The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-13
Current Events
By T. j. O'FlGherty

of 37,000,000 according to statistics
published by the international labor
bureau at Geneva. Of this number
only 100000 are affiliated with the
International Federation of Trade
Unions. The figures for Germany are
4,582,366 and for England 4,365,619.
The American labor paper from which
those figures are taken does not give
the membership of the Soviet trade
unions, but we can supply that def
iciency. There are over 100000
members in the Soviet trade unions,
or as many as the total mem
bership of the German and British
unions.
yOHN (Dime) ROCKEFELLER'S
. slaves in Colorado are not very
enthusiastic over their multimillion-
aire taxmasters contributions to in
ternational charity. The coal diggers
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, Rockefeller concern, are not
paid for timbering, yardage in mar
row work and for deficient work, as
called for in union contract mines.
John would rather give millions for
a royal hospital in England or Rou-
mania than return the money to the
workers from whom he stole it.
Rockefeller's philanthropy is at the
expense of the workers who toll to
make his millions breed.
THE allied propaganda machine
made big fuss about the execu-
ton of the British spy, Edith Cavell,
during the war. While posing as a
nurse, this woman was actively en-
gagged seeking information of Ger
man army movements in Belgium for
the British. We hold no brief for the
German militarist murderers but we
have considerably less sympathy for
this imperialist stoolpigeon than we
have for the thousands of men and
women that were slaughtered by the
British in India, Egypt, South Africa,
Ireland and every other place where
the. pirate empire was engaged in
crushing the masses.
THE French executed women spies,
or suspected spies during the war.
So did the British. So did the rest of
the imperialist murderers. The French
turned the machine guns on trench
fulls of soldiers suspected of dissatis-
faction. 1t was war and human lives
mean little when the interests Of
capitalist powers are at stake. Why
all the noise about Edith Cavell? Be-
cause the British posing as the saw
ors of civilization used this incident
as a means of arousing popular in
dignation while the British imperial
lists were robbing, killing and plumber
ing the peoples of the Near East
WHETHER the United States ever
" has war or not we need large
navy, says Secretary Wilbur, if for
no other reason than to contribute
to the muscle and soul development
of sailors and marines. We remember
the pre-war days when gobs would
not be allowed into theatres with the
exception of bur!esque houses. The
war changed all this. American i'm
perialism was catapulted into opera
tions on a scale undreamt off before
1914. More battleships and more
sailors will be needed to contribute
to the material and moral uplift" of
Nicaraguans, Filipinos and Chinese.
The men who were only persona
grata in bawdy houses before the
war are now on a social level with
stock gamblers and loan sharks.
CONGRESSMAN LA GUARDIA is a
bright young man with bright
ideas. He is progressive as you are
probably aware. He is against Amer
lean imperialism so that you would
notice it. He did not like the way
American marines butchered the Mic
araguans in order to make it posi-
BILE for the puppet Diaz to hold his
presidential seat. The idea of mill
tary supervision of elections in Mic
aragua by the United States govern
ment was repugnant to his democrat
ic soul. So he suggests that Wall
Street exercise civilian supervision
over the elections. Now, the MARINE
commander on duty M Nicaragua
can order suits of civies fopfhis men
and presto change, democracy is
satisfied. Indeed, we are glad to note
that our worthy Secretary of State
Mr.. Kellogg was thinking the same
thot. Let our liberal editors rejoice!
The Nicaraguans will be choked wit
butter instead of killed by bullets j
they only conduct themselves.
ADMIRAL LATIMER, the gentle
IA man who supervised the conquest
of Nicaragua has been honored by a
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