The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-17
bill" HEARST
MADE BID FOR
'JAKEY'S" BUNK
Randolph Gagged at
Price of Hokum

What's the prevailing market rate
for "red" scares?
1t seems to be high. William Ran
doph Hearst, owner of a string of
newspapers turnout the country which
exist only on scares and scandals,
failed to outbid the Chicago Daily
News for the series of articles by
Jacob Spolansky, which the News is
now running.
And while Hearst's pockets seem to
be sewed up tight when it comes to
paying his reporters living wage,
he is quick to come across when he
can pull stunt" that will send up
the circulation of the papers.
His Price was High.
But Hearst wouldn't have Spolan-
sky's red" stories-at least, not at
the price at which Spolansky was ped
ding them. Spolansky has told the
DAILY WORKER how he let the cap
italist newspapers, one after the other
send the price for the red scares
higher and higher. In the end the
Daily News outbid Hearst, and the
Daily News forked up-the money has
already been paid-and the Daily
News is now running the articles.
Jake Got the Dough.
What good does the publishing of
these articles do me?" said Spolansky
last night in answer to a question
from the DAILY WORKER. I've
been paid good money for them. And
what good does it do the News? Well
they predict that the circulation will
go up Immediately"
l talked yesterday with the news
editor of the Daily News--a small
frightened-looking man by the name
of Chapel. Chapel reminds you of
nothing in the world excepting the
smaller end of worm that has been
cut in two. But Chapel has a bulls
voice. And he shouted wildly when
he found that DAILY WORKER re
porter had come to see him.
The rest of the editors were busy"
Their office boys said so. Their priv
ate secretaries said so. Their stem
ographers said so. AS one OF the
guards explained; Five minutes is a
good bit of time for those people"
Hard Working Editors.
The staff of the Daily News was
busy A large part of it was sitting
around the tables playing poker And
five minutes is great deal Of time
In the five minutes which you might
give for courteous answer to a re.
porter, your opponent might bluff a
royal flush with a pair of deuces.
There is a general impression
among the staff of the Daily News
that the man really responsible for
the Spolansky articles is "Bill" Forte
Whenever l asked for an interview
with the person in charge Of the red
stories, l was promptly referred to
bill" Forte. But Forte claims to
know nothing about the matter. He
says he is only reporter.
"5iI" Fumigates the ORAL
Is it 'Bill' Forte who is writing up
Spolansky's articles in literate formg
On one thing the editors were
agreed-that they would print no let.
ters or stories sent in to them max.
ing corrections in the Spolansky stor.
les.
| explained that Spolansky had been
thrown out Of the department of jus.
tice at the same time as Burns.
showed that his technique was even
too crude for the government in these
days Of loudly smelling oil pots. The
reply came quickly But he'll do
for u.s."
But how much more sensational
these exposures" could be! Spolan.
sky says that we meet in groups that
We spread literature, that we form a
party And he expects his readers to
be startled. 4t
Jakey Missed Something.
Spolansky doesn't seem to know the
half OF 1t. He dosent know about the
junior groups of Bolsheviks which the
Workers Party has formed in the pub.
lie schools. He tells nothing OF our
great daily press. He applies super.
lative adjectives to the most limo.
cent and least "damning" expressions
OF Communism.
Again we Communists have been ar.
rested for political murder And brot
TO trial. we are charged with nothing
more than political Sabbath-breaking