The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-25
Workers Are Interested
in the Inquiry Into the
Shenandoah Disaster
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY great numbers of workers industry farmers
toing the land discuss with great seriousness the
official naval inquiry into the wreck of the giant digbe
Shenandoah Ava, o. September g. With the usual
show of sympathy they join in the speculation who
responsible for the death Of the IA air mariners who lost their
lives. #
The supposton is ventured, however, that never are
these discussions linked up with Iabors own problems The
workers do the Shenandoah disaster with their
own jobs
One of the big facts already brought out is that the
Shenandoah its western tour publicity stunt
The fatal trip city for city, was laid out in railroad time table
STYLE by the wamongers Washington and left for
the Shenandoah follow ORDERS In great center
population after another many state fairs the drgbe
appear stellar attraction, for the assembled multi
udes at in awe and admiration all the while gushing
complimentary explosives for the government at Washington
that made such things possible Always forgetting however,
that this instrument OF war; the next war; in the pre-
paatons for which much money must be spent the war INTO
which the must be persuaded to go willingly This
indirect propaganda for the next too subtle even
for the average adult workers mind not to mention the
children in whom is drilled gcosestep worship of things
they Thus is assent to new wars Won
The naval inquiry now going on merely method of
satisfying popular camor New Shenandoahs be built
and 'the people" must be made to like and pay for it.
No spread of publicity given investga
ton into mine horror with its death list OF hundreds Dis
asters occur forgotten industry Occupatona dis
daily take their toll of lives with hardly passing
mention For short time, in the immediate vicinity of
mine blast factory mill accident the workers stand
appalled, Then the struggle for existence, the rush OF the
unemployed the jobs by DEATH again and
the worker in the mine pit gives his life for the profit
system of his boss did the members OF the Shenan
doah for the capitalist they had sworn to
Most miners do not yet know that coal mines are
places work because hurts profits to make
them safe Most soldiers sailors and aviators ignorant
that they fight and murder the workers OF other
nations the profits of their mpeast masters may
not only protected but enhanced in opposition to the
profits of the competing imperalsts
in other words the worker at his job and the farmer at
his pow they discuss the Shenandoah disaster do not
recognize the great dgbIe weapon OF the capitalist
that Expresses ther than the victims
of the tragedy realized that they in the service OF
the only object of which is the protection
of the dollar and the spreading of its influence.
Realizing this that the dirigibe Shenandoah was an in
struent the hands of their expoters protect plumber
stolen at home and aboad-for not airships used
against the striking miners of West Vrgna2-hen the
respectful with which millions greeted this warshp OF
the during career to hate just as the striker
hates the scab who tries to steal his job
The inquiry into the Shenandoah wreck concerns the
and poor farmers only they are interested in the
ending the capitalist government that is conducting IT.
and substitution for of workers government that VIII
industry safe for the workers. and the world peaceful
that inhdbit it.