The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-27
UentS
By t. ]. o'FLAHERTy,

BECAUSE the Royal Society for the
prevention Of Cruelty to Animals
is sponsoring an anti-vivisection bill,
the prince of Wales, president of the
society has threatened to resign. This
threat brought the executive COM
mittee of the society to its senses and
decided to leave the bill to its fate.
A rebellious member, Lady Cory, ex-
pressed her disgust with the action
of the committee and declared: "My
loyalty is to the dogs. | don't care
if all the crowned heads of Europe
are against u.s." Things are coming
to pretty pass in the proud old en-
pire when LADY" puts a dog ahead
of king and lives.
MAJOR General Leonard Wood, bet
IVA ter know by the sobriquet of
Ivory Soap" is sojourning in the
Black Hills of South Dakota with
president Coolidge. Wood is h e
wielder of the big stick in the Philip
pine Islands. The Filipinos, declared
the general, are almost unanimously
for freedom, but they are not ready
for it and furthermore the islands
are the most important outposts Of
western civilization in the Orient.
Anyhow the general insisted if the
United States withdrew from the
Philippines, the hemp, sugar and to-
bacco industries would go to the dogs.
THIS is not surprising from general
Wood. But Burton X. Wheeler,
who recently visited the islands ex-
presses the opinion that the Filipinos
are not yet qualified to rule them
selves. There is not a single in
stance in history where ruling class
admitted that it's subjects were able
to take care of themselves if left to
their own devices. This is the Brit
ish excuse for holding Ireland, Egypt,
India and other people in subsection.
The methods employed by two fleas in
making a living are not more alike
than the methods used by two inn
perialisms in crushing and exploiting
their slaves.
THE British government is sending
its army of "pacifists" and fake
peace-lovers to Geneva to support the
die-hards in their struggle against the
representatives of the American en-
pire over the question of naval
power. Lord Cecil, one of the Cecil
boys and prime favorite in Ameri-
can pacifist circles came to reinforce
the contention of the British admirals
that shot from a six inch gun on
board merchant vessel was as harm
less as mosquito bite or the tickling
of hive. The conference makes it
quite plain that the ravalry between
the United States and England is
keen and deep-rooted and liable to
burst out into a gigantic war for
world supremacy.
THE threat of U. S.-Japanese peace
4 pact is not contributing to the
equanimity of the British delegates
at Geneva. Five years ago the
British were obliged to scrap the
Anglo-Japanese alliance under pres
sure from the United States in return
for some other concessions. Now, the
British naval superiority and Brit
aims insistence on maintaining this
naval superiority seems to be driving
the United States into an alliance
with Japan. Perhaps it is only a
threat and again perhaps it is not.
Nothing is ever certain in diplomacy,
but Anglo-American commercial COM
petition is fact and an alliance with
Japan may be one of the steps con-
sidered necessary by the United
States to meet it. The old gag about
blood being thicker than water means
as little between imperialist powers
as honor among thieves.
THE Mitten Management, Inc, of
4 Philadelphia seems to have
dropped the project of taking over
The banking and other business en-
terprises of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers. Mitten is a notori-
Gus open-shopper. This however is
not the reason for the collapse of the
negotiations with the brotherhood.
Mitten attributes the breakdown to
,"slow assets" in brotherhood enter
'prises. This means impending dis
aster and Mitten is clearing his
skirts. Business trade unionism has
fallen on evil days. The sooner trade
unionists come to realize that they
cannot emancipate themselves from
the evils Of wage slavery by COM
peting with the capitalists in the
profit-making business, the sooner
they will be on the road to success.
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