The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-15
EUentS
By T. J. o'FLAaERry.

This is the land of opportunity! An
, u ex-peddler, who came to this coun-
try from Germany in 1888, has just
sold $10,000,000 business. This is
what he deserves for having started
at the bottom and worked his way
ny. Sacco and Vanzetti, also imml-
grants, are sitting in Charlestown
death cell. They did not start at the
bottom to work their own Individual
ways to the top, but they started
with the bottom dog and tried to
raise their standard of living at the
expense of the top dog. One Of the
two was fish-peddler, but his busi-
ness never got to be worth S10,000,
900.
ET depends on what opportunity one
grasps whether he goes to Jail or
moves into a mansion. Harry Sim
clair and Edward L. Doheny, were
not born with gold spoons between
their gums. They worked their way
up and incidentally flirted with a
Jail cell. But they are not in Jail
bilO bIlSy IlSAL OWtl SONCIAA-
ment out of millions of dollars. They
are enjoying the breezes on cool ver-
andas on those sweltering days and
perhaps listening to that pleasant
tinkle in glass that famous poet
considered the most melodious of
sounds to the human ear.
WILLIAM GREEN, president of the
" A. F. of L. thinks this is land
of opportunity. He told it to the
longshoremen who are assembled in
convention here in New York to listen
to their officers and sundry visitors
tell them what great fellows they
are, as long as they don't make any
trouble for said officers and visitors
and for the employers. Green thinks
Labor Party is alright in Europe,
but we do not need it here. In the
United States the best policy is the
hoary one of reward your friends
and punish your enemies" Come to
think of it, it is surprising that Green
admits the American workers have
any enemies in America Perhaps he
is referring to the Communists and
progressives and not to the capi-
talists.
FIFTY SEVEN per cent of dis
charged soldiers return to the
army according to statistics given
out by the Army information Service.
This phenomenon is not difficult of
explanation. By the time the dis
charged soldier has drowned his re-
gret for a mispent life in as much
needed beer as his savings can pur-
chase he hasn't enough left to buy
job in an employment agency, or if
he has, he is rendered useless for any
kind of remunerative activity except
going thru a jerking performance in
obedience TO the staccato bark of
superior officer.
long live the Geneva naval parley!
It has contributed more to the
gaiety of nations than Calvin Cool
idge among the worms, cowboys and
boy preachers of the Black Hills of
South Dakota. The great powers
have not been able to decide how
much their cruisers should weigh on
the keel or how many should be a
reasonable allowance for each peace
loving nation. But Winston Church
i'll, the British fascist chancellor, is
optimistic. He believes that "arma-
ments can be kept within reasonable
limits if the nations make only mod
crate use of their freedom Here is
chance for the equine population of
England to have good laugh unless
the horses in that dour land are as
lacking in sense of humor as the
aristocracy.
CHURCHILL indulged in one of his
y weekly TRADES against the Soviet
Union few days ago. Evidently
trying to take the sting out of the
verbal war in Geneva between the
British and American delegates
Churchill rubbed little ointment in
the Yankee wounds into which the
British sea dogs had been pushing
salt since the fake conference started.
The republic of the United States we
are Informed by the British chancel-
lor is rich and powerful compared to
the republic of the U.S.SR. This
kind of claptrap comes with poor
grace from the representative of an
empire that is going rapidly on the
bum. The once-proud and solvent
John Bull, is now degenerating into
an international dead beat and un-
der the necessity of passing the hat
"to raise the wind" as they say in
"John Bulls other island"
INCIDENTALLY Churchill's words
: are children of the wish. The U.
S. S. R. is progressing economically
with giant strides. Even the hostile
associated press representative in
: Moscow tells us that the government
revenue this year is approximately
one billion rubles more than last year.