The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-14
Kiwanis Clubs and the
Chicago Tribune Clash
on American Ideals
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


tmd petty bourgeois elements the question of print
ing crime the first pages of the capitalist daies
The Tribune has heard from the se-rghteous Kwanans
thru letter from their chairman Mr.. Edward W. Schoe
nenberger The Kiwans outfit is modest. It makes no
great demands 1t merely requests that crime be
pushed off the first page during American Ideal Week,
Feb 612 The Tribune held up the letter until American
Ideal Week and then declared edtoriay that it
had intention of degrading its crime to inside
page position.
chicagos bourgeois press is glorying in the fact
that the open shopper and redbaiter Henry Barrett
Chamberlain, director of the so-caled Chicago Crime Com
mission has issued report showing that the percentage OF
convictions in the criminal courts Of Cook County has
jumped from 3435 cent in 1921 to 6153 per cent in 1925
The Tribune gIoats exuItingIy:
"That feel publication
is deterrent Instead of prOvocatOn Of crime"
1t is difficult to understand the Tribunes logic. The
courts may grind out guilty verdcts Hanging verdct
Grove but that does not lessen crime not even the story
is told in the most ud type to be found in the composing
rooms Of the yellow press i this were true then the Tribune
as the more able suppressor of "crime."
If this true, then why return public hang
ings, executions with the in the square,
the thousands of criminals the making might on and
be frightened of wrongdong as it determined under
the capitalist law Chicago going have another hang
ing soon If the Tribune is then the victims of the
rope should be drawn and quaered in the best style of
centuries past and their ungody reainssnce all Kwani
deVout churchgoers and the Tribune christian
sheeexhbited to public view preferably from the most
all the world and adjacent to Tribune Square, Or the heads
of the victims might be stuck upon ances
Avenue, where all might the Trbunes reason
ing carried to its only logical conclusion
Crime is violation of law We live today capital
lst law the law of the dominant class society today.
American capitalism (the north in its struggle with the
monty called the American Civil War; pastered two amend
mens the sacred American constitution buIwak Of
all American capitalist law.
The 18th amendment adopted in 1863. sunnosedv
to grant citizenship rights to the Negroes and the 18th
But Just as soon as the capitalist north had brosn The
power of the southern semeuda aristocracy the
franchises and outlaws the Negro will with
consent of the North.
This is of the greatest crimes being committed in
the United States today involving 12000000 of the Amer
lean Negro population 1t is violation by the capitalist
class in power against its basic law The Tribune
gets space on the page of todays issue that on
Abraham Lncons birthday This is fitting time to bring
this outaw to the attention of the American people, That
is left to the Communist press.
the Chicago Tribune uses its first page head
line on LincoIn Birthday Feb H. to exploit the so-caed
crime situation in Chicago as part of it's war on the foreign
born" 1t draws in the author of antaIen legislation
congress- Secretary Davis and gores the
fact that has the support of this hater of foregnborn
workers on its side.
Thus the real Chicago Tribune revealed It not in
terestd in the suppression of crime using the sayngs
and shootngs among the beer the hjackers and
booteggers generally who supported by the politicians
parties to create prejudice and hostility
against the foregnborn especially that section of
that seeks thru organization and struggle to better its
conditions.
In Mr.. Chamberan's report already referred to-
stated that of 245e criminals convicted 26 found
guilty of burglary at night 46 charged with robbery
with gun, IL with assault to murder, with rape, with
assault to rape, II with receiving stolen properly with
conspiracy 80 with ebezzement rs with forgery, and
with confidence game the most inconsequentia fruits Of
the whole criminal capitalist system Plans afoot build
a bigger jail in Chicago with special prison for
But the real criminals will never be confined there
The day will come, however, when The Tribune, and all
the kept press will be placed by the working class in the
piory before Americas millions the specially subsidized
mouthpieces of criminal American capitalism. That will be
step toward placing the real orinna-CAPI TALlSM-
the gaows and ending its upon this continent
and turnout the world, forever.