The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-10
Times Change! A New
Voice is Heard in the
Assault on Capitalism
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY there surprise registered when is announced
that Ida NJ Tarbe erstwhe crusader against Standard
OIL to write audatory biography OF Ebert r. Gary head
of the steel trust.
Trust busting was the sport Of many msgaznss score
nard Baker Ida farbeI Charles Edward Russell and Lin
coin Seens became almost popular as those OF winning
Visited upon the naefactOrs great wealth. so the
were told. But what has happened?
Look around on the news stands today. Where Nc
Cures, Eveybcdys and Peasons appeared in great
zines the sex thers and the cheap fiction periodicals
You may the whole gamut from The Smart Set to
"Jim Jam Jems and not find single kick against condi
tons they today. All is meek and humble approval,
in one jazz tune or another
That shows what money can do when it gets busy
Magazines that couldn't be crushed thru the withdrawal
of advertising patronage purchased outright and then
Ida Tarbel says change Of front has been upheld
by less body of judicial Vendt than the United States
supreme court 1t upheld her attack Rockeeers trust
by dissoving Standard Oil, and she may write full
audatons of Gary because the gang of capital
s law interpreters declared the United States Steel
poration was not monopoly within the meaning OF the
Sherman antitrust law
Ida Tarbe would have unsuspecting readers of 1925
believe that the evils Of monopoly under capitalism in 1902
of centralized industry and robbery under the u S. Steel
decision of the supreme court in 1920 But no such change
Instead power Of the great trusts grew such
extent that they not only gagged the magazines but have
s % on % e Cs as
y and daily but the echo of the voice of its master
Capitalism. Ida Tarbe like the Others have accepted this
development They opposed it. When Ida Tarbe
writes avoraby Of Gary today she sells herself to he
tenn that she fought % years ago. when she attacked
Rockefeller 1.-THE system" hasn't changed, except grow
stronger vicious. Ida Tarbe has changed She has
gone the way of all petty bourgeois writer's and politicians
who do understand he SYSTEM they profess hate
They end by falling in love with it, and openly brazeny
bracing it. i91
MccIures Magazine to be revived in May to give the
Tarbel articles fitting vehicle in which TO appear They
will later be published in book form to help celebrate the
25h anniversary of the organization of the steel trust Gary
will be Iauded who from the farm the head
of billion dollar corporation, and in the words of the New
York World, permanently placed his the map of
the United States at Gary, Indiana. sstssr
That word permanently" takes in long space of time
Ida Tarbe may write lot of pffe today about Ebert H.
Gary head of the steel trust who lives his marble palace
Fifth Avenue, in New York City.
But there is today Communist press in America grow
ing in power that the Gary SYSTEM which also the
Rockefeller SYSTEM with the white hot iron of working class
truth.
The fishermen of French seacoast city recently re-
named the open space in the of their town-Lenn
Square," That is permanent. That French town has
Communist administration.
So Gary Indiana" will in time be renamed The steel
workers will not read Ida TarbeIs book But they
reading, in increasing numbers the Communist DAILY
WORKER, the Communist WORKERS MONTHLY and a
of Communist publications in foreign languages.
Times change. The amess attack, offering solution,
against capitalism quarter of century ago, replaced
today by the we'll organized keeny directed assault with
theoretical and practical program hooy worked OUT of
the Workers (communst) Party in America and of the
Communist international the world
The TarbeIl-Gary propaganda today fails deaf
ton.