The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-03
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY


warning against the increase in graft
in the building industry The Lands
committee owes its existence to graft
ing labor takers who can be seduced
by filthy lucre from their duties as
trade union officials, elected to serve
their fellow workers. The man who
made the motion before, the Chicago
Building Trades Council to accept the
Lands award purchased over $780,
600 dollars worth of real estate a few
days ago. Where did he get the
money? The Spread of the open shop
movement here in Chicago is rapid.
The Lands award committee may
thank the grafters. They are it's best
friends and it knows that.
council of carpenters signed an
agreement with five contractors last
year which was word for word the
form contract endorsed by the Lands
award. For opposing this scab con-
tract, five members of Local 181 were
illegally expelled from the union.
They were expelled by the grafters
who fatten on the Lands award and
on open shop contractors. The reac-
tionaries are everywhere working
hand in hand with the bosses. 1t true
that the bosses do not like to be held
up for graft, but 1t costs less to fix
a grating labor leader than to give
even small increase in wages to
thousands of workers.
LARRY SINCLAIR and Edward l..
Doheny are not worrying over
the Teapot Dome prosecutions. 1t
looks as If they had the United States
prosecutors in an apologize frame Of
mind. Sinclair is insisting on trial,
and Doheny is down in Mexico look
ing after HIS oil wells, which he
purchased about the time the famous
Socialist" Gales was selected by
Wall Street. Lawyers are still anx.
ious for more revelations in Washing
ton, but the plutes know all about the
hold-up business and are not doing
much worrying. All is well with big
business on the banks Of the Potomac.
MO doubt the workers are doing a
IN lot Of thinking on the controversy
that is raging in Washington, over the
question whether the air navy or the
aquatic death castles are more serv-
iceable weapons In snuf1ng out hui
man life. The workers will have a
hard time deciding. One thing they
are sure of: the masters of their lives
are leaving nothing undone to take
care of their passage into eternal
sleep. Admiral Sims, who is a rooter
for a large air navy gleefully de-
scribes the development Of new air
bomb which "can go clean thru a
battleship" What a pleasant pros
pect before one hundred per cent Am
orleans.
N WRITER in a capitalist paper
~ describing some alleged expert.
ences in G..eGia in a Mortified tone
exclaiE=5: How can any country
which denounces any belief whatso.
ever in a supreme being and SCOTS at
any form of religion, as Russia as a
Red country does now, ever expect
to prosper" The workers and peas
ants of Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Pc.
land, and the superstitious masses in
China and Africa might give an ans
wer. They believe in more gods than
there are feas on an Armenian rug
merchant, yet they are poor. Why?
EDWARD A. FILENE, Boston bust
- ness man, in recent signed ar.
ticle said that "the business men of
the world are united. Their union,
the international chamber of com
merce, altho but four years old, is
already known the world over by its
works" This is one of the capitalist
internationals, perhaps the capitalist
international since the league of ma
tons failed to go over. Filene gives
the international chamber of com
merce credit for Matching the Dawes
plan. The next meeting of the white
international will be in Brussels, in
June And yet some workers squeal
because the Communists are affiliated
with the Communist International the
only world organization of the work
ing class that is able to cope with the
capitalist international and eventually
defeat 1t.
THE BRITISH house of commons
by a vote Of 270 to 101 appropri-
atod over s1OO,O0O,OOO for the biggest
air feet In the world. Even the pa.
cifists are no longer certain that the
last world war was indeed the last.
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