The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-07
Coolidge's First Year
In White House Records
Triumphs for Reaction
By J. LOUIS ENoDAHL. 5

"|AL" COOLIDGE starts his second year in the
- white house, "in his own right" following ms cree
The nation supposed to be iubiant over his recoro,
featured by the adoption in the senate Of entry into the world
court, and by congressional sanction of Coodges econ
omy." or MELONS so-calIed tax reduction scheme"
There will be almost universal praise OF the Coolidge
regime on both these propositions because the democrats
joined with the republicans in helping to put them tnru con-
gress The democrats are in no position even 10 crteze
The progressives" have lost all energy to protest ne
coodgeMeIon dictatorship in Washington seems to nave
pretty easy going.
But up Passaic, New Jersey the police are hurting
tear bombs into the ranks Of the pcketng textile strikers
In the anthracite fields the coal miners have been forced back
TO work. restless and disconnected Thousands OF members
OF the Fuer Union and the International Ladies carmen
Workers Union on strike in New York City
and Boston Textile workers in New England protest more
and more under the OF repeated wage cuts NINE
thruout the soft coal fields continually violate the
jacksonville agreement and repeatedly clip the wage stand
ards of the workers in the btunous mines. The railroad
bill that slipping thru congress develops the class
collaboration between the railroad brohehoods and the rail-
road the expense of the railroad hopmen Violent
fluctuations prices the stock exchanges indicate the
and instability of big business An industrial de-
preston threatens in the months not far ahead Bankrupt
es and foreclosures have already hit the farmers over wide
reaches of the nation.
All these developments in the lives of the workers
tany indicate that labor has nothing to rejoice the
fact that Stkebsaker Coolidge has passed thru the first
quarter of his four-year term
1t has been year of naked and defiant capitalist tyranny
The United States openly enters Europe to defend the dol
lars of Wall Sire S international bankers The tax reduce
ton bill favored the mutmionaires especially those with
incomes Of one million and ANDY Mellon the secre-
tay OF the treasury the ruling power in the Coolidge gov
eminent pockets saving OF S0Z0340OO pretty close to
million dollars. His Economy only exceeded by that of
John D. Rockefeller J Henry Ford and Edse Ford who
save nearly five million dollars between them. Eleven mil
lion dollars will be turned back to twenty miionaes.
Entrenched wealth has had good year with Coolidge.
But that inevitably that it has been bad year for
the workers and poor farmers.
The farmers became ACUTE in fact shortly after
Coolidge safely established in the white house or four
years more One of the first results of this land crisis
the drift among the farmers toward independent POLITICAL
action the revival and strengthening of the FarmerLabor
Party That the only contribution the Coolidge
vandIa
its battles It is inevitable that developments during the
years ahead of the striebeakers presidential
career will force the development of labos struggle along
the lines The Labor Party may gain great
for this years fall congressional elections 1t should
challenging power by the time Wall Street gets
ready attempt another presidential swnde in the national
elections of 1929
Three years more OF Coolidge should mean for the
workers and poor farmers, THREE YEARS OF SIREN
UOUS LABOR PARTY BUILDING!