The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-28
BY Holm PETERSON.

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by masters of the type set forth in
this story. In them days" the
conditions for sailors were bad
enough TO drive "happy saint"
to black despair. As dead men tell
no tales, / may mention a few
ships that left port and never re-
turned: "Wellgunde," a German
fuII-rigged ship; 'Madelaine,"
French ship; "Dunearn," a Nor
wegian: 'Invermark," British
baroue which the writer left few
dayS before she sailed from FIRE.
mantle, w. Australia. The list of
such ships is long, long. a good
MANY ships went up in mysterious
fires" and it always happened
lust the day before she was ready
to sail" Here ! mention the four
masted barque Marion Frazer,
whose captain we picked up and
pulled in our boat as he was the
first man to leave his ship IA la
MOBILIZE. WRITER
Who do you think was the cap
tain of her?
(Chorus)
Blow boys, blow:
Holy Jock. the Bible puncher,
(Chorus)
Blow, boys, bully boys, blow!
deep Sea Chanty).
CAPTAIN JOCK, like all Big
y Bugs" was dark and sinister
character. He was master OF the
cid ship Margaret, which hailed
from Boston, the cultural center"
that YOU all know well. Rich be-
yond all doubt, he was a terrible
niser. The jingle Of gold was a
sweet music to his ears. The sight
Of money made him gasp as CLINT
Of greed would come to his eyes that
we're deep set, rather red in color and
shifty.
Besides gold, jocks only friend
: as his Bible. which was Soiled and
t-etty well worn from too much
y I'd usage.
He was despot; on board his
s1ip he was the monarch of all he
krveyed. What he said was law,
bad God help the poor wretch who
dared to suggest otherwise. The
laws made by the sanctimonius Gre
atures of the cultural society had
given him the power which he used
IN we'll befitting and ruthless man
ner.
Nothing could stop Captain Jock
from stealing. cheating, robbing and
even committing murder, because he
had money; therefore he was. well
protected.
He was not one of those ''blocd-
thirsty pirates who in the good old
days killed and plundered under
the protection of their own courage.
Had he been born two hundred years
ago, he would not have even dared
to dream of going to sea. Though
putwardly a bully, he was despic-
able coward. A hypocrite, and as
false as Judas, he was no better and
40 worse than the other Big-Bugs
about whom we hear and read of In
their papers.
And thus he sailed the Seven Seas
and cheated and robbed his sailors
of their pay. and, when need be, he
tesorted to premeditated murder.
Captain Jock did not look like one
bf those villainous, cut-throat pirates
that come from Hollywood, rather
the opposite; he seemed more like a
sood-natured Franciscan padre who
had become fat through too little
work and too much good wine. With
big, bald head; fat cheeks the
tolor Of winter apples; strawberry
ike nose, rather larPe, u7turned ard
dubious: thick-lipped mouth, that
when grinning showed strong teeth
Fellow in color; and ears outstand-
ng, fat and flappy-all set on very
hort neck the color of boiled lob
tier, which, in its own turn, termin-
tied upon ball Of fat with two
hort and fat legs-he, the mighty
master, suggested quadruped SC
we'll known for its greed, or big
bug that when squashed would leave
10 sad memories. but just dirty
eddish streak and loathsome odor
Old Jock was greedy. Sitting on
he pile of gold, he feared neither
sod nor the devil. But he also had
lis boss. dark and sinister power
Iehind him.
A small woman, dried out, bent
lver, with much wrinkled, waxer
pee from which high-ridged nose
hood out and then suddenly curved
Town like a rams horn, and a crue
houth SO thin that it looked like
lit. and a long, sharply-upturned
hin, upon which she invariably spat
Ehen angry and shouting and urging
bck to some more deviltry--she was
he dark power behind him and she
lso came from the same place-tht
cultural center where the Big-Bug!
ked to burn witches and where they
btelv burned two workers. Maggie
D. the woman was called by Jock
hme from an old, or the so-callec
Hayflower (although she was ole
md witheredD stock, and she be-
bnged to half dozen patriotic or.
enizations-all beginning W ! t
Daughter" Of some sort or other