The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-05

edClng OUT her
T. J. O'FEaherty heart In humili-
alton, we learn
that a working woman got away
with only nine months for stealing
a pair of socks for her husband.
II
MRS. KNAPP is a member of the
AVA G. 0. P, one of the two parties
that is defending the country from
the danger of Communism. The
G. o. P. like the democratic party
has splendid record in this respect.
Their aim is to steal everything in
sight so that when the workers get
hold of the powers of government
there will be nothing left except
whatever is not worth taking. All
Smiths predecessors in Tammany
Hall took everything except the
sidewalks and the Long Island di-
vision of the Pirates Den is now
cleaning up on the sewers.
PATRIOTISM is a wonderful bust
ness. 1t pays to patriotise. This
would not be bad slogan for
Hoover or Smith or both. There is
nothing that appeals to the intelli-
gent petty bourgeois minded voter
more than a business campaign.
Show the average American white
collar slave the possibility of get
ting the price of a new shirt out of
an election campaign and he will
sneeze the Star Spangled Banner
daily in front of any campaign head
quarters, except the campaign head
quarters of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party. There he would gag in
stead of sneeze. 1t isn't our fault;
its natures.
At that Mrs. Knapp has a kick
"A coming. She only got away with
a few score thousands of dollars.
Others who got away with millions
are laughing themselves dizzy, while
Florence is reverting to her earlier
opinion that what is sauce for the
gander is grease for the goose. Why
should A. B. Fall, Harry Sinclair
and Harry Daugherty be breathing
the pure ozone and ticking their
stolen millions while Mrs. Knapp had
to fret in durance vile for thirty
long days? She was only a piker.
She will know better next time.
MRS. KNAPP may console herself
AVA however with the thot that had
she been a working women and in
stead of distributing among needy
relatives public funds placed in her
keeping, had been caught distribut-
ing leaflets urging her sisters to
join a union or vote the Communist
ticket, she would be given several
months in Jail, in addition to ex-
periencing tickling sensation on
her head from the club of copper.
We must admit that it is tough on
poor Mrs. Knapp. But then she
should not permit herself to be
caught mapping.
old DOC JOHNSON knew what
v he was talking about when he
said that patriotism was the last
refuge of every scoundrel." We
amend Old Johnson's motion by add
ing that it is also his main business.
Who but a patriot like Doheny could
get away with the Elk Hill naval
oil lands robbery? And Sinclair,
Fall, Daugherty and the others who
did not commit suicide because they
missed couple of safes. Those are
the boys who secured injunctions to
break strikes, organized insurrec-
tions in Mexico to save Jesus from
the atheists and in many other
ways proved that they believe in
the sanctity of the home and the
purity of American womanhood.
NOW, for the moral to adorn the
~ tailend of this column, provided
there is yet room. All the wealth
that is produced in this rich coun-
try is wrung out of the bone and
sinew of the working class. Whether
this wealth is guzzled down the
parched gullet of a Daugherty or
Fall, used to purchase European
count for the parasite daughter of
an American sausage magnate, or
to buy halo in heaven for John D.
Rockefeller's bald head, does not
make a particle of difference to
those who are robbed. They are
robbed at the point of production, to
use a well-polished phrase. And to
relieve their social nostrils from the
, stencil that rises from capitalist So
ciety like the smell from the hold of
cattle boat, the workers must
topple this system over and build
Communist society in it's place. And
to mobilize the masses for this task,
the Workers (Communist) Party is
running an election campaign, as
part of it's revolutionary activities.
Vote Communist on election day and
strike blow for the new society!