The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-14
EUentS
By T. J. O'FLAnERTY.

CAPITALIST editorial writers are
- unrestrained in their indignation
over the execution of the Irish Free
State minister of justice and foreign
affairs. How different was their at
titude when the Soviet minister to
Poland was assassinated by a young
monarchist. That youthful murderer
was subtly justified in the commits
sion of the crime. How class-consci-
Gus those capitalist hacks are. O'Hig-
gins was an imperialist agent. Vol
koff was a representative of the
Workers and Peasants Government.
That explains the double standard of
Judgment.
IN the lengthy verbal tilt between
John F. Hylan, former mayor of
the metropolis and Samuel Inter
myer, liberal with a rowing COM
mission to fight for sundry worthy
causes that are usually not frowned
on by some substantial financial
group, Hylan came off with flying
colors. John refused to be intimi-
dated and he whaled the interests
gallantly Hylan is a five-cent-fare
man and in this big city five-cent
platform is no flimsy support. 1t is
reported that Hylan did not get thin
on his struggle in behalf of the corn
trodden patrons of the I.R.T. and B.
MT. Nevertheless we like to see
him in action and contributing to the
gaiety of the masses.
i
NYLAN represented certain petty
IA bourgeois interests who were in
conflict with Wall Street. The latter
commissioned Al Smith to cut John
F. off from his political scalp and
Al succeeded after practicing with
the knife for few years. In return
for Al's services Wall Street, or a
substantial section thereof, agreed
that it would not consider it a Gala
nifty should Al manage to reach the
white house. Big Biz is on top just
now but Smith and Tammany are
anxious to collar the five-cent vote
that John lived on for many years.
Hence the farce in which Samuel
Untermyer is playing leading role.
We advise the workers to get all the
laughs they can out of the comedy.
That's about all they will ever get
out of it.
EVERYBODY does not love a cow
ID boy, it seems. While our nice
little president was making the
horses giggle on the plains of South
Dakota, dressed out in his ancient
regalia, angry farmers were meeting
in conference in Minneapolis and
throwing their lariats at the white |
house incumbent. Those farmers are
hard to please. Only few short
weeks ago, Coolidge informed them
that there was not fly in the ma
tional ointment, and that prosperity |
was a drug on the market. Now, |
here are those farmers acting as if
he never told them they had nothing
to worry about.
THE Geneva naval conference is still
marking time without any indica-
tions that an agreement between the
rival powers will be reached. Even
if for the sake of appearances, for
mula of some kind may be agreed !!
on--tho that is not probable-it will
mean nothing. The struggle for
naval supremacy, the offshoot of
world commercial rivalry will go on
with greater intensity.
CIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN de-
- clared in the house of commons
that war with the United States was
outlawed in every British heart. He
did not seem to be so sure that this |
applied to the great heart of Ame-
RIGA. Strange to say there are peo-
pie that believe this bunk. The |
masses of Great Britain and the Uni /
ted States have not a thing to say
about the war plans of their respective |
inperialists. Theirs is but to fight !
and die when their masters give the |
word. Of course it will not be al I
ways thus. The time will come when
the workers of all countries now un-
der the flag of capitalism will refuse
to kill each other for the profit of
others, but will get rid of capitalism,
and automatically of capitalists. I'm
til then wars are certainties and |
peace an illusion.
THOSE are critical and trying days
for Sacco and Vanzetti. The COM
mittee appointed by the governor Of |
Massachusetts is busy and perhaps
we may know inside of another week
whether those long suffering labor
organizers will be seated in the elect
ric chair, committed to living death |
in the penitentiary or freed. Now,
more than ever the voices of the
American workers should be raised
in unison in behalf of Sacco and Van
zetti. 1t is almost impossible Of be-
lief that at this cru-ial hour when
the thots of all workers should be on
their comrades threatened with death
at the hands of the capitalists of
Massachusetts that the socialists