The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-19
CURRENT EVENTS
By t. J. o'FLAHERTY.

T>AMMANY is out to clean up the
L city. SO far, Tammany has not
ecided to move to Hoboken. Grand
achem Olvany, of the 14th Street
lenagerie applauded the campaign OF
olice Commissioner Mclaughlin to
lake the city safe for professional
citing. It appears that democratic
nd republican aldermen and other
eads of republican and democratic
lubs turnout the metropolis were
willing away the tagging hours by
lanting excess dollars on fleet-footed
teeds. The police commissioner, hav-
ng no strikebreaking work on his
lands, decided to break up the gam
ling clubs. This caused considerable
dissatisfaction among the horse-lov-
ng politicians.
r T seems to us that sheik or Sachem
l Olvany is right. Give a democrat
an inch and he will take an Irish mile.
There are enough obstacles in the way
Of legitimate gambling without the
competition of politicians who draw
more than one salary. And Olvany
was rather moderate in his language.
In substance he said: | like quiet
game of stud poker or Kelly pool but
/ am opposed to the use of Knockout
drops or the skinning of upstate
democrats. Furthermore we cannot
very we'll go ahead closing theatres
for putting on intelligent plays and
keep our gambling joints running
openly at the same time. Here is
where open diplomacy does not work.
THE Rev. John A. Ryan of the Ma
L tional Catholic Welfare Council
gets himself boxed on the front page
of the New Leader for having come
to the conclusion that there existed no
good reason for the United States
having entered the war. It's never too
late to mend father, but what about
a little speech to the same effect on
American Intervention in Nicaragua
and the threats of war against Mexico
and China?
A N irate reader did not like the tone
n of a paragraph on the Ford
Sapiro suit that appeared in this col
umn recently. He thot our observa-
tions smacked of anti-semitism. There
is very little new under the sun. A
frank scrivenert is sure to be misun-
derstoods , We can understand how q
kluver could see the hand Of 2 catholic
priest at our typewriter or how q
catholic could see a hood on our head
but how we could be charged with
anti-semitism is little beyond US.
WHILE on the subject there is not
w much to choose between the two
parties to the trial. Sapiro the wealthy
lawyer and Ford the Millionaire ex-
ploiter. Sapiro has the slant on our
sympathies, not because his motives
in fitting legally with Ford are of the
purest but because we are opposed to
race prejudice whether it is directed
against the Jews, the Negroes, the
English or the Irish. Otherwise Ford
and Sapiro leave us as cold as did the
es-Browning case. We are much
more interested in the cause of the
Jewish cloakmakers who were SEN
fenced to Jail by the Jewish judge
Rosalsky than we are in the injured
feelings of a millionaire lawyer.
HARRY SINCLAIR was not as
L L lucky or as generous as Harry
Daugherty in the matter of picking 9
jury. Harry Daugherty's man stood
like the rock of Gibraltar against the
arguments of the wilful eleven that
favored the defendants conviction
But Sinclair's twelfth juror weakened
and caved in with the result that the
oil magnate was held in contempt Of
the United States senate. Still thing:
could be worse. Sinclair might MOI
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