The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1927, Page 2

eee ay "Page Tw AGAIN POSTPONE PASSAIC STRIKE PRISONER TRIAL Jersey Justice Fears Exposure of Violence (Special to The Dally We PASSAIC, N. J, ~The ma shinery of Jersey justice which last | dan, 10- September vicientiy went into action! im support of the police efforts to break the big textile etrike for the mill own ere, ig displaying a marked reluctance to bring to trial the eleven strikers who were arrested in the fantastic po lige bembing plot and exorbl: held in tant beli—as high as $60,000 in the) ease of two of the prisoners The Case Joseph To which were sei tor Je 3, are The Was Detense tor Committee for given by that the cour These men are ee prisoners jail. dD the trial of ner iW Ph Regen anc Fourth Passaic reason the nierpreter wee sick of five strike Bergen county progecu held in the date hes beep set yet ry y ponement Judge Passate count i Paterson, where 4 geen held in Vassai eechediled » pleas, f the ix was ais: , and post pponed the tial wed) January 18, This Leases of oh » strike p pers in Pa it. Trial was {met for O me rst n powponed Lia Nove dates | whieh were set and p d were [er 13, December 20 end Jam ber 6, and the roby The next mary 10 », Joseph Bellevue and Charles (awrent are the three men who are to be brought up first when | | aud if the trial finally gete under way pay i $60,060 Bail The five men in the Bergen county | FE aid were arraigned in December on ‘the indictments brought against them, but January 15 is the first date that! bas been set for their trial, altho they , Were arrested buck in September ‘whey ave held on $80,000 collective -ieil, The six men in Passaic county )jail are held on $210,000, The enor mous amount of the hail has made it | ‘tmpossitle go fer to get the men re- eased on bonds =e) Thess eleven prisoners, with several other sivikers arnested at “the Ume bit subsequently released, ware the viotims of brutal police third degres methods at the time of thelr rey ** 8 Passaic Striker in Serious Condition, “PASSAIC, N. J, Jan, 10—-Paul ‘Hovae, one of the eleven textile strike Prisoners who has heen held without = for over three months, spent his pw Year in a padded cell. Kovac has jean suffering since September with idarree broken vibs given to him by the 'golica during the third degree which [followed his arrest Just before Christmas, Kovae's con: | j@ition grew so serious that he was re jmoved to the Hackensack General | Hospital. After a few glays there he was taken back to jail, where, accord “ing to the sheriff, he went owt of his IQeed aud had in be confined in & “wrpieht jacket and locked in a padded laell. He was kept there for several ‘days, iben returved to his cell--week, | % and quiet bat obsessed with the Mon (iat will never get out of il alive ii is feaned that Kavec’s health and son will both be Dermanently im ved if he is not released from fail nm. The ball for whieh We fe held # 15,000. He hee a wife and three f dren, who ate frantic at bis con on see Distribute $600 Among Prisone Families, PABSAIC, N. J, Jan, 10.--Move than je hundred dollars Was distributed io ‘the Wamilies of the eleven textile Mirike prisoners by the Joint Commit tee for Passaic Defense during the ‘Phvisimas holidays. The General Re ‘Mef Committee of the 1, W. W, sent $875, the 1 L. b, $276, Arthur Gar field Hayes $40, the local Ulratnian 1, Ly D, branch $55 it? es Involuntary Receivership on the Bauer Cab Company * Phe $1,600,000 Bauer Cah Co, and Maver Taxica) Manufacturing com ‘pany were thrown into involuntary verehip today in two simultane actions in cireult court, Chicago Pitle and Trust company was nanod er, Continental O11 company fled for wnpald claims totalling 96,500 and B, Lower, tusurance agent, for .67 unpaid premiums on cabs and jasories, drivers for the Bauer company 7) went on strike, Send wo the name and address exaive worker to whom tears je copy of Thi tov | omas ot the! By PAUL C, REISS (Special to LOS ANGH Righty deieg Party ot No tional revolut esenting fifty 00 membgre, erated in an | Bual convention: @ tor five days Adopt Manifesto dopted & manifesto America of the party, It The Daily Worker) Cal, Jen. 10 | The cony addressed the people of | explaining the aims lreaftirmed Dr. Sun Yat Sen's lite of abor to make the Chinese people # free people. it emphatically denies at the present movement and party “yed” ae the American public has heen led to believe by the press. Special Meeting This is @ special convention of the branches in America, called by order f the centra) committee of China for se of electing 21; for devising ways and means of | financing the party; for making eny sary amendments; @nd for th of discussing and formulat z definite plans for strengthening | lof a united Chinese republic by means f education and by economic develop- | | ment of China No delegates attended trom Mexico on aecount of immigra- vn restrictions, Get Greetings, and Canada Greetings were received by the con. vention from the Workers (Commu nist) Party of America, from The DAILY WORKER, Young Asia, Phi cago, and numerous other organiza, ions Strong Government ie Alm “The atm of the Kuomintang party s to establish in China in a fair way 1 strong central government under \the democratic principle set forth by our beloved leader, Dr, Sun Yat Sen,” says the manifesto “The unification of all the people by means of education and the econo mic development securing better com: | ation and transportation, | better ete, This was muni interstate commerce officers for) KUOMINTANG CONVENTION ISSUES MANIFESTO TO AMERICAN PUBLIC; REAFFIRMS SUN YAT SEN PROGRAM ¢ aim of Dr, Sun and the Kuomin- & Sun's Principles: adivste n rege nent d to the Kuomintang to present Dr, Sun's jes,’ the manifesto says. move principles aye summarized, ag fol lows Nationalism, of Chine—Chinese, Mongolian, Maen- churian, Mohammedan, Tibetan 2 Security of equal Chinese people from all the nations of the world, Political Democracy, 1, Assurance of the right of the people to vote. 2. Assurance of the right of the people to the powers of initiative, referendum, and recall, Economie Democracy. 1, Eptablishment of & compromise between lebor and capital. 2, Attain | ment ot economic equality thru politi- al measures, 8, Equalization of the ut of the people to own land. 4 Right of the government to own pub- itilities. 6. Responsibility of the government to develop the means of pmunication, transportation, manu acturers, and the promotion of mines; improvement of conditions of the laboring ¢lasses thru legislation and education; lessening the danger ot famine by the improvement of ag- ral pursuits by selentifie meth- fostering the idea of the con- 1 of tood Quote His Last Words, manifesto quotes the last ft Dr. Sun, which were in part: The words Worty years I have labored to make the Chinese people a free people. My work is unfinished, I leave it to those who believe in \iherty, equality, and the brotherhood of man, With my forty years of experience, I finally yealize that in order to accomplish | this purpose we must awaken the mass of people and co-operate with all peoples who are treating us on an l equal, footing.” iC CONGRESS TOLD OF “BIG STICK” RULE IN THE WAR ON NICARAGUA (Continued trom page 1) ayms from: going to Dr, Sacasa’s | forces, | The president reviewed at length the incidents that led up to the pres- ent situation since the election, in 1924 of Carlos Salozorne and Dr, Juan Secasa as president and viee-presi- ent respectively of Nicaragua, His veview might have been compared word for word with the numerous stories of recent events issued by the U. 8. puppet President Dias at he instance of the American charge d’ affairs at Managua, Lawrence Den- nin. Forgets Faote, Supporting Kelloge’s contention that Diag was chosen president in @ constitutional manner, Coolidge sum med up thie phase of the revolution with the mere statement that the congress that elected Diaz was & con- stitutional gathering with full powers. In saying this he ignored three things; Wiret that at the time of his election, Diag was the military dicta tor of the country, at the head of the PF erissrveiive army and that the lib erals had been entirely suppressed for months in advance, Second, that Admiral Julian Lati- mer’s ships were already in Nicara |gua at this time and had established ihe first of the “neutral zones” that have since been proven to be direct ed against the Wberals, Third, in stating that De. Sacasa was out of he country and was therefore not able to take over the presidency by reason of his succession rights as viee-president, President Coolidge ig noves the well-dnown facet that Dr, Sacasa was foreed to flee for his life, People Support Liberals, Coolidge's cook and bull story ‘bout the “legality” of the regime of Adolfo Diag (a diveotor, by the way of an American mining company) vardly jibes with the undisputed fet that the liberals have control vf most of the country and have the meager forces left to Diag entirely vottled up in the eapital, Managua, relying solely on American military assistance to save him, The fact that the Hberals have been able to rally the population behind them to do this certainly signifies the lack of supportythat Diag 1s yeceiving from the citizens of the country, Protest Statemente, It is only with regard to the ad mittedly precious “American indua ivies” and enterprises in Nicaragua that the president waxes frank, “Wor many years Americans have been living in Nicaragua developing its tndustries and carrying on busi ness “The United States has occasional ly been obliged to send naval forces for their proper protection, In the present crisis suoh forces are Te quested by the Nicaraguan govern: ment,” re Never Got & Million, He also admits that the $8,000,000 “pald” for American canal rights to Ntoaragua were never received by the government but were given to bankers who held notes against the government. “In addition to these industries, the government of Nicaragua, by @ treaty Ae rotba nterstenntrracnetiman i me Ce granted in perpetuity to the United Siates the exclusive proprietary | rights necessary and convenient tor the construction, operation, end maintenance of an oceanic canal, “The consideration paid by the United States to Nicaragua was the sum of $3,000,000, At the time of the payment of this money @ financial plan was drawn up between the Nic: araguan government and its creditors which provided tor the consolidation or. of Nicaragua’s obligations, Doesn't Know Bank Professing undue ignorance about the manner in which international finance is conducted, the president talks as if he had never heard of the banking firm of Brown Brothers & Go, and J, & W, Seligman who have floated numerous Nicaraguan loans in this country, he bonds held in the United States are held by the public in gen- eral circulation and, so far as the department knows, no American bankers are directly interested in the Nicaraguan indebtedness, “There is no question that if the revolution continues American in- vestments and business interests in Nicaragua will he very seriously af. fected, if not destroyed The cur rency, which is now at par, will be inflated, American a8 well as for eign bondholders will undoubtedly look to the United States for the protection of their interests,” Hits Mexico Thruout, In conclusion, the message takes a parting shot at Mexico, warning that country that the only nation which has a right to intervene in the at fairs of Latin America, ig the United States, Thruout the document, a veiled hostility towards Mexico drives one to the conclusion that the message is as much directed against the country south of the Rio Grande as it if an é@xplanation of the pres: ence of an American armada in the Caribbean of such proportions as to arouse even the most conservative elements of the nation to protest, ee @ Makes Caraway Almost Swear, WASHINGTON, Jan, 10-—-President Coolidge’s defense of his Mexican: Nicaraguan policy in his special mes- sage today did not allay the eriticism that has met it in congress, Republican applause met the mes: sage in the house, but the democrats en blog sat Silent, and a few minutes later Rep, Romjue (D) of Missouri made a speech declaring “a war with Mexico may be touched off, and con: ditions do not justify war,” The president's senatorial erities were not silenced, either, “L can't comment, I've quit swear, ing,” sald Senator Caraway (D) of Arkansas, another administration eritio, Prowmauter Talke Much, SPUNGPIBLD, I, = Warning to the gangsters of southern Ulinols was vyoleed today by U, 8, District Attor ney Walter Proving in announcing that the Shelton brothers, notorious for thelr warfare with the Berger fac t{on, would go on trial here Jan, 4 for alleged participation in the rob. bery of the U, 8, mall at at Collingyiiia, WRITE aa you FIQHT!, ‘three The | THE DAILY WORKER Let No One Be Fooled By LABOR PARTY OPPONENT IS MADE TARGET ‘The eestest and surest way to| Johannsen Meets with all foreign misconceptions | Audience Barrage Anton Johannsen, member of the | executive board of the Chicago Fed- eretion of Labor, who supported the traditions] A. F. of L, attitude in the 1, Assimilation of the five peoples| West Town Forum debete on “Is an American Labor Party Desirable?” must have felt like @ corrupt senator- treatment of the| “lect undergoing & senstoris) investi gation when the audience et Mid-City Odd Fellowe Hail itorium finish- ed with him #8 evening. Jo- hennsen debeted ageinet # labor party, When the formal ;speeches were over and the audience wes given the privilege of asking questions, a yeri- table barrage of interrogations fell upon Johannsen, “AM Politiclang the Game,” Johannsen declared that # labor party was not desirable’ because “‘a!) politicians are the seme, it doesn’t make any difference what they are: republicans, democrats, socialists, Communists, or what, they are all alike,” “Workers should, confine them- selves to building up their organiza- tions,” be said. “Haye Jess faith in polities, and more faith in organiza- tions,” “The workers should leave politics glone, no good comes from it,” Jo- hannsen asserted, .“I have heard the noise about the British Labor Party, but J haven't heard any of its achieve- ments.” He etted what he called the failure of the labor party in San Vran- cisco and the LaPollette campaign to show that labor parties cannot suc/ ceed and do the workers more “harm than good,” “Capitalists Like Johannsen.” “Johannsen ig in e@xactly the state of mind thet John D, Rockefeller and J, P, Mo want the labor leaders to be in,” answered George R. Kirk- patrick, who spoke for the labor party, “They @re perfectly delighted to hear him spread this propaganda against polities, Hig attitude is ‘we surrender—we don’t want politics’, and then the employers make al) the rules, Of course, the, workers are ig- norant of politics, It has been the policy of the A, F, ‘of L, to keep them ignovant, Johannsen’s philosophy is a hopeless one,” in Labor must use its arme—in- dustrial strength “and political strength, said Kirkpatrick, “The workers should do e than organ- ize \ndustrially, organize the other is using only half its pow- Will Wake Up Worker. “A labor party will make the work- er wake up and respéct himself,” he said, “It will make him conscious of the things that are going on, If we have @ labor party, sty of 6,000,000 workers, it would positively excite the working class, they would think more, they would fight more} they would go forward to victory, Politics today is so corrupt and so dominated by the capitalist class, that now millions do not vote at all. Instéad millions of workers forget about politics, and let the employers do what they wish with the government, Cites Mexican Crisis. Kirkpatrick mentioned the Mexican Labor Party as an example, and gaid, “Within ten days trom now, | ven- ture, the United States will be going to war with Mexico, What would be the effect if we had an American La- bor Party now, and it issued a proe- lamation declaring hat American workers would not fight against their brothers acroas the border?” There was much applause at this, Green Dodges Stand on U.S. S. Imperialism (Continued from page 1) proposed attempt to organize 600,000 automobile workers, Executives of the , International unions wre divided as tg whether they should surrender jurisdiction to an industrial union of wo in this in dustry, even for a year, The council is expected to request them to yield, in order that a begiwhing may be made on the organising fight, IL is seen that trom three to five years will be required to make any'serious head way in this Job, Mass production, mass capital and mass credit now dominate the automobile field, and nothing short of mass human resist ance Will establish @ dam of unionism againat the autocratic Yeurrent that flows trom Ford and General Motors, Nobody on the labor side is Just now confident of early success, but the older men see that unless the fight in made on the offensive the unions Will soon have to wage an expensive campaign of defense in the territory they now hold, Oll Witnesses Homesick. Washington lobbyists hear that Harry M, Mlackmer and J, B, O'Neil, Mtandard O11 subsidiary officials who fed to Wurope during the Teapot Dome scandal inquiry, ate sick of exile in Paria, They are sought by the government as es to the payment of $320,000 in Liberty bonds fo Albert Mall thru a duminy corpora ‘Hon formed for that purpose in Can ada, in the Srmeanne. | of Aine ela and Mall, of a eeraay* & A GaGEESTALGEESUAERT ERS CERRESATLITE Fake “Protect American Lives and Property! 1” Cry By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ILENT CAL” COOLIDGE at the White House, and “Nervous Nellie” Kellogg from his office as secretary of state, join im the an- nouncement that “the government” will protect American “lives and property” in Nicaragua or Mexico with the same energy that it invok- ed for the same purpose in Haiti and Sante Domingo. The American populace is sup posed to cheer thig thread-bare ap- peal for the protection of “lives and property,” especially at this mo- ment, whether it concerns Nicara- gua, Mexico or China. ‘The specific instance of Haiti, however, indicates that the only lives in jeopardy are the lives of the natives, Thousands of Haitians were murdered outright as an inci- dent to the American invasion of the island republic. Similarly with property. It was the property of the Haitians that wes stolen by the American invaders, "ee Here are two paragraphs taken from Page 136, of “Dollar Diplo- macy,” by Scott Nearing and Joseph Freeman, showing the close and harmonious relations between the banking interests and the arm- ed forces of their United States government in the plunder of weak- er peoples, This unity of action 1s described as follows: “The state department (at Wash- ington) took advantage of a revolu- tionary outbreak in the north prov- ince to propose to President Zamor that he be kept in power provided he would sign # convention turn- ing over the customs houses to American control, The president re- fused to compromise the independ- ence of Haiti and resigned. On Dee. 10, the newly chosen president was formally presented with a similar proposal by the American’ minister in Haiti, and again the proposal was turned down.” See U, 8, “Haiti hearings”, pp. 5-6, “One week later @ contingent of United States marines landed in Port au Prince (see U. B, "Foreign Relations”, 1916, p, 476) proceeded to the vaults of the National Bank of Haitt, and in broad daylight fore- ibly seized $600,000 and carried tt aboard the gunboat Machias, The money was transported to New York and deposited in the vaults of the National City Bank, THIS MONEY WAS THE PROPERTY OF THE HAITIAN GOVERNMENT AND HAD BEPN DEPOSITED FOR THE REDEMPTION OF PA- PER CURRENCY. Hatti at once protested against this violation of her sovereignty and her property rights and requested an explanation from the United States, NONE WAS EVER GIVEN.” See Current History Magazine, v, 16, p. 886, U, 8. “Haitt Hearings”, p. 6, U. 8. “Foreign Relations”, 1915, pp. 499- 500, S439 So there is a wealth of evidence, in the Haiti cage alone, to show who violates property rights, The role of bandit and common thief be comes respectable, from the capital ist viewpoint, when it appears in the uniform of Wall Street's ma- vines, The National City Bank of New York is a Morgan-Rockefeller institution, ‘Thus the flag follows thedinanciers, But at what cost in Hives and hu- man suffering. Not the lives of American financiers, Nor are the casualties ever very heavy among their well-armed Hessian soldiery, Facts out of the experience of Hajti are cited again, The sordid, bloody picture of the slaughter of Haitians has often been told, “Dollar Di- plomacy” gives a rather matter of fact picture as follows: “Charges of brutality have been made against the American oceupa- ation in Hail, O 4,000 “practio- ally unarmed Hattiay killed by American marines, accord- ing to one observer (see Johnson, “Determining Haiti", p, 12 The U. gives the number of Haitians killed as 2,260-—“killed either by marines or by the person of the gendarmerie 8. Marine Corps Report of Haiti.” (See U. 8, Marine Corps, “Report on Haiti”, p. 108.) “The work of building a highway trom Port au Prince to Cape Hai- tian was in charge of en officer of marines, ‘who stands out even in that organization tor his “treat 'em rough” methods. He discovered the obsolete Haitian corvee and de- cided to enforce it with the most modern marine efficiency. The cor- vee, or road law, in Haiti provided that each citizen should work @ cer- tain number of days on the public roads to keep them in condition, or pay @ certain sum of money, The Occupation ecized men wherever it could find them, and no able-bodied Haitian was sefe trom such raids, "which most closely resembled the African slave raids of past cen- turies. And slavery it was, tho temporary, By day, or by night from the bosom of their families, from their little farms or while trudging peacefully on the country roads, Haitians were seized and forcibly taken to tof] for months in far sections of the country. Those who protested or resisted were beaten into submission, Those at-’ tempting to escape weré shot.” The quotation is again from John- son's “Self-Determining Haiti.” These atrocities resulted in a brief revolt led by an educated and cultured Haitian, Charlemagne Pe- ralte, who had been forced to work in convict clothes on the streets of Cape Haitian. The revolt was crush- ed and Charlemagne Peralte was killed, “Not in open fight, not in an attempt at his capture,” but “while standing 0’ his camp fire, he was shot in cold blood by an American marine officer who stood concealed by the darkness, and who had reached the camp thru bribery and trickery.” A protest lodged by prominent Haitians with the senate committee of inquiry into the oceu- pation of Haiti in 1921 declares that the American occupation “is the most terrible regime of military autocracy which has ever been car- ried on in the name of the great American democracy, “The Haitian people, during these pant five years, have passed thru such sacrifices, tortures, destruc: tions, humiliations and misery as has never before been known in the course of its unhappy history,” ee According to an American recent- ly returning from a visit to Haitt in 1920, “if the United States should leave Haiti today, it would leave more than @ thousand orphang and widows of its own making, more banditry than has existed for a cen- tury, resentment, hatred and de- spalr in the heart of a whole peo- ple.” Conditions somewhat similar to the road law enforcement in Haiti were recently exposed by The DAILY WORKER in Peru. The wtory of Haiti does not stand alone. It is the story of Cuba, Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands, of all the Latin- American countries of the Hawatian Islands, the Philippine Islands, the Samoan (American) Islands, and of every other victim of Wall Street imperialism, in greater or lesser de- are Today it is Nicaragua, Mex- ico and China, ‘The imperialist robbers and hang- men speak as if the property and lives of the subject peoples really belonged to them, They are learn- ing that they have no vested in- terests that they cannot take at the point of gun or bayonet, And the oppressed peoples are learning to tight back, Just as important, the working class in the United States, the imperialist homeland, 1s learn- ing to turn its back upon the {m- perialist demand that labor fight its battles, Let no one be deceived by the impérialist appeal for the “protec: OF CHICAGO'S POPULATION, 650,000 LIVE IN SOME 12,000 ROOMING HOUSES ‘The Chicago Rooming House Asso-) ‘The association will seek legisla ciation 18 authority for the ement that there are 700,000 rooming houses in the United States, the proprietors of which eater during a year to some 40 million guests, or almost one-third of the population of the country, It 1s pointed out that there are some room: ing houses tn the country containing as many a8 260 rooms, as large a8 & good-sized hotel, The association was organized mine years ago to protect the interests of the vooming house keepers, In Chicngo there are estimated to bo 12,000 rooming houses, with an tne vosted capital of $160,000,000 operat od by 60,000 people and catering to approximately 660,000 guests, The an- aual outlay for tenance, ACe> tion, giving the proprietors more of the protection accorded inn keepers with respect to liens, At Least One Set Too Many, UNION CITY, N. J.-Rival officers, trying to Al the same official posl- ons, ts the situation here, It de: veloped because a republican mayor and @ council insisted on tag rival sets of officers, Most of the fn the city hall are ina orn of selge, ‘The only business tranancted on the first day of the fight was the marriage of & middle-aged couple, Why Not Become a Hlente, i's and aupntion 8 48 8 OT Oke Correspondent? ) NEW QUOTAS ON IMMIGRATION 10 PROVOKE BATTLE Congress to Hit Cut on Germans, Irish WABSHINTGON, Jan. 10-~The new immigration quotas, which will be- come effective July 1 this year, will provoke 4 new battle in congress, it appeared, because of the reductions proposed for the quota allotments “om Germany, Ireland and the Scan- dimavian countries. Quotas Cut. The new quotas, which cut the total immigration for the next fiscal year to 152,541 aliens instead of the 164, 667 admitted this year, will be pro- claimed by President Coolidge on April L if carried out, the new alignment, based on the ratio of national origins as found in thé 1920 census, would make Germany the heaviest loser with @ reduction from 51,227 to 23428 agd the Irish Free State, the second heaviest loser, with a reduction from 28,567 to 12,862. Other nations fac- ing reduced ‘quotas include Belgium, Czecho-Slovakia, Prance, Poland, and Switzerland, beside Norway, Den- mark, and Sweden. British Gain Increase. The greatest quota increase will go to Great Britain, including, Southern Ireland, with an increase from 34,007 to 73,039. Austria, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia also will have their quotas increased, CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. ee (Continued trom page 1) | actionary officials of the trade un- jons are working hand in hand with the imperialists, Nationally they are the tools of whatever capitalist gov- ernment comes to terms with them and locally they are cogs in the po- litieal machines that exist to loot mu- nicipalities, eee 1 fe TULLY, the ex-hobo writer, sold 4 series of alleged personal sketch. es of Charlie Chaplin to the Pictorial Review, undoubtedly for a handsome sum. Charlie, who needs every penny he can spare to feed two batteries of legal sharks that are raiding his bank account thru the medium of a divorce hattle, sued the magazine for damag- es and asked for the neat sum of $500,000 as a substitute for his in- jured reputation, Besides being tem- peramental, Charlie is also a thrifty soul. Had he not been thrifty he could have saved himself a lot of di- vorce court proceedings. > oe w should potential gunmen join the police force when they can pull down $15 a day using a gat tor whatever purpose their employers may have in mind. A Chicago gun- man draws more in straight salary tor two days’ work than an American soldier drew for a month's fighting in France, Besides the salary there are pickings which may boost the warrior’s stipend to $26 a day. A lo- cal cab company’s officials, jealous of thelr rights and not holding the in- telligence of the stockholders in high esteem are alleged to have engaged the services of fifty of those soldiers of fortune to intimidate the stock- holders at two annual elections. The heaviest artillery won as usual. This is @ tough city in a highly “civilized” country, Strange that Mexico or Chi- na does not threaten to send an ex- pedition here to make the United States fit for association with eiviliz- ed countries, oR e ILE American warships are churning the waters of the Carib- bean and naval flotillay are making hosfile demonstrations against China, statesmen are parroting plans for world peace, The most ferocious brig- andg are taking the lead in announe- ing their good intentions. Briand, the scourge of Morocco and Syria, Lloyd George, who turned the Black and ‘Tans loose on Ireland and William Randolph Hearst, the world's champ- jon jingo, have major roles in the chorus, What those boys would like js & combination imbued with the same purpose as the league of nations to preserve peace among the big bul . lies so ‘the latter could settle down to gobble up the weaker nations, owe HOR myself I can work, | can fight, My husband, he hates it more than I do; he is more proud, Yet he will work too.” This admission was wrung from the agonized heart of a former member of the Russian aris toeracy, Mme, Sonia Strandem, who ip now living in Chicago, a hospitable city, where any ezarist parasite can crash thru the pages of the capitalivt papers provided he or she succeeds in getting a "“gold-coaster” to give them an introduction, Its tough on anybody to work at times, Being too lazy to work is quite understandable, but being too proud to earn a living is @ out of anothor color, What a rot ton social system that breeds such « disease? ’ SUBSCRIBE TO ‘The American Worker Correspondent 1118 W. 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