The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-02
STAGES
. BIC ELECTION
DEMONSTRATION
Mayor Bashful as Heel
ers Urge Him to Say Yes

William (Babbitt) Dever, who rose
or sunk from tanner to mayor will be
candidate to succeed himself as
chief executive OF Chicago unless the
usual political signs prove deceptive.
Dever does not want to deposit four
more years OF his life in the public
treasury II he can help 1t. He wants
to spend 1t in carefree enjoyment.
This is what the mayor says. But he
shudders at the thot that unless he
shoulders his civic responsibility some
such unworthy person as William
Hale Thompson may sit in the mayors
chair and we would see a resumption
of bootlegging, murder, highway rob-
berry and Wholesale graft which has
been entirely eliminated by the Dever
administration!
Hizzoner actually said words to this
effect, blissfully ignoring the history
Of the past four years, the bioodiest
since the Fort Dearborn massacre.
Big "Blz" For DeVer.
Big business wants Dever to throw
his hat into the ring a second time.
George Brennan, one Of Samuel In
sulls pets, is stage managing the
Dever candidacy. And George is a
good circus manager. All day last
Wednesday ward heelers staged
Spontaneous" demonstrations of pub
lie spirited citizens who want four
more years of Dever, in the mayors
office. The Chicago Tribune sent its
best male sob-sister, James O'Donnell
Bennett to describe the mayoral emo
tions rs Rabbit Dever tried to Guido
Calvin Coolidge in saying nothing
And difficult tho 1t may seem, the
mayor succeeded.
1.-THE history Of Chicago is just be-
ginning, friends" said the mayor "just
beginning in the sense that Chicago is
just beginning to feel its power and
influence. That new consciousness
new in the sense that none of us ever
felt it, think, so strongly before
means more work and larger thinking
for all of us. For myself l feel
deeper affection for Chicago than ever
felt before. Mine is the affection
that any conscientious man who has
been closely connected with the az
fairs of Chicago will feel"
We do, not know whether Deyer
likes all of Chicago, including the
Stockyards or only that part of it
where his real estate holdings are To-
Gated. Dever is a wealthy man.
Said Babbitt Dever to a delegation
Of colored political hacks: "It pleases
me to have you express that wish be-
cause four years ago l promised you
would send something to your wards
besides a policeman and patrol wa
gon." This despite the fact that hun
into last week and several hundred
Negroes arrested because Of a shoot
ing affair In the so-called "Black
Belt"
A Labor Ticket.
Big business and a section of the
trade union officialdom favor the
mayors reelection. Two good reasons
why the working class should be OPP
posed to his candidacy. But that is
not sufficient. His opponents are no
better, from the labor standpoint.
They will also serve the master class
if they are successful. The thing for
the workers to do is organize, to con-
test the local elections under the ban
ner of labor AS the Workers Com
munist) Party has advocated for sew
eral years, the workers should set up
a United Labor Ticket, including all
labor political, trade union coopera
tive and fraternal organizations and
meet the capitalist propaganda OF the
business candidates with the program
and policy that conforms to the inter-
aafa ~ fha WORKING class