The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-11-16
Carl Sandburg, Poet, Is
Given His Baptismal AS
Ally of Parasite Class
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

daily publication in pamphlet form,
that tried to survive without adj
vertising. This publication was a
protest against domination of the
daily press by advertisers. It did
not long survive. But It was while
writing for this struggling publica-
tion that Sandburg began to write
also about the workers in the stock
yards, the steel mills and other
great industries, using a loose poetic
style that helped develop his appeal
He became in his own way a poet of
labor.
Sandburg disappeared from the So
cialist ranks. The failure of The
Day Book, that sought to cater to
the trade unions, cut off Sandburg's
last contact with the labor move
ment. For a time he faced severe
financial difficulties. But these quick
ly disappeared with the success that
greeted his "Rutabaga Stories"
harmless tales for children, also in
SSAuOu IVA 6AOWAup5.
Sandburg played no part during
the war, but he did show consider
able sympathy for the Bolshevik
Revolution in its early years. But
that, too, quickly disappeared.
Sandburg gradually developed a
vogue all his own, going about the
country giving readings and lectures
to petit bourgeois and artistic
audiences. His latest and most
voluminous effort is his Life of
Abraham Lincoln" copy Of which
is now being used as Queen Marie's
official souvenir of Chicago.
1t is claimed that Queen Marie
has frequently expressed her in
terest in Lincoln. This is probably
another one of those press agent
yarns that try to surround royal
personages with heroic and popular
myths. If the truth were known, it
would probably be discovered that
the Police Gazette is Queen Marie's
favorite American publication while
even WIN Rogers, in literature, is
too heavy" for her.
In the great struggle Of rival eco
nomic interests that resulted in the
American Civil. War C1S61-65), Lin
coin was against the established or.
der. He was the rebel Of his. time.
Queen Marie and the American par
asites who belly their way about be-
fore her, are on the side Of things
as they are today. Queen Marie is
the embodiment of the anti-labor
traditions Of the chattel-slave own
ing South of the early half Of the
last century. To link her up with
Lincoln is not only to insult the
memory of thu Civil War president.
but deliberate perversion of his
tory.
But the capitalists and their liter
airy Iackeys stop at nothing. AS
ghouls of history they are unsur-
passed. This instance is no excep-
ton.
Sandburg's Life of Lincoln" is to
be handed the terror queen as a
handsomely leather-covered volume
embossed with the Roumanian coat
OF arms of the reigning house Of
terrorland- Sandburg will have his
autograph in the book. The sigma
lures OF the Chicago committee, in
GLIDING some of the worst open shop
exploiters in the city, will appear on
the fly leaf.
One OF Sandburg's poems is en-
titled, "Chfcago-Hog Butcher for
the World" Like Armour, Swift.
Cudahy, Morris and the rest, in com
mon with the explofters in all in
dustry, Sandburg has learned to
breathe as sweet perfume the scent
OF warm animal blood mingling with
the sweat and agony of human toll
IN the production OF profits. Now
tnfs is mingled with the deaths
blood, the suffering, the misery of
the Roumanfan toiling masses. Thus
Sandburg's baptism into the realms
a.