The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19
AS WE SEE 1T
By T. J. O'FLAHERTY.

There are so many scandals emerg-
ing from the Washington cess pool
these days that it takes all ones time
to keep track of them. A public rob-
berry that I'm culinary times would
draw a streamer headline is liable to
find itself tucked away among the
death notices. The looting of mil
| lion or so is considered small stuff.
Such is the fate of the discovery of
nationwide counterfeit plot involving
officers of a large federal reserve
bank allied with leaders of the Chi
cago and New York underworld. 1t
was buried in an obscure corner Of
the Sunday papers. Only few mil
lion dollars were involved. There is
surely some incentive to make good
under capitalism. Perhaps this is
what the capitalist propagandists
have in mind when they say Commun-
ism would take away our incentive.
There are others who profess to
believe in Communism but dread its
coming. William Reynolds, of De-
troit, member of the Workers Party,
approached one Frank Seidel, a mem
Der of the Proletarian Party, for a
subscription to the DAILY WORK
/ Err. Mr.. Seidel declined, saying he
got all the news of Russia he wanted
from the capitalist press; he declared
that he knew what to believe and
what not to believe. He further stat
ed that workers who become too in
! terested in Communism were I'M
happy. Not wishing to lay himself
open to an attack of revolutionary en-
thusiasm he refused to subscribe to
the DAILY WORKER.
If the war veterans demanded hon
ors instead of bonus, things would
J be so much easier for Calvin Cool
idge and for the ex-soldiers. The
easiest decoration to secure is a cross
of some kind, from the Iron Cross to
the Double Cross. If Sergeant Jake
Ellex does not engage in the junk
and pig iron to set himself up in
business and supply the needs of a
respectable trade for the first six
months. Hardly nation in Europe
big or little but has kissed and dec
grated Jake. The following nations
have added to his junk pile; France,
Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, England
and the United States. When this
hero takes to the street with his
jewelry on, he rattles like two year
old Ford on the way to Hobo picnic.
The official organ of the Interna-
tional Ladies Garment Workers
Union, also socialist (yellow)
paper, has lengthy editorial on the
indianapolis convention, in which it
completes with the Shiny Oneal in
heaping abuse on the radicals but
regrets that the convention did not
show the same spirit of liberation
to Howat that Gompers showed Will
liam F. Dunno at the Portland con-
vention. One of the biggest things,
says this renegade socialist, ever
! done by the American Federation Of
/ Labor was to allow Dunno the floor
at the convention in order to reply
to charges that he was rebel.
Comment on the rantings of such a
political pervert would be an insult
to the intelligence of our readers
and waste Of time.
Louise Lawson, another broadway
Butterfly" met her death under mys-
FERROUS circumstances. The papers
talk of wealthy men" being in
volved. Millionaires perhapsl Some
time ago another woman of easy
virtue met her death in New York.
1t was learned that a man of mil
lions, son-in-law of Pluto Stotesbury
of Pennsylvania fame, financial as
sociate of j. P. Morgan, was in the
habit of paying dot" King, the
murdered girl, one thousand dollars
visit. The millionaire was not
arrested. He was invited to walk
into the Office of the district attor-
ney. The case is now forgotten. The
millionaire is still at large. Other
millionaires are spending the millions
] produced by the millions of workers
in sweat and blood, on the White
Ways of the great cities. Capitalist
morality! The whole social system
stinks in the nostrils of civilization
and its hypocrisy is by no means
the least obnoxious part of it. De-
tectives with the brain development
of infants go around arresting young
children who happen to become in
terested in the radical movement and
the papers squawk about "the red
menace" while murder, rape and vice
flourish UNPUBLISHED beneath their
= very noses.