The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-23
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

oily" BAsCoM sLEMP. "Silent"
- Calvin Coolidge's canny secre-
tary besides assisting his boss in his
effort to retain the janitorship of the
White House for the next four years,
has taken on another task. 1t appears
that the crab industry is running on
the rocks, paradoxically enough, be
cause the dredging of Chesapeake Bay
removes the rocks and other shelter
which means as much to the crabs as
the White House means to Calvin and
Slemp. In telling of the crab-saving
crusade, in which Slemp joined, the
Chicago Tribune, has the following
headline: "U. S. Asked To Make Ma
ton Safe For Crabs" 1t is snappy
headline, but if the United States
showed as much concern for it's pres
idents as it does for the crabs the
headline would read: ~. S. to
Make It's Presidents Safe From
Crabs" Did not a dose of poisoned
crabs lay the late Mr. Harding low?
But is was rumored that the g. o. P.
secretly offered the crabs vote of
thanks for getting rid of Warren. Mr..
Slemp's action in their behalf lends
credence to the story.
kHISS SUSAN LAWRENCE, labor
lVI woman member of the British
parliament recently returned to Lon
don after a visit to Russia She
speaks highly of the Soviet regime
and the progress being made by the
Workers Republic along the lines of
social reconstruction. The plute press
is angered because she has not fol
lowed the lead of such counter-revolu
tionary hays as Emma Goldman and
Mrs. Philip Snowden, who attacked
the Soviet government to the delight
of the workers enemies and to their
own profit. In an attempt to detract
from the value of Mis- Lawrence's tes-
timony to Soviet progress, the capital
list papers warn their readers that
Russia took a month off during the
English woman's visit in order to
stage" things for her benefit. One
would imagine that the U. S. S. R..
turned itself into a gigantic Holly
wood in order to give Miss Lawrence
rosy view of life in present-day Rus
sia SO desperate is the position of
the anti-Soviet die-hards that they
risk arrest on suspicion of lunacy, as
result of their lying yarns, in a
futile effort to poison the minds of the
masses against the Workers Republic.
ALL is not well in "Bob's' camp in
~ Illinois. Or in New York, Mis-
souri, and Montana for that matter.
But to deal with Illinois is sufficient
for the present. 1t appears that the
original pregressives and "Bobites,"
the heads of the railway brotherhoods
are allied with the socialist party
against John H. Walker, Olander and
the forces of which William Quesse,
the fiat janitor, is the rather unvocal
head. Because of Small's career as a
friend of grating labor officials, the
boys who rule certain unions with the
dlu Oh ING SdJ owe ulli d ucDJ Vi STdLl-
tude which they pay with votes. 1t is
better to pay with votes and dine at
Henricis than lishten to the unmusi-
cal voice of the prison trusty every
morning say: Come and get it."
And what they get is nothing like
what wide-awake labor leaders can
order in the noted food emporium on
Randolph Street. 1t usually consists of
Indifferent oatmeal, sans sugar with
can of hot root beer, mislabeled cot
fee to wash it down.
NOV, money makes the mare go
~ and even Napoleon knew that
armies march on their stomachs and
capitalist political orators find many
things the matter with their vocal
chords unless they can hear the clink
of the coin in the box Office. The
friends of Governor Small may not be
strong on ethics but they are not
weaklings when it comes to playing
politics. They are perfectly willing to
pass resolutions praising LaFollette
and Wheeler and denouncing General
Dawes, but when Bob stretches out
the hand for the dough that is needed
to make his campaign sing, he hears
only horse laugh, coming from the
general direction of Quesse and Co.