The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-06
ARREST COMMUNIST AT A. T. of |. CONVENTION
Current Events
By r. J. 0'FlGhcrty

WILLIAM GREEN stated at the
opening of the A. F. of L. con-
vention in Los Angeles that labor
loves American institutions. We re-
gret to note that American institu-
tions do not seem to love labor, ex-
cepting that section of the labor
movement that is composed of Presi-
dent Green's prototypes. Perhaps,
like the men that Oscar Wilde rhymed
about, all institutions kill the things
they love. The Pittsburgh miners who
are being evicted from their homes
by the coal barons would like to have
Mr.. Green use his good offices with
the institutions that are so adored by
labor, to have those institutions re-
frain from issuing injunctions that
throw the armed forces of the state
on the side of the coal barons in their
evicting activities.
THERE is no reason why Messrs.
Green, Woll, Lewis and company
should feel hostile towards American
institutions. They are theirs. They
live in comfortable homes and pat
ronize the best hotels. They are con-
sidered and treated as members of
the ruling classes. They have a func-
ton. 1t is to keep the lid on the class
discomfort of labor and clap the
brakes on the working class move
ment when it attempts to move for
ward.
THE Chicago police have hoped on
to new source of graft. Since
the latest increase in the personnel
of the police force the bootlegging
racket is taxed to the limit to provide
the pillars of the law with the extra
creature comforts they crave for.
That little home which every ambi-
tious American boy looks forward to
and the little gas buggy to tote the
wife and children around on the day
off, cannot be realized, without pain
full scrimping on the meager salary
that Chicago gives it's police for MAX
ing that wicked city almost as safe
for its inhabitants as Ku Klux Klan
Rlavern for an honest man,
THE Chicago bluecoats intend to put
more bananas in the family ice
box. The city's leading crooks-the
habitues of city hall excepted-re-
fused to leave the city on the invi-
tation of the chief of police, but in
stead bought additional machine
guns and proceeded to transact busi-
ness in broad daylight within gun
shot of the municipal building. May
or Thompson is big gun and is not
afraid of the smell of powder, whether
on a puff or on the nozzle of a revol-
yer. But the gamblers who stick
closely to their own game objected
to being regularly held up and de-
frauded of their honest earnings,
protested and the mayor had to act.
He did. On every Saturday his police
round up bunch of chronic evil do
ers, impound them in police station
and compel them to promenade like
cloak models every Sunday morning
in the station courtroom under the
glare of spotlights while some of
those who have suffered the loss of
money or valuables during the week
look on.
THIS is where the graft comes in.
Solvent gangsters will approach
the squad leaders on their weekly
man hunt and suggest that hundred
dollars a week non-identification
money might compensate the Officers
for whatever sadistic pleasure they
would get out of seeing worthy but
misunderstood citizens held up to
public contumely. The increase In
the cost of living would force tae
gangsters to pass it on to the con,
\ sumers, so to speak. Crime woulo
80 up, there would be fresh investi
"a lions of the new source of graft
meaning more money for lawyers
and special prosecutions and things
would continue to rot in Denmark.
rHARLES A. LEVINE achieved the
v distinction of paying record non
stop visit to the pope which secured