The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-17
On the
World Front
by HARRY CANNES
Blood on the Old Sod
Roosevelt Is Praised
World Wheat Madness
.By HARRY CANNES

THE De Valera government
i of Ireland will not only
merit the hearty applause of
the British imperialists, but
will get from them the great
est encouragement and sup
port in its butchery of the
Irish peasants, so many of whom
were laid under the old sod by
British bullets.
A new chapter is being written in
the struggle for land and freedom
in Ireland. What his Maiesty's
hired murderers used to do to pre-
serve the interest of the rich
British landowners, the de Valers
government is doing to preserve the /
plumber of the rich Irish landlords.
WHEN the 300 Civic Guards at
W Cork on Monday slaughtered
jeremiah Lynch, %, and wounded
seven others described as of the
farming class" they emphasized
more powerfully than leaflets or
thesis that the national struggle is
primarily a class struggle in Ire
land. Like their forefatherS who
struggled against the tyranny of
British imperialism, the Irish farm
ers gathered at Cork to prevent a
tax sale by agents of the de Valera
government. They learned that
when farmers resist the robbery of
the landlords, whether Irish or
British, the Irish landlords govern
ment just as readily sheds Irish
blood to maintain their heels on
the necks of the peasantry as the
British oppreSsors have for centu-
ries.
THE poor and middle peasants
who have been blinded by the
illusions of the de Valera govern
ment's sham battle against British
imperialism can no longer fail to
see now that the de Valera killers
are not one whit different than the
British hangmen.
In the United States where the de
Valera demagogy has sunk deeply it
is our duty to bring to the Irish
workers the lessons of de Valera's
butchery of the Irish peasants, Just
as British imperialism murdered
their forefathers in the struggle for
land and national liberation,
ONLY the Communist Party of
" ireland leads the way to real
liberation, in the united struggle of
the Irish workers, poor and middle
farmers against British imperial
ism and their blood brothers with
Irish carcasses, the Irish rich land
lords and capitalists.
HITLER observes the works of
IL President Roosevelt. and finds
them good. After all, the record of
some fifty strikers murdered since
the passage of the N. r. A. is not
such bad one for democratic"
capitalist government. The vigil
lantes, the red-drives of the Elks
and other animals, are viewed by
Hitler as following in the foot
steps of the Storm Troops, before
the mutual misunderstanding be-
tween the pervert Roehm and his
closest friend, Hitler.
NOR does Hitler, in his supreme
~ egotism in the slightest desire
to SANDER or besmirch, the Sinking
President of the United States. He
wants to pay him the highest
compliment for being so apt and so
rapid a pupil.
Analysing the trend and substance
Of RooSevelt's measures, the Ger
man Nazis find they completely
conform to Fascist ideals of sup
pressing the workingclass, war prep
arations, slashing the toilers' living
conditions, and granting huge sub
sides to the mammoth trusts at the
expense of the rest of the popula-
ton.
IT was to get the German Fascists
4 to admire the methods of Roose-
velt to see in him a kindred soul.
that the Fascist newspaper, the
Deutsche Bergwerks zeitung, organ
OF the Ruhr industry (the Pitts
burgh Of Germany declared:
"R0osevelt's measures show in
many respects a similarity with
the National Socialists decision
on the economic field. The labor
creation program may in many
ways be regarded as far-reach-
ing imitation of the German
model
WHY can the Fascist butchers Of
W Germany quite correctly show
the similarity between Roosevelt's
measures and their ownP
Because Roosevelt is slashing re-
lief in order to increase the profits
of the American Krupps (the Nor
gans. Rockefellers, Melons, and
Fords.)
Because Roosevelt through the N.
R. A. and imitation follows Hitler's
methods of smashing down wages,
while dividends and profits are
hiked upwards.
Because Roosevelt, like Hitler, ia
speeding his war building program.
Because Roosevelt like, Hitler, is
running the poor and middle farm
ers for the benefit of the specula-
tors
hND last, but not least, Roosevelt
"A in the fully accredited methods
OF Hitler, provokes the slaughter of
strikers and militant trade union
leaders, instigates an attack on the
vanguard of the workingclass, it's