The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05

Hanging to the Tombstone
BY JORGE

What a.sweet and patriotic record the Amer
lean Legion is building for itseifP' said the n
Y Post of January &c. about the Legion finally
being forced by the workers in the rank and file
to pretend that its leadership would fight for
cash payment of the Tombstone Bonus"
II anybody has any doubts about whether the
Legion leaders we're forced to change their op-
position and vote for the cash payment,
which they voted down at Boston, they have
only to note the following words written TO the
N. Y Post by Thomas Hill Of the World War
Veterans "Connnittee:"
81 am sure that you understand that the action
taken by the Legion was action forced upon il
by It's members II the Legion had not taken
this step the Legion could not assemble 100000
members in the coming year"
This comes of course, from rival bunch Of
trcksters at the head of the WV, Who are
compe ing with the Legion nabobs In corralhnl
the veterans for fascisrn and snti-workirg clas
and anu"red" activity.
This chap Hill, for example winds up his let
ter to the N. Y Post by saying that the cash
bonus payment would remove the danger OF
what he calls trouble throughout the county,
So the WV. proposes the cash payment
because it thinks that it will help the capitalists
If it would hurt them evidently the .W,W,v.
would be against it. Anything to keep the ex-
soldier from going Bolshevik.
The Question is getting hot! See how oeshand
the n. Y. Post. got at the Legionl And MELONS
so.Tyful tale Of deficits and grim was com
plotely backed up by the capitalist newspapers
who quoted everybody alive or dead against such
an awful, terrible thing as the cash payment
of the bonus.
All vets ought to get wise to the fact thai
they're good fellows to the capitalists and theil
papers, only SO long as they do what the capi,
talists want. Also, it ought to be clear that al
the fighting" of either the Legion or the W
W. V. for cash bonus payment nov, is merely
pretense Under pressure of the worker vets il
the rank and file. They'll keep kicking NIello!
under the table and whispering that nobod,
should pay any attention to their demand"
The only veteran organization which is vortl
tying up to is the Workers Ex-Seryicemen'
League whose headquarters at IS f. Third ST
New York City, ought TO be svan,pod with let
tiers asking how to line up things in all part
Of the country.
For the wES1l has some special ideas. 20
one thing it really fights for cash payment
the Tombstone" bonus, but would bar anyhod
from payment if they get over $1,000 a, yea
Neither does the W.E.SI, peddle the hoklu
about the cash payment bringing back etei1r
prosperity" It says that more. IS needed. tia
that and that all vets should supporter WORK
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill 80
1t seems that rough weather is ahead for Me-
Ion, Hoover and Co., with both these issues ~ney
scingp the corporations with having to pay take
One of the funniest lodges was that pune
off by Charles E. Mitchell chairman of MOI
I CAMS National City Bank. He said,S that
the bonus passed in full: There will be hus
dreds and hundreds of bank failures Tina
we should say is a poor sort of a scare Thel
have already been hundreds and huildreds''st
bank failures without the bonus payment.