The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-24
Capitalist System Must
Be Placed Upon the
Gallows by the Workers
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.


preparing their the predcament in which
socaIed twogun killer Marty Durkn, finds himself in the
grip of the Chicago police and the federal government Their
whole discourse will be summarized under the general
theme THE wages of sin is DEATH Religion seeks win
converts thru terror The present occasion offers oppo
tuny threaten all those who transgress which implies
that they must belong to and attend church. in the
Examiner The end evltabIe Il is merely another YER
sion for groWps of the threat made to the child in the
nursery that 1.-THE bogeyman will get you you don't look
out" Durkn is held up horrible example,
Durkn is charged with being connected with the killing
Of three men, Special Agent E. shanahan of the United
States Department Of Justice Police Harry Gray and Lloyd
Austin Durkn denounced by so-calIed business and
civic leaders, frightened at the reception given the killer by
thousands of mobdy curious who gathered at the Union
"a cheap automobile thief" States Attorney Grove who
with his usual declaration, "Durkin Will Hang!" Auto
mobiles constitute valuable private property and must be
protected.
But United States government no state or local pro-
secuto no agency OF capitalist law anywhere demanding
Va hans for +ho rrJo IS 4h 10 .a''omL West
their lives in this non-union pit disaster week. The
murder of workers is not considered sin by the doIarsb
sdlzed church. The threat 1.-THE wages of sin is DEATH
not held to- apply here.
copy Of the Fairmont Times has just arrived and
gives the list OF worker dead which is published in full
foIows
wife d: s.s Ss.: AGED r. .
James,
2-MAHANEY Neil no data available by
s-MYERs Herbert son Of W. E. Myers, aged 90 traokmau
" american
o-COILlF Leo, machine unknown, SINGLE al
Pennington. American.
e-LoUeH, driver, SINGLE Pennington Tentatively dn
thed).
7cARR, W. SINGLE LafoIIette Tenn American
e-COIElP Arch dayman, g. children
and Benton, I; lives
loader ssas chalk sssHs 4 ps
1O2-FRoSkOFF Wassal
children child lives at Pennington. Anne
1-FLAHERTT, Joseph, loader, 90,
Tentatively dentlhed) American.
2-STARENskY, john loader 32 children Pitts
' -
1oS-Unidenihed
1-FANNER Clarence machine Pennington other
data American -
15-FANNER Charles, machine no other
data. American.
16-sELL loader 49, married. four children Arnold IT,
= ' '''N'7
H-zAPoToskY, Nick machine married four children
john o. Steve q; Anna, 8; Julia,
l@IHOMAs, john machine 40, wife living Portsmouth,
1s-5EE Lonne, loader. 20; living chareston W. Va
- - ="
The American Engineering Standards Committee has
declared That twothrds OF fatal accidents indus
Try are Preventabe This that least IL of the
workers listed above the victims of wanton and pre-
medtated murder. Labor will never be able to bring the
actual murderers-the owners of capitalist ndustry-to
Justice under capitalism Capitalist justice will protect them
to the last. 49,
Working class justice comes only with the ending of
me capitalist system 1t is capitaisn-the murder system
that must be placed the gaows pay the penalty for
ITS Dukns its mine horrors and all the other crimes in
herent in this passing social ORDER The workers will in time
put their own meaning into "The Wages of Sin is Death"