The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-16

- copy of his book, Abraham
Lincoln" the Illinois Manufacturers
Association adopted resolutions of
eulogistic greetings, while the police
beat up and dubbed workers-all
for Queen Marie Of Roumania on her
arrival in Chicago.
The brutalities Of the police, of
course, were to be expected. The
club of oppression swings in Chi
cago and Bucharest in support of
the same ruling class tyranny.
Also, the views Of open shoppers
leagued against labor in the manu-
facturers' association lived up to ex-
pectations. In their resolutions,
solemnly adopted, they join with the
high officers Of the French command
at Cotzofanesti during the world
war, in declaring Queen Marie "a
woman of great amiability."
But the autographing stunt by the
poet and author, Carl Sandburg,
adds an incongruous touch to this
picture, desecrating the memory Of
Abraham Lincoln, and marking
Sandburg's official baptism as an
obedient and petted poodle of the
dollar aristocracy. 1t reveals his
complete acceptance by the dicta-
tors of American capitalist 'rkultur."
Sandburg has been a little differ
emit from other renegades. It is
therefore necessary to give his case
special attention.
Sandburg was always accepted as
a rebel" even when he continued
and still does write sloppy movie
reviews for The Daily News, now
the property OF LaSalle Streets
great financial interests. The excuse
was offered that it was the needed
"pie card" while doing more serious
work. Evidently Sandburg has found
that the crumbs from the overflow
ing tables of capitalist recognition
tasted good. So he intends to get
larger slice of the luscious fruit
of master class appreciation.
Sandburg was a rebel in the so
cialst party even tho he found him
self early surrounded by the de-
basing influences of the reformist
brand Of socialism that Victor L.
Berger developed in Milwaukee and
Wisconsin. He was at least touched
by the revolution in spite Of the fact
that Bergerism sought to swathe the
whole Wisconsin labor movement in
the combining bandages of opportun-
ism.
Altho he became private secre-
tary of Emil Seidel, the first socialist
mayor of Milwaukee, and the first
socialist to be elected as an execu-
tive of any large American city,
Sandburg did not succumb to the
radiant promises of a brilliant POI
litical career, at that time (1910)
the most treasured gem among all
the promises held forth by the
American socialist movement. This
was the period when a whole army
Of place seekers poured into the so
cialist ranks making it easy for the
Berger-Hillquit machine to write
the infamous article 2, Section s"
into the party constitution in 1912,
practically outlawing revolutionaries
with the party's ranks. Sandburg
shrank from these methods.
In 1912, Sandburg joined others
in the rebellion Of editorial workers
on the Milwaukee Leader against
the Victor Berger editorship and
management, He came to Chicago
and joined the editorial department
OF The Daily World (The Chicago
Daily Socialist renamed) during the
newspaper strike In 1919, probably
the most bitterly fought struggle in
the whole history Of the American
printing trades unions.
When The Daily World fen into
the hands Of the sheriff ana the
bankruptcy courts, Sandburg later
drifted to The Day Book, small