The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1926, Page 6

sylvania, and William B. Wilson, his democratic opponent, there is no IN THE WAKE OF THE NEWS By T. J. O’FLAMHERTY pe queen of Rotumania arrives to- day in Chicago and our “hest peo- ple” are ready to do “the right thing” by this female parasite who lives at the expense of the most explolied peo- ple in Europe. The shallowness of our democracy was never beiter exem- plified than thru the fiunkeyism dis- played in extending a welcome to this bawdy queen. Marie is infamous, even among the aristocratic circles of Europe, because of her debauchery. Yet our ruling classes that make a profession of puritanism refuse en- trance to useful foreigners while they crawl on their bellies to Queen Marie. The beneficiaries of the sweat of the packing industry slaves can afford tc spend thousands of dollars on gowns considered suitable to exhibit to met queen, but if their slaves asked for e trifling raise those bloodsuckers would spill more blood in resisting the mod- est demand than would fill the empty champagne Dotiles that strew the path of the royal train from Seattle to Chicago. see N all probability, Frank L. Smith, senator-elect from Illinois, the bene ficiary of the insull millions, will noi sit in the senate. Neither will Mr. William Vare of Pennsylvania. The both are members of the republican party, otherwise known as the G. O. P. (grand old party) the fight to unseat them will be initiated by such promi- nent republicans as Senator Borah of Idaho and Norris of Nebraska. Which proves that inside of the G. O. P. there ‘is a cleavage born out of the diverg- ing interests of the elements that orig- inally provided the party with an eco- nomic base. eee HERE is plenty of hypocrisy in- volved in this matter. Borah says that the senate has a right to purge itself,.ef, undesirable elements. And Borah, in taking this position, is ren- *rthe® a ‘Sefvice to the capitalist sys- tem. The capitalist class as a whole is not in favor of selecting political servants that will spend most of their time picking the pockets of their mas- ters, which picking they regard as a bonus for allowing their masters to pick the pockets of the workers. The capitalists have no ethical objection against the picking of pockets, pro- vided it is not their own. So Frank L. Smith, who was elected thru the generosity of the open-shop multi-nil- lionaire utility magnate, Samuel In- sull, will probably get the gate be- cause he got caught. The working class of Illinois should not forget that Smith, despite his support by the open- shop Insull, was endersed by the labor officialdom of the Illinois Federation of Labor: ! ’ 72 8 William 8. Vare, who ‘was ‘elected senator from Penn- choice for the workers. Both are ser- vantg of capitalism, and the democrat, Wilson, is a particularly scabby speci- men. Wilson owns scab coal mines, yet certain labor publications support- ed him, not caring a particle: whether he was an employer of scab labor or not, because he was a democrat. Wil- liam B, Wilson was secretary of labar in Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet. A for- ‘mer coal miner, he degenerated into a red baiter and strike breaker. It does not make the slightest difference to the workers of Illinois and Pennsyl- vania whether Messrs. Vare and Smith are elected or not. Until they or- ganize a labor party In alliance with the farmers they will be at the mercy of political grafters and crooks of botb parties, «ef ; 1 Briton, Gibbons, who wrote “The Decline and Fall of the Ro- man Empire,” might be urged to. per- form a similar service for the human race with regard to the British empire, were he alive today. The British em- pire conference which ig holding forth in London 4s an infallible indication that the pirate empire is on the wane, During the late war a French banker remarked that Britain would pull thru appointment of a Canadian ambassa-: dor to Washington shows that the northern dominion has practically broken with the “mother country.” South Africa is ont for practical inde- pendence and the Irish Frée State has had an envoy In Washington for the past few years. With a disastrous strike at home, the dominions kicking up their heels, the Chinese boycotting British trade and the United States grabbing all that is left, it does not look so bright for the old empire. Al! those who have tears to shed can do so, but this writer remains dry. 3 ENITO MUSSOLINI has often been pictured as a valiant man. He is the kind of a lunatic that might be insensible to danger under certain subjective conditions. But note how he crawled to France. The latest inci- dent in the life of this bloody mounte- bank did not add any laurels to his crown. Apparently he engaged a per- son with the honored name of Gar baldi to act as an agent provocateur ‘n France and entice anti-fascists into activities only for the purpose of get- ting them into the hands of the fascist been re-established, but only for at- tempts on the lives of Mussolini and members of the royal family. Heavy prison penalties for the mildest criti eism of the fascist regime are pro- vided by laws recently passed under the lash of the black shirt dictator- ship, There are reports that even inside the fascist party there is a nu- cleus of revolutionaries waiting for an opportunity to dynamite the hated regime, . Uneasy rests the crown that sits on the head of a dictatorship that rests on a minority of the dictated. And yet it is not strange that the American capitalist class should smilo on the faseist dictatorship in Italy while they frown on the rule of the workers and peasants in Russia, a Oe HEN Mussolini discovers opposi- tion in the ranks of fhe fascist party in Italy he hires an efficient dagger and disposes of his trouble. How different in the Soviet Union? Recently there was quite a sharp dis- cussion in the ranks of the Russian Communist Party, now called the All- Union Communist Party. What hap- pened? A conference of delegates of the party from all sections of the So- viet Union was held in Kremlin—in the palace of the late czar—and those é Unite! that debacle, but would never win an- other war. It seems that the banker knew what he was talking about. The Ye workers In fields and in orchards, Ye toilers In factory and mill, Ye makers of wealth, piling fortunes With your brain, and your brawn, and your skill, Do you love.so the shackles that bind ye, That ye kiss the feters that bind? Do you hate so the sunlight of freedom That ye’d rather wear blinkers, walk blind? - “And yet you still sweat at the wheel. ‘ For What? .. . that your masters may rule you; For what? ... that they tread you In scorn; © For what?... that your children may hunger And curse the dark day they were born, For God’s sake awake and arouse ye! A Moses is walking the land With the scythe of the field and the hammer Of labor aloft in his hand: . The day and the hour approaches For the slaves to arise in their might;— Farmers and Workers join forces, Form your own party—and fight! —Henry George Weiss. TT police. Mussolini’s tools also got busy in Spain and insinuated themselves into the Spanish revolutionary move ment with a view to embroiling Spain with France, so that Italy could use Spain’s antipathy to France to advan- tage in her aim to win colonies from France or from France’s protege, Tur- key. However, the French police got the goods on Mussolinj and now the erstwhile brave dictator is crawling to the French ee office. . ¥ vestige of freedom of ex- pression is abolished ‘in Italy. The fact that the fascist dictatorship ts obliged to intensify the reign of terror, after four years of bayonet ruie proves that the masses are still im revolt against fascism and that the Musso- lini regime has failed to satisfy the needs of the masses. ald of London reports that hundreds of Italian workers were killed in a bloody orgy of terror following the latest attempt on Mussofini’s life. The investigations of the French police have shown that most of the veer on Mussolini’s lUfe have ’ gated by Mussolini himself to provide him with an excuse to ee Wie progressives. t oe LL opposition papers are now sup- pressed in Italy. All opposition parties are suppressed, Foretgn corre- spondents are threatened with arrest it they send out any information that is unfavorable to the fascist regime. The death penalty for homicide has Now by the mills that grind slowly : The grinding has ground up the meal, The sacks are filled to o’erflowing— a The Daily Her-. jcialists, whose leaders insti- | revolutionists, who held views in opposition to the central committee of the party pre- sented them. The opposition position did not prevail, but it is quite prob- able that any worth-while suggestions they had to make were accepted. While this hot discussion was going on there was no necessity for one éxtra policeman thruout the tremen- dous territory that is covered by the Soviet Union. And the reason is that the dictatorship of the workers and peasants in Russia is based on 95 per cent of the population and is there- fore the nearest thing to complete. democracy that the world has ever seen, Im Italy the black shirt dictator- ship is based on the needs of the big Hindenburg, the monarchist, occupies the anamolous position of being presi- dent of a republic. The German so- leaders murdered the kings {n champagne for a lifetime. Socialism still means that the earth and the products thereof must belong to the workers, But socialists all over the world are supporters of capitalism, ewe RINCESS ASTRID of Sweden mar ried Prince Leopold of Belgium and the marriage ceremony was per: formed in Sweden by the socialist mayor of Stockholm, Socialists do not even seem to be good repttblicans, The princess is a protestant of some brand and the prince is a catholic, so before tho royal pair can share the royal couch the pope must sprinkle holy water on them, and incidentally get a rakeoff. Representatives of all the solvent European monarchies were present at the wedding cere- mony, including Mrs. William Philfps, wife of the American ambassador, who, we are told, “wore only pearls.” Now that their princelings are married off the workers of Sweden and Belgium should sleep easy, * ¢ 6 TH.the Cantonese troops sweep ing up from the south and the armies of Gen, Feng moving in from the west it looks as if there would be nothing left of the old imperialist armies of China in a few weeks ex- cept whatever Chang Tso-lin can snatch from the blaze. The Komin- chun, founded by Sun Yat Sen, the great Chinese liberator, which was re- ported smashed several times during the past few years by the capitalist press, now stands in a fair way of get- ting complete control of China. When that day comes the imperialists of the world will not rejoice. America and Japan have already given indications that they will not.stand in the way of Chinese unity. They better not. Eng- land is in the soup and cannot undo the blunders committed by her blood- thirsty rulers, It was good fun shoot ing: the Chinese -while they were armed only with bamboo sticks. But a Chinaman with a gun is about as deadly as anything we can think’of. *ee¢ f igo government that has made it self the laughing stock of the world thru its disgraceful kowtowing to \the Queen of Roumania refused Mme. Kollontai, Soviet ambassadresa to Mexico,’ permission to visit this country on her way to her post. This is not surprising. Our ruling classes are so conscious of their thievery that they fear the presence of the repre- sentative of a country where the work- ers have thrown off the yoke of slay- ery might inspire their own slaves to go and do likewise. Nevertheless, the United States will be obliged to recog- nize the Soviet Union and our bour sgeoisie must stand the humiliation of seeing the red flag over the Soviet embassy in Washington one of these days. se € RTY-NINE years ago last Thurs- day four labor leaders were hanged in Chicago because of their activity in pushing the eight-hour day move- ment. An excellent story about this tragedy appears on another page. The two men who were murdered in 1887 had nothing in common with the labor fakers of today, who spend more time helping the employers rob the workers than they spend organizing the work- ing class. There is nothing in com- mon between the Haymarket martyrs and men like William Green, John L. Lewis and their kind. oe A PICTURE of two old people lays in front of me, Harry J. Kane, 61, and his wife, 60, were thrown out on the cold streets because they could not pay rent. Ne doubt they produced plenty of surplus value in their life- time, but evidently they did not know enough to get others to work for them, Our masters tell us that we should never look at the clook or bother about the pay envelope; that those things take care of themselves. But we know from experience that the moro the workers produce the quicker -| they work themselves out of a. job, unless they live tn a workers’ re- public where the increased produc- tion redounds to the benefit of the producers,