The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11
Told You So

pHILLIPS, the sewer CRATER, did
good job for Tammany hall
when he died of kidney trouble in
Atlantic City the other day. There
are reports now that those political
higher-ups who were involved with
Phillips will go unscathed. Dead
men tell no tales. 1t appears that
the christian deity is not always on
the side of the good. He seems to
take diabolical pleasure In doing
the wicked favor once in a while.
FIFTEEN thousand citizens sur
- rounded a catholic church in
Brooklyn to see gangster buried.
Thirty-eight flower-laden automo-
biles followed him to his grave. A
catholic priest said mass for the re-
pose of his soul. The gangster had
paid for it in advance. This thug,
Yale by name, made his living hold
ing up small business men, furnish
ing strikebreakers and in other
equally reprehensible ways. But he
was generous to churches and the
deserving poor" the poor who
voted for his political patrons on i.
election day in return for a crumb
now and then.
WALES political patrons are men,
bers of Tammany Hall. Despite
the bunk that is peddled in the cap.
italist press to the effect that the
Tammany of today is not the Tam
many of Boss Tweed or Dick Gro
ker days, that political institution
is as closely connected with the I'M
derworld as ever. 1t is said that
Yale, through this strong arm squad
and his philanthropic activities,
controlled 10000 votes which he was
able to sell at a good price.
| UQ L VI i cluCS pau
tribute to the dove of peace on
the Fourth of July. He sincerely
hoped that war would be forever
banished from the face of the earth.
What the honorable gentleman
meant is that the bandit powers
should be able to settle their diff I
ferences without having to resort
to war so that they would be able to
fleece their colonial slaves and keep
their own workingclass under the
iron heel. A few days after July A,
the newspapers carried the story
that the French navy had just
launched the fastest warship afloat.
THE British trade union bureau
cracy took flying leap ahead of
even the officialdom of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in dis
carding class warfare and joining
hands with the employers in keep
ing the peace. Henceforth all will
be quiet along the Thames between
capital and labor, if the British
labor takers can help it. The Gen
eral council of the British Trade
Union Congress formed a united
front with a committee of British
industrialists to review British in
dustry with view to developing
plan whereby the best interests
of industry could be served at the i
Expense of the workers of course.
CONFIDENTIAL with the an
v nouncement of this decision, j.
H. Thomas, political secretary of
the railwaymen's union, declared
that the railroad workers must be
prepared to accept wage cut. Most
of the official labor leaders and
particularly J. H. Thomas are
wealthy and care little whether the
J workers standard goes up or down
as long as they are permitted to
retain their positions which give
them prestige in the social world
and enables them to mix freely with
kings, queens, lords and dukes. But
docile though the British workers
have been there is limit to their
patience. There are some interest
ing developments in the British la
Dor movement. The Communist Par
ty recently decided to contest the
elections against the labor party as
we'll as against the liberal and tory
parties. The Labor Party, underA
the leadership of Macdonald, Snow
den, Thomas and others, is just as
imperialistic as the tory and liberals
parties. 1t has gone so far to the
right that Maxton, the chairman of
the Independent labor party, the So
cialist kernel in the Labor Party,
is now making open war on Mac
Donald and threatening to split the
labor party. In this fight he is
joined by A. ]. Cook, the secretary
of the Miners Federation, who is
liable to be ousted from his position
by his own reactionary executive
backed by the General Council.
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