The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-19
Current Events
By T. J. O'FlGhertv

/ RaUSSOLINI has decreed that Italy
iiA shall be speechless in the future,
on the theory that the time devoted
to making and listening to speeches
is time wasted. The privilege of in
dulging in such futile activity will
be the private monopoly of the die
tator and his aides. The only two
celebrations to be permitted annually
will have to be held on Sundays so
that the workers will not be halted
in their productive labors. Mussolini
has already decreed the length of the
female skirt and the number of chill
dren a patriotic married couple should
produce. His latest ukase is just one
more decree.
DERHAPS Mussolini's order, abolish
ing Ceremonies, manifestations,
celebrations, inaugurations, ami
versaries and centenaries, either large
or small, nor speeches of whatever
calibre" was provoked by Mustapha
Kemal Pasha's seven-day speech
now in the course of deEvery-on the
| subject of Turkeys nationalist revolu-
ton and the efforts of the imperialist
powers, including Italy to crush the
revolution. Mussolini does not like
Renal because Mussolini wants a slice
of Turkey and Renal once challenged
the duce to come on and take his
chances on finding enough graveyard
space to accommodate his blackshirts.
an invitation which the gallant duce
discreetly turned down.
0R it is possible that the Italian
workers, vocal section of the
worlds population, liked to talk of
the Inauguration of the seven-hour-
day in the Soviet Union and that they
showed a tendency to compare their
own status as slaves of the capitalist
dictatorship with that of the Soviet
workers under their own government.
Bigger and b better celebrations,
demonstrations and inaugurations and
longer and more eloquent speeches is
the order of the day in the Soviet
Union. Mussolini has long since out
lawed singing and laughter. Soon he
will have the masses going around
with their mouths padlocked By the
time he gets their brains extracted he
will feel that his mission has been
accomplished. You can figure out to
your own satisfaction whether you
would prefer to live in speeches.
Italy or in the Soviet Union.
A Iaf
y Chamber of Commerce, Major Cen
eral Summerall, who admits that his
policies and those of the A. F. of L.
are similar, declared that if the army
is ''to carry on with dignity and the
respect of the nation" it must not be
allowed to live "like workers in log
ging camp, in tumble-down shacks on
the scale of the immigrant class"
Why should an army that is COM
PEELED to live like the workers on less
pay than that received by the work
ers be anxious to turn their guns on
| the workers in the interest of class
that lives in the style of solvent mon
archs? Summerall is farsighted
butcher He should get far in the
army.
At the opening of the late euchar-
"A istic congress in Chicago, motor
cycle escorts with sirens screaming,
flew thru Michigan Boulevard to warn
the populace of the approach of Car
dinal Mundelein, prince of the Roman
Catholic Church. This was gall to the
Ku Klux Khan and non-catholic Nor
dies. in general. Now, the city coun-
Gil of the Windy City has decided that
hereafter only kings and presidents
will be accorded this service. Is it
possible that William Hale Thompson
will permit a moth-eaten monarch to
pollute the republican atmosphere Of
his beloved city? Or is his anti-royal
wrath aroused only against the mon
arch of Great Britain?
=
WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON may
w or of Chicago is about to ma
tionalize his local campaign against
King George. big Bill" has dis
covered that the English Speaking
Union has been conducting a cam
/ paign in behalf of British imperialism
in the United States. The mayor is
presenting the ousted superintendent
of schools McAndrew as exhibit A.
Mr.. Tom Sullivan, the mayors repre-
sentative, expressed amazement at the
extent of British propaganda in this .
country. We sympathize with Mr.,
Sullivan, but we hope that this MI
vate war on foreign potentate will
not be used as a smoke screen TO
hide the wage-cut that is hanging like
a damoclean sword over the school
teachers of Chicago
!
EN order to elevate the tonsorial
profession and to lower the finan-
cial blood pressure of the customers,
the Master BARRIERS of Greater New
York decided that the price of hair