The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-07
lspeelaI to The paIIx workerl

taliSt society, with which it has been
closely bound up for the last few
years. 1t is no longer, as before the
war; a state within the state, but it
forms in all countries an integral
part of the state, which it formerly
wished to destroy, and it is for this
reason that it must undergo the same
process of decay as that which is
undermining the capitalist state.
In the social democratic movement
one meets with all the defects of the
capitalist state, and it is character
lied just as the other, by corrption
and graft. 1t is no longer a question
of isolated cases, as one might OBJ
serve before the war; the exception
has become the rule.
1t must not be forgotten that one
swindler does not voluntarily aid in
unmasking the other, and that the
bourgeois and social democratic bu-
reaucracy succeeds, in most cases of
graft, in hood-winking the public. We
see the same picture, not only in
Germany, where social democracy
first came to power, but also in other
countries, in which a normal" situa-
ton still exists.
We see how chiefs of the social
democratic parties and the trade un-
ion leaders make profit out of their
opinions, how they sell themselves to
their enemies" and how they dupe
the workers who put them into Office.
IN Sweden, where social democracy
/ is the party in power for the third
time in four years, one big scandal
has been taking place after the other,
and the graft in the labor movement
is constantly on the increase. Just as
in Germany, the corruption in Sweden
began since the war, and the first
one to sell himself to the enemy was
the greatest among the great, HAL
mar Branting, the leader Of the social
democrats, who, during the war trav-
eled. as an agent of England, thruout
Europe, preaching. evidently for good
y pays the war of right" among the
central powers, and coming. out for in
tervention in Russia after the Bolshe-
vik victory.
IN another occasion, accompanied
~ by large number of Danish Ia
Dor leaders and their German breth-
rem, Branting made an expedition to
the German western front. Upon
their return, the labor takers sud
denly became possessed of the means
for founding a company for the i'm
portation of coal, and, in order to
show themselves properly gratefu,
for the generosity of the imperial gov
eminent, they naturally felt under
an obligation to give public express
sion to their sympathy for Germany's
: Just cause" During the first months
after the end of the war, large num-
Der of Swedish labor leaders were
mixed up in various shady deals in
GLIDING the sale of rotten provisions
to the counter-revelutionary troops of
Yudenitch.
THE whole of the coalition govern
i ment was involved. Certain min
listers and members of parliament had
to be sacrificed in order to calm
down the public before the elections :.
In October of this year it was
discovered. after the death Of the
treasurer Of the Swedish Railroad
Workers Union, Carbon, that he
had been Systematically stealing from
his organization for the last ten years.
More than million and half kronen
had been embezzled during this per-
Tod. The indignation aroused by this
discovery had not yet died down,
when the treasurer of the Lumber
Workers Union committed suicide,
and it was afterwards found that he
had run thru 10000 kronen Of the
funds entrusted to him.
n LREADY after the first incident,
n the president Of the Swedish
Trade Union Federation had rron,iead