The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-23
E, HARRISON GEORGE.

THE police have finished investigating the
police. And the unanimous verdict is that
the Communists are guilty.
Alas for the hopefuls of the Civil Liberties
Union tckled to the marrow over the Celtic
cvnicism of Commissioner Mulrooney, who has
not served Tammany for thirty-four years for
nothing. Tammany always stands ready to
investigate itself.
Witness the grand jury of the estlmable
Grain, which complemented its verdict OF high
approval for the cop who murdered the strike
picket Steve Katovis, a few months back, with
the exoneration of Ewald
District Attorney Grain, be it remembered
said of the verdict which rairoaded the New
York Unemployed Delegation of March 6, that
it was the "most important decision in ten
years"
Grain, too is included in this review of the
burlesque staged by the Tammany police de-
partment Investigating" itself in connection
with the unaccountable injury received by
sixty persons following the anti-war demon
stration on Union Square August LIST. 1t APP
pears that District Attorney Grain owns, or
extracts profit from the burlesque hoity-toity
theatre" wherein Captain Day and his 40
police laid in wait that evening for the fracas
that occurred by miraculous coincidence right
in front of the place.
Why the Ambush?
Why should 10 cops go into ambush? Even
a doubling Norman Thomas might ask that.
But he would receive no answer. Doubtlessly
they secreted themselves thus merely to see
that no disorder" occurred. Far be it from
US to imply that they took that day off from
collecting in behalf of precinct captains, dol
lar barrel for beer sold by speakeases, to
deliberately planting lone harness bull (care-
fully surrounded by dcks) in the crowd to
stir up a fight exactly in front of the ambush.
No, that would be too severe a charge
against Tammany pure and spotless. The
most that Mr.. Bailey of the Civil Liberties
Union charges, is that Captain Day, who said
he saw no blackjacks and no violence against
the workers, has Imperfect powers of OBJ
servatUn.'
Imperfect Powers of Veracity.
Lest we forget just what Captain Day said,
we must repeat it, as not since we, as a small
boy, explained how the neighbours kid got his
bloody nose. because 81 held up my fist and
he ran against it, have we had such testi-
mony as the following, published by the New
York "Tmes':
THE captain said he saw no blows struck;
bat he saw several civilians, in an apparent
effort to feign being attacked by the police,
through themselves to the pavement so vio-
lently that they may have been bruised"
In such circumstances, the investigation"
was OF COURSE not OuiN lilOIOuSH anu lar,
as the Civil Liberties Union remarked at the
time but was directe to the point of finding
cut just what the Communists were to be
charged with fer cracking their own heads,
The New York World on August s, opined
that we should be hung. drawn and CHARTERED
fer mot wanting an investigation because
the Communists refused to attend the bur-
lescue 1t ended by saying that we should
mot be coddled IN defiances of the law The
verdict of Judge, Jury and Executioner Null
rooney is that while sixty persons might have
been beaten up in a crowded street yet no.
body saw it, The world" should be satisfied.
We were not ''codded."
Did the Editor Eat the Numbers?
But there seems to be some tall liars in this
business. The New York Telegram" in an
e litorial, repeating the liberals praise of the
Enquiry" as "a model of fairness and thor
oughness" and belaboring "the stubborn and
senseless refusal of the Communist victims to
appear and testify plainly says:
''Inasmuch as no witness could identify
them (the police who did the cubbing) by