The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-02
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The Plot Thickens-
BY JORGE


of other imperialist agents was sent to Peru
to hold down the country for Leguia and the
Guggenheims, is the object of heroic and So
cial solictude of the U. S. state department
1t seems that this mercenary was aiming to
drop some civilized bombs on the rebel city
of Arequipa, when the rebels caught him red
handed and locked him up in the local hoose-
gov.
While American workers can get raroaded
in New York without a trial, and sent to
living death in Gastonia with farcical one,
and in Atlanta threatened with the electric
chair for distributing leaflets--and all the
while the U. S. government is deaf, dumb and
blind, the newspapers say of the state depart
ment that
at was made clear that if it appears that
Commander Grow is not to receive fair and
impartial trial the department is prepared to
make the strongest possible representation"
To show how rankly dishonest the whole
thing is, one must remember that Grow ere
signed" from the U. S. naval reserve and took
office as a regular officer of the Peruvian
Military Air Force
Now, however, being caught, the state de-
partment is covering this up, and claiming
that he is an American citizen and therefore
entitled to all the rights and protection the
government denied to the Gastonia defendants
and many others.
10 prove now TOCLeH JnS HypOCrlSy Is, loOh
on page 8 of Sundays n Y. Times. There
are two Washington dispatches there, and the
Times editor, being a little drunk Saturday
night, forgot to take care that one dispatch
didn't contradict the other One was from a
special Times writes and another from the
centralized lying agency known as the Asso-
cated Press. The special writer, in one part,
says:
"The state department is not informed,
whether Commander Grow as director of
Peruvian aviation, YER took oath of al
legiance to the Peruvian government. Tech
nically, Grow would forfeit the right to
protection of the United States if he took
such oath. 1t is thought likely that Com
mander Grow and Mr.. Sutton have con-
| tracts with the Peruvian government and
| that both are entitled to the full protec-
| ton of the United States"
But the Associated Press has the state de-
| partment having no Thought likely" or doubts,
or lack of being Uniformed" on Crows status.
| In part it says:
| "Mr. Castle assistant liar to Stimson)
| said that the case of Commander Grow,
who was under contract with the former
! Peruvian government" etc.
| And in any case, the state department,
| whet .er Grow has forfeited American rights
| or not, is stated to be demanding "fair and
impartial triaP' for Grow. This is merely an
other way of saying that it demands he be
released, polite diplomatic" way of saying
it. Thus Yankee imr crialism tries to take
care of it's agents.
One thing, besides this dirty hypocrisy of
the state department is worth noting. The
days a: passing when e Gringo "hero' of
| U. S. melodrama, go into Latin country
save the president from a mob of unwashed
| rebels and be presented with banana planta-
ton and the presidents lovely daughter who
faints amorously in his arms in the fadeout.
Sole leather sales, we learn, equal to
those year ago. They should be better, con-
sidering the amount worn out in looking for
| jobs.
M. Young, head of the Federal Reserve
Banks, has resigned, saying that while things
were bad he hung on, but "now that the credit
situ-tion is excellent, he thinks it won't hurt
to leave. Before the darned thing hits rough
water, opine.
The Reserve, barred from initiation by bill
issues, bought 1901 100000 of U. S. securities,
initiating credit by that much with what it
paid" in pure bookkeeping money.
We hate to say what will happen later, but
the Reserve is doing its best to keep things
afloat till after election.
Mr.. Young seems to be playing squirrel, and
gathering nuts-which always means hard
| winter.
Haywood Broun noted, in seeming protest,
that we called him "petty-bourgeois clown.
1t seems that bourgeois" and "clown" apply,
but not to the petty. His dad died recently,
and the N. Y. Post tells u.s.
| "Mr. Broun, who had teen in the stock
brokerage business for about ten years, re-
tired two months ago from as general man.
ager of the uptown office of Reynolds, Fish &
| Co." :.
let's see, "E;-"". where did we hear that
name before? Is it possible that Ham Fish
and the socialist" Broun are class brothers =?
Someone might look it up Anyhow, a brokers'
son for congress about fits the socialist"
ticket.