The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-29
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BY T. ). o'FLAHERTY

WHAT Jesse Smith, right bower of
j. Harry M. Daugherty, committed
suicide because a campaign fund that
was In his care suffered serious re-
duction owing to Smiths dabbling in
stocks Is one of the most sensational
developments of the bride trial now
taking place in New York. 1t should
not be forgotten that Daugherty was
the lad who caused the raid on the
Communist convention in Michigan in
1892, about the time he got the infa-
nous injunction against the shopmen.
While we were being exhibited in the
streets. of St. Joseph with manacles
on our hands Harry Daugherty and
his flunkeys were being hailed in the
capitalist press as national deliverers.
FTNHE end is not yet Daugherty is
l. now on trial for graft, but the del
egatss to the Communist convention
are not yet out of the tolls. Harry
did his work. Perhaps his masters
no longer have any use for him. But
he did them a good turn and in all
probability they will not forget him.
The officials of the shop crafts union
that should be making use of Daugh-
ertys present dilemma to educate
their membership on the ways of pa
triotism are rather silent so much so
that one is compelled to come to the
conclusion that the labor leaders do
not regret the legal obstacles placed
in the way of strikes.
TlHE report that Chinese bandits
i kidnapped missionaries, killed
thousands OF people and sacked city
Is being displayed prominently in Lon
don papers This may be by way of
offsetting the slaughter of 5000 Chi
nese men, women and children by the
the British At any rate people re-
fuse to get excited any longer over
the misadventures of missionaries.
The American people have had their
fill of them, from Aimee Mcpherson
to King Benjamin of the House of
David.
CONSIDERABLE 1ubilation is ex-
" pressed in police circles over the
possibility OF "Scareface Al' Capone,
the Cicero gangster, making peace
with his rivals. Only last week eight
automobiles tore down 22nd street
and searched for Al with machine
gun bullets When AL was seen next
he was studying the ruins of Miami,
Florida, and he freely admitted that
few thousand of the bullets that
peppered his Hawthorne Hotel were
intended for him. With America well
out Of the world court and peace in
Cicero, American pacifists should be
able to celebrate with an easy con-
science.
VICTOR BERGER is funny fell
V low Indeed, it is seldom a fat
man is otherwise, provided he has
short legs and long body. Victor
has both and, in addition, a tendency
10 say things. Being a congressman,
Berger has to introduce a bill occa-
sionally, else he might. be sued for
taking money under false pretenses.
Being socialist, he must denounce
che Communists unless the capitalists
are to believe that Victor may be
"red."
A LII those things taken together, it
~ is not surprising that Berger
should frank speech delivered by
him IN congress on April ~, 1926.
Knowing that all congressman are
against Communism and many OF
them against fascism, Berger
slammed both. II is with his argu-
ment and not his premise that we are
concerned. Fascism and Communism
are twin brothers, said Berger. And
10 prove II he says: "The reason why
our ruling class dislikes the red-haired
baby so is because the Bolsheviki laid
violent hands on the sacred rights OF
property--while the fascist just as
violently are protecting the vested