The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-10
Told You So

THE anniversary of the execution
Of Sacco and Vanzetti is APP
preaching and hundreds of memo
rial demonstrations and mass meete
ings will be held all over the United
States under the auspices Of Inter
national Labor Defense. The muir
der of those two labor leaders was
as CHASTITY crime as the American
ruling class ever dared commit.
Had the American trade movement
not been headed by a gang of cor
rupt Observation-Disclosures bureau
Gratis, the Massachusetts governor
would have never signalled the ex-
ecutioner to turn on the switch.
AS it was, only the radicals made
any serious effort to save them
from death.
RUT for the radicals Tom Mooney
~ would have been burned up in
the. electric chair twelve years ago.
Yet you hear so much balderdash
about "bonafide" labor leaders.
Their bonafides consist of doing the
bidding of the capitalists, except
on the rare occasions when the cap
italists are so bull headed that they
don't know what's good for them.
George N. Peek, chairman of the
Cornbelt Committee intends to have
something else besides corn under
his belt after the election campaign
is over. He made the amazing dis
covery that Al Smith is strong for
the farmers. Yes, for the farmers
vote. AL agreed Sin principle" with
the equalization fee feature Of the
McNary- Haugen farm relief bill
4 while talking things over with Mr..
Peek. But no sooner had Peek
bought his ticket for home, than Al
repudiated the equalization fee.
Which should not disturb Peek, who
evidently talked cold turkey for the
Peek family while conversing with
: the democratic nominee. This is
good capitalist politics.
The House Campaign Investi-
eating Committee is reported to be
squirting itself into activity and
keeping a watchful eye on campaign
expenditures. We would like to give
those innocent fellows a friendly
warning and bangle before their
: eyes the fate of senator James A.
Reed of Missouri who built his cam
! paign for the democratic nomination
on his slush fund quiz. The culprits
he exposed were never more pros
porous and they won hands down at
! the polls but poor Jim was laughed
out of Houston and was not even
nominated for the job of White
t House janitor. There is no crime
! greater than poverty.
: When New York policemen are
not successfully shooting innocent
: bystanders they are hanging up new
records in craftsmanship by drill
$ ing holes in their own anatomies.
q This is certainly shot in the right
I direction. If there is any wild
u shooting to be done there is no rea-
e son why the shots should not find
5 Judgement in the cushioned softness
of a policeman's person. Patrolman
Patrick Abberton, was chasing eight
e men in an automobile who were
/ guiltless of wrong doing, and as if
I; providence wished to put the cop
e wise, Patrick loaded his leg, to the
q great relief of the pursued.
g A CHICAGO Judge is held for
II murder and nineteen other trif-
y ling breaches of the peace from kid
= mapping to stuffing ballot boxes. He
Il is a member of mayor Thompsons
IL "America First" organization. The
4 Judge and his father controlled a
4 ward which they held by divine
4 right supported by an army of gun
/ men. But finally the opposition
s. raised more money than the Grove
4 Thompson machine and now it APP
is pears that what is true in presiden-
a. tial election is going to be proven
of true in municipal politics. The
IS biggest money bag will win.
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ss THE political game in Chicago is
If going thru the process of ration
To alization. Tammany Hall showed
T. the way. In the days of Boss
Tweed and down to recently Tam
&C many was a kissing and byeword
= in the mouths of the respectable
;, plutocrats. Mayflower multimillion-
aires and liberal reformers scowled
:, or shuddered at mention OF the
. name. But an AL came to Judgment
and by the time he got thru with
his fumigating Tammany was pure
r. enough to become a candidate Tor
De the White House and the Tammany
today waves in the breezes of Wall
- and Broad Streets. Grating n
Chicago politics continued to remain
on a deplorable low level. Big Bust
20 ness apparently has awakened to q
sense of civic responsibility. Econo-
: NV in government and more eff
ficiency in the exploitation of the
at workers! This is the new watch
st word in Chicago.
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