The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-02
Current EUentS
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

TWO royal palaces that housed the
pretender to the throne of France
and ex-king Manuel of Portugal have
seen their best days. Both We're To-
Gated in London. One Of the royal
estates now plays the role of gravel
pit and the other harbors superan-
i nuated cable and telegraph officials.
The pretender died and the Portu-
guese parasite is living in the sunny
south of France. The day of kings
BY divine right is past; the day of
kings by right of money is here, but
not for long. we hope.
}CAVAGE sentences are being i'm
y posed on the striking furriers, ar
rested on the picket line. Because
the pickets refused to accept the dis
trict attorneys conception of what
constitutes legal picketing they are
being given heavy Jail sentences, with
additional terms of Imprisonment in
flicted on them, for contempt of
court, on account of showing dis
pleasure at the severity of the SEN
tences. So militant workers are sent
to the workhouse for exercising their
legal rights. But what is little law
or two between friends?
IF Harry Sinclair, oil millionaire,
has been incarcerated for contempt
Of court over the Teapot Dome liti-
cation, we are in ignorance OF the
fact. Sinclair entered into a con-
spiracy with A. B. Fall and other
government officials to rob the ma
ton of some of it's oil lands. To date
all the gentlemen involved are at
liberty, and enjoying more than their
,ro rata share of the national wealth.
What is sauce for the capitalist gan
der is something else again for the
proletarian goose.
ACCORDING to a Washington dis
"A patch, Joe Bearak, a Boston lawyer
and member of the Socialist Party,
has been congratulated by Secretary
of Labor Davis for his work in help
ing to smash the needle trades unions
by ousting the progressives and Com
| punists. DAVIS, in recognition of
, Bearak'a worth as strikebreaker,
gave the shyster copy of the history
Of his life. Davis rose or sunk from
puddler to politician and is the mil
lionaire owner of the Loyal Order of
Moose. Davis's contract with the or
L. Io1Ia,, ~,
for every sucker that joins the Moose.
A compliment from that kind of
fellow should be appreciated by Joe.
EVEN if Morris Sigman, president
- of the l. L. G. U. should succeed
in completely destroying the union
he will not be compelled to waste
lot of shoe leather looking for a job.
He has farm and amusement park
in Iowa and his training as an anti
Communist barker should serve him
in good stead when he stands outside
the entrance to his main tent and
urges the potential customers to
walk right in and see the curiosities.
WHILE one socialist is being COM
plimented for his smashing
activities and another right winger
is dividing his mental energies be-
tween the union of which he is a
president and his amusement park,
one hundred big industrial leaders are
meeting in San Francisco to fight
trade unionism. They are going to
give every worker "chance to be
happy" by freeing them from the
protection of their unions. This is
the kind of freedom that will extract
more beans from the workers pot.
While the reactionary labor bureau
Gratis and the socialists are using up
their energies fighting the Commun-
lists the bosses are going ahead with
their union-smashing plans.
GENERAL FENG YU-HSIANG, the
y so-called christian General has
turned his back on the Chinese rev.
olution and joined up with Chang
Kai-shek and the foreign imperial
lists. This renegade will now turn
his sword against the masses whose
sacrifices have made possible the
success so far registered by the rev.
olution. The lure of imperialist gold
was too strong for the double-crosser
Feng, whose record as betrayer is
as black as the blackest of Chinese
militarists.
EENG'S treachery following on the
heels of that of Chang Kai-shek,
is the most severe blow yet suffered
by the revolution and means of def
mite setback to the cause Of liberation.
The Chinese bourgeoisie have done
what their prototypes have done in
all other countries under similar cir
cumstances. They have sold out to