The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-16
BY BILL GEBERT


The shooting of Mayor Cermak in
Miami was proclaimed by the cap
it3liSt class throughout the country as
aH act o. a red, anarchist" Com
munis5,' etc. The capitalist press
attempted to make out that c. Fan
cara was a radical" and printed his
so-Called confession that he hates
capitalism. presidents, etc.
While this campaign was carried
through the capitalist press to create
a lynch atmosphere against the re-
yolutionary workers, and particularly
against the Communist Party. the
workers of Chicago, on a number OF
occasions. inStinctively expressed the
opinion that the shooting of Mayor
Cermak was the result Of a fight be-
tween organized gangsters for con-
troll Of Chicago, Of their business
which amounts to something like
100000 a week.
The struggles between different
groups of gangsters connected with
Political machines Of the Republican
and Democratic Parties and with
sJme officials of the Chicago Fed
efction Of Labor sharpened especially
alter the sentence Of Al Capone.
row t1is instructive reaction of the
workers Of Chicago to the Miami af-
fair finds its proof in the article
written in the Chicago American
February 28th. The Chicago Amer
ican" which is a Hearst publication,
on the basis of police records, in
dictates that zangara is a tool OF
gangsters and that the Chicago police
are now investigating Zangaras con-
nectionS in the city of Chicago, from
where he received large number OF
letters while he was staying in a
Miami hotel.
First OF all it is necessary to estab-
lisA the fact that Zangars, who has
been played up as unemployed
when he was arrested, had in his
pockets $500 and admitted that he
dropped" $500 at the Florida dos
tracks, which. of course, no unem-
ployed worker would have for bets or
dog tracks. Neither are there unem-
ployed who carry $500 in theil
pockets.
Facts Were Consealed
II is very interesting that this fact
known to the authorities from the
very first day of the arrest of Zan-
CARA. was concealed from the masses
Louis Pushkin. secretary of the
Buro of Identification Of the Chicago
police department made, according tc
the Chicago American" the follow
ing statement:
"zangara gives his occupation as
that Of a bricklayer and contractor
Now, bricklaying is hard manual
labor. have yet to see a bricklayer
whose hands were not scarred-the
ridges on his fingers worn.
"zangara's firgerprints, on the
other hand, are perfect. There are
no scars, no signs of hard labor. The
rio yes are clean and even. They are
not a bricklayer's fingerprints, nor
the fingerprints of man who ever
did any amount OF work with his
hands. They compare, rather, TO the
fingerprints of a pickpocket or con-
fidsnce man"
This statement of the fingerprint-
ing expert is interesting and shows
very clearly that although zangara
may be a member Of the bricklayers'
union in New York, there is a ques-
ton as to whether he actually was
bricklayer.
zsngara Furthermore is registered
voter of the Republican Party, both
IN New Jersey and California.
Aimed at Cermak.
The Chicago American" further
Indicated chat Zangara actually at
tempted not to shoot Roosevelt, but
Cermak. in the following statement:
Another matter of mystification to