The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-11

AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTV

TT there are going to be any more
i disarmament conferences they Will
be called in the United States. This
is the attitude of Calvin Coolidge, IL
reporters rightly interpret the little
silence at Swampscott. Paul Painleve
French premier expressed a desire to
call a disarmament conference. France
might start in right now with the
Riffan tribesmen and do little dis
arming in Morocco. Perhaps, France
wants to get rid of the reputation OF
being the leading militarist nation in
Europe, by calling fake peace meet
ings.
KITTEN we say that capitalist peace
w conferences are war parleys in
disguise we are not playing with
words The latest one held in Wash
ington decided to scrap lot Of old
warships. This suited every govern
ment in the world that was serious
sea power. They got rid of lot of
Junk and the boats that were left are
up to date. The most important feat
ure of that Washington peace con-
ference was the compromise between
England and the United States thru
which the former ditched the Anglo
Japanese pact in return for naval
concessions made by the United
States.
TIME Shenandoah tragedy is one OF
4 the acts Of God one cannot for
see" declared flying chieftain, in
commenting on the wreck Of the giant
air ship. Funny how Christians are
so fond of blaming god for their own
blunders. Another opinion is that the
disaster was caused thru the policy
OF economy followed by the navy de-
partment in its effort to save helium
gas. This policy cost many lives, but
human life is cheap under capitalism.
WILLIAM GREEN, speaking in New
w York said that dscontent has al
ways been the basis of human en-
deaYour. In Detroit the same Mr.
Green said that the COMMUNISTS were
the cause of all discomfort and should
be crushed for creating it. Is this
case of philip drunk and Philip
sober?" If discomfort is the basis OF
human endeavour, it seems to us that
Green should urge the Communists to
produce plenty of it. Needless to
say. the discomfort which Green does
not like is caused, not by Communists
but by the capitalist system.
THERE was a time when labor
i leader was looked upon with hate
and scorn by the American capitalist
class. Some leaders are still out OF
e favor, but only those who have not
knelt down and worshipped the gol-
den calf. When William Green, ar
rived in Detroit he was shown copy
OF the Detroit Labor News. the official
organ of the Detroit Federation Of
Labor which is edited by Dennis Bait,
formerly one Of the three leaders and
one tenth of the membership Of the
Proletarian Party In the paper was
full page ad paid for by the Detroit
Cleaners and Dyers' Association well
coming Green as a representative Of
American workers. II Green feels
happy over this he is welcome to the
thrill. The workers whom he claims
to represent will think 1t strange that
a man should receive compliments
from those he is expected to fight
THE American type Of reactionary
4 labor leader is a queer fish, but
Britain's specimens take the cake.
When the great British Trade Union
Congress was opening in Scarbor-
ough. James Ramsey Macdonald. was
spending short vacation with the
king at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
Macdonald is a socialist 1t is pos
sible that Macdonald may soon find
himself outside Of the Labor Party.
He is frequently mentioned az lead
or for what is left OF the liberal party.
vIRITING OF the recent regional
w convention" of the socialist par
~. the national Office press agent,
refers ito "our great and strange fell
lowship" which still hangs on to the
old dscrepid hulk. Strange indeed IL
not great Those regional conven-
lions that the socialist party is put
ting on. are nothing more or less
than gloryned picnics. It's rather
pathetic tho not lamentable to see a