The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-17
Current Evemts
By T. J. 0'Fsaherty

= followed CnG example OIL owen u.
Young, grand mogul of the General
Electric Company, in favoring high
standard of living-at least in prin-
ciple-for American workers there
would not be any need for William
Green, provided Mr.. Green needs an
excuse. Mr.. Young is one of the
gentlemen who shackled the Dawes
Plan on Germany, under which the
German capitalists are compelled to
pay PREPARATIONS to the former allied
powers at the expense of the stan
dard of living of the German work
ers. Being patriot, Mr.. Young would
starve the workers of other countries
but likes to see his proletarian com
patriots adequately fed. At least this
is what we are asked to believe.
IN a recent speech delivered by Mr..
Young, he declared that national
prosperity and high wages go hand in
hand So pleased was Mr.. Green with
Mr.. Young's remarks that he read
them into the minutes of the conven-
ton. Mr.. Young believes in a "fair
days wage for fair days work"
So does Mr.. Green. Capital and labor
are getting together with vengeance.
Of course labor is still on the short
end of things. But no doubt a few
more conventions, a few more anti
strike injunctions, few more major
offensives against the radicals, few
more wars on colonial peoples and
perhaps one more big war with
power worthy of our steel" and the
rest of the capitalists will see things
just as Mr.. Young does. We now rise
to place in nomination as honorary
president of the A. F. of L., the hon
orable Mr.. Young of the General
Electric Company.
OSWALD GARRISON WILLARD has
an article in the current issue of
''The Nation" on the presidential pos
sibility, Charles Evans Hughes. Mr..
Hughes is one of the disappointments
that are eternally dying in the liberal
breast Mr.. Hughes at one time com
manded the admiration of Mr.. Willard
and others, even as Woodrow Wilson.
When Hughes chased the insurance
thieves from their lairs out into the
sunlight, lbut only to make them
richer and more respectfully Willard
lent him his powerful aid as owner
and editor of "The Evening Post"
But alas, the G.. o. P. fooled Willard.
| Thru the medium of the genial Will
liam Howard Taft, the former gov
ernor of the Empire State was lacked
on the supreme court bench there to
petrify into conventional conserva-
tive.
pUT tough tho it was on Mr.. Willard,
it was tougher on Mr.. Hughes.
| Listen to his ,erstwhile admirer. "But
few can measure adequately the blow
that it must have been to the pride
of this extremely proud man to know
the true character of the cabinet at
the head of which he sat at the right
hand of the president" Let us all
retire to our respective wash rooms
and shed our tears literally for poor
betrayed bewiskered Charlie, another
victim of the "Ohio gang" Forum
ately, Charlie was not completely
ruined, for according to Mr.. Willard
he neither drank nor played cards
with them. There is still hope for Mr..
Hughes. A clean shave and a Soft
collar might even yet redeem him.
Willard is willing and waiting.
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THE workers of the Soviet Union
have no big-hearted Mr.. Young to
talk about higher wages and fewer
working hours. They do the thinking
and talking themselves about hours
and wages. Thru the action of the
Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union they are
handing themselves tenth year an
niversary gift of a seven-hour day.
Hundreds of new schools and many
new sanitariums are to be built dur
ing the coming year, unpaid taxes are
to be wiped off the books and the
number of peasants to be exempted
| from taxation is to be increased.
Those enemies of the Soviet Union
who have held that the workers gained
nothing from the revolution are in
vited to digest this information.
MESSRS. FALL and SINCLAIR go
l'A on trial today for conspiracy to de-
fraud the government of its oil sup
ply. While the trial is on, John d.
Rockefeller will play. golf in Florida
and congratulate himself on being an
honest man. Had Fall turned over the
department of the interior to the
Rockefellers instead of to Sinclair and
Doheny he might now be honorary
chairman of the Y. M. c. A, instead
Of a defendant before the bar.
NOW that Gales has succeeded in
Az crushing the counter-revolution the