The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-18
MINERS Fight SLASH IN WAGES
AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY.

for the post of secretary of labor
in the Coolidge cabinet. John Dom
lin, until few days ago head of the
Building Trades Department of the
American Federation Of Labor has
his hat in the ring. It remains to be
seen whether the Coolidge wise men
will prefer member of the Gompers
machine, which supported LaFollette
to a man who lent his prestige as
head Of the largest union in the Fed
GRAFTON to the G. o. P. cause. Ac-
cording to Donlin's press agents, he
had good war record, this being
testified to by Barney Baruch The
claim is also made for Donlin. that
he prevented hundreds of strikes,
thus saving millions for the capital
lists. John L. Lewis will have to get
up early to get ahead of Sammy's
strikebreakers.
n VERY strict censorship prevails
~ in Italy. All signs point to Mus
solini's early fall Last Friday only
a short dispatch was permitted to go
out, tho radical journalists are able
to send reliable information from
frontier points. What will happen
in Italy this week should prove of
tremendous interest to the workers of
the world
--HE Chinese situation has left the
| headlines. Dean O'Bannion showed
il off the front page in Chicago and
every other large city boasts of a
crop of murders that makes a good
sized civil war look puny. Yet, very
interesting developments are taking
place in China. Indications are that
England and the United States are
developing an anti-Japanese policy,
while Japan is flirting with Italy, and
France and is trying to consolidate
itself in China. According to all re-
ports from the Orient the only great
power trusted in China is Soviet Rus
STA.
0EACTIONARY labor papers that
IN supported LaFollette are kept
busy defending themselves against
tie charge of radicalism preferred by
80 willy republican politicians who
knew Just exactly what the labor
takers would do when accused of be-
ing revolutionists. The Federation
News, Of Chicago. uses up more than
column of editorial space defend
ing the socialist party against the
terrible charge of revolutionary"
The socialists simply submerged
themselves says the News, which is
very very true. In fact they did not
even keep their heads above water.
The NEW LEADER, official organ
1 of the socialist party of New
York is good enough to give the
Workers Party credit for polling 25,-
600 votes in the recent election, but
claims 100000 for the socialist par
ty. A most conservative estimate of
the number of votes polled by Foster
is 100000, not considering the hun
dreds of thousands of DISTINGUISHED
workers who were reached by the
Communist propaganda during the
campaign. If the Workers Party had
joined the LaFollette circus, it also,
could claim five million votes and the
socialist party could have claimed
fourteen millions if it had endorsed
Coolidge instead of LaFollette. Catch
ing votes is no difficult task provided it
is an end in itself as was always the
case with the socialist party.
MO Communist will Judge the value
I IN Of the Workers Party campaign
y by The number OF votes cast for it's
\ candidates. The ruling classes Of this
country have so fixed things that a
lSNge number of the workers are al
VAIN DISTINGUISHED, even those who
are citizens. not taking into considera-
ton heNforeign born wage slaves who
have not become citizens. These vote
Iess workers are the backbone of the
heavy industries and tho their
strength does not manifest itself at
the ballot box, its political power can
be manifested between elections in
I strikes and other mass efforts.
COME Of the socalled farmerlabor
- party leaders in Minnesota sup
ported republican party candidates
against the Communists, nominated
on The farmer-labor ticket. The very
same action was taken against the
communists in England by the high
moguls OF the labor party. Yet de-
spite this treachery the Communists
made splendid showing in Min.
nesota as did the Communists In Eng
land. the latter going defeated by very
close margins. No power on earth
can keep back tho rising tide of Com
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