The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-16
S P A r K S

THE other day we watched a street
magician make q dollar disap-
pear by a sleight-of hand trick.
When it comes TO making dollars
disappear, it will be pretty hard TO
beat Roosevelt,
FORMER Mayor Of Detroit Frank
j Murphy says that he is now
broke. We are willing to bet that
ex-Mayor of Detroit Murphy will not
depend for his existence on the re-
lief being handed out By his relief
commissioners.
We are right. Roosevelt has given
Murphy a good job as Governor
General Of the Philippines.
THERE has been a tremendous drop
L in unemployment, we are glad to
announce. Where?
Rooseyelt'S son has just gotten a
fat Job with an airplane company.
Would it be very wicked to suspect
that United States air mail contracts
have something to do with itF
IRON II. b, we get Gne 1oloWlIlS'
L Control of the police and armed
forces can be attained through par
lament and through no other
Means says George LanSbury leader
of the British Labor Party. And in
the New Leader, American socialist
paper, he is quoted, spplauded and
approved by William Fiegenbaum in
an article he calls Still Maintain
Democracy Is Socialists Best Weap-
on"
Here is how things would have hap
pened in Russia il there had been no
Bolshevik party and Feigenbaum,
Lanshury and the international So
cialist leaders would have had their
way.
Time: October 1917, workers ready
to take revolutionary action against
the Provisional Government, betray-
ers of the revolution of February,
1917.
Scene. Norman Thomas, James o.
Neil, Feigenbaum and other Socialist
leaders huddled together. Outside
the thunder of workers, Bread, land
and peace"
Enter soldier
Soldier: We are tired Of dying for
capitalism, we workers and peasants
of the army want to take control Of
the armed forces and use it to fight
for Socialism.
Feigenbaum (aSide) Horrors, what
will happen to us? (To the SOLDIER
My good man, are you not aware that
this is against sill Democratic pro-
cedure? Have you consulted the par
lament?
Soldier: Certainly not. Mulikov,
Kerensky the cadets all workers
enemies now hold power in the par
lament.
Feigenbaum: (sighing with relief
How unfortunate, now we can't have
our cooperative commonwealth we
will have to wait. socialists sit down
with an air Of resignation and prep
arations for long waltz.
Soldier: Wait? What for2 We are
hungry, the workers are ready, the
army is behind them and we can
take power from the capitalists.
Fiegenbaum: Oh horror that would
be dictatorship!
Soldiers: Why not, a workers and
farmers dictatorship.
Fiegenbsum: (other leaders in CHOIR
lIs) Democracy (capitalist) where art
thou Ito the soldier Now there be
nice, go back and fight for your
fatherland until We leaders get you a
nice majority in the parliament
someoay
Soldier: What fight for the capital
lists, then give up these guns and be
a slave again, like hell!
Fiegenbaun Oh these unreason-
ing workers. (to the soldier with a
show of sterness) Don't you know
that George Lansbury said we can
take control by parliamentary means
only. that otherwise it would be I'M
constitutional.
The scene closes with the Russian
workers and peasants brushing the
Hillquits, Thomases, etc. aside and
rushing forward to establish a Work
ers' Soviet Republic.