The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-22
Fear the Government and
Lose Or War Against the
Government and Win
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, every Of capitalist propaganda is busy
engaged In telling the American working that "Pre-
sdent Coolidge is determined prevent a strike"
That is challenge not only to the coal miners, but to
the whole American working class Especially is threat
to the organized workers.
Coolidge the strkebreaker president" will not prevent
the threatened coal strike by insisting that the very meage
demands Of the coal dggers be granted He is not the
workers president
is said that when the deadlock develops in the negotia
tons then Coolidge will summon both sides White Court
at Swampscott Mass and listen the contendng argu
Inents. Coolidge is good listener, but with only
"Slent Cal will listen we'll with the into which the mine
their story The turned to the appeal Of the
mine workers representatives will be stone deaf silent
Ca will dance to the tune ordered by the GOAL proteers
Thus the miners are again being given lesson in
the nature Of the organized capitalist power they
PEELED the fight
Coolidge heads the republican regime at Washington
servant of the American money power that flew the Amer
lean flag from the mine tppes during the last coal strike
sounded the bugle of the army and with the usual
upon its military face expected the workers in great fear
crawl back to their jobs
But dggers refused to crawl They stood erect
They knew that bayonet could not dig the coal that they
refused to bring the surface under the wages and
conditions the mine demanded and which they
iected
But the officials Of the coal miners crawIed President
John l. Lewis openly declared he coud not fight the gov
ernment Wall Streets government just as he declared dur
ing the Nova Scotia Canada strike that he could fight
the government the kings government of the British cap
itaists
It is we'll for the coal miners to remember that this
the Lewis who heraded as possible candidate for vice.
president the Coolidge ticket selected last years
publican convention when the in New York were
dangling Berry, the president of the union who
broke the strike of his organization in New York City,
before the eyes OF labor for second place their donkey
ticket But these sops withdrawn Later Lewis was
mentioned for the place of secretary of labor neither
this materiazed
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This same Lewis is the who will go to Swampscott
to speak for the coal miners But he will be thinking
OF some official plum that Coolidge may hand him than he
will be thinking of the interests of the coal miners Lewis
the crawer part Of the capitalist regime that made
Coolidge president, and may lift him place in Wall
Streets
Anything that the coal miners win will come to them
because of their class power and in spite of betrayal of
that by such officials Lewis Berry other agents
OF the profiteers within their ranks.
The coal miners will wn not because they take posi-
ton that I'VE cannot fight the government" but because
they rally to the fight against the government agent of
the mine tassH
Coolidge will try to win for the coal barons by making
upon the miners union with the full strength of the
state militia the regular army the courts and other weapons
OF the capitalist dictatorship The mitancy of the miners
assault against this dictatorship today determines nature
Of their immediate victories until they develop sufficient
class establish their Proetaran Dictatorship to end
capitalist rule forever.