The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-11

t. j. O'Flaherty liner bound
for the southern
part of the western hemis-
phere. Lord Cushendon, is recover
ing from the strain of silence i'm
posed on him at the ceremonies at
tendant on the signing of the "anti
war" treaty in Paris and Lord Birk-
enhead, alias "Galloping Smith" is
holding down the British Foreign
Office in the absence of those two
nervous gentlemen. If Smith ever
has an attack of nerves it will not
be due to enforced silence. He is
as noisy as a whelp in a barrel.
Ms additional proof that the Kel-
a. logg treaty is an instrument of
peace, we offer free of charge to the
socialist party, the Carnegie Peace
Foundation, Nicholas Murray But
Ter, the Sulgrave Institute, and the
recent German maneuvers in East
Prussia. Fifty thousand troops par
ticipated, with representatives of all
the leading military powers in at
tendance with the exception of Eng
land and France.
EDWARD S. HARNESS, a STAN
- dard Oil Republican, dropped
10000 into the Al Smith campaign
fund treasury the other day and got
his picture into the Morning World.
IT this picture does him justice the
writer would not care to meet him
on pay day. Hardness would certain
ly never make good as taxi driver,
Tor the good reason that no solvent
traveller would give him instructions
to drive to any destination except a
police station. Yet it is possible
that Mr.. Hardness is a Rotarian.
reads the American Mercury and has
good word to say for his mother.
T. 5. Hardness is Republican by
birth and force of habit.
SOMETHING terrible is in the air
v in placid Philadelphia. 1t is
nothing less than the suspicion that
the police department is in cahoots
with the bootleggers. The head of
the city detectives has already been
suspended and nothing can save him
from lot of embarrassment except
perhaps drive against radicals on
the ground that they are undermin-
ing the integrity and diluting the
patriotism of the workingclass popu-
lation of Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM V. big BilD DWYER,
" the ex-bootleg mahatma, who
was recently paroled from Atlanta
because of ill-health is again active
in social life. You cannot keep a
fellow like "Big Bill" out of bust
ness. A grateful friend is said to
have handed the big boy check for
100000 an his return from the
hoosegow. With this trifle Dwyer is
reported to have organized Hockey
club and got himself elected treas
urer.
GAMBLING KINGS, bookkeeping
" barons, oil sultans, confidence
wizards and bank presidents do not
seem to have much difficulty in get
ting out of jail. In fact they have
much harder time getting in. But
let a military labor leader find him
self on the wrong side of a peni-
Tertiary key hole and only a minia-
ture revolution can get him out. Tom
Mooney and Warren K. Billings in
California and the Centralia bows in
Washington have been locked I'D
now from eight TO twelve years and
the state authorities seem to be Just
as determined as ever to keep them
THE writer was reminded forcibly
= of the relationship between the
police and the petty bourgeoisie re-
Gently after he was gypped out of
four dollars by a cashier in Third
Avenue restaurant, which shall be
"Hell Gate" instead of the
real name. When this customer in
that the cashier was in
danger of getting crack on the but
ton, he was challenged to call a
cop. This he did not do, fearing
that the first officer of the law he
ran into, might be fondling a sealed
envelope.