The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-03
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

noI UNDERSTAND the new policy or CIV
ing the class struggle the absent treat
ment. Foster spoiled poor John and
1t will take him some time before he
gets completely over his desire to go
out and fight. But he is convalesc-
ing rapidly"
INOU may not read such a report in
1 today's papers. The labor takers
have not taken the organized workers
to Sleepy Hollow, in the physical
sense. 1t would not be so bad il they
could sleep for 81 years and wake up
to find the capitalists wheeling hand
trucks and sweeping streets and dig.
ging sewers. The labor takers have
given them a drug that has put them
to sleep mentally A labor parade,
teven on Sept. /, was a class demon
stration. The workers walked to-
gether and it was the custom to give
the position of honor in the process
sion to whatever union had strike
on its hands. But this policy i, to be
dropped in preference for the Rip Van
Wrinkle method.
Grafton of Labor have decided to
sleep the class struggle away, not so
the enemy. We read in the New York
Times. that Judge Gary is to preside
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on September IL, the day designated
by the War Department to mobilize
the man power Of America, as a test
to see how fast the militarists can
get their cannon fodder into action
when the bugles of war again ring out
upon our ears. An industrial advisory
board is created with Gary at its head
and among the other members of the
board are railroad presidents and
heads of big manufacturing concerns
and banks. This presages industrial
CONSUMPTION of the most drastic kind
and the American Federation of Labor
appears to be in accord with the plan
THE White House is decorated in
/ honor of the visit of the Prince
of Wales. How many of our readers
remember the occasion of Prince
Henry Of Prussia's visit to this coun.
try? What welcome he received!
Pullman sleeping cars were named
after him and hotel rooms in which
the royal parasite slept were objects
of interest and commanded higher
prices because Henry patronized them.
n LICE ROOSEVELT publicly be-
IA slowed an osculatory favor on
the prince. All in all the prince had
good time. One would never suspect
that not so very long afterwards our
moving pictures would be featuring
the depradations of the terrible
"Huns" and showing German princes
in uniform, not being osculated by AL.
ice Roosevelt but attempting to rape
the occupants of a Belgian convent,
and of course getting smacked in the
left eye by an American douughboy.
TODAY the Prince of Wales is
/ greeted by the American capital
list class and the multitudes who &C.
cept the headlines as their creed give
him the glad hand. Girls who dance
with him say "Oh, isn't he the elk's
antlers?" and feel honored What he
will say to Coolidge over breakfast
may not be published, if they say any
thing.
DUT grizzled American admirals
- who take their orders from Wall
Street via Washington, will not let
down in their efforts to elevate the
guns on the American navy, that will
some day show clean pair OF heels
to the Statue of Liberty on its way
to send the Royal Navy to Davy Jones'
locker. Behind the smiles of princes
and presidents are the scowls of com.
peting capitalists and some day they
will fight, when diplomacy can no
longer settle the arguments. The guns
will boom and the now smiling prince
will become the leering roue. But the
pawns will be the workers, unless
they wake up in the meantime. The
diplomats and capitalists will not go
where the bullets fly.