The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-20

AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY.

THE Spanish dictatorship is hard
1 pressed trying to get out Of
Morocco so as to be in better. posi-
ton to hold down the rising tide Of
revolution in Spain. Primo de Rivera,
the Mussolini Of Spain, is lodging the
Rifian bullets on the north coast of
Africa, while his uniformed assassins
at home are numbering the Spanish
workers who protest against his tyr
annica1 rule. The form of execution
practiced in Spain is what is known
as ''garroting." In the modern gar
rote the neck is enclosed in an iron
collar containing point or blade
which by the turning of a crank is
forced into the spine at the base of
the brain.
besides the workers who are muir
ID dered daily in Spain there are
over $4,000 imprisoned. One cannot
help being surprised that such men
as Eugene v. Debs, who lent them
selves to the socialist and bourgeois
clamor against the Imprisonment of
cut-throat capitalist agents in Soviet
Russia, yet find no time to raise their
voices against the white terror that
prevails in every capitalist country in
Europe to more or less extent. But
after all, there is no occasion for sur
prise. Only those who are on the
side OF capitalism criticize Soviet
Russia for the methods it used to pro-
tect its revolution.
THAT there is no hard feeling be-
tween the labor takers who were
on both sides of the political fence
in the late elections, was shown at
the A. r. Of L. convention when the
Order of Railroad Photographers
brought in a resolution urging the fed
GRAFTON to bring the accomplishments
Of John L. Lewis to the attention Of
Calvin Coolidge, so that the latter.
would be induced to appoint him secre-
tary of labor. In fact. those who have
followed Brother Lewis irritation with
the present secretary of labor have
come to the conclusion that the berth
is already fixed for him.
HERE are hundreds of coal miners
in jails all over the country for
fighting the coal operators. Can any
evidence of Lewis treachery be more
damning than his high standing in the
Coolidge administration, while the
slaves of the mines are either unem-
ployed, being fieeced by the bosses
or lying in jails? The perfidy of the
American labor takers is beyond de-
scription, but not as surprising as the
apathy of the workers who tolerate.
them. But their day will come.
n WISE man by the name of Col.
AW. G. Archer has risen in the.
west. He has specific against Boil.
shevism, l. e.. the bathtub. Only in:
countries where bathtubs are scarce
can revolutions flourish declares this.
moron. Bathtubs were introduced into
the White House in 1851, Colone'
Archer tells us, but that did not pre-
vent much dirty politics being played
there since. And the White House
bathtub did not prevent the civil war.
We are Of the opinion that Colonel
Archer. unless he is drummer for
some plumbing concern, needs a.
mental bath very badly.
N N Irish poet writing of the exploits
n OF tho Irish Brigade in France in
the early years of the eighteenth CEN
fury says, referring to the defense Of
a French city, which was attacked in
he night by the British: THE major
Aqs dresst but muskets and shirts
N Continued on page 81