The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-10
Told You So

A verdict of guilty was delivered
by jury against Fred Marvin,
Peephole Man of America and
special adviser to the Granddaugh-
tiers of the American Revolution.
Likewise comes the conviction of
Mr.. Nosovitsky, international spy,
agent provocateur and general stool
pigeon, on charge of bigamy.
Marvin made a living drawing up
blacklists of alleged reds and Noso.
whisky brought home the bacon by
forging documents and marrying
solvent females. Marvin is now
scratching his head over the prob
lem of how to raise $1,000 libel
damages and Nosovitsky is scratch
ing himself in Jail for reasons Just
as disagreeable. .s
The way of the plebian stool
pigeon is strewn with thumb tacks.
Once his services are no longer re-
CURED he is thrown aside with as
little conjunction as a scavenger
would feel over pitching dead cat
into a garbage can. It is doubtful
If Marvin could raise the price of
meal from his former customers,
now that he has been discredited;
and as for Nosovitsky if he needed
the price of delousing operation he
would probably be handed a bed
bug.
While on the subject of patriots,
1t may be of interest to our readers
to know that Attorney General
Reading of Massachusetts,, one of
the most bitter enemies of Sacco
and Vanzetti, was driven from his
position because of his acceptance
Of a $4,000 fee from the Decimo
Club while the organization was
under investigation by the govern
ment. This is the patriot who
helped send the two labor leaders to
the electric chair. Whenever YOU
hear a man insisting on his burning
love for his country see if his right
hand is not behind his back, palm
upwards.
NEITHER the republican nor de-
~ mocratic platforms, or at least
the planks that vaguely take cogni-
zance of the existence of the trade
union movement, are satisfactory
to the officials of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, according to a
Washington dispatch dated July 8.
A group of disgruntled labor lead
ers were pictured vending their
way from Houston to Washington,
wounded in spirit and with hum
bled pride. What they were doing
in Houston until now was not
stated. Perhaps they were sleeping
off their disappointment.
RElNG somewhat skeptical about
the statements and motives of re-
dictionary labor leaders, this writer
is OF the opinion that the boys are
holding out for better price. 1t
would never do to give in too soon.
Or probably they do not want to
give the trade union membership
the impression that they sold out
on the first bid. It is dollars to
peanuts that the labor takers will
be found ballyhooing on the demo-
crat and republican bandwagons
when the election campaign gets in
to it's stride, regardless of how lit
tie consideration Wall Streets two
parties showed the labor movement.
THE garbage inquiry now conduc-
ted by commissioner of accounts
Higgins is raising a lot of dust if
nothing else. 1t appears that there
is more graft in garbage than any
body, except those most closely ac-
quainted with it, expected. One firm.
friendly with both the Hylan and
Walker administrations, made a
cool million out of a choice chunk.
Higgins solution of the problem is
to transfer department officials
from one graft area to another.
Thus the seed shall he snread