The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-29

T1HE courts are but the creatures
4 of the capitalist social system
that they serve.
This has again been wildly shown
in the decision just handed down
by capitalism's highest tribunal, the
United States supreme court, that
has decreed to President Cal Coo
lidge, or any executive that may
follow him, the authority to remove
White House appointees without the
consent of the senate.
This is just another step making
the executive power supreme in the
government, centralizing the gov
ernmental dictatorship in the hands
of the president, making of him a
constitutional car under the merest
chimera of fraudulent democratic"
forms.
In order to reach this decision the
majority of the supreme court
kicked over all precedent until even
Justice McReynolds, in minority
dissenting decision, was forced to
cry out:
"This goes far beyond any prac-
tice heretofore approved or fol
lowed; it conflicts with the history
of the constitution, with the ordi-
nary rules of Interpretation and
with the construction approved by
congress since the beginning and
emphatically sanctioned by this
court. To adopt it would be rev.
dictionary"
This case shows clearly how the
judicial system bends to the will
of the dominant ruling class. Like
the dog in the photograph adver-
tisement. the United States supreme
court hears "His Masters Voice"
If the exploiting class, therefore,
can mould the opinions of the high
est court in the land, debating its
decisions in its own interests even
against a minority of this same
court and the outraged parliament
tarians in congress, workers may
readily realize how much easier it
is for this same owning class to
get the kind of a decision it desires
in the isolated court room of Judge
Webster Thayer in Norfolk Coun-
ty, Mass, against two working men,
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti.
This latest opinion of the supreme
court, that gives extreme tyrannical
powers into the hands of the pre-
sident, is the result Of a suit brought
by Frank S. Myers, former post
master of Portland, Ore, who was
removed by President Wilson and
who sought to recover back salary
on the ground that his removal was
illegal without the consent of the
senate, which had ratified his APP
pointment. Wilson, the democrat,
initiated this move in the centrali-
cation of capitalist government,
while it is approved by the supreme
court headed by William Howard
Taft, the former republican presi-
dent. Both of the capitalist parties,
therefore, stand back Of this de-
cision.
1t has already been shown how
the great army of postmasters is
used in support of the dominant
political party. This supreme court
decision means that any postmaster,
If he does not dance to the snap
of the White House whip, will lose
his job. But it also means that the
president will get tyrannical pow
ers over all the numerous members
Of the multitudes of government
commissions that inject themselves
into every avenue of human life.
Congress will be helpless. 1t will
be permitted to conduct endless
debates. The senators and repre-
sentatives will be permitted to
have their remarks, including the
leave to extend, in the congression-
al record. But when decisions are
to be made in the various depart
ments of government, they will be
dictated from the White House, be-
cause, according to the editorial
heading in the Chicago Tribune,
1.-THE President Holds the Reins,"
and it is common sense" it de-
clares. o. to give the president the
power to remove those who do not
accept his leadership" It urges
that this is the road to discipline"
meaning of course, the discipline
imposed by a political tyrant nest
ling in the lap of the Wall Street
oligarchy.
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