The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-06


Millionaire Waterman.
Waterman is the clearer symbol of
Wall Street. He is no mere hired
servant of Wall Street.-The is one of
the crowd. The party feels that they
must do something to prove that they
can serve big business better than
the democrats can and this is their
method Their candidate can be
counted on never to yield to popular
pressure as even the most loyal of
the professional politicians must
sometimes do.
The average wage in his plant and
Offices is SIS per week. He discrim-
mates against jewish employees hir-
ing only enough to keep the charge of
anti-Semitism from. beign flung at
him. He was chosen because he can
lose nothing by being defeated as he
undoubtedly will be.
sky-Plot Candidate.
The socialist party has this year
completed its swing to the right.
They chose Norman Thomas, a sky
pilot who has been using the social
list party as splendid pulpit from
which to preach to his lowly Tin more
respects than one) flock.
Several weeks ago a manifesto IA
voring Cal Coolidge's pet scheme, the
world court, was published in New
York newspapers and among the dis
tinguished signers were Thomas w.
Lamont of Morgan and company and
Norman Thomas of the socialist
party.
HllIquit for League.
Morris Hillquit, another bourgeois
who is boring from within the ranks
of the workers for capitalism came
back from the congress- of the Sec
ond International (incidently on
scab ship in favor of league of ma
tons s IN W h at "democratized."
The same leagne which the s. P. in
1918, when it still had some militant
elements in 1t, called an organization
of "blackguard reactionaries." The
Burns Coal company whose leading
lawyer and one Of whose most infu-
entail politicians is our old friend
Morris Hillquit, is importing coal from
Wales to break the anthracite strike
The successive betrayals that the
socialists have committed in the past
few years with an almost bewilder-
ing rapidly has so thoroly discredited
them in the eyes of the workers class,
especially in view Of the recent needle
trades struggle, that their vote will
fall to negligible point and 1 dare
say were it not for the support that
the petty-bourgeois cockroach shop
and store keepers are Still giving
them, their vote would be very close
to zero.
The Issues.
An extremely careful scrutiny of
the program of the two major CAPT
talist parties reveals not a single
point which might differentiate one
from the other.
They are conducting their cam
paigns on the purely personal basis
that Walker can serve wall Street,
better than can Waterman and vice
versa
The socialist party has taken the
camoufage issue-the five cent fare
and is conducting their campaign on
that. basis. 1t is curious to note how
close the socialist platform comes to
Hylan's. The former advocates mum
icipal ownership of the subways, the
latter municipal control. If municipal
ownership were accomplished it would
have the effect of guaranteeing the
profits of the present owners. Why?
Because in order to take the subways
over the city would have to float a
bond issue and the same crew which
owns them now would buy the bonds
and get their profits anyway, in the
from of interest on the bond loan.
The socialist party failed to make
as its major issue the real problems !
confronting the workers, such as in
functions in strike, persecution of the
foreign-born, the increase by 1907 Of
the child laborers in the last three
years alone, etc. Instead they show
their confusionist character by fight.
ing on the ridiculous camoufiage is
sues proposed by the major capitalist
parties.
Communist Candidate.
That each of the candidates sym
bolizes the character of the party that
nominated him can very well be seen
from the above. The Workers (Com.
munisD Party as is fit for its class
character and vitality. has nominated
Ben Gitlow whose "jail" record speaks |
for the fghting makeup of the party
that he represents.
The party program has refused TO
take up the fake issues that the cap
italist parties have set forth but have
entered the campaign on a program |
which ought to rally large masses of
the workers because it meets their
everyday needs.