The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-21
AS WE SEE
BY T. }. o'FLAHER7


way leading to a cavern. His plight
attracted the attion of the entire coun
try thru newspaper publicity. 1t was
the kind of sensation that touches
the human heart and it was played
up to the limit. Circulation managers
like that kind of thing. The capt.
talist news mongers cared very lit
tie about the sufferings of Collins.
Thousands of Collinses die every
year in the mines of this country and
they receive only a passing notice.
NURING the world war at least
- seven million men, the pick of
the worlds manhood were murdered
on the battlefelds of Europe and
Asia in war between rival capital
ist national groups. While the ter
rible tragedy lasted, the governments
Of the different countries made it
criminal offense to oppose mass MUIR
der. Even now in a time of compar-
alive peace only the exigencies of pol
itics prevent the government from
throwing into prison all those who
oppose war. But when somebody dies
under dramatic conditions, as Col
Inns did the lachrymal conduits of
the capitalist press begin to leak and
the public weeps in sympathy.
THERE is hardly day in the year
1 that miners do not die under cir
cumstances just as tragic as those
that accompanied the death of Floyd
Collins. They go down into the bow
els of the earth, to slave for pit
lance. They are in constant danger of
death from thousand causes by ex-
plosions, cave-ins, gas. When/t the in
evitable takes place; there is a head
line nthe daily press and then ST.
lence. The coal operators control mill
lions of dollars. They control thou
sands of newspapers. They do ont
like any kind of publicity that might
interfere with their profits.
LING GEORGE of England is ill.
N So is Gloria Swanson. Gloria
and the king are crowding each 9TH
er off the front page. Should the two
nuisances pass away at the same
time, the king will get the -emier
position, not because ne is more
worthy but because he nominally
reigns over more people than ever
saw Gloria demoralize a millionaire
with twirl of her hip.
THIS is not such very healthy
! era for kings, and capitalist die
tators. Only recently Albania put
an ad. in the help wanted" columns
of the British papers for a king.
There is usually good crop of kings
and kinglets in England, but most
of them now prefer a job as porter
in a movie theater or to take their
chances on marrying an American So
ciety girl. The Albanian job went
begging, particularly as one of the
prerequisites for the position was a
steady hand and quick with the trig-
ger. "Bill' Hart might take shot
at it.
kAUSSOLINI is ill., Some say it
IVI is political illness. The muir
derer is nearing the end of his rope.
His own bandits are turning on him.
His next door neighbor, Primo de
Rivera, is in a still worse position.
Primo went to Morocco to "clean
up the Riffians but the Riffiians can
squirt along the barrel of rifle, and
there are now more Spaniards than
Riffiians in Morocco, with the differ
ence that the Spaniards are dead
and the Rifiians are very much alive.
The regrettable feature of this, is that
the poor Spaniards who lost their
lives in Morocco are mostly mem
bers of the working class.
CAPITALIST relationships, wheth-
~ er open or yelled are bound to
collapse. The decline Of the CAPT
talist system is rapid. Even France
is at ner WIS emu W heep INC Aahc
from becoming a vaudeville joke.
Roumania and Germany are at war.
That they have not armies in the
field is not due to any indisposition
on either side. They simply can't af-
ford to pay the carfare and they can't
AFFORD to start another military war.
SO they confine their efforts to a
civilized" war, the kind that paci-
fists like Oswald Garrison Willard
would very likely approve. In the
midst of this chaos and confusion,
Soviet Russia is marching forward,
youthful and vigorous with the blood
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