The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-12
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By THOMAS }. o'FLAHERTY

DICTATOR PANGALOs of Greece
was smacking his lips after ne
gotiating slice of baklava when
subject stood up, at his table and
drawing revolver proceeded to re-
duce the population Of Greece by one
dictator. Unfortunately for the Nal
thusian devotee and the food supply,
the gunman was cut short in the mid
die of his act and Pangalos called for
cup of Turkish coffee. A dictator's
job in Europe is almost as hazardous
as that Of bootlegger in Chicago. A
few weeks ago the Spanish dictator
was receiving the cheers of the multi
tude when sharp dagger flew by his
ear and stuck in his automobile. What
happened to Mussolini's nose is
matter of recent history. Oh yes, those
lads are popular-with sharpshooting
citizens.
THE future of Great Britain as a
capitalist power is shrouded in
gloom according to several capitalist
writer's. Some believe that Britain's
star is waning. They point to her
large unemployed army and to her
dwindling foreign market. DR.. Alfred
Pesrce Dennis, Vice Chairman of the
United States Tariff Commission gives
II .,f1 -,
issue of the New York Times.
britain produces less food today
~ than at any time since the Nor
man conquest Cheap food for the
workingman rather than decent liv-
ing for the farmer is the basis of
British economy in this century says
the doctor. But an English working
man who happens to read the Docs
article will wonder where he bought
his food while in England. Food is
anything but cheap in England today.
Native grown grain once fed $4,000, 900
Britons; now it nourishes only
100000. Britain spends over $780,
100000 yearly on imported foodstuffs.
an increase of s5O.OOO,OO0 during the
last two years.
THIS sounds bad but the worst is
yet to come. Exports of cotton
piece goods have shrunk from seven
billion square yards in 1913 to less
than four and half billion yards in
1925 The Indian government has inn
posed a higher tariff on the import
of cotton goods and is setting about
organizing its own Industry by the
purchase of textile machinery. The
Orientals in the past have been the
best customers Of British cotton goods
but instead OF an annual three-shirt
ration they are now getting along on
two In addition to this new eco
nomic policy other factors detrimen-
tai to British trade are, the loss OF
markets in Russia, Central Europe and
Turkey and the high price of raw cot
ton fibre.
FTNHE coal industry on which the SUI
L premacy of British industrialism
was reared is now in a bad state.
Coal exports have declined in the
last decade from so millions to So
million tons. Those were the figures
in 1925. Since then a strike of coal
miners has taken place and is still
on without any prospect of immediate
settlement. This means a terrific loss
10 British industry. In addition to all
those calamities there is the problem
of facing European and American COM
petition. The British chemist is no
match for the German laboratory
says Doctor Dennis. Well, this good
time 10 pop the question for the
umpteenth time: who won the WARP"
TN the production of steel, France,
Germany and the United States are
now leading England, the u. S. pro-
ducing FIVE or six times as much as
Britain. The giant Franco-German
steel trust recently formed puts the
finishing touch to Britain's former
premiership in this industry. Britain
is obliged to import 100000 tons OF
foreign ore annually. The continental
trust has iron and coal in close proS-
unity. Despite this dark picture DR..
Dennis is not hopeless of England's re-
covery. But the empire is on the
wane. George Harvey, former ambas-,
sador to the court of st. James de-
clared that England was a splendid
corpse and worthy OF tear.