and
the jackal social democrats were all
agreed on the Dawes plan, the entry
of Germany into the imperialist
League of Nations, the London Agree
ment, the abolition Of the eight-hour
day and the substitution of the twelve
hour day, the white terror, and the I'M
scrupulous, cynical, brutal exploitation
of the German proletariat. In one
voice they all proclaimed the new
EZRA of peace at home and abroad"
which meant and means the crushing
of proletarian resistance at home, and
the mobilization of all imperialist
hounds against the only proletarian
state, Soviet Russia.
Workers Suffer.
But between the wish and it's real
ization, there is long and dangerous
path for the bourgeoisie. The few
months that have passed since the
conclusion Of the London Agreement,
have intensified the economic crisis
in Germany. Unemployment is grow
ing from day to day; the cost of liv-
ing is rising rapidly; the eight-hour
day, has been voluntarily relinquished
by the reformists, and the twelve
hour day is no rarity in Germany to-
day. And then, the cruel winter (of
which the silly poets sing that che
knows no classes") is on the thresh-
old, with some more misery and suf-
fering, more hunger and more death.
for the proletariat. Every month of
the Dawes paradise means more suf-
fering and restitution for the work
ers.
But, again, the growing crisis is
also manifesting itself on the field of
industrial strife. The workers are
shaking of the lethargy of the last
few months. They are beginning to
discern the plunderers who are about
to unite in a common attack against
them. They are demanding higher
wages and the eight-hour day; they
are protesting against the Dawes plan
and the white terror; they are rebel
ling against the traitors of the social
democracy. All this, of course, means
trouble for the Dawes plan-and all
the bourgeois parties, including the
social democrats, know this. They
also know that today different Com
munist Party is leading the revolution
airy proletariat than a year ago. In
October the German proletariat was
an inch away from power; all the
symptoms of a revolutionary situa-
ton were there; but what they lacked
was a Bolshevik leadership, itself
ideologicalIy clear, brave, determined,
cunning, able and willing to lead. The
treachery of the social democrats in
October, 1923 has taught the revolu-
tionary workers a good lesson. The
present leadership of the German
Communist Party will know how to
take advantage of the weaknesses
manifested by the bourgeoisie and
their social democratic lackeys. We
have at least a good nucleus of a
Bolshevik general staff.
Attempts to Crush Communists.
The bourgeoisie and the social DEM
ocrats know this only too well. No
sooner was the Reichstag dissolved,
than the bloodhounds Of the social
democratic chief Of police, Richter,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

The Walla Walla Times, daily newspaper pub
lished In Walla Walla, Washington, by the Typo
graphical Union, has suspended. The two cap
italist papers are running on an opon shop basis
and will continue TO do So the news report states
The officials Of the labor movement have been much
buster driving radicals ont Of the unions than
fighting the "open shoppers with the inevitable
result. Even the great Typographical Union is
sufering severe losses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

started the chase after Communist
deputies who, thru the dissolution of
Reichstag had lost their immunity.
Comrade HoIIein, who last year had
spent many months in a Poincare
prison, has been arrested together
with two other deputies MasIowsky
and Eppstein. The homes of these
and all the other leading members OF
the Reichstag and party functionaries
were searched in truly vandal fash
ion. The bourgeois press is decorated
with ten inch cynical headlines:
Communists outIawed; lively chase
after them" The social democratic
"VorwartsY does not even attempt to
conceal its joy at this lively chase"
But they are all sadly mistaken.
The Communist Party cannot be de-
stroyed, cannot be throttled out OF ex.
istence. In this election all parties
are united against the Communist
Party. Ludendorff and Kautsky. Won
Tirpitz and Breitschied are raving the
same mad cry against the only prole-
tartan party in Germany. But these
gentlemen forget that in 1919 the So
cial democratic Noske had had $4,000
workers murdered; the Communist
Party grew in spite of Noske. In
1920 the social democratic severInu
sold out the Ruhr workers to the en-
envy, and still the Communist Party
grew. In. 1921 the same Severine
crushed the workers of Middle Ger.
many; the Communist Party grew.
none the less. In 1928 General Null.
Ter, with the aid of the social demo-
Gratis, marched into Saxony and Tur-
ingia and crushed the workers there:
the Communist Party grew. With the
votes Of the social democrats, the
Communist Party was outlawed and
the state of siege declared; 5000 reyo.
lutionary workers and functionaries
of the Communist Party were thrown
into prison and our press prohibited,
and still the Communist Party grew.
And today the social democratic
chiefs of police are arresting and
prosecuting the leading and most &C
tive party members in the hope of
exterminating Communism in Ger
many, in order that the social demo
Gratis may have free hand in the
colonization of the German proletar-
lat.
Communist Program.
The German Communist Party will
not and cannot be silenced, It Will
continue to rouse the masses and
them for the inevitable strug-
gle. The industrial and economic con
fiicts, and the new strike movements
will inevitably bring political strug-
giles in their wake. The slogan Of the
German Communist Party continues
to be: Rejection of the Dawes plan
or any other colonization plan; the
appropriation of the factories, ships.
mines, railways and large estates and
the control of same by the working
masses under a revolutionary work
ers' government. The Communists
demand furthermore, an alliance, not
with the pirates of the League Of Ma
lions, but with Soviet Russia; the
freeing of the proletarian political
prisoners and the united front Of all
workers against the bourgeois and
their social democratic lackeys.
With these slogans. and without
hiding its true revolutionary counter
ance from the masses, the German
Communist Party will enter the cleo
ton fight.
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The @. p. p. A. will hold national
1 convention in Washington late in
January to consider" the formal
launching of a political party. In the
meantime nothing will be done to pre-.
JUDGE the action of the delegates, or
anticipate their wishes. In other
words nothing will be done. Lawrence
Todd, Washington correspondent for
the Federated Press. who had a gay
old time putting wind into the LaFol
lette gas bag, appears to be rather
pessimistic just now In recent dis
patch he says: Sentiment will be
sounded as TO whether the state and
local workers want new party or
merely the creation OF permanent
Q. p. p. A. which in the next cam,
paign might become an ally OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

Stanley Baldwin offered Sir Robert Horne the
post of secretary of labor in the tory cabinet Sir
Robert felt quite insulted. He may have thought
that Baldwin mistook him for John L. Lewis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

Magnus Johnson can spend the time now that
he formerly devoted to attacking the Communists,
milking cows and pitching hay, and hoping to be
back in clover some day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

Senator Burton X. Wheeler did not get into the
White House, but he got lot of good advertising
out of it. He is disguised with the result of the
election. We have not yet heard from Harry NJ.
Daugherty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

The Argentine republic has decided to withdraw
its representative from the Vatican. 1t looks as if
the Holy Father is out of'luck these days.