The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-01
CURRENT EVENTS


informed that candidates, Dever,
Thompson and Robertson are "gross-
ly ignorant of the dominant parasitic
purpose of the corrupt and corrupt
ing practices and of the degrading re-
suits of the capitalist system of in
dustry." 1t appears that those three
innocents have reached the declining
years Of their lives without an under
standing Of the system from which
they receive the graft that enables
them to live in luxury at the expense
of the working class. Shame on the
negligent socialists that have allowed
three well-meaning but simple-mind-
ed millionaires to reach this stage of
life without being at least offered So
cialist salvation thru the medium Of
a Sunday School.
THE Hearst correspondent in
4 Shanghai has outdone his brothers
of the Associated Press in lying
about the Nationalist revolution. This
liar cables that the Nationalists at
tempted an advance on the French
concession under cover of little child
rem, which prevented the gallant and
chivalrous imperialists from firing at
them. They fire over them however.
The truth Of the matter is that the
Nationalist soldiers are freely per-
mitted to enter the French concession
much to the chagrin of the British
and American war lords who are try
ing hard to get the French to CO.
operate with them against the Chi
nese Nationalist government.
w HILE the French guards were
w snoring peacefully, playful Ma
tionalist soldiers CREASED the hinges
on the gates leading to the French
concession, then unhinged the gates
and carried them away. IKE French
soldiers continued to snore and the
patriotic American males and virtu-
GUS American females spent a night
during which their most priceless pos
sessions, wealth and virtue, were in
constant danger. Still nothing of an
untoward nature happened, which
shows how little danger confronts
well-behaved foreigners in China.
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c IR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
- threw a nifty fit of moral indig-
nation in the house of commons over
the alleged outrage committed by Ma
tionalist troops in Marking. Of
course, the outrage was committed
by the British and American troops.
The Nationalist outrage" was dis
covered to cover up the mass murder
pe1petrated by the irnperialists. If
the labor members in the house Of
commons made any protest against
Chamberlain's announced intention to
pursue "firm policy" in China the
newspapers failed to mention it. The
right wing leaders of the British la
Dor party are imperialist to the core
and are as anxious to hold the rich
Yangtze Valley as Austen Chamber
lain and Winston Churchill
( MIR. HADEN GUEST, who quit
1Vl the British labor party because of
its official opposition to Intervention
in China, was given a sound trimming
by the working class when he ran for
his old seat as an independent conyti-
nationalist. He had the support of
the tories. Guest wanted TO prove
that the people were in favor of "de-
Tending their nationalist in China"
The people seemed to know that what
the government is defending in China
is the investments Of the imperialists
and not the lives Of British subjects.
SO they gave Guest the 'bird"
w ITH Senator Borah supporting
Wv Calvin Coolidge for reelection and
defending the intellectual pigmy's po-
Icy in China and Latin America, the
nation is bound to give the rough
and ready windbag from Idaho slap
on the senatorial wrist. Willard is
easily satisfied but there is limit
to his fortitude. He has seen the
league Of nations acting suspiciously
like war department. He has heard
Lord Robert Cecil, pacifist angel
speak as belligerently as a barroom
bum. He has seen statesman after
statesman talk peace and act war
But who would ever expect Senator
] Borah 10 defend the bombardment OF
Marking. And this is what Boraf
does when he puts his okay on United
States policy in China. Really, this
is too much for Oswald for a week OF
. so.