The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-15
BOASTS OF KEEP
NCFOSTERI IN
Continued From Page One.)

there is no Hooverian babble of
prosperity" but a warning to the
exploiters and an urge to them to
arm against the workers.
In need of a Mussolini, as stupid
and egoistic and brutal as the origi-
nal, Whalen modestly proposed him
self. A Woolworth Store Musso-
lini, forsooth, but none the less a
fascist. AS a recommendation he
said that he had kept a great many
workers away from Rutgers Square
and from Union Square on May l..
The tens of thousands who were
driven back in the side streets to
Union Square on May Day will sup
port Whalen's statement-but not
Whalen.
As to what he would do, Whalen
said he could clean out the rad
ical element in New York in "a
hours. The particular "a hours
to be selected remains indefinite.
And now for one of the most sig
nificant remarks:
Whalen said he would keep
Foster in Jail, as otherwise he
(Foster) would be liable to cause
a revolution.
We recommend to the workers
chat they think over this boast of
Whalen while Foster and Minor and
Amter and Raymond are lying in
prison as a result Of the outrage
Gus railroading prosecution. Com
munists know that revolutions are
caused by economic factors, but we
assure Whalen and his kind chat
Foster, silenced by prison bars, is
adding to the revolutionary diseon-
tent of the workers. He is serving
the revolution which will sweep
away all the Whalens.
With all the record Whalen had
to brag about, and all he promised
for the future, it was most natural
that Whalen should openly recog-
nize that, as . servant of the capt.
talist government, he is responsible
to the capitalists, and to them alone.
Therefore, he said:
If the business men did not
think that he was handling the
situation in the best possible
manner, then his resignation was
in their hands Immediately.
And the $500 well-wet capitalists
shouted you're all right"
Yes, Whalen is all right for your
bosses, workers! Bue he was en-
barrassingly found out as a con-
spirator with czarist forgers and
professional patriots, such as Alex
Yozwa, the hireling of the white
guard paper "Novoye Russkoye
Slovo,' the fascist scoundrel posing
as "labor leader" known as Mat
thew Woll, and Ralph Easley, pre-
viously mentioned. Whalen was
caught with the goods in palming
off forgeries.
Whalen don't like it. And when
the exposure of his completely in
the fofgeries was made on Monday
and the story broke of his refusal
to allow comparisons to be made,
Whalen was sore, but silent-yet
not inactive.
Oh, no! Whalen doesn't have the
New York City treasury back of
hiiii-which he spends without au-
thority, as admitted or boosted by
Acting Mayor Mckee at the ban
quet-for nothing. Whalen had to
get something" new on the Com
munists and get it pronto.
SO on Tuesday, though Whalen
would not say a word about the
forgeries, he had two dicks from the
bomb squad" trying to get a new
| ffame-up on somebody. These two
precious scou1drels came to the
Workers Center with a sheet of
paper on which was typed some nom
sense purporting to be written by
Whalen, threatening to blow up his
building, him and so on, if he didn't
stop investigating the Communists.
These two dicks indicated that the
letter came from 26 Union Square.
Probably the writer obligingly had
given it as his return address. Any
how, the dicks Of Whalen wanted
to take samples Of the writing Of
every typewriter at the Workers
Center-"of course, just to COM
pare them" with the type of the
mysterious threatening letter."
They had no warrant, as usual.
Not being born yesterday, the
comrades told them to visit
warmer climate than Union Square.