The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
Fake Labor Friend"
May Help Calls Pal
Celebrate Tonight
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NIT herself, in reply to similar Ques-
ton.
Maybe Case for Sheriff.
Oscar Nelson didn't care to make
any comment, and JOHN Fitzpatrick
answered: Governor Small is an Ameri-
can citizen. He can come and go as
he sees fit.
"And if he does anything wrong,
the sheriff can get after him." and
he laughed at his own Righteousness.
Small Leads the Evaders.
But Small himself led the evaders,
crudely and ineffectively. Questioned
over the long distance phone for con-
firmation Of the report that he would
attend the ceremony, he answered by
saying; Il have been laid up with bad
eyes for the past two weeks and l
don't think will be able to CO."
Have you received an invitation?"
he was asked.
Eyes"
"Will you go to the ceremony if
you are physically able?"
The Governor Hangs Up.
Snap! and the receiver was hung
up. He simply refused to reply. After
persistent ringing, his secretary re-
piled and would not make a single
statement one way or the other.
Small was telephoned to at his home
in Kankakee, his home town, where
the Central Labor Union, affiliated
to the American Federation of Labor,
has placed him on the unfair list to
labor!
+ With whom will Small, the candi-
date of tabor" and the Socialist
Party in the state of Illinois, hobnob
when Dawes is notified?
AS notorious gang of labor haters
and reactionaries as were ever gath
cred will rub shoulders with Len
Small from the platform. There will
be the arch-militarist, John J. Per-
ing; Major General James E. Har-
bord, president of the Radio Corpora
ton of America, a Morgan-controlled
, firm, which is even now being sued by
the Federal Trade Commission for VIC
lating the antitrust law; Uncle Joe"
Cannon, hoary, dyed-in-the-wool reac-
tionary leader of the house of repre-
sentatives for many years, will come
up especially from his home in DAN
vile, as will Senator Arthur Capper
of Kansas, leading figure of the fake
farm bloc"
There will also be Frank w.
Stearns, financial angel of Calvin Cool
idge and owner Of department stores
in Boston where girls are driven like
coolies.
And together with them will be the
finest collection of American Legion
naires, members of the Grand Army Of
the Republic, Loyal Legionites, bank
ers, manufacturers and miscellaneous
anti-labor figures that ever met at one
time.
Is this the gathering that will be at
tended by the labor" candidate for
governor?
Is this how far the united front
against the Communists extends?
Debs stands by the socialist party.
The socialist party Endorses LaFol-
lette for president. So does the ex-
ecutive council Of the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor Gompers included.
SO also does the Chicago Federation
of Labor, led by the man who only
yesterday, it seems, said that both old
parties were rotten to the core, John
Fitzpatrick. The same John Fitzpat.
rick leads in the Endorsement OF Len
Small as labor's candidate for gov.
ernor OF Illinois. Len Small stands
cheek by jowl to the author OF the in.
famous Dawes plan, head of the Cen.
trail Trust Company of Illinois---Mor-
gan's bank-and leader OF Americas
potential Fascist, the Minute Men OF
the Constitution, Hell an Maria
Dawes. Dawes is the running mate OF
Calvin Coolidge on the ticket OF the
republican party.
Debs, Hillquit, Gompers, LaFollette,
Walker, Fitzpatrick, Small, Dawes,
Coolidge: all united against the can.
didates Of the Workers Party Of
America.
The symbol Of this betrayal OF the
workers into the camp OF the capital.
list parties is the attendance OF Small
at the notification ceremony OF Dawes.
What do the workers say?