The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-03
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. j. o'FLAHERTY

Lieutenant Mike Grady Of the Chi.
cago detective bureau was one of the
most popular law enforcement officers
OF this city's police force, among the
capitalists, until few days ago. Just
now his stock has fallen considerably.
He was called the lace" of the force.
He was the terror of law breakers and
evil doors. The capitalist press, par.
ticularly the Herald-Examiner, which
appears to have easy access to police
force secrets, gave him and his
squad plenty of advertising. When
he fell from grace he was among
those engaged in the task of unraveI-
ing the mystery surrounding the
death of the Frank boy, son of a mil.
lionaire pawnbroker.
Grady and his squad are now IA.
dicted. Instead of being law protec-
tors they were found to be law vio-
lators. Surprise was often expressed
that Chicago gunner, among whom
the name of Dean O'Bannion FREQUENT
ly figured, should get away with their
shooting so easily. Men were killed.
sometimes in open daylight on the
public highways, and the culprits es-
capped. An indictment might be Sc
cured, but the necessary witnesses
would not appear It was mighty
queer, to say the least about il.
Grady's men could get to the bottom
of every mystery except a bootleg
gers war.
After an investigation lasting six
months, agents of the government Sc
cured the Indictment of Grady and his
squad for completely in the SibIey
warehouse million-dollar whisky con-
spiracy. The withdrawal was on
forged permits made under the leader
ship of Dean O'Bannion, and Grady's
men, in detective bureau automo-
bile, served as guard for O'Bannion's
rum runners. This is quite interest
ing reading for those who have had
the privilege of spending night in
the foul atmosphere of the bureau as
guests Of the Chicago police. Those
detectives who ostensibly protect the
public from criminals are here proven
large scale grafters and criminals.
Unfortunate victims of police brutal
ity who are picked up on the streets
on suspicion are taken to the detec-
tive bureau and subjected to indignf-
ties, foully abused in the most OBJ
scene language and used as punching
bags by the grinning gangsters who
encircle the prisoner as he stands
with his back to the cellar wall with
the glare Of many electric lights in his
eyes.
No doubt Mr. Grady was one Of
those indignant lieutenants of the law
who instructed his underlings at roll
call to give some poor devil "a little
medicine" after he got thru asking
him why he was here and what his
name was and other equally super
fiuous questions. 1t is rumored
around the detective bureau that
many police characters are picked up
frequently, taken to the bureau and
shaken down for graft The capitalist
system is based on robbery, and the
government is becoming so corrupt
that its supporters no longer make
even a pretense Of respecting the
laws made by themselves.
Ramsay Macdonald, the British pre-
mier will probably attend the open
ing Of the League Of Nations assem-
bly, in September. He is tremendous
ly interested in restoring capitalist
equilibrium in Europe, and places
great reliance on the assistance OF
Herriot of France in aiding him get
the tottering robber system on its feet
again. The socialism of Macdonald
and Herriot do not materially differ.
Both stand for the capitalist system,
but they would clip the tigers claws
little so that he would not scratch
the workers into rebellion. They both
stand for the League of Nations and
the Dawes plan.
The Irish Free State candidate de-
feated the followers of De Valera in
the Limerick by-elections. Limerick
was Republican stronghold, but ow-
ing to the abstention policy of the
De Valeraites the voters came to the
conclusion that it was futile electIng
man who would not take his seat
in parliament, even if elected. The =
policy of boycotting parliament orig
mated with Arthur Griffith, the found
er of the Sim Fein party, which rose
in opposition to the old Irish Parlia-
mentary party, led by John Redmond.
This tactic never made any impress
sion in Ireland, and only the Easter
week rebellion, to which Griffith was
opposed, saved the Sim Fein party
from extinction. With the signing OF
the treaty and the shifting of parlia-
mentary activity from London to Dub
lin, the abstention policy held less
promise than ever. In the first cleo
lions after the acceptance Of the Free
State compromise the De Valera anti
treatyites won A seats, but did not
participate in the Dali. Since then