The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-13
Current EUentS
By r. J. O'FLAHRTY.

YESTERDAYS comment on the alb
q sence of Dawes publicity has borne
fruit and may soon bear fish, or a
least fish stories. The tremendous in
road that Coolidge has been making
on the poor fish voter sent the vice
president out of his retirement witt
several bounds, a cartoonist and {
fly hatchery. Since Coolidge has al
ready lined up the worm caucus il
the G. o. P. Dawes has been forced
to try his luck with the fly crowd
1t is not quite clear what position
the G. 0. P. national committee vii
take but it is unlikely that they viii
decide until the fish are counted.
CIVILIZATION is now hitting or
all fins. A comparatively shori
time ago elections were decided by
the heaviest artillery even outside Of
Chicago. Today the heaviest fish
story teller is likely to win. Dawes
appreciates the value of accentuatine
the differences among the economic
interests that cater to the angling
section of the voting population. ITe
is out to make a split between tbs
fly people and the worm crowd. Al
Smith, typical candidate of heavy
industry is photographed after hav-
ing captured wooden pike.
QMITH will come home with the
~ lumber vote, the thirsty vote ard
the catholic vote. Since living as
well as artificial bait is moncpolized
by the G. 0. P. Al. must fall back
on newer devices. He makes his owr
fish and catches them at will. If
this method of campaigning becomes
universal we may see MacAdoo fish
ing with an inverted bottle and Frank
L. Low N, trying to bring them in
with one of those nets you drop
your socks in while agonizing thru
Pullman sleeper.
THE capitalist politicians are more
adept at telling fish stories than
catching fish. Between now and cleo
tion time their hired scribblers will
be busy retailing personal stories
about the entries as sporting writer's
do about the pugs that are being
boosted for the squared arena
Enthusiasm will be worked up until
the great majority of the workers
and farmers forget their own in
terests and develop as much interest
in the race between the rival politi-
clans as if the victory of either of
them meant a betterment of their
conditions. The workers and farmers
of this country would give the capi-
talist political hacks something else
to think about besides indulging in
clownish cowboy stunts and stale
fish tales if they set about organic
ing a Labor Party instead of wasting
their time hoping against hope that
the capitalist hacks will do something
for them.
uAIL, His 'ighness, Sajjan Finghn,
"A Mahara Jah Of Rutlam, India,
and his seven attendants, a minister
of state and an aide-de-camp, who
arrived here last Monday. This
parasite is one of hundreds of Hindoo
parasites protected in their luxurious
positions by the armed forces of the
British government. They spend
enough money on dissipation and
luxury to feed thousands of Hindoo
workers. In return for the protection
afforded to them by the British gov
ernment they help the empire hold
the teeming millions of India en-
shaved.
THE British gave rather flimsy
: excuse for postponing session
of the so-called naval disarmament
conference. The excuse given was
the death of Hevin O'Higgins of the
Free State government. AS if the
passing away of such an inconse-
quential person would hold up the
polite. warfare between England and
the United States at Geneva. AS
these lines are being written the
plenary session of this conference
may never be held. The fact is that
the conflict betwe 4 the two great
powers is so sharp \ there is little
hope that the diffe. / ces can be re-
conciled on this side cf war.
THE police are still busy helping
. the manufacturers, and right wing
labor leaders to break the strike of
the Furriers' Union. 1t is encourag-
ing to know that New York trade
unionists have spurned the invitation
to become strikebreakers, sent out
by the A. F. of L. disorganizers Woll,
McGrady and Frayne. This invita-
tion was broadcasted by the social
lists. The tenacity of the militant
furriers is one of the brightest chapt-
ers in the history of labor struggles.
Despite the odds against them, they
are unconquerable and their courage
and steadfastness is winning for them
the applause Of all honest trade
unionists regardless Of political affil-
iation.