The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY

liam NoulyJ Ouuudy lell uOWn on
schedule to deliver two sermons. The
evangelist was i'll with an attack of
food poisoning following banquet
which was given in his honor by To-
cal bankers. 1t was rumored that the
liquor was not what it ought to be,
but this report may be concocted by
the Communists, who were RESPONSE
BILE for the Investigations now going
on in Washington resulting in-the re-
moval of DENLY Daugherty, Burns
three patriots. Sunday was delirious,
and when approached by friends made
a collection speech. "He is getting
to be himself again." said the doc
tors, and all fears over his condition
were allayed.
Spike" O'Donnell, a Chicago bust
ness man who does not conduct his
affairs according to the rules and reg
ulations of the Chamber of Com
merce, was standing on street cor
ner with young Spike" on his shout.
der, just to give his heir an oppor-1
tunity to see Cardinal Mundelein, who
had arrived with red hat from the
pope. Spike" had something like
$4,000 in his pocket, perhaps the price
of few barrels of moonshine. How
ever, when Mr. ODonnell put his
hand in his pocket, preparatory to in
viting his son into a drug store for
an ice cream soda, he found the
pocket still there, but it was as empty
of cash as a capitalist politicians
head is of ideas. Damn the crooks!"
growled Spike" "An honest man
cannot take walk these days with
out bodyguard Even the holy car
dinaps blessing does not seem to have
had beneficial effect on the hard
ened sinners But Spike" is so
crooked that there is suspicion he
picked his own pocket unconsciously
while waiting to see his shepherd,
Cardinal Mundelein, in his scarlet
robes.
"The New Leader" one of the few
survivors from the flock of socialist
weeklies that flourished in this coun-
try few years ago, has entered the
lists against the Weekly People for
the funny-sheet championship of
America. 1t has an editorial staff
large enough to man big metropol-
itan daily and it's foreign dispatches
conceived and written in the editorial
room of the weekly are very amusing
if not instructive or accurate In its
issue of May 10, it presents an array
of figures that would battle Leland
Odds of the Federated Press, to prove
that the Socialist Party of Germany
gained great victory by losing 5,000,-
100000 votes since the 1919 elections.
This means smaller party but hap
pier little socialist family as the
Weekly People apologized when it ex-
PEELED another live member-in the
days when it had somebody to expel.
In the same paper we find report
of Morris Hillquit's debate with Bert
rand Russell. Hillquit holds that the
British Labor Party is revolutionary
while Russell is of the opposite opin-
ion. Russell's intellectual foot slipped
when he admitted that the Mac-Dcn-
aid government was composed of hon
est men. Quick as flash Hilquit pounc-
ed on him with, "In these days that
is revolutionary" The debate sudden
ly took on a Teapot Dome flavor. Hill
quit also explains that the term "re-
evolutionary" has no connection with
barricades or bloodshed Let the CAPT
talists glut their thirst for the blood
of the workers, if they will. Socialists
must remain calm and decent except
when it is necessary to spill some
Communist blood ala Noske, Scheide-
mann and Company.
James O'Neal uses up one column OF
space repeating that the labor takers,
the Jewish unions and the East Side
pawnbrokers will have nothing to do
with Communists, therefore the st.
Paul convention must be a failure.
John Fitzpatrick at the July con-
ference declared that the Communists
could not make themselves felt in the
American labor movement in the neyt
twenty years. Today Johns political
influence does not extend far beyond
the Loop. The Catholic Church once
said it would never recognize the HELM
eccentric theory and burned Bruno at
the stake because he held that the
sun was the centre of our planetary
system. But the church lived 20 change
its view tho Bruno died. The Germsf&
labor leaders told General Holland
Maria Dawes one month ago that the
German workers had no use for Com
munism. We do not know how much
the good news cost Dawes but the
elections tell us that the German faker
was darned liar. Prediction is a
dangerous form Of diversion, as Fitz-
patrick, the Catholic Church and the
German labor fakers know hv now