The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-12
Red Rays

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THE number of deputies in the Ital- !
ian parliament will be reduced from
$50 to 400. Only those who belong to
the fascist organizations will be per-
mitted to vote and the whole of Italy
will be united in one electoral college.
This means that even the formal pro-
vision for an opposition party is now
dispensed with and that the few
crumbs of parliamentary democracy
that Mussolini hitherto left for the
anti-fascist, spetty- bourgeoisie, to chew
on, are now swept into the discard.
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III. G. WELLS, the novelist has en-
IL dorsed a liberal for a seat in the
house of commons. Wells claims to
be socialist-laborite but declares
that since the labor candidate stands
no chance of election that vote for
labor would be a vote for the tory
government. Wells is an intelligent
person, and has made fortune plac-
ing words one after the other. But
politically he is as bankrupt as a
scissor-bill The liberal party of Great
Britain is as loyal servant of Brit
ish imperialism as the tory party, tho
not as efficient. That is the only diff
ference.
I ORD WESTER WEMYSS, COM
~ mander Of the British fleet in the d
Dardanelles during the late war de- I
llivered speech in the house of lords
in which he said that the British gov
eminent should notify the world of
its intention to denounce the Declar-
alton of Paris treaty of 1856, and as
sert her intention in future wars to
exercise her right of search Of neu-
trail vessels and to confiscate mer-
chandise destined for enemy countries.
I ORD BALFOUR butted sin to say
that the question was not proper
one for discussion and might lead to
discord rather than to peace. Never
theless, Wemyss was voicing the opin-
ion of big chunk of the tory party
and the message was intended for the
United States. While England theo-
| retically observed the Paris conven-
, ton against the search and seizure of
, neutral vessels in the late war, she
practically ignored it. The lords
: speech is another straw that shows
the political winds are blowing in the
direction of war.
THE Interboro Rapid Transit Com
/ pany threatens to have officials Of
the American Federation of Labor ar
7 rested for insisting on organizing the
) traction employees into union. Those
! officials stress their peaceful inclina-
! tons and vow that they are not in
: favor of strikes at all. Indeed indus
J trial peace is their motto and they are
: never happier than when fighting the
t radicals in conjunction with the capt.
7 talists and the government. The /. r.
) T. however, fears the men organized
into a union, regardless of how con-
sentative its leadership may be at this
time.
WITH the dissatisfaction now pre-
" vailing among the slaves of the
l. r. T. it should not be difficult
, task for the trade union movement of
, this city to organize them despite the
worst the traction barons can do.
There are supposed to be over 100000
workers enlisted under the banner of
the Central Trades and Labor Coun-
: Gil. If this army should be modified
to carry on an organizing campaign
among the traction employees the job
would be accomplished in short order.
Green, Mahon and other conservative |
labor leaders. will never beat the |. r.
T. thru the courts. This is where the
:. bosses are invulnerable.
! KING BENJAMIN of the House of
IA David is now 140 pound wreck of
:. his former self and he has been ousted
, from the House of David by court
! order. Benjamin amassed consider
able wealth thru the exercise of The
! magnetism he possessed. He repre-
sented himself as the Seventh Messen-
ger of the lord and thousands of peo-
pie believed him and turned over their
worldly goods to him. He had bag
!, full of tricks by which he satisfied
!. his desires and now when the evening
: of life has spread it's mantle around
him, Benjamin is hog-tied by the
! courts. Benjamin should worry. He
had his day.
THE General Motors company has
distributed 65,250,000 to its stock
holders. This action is looked on as a
,, challenge to Henry Ford, who is about
to launch his new model flivver The !
House of Morgan is behind Generalt
Motors. The employees of the Ge..-- :
Motors company are unorganized sid
: it is to them and not to the directors
that the lucky stockholders should give
a vote of thanks.