The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
Told You So

I is one darned thing after another
for harassed Jimmy Walker, our
! dapper little mayor and marathon
traveller. Barely had he recovered
from the socialist charge that he
dances too much and attends the )
races instead of attending to the
business of his bourgeois masters,
when he received a report from Com
missioner of Police Warren that
there was an $4,000 deficit in the
treasury of the Glee Club, the mu-
steal auxiliary of the New York
police department.
WHY so much fuss should be made
" over the trifling sum of $4,000
is beyond our understanding. In
these days of sewer graft and slush
funds amounting to millions it
should be beneath the dignity of a
city official to take cognizance of
trifling indiscretion like the enibez-
Element of $4,000.
CENATOR OWEN of Oklahoma
has bolted the democratic ticket
because he says Governor Smith, by
reason of his environment, is not
qualified for the exalted position of
president of these United States.
The senator continued that he could .
not support Smith any more than
he could "a representative of the
Ware machine of Pennsylvania. %
What fraud the Oklahoma senator
is? Owen has declared for Hoover
and it so happens that senator Ware
is the pure mortal who forced the
hand of secretary of the treasury
Mellon and put the Pennsylvania
delegation in the Hoover column at
the Kansas convention. A pox on
the lot of them.
! A HIGH-SALARIED salesman went
II into a New York department
store few days ago and when he
departed a pair of unpaid gloves
went along with him. A lynx-eyed
store detective tapped him on the
shoulder and his arrest followed.
The value of the gloves was put at
$1.95. Whether the salesman toois
the gloves with malice aforethot or
not we cannot say, but detectives \
employed by stores to watch out for
laxative people oftentimes plant
articles on prospective customers
and then arrest them. A detective
is about the lowest thing in the
human scale.
WHEN Mrs. Mary G. Booze, Negro
F" Republican National Committee
woman from the State of Mississippi,
attended the meeting of the Repub-
lican National Committeewomen in
Washington few days ago, some
thing happened which should open
the eyes of those Negroes who still
believe that the G. o. P. of today
freed them from chattel slavery Mrs.
Booze was as welcome at the meet
ing as a cat in a mouse hole. The
republican ladies were exceedingly
embarrassed by her presence until
resourceful reporter induced Mrs.
Booze to leave her associates in or
der to get separate picture. When
she returned the republican ladies
were missing.
THERE is no difference betweenI
the attitude of the republican
and democratic parties toward the
Negroes. The democrats. refuse
them the vote in the South. They
Jim-Crow them and lynch them. The
republicans whose votes in the
southern states could be hidden in
a waste basket make big show of
friendliness to the Negro for the
sake of the northern Negro votes.
But the action of the repub-
lican national committeewomen
shows clearly that the democratic
party has no monopoly on hatred of
the Negroes.
MARCUS CARNEY, thru his organ
AVA the "Negro World" has en-
dorsed AL Smith for the presidency.
Garvey claims that Al is a better
friend of the Negroes than Hoover.
But Garvey is no fool and he knows
that the democratic party is the his
torical party of chattel slavery and
that the blacks in the South are no
freer today than they were before
the civil war, except, perhaps, freer
to starve. They are not permitted
to vote and on the eve of the demo- !
cratic convention in Houston, Texas,
a Negro was lynched within gunshot
of the city and no responsible demo-
cratic leader uttered a word of pro-
test. How much did Marcus get for
the sell-out?
CPEAKERS for Garvey's organiza-
y ton hold forth on the streets of
Harlem night after night, firing
their hearers with words of hate
against the white man." worker as
we'll as capitalist But here we see
the hypocrisy and dishonesty Of
those misleaders of the Negro
masses shown up in the light of day,
endorsing the white capitalist poll
ticians, political party that treats