The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-17
REDS OPEN HUGE
FUND TO BUY GAS
FOR MACS AUTO
Daily Worker Staff is
There with Dough
BY MAX sHAcHTMAN.

poverty OF James Ramsay Macdonald
Great Britain's Labor" premier, the
members of the editorial staff of the
DAILY WORKER, today dug into
their collective jeans and skirts and
amassed the sum of eighty cents
which was Immediately cabled to the
head Of the British Empire.
While the money was being col
lected, numerous touching incidents
took place, many of the editorial staff
members breaking into soulrending
tears which became shrieks as they
each deposited their dime, or ten cent
pieces in the hastily improvised mon
ey box Of Thomas O'Flaherty.
Mac Up Against 1t.
This event, which, it is freely pre-
dicted, will soon assume international
significance, originated in the follow
ing manner:
By means of its news service the
DAILY WORKER was informed of
the condition of the premier. So hor-
rible was his state, it was learned,
that he was forced, against his will,
of course, to accept little item of
10000 shares of stock valued at $780,
900 in the McVitie-Price Biscuit COM
pany. Against the gift, which came
from the millionaire owner of the
great Scottish bakery, who is also a
dear old friend of Jimmie's, Sir Alex
ander Grant, Macdonald fought like a
lion. Finally, due to force majeure,
the gift was rammed down his pocket.
Ramsay Fought Like He'll.
Previous to this fierce encounter,
Sir Grant had furnished the premier
with a powerful and expensive auto
mobile with sufficient funds to main
tain it and to pay the chauffeurs. This
also Ramsay at first declined, but his
slender income from potboiling for the
bourgeois press and from occupying
a seat in parliament, was hardly enuf
to keep him in silk stockings, red silk
neckties and satin for the Kings le-
wee. And so he was forced, against
his will once more, to yield to his
friends responsiveness.
But Sir Grant Insisted.
The unfortunate part of the whole
affair is that by the merest coinci-
dence-quite droll, you know-his
benefactor received the title Of baro-
net only a short while later. And
while some scandal-sniffers pretend to
see a connection between the gift of
Sir Alexander to Ramsay Macdonald
and the gift Of Ramsay Macdonald
Sir Alexander, such vile insinuation
is of course absolutely unfounded. OF
course. Again, of course.
Feeling keenly for his poor condi-
ton, for Jimmie, as he is Familiarity
known. to the members of the DAILY
WORKER staff, gets paid only for his
writings, for being member of parlia-
ment, for being prime minister, and
for being minister for foreign affairs,
these same DAILY WORKER men
and women put their heads together
and decided that so long as there was
a cent IN tnelr pockets, macdonald
would not suffer for want.
The Reward of Virtue.
The concensus of opinion was a
feeling of appreciation at Ramsay's
brave fight against getting the biscuit
altho he needed the dough. While
one or two of the more obstreperous
writer's on this paper maintained that
by his actions Ramsay had been put
into more or less embarrassing posi-
ton, the right-thinking remainder of
the staff bore down heavily upon the
skeptics and the collection was forth
with taken.
The results of the drive for money
for the premier are officially an
nounced as the following: