The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-28
BY HARRISON GEORGE
m July 4, you, Robert Marion La

~ roulette, issued statement 10
the people, saying, in part:
I'm the course of the campaign,
shall give frank expression to my
views on every political issue Of re-
cognized Importance. The people
have right to know the position of
every candidate upon questions which
are Of vital moment to them. have
never avoided or evaded issues. l
shall not do so now"
What About This Issue?
AS this is being written the inter-
national bankers whom you pass over
with only two printed lines of vague
and general denunciation in your So
called wisconsin Program"-are in
London reshaping the reparations pro-
gram of the Versailles Treaty, which
you once denounced but concerning
which you now fail to speak.
While millions of American workers
may be ignorant of the CHASTITY i'm
portance of the London Conference,
you are not. You know that in Lon
don the bankers of America and Eng
land-the great Morgan interests you
once denounced-are gathered in
Joint meeting with the Allied premiers
to put across the infamous Dawes
Report of Preparations" Secretary
Hughes and Secretary Mellon are at
the conference door. At diplomatic
dinner given by and for such inter-
national bandits, Secretary, Hughes
added the weight of the American
CAMS agent, Thomas w. Lamont, that
guarantees for American investors"
should take precedence over both
German and French interests in en-
forcing the Dawes Plan"
Millions of workers do not under
stand the meaning of the Dawes plan.
They have had it's virtues sung by
the same capitalist newspapers you
once attacked as controlled" You,
however, know the Dawes plan. You
know that it provides for the absolute
enslavement of the German working
class to Wall Street in return for a
loan of $2O0,O0o,O0O. You know that
Morgan's banks are those investors"
Secretary Hughes demands protection
for. You know that the government
owned railroads of Germany are to
be mortgaged for $4,000. 100000 and
turned over to private ownership,
and this terrible burden is to be laid
upon the backs Of German workers.
You know that every shop and factory
in Germany is so loaded with obliga-
tons, which, to discharge, must make
driven slaves out of every worker in
Germany.
You know, Mr.. LaFollette, that
these gigantic sums never could be
money to the Allied bloodsuckers.
You know that such reparations debts
can only be discharged, IL at all, by
expectation of goods made by starving
labor in Germany, into the world mar
ket in competition with American la
Dor, among others.
Do You Say This IL No Issue?
You say that the people have a
right to know" the position OF candi-
dates upon questions which are OF
vital moment to them" Very we'll;
what about the Dawes plan? lis that
a question Of no vital moment to
American workers?
Listen to the voice OF Wall Street
on that subject. The Commercial
and Financial Chronicle" organ OF the
=
support you for President, Mr.. La
Toilette, says:
1T is pointed out that once the
Dawes plan is adopted, Europe will
probably invade American markets on
a larger and more formidable scale,
favored by labor costs much below
those prevailing in the United States.
II labor does not meet the situation
by intelligent aequiesenoe In reduced
wages, II will suffer by = Iessened
demand for lie services"