The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
AS WE SEE 1T

bearing capacity of even the much
abused sailor was demonstrated re-
Gently when the Seamen's Union in
Kobe, Japan, formally protested
against the exhibition Of an American
film, which shows a catholic priest
converting the wicked sea-captain.
The seamen felt that the picture re-
fiected on the character of sailors,
and threatened not to leave port with
any vessel on which catholic priest
was a passenger unless the offending
picture was withdrawn. The sailors
were quite right A reformed burglar
is bad enough, but the saints save us
from a converted sea captain!
A TTORNEY GENERAL SARGENT
Ais expected to be a firm law en-
forcer but he will not harrass bust
ness unnecessarily. This is just
what we expected. What this little
hint means is that the workers will
get the heavy end Of the club, while
business, when it steps over the chalk
line drawn by itself. will be gently
tickled under the chin, with tail fea-
Their from Vermont turkey. Cal is
doing very we'll for Wall Street, even
if he does not say much. He keeps on
saving wood
OUR American socialists had the
~ reputation of being anti-militar-
lists, but if that is a virtue it appears
their European brethren have lost
even that. The socialists supported
their governments vigorously during
the war, as most pacifists did, but in
the piping days OF peace, they do not
seem to have any desire to return to
their former dissipation. Herr Bauer.
leading Austrian socialist, thinks the
Austrian army is small enuf and can
stand no further reduction and made
the further astounding statement that
social democracy would spread over
the whole world, IL necessary, by
force of arms. We thot only Commun-
lists talked so shamelessly of the use
Of force!
TOW many Of you knew that Chi
IL cago, besides being the home of
the odoriferous stockyards, had to ans
wer for the crime of being the inter
national headquarters OF the rotar-
ians. One OF our poets recently
heaped scorn on this overgrown vii.
lage, in the magazine section of the
DAILY WORKER. He claims 1t is
not world city" despite its posses:
sion of many features which dis
tinguish large and wicked places
where millions Of human beings are
huddled together. 1t is not easy to
fathom a poets mind, but if the
headquarters of the international ro-
tarians is not world city" then, the
stockyards is a perfume factory.
GTRIKING printers, stereotypers and
- mailers formerly employed on the
Seattle acknowledgement, a Hearst
publication, are still on strike The
strikers are still holding out, but the
local labor movement, now officially
controlled by the reactionary elements
is not giving them any material assis-
lance. The officials Of the Seattle
Labor Council are expanding their sur
plus energies and the little brains
they possess trying to run the Com
munists out Of the council In the
meantime tn. employers are raising
the devil with the rank and file. That's
how the battle goes in Seattle.
ENCOURAGED by the fight conduct
~ ed against the Communists in
Seattle, by the labor takers, the Ohio
state legislature has opened war on
pink" teachers in state universities.
The resolution introduced in the leg
islature has the, following paragraph:
Whereas the labor unions are expel.
ling Communists from their member
ship. notably in Seattle and Mime
apolis, where they have at times been
in control" The resolution In ques-
ton would bar the payment of salary
10 any professor who has been pub
licly active in any socialist, atheist or
Communist or any other organization
OF revolutionists." The takers are.
giving their lpaymasters the lead, no
doubt as the result Of prearrange-
ment
MRS. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
1u turned the tables very cleverly
on the LONDON Daily Herald, when
that publication commented. caustic.
ally on the loss Of necklace by Mrs.
George. on board ship while enroute
from Spain to England. The Herald
suggested that the necklace was worth
a lot Of money and insinuated that be.
ing the wife of a capitalist premier
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