The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-12
AS WE SEE 1T
by r. J. o'FLAHERTY.
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don, woe unto him. But also, woe
unto the American capitalist class.
Their day is coming and there will be
thousands upon thousands Of working
class Crouches and Trumbulls ready
to take the place of those doomed to
the foul prisons Of the master class!
CECRETARY OF LABOR, James j.
~ Davis, speaking at the convention
of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, prophesied that the
time would come in industry when
strikes would be considered silly.
Yes, that time will come when the
workers own the industries. Perhaps,
the time is a little bit in the distance,
and perhaps not. One should not in.
dulge in prophesy with a time limit
nowadays. But let us hope that the
day is not far distant when II will be
considered silly. yes and reasonable
for a tool of the capitalist class, like
James ]. Davis to be invited to speak
w - wa hAA6 CAcoS COuNCuLAOus
uINDENBURG is running for presi.
IL dent on the nationalist ticket in
Germany. His most serious opponent
will be Marx. on the catholic ticket.
Hindenburg will have the support of
all the monarchist elements. Marx
will be backed by the socialists and
the so-called democrats. The only
working class candidate in the field
is Thaelmann, the Communist. Fine
situation in Germany, six years after
the revolution. Monarchists so DOW
erful that they can run one Of the
kaiser's closest friends for the high
est office in the republic" What a
splendid commentary on the treach
cry Of the socialists! No chance of
such a phenomenon taking place
across the frontier in Soviet Russia.
At least the czar is not in position
to be anybody's political adviser.
THE traction scheme supported by
: Mayor Dever, the Chicago Trib-
une, The Daily News, the bankers and
divers labor takers was buried here
on April Z. It was defeated by the
Thompson and Hearst political ma.
chine for purely political reasons
Not that It shouldn't be beaten. It
should. The point is however, that
Its opponents have no plan to offer
that means any more to the working
class than the one drowned in the
flood of popular disapproval last
Tuesday. The trouble is that two
gangs Of grafters are fighting for the
spoils of the traction requirements Of
this city.
A MOTHER interesting traction fiRht
1 4 took place in Milwaukee. There
is socialist mayor in Milwaukee. In
fact that city was once, and is per.
haps until today. the pride Of the So
cialist party Of America. The mayor.
Daniel Hoan, conceived of a plan that
found favor In the eyes of the traction
barons Of Milwaukee. 1t guaranteed
them over z per cent profit, II the
skies rained thistles. Naturally they
would accept. But the voters. de.
spite the frenzied exhortations Of the
Milwaukee Leader, defeated the
proposition. Now, Hoan and Berger
profess to believe the people" are a
lot of dumbells. Socialists in Mil.
waukee; democrats in Chicago. Both
serve the capitalist class.
l"pUT perhaps the Communists
- would not do any better II they
got into Office" some inquisitive reader
may ask. And we say: Communists
do not claim that the machinery of
capitalist government can be utilized
to serve the working class. II the
Communists get into Office, the best
they can promise is to use their posi-.
tons to build up the fighting power
OF the working class and to sound the
toscin Of class war to the end that
the workers viii seize the machinery
OF government and begin to recon
struct society on a socialist basis.
This is what they are doing In Soviet
Russia. They did away with the ma,
chinery OF capitalist government and
replaced it with their own institu-
tions.
WHAT the socialists in Milwaukee
w are doing is helping the CAPT.
talists to run the city for the benefit
OF the capitalists, primarily. This is
what the British, German and Swed.
ish socialists did. In Russia, the cap
italist has dogs life. according to
all reports while the worker is the
king pin. No slave should lose any
sleep over this change OF positions.
But the aim OF the revolutionary
movement is not to wreak vengeance
on the robbers who have ground the
workers under their heels. but TO free
the nroducera from tho volra ~ wa 0o