The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31
Ll'0R ITO HONOR LENIN SUNDAY
AS WE II
RyT. .. o'FLAHEATY.

AkTHEAT shot up to two dollars q
wv bushel last Wednesday in the Gil
cago pit and the gamblers went fran
tic. Fortunes are made and lost
when things cut lose like this. Most
OF the men who trade in wheat never
see it except in the form Of muffin,
but they live by betting on the crop,
in this and other countries. The poor
wheat crop In Russia and South
America played into the hands OF the
grain gamblers and helped to send
Calvin Coolidge back to the White
House. The American farmers who
raise the wheat are just as frantic as
the gamblers but for different r6a-
sons. The farmers are frantically
looking for money to pay their debts.
Very little of the prosperity so much
talked about by Herbert Hoover
reaches them.
LIE was not country editor, yet he
1 Twas eating newspaper, not in pun
ishnIent for what the paper contained
but in an attempt to satisfy his hun
ger. He had come to Chicago in
search of work from Norfolk, Va,
where he had labored twelve hours a
day for twenty cents an hour. Fail
ing to find employment and being out
Of funds he applied for aid at char
table" institution but he was treated
like a dog and was obliged to face the
cold night. When found by three
young men. he was without food for
four days and in a state of extreme
exhaustion. Yet the papers tell us that
there are plenty of jobs for those will
ing to work. II is a splendid system!
Plenty of wealth, machinery and food
clothing and shelter, yet workers
starving.
CELF made men have harder Job
- to get into the American Magazine
and become presidents of rotary
clubs than they had few years ago.
They still ecot1e up from the bottom
IKE Philip K WytgIAT who succaeds
his father as president Of the chew.
ing manufacturing organization This
young p1ute took several trips thru
hts fathers factories and gave HIM
self a diploma Another man who
started at the bottom is the son of
John r. Thompson, who started out
as dishwasher in his father restau.
rant few years ago. That is after
hesleft Yale. He is now president OF
the biggest chain OF restaurants in
the world. His father gave him the
Job Needless TO say, this is the es.
sence of bunk
n Federated Press dispatch from
~ Washington says: president Sa.
lorzauo ofNicaragua is undertaking the
formation Of national ccnstabulary
force which will replace the American
marines which have been ordered by
President Coolidge to return home
this spring or early summer. SAILOR
SaIo is faced by the danger that the
old 'reactionary. leader. Chamorra, may
start an armed uprising. secretly en-
outraged by American capital when
the marines go" One would imagine
from reading this dispatch that the
American marines were in Nicaragua
to protect the people against Ameri-
can capital. Surely Lawrence Todd
tnow who owns our army and navyt
et4 49, - @
Nm army of eighteen thousand mis-
Nsionariesis kept in the field by the
organization holding a convention In
Washington this week. This group
spends $4,000, 900 annually in bring
ing the capitalist Interpretation of
christianity to the heather. 1t II
vorth the money to the American
uiing class. Since American capital
srn Is now elbowing British capital In
very part Of the world the American
missionary is more necessary than
over. Americas sky pilots and Am
srican moonshine can hold the fort
against their British competitors.
F4 $3.50 $500. 4e~.
IT tok the Weekly People, oficiai
organ Of the petty shopkeepers who
lose as reyolutionists in the socialist
abor party, to swallow the lying yarn
printed in the capitalist press about
William d. Haywood's mysterious
rip. footsore and weary thru the
businesses OF Armenia on his way
pack to America. While bill" was
supposed to be breasting me icy
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