The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-19
AS WE SEE IT

pOlJlCdl crOOk from the Statue or
Liberty to the Golden Gate has several
substantial reasons for fearing the
communists. One reason is that the
communists are out to abolish the
robber system on which grafters
thrive. We can dispense with all the
other reasons as superfuous. The
Communists are becoming an import
ant political factor in Minnesota and
the Shiny Van Lear warns all those
would "play ball" with the radicals
that they are marked for slaughter.
The Minnesota Star has lot Of inn
lpudence to warn anybody 1t has
one foot in the grave and another in
the political underworld of the Twin
Cities. 1t has lost every share of de-
cency it ever possessed and is
stencil in the nostrils of all progress
ives. Van Lear was made mayor Of
Minneapolis by the radicals and the
progressives. He sold them out. He
would not be elected dog catcher to-
day. The Communists do not wage
political campaigns in order to get
elected osofice.
Van Lear is warning those who like
himself look on the working class
movement as stepladder to power,
influence and graft.
The police claim that the solution
of the SS,OO0,00O train robbery is at
hand. Nothing remains to be done
except the location of the loot and the
robbers; that is, the robbers who have
not yet been arrested Those arrested
are supposed to be innocent until
proven guilty, but as usual the police
declare they have the culprits. Per
haps they have We are so accus-
toned to police Confessions" and the
methods used in securing them that
policeman's word counts for little.
We have not yet read any editorial
in the capitalist press commenting on
the inefficiency of the privately owned
railroads that cannot safely ship val
liable consignments from city to city.
Miss Muriel Buell., % years young
and the owner Of a nifty figure, was
on the pay roll of Jefferson Living.
ston, millionaire and owner Of large
Kentucky breeding stable for racing
horses. He was running a harem on
the side, it seems. The old man sim
ply could not get out of business.
Miss Buell., however, was too extrava-
CANT, declared the old capitalist sup
porter of the home. the family the
purity Of young and virtuous woman-
hood and the sturdy foe of Commun-
ism, so he cut her off with the pro-
verbal nickel. Muriel is now telling
It to the judge She thinks settle
4msnt OF $3.50 a month foF the rest
Of her young life might atone for
the loss of the turfmans affections,
such as they were, or at least until
she got decent job with good pay.
The world waits with baited breath
while the judge is making up his
mind, if he has any.
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That interesting old faker, Arthur
Brisbane, produces almost as many
editorials as Ford does fivvers. He is
usually clever, tho not always truth
full Sometimes he sells real estate
thru editorials; sometimes he writes
boosts for the Standard Oil company
in return for juicy advertising con-
tracts. He is nothing if not original.
Brisbane is employed by William
Randolph Hearst at salary of $780,
900 year to write these editorials.
Hearst at the present time is engaged
in trying to establish the open shop
system in his Post-Intelligencer plant
in Seattle. But, to prove how good
friend of union labor this scabby
Hearst is, his hired man Brisbane
writes an editorial for the Hearst pa
pers which serves as a caption to a
picture showing Hearst's young son
with group of pressroom employees.
He is in overalls, like the rest of
them. He has union card in his
pocket, Arthur reminds us. But per-
haps it is in George L. Berry's union.
The picture may appease the anger Of
the Seattle printers who are on strike
against the scabby Hearst
| LaFollette insists that his new or.
Iganization must not be called a party.
IL must be the tail TO BoD'S kite. La
Toilette is also very much disturbed
about his running mate. He may
have as much trouble in finding
suitable companion as Coolidge had.
1t is said Warren S. Stone is his IA
vorite, but Gompers does not look
with great favor on Stones rise to
power industrially, financially and po-
litically Gompers, who has done his
level best to kill every kind of con-
vention that showed any inclination
toward forming labor party. will no
doubt find the Democratic party plat
form to his liking. The other labor
takers who with Gompers induced
LaFollette to rail at the ST. Paul con-
vention may also go their way and
leave the poor Socialists and ]. A. II.
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