The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-21
I. R. T. Striker Speaks.

1. h. L. Strike committee carried by d
the subway strikers appeared to adj
dress the assembly. The mass arose
and with one voice greeted their fell
low worker
The debate was held under the
joint auspices of the Workers School
of New York and the National Secur-
ity League.
Mr.. Mann spoke for the National
Security League and Jay Lovestone
for the Workers (Communis) Party.
Scott Nearing was chairman.
Mann began by relating that his
father had worked for $50 a month
supporting a wife and seven children,
and that the speaker while in tender
years had to pitch in to help pay the
bills that accumulated, and because Of
this privilege he declared this is the
best system god ever made" But his
next sentence gave god a rather Sc
we're jolt as he continued, "Of course
It isn't perfect and there are many
imperfections to be found"
Stupid Contradictions.
The speaker rambled along falling
into such stupid contradictions that the
audience was kept in an unroar much
of the time. I'VE have representa-
tive government" he said, "and we
return our representatives to congress
every two years no matter how bad
they are" and another roar went
thru the auditorium, which set the
fustered gentleman on another track
saying:
Il am glad you don't all agree with
me. What a stupid world we would
have if you did"
DepIores I. r. T. Strike.
He enlightened his audience with
stating that he deplored that the l.
R. T. strikers should be so misled as
TO have lawyers from the American
Civil Liberties Union defend them
when hundred Wall Street lawyers
would be ready to serve for nothing"
Then he stumbled along and said
that ''the constitution was full of mis-
takes, because it was drafted by fall
lible men" But still it was so good
that "a shoemaker who earned only
81 day could be compelled to hire a
bookkeeper to keep track of his in
come so that he might not cheat the
income tax collector"
The speaker informed his hearers
that he had worked himself up from
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lawyer and that this country has an
opportunity for all to do likewise.
Lovestone was simply up against it.
For nothing so staggers a debater as
a stupid opponent, and here was a
sample of the worst kind. 1t was al
shame to slaughter this specimen of.
combined sincerity and stupidity.
There was nothing else to do and
Lovestone proceeded with the slaugh-
ter.
He showed how Lincoln had been
compelled to raise an army to do
away with one of the gross injustices
protected by the constitution. He
showed how the constitution was put
over by q select few in secret, and
pointed out that if it had been sub
mitted to the people they would have
turned it down. Hamilton was the
Mellon of 1771," declared Lovestone.
Rule by Injunction.
Lovestone went on to show how
rigid the constitution is, how hard it
is to amend it, how the government
uses the injunction against the work
ers, the cabinet system, the power of
the president who while uncrowned
still rules with the dollar mark on his
forehead" He showed up the gov
eminent as strikebreaker and oppres-
sor of the workers, while it protects
the wealthy and the big thieves such
as Mellon and Pepper and Doheny and
Sinclair.
state and federal government now
cost us over S10,0O0,000,000 a year
and the workers and farmers get
nothing out of IT," he concluded.
In rebuttal Mr. Mann declared that
all this did not bother him, "for in a