The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-21
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'Flaherty.
Continued from page ~


others threats, with France and Italy
mobilizing troops at each others bord-
ers, a dictatorship established in
Lithuania, Poland ready to invade
Lithuania and the new catholic-fascist
dictatorship Of the latter country
rushing troops to the Polish border,
with British warships threatening
China, 1t takes a lot Of imperial i'm
pudence for the viscount to turn such
stream of nonsense loose on the
public.
CONSERVATIVE parliamentary de-
~ puties are urging on Premier
Baldwin the wisdom of refusing to re-
ceive a successor to Leonid Krassin,
late Soviet Charge d'Affaires in Great
Britain. Baldwin, the Coolidge of the
British imperialists, advised his call
ers to keep their underwear on, in
view Of the fact that he was informed
the Soviet government would not ap-
point a substitute for Krassin in the
immediate future.
THE work at Gresham House would
be carried on by the present staff.
In a public statement in support Of
the conservative candidate running
against the wealthy socialist Moseley,
Baldwin stated that he was prepared
to take stern measures against do
nestle Communist propaganda, and
ntimated that the government was
ready to assist the right wing lead
ers in preventing the Communists
from gaining control of the trade un-
ions. International capitalism, is in
united front with the labor takers.
OHARP on the heels Of the acquittal
~ of Fall and Doheny came the &C
quittal of Messrs. Hoffman, sheriff Of
Cook county, frankie Lake and Terry
Druggan, millionaire bootleggers. Our
readers probably remember that while
serving a term in our local jail for
contempt of court the two dapper rum
barons spent more time outside of
Jail than in it, and it leaked out that
their excursions from their temporary
home cost them something like
5000. Hoffman was held partly re-
sponsible, but jury Of their COM
peers found all three innocent of
wrong doing, and those outstanding
citizens can now face the public with
unblushing faces. AS Ed Doheny said
to his old friend AL Fall, as they
walked unfettered and unstung lex
cept by their lawyers) out of the
courtroom, tits a great country, Al,
IL you have the money"
DIG business wants Mayor Dever to
- throw his hat in the ring for a
second term. What Calvin Coolidge is
to the capitalists of the United States,
Dever is to Chicago's overworld, as
distinct from the underworld on
which the Thompson-Eller-C Grove ma
chine bases its political existence, tho
of course serving the interests of the
capitalists. Dever has been the will
ing tool of big business since he took
office.
THE packers, the mail order kings
4 and big f1nanciers, the great ma
jority of them republicans, urge Dever
to run for reelection. They don't want
Thompson the republican, whose fol-
lowers are alleged to have glue on
their fingers. The fat boys want to
keep what they have stolen from the
workers; they don't want to share
any of it with the grafters who go
into politics to steal. Big business
robs on large scale. 1t despises the
petty larceny artists.
MIR. MUSTE, head OF the Brookwood
AV1 Labor College, gives Thomas Nc
Mahon, president Of the United Tex
tile Workers Union and vice-presi-
dent Starr OF the same organization
credit for the settlement forced from
the Botany Mills, in Passaic, New
Jersey. Music said; THAT paper
(terms of settlement) represents a
great victory for the textile workers
and a great victory for Mcmahon and
Starr. Many committees have been
trying for ten and half months to
bring about a settlement. They all
helped but 1t was Mcmahon who broi
about the final victory" But for the
solidarity of the strikers and the lead
ership OF the Communists who initia-
ted the struggle there would be no
settlement, and no victory for Nc
Mahon. The latter was shamed into
recognizing the strike. This is not
the first time A cuckoo took posses