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August. Address Box 32o-K, Star Office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08

lists of the world in denouncing the revolution
airy tactics of the Communist International and
it is an epitaph because the social-democratlc
party is dead and no longer factor in the
German nation.
1t played its reasonable role long enough to
allow the German capitalists to set up their
dictatorship, while all the time denouncing the
dictatorship of the workingclass. German
prisons and concentration camps are now filled
with the best Of the German workers and the
Won Seeckt dictatorship commits such horrible
brutalities upon them that Prussian mobiles are
moved to protest. When they are released
those who do not die of wounds and starvation
they will go back into industry at the mercy
Of the German money lords who, as their first
condition, specify that the unions must be
destroyed.
1t is cruel joke that in the old days the
power of the social-democrats was based upon
the unions and the unions blindly followed
them into the treacherous swamp of parlia-
mentarism and reformism
Kurt Serge, speaking for the Association of
German Industry, says, after detailing the de-
mands Of the capitalists:
German industry is willing to make sacrifices
for the welfare of the reich, but only the basis
Of these conditions Only when the rubbish is
swept away from internal politics can German i'm
dustry turn its attention to foreign problems.
Yes, it is a noble heritage left the German
workingclass. The elementary privileges of
organization, political activity and working
conditions are classed as rubbish by the big
bellied plutocrat who capitalizes their misery.
The issue is clear at last It is the working
class of Germany, headed by the Communist
Party, against German capitalism with no or
ganzation of social-democrat traitors left to
mouth with Serge, Thyssen and SHINES the
Sacrifices the industrial lords are making.
1t is terrible price that the German workers
have paid for clarity Of vision but it is the
price that every other workingclass will pay
which, does not learn in time that the doctrine
of DISQUALIFICATION means death to the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
Bill to Repeal
Esch-Cunlniins LGIC
Fought by Roads

WASHINGTON, April Hale
Holden, chairman, executive commit
tee, Association of Railway Execls
tives. protested to the senate inter-
state commerce. committee, at a spe-
cial hearing, against the Howell
Barley bill which provides for the
repeal of the labor sections of the
Esch- Cumnins law.
Daniel Willard, of the Baltimore
& Ohio, seconded Holden's opinion
that the Esch-Cummins law and the
railroad labor board deserved to re-
main in full operation. Holden de-
nounced the new bill rs scheme TO
enforce the closed shop and to dis
franchise hundreds Of thousands Of
railroad employees who "do not de-
sire" to be represented by the rcgu-
lar labor organizations. Southern
Pacific Company unions filed tele-
grams Of protest, too:
Holden said the shoDmen's strike
of 1922 showed that the public was
pleased with the railroad labor
boards actions. It would be fatal
e business stability if, when the
next downward move in wages ar
rived, the law should encourage
resistance to a wage cut.
Senator Conzens tried in vain TO
get Holden's estimate of the date
CT that coming reduction in wage
scales.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
Freedom of Franchise In Practice

clans to line up openly with their
masters.
The capitalist press will of course,
continue to laugh al the benighted
citizens of Central and South Amer
lean republics, but the correct posi-
ton or the American working class to
take is that with the rise of mass
movement of workers and farmers its
political education is just beginning
and that up to date it has with al
most negligible exceptions always
been used by one wing or the other
of the bipartisan political machine of
American capitalism; it is for tactical
reasons alone that the capitalist re-
trains from ridicule of the American
electorate.
There is always indignation in our
best circles because of such unfor-
tunate occurrences as those at Cicero,
yet they are a typically American
phenomenon arising from the fact
that the American masses are just
learning that the right Of franchise
without mass party Of their own and
a program expressing the needs of the
workers and farmers is something as
worthless as an honest ballot in an
election run by capitalism's gangsters.
The indignation aroused among the
moral bourgeosie by open election
corruption will be as nothing however,
to their rage at the fight against capt.
talism as well as corruption that will
be waged by the workers and farmers
now massing their forces for the most
effective utilisation of the election
machinery NJ American government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
Debauching the Mas.e,.

The election campaigns of American
capitalism have debauched the cleo
torate until cynicism is it's outstand-
ing characteristic.
The soil prepared in this manner is
a fertile one for the growth of
widespread corruption affecting all
classes in American society; cor
ruption of which the Teapot Dome
and Daugherty scandal is sympto.
matte of a diseased social condition
just as a boil is symptomatic of the
need Of body cleansing.
The Cicero election campaign was a
fight between two rival groups for
the control of the illicit revenues
from all forms Of vice and therefore
was a small replica of national cam.
paigns waged by the two capitalist
parties in which the issue has usually
been the determining of which set of
capitalist tools shall receive the rev.
enues the real rulers allow their
agents to collect. The violence in
Cicero, in its open character, may
differentiate it in degree from the
methods pursued in election cam
paigns all over the nation, but to
those who adhere ardently to the
tenets Of democracy as preached by
the apologists of American capitalism,
we say that there has never been an
honest election in America and that
there never will be while the CAPT
talism system stands.
In every campaign where the class
issue Is apparent the ruling class re-
sorts to violence after all attempts to
befog the issue have failed and as
larger and larger masses are eroused
by the intensification Of the struggle
in the United States, the capitalists
and their agents will become more
and more brazen in their contempt
for the democratic processes upon
which they urge the workers and
farmers TO rely.
Reason for Hostility.
Not the least important reason for
the hostility of the old capitalist par
ties and their tools in the labor or
CARNATIONS to the rising farmer-labor
movement is their instructive feeling
that the class character Of it will
swing into action several millions of
workers and farmers hitherto unin-
terested in political affairs and make
much easier thoro discussion Of vital
issues. Election campaigns will then
become monster educational enter
prises and will be fought out on is
sues that will force capitalist politi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
The German Workers Pay

The social-democrats of the world must
swell with pride when they read the following
demands made upon the German government
by the industrial and financial lords as the
price for which they will agree to give it
further support in meeting the allied demands !:
l. The political power of the trade unions must
be entirely destroyed
2. Tho government must cease TO negotiate
directly With the trade unions.
B. The eight-hour day law must be repealed.
4. single front of trade unions in industrial
decisions must be prohibited
5. Obligatory governmental arbitration in labor
disputes over wages must be restricted
6. The return of all economic machinery, be-
ginning with the state railroads. to private hands
must be undertaken.
z. As the necessity of reparations payments
will compel Transformations Of German production,
the internal markets must be prevented from fall
ing into the hands Of foreign competitors by the
creation Of and the raising Of existing customs
duties
This proposal to enslave the whole German
workingclass and which the government will
accept because it is the creature Of those who
make these demands, is the heritage the social
democrats have bequeathed to the German
workers.
1t is the logical outcome of the murder Of
the revolutionary aspirations of the German
workers in 1918, the slaughter of Liebknecht
and Luxembourg and the policy of kindly toler-
alton growing into aid and comfort for the
German capitalists-the reverse of the policy
adopted towards the workers.
It is fitting epitaph for the traitors of the
social-democracy who joined with the capital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
Northwest Storm Signals

First-hand news of the whrlwlnd that IS
wrecking the homes of capitalist politicians IN
the northwest was brought to Washington
last week by Governor Preus of Minnesota, the
pet of the steel trust who still holds Office be-
cause he has not yet had to stand for re-
election.
The observations of Governor Preus have
been made from q crack in the door of the
cyclone-cellar in which he and his henchmen
have been living for the past few months and
are reasonably accurate.
He shattered one Of the fondest hopes that
the old party heelers have been entertaining
j. e. that LaFollette would be too i'll to take
the field for campaign Governor Preus,
looking somewhat battered and with hunted
look in his eye, allowed that so long as one
breath of life remained in the LaFollette body
he could carry eight northwest states without
using it for speech.
Governor Preus is no academic observer of
northwest politics; he knows the temper of
the workers and farmers and he feels that
something drastic must be done, but he is
silent as to remedies. It is a new situation
and politicians of the Preus type are at their
wits end. The preparations for the June II
convention are being made under his nose and
he is painfully cognizant of the fact that the
professional politicians in and out of the labor
and farmer movement are Understanding the
significance of the mass political uprising in
the northwest.
Preus made one feeble squawk about the
German element in the northwest situation
but it was only halfhearted attempt to ex-
plain something he did not understand and the
complete bankruptcy of the capitalist parties
in his territory is shown by the fact that he
failed to resurrect the menace of Communism
hitherto the first count in the indictment of
the workers and farmers when they have
shown disposition to revolt.
Such testimony from leaders of the capitalist
parties relative to the strength of the farmer
labor movement brings into holder relief the
cowardly tactics of the official leaders of the
labor movement
With the steel trust governor of great
state like Minnesota conceding his own and
seven other states to LaFollette as the leader
by force Of circumstances of mass political dis
content the refusal of labor officialdom to
recognize facts and break with the capitalist
parties becomes treason of a particularly
offensive kind.
1t is the memorable trend of events all show
ing that great and fundamental change is
taking place in the attitude of the exploited
workers and farmers of America towards their
exploiters that proves conclusively the conten-
ton OF the Workers Party of America that the
difference between Cleveland and ST. Paul,
June II and July a, is a class difference
June II will be convention of the rank and
file of workers and farmers organizations
demanding action; July A will be convention
of bureaucrats and middle-class elements inter-
ested in hampering the rise of mass working
class party that they know they cannot lead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
Class War Prisoner In San
Quentin Likes "DaiIv Worker

The following letter from victim
behind the walls ST. Quentin labor only
Of received from Of praisine
DAILY WORKER for its revolutionary
The letter addressed TO the Business Manager
To the Daily Worker: In reply letter
to say that am receiving THE DAILY WORKER regularly wish
to thank the comrade who thoghfy
The DAILY WORKER is the best paper that
the Butte Bulletin
felt need in the field Of labor journalism
would certainly do all in
financial obstacles will be give
the support deserves The
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08

By J. T. MURPHY

Now that there Is not the same
necessity to keep the strongest part
of the feet in the North Sea, ano
Gibralter is not the fortress 1t was
in the years gone by, attention IS I
being given to the concentration OF
the strongest forces in the Medlter-
ranean. 1t is proposed by the Ad-
miralty that eight Of the most pow
erful battleships, to which the two
new ones now being built may be
added, are to concentrate in the
Mediterranean. In addition the
lighter forces are to be reinforced
and the aircraft carrier Eagle, the
largest ship Of her tyne afoat, is
under orders to proceed to the same
station at Malta. At present no
submarines are attached to the fleet
in these waters but fotilla is re-
ported to, be ear-marked for the
job. Some time will clapse before
the whole Of this plan can be car
ried out because of the smallness
of dock facilities. But it is to be
carried out, we are told.
Mussolini Jealous and Hostile.
1t is this concentration which is
annoying Mussolini, along with the
dissatisfaction over the delay in the
sharing Of the snoils of war in
Africa. According to the settlement
of the victors, Italy has to have 3
slice of territory q in Africa known
as Jubuland, part of Kenya now
under the control of Britain. This
reward does not appear to be COM
ing to Italy quickly enough and so
he regards the Mediterranean con-
centration as representative Of q
spirit of antagonism directed against
Italy which justifies him in stand
ing no nonsense. So he is going
ahead with the armament policy.
Much as he would like to get the
French to line up with him on this
matter and to make general Med
itteranean combination, and much as
the French foreign office would like
to do so, the conflict between the
dominant economic forces in each
country are so much in opposition
to each other that The proposal
won't work. The Conites des FORCES
may be a competitor of the British
industrialists, but it is getting too
much out Of her monopoly of the
raw material, supplying the steel in
dustry of Italy and the large mar
ket for her manufactured goods
thruout Italy that there is not much
likelihood Of the combination be-
ing brought about.
Nevertheless the further we pene-
trate thru the atmosphere favor
able to peace" which Macdonald has
been talking so much about the more
the realities of warlil1e preparations
and maneuvering for positions be-
comes observable. Each of them
are talking of the Versailles Treaty.
All of them are pursuing their own
National and Imperial aims.
Disaster Ahead.
The forces which underly the
predatory aims are memorable. They
will not give way to MacDonald's
rhapsodies, whilst in action he sim
ply follows the old traditions. I'M
perialism has got him in its grip
and all his colleagues with him. We
are moving towards catastrophe and
the Scotch ghost of Wilson leads
the way with palm branches at the
helm Of the battleships, with pu-
ritan sermons and peaceful psalms
to dull the christian conscience and
the policy of Imperial Continuity as
his chart. He says it is the path
to socialism. 1t may be. But not
in the sense in which he means it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
By WILLIAM f. dunno

CHICAGO and its environs are typi-
- cally American and altho it is
the habit of the capitalist press to
ridicule the Latin-American for their
lack of training in the use of the
franchise when there is gun-play on
election day, the Chicago press has
been devoid of editorial comment on
the manner in which the Cicero cleo
ton was Observation-Disclosures, slug
ging, shooting and murder with vic
tory going to the faction that mo-
bilised the largest number of gunner.
A great myth has been built up
around the ballot in America. To
listen to the eulogies delivered by
inspired publicists one would be led
to believe that when election day rolls
around the populace rises to the
stature of an intellectual giant and
goes to the polls, each one a ruler
in his own right, equipped with keen
knowledge and armed with a deep
conviction concerning the weighty
problems his ballot will aid in solv-
ing(?)
The Middle Class Electorate.
Campaigns we have witnessed and
participated in do not bear out this
rosy view and it is our opinion
formed after several years Of rather
close observation of the great Amer
can public that the middle classes,
of which the electorate now is mostly
composed, is the most stupid and
therefore the most easily fooled ag-
gregation that ever were deluded in
to believing that they rule a nation.
The proof Of this theory is easily
brought forward and as conclusive
evidence Of the truth of our state
ments we submit composite photo
graph Of the city, county, state and
national officials who are now and have
been in power for the last fifty years.
II further proof is wanted we SUBJ
nit as additional evidence the issues
upon which elections have been
founght for the same period Of time
and challenge any doubter to do two
things, name one issue vitality af-
fecting the relations Of the working
class TO the capitalist class and point
out one case where even relatively
harmless mandates Of the electorate
have been carried out
So far removed from the struggles
Of the working masses have been the
issues in American election campaigns
that in not one national election has
a majority Of the masses ever been
aroused sufficiently to register vote
ON one side or the other.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
A Dangerous Step.

a 0AH6OA0G0 DbGVs
He Is treading on exceedingly
dangerous ground. It is one thing
to outmanage a Wilson in a Euro
pean combination at a time when
the economic penetration Of Europe
by American finance was relatively
weak. 1t is another thing to out
maneuver American tinanciers when
they have got their talons into
Europe and Britain too. The great
plea for American Intervention has
always been, so far as Macdonald
is concerned, on the grounds Of
world democracy and democratic
idealism. But great powers do, not
move in response to idealism with
out there is a very material basis
for their actions. And America will
only participate in the European
competition for something other
than the dreams of Macdonald or
Wilson. America has up to now
kept herself free from every at
tempt on the part Of Britain to play
her off against France.
The forces behind Macdonald, I
do not mean the working class forces
in this case, but the imperialist
forces realize these facts and the
so-called requirements in cruisers
have now to be reinforced with in
creases in air craft ana forces. The
figures of the new estimates show
an increase of pa millions. 1924
estimates totalled e12,011,0 the
1924-5 estimates total 1851 900.
There is a decrease in the cost of
the air forces and auxiliary services
in Iraq and Palestine Of over e1,-
100000, which affects the gross but
not the net figures of air votes. The
effective increase of e2S08, 900 on
the net air estimates is attributed
to:
"The progressive expansion Of
the air forces for home defense
recently decided upon; to the in
creased requirements of Navy and
Army cooperation and to the re-
Punishment of stocks of technical
equipment and other material"
Eight new regular .squadrons will
be completely formed duHhg 1924-5
which will bring the number allotted
for that purpose to IS by April,
1926.
Provision is also made for the mi
tial equipment of six more SQUAD
! rons which under present arrange
ments will be formed in 1856.
By vote A the establishment Of
the air force is increased by 1000
to total Of $4,000. 1t is reckoned
that in few years it will be 10000.
No Change of Imperialist Policy.
The reduction of cost of forces
for Mesopotamia must on no ac-
count be taken as a change of pol
icy, whilst the home defense build
ing Of air craft forces is obviously
directed against france. There is
no other formidable air force to be
reckoned with so far as Britain is
concerned. There is not the slight
est doubt that Poincare can read the
air estimates as clearly as he has
read MacDonald's letters. The one
he will reckon with materially: the
other he has answered with one of
his Sunday speeches which comedies
nothing. When all the phrases of
MacDonald's statements have been
cut away there is nothing left but
the bold fact that he is following the
old traditions of British policy more
effectively than the Conservatives
and the Liberals. His cruiser policy
has reused Mussolini to action. His
aircraft policy has met with the ap-