The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-05

MANY OF tnoSe unknown soldiers re-
turned from the war incomplete
physically and mentally impaired.
One Of them was found under via
duct at 18th and Robey streets, Chica-
go few days ago with bullet thru
his brain. An automatic pistol was by
his side. Still young man, about %
years old, both his legs were lost in
the world and four of his fingers.
1t is easy to imagine what his boss
said to him when the victim of Wood
row Wilson's blood carnival for demo-
cracy returned to his job. The boss
who very likely urged him to go and
do his duty in 1917 looked at his
crutches and then at the hands with
the missing fingers. Efficiency con-
siderably impaired, he mutters as his
eyes wander to the window thru which
he sees several healthy pieces of hui
mainly offering their labor power for
sale. Business is not charity muses.
the employer, "and if take this Grip
pie on, he will be mill stone around
my neck and my competitor who
locked up his patriotism when the
armistice was signed will put me out
of business. Sorry, young man." he
said, but there is nothing for you.
would like to talk with you over your
great fight on the other side, but l
must go to a meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce where General Flubdub
will speak on How to Produce
Better Cannon Fodder For the Next
War" The boss takes his hat and
goes, leaving the poor veteran to won
der what was he fighting for.
The wounded veteran, as he watched
his former boss depart may have
looked back over the days when there
was great excitement about the
atrocities committed against the Bel
gians by the German army, and people
were afraid German Kultur" would
be forced upon them. They did not
know what the darned thing smelled
like but it looked as raw to them as
string Of hard boiled Frankfurters
and they got excited. Radical meet
ings were being broken up those days
and socialist halls invaded, furniture
thrown into the streets and literature
burned. Several radicals were lynched
and hundreds thrown into Jail, be-
cause they said the war was a com
mercial war and that the workers
should not fight for the capitalists.
The poor unfortunate victim whose
body was found under the culvert may
have been one of those young
enthusiasts whose blood was fired by
patriotism and the indictments of the
capitalist press. Perhaps he took part
in raiding radical meetings. If he did
he had time to do some thinking be-
fore he put the bullet thru his brain.
Because there was no job for him
after he had helped win the war for
democracy and he could spend his
time thinking. His boss stayed at
home, making profits for the good
Of the cause Every once in a while
one Of their heroes" uses a bullet
on himself and the news is buried
away among the want advertisements.
It is long time since 1917 and the
majority of the those who fought have
short memories.
Only those representatives whose
records are 100 per cent against Labor
appear on the blacklist" of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. The dotards
of the Gompers cabinet oppose inde-
pendent political action on the part of
the workers. They prefer to go around
like beggars at capitalist party con-
ventions begging for the crumbs that
fall from plutocracy's table. Neither
the workers nor the capitalists pay
any attention to the fulminations of
labor takers, and they know it,
Premier Herriots government was
saved by Poincare from defeat in his
first tussle with the new chamber of
ucputicb. AS usual tnt OOCldllSLS
played cowardly role. The test came
over the appropriation of 205000, 900
francs for the Ruhr occupation, de-
manded by the Herriot government.
The Socialists thru Leon Blum an
nounced that they were opposed to
any further appropriations, but when
the vote was taken, they remained
silent, the Communists alone voting
against the notion The Communists
OF France repeatedly declared that
there was no essential difference be-
ween the so-called radicals and the
old Poincare group. Herriot is rapid
ly proving how correct they were. The
Socialists are also proving that they
are neither here nor there. Just jelly
fish.
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