The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-19
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BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY


THERE are two very important trials
taking place in Germany. One is
Of the Hamburg workers involved in
the 1928 struggle against the German
fascist government; the other is the
so-called Cheka trial in Leipzig. The
star witness for the state in the latter
is an epileptic by the name Of Neu-
mann, police spy So far he has
proved nothing except that he Matched
perfectly good plot under the tutel-
age of the police. Nobody was killed
by the terrible" Cheka, but here was
the plot.
DEFORE the trial started the press
- prepared the public for startling
revelations, but the results to date are
not cheering for the enemies of the
working class. Like the latest elmo
view" forgery it was a crude job. Of
course the courts are the creatures Of
the German capitalists but even
courts cannot make a case out of the
whole cloth. The government, headed
by the social democrat Ebert has a
perfectly good plot on its hands,
bombs, germs and other liabilities. 1t
wants the head OF the German Com
munist party. That is the object of
the trial. But it will not succeed in
this conspiracy. The head of the
German Communist is set on the
powerful shoulders of the revolution
airy section of the German working
class.
THE Polish government has bad
case of political nervousness. It's
secret police arrested German count
on suspicion of being chief of the
German espionage system in Poland
The Polish government is but tool
of France and acts under French in
structions. It's remarkable that the
count has not been accused Of being
Soviet spy. But that may come in
due time.
he workers OF Jerusalem greeted
Lord Balfour of Britain with
general strike. 1t is not known whe-
Their the lord appreciated the demons
tration or not. Balfour is in Jerusalem
to open a Hebrew university. The
Hebrews were given a little bit of
desert to play with, in return for sup
port given to the allies by Jewish
tinanciers during the war and also be-
cause Je-usalem is very important
strategic point in relation to the de-
Tense of Egypt. Britain, tho christ
ian nation, is satisfied to allow the
Jews to protect the sacred sepulchre,
and extremely willing to protect the
handful of zionists who suffer in the
holy and smelly city of Jerusalem,
from their enemies, who according to
the foxy Arabs are none other than
the British.
THE capitalist papers have finally
! learned that Bill" Haywood is
still in Moscow. A few weeks ago
when the capitalist press first pictur-
ed Haywood, like the hero in the
Shooting of Dan McGrew" coming in
to the Office of a Y. M. c. A. agent in
town in Armenia, footsore and wea-
ny, his whiskers coated with ice and
wearing a shirt that was black with
dirt" The DAILY WORKER pointed
out that the story was a deliberate
lie concocted by the Chicago Tribune
liar who is stationed in Turkey.
! the revolutionary movement were
only too willing to credit the yarn.
Among those papers that accepted the
clumsy capitalist fabrication as truth,
was the Weekly People, of New York,
official organ of the few petty shop
Keepers who compose the socialist
labor party. The Weekly People is
edited by very stupid person, who
happens to hate bill" Haywood bit
terly. She Immediately hoped onto
the story, and got ahead even of the
capitalist hacks. While the latter
we're satisfied with representing "Bill"
as disappointed radical, who prefer
red Leavenworth prison to the Lux
Hotel, the S. L. p. scribbler prepared
an itinerary for him under the auspi-
ces Of the department of justice lect-
uring on the evils of Communism.
Now that even the capitalist papers
admit that the story was a fake, It re-
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