The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-29
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

when warranted the holding or an IN
quest. The testimony before the
coroner's jury brot out the informa-
tion that the old lady was Russian
princess, but very poor. Her husband
had not been out of the house for
twelve years and the princess had not
had her clothes off for ten years.
Knowing something about Russian
aristocrats the coroner accepted this
circumstantial evidence as sufficient
aproof that the lady was a princess.
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GOVERNOR AL SMITH was nomi.
" mated to make the run for re-
election on the democratic ticket at
that party's convention in Syracuse.
His most formidable opponent will be
Theodore Roosevelt. The candidacy
of DR., Norman Thomas on the social
ist ticket does not differ fundamen-
tally from that of his avowedly CAPT.
talist opponents. Thomas does not
believe in the class struggle which
leaves him clearly in the left wing of
the capitalist camp, with his list of
petty reforms to clip the claws of the
capitalist tiger. The only candidate
for governor in New York state to
stand on revolutionary platform
that calls for the overthrow of the
capitalist system is that of James P.
Cannon, who is running on the Work
ers Party ticket -
1T looks as if William Hale Thomp-
| son, former mayor of Chicago, who
has been sulking in the Len Small
tent ever since that worthy gave the
cream of the patronage in Cook
County to Fred Lundin. former bench
man of big Bits" but now his hated
rival, has made peace with the gov
ernor or vice versa. Anyhow one of
Smalls lieutenants, Harry Klatzco,
was handed an elegant plum in the
form of the superintendency of Lin
coin Park at salary of $4,000 year.
1t is reported that Small pulled the
strings that deposed Fred Lundin's
man. The next scene in the political
move may find Thompson stumping
for Small and telling the world what
pure-souled statesman the financial
wizard of the invisible Grant Park
bank is.
THE much ,touted progressive Gov
| ernor Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
has come out in support of Brigadier-
General Smedley Butler, the Fascist
marine officer who undertook the task
of cleaning up Philadelphia with the
approval of president Coolidge. But
Ter is of the Ku Klux Khan type and
has made himself as unwelcome in
the Quaker City as did Glenn Young
in Williamson County.
NEWSPAPER dispatches from To-
IN kio carry the information that
Japan may intervene in China should
the war spread and jeopardize Japan.
ese interests. Perhaps the Chinese
situation had something to do with
Japan's refusal to sign the so-called
Nations. This arbitration proposition
is a huge joke. England holds the
machinery of the league in the hollow
Of her hand and Japan has no inten-
ton of going into the web on the in
vitation of the spider.
THESE clashes between the great
powers emphasize what the Com
munists are always pointing out, that
there can be no peace on this earth
while capitalism exists. The inter
ests of the various capitalist nations
are always clashing and they cannot
be reconciled. Capitalist governments
represent organized national banditry
They exist for the purpose of pre-
venting the workers who are robbed
at home and in their other possessions
from revolving against their exploit.
ers and also to protect the loot Of the
national bandits against the highway.
men of other nations. Until wealth
10 piOuuCCd AOi uoC anu nOt piOut,
there can be no peace and harmony
Only the international Communist
movement is taking the proper steps
to bring that condition about.
THE republican party chiefs are re.
ported to be out for the political
scalp Of Senator Brookhart Of Iowa.
chairman of the committee that
probed into the doings OF the depart
ment Of justice under Harry M. Daugh
: erty. While the Iowa senator stays
in the G. o. p fold he is looked
upon as dangerous borer from with
1 in. like his brother LaFollette, and
Nfs.oolidge cannot forgive him from
heiSlng to lift the lid OF the republi
can cesspool.
LARRY SINCLAIR, oil magnate