The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-02
Told You So

WHEN the imperialist ambassadors
meet in Paris on August 27, to
sign Kellogg's fake pact for the
outlawing of war, they will be
frisked for guns, razors, stilletos
and other lethal weapons by the
TOUGHEST members of the Paris
police force, according to reports.
The French government does not
want to risk the possibility of get
ting it's famous Clock Room in the
Foreign Office Uttered with bodies
gushing blood all over the place,
Moreover it would be criminal
waste of manpower to permit the
mutual destruction of so many ex-
pert signers of peace treaties. They
will be needed in the future.
MUSSOLINI of Italy and Baron
AVA Tanaka of Japan are too busy
to make the journey to Paris, SO they
will assign the task of putting the
John Hancock on the treaty to lesser
lights. The Baron is too busy try
ing to carve slice out of the an
atomy of China and the Duce is too
busy getting photographed. Kellogg
has lots of help so he can leave the
war against Nicaragua to secretary
of the navy Wilbur while he is on
the warpath in Europe for peace.
THE black shirt industry is now
almost as prosperous in Italy as
the white shirt business was in the
United States during the heyday of
the Ku Klux Khan. We would not
be surprised to learn one of these
days that the Duce himself owns a
couple of shirt factories. Patriotism
being the last refuge of the scoun-
drel, where can a greater patriot be
found than Benito Mussolini? Its
about time the castor oil industry
experienced a bull market. Perhaps
Mussolini himself became an addict
and did not choose to run! That
may account for his recent indis-
position.
TENE TUNNEY knocked Heeney
u down but not out. The next time
Tunney goes into a fight his man
ayers should supply him with a
sledge, Heeney was handicapped
from the start. He was built for
comfort but not for speed and the
big syllable and dipthong man could
run rings around him. One of the
pictures shows Heeney on the floor
wriggling as if he sat in tub of
fish glue. Heeney took 100000
worth of a beating. Oddsbodlns,
that happens to be the amount the
National Election Campaign Com
mittee of the Workers (Communist)
Party is trying to raise for the cam
paign. Heeney raised it in one night
by sitting on the ring.
CHICAGO is having a lot Of fun
with its police force. One of the
most popular police stations in the
Windy City is liable to be padlocked
as public nuisance. Prohibition
agents raided the station and con-
fiscated considerable supply Of
hootch which was being retailed to
the prisoners. Now, in retaliation.
the police threaten to raid prohibit
ton headquarters.
A NEWSPAPER headline tells us
II that ex-senator Owen of Okla
homa courted the Tammany tiger in
1924 and asked Al Smith for his aid
in swinging the Tammany delegation
to his side, when the deadlock be-
tween AL and William Gibbs Mac
Adoo, Wilson's Crown Prince went
beyond the breaking point. Owen
now says, in other words, that he
cannot think of Tammany without
feeling the necessity of standing
over the rail and feeding the fishes.
AS a matter of fact, Tammany Is
much more respectable now than it
was in 1924 Our liberal friends ad-
nit this. 1t has moved its head
quarters to Park Avenue, and has a
ulti-millionaire to direct AIS cam
paign. What's the matter Owen?
am sure if you went the right way
about it Tammany would be as gen.
erous as Hoover.
MAJOR George L. Berry of Ten
Mnessee, president of the pressmens
union and other remunerative indus
tries, has been appointed AL Smiths
organizer Of the Tabor vote" Berry
will play the role of trained ram,
whose function it will be to induce
trade union voters to mark their bal
lots for Tammany. Berry is the
most notorious of the semi-profes-
sional strikebreakers. He has turned
the pressmens' union into company
auxiliary. If he is not millionaire
as a result of his business activities
in the union and outside, then John
D. Rockefeller is now soliciting aims
on the corner of 42nd and 9Th Ave.
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