The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-09
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| refused TO walk out WIN ner COM
rades. She stayed and scabbed The
committee in charge of the institu-
ton recruited help to take the place
of those who struck. While Miss He
garty was sitting in a chair in front
of a stove, four of these 'strikebreak-
ers" seized and gagged her and gave
her the "bum's rush" to the sidewalk,
giving her a good trouncing, at the
same time, impressing on her mind
and on her body their conviction that
"scab" was hardly fit to touch ex-
cept with very long pole. The
"strikebreakers" did not return to the
asylum, neither did Miss Hegarty.
She was taken to hospital
The Chicago Tribune combining
business with patriotism, has ven
tured into the weekly magazine field.
The first issue Of the new periodical
is now on the stands and one would
never think that the Tribune would
pay $4,000 to the person who discov-
cred the most appropriate title for a
publication issued by the most notori-
GUS reactionary outfit in America.
Liberty" It is, and the Chicago
| Tribune, with thrills of pride running
up and down it's spinal column says,
"and we are proud Of the title"
The winner Of the prize is from
Youngstown, Ohio, favorite haunt
of the Ku Klux Khan. 1t is true, he
made over three thousand attempts
before it occurred to him that the
Medill Patterson-McC ormack impe-
rialists would give a nickel for such
title. No doubt Liberty" will soon
be in a United Front with it's daily
step-mother carrying on a campaign
for Intervention in Mexico. "0h,
Liberty, how many crimes are COM
mitted in they manner"
Morris Hillquit delivered series
of lectures recently to select audi
ences of East Side pawn brokers,
shopkeepers, and a few labor leaders.
His object was to prove that the
policy of the Socialist Party was COR
rect and that the tactics of the Com
munists were dead wrong and that
Communism was on the downgrade in
Europe. After the great German
Landslide for Communism in the re-
cent elections, Morris will have to
: revise his estimates even tho he is
not likely to change his opinions.
Communists activities do not begin
and end with elections. That is only
small part of the business. Since
the elections the Ruhr workers have
INDUCED in very effective form Of
political action. A general strike is
much more political than the mere
dropping of ballot in box. Drop
ping ballots is merely a counting of
noses. Unfortunately many radicals
do not differentiate between political
action and parliamentary action. The
latter is included in the former. The
greater contains the less. Anyhow,
there is very little consolation in the
German elections for Morris Hillquit.
A writer in the New York Nation
complains that Calvin Coolidge proved
himself incapable of effective indigna-
ton over the disclosures of thievery
on the part of his cabinet. Speaking
at an Associated Press dinner, the
president CLOSED over the Teapot
Dome and other scandals by blaming
the world war for the slight crack
in the liberty bell of official morality.
However, the Nation is grateful for
one silver lining in the black cloud
of threatened war that hangs over the
world-the Dawes plan. Poor liberals
are always bound to be disillusioned.
We more than imagine that 100000
Communist votes backed by perhaps
100000 German workers will drive
long spike in the coffin of the Dawes
plan for keeping the German workers
in state Of Industrial feudalism.
Back to honesty" is the slogan
of the Gompers part of the election
machinery of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. OF course, Samuel is
non-partisan, that is, he will con-
. sistently vote the democrat ticket.
Non-partisanship means that the
workers must not have political
party of their own. Gompers allows
them the privilege of voting for either
of the two capitalist parties reserv-
ing for himself the right to inveigle
as many as he can to the democrat
side. One set of labor takers are
roofing for LaFollette. another for
McAdoo, still another for Coolidge and
the so-called radicals, the Socialist
Party, or what is left of it don't know
the devil where they are at. They
are just like Mr.. Micawber in the
Dickens novel, waiting for something
to turn up.
II is rumored that Holland Maria
Dawes is Coolidge's choice for rum
ming mate in the presidential mar
Z thon. This is even a better combin
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