The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-16
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BY T. }. o'FLAHERTV


court h4t Monday Held on the
threshold of death for six years Tor
crime of which the two workers are
al innocent as the unborn, the latest
sensational development in this his
toric case has again attracted nation
wide attention. A confession made by
a condemned murderer exonerates the
two Italian workers and whatever ex-
cuse the law may have been able to
give IN the past for doubling their in
nocence in the past their is none
left now.
TT anything was needed to convince
1 the workingclass Of the need for a
labor defense organization such as the
L L. d. the Sacco and Vanzetti case
should prove sufficient But for the
efforts of sympathetic organizations
to rouse public opinion in behalf OF
those two prosecuted workers it is
safe to say that they would now be
making dust. 1t is by no means GER
tain that the confession recently made
will save our comrades. / remember
reading a story of the 1898 rebellion
in ireland where a leader Of the reYo-
lutionists was charged with the muir
der of an English settler. The latter
expecting the rebel to be properly
hanged by this time strolled into the
courthouse while the prosecutor was
picturing the death agonies of the
Engiishman at the hands OF the pris-
oner in the dock.
A S he was describing the death CUR
"A gle of the allegedly murdered man,
the defense attorney spied the settler
and hailed him before the bench. This
was not enuf, however. Tho the
murdered" man admitted he was the
person over whom the fuss was made
the prosecutor insisted that it was
only his ghost that was In the court
and 1t took rescue party to take
the rebel Irishman out of the hands
Of the law. When the ruling classes
want their pound Of flesh they are in
sistent and persistent.
TOHN n. WALKER, In his report to
- the convention of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor, sees an indus
trial slump ahead. Mr.. Walker did
not propose any appropriate policy to
meet this situation. Neither did he
have anything to say about the sell
out OF Frank harrington to the Pea
body Coal company. He did not ex-
cuse his endorsement Of Samuel In
sull's candidate, Frank L. Smith. He
did use up several pages defending
his honor against the charge of having
benefited materially from the insult
donation to Smiths fund.
+, EMPLOYMENT agencies sometimes
IL employ novel tricks to separate
the JOB seeker from the ten dollar
fee which he Is anxious to dodge by
| appealing directly for his Job to tho
factory. In the Daily News OF Septem-
Der IS, the Shepherd Service had their
regular advertisement listed under
male Employment Agencies" On an
other page there was an innocent
looking advertisement calling for ma
chine shop workers. Mfrs. Distrib-
utors, s South Wabash Avenue, Room
. 1905" When workers went to apply
for Job they discovered that this was
! the address of the Shepherd Service
and the first question shot at them
by the clerical staff was; Have you
got 31O?"
A CoORDING to the worker who
"A came into our once with this in
formation, hundreds Of workers iamr
med the elevators on the way to the
room number given in the ADVERTISED
ment. The particular job paid from
s16 to s22. And hundreds OF workers
were grabbing chance TO work at
this starvation wage. It is a crying
. shame that something is not being
done by the trade union movement to
organize the unorganized workers.
Without union thru which they. can
sell their labor power the workers are
helpless. outside OF the very few who
have exceptional training. ,st
TUE Aimee Mcpherson case will not
= down. Last Mondays papers car,
risd the news that the lady who com
fessed TO occupying the cottage by the
sen with. Aimee's radio operator. con-
fessed for the sake OF the $4,000 that
was promised her by Aimee for the
slibi. II appears that Aimee's willing
witness did not get the coin, 80 she
had to resort to writing bad checks.
Now she has admitted her part In the
affair The DAILY WORKER re-
ceived more than one lettor from Los
Angeles taking exceptions to our treat
ment OF story. Those poor dubs
think the foxy Mrs. Mcpherson is the
victim Of papal frame-up.
THERE Is no difference between the
4 Aimee Mcpherson type and the