The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
AS WE SEE IT
By 7. J. o'FLAHERTY.

States Attorney Robert E. Grove
declares that he has crime on the
run. Yes, very much So Most every
day man labelled by the police and
the capitalist press as a "gunman"
walks into the states attorneys Of
flee has his picture taken with one
of Mr.. Groves assistants and leaves
freely and jauntily. Other criminals
whose minds are attuned to enter
tainment of higher order than that
to be found in the states attorneys
office amble peacefully around the
detective bureau, city hall and Mr..
Groves Office, without, however, go
ing in. The police are prosecuting
a vigorous search for them. So we
are told
Since Mr.. William ]. Burns quit
giving daily interviews on the i'm
minence of solution of the Wall
Street explosion, those who buy the
papers for laugh never had more
reason to be thankful than today.
The police are looking for Dean
IO'Bannion, for instance. Tho his
name sounds rather familiar we do
not know the gentleman, but we read
in the papers that he is a prominent
florist, bootlegger, gang leader and
all-round sport: He is scheduled to
appear in court today on a charge
Of forcibly injecting a few lead pei
let's intof the person Of one Davy
Miller, a business acquaintance Of
his.
The police may discover Mr..
O'Bannion if he walks into the sta
ton some day and holds out his
hands for the cigars. Only the radi-
Gals are handcuffed. What we are
driving at, however, is not the sue
cessful efforts of Mr.. O'Bannien and
others to live long and dangerously
so far as the law is concerned but
with the boast of the states attor-
ney that he has crime on the run.
The criminals are running around
surely without worry, while Groves
officers are busy arresting strikers.
Perhaps that is what he means by
"having crime on the rum"
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The Chicago Tribune has a real
excuse for its daily revolution in
Russia. Now, they are fighting for
democracy" If they realized how
fiat that slogan falls in the rest of
the world they would speedily drop
it. The Tribune correspondents are
very persistent. They have consist
emily predicted this revolution for
over six years and they seem to be
just getting their second wind now.
The local papers carry some story
or other every day of convictions for
conspiracy. Generally labor cases.
The latest case is two business
agents of the Candy Jobbers' Union.
They got six months in the county
Jail for asking another jobber to join
the union. The organized labor
movement in Chicago is not easily
excited. Labor leaders are too busy
nowadays fighting Communism to
have any time to spare for the class
struggle.
The British Labor Party is very
successful in exposing its hypocrisy
in the house of commons. William
Leach, the under-secretary for air and
once an ardent pacifst who hated a
gun as much as Oswald Garrison
Willard, vigorously defended a large
air force and while doing so assert
ed that the flying machines used in
dropping bombs on the natives Of
Mesopotamia and Palestine were
"civilizing forces" This defense
brought jeers from the house and
angry curses from some of the most
radical labor deputies.
The Teapot Dome scandal is act
ing like wet blanket on business
and industry just as they were about
to start up, according to statements
made by some of the big industrial
chiefs in Chicago. Business, they
say, is a good deal like a poet, tenn
peramental, tho, generally speaking,
it is anything but poetic. Others,
however, do not see why a little oil
graft expose should cause the other
buccaneers to stop exploiting the
workers. Why should they :?
The American Federation Of La
Dor in California, the American
Legion. and the Native Sons of the
Golden West have Joined together in
defending the present Johnson fin
gerprinting bill now before congress.
A new cabinet has been formed
by Premier Theunis, of Belgium,
whose government was defeated a
few weeks ago by combination So
cialist- Catholic bloc. Vandervelde,
socialist leader, went to the king and
hat in hand begged for an opportun-
ity to form cabinet. The king
shooed him out the door and asked
Theunis, the conservative, to get back
on the job. Vandervelde, you may
remember, thinks the manner in
which the Russian workers disposed
of the monarchial letters was very
brutal.