The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
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THE foreign dispatches publishl

1A foreign dispatches puuASu
1 the American capitalist presi
the Trotsky quarrel with the cen
committee Of the Communist Party OF
Russia might just as we'll have been
written in New York or Chicago. 1t
Is quite likely indeed that many OF
them are. Those acquainted with the
methods Of capitalist editors know
that they are not beyond connecting
an imaginary yarn about Soviet
atrocities and slipping a Moscow or
Riga date line over 1t Trotsky, for
the second time since 1917, finds con-
siderable favor in the eyes OF some
capitalist writer's. Daniel O'Connen,
the great Irish orator and so-called
"emancipator," once said that when
ever he earned the compliments OF the
British government, he went nome
and examined his conscience. If Com
rade Trotsky, while in the Crimea, has
an opportunity to read fiattering com
ments on his fight against the central
committee OF his own party, he could
do worse than recall O'Connelps fam
Gus remark
nOPE Plus has condemned the Rus
sian Soviet regime and buried his
noisoued stiletto in the heart of Com
munism. But the old peddler of relig
ions opium can froth at the mouth; ne
can hurl his bulls and edicts until hi
throat gets dry, the revolutionary
leaven continues to work and Ms
thunderbolts miss their mark. Tnere
was a time when the pope could call
on governments to carry out MS
wishes. But those days are no more
He tries to maintain the illusion that
the Vatican of today is the Vatican OF
the dark ages and Of the days when
10 invent a machine for the Tightening
Of human toll or conceive a new idea'
was tantamount to applying for bed
an the rack or a drink of molten lead,
from the pope's predecessors.
TODAY the pope is hanging on by
the Skin of his teeth" Instead
Of being a leader he is merely po-
iitical mental Of the great capitalist
movers. In Italy he is the ally of the
murderer, Mussolini, but one oftnese
DAYS. the Italian workers are going to
rive him the same medicine they
have concocted for Benito. The pope
Il the willing tool Of the British en-
pire. 1t is significant that this anti
Red diatribe Of the pope's was given
ont shortly after he was visited by
Austen Chamberlain, tory foreign min
lister. Chamberlain was on Red cru
SADIE and induced Herriot to open war
on the French Communists. He did
and is now in bed with sick foot.
~HAMBERLAIN'S visit to the pope
~ was not altogether connected with
the international crusade against Com
munism. The press reports state that
the nomination of Mgr. O'Donnell as
archbishop Of Armagh, Ireland, fol
lowed the reception of Chamberlain by
the none. This means that the British
protestant government has endorsed
the appointment of O'Donnell to sue
coed the British lackey, Cardinal
Logue. Britain is known as one OF
the protestant powers" but that
power has the right Of veto over papal
appointments to his ecclesiastical Of
fee in ireland. Irish catholics who
profess great hatred for England do
not seem to realize that the British
government and the pope are working
hand in hand to keep Ireland under
the British yoke. They should read
Labor, Nationality and Religion" by
Ireland's greatest revolutionist, James
Connolly, and learn the truth.
THE conventions of the G. P. P. A.
/ and what is left Of the socialist
party will be held on the same day in
Chicago, Feb. 81. The socialists want
to capture the C. p. P. A. and it looks
as If they are going to be successful.
william II. Johnston may turn over
the letterheads to Hillquit but very
little else. The railroad brotherhoods
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