The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-22
Lawson Fought Chicago's
Workers with His Daily
News for Fifty Years
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Vic" Lawson, antabor publisher Of the Chicago
Daily News lies dead in his stone castle the North
Shore Gold Coast while thousands Of obess trooped
the "slave marketin Wells Madison streets
buy his sheet and study the want ads.
"Vo Lawson passes, much like Eastman, of the Daily
Journal who died recently both hailed personal editors"
but the papers they owned controlled missed
edition, continuing publication nothing had happened
their proprietors
Vic" Lawson hardly ever appeared openly in his paper
fighting labor like General OTIS the notorious "open shop"
editor and of the Los Angeles Times, who personally
conducted the aborcushng campaigns inaugurated by his
paper But the Daily News and will continue of the
most bitter anti-labor sheets in the land.
Lawson not editor. He business
manager Every conceivable exploited to win
circulation which the much sought after State
Street advertising, with its millions of dollars in annual
income.
Lawson got his Daily News started nearly half century
ago. during the hard fought railroad strike of 1877 his
sheet poured flood of special editions unfolding
railroad barons they conducted their ruthless warfare
tracks Chicago 20 murdered Pittsburgh with the state
militia under turnout the entire east and the middle
west.
Since that bloody Of 1877 down thru the nearly
half century that passed. Lawsons Daily News
has been in the vanguard the capitalist against
workers i has always held close to John M Glenns Illinois
Manufacturers Association that led in the fight smash
the Illinois Mine Workers Union during the troubles grow
ing out OF the mine owners efforts establish open shop
conditions at Herrn, in Williamson county.
The Daily News has been the Chicago nouhpece of the
attack against the COMMUNISTS The last drive consisted Of
advertisements anndylncng the "spoansky' Anti-Red
Articles" that were later prominently featured.
In spite of its deliberate carefully planned ant-abor
policy the Daily News for time boosted of the greatest
afternoon circulation of any capitalist daily The workers
bought it and mbibed its poison.
After more than quarter century of struggle how
Hearsts American has finally overaken It. Hearst
came to Chicago as "a friend of labor" He got circulation
Then he became respectfully antiabor and richly re-
waded with paying advertising patronage. But work.
ers still duped continue to buy and read this Hearst organ
None will now sing the praises of Vic Lawson louder
than this same Hearst sheet. will be Joy crippled
competitor But that does workers interested
in the rise to power Of their class
IT labor correctly studies the life and deeds of Vicv
Lawson will draw the lesson that labor fight its own
battles, if it would WIN
Chicago laborqhas its own daily paper the DAILY
WORKER Chicago labor turned its patronage from Law
sons Daily News to Hearsts American, only find itself
betrayed because both capitalist daes fighting on the
side OF the expoters Chicago labor turn again. turn
to its own paper the DAILY WORKER build its circulation
up INTO the hundreds OF thousands and make power able
to fight successfully against the robber class