The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-27
CRAFTERS GANGS
START SHOOTING
IN CHICAGO POLL
Communist Candidates
Not Frightened

CHICAGO, Feb. 26. - Workers
came out to ballot today for Com
munist candidates in Chicago's al
dermanci elections in spite of the
atmosphere of battle that prevailed,
as usual when Chicago votes.
An army of LOO Especial depu
ties" equipped with machine guns
ostensibly hired by the city, actu-
ally working for one or another of
the contesting parties in the issue
of "for Book Burner Thompson,
(the mayor) or against him." pa
trolled the streets. Scarface AL Ca
pone's gunner were actively patrol
ling too, in the Twentieth Ward,
without much interference.
Voters Fear to Appear.
With the exception of class-con-
scious workers voting for their own
candidates, those supported by the
Workers Party in this officially
"nonpartisan' election, the elector-
ate of Chicago stayed home, in fear
of the gunmen's bullets. Only about
half the usual vote is being cast.
Someone threw a five-foot length
of two-by-four through a plate glass
in the office of City Collector Nor
ris Eller, who is under Indictment
for violence resulting in the assas-
sination of his opponent for ward
committeeman in the primary last
April. A patrolman detailed to the
first floor of the office said he saw
no one in the street.
Mrs. Jennie S. Mayer charged she
was expelled from her post as cleo
ton Judge in Hyde Park. Judge
Jarecki sent out Investigators.
Election officials were besieged
with minor complaints. Three ballot
boxes were reported missing in the
"bloody twentieth" ward; and in the
42nd, where Alderman Titus Haffa.
convicted bootlegger was running
for reelection, hoodlums were re-
ported to be annoying election work
ers.
A candidate in the twentieth Ward
has been notified that he will be
shot unless he withdraws from the
race; voters on the South Side, liv-
ing near the Rockefeller-Armo
University of Chicago have been told
they will have to ego for ride" If
they try to exercise the right Of
franchise tomorrow.
Capone Gang Active.
The hottest part of the battle be-
tween the old parties will probably
be in the Fourth and Twentieth
wards. Scarface Al Capone is the
man behind the gangster guns il
the Twentieth, and his candidate is
State Representative VIM. V. Pas
celli, a member of the Eller machine
There has been for some time close
alliance between one section of the
police department, Eller, and Ca
pone, the politicians here say. Ca.
pone is said to have had an interest
in the killing of the whole Moran
gang few days ago, by assassins
in police uniforms and using a police
car, as the Moran bunch had beer
hiiacking Capone beer trucks. Morris
Eller, when running against the
Negro lawyer, Octavius Granady
last year had an easy victory in his
campaign for City Collector, thru
the sudden death of his opponent
Granady was shot dead on the street
and nobody ever punished for it.
Albert r. Brunker supporting
Prignano, Pascelli's opponent for
alderman in radio address de-
clared:
II sat in conference Saturday with
several public officials and heard
them say that Prignano's chance to
live through Tuesday in the ward
where he was born and where he
has always lived were slightly less
than even"
Political workers for Alderman B
A. Cronson, running again this wear