The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-07
CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'FIaherty.
CONTINUED from page u

and to the profit and glory of tine
other.
MFRS. Frances Stevens Hall and her
4FA brothers, Henry and Willie Stew
ems were acquitted by Jury of their
peers Of the double murder of the
Rev. Hall and his favorite choir girl,
Mrs. Eleanor Mills. The clergyman
was the husband of Mrs. Hall after
fashion, while he was alive. While
we do not claim to be prophets, we
crave the forgiveness of our readers
If we call attention to a prediction
made in this column last week after
the Improvement in the
portraits of Mrs. Hall, distributed by
the capitalist press
WHEN it looked as if the jury
w might hand the Stevens boys and
Mrs. Hall a moose for a Christmas
gift, Mrs. Halls picture looked like
rusty revolver but suddenly there
was change for the better and the
lady looked quite angelic, the kind of
a person that no honest jury would
suspect of infiicting summary justice
on pair of lovers under a erabap-
pie tree. This column stated that un-
der those conditions an acquittal was
on the order of the day. 1t was.
ONCE his return from the empire
~ conference William Cosgrove,
president of the executive council OF
the Irish Free State has used up con-
siderable energy urging the Irish pee
Pile to forget the past unpleasantness
with the British government. The
result of his observations has been
to convince the Irish people that
there was dirty work done in Buck
ingham Palace where Cosgrave tasted
the royal champagne. The Irish are
naturally suspicious and Cosgrave
cannot convince them by logic that
his words do not spring from an un-
purchased soul. Some people don't
object to big things but little things
are liable to irritate them. When Cos
grave and his group sold Ireland to
che empire thru the treaty of 1921,
the majority of the Irish people did
not feel terribly offended but dining
with royalty is quite different mat
ter.
THE Irish Labor Party is preparing
a it's forces for a general election in
the near future. It is to be regret
ted that the Labor Party is too much
under the influence Of the league of
nations type Of labor politician to ap.
preciate the Importance of using the
national antipathy to England as a
weapon in the struggle OF the sub
ject classes against imperialism. I'm
der the leadership of Thomas John
ston, who is featured in the Voice Of
Labor, (oficial organ Of the Irish
Transport and General Workers
Union) the Labor Party representa-.
tives in the Free state parliament
have devoted their time to present.
Ing a dignified opposition to the gov.
eminent instead of making a fight
not merely on the theory that the
government Is Indecent" but from
the point Of view that the govern,
ment is acting as the executive com
mittee OF the ruling class and that 1t
Is the duty Of a party Of labor to
take advantage OF every opportunity
10 combat capitalism, and its political
apparatus.
THE official labor movement of Ire
4 land has little in common with the
revolutionary policy Of james Con.
molly, tho Connolly was no dogmatlst.
As Comrade SCHUYLER points out in a
recent issue Of the Communist Inter
national. official organ OF the Comm
tern, Connolly was one Of the first 10
grasp the importance Of revolutionary
nationaHsm in the international
struggle against Imperialism. Con.
nolly's alleged followers In Ireland.
those who profess a regard for Con
molly the person, do not seem to have
any inclination to follow Connolly,
the rovolutionist