The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-17
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. ). o'FLAHERTY

CHANG TSO-LIN has ordered his
~ mercenary troops back to Man
'huria, which means that the pound
terling of the British capitalists and
he dollars of Wall Street are not able
bolster up his waning power in
hina. Chang is now the favorite
on of those imperialists who want
to keep that great country divided so
hat they can gobble it up at their
leisure. Feng, so-called christian
general with the support of the Sow
let government and the Chinese mass
es, aims to unite the republic and clip
the claws of the imperialists. Soviet
diplomacy has recorded great vic
sories in the Orient The old and oily
liars of the bandit powers met more
than their match in the workers repre-
sentatives from Moscow. We don't say
that this victory can be entirely ac-
counted for by attributing it to SUI
perior brains on the part of the Sow
let diplomats 1t is more matter
Of honesty on one side and the usual
treachery that goes with capitalist
diplomacy on the other.
THE French are busy numbering the
4 Druse tribesmen in Syria and it is
not surprising to see a great cam
paign Of horror against this barbarity
in the British press. 1t takes Eng
land to cop the BOBBY prize for hypoc-
risy. Not so long ago General Dyer
massacred a square full of Hindus be-
cause they did not Immediately dis
perse at his command. The inhuman
butcher was afterwards honored by
The government that now arches its
DRY eyebrows in indignation over the
acts of the imperialist butchers of
France. What a fine collection of
crooks are our capitalist rulers are!
IF any of you ever attended grand
4 opera you might have noticed con-
siderable applause occasionally for no
apparent reason, other than that the
star, if male, finished the operation
Of telling the prima donna that he
liked the dimple in her cheek. While
the operate warrior is recuperating
for the next step, applause helps out
to keep the audience from going to
sleep. This is where the claquers
come in. They are paid for their SER
vices. It's hard work but making a
living under capitalism is the main
order of business and is no snap.
Now it happens that in the city OF
~ Chicago, Samuel insult, besides
having monopoly on the kind of gas
desperate workers commit suicide
with, also controls grand opera. Sam,
being possessed of Civic spirit"
thinks that claquers are entirely out
of place in opera. He therefore, to
use a slang phrase, gives them the
gas. ANY star employing claquers in
the future will fade from Sans pay
roll just as expeditiously as an ex-
soldier, who never received the price
of his glory would pass from this
mundane sphere after smoking a gas
'NRSs A. bhC u NdbC oldNtS WIZ
attend opera may be able to take a
nap in peace.
IMRITING for a western labor pa
W per of his experience in Soviet
Russia, Powers Hapgood member Of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, and relative of Norman Hapgood,
well-known journalist declares that
Russia has made tremendous prog
ress under Communist leadership. He
mixed with officials as well as rank
and filers. Is there free speech in
Russia? Hapgood says there is. with
vengeance. Some Of the workers
Kick and some don't Those who adj
nit that Russia is yet no land Of
milk and honey, say that It's their
country anyhow, they run it. and
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