The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-02
CurrpntEUentS
BY T. ]. o'FLAHERTY.

ny the time these words appear in
Dprint May Day will have come and
gone and unless violence is done 10
custom, the various Bomb Squads and
other special guardians of the capt.
talists system will have claimed cred
it for having saved the nation from
another 'bloody revolution" Since
the political demise of William j..
Burns and his superior Harry M.
Daugherty, hhe nerves Of the bankers
have not been subjected to unusual
irritation by ponderous announce
ments of social disaster to those who
have more than they can use Of the
good things of life. Burns did things
on gf lnd scale.
IKE pIgilists limbering up for the
Il grand demonstration in the ring,
our local Bomb Squad has been busy
recently with the usual May Day
preliu1inaries but nothing so ridicu-
lousfin the way of protecting the cap
J italjst system in the United States
from the workers on May Day was
1e1petrated as the arrest of an infant
l5y former Captain Gegan of the
Bomb Squad few years ago. The
little lad was so young that he thot
Gegan was a Santa Claus rather late
making his rounds, yet the sergeant
felt as proud of his catch as the
editor of the Jewish Daily Forward
would in being allowed to kiss kings
hand
MAY DAY comes and goes. The
M workers of the world-the class
conscious portion-celebrate their
victories and take stock of their de-
feats, the capitalists gendalines make
the usual raids and arrests and the
class stfaggle continues. There was
time when May Day celebrations were
devoted to the delivery Of panegyrics
on socialism in the abstract, but now
adays we have reached the stage
where the revolutionary workers and
subject peoples are on the threshold
Of a struggle for pow en- with imper-
ielism and are. cons&srahlvs on .tbe
81 Pit side of,the threshold in the So
Wet Union, an area that comprises
one sixth of the earth's surface.
IN May Day manifesto issued by
1.-THE socialist ard labor international
the "red" is splashed on thick. I'm
perialism is denounced and so is
Fascism. China is hailed, but the
writer of the manifesto regrets that
the distance between the headquarters
OF the yellow international and China
renders direct assistance impossible,
tho the distance appears to have en-
couraged cardiac softness judging
by the sweet words that are devoted
to the Chinese cause. However the
Chinese would probably be better
pleased if Ramsay Macdonald, j. H.
Thomas and other leaders of this in
ternational carried on a vigorous
fight against the sending of troops
and munitions of war to kill the Chi
ness people instead of hiking around
the world singing the praises of the
British empire.
THE murder by strangulation of over
20 Chinese labor leaders, includ-
ing one woman, by Chang Tso-Lin is
one of the most cold-blooded pieces
of butchery in the ANNALS of history.
And this crime can be laid at the
doors of the imperialist governments.
The Manchurian bandit would never
have dared to invade the Soviet en-
bassy but for the connivance of the
powers. Britain was the chief insti-
gator in the violation of ambas-
sadorial rights but according to the
news the United States troops in
Peking under the direction of Minis
ter McMurray, played an active part.
MUSSOLINI'S infamous "Charter of
IVA Labor" is received rather coldly by
the capitalist press of the United
States, not because they have any
sympathy for the workers who will
be subjected to increased persecution
under its provisions but because the
American section of international
capitalism is not yet in need of the
drastic measures, necessary to save it's
weak Italian brother. Furthermore,
William Green, Matthew Woll and the
rest\ Of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy
are doing Mussolini's work for the
American capitalists without Offend
ing the goddess democracy. A fas-
cist dictatorship is certain in all coun-
tries unless the workers beat them to
it with Workers and Farmers Gov
eminent. But a Fascist dictatorship
in the United States would blow the
delusion Of capitalist democracy out
of the minds of the workers and since
this is one of the most soothing of the I