The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-24
In the Camp OF the Enemy

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/ emit people, as we are told in patri-
otto text books, but congress that
! is a servant of capital and whose
aim it is to help enslave the alleged
free and proud Americans to the
same capital. A commission of such
a congress is not a free and indie
pendent investigating agency but a
commission of servants. They were
dispatched to create sentiment
against the class struggle; they
were instructed to detract mass at
tention from the real enemies of the
masses; they were ordered to pre-
pare ground for new oppressive laws
against the militant workers of
whom the Communist Party is the
natural leader. They carry out
their mission. They obey orders.
They therefore cannot even appear
as Investigators. They must appear
as detectives. They must speak the
language of police spies. They must
move within the miserable circle Of
police conceptions.
Grover Whalen, Their Superior.
1t was a sight for the gods the
way these gentlemen treated Grover
Whalen. Why, they bowed before
hin. as one bows before superior.
They met him with the sweetest of
their honeyed smiles. They thanked
him almost abjectly for his "testi-
mony" and for having defended the
interests of the City of New York
in these matters" i.e., for defending
the bosses against the working class.
1t looked funny the way these
legislators flattered a policeman.
This flattery, however, expressed a
political fact of great significance.
Servant Whalen is more precious
to the capitalists than Servant Ham
ilton Fish. Servant Whalen is more
essential in the struggle against the
working class than the parliament
airy chatterboxes. Without congress
men the bosses can easily exist.
Without policemen they are helpless.
Therefore-hurray for Whalen!
This is not a time for parliament
airy clap-trap, say the capitalists.
This is a time for hit and shoot.
The workers are becoming more ra-
bid; the workers are turning more
and more to the Communist Party.
The profits are endangered, CAPT.
talist robbery is endangered! There
fore-on with the congressional in
vestigation! But you, Investigators
remember that, all and sundry, you
are not worth the heel of the last
policeman.
Class Against Class.
wish many workers could be
present at the fishy hearings" Nc
better class education is needed.
Hare they sit around the table
They look like any other group OF
human beings. They are dressed
like the rest Of the people. But this
is an entirely different world! All
their conceptions are just the OPP
posite of our conceptions.
They start with set of accepted
truths which to them are as self
evident as it is self-evident for
everyone that the typhoid or tbs
cholera have to be combated. A
strike is a calamity and crime
A strike is bad. A strike is dan
gerous character. A strike leader
is menace. Strikes must be sup
pressed, except cases where they are
staged by the A. F. Of L. The A
F. Of l.. is good; it is mentioned with
the greatest respect. The socialists
are also good. The workers gen
orally are bad. The Communist
are the enemy. The Communist.
must be fought with all means a
hand. The Soviet Union is a hor
ror. The very mention of the So
Wet Union makes the investigators
SILVER in pious indignation. They
speak Of it with the very same mier
with which religious people speak Of
Satan and hell. 1t is almost in
decent with thes. gentlemen to pro
nounce the word, Soviet Union.
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