The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-21
U.S.Aviator- Mercenaries
on Riff Front Is Sign of
French IrnperiaIist Decay
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

sona soldier in making against the Rffian armies
they regulars from the evacuated districts of Germany
and now most despicabe of all, from
the United States who happened to be oing away their
time in Paris.
Hessans hired from German feuda lords used by
the British king against the American coonss when they
battling for freedom in the revolutionary One
would think therefore that there would be at least the SEM
bance Of an American tradition against the professional
murderer in the soldiers uniform.
But instead, American literature teens with the mock
deeds of the soldier of fortune the maner who
murders for the sport of it, Richard Harding Davis has lion
lied this character in fiction especially the professional SOL
der who went with the vanguard of American Imperialism to
plumber in Mexico, Central and South America
The Hearst press has always auded this type Of mer
cenary 1t is the Hearst press, especially thru the writ
ings of Arthur Brisbane that claims the Rans wagng
hopeless struggle against the French because they cannot
successfully face the aeets of the mperast enemy The
Rans have done pretty we'll against the Spanish plumber
and they this week challenging the full strength Of
strength of France in the air. claimed to be the greatest
strength among all the nations is not living up the great
claims made for it.
There must be why France must appeal
for foreign legion of mercenary avators made up of
"swash-buckIng Americans. 1t may be that Frenchnen,
like Sadou and Mart who refused to fight for French inn
periaism in the world to be found in the
French air forces in Africa refusing do the bidding of their
mtarst masters. There have been indications that the
French soldiers less loyal to the French franc than the
swordrattIng American who fights for price may be
WE'LL for future reference give the list of these Hessans
who wear the stars and stripes who may time return
United enlist the side of in
great strike that looms ahead Here of Them
Col Charles Sweeney Spokane, organizer
mereenary
COL Charles Kerwood Chicago.
Grafton Grey, of Chicago
Chester Gillette Parker Of Helena, Mont
A.. Granville Pollock Orleans,
William Rodgers, of Pittsburgh
Paul Rockwell Of Atlanta, Ca
Reginald P. Weller Of New York.
Joseph M. stehen Of Brooklyn.
Jersey
Thomas H. 5uTum, Of Boston.
Not many foreign there. No doubt all of them
100 cent Americans ready to do the bidding of the al
mighty dollar moments notice. whether in crushing the
discomfort of American labor home making alliance
with the House of Morgan bolster the toerng French
capitalist regime.
1t said that there Russian Soviet aviators in
China Perhaps there We do not know. But if there
they champions of the liberation of the Chinese
people. They in the of abor's international
emancipation AS soldiers of the Red STAR they carry
message the world.
American capitalism may go into insane spasms of lingo
ecstasy the murdeous deeds of its North
Africa
But American labor learn that a blow struck at
the natives of North Africa the workers of China any
other oppressed nationality is blow struck at them.
More will be heard from the SOLDIERS of the Red Star"
and the SOLDIERS of Fortune in the days come
tuous of discomfort rise and fall and again, al
ways toward victory the face of the globe Labor every
where will in time take the Red Star its guide. will
join in the against the SOLDIERS of Fortune and
capitalist social system they seek to preserve.