The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-07
by BURCK

stoolpigeons in factories, unions and fraternal
organizations. They pay higher wages and
grant special privileges to sections of workers
to separate them from the masses.
Rich Gamblers Show the Way.
But more. Gamblers on the stock exchange,
successful managers of shady deals set the pace
in the country. Are not the rich parasites
and bloodsuckers on the lives of the working
class-Morgan, Rockefeller, Young, Mellon,
Lamont, Guggenheim, Ford, etc., the success
full gamblers who are held up as examples to
the workers? Do not the workers then in
small, but for them dangerous way pursue the
same course to "wealth"-gamble, pilfer and
land in prison?
On in different way: Are the workers not
on all sides advised, sometimes compelled, to
buy homes, furnishings, cars, on the installment
plan, which has sadded the working class with
more than eight billion dollars of debts-their
future mortgaged!
Socialists" Mocking at Workers Misery.
Now with the crisis cutting it's burrows deep
into the face of the working-class family, with
the terror of unemployment and starvation
looking out of the eyes of 100000 workers
and their families, with the bosses program
of wage cuts getting into full swing, with
speed-up cutting into the heart of the whole
upon and receiving their profits even tho the
workers starve-yes with the capitalist system
being based on the ruthless, mercess exploita-
ton of the workers and poor farmers and, ac-
cordng to government reports, forcing four
fifths of the workers to live below the level
of subsisterce"-for the Socialist" platform
to speak of assuring" decent living standards
through higher wages and shorter hours" and
"by better and higher free education" with
the colleges and universities turning out hun
dreds of thousands of students who can find
no jobs under capitalsm) Ito speak thus is to
mock at the misery of the working class. AS
surance of decent living standards "can only
come through destruction of the capitalist
system of exploitation and the establishment
of Soviet systematic system that is build
ing up Socialism in the industry and agri-
culture of the Soviet Union with such marvel
Gus results and speed. To pretend to any "as-
surance of decent living standards" is purest
demagogy, for it requires organized struggle
against capitalism but the socialist party is
a party in favor of capitalism.
Socialist" Platform Wants More Prisons!
But the best point in the socialist" platform
dealing with crime is the following: GAS meas
ures to cope with increasing crime in the state,
we demand" no, reader, not what you think
"a program of prison building" More prisons,
of course for the workers.!
The reactionary labor movement produces its
share of criminals, based on capitalist meth
DDS, as, for instance, through "labor" banking,
gangsterism within the unions, copied from
vigilent gangs of the capitalists, gangsters to
slug and murder militant workers, gangstefs
extorting blackmail; racketeers who in their
way using their own methods, follow the path
of Rockefeller and Morgan.
Socialist" Racketeers.
The Socialist" writers and speakers talk
a lot about racketeering-but what of their
own racketeering! What Of their own gangster-
ism! What about gangsters in the mining
needle trades, food, shoe and building trades!
Answer, Socialist" union leaders-what about
the gangsters you use against militant work
ersy What about gangsters who blackmail and,
if refused, do not hesitate to murder!
AS upholders of capitalism, the Socialists"
use the capitalist-fascist methods, such as the
XXX. those Of the American Legion, Black
Hundreds, Changers, etc. Any means to an
end! AS to the victims of cantalism, workers
who cannot stand the grind, workers who are
thrown into the streets to starve. workers at
40 years who are thrown on the scrapheap.
women who are driven to prostitution in order