The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-21
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BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.


THE late Mr.. Robert Brindell, bona
flde labor leader, left sizeable
fortune to his survivors, so much that
the United States has filed an income
tax claim of $200,919 against his es-
tate. 1t looks as if this business of
being bona fide labor leader is al
most as fruitful as being movie idol.
We had labor leader here once who
expressed his regret that he did not
devote his financial genius to a more
lucrative pursuit. He only succeeded
in putting a paltry half million away.
Had l gone into the real estate
game" he groaned, Il would have at
least 100000 sailed by now" Still
we must admit that most of our labor
takers manage to feel contented on
half a million.
MODS are dragging American wom-
AVA en- thru the streets of Foo Chow
and it should not be surprising If our
secretary of state opened up another
bag of red plots" in order to con
vince the easily-convinced senator's
that there is a conspiracy between
the Workers Communist Party and
the Cantonese to assassinate Ameri-
can missionaries. Kellogg is too busy
with Latin-America just now to go to
bat for civilization" in China. 1t is
also quite possible that Uncle Sam
is not particularly anxious to pull
John Bulls chestnuts out of the fire.
TINE Chicago Daily News had car
Il toon last Tuesday on the Chinese
question. A pig-tailed Chinaman was
represented biting hand labelled
Christianity" A bowl Of rice sup
posed to represent "China's Prog
ress Thru Education" did not seem to
appeal to the Chinaman's appetite as
much as did the missionary's hand.
Biting the hand that feeds him." was
the caption. AS matter of fact, the
poor, doubly-exploited Chinese masses
have been feeding the missionaries in
the past and all the other capitalist
agents that have been employed by
the foreign imperialists to dig the
brains out of the people so that the
task Of exploiting them would be sim
pier.
! GO we are going to have general
~ atriLa,p a., Nro,,y Vorlv Doo1t.. .4,
surprise to US, and it also convinces
us that we should never again indulge
in rash predictions. How often have
we stated that the right wing leaders
of the A. F. of l.. are opposed to a
general strike on principle? Such is
not the case. The socialist leaders
OF the needle trades, aided ny the bu-
reaucrats Of the Central Trades -Coun-
ell have called on the workers in New
York City to quit work for one hour
today as protest against the Com
munists. We are not told what hour
was selected but it would not surprise
us to learn that it is between twelve
and one o'clock.
THIS strike is sanctioned by the
L press, by the employers and by the
police. 1t never occurred to the reac-
tionaries to call strike against the
threatened execution of Sacco and
Vanzetti or the Imprisonment of Tom
Mooney. They are opposed to strikes
that would benefit the workers or
strikes with some laudable political
aim as those mentioned. The only OBJ
ject the labor takers have in the trade
union movement is business. To save
their jobs they are determined to go
TO any extreme to keep the unions out
of the hands of the radicals. They will
not succeed.
NTHEN a southern senator made
w acid comment in the senate on
the well-known efforts of the catholic
church to involve the United States
in war with Mexico, senators who
depend on the catholic vote for cleo
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