The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-26
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waste into a garden. This is positive
ly the result of the well-known Bri-
fish genius for colonization. The
Arabs have no cause for complaint.
The conduct of the Turks is censur-
able but the British have done moth
ing but build Palestine into re-
markedly prosperous country"
Scratch British right wing socialist
and you will jab your fingernails in
to a simon pure imperialist. What is
the basis of Britain's interest in Pal
estine, an unfertile country without
any mineral wealth to speak of? Is
it because a mythical parsonage nam
ed Jesus came to life there after a
mysterious visit of ghost to pretty
Jewess, the wife of good but gullible
and ancient carpenter?
MOT very likely! Britain has spill
~ ed rivers of good Christian blood,
enough to irrigate the arid wastes Of
the Holy Land, but that blood was
never squandered to supplant the
crescent by the cross. Britains me-
dieval brigands fought for the trade
routes to the orient, under the slogan
of defending the sacred sepulchre
from the Saracens. Today she is
squatting in Palestine because it
would be a convenient road for a
campaign against British rule in In
! dia or Egypt for some power so dis
posed. And the Mosul oil fields are
not million miles away either So
the socialist colonel finds the Arabs
happy, tho Earl Balfour would hardly
testify that they express their con-
tentment in very lady-like manner,
as he learned almost at the cost of
his life when the French soldiers had
to save him from the happy and con-
tented Arabs" while on a visit to
Palestine year ago.
DEFORE the socialist colonel got
- his passports vised and every
thing ready for his American trip it
is very likely that he was invited to
the foreign office and received his or
ders from Austen Chamberlain, re-
garding his imperial duty while kid
ding the Jewish workers in America
about Palestine, which most of them
are not very interested in. 1t is prob
to pick up any loose information he
found lying around that would bene-
fit the pirate empire and also to miss
no chance to soak in as much pro-Bri-
fish propaganda as he could relative
to the scrap with Turkey over Mosul
oil. Now, this is merely guess of
ours, but we have good reason to be-
lieve that all British lecturers, out
side of radicals-and we have not
seen radical British lecturer here
for a long time outside of A. A. Pur-
cell-are unofficial agents of British
Imperialism. The same applies to
American professors sent abroad by
their goose-step universities, tho in a
lesser degree.
lOVER one million German workers
~ and approximately the same num-
Der of French are fertilizing the
bloody battle grounds of the late
war. Over the dead bodies of millions
of workers French and German pot
ash mining interests now join hands
to control the world market. They
are the best of friends. They have
not forgotten the workers tho, those
they did not murder. One of the adj
vantages of the deal, they say, will
be a guarantee against labor troubles.
If the German potash workers go on
strike the French workers will be
available to take their places. That
is what the exploiters think, but let
us hope they will be disappointed.
The workers are certainly reaping
the reward of their patriotism. They
are getting it in the neck.