The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-19
AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY

THE Dawes family may not be an
asset to the Coolidge family in
Washington, but they certainly have
contributed something to senate ETH
quette, something that was badly
needed. Charles, the husband, put
Morpheus on an equal footing with
Bacchus, by sleeping while the senate
is talking, writing poetry about the
yice-president or thumbing go per cent
of its nasal equipment at the presi-
dent. Mrs. Dawes, just to prove that
all the originality is not monopolized
by the other prominent members of
the Dawes family, ushered in the In
novation of eating sandwiches.
DERHAPS, the lady exhibited more
political sagacity than could be seen
by the unobservant, at the first
glance Friends of the family and
those who expect non-perspiring ap-
pointments in return for the inter-
est in the vice-presidential celebrity,
may not think it good manners to
open wide their mouths in loud guf-
flaws as some senator hurls poetical
effusion at the head of the somnolent
chairman of the august senate. A big
cheese sandwich, with a generous
slice of onion will enable the Dawes
guest to stop up the main avenue into
the stomach with the piece of cheese
and if tears of laughter come, who
can say that the onion is not to
blame? This may not be scientific
explanation, but it's quite plausible.
THE coal barons' conference which
4 was scheduled to take place yes
terday in Cleveland, has been called
off. The invitation was issued by the
Ohio coal operr ors. The western
Pennsylvania group accepted. Indiana
agreed to send delegates, but with so
many reservations that the Ohio boys
became disguised and called off the
whole thing The Illinois operators
refused to send representatives. Evil
IDENTIFY the operators have no stomach
for a straight fight with the United
Mine Workers of America They pre-
Ter the nibbling tactics that have en-
abled them to smash the union in
West Virginia and other places.
THE head of the Indiana association
l. is Phil H. Penna, considered the
best strategist among the coal mag
mates. Evidently he feels that more
can be accomplished by developing
The non-union mines of Kentucky and
other parts of the country than by
risking millions Of dollars in a battle
with the best aggregation of fighting
men on the American continent. The
American miners have given their
masters a taste of their steel. That
The bosses would even dream of cross
ing them, is a reflection on their re-
dictionary and crooked leadership and
lot on the rank and file.
DUT if the rank and file of the min
- ers' union think the bosses have
called off their dogs they will be max
ing big mistake. Things are devel-
oping nicely for the operators. Why
should they resort to open conflict
with the union as a whole when they
can bite it off one chunk at a time
Frank Harrington is sending commits
sions around to study super power
while thousands of Illinois miners are
unemployed. John l.. Lewis has in
vited 10000 miners to get out of the
industry and look for jobs somewhere
else. Lewis will undoubtedly claim
that his leadership has frightened off
the coal barons. But the coal barons
are already violating the Jacksonville
agreement in the pits. The miners
must wake up.
A MUSING editorials appear in the
"A capitalist press over the success
full failure of Abramovich at the Gar
rick Theater last Sunday. One would
imagine by reading those editorials
hat free speech was inyiolate in the
United States; that such things only
happen in Russia, and that the
russians are Asiatics, hence their
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