The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-30
AS WE SEE IT
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

fENt1E only european SONeIuluSub thae
seems to be worried over the cleo
tons of Won Hindenburg is France.
Britain is satisfied. So are the fascist
governments of Italy and Poland At
least for the present. One can never
tell when those cutthroats will
draw their daggers. The French pol
itical situation is liable to swing
sharply to the right, tho the pseudo
left that took Office after the fall of
Poincare was the most cowardly out
At that ever held power in any coun-
try.
THE Communist International has
4 issued a statement on the result Of
the German elections which does not
attempt to allay fears of the workers
Of the world by personal tributes to
the docility and peaceful intentions Of
the German militarists. The statement
declares that Hindenburg's election
increases the danger of war 1t does.
The monarchist elements are hearten-
ed and behind them stand the fascists
and jingoes, the heavy industrialists
and the large population of. morons
who are infatuated with the alleged
slories of pre-war Germany More
trouble is brewing.
A ND what OF the German socialists
"A in this critical hour for the work
ers Of Germany and of Europe? What
steps are they taking to avert another
and greater calamity than has fallen
on the unfoTtunate victims Of the Ger,
man ruling class since that fateful
autumn of 1914? They are doing moth
ing, but twiddling their political
thumbs and making threats that if
Hindenburg does not conduct himself,
they, the. socialists, may not. This is
the kind of a toothless challenge that
the seasoned labor faker Sam Com
pers used to hurl at this sham foe,
Judge Gary. The socialists are re-
sponsible for the debacle which has
overtaken the German working class
movement, once the pride of the
world proletariat,
-
DUT the German working class are
II not leaderless in face of the new
menace of kaiserism revived. The
Communist Party remains. It's leaders
are not sitting down, twiddling their
thumbs. Hardly had the votes been
counted when a manifesto was coming
of the red presses calling on the
entire German working class, regard
less of political Affiliations for a united
front against monarchism, the Hohen-
zollerns, the Dawes plan and all the
other evils that afflict the workers.
The socialist leaders will turn this
proposal down, but not all their fol-
lowers will. There are darker days
than ever ahead for the German
workers, but they will emerge victor
ious from their trials as their com
rades in Soviet Russia did.
TIME pound looks the dollar in the
l. face" reads headline in a Lon
don paper. That sounds like chal-
lenge and that is just what it is.
Those who believe that the lion and
the eagle will slumbsr peacefully to-
gether and devour the other lesser
capitalist animals in perfect harmony,
are laboring under delusion. No
doubt this makes a pretty picture, and
could form the basis for any number
Of super-novels. worthy of a II. G..
Wells. The dollar and the pound are
making faces at each other. The
pound is older and perhaps wiser.
But the dollar has the pep OF youth
and its audacity.
DRITAIN went back to the gold
ID standard. That is why the pound
rata 40 cnclxY all of q andden. IL may