The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-03
Workers Seeking Power
Are Today's Victims Of
Class That Oppresses.
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, workers may we'll interest themselves in the
activities Of the states attorneys office in the socaed
Shepherd case It Just an incident that the same terror
this case, that feature every attack on labor.
There is this difference however. William D. Shepherd
natey friendly to him and to the attorneys office
Shepherds gets before 1.-THE public without prejudice
herds will get before the jury without prejudice in the
promised murder trial. All of which is denied workers who
threaten the employers power
This sensational murder has developed into open
warfare witnesses who say they blow the whole
Shepherd case of the There an Earl Clark
who made affidavit that he had any germs Of
any nature in Fanans school," He is promptly
by Groves office. Then there is Mrs. Luea Rhuebel
another former attache of anan school, who claims she
had never letter written by Shepherd that Faman
said son to him nqurng about in baceriology.
Groves police are Immediately put her trail, but she
eudes capture at her apartment by getting away via the fire
escape.
All of which will doubt develop interesting clashes at
the trial. But no one will get hurt
1t different when worker like saIsedo, held captive
the federal offices of capitalist on top floor of
New York syscraper driven mad by the persecution
which he is subjected and leaps from the window of his
That was during one Of the red raids that had the endorse
ment not the actual participation of both the Shepherds
and the Groves In the Sasedo for instance kept
of the metropolis all sde the side of
capitalist prosecutors ~
But the pffIe writer's of the yellow daies also
liberty to expatate at great length the murder by John
eide Bcher had prayed publicly for the conversion of his
wife his religious views When refused to be con-
Verted he murdered her. None other than Arthur Brisbane
again OF the Hearst press finds comfort in the fact that's
"There time long when nations
religions within the did exactly
haf-crazy Ohio did ~slasss
Which raises the question whether Bircher Brisbane
insane doubt both. Bircher is survival of the reg
Gus intolerance that dying OUT because religion feels itself
powerful enough TO get along without crucying oppo
nents One of the highest points In Chicago the tip of
top of loop" skyscraper owned by church, All
religious sects backing creed in New York City
day in the building of $15oooooo cathedral The church
be tolerant OF its enemies at least for the time bring Not
SO the capitalist state that protects it. .sem
When Brsbane-Hearst outfit called for the blood of
Mooney and Billings in California did, it much
different from Brche the religious fanatic turned murderer
in Ohio.
1t wasn't the catholic church Poland sought the
blood of Lanzutsy But it was the churchs best
protector Polish capitalist state It is capitalism that
fears for its life today murders and throws into prison
by the and hundreds of thousands the political
senters OF today, the Communists just surely the
Roman Caesars threw Christians the lions the
twenty centuries ago. the British church early 18th
century drove dissenters the Atlantic find new
homes on the unsettled shores of the American continent
Brisbane isn't Nero But he would like TO be one He
just little scrbber for the great capitalist heroes of
this day. who send workers to the gaows prison. when
they protest against the torture of labor today in the worlds
great industries of this century
is the dread of the destruction of this insane capta
list system that untes myads of aden like Brisbane the
journalist Shepherd, the little capitalist; Mundeen the
churchman; CroWe the prosecutor in support of the
tast state with its nominal heads like Coolidge, in the
United States; Mussolni in italy, Hothy Hungary or
Grabski, in Poland In the against Communism all
these defenders of capitalism than Brcher
the Ohio murderer crazed in defense of his religion Every
munism rid world Of all oppressors It comes
to bring sanity to this earth.