The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-18

T. j. O'Flaherty make MN Ia
OUR readers must not assume that
the way to start out on the road
to wealth is to sleep in a railroad
depot. Usually it is the way to start
to the nearest police station. Per-
haps Skaggs got the idea of chain
stores while scratching himself on a
hard seat in the depot. Lots of
bright ideas come to one in his sleep.
The trouble is that they are hard
to remember the morning after. But
there must be a "Skagg Way of
doing this. If there isn't, Skagg will
never be anything more in history
than big coffee and cocoa man.
HERBERT HOOVER insists that
- there are no unemployed in the
United States. This is not exactly
correct. What he claims is that there
is no unemployment problem. A
casual reading of the society columns
of capitalist press proves that there
are hundreds of thousands of para
sites whose only problem from one
end of the year to the other is to
devise new tricks to kill time. This
army of unemployed is supporting
Hoover and Smith.
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THE capitalist newspapers that are
:. supporting AL Smith claim that
there are over 100000 unemployed
in the country. The Hoover press
can't see it. If Smith happened to be
in Hoover's place the democratic
party press couldn't see a jobless
man on the Chicago slave market.
Hoover is trying to create the i'm
preston that the prosperity of
American imperialism is shared by
the entire population, but he will
have hard time trying to convince
hungry man that he is wrapped
around hot meal.
VAUCLAIN, head of the American
y Locomotive Company says that he
believes in the full dinner pail. He
believes that Hoover is the best lit
tie pail-filler running for the pres
idency. The officials of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor believe in
the full beer can. They believe that
AL Smith will have GROWERS" rush
ing as in the good old days before
the great thirst. We often heard of
a man falling between two stools,
but if the American workingclass
heed these political confidence men
and their press agents, they will be
left sitting between two empty cans.
THE revolutionary workingclass
will shed no tears of sorrow over
the passing of James Duncan, for
mer first president of the A.
F. of L. and former president of
the Granite Cutters International
Union. Duncan was one of the most
reactionary of the fossilized crew
of labor takers that graced the
executive council of the A. F. of L.
and disgraced the American labor
movement. His chief contributions
to history were his visit to Russia
in 1917 as a member of the COM
mission headed by Elihu Root, with
the object of sabotaging the Rev.
olution and keeping the socialist
reactionary Kerensky in power and
the organization ,of the lanyard
Club of Boston where the labor
leaders made whoopee until they
were too feeble to carry a stein to
their lips.
THE socialists are jubilant over the
vote cast for Victor Berger in
the Milwaukee primaries. And well
they may. Listen to the Milwaukee
correspondent of the New Leader
explain the victory" ct was
furthermore pointed out by the So
cialists who undoubtedly will vote
showed that many thousands of So
socialists who undoubtedly will vote
the socialist ticket on election day,
entered the republican primaries to.
help out the progressive candidates.
This has been often done by social
lists whenever the progressives were
in difficult contest with the stall
warts for the nominations. That is
why some of the greatest victories
for the socialist party in Milwaukee
were achieved when the primary
vote was lowest.