The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-09
Los ANGELES is
MOST GULLIBLE
CITY OF WORLD
Aimee McPherson's Sue
cess is Prime Example
BY HERTRAM D. WOLFE.

the past % months. Since the dedi-
cation Of Angelus Temple from
the dark hours of midnight, thru the
dawn, on to midday and round the
clock again, there has been a steady
outpouring of prayer to god that has
brought down showers Of blessing
upon thousands and thousands Of per-
sons. Up in the Watch Tower Of the
temple, night or day, prayer never
ceases
So wrote the Los Angeles Examiner
some time ago before the amiable
Aimee, whose exhortations scooped
out the shekels to build her NAM
moth temple, was drowned, kid
mapped to Mexico and enjoying a va
cation from righteousness in beauti-
full Carmel-By-the-Sea. The mere fact
that this consummate actress and re-
.ligious faker has been caught with
the goods does not diminish the at
tendance at her temple On the con
trary, crowds battle with each other
every evening to get in, and the size
of the collection is greater than ever.
A Famous City.
But this is to be expected in a city
which Bob Shuler's Magazine "a local
weekly credits with being famous
for three things:
First as city where more suck
ers are stung than in any city
~ 1fIyo af~. IN, Cooo,A 80 4,
city where sex-stimulation is at
the maximum. Third, as a city where
there is more religious vagaries,
more cults and isms, more psychic
manifestations and delusions, more
commercialized miracles and more
fragrant receptions in the name Of
the gentle child, Jesus, than in any
other city possibly in the entire world.
Los Angeles is fertile soil for every
kind Of an imposter that the face of
the earth has been cursed by. The
suckers all come here sooner or later
and the whole twelve months is open
season"
New Boom Every Day.
Chicago or New York may get all
fused up about a Krishnamurti, but
Los Angeles launches a new Messiah
boom every day. If Aimee should
suffer an immaculate conception as a
result of her kidnapping or drowning
or whatever it was, in place of losing
followers she will no doubt create a
new cult of the Virgin that will back
the Mormon prophet of Salt Lake
City off the map.
1t is hard to say why this wonder
thirst and religion-seeking and cult
faddism prevail in Los Angeles. 1t
would be an interesting study for an
American Marxist to undertake. It's
population is continually increased by
retired farmers from the Middle West,
by New Englanders fleeing their hard
winters, by people broken down in
health and despaired of by the doc
tors. And California has more pas
senger automobiles per capita than
any other state in the Union and has
most of its dirty work done by Mexi-
cans. All of these things help to ex-
plain the atmosphere that prevails in
Los Angeles.
Explains Things.
They also explain why the city of
Los Angeles is an open-shop town,
where the Better American Fedora
ton, the Merchants and Manufacture
ers' Association and similar organi-
cations unite to smash unionism and
boast to incoming business men that
there are no labor troubles"
At present the Merchants and Man
ufacturers' Association is all het sup
about a successful strike that just
took place in the city. True, it was
not in a basic industry, but the work
ers are the victims Of so much open
shop oppression here that the M. &
NJ, as 1t is known here, is rightly
afraid that the inspiration furnished
by the militant tactics and successful
strike Of the cleaners and dyers here
will stir up other industries.
Fight Cleaners Union.
NAOASON1At TIC dnAA-plIhSAlub Oiul-
nance was openly violated by the
striking cleaners and dyers. Conse-
quently the word has been passed
around TO frame.up and smash the
Cleaners and Dyers' Union and the
few unsettled shops are meeting with
sabotage, violence, ruin and destruc-
ton Of property, etc, all of which is
done by hired agents of the bosses
and promptly blamed upon the union
officials. Judging from present indi-
cations, We may hear of q frame-up
case here any day.
There is a whole tribe OF profess
sional frame-up men here, who live
on the prosecution OF Wobblies and
A. #. Of l.. union leaders, as well as
under the criminal syndicalist laws.
When l made an appeal for new mem.
bers at my meeting here seven APP
plications were made out. One Of the
seven, according to my informants,
was a stool pigeon.
X. X. X. Again.
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