The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-03

business OF SuDSlQlZlHS aSSaSSILS all
over the world-Kolchak, Denikin,
Judenitch, Wrangel, Semenoff, Pet
Iura, Horthy, Pilsudski, Mannerheim,
1 can't remember all the names. 1t
takes but a few minutes to settle
such a question in these days of
cables and high powered executives.
Mussolini gets his loans, and more
loans-during the year just past he
got two hundred millions from Wall
Street, and when his assassins are
scattered by the outraged Italian
workers, the American investing pub
lie will be left holding the sack
just as the French people were left
after their bankers had led them to
arm the Russian Tsar so that the
French bankers might grab the iron
of Lorraine; just as our American
government is left after the House of
Morgan led us into helping the
French bankers out of their mess.
My morning mail comes, and here
is copy of the Labor Defender, with
two photographs: italian Worker,
Angelo Capanelli, before and after
being blinded by Fascists." 1t is still
going on, you see, the work for which
the Wall Street bankers have paid
your money. l quote from the same
paper: Hundreds assassinated, thou
sands wounded, tens Of thousands ar
rested and thousands Of these SEN
fenced to long prison terms. The di-
mansions of the terror are almost in
credible-Mussolini's regime puts the
Neros and Borgias in the shade
Murders, arrests, tortures, long i'm
prisonment, searches, destroying and
burning of homes and buildings; de-
priving the opposition of their free
dom of speech and movement; ban
ishment and deportation to sparsely
inhabited Mediterranean islands"
Flushed with rapture over such
spectacles, the Honorable Richard
Washburn Child comes home with the
new gospel for America, and is made
Fascist-in-C Chief to the great central
power-plant of reaction, the Curtis
publications. He becomes, as you
might say, their secretary of foreign
relations, ambassador extraordinary
and plenipotentiary to the capitalist
world; keeping in touch with the
wholesale assassins of Italy, Rouma-
MIA, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Fin
land and the Baltic provinces, China,
Japan, India and Java, Mexico, Cen
trail and South America and the West
Indies; surveying the job of slaugh-
tering rebel workers, and portraying
it to the American people as the saw
ing Of civilization and making the
world safe for democracy.
And just word more concerning
til os e authors, movie managers,
magazine writer's, publicity agents,
cartoonists and artists" whom we
left disporting themselves in Atlantic
City at the expense of the Republican
National Committee. Five years later
the looting of America by the Repub-
lican party bandits had become such
a horror that Mr.. Child's old chief.
Frank Vanderlip, was shocked into
protest. He remembered the Vigil
antes, with their slogans of patriotism
and public service, and thought he
would rally them for the grand patri-
otto work of kicking out the hooters
of our heritage. The treasurer of the
organization called them to a dinner
at the University Club in New York;
but alas, they couldn't agree what to
do-and so they did nothing! Would
l be too cynical if I suggested that
few of them may have wondered who
was going to pay the bills this time?
And especially if the paymasters were
prepared to give life contract? 1t
is a serious matter to ask a Vigilante
to attack the interests which control
every newspaper, magazine, and NOV
ing picture company in the country
where he has to earn his living!