The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
Battle Lines Are Clear;
1t Is the Communists
Against the Capitalists
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY there is whole host Of legislatures meeting in
various states, all egsating for the capitalist class.
They part of the capitalist state; the dictatorship of
Americas capitalist ruling class.
personnel of all other state legislatures shows how we'll
equipped this awnakng body really is to serve its cap
Nearly one-seventh of the legislature, 81 out of 2O4
members consists Of lawyers the most bringing humans in
hold myth of the sanctty Of oppressive capitalist Justice
Its Iaw ORDER in the shape Of the ynchers rope,
is sacred to them.
Attorneys the lower branch Of the state legislature
number a. in the there 49, Both therefore
equipped discover the slightest faint of working
class legislation that might appear
These lawyers the bewethers that lead the rest OF
the legislators in the way they should follow.
These followers DO not need much urging to keep in
sonaI politicians. many Of whom have studied law" In
the house there is members who hold other public of
fces cogs in either the democratic or republican old party
machnes 10 farmers ten each OF real estate and Insurance
men, nine merchants, and who combine real estate
with insurance. with sprnking of automobile dealers
and publishers grain Dealers housewives, teachers team
sers printers bankers who combine banking and
farming There each of other socaed occupations:
cigar dealer motor reparman, contractor resauranteur
manufacturer painter and decorator junk dealer ather,
barber hotel keeper reato and banker coal dealer nsur
and farmer, MINER merchant and farmer preach
hay dealer confectoner, oil dealer editor, doctor with
only one who confesses that he has retired from business
This makeup of the state legislature shows how inn
pcty big business entrusts its iawmakng to the small
bourgeose There is not real worker poor farmer in
the whole outfit The farmers listed Erich farmers
most of them turned landlord and gone to town to live tax
ing up politics for diversion The housewives are not the
mothers in working class families; but nearly always the
wives of big proeers seeking this sdene in their parasitic
lives Notice the sprnkng of small bosses It it safe to
ather and barber There is always miner in the state
legislatures nearly always reaconary official who has
betrayed Miners Union the mine barons before the
rank and file could throw him OUT William Green, now pre-
sdent of the American Federation OF Labor as miner
got early notorety as democratic member OF the
Ohio state senate. sa
These are ali chosen from their geographical districts
supported by precinct organizations the power of the old
party machines.
There are no spokesman in Springfield for the 100000
coal miners in the state for the steel workers. for the rail-
road workers. representatives of labor in any industry
Industrial representation would be Soyetsm say the cap
tast spokesman. 1t would be Unconstitutional" 1t would
strike at the roots of all American traditions And lot of
other cIaptrap stuff that should sound like cheap tommy
rot in the ears of the whole working class
Labor under capitalism, may send its representa-
s-communsts-to Chcagos city hail. to the state CAPT.
Springfield congress in Washington. This will be
done Communist sits today in the North Dakota
legislature. The duty of these elected Communists in
comfortable roosts Of the political agents of the great
explorers will be raise the standards of the revolution for
the overthrow of the whole capitalist system
1t is well that the workers in Chicago. Minneapolis and
other cities, where election campaigns being held
understand these facts.
If they want the Soviet Rule of labor in the mines, the
mills and the factories supported by the poor farmers on
didates of the Workers (Communst) Party
If they choose to suffer longer under capitalist expoa
ton then they will vote for the shyster lawyers the real
estate sharks and other bourgeois riff raft who sell them
selves for small avors into political bondage to great cap
aIsts. This last category includes also the Socialists,
between the German socialists Bauer erswhle premier,
Richter Berlin chief of police, and others with the Barmat
Brothers, big fnancers.
Communism or capitalism?
On which side you?