The daily worker., 1925-07-30
Fasciyrn Gusts Chicago
Tribune Writer But it
Doesn't Mean Anything
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the fascist government of Italy George Sell
des the correspondent of the Chicago Tribune because
to the United States
The Tribune settles the matter a wire to its Wash
ngton bureau that will be presented to the italian ambas-
sador declaring I'VE don't stand SeIdes and will
be willing to send another of experienced coespon-
dents in his place. but not he is subject censorship
Another correspondent will be sent He will be little
more tender with the Musson government meeky submit
Tribune has differences with Italian fascist rule. They
are birds OF feather But the Tribune gets
respondent that occasionally send the
news as really happens Its wedding process against
these writer's is therefore continuous What hap
pened to Seldes is not an isolated case.
1t is interesting to note that the American ambassador
to Rome Henry Fletcher is an agent in aiding the Mus
soln government to suppress news hostile to it. It
to Fletcher that the fascist foreign office turned when
wanted to get Sedes because Sedes presenting his
dispatches to the United States the views of the political
antagonists of the dictator Not the views Italian
Communists to be sure but simply those Of the bourgeois
opposition.
develops that the correspondents in Italy of the AS
socated Press and of the New York Times both italian
subjects These two most important of American
information italian developments therefore directly
under the thumb of Mussoin. Neither one dared sign
meek protest to Under Secretary Crand of the fascist for
egn office protesting against Seldes expulsion can thus
readily be seen how this badly tainted the
The italian correspondent of the DAILY WORKER, more
than year ago, was evicted from Italy He sezsd
coed to the border and put out of the country He
given no notice Fascsm wanted to get rid of him. for he
spoke for class that is directly hostile to- and seeks the
overthrow of Mussolin rule. So acted quickly
DAILY WORKER has able to function openly under the
fascist dictatorship. That is the difference between the
DAILY WORKER and the Tribune, that openly espouses
the social system that fascism champions.
The Tribune tries to cajole Mussoni with the threat
that it is getting interesting Russia than any
other newspaper with correspondent accredited there" It
nters that it is compelled have correspondent in
country to get the news This is quite right The Tribune
and does manufacture about Union of Soviet
Republics in its office wouldn't print the facts if il
had the At first blush the editor would say the facts
about the economic reconstruction in the Union are
not interesting The readers of the Tribune want some
thing thrilling riots couter-revoutons bIoodshed but the
facts about conditions in the Workers Republics yield
such thriIIers
Only the DAILY WORKER publishes the facts about
SOVIET Rule 1t alone gave space the encouraging report
OF the FrancoBegan trade union delegation published ye
terday not only about conditions in the Soviet Union but
also about the struggle for world trade union unity That
news came slowly by mail. But anything interest
ing that has not been published before, and the American
working class receives exclusively thru its own paper the
DAILY WORKER while the high-prced correspondents
with unlimited expense and the cable at their ell
bows continue to send pe and prevarcation as it suits
them.
Mussolin isn't worried that the Tribune will continue at
all times to attack proearian rule nthe Soviet Union Mus
soin also doesn't worry that the Tribune will send another
correspondent to Rome suitable to the purposes of the fascist
dictatorship and the incident of the expulsion of Sede
will be quickly forgotten In the language of the Trbune
own COMICS its little friction with Mussoni doesn't mean
anything"