The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-23
Current Events
Continued from page II

comes Mayor Dever of Chicago and
solicits the perpetual guffaw by de-
claring a week in February to be
named "Idealism Week." For one
thing it proves that the babbitry is
on the upwards swing. 'Tdealism
week" and even Laugh louder week
are improvements on: Eat a banana
day week" or. "Patronize your neigh
borhood hot dog merchant week" We
should be grateful for small mercies
TNHE political mating season is nigh,
L fact not unnoticed in the ranks
of the reactionary labor roosters
These birds are finding all kinds of
excuses to feather their nests at the
expense of the rank and file of the
trade unions. John H. Walker, the
lacrymose president of the Illinois
Federation of Labor is in Len Small's
camp with both eyes working and a
palm itching. Small is reported to
have at least a million dollars of the
surplus profit MIXED out of the pack
ers notes and his friends are collect
ing another million to enable Small
to keep the first million. The willy
governor may end up with enough
money to pave his way to the white
house with hundred dollar bills.
A MOTHER political realignment is
taking place in Cook County. The
leader in this horse-trading is States
Attorney Grove whose policy has been
one of unwavering hostility to the or
gained workers. Another group of
labor leaders have promised to deliver
their followers to Grove, endorsing
his anti-world court stand, this al
truistic position being the ostensible
base for their alignment to his group.
It's case of every labor faker for
himself and the devil take the work
ers.
WILLIAM Green, president of the
W A. F. of L. and his coterie of
grand dukes favor the entrance of
this country into the world court.
William is dead set against interna-
tional socialism and particularly
against the Communist International,
which is organized to initiate interna-
tional socialism, but he is heartily in
favor of the world court, the front
porch of the league of nations. And
the league of nations is to most in
ternationally conscious of the capital
lists, what the Communist International
is to the most class-conscious of the
workers. Capitalism knows no coun-
try. It's sole aim is profits.
british troops are being modified
II for a war on Turkey. The British
war office has done the preparatory
work very quietly but a newspaper
leak let the lion out of the cage. The
ase of operations is the so-called
Singdom of Irak. The British pur-
hased King Feisal and in addition
showed him around Buckingham Pal
ice. An American orator once stated
hat nobody ever left Buckingham
palace in the same condition he en-
cred it. Allowing for the fact of
physical mutation, which is not con-
fined to the interior of Buckingham
palace, recent history is replete with
incidents which bear out the Ameri-
can orators statement. We all re-
member what happened to Woodrow
Wilson. London started him on the
road to ruin and a post graduate
course in Paris finished the journey,
and finished Wilson.
A BRITISH officer by the name of
\ Daily, who is chief adviser to the
Irak army and Noori Pasha, the Irak
war minister, made the following re-
port: "Over $4,000 British and Iraki
troops are on the Mosul frontier. They
are in good condition; and are in full
readiness for action, in the event of
war with Turkey" Britain will
fight against the Turks until her last
Irakian, Egyptian or Hindoo is gone
Then her own unemployed, perhaps;
or her unemployed first Anyhow you
will hear a lot about the Terrible
Turk" and very little about crude oil,
provided the Standard Oil company
is treated right by the Royal Dutch
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