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

FASCIST governments do not seem
to have as much luck fighting the
elements as they have smashing the
organizations of the workers and
failing and killing revolutionists Of
course, it will not be always thus
the workers will some day turn the
tables on their enemies. Well. the
alrplane Pilsudski did not contri-
butte any more prestige to PiIsud-
skis black shirt regime than tbe
Italia did to Mussolini's. No doubt
a fat little loan would be one of the
results of a successful transatlantic
Tights and Pilsudsh would be able
to rattle his sabres at Lithuania
with more effect.
For the benefit of those who
write to this conductor in care
of the Daily Worker this is to certil
~ that this daily column is
sent in from Workers (Communist) /
Party National Election CAMPAIGN
Headquarters, 4S East 1875 Street
New York City where the writer is
engaged doing publicity work for
the National Communist Campaign.
Those who fail to receive reply in
Que time may now be able to bear
up under the suspense of waiting
for an overdue reply. 1t also gives
us an opportunity to put in a lick
for our speciality which no publicity
man worthy of the name ever misses
an opportunity to do.
AT the rate things are going it
Will be pretty hard before long to
1lnd democrat in an important po-
sltion in the Al Smith campaipn
committee. A republican ladv Is
going to plumber the republican
chicken coops for women who don't
like the looks of Herbert but who
thlnk that Al has got political ct"
We hear that Tammany staIwarts
are warned to skulk in the alIev-
ways when perfumed aristocrats
come around to democratic head
quarters to find out if AL has claws
and a velvety skin. Judge Olvanv
and Hooey Cor is it McCooey) can
be seen in second-class hotels bv the
old, seasoned fellows, but they must
make themselves scarce when the
new converts come to gaze on the
domesticated tiger.
A newspaper had nifty headline
on the deliberations of the AT. of T.,
executive committee in session at
Atlantic City. "a. F. of l.. strad-
ding fence on Smith-Hoover cues
ton" it read. Which way shall the
cat jump? That all depends on the
percentage of the $4,000 600 Doodle.
estimated as the cost of the election
campaign, that will be within sight
OF the fence-straddlers from their
vantage point
The famous or infamous Com,
mlttee for the Preservation of Trade
Unions has fallen on barren DAYS.
We never entertained much hope of
success for this scabby outfit but
one might expect that the Golfers
of the reactionary bureaucrats ola
the A. F. of L. would be opened to
give aid and comfort to Messers.
Slgman, Shiplacoff, ct al. in their
worthy crusade to save the sacred
sepulchres of reaction in the needle
trades from defilement by the
Communist heathens. But alas and
alack! Mr.. McGrady, the Lion
Hearted representative of William
Green, politely informs his chosen
people that they must shift for
themselves and run the risk of being
sabred defending their holy graft.
Lest the preceding paragraph
might bring confusion instead of
enlightenment to those who did not
read the sad story in last Mon
days issue Of tfie Daily Worker,
here is the talefin brief: Last year
when the Left Wing under the
leadership of the Communists had
won over the great majority of the
workers in the |. l.. G. w. u. and
the Furriers' Union, the grand
moguls of the A. F. of L. decided for
the Goth time to clean the "reds"
out Of those unions. They organ
lied the above-nan1ed committee and
called one-day general strike. The
labor takers came out to a man.
Then divers boasts were made i'll
the socialist, capitalist and reac-
tionary labor press that this was the
end Of Communism in the needle
trades. But the worst came. not to
the Communists but to the enemies
OF the workers. Radicals can 90
long way without funds but the
takers and their henchmen must
see the color Of the coin, else thei,
zeal vanishes.* So when the treasury
of the c. P. T. U. presented shiny
bottom the bottom, fell out of the
crusade. Now Shiplacoff and Com
pany have sent out an S. O. S. for
dough but only an echo came back.
And William Green confesses that
he, y l.