The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
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BY THOMAS J. o'FLAHERTY

A S a strike leader, William d. Ma
a hon is a good Quaker, to judge
by an official statement issued by him
since he arrived here to conduct the
negotiations for new wage and
working schedule between the cleo
trio railway employees of this city
and their employers. Mr.. Mahon de-
votes ninety per cent of his publicity
to decrying talk of a strike and en-
phasizing that the employees are con
sentative, struggling to pay on their
homes and trying to bring up their
children as American children should
be brot up Granting for the sake
Of argument that every motorman
and conductor is paying for home
on the installment plan an increase
in wages would lessen the strain. We
have yet to learn that any set of en-
ployers have granted increases out of
pure benevolence or in recognition of
the amiability and meekness of their
employees.
THE web of evidence is being stead
l. lily woven around Aimee McPher-
son. An affidavit signed by the own
er of a resort in San Diego states that
Aimee, another woman and two male
companions engaged rooms at his
place a few days after her disappear
ance in a bathing suit. A man re-
sembling her radio operator was seen
in her company. If her deity brings
Aimee out of this mess, he is not as
dead as We expected. With the aid
of the money Aimee wTung from her
religious followers he has a fighting
chance.
TINE DAILY WORKER was "a hours
l. late in running the picture of Gen,
de Costa as dictator of Portugal. That
was his title when the caption was
written on Friday afternoon but when
the general showed up at his Office
on Saturday morning there was an
other fellow sitting in his chair with
big gat on the desk in front of him.
He accused de Costa of being a
CRATER and packed him off to the
Azores. There is no democracy in
Portugal yet neither the U. S. gov
eminent nor the A. F. of L. get ex-
cited over its absence.
TALKING of democracy 1t may be
4 interesting to note that George
I.ansbury admits in the July 10 issue
of his weekly, that the Communist
theory of the capitalist state is cor
rect. Lansbury's comment was in
spired by a bill introduced in the
house of commons, which If passed
will permit the government to abolish
any board of guardians, that may ap-
pear to be unable to properly dis
charge it's duties. The real motive for
the introduction of this bill is to pre-
vent the guardians from granting re-
lief or assisting the workers in any
way that does not suit the ruling
classes.
T ANSBURY says: This crime
IL against democracy is proving as
nothing else could prove, that the
Communist theory is right and the
British governing classes, mounting
their love and admiration for the prin-
ciples of democracy, have not the
slightest intention of allowing those
principles to operate, except, in ac-
cordance with their will" Lansbury
is a prominent member of the I. L. P.
Even a belated admission of the cor
rectness of the Communist view is
welcome. 1t now remains to be seen
whether Lansbury will continue de-
tending bourgeois democracy.
THE provinces of Alsace-Lorraine
are causing the French govern
ment as much trouble now as they
caused Germany before the allied vic
tory restored them to France. While
the French capitalists shed tears Of
pity for the unhappy people who were
separated from their beloved France,
what they were actually weeping for
we're the tremendous iron deposits
which enabled Germany to reach such
commanding position in the com
mercial world. In the pre-war days
German soldiers kept the populace in
subsection. Now French soldiers are
doing It, War, what for? For an ex-
change of masters! ives
TT looks as If a dark conspiracy to
L get Sheriff Hoffman in bad, is on
foot, in fact on both feet. Not content
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