The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-25
Red Rays


tory-making announcement resulted
from the visit of a football team.
Looking at their trousers, the presi-
dent observed, II am glad to see that
your trousers are not Hopping around
on the ground" Should Calvin choose
to change his mind and run again he
may lose the clothing manufacturers
vote.
THE most remarkable story that APP
peared in the United States press
for some time went over my head
few weeks ago A friend of mine
called me on the phone and informed
me ABOUT it. 1t appears that per-
son afflicted with leprosy was ar
rested for being at large. He ex-
planned his predicament with the
story that Commissar 505 of Siberia
mailed him the leprous germs. The
remarkable thing about the story is
the fact that any newspaper pub
lished it.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
F" did rot have to publish an expose
of the worldwide rannifications Of
the conspiracies carried on against
capitalism by Elias Plutarco Gales in
yesterdays edition of his papers.
Gales had a priest shot for attempt (
ing to assassinate Oregon, the presi-
Dental candidate. Hearst felt that
a dead priest would create enough
prejudice against the Mexican gov
eminent to do for one day.
MARCUS CARNEY, former head Of
AVA the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association, will be deported
on his release from Atlanta, where he
has Eeen serving a sentence after
conviction On the alleged charge Of
using the mails to defraud the colored
people. Tho holding no brief for the
tcircus methods of Mr.. Garvey and his
crazy scheme for the solution of the
Negro problem by turning Africa into
q Negro empire, with Marcus as
Chief Cook and Bottle Drinker, we
are of the opinion that the govern
ulSIlO iOillSIlGh Nld1CuO DCNduoC ud
aroused considerable section of the
depressed Negro population of Amer
lea to a sense Of their own power.
THE Chicago police are again en-
gagged in one of those Finish
fights" with the gangsters. When
the new police chief was indicted into
office he promised to make the city
safe from gangsters inside of forty
eight hours. 1t is now considerably
more than forty-eight days since he
took the chair in city hall and APP
parently the result of his efforts has
been that Chicago has been made safe
| for the gangsters. AS long as the
guns of the gangsters count the votes
in elections, so long will the gang
sters be Immune And as far as the
workers are concerned, the guns
might as well be the vote tabulators
as the more respectable machines
that steal them for Tammany
FRANCE, England and Italy are
worried over the decision of the
Soviet Government to send delegates
to the Forthcoming disarmament"
conference at Geneva. The Soviet
Union Spokesman have made it quite
clear that they intend to speak quite
frankly on the question and will pro-
pose immediate disarmament. That
is just what the imperialist powers
do not want On previous occasions
when Moscow refused to participate
in these fake meetings the Soviet
government was charged with re-
sronsibility for the heavy burden inn
posed on the masses for military and
naval budgets. Now, that the Rus
SLAMS are participating, the same
powers charge them with desire to
make trouble.
THERE is a serious rift in the ranks
of the British Labor Party over
the action of James Ramsay Mac
Donald in supporting the government
on the Indian question. This labor-irri-
perialist flunkey accepted an ap-
pointment on the government COM
mission whose task is to "look into"
the Indian situation. Some years ago}
Macdonald wrote book on India
from every Page of which the ranke,st
kind of imperialism oozed. Why
even some sympathisers with the
radical movement still give this
n1ountehank credit for some degree
Of honesty only goes to show how ig-
norant most people are of current
history.
VT is interesting to note that George
Lansblry, socialist of the evan
geiical type and for years considered
one of the reddest of Great Britain's
radicals, is now sleeping in the same
political bed with Ramsay MacDon-
aid. Lansbury ran his own show for
many years but the days Of the lone
political wolf are passing and with
them the time when one could exist
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