The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-20
ConstabuIary and Capitalism

"Law 'norder" is again the topic of discussion
in the Illinois Legislature as the employers associa
ton, the chambers of commerce. advertising clubs,
the Illinois manufacturers associations and the
brood of kiwanis, lions and rotary clubs press for
the enactment of the constabulary bill-a bill
creating state police force like the steel trusts
Pennsylvania cossacks whose bloody record of
violence against striking workers is too well known
to need detailing here
The capitalists have the national army, the
state militia, the municipal police forces, sheriffs
and their deputies of the various counties-a
formidable and well-traned array of agents hostile
to the working class and its organizations. But
the capitalists are not satisfied
Not day passes but the necessity of a further
increase in all these instruments of the capitalist
power is urged by the capitalist press The hunting
down of actual criminals is a minor part of the
duties, it is their social camouage, of these armed
grOups-standing outside and above the masses.
They are kept to put down strikes, demonstrations
and revolts of the workers.
The capitalists know that their system breeds
suffering and discomfort like a rotten carcass
breeds maggots They feel insecure and nervous
in periods when there is very little political
agitation. They are worried over their stolen
wealth and in their dreams they see the working
class reaching for the good things of fife that have
been stolen from it.
1t is very innocent and uniformed person who
in spite of the innumerable acts and utterances of
the capitalists that prove to the hilt the Com
munist contention that their rule rests on force,
continue to believe that capitalism can be killed
by love and kindness.
Against the constabuary bill organized workers
of Illinois unit and the bill will probably be
defeated The conditions which prompt the Illinois
bosses to introduce the bill will remain, however
and unless the workers of Illinois enter into
united front on all other problems of the working
class they will wake up some day to the knowledge
that Illinois capitalism has strengthened itself by
the creation of another organization of professional
thugs and murderers.
The way to fight the constabuary bill is organize
the working class the basis of the class struggle
and contest every salient of the capitalist system
To trade and truckle to yield on other vital points,
to compromise the position of the unions in rela
ton to the capitalist parties to mouth the same
respect for capitalist law and order that the cap
taist class and its middleclass hangerson indulge
in, in short, to conduct the kind of a campaign
that the Oficiadom of the Illinois labor movement
does in its fight against the constabulary BILL is
to confuse and weaken the working class movement
and deprive it of its greatest asset-cOnidence in
It's own strength and the knowledge that it must
separate itself from all other social groups in its
war for freedom.
Workers and poor farmers, white and black, con-
stitute the working class. These are the only revo
lutionary elements in society and these are the
only groups that can and will wage an uncom-
promising war on constabulary bills and all other
forms of capitalist aggression.