The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
AS WE SEE IT
By 7. }. o'FLAHERTY.

Arthur Brisbane knows little bit
about everything, even about the
Standard Oil company. He seems to
be on the inside of Wall Street. The
French franc tottered precariously
for few weeks, but Arthur kept on
warning the people not to drop their
francs. Suddenly Morgan made a
hundred million dollar loan to France
and the Franc took another breath
Arthur said II told you So" But the
French franc will not rise very high
According to all indications it will go
the way of the mark.
The Irish Free State was presented
by certain officers in the army with
an ultimatum, which told the Cos
grave government in unminced words
that unless some consideration was
given to the republican ideal which
they fought for earlier in the strug-
gle, the soldiers might take matters
into their own hands. After some
stage-play the Free State government
swallowed its chagrin and decided to
make the best of bad situation. The
mutineers are still at large. They
took their guns along with them.
Guns are rather convincing argu-
ments. If the soldiers had not taken
their guns along the firing squad
would have delivered a verdict by
now.
Father Seidenberg, Of the commit
tee of citizens Investigating the
dressmakers strike, is in sympathy
with the workers, but he thinks that
the unionists get too personal at
times. He interviewed Mr.. Weiss,
the notorious hard boiled gentleman
who refuses to deal with a union
organizer. Mr.. Weiss showed him a
leaflet which the union got out deal
ing with the conditions under which
the employees of Mr.. Weiss labored.
The circular happened to mention
the boss's name SO it wounded the
sensibilities of that retiring indivi-
dual and also earned rebuke from
Father Seidenberg, "That is PERSONAL"
declared the Rev. Father, "you should
not mention his name"
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Mr.. Weiss, employs sluggers to
beat up pickets. 1t is even said that
in ordhr to keep the sluggers at the
proper pitch of exaltation and spiri-
tual excitement, he provides them
with booze with high alcoholic con-
tent, after partaking of which the
sluggers mentally transport them
selves back to the reign Of Attila and
imagine they are carving their way
to wealth, thru hordes of weak, civil
lied human beings, who stand be-
tween them and afluence. This is
their frame of mind toward the
pickets. OF course the strikers can
not see things the way Father Sci
denberg does, but we have reason to
believe if the holy man got smashed
over the head by a club welded by
an alcohol-guzzling fink that he
would not consider it beyond the
limits of propriety to mention the
name of the gentleman responsible
for such attentions. Father Seiden-
berg was good enough to go on the
picket line, and whenever an enraged
policeman was about to bring his
club down on his head he had only
to show his priestly garb and apollo
gies came. Unfortunately the strik-
ers are not priests or even rabbis.
Harry Daugherty has done moth
ing that the Republican national COM
mittee should be ashamed of. He
only employed Jess Smith to black
mail criminals and hold them up for
graft. Ordered investigation of SEN
ators who introduced resolutions to
investigate robberies of government
lands. Instructed his agents to- stop
arresting bootleggers. Helped to start
revolutions in Mexico. Violated the
Interstate Commerce law against the
illegal transportation of fight films,
etc. Harry is good fellow. He is
not communist.