The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-21

numbers WDulQ Indicate. CISI VA Oh,
this strike is part of a movement of
resistance to wage cuts. This move
ment is making Roadway in certain
industries under very difficult condi-
tions. Secondly, the strike is a re-
volt of the rank and file of the work
ers, not only against the wage-slash-
ing attempts of the employers, but
also against the destructive, traitor
Gus practices of the official labor
leadership.
1t is interesting to note that the
attorney for the union is Boston So
cialist, Mr.. Bereak. Mr.. Bereak is
supposed to defend the interests of
the workers. He is now working over
time to prevent the workers from
striking. In bit of advice given by
him to the workers the other day
when they went out . in protest
against the wage cuts, Mr.. Bereak
told them substantially as follows:
"The ice is too thin, you can't go
skating. The water is too cold, you
can't go fishing. The only thing you
can do is stay on your job. Don't
strike"
Small wonder then that the Haver-
hill Gazette" capitalist paper, calls
upon the workers to carry out the adj
vice Of their counsel. 1t is basic
fact, in reality an axiom of the class
struggle today, that The fraudulent
Socialists are not prepared to fight
for even the smallest measures max
ing for the alienation of the condi-
tons of the workers. 1t is not only
that they are unready to fight for the
revolution,-this in itself, of course,
condemns them as enemies of the
working class-but they are not ready
to do anything at all which makes for
the mobilization of the workers in
struggle against the capitalist class
and its government. This is an in
delible feature of the socialist party
today. The socialist party h a $
dropped every pretence of excuse for
its speaking as a party of the work.
ers, even in the most limited sense. In
every struggle in the labor move
ment today it is lined up with the
forces of reaction against the work.
ing class. Particularly is it bitter
against the militant, conscious sec
ton of the workers. MIR. Berger and
his company cannot revive the corpse.
The socialist party is declining in
membership, according to the official
admission of it's national committees.
IT'S best days are gone. Its remain
ing days are few,-even as skeleton
organization of old, retired radicals.
z REPRESENTATIVE of the war,
~ state and navy departments, in
addressing the General federation OF
Women's Clubs in Washington the
other gay, let the cat OUT Oh Cne bag.
They tod the whole truth about the
scneme OF peace compacIs now being
pushed by agents OF American i'm
perIansm. 1he secretary OF war,
laws, and Admiral Scnoneld Dluntly
told the bourgeois congregation of
women, that preparedness comes
ABOVE peace pacCs. 1ney SAID tnaJ
moderate preparedness is a better
guarantee against war than even the
peace compacGs.
Here we nave the kernel of the whole
4NcsoAOn. we NAYS nia41i.siiISu MAI
peace IfeaLieS ana peaCe conferences
NE more Cney are acCuaiAy at WORK
y.ng the Daols IOr lllpenalng lm-
pef4AusI war. 1neSe genCiemen,
REPRESENTING The Lnree arms OF
.AlnerAcan capiCailsI aggression, told
LIE IacCs as Iney are. Iney admlCJed
me S'llInltaI.ons OF the DrlanQ peace
pan mucn more Than one Wou4d ex-
pecL them to admit IN the Lace OF The
p1eSeuI eItorLS OIL American imperial
SIN 60 nave a SPECIAL treaty with
rance IN order TO separate IL from
ureat Britain.
But these henchmen of Wall Street
also nave a sense OF humor. For
instance the Secretary of War Davis
oalu LnaC the nlII.a1y men are The
last ones In the world TO want war.
Inelr OBJECT Us to restore peace when
it mas been lost. Their whole purpose
is to end war as rapidly and as
quickly and as effectively as pos
sIDle." Now we have it.
There is a real division Of labor
amongst the imperiaiists. The bank
ers and manufacturers are the ones
who lose the peace conditions. They
are the ones whose interests in clash
with the class Interests OF other i'm
perialist powers bring about war. The
technicians, the engineers, the scien-
tific managers, all these men, they
are the ones who do the dirty work
in the laboratories. That is, not the
real dirty work yet. The dirty work
of killing and being killed is left to
the workers and not to the Davises
and the Wilburs or the Morgans.
Certainly, the exploiters want to
restore peace as speedily as possible.
But the workers are the ones who