The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-23
Wall Street Is Trying
to Hide Its Role in the
League" Smash up
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

THE loquacious Ramsay Macdonald who showed the work.
ing class of Great Britain how be premier in labor
seeks silence his only refuge in the face OF
the wrecked league of nations Geneva last
week. Macdonald declares, THE less said the better
That is also the attitude of Wall Streets international
bankers who speak for the American government in
European affairs Money always chooses to work in the dark
In all the pages of comment and explanations incidental to
the Geneva holocaust the attitude of the United States and
its influence the disastrous results attendant on the
league breakup received little attention
left to Edgar Anse Mowrer the correspondent of
the Chicago Daily News Geneva to tag little expana
tory paragraph the end of of his dispatches decarng
The last word rests with the bankers chiefly those the United
States is believed that they alone decide whether baksng
natOnast merits financial whether the trouble
makers should be encouraged, chasised or ignored"
The last words with the American bankers because
they have money oan The United States government
when Coolidge put his 80. K" on the Dawes plan.
MussOins spokesman at Geneva could not have taken
his aggressive attitude at Geneva without American nspa
tion The MussoIin dictatorship is the pet of American
fnancers. This clearly shown in the extremely favor
able debt payment terms granted the Italian govern
ment, followed Immediately by loan Of $1ooooo0OO Mus
son becomes Morgans puppet on the European checker
American Imperialism has nothing to lose by the
European threat to exclude the Central and South American
powers from the league Under the Monroe Doctrine the
United States claims sovereignty PanAmerca and
exclusion proposed would be recognition by Europe of that
claim.
1t interesting, however, the imperiaist poll
ces OF the league of nations parallel those of the Inter-
national Federation of Trade Unions 1.-THE Amsterdam Inter-
natona dominated by European socialists who have been
collaborating with their capitalist governments during and
since the
The Amsterdam international would divide the world
follows: PanAmerca under the domination of the American
Federation of Labor Western Europe be the main stamp
ing ground of the international Federation of Trade Unions
allowing the Red international of Trade Unions Jurisdiction
the Union of Soviet Republics and Asatc countries
Revolutionary workers the world will, of course,
struggle against any such artificial division of International
labor
Probably the outspoken assaIant of the league,
among British politicians Lloyd George, who directs
shafts at the Gagged nations snarng and scrambng
the bone OF contention 1.-THE heroes of Looarno have
gone home bedragged after their many carousaIs."
But it was this same Lloyd George who premier
OF Great Britain and acted midwife the Versailles
when spawned the league. Lloyd George doesn't like his
own offspring But he cannot dsown it.
What all American workers must realize is that the
European situation plunges toward American
great finance has involved the United States in
When that war comes mighty millions of European
viii strike again for Soviet Rule thruout all Europe
Wall Street hides its works in secret as much
as possible American labor be silent cannot
shout too loudly that tens of millions in the shops, mills
and mines the nation will clearly hear the work.
es OF this country must and will stand shoulder shoulder
with European labor for the triumph working class