The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-29

W nists in the United States,
cheered by the comradely greet
ings of Communists the world over,
will celebrate the Seventh Anniver-
sary of the unfolding of the Com
munist International's standards in
this country. 1t was on Sept. /,
1919, with the breaking away of the
left wing from the socialist party,
that the American section of the
world Communist movement plant
ed the banner Of Leninism at Chi
cago, in the center of Wall Streets
empire, and called on all labor to
rally for the revolutionary struggle
that will usher in workers rule to
supplant the social order of the
Morgans and Rockefellers, the Mel
Ions and the Fords.
THE pseudo-Marxists of the social
= list party claimed there was no
room for Communist Party in the
United States.
Ship or shoot!" the Communists,
was the slogan of the master class
spokesman, who sensed that Com
munism could get a foothold even
on American soil. Therefore, they
must find some effective way for it's
elimination. So they recommended
the weapons Of deportation or the
firing squad.
Drive them out Of the unions!"
was the edict of the oflcialdom of
the American Federation Of Labor,
that was adopted later by the an
archo-syndicalist offfcialdom of the
Industrial Workers of the World.
The enemies Of Communism in
America go into eclipse but the
Communist movement grows ever
stronger Ever since the day that
the Communist elements left the
socialist party, that organization
of Berger-Hillquit social-democrats
has continued to fade and gradually
disappear ]. Mitchell Palmer, the
attorney general in Wilson's cabi-
net, who launched the "red raids"
against the Communists in January,
1920, is heard of no more, along
with Chicago's former states attor-
ney, Maclay Hoyne, whom the ex-
ploiters paid 100000 to drive the
Communists out of the nations Sec
ond largest city. Harry M. Daugh-
erty, the attorney general who fol-
lowed Palmer in the republican re-
gime Of Warren G. Harding. has
disappeared engulfed in disgrace.
Even his capitalist masters had no
more use for him, following expo
sures of wholesale graft and corrup-
ton in his department Of the gov
eminent. With him went the star
sleuth of the Daugherty red-baiting
crew, William ]. Burns, himself,
best known in his stellar role Of
frame-up artist and successor of the
Pinkertons in the employers war
upon Americas workers. By way of
epilogue, one might just barely
mention Jacob Spolansky, ally of
Burns in the raids upon the Com
munist Party convention at Bridge
man, Mich, in the summer of 1922,
but who now seeks to hide his in
significant identity as stoolpigeon
of the struck textile mill owners of
Passaic, New Jersey. Sam Gompers,
who during the closing years of his
life sought to extend his attack
on the Communists in the American
Federation of Labor to the Mexican
and the Pan-American Federations
of Labor, is gone. William H. John
ston, who used his position as presi-
dent of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists in an attempt to
drive the Communists out of the
union, has himself surrendered his
position, following Benjamin Schle-
singer, once president of the Inter-
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union into a similar and much de-
served retirement.
1t was nearly two years after the