The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-13
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THERE is considerable consterna-
ton among movie fandom in the
United States over the rumor that
Gloria Swanson, instead of hitching on
to a bonafide marquis in her latest
hymenial adventure, only succeeded in
drawing an unsoused bartender from
the matrimonial grab bag. Some peo-
pie are uncharitable enough to believe
his is why Gloria got sick, just about
The time Ebert of Germany Branting
Of Sweden, King George of England
and Mussolini of Italy either passed
in their checks or looked as If they
we're on their way.
GLORIA is not so bad in the movies.
" At least there are worse. She
was popular at the ticket office, but
what couldn't she do to the dollars
Of the rotarians if instead of plain
Gloria Swanson, the name "Marquise
de la Falaise" could be blazoned from
the electric signs? The sad news has
gone out from no less respectable a
French journal than the Quotidien,
hat the marquis turned out to be an
ex-bartender. He revealed his real
identity when he accidentally got
sober.
THE Polish socialists are somewhat
worried over the intentions of Ger
many towards certain territory which
was allotted by the treaty of Versailles
to Poland. Premier Grabski assured
the socialists that everything would
be alright, that France would take
care of her vassal. Just the same the
socialists were not satisfied, so they
cabled to Leon Blum, chief Of the
French socialist parliamentary frac-
ton, asking him to use his good Of
ices with the French government in
behalf of maintaining the treaty of
Versailles in all it's pristine iniquity.
Mt the rate things are going in
~ America, the Civil Liberties Blu
reau will have nothing to do but send
representatives to bourgeois banquets
to give tips on how to extract the
teeth of radicalism or act as defense
committee to protect the stoolpigeon
Abramovich against the heckling of
the American workers who resent this
gentleman's crusade against the first
workers republic in human history
The following statement attributed to
Roger Baldwin, director of the Civil
Liberties Bureau, is taken from the
Great Falls Town Topics, and is
worthy of reproduction:
THERE has not been single case
| since May of a department of
justice representative acting as a pro-
vocative agent or engaging in I'M
lawful searches, or seizures in connec-
ton with radical or labor activities, or
gathering evidence by such unlawful
means as tapping telephones or open
ing mail There have been no raids
on reds and no effort to Interfere with
the ordinary activities of radical par
ties anu puDAiCdltOHos L nc AONOiooi Va
he Daugherty-Burns policies has
been complete.
"kHOST of the detectives whom
wi Burns brought into the depart
ment have been let out and their
places have been taken by investiga-
tors with law school training. The
files of the department have been
closed to the professional patriotic or
CARNATIONS which formerly got so
much of their inspiration and misin-
formation from government secret
service reports. We note these facts
with satisfaction and with the hope
that the new system is strong enough
to weather the accidents of political
change"
60 the golden millennium has ar
- rived! The capitalist beast has
been transformed into an angel and
Immediately after Wall Street got
such a stranglehold on the govern
ment that even the anarchists gasped
for a little while. But after all, the
anarchists are easily handled Let the
employers fleece the working class; \
let their government deport radicals;
let them suppress meetings, as they
are doing right now let them send
finks into the unions and working.
class organizations as they are doing
now. but let them do it in ''ladylike
manner" and the ferocious powder puff
anarchists Of Greenwich village will
- to sleep with their heads resting
siicgly in the fatty wrinkles of capital
ism's belly.
THE leopard has changed his spots
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