The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-05
Chicago Journal Was
Not Turned Over To Its
Employees by the Owner
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY all the world told John c. Eastman late
editor and owner Of the Chicago Journal has left that
PLOYES says the big headline In the journal ITSELF which
should leave no doubt about it.
On the face of things this would indicate that chcagos
workers. at least those employed the Journal,
have daily paper Of their own. BY employees visions
the printers the stereoypers the aers the pessen
OFFICE staff the workers in the editorial the
newsies.
But is kept long in doubt to the real facts
behind the misleading headlines The paper doesn't go to
the employees at ALL The workers the Journal
will.
The much heraIded empIoyes" consist merely Of three
high officials Of the Chicago journal company Eastmans
closest business associates Take good look at them
w Frank Dunn, president; O. l. Hail. vcepresident and
H. c. Deuter, treasurer.
The journal had to be continued after Eastmans
1t wasn't in the nature of things that he could along
with him. Someone had to have the ownership Of the paper
The employees certainly didn't get it. The workers. all the
right in the Journal today than they had before Eastman
died. This title lodged according to the best traditions of
private ownership in the hands of the business trio
Eastman turned over this property.
1t isn't written in the newspaper game no more than in
any other industry that the workers should get under
capitalism The business of publishing newspapers being
m0nqPozsd Just like the running Of the steel industry
cago HeradExainer has because Of the susenance
two morning daies that drove Of its field Its sole
competitor is The Tribune giant corporation alone taking
millions Of dollars annually IN profits
The Journal prides itself on two things It claims to be
rhe Oldest daily Chicago. 1t
only democratic newspaper. But things that old are
ready for death There really for the
existence of The Journal; than there is for the
Evening Post Vic LaWson's "open shop Daily News and
the scandal mongering Evening American, also Hearst
property thoroy cover the field. They give the
class all the service that really needs 1t should there
fore not be surprising if the in time decide
to die Then the other capitalist sheets would publish long
news articles and editorials relating the failure turning
over such delicate property, newspaper, to e
ployes" They would merely be publishing the sequel to
the fiction they have already set afIoat
The consolidation of the various capitalist newspapers
their own press The Journal procais that "stead
lastly fought the side of law order public decencv
official honesty and civic reform Every other capitalist
sheet II cannot say as much at least claim it. What
me workers IN city and country need newspapers that
VIII tight tor the working class against the capitalist class
There is only daily newspaper in the English Ian
gae published in these United States that is doing
at the present time. That newspaper is the DAILY WORK
En- the official organ of the Workers (Communist) PARTY
The DAILY WORKER welcomes the consolidation of the
forces OF its enemy in the growing capitalist press
monopoly the developing solidarity of its enemy that must
become apparent city and land workers. forcing them into
realization of the necessity of building their own press
The DAILY WORKER belongs to workers. II is their
weapon; welded by the organized American Communist
movement Its triumphant record shows that the workers
can successfully conduct class organ of their own The
DAILY WORKER is the forerunner Of many DAILY WORK
Frs, to come in all the big centers of the nation.
John C. Eastans death marked the passing of the last
OF the private owners and personal editors of an American
newspaper.
The DAILY WORKER marks the Joint effort Of work
ers to build of their Of chief weapons
not only in crushing the opposition capitalist press but in
helping to abolish the whole capitalist system: when the
workers will take the world