The daily worker., 1932-09-23
RED SPARKS
Dog Catcher Wanted
~ JORGE

AASAAA gAAC 81 ave- OO W DECeths We
kinda hate to toss off the daisies,
push aside the tombstone and walk
in like ghost to the Daily Worker
office.
But we had to. There are too
many leading comrades who are
being oVer-assassinated. After my
lnSldeS went back on me from
overwork, under consumption and
the original sin of having sat five
years in Uncle Sans best peniten-
tiary, had to retire. Neverthe-
less, the rumor got about that we,
the crocodile and Jorge himself,
had been asassinated by the "StaI-
mites"
Well, we hate to be assassinated,
particularly by "Stalinites.'' But il
we ever are, we'll run another col
umn explaining how we deserved
it. But we're not the only one.
Party leaders are being knocked
off every now and then by the
backstairs gossipers who edit the
miserable sheets published by the
equally miserable renegades from
our Party. If, in the Central Com
mittee, Comrade "a" proposes that
demonstration be held on Tues
day, while Comrade "B" obstinateIy
insists it be on Wednesday, some
blabbering fool (who really should
have been assassinated the previous
Monday Is busy gossiping, and the
next issue of the renegade papers
informs an astonished world that
the 'Right-Center Bloc is spIit'
and that the "Stalinites" have
slated Comrade "a" or "B," or
both, for the graveyard.
RUT when the socialist paper with
II the democratic columnst. the
New York World Telegram, sees fit
to declare that Bill Foster is not
sick at ALL but has been sent by
the "Stalinites" to join McGinty
at the bottom of the sea, well, even
the dead will rise from the grave
to call Haywood Broun dirty,
contemplate liar. We refer to
Broun't tripe. published in the
World Telegram on Sept. 81.
1t is clear that the endorsement
OF the Communist Party candidates
by a long list of Americas out
standing intellectuals, has got un-
der the hide of the leaders of that
particular capitalist political party
which falsely calls itself socialist"
In European countries it calls itself
th0 OcooioT Coy,, oo,.o E;o,J Yoo1.t,y o,s5
in honor of Haywood Broun's ability
to support both the Socialist
party and the democratic" party
at the same time, for conSidera-
ton in cash paid by Roy w. How
ard, the European name should be
adopted here.
The intellectuals have gotten un-
der socialist" hide. So Broun is
trotted cut to SANDER them and to
put Bill Foster out of the way.
And Broun's telephone seems to be
connected, rather faultily it is true,
with another liar who is named
"Lovestone." Foster isn't sick, says
Broun, he has been politically as
sassinated by "orders from Mos
COW" and Bill Dunno, who Broun
says is. "Mr. Fosters bitterest
enemy" has taken Fosters place
in everything but on the ballot.
THAT is Haywood Brom's Social
democratic" yarn, and from
that he branches out to mistreat
the truth from all points of the
compass. If Fosters doctor allows,
he will probably mention Broun
unfavorably. AS for Bill Dunno,
the Daily Worker business manager
is already worried in anticipation of
a G. o. D. telegram calling Broun
$17.50 worth of liars.
But that will not move Broun to
confess. When it comes to stick
ing to lie, Broun is like Rock
of Gibraltar preserved in alcohol.
1t will not matter that we ourselves
swear on the Communist Mani
festo ISSUED by International Pub
lishers) that before Foster started
the trip which he had to give up
later, he and had heart-to-
talk about our respective illnesses.
Broun would find a way to mem
ton his mistake" only if the
Scripps- Howard press would fire
him and the Daily Worker give him
job at a penthouse salary with
liberal allowance of gin. Not
much chance.
Broun further asserts that Scott
Nearing, being among those assas-
sinated by the "Stalinites,' has
gone into "sobbing seclusion."
Well, Scott Nearing just now has
rung us up to tell us that he will
deliver six speeches in st- differ
ent cities for the Communist Party
election campaign and will not only
expose the socialist" party of Hay.
wood Broun as a capitalist parity
in disguise, but will urge the elec-&
torate to vote for his fellow victim
of the "Stalinites," William z. Fos-
ter For "sobbing seclusion" that is
doing pretty well.
UEYWOOD BROUN has the habit.
IL Recently he said that the Com
munist Party would be on the ball
lot in only "12 or Ia states" so
nobody could vote the Communist
ticket. 1t is on the ballot now in
forty states. But Broun says not
a word about that. He does use a
heap of space, however, in synpa-