The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-17
Professional Patriots"

The Keymen of America and the Military Order
of the World War the patriotic organizations which
are leading the war against the DAILY WORKER.
The labor-smashng activities of these Historically
patriotic organizations described in Professional
Patriots edited by Norman Hapgood and published by
Albert and Charles Bon
The Keymen, led by Fred R. Marvin, who does a
lucrative business exposing the menace of Commun-
ISM, claimed credit in 1924 of rendering 'ths nation
remarkable service in defeating socialism and COM
munsm which manifested through the third ticket
headed by LaFolette and Wheeler
The Advisory Council of the Keymen includes Of
ficals of the Associated Employers of Indianapolis
the National Founders Association the National Clay
Products Industries Association, the Citizens Alliance
of st. Paul, the Employers Association Of Jackson,
Michigan and the Builders Exchange of San Fran
cisco. In addition representatives from practically all
the patriotic associations the council well as
the leading lights of the Chemical Warfare Reserve
and the Military Intelligence Association.
According to professional Patriots"
The organization announces that among other duties
its members should be prepared to help stop the growth
of Communism and Socialism, work for industrial
dom, keep informed through the Information Bureau
of all subversive and radical movements keep the In
formation Bureau posted local activities of radical
movements and assist local newspapers to secure and
print information that will aid in this character of
work. The membership fee in the organization is S12
year which includes the daily information service
of the organization appearing the editorial page
the Commercial.
One of Mr.. Marvins latest feats is reflected in an
editorial in the New York World MAY g. 1926 under
the title, Another Red Conspiracy Yarn:
The Army and Macy Journal engages in a very curl
GUS enterprise when it prints an article under the
headline "Ol Scandals Engineered by Radicals, by
Fred R. Marvin. Mr.. Marvin is introduced as editor
in chief of the New York Commercial who is accepted
the best-posted in the United States on the
origin nature, purpose, methods and systems of the
various radical and subversive organizations now in
Testing the United States and engaged in seeking
overthrow this government"
In effect, Mr. Marvin undertakes to make it appear
somehow, that the naval coil scandals" as he calls
them, part of a Bolshevst or Communist plot
How, he does not show He does that after the
Senate investigating committee set work "the pub
licity work which followed guided largely by the
Socialist and Communist movements in this country
Any such statement hardly be charged to faulty
memory. But as Mr. Marvin tells the story, when the
went into the Federal Courts the truth
There scandal No sought to rob the Gov
eminent" Judge Kennedy, in the Teapot Dome case,
he cites holding everything all right. But the
Russian conspiracy resulted in preventing "fuel-oil
tanks at strategic points," and on from being used
for the benefit of the navy.
Then in Mr.. Marvin's text, under the heading
"Schemers Win Their Desires" comes this: "But the
incident played up it because it came with the
magic name scandal, accomplished what the original
projectors of the scheme expected it would accomplish
The Strategic play of Zinovieff was success :"
What is the conceivable purpose of publishing such
fluff?
In connection with Mr.. Marvin's articles the Army