The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-23

CurY9ntEUentS
By t. J. o'FLAHERrY.

By T. J. O'FLAHERTY.
IN connection with the visit Of the
l French president and foreign sec
rotary to London it is not without
significance that the British dele
gates at the Geneva economic confer
ence had united front with the
French delegates against the Soviet
representatives. Those things do not
happen by accident. 1t means def
mite policy, for the moment anyhow.
And the developing conflict between
the commercial interests of Great
Britain and the United States was
demonstrated by the support given
to the Russian delegates on import
ant points by the Americans.
THIS need not be taken by anybody
1 as evidence that united front of
all the important imperialist powers
against the Soviet Union is impos-
sible. This danger always exists.
Fortunately the pirates quarrel with
each other and rob each other and
this tendency is almost as much Of a
life saver for the young Workers
Republic as the might of her Red
Army
THE twenty-five year old American
known as "The Flying Fool" es-
tablished new record in the air.
The hop from New York to Paris is
great achievement. Thus human in
genuity and individual daring is
gradually conquering the elements.
Had this young man attempted
feat like this a few hundred years
ago and had he actually managed to
fly he would be burned at the stake
by the ancestors of the type that now
ban radical books and censor good
plays.
A SO-CALLED Japanese observer
"a rises to say that native tradition
has ended "red" power in China. This
talk of tradition as decisive factor
in social conflicts is lot of bunk.
The hard facts of life make short
work of traditions that originally de-
veloped out of different set of facts.
What is decisive in China is not ira
dition but the economic pressure that
is compelling over 400,000,000 work.
ers and peasants to emancipate them
selves from foreign Imperialism and
native capitalism.
THE British government did not find
any Sensational documents" as a
result of the raid on ARGOS but much
literature was seized The govern
ment of forgers and burglars would
be a great disappointment to US were
it not able to findTsome justification
for the unprecedented attack on the
rights of the Russian Trade Delega-
ton. Scotland Yard could take the
files of the official organ of the
Communist Party of Great Britain
and make the hair of the British
bourgeoisie stand on end with hor-
rifle quotations.
ALEXANDER Kerensky continues
~ to tell his yarn about the early
days of the Russian revolution, when
he with other agents of the allied
powers tried to keep the Russian
workers and peasants loyal to the AL
lied cause. Kerensky failed, thanks
to the Bolshevil1i, and the masses of
the Soviet Union are now certain
that they will never again be called
on to jeopardize their lives in war
waged in the interest Of some capt.
tsalist power.
I Avs against the free expression of
u opinion are further proof of class
rule. In a classics society there
would be no need for such laws be-
cause there would be no need for
government TO suppress the people.
All governments are organs of sup
preston. Here, somebody will rise
to say that in this respect the gov
eminent of the Soviet Union is no
better than capitalist government,
it also suppresses its foes. Quite
right but one cannot judge the moral
ity Of an act by the method but by
the purpose.
THERE is no free speech in the
4 Soviet Union for the class enc
mics Of the workers. They are toler-
ated during the transition period from
capitalism to socialism. But while
in the United States, England, France
and in all capitalist countries it is the
robber class that enjoys the sweets
Of power, in Russia it is the working
and peasant classes that enjoy it.
And while the capitalist system of
society aims to perpetuatea class rule
with it's inevitable repression Of
opinion, the Soviet system aims to
abolish the need for the use of force. !