The daily worker., 1931-01-05

A Comedy in Crooks
By JORGE

"A SOAINAy AAA OAOOAO
Despite the command of Rev. Joseph P. Nc
Comas, of Old ST. Paul's church, in recent
sermon, that we all "have child-like simplicity
of faith, We brothers and sisters, suspicious.
We might, perhaps, have had little-just
teeny weeny bit-of faith in Mr., Broderick'S Soh-
citude for the small depositors of the Bank Of
U. S., had we not learned that Mr.. Warder,
his predecessor in the office of State Supt. of
Banks, was convicted of bribery for preventing
an examination of the bankrupt City Trust Bank
last year
In reading about Mr.. Warder in Fridays N Y
Post we across the following: Immediately
rumorS Of wholesale torgeries and thefts in the
City Trust began to make the rounds. To these,
the Banking Superintendent maintained an in
scrutable silence
Well, boys and girls, we are sure that the
silence of Mr.. Warder was no more inScrutable
than that of Mr. Broderick is.
But we look further, and bless Us! If we don't
find that the same identical Attorney Max
Steuer who is posing as the heroic defender Of
the small depoSitors of the Bank of u. S. is the
attorney for Mr.. Warder! Ponder over that
while
But there art more crooks than is dreamt OF
in thy philosophy Horatio Tammany ts busy
as all get-out Investigating" itself.
District Atty. Grain starts secret commit
tee ITO drive out racketeers" (Which we ex-
posed while back. But now behold, one Mr..
Riegel of something called the Consumer Guild, !
seems to have arranged with none other than
Max Zaritsky, crooked leader of the Cap and
Millinery Workers of the A. F. of L.. to prove,
and quite conclusively that Grain had arranged
with Police Commissioner Mulrooney, to Just
make showing" about fighting rackets.
Somebody called Seabury, who seems to be
republican starts to lift few lids on Tammany
by way of an Appellate Court inquiry of Tam :
many judges (No, Junior, the Appellate Division
has nothing to do with selling apples;).
Well and good, Seabury can't miss fire on the
judges But up pops the devil, no, Mr.. Grain,
demanding that he be allowed to 'help." Huh,
help Strangle the inquiry! Then suddenly the
Corporation Counsel finds out the inquiry is "un-
CONSTITUTIONAL and Jimmy Walker, you know
him, backs him up. Seabury denounces Walker
for blocking the inquiry" and Governor Roose-
velt becomes addicted to speculative philosophy
on city government and says it's all the fault Of
the electorate! Nice amt it?
Then right in the middle of Seabury's INQUIRY.
his main actor lawyer named Kresel, after
tearing the sky loose about graft in the police
department and courts, has the spotlight turned
on him as the attorney for the busted Bank of
U. S. who was also one of its directors and help
shape its policies, which seem at least open to
question.
Then, in this inquiry into magistrates courts,
whole Slew of cops are involved in grating on
'vice" and working trame-ups Not few of
them are facing evidence of bribery and extor-
ton. These felones. But-the cops are
sacred because they are needed by capitalism to
club workers.
So instead of being yanked up with arrest and
indictment for felony, they get phoney 'triai'
by the Police Department ITSELF Isn't that most
lovely arrangement you could imagine?
If the Cop Department finds the COP innocent.
he is o. K, and if guilty" he is no more than
'humbled" by becoming an unofficial bootlegger
instead of one officially on the force Lovely?
No end!
Altogether what comedy in crooks! And
while capitalism lasts, please don't expect us to
have "child-like simplicity of faith"