The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-22
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ing before re committee on
judiciary last .drsday, DR.. ]. M. Do
ran, of the prohibition unit, informed
the senator that he could get good
liquor at drug stores. The senator
retorted: Your experience does not
coincide with mine"
THE Freeman's Journal of Dublin,
~ Ireland, issued its last edition last
Friday. The paper was started 161
years ago by the United Irishmen,
revolutionary body. 1t supported the
nationalist cause ever since, but re-
jected the physical force policy for the
constitutional policies of the Home
Rulers. It was bitter enemy of the
Easter revolution led by the Com
Inunist James Connolly and just as
bitter against the republican party
during the civil war Of 1922. Its pass
ing will cause no mourning in the
ranks of the Irish working class of
which it was an implacable foe.
LOW people continue to be wicked
| for the sake of money despite all
the highly paid preachers anu religi-
GUS institutions must be source of
perpetual worry to pious people. OF
course, most Of the preachers are
busy trying to dodge the gallows for
murder, and jail for lesser crimes such
as rape and seduction. ret there are
plenty of them at large; too many to
suit US. Still crime flourishes. The
latest juicy bit of scandal involves the
famous Irish tenor, John Mccormick.
A group Of matchmaking Boston law
yers of which the late Joseph Pelletier
was a leader. framed up several
wealthy men who were easily drawn
into temptation. Pelletier was Grand
Advocate for the Knights Of Columbus
as well as attorney for Suffolk county,
Mass.
John MCCORMICK was passing
- thru the lobby Of the Copley Plaza
hotel one night, when a young woman
OF pleasing personal appearance fell
on the ground and expressed the opin-
ion that her foot was injured. The
chivalrous singer carried her to her
room, whererppn she Immediately
shed her coat and Mccormick found
himself confronted with a female
dressed SO slightly that he shiyered.
The lady screamed violently. The in
cvitable and furious husband appear
cd as if by magic in answer to the
scream and impressed upon Mr.. Nc
Cormick the fact that his husbandly
feelings were so wounded that 1t
would require hundred thousand dol
lars worth Of vaseline to relieve the
irritation. John signed the check.
DuT the ways Of the eviIdoers are
- hard. Virtue is finally rewarded
else capitalist civilization would be
in a bad way. Pelletier died. Some
say because the other blackmailers
held out on him and his heart became
affected. Others say that God killed
him for his sins You can take your
choice. People who argue that reli-
gion is crime deterrent can ponder
oyer this little story. Everybody in
yoIved in it, the victims and the vic
tinlized, we're religious. And most Of
them were catholics.
N securing William Green, secre-
L tary-treasurer of the United Mine
Workers of America, as president Of
the. American Federation Of Labor to
succeed Samuel Gompers, the Ameri-
can capitalists can consider them
selves lucky. Green is a smooth and
willing tool Of the plunderbund. He
is one Of the most INSCRIPTIONS reac-
tionaries among the old labor takers.
Avery effective speaker at conven-
tons, Green has been used as the
pinch hitter against the radicals be-
cause of his ability to use radical
phraseology while supporting the
most reactionary propositions. But
despite Green's suavity. 1t is not like
ly that he will succeed as well as
Gompers in keeping the rival A. F.
Of L. chieftains from going into each
,ther's whiskers.
,ANIlTH Green occupied with the
M business Of running the fedora
tion.s speculation as to who shall sue
coed tp his office in the U. M. w. A.,
places Thomas Kennedy, president Of
Districts7 high among the eligibles. 1t
was refined that John L. Lewis was
to be rewarded for his services to the
Coolidge machine during the elections
by the post of secretary of labor.
There is another plum which is more
desirable from the. money making
point OF view, than even the labor post
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