The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-31
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

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Berry is president. Should they go
on strike in sympathy with the typos,
Mr. Berry would have them outlawed
and blacklisted as he did in New
York. And yet, it is difficult to i'm
agine men with real spirit getting out
paper set up by scabs. But that is
the gospel of the American Fedora
ton of Labor according to Sam
Gompers.
In the United States wealthy bust
ness men subscribe heavily to the
campaign funds of the capitalist par
ties in return for concessions and
other advantages. Harry Sinclair
swelled the treasury of the Republican
Party and he got the Teapot Dome.
Doheny was good to the war chests
of both parties. He got a big stretch
of California. Over in England the
capitalist parties get the dough and
it does not even cost them conces-
sion. In return for titles wealthy men
dump coin into the vaults of the Tory
and Liberal parties. A whiskey dis
tiller once rated as a wealthy man
died leaving debts of 100000 behind
him and his assets consisted of an ap-
plication for title on which he paid
the regular fee. 1t appears the distil-
Ter paid the money (S250,000) to Lloyd
George and got no title. Another gen
tleman, Col. Parkinson wanted Sir"
to his name and he went to the Tory
party. He made deposit but after
waiting for a considerable period fol
his title, he became impatient and
went to Tory party headquarters and
was told that he gave the money to
the wrong person. He sued and re-
covered his deposit.
General Smedley Butler was given
leave of absence several months by
President Coolidge in order to give
the general the opportunity of clean
ing up Philadelphia. Mr.. Butler
started his campaign with much blow
ing of trumpets and beating of drums.
Shortly after he assumed Office, the
general was riding down the street
one morning when he saw suspic-
ious-looking character on the street
corner. He stepped out of his auto
mobile and approaching the suspect,
stuck his gun into his ribs and told
him to make speed in any direction
that would lead him out of Philadel-
phia. According to the press report,
the alleged evil doer went, and may
be going yet for all we know. But so
is General Butler. The brave man has
come to grief. He has become crop
per in his attempt to make Philadel-
phia even a more dismal hole than it
was. One try at being a Mussolini is
enough. And the papers that heralded
his appearance as the beginning of the
Ku Kluxation of the United States ig.
more his passing. Only Labor" a So
called labor paper published in Wash
ington sheds a tear over his enforced
resignation.
Another moral scavenger to fall by
the wayside is Glenn Young, notorious
Williamson County raider. Young,
early last spring undertook under d.
rection of the Ku Klux Khan to take a
shine out of the moonshine business
in that locality, but 1t is believed that
his real object was to smash the I'M
ions of the miners. However much
blood was spilled and Young travelled
thru Chicago several times like a
walking arsenal. Since then his star
has waned. An East st. Louis Judge
has remanded 81 of the famous Her
rim rioters Of February the sth back
to Williamson County and Young must
stand trial in Herrin or Marion. He
does not relish the prospect.
The Reverend Norman Thomas, La
Follette's candidate for governor in
New York state, writes that John w.
Davis is a nice clean man and is too
decent to do the dirty things that
Harry S. Daugherty and Mitchell
Palmer did while the above worthless
were public officials at Washington.
But the Rev. Doctor believes that pure
tho Davis is LaFollette is purer, and
furthermore the latter is backed by
what is left of the socialist party. The
Reverend Thomas seems to think he