The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-17
7By a Worker Correspondent


aew duty, that of tearing down post
rs tackled up by the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, was imposed on the
.leeady "overburdened" police of this
city during the last election cam
paign.
The bulls, what between cracking
yheir night-sticks on strikers caught
ii the heinous act Of picketing,
breaking up outdoor meetings of
class conscious workers, and Juggling
speakers for failure to shout glory
for Morgan" had plenty to do as it
was. And when it is remembered
that Philadelphia FINEST" are COM
PEELED to spend much Of their time
collecting commissions from the rum
ring, it can be seen that the bulls
nave their hands full-of graft.
But the speed-up has hit even
them. Two comrades who were post
ing "Vote Communist and Foster
rally plaearls to pole and fences one
night recently were held up by a
pair Of diclEa, who had been shadow
ing them in an expensive motor car.
The tools of the hootch trust
5natched the remaining posters, and
ordered the workers to "beat it."
When it was protested the Workers
Party was legal one, bona fide
political party, having as much right
to advertise their cause as the demo-
Gratis and republicans and socialists,
whose bills, plastered all over town,
are never touched by the police, the
ferocity of the legal yeggs became
dglier.
eve Got Orders"
p9"We got orders to rip 'em down,
see" one of them snarled. He had
no answer ready for the question,
GLOW is it you don't have orders to
remove the images of capitalist
ward heelers plastered all over the
poles? Instead he began to put the
two suspects thru a third degree.
"Who puts up the money for these
5hings ?" he wished to know.
s"Not Du Pont and not Raskob,
nor j.. P. Morgan either"
"Wise guy, Ell? Any more cracks
out of you and we'll give you the
works"
The placards were subjected to
close examination; from top to bot
tom and from left to right roved the
wolfish eyes of the law.
"Kaiserism.''
"What this meant" he yapped on
coming to the slogan, Against I'M
perialist Wars"-the nearest his
soggy brain could come to under
standing the explanation given was,
"Uh, huh-Kaiserism."
Down with Race Oppression,
stumped him worse. "Say, are you
guys mixed up with the fellahs what
was burnin' the crosses around here
last SUMMER" he demanded sus-
piciously, pictures of Reds and Ku
Kluxers befuddled for a moment in
his booty mind. Bursting into loud
outlaws, the workers were in i'm
minent danger of being dubbed by
a crackpot all but foaming at the
mouth for fury; but in the end, not
seeing their way clear to framing
'these goddam Bolsheviks" the
doughty defenders of 'law and or
der" hoped into their high-priced
car, and were off to the rum agency
or police station as it is sometimes
called in jest, barking in parting,
"Don't let US catch you around here
again" On retracing their steps,
the workers discovered that every
last one of the posters they had put
up had been torn down by the dicks.
The Higher Up.
1t is altogether in line with the
new status of the bulls that they
carry out orders issuing from the
office of Max Boo-Boo Hoff, mil
lionaire bootlegger and real boss of
the civil machinery, with SO much
zeal. For they are no mere tools of
"a capitalist caste;t thanks to an
underworld government lousy with
graft, they have achieved some mon
etary standing Of their own, and
along with it, the shekel-swing slant
on the working class.
The grand jury probe" started
by job-hunting political hacks has
brought to eight" the fact that
Philadelphia is and has been for
years under liquor law.
On Booze Payroll.
1t has been proven in open court
that the police department to man
is on the regular payroll of the
booze band. Books "confiscated" by
federal agents in "raids" on racket
Headquarters reveal that millions in
protection money were Slipped"
gangster-cops in the space of a year
or so. Many drew weekly salaries
and each member of the force had
a.-price dependent upon rank and
drag. One dick profited to the tune
of nearly half million before the
Jury got after him. Another cleaned
up so much velvet in a few months
spent with special prohibition cen
sforcement" squad that he was en-
abled to retire, buy up two hotels
and a cafe, in the heart of the city
and settled down to enjoy life. A
common patrolman, yet to be called
nyby the "inonisitors," has purchased
outright 100000 country estate on
his weekly wage Of $50 from the