The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-01
SOCIALIST IN
BOSSES RACKET
BrOun a Prostitute for Boss
Press
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Broun, just how much money
YOU make like Winchell makes
his; how much from your col
umn and other sources? News
paper reporters say that you get
$4,000 a year from your column
alone. We dare you to tell the
workers whose miseries you are ex-
plotting by pretend that you have
| something to do with socialism by
running for congress as a member
of the capitalist party that falsely
calls itself Socialist"
Do you get half from the Telegram
| column of what Winchell gets.
'F. P. A." on the World doesn't get
nearly as much as you. He is a
cheap columnist and gets only S15,-
900 a year. Is your socialist" ad-
herence one of conviction?
Why, then, did you mourn that you
had, in moment of softness at fem
mime blandisment, written defense
of Sacco and Vanzetti?
You didn't give damn if the cap
ttalists murdered Sacco and Van
zetti, did you? But because your
wife, Ruth Hale, being more of
man than you are, insisted on it, you
weakly yielded and wrote a defense
of Sacco and Vanzetti when the N. Y.
World, your former capitalist boss,
told you not to.
Moral Stamina-For Sale!
So you got fired for showing the
| only bit of manhood you ever did
though you borrowed it from your
wife. And so you regretted it after
| ward because you lost your job!
But you got another job on the
Telegram. Yes, And besides that,
when you got that brilliant idea,
Give job till June" why all you
did was get yourself a job.
You got a job from the National
Broadcasting Company, giving a
Radio Column" over WABC, and
that company pays you how much?
Other such features get not less than
5000 week and as high as $4,000 a
week. What do you get for THAT
racket, Haywood Broun?
Your line of sacharrine buncombe
became the vogue. You were called
into vaudeville, to appear at the
Palace Theatre as a headline attrac-
| tion And the Palace pays you well
for that racket, Ell? Not less than
| $1,000 a week. Perhaps as much as
$4,000 a week. The bunker you are
under capitalism, the bigger the pay
And a garrufous clown comes high.
| Besides that, we are interested to
know how much you get for writing
odds and ends for such magazines
of the capitalists as Holiday" which
pays fancy prices ($250 a shot, at
| least) for articles that will coax the
oppressed" petty bourgeiosie to go
vacationing, to buy cars advertised
in Holiday" and rest from their
strain Of "toiP'--while over 100000
real workers are having a different
kind of vacation" cuIIing the gar
bage cans of the clubs where you
dine, Haywood Broun!
You say you are a socialist" And
you say that because Fish, your old
and present-classmate, made some
remarks against foreigners" that
had I been there, would have given
couple of boost"
Maybe Booze, Not "Boos" .
Don't strike such a pose! You
agree with Fish that Communism
is racket" And Of all things! You
try to attack the Communist of
America by saying that Russian
leaders admit that their represen-
tatives here are a poor lot"
This is superb, coming from YOU
You, who belly-crawl like a whipped
cur from one capitalist sheet to an
other ready to sell your pen for
pelf,
If you invite it, suppose that we
obtain from those Russian leaders,"
whom you cite as an authority, and
who have been reading the praises
the capitalist press has given you,
an estimate of just how highly" they
think of you and your whole fake
socialist" party?
A Fitting Symbol
In the recent issues OF the organ
of the Socialist" party you have been
played up as the great leader of
the party. You speak for "disarma-
ment" every imperialist doesD and
SiiS SNSiaAAS1 psii ~ ldhSS up tlS
cry.
Well, 1t is fitting: A lump of filth
floating in the great sewer that is
known as Broadway, it is inevitable
that the party which at the outbreak
Of the last imperialist world war be-
trayed the millions which had fol-
lowed 1t into the shambles after de-
cades Of "anti-war' talk, should pick
up you to betray American workers
into the next war with a lot of
pacifst gable.
Broun like Braun of Germany
symbolizes the party Of social Ease
ism, the Second Socialist" Inter-
national the party which murdered
Liebknecht and Gutenberg and thou
sands Of other German workers and
openly declares it will murder still
more to defend capitalism.
The party which brushes India,
robs China, pillages Egypt and
praises Mussolini and pulls the rope
for Horthy's hangmen. the Socialist"
party which clubs and jails workers
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