The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-21
Told You So

THIS is by no means the most i'm
portant news of the day, but it
is susceptible to instructive COM
ment. CASTOR B. Means, one of the
most successful and competent stool
pigeons in the employ of the gov
eminent during the reign of the
notorious Daugherty, and one Of the
most prosperous grafters and black
mailers that ever rated on human
society is out of the Atlanta peni-
Tertiary where he was sent nearly
four years for accepting money to
bride officials and for violation of
the federal prohibition law.
MEANS has been model prisoner
IVA it is reported and represents a
natty appearance on his departure
from the federal pen. The fine of
$4,000 that was imposed on him in
addition to the prison sentence will
be sworn off his conscience in good
capitalistic manner, and Means ex-
poets to reap the reward of his sacri-
flee in fat contracts from news
papers and magazines for articles
in which he will expose those for
whom he went to prison to save their
ribs and political necks. And he will
do that little thing.
WHILE stool-pigeons and grafters
" of first class rating find it easy
to pry open the doors of prisons and
even while in confinement are able
to while away the monotony of
prison life thru special considera-
tons allowed them by venal officials,
workingclass victims of the struggle
between capital and labor who fall
into the hands of the law are not so
! lucky. The birds of prey like
Means-tho he is only baby buzz
zard compared to the big fellows in
Wall Street-leave jail in better
physical condition than when they
entered. One has only to look at the
picture of Tom Mooney, that ap-
peared in recent number of the
Labor Defender and compare it to
the photograph taken when he en-
tered to realize what difference
there is in the treatment accorded
militant labor leaders and capitalist
grafters who suffer because they are
too clumsy in doing the logical
thing for anybody to do who be-
lieves society is something to prey
on and not to serve.
IMPORTANT discoveries of fossils
of prehistoric carnivore in Mon
golia are reported. Among the
more important fossils reported are
femur and canine tooth of the
eudinoceras, a premolar of the an.
drewsachus and other fossils, which
indicate, according to the publicity
agent of the fossil-hunting expedi-
ton that 1--WE are fast getting good
collection from the eocene age, the
earliest part of the age of the NAM
mails" This is very good news.
propose that a Communist expedi-
ton of dentists-if we have enough
in the movement to fill Ford
journey to the A. F. of L. head
quarters in Washington and ex-
anime the teeth of the official labor
takers parked there.
CHOULD the Communist dentists
notice any unusual growths on
the masticating apparatus of the
labor leaders they could cook up
scientific formula that would
prove to the satisfaction of the
average layman, that the owners of
those molars were prehistoric men
and should be embalmed Immediately
for preservation in a labor museum
lest those dental gems might meet
with untoward accident while their
owners were exploring their raw
oysters. 1t would be just like a
consumer of those costly victuals to
crash into gem, thus wrecking the
prehistoric tooth, conclusive evidence
that labor leader who believed in
nom partisan political action belongs
to the eocene age.
THIS suggestion is well worthy of
consideration and if carried out
without serious hitch should prove
satisfactory all round. In the first
place the labor movement would be
rid of a number of antedeluvian
specimens whose brains have been
petrified so long that they are bullet
proof. The most influential of the
labor leaders are of advanced age
and their expectancy of life is no
more than ten or fifteen years at
best. 1t would be a SPLENDID pros
pect for them to lay open to public
view in museum and be looked on
in awe by generations to come. And
the Communist dentists could have
each prehistoric tooth discovered
called after themselves.
For instance on William Green's
container-I rarely go to mu-
seums and forget the name of the
thing they keep mummies in-there
could be inscribed something like
this: Greenocerous eocene specimen
discovered in Washington in 1928 by
party Of daring Communist dem