The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-14
The New Millionaire Dailv
Herald"
By Fred Ellis

arithmetical simplicity the essence of Social
Fascism.
Must Steal From Workers.
1t is significant that capitalism and Social
Fascism can only establish their system of
corruption by stealing from the workers. Just
as the old revolutionary "Marseillaise" became
and remains today the official hymn of the
counter-revolutionary money-lords of the
French Republic; just as the trade unions, set
up by the workers revolt and sacrifice in the
face of capitalist terrorism, become today the
instrument of capitalist domination of the
working class; so the Daily Herald" set up
by the workers miitancy and sacrifice as an
organ of rebellion against capitalism and Of
fetal labor, becomes today the chosen instru-
ment of capitalism and official labor for the
domination and enslavement of the workers.
The old Daily Herald" was created by the
workers revolt. 1t was hated and denounced,
not only by the capitalists, but by the official
Labor leaders. The workers gave to it their
devotion and their sacrifice their tireless labor
and their pennies 1t is workers property that
these labor bureaucrats have in very simple
and literal sense, sold to the capitalist mil
lonaires.
The official labor movement could never
create newspaper; the failure of the DAILY
Citizen" showed this The "Daily Citizen had
behind it the power of the Labor Party and
trade union rcchine; but it was born dead.
The Old "Rebc" Herald.
The love and service of the workers went to
the "rebel' DAILY Herald" which, with all it's
weaknesses, was in its first stage a genuine
organ of militancy, an organ of bitter fight
against the capitalists and the labor traitors.
How the labor bureaucracy felt about it can
be seen in the statement of Allen, the bust
ness manager for the Daily Citizen:
ut is no exaggeration to say that the
Daily Herald in its early days did more
to hinder the successful launching of the
first Labor daily than any agent of capital
ism or of the capitalist press It's wrecking
tactics, its unqualified abuse, and the SER
lous effects of its INSCRIPTIONS agitation,
when Bruce Glasier, Anderson, Henderson,
Macdonald and others raising the
funds to establish the Daily Citizen can
never be forgotten.
Fortunately, the courage and idealism of
George Lansbury in the second stage of the
'Herald's' life has softened some of these
memories" (Allen, in I'D. H." 6.2.25.)
How familiarly close this language to the
language on the Communists today!
The DAILY Herald' today dares to claim to
be descended from the old "Daiy Herall' of
1912 Let it reprint some of the articles of
those days; let it reprint extracts, not from a
century ago, like other newspapers but "From
Our Pages of Eighteen Years Ago.; let it re-
print what it wrote of Macdonald, of Snow
den, of Thomas; let it reprint the cartoons of
Dyson on these statesmen; let it reprint the
article for which it was sued by Thomas in
the capitalist law courts, and had to pay
f200-and the workers will be able to see a
living picture of the meaning of renegadsm,
of the naming of the transition to Social
Fascism
The death of the DAILY Herald" was long
and gradual one, as the forces of capitalism
slowly conquered it. The Lansbury regime al
ready changed its character, and brought in
the elements of pacifism, of middle-class So
cialism and of Christianity; but it still re-
tanned contacts with the mass movement, and