The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-15
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FTER , 3 wit serv-
N ices to t t Ameri-
ca and treason ngclass
movement, SamLe 4 Nsident
Of the American Is abor,
passed away. The lists
in the United State. "a errand
boy, Calvin CoolidA ,xpress grief
over his death. Well they might. They
have lost a valuable ally. His last
outstanding act while alive, was to
help carry the victorious banner of
Wall Street into Mexico. What the
armies Of the American plunderbund
could not do. the subtle poison Of
Compression accomplished; the accept
ance Of the hegemony of American
capitalism by the Mexican labor move
ment, at least that portion Of it I'M
der the domination of Morones, the
Gompers of Mexico.
~OMPERS died with the harness
" of American Imperialism on his
back. And as in life he was the close
ally and loyal aid Of the exploiting
class, it is only right that in death
he should follow the same policy. His
carcass will rest between two Of the
leading figures In the history of Amer
lean capitalism: William Rockefeller
and Andrew Carnegie. The latter
was one Of the bloodiest scoundrels
that ever coined gold out Of the flesh
and blood of the working class, but
he appreciated the services OF the
head of the American Federation of
Labor and left him pension. The
workers have no reason to mourn the
death Of Gompers.
THE socialists are now busy taking
| stock Of the profit and loss to what
is left of their party resulting from
their immersion in the LaFollette
movement. They find nothing on the
credit side except little publicity
for few leaders like Hillquit and
Berger. The latter is by no means
happy as the adventure practically
wiped out his Socialist machine in
Milwaukee. Hillquit is anxious to
form a third party" in which he will
undoubtedly be leading figure. He
has ability of a kind that will prove
useful in parliamentary activities.
JUDGE PANKEN, writing in So
y cialist weekly, declares that the de-
cision Of the socialist party to sup
port LaFoIIette after allowing the lat
ter to write his own program, was
almost fatal to the S. p. Socialists
were placed in the position of sup
porting capitalist candidates, he says.
Many sb-called radical unions that had
never previously voted for capitalist
candidates, threw down the bars and
picked out friends" in the Gompers
style. Instead of voting for Thomas
as candidate for governor of New
York, many of the needle trades work
ers voted for AL Smith. Everybody
was doing it," so to speak.
The policy of the socialists was
/ branded as opportunistic by Pan
ken. 1t was worse than ina he said,
1t was stupidity opportunistic. LaFoI-
lette got the assistance of the social
lists while he made speeches. denounc-
ing socialism. 1t was with great diff
ficulty that Norman Thomas was al
lowed to speak on the same platform
with the ''progressives" at large mass
meetings. In fact the poor socialists
were sacrificed to make a Roman
holiday for Hillquit and the ambitious
S. p. leaders who expected big vic
tory for Larollette and short cut
to Washington. They were disappoint-
ed.
THE socialist press sneered at the
| Workers (Communist) Party when
it ran William Y. Foster for president,
the only presidential candidate run
ming on a platform calling for the over
throw Of the capitalist system and
the organization of society on the
basis of the rule of the workers thru
Soviets and the dictatorship of the
proletariat. They laughed at the COM
paratively small number of votes
polled by our candidates and the still
smaller number counted for us. But
the Workers Party gained in strength
thru the campaign The circulation of
our daily jumped ahead and the NOR
ale of our party was raised.