The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-11
The Bindery Girl Was
Worried About Verdict
in Loeb-LeopoId Case
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

by y LOUIS ENGDAFL.
TO-DAY, shortly after o:3o O'clock the girl who works in
the bindery of the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.
slipped into editorial offices and began scanning the tape
coming off the news ticker.
She knew that at $50 o'clock, Judge John r. caverIy
to pronounce his verdict Richard and Nathan
That was the thing uppermost in her life # Was the
thing put foremost in her mind by the yellow press And
there she was all eyes, waiting for this
the wire.
Our coIumnst Thomas j. o'Faherty comes in off the
street with copy of the first 1t has headlines
taking up almost half Of the first page, procamng Life in
Prison for Loeb and Leopold, Jr."
"They selling like the proverbia hot cakes" says
o'FIaherty, meaning that the gube public eagerly
luscious sensation
And that be expected Today it is news of the
sale quantities. to the mutitudes Thursday night will
the WIsFpo prize fight in BcyIe's Acres in Jersey City,
across the river from New York itself
The socalIed reformers, defenders of the nations
ray have even carried their fight for the deportation of
tious Cal" knows are votes among the millions
OF sporting page followers than there among dwndng
church congregations, and word from Gals retreat in
the White House that the prevention of the battle
within his right"
Next week there will be extras about the arrival of
the world filters in Chicago, sensation
does not intervene and outcIass this event.
This is the reading BRASS Check press
places before its readers each day bringing
tion In all this SEX murder sports for profit
there isn't the remotest approach he development
the
something better In fact has exactly the opposite effect
The girl in the bindery, upon the streets for
get to learn the meaning of the that
Morgan today planning to float under the Plan
approved by the mperaIsms of both Great Britain and
France They completely lose sight of the increasingly
demand for the development Of working class power in
United States Labors aggressveness against capitalism
soothed and disspated by the games sde-shows
provided by the established social ORDER just as the Roman
Caesars in the days of their Decline offered the orgies of
the arena to disconnected popuace.
And just at that the Business Manager of our
DAILY WORKER brings in copy for 1.-THE Power Column"
that to go into Friday mornings issue. 1.-THE Power
umn will appear again tomorrow Its first sentence declares
that Twice every week.-Mrs. column will to your
view the motive power behind the DAILY WORKER"
The big motive power behind the DAILY WORKER is
the desire Of the workers of this country join
out the world in struggling for the abolition capitalism
and the Building of new social order-communism
The desire clearly crystalIzed in the minds of
rather the minds of thousands Of party
sympathizes ofany nationaies especially the nations
big industries, where exploitation of labor prevails in its
most brutal forms.
The desire is also dormant the minds of the millions
is as yet unconscious 1t needs be stirred into life;
educated, organized, directed into action.
That the job of the DAILY WoRKER-to rouse labor
intelligent on it's own side in the class strOIa
Against is the whole yellow press endless streams
OF poison seeking to choroform the into in
acton which just good the of the bosses
as if the workers fighting actually on the side Of tbs
enemy capitalist class.
"The Power Column" in the DAILY WORKERS drive
TOR new readers for increasing number of subscriptions
starts again in these columns, TOMORROW If your mind
enes at me poison OF the yellow press get out and for
the only daily the land that the antdote for that
poison the DAILY WORKER.
Thru increasing the power of the DAILY WORKER the
great masses OF humanity will gradually think of
themselves OF their problems, and of the struggle that
millions that the DAILY WORKER will sell like "hot
cakes among the masses.
The masses and be won from their present
unconscious slavery to the dope sheets the capitalist social
order.