The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
By JAY LOVFSTONE.

is an unusually early opening.
There are widening drifts in the
Republican Party, and no end to the
confusion in the Democratic Party.
The reason for this condition within
the two parties of big capital is to
be found in the economic situation,
particularly in the aggravated agrar-
ian conditions.
State Elections Colorless.
Very few states have held elections
this year. The states in which they
were held, with the exception of New
York, Kentucky, and Ohio, did not
contribute anything fundamentally
new or significant for the 1928 cam
paign.
The New York returns only con-
firmed Smith as the outstanding
Democratic presidential possibility.
Kentucky lent further proof to the
rising hopes of the drys.
Ohio results were especially griev-
Gus for the Anti-Saloon League.
Returns Not Decisive.
Wherever the Workers Party par
ticipated, directly or indirectly, the re-
turns were more favorable for us than
in previous years.
| The Socialist Party victory in
Reading is largely a result of the
union between the organized workers
and Electromagnetic. The latter
gave their support to the Socialist
Party primarily on the basis of end
ing the onerous tax regime. The claim
of the Socialist Party to have elected
the head of the Buffalo city govern
ment is ridiculous, because the one
elected, Mr.. Perkins, is an expelled
Socialist and full-fledged Republi-
can.
In short, there is nothing basically
important in the election results for
either the Workers Party or the So
clalist Party as far as the 1928 cam
paign goes.
Workers Ching Pushed to the Wall
What is painfully clear for the
workers is that the masses from the
mines and mills, and the workers on
the land, must get together immedi-
ately to look after their own inter-
ests in the 1928 elections.
An injunction mania has seized the
ruling class. The most sweeping in
functions of the day - the iniunc-
ton gotten out by the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company of New York
against the entire American Fedora
ton of Labor and the one handed down
by Federal Judge Schoonmaker of
Western Pennsylvania-are more vic
ious and more damaging in their ap-
plication than any injunction hitherto
issued.
Good Men" Shoot Strikers.
In Colorado, Governor Adams, en-
dorsed as progressive and good
man" by the local trade union bureau
cracy and by the A. F. of L. in their
non-partisan policy, is filling the iails
with strikers, is using airplanes and
troops to crush the striking miners.
In Pennsylvania and Ohio, scores of
thousands of locked-out miners are
prohibited even from whispering to
each other about their inherent right
to organize into genuine union.
SOrdid Condition.
The astounding revelations regard
ing the manipulations of William J.
Burns, notorious strike breaker, who
was head of the bureau of investiga-
ton OF the Department of Justice in
the Harding Coolidge cabinet, has in
dlcated so sordid condition in the
very heart of the government that
the most conscious of the bourgeoisie
teel that some so-called corrective
measures must be taken in order to
preserve the illusions about democ-
racy.
Farmers Victimized.
o The farming masses are still sub
Ject to the manipulation of the big
bankers and to the dictates of the big
manufacturers. simultaneously, the
government is functioning more ag-
gressively as the agent of the biggest
capitalist interests both at home and
abroad.
Plots are afoot to strengthen the
defeated counter revolutionary forces
in Mexico.
The defenseless Nicaraguans are be-
ing murdered by the hundreds by the
u. S. marines.
Huge military and naval forces are
being maintained in China to crush the
revolutionary nationalist aspirations
OF the Chinese people.
In Europe, American imperialist
ACKNOWLEDGMENT is meeting with in
creasing resistance. There is a mad
naval race going on between the
United States and Great Britain.
Time To Wake Up.
Obviously, the workers had better
prepare to end their costly political
slumber.
1t is time to rouse the workers to
take the next logical and most urgent
step, to declare their independence
from the capitalist parties. The
times are overripe for the workers
and exploited farmers to move for
ward politically-to establish a mass
party of their own, lsbor party, or