Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-07
: Comment and Criticism

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Another hero Of the labor hater-
falls. Sheriff Don Chain. car Of
LoRkn county, West Virginia. long
notorious as a foe Of labor, is sen
fenced to Atlanta Penitentiary on a
boot-legging charge.
Thus passes Sheriff Don and peans
Of thank giving arise from the West
Virginia mining communities. which
have just cause 10 fear the well press
ACCENTED overload Of Logan.
That Sheriff Don will ever "come
back IS improbable. L he mad been
convicted of shooting a union miner.
his glory as a labor bai.er would
not have been dimmed but rather en-
HANGED. Chain, however, was found
guilty of e9uspiring to run speak
easy which savors little Of the heroic
but instead smacks strongly Of the
bootlegger who plies MS profession
under cover Of darkness.
In sentencing Sheriff Don, Federal
Judge McClintic, who l. not regarded
as a friend of the miners, paid hi.
respects. in no uncertain language 10
the sheriff and his tyrannical Iuie.
The judge charged that Chain hal
been responsible for the denial of
constitutional rights to citizens OF
Logan county and denounced the use
of mine guards as System Of
tyranny"
Sheriff Don and his rule show what
happens when an agent Of predatory
business Is permitted to prostitute
government to the use Of private
greed. Conditions such as exists in
Logan mus. end. The downfall Of
Logan's car will help.
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1t will not surprise Progressives to
learn that George S. Ward, head Of
the anti-union Ward Baking Company,
is active in soliciting funds for the
Republican campaign.
Ward recently wrote to baking and
allied interests asking money for the
Coolidge fund. Ii was one of many
sept out by heads of big business "a
chairman of Republican fund com
mittees appointed to look after
various groups of bankers, manufae-
turers and brokers.
In seeking to line up big business
behind Coolidge, Ward and his non
union associates are running true to
form. 1t is quite evident that they
belieev that Coolidge administration
would look with a benevolent neu.
traltiy, if not with actual friendliness,
on their "open-shop" activities.
While Ward hasn't committed him
self on Davis, there is little doubt that
he would be perfectly satisfied to have
the Democratic candidate in the White
House. The only candidate Ward and
his kind dom want in the White
House is LaFollette. The significance
of this should not be lost on the work
ers.
Barney Cohen, union man and en-
ploye of the United States Employ
ment Bureau, has been getting his
name in the papers by solemnly as
serting thai the American Federation
of Labor can not control the five mil
lion votes it claims and that the in
telligent workers will vote for Cool
idge and Dawes.
SphNii hhb"S htiltlAtH htIl AildN IlAt
A. +. of l.. has never claimed to con-
troll the votes of its members and he
must be endowed with a colossal
nerve to charge that it makes any
such claim. 1t shows that he thinks
the public will believe any wild state
ment he chooses to make
Cohen is equally mistaken when he
declares that the intelligent workers
will vote for Coolidge and the labor
hating Dawes. The intelligent work
ers have carefully studied the records
and platforms of the various candi-
dates and Il very large proportion of
them will vote for LaFollette and
Wheeler. They will do this, not be-
cause they have been urged by the
American Federation of Labor to sup
port the Progressive candidates, but
becaues they believe with the Fedora
tion that LaFollette and Wheeler best
represent the great producing masses
of the country and that a vote for La
Toilette and Wheeler is a vote to
abolish corruption in our Government
and bring it back to the people.