The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-12
Told You So

in the presidential elections, the
Workers (Communist) Party is go (
ing boldly ahead with IT'S plans to
raise 100000. In fact, the Com
munists would have no objection to
campaign treasury of $5,000,000.
Instead of printing and distributing
leaflets we would have a few more
daily papers strategically located
thruout the country.
Members Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Patty@are \ working like
beavers collecting the necessary
number Of signatures to place the
Communist ticket on the ballot. Two
comrades are touring parts of New
York state in an automobile called
the "Red Essex" Not only are they
collecting signatures but they are
organizing party units. Collecting
signatures, funds, and organizing
workers into the Party fit in nicely
into the general campaign plan.
The Fourth of July has come and
gone. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth Of fireerackers were
exploded, which is tribute to the
ability of the great American bust
ness man to mix business with pa
triotism. The @Happy Warrior" AL
Smith, waxed lyrical over the vir-
tues Of Tammany Hall, and declared
that only sound and politically
moral organization could exist and
flourish in this country for 139
years. Al may not know any better,
since he admits that he only read
two books in his life: The Life of
John L. Sullivan and the Holy Bible.
We suggest that Mrs. Moskovitz
present him with a copy of "Boss"
Tweed by Denis T. Lynch.
The estimable Tweed, while grand
sachem of Tammany, took unto
himself the tidy sum of $30,000,000
in less than three years, and it is
estimated that the total stake" Of
the Tammany ring was in excess of
$40,000,000. Even the Teapot Dome
boys had nothing on Tammany. All
the way down to "Glucose" Charlie
Murphy, the abstaining saloon keep
err, the leaders of Tammany headed
gang of plunderers that were
without peer in the annals of AM
erican history.
Tammany is now waging fake
fight against the sewer pipe bur-
glars in the Borough of Queens
headed by Connolly and Patten. The
truth is that Connolly and Patten
are on the Tammany blacklist be-
cause they supported the Hylan
ring and perhaps do not care to
share their graft with the citizens
of the Manhattan wigwam. How
the teeth of the 18th Street (now
Park Avenue) sachems must water
at the prospect of getting their
hands on this booty. One can i'm
agine Tammany elders prospecting
all over the sidewalks of New York
and muttering "Thars gold in them
thar sewers"
Herbert Hoover is reported to Se
having trouble with his campaign
managers. Some Of the outstand-
ing leaders of the G. o. P. are sulK-
| ing in their tents. We suggest that
Herbert commissions the Westing-
house people to build him a dozen
mechanical men who will move in
the best modern engineering fash
ion with the pressing of button.
This might give the capitalists hope
that when Hoover is elected, if he
should be, he will provide them with
enough robots to man their fac
tories, so that they could dispense
with the pesky working class. Still
there are drawbacks. Mechanical men
| would not consume the commodities,
which are produced by the workers
not primarily for their own con-
sumption but for the greater glory
and profit of the capitalists, and
furthermore there would not be
much of a thrill for Du Pont in
manufacturing bullets that would
glance off the robots like pebbles
off the side of a ship. Too many
contradictions in this system I
suppose they will have to bear with
the workers as long as the workers
will bear with them.
X
The democratic platform mildly
protests against the occupation of
Nicaragua, and yet when the ALL
America Anti-Imperialist League
demonstrated against this crime in
Wall Street, the professionals were
arrested and beaten by policemen
under the direction of democratic
police commissioner. The southern
democrats have no scruples against
the lynching of Negroes, but they
have little to gain by an imperialist
venture in Latin America. Morgan
has tho. And AL Smith is the white
haired boy in the vicinity of Broad
Street.
Democrats, socialists, and repub-
licans are concerned only with
catching votes in this election cam
paign. The two big parties are
amassing their millions for the
great political fair next November.
The moor decrepit socialist marty is