The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-12
CURRENT. EVENTS
By T. J. o'FLAHERTY

Corporation at salary OF something
like 100000 a year. Judge Gary is
going to retire, tho no doubt the
Judge will spend eight hours a day
denying the rumor until he steps out.
To admit it now might send down
steel stock, provided the ringmasters
on the inside do not feel the time ripe
to make killing or shear few
thousand sheep.
We are informed that Mr.. Miller
may not be able to make the neces-
sary financial sacrifice which accept
snce of the position. calls for. 1t seems
that 100000 a year is nothing in Mr..
Miller's young life. Still Mr.. Miller
may accept since he has keen con-
ception of his duties as a citizen and
the satisfaction of rendering service
TO the nation may compensate him
for the pittance he will receive as
head of the great slave-driving union
hating steel trust. Here we have an
example of the New Democracy in
industry; a parasite receiving $780,
/ 900 a year while the individual steel
worker is lucky if he makes one thou
sand in the same length of time.
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tlZT OUR fortune is made fellah,
i you are pinched," observed a.
sagacious policeman as he tapped one
Of the managers responsible for pro-l
ducing allegedly salacious plays on
the shoulder. The play was about to
vanish to the nearest morgue when
the newspapers developed bad att
tack of moral hydrophobia and de-
manded pictures. They got them.
rhe salacious plays got the publicity
and the producers got the dough. So
you see we commercialize everything
under capitalism, particularly the
business of saving souls and purify
ing morals.
THE New York Evening Telegram
l. is now added to the string Of
newspapers owned by the Scripps-
Howard newspaper chain, and we are
grateful to Mr.. Dewart, former own
er of the Telegram, for helping out
a harried coumnist by saying some
thing that is worth recording hereA
IL is the days most noteworthy bit
Of hokum: "a very substantial sum
in excess. of the very handsome con-
sideration received from the Scripps-
Howard interests might have been
had for this property, but l felt that
the future of the paper, the welfare
of the present organization and the
interests of the community would be
best served and most surely safe
guarded by sale to the new own
ers."
THE good old mission doing bust
J. ness at the old stand! Now, the
cnly fly in our ointment is the agony
that Mr.. Oswald Willard will suffer
at the thought of another newspaper
with an individuality going over to-
the newspaper trust. But Mr.. VII
lard will assuage his sorrow with the
consoling thought that the Scripps-
Howard journalist factory is the most
progressive cannery in the business.
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THE Holburn Labor Party, London,
4 has decided to put forward as
their candidate in the next elections
a Chinese by the name of Fung Saw,
name supposed to mean good luck
and long life. A Hindoo is already
u member of parliament from Bat
tersea, the constituency that first
sent John Brown to parliament. SAX
latvala, the Hindoo, is the most popu-
lar man in Battersea among the
working class and the right wingers
in the British Labor Party have not
been able to depose him. The ex-I
plotted slaves of the empire have
their defenders right at the empires
heart.
The good old days of free speech,
free press and free assemblage are
gone in Great Britain. As long as
England could afford to allow free
speech she did so and won glorious
reputation for democracy all over the
world. Even while she was murder
ing the Hindoos, the Egyptians and
the Irish! Now the empire is in
danger and free speech is thing of
the past. British jails are being
filled with protestants against the
capitalist system and all the official
organs of the British (Communist)
Party have been put out of business
by means of libel suits. But we no
tice that the British (Communist)
Party has a new weekly called
Workers Life. These of our readers
who have been in the habit of buying
The Workers Weekly will be glad to
know that the British Communists
lost no time in providing the work.
ing class with a substitute which is
just as good, outside Of the name.
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