The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24

catcher from the rock-bound coast
Of Maine to the sandy shores Of Cali
fornia will have issued statement
urging the people of this country to
thank the capitalist god for the ia
vors he has bestowed on them during
the past year.
COOLIDGE tells us that we are pros
porous, but warns US not to spend
our money on luxuries. suppose he
means that we should get our old
shoes tapped, our hats cleaned and
blocked and the rents in our gar
ments repaired. He would not sug-
gest that we, refrain from spending
million dollars on one of our pro-
letarian weddings or pay half a
million for a European duke for a
workingclass daughter. That would
be lese majestic.
THIS message should be received
with joy by the striking and but
chered miners of Colorado and the
starving strikers in the bituminous
fields. AS the capitalists devour their
Thanksgiving turkeys today and guz-
zle their imported champagne, they
will stroke their bellies and feel that
all is well with the world. Indeed,
it is well as far as they are con-
cerned.
OUT in Colorado the means Of the
~ widows who have lost their hus-
bands and the cries of the children
who have lost their fathers, because
Of the greed of the sanctimonious
| Rockefellers and the other assassins
of the workingclass will rise above
the din of earousal and the prayers
! of thankfulness that come from the
palatial homes of the exploiters of
labor. Yet, we know the day will
come when the wall of anguish that
now issues from the homes of the OPP
pressed proletariat, with the sadness
of wintry wind whistling thru the
chinks in cabin door, win be turned
into a song of victory, when the
American workers will be able to cele-
brate their day of deliverance from
capitalism-when they will have as
day of thanksgiving a Seventh of
November, even as their brothers and
sisters in the Soviet Union.
THAT quaint and wise philosopher
at 100000 a year, Arthur
Brisbane, tells us that everybody
should be thankful for having been
born. "Now he is on earth and, for
few years at least, able to study
this beautiful planet, inherit it's wis
dom and contemplate the outside uni
verse" And in the next paragraph
he observes that: "Mrs. Ruth Snyder
and her friend, Henry Judd Gray,
murdered Mr.. Snyder who was in
the way. The highest court says they
must go to the electric chair in ac-
cordance with the jury's verdict" No
doubt those two unfortunates will
read Mr.. Brisbane's Thanksgiving
comment with interest and agree that
they have not lived in vain.
0F all the big-hearted money spend
ers we ever heard of, Mr.. Elias
Plutarco Gales takes the manicured
cactus Why, this must be the man
who put the 'plu" in plute. We have
William Randolph Hearst's word for
it, and like George Washington,
Hearst never told lie. Hearst is
running a series of articles in his
papers designed to prove that Gales
has been usurping the functions of the
Communist International and organ
izing revolutions, right, left and
centre. AS matter of fact, Hearst's
article leads one to suspect that Elias
has been financing the Communist
International and the Soviet Govern
ment.
90 far, Gales has nourished every
bit of trouble, from Nicaragua to
Shanghai and every trouble-maker
from Sacasa of Mexico to the Kou-
mintang in China. He has given
more money to M. Litvinoff of the
Soviet Union Foreign Office that a
cripple could shake crutches at. The
latest low-down on the president of
Mexico is that he was responsible for
the British general strike and took
the lions share of financing it. With
such generous fellow south of the
Rio Grande there is no excuse for any 7
INDECENT American, who has the use
of his limbs and his tongue to remain
penniless. Lest our pleasantries
might be misunderstood by one out
of the 100000 readers of The DAILY
WORKER we wish to state that
William Randolph Hearst is
damned liar and abettor of forgery.
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EVIDENTLY the young sultan of
Id Morocco never heard of Daddy"
Browning. 1t is reported that he is
at loss to find the most expeditions
way to dispose of his deceased
fathers 200 girl friends.