The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-11
Workers Can Only Win
Emancipation Under the
Banners of Class Fight
BY J. LOUIS ENopAHL

TODAY it isn't difficult follow the omnipresent class
struggle thru the unfathomabe muck that engufs the
principals in the defamation suit brought by Helen EWood
Stokes against her mutmionare aged husband, w. {.
D. Stokes.
The kept press presents only saacious side of it,
1t avers the redgh filth its pages It narates to the
mnutest detail Stokes sordd attack the young mother
of his two children.
Just like the prostitute press his own class Stokes
glores in the social mire in which he WaoWs The stencil
stirred up perfume alike his arstocratc nostris and
to the for of the brass check editors who his
friends.
s court threatening stage Of the proceedings dis
miss the case throwing Stokes into It Of ICY
and matter how diseased his mind must needs be
shipped to the publication of his BLACKLIST thought for he
not haoed by the almighty mark Of the sacred dollar! And
the victim the wife, out of the working class in
which Stokes claims he did not find the fine people, with
whom he likes associate. But that wasn't sufficient crime
to merit complete ostracsm when he tired of her. So the
astocrac blue blood must needs drag her thru the
underworld nre ofchcagos segregated district especially
thru the exclusive Everegh Club vice haunt of the great
ch being careful however, to any reteng Of the
murder here of young Marshall Field Jr first heir of Chi
Cages richest merchant prince and the utmey deaths of
the two Of George Pullman, the czarist aborbang
head of the Pullman Sleeping Car trust who spent and
ended their parasitic lives in the surroundings
Helen EIwood Stokes gets space in the yellow
press than did Cautious Car during his inauguration
problem of this daughter of the working class fea
tured prominently than the great political issues
shaking Europe and the world.
For the Stokes story the sequel in real life of the
called that makes Sellers" crowds theaters
turns movies" into winners and has the columns
allotted to in capitalist newspapers and magazines.
Capitalism holds out its lures; to all its down.
trodden subjects To the growing boy the opportunity to
become president fable that dies His life poisoned
with it. Or he is flooded with the whole literature of suc
cess how to succeed in business. He is allowed
behold in Coolidge, for instance sample of utter SUBJ
serVence big business in Rockefeller the murderer
of workers in giant Strikes whether in the coal fields of
Colorado the oil refineries of Bayonne New Jersey.
So the bosses propaganda, thru books, newspapers,
magazines MOVIES the drama, holds out to growing girls
the aIurng possibilities offered them thru marriage This
vision is supposed to brighten life the factory treadm
tighten the crushing toll of great department Of
story of the fall of Helen Eood Stokes doesn't blur
possibilities rise thru marriages; escape from the dread
monotony of toburdened life. 1t only convnces the
sophisticated that they do better If they fall they blame
only themselves.
The absence of mighty class consciousness among the
workers in this country testimony the temporary
of this vile propaganda of the employing class Yet
workers. men, and children will gradually learn, in
spite of it, that their place is the working Glass; they
will only win freedom thru the emancipation of their
class
"A president" Coolidge or anyone eIse is one in 11o
100000. Those who respond to RockefeIers lash may
reach million; condemned perpetual toll long the
system lasts Helen Ewood Stokes typical of those very
very few social moths, who able invite the
convincing testimony that there is escape capital
ism; for the Individual.
Let all workers stay with their class, suffer with
it. fight with it, and triumph with t-or better cviza