The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-24
The irresponsible MGhoney

There is person in st. Paul. Minnesota, by the
name of William Mahoney He is editor Of a weekly
labor paper, which he Unanswered into being made
the official organ of the Minnesota Federation Of
Labor much to the chagrin of rival faker in Min
neapolis, who edits the Labor Review
Mahoney is ambitious and has more schemes for
getting his name into the capitalist papers than
a conjurer has tricks. At one time Mahoney worked
the progressive" gag for breaking into print AS
la phraseologically fiery radical, the capitalist
papers got kick out of featuring this harmless
middleaged property owner. On the other hand
Mahoney could prove in his weekly sheet that he
was perfectly tractable progressive who would
never upset the capitalist apple cart
There was time when millions Of American
workers and poor farmers thought they wanted a
labor party. Scores of American labor takers and
capitalist politicians thought they didn't but did
not say so openly. Their policy one Of watch
ing and waiting and making Delphic promises.
The Communists took the lead in endeavoring
to organize the growing political consciousness Of
the masses This caused the labor takers to sentence
the Communists to political isolation. But they
could not carry out the sentence.
The Communists advocated class political action
for the workers and poor farmers as against a
united front with the bourgeoisie as urged by the
progressives and reactionaries. One of those who
stood for class farmer-labor party was Mahoney.
But when LaFollette blew his bugle and the takers
followed him as the rats of Hamelin followed the
Pied Piper (tho unfortunately not into the OCEAN,
Mahoney joined the procession.
AT the Cleveland conference of the G. p. P. A.
Mahoney was not allowed to sit with the respect
ables. He was unclean, because in weak moment
he invited the Communists to participate in the ST.
Paul convention. But he was willing to make
amends and since then he has made pcnance in
sackcloth and ashes for his progressive sins.
Mahoney recently figured in the expulsion of
two Communists from the ST. Paul Central Labor
Council. He aided the reactionaries. Again he
breaks into the news. This time by reading the
Communists out of the Minnesota farmerlabor
federation.
In doing this, Mahoney will win back whatever
credit he lost with the capitalist class during the
days in which he sOwed his radical wild oats. The
political roue has now turned evangelist If Ma
honey thinks that he is hurting the Communists by
his action, even his added brain will soon be con-
WINGED that he has hurt his fake farmerlabor party
more than he hurt the Communists
The workers and farmers of Minnesota have in
the Workers (Communist) Party the only political
party that fights for their interests The farmerla
Dor federation is in the hands of bankers labor
takers and petty bourgeois professional politicians
who will use it to further their own ambitions and
club to shake graft out of the capitalists With
out the Communists the farmer-abOr federation
is like body without soul 1t is a political
corpse. Mahoney is welcome to the job of being it's
undertaken