The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-28
EUentS
By t. J. o'FLAHERry.

THE conviction of William F. Dunno,
editor of The DAILY WORKER
and Bert Miller, business manager,
for the appearance Of poem in the
paper that offended the sensibilitles
of several groups of paid patriots is
part of the campaign now conducted
on an international scale against the
workingclass movement. At this par
ticular moment nothing would give
greater satisfaction to the open enc
mics of the workers and their hire
lings among the bureaucracy OF the
trade union movement in this country
to see The DAILY WORKER go I'M
der.
ACCORDING to information gained
n from those who attended the trial
it was farcical proceeding. Only
the most cursory attention was paid
to the charge or to the testimony. 1t
bore on it's face all the evidence OF
being pre-arranged. The convicted
comrades were locked up in the
Tombs to be held there for one week
without bail. Had they been bucket
shop operators, real estate swindlers
or defrauders of the masses differ
ent consideration would be shown
them.
NUNNE and Miller may be sent to
iail for long terms. 1t may be the
beginning Of new attack on the
Communist movement in the United
States. Already Matthew Vol, the
political bell-hop Of the National Civic
Federation urges a government in
vestigation of the Communist move
ment here, following the raid of the
British government on the Soviet
Trade Delegation. He did not sue
coed to his satisfaction in wrecking
the needle trades unions. He wants
more government assistance.
AT the present time, when the col
n umns of the capitalist press are
echoing lies spun by the officials OF
the Forgers' Government of England
against the Soviet Union it is vitality
necessary that we have daily aafaE'
that will keep the workers correctly
informed and show them how to meet
this lying offensive. The DAILY
WORKER is the most effective wea-
non in the possession of the militant
working classes. The sacrifice neces-
sary to maintain it will be heavy.
Money is sorely needed right now. It
is up TO the readers Of The DAILY
WORKER to say whether it shall sur
vive or die.
LLOYD GEORGE made a stronger
protest against the action of the
British government in breaking off
diplomatic and commercial relations
with the Soviet Union, than did John
r. Clynes, the spokesman for the
Labor Party. Clynes claimed that his
faction Of the Labor Party, the right
wing, were the greatest sufferers
from Communist propaganda. He
practically admitted that the govern
ment was right in principle but held
that it should go thru the formality
az q trial. He did not raise the class
issue for a moment, the issue of the
Workers Government versus the En-
ployers' Government. He weakly pro-
tested the loss of trade that would
follow the rupture, the plea of ped
nut peddler
lloyd GEORGE, the liberal leader
Il and one of the most INSCRIPTIONS
tricksters in British politics took adj
vantage of the occasion to push him
self back on the political map with
an aggressive and cynical speech that
literally left Austen Chamberlain, the
\ sanctimonious foreign secretary with
Sout a leg to stand on. All govern
rSents conduct espionage on each
other, he said. He tainted the gov
eminent on what improvement they
expected in the Russian situation.
Did they expect the return of the
Romanoffs? He mentioned the names
of the various leaders in the Soviet
government and suggested that all
were equally unsatisfactory. Not that
I Llody George was not prepared to
Make steps against the Union gov
Arnment but he would do it in way
that would cause the least possible
diklocation of trade and in way
that would preserve the dignity Of
the British government.
THERE is hardly word appearing
in the capitalist papers of how the
masses Of the workers have taken the
break with the Soviet Union. To the
class conscious workers the Soviet
Union is not merely government
that should be recognized because
appropriate diplomatic relations tends
to spur commerce between countries
and orders from the Soviet Union
would keep thousands of British
workers in employment. To them the
Soviet Union is the nucleus Of the