The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-17
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the latter can afford to play the bully.
There is a quite a difference between
the trucking tone used in the state
departments correspondence with
Mexico over oil and the communities
lions sent to Downing Street, London,
over the rubber scrap.
THTIE latest anti.Bolshevik yarn to
4 make the front page is that Maxim
Cork quit the Bolsheviki and that he
aad his newly born baby baptized by
an orthodox priest. 1t is news to
Communists to learn that Cork was
ever a Bolshevik. Whether he recent
ly became the parent of another child
and had it baptized by priest is
another matter. Novelists do queer
things and Cork is about as queer
as they make them. Cork will be
honored for his literary brilliancy,
even tho he massacred harem OF
left an illegitimate child in every
monastery in Europe, provided there
is any room l6lJ.
DEACE in the anthracite region
i does not seem to be imminent.
The only peace that should satisfy the
miners is peace with victory. The
strike leadership of Lewis has been
tried and found wanting. That gentle
mans polite method of waging war
ices not bring home the bacon to the
miners. 1t seems the rank and file
ire beginning to assert themselves.
1t is about time they did. Coal oper
etors like all capitalists are the same
sreedy robbers all over the world.
rhe British coal magnates have sent
their demands to the miners union,
Ind among the demands are, wage
cut and longer hours.
THE kaiser family is still causing
the German socialist leaders great
concern. Recently Helferding had
dill ready which would drop $685.
100000 into Wilhelm's lap. The Com
nunists raised the devil about it and
he socialists waited hoping the storm
might blow over. Now the kaiser's
cousin is making things hum for the
Prussian government, Prince Fred
srick Leopold,-it seems titles still go
republican Germany-took to his
reels to Italy when the 1918 revolu-
lion broke out. He only returned
nome when he was broke. Since then
he has brot several suits against the
russian government and acquired
our large estates estimated at 200,-
100000 gold marks. This is a tidy
sum for dethroned prince.
ILTHILE the workers Of the United
w States and other countries were
contributing to the relief Of the fam
lshed victims of the German famine,
Leopold was living in unparalleled
luxury. He kept a pack OF eighty
hounds, which were fed on the chois-
est meats, turkey, porterhouse steak,
pheasant, duck. His favorite lapdog
ate only sweetbreads cooked in
cream. The dispatch does not say
whether this lap-dog was social de-
mocratic leader or not. The prince
consumes several bottles of cham
payne every night and sometimes
forces his servants to guzzle liquor
for the royal profligate's amusement.
THE princess also gets kick out
L of her husbands pleasantries. In
order to entertain his lady, Leopold
on one occasion compelled one Of his
flunkeys to drink cocktail compos-
ed of the following ingredients: Wor-
cestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port
and brandy When the lackey had
this combination in his stomach, he
was forced to walk on his hands ami
knees, bark like a dog, drink from
saucer on the floor, while the royal
pair kicked him and in general gave
him the kind of treatment given to
unlucky members OF the canine
species.
DERHAPS many CNour readers may
believe this story IS exaggerated.
1t is neither exaggerated nor novel.
This is the traditional way in which
the aristocracy were accustomed to
amuse themselves before their claws
were clipped. While millions of Ger
man workers, their wives and chill
iren are in want, the Hohenzollerns
are living in luxury. And this in
country where the social-democrats
held power for several years. The
socialist party is the dominant poll
tical party in Prussia, yet 1t is here
that the Hohenzollerns find the choic.
est pickings. The nephews and cou-
sins of the last of the Romanoffs are
not feeding their. dogs on roast duck.
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