The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31
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BY T. }. o'FLAHERrY

ITTHEN thieves fall on each other
w honest men should rejoice and
keep their eyes and ears open. The
Chicago Tribune, for the second time
in two years angered the Chicago
Daily News by casting reflection on
the authenticity of that papers dis
patches from the Soviet Union. The
Trib. claimed credit for exploding a
story emanating from Riga to the eff
fect that Russia was about to dump
6O0,000,000 bushels of wheat on the
world market, last year, Canadian
farmers were about to sell their grain
at disastrously low prices when the
Tribune stepped in with the facts"
and saved them money. Now Canadian
farmers are alleged to have thanked
the Tribune for the facts
THE Tribune, which prints more OBJ
vious lies about Russia than all
other Chicago papers combined, at
tributed its ability to save the Cana
dian farmers money to its decision
not to assign any more correspond
ents to Moscow until the Soviet cen
sorship is raised, on the ground that
only the unvarnished truth appears
in its column.
THIS angered the Daily News which
-. keeps the public fairly we'll IN.
formed about doings in Russia thru
its representative Mr.. Junius B. Wood
The News says that its correspondent
is never required to change his text
or sent out adulterated news. The
censorship is a mere formality and
has not been exercised since Lenins
death, when the government announ-
ced that it wished the news to be
first made public thru its representa-
lives in foreign capitals.
rFHE News further states that mis-
information about conditions. in
the Soviet Union rarely comes from
Russia but is concocted in border
states The most mendacious of those
lie factories is situated in Riga, says
the News, taking a direct slap at the
Tribune and at Donald Day the cham
pion prevaricator of them all. The
yarn about the 600,OO0,000 bushels of
wheat did not come out of Russia the
News insists but from one of those
hotbeds of anti-Soviet propaganda on
the border. The News publishes fairly
reliable news about Russia not be-
cause il likes the Soviet Union any
better than the Trib, but because it
is better newspaper.
MIR. KRISHNAMUIRTI went and
4E1 gobbled one quarter of an egg,
but he apologies for the guzzle Civ
ing as his reason the frigidity of the
climate here compared to that of his
native land. Nothing like a hard
boiled egg to produce heat. The young
christ container is on his way west.
II he meets with Aimee Mcpherson,
we Fear that his chaperon. Mrs.
Besant will be looking for another
god Anne has knocked the devil out
Of so many men on the west coast
that she is not likely to find much
trouble in ferreting out a hidden
christ, in such frail and handsome
person as Krishnamurti f5sssl.a
HERE is an example of coldblooded
4 cruelty taken from an article in
Labor" by It's London correspondent:
IA coal mine owner from Nottingham.
&e. whose men agreed to return, is
go, lority for the following; Before.
anferenee with the miners we
ssx. :, leaders tea. They asked per-
onlsslon NM carry away the fragments
30 food ThSt demonstrated to us that
their stomaehs. were empty. In my
Iuag.m.nt ,weS's Cooks cannot hold
them much Ionseiy' as starvation 10
spre sdlnsr Now read next para
graph.
MIR. J. II. Thomas, political sec
1fl Rotary OF the National Union OF
raiiwaymen, and dominant personality
In the British Trade Union Congress
decided that this was good time to
pay visit to Canada. You ma
member that Thomas left England
after he helped defeat the miners In
1921, and visited the United States.
At that time he was met on the pier
ny delegation of seamen, flremen
and members OF the Irish American