The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
FOSTER SLAMS
DEFENSE DAY
and GEN. DAWES
Gals Head Like Wall
Street DictaphOne
By JOSEPH MANLEY.

BY JOSEPH MANLEY.
Campaign Manager, Workers Party.
That the Communists are the
only real opponents of capitalist
war, and its conse uen t
slaughter of the workers, was
amply demonstrated at the en-
thusiastic gatherings just held
for our presidential candidate,
William z. Foster, in the cities
of Elizabeth and Newark, New
Jersey.
Both Of these meetings held
just preceding Coolidge's De-
Tense Day aroused great interest
and crystalized the anti-capital-
ist war sentiment in both of
these places. The democratic"
government Of New Jersey was
well represented at both of these
meetings by large details of
police.
Foster was in fine trim, especially
at the Elizabeth meeting, he fayed
Coolidge and his Defense" Day. He
said: "Coolidge's quick change of
front in calling the original Mobiliza-
ton Day, Defense Day, illustrates the
calibre of the man. His one-cylinder
intellect responds only to The wishes,
dictates and desires of his Wall Street
masters.
why all the mobilization for De
Tense? Defense against whom?
Where is the great and powerful en-
envy with battleships, poison gas and
armies, to attack the United States?
Separated as we are from both Eu-
rope and the Orient by thousands of
miles of ocean. The enemy whom
Coolidge wants to mobilize against
are primarily the workers of America.
This great display of military force
has several objects. To overawe and in
timidate the workers at home, to pre-
pare for the slaughter that will result
from war precipitated by the back
ers of Coolidge and Dawes, to collect
the debts of these American imper-
ialists; or a war caused by their ruth
less struggle for supremacy in the
world markets. This whole scheme
is symbolized in the person of Dawes
the running mate of Coolidge. This
so-called warrior, who never fired a
shot, and who stayed safely far be-
hind the lines in the last world war,
is Brigadier General.
"The only war he fights in is a class
war for his own class, the capitalist
class. He fights" surrounded by
comfort in luxury with an attempted
use of hardboiled language, against
the reds and organized labor. In Illi-
nois this cross roads capitalist hero
organized the Minute Men of the Con-
stitution.
Dawes, Financial Tool.
zone of their chief objects is to fight
the red menace and to protect
scabs. Banker Dawes, president of
the Illinois Trust Company, is an UNI
scrupulous and demogogic champion
of the financial oligarchy which owns
the United States government. The
plan which bears his name and which
is administered by Owen d. Young, an
other agent Of Morgan, will enslave
to American Imperialism millions of
German workers. This American re-
ceivership will require the use of ter
rife force to fasten the collar of Am.
erican gold around the throats of the
German workers; just the kind of cap.
italist force that you are asked to
glorify in the present Mobilization
Day, The next international imper.
ialist war is the war of Defense"
which Coolidge and Dawes are at
tempting to rally the American work
ers to.
"All the talk about the yellow men.
ace and the question of Japanese i'm.
migration are false issues. The real
issue behind this political smoke.
screen is the struggle OF American
imperialism for the markets OF Asia
and the domination of the Pacific
Foster dealt in an equally virile and
ruthless manner with the other candi-
dates, Davis and LaFollette. He said:
Davis may come from West Virginia,
but 1t is long time ago. He is from
West Virginia all right. Part OF the
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