The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-03
u S.
m "a " =
MEXICAN REACTION GETS BUSY
AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHEaTY.

v EICTOR BERGER cannot be terror
W ICED by one of his readers. AS
is his custom he recently borrowed
column full of comment on prohibition
from that admirer of luxury, H. L.
Menchen's fulsome praise was the
Menckens fullsome. praise was the
once popular saloon Berger's CORE
spondent must be an enemy OF beer
taverns. She objected to defense OF
the outlawed, tho far from dead in
stitution.
THE socialist, Berger, far from
being dismayed by such castiga-
ton in reply to the readers protest,
ran the remainder Of Mencken's COM
ment in his column tit saved him a
lot OF trouble) and wound up by at
tributing the alleged progressivism OF
Milwaukee, st. Louis, Toledo, Cleve
land and other cities where the old
German saloon fourished to such
cities as Philadelphia and Boston
were blue noses were more charac-
teristic than red noses.
rHE London Daily Herald regrets
that secret diplomacy Is again in
the saddle in Britain since the tories
kicked the laborites out Of office.
What the laborites were concerned
most about was democracy" not the
emancipation of the workers. Had
they been revolutionists they would
have done what the Russian Commun-
lists did when they overthrow the
Kerensky government, they would
have opened up the archives and told
the world the secrets contained there
in. The Macdonald government gov
eminent did nothing of the kind. 1t
was as much concerned about pro-
tecting the robber empire as any OF
its predecessors. Now it is out in the
cold, whining like a hungry whelp.
II H. Thomas, former colonial minis
.Jster and leading British labor faker
in a recent speech. declared that there
was no class war in the army. But a
soldier writing in the Daily Herald
takes issue with him. The soldier
declares that officers were known to
have nine course dinners in the
trenches, while the fellows who did
the fighting. the rank and file, were
lucky to get tin of sinking porter
between them. And, continued the
soldier, Il have seen lads limited to
one water-bottle of water for day
and they had to put drop in vase
line tin lid to shave with, too, and
could not brew drop of tea, while
officers could get bowl of water at
any time they liked" This was
democracy in the war for democracy.
THE Chicago Journal admits that
unemployment is one of the big
gest single drains on industry and is
the cause of more hardship than any
other single factor, but it seems to be
blissfully ignorant of the causes of the
plangue. "rhere is something wrong
Wueu uidu WIZ WISHED " WIN @ANSe
remain idle in a community which
would be glad to use the product OF
his labor" declares the Journal.
Quite so. Quite SO. The Communists
have a cure for this wrong" but they
are rewarded for their pains by those
who own and manage papers like the
Journal and other capitalistic institu-
lions with jails
THERE will be unemployment until
the means of wealth production,
owned by a few, are owned by the
workers who now operate them and
until wealth is produced for use and
not for profit. So long as wealth
producing machinery is privately own
ed IL is inconceivable that the owners
will allow that machinery to be oper-
ated only when such operation brings
them profits. Thus we have shoe
makers without shoes, taiIors without
decent clothes, and building workers
without houses tho they are perfectly
willing to work. Temporary remedies
to relieve unemployment will be tried,
when the voorhees, army grows to
large proportions but these make
shifts do not remove the cause. Only
the overthrow of capitalism con do
that.
Are You Going to the Open Forum
c....~.. AffaLA1