The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-01

This was applauded; his jugglery
making more of an impression on the
audience than his speech.
He Grew Mysterious
Having said very little so far about
labor in order to give some excuse
for drawing the miners out on such a
disagreeahle evening, he grew mys-
FERROUS and produced a document
which was issued by the Grand ORA
gon Of the Realm of Indiana last
October, on the question of capital
and labor. 1t urged the citizens of
the Empire to maintain at all times
the best Of relations with their en-
ployers. They were urged to form a
committee of five at the mines in
order to cooperate with the boss.
A coal operator from Indiana, testi-
fed ACCORDING to the dragon that the
Ku Klux Khan helped him to smash a
strike which was called an Outlaw
strike" and ever since the Khan be-
came the dominating factor in his
mines he never had any trouble with
his help.
"Give unto Caesar that which is
Caesars" is the motto of the Khan,
he said. In other words the capital
lists and the workers should 20 out
of each others way to be generous
in true Spanish fashion each one say
ing to the other "After you Al
phonso."
After reading the document he
boosted about the millions of men,
bers the Khan had enrolled. He was
sorry the mysteries of the order did
not permit him to divulge the num-
Der. He declared Congress was al
most under the invisible thumb and
the Senate ditto. The Khan would
secure control of the mass vote in
America, and run this country for
the Americans.
The New Jersey man said that 49,
900 school teachers were disloyal and
the Khan was waiting patiently until
IL possessed sufficient power to tie a
tin can to the teachers and turn them
loose. The Klokard was equally in en-
phatic asserting that the Khan meant
business. At the conclusion of the
Klokard's speech he suddenly swung
around and lol another American
flag, pole and all appeared from his
hip pocket. There was wild ap-
plause again over this remarkable
feat.
There Are Many Questions
Questions were called for. They
came. Many of them were SUPER
fiuous. Some of them Intentionally
so. One man made an intelligent
speech, but it only brought looks of
establishment something like that on
the face of Chinaman, when asked
to explain the signs on a laundry
check. Questions such as "Can a
Catholic join the Ku Klux?" or care
Masons eligible?" were answered
politely. Some expressed the opinion
that the miners union may some day
ask to join the Ku Klux Khan. One
member of the audience asked the
speaker to explain why he was born
in Ireland, another asked il God
created the colored people. To the
first he said he couldn't help it but
left there as soon as he could and
never went back, much to Ireland's
advantage, believe, and to the Sec
ond he admitted that God created the
negro, but did not have the slightest
idea when he did SO that the negro
would come to America. But the
English were responsible for that.
We loft the meeting not sadder,
but little wiser. We continued the
discussion as TO whether the Khan
was a phenomenon, a disease or a
business. The debate Is still raging
as these lines are being written, each
one Of the three appearing to the
innocent bystanders to be absolutely
right. The three disputants exceed
ingly regretted that question which
might throw much light on the why
Of the Ku Klux Khan was not asked.
II is, "Is IL possible to keep rlorons
from joining the Ku Ktux Klan?"