The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-21
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Ssh! A Red Plot
By JORGE

Ssh! A Red Plot
IUHEN such eminent scoundrels as Mr. Fish
and CASTOR B. Means get together some
thing is bound to happen. Means. who has just
gotten out of the penitentiary for bootlegging
murder or some slight peccadillo, is obviously
the kind to gravitate to the employ of Mr.. Fish
in investigating the red menace"
Means has the means it appears, to spend
some $500 week at it, with headquarters in
New York hotel. But here the plot thickens like
tallow gravy. And the scene shifts to Balt-
more
Now, we completely ignorant of what the
red menace is doing in Baltimore. We do
recall that, some months ago. all the high dig
nitaries of that fair city and the state of Mary
land, headed by the governor, took the effigies
of "Old Man Depression" and odd Lady Pes
simsm" and mid solemn ceremony dumped them
into the ocean.
Probably the ocean objected to dumping"
and dumped them back again. Perhaps they
became animate and went into hiding Some
thing or somebody went into hiding, it appears,
for Wednesday the Associated Press told us
that raid was made Tuesday on a refrigera-
ton plant in Baltimore, In part, it said:
Representative Fish, accompanied a party
of unidentified who were escorted by Bal
tinore police and detectives to the plant The
men were in two staxicabs and five-ton post
office truck accompanied the party. Several
crates of lettuce were moved out to the side
walk, the searchers remaining in the building
for two hours Then they emerged. dismissed
the police escort and departed with no ex-
PLANTATION of their activities"
Now, what the devil do you make of thats
Nothing except that Fish has again proven that
he is fool besides being several other things.
But there is more. The A. P. adds:
cat the warehouse 1.-THE refrigeration plant
has been transmogrofed into warehouse in
the course of the story, for which the A. P.
and not we are responsible-Jorge) it
said that several days ago Means, who re-
Gently served a term at the Atlanta peniten-
tiary, visited the office. He wanted to store
some trunks and asked to see copy of the
receipt he would receive. 1t was said a bank
receipt was given him."
What the devil would you make of that? My
dear CASTOR evidently wanted to look at the
warehouses receipt to compare it with some
other one his Sherlockian genius had trailed
uOWll DIS DSllS given W Ollc Vi lllOic
aces" undoubtedly for storage of bombs, artil-
lery or even battleships-who knows?
And once his eagle eye perceived that the
form of receipts were the same, he reported to
his superior jackass Mr. Fish, who thought to
make flutter on the front page of the capital
list press by himself, alone Except for a regi-
ment of cops and unaided Except by the ex-
convict Means who must remain out of sight.
discovering exposing and on, vast NUM-
tons depot for red uprisings" and all that,
doubtless part of the Amtorg plot" to
make guileless Yankees buy Soviet fiddle strings
or some other nefarious method of running
American homes and families.
| The Associated Press, not being in on the
affair." unwittingly spilled the beans, and wound
up by saying that:
"a dispatch from Washington quoted Mr..
Fish's secretary saying that Mr.. Fish had
! stopped in Baltimore to view some docu-
ments.'"
So! Documents. eh? Where then are the
bombs? Where, indeed, are the "documents?"
! Alas it appears that the particular warehouse
receipt which Means had traced down rep
resenting machine guns, etc. stored by the "red
| menace" for future reference, turned out to be
| several crates of lettuce"
| All we can say just now is that the lettuce
| should have been cabbage heads Cabbage is
! much more attractive to the ordinary jackass.
| But then Mr. Fish is an extraordinary jackass.