The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-28
Coming And Going

The racketeers get you coming or going We
have been sent chunk Of "come-on" circulars
sent out asking for money by an outfit which
claims to be in the business of keeping people
from committing suicide.
That's one way of racketeering on the niseries
OF the workers Since it is run by preacher
and decks itself out as t"philanthropy" it has
the o. K Of capitalist society and gets writteR
up i'll the World-Telegram
But while that layout is racketeering on save
ing people from killing themselves, we have ans
other one which cashes in when the first outffs
fails to save them. This is a new wrinkle and
we might ask Soviet papers to copy this item
as proof" that capitalists will insist on making
money even if they have to fry their grano-
mothers for soap grease.
In the city of Rochester, N. Y there are some
high bridges crossing the Genesee George and
one of them has become known as Suicide
Bridge" so numerous have been the people kills
ing themselves by leaping from it. But recentIS
new bridge has been built, known as the Ridee
Road bridge, new chance for the workers
driven to desperation to leap into death at ones
rather than die a lingering death of starvation.
So some slick guys have fixed up lottery with
printed chances issued that sell for SO cents
1t is called the Double Action" lottery, and
Andrew j. Racarie is noted on the tickets to be-
president" of the concern. 1t offers a first or
'captaP' prize OF $4,000 ten prizes Of $500 each
and altogether is supposed to have Ill winners
But who is the loser? Well, the blanks on thu
lottery tickets tell you 1t is the First SucideH
who goes to death over the Ridge Road Bridcn
And the buyer of -Four Bit ticket has the Job
OF guessing. "(A) Date of month; (B) for hsighu
Co for weight; and CD for age"-of the firsS
victim OF capitalism that hur1s himself or here
self to death!
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crookedness in this game. 1t seems, according
to the Times Union of Rochester that the Iobs
terry isn't even on the square. 1t says;
with killers available at rs low as $25 a ioh
a man could be slain and dropped into the gorrS
so some one connected with the lottery wouI6
win the grand prize"
Now you go ahead and roll your own jokes
about the flourishing ethics OF capitalist civil
ization."
Big Question:-"Dear Red Sparks: Would
singing Big Rock Candy Mountains at an en-
tertainment and social given by an Unemployed
Council be beittling the working class?"-Frona
Seattle
Well, If the Rock Candy Mountains are big
enough, 1t wouldn't. However, 1t all depends on
who does the singing. Seriously we see no harm
in Rock Candy Mountains provided the rock
candy is properly dissolved in the rye of working
class tunes
Glad to Hear H:-About that complaint from
worker that no meetings were held on Sixth
Avenue in New York: We're informed by the
Midtown Branch of the Unemployed Council at
301 West goth Street that in the last six weeks
daily meetings ARE being held in four places.
You see, we were trying to be christly particular
and kept that complaint ION investigation. so
long that by the time the Big Shots .supstaSrvr'
save - the word 70 rm it-thlpw ~ daaGsa /