The daily worker., 1926-09-22
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BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY

NOTHING quite as tame as the
IN Streator convention of the Illi-
nois State Federation of Labor has
taken place on this planet in the mem
DRY of the Oldest inhabitants. 1t was
SO dull that reporters, some OF them
endowed with reasonable integrity,
were at loss what to put on the.
wires. Capitalist reporters don't
bother with anything that is not SEN
sational but wide,awake labor re-
porter would find plenty of material
for a first-class story on the Streator
convention, What is not done is
sometimes better news than what is
done.
THE salaries of Walker and Olander
c were boosted to $1,000 year No
mention was made of the sell-out of
Frank Harrington to the Peabody Coal
Company. The convention did not go
on record for or against Frank l..
Smith, republican candidate for sen
ator: George Z. Brennan, democratic
candidate, or Farley Parker Chris
tiansen, progressive. Lots of good
writing could be gotten out of sit
nation like this, but the labor takers
have succeeded so we'll in wet-blanket-
ing their powwows that the capitalist
press does not take the trouble of
sending reporters that can write and
the radical press cannot afford the ex-
pense.
TNHE next conference of the ALL
Union Soviet Congress will be
held next spring instead of this fall,
as originally planned. according to
Moscow dispatch in the New York
Times. The Times, quick to draw
conclusion unfavorable to the Soviet
regime, Immediately attributes the
postponement to dissatisfaction on
The part of the peasantry with the pol
icies of the government No intelli-
gent person will try to prove that
Soviet decisions are infallible, but
every reasonably impartial visitor to
Russia will admit that it will take a
lot of laundering on the part of the
workers and peasants government to
convince the emancipated Russian
people that they should return to the
czarist system.
rTHE Mexicans have a liberty bell.
4 which they ring once year on
the anniversary OF the summonirg Of
The Indians Of the state of Guanajuato
TO the revolt which ended in the ex-
pulsion of Spanish rule from Mexico.
The signal for the revolt against
Spain was given by a Spanish priest
who was executed for hfs trouble by
tho Spaniards Today the Mexican
clergy are doing their level best to
undo the work of that rebel priest.
4 Here we have the spectacle of Presi-
dent Gales, denounced as Christ
hater" by the catholics, honoring the
memory of a rebel priest while the
hierarchy is engaged in fostering
counter-revolutions in their attempt to
wreck an administration that is try
ing to educate the Mexican people.
THERE is an article in number %
4 of the Communist International
which should receive the attention of
every revolutionary worker in the
United States. 1t is an appraisal of
James Connolly, the leader of the
Irish revolt in 1916, and one of the
outstanding Marxists of his time.
The writer Of the article quotes lib
orally from Connolly's great work,
Labor in Irish History" to prove
that the Irish revolutionists had the
feminist conception of the role of the
national struggle in the fight against
imperialism.
CONNOLLY saw the value of mobil-
~ izing all the forces of discomfort
against the British empire. Because
OF this attitude imperialistic British
Socialists" branded Connolly as
nationalist while they went on their
way, either hailing the war as strug-
gle against German militarism or Civ
ing expression to their irritation over
an unpleasant situation by becoming
conscientious objectors.
ef
TT is well that Connolly's great con
4 tribution to the working class
movement is receiving some atten-
ton. Connolly has been misunder-
stood. Many comrades have mistaken
his elastic fighting strategy for oppor-
tunism Connolly was no dogmatist,
except on the main point He based
his strategy ON the fundamental prop
osition that the struggle for Irish free
dom from foreign rule must be coupled
with the fight for emancipation from
capitalism and that in this struggle
the workers must have the lead. The
writer of the article in the Commu-
mist International, official organ of
tha comintern urRes the publIcation