The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-14
Current Euents
By T. J. O'FIaherty

/ THE gods were not kind to William
Green, president of the A. f. Of l..
/ last Tuesday when they permitted a
United States judge to hand down
decision hogtying the United Mine
/ Workers of America in the Pittsburgh
district, at the approximate moment
Mr.. Green was lengthily dissertating
on the futility of Labor Party in
this country. Mr.. Green pointed with
pride to the social legislation which
has been passed in the legislative
chambers of this nation thru the in
strumentality of friends of labor"
We are anxiously waiting for the
''friends of labor" in congress to re-
lieve the United Mine Workers of the
injunction that shackles their move
ment in Pittsburgh.
CHORTLY after Mr.. Green got thru
y ridiculing Max Hayes, the speaker
in behalf of Labor Party, he issued
statement criticising the action of
the federal judge who issued the
notorious injunction against TIL e
miners, wondering how such thing
could happen in free America"
| This judge was either a democrat or
/ a republican ~He certainly was not
taking his orders from Moscow"
! Surely the workers could not be
treated worse if they did not have
"friend" in the world than they are
! by the alleged friends who are elected
with the aid of William Green and
his fellow takers.
| HAD Arthur Brisbane taken Otto
a Kahn's advice during the war and
purchased a couple of thousand shares
of General Motors stock, the noted
columnist would now be worth about
ten million dollars more than he is.
The stock was then selling for $50
share. For every one share of G. M.
stock originally purchased the holder
is now hanging on to 371s shares.
That's how the big money is made,
not by swinging pick or tapping
typewriter.
! THAT Chicago jury that found Rus
sell Scott guilty of murder some
years ago no doubt heard Of the de-
PENDANTS unforgivable sin against
the palates of the Windy City's in
habitants. Scott engaged in the dis
| tribution of grape juice that was
supposed to add to the gayety of the
consumer after it sat for a while in
a secluded place. The juice did not
choose to ferment and Scott was ar
rested as a common swindler. Only
poor whites and Negroes are con-
victed of murder in Chicago, but a
wine confidence maxwell, we warn
Chicago grape juice drummers to re-
member what happened to one of
them. =
A FEW more injunctions like the one
A issued against t h e Pittsburgh
miners and William Green's trade.
union movement will be sewed up INF
the judicial sack as tight as dol
lar in iniser's purse.
JUSTICE Jacob Panken, the socialist
candidate for municipal Judge, has
rejected the Communist endorsement
/ of his candidacy Another Communist
plot to keep a good man out of office!
It must not be assumed that the So
cialists spurned the Communist en-
dorsement for sectarian reasons. They
are everything but that. Endorse
ments from republican and democratic
politicians are always accepted.
| RESPITE prayers and heavy drink
ing on the part of the royalist por-
ton of the populace the child born to
the crown prince Leopold of Belgium
turned out to be girl instead of
boy. But by the time the child ar
rived, the royalists were SO drunk
that they were able to stand the
shock. always a thrilling moment
to any kingdom, the coming of the
royal baby to Brussels was q partic-
ularly happy occasion because Of the
romantic figures involved" 1.-THE
New York Times.) Now, if this ma
.4on happened to be a monarchy with
King Benjamin Of the House of
David as royal head, what a great
number of thrills the happy people
would be on the receiving end of?
QUEEN Mary of England showed
Y good political judgment when she
stepped out of the reviewing line to
shake hands with blind member Of
the American legion. Those who
have had the privilege of gazing orr
the untouched face of the queen say
that the blind soldier did not lose his
vision in vain.
III may be news to many of our read
ers that Haywood Broun who lost
job and gained lot of enviable
notoriety out of his espousal of the
Sacco-Vanzetti cause, received $3.50
a week from the New York World
for turning out daily column.
Whatever one may think of his
column, it must be admitted that