The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-16
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By T. ]. o'FLAHERrY.

THERE are strong indications that
L Scotland Yard has presented the
tory government with nifty dllem-
ma as a result of it's spectacular raid
on the headquarters of the Russian
Trade Delegation. The London dis
patches hint that Sir William Joyn-
son-Hicks, Home Secretary, did not
find the documents" he promised the
public, tho why Mr.. Hicks should fall
to produce the goods is not clear,
since his forging apparatus inherited
from war days and supplemented by
experts from the exiled Czarlsts
should be able to perform any task
assigned to it.
WHETHER it is true that the
w Foreign Office was in the dark
about the raid until after it broke
into the press is matter for skeptic-
ism. In all probability Sir Austen
Chamberlain was in on the con-
spiracv. 1t is no new dodge in
government circles to give the public
the impression that there are divided
councils in the cabinet so that in
case of a mishap section OF the
crew of the sinking balloon can be
dropped to tighten ballast.
1T looks now as if the raid were a
colossal blunder In view Of the
general lack of confidence in the
character of the Churehill-Hicks-Bir-
kenhead wing of the tory cabinet Mr..
Hicks will have to be very careful of
his forgeries in order 70 make them
stick. Of course in England as in the
United States there are people who
are afflicted with "redphobia," whose
only cavail is that they don't get
their plots often enough and CORY
enough. But there are hard headed
business men in England whose
fingers are ready to clutch nervously
at the big, juicy contracts that the
Soviet trade monopoly is dangling
before their eyes.
IF the ARGOS raid fizzles out as the
news dispatches indicate not only
viii it mean the end of few politi-
cal careers but in all probability the
defeat of the tories in a general cleo
ion which is almost certain to fol-
low s.n anti Russian flop. With the
workers waiting for an opportunity
to avenge the government for its
conduct during the general strike
and she middle classes being loaded
down with taxes to pay for tory i'm
perialist ventures, it is more than
probable that the Labor Party will
be returned to power.
GENEVA dispatches tell US that the
" American delegates to the Inter
national Economic Conference are
developing warmer attitude to-
wards the Soviet delegates than at
first. They have now reached the
stage of breaking bread with them.
This means business, much to the
chagrin of the British who would
like nothing worse than to see the
United States recognize the govern
ment of the Soviet Union. But,
business is business and even tho
Frank Kellogg Eliminates against the
Soviet government occasionally the
Soviet business agents are quite well
come in our best banks and ware
houses.
John SPARGo, the renegade So
. cialist-or one of them7-has man.
aged to sink to a new low level of
depravity in the current issue of the
New York Times book review supple
ment. This is undoubtedly an ac-
complishment even for such an ac-
tcomplished political mole as Sparg0.
Luigi Sturzo has written book on
''Issly and Fascismo." The author is
a political opponent of Mussolini and
Fascism to the agony of Spargo who
worships the stilletto tn tat has
stabbed the Italian labor movement
in the back. Had Spargo been on the
payroll Of the Italian blackshirt cut
throat he would not be more eulogis-
tic. He finds Mussolini a mystery
man." whose soul it is almost inn
possible to pierce. We venture to
\say that whenever his soul is pierced
ttc, human race will have to wear
stink mask Here is a typical excerpt
from Spargo's review of Sturzo's
book or rather Spargo's eulogy of
Mussolini: "What Lenin represented
in the leadership of the destructive
forces that were unleashed in Eur
ope, Mussolini became in the leader
ship Of the conserving and construc-
tive forces. Mussolinis constructive
ness was amply demonstrated to the
Italian workingclass last week when
under the auspices Of the Charter
Of Labor" they were forced to accept
a ten per cent wage reduction at the
point of a dagger. In the Soviet
Union the wages Of the workers an
the living conditions Of the peasa' u
ara M, tho unorade. But what does |