The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-19
Red Rays

WITH representatives of starving
!" British miners marching on Lon
don, the reactionary leaders of the
British Labor Party are forced to in
dulge in strong language in the house
of commons. Ramsay MacDonald's
speech, to which premier Baldwin re-
fused to reply, pictured the terrible
conditions existing in the coal fields,
but Macdonald cannot be absolved
from all blame for those conditions,
for he and the right wing labor lead
ers who sabotaged the general strike
called in behalf of the miners were
chiefly responsible for the miners de-
feat which enabled the bosses to
force their own conditions on them.
| THERE is no doubt that a serious
crisis prevails in the coal industry
in Great Britain, with the workers
doing the suffering. Premier Bald
win showed his tory contempt for the
workingclass by putting up COM
paratively unimportant cabinet men,
Der to reply to Ramsay Macdonald.
Had Macdonald shown as much
energy in organizing the workers
politically and industrially for a
struggle against the capitalists of
Great Britain as he showed in fighting
the Communists, Baldwin would have
taken his feet from the table on
which they rested while the former
premier was talking.
CHOULD the Rev. DR.. John Roach
Straton succeed in pulling off a
cure at one of his religious orgies,
that will stand the test of medical
science-such as it is-he will be
financially fixed for the rest of his
life. The American Association for
the Advancement of Atheism will give
him $4,000 as prize on proof of a
single cure of disease by prayer"
Now, sanity fellow could live COM
fortably for many years on that
sum. 1t is worth while making a bid
for.
COME of the scenes witnessed at
Straton's healing exhibitions chal-
lenge credulity. 1t does not seem
possible that such things could take
place in the goth century. One
woman after telling Straton of her
sufferings was anointed by him.
with wild cry" says a newspaper
report "that seemed like a laugh,
she changed from kneeling to rolling
on the floor After a few moments,
deacons and nearby women succeeded
in catching her, and eventually they
got her seated on a bench. An hour
: later when she staggered out, she was
agitatedly clinging to the arm of her
semi-paralyzed husband, whom she
had brought for treatment also" The
brand of oil that Straton uses in his
massage business should experience a
bull market, if the preachers methods
gain in popularity.
AM asked by an irate female reader
if l would refuse million dollars
or undertake the air feats that Lind
bergh has. These pertinent questions
are put to me because of my comment
on the utilization of the airman by
the United States capitalists. To
the first question my reply is a thun-
derous "no" and challenge to all
concerned to try me. One million dol
lars would keep The DAILY WORK
Err going for few years, even tho
we did not receive a single advertise
ment from vegetarian restaurant,
a chiropractor, a theatre or from a
purveyor of medicine to pep up a
sluggish liver.
AS for flying I am not keen on it.
"A Indeed if were the pope, believe
would issue a bull stating that the
deity never intended that human be-
ings should fly, unless their countries
were at war, in which case of course,
l would hand out dispensations to the
various powers permitting them to
draft members of my flock for pa
triotic service. But just as soon as
the last hero was turned into pulp, I
would revert to the status quo and
henceforth any catholic who would fly
either for love, money or plain cussed-
ness, would be placed on my excom-
munication list.
THIS shows how much of flyer |
am, so it is hardly fair to bait
me for my critical remarks on Lind
bergh with a challenge to jump into
an airplane and turn the ships nose
towards Paris. Of course it is not
surprising that my correspondent sis
one of many who think Lindbergh is
an awfully nice kid" and that's the
devil of it, because this awfully nice,
dumb kid, who is beloved by millions
of flappers, matrons and old maids,
| is the best nossihle tool in the arsenal