The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-28
By E. GARDOS.

THE decision Of the Pennsylvania State Su-
preme Court which declared for Clifford
Pinchot, the republican nominee for governor,
as against his opponent from the Ware ma
chine, VIM. S. Brown, deserves some attention
on our part. Using technical excuses, the
Philadelphia machine appealed to the Supreme
Court to throw out some $4,000 votes polled
by Pinchot in order to assure the election of
their candidates for the key office in the state,
the rich source of plumber and graft for the
machine. The tempest within the political cir
cles of the state quite instructive. 1t
showed the millions of dollars spent by both
competing boss groups during the primaries.
The Davis-Brown tickets spent, according TO
their own admission to the Nye Investigation
Committee, one and half million dollars. The
fact is, the millionaire. forester Pinchot, "ene-
my of the corporations" with his ally, Grundy,
the king Of lobbyists and high tariff advocate,
employs the same methods the Ware Mellon
machine has been using The investigation,
which of course was not brought out by the
capitalist press revealed the hundreds of bal
lot boxes stolen, votes bought, dead people and
unborn children voting, etc.
The decision of the Supreme Court has been
delayed for weeks by the judges. appointed
by the Nare-Mellon machine in the Pennsyl-
vania G. o, P Only after they saw that the
methods used are a little too raw that an ad-
verse decision would destroy the peoples
faith in the court" besides giving a chance of
Pinchot to pose a martyr, was the nomina-
ton granted to the expert demagogue who
can cover up the open fascist policies of Grun-
dy, and the other open shop bosses with re-
formistic phrases borrowed from Roosevelt and
the socialist party.
Thus, the nominees of HOovers party in the
Keystone state are Pinchot for governor and
Secretary of Labor Davis for United States
Senator, both expert takers, both having the
endorsement of the fascist leadership of the
A. F. of L. as friends of labor, not speak
ing of the support given them by the Musteite
social-fascists. Because of this, there are a
good number of workers who have confidence
in them especially in Pinchot and who may
be mslead by his phrases. The exposure of
Pinchot and of the "puddler" Jim Davis, the
secretary of labor during three administra-
tons, must be major task before the Com
munist Party election campaign.
What is Pinchot's record? What are his
issues? He is fighting the Ware machine in
Philadelphia, which as he properly states, is
controlled by one of the "59", General After
bury, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and other railroad and utility magnates. He
exposes them as the ones who are controlling
the government the Public Service Board which
is responsible for the increase of the rates in
electricity, gas, water, etc. At the same time
he is the spokesman of another powerful group
of finance capitalists headed by Joseph r.
Grundy, who want to wrest the control away
from the others.
In order to succeed Pinchot has to throw out
liberal phrases. He is out to "relieve" unem-
ployment by road building and public construc-
ton work, although he did not take up yet the
question of unemployment insurance demanded
of some of the politicians. He speaks for the
abolition of the coal and iron police and the
strengthening of the state troopers. He is to
replace the Public Service Commission by a
fair rate board elected" by the people. These
are the main planks of Pinchot, which, it is