The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-09
Told You So

so much prosperity around that one
might be led to believe there is no
reason why anybody should be out
of work unless he is so lazy that he
would not sum up the necessary
energy to lift hot coal off his foot.
Unfortunately for Mr.. Hoover, the
unemployed will not stay under
ground. Every time they see help
wanted ad in the papers they
insist on getting up at 6 o'clock in
the morning and cluttering up the
sidewalks in front of employment
agencies, thus interfering with the
progress of those who are fortunate
enough to have jobs.
4 FEW days ago person by name
- of Testin inserted an advertise
ment in the papers calling for car
penters, plasterers, bricklayers and
plumbers. According to Arthur
Brisbane, those categories of labor
usually travel to work in limousines
and those that live at distance
from their places of employment
reach their offices in airplanes. Yet
strange to say 400 building trades
workers answered Mr.. Testin's call
only to find that he did not need
mechanics, but sub-contractors.
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WHEN Mr.. Testin attempted to ex-
" plain to the unemployed workers
that he did not need mechanics and
that his English was far from per-
feet they could not see the joke and
proceeded to cause a tickling SEN
sation on his hide with their fists.
A policeman who watched the pro-
ceedings proceeded to come to Mr..
Testin's assistance and rushed him
to cover. The 400 unemployed ex-
planned to the policemen who tried
to dispense them that they were
pounding the pavements since six
o'clock in the morning looking for
jobs. Yes, Sir 'Erbert Dover, we
have no unemployment today.
Elm " ONG, lne Dig juice
and jack man of the General
Electric Company, tells why he is a
democrat in the New York Times of
last Sunday. After reading his ar
ticle the only two of his several rea-
SONS that stand up under critical
punishment is that he is against the
Volstead law and that his ancestors
were democrats, perhaps, as far
back as the Baboon Age. Hoover
and Smith are both fine fellows, he
said, and it would be a pity to make
buns out of them during the cleo
ton campaign, since one of the two
is bound to be the next president of
the United States. Why blame
Hoover if he spent most of his life
working directly for British i'm
perialism? And why hold against
Al the fact that he losses off cock
tail once in while? This is the
gist of Mr.. Young's observations on
Wall Streets candidates.
MR.. Young makes it quite clear
AVA that there is no fundamental
difference between the democratic
and republican parties. They both
stand for prosperity and for a pro-
tective tariff. Note that we have
not been hearing much about this
old joker during the past few years.
Another proof that the democratic
party of the evangelist, bush-whack-
ing craw-thumping Bryan is not the
carty of Tammany AL. Mr.. Young
7ays, however, that, tho the "con-
sentative" or republican party was
best for the country in the years fol-
lowing the war, the democratic, or
liberal" party is best for the coun-
try in the halcyon days of peace
(pacts) in which we are now So
journing. Don't forget that it was
the democratic president, Woodrow
Wilson, who sent the manhood of
America to fight for Wall Streets
millions in 1917. AL Smith will be
just as ready to do the same thing
when Wall Street decides that it is
time to have another little world
war.
THE socialist party is no piker
when it comes to handing out
campaign promises. peace, plenty
and prosperity" is it's main slogan.
Unfortunately for the S. P. the
class-conscious workers know that
they can have neither this side of
the social revolution, and the alleged
progressives, that Norman Thomas
has been trying to seduce with his
ministeriar applications, have
turned to either AL Smith or Hoover
for their political pipe dreams.
AN unknown but nevertheless well
"A come reader forwarded an edi-
torial note sent out by the League
for Industrial Democracy, which is
controlled by the socialist party thru
Norman Thomas, explaining why the
news service of the L. l. D. leans to-
ward Mr. Thomas's candidacy. The
thing is funny and so is the title
given it by our unnamed friend. It
IS "The Harmaphoditic L. l. D." The
note roads.