The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
BURLESQUE REVUE; A SKIT
BY TAMMANY COPS

name or shield number the definite re-
sponsbty could not be fixed
Yet, what do we find in the Civil Liberties
Union press release of August s, but the fol-
lowing statement
"Bummer "a reporter for this same Tele-
gram) took six shield numbers (of the po-
lice who did some clubbing), which he turned
in to his paper"
This is surprising! A Telegram reporter,
who collected the numbers of cops who slugged
the workers, turns them over to his editor and
so testifies at the buresque show run by the
police. The police inspector tells him to pro-
duce them. The editor has them. But waits
y days until the police have exonerated the
police. Then comes out saying that mo wit
ness could identify them by name of shield
number" and winds up with saying that the
Communists are to blame!
Wanted: A particular Offender"
1t seems even stranger or would to those
not wise enuogh to know that Tammany has
any three-card monte dealer skinned both ways
from the jack, that Mulrooney's final state
ment" says:
mo witness was able to identify any par s
ticular offender"
When the Civil Liberties press release of
August s, giving resume of the hearing said
that Charles Yale Harrison, a reporter for the
New York American:
g. identified an officer with badge
number SS07 as responsible
1t will be recalled that Croswe Bowen, an
other reporter of the Hearst press, was among
those whom Captain Day said bumped their
heads against the pavement out of pure
cussedness. If he did so, naturally his head
was not quite right to begin with. But here
we have the capitalist press disbelieving its
own reporters.
True the workers who have read the CAPT
talist press have no high regard for these
siduous liars statements. But what a world,
when their own editors conceal the evidence
they turn in and later come out with state
ment virtually claiming that their reporters
have, perhaps from habit, become constitu-
tionally unable to tell the truth.
The Telegram Goes Iago One Better.
Thus it boils down to the fact that the Tele-
gram editor, who thinks Norman Thomas of
Every real value in talking about socialism
without meaning word he says, repudiates its
own reporter of scant veracity, hides the
evidence, and mourns because the Communists
Handicapped" the investigation by not testi-
flying.
Evidently the Telegram" would have be-
lieyeI what the Communists said if they had
appeared? Then the matter would have come
out differently? Hokum!
If the Communists had appeared, every capt.
talst editor would have seen to it that their
statements would appear, if at all, as "biased,"
"prejudiced," attempts to make a soap-boX
speechaetc while Mulrooneys final report
would have read:,-
CAS- result of a thorough and fair in
vestigation of the general statement that
police dubbed persons in this gathering,
twenty pernicious reds have been deported,
twenty more sent to Welfare Island to keep
Foster company, and twenty more have been
discredited as witnesses because they would
not kiss the New Testament. refused to
wear an American flag on their lapel, and
spoke sarcastically of my scheme of improv-
ing the cordial relations between the police
and the people by giving poor mothers and
children a boat ride. Therefore the police
exonerate the police and find the Commu-
nists guilty"
Recipe For Identification.
Anyway you take it, in this burlesque play,
the Communists found guilty. That's why
they forming Workers Defense groups to
be quite sure hereafter that particular Of
tenders" may be identified, if not by name or
number, then by the bandages they wear.