The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15

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ey raised by the end of this century
to build an ivory tower in honor of
Sans memory about the size of a
five cent cigar. 1t is interesting to
note that the A. F. of l.. collected
/ $1,60606 for the Woodrow Wilson
Memorial Building Fund in just two
years.
As a terpsichorean of international
"A repute King Alfonso of Spain is
accustomed to shaky movements but
the latest political upheaval in his
kingdom is no Charleston. Tho the
decapitating sword has often been
halted perilously near the royal jugu-
lar, there is reason to believe that the
present threat against the Alfonso
Rivera regime is one of the most
serious that ever faced this pair. AL
fonso is personally blamed for the
Moroccan fiasco, but revolutionists
who know their economic onions pre-
fer to believe that Alfonso and de
Rivera are the tools of certain finan-
ciers rather than that the Inflated
attempt to build up an empire in
North Africa was conceived by the
royal sheik in order to enhance his
prestige with the wives of ambassa-
doris to Spain and particularly to rem
der his attentions more persona
grata to the daughters of American
sausage manufacturers, subway con-
tractors, and bootleggers who might
spurn Mr.. Alfonso's: "Can have the
next dance?" unless they were as
sured that the request came from the
head of an empire and not from the
chief of tottering kingdom.
WILL ROGERS, one of Americas
f" fayorite clowns, is betting with
William Randolph Hearst that Cool
idge will run again. Arthur Bris-
bane who was originally challenged is
more tight-fisted than his superior
officer in the yellow-press syndicate
Arthur lodged the gamble. Hearst
bases his opinion that Coolidge will
not run again on the ground of Cal
wins patriotism, his personal honor
and the hostility of the American peo-
pie to third term Hearst's good
man, Brisbane, used much time and
newspaper space trying to convince
the populace that Coolidge is now
serving his first term in office. Evil
IDENTIFY he did not succeed in convert
ing Hearst. Rogers, the clown, fav-
ors the reelection of Coolidge on the
ground that the country and his par
ty need him.
ANOTHER clown, more famous than
u Rogers, is boosting Benito Musso-
Eni. The clown is none other than the
socialist, George Bernard Shaw.
Shaw, once thorn in the side of the
British ruling classes, is now one of
the chief human ornaments in the
empire. The shafts of his satire that
once pricked the anatomy of the Bri-
fish ruling class are now directed
against the revolutionary elements
and the man who praises Mussolini
for establishing the dictatorship of
the minority by policy of murder
and assassination denounces the men
who set up a government of the work
ers and peasants in Russia for the
benefit of the majority. Pre-war Shaw
is no more like postwar Shaw than
pre-war Scotch is like the postwar
brand.
EOHN H. WALKER, president of the
y Illinois Federation of Labor, is
disappointed man. John of the drip
ping eye lashes, appeared at the Los
Angeles convention with lance in rest
against the Communists, pacifists and
other evil-doers. 1t was time to put
these pesky critics of Wall Street in
their place and the lachrimal prodigy
of Springfield was to become a goth
century Jack The Giant Killer. Like
the NEUROLOGICAL buffoon who essayed
to make the sickly kings daughter /
laugh at the risk Of losing his head
in the event of failure, John took
chance on being laughed out of the
convention unless his efforts met with
.he approval of the monarchs of the
A F. of L. powwow. Here's what
happened.
John introduced a resolution assail-
= ing pacifists, charging them with
being in the pay Of Wall Street. 1t
happened that Matthew Woll had just
endorsed resolution denouncing
them for not being in the pay Of Wall
Street, and for carrying on in such a
manner that, if their activities were
not halted, Wall Street would not
have dime to give anybody. Here
was man who wanted to make it
a misdemeanor to accept money from
Wall Street. This would never do. So
John was figuratively taken over the
conventions knee and spanked on the
seat of his political intelligence. La
Dor takers may be devoid of political