The daily worker., 1924-11-19
1000 More Toilers Pass
Thru Capitalism's JaiIs
in the City of Chicago
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

oDAY, thousand young men. workers, chalk up new
experience in their lives. They have been thru the
police station heIs and the filthy iaiIs of Chicago
This was really chcagos way Of starting off "Educa-
ron week. But it an educational experience these young
They had committed no crimes They had no criminal
recoros ney were Just workers. wearing workers cothes
Here in the South Clark Street Night Court
admitted even BY the Chicago Tribune friend Of
man and the defendants struggled to bar
honor, posa these men Up on the north side Saturday
"Discharsed' the
Another ..r..
procedures the same court order"
And thru the night, far into the morning.
It was the workers getting the of in the alleged
drive of chcago's police department against crime The
drives on Saturday and Sunday nights had swept the south
north and west sides but they only nete ucess workers.
many OF them on the streets out Of jobs
vice OFds DUOeggng g kings popoCket princes
touched
Some of the workers were taken into CUSTODY
in front Of their homes Other workers were
actually invaded by the police when protest was made
as in the case of Walter Kubek, the victim promptly
beaten up. When Kubek appeared in court with head
bandaged he was promptly fined $4,000 fo resisting an
Alderman Arthur Albert declared he would visit the
mayor and charge that the police just making bluff
at obeyng the order criminals of Chicago No
doubt the order itself was also bluff.
police Insignificant has been and in spite of its studous
effort to dodge interfering with the real criminals has re-
suited in arousing the biggest politicians in the democratic
party It is the democrats who control Chicago thru the
Dever administration. George E. Brennan, democratic
boss Of Illinois who helped run the national democratic
vention in Madison Square Garden, last summer
gone far to demand the removal of chcago chief of
police Morgan A. Collins
Brennan fresh from the gathering of democratic chief
tans at Tom Taggats gambling and health French
Lick Springs, Indiana There he met with "A" Smith,
elected governor Of New York. the Tammany Hall
banner with the aid of organized abors ofciadom Brennan
brings back the orders that the underworld" great pillar of
strength to the old political parties be disturbed
Brennan supported in this position by mike" Igoe de-
feated candidate for states attorney and Denny" Egan
chief baff of the municipal court goody trio Of capital
ist politicians!
Dean o'Bannon gunman recently assassinated by his
kind of the sIum- boulevard district north of
the Chicago River He delivered the election day
Bath House" John coughin and "inIsy Dink" Kenna,
atho the nation has gone dry still rule for the biggest cap
alliance all powerful in the south and side
wards.
torney Robert E. Grove Chief of Police Collins Francis X
Busch with other politicians and judges, called
MerO leader Of the Italian gunmen But this is ony an
example OF what takes place after every killing.
The underworld with it's vast ramfications is "pro-
tected with the that is thrown about all capital
ist institutions.
It into this underworld that the big employers send
their emssares to recruit their guards gunmen and strike
breakers is out of this underworld that many graduates
come into high places in capitalist class politics wage
militant Iabo to fight working class political action,
become the American Fascist in politics.
1t to protect this underworld that the department of
police in Chicago is carrying fake raids; throwing only
innocent workers. with very few exceptions into jail by the
hundreds refusing ball. holding them for days before
they finally released, because nothing be proved
against them
This the rotten capitalist social system that cannot
be oeansed It must be destroyed like all vermin Only
Workers Rule lift all humanity from "The Lower
Depths"