The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-23
AS WE SEE 1T
By T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

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j Doubts are expressed in England
that the Prince of Wales will ever
ascend the British throne. IF the lad
keeps on descending from his horse
at the present rate it is only ques-
ton Of time until he meets with an
accident. Aside from that Miss
Minnie Pallister, who was the cleo
ton agent to Ramsay Macdonald in
Aberavon in the recent general cleo
ton, declares that the improbability
of the Princes filling his fathers
chair was not due to any hostile sem
timent against him so much as to the
fact that the country is growing up
and sloughing off the old institu-
tons, including the monarchy.
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In the meantime Ramsay MacDon-
aid dimes with the king and queen
to prove to the. satisfaction of the
royal family that yellow socialism
does not eat its soup with knife
or wipe its nose with the tail of it's
coat. British yellow socialism Is
quite respectable. 1t believes in evo-
luton. Perhaps King George may
join the British Labor Party and turn
over the palace to the labor minis
ters for use during week ends.
japan is learning fast. Just as
Harry M. Daugherty is getting ready
to put on his hat and coat and 90
back to his wigwam the Daugherties
of the Mikado's realm have discov-
cred Communist plot to overthrow
| the Empire. The "llotters'' are a
group of college professors. Per-
haps little more radical than Mich
olas Murray Butler. The Japanese
sleuths discovered that the young lad
who made an attempt on the life of
the Crown Prince was the dupe Of
those professors. They have not yet
been accused Of being responsible.
No doubt that will be developed dur
ing the trial. AS William J. Burns
would say, startling disclosures will
be made, revealing underground
plots, financed by" That was a
real underground plot. The plot was
'nipped in the bud" Almost word
for word the description given by the
"Great Defective" of his squelching
of several attempts to topple the
White House before the republican
administration had chance to sell it
Iout. They are learning in Japan.
We may look forward to a Teapot
Dome scandal in Nippon.
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McAdoo will be held to q strict
availability by his friends, general
opinion to the contrary. Some of
them still call him McAdoo, others
McAdid and still others McAdone.
Among the latter is Otto Branstet-
ter, former secretary of the treasury
in the bankrupt socialist party. This
was his comment on McAdoo's con-
nections with Doheny: "There seems
to have been nothing illegal in Nc
Adoo's service to the Doheny inter-
ests, but there is a question Of the
propriety of a former cabinet officer,
after leaving his post accepting en-
ployment with such interests and
then asking to be nominated for
President" Wellsaid, Ottol Just like
yellow socialist. There is nothing
illegal in selling ones ability to bride
4 the Mexican government to violate
the constitution in behalf of Ameri-
can oil interests! It seems the big
/
is, that he did not make donation
Of part of the Doheny dough to the
socialist party.
Labor takers are the same all the
world over. When General He'll
and Damnation Dawes, head of the
Central Trust of Chicago, went to
Germany to investigate the practi-
cability of making loan to the capt
talists Of that country he called into
his presence Peter Grassman, vice
president of the German Federation
of Trade Unions. He talked with
the labor leader over the German
workers attitude toward the eight
hour day. When the inquiry was
over Dawes gave Grassman a hearty
handshake. We wonder if anything
stuck to the labor takers mittl
y
Grassman told Dawes that there
was no chance for Communism in
Germany as the rank and file reject
ed Sovietism. He believed that the
existing vestiges Of radicalism in
Germany would disappear with the
improvement of social conditions.
How sweet this language must have
sounded to the ears of the head of
the Minute Men Of the Constitution,
the famous open-shop organization
Now, this man Grassman is of that
political tribe known as socialist in
Germany. Is it any wonder that the
working class of Europe are losing
| faith in those traitors and are turn
ing to the Communists for leader
ship? Grassman prefers the capital
list system that has brought the Ger
man workers to the brink Of starva-
ton, to Communism, because under
the former he can sell the workers
to the capitalists.
The Russian Soviet Republic is
adopting new tactics, observes the
Chicago Tribune in an editorial. The
statement was ELECTED by the signing
Of the Italo-Russian treaty in Mos
COW under the watchful eye of a
camera. The Russian Communists