The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-06

Norgan Tightens DictatorsE1ip al Wasl1ingt0I
AS WE SEE 1T
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

THE National Security League is
l very frightened lest children be-
tween the ages Of two and six start
revolutions. Here is what it says to
the toddling infants, who are just
learning to ask for pennies with which
to buy candy: at is unlawful to start
revolution. You are not only not
free to do so, but you viii be punish
ed II you do" It would not surprise
us to read q story In the capitalist
papers one OF these days as follows:
Revolution threatens U. S. A. Gary
and Rockefeller looked in oil tank.
League of Communist Infants sieze
power" Then the story in the Daily
News: Yesterday when the twelve
o'clock whistle blew, as If by precon-
certed arrangement, a feet of baby
buggies, surrounded the loop and
armed with suckers, Cross word puz-
zles, dolls and other weapons of mod
ern warfare, the hidden army Of the
League of Communist Infants, over
threw the government in Chicago.
The police were Immediately disarm-
ed and sent home to wash the dishes
while the revolutionists drove terror
into the hearts OF residents Of the
loop by their unearthly yells." Every
thing Il bawled up" declared Mayor
Dever rs he was carted to the gullo
tine in . baby carriage. 81 have the
satisfaction Of dying for Chicago. :"
He would have said more but mem
Der OF the youthful cheka threw him
into the subway and cried: "Dig,
dammit, dig Thus. declared the
Chicago Tribune. the terrorists are
combining business with pleasure"
THIS is perfectly ridiculous. but so
/ is the National Security League.
Since the 11-year-old member of the
Junior section Of the Young Workers
League was arrested New York, by
small army Of policemen, it seems that
the nerves of the ruling class of this
country are badly tangled. Children
who develop red hair on the outside
Of their heads and red ideas on the
inside are in for hard times.
NLENN YOUNG is happy again.
" His friend Small was elected.
Young said this means that the fore
es Of law and order" are on top. The
notorious Klansman is not the only
one to rejoice over Small's election.
There are others. John Fitzpatrick
and Victor Olander for instance. Fitz-
patrick said Small's election was
victory for labor. Labor" is not hard
to pleased It's funny labor" didn't
lick Grove, tho 1t tried to. Looks as
if the labor takers do not cut much
ice in elections. They have been sell
ing their alleged influence to the pol
iticians, but the latter are now learn
ing that they have been throwing
their money away.
CMALL was elected by the Ku Klux
- Khan and by the republican ma
chine. The Daily News and the Trib-
une opposed him to save their faces.
But those papers supported Coolidge
and Dawes. It was the Coolidge land
slide that carried Small back to office
again. The labor takers make much
Of the opposition Of the Tribune
News to Small. But John H. Walker
supported Deneen for senator. and
Deneen had the support of the Trib-
une Walker claimed that Sprague,
Deneen's democratic opponent was
antilabor and connected with the non.
union firm Of Rothchilds, but this lit
tie Wing did not bother the so-called
Wage Farmers League, which endors-
ed Sprague. The labor takers know
what they are after. They are out to
feather their own nests but 1t Is
doubtful II they are worth the money
wasted on them by the capitalists
during election time.
THERE is another way OF looking at
this however. II is not the serv-
Noes rendered around election time
That means most to the capitalists,
THE workers are obliged to go on
strike occasionally in order to force
a better standard Of living out Of the
employers. This is when labor takers
come in handy. They force the strik-
ers back to work, brand the strike out
law unless they so back and settle
with the bosses at terms as favorable
as possible to the latter. SO perhaps
after all, their little gift around cleo
finn time IA not badly placed.