The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-15
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BY T. }. O'FLAHERTy

ByT. J. 0'FLAHERTY
THE resourcefulness of Chicagos
bootleggers has been written with
lead on the anatomies of more people
than would fill goodly graveyard.
But never did they display their in
genuity to better advantage than in
the selection of the scene Of the lat
est killing, when two bootleggers fell
to rise no more before hail of ma
chine gun bullets that severely wound
ed three others.
IN the struggle for control of Chi
1 Cages booziest pickings, a Cicero
gang, angry because their north side
competitors were nosing in on their
territory, hired machine gun nest
right opposite a cathedral and right
next to florist shop. The papers do
not say that there was an undertaking
shop in the vicinity. This oversight,
if such it was, should be blamed on
the morticians rather than on the
bootleggers. cannot think of bet
ter location for live funeral parlor
than the immediate vicinity of bat
tlefeld
TT this is not civilized warfare we
would like to know what It is. The
church was handy, and so were the
flowers. There was one little flaw in
the arrangements, however, and de-
partment of justice agent was mighty
wroth over it. The gangsters double
crossed the agents Instead of com
hitting the murder where they had
promised, and where the detectives
were waiting with photographers and
press statements, the gangsters pulled
off the deed in another part of the
city, leaving the D. o. J. men with
nothing except rusty alibi.
LNRAzIER JELKE, big oleomarga-
4 rine man, purchased the Wander
bilt box at the Metropolitan opera
house in New York. 1t cost the big
grease man $165,00O, but what is that
in rich country like this? From
shirt sleeves to Palm Beach, this is
the path Of American democracy. The
average dumbbell viii say that the
big butter substitute man is worth
every niekle he has. Nevertheless,
1t is not pleasant to think that a
triple-paunched plute can afford to pay
80 much money to hear a triple
canned star sing, while thousands OF
workers haven't the price of a movie.
TT were the Queen of Roumania
L would soft pedal on the publicity.
One Of these days she may realize
that there are still few people left
in the United States who have not
adopted monarchism In lieu OF repub-
licanism. A few years ago, during a
strike of cooks and stewards on the
White Star line, a precocious pub
licity agent thought ii would be good
to have the word go around that
dukes, lords, barons, duchesses and
scores of ladies" were scabbing on
the strikers. 1t was good news, in
fact 30 effective was the publicity that
a small army of union men and women
met the ship at the pier with appro-
pirate signs and placards calling at
tention to the aristocratic scabs. The
latter had to stay on board ship dur
ing the night. Let us hope this fate
will not be melted out to the hand
some queen.
HOWEVER, we are not losing any
IL sleep over the possibilities. Once
College, Dublin. got boisterous and
decided TO murder a few professors.
Much to the delight OF everybody ex-
cept the professors, the students pro-
ceeded with their charges to the
place of punishment. A student gaz-
ing thru window saw his pet aver
sion being led like a sheep to the
slaughter. Don't hang him to the
lamppost," he shouted. And that's
Just what was done, except that the
professor was down before ne had
decent chance to die.
GREAT progress in commercial avia-
" ton is noted In the Soviet Union
by capitalist reporters. A network
OF air lines radiating from Moscow
connects the capital with every part
OF Europe and Asia. This does not
look as II the workers could not make
go OF the job of running one-sixth
of the earth. Ten years from now
the dynamic energy turned loose by
the Russian revolution will be the
surprise Of modern times. What has
been accomplished to date. despite tre-