The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-07
AS WE SEE IT
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

A fellow by the name Of Ed.
Howe-Dr. Frank Crane knows him
we don't, says that Russia is
ruled by nine men. Ed does not like
the idea. He thinks perhaps that's
eight too many. The car used TO
do the job all by his lonesome. And
Ed, being a good American, is strong
for efficiency. We have not heard,
however, that the nine have been
caught selling out Russia for a
satchelful of dough. Whenever they
catch anybody in Russia thinking of
doing that he finds his thinking ma
chinery missing. Here in the u. S.
he would begin to enjoy life.
The grave diggers in Naples, Italy
have gone on strike. They demand
shorter hours, more pay and a higher
standard Of living. Since the Fas-
cisti government came into power.
the number of deaths has increased
enormously, resulting in wear and
tear on the bodies of the grave dig
gers. Mussolini threatens to give i.
the grave diggers their own medicine 4
unless they bury their demands with
the dead.
Much Joy was created in England
recently over the announcement that
the United States Shipping Board
was to sell its ships at auction. This
is good chance for the man who
was looking for ship to bring free
dom to Ireland wrapped up in ham
sandwiches, as was predicted by
Saint Columkille a few hundred
years A. D.
Sweden has no Samuel Gompers,
Charles Evans Hughes or Yiddish
Daily Forward. The result is that
Sweden has contracted to deliver
800 locomotives to the Soviet gov
eminent. In the meantime the u. S.
is contracting economic depression.
Britain is also taking steps to
grant Russia credit so that the great
unemployment prevailing in England
may be reduced. One of the condi-
tions Of the loan will be that all
the money advanced must be used
to buy the needed materials in En-
gland.
J. P. Morgan went to Europe after
Stacking Japan with a $150,0o0,000
chain in the form Of a loan. He
plans TO join his family at Naples
on board the yacht Corsair-rather
appropriate cognomen-after which
he will indulge in lazy cruise of
the Mediterranean idling among the
Grecian isles and sailing as far east
as Egypt" This should be crafty
ing to the wage slaves all over the
world who are toiling to make Mr..
Morgan's investment pay so that he
and his family can idle among the
Grecian islands.
James Reed, Of Missouri, threw
another harpoon into Mr.. McAdoo's
campaign-or is it q corpse? He
charged him with loaning money
without security to France during
the world war.
Latvia is facing another cabinet
crisis. The outlook is dark for the
''potato republic" of the Baltic.
The Chicago Tribune and the Her
ald-Examiner are engaged in Grim
inal-catching contest. 1t is a well
known fact that the big dailies have
their undercover men in the under
world, that they are on such terms
with the police that the latter feel
themselves under the obligation to
tip off the newspapers when going
IN oh or.4v
inal or suspect. Indeed it appears
that the business of arresting those
suspected of crime is now largely the
function of the capitalist press here
and that the police only move when
ordered to do so by the newspapers
or perhaps come to the editorial off
ces and lug the prisoner away after
he has been tracked down and ap.
pretended by the press.
This is a very interesting situa-
ton and it is a matter of surprise
that those political chiropodists
known as liberals who are usually
busy scraping bunions off the feet
of the capitalist system have not
already raised loud outcry over
this state of affairs. The capitalist
papers actually commit crime in IL
legally arresting people whom they
suspect of being in a position of in
formation that will enable them to
beat rival. But there is no move
made to stop this dirty work.
A few weeks ago the Herald
Examiner arrested a man suspected
of being on the inside of the murder
of a. notorious gunman by ne name
of Dougherty and his wife. The
suspect was detained for twenty
four hours in the Herald Examiner
prison jokingly called the goldfish
room" after the notorious chamber
of horrors in the datocti,,a h.,roa,,