The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-29
Red Rays

London, Paris and Warsaw, which
seek to belittle the Importance of the
Soviet notes to Warsaw and Kovno
on the danger to the peace of Europe
that would result from war between
the two countries. 1t is quite evident
from the space given to the incident
that the interference of Moscow on
the side of peace in the long drawn
out dispute between Lithuania and
Poland, is regarded very seriously
by the imperialist powers and
| is the overshadowing political question
on the continent of Europe today.
POLAND backed by France is wait
ing for favorable opportunity to
grab off Lithuania, having already
taken Wilma with the sanction of the
League of Nations. The Soviet Union
warned Poland that such a step could
not be ignored by it and behind the
polite tone of the note, one could feel
the potential sock of the Red Army.
THE imperialist bandits who will
meet at Geneva in few days to
stage fake disarmament conference
will not have things as much their
own way as they would have if there
were no Soviet delegates present. The
allies, thru the peace of Versailles,
stripped Germany to the skin as a
military power, which makes it pos
sible for the Soviet Union and Ger
q t.pIU of
Geneva, tho their ultimate aims are
as far apart as the poles.
IT will be interesting to hear the in
dignant cries Of the British and
French delegates when Litvinoff
throws his peace-bomb. In an effort
to impair the effect of the Soviet pro-
posals on the masses who fear War,
because they are the chief sufferers
from its ravages, the capitalist press
agents are trying to create the i'm
preston that the Soviet proposals are
not sincere, and only calculated to
cause trouble in the ranks of the i'm
perialist powers. The Soviet leaders
know quite well that no sIIiccre pro-
posal for peace can come out of this
lair of imperialist brigands, but the
rejection of the Soviet proposals will
help to expose the hypocrisy of the
imperialists.
IN addition to the problem of what
to do with it's gangsters, Chicago is
now called on to solve another deli
cate one, namely, the most appro-
pirate memorial to the memory of the
O'Leary COW that kicked over the
lantern which started the Chicago
fire that destroyed the city in 1871.
Those with a literary turn of mind
favor tablet, but the residents of
the stockyards district favor the
statue of a COW. We are for the
tablet. If the mayors vandals carry
out their intention of burning the
public library, it will be something
on the side of culture to have the his
tory of the OLeary COW on tablet
of stone.
JAMES w. GERARD, one of Wall
Streets most servile ambassa-
dorial stool-pigeons in Europe before
Wilson stage-managed the country
into the war on the side of the allies,
has expressed his indignation because
Turkish ambassador is on his way
to this country Gerard is bewailing
the alleged killing of 10000 christian
Armenians by the Turks. The truth
Of the matter is, that England used
Armenia against the Turks in the
same way she made use of poor little
Belgium" against the Germans. She
also wanted Armenian oil and no
doubt the flunkey Gerard has some
interest of more material nature
than the alleged massacre of Chris
tians, in the Armenian question
EDO FIMMEN, of Holland, formerly
IL one of the two secretaries of the
international Federation of Trade
Unions, created sensation at the
War Danger Conference held in Lon
don recently, when he declared that
the workers should declare a general
strike against war This statemer+
aroused the pacifists to the point 80
fury. Fimmen was advocating Viz
lence! But the labor leader was e,,,jta
right when he declared that it would
be better that 100000 workers lost
their lives in civil war, than that
100000 should die in a bourgeois
war.
AMONG those who have reason to
"A be thankful for having lived ovor
Thanksgiving Day is Colonel r.
Forbes, former director of the United
States Veterans Bureau and one OF
Warren Gamaliel Harding's favorite
pets. The colonel recently released
from the Leavenworth penitentiary
where he has been serving
.wo-year sentence imposed on him
when convicted of defrauding the
soldiers disabled as result of the
war In addition IN tho t1.,o ,to,c go