The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-08
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CALVIN COOLIDGE does not have
- to run very fast in order to keep
warm the rest of his life if it is true
that he saved 100000 from his salary
during his four years in the white
house. The president is no crap
shooter like his predecessor, Warren.
CAMEL Harding, who lost large sums
of money at games of chance when
he should be reading his bible or re-
cuperating in blest repose for the
tasks of the next day.
If the tale of the presidents re-
markable thrift accomplishment
is well founded, doormen, bell boys,ll
pullman porters, taxi drivers and
Washington bootleggers viii not re-
gret that Coolidge aid mot choose toll
run" AS far as they are concerned
| the president can spend the rest OF
his life running after trolley cars.
The chief executives salary is S75,O00O
year with $4,000 thrown in Tor ex-
penses. Evidently Calvin put every H
thing in the sock. More than that, he
must have bummed ms meals from
the white house janitor, while in
Washington.
in a way it is a matter for regrex
that the president did not choosf
to run. Perhaps ne feels that he haI
done one mans snare in proving thai
it is possible for an American citizen
| to live within his salary. In four
more years of national service he
would have saved a million dollars
and proved that the late William Jen-l
nings Bryan was wrong, when the De-
ceased fundamentalist said that MOI
man could make one million dollars
during a lifetime without leaving his
honesty open to question. To even
doubt Coolidge's honesty would be to-
risk losing the vote of Vermont ciderl
makers and the bill collectors of the
nation.
WHEN Coolidge reiterated his de-
W cision that he would not run,
stocks took a nose dive in Wall
Street, but they recovered almost inn
mediately, proving that presidents
may come and presidents may go, but
the exploiting of labor will go on
until the workers put an end to it.
Whether the next occupant of the
white house is Al Smith, the demo-
crat, Charles G. Dawes, the republican,
or a black nag, who is yet beyond
suspicion, American imperialism will
continue to function to the satisfac-I
ton of Wall Street.
TIMOTHY HEALY, president of the
International Brotherhood of Fire
men and Oilers exchanged his birth
right for a banquet. For the past.
few years "Tim" was not damned by
much praise from the bureaucracy of
the American Federation of Labor or
by the "friend of labor" who occupies
the post of secretary of labor in the
Coolldge caDlnet.
"TIM'S" fall from grace was due to
4 his espousal of the cause of So
Wet recognition which was anathema
to the heads of the A. F. of l.. and
the Coolidge administration. Tim"
was punished by finding himself
eased out of the presidency of his
union. Now poor Tim" has the fol-
lowing bouquet handed to him by
secretary of labor Davis, at ban
quet in Healy's honor at the Hotel
Commodore: "No labor leader has
ever had more friends than Healy for
the reason that he has given labor a
new dignity, new title to public re-
spect." Had Tim" gone out of the
labor movement without a heavy meal
he would not have this burden to his
grave.
4 D. j. SHEA, executive board member
of the Amalgamated Association
Of Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes of America, gave much
needed advice to fearless spoilers Of
the traction magnates who attend
union meetings in order to turn in
the names of those traction employees
who attend, to the traction officials
Shea informs all and sundry that hi
men will make a list of spoilers an,
turn it over to mail order firms, !. ,r-
the more likely probability to ioca
unions where the names will be reac
aloud at meetings.
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