The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-05
GROVE TRYING
TO GET BACK
AT ACCUSERS
Labor FGkirS Are on the
Run

States Attorney Robert E. Grove,
whose star prosecutor, William Nc
Swlgsen, in company with notorious
beer-runners and eanssters, was muir
dered by an opposition beer-runnina
gang last week, Is desperately striV-
ing to use his political machine to In
tlmidate those elements that have
charged his office with connection
with Illicit booze selling.
He announces that he has person
ally requested the attorney general of,
Illinois, Oscar Carlstrom, to assume
direction of the special grand jury that
he has called to Investigate" the gang
war in Chicago.
A Crude Political Trick
The grand jury investigation is be-
ing launched with all the trappings of
sensationalism so familiar to low
grade politicians. AS one Of the rea-
sons for calling 1t Grove produced the
usual thread-bare threat OF death
and announced with great show of
emotion that not only did his enemies
threaten him, but that they threatened
to kidnap his children. This was his
reply to the demand on the part of
many of the indignant bourgeoisie that
a special grand jury and a special
prosecutor be called and that his
Office be investigated.
That no real inquiry will be conduct
ed by a jury impanelled by the
Grove Barrett political machine,
which will be composed of those rec
commended by Grove henchmen, is
emphasized by the fact that among
those to be called to testify are Cor
oner Oscar Wolff, who has already
charged that Groves Office is unfit to
handle the investigation because of his
political alliance with the gangsters
who are to be investigated. Harry
Eugene Kelly, president of the union
league club, who first demanded a
special states attorney and special
grand jury to investigate the series
Of beer running murders owing 70 the
fact that prosecutors from the states
attorneys office associate with and en-
gage in questionable tours of the
saloons with the identical people they
are supposed to prosecute, still insists
upon a special grand jury not under
the influence Of Grove.
The calling OF Coroner Wolff to tes-
tafy regarding his charges is viewed
as an attempt on the part of the
Grove machine to discover what pro-
gress is being made by the secret in
vestigation into the McSwiggen muir
der being conducted by the special
coronor's jury.
In spite of Grove calling a special
grand jury, Kelly and others demand
ing a special prosecutor will continue
their demand and will insist upon a
special grand jury not under the in
fuence of the political henchmen of
Grove.
Labor Fakirs Run to Cover
A lot of labor fakirs in Chicago,
during the last primary campaign,
aligned themselves with Grove and
arranged demonstrations for him
when he appeared on platforms to
speak. These creatures supported
him in spite of his long record as a
union smasher and raider of union
headquarters.
Now that the alliance between his
office and gangsters is known turnout
the whole city these fakirs are trying
TO remove themselves from the Grove
ENHANCEMENT.
Intelligent labor, however, will re-
member their treachery and kill them
politically in a drive for a party of
labor in Chicago that will wreck the
game of political graft of these cor
rupt, bought and paid for, officials OF
labor unions.