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Page Six THE DAILY WORKER is ————————$ Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | 1113 W, Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ml, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (In Chicage only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 stx monthe | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months | $2.50 three monthe $2.00 three months | Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL | , S=NGDA i ee WILLIAM F. DUNNE f apis | MORITZ J. LOE Business Manager | -class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-offic cago, [ilL, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. Mr. Green Attends a Banquet in the ornate banquet room of the Palmer House of Chicago, Mr. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, delivered his stereotyped class Collaboration harrangue to 300 local labor officials and members. Green he abundon, “High wages in industry mean increased efficiency and T it Will Not Stand Investigation ACIFIST supporters of the propo- sition that the United States en- ter the world court should ponder over the action of the senate Wed- nesday when that august body turned down a proposition to create a com-| mittee to investigate the source of funds used to propagandize the idea. People resent an investigation when they have something they must con- Even the most superficial consider- lation reveals the possibilities of a | probe that would go to the very root ‘of the corruption involved in this affair, cifists, political con-men, preachers, jurists, millionaires, vegetarians, for- eign and domestic grafters and crooks \that infest the capitol seem to have} |inexhaustable funds at their disposal. Cynical observers at Washington i | | ndles alleged statistics regarding labor with admirable |S#¥ members of the senate praia who are present at the \congress have only themselves to The swarms of lobbyists, pa-| HE SAILY WORKER Never before have such blessings |been showered indiscriminately upon the deserving. The illusions of paci- fism, humanitarignism, christianism, vegetarianism, @fe all consolidated in- to one vast and dazzling panorama by the magic wand of glittering gold held by the agents of Morgan. All the discordant notes of people and sects formerly regarded as “queer” are, by the same necromancy, merged into one vast dithyrambic to the dawn of world peace that only awuits the act of the United States entering |the world court. Most Not Spoil Graft. | QURELY no one who sympathizes with the self-appointed saviors and \up-lifters could expect the eminent seators sojourning jin the cave of the winds at Washingtor to interfere with the idyllic performance by exposing the motive forcer‘behind the whole works. Then there is #é' personal graft of the senators involved. How do House of Morgan. It would be foolish to expect it to commit suicide. + We favor such an investigation only because it would help to bring ‘the government into contempt thruout the land. Teapot Dome would pale in- to insignificance in comparison with such a scandal. Economic Foundations of Fight, HE basis for the fight to get the United States into the world court is not to be sought in sentimental yearnings for peace as the pacifist crew would have us believe, but in the sordid material interests of Wall Street. As foreign investments in- volve this country more and fhore in every crisis affecting any part of the capitalist world, it becomes nec- essary to create political power suffi- cient to protect financial interests. The United States government can- not stand aside from the various at- tempts of the European nations to utilize the machinery of the league of nations and the world court for their they know they ‘will come back to since 1900 the efficiency of the American wage earners in all lines |pjame if they do not’take advantage |the senate aftethis term? On of the opportunity to beome “indepen- | would be a base Atherican indeed who of industrial pursuit has increased 50 per cent,” declared Green. Like the capitalist apologist he is, he neglected to state the facts regarding the tremendous increase in profits to the capitalists. He ignored the rise in the cost of living which is so tremendous that creased. Wages have not kept pace with the rising cost of living with the result that the standard of living of the working class of the country has decreased since 1900. Equally erronous were his statements regarding the relative strength of the American Federation of Labor as compared with the total wage earners of the country. Green asserted that there were about 20,000,000 wage earners in the nation and that of these, 5,000,000, or one-fourth were organized into the American Federation of Labor. is Statistics of the A. F. of L. itself prove this statement false. Never at any time in its history has the A. F. of L. had five million members. Its peak of organizational power was 1920, with slightly more than four million. Unable to resist the open shop drive fol- lowing the war it fell to 2,865,799 in 1924. In 1925 it showed the small gain of 12,498 members—an insginificant number compared with the yearly drop in the period from 1920 to 1924. Furthermore, the number of wage earners is far more than 20,000,000 and much closer to 30,000,000. Instead of facing facts regarding the pathetic condition of the organized labor movement in the country and proposing a policy that will strengthen the existing unions and organize the millions of unorganized workers, Green indulges in the most shameful falsi- fication and sophistry in an effort to lull the organized workers into a false sense of security so his reactionary and treacherous leader- ship will not be challenged. More Packing Trust Tyranny Besides maintanig company unions, or “conference, boards” to lengthen the hours and eut the wages of labor in the stock yards, the packing house trust is introducing the “bonus system’ in various departments of the industry and preparing to extend :it to all branches as soon as possible. od t This hoax to defeat the workers is an old one,.long.in vogue in many industries and every intelligent trade, upionist fights against the thing. For certain work above the average the indi- vidual worker receives a premium or bonus, in the form of a few cents or a few dollars according to the amount of work done. Those workers suffering from the slave psychology that impels: them to believe they can, by their individual efforts, raise themselves above their fellow workers, strive to obtain the few extra cents’or dollars. The result is that all workers speed up to the limit,!thereby in- creasing production for the boss and shortening the labor-time neces- sary to produce certain commodities. For this extra ‘work, instead of paying all the men, the employer only pays a few, who are able to speed up more than the rest. The inevitable result of such a process is upemployment of some workers to the extent that fewer men can do the work than before the speed-up system was introduced. When a new high mark of production is established the bonus is removed and after a time re- introduced to cover a still higher rate of production and further speed up the workers. The bonus may mean a few extra cents for a few workers today, but it paves the way for unamployment, reduction in wages and a greater expenditure of human energy in a day’s work. Workers should not be fooled by such fakes as-Armour & Co.’s bonus schemes. To . Senator Willis’ Sophistry Mr. Willis, senator from Ohio, a product of that mass of corrup- tion known as the “Ohio gang.” and one of the original Harding boosters, denies that the league of vations selects judges for the world court. In a speech in the senate Monday, this friend of Harry M. Daugherty said: “It is to be noted that the’ election is not at all by the league of nations, as such, but by the individuals who for) the time being shall (sic) constitute the assembly and the council.” | Mr. Willis views. the league itself as some metaphysical thing that stands above the individuals who constitute the assembly and the council. Within the council and the assembly of the league the representatives of nations act as individuals; to deny that these in- dividuals are the league is to deny the existence’ of the league and consider the agents of nations not as members of a league, but as a group of individuals conducting certain business that is the concern of the yarious nations involved. If brains were relied upom to get the United States into the world court the victory for the opponents would be easy. But Mor-| gan’s billions far outweigh the blunders of such an ignoramus as Senator Willis and sufficient venality exists among the senators of both old parties to put across the betrayal of the workers of this country into the hands of Morgan so they may be used for cannon fodder when diplomatic intrigue fails. . Coolidge’s uncle is filling a vaudeville engagement playing the| fiddle. The family seems to he musically inclined. After every revo- lution the question of utilizing the abilities of the former ruling class becomes a dfficult one. In the case of the Coolidge family we have a suggestion. The uncle could play the fiddle and Cal the saxa- phone in fourth-rate vaudeyille shows. Henry Ford, to whom the adminsitration is trying to présent Muscle Shoals, could contribute an old fashioned dance. _ The world court senators fuse to tolerate an i tion of . the source of the millions used to put over this pet pi t of Mor- gan, Neither the senators nor Morgan can stand igvestigation. “~< 4 dent” (financially) for life. With the farm crisis haunting the good. ; would not seize“the’ opportunity to | provide comfortably for the family Coolidge supporters who whooped it |and the coming gehérations that will| F spat up for prosperity in the last campaign | Carry the illustriotts names of today’s even tho nominal wages did increase the real wages of labor de-' many of them feel that they may | Statesmen down €h6 ages. s it not | not have another chance to get in on|the essence of AiMéricanism to pro-) the graft in congress so they are out Vide for the family# Who would be | to get theirs’ while the getting is |S0 base as to demjsthis right to the statesmen of our day? People who Naturally, they consider it sheer im-| question the benevolent role of Mor- pudence that irresponsible senators| 840 in this affair-are striking at the should so far forget their party alle-| Very foundation @f ‘the family. By giance as to propose turning the light| Westioning the motives of the gentle, of publicity into the recesses where! Tetiring, saintly ministers of the gos- rest the millions of gold that will, if| Pel one strikes at the foundations, of left to fulfill its purposes, eventually |Teligion. At all costs and in spite find its way into the pockets of the | of everything these institutions must | faithful. | be preserved. i‘ iy 4 What difference does it make where | vite apn AMAL gout et the money comes from? If it is 'HILE the business of getting th ainted its use to get the United United States into the world) States into the world court will puri- court cannot be described as an indus-| fy it, try, it\is certainly the greatest com | mercial venture in this country a! |the present time. To trace the ram! | fications of the millions and probably Not Opposed in Principle. HE stalwart senators who opposed the investigatios of the source of funds to corrupt fhe nation into the | billions of the slush fund would re-| | quire months, possibly years. There| World court have not abandoned the business of investigations. They are is not any vulnerable place that has| | not Aoed debauched fe Morgan’s |? favor of investigations in principle, agents in this campaign. Defunct |>Ut object to this lecular one. peace societies have been resurrected| It is noteworthy that many of those thru formerly disfnterested parties | Senators who have formerly assailed donating huge sums of money; strug-|the vanguard of the working class, gling newspapers have been rescued |the Communists, with the most vitrio- from “bankruptcy that they might lic and mendacious charges of being take up the task of creating “public | bribed by foreign gqld should be pre- sentiment” for the world court; | cisely the ones who: hotly resent an | churches have had their mortgages |!nvestigation of the slush fund used | paid off and are now on the road to|in the most flagramte¢ampaign of cor- affluence—even tho their pews may |Tuption ever perpetgated in history. be empty—simply because the minis-| While we know %suth an investiga- ters suddenly see a great light of |tion would leavé’ umtiung the scoun- peace and universal brotherhood shin-/drels involved, it WOuld shed light ing from the vaults of gold in the lo-|upon the workings®6f the capitalist cal banks, which are a part of the Mor- | propaganda machiney-and expose the gan system; labor leaders are sent to | venality of the . pagifists and . other sanitariums where they can recuper-| phrase-mongers ins¢he service of im- ate from their strenuous labors of perialism. This gomernment dare not betraying the workers into B. & O./do anything to the grafters plans and other schemes of class col- j and corriptionistsa because the gov- laboration. ‘ernment itself isthe agent of the Se By GREGORY ZINOVIEV. (Continued from previous issue.) The Situation in the Individual Capitalist Countries. OCARNO alone however does not ‘exhaust the characterization of the international situation, The im-| perialists met at Locarno with the ob- ject of reconciling each and everyone. | te@t is growing among these strata of Nevertheless, two government crises | the population. It is reported from arose at the same time immediately | Paris that in the last fortnight large after Locarno, the first in Germany, | Meetings of the petty bourgeoisie have the other in France. ‘These crises| "ePeatedly been held and have been at- throw a fairly clear light on the situa- tion in the most important countries of Europe. What is happening in England? Everyone knows that English indus- try is on the down grade, that the mo- nopolist position held by English cap- italism in the European markets is being destroyed. The revolutionizing of the English working class, its fra- ternization with our trade unions is, at bottom, closely connected with the crisis in English capitalism. This could be illustrated by a number of facts and figures. | French bourgeoisie "f# ruminating and) cannot make up it Thind to anything. The third crisis is that the petty bour- geois strata of the. population is be- ginning to kick. The pressure of tax- ation is increasing and consequently the peasantry and petty bourgeoisie of the towns are rising and the discon- me ‘ — By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. FTER the Bridgeman raid in the fall of 1922, a’group of Commun- ists found them#6lves in Berrien county jail, and hiif in) jest, half in earnest they isswéd @ little bundle of pencilled manuseript daily, or “try- daily,” which théyInamed The DAILY WORKER, Theré!‘was no printin; plant available but where there is @ will there is a Way and the manu- script found it way to where there was a printshop. !!4 . Revolutionists mitist be optimistic else they would be anarchists, but few of those who amused themselves with ET us take the second most power- ful country in Europe, France, She is passing thru a period of very serious crisis. Bourgeois France is suffering from the following severe complaints: firstly, she is carrying on two wars, in Morocco and Syria, two real wars in which a quarter of a mil- lion of French soldiers are engaged, which are costing a few millards of franes and the end of which is not yet in sight. In these two wars, the re- volt of the colonial people against the same time. Secondly, France is passing thru an extremely severe fi- nancial crisis: This is the most fash- jonable disease thru which most gov- ernments nowadays come a cropper. There is no unemployment in France, on the contrary, France is at present employing 2,250,000 foreign workers. The basis of this industrial boom however, is 80 unstable that it is com- patible with the most alarming finan- cial crisis and the fact the country is in the grip of a severe financial fever which places the French government before the alternative of either carry- ing out serious configcations of the profits of the largest financial ma, nates, or of enduring an interminable permanent. financial crisis, The bourgeois France finds expression at | the miniature DAMLY WORKER in Berrien county jas in 1922, expected that in January,1026, a real, power- ful DAILY WORKER would be em- barking on its third year of service to the working class. Yet here we are! | Much Shaking of Heads. Wane the Workers Party began to seriously consider launching The DAILY WORKER, there was |much skepticism, Where would the money to support the paper come from? Would the members of the party and the more class-conscious members of the workng class outside the party support a Communist or- gan? It was to furrow the brow. | Finally the die was cast and the drive for funds began.. % But no sooner/was the first move to organize the daify started than the New York » successor to the Socialist New Yor Call, stretched its yellow limbs a last convul- sive shudder from this life. Despite the attentions of a ! own imperialist aims and expect to | overawe these institutions. The House | of Morgan is confident its great finan- | cial power will soon dominate the | court and the league and hopes to | make them agencies thru which Wall Street may dominate the world. It is preposterous to expect Morgan to re- frain from forcing his government into a league and court that has as members all the debtor nations of Europe. Echoes of Locarno. Pee recance in this country hail- ing Locarno as the’ achievement of the ages is designed to create a more sympathetic attitude toward Eu- rope and its problems. Furthermore, the conference at Locarno displayed tendencies that make it imp ve that Morgan ‘strive to get the Un‘ied States into the world court and the league. Besides the effort of England to create a European alliance against the Soviet Union, and the desire of Wall Street will grant them loans, there ran thru the whole proceedings a resentment at the dominant role of the United States as the banker of the world. This tendency was plainly indicated by bitter comments in the leading London and Paris papers. Since the last (sixth) assembly of the league of nations held last Sep- tember, the great imperialist rival of the United States, England, has dom- inated the councils of that body, The world court is used to formulate le- | gal bases for the imperialist depreda- tions of the league. The recent deci- sion of the court granting the league the right to determine the Turkish boundary in Irak and the decision of the league in favor of that territory which is under a British mandate, in- dicates to what uses the court may be put in protecting and extending the power of the nation that gains domination of the council of the league “. Those to Be Invsetigated. UCH an investigation as the one Proposed by recalcitrant senators would involve leaders in practically tended by tens of thousands, and that in these meetings the Communist speakers who propose confiscating the profits of the great magnates of capi- tal are decidedly popular. It seems to me that these diseases alone are enuf to ruin the strongest country; two wars, financial crisis and fermen- tation among the peasantry and the petty bourgeoisie-—France, be it re- marked, being a country of petty bour- geoisie and peasants, the nations of continental Europe to! every walk of life. Many powerful | organizations have been created es-)| pecially to forward the propaganda | of the league and the world court. Take the most prominent combine, known as The American Foundation, which maintains: the American, Peace Award, with offices at 565 Fifth ave- nile, New York City as one example. The committee of this foundation is headed by a naturalized Dutchman named Edward W. Bok. This man Bok. mobilized the most formidible of the forces striving to get the Unit- ed States into the league. He came to this country from Heider, Nether- lands,.at six/years of age with his parents. He dabbled in journalism of | a sort, finally married the daughter | of the notorious Cyrus H. K. Curtis, proprietor of the scab Curtis Publish- ing company, became editor of the Ladies’ Home Jotirnal (a special mag- azine created to,pollute the minds of the wives.and daughters of the work- ers). With.the wealth obtained from scab publications.while vice-president of the Curtis: Rublishing company, he began his league-.of nations propagan- da at the closg.of the world war. He established the,Bok peace award,| which was -merely a propaganda| nations. In this,he,is assisted by Col-| onel Edward M. House of the House of Morgan, who: represented Woodrow | Wilson during the period of this coun- try’s participation in the war at the supreme wer. council at Versailles, and who acted.for.the United States in arranging the terms of the armis- tice that ended the fighting in 1918. Colonel House “and Mr. Bok have an able associate who is chairman of the committee of award in the per- son of Elihu Root, noted Morgan poli- tician, who on the invitation of the \jurists create plans*for the perman- }ent court of international justice (world court) in 1921. scheme to popularize the league of ight ‘of publicity. league of nations assisted European | Who can be so preposterous as to| By H. M. Wicks Mrs. Franklin D, Roosevelt, female politician prominent in Tammany Hall circles who tries to debauch the labor movement thru activi: ties in the New York branch of the Woman's Trade Union League and who uses as her aid in this work another Tammany politician known as Nancy Cook. Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice-president New York Tribune, _ prominent Coolidge supporter. Mrs. Frank A, Vanderlip, society parasite. Tasker 4H, Bliss, major general United States army. John F. O’Ryan,. major general United States army. Brand Whitlock, prominent .demo- crat politician and Morgan’s min- ister to Belgium during Wilson's’ . administration. ah William Allen White, clownish edi ‘tor of Emporia, Kansas, chairman ‘of Roosevelt’s Bull Moose public ity committee in 1912, .. William H, Johnston, president of ‘the International Association of Machinists, The personnel of this one organiza- tion certainly could not stand the It is this aggrega- tion that has endeavored to influence every newspaper in the United States, has spent thousands, of dollars for postage alone to send gut its propa- | ganda, and after a veritible deluge of pamphlets, leaflets, and other forms of. propaganda, compiled a list of newspapers purporting to show that 80 per cent favor the court, 12 per cent oppose it and 8 per cent have taken no stand. Mr. Bok has carefully chosen hie committees trom prominent republi- cans and democrats in order to give the movement a non-partisan charac- jter and in order to assure sufficient | Support in the senate to prevent an in- | vestigation of the reprehensible char- acter of the American Foundation stabilize their economic life so that | demand that Morgan’s senators er-/.nq those individuals affiliated with mit a committee to investigate where | one come from funds that these emin- | “While this propaganda of the world ent patriots use to force this country | curt proceeds the working class into the world court and the league? | Lesser Lights. | Q)N the American Foundation itself | we find hag ‘eminences, be- ginning with ist with the heav- lenly name jaties R. Angell, who ‘is president of Yale University. Others~ of -preminence on the com- mittee are: O.6os John: ..We -Davis, Morgan's candi- date for president of the United States: in/1924. Haley Fiske,;“president of the Me- tropolitat® Eife Insurance Co. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of. Coluntbies University. Charles. W*'Eliot, president emeri- tus of Harvard University. Charles ‘Hanry Brent, bishop of the diocese yot.twestern New York, who cate Here from Canada, and has sineé* grovelled at the shrine of’ Ameticati* capitalism; chief of chaplaftt sevice in the Ameri- ean armyit’‘*France which was fighting Morgan's war in 1917-18. A very interesting situation has now arisen in Polah@.” I choose this coun- tion is closely connected with the French crisis. Bourgeois Poland, which calls herself “indépendent,” has lived hitherto in many respects upon the reflection of the French bour- geoisie. Poland, for her part, is pass- ing thru ‘a ‘still more serious crisis than France. The Polish manufactur- ers and industrialists are besieging their government and pointing out horde of liberal doctors the patient died, unhonored and unsung. This was considered a bad omen by even some Communists. “If the workers can- not keep a mild thing like the New York Leader alive,” they said, “how can they dig up cash for a Communist paper?” Went Over the Precipice. UT there was the pea in the pod. The workers let the Leader die because it had betrayed their inter- ests. It endeavored to swim with the tide and was carried over the falls. The New York Leader swallowed up $100,000 in two months and yet it died.unfed. It takes more than money to make a paper go. It must have a mission, even tho that mission may be catering to the neurotics who feed on the salaciousness of the Hearst press. The New York Leader could not compete with the capitalist press in catering to the. popular taste, even with the “expert” guidance of the Greenwich Village journalists who were going to show the Communists how the co-operative commonwealth sould be ushered in profitably and painlessly-. Sport pages— bourgeois sport—advice to the lovelorn, recipes for cooking mushrooms, comic strips and buffoonery posing as humor—all those stunts were tried at the expense of the Garland Fund, but without avail. The Leader had lost its kick when it deserted the class struggle and the workers who formerly sup- ported it no longer had any use for the harlot. The DAILY WORKER» started its mission on January | 4. It boldly stated that its ion to help Starting the New Year Right threw of capitalism and that the only peace it would make with the robber system woukl.be.the peace of death— with The DAILY ,WORKER dancing a jig on, capitalism’s grave. Capital- ism is not. yet dead, but neither is America is strong. but The DAILY WORKER is growing stronger year by year. Whatever its enemies may say about.The. DAILY WORKER, whatever shortcomings it may have, one charge cannot be leyelled against it. It cannot, be charged with ever saying a good, word for capitalism or for the agents, of capitalism, where- ever they be found. Loyalty: ‘ofthe Workers. u ipieal DAILY, WORKER passed thru some tight corners during the past two. years. .Its,trials are not over by any means. But the self-sacrificing loyalty that supported it during the past two years will help ‘it overcome the difficulties of the future, The class conscious workers sup- port The DAILY WORKER because they know it rings true; that it is the champion of their cause; that it is partial—partial to the workers. They know that. in every struggle be- tween the workers and their masters The DAILY WORKER is out in front, giving their side of the case to the world and cheering them on, They know that besides being a revolution- ary newspaper The DAILY WORKER is the organ of; the Workers (Com- munist) Party, section of the world | panty, the Communist International, t 8 capable of lead- ofvthe world out of ipitalism into the social- oe aa aye f try as an example, because its posi- | The DAILY WORKER. Capitalism, in | {seems to remain indifferent to the | fact that the sum total of all the man- euyers in the arena of politics mean ‘just one thing and that is war, grim and ghastly, where the workers will again be slaughtered in the interest |of their masters. The world court, the league of nations, Versailles, Lo- |carno, and all the grandoise confer- [ences that have been and are to be |held do not mean peace. They are only instruments for new alignments, preparatory to new wars. To shed the light of publicity upon the source of the slush fund of the advocates of the world court would reveal the agents-of the House of Morgan preparing for a new blood bath for the workers. The fight of Borah, Reed and the other irrecon- cilables against this court is a parlia- mentary struggle to save the class | they serve fro meconomic extinction. |The workers have far more at stake. | We must fight against it to save our | very lives, An Estimate ‘of the International Situation that they are on the edge of a preci- pice. The disputes between England and France are having their effect on | Poland. The English imperialists who |are trying to entice Poland from the influence of France, have now turned their “benevolent” attention to Po- land and have undermined the Polish currency by a whole number of finai- cial measures. The English imperial- ists are turning the French authori- ties out of the Polish government and replacing them by their own. Pilsud- ski is again beginning to give signs of life; he poses as a Polish national hero but is in fact a commissioner of England. The undercurrent of all these phenomena is a fermentation among the Polish peasantry. The peasant deputies who were elected to the Polish sejm a few years ago on the basis of the most reactionary franchise law, are beginning to veer towards the. left. : regards Germany, I have already ~, told you how she is being dragged into the league of nations by ropes. Thanks to the Dawes plan, the eco nomic situation in Germany, has im- proved a little during the, past year. Bourgeois Germany has stabilized her- self more or less, Now, however, a year after the acceptance: of the Dawes plan, Germany has.to face the first repayment of the loan which she received under such difficult condi- tions. In Germany such gigantic firms as the Stinnes concern are now going bankrupt. In Germany there are eyi- dences of a fresh increase in the coat of living and a further increase in un- employment. ‘ if Italy is in a peculiar situation, Mus- solini was compelled to prohibit the organs not only of the Communist buf also of the menshevist party. The case of the menshevist deputy Zani- boni, who is said to have been making preparations for an attempt on the life of Mussolini, is a matter of mon knowledge. «If it is true that the idea of shooting Mussolini can enter the heads of the Italian mensheviki, if the same idea as entered the head of Fritz Adler during the war could oc- our to these parliamentary jobbers ‘who believe in nothing but parliament and franchise—if things have gone so far, it is evident that the Italy of to- day has finally arrived at a deadlock, ~ (To be continued) oa ay

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