The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 12

THE MINERS’ CONVENTION (Continued from page 1) and, instead of throwing a_ single miner out of employment, let us shorten the work day and divide what work there is equally among us.” The coal operators, but have been taught that without them there would be no coal mined, therefore, no work, and no food, clothing and shelter. The radicals are teaching the miners that coal operators do not dig coal, that they do not even manage the coal mines, this being done in the great majority of cases by hired men, and that the elimination of the coal operator from the mining industry would mean that those who dig the coal and manage the mines would receive, in addition to what they get now, that part of the pro- daction which goes to the absent coal operator in profits. When these facts sink into the heads of the active minority in the miners’ union they will raliy to the leaders who are now being crucified by John L, Lewis, because they are fighting for their class. The rad- ical leadership that is now develop- ing in the United Mine Workers of America will not, ag in other years ‘when the socialists occupied that miners have no love for the] ? tory tirading against the machine on the platform of “Democracy versus Autocracy,” but will fight for im- mediate demands that oiter a bet- ter solution of the problems of the miners fhan what Lewis can offer, show them that they can, by a fight- ing policy, secure more freee the bosses than by sitting around a table in the agreeable climate of Palm Beach and point to a way out of the cul-de-sac into which the rapid introduction of new machinery is leading the coal industry. Machine Not Impregnable The old machine is vulnerable be- cause it has no policy for the fu- ture. Its strength lies in its power to purchase the salable ability in the union and the fact that it has yet the ideological leadership of the ma- jority of the miners. Thhis must be admitted until contrary evidence that can stand on its feet is brought for- ward. On the appointive power, representation from large locals, the Howat case—questions not involy- ing abstract theories, but matters of administration and internal pol- icles—Lewis’ machine was ti ped over, but because there was no ership that could rally the dele- gates ideologically, the Ahir a sim- position, waste their time in desul- ply waited until the fury aroused HOLIDAY A book aflame with the South. Dark passion throbs in it. The color of the South is in the book, the South where the songs of our land are born and flourish, where suffer- ine bears songs, where the color of life is black and a deep red. Waldo Frank is a poet, he reaches the heights of poetry in his prose, fhe has caneht the warmth of the place he describes, he has woven about it a_ beantiful storv that hardly seems like a story, that is a poem and that is ‘iving. This heok of Waldo Frank’s is a living thing. It isn’t as if you took the book up and read it thru and said to yourself, “Oh, just another story, just another novel.” It is not like other books, for there is nothing artificial about it, it is a live thing, it lives with you. There is the feel of the South “" it, and not simply a.study of dialect and curious customs, for the passion throbbing in it tran- scends these things. A white woman is drawn to a Neero, and the Negro feels the white beauty of the woman upon him. The white woman is to blame if there is anv blame. Bat she re- fuses to take the blame, she refuses to intercede for the Negro. In a moment of unguardedness when she was her real self on that Holiday, she was drawn to the Negro irre- sistibly, but later she has collected herself, her face is drawn again, her lips are tirht, and the Negro, John Cloud, dangles from a rope. John Cloud crushes a boll-weevi) between his fincers, and even so the white man crushes the Negro. black man falls into the water, and no white man jumps in to fetch him out, to. save him from drowning. let him drown because his skin ack. That is the hatred Sat exists down in the South, a ha that breeds hatred, that ends ae lynching. “John moves. In the si- lent gap between the passing black by Bori and Liveright, Nee) para oy: $2.00 Net. man and the whites, lives a red| Equity sore that thought and time must swell.” Why this hatred? It is between black and white. At bot- tem there is love between Virginia Hade and John Cloud, but the ha- tred is the only thing one can see on the surface. This hatred that is onty on the surface must disappear/ en¢ some day and give way to the real | thing underneath, but while it exists | tienal there are lynchings. | aah Judge Hade says this to his daughter, Virginia: “Daughter, you’re smart. Smart enough to ru’ this business by yourself. allow. But you-al! ain’t smart) enough to run the South.” That's. at the bottom of it, the white men, ' or a clique of them, the rich white ay want to run the South. And ilions of Negroes don’t count. They must work, they must pick the cotton and the fruit, they must amass the wealth for the rich white man, and the rich white man gets the noor white to help hinw keep the Negro down by breeding hatred 1 in him. But the hatred will disap- pear, and then no innocent black men will be lynched, no, nor will guilty black men be lynched, there will be no lynching. May a Negro love a white woman? Instincts say yes, traditions say no. “I’ve watched you, nigger, I’ve watched you lookin’ at my daugh- ter. How dare you look at my daughter? Nigger, that look in yo’ eyes means murder in our land, How dare you, nigger, look so hard at my daughter that you forget to salute the white man at yo’ side?” There you have it. It is forbidden for a Negro to look at a white woman, but Bob ‘Hade, Virginia’s brother, does permit himself to hunt for black women and to satisfy his lust upon them. The white man is privileged in this land. Waldo Frank has felt the beauty of those millions ef beirgs living down in the South, the black folk living in their communities, slaving away, and singing their beautiful songs, the life that springs out of the soil, that flickers bright against the darkness of misery. “—O you have so much! Low down... . You dumb and dull, we talk like you. And over these issues subsided and in the Howat case at the end of the convention, put on its hat and coat and went home. The rginers’ union is the most pow-|§ erful workingclass organization in America, and the most militant. It is a fighting organization, and is permeated with radicalism. communists have a splendid oppor- tunity to secure the leadership of that great fighting aggregation. The groundwork was laid for future ac- tivity at the Indianapolis conven- tion. And that really was the only worth while accomplishment during the two weeks that the delegates were in session, The radicals left with a practical program for im- mediate action and the machinery necessary to put that program into effect. The activity of the Workers Par- ty at the corivention, its generalship, the amount of literature it distrib- uted, the meetings it arranged, and, most important of all, the part played by the DAILY WORKER, is a testimony to the virility of the only communist party in America, and its complete hegemony of the left wing working class political movement in the United States. By WALDO FRANK we sing your songs. And wherever we look, be it at Christ himself, your color’s in our eye. Low down. In the quiet of our evenings at home, you are there. My feet wander in pain, toward you they wander. Pity for me. down. ... Pity for me! Ill not feel sorry for you blaz- ing niggers. You grow out of the soil, Your flesh stays sweet in the dark flames of the South We wage a pallid fight, an ugly—there you are, blazing in ease, in truth, against our lies, Pity for me!” Those are the thoughts that course thru the white woman’s mind. Waldo Franx’s style .s the finest thing about the book. He does not use old, decayed methods, that were good at one time but are no longer. He seeks new paths, to fit his new materials, He has imagery, he cre- ates, he invents, he breaks away from the traditional, he uses his fan- tasy, to weave new’ forms, to strike new phrases, he finds new paths. And all this is felt, not simply thought out, bot thought out and felt, there you e a wonderful amalgamation ich produces a great writer, ong@>of our greatest, perhapa the ‘greatest, Waldo Frank. —SIMON FELSHIN. Labor Conventions--1924 Pittsburgh, Pa., Amalgamated April 1-11, Tin Workers Association of Iron, Steel, and of North America. April ——, Washington, D. C., International Federation of Technical Enginee?3, Architects and Draftsmen’s Unions, May 5-15, International Association A of Oil Field, Gas Well, and Refinery Workers of America. May 12-24, Cleveland, Ohio, Hotel Hollen- den, The Order of Railroad Telegraphers. May 12-17, Colorado Springs, Colo., Antlers Hotel, American Federation of Musicians. May 26-3i, International Alliance Theatrical Stage Employes of the United States and Canada. May 31-June 4, New York City, Hotel Im- perial, United Wall Paper Crafts of North America. June 4, New York City, Hotel Astor, Actors’ Asociation (Annuw meeting). July ——, Chicago, Ul., International Broom and Whisk Makers’ Union. September 8-18, Indianapolis, Ind. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. September 8-[3, Detroit, Mich., Internation- al Union of Steam and Operating Engineers. September 8-15, St. Louis, Mo., Brother- hood of Railroad Signalmen of America. September 8-18, Montreal, Canada, Amalga- mated Association of Street and Electric Rail- way Employes of America. September 8-18, Kansas Cify, Mo., Inter- | national Brotherhood ef Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers. September 9-19, Indianapolis, Ind., Journey- men Barbers’ International Union of North! Americ: a, September 12-16, —. City, Pe ms Inter- national Association of September 1522, ———, " teted Bs Brick and Clay Workers of “america. October 7-10, ———, —— Brother- hood ef Pulp, and Paper Mill Work- not natural, at bottom there is love| 72%...” ee ee Re July 1-10, Atlantic City, N. J., Continental Hotel, National Brotherhood of Operative |e Fi July 8-18, Atlantic City, N. J.,-Glass Bottle ers’ Association. Blow. July 14-21, New York City, Piano, Organ Instrument Workers’ Interna- Union of America. Jaly 15-20, ———, Retail Clerks Interna- Protective Association. La hee ped ag ang Mass,, International Pia’ Die Stampers’ Union of North July 7 Aa Ga., International Ste- Union, That t Tf August 6-11, SF ee a International of Feand August 11-16, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, International Th.ab "tae" Anette, a mational Photo-Engravers’ U. Aumnst 25-30, Preasmens’ al Tenn., In- + gi Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ n September 1-14, Serie Springs, N. Y., Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers’ tional bo aga September Kansas City, Me., tlannl Bretherhnnd of Boilermakers, Iren Ship Builders at Sava of ay go - 8-15, New York » Unieed of America, Fear Display of Wealth Chancellor sent. out word that no attempt is tc be made at propaganda oS influence the decision of the Reparations’ Com- mission. 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