The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-03

AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. }. o'FLAHERTY.

may be waste Of time to devote
valuable space to the rantings Of
the muddle-hesded editor Of the Mil
waukee Leader, who completes with
the highly paid capitalist toady of the
Hearst press, in running q column, y
tho, without the literary 1uency of
Brisbane. What is worrying Victor
Berger. Just now. more than his excess
avordupois, or even his real estate.
is the charge made against LaFollette,
to the effect that he is revolutionist
Berger takes up the cudgels for his
friend Bob" A few quotations will
prove enlightening.
HE attacks Of our American cap
italist papers and politicians on
LaFolette, however, go to the limit
OF ignorant ill-will and criminal ignor.
ance. Far from being revolutionary
LaFolIette is the man who stands be-
tween capitalism and chaos" What
does Berger mean by chaos? Read
on: ut is extremely foolish to de-
pend on men of the makeup of Cool
idge or Davis, who by their stupid
capitalist Conservatism are, bound to
bring on a bloody catastrophy of the
type of the French revolution or of
he Bolsheviki upheayal in Russia"
o, Berger joins the northumberland,
Spreckles, in putting up Bob" as a
dam against the social revolution
which Berger once. gave lip service to.
IN Berger's vocabulary the rule of the
workers is synonymous with chaos
\ order to quiet the nerves of those
who may believe that LaFollette
end the socialists are revolutionary,
the Milwaukee Leader publishes on
The front page of its Nov. issue, the
planks Of the C. P. P. A. platform
adopted at Cleveland and written by
I.pFollette. The Leader comments:
Where is there a single demand or
. single proposition in this program
that is revolutionary? Or a single
plank that is not in strict compliance
with the common sense and the COM
mon needs of the common people?"
Berger has even stopped talking about
The workers and now turns his sewer
pipo on the poor common people" a
social class as vague as Berger's soc.
ialism
I AFOLLETTE did a neat bit Of
&- double crossing on the farmer
labor party movement when he de-
livered a broadside attack on the
June II convention in ST. Paul. Since
then, however, Bob" has been get
ting some of his own medicine The
G. @. P. has plenty of money and can
is up as many red plots against La
Toilette as the latter could charge the
Communists with. The bitter is get
ting bitten with vengeance.
Z AFOLLETTE staged a perform
- ance in New York recently.
Prominent actors and actresses were
scheduled to appear. But their man
ayers happened to be for Coolidge and
warned them that if they appeared at
the LaFollette show. they might cool
taslr shins in the employment offices
around 46th St and Broadway, for the
winter as far as the theatrical man.
ayers were concerned. What happen
cd when the audience, who paid big
money TO see first rate vaudeville per-
formers were presented with medi-
ocre talent, is told in the news col.
umns.
THE Prince of Wales is back in
! England again. 1t is reported that
his father is not at all pleased with
the kind of publicity his son received
in America. Edward p. is solely to
alame. He made that kind OF publ.
civ. The king did not mention the
DAILY WORKER reporting on the
princes visit, but we had some good
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