The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-07
ELECTION
SLDELIGHTS
BY T. ]. O,FLAHERTY

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John ]. Raskob, chairman of the
finance committee of General Motors,
which has the backing of the House
of Morgan, reached New York on the
same train as AL Smith. This is the
Raskob who recently stated that big
business had nothing to fear from
AL Smith. Raskob is quite right.
The executive council of the A. F.
of L. will meet in Atlantic City on
August 81 to outline the policies and
program to be followed in the CAM
paign. The report will be something
like this:
''The executive council of the A.
F. of L. confirms the wisdom of the
policy of non-partisanship which
has secured so many beneficial re-
suits for labor. AS hitherto we adj
wise trade unionists to study the
records of candidates on the demo-
cratic and republican tickets and
to vote only for those who haveA
shown themselves to be friends of
labor. AS in the past, Reward our
friends and punish our enemies
shall be our slogan in the coming
campaign"
Hoover, it is said, will be favored
by railroad labor leaders, because he
tried TO force settlement of the rail-
road strike in 1922 on terms which
would have saved the faces of the
leaders. He will undoubtedly have
the support of John L. Lewis, whose
face he saved at Jacksonville, in 1924,
when he induced the operators to sign
an agreement on the old scale.
Claude G. Bowers, editorial writer
of the Evening World, set good
many people thinking when keynoting
at the Houston convention. "To your
tents, o Israel" he perforated, while
the befuddled delegates didn't know
whether they were being advised to
go to bed or to charge the enemy
with empty bottles. 1t may have been
the custom in Biblical days for the
favored of the Lord to spend some
time in prayer before picking up their
scimitars with the intention of cary
ing up the foe. In this case the foe
was the Republican Party, whose
chief sin is insisting on squatting on
the treasury in Washington and TAX
ing therefrom hefty fistfuls of coin
which the Democrats dearly desire to
take into their jeans.
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A newspaper headline reads, Smith
to make his stand clear" One would
imagine that man announcing the
fact that he intended to tell the truth
when delivering speech on his atti-
tude towards the various public ques-
tions would receive no more attention
than if the same man said that he
scratched his ear when that organ
receives the attentions of mosquito.
But evidently it is big stuff when a
capitalist politician even promises. to
tell the truth.
DInltl Will llOb CSli ally tAAuS ciAe%e
is liable to lose him vote. He is
convinced that certain number of
voters will vote for Hoover anyhow,
and every good politician knows that
the fellows who make virtue of reg
ularity must have some hot stuff to
keep their danders up. Smith is for
enforcing the Volstead law in the
South and for winking at it in the
North. He will tempt the voters of
the industrial sections with the suds
and in the arid areas he assures the
natives that he will keep an eye on
their cider. Hoover, on the other hand,
though a member Of the party that
has a former whiskey histiller as
cabinet member, must come out
for prohibition enforcement
lest he offend the Anti-Saloon League,
which was sucked by the Ohio gang
of odoriferous memory. So this is
CAPITALIST politics.