The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-10
Wheeler's FakeAttack on
the Detective Agencies
Exposes His Real Stand
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana has
another bill sumberng in the Congressional Record de-
handing investigation of private detective agencies
Wheeler similar bill to sleep the archives of congress
at its last session. he permitted to sbe BEFORE he
did, the midst of the LaFoette wave be expected
that he will do anything to awaken this issue now
This is another example how pariamentarism in the
United States operates is possible get bills friendly to
labor" introduced in the house and That is the
method OF the old party politicians to establish their friend
ship" for the workers. But securing fight for the
simplest demand Of the workers. embodied friend
y" bill, is quite another matter
1t may be taken for granted that Wheeler will not fight
in spite of the fact that the workers of his state espe-
ciay in the copper mnes have had their organizations dis
agencies. The Pnkerton Agency made an infamous name
for itself as ackey OF the great western mine barons in
self the American capitalist class and its head William j.
Burns secured high place in the government Washing
ton as the result of his attacks and ameups against mill
tant labor.
Here is surely opportunity, therefore, to the
o. pHDcy on TINS sore OF the capitalist
ing interests Wheeler has shown himself especially in recent
times to be closer to the enemies OF labor than he
claimed he was to the workers and farmers of his state
whose struggle for independent political action betrayed
and then bitterly fought.
The private detective agencies are part of the carefully
created police system thru which the employers hope to
keep the workers in submission To attack this police sys-
fem is TO oucn me employing class upon one OF its endeest
spots. Yet that all the attack should be
made.
1t be expected that an exposure of these rep
tile organizations will effectively cripple capitaisms police
system Not even these detective agencies completely
outlawed The police power Of the capitalist itself al
ways stands menacngy in But the fight against
these agencies helps reveal to the workers the
nature Of the bosses dictatorship that they against
and abolish.
1t is precisely here where Wheeler fails Wheeler is a
devout believer in the capitalist social order He would
inure it. He does not believe that there cassesa boss
class and working class He is willing exploit the dis
content of the workers and farmers win place for him
self IN the capitalist congress. But Immediately the work.
es and farmers begin demanding class fight they are
doing in Montana thru the building of their armerabor par
ty then he turns against these workers and farmers
and makes them
Wheeler may good stalking horse for the Green
regime in the American Federation of Labor to show that
friendly labor measures do get into congress; that labor
has friends in the old political parties But Montana labor
in the cities and the land exposing the fraudulent
nature OF such friendship" Labor the rest of the
nation will gradually to the conclusion. Wheel
e take attempt to the private detective agencies
VIII prove boomerang, returning real exposure Of him.
self. 49,