The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-24

weston in real estate should p
cited, says Arthur, who has in(o = ~
a considerable sum of money in FIJI I
ida. Tho Arthur regrets the loss Of
life, he consoles himself with the
thought that millions were killed in
the world war and the survivors for
got about it mighty quick. Now for
the greatest airplane fleet in the
world and Brisbane will be happy.
Murder by airplanes is more scientific
than murder by heavy artillery.
CHESTER WRIGHT sees another
~ wave of Soviet Russia propaganda
coming. Who is Chester Wright?
! Chester was once upon time a social
list and now he is not even that He
edited the defunct New York Call for
a time and later on went on Sam
Gompers' payroll. After Sam went to
his reward-to the worms-Chester
got the bright idea that he would like
to be an oil magnate. Chester is oily
enough, but the suckers would not buy
his stock. He made the mistake of
canvassing the labor takers, and they
know each other.
60 Chester dropped his fake oil stock
~ and hil1ed to Washington. William
Green, being a foxy Baptist, took
Wright in and gave him a job attack
ing radicals and hurting his poisoned
parrows at the Soviet Union. Perhaps
Chester had some oil in his system
when he penned the following, or per-
haps it was something else. Here II
is: 8" 5. 1t is now recognition or
ruin, and the gamblers of Moscow,
circling madly in the same bloody
trail trod by Lenin and kept freshly
soaked by the sneaking, bludgeoning,
numbering cheka, are planning to
bend every effort to win on the throw
of the dice"
A CLEVER liar will not over-exag-
~ gerate. He will not water his
stock excessively. The main consid-
leration Of propaganda is to get the
public to believe what he serves up,
{and, of course, to reach as wide a
bcircle as possible. People blinded by
sprejudice allow their emotions to con-
Rquer their judgment This is why
Wright's diatribe against Russia can
ibe turned into boomerang. Let any
sane worker read the above except
and what will he think? He will say
THAT guy is nutty" Wright hates
the Soviet leaders as any traitor will
hate those who remain true to prin-
ciples he deserted.
THE reactionary officials of the
A. American Federation of Labor and
their hired scribblers have reason to
hate the revolutionary movement. The
leaders are making out pretty we'll
just now. They are sharers in CAPT
talist prosperity. Salaries of $3.50 a
week are not to be sneered at. And
there is a general suspicion that the
financial paws of the takers are not
az free from faint as the morals of
Cae .-ir's wife. Recognition of the
Soviet Union is desired by groups of
American capitalists for purely bust
ness reasons.' But recognition will
also help the Soviet Union and thus
hasten the day of labor's victory.
ONE of the most disgraceful incl
~ dents in the annals of the Ameri-
can labor movement is the speech de-
livered by Thomas MacMahon. presi-
dent Of the United Textile Workers
Union, at the mass demonstration in
Passaic to celebrate the entrance of
several thousand mill workers into
the American Federation Of Labor.
MacMahon had no word Of criticism
for the employers. He spent most of
his time denouncing the strikers. Sew |
eral thousand members have beef
added TO the u. NJ w. OF A. without
any effort on MacMahon's part. Judg.
ing by his talk, they have a worse
enemy in MacMahon than in the DO
lice that smashed their heads during
the strike.
BECAUSE of his extravaganza Count
- Franz Esterhazy, Jr., Of Hungary
has been turned over the custody OF
his wife. The count had 2S,0OO-acre
estate which he mismanaged. In add.
tion to many other money-spending
devices, the count had 5000 suits of
clothes. The count was unlucky that
the workers revolution did not sue.
coed in Hungary. In that case he
would not have to look after 5000
suits OF clothes, and not having any
It is quite likely that the
countess would not volunteer to treat
him as a prisoner OF war.
MANY reasonably intelligent people
A'A who read the sport pages of the
capitalist press are worked up 10 a
high pitch OF excitement over the
Kearns-Dempsey quarrel. How much