The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-20
Current Euemts
By T. J. o'Flaherty

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nicely. The latest report reads SUBJ
stantially like this: "Sixty-seven
bandits killed or wounded. Four
members of the Guardia National
killed. No casualties among the
American marines" Translated into
ineligible language this means that
American marines killed or wounded
81 Nicaraguan revolutionists and that
4 members of the Nicaraguan militia,
organized, drilled and paid by the
United States, were killed during the
engagement. This war is getting to
look more like picnic for our gal
liant marines every day. 1t is now
almost as safe as an election cam
paign in Chicago. AS long as the
casualties on both sides of the strug-
gle are Nicaraguans our heroes
can devote their energies to raising
the cultural level of the survivors.
so the Nicaraguan revolutionists are,
bandits This is funny, but not
for the Nicaraguans For them it is
tragedy. And not the least i'm
portant feature of this tragedy is
the apathy exhibited by the American
workers in the face of this criminal
assault on the rights of small ma
ton by the erstwhile defender" of
small nations. The Nicaraguans are
declared bandits by the real estate hi
Jackers who are stealing their country
with the aid of warplanes, battle
ships and marines. This Is hypocrisv
with vengeance.
CONGRESSMAN Victor Berger of
Milwaukee, the new national chair
man of the Socialist Party is en-
thusiastic over Al Smiths prospects
of being elected president of the
United States, provided he receives
the nomination from his party. While
Al is officially as dry as the 18th
amendment, rumor has it that he
does not look at the foaming beaker
with jaundiced eye. Berger knows
that his own chances of occupying the
white house are slim, so he feels that
he stands better chance of being in
vited to the white house cellar if AL
is the janitor, than if a fellow like
Hoover holds the keys. Berger is
not much of socialist, but he likes
sociability
IT it is true, as The DAILY WORK
Err had it yesterday, that Little
Augie's" casket cost only $3.50,
Morris Sigman ought to be ashamed
of himself. If such an insult were
offered to the body of a. deceased
Chicago gangster the offender would
pay for it with his life. It appears
that the standard of dying among
gangsters in this city is as low as the
standard of living is high. In Chi
cago it costs the gangsters nothing
to live well, but helluva lot to die
decently. Ingratitude is one of the
most detested of vices. Little
Augie" was one of Sigman's most
reliable lieutenants in his fight
against the Left Wing. $3.50 for his
cosket, Odds bodkins He could
not have treated lowly scab with
more contumely.
ANOTHER gangster trial is getting
a under way in Chicago with great
labor and pain. Lefty" Lewis was in
dicted for the alleged murder of a
junkman who refused to join a
union" which was being organized by
Lefty" Not single juryman has
been secured yet, tho the trial opened
two weeks ago. The Judge is inclined
to believe that talesmen are afraid to
serve. Circumstantial evidence tend
ing to support the Judges suspicion
is the bombing of deputy-coroner
Dorfman's drugstore, and the home
of junk dealer who supplied some
of the information on which Lewis
was indicted. The assassination of a
ward politician who refused to con-
tribute to Mr.. Lewis's defense fund
may also share responsibility for the
avidity with which jurors seize on
any old excuse to avoid jury duty.
Evidently the jurors have not even
one life to give for their country.
CHARLES A. LEVINE the fighting
v flyin' fool' had his municipal re-
ception, tho our street sweepers will
not have to labor overtime denuding
the thorofares of bits of torn tele-
phone directories and ticker tame.
with which our avenues are Uttered
to express popular joy over the arr
rival in our midst of foreign lumir-
aries or the return of citizens who
have deserved well of their country.
The popuiace was cold to the fighting
junkman, but city hall was tbrrid.
Our Hibernian mayor recollectin,1 the
sojourn of his own race in a valley
of tears, before it discovered the
sidewalks of New York, sympathized
with Mr.. Levine because of the Nor
die snap evident in the social atmos-
phere, on his return from Europe
where he made his presence felt, to
put it mildly His honor, with an
eye on the Hebrew vote attributed
this coldneSs to the nreiud;cas Of