The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26


IT is said that the changes being
made by Henry Ford in his plant,
preparatory to building the new Ford
model, the design of which is still a
secret, are costing the auto mag
nate one million dollars a day. This
is front page story and it appears
side by side with an announcement Of
another Ford settlement of one Of
those bothersome suits brought
against Henry by members of the
Jewish race who were libelled in
Ford's paper. The luxury of carry
ing on an anti-Semitic war cost Ford
a pretty penny, and his change Of
policy does not mean a change of
heart, but wise precaution on the
eve of introducing a new Ford model.
The light Henry saw was from the
dollar sign.
SPURIOUS German princes are do
ing a rushing business these
day. They visit wealthy aristocrats
and claim to be scions of some noble
house, attributing their lack of funds
to some trivial family trouble which
would be promptly liquidated. The
little boys usually get a substantial
handout. After a while they are ap-
pretended and wind up in Jail. This
is what we call perfectly legitimate
graft from the ethical standpoint.
AFTER the war several well-built
"a bell hops made considerable money
and even succeeded in marrying into
high society by making the rounds
of Fifth Avenue and Long Island
millionaire homes, representing them
selves as Austrian, Russian or Hun
garian mobiles. They were rarely
questioned and not only got away
with the dough and with divers heir
esses but cashed in on their expert
ences after the game blew up, by
writing for the Hearst press.
THE failure of the British govern
ment to put across its naval plar
at the Geneva conference has brough'
the old fox Balfour again to the from;
in British politics. In the absence O.
Stanley Baldwin, Balfour heads tn;
cabinet. He is lined up with the more
moderate faction in the cabinet
against Churchill, Birkenhead, Joyn-
son-Hicks and others. The only diff
ference between Balfour and Church
i'll is difference of opinion about
the best way to serve the empire.
THE position of the Marking gov
ernment in China is said 90 be
precarious. The northern feudal
militarists have won important vic
tories over the southern forces. In
breaking with the left wing elements
in the Koumintang, Chang Kai-shek
deliberately weakened the nationalist
forces and played into the hands of
the imperialists. Under the cloak OF
war on Communism he stabbed tic
revolution in the back and dealt =
serious blow to the struggle of the
workers and peasants. Here ir
America we witness a similar phen-
omenon in the trade union move
ment, where the reactionary labor
leaders wage war on the Communists
under the guise of protecting union
ism.
GOVERNOR Moore of New Jersey
in speech delivered at the un-
yelling of monument to Samuel AL
len, leader of the New Jersey minute
men in the Revolutionary War, de-
clared that the United States should
take the lead in outlawing war since
our country leads in everything. A
good way to start this worthy crusade
would be for the United States to
withdraw its troops from Nicaragua
and China. The governor did not
have word to say in condemnation
of the action of the United States
marines and air-men who slaughtered
300 Nicaraguans last week because
they defended their country against
the Wall Street Brigands. This anti
war talk is the sheerest hypocrisy.
A NATIONAL conference of the
Friends of Irish Freedom held
here last week passed a resolution
praising ambassador Gibson for the
stalwart manner in which he is up
holding the interests of the United
States in Geneva against the mach
nations of the British empire. Glib
son is just as loyal to Wall Street as
the British Bridgeman is to Thread
needle Street. Those Irish-American
long distance fighters for Irish free
dom have not word to say against
the oppression of the colonial peoples
who are under the yoke of our own
imperialists. Their mouths were shut
tight when the United States went to
war on the side of Great Britain
against Germany in defense of the
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