The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-27

had fed glorousIy the visit he States" last year
of Queen Marie the bloody monarch of Roumania
The passengers generally interesting Here is an
Italian from Worcester Mass who has just been back
to Italy But he cannot find words bitter enough to
denim the Mussolni regime Everyone is against the
fascist tyranny, he says.
There is that looks like worker He might be
lumber worker from the Pacific Northwest. But he
turns out to be Swiss, who has farm in Southern
California. He rented out the farm that he could
make his third trip back to Switzerland He says this
trip is his last He discusses rather sympatheticay the
invasion of agriculture in California by Japanese
farmers.
Two Salvation Army officials also from California
give much of their time to reading "Elmer Gantry" the
book by Sinclair Lewis. They say they woid IKE to
cuss Sinclair and his book bat their reE1e~y bets
prevent them from using bad language Sd toy u =
tent themselves with pointing out that they knaw people
in California who acquainted with Aimee MCPHERSON
and that the newspapers not far wrong in what they
have published about her. When they finish the book
they feel little better Lewis has mentioned the army"
only twice and quite favorably
student who has spent three years in Paris, says
he is going to teach French Vanderbilt University in
his home state of Tennessee He denies any sympathy
however, with the monkey trial" at Dayton.
The mother with the young son. who cannot make the
waiter understand single word of what she is saying
comes from Turkey.
The waiter explains that he was a nurse during the
French, German and Italian. But the Turkish stumps
him.
Incidentally, he adds "When the next war starts the
only army am going to join is the Salvation Army"
and he points toward the table which sit the two
officials of this doughnutpeddng organization.
Between the dsgruned sailor doubt typical of the
majority of British workers who follow the sea- and the
opposition to army service harbored by the waiter speak
ing for big sections of the British working class on land
he hat is of for
perialism.
There is British military officer on board with half
dozen titles following his name He keeps aoof from
the rest of the passengers On the last evening of the
trip he is selected to preside the Concert" held to
raise funds for various sailors charities both Great
Britain and the United States.
Down in the engine the steam is kept at high
pressure in the boilers by flames fed with OIL The
Mauretana is an oil burner converted from coal burn
or On trip thru the engine room was told that this
change alone had cut down the working by nearly
100 many of these thrown out of work being coal
oassers One reason for the change, told was the
frequent recurrence of coal strikes in England and the
United States The slaves of oil were more doce There
was no break in the supply So with oil as fuel the four
giant propeers continue INCREASINGLY voyage after vow
to pound the waters of the ocean at the rate of 1856
eyolutons per minute making the fastest trips of any
hip afloat.
Thus the old order feels secure at least temporarily
But there many indications showing that its security
t built on the qucksands of social unrest.
Not the least of these indications was the fact that nm
onward travelling first class passengers, were
lontagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England;
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the German Reichs
ank and Charles Ris deputy governor of the Bank of
rance. They were all on their way to Wall Street to
et hand-out from Americas international bankers
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