The daily worker., 1924-05-19
AS WE SEE IT
By 7. J. o'FLAHERTY

II there is anything lower in thef
human scale than fink it is some-l
body who would scab on fink. VIII
liam ]. Burns, in an expansive mo-
ment, described his army of stool
pigeons as the greatest collection OF
scoundrels that ever went un-
whipped of Justice" Burns was
mighty proud of them for that rea-
son. That was before he got the Job
of chief of the investigation bureau
of the department of justice. After
wards he aimed higher He planned
to organize a special force so much
more despicable than the regular
stools that, in the words of Billy Sun
day, "if they wanted to get into hell,
they would have to use an airplane."
He actually got men to act as stool
pigeons for 81 year. And one of
them was the son of Harry M. Daugh-
erty, who recently escaped from a
sanitarium where he was held in an
attempt to cure him Of alcoholism.
n
Edward L. Doheny was behind thdH
1921 Mexican revolution in Lowell
California. William j. Burns and the"
department of justice were aware of
this fact, but they did not prosecute
or even publish the facts. Burns was
very anxious to give out statements
whenever he had pipe dream about
Communist plots or fanciful solutions
of the Wall street bomb outrage. In
this case Burns prepared to frame up
on the d. of ]. agent who furnished
the news of Doheny's activities. It
appears that Doheny provided the
cash for the rebels and that the dis
bursements were made by no less a
person than Albert B. Fall, then sec
retary of the interior It was fear of
the result of the discovery of these
criminal acts that caused Burns to
send in his resignation to the new
attorney general, to become effective
at once.
The Michigan raid of 1922 was
made under the direction of William
J. Burns and Harry Daugherty. The
"Ohio gang" as they have now come
to be known, used the "red raids" as
cover for their grating activities.
While they were busy Saving" the
country from the radicals, they we're
even buster robbing the country or
robbing the robbers. Perhaps Ber-
rien county was recouped for the ex-
pense of financing the prosecution of
the Communists out of the millions
paid in graft to Daugherty and Jess
Smith. 1t would be interesting to
know what the farmers Of Berrien
county now think of the patriotic he
roes who delivered them from the un-
scrupulous reds, who had so little re-
spect for the institution of private
property.
me fAu 1NluN sc q NIUE taste
Of their own medicine in South Bend,
Ind, few days ago. A great masked
parade was to be held as the closing
event of the May festival, and klans-
men, hooded and robed, took up their
posts in the business section of the
city, acting as sentries. Sheriff Cum
ningham served notice on the city
parade he would. His first act was to
send automobile loads of men thru
the city who unmasked and unrobed
the sentries. Afterwards a mob
stormed the khan headquarters and
broke some windows. Autos loaded
with kluxers were overturned. The
klansmen never attack except when
they are twenty to one. But when
ever force anything like equal to
theirs shows up they fall back on the
constitution.
The death of John f. McGinnis of
Boston recalls vividly to mind the po-
lice strike of 1919, which made the
name of Coolidge famous and infa-
nous. McGinnis, former bricklay-
er, who Joined the police force, was
leader of the strike. The mAl
formed a union and were promised
the aid of the American Federation
of Labor. When the first scare head
line appeared in the capitalist press,
the Gompers gang deserted the strik-
ing policemen like rats. Let it be
said to the credit of the strikers that
no body of men ever displayed finer
solidarity than they did, and they had
the capitalist class of America trem
bling at the knees, fearing that az
victory in Boston would mean a
spread of unionism thruout the ranks
of policemen in every city in the
United States.
Instead Of the support Gompers
promised he sent his private secre-
tary, Guy Oyster, to Boston to talk
surrender. Oyster arrived, immacu-
lately dressed, with spats and cane,
etc. The Boston Central Labor
Union, which had promised the po-
licemen its support WEIGHED on the
atrilxers after the annaaranca of the