The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-22
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.
Continued from page u

offal it feeds to the public.
| A MOTHER moron will bedevil the
"A readers of the Chicago papers un
| til he is either hanged or proven in
sane. Since he is the son of well-to-dC
parents, in all probability he is in
sane. Only poor Negroes and pool
white workers kill with malice afore
thought. A six-year old son of con
tractor was found murdered in the loft
of a riding academy. The murderer
surrendered and confessed. Now
every sob-sister of both sexes on the
capitalist press and every pseudo
mental expert will dish out their quacl
solutions for crime during the mex
month, or until another moron com
mits another outrage.
IITE do not pretend to have any
w infanible cure for crimes of per
version, but under this dog-eat-dog
economic system, which churns the
blood of child workers into gold, and
transforms strong men and women in,
to caricatures of humanity, it is i'm.
possible to produce a healthy race
either physically or morally. A plant
grows thin and sickly in a weedy envi
ronment. The profit system injects
its poison into the social atmosphere
injecting exploiter and exploited alike
Too much luxury on one side and life
without purpose or aim. On the other
side poverty. Both extremes are
hatcheries of crime Neurotic editors
will howl for more rope as a remedy
for crime. And intelligent people viii
laugh scornfully as they see Doheny
and Fall, Hoffman, Druggan and Lake
-grafters and burglars, all walk
away free from the court rooms, be-
cause they had millions behind them
BRITISH imperialists are making
- good use of their royal furniture
these days. The Duke and Duchess
of York are leaving soon on battle
ship for Australia, where their job is
to act as imperial drummers in the
Antipodes. The recent empire con
ference showed that the mother
country" could not rely implicitly on
the loyalty of her young, particularly
if she gets into scrap, which is un-
avoidable in. the comparatively near
future. So the duchess is going to
pull Marie of Roumania stunt on the
Australian
A CCoRDING to Australian labor pa
"A pers, the right wing socialists are
doing their utmost to drive the Com
munists out of the Australian Labor
Party A convention of the party
adopted a rule barring Communists
as candidates for parliament on the
A. L. P. ticket. A strong section Of
the labor movement, however, is op
posed to this policy and seeks to re
wise the rules in a way that would
permit trade unions to put forward
their choice, regardless of what sec
ton of the working class politica
movement their candidates adhere to
And, as should be expected, the so
cialists, those lovers of pure demo
cracy, are tearing their hair, anC
charging the Communists with favor
ing a dictatorship! How typical o.
socialists all the world over?
Turing. the question period at the
u debate between Scott Nearing
and Professor lie Ressignol, in Or
chestra Hall, last Sunday. a socialist
or ex-socialist, by the name of Mad
sen, a member of the painters union
asked Nearing trick question. the
kind usually asked by stoolpigeon:
during the war when trying to in
veigle a speaker into an answer tina
would give him free ticket to Jail
Nearing was after saying that the
American workers would have t.
follow the example Of their Russian
brothers in getting rid Of capitalism
Madsen lisped: How would you &c
about doing this?" Instead Of giving
Mr.. Madsen the expected lurid picture
# capitalist heads decorating lamp
1osts, and the bones Of labor skates
strewing the landscape, Nearing simp
ly answered, by organizing the work
ers and expropriating the capitalists.
Madsen gasped and the chairman call
ed for the next question.
Poison Gas Humane" Method Of War