The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-25
New Jersey Senator's Fear Communism


When Robert LaFolet Jr introduced the last
Saturday the urging investigation by
manufactures Of the Passac textile strike the valiant
from Jersey instantly trying smoke
to conceal the real issue in the struggle Since they dare not
present arguments calculated eute the contention the strikers
that below the living standards OF other industries
that civil liberty has been suspended and that reign of terror
payroll mill
owners that right haeas corpus denied workers.
strikers held without bail umped up charges and sentenced
long prison without the benefit of legal counsel that
children beaten and amped and that streams
turned peaceful citizens the dead of winter these
textile senators raise the cry of Communism.
state the long
list of grievances of the Passac strikers However state
without fear OF contradiction that such conditions furnish the
material foundation for grow and to the extent
that take advantage the situation will do As Com
proclaim that the vanguard the working class
separate apart of the
working class and wherever there labor struggles endeavor
of the into effective channels
the Jersey they prove Com
nunsm the inhabitants of their state why do they
pose investigation by senatorial committee? We Commun
recognize that the itself instrument of
preston of the capitalist class yet we advocate an Investigation
because know evidence be produced proving that the wooden
mills of New Jersey operated parasitic basis that they
destroy more human material in the form labor power than any
industry they realize profits thru monopoisc
advantages granted FOrdne tariff for which
Edge voted; child slavery exists
pang degree the death and infant mortality
higher any other industry in the whole United States
Furthermore Communists perfectly willing to explain
committee conducting investigation the role endeavor
to play this strike and all strikes We fear no investigation and
have nothing to canceal
before investigation committee the role he
textile barOns of New Jersey?
Will Walter Edge the New Jersey republican acoyte of the
regime appear before such committee and
explain textile connections? 1t would be exceedingly interesting
between campaign contributions and the
Jersey the unrestricted right of the
owner carry their reign of plumber and butchery
N labor laws and unembaassed by Investigations that
might expose them to the whole world
Edge vindctve his dsrbe against Com
INDUCED of moral indignation that Cen
should be given doctrine which fundamentally is OPP
contract" Edge has record in the
eoqueny eses his lofty ideals of government and
the people who elected him to office
displays his exalted principles occasion by voting for
of the thoOy corrupt republican administration
H. Newby debauched with millions OF dollars the
whole Michigan into the senate reekng with
nth and corruption Edge New Jersey voted
him. slime and all.
enmty of such creatures Edwards and Edge Will not
but instead will distinguish and we will do
power merit their hatred long they live If the
New them well know them
repudae the republican and democratic parties represented
and will rally behind the slogan for labor party
the of the mill the political
ed the they defiance their mnOns who try
picket line by using poicemens clubs as poll
tica arguments.