The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-11
!" Criminal Aliens Or
Criminal Ruling Class

1890
being abolished, and complete and UNI
divided dictatorship of an imperiahst
oligarchy is steadily asserting itself;
the exploitation of the workers and
of the small farmers. by the handful
of bankers and big industrialists is
intensified all the time
And finally, the fact of the ever.
growing decay, degeneracy, and Grim
inality of the ruling class itself. This
decay and degeneration penetrates the
entire social organism Of American
capitalism from top to bottom
ANE after another monstrous scan
~ dals develop before the eyes of
the American people; the Teapot
Dome scandal; the colossal steals Of
the funds appropriated for the care
of the disabled war veterans; the ex.
pose of the aluminium trust, etc, etc.
And in all of these scandals the high
est governmental officials and even
'the principal were involved in such
manner as to disclose how the
Rockefellers and the Morgans by the
use Of their millions set up their
government out of the dullest, most
mercenary, criminal elements.
AS we descend to the state and
municipal apparatus Of the ruling
power, we find the same picture. One
political scandal follows upon the
leels of another. Today it is the news
IF state governor who stole public
unds; tomorrow it is the news Of
important municipal officials following
full dress attire after the coffin of
n assassinated vice king; the day
4fter tomorrow it is a coroner and
iheriff granting the freedom Of city
20 millionaire bootleggers in order
hat they may continue the business
Tor which they were put in jail. Or
again it is related how states at
| torney participated in a banquet with
prominent bootleggers and vice kings
and was photographed in their pleas
ant company. simultaneously it is
explained that the states attorney in
question owes his election to office in
IA great measure to the services OF
these bootleggers and vice kings.
Endlessly, day after day, similar
stories appear on the pages of capital
list newspapers.
Out of the drawing rooms and the
clubs of "society"-the same stencil.
Day after day the newspapers are
recording either a scandalous, piquant
divorce suit, or a description of an
all-night drinking bout, or a sensa-
tional murder committed by some
society" degenerate.
1t is from such manifestations of
its own corruption, decay and de-
generacy that American Imperialism
strives to detract the attention of the
people by trying to attach its own
qualities to the aliens" Such cam
paign of villification directed against
workers must not be left unchalleng-
ed.
ITOGETHER with an organization
4 of united front of labor against
the attack of American Imperialism
upon the most exploited, DISTINGUISHED.
unorganized and therefore helpless
elements of the working class the
slanderous campaign of the ruling
class must be answered with a power
full movement.
To the most backward workers It Is
necessary through a campaign of
publicity to show just who are the
really destructive, undesirable, Grim
inal and degenerate elements of So
ciety.
1t is necessary, as part OF the
campaign for the protection OF the
foreign born, carefully to collect and
disseminate among the broad masses
facts (of which there is no end) that
will give them correct picture OF the
ruling class.
The campaign against the "destruc-
tive" dangerous" degenerate" al
lens must be answered by the work
ers with a campaign against the de
structive," dangerous" and "degener-
ate" parasites and exploiters.