The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
CNrY9ntEUentJ
By T. J. O'FLAHERTY.

wrights at large or available, with
the exception of your humble ser
want, are drawing fat salaries ex-
planning the Gray-Snyder murder
trial to thrill-hungry public. The
only remarkable thing about this
trial is that it is remarkably like a
bar-room brawl where two people not
too drunk to lift cast iron cuspidor
might swing this receptacle on the
head of another person so much I'M
der the influence of liquor that he
might feel the impact of the blow
as lightly as he would the playful
tickle of barfly and awake up on
the other side of the dark ocean be-
fore he could have another drink.
THE murder was brutal and cruel,
but so are all murders. The more
refinement there is to cruelty the
more brutal it becomes. But why
should the philosophical furniture of
the country be modified to analyze
and picture The mental agony of those
two unfortunate victims of human
weakness and their environment for
the delectation of the sadistic part
of the reading public, that takes to
tales of blood and torture as tout
takes to a racecourse?
THE answer is: circulation. And cir
culation means increased adver- !
tising revenue. More money for the
owners of the papers. This was the
reason they picked on the old dotard
Browning and made him as much of
household word thruout the land as
Al Smith has been made by his reply |
to question involving his relation |
to the catholic church and his 10y
atty to the American capitalist sys-
tenn. Yet those social germ carriers
are not interfered with by the au-
thorities or prosecuted for poisoning
the minds of the people of New York
vicinity. But the DAILY WORKER
finds itself hailed into court because
it happened to carry poem that did
not sit well on the stomachs of GER
tain patriotic panhandlers.
JAMES RAMSAY MACDONALD /
= does not believe that the Sacco-
and Vanzetti case should concern
outsiders" He thinks it is a prob |
lem for Americans only. But he was !
not sensitive about interfering in the |
domestic affairs of other countries |
when he defended the anti-Soviet |
bandits of George and denounced the |
Soviet Government for imprisoning
them, tho it was amply proven they
were acting under the instructions,
and in the pay of the foreign powers,
chiefly Great Britain. Neither did |
Mr.. Macdonald have any.reservation
about commenting on AL Smiths |
political reply to the religious ques-
tionnaire.
THE criminal action of the socialists
= in New York led by the Jewish
Forward in doing everything possible
to break up the unity of labor in the
effort to save the lives of Sacco and
Vanzetti deserves the severest con-
demnation. So far they have not only
refused to cooperate with the other
sections of the labor movement that
have borne the brunt Of the defense
struggle but they actually refuse to
permit any delegate to attend their
meetings if they think he is tainted
with radicalism.
IT is not surprising that the capital
lists of New England should be
anxious to murder Sacco and Van
zetti as an example to others. 1t is
not surprising that the bureaucracy
of the A. F. Of l.. who have their legs
under the same table with the en-
ployers should stand idly by and let
the executioner take his course.
Both are for the system and believe
death too good for the enemies of
capitalism. But the socialist pretend
to favor the abolition of capitalism.
That is their excuse for being in
existence. Yet, in this case as in
other cases, they split the unity of
the workers and give objective aid to
the hangmen of Sacco and Vanzetti.
president Coolidge is quite
HAPPY over the prospect of peace
in Nicaragua, now that he hears the
conservatives under Diaz are about
to claim another complete" victory.
This man Diaz has not enough native
supporters to fill sea-going hack
and If the United States marines left
the country for a week end, or went
on a long drunk, Diaz would have re-
turned involuntarily to the dirt from
which he sprang by the time they
came back. This is the kind of
neutrality Coolidge is observing in
Nicaragua.
FEW skeletons, human or political,
can withstand the test OF, time.
Secretary Kellogg, waxed mysterious
over the al1ecad foroayiaa that x.,aro