The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-05

AS WE SEE -
BY T. ]. o'FLAHERTY

THE executive council Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor has re-
pudiated it's feeble and faltering ad-
venture in the direction of political
party, in opposition to the parties OF
the democrats and republicans, when
1t returned to the mis-named nonpart-
isan policy sacred to the bureaucracy,
which never misses an opportunity to
support one or other Of the old par
ties according as their individual in
terests may be served. When the
executive council decided to support
LaFollette in the last election, it did
so by a majority of one, Gompers
casting the decisive vote. Green was
opposed to this policy.
LNvEN Gompers supported LaFol-
lette under pressure from the rank
and file. Coolidge's prosperity prom
Uses and threats of unemployment
with other factors helped the G. o.
P. to bury the LaFollette campaign.
At the present time there is little en-
thusiasm among the workers for a
break with the democratic and repub-
lican parties. The elections are
away off and while the capitalist par
ties are preparing their fences the
workers are apathetic. But this ap-
athy is only short lived, and the ukase
Of the labor bureaucracy against in
dependent working class political &C
ton will prove as effective as old
King Canute's order to the tide.
TINE barrage against Mussolini con-
4 Quoted by the Chicago Tribune
still continues. What the devoted
Trib is now publishing appeared
many times in the DAILY WORKER.
We did not expose Mussolini merely
because of the methods he uses to
maintain his dictatorship. It's the
dictatorship of any other class but
the working class that we are OPP
posed to. And when somebody rises
to say, that we are everything but
deynocratic, we plead guilty to the
Cnarge but at the same time claim
that the will of ninety-ive per cent
Of the population even when ex-
pressed thru a dictatorship is more
democratic in the real sense than the
rule of five per cent over the ninety
five per cent, under the camoufiage of
democracy
TRANCE is fighting FOR civiliza-
l. ton in Morocco. At least this is
what Premier Painleve tells us. And
no less a person that Karl Won Wieg-
and, German correspondent for the
Hearst papers reinforces Painleve's
statement When France was fight
ing against Germany both Germany
and France were fighting for civiliza-
ton. So far, Abd-El5K only
claims to be fighting for the freedom
of his country from French and
Spanish rule. And despite Arthur
Brisbane's airplanes. Krim seems to
be doing nicely
THE British tories are not at all
4 pleased over the turn taken by
the coal strike negotiations. Baldwin
bought peace at too dear a price
they claim The addition to the tax
alton burden is not what bothers
those gentlemen so much as the
moral effect of the government being
forced to surrender to the might of
the workers. Should the workers get
the idea into their heads that they
possess the power to make. all the
British capitalists bite the dust, the
British tories would not have to wor-
ny about taxes.
THE crown prince of Germany Che
4 still carries the title), would like
10 tour the world like the prince of
Wales, but he can't For one thing
he hasn't got as much money as the
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