The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-29
Current EUent
By T. J. o'FLAHEsrx.

THE conflict between the Royal Dutch
Shell Company and the Standard
Oil of New York and its subsidiary,
the Vacuum Oil Company is closely
related to the Anelo-Russian diplo-
matte crisis, created by the the anti
Soviet campaign conducted by the
British government. Here we have
capitalist hypocrisy in it's most brazen
form. Sir Henry Deterding, head Of
the Shell interests upbraids the Stan
dard Oil Of New York for purchasing
"confiscated OIL" Of course Sir
Henry lifts the whole question from
the oily depths of bargain and barter
to the high plane of bourgeois NOR
ality.
CIR Henry might have more s.ccess
in this attempt if the government
of the Soviet Union had not told the
world that the discriminating oil
magnate had tried to secure mono
poly on Russian oil for his own COM
pany few years ago. He did not
bother at that time about the oils
history, or what Czarist or other
imperialist lost it to the Revolution
If Sir Henry could make an honest
pound out of Russian oil he would not |
give hang if it were stolen from the |
sacred sepulchre.
FURTHER proof that Soviet indus
try is advancing rapidly can be
seen from the report sent out by the
Soviet Union Information Bureau. |
The monthly oil output is 20 per
cent above the average monthly out /
put for 1913 and the export average /
is almost two and a half times the /
figure for 1913. Recent contracts .
with the American oil companies al I
ready mentioned call for the delivery
of 100000 tons of Russian oil for the
Turkish and Indian markets. This is
an awful wallop for the British. Our
sanity John D. Rockefeller. is will
ing to do business with the Soviet
union. even tho he hates the new
economic system as vigorously as any
Briton.
pOLITICAL differences are creating
new alignments in China with
Kaleidoscope rapidity. Following
Chang -Kai-shek's treachery the Kou-
mintang Party was split between ex-
treme right represented by Chang
and the rest of the organization, from
the wavering centre to the Commu- !
nists. Now there is another split, !
with the Communists and the left
wing basing themselves on the work.
ers, peasants and radical petty bour- ,
geoisie, while the so-called moderates /
are making war on the Communists
while at the same time pretending u /
fight the imperialists.
THIS policy is like that of the
bureaucracy of the American FED
Grafton of Labor. They express hos
tility to both the Communists and
the open shop employers. But in
practice they fight the Communists
only. The Chinese politicians who I
pretend to be opposed to foreign i'm |
perialism and native exploitation of
the workers and peasants are show
ing their hypocrisy by arresting ano
executing militant leaders of the ex-
plotted masses. Woll, Frayne and
McGrady fight the so-called "open-
shop employers" with dignified
phrases and fight the militant trade
unionists and Communists with the
guns and clubs of uniformed and
plain clothes thugs.
BECAUSE Jack Dempsey worked in
ship yard during the war, while
more patriotic Americans were hunt
ing cooties and lodging trench rats
in addition to guessing where the !
next bomb, bullet or bayonet thrust t
was going to park, several survivors
of the great carnage, and very likely |
survivors who served in Y. NJ. c. A. !
canteens, rather than where the bull
lets were flying, have served notice
that Dempsey will not be allowed to
desecrate Soldiers Field in Chicago
by staging a fight there with Gene
Tunney next September.
DEMPSEY was branded a Stacker
and yellow" because he did not
don Morgan's uniform when the bill
lions of Wall Street invested on the
side of the allies seemed destined for
the junkman in the form of waste
paper. This young lad, by his per-
formance on the bodies Of divers per-
sons proved that he had plenty of
CUTS and his war record proved that
he had oodles of common sense. He
can now afford to be as patriotic as
the most eloquent four-minute speak
err that ever worked for dollar
year or led the contributions of the
patriotic into his bank, and should
another nice little war--not cheap
little butchering job such as we are
now pulling off down in Nicaragua
hove in sight in the near future,