The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-21
S PA r K S

THE teachers OF Chicago have been
1 working for the last three years
without cent Of pay. The bankers
had to collect their interest first,
you know.
This has had terrible effects upon
them. -Four hundred teachers are
confined to Sanitariuins for nervous
diseases. Twenty have gone insane. ,
Many have tainted in their class
rooms from hunger,
Now they have decided to listen to
soothing syrup excuses no longer.
They are marching III thousands I
together with their pupils demanding
their back wages. Their three years
Of pleading got them nowhere. Two
days of street demonstrations got
them $1,5OOOO0 at once. And prom !
ises Of more.
But they'll be fooled again, if they
let the city officials take the leader
ship Of their movement.
The bankers are their main enemy.
And the city officials are nothing but
the ONCE boys of the bankers.
TAYLOR, of the steel trust, and
j Schwab of the Bethlehem Steel
Company have announced their
whole-hearted approval of the Roose-
Welt government, why shouldn't
they? It's their government, isn't it?
NOTHING is more ludicrous than
" the spectacle of bourgeois "sci-
ence" before the storm of the eco
nomic crisis. The capitalist profess
sors have simply gone insane trying
to explain how it all happened.
The latest bowling lunacy is the
theory of DR.. L. V. Burton, editor OF
Food Industries" The Doctors
theory is that the changes in the
temperature of the sun have some
thing to do with the world crisis. He
has prepared charts to show how
when the suns heat is above normal,
business is good, and when the sun
cooIs off bit, business drops in SYM
pathy. And he presented this theory
before a solemn gathering of the
New York Electrical Society.
And why do you think the workers
are SO miserable and worried? The
Doctor has the answer. There are
not enough ultraviolet rays in the
atmosphere this year
Such is the state of bourgeois |
science" A scientist has to be on
the side of the Workers Revolution |
if he wants to escape degenerating
into q quack, like the miserable
clown, Doctor Burton.
CAPITALIST justice is not blind. It
" only seems blind because it winks
SO often.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK has
L declared its regular dividend of
$500 share.
John Wana,nsker Jr., beWails the
fact that his income has dropped |
from 5000 to $500 day.
TOR the last fifteen years, the geol-
ogists of the State of California |
warned the officials that an earth
quake was coming. They urged that
quake proof buildings be required by
law For fifteen years the earth
quake was humming California,
Here I Come"
The real-estate interests kept the
matter secret, so that the business
of selling bungalows could continue.
The state officials knowingly per-
mitted this.
The state and the reaI-estate
sharks are directly responsible for the
death Of the quake victims. Capital |
ism will murder without 8 qualm if
its profits are at stake.
THE HERALD-TRIBUNE Is hurt by
4 the fact that the British spy
wreckers were put on trial. Why, |
they we're only taking an intelligent |
interest in their surroundings, says
the Tribune
Isn't that rich, Deliberately sabo- !
tagging and wrecking Soviet plants.
Planning to wreck Soviet electric
plants in time Of war. This is tax
ing an intelligent interest in their
surroundings
What would the Herald Tribune
think il Japanese spies in America
began to take q similarly Intelligent
in their surroundings?"
CHARLES SCHWAB, Chairman of
" the Bethlehem expressed for the
twentieth time his conviction that
''the bottom has been reached" He
has been saying this since 1929.
Meanwhile the world crisis plunges
deeper and deeper.
Charles thinks that In the future
we will not work for wealth alone,
but for the true aristocratic aim of
doing good to our fellow-men."
This is the sort of disgusting flap
doodle that John D. was handing out
as the guns were pouring lead into
The camps Of the Ludlow strikers
And Charles Bethlehem steel
Corp. is one Of the worlds worst
slave driving companies.
VIII n the Steel workers take
Charles factories away from him,
hey will give him pair of overslls
and give him q chance to do good
for his fellow-men"
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