The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-24
At The Michigan Trial

Marvin figured as Burns confidant
and general errand boy at the Com
munist trial in Michigan in 1923. His
'inside stuff" on the reds was head
lined by the open shop organs, his
addresses were applauded by en-
ployers' luncheon clubs, the prosecu-
ton was bombarded with his solicited
and unsolicited advice. He wrote ar
ticles for the press, calculated to send
shivers down the spine of all COM
Portable folks, and he used the De-
partment of Justice files at viii to
secure this garbled and confidential
information.
"Limacharsky" Babies
His conception Of the truth is in
dicated by such "tips" as he whis-
pered to his readers from time to
time. Among these have been the
following: That the Soldier Bonus
was a Soviet Scheme (his own
words) that "Limacharsky' is the
man who sovietized the babies in Red
Russia; that "The Daily Worker of
Chicago does not deny it is Com
munist paper; that the Teapot Dome
congressional inquiry was planned in
Leningrad; that if the Red Army
should land at Hoboken tomorrow the
students of Northwestern University
would refuse to defend our shores
that the Third international is a di-
rect descendent of the Order of the
illuminate; that the Progressives in
Congress are destroying angels;
and that modern industry cannot
survive in its present form, nor any
form, if the Brookharts and La Fol-
lettes realize their ambition for
power"
All of which is very terrifying.
Waves The Palm
"There is one statement / always
like to make" says Mr.. Marvin in a
dithyrambic mood, land that state
ment is this: This is my country;
mine. From the waving palms of
Florida to the stately pines Of Wash
ington, this is my country; from the
towering Statue of Liberty to the
sun-kissed Golden Gate, this is my
country and / love it. From the des-
erts of Arizona to the snowy hills of
Maine, this is my country, mine, and
l am going to stick to it, and fight
for it from hell to breakfast
Keyman Mythology
Somewhere along the path from
hell to breakfast Mr. Marvin has
found time to disseminate the myth
concerning the naturalization of
women" in the Soviet Union. He has
attacked the Russian-American In
dustrial Corporation organized by the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, as
"a plan to gather in money for radical
propaganda in the United States"
He has included under his ban as
being part of the red revolutionary
movement such diverse societies as
the Mooney Defense Fund, The Wal
ter Mills Correspondence School, the
American Textile Workers Ia Key
man phantasy), the University Work
ers League (whatever that isl the
Cloak, Shirt and Refers Union,
(sic) the Irish-American Labor
League, The Foster Publishing As
ISOLATION (no such animal), the Col
den Age Lecture Bureau, the Czech
oslovak Mavian Federation Isle
AGAIN. and the Labor Bureau, Inc,
the last being what Marvin calls "a
Foster organization" For some rea-
son he omitted Fosters Industrial
and Detective Bureau and the Caviar
Import Corporation both of which
are patiently inspired from the Krem-
lin.
Hates "Red Pacifists"
Since r. NJ. Whitney, author of the
"Reds in America" passed on to a
Heaven peopled by 100 per cent
property-owning, tax-paying, home
loving Americans, the mantle OF
maintaining the morale of the mill
tant employers associations, has des-
cended on the shoulders of modest
and highly inaccurate Marvin. He
stands high with William Frew Long
of Cleveland of open shop national
repute. He contributes hair-raising
series on our red-pacifists to the
Army and Navy Journal. He
dishes up the scare heads that in
duce the Rotary boys to order out the
militia ITO shoot the rascals down"
He calls every carpenters strike "a
lesson in revolution" He makes the
Chamber of Commerce boys 25-cent
Coronas tremble in their teeth as he
depicts the flood of anarchist-com-
munist literature sweeping away all
that is "near and dear" His mes
sage of strike-breaking and labor
union batting rewards him not only
with stout applause but with a mod
est living-or did until the CONNER
cial became a corpse.
Among the scores of professional
n4s