The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-30
MOSCOW WORKERS MOURN MURDERED COMRADES
Current Euefnts
By r. j. o'Flaherty

I
A MEMBER of the New York police
n force that has been very much in
evidence recently saving the country
from the radicals, is under lock and
key charged with the murder OF
paymaster for a construction firm.
It must be admitted however that the
suspected murderer had noble and
worthy ambition as an incentive to
seek wealth. He wanted money to
build a home for his 'fiance. Since
the home is the cornerstone of mod
ern civilization it would seem that the
prosecution is in a fix to devise an
appropriate punishment to fit the
crime.
THIS policeman is said to have had
a good record on the force, which
may mean that he was handy with
the club and quick on the draw and
that he never hesitated to use both
on anybody he suspected of having
designs on "lawr an order" After
all there is not much difference be-
tween the action of this policeman
who shot and robbed the man he was
pledged to protect and that of A. B..
Fall, who peddled the government
naval oil reserves consigned to his
care. But for fear that the owners
Of the public wealth which the vari-
Gus governments are organized to
protect would have their necks bro
ken most of our patriotic public ser
wants would turn their offices into
high-jack joints.
MRS. James Hastings Snowden got
AVA on the front page last Monday but
it cost her 100000, which may be a
small price for the wife Of the
wealthy oil operator to pay for such
r~Slicity. The lady wore $250,000
worth of jewelry while. participating
in the Hampton Follies" given for
the benefit of a local hospital She
still has S150,000 worth of jewelry
left. No need of taking up collec-
tion for the poor thing. In "The
Rising of The Moon" play by Lady
Gregory, there is line which reads:
"The gown she wore was red with
gore" The gown worn by Mrs.
Snowden, decorated with a quarter
million dollars worth of jewelry was
red with the blood of thousands upon
thousands of wage slaves who toiled
long hours to enable this parasite to
appear adorned like glittering but
terfly. =
CACCO and Vanzetti were burned to
death in Boston because they
wanted to change the world that en-
ableS one woman to load her body
with quarter of a million dollars
worth of jewelry while millions of
workingmen cannot dress properly
for either the heat of summer or the
winter cold. This is the society that
is protected by battleships, war
planes, poison gas, soldiers, policemen,
preachers, capitalist politicians, venal
editors and equally venal professors.
A QUARTER million of workers
~ watched the remains of Sacco and
Vanzetti being taken to the crema-
torium where their bodies were
turned into ashes This was Boston's
farewell to the two workers it mur-
dered But the Boston that watched
the procession with wet eyes is not
the Boston that directed the execu-
toner to pull the fatal switch And
the day will come when another Bos-
ton will build monument to Sacco
and Vanzetti, on the ruins of the
system that sent them to their doom.
THE way of the doer of good deeds
is often strewn with thorns. Listen
to the story of Mr. Thomas Ring, a
wealthy Michigan lumberman who
felt that Michigan was fine place
to make money but not an exciting
place to spend it in. SO he sold out
his interests and left for Paris with
the Doodle. Ring was a case of over
correction it appears. A good rotar-
ian in Michigan he frequepted the
Latin Quarter in Paris and was quite
popular with those who expect to be-
come famous poets, painters and
novelists some day, but for the mo-
ment would give their gizzards for a
hot meal
ALONG came an American sculptor
II and approached Mr.. Ring with a
little ash tray which he thot would
have big sale during the American
Legion convention. Ring being pa
triotic as we'll as good-hearted en-
tered into the spirit of the thing ano
led the sculptor to his inn keeper, as
they used to say in the good old days
Thomas being a good customer the
jovial hotel man purchased two
s hundred ash trays and the sculptor
ate and drank his fill Ring wep'