The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-16

AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. }. o'FLAHERTV

EVIDENTLY the Italian workers,
II who were led into phantom
utopia by the promises of fascism a
few years ago, are coming to their
senses. There are big strikes in Italy,
in the heart of the industrial section
of that country. The so-called fascist
unions are cooperating with the non
fascist unions. 100000 workers have
downed tools. They are not peace
fully inclined They do not spurn
violence as something unethical. That
is one lesson that the fascist have
not untaught them.
THE employers are angry. "You are
4 biting the hand that fed you" is
what they are saying to the fascist
leaders. Signor Federozoni, acting
head of the fascist government Mus
solini is said to be dying, has called
meeting of employers. He tells
them that they must compromise in
order to save the fascist regime. Just
as the president of the United States
would call the coal operators or the
rail magnates together and advise
them to surrender a little to the
strikers until after the election. The
slack could be pulled in later.
-
DIG events are destined to take place
II in Italy soon. Fascism does not
feed the hungry stomach of the
worker. Fine phrases about the glory
of Italy do not magically resolve the
class struggle into nothingness. The
old battle remains, the battle between
the exploiter and the exploited for the
difference between the pay envelope
and what goes into the employers
jeans. The dictatorship of the bour-
geoisie in Italy, under the leadership
of the fascist, is doomed to failure.
1t is collapsing. The dictatorship of
the workers and peasants in Russia
under the leadership of the Commun-
lists is destined to succeed. 1t is sue
ceeding. s$
THE capitalists are only a small
4 fraction of society. While the
great masses were inflicted with the
slave mind, ruling the many by the
few was an easy task. But capital
SIN. besides developing the machinery
Of production, also developed the
minds of the workers. Education of
a sort was necessary if the compli-
Gated machinery of production was to
be managed. The workers learned to
read They read more than the cap
italists bargained for. But all their
knowledge did not come from reading.
Most of it came thru experience in
the daily struggle for bread.
TIME workers are fast losing that
L feeling of inferiority. They have
seen the Russian workers and peas
ants throwing off one of the most
powerful and Oldest tyrannies in the
world. They see them slowly but
surely marching onward to a greater
degree OF comfort, gained thru their
own efforts. They have seen them
defeat world in arms. 1t has cheer
ing effect on the morale of the work
ers of other countries. The socially
useless minority can no longer con-
vince the workers that but for their
brains and generalship the industrial
machine would go to smash.
THE black dictatorship in Italy is
4 going to smash. But 1t is not likely
that it will go without a struggle.
When the workers come into power
there and establish their dictatorship,
many of those allegedly progressive"
people who now attack the fascist be-.
cause they have trampled on the
lights Of free speech and free press,
will turn their guns on the dictator
ship of the proletariat of Italy as they
have on the government of Soviet
Russia.
ONE would think by reading the
~ effusions. of the liberals and the
hvnocritfca1 vaiIouy cocfoI{cfc that tI,o