The daily worker., 1925-06-23
Middle Class Hopes Are
Buried with La Toilette;
Labor Goes Marching on
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY than the remains OF Senator Lar GILLETTE are
laid to rest in Madison Wis., grave. Middle class hopes
for effective struggle behalf Of its interests at least for
the time being, are also buried
No one appears to- take up laFoletes mantle No
greater proof of the movement that LaFoette
developed and that he sought to transform into bourgeois
third party Another apostle of small business catering to
the official fringe Of the labor movement may arise at
time in the future, when the petty bougeose again
the warpath. But LaFoetes death makes it easier
for those who followed him. especially the members of the
y senate and house Of representatives to desert even
the weakened struggle that the Wisconsin senator led during
the fading years OF his life
There is for instance, Senator Wheeler, of Montana,
vcepresdentia candidate the LaFoIette ticket Wheeler
is back safe and comfortable in the democratic party.
egn relations closer to Wall Street than ever He for
gets his campaign for the recognition Of the Soviet Union
and joins the whole Coolidge administration in its imperial
st attack Mexicos sovereign rights Senator Johnson
Of California recovered from his support of Newbery
the Michigan mutmIonaire who bought his seat
Senator Brookhart Of Iowa. and the two senators from
North Dakota Ladd and Frazier protesting their epub
can regularity atho the two latter supposed to be
partisan eaguers. Senator Norris, Of Nebraska is
worthy of mention while in Minnesota is declared that
Magnus johnson will try get back into the senate by
ming in the republican primaries and capturing the G. o. p
nomination instead OF sticking to the Party
with the Coolidge administration Note his presence
recent Coolidge love feast at St. Paul.
Thus LaFoIette's death will accomplish an exposure of
all these political caeers who have been riding into power
since the the discomfort of the city and poor
farmers The reactionay labor ofcadom has kept great
of the rank and file in line with the promise that
LaFotte and his kind would get something for Them Even
the socialist party took up this siren song in its antCom-
munist campaign and part of its efforts itself
appear respectable 1t than coincidence that
LaFoettes remains should be borne their way from
Washington to Wisconsin while Eugene Debs in Min
nesota trying to breathe life into the ashes of the socialist
party organization in that state, Debs does yet
that the party he sponsored has passed away.
These developments in the American political situation
must clarity the struggle for great of workers and
to the camp of the enemy The class cleavage
distinct The battle lines the clearer This
cannot help but result in the strengthening of class
organizations OF the workers and poor faers in proving
the truth of declaration made by the Workers Co-
munist Party in its efforts to and organize Amer
cas workers for class conscious action politically indus
traly.
With its friends" unmasked allies of its enemies
labor will depend upon its power building the trade
unions into effective weapons of combat creating
Labor Party for the united front political struggle During
the closing period of his life LaFoette also turned ed
batter in his attack the June 17h 1924 Farmer-Labor
Conference in ST. Paul. But LaFoette passes Others of
his kind pass dscredted and forgotten labor is won
from the take nostrums they espouse. Only Commun-
st struggle for lives and grows marches forward
to the victory.