The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-18

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49,, -A&sfNH the so-called "great and power
hzaasz azSz2 EEzM full" of today anxiously
trying to overdo another in
what looks like paying homage to his daring achieve
ment.
For ourselves quite frank to say that,
while are full of admiration for the truly heroic
and epoch-making deed of young Lndbergh we
cannot close eyes to the fact that his wonderful
achievement is being exploited for low and harmful
purposes. We cannot celebrate together with Poin-
and BRAND. We cannot become enthusiastic in
affair managed by the British King and his
cabinet We fail totally to respond to the grand
holiday-makihg of Wall Street and President Cool
idge.
And we wonder whether young Lindbergh the
of a sincere and courageous spokesman of farm
ers, at times does not have the same feelings as we
have.
TO be more concrete and specific we will say this
Capitalist politics and imperalist designs have
in our opinion played determining role in decid-
ing the attitude of the great and powerful" towards
Lindbergh and his historic achievement. The mo-
tives behind the reception given to Lindbergh in
Europe by the kings, presidents, cabinet ministers
and the rich generally tnged very heavily with
imperialist rivalry and purposes of capitalist ex-
ploitation. What in the homage paying to
Lindbergh by the rulers Of the capitalist world is
conscious attempt to appropriate him and his deed
for capitalism and capitalist exploitation.
sion to incorporate Lindbergh into its war-making
machinery by having Lndbergh come back on
warship and by surrounding his arrival and recep-
ton with military pomp and ceremony. Admiral
Moffet rushes into press to explain that with Lind
bergh's nonstop flying trip the Atlantic, the
old ocean is no longer barrier to a quick attack
upon the United States by a foreign power Hence
the base is being laid for military preparations
for air warfare The capitalist press calls him a
"prince" and a liking" And the greatest exploiters
of labor are feasting and banqueting him with much
anxiety to make young Lindbergh one of their own
When he came to New York, he made to be
a dinner guest of Clarence H. Mackay, millionaire
head Of the Postal Telegraph Company. And who
were the other notabes present? Here is list of
names taken from the press:
j. PIERPoNT MORGAN.
THOMAS w. LAMONT.
EBERT H. GARY.
JAMES A. BURDEN, host to the Prince of
Wales on his Long Island visit.
JOHN w. DAVIS, democratic candidate for
president in 1924, ETC., etc.
Wall Street and the American plutocracy cele-
brates Lindbergh not for Lindbergh's but for its
own sake 1t was clamoring for the head Of Lind
berghs father who dared to raise his voice against
the late imperialist war; but it is prostratng itself
before Lndbergh the son, because of the opportun-
ity TO exploit his achievement for it's ends We
cannot and will not join them in their hypocritca
game Lindberghs daring and glorious achievement
marks milestone the road of human progress,
but its full utilization for humanity. i.e, for the
millions of toers of America and the world over,
will become possible only when the rule of the
Morgans, Lannon'S, Garys and their like will be
abolished and the rule of the workers and farmers
established in it's place.
THERE two subjects which invariably make
William Green grow eloquent and pathetic. One
is cooperation with the bosses, the other is the
struggle against the left wing and the progressives
in the trade unions. Green is doing his very best
to promote both.