The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-07
MORE ARRESTS DURING A. F. OF |. CONVENTION
Current Events
By 4. J. o'F1aherty

lStNDENBERG, the m n a &c hist
IL president of officially republican
Germany opened up his big heart on
the anniversary of his 80th birthday
and amnestied several hundred con-
victed persons. But big-hearted Hin
denburg would not make public the
list of pardoned prisoners lest the re-
latives of those released might feel
embarrassed over the publicity. This
lends plausibility to the suspicion that
those amnestied are not members of
revolutionary workingclass organiza-
tions, since the relatives of revolu-
tionary workers do not consider it a
disgrace to have members Of their
families taste the bitters of prison
life for an honorable cause.
TNE do not have to rest our suspicious
:" entirely on imagination. News
leaked out that among those am
nestled are Buckrocker and the re-
dictionary leader Custrin Putsch, who
made an attempt on the life of for
mer chancellor Scheidemann, then
suspected of being an enemy of the
kaiser, Professor Fuchs, an agent of
the French government and count
Arco Valley who assassinated Kurt
Eisner, head of the short-lived
Bavarian Soviet republic.
pUT Hindenburg did not release Max
u Holtz, the proletarian revolutionist
He is called bandit by the capitalist
press. Hindenburg is nobodys fool,
but the tool Of the monarchists and
fascists of Germany who are care
fully feeling their way until they con-
slider the time opportune to establish
a blackshirt dictatorship and install
a monarchist on the throne. The sap
headed liberals who have been hailing
Hindenburg as a notable convert to
republicanism may change tn cir
minds about the loyalty of this mon
archist veteran to form of govern
ment which sits uneasily on his
stomach when the opportune moment
for the next putsch comes.
pAMSAY MACDONALD and his So
" cialist imperialists are sitting
nicely on the PROSTATE form of the
socialist members of the I. L. P. at
the Labor Party Conference in Black
pool who want socialism in our
time" Macdonald has little use for
these "easie-oosie asses" He hates
them only a little less than the Com
munists, less because the Commu-
nists make more trouble for him.
Capitalist reporters were amused at
the successful efforts of the socialist
leaders to avoid the use of the word
socialism. Macdonald feels that he
is now in a position to form an al
lance with the liberals. Having used
, the |. L. P socialists in his war on
the Communists he is now getting
ready to put the skids under the |.
L. P.ers who still give lip loyalty to
Earl Marx and Keir Hardie.
BRITISH Communists like ourselves,
have been taunted by our left
wing socialist co-workers in the pro-
letarian vineyard with tactlessness
and bull-in-china-sho methods in the
conduct of our propaganda campaigns
against capitalism and the labor lead
ers who have thrown in their lot with
the capitalist system. Communists
were accused of using unseemly and
harsh language and the Communist
International was made the recipient
of sharp slaps on the wrists by the
perfumed intellectuals of the |. L. P.
who professed sympathy for the aims
of the C. l., but did not like it's ad-
diction to plain language.
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