The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-15
Wisconsin and New York
City Elections Offering
Experiences to Workers
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY two political campaigns in Wisconsin and New
York City, should keenly interest the workers. In neither
campaign does labor offer united front to it's oppressors
with the result that the political agents Of the great capital
lists afford the great luxury Of fighting among them
selves.
Yet the workers and farmers will come out of both these
political struggles with added experiences terrifying them for
future battles
The bankruptcy the socialists" who went into the
LaFolette third party last year, meeky and quescen Is
evident in both the eastern municipal election and in the
western state poll to select for the late Wisconsin
senator.
In New York City the Socialists refuse all proers Of
united political front repeatedly made by the Workers
(Communst Party. Instead the socialists" active,
with the Sgman regime in the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union in breaking the resistance of the
workers to the needle trades employers thru destroying the
unity of the workers.
The republican congressman, F. T. Laouarda, who
last year reelected the socialist ticket is off the
HIquit bandwagon and is being definitely mentioned
candidate for president of the board of aldermen the
the field in case Mayor Hyan defeated in the democratic
primaries. LaGuarda the socialist republican of yeste
day is desired to-day BY the ia mot not
to catch the italian voe showing the kind of material with
which the socialists" played
LaGuardia bridge between the eastern and western
campaigns He not out speaking for the socialists in
Wisconsin, not at ALL atho he often included with Victor
l. Berger the two socialist congressman in the last con-
gress In Wisconsin LaGuarda for LaFoette J the
republican ticket finding seat in this camp with Hendrick
Shpstead the Minnesota farmerabor senator who also
stumpng the state for the prince of Wisconsin
politics.
Thus we find this situation:
FIRST:-The farmer-aborite leaders, who fought the
Communists last year because they urged labor party
severing all ties with the capitalist parties still in open
alliance, like Shipstead in Wisconsin, with the pet political
harlot of Wall Street, the republican party.
SEcoND:-The socialists" who have professed them
selves in favor OF labor party and claimed that the La
Toilette the labor party" have crawIed
back into their shells. From their isolation they fight the
Communists with what remaining strength they possess
This especially in New York City and Wisconsin,
two remaining socialist stronghold and incidentally the
scene OF the present political campaigns
With the discredtng of these two anti-communist in
uences that have raised the of the Moscow dictator
ship argument against the building of the Labor Party
the workers and poor farmers rally theoretically
than for independent political action. They will realize
this great need they witness the expoers carefully
neuverng to tighten their grip congress- thru securing
the election of their chosen stool pigeons at next years
national congressional elections.
To effectively fight the capitalist masters, the workers
must first effectively break with all capitalist Influences One
of the first steps in this direction should be complete
break with the capitalist political parties thru independent
political action