The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Tuesday, February 19, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. Capitalism and the Home Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $8.00 per year $4.50..6 months $2.50..8 months wo Sara i at ES ENC ONESIES Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE } MORITZ J, LOEB Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. EP vor ‘Advertising rates on application, Industrial Democracy We are indebted to the well-known organ of New York and New England financiers, Barron’s Weekly, for telling us the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the sun- dry schemes of employe ownership and profit- sharing so vigorously advocated by the cul- tured and unlettered apologists of the capital- ist system. In a rather frank editorial discussing the fact that 65 per cent of the employes of the Columbia Gas & Electric Company own $36,- 500 shares, Barron’s Weekly points out a few of the incalcuable advantages to the employ- ing class thru this clever arrangement. The editor lets the cat out of the bag in this fashion. First of all these employes do not own “any such,percentage (65%) of the capital stock.” Translated into every day English this means that the majority of the employes are not permitted to own the ma- jority of the stock. The advantage sought for by the capitalists in this deal is disclosed by »arron’s Weekly in the frank confession that “the incentive to good service’ is obvious.” This is a concise way of telling us that this fake stock ownership scheme pays the capi- talists because it ties the workers more hope- lessly to plants they do not own. Especially illuminating is the statement: “it is clear that the remaining 835 per cent of employes represent’ the corporation’s casual and unskilled labor.’ No doubt this is at least as true as the other evidence submitted by this financial expert. No one would expect the machine laborers, the least skilled workers who are invariably the lowest paid employes, to be able to put aside any money for invest- ing in the stock of their bosses. These work- ers have the time of their life making both ends meet. It is plain that one of the out- i vantages of “employe ownership” is the further intensification of the differences and conflicts arising between skilled and un- skilled workers. In this respect all schemes of industrial democracy and profit-sharing tend to divide the workers and to increase dis- sension in their ranks. Perhaps the best revelation yet of the frau- dulent character of all industrial democracy schemes under capitalism is given by the edi- tor in his statement that the workers -invest- ing in this stock “‘are connoisseurs of the prod- uct and would be the last people in the world to subscribe to a policy of counting noses. There is no better democracy than this, be- cause it secures its true rights and recognizes its own limitations.” Barron’s Weekly hails this adventure as the best solution for industrial conflicts and de- scribes it as full proof so far as the demogogue is concerned. We welcome this conclusion. We are especially thankful to this oracle of high finance for unmasking this oft repeated attempt to blind the workers and condemn them to the present system of exploitation and degradation. Chicago, Illinois .. Editors .. Business Manager A Morgan Library J. P. Morgan has made the announcement that he has turned over his father’s library estimated at $7,000,000 to a board of trustees composed of his family and two others who are to maintain it for the use of scholars from all parts of the worid. With the library goes an endowment of $1,500,000. Use of the library will be limited to “schol- ars.” The public cannot be trusted with the manuscripts.on which the late financial agent of the British government and the Vatican and the overlord of American business spent part of the fortune wrung out of the sweat and blood of the American working class, Per- haps the workers might learn something detri- mental to the system which enabled Mr. Mor- gan to accumulate pricelefs treasures while the millions starved mentally as well as physically. Morgan will be extolled by the fuglemen of big business for his “public spirit” and ‘civic consciousness.”’ But this gesture of generosity is only a sop to divert the attention of the workers in those days of glaring corruption from the big robbers in Wall Street to their errand boys in Washington. ‘Washington is not the safest place in the ‘world today for a man without a coat of mail or aclean conscience, He is liable to run head foremost into a squirt of corrupt oil as in the case of Senator Greene, of Vermont, into a stray bullet from a bootlegger’s gun. The accident may result in another investigation that will eclipse the Teapot Dome and send a few presidential aspirants into the discard. ‘to be born? Writing in the Berlin Mittagzeitung, one Fraulein Bittner points out that ‘matrimony in Germany has degenerated into a mere ex- change of financial references and an inspec- tion of the home the woman can offer.” “The marrying game in Germany,” the writer con- tinues, “has become a parody on love, but it is a tragic parody after all. It-is a pity to see the young man flee from his natural compan- ion in life and rush into the arms of a woman with a furnished flat.” In England, with an estimated surplus of 2,000,000 women since the war thinned the ranks of the men, marriage is now undertaken by the male, as a rule, only when the bride-to- be can bring relief from the struggle for a livelihood. In France marriages for convenience have been. an established custom for a long time and the war has increased the predilection for these alliances. The scarcity of eligible males and the sever- ity of the economic struggle in the three coun- tries mentioned is paralelled in every central and western European nation. The one sure-fire method of arousing enmity towards the movement for the abolition of capitalism has been to picture capitalism as the founder and upholder of monogamous marriage based on love, as the defender of the sanctity of the home against the support- ers of revolutionary programs, who have proved that marriage, like other institutions, adapts itself to the prevailing form of pro- duction and that monogamous marriage is pri- vate property’s particular arrangement for the marital relationship. No one will question the statement that in Europe—the birthplace of capitalism—the love motive as the basis of marriage has been almost eliminated. Actual marriage—compliance with the re- ligious or legal forms—is probably the excep- tion rather than the rule in industrial centers unless one of the parties is economically indé- pendent. Home as a corollary of marriage has lost its meaning for millions and millions of workers. | In the examples cited above the males! marry, not the females with whom they agree! to live, but the property ‘that the females possess. P | In well-to-do circles this has long been the} custom; a custom more or less ignored thru a} conspiracy of the press and pulpit. The} acknowledgement that it has now been recog- nized as a fact in the lives of masses, is caus- ing widespread alarm among the self-appoint- ed guardians of the morals of the poor, adds weighty proof to the contention of the Com-; munists that capitalism, bankrupt economic- ally and politically, is also bankrupt in all avenues of activity—legal, social, and ethical. Join the Workers Party. Black Shirt Democracy Now and then the ruling class and its agents slip up and allow the mask to fall off their vain pretensions to democracy. Whenever the class conflicts become acute the employers frankly and openly throw overboard all their hypocritical prayers and paeans for rule by majority. - it pin that the rise of the British Labor Party, despite its program of caution and mod. eration, is causing some far-sighted English capitalists quite a bit of concern. Already we are face to face with plans for an organization of the British capitalists along the lines of Italian Fascism. A It is natural, of course, for the privileged classes of all countries to organize and fight for the defense of their vested interests and the perpetuation of their privileges. But what is especially important about the new man- euvers of the English Fascisti is their open, avowed intentions to crush the labor move- ment once any working class political party should win a majority of the working popula- tion to its program. The English Fascisti are boasting that they do not worry about the present situation be- cause the Labor Party is not yet a majority Party. At the same time they are blazoning on high that they will put the Labor Party in its place once the day arrives “when social- ism may possess a working majority in parlia- ment.” Anglo-Saxon democracy? What of. the great inherent love for constitutional methods with which the English people are supposed What of the almost biological revulsion to violence that we have so often been told the Anglo-Saxons are blessed with by the heavenly powers above? The threat Of the English Fascisti to ride rough-shod over the working class once it be- comes conscious of its being the majority and proceeds to act as such politically, reveals the whole truth about capitalist democracy. As long as the workers are blind to their role in society and millions of their class help sup- port the capitalist control of government and industry, they will be let alone and the rule of such democracy will be holy. But once the workers become aware of their class interests and attempt to rid themselves of their ex- ploiters, then rule by majority is no longer democratic, then all the empty pretences at peaceful methods are discarded, and the sig. nal is given for an open assault on the work- ingmen along the whole front. The program of the English capitalists is the program of the capitalist class the world over. Our own democracy-worshipping employers will pursue exactly the same policy that the English privileged class is resorting to. | THE THEATRE By D’FERRIER i Ba most disappointing thing about “We Moderns” is that there are no moderns in the ‘play. While the young intellectuals, represented in the play, affect to despise even Bernard Shaw as be ng old-fashioned, in times of stress they are proved to be only parrots of radical thoughts which they have heard others voice and for which they are themselves unwilling to make any sacrifices. For letting these youngsters, who at first repudiate with scornful contempt the old moral, political and sociological conventions of their parents’ genera- tion, be illogically made, by artificial stage devices, to see the justification of the older beliefs, it is hard to for- give the playwright, Israel Zangwill. The ideas of a man, who believes to a certain extent that the great war was waged by the people to pre- serve the world for democracy, are made to triumph over those of his son, who, until * his unexplicable change of heart, has laughed at the decadent creeds of the other. The ending is, of course, a sop to the sthug, middle class audiences, to which a play must appeal in order to be a financial success. But, the aims and ideals of the youngsters, while in this case proven to be not sincere, are so brave and tender that. it fills one with unholy rage to see them frustrated in so cheap a manner. Zangwill has manufactured a vil- lainous seducer, necessary to the out- come of the plot, put a few pseudo-~ intelligent phrases into his mouth, and then called him a modern, This is so obviously a dishonest stage trick to make the play popular, and so unfair, that it rankles. But, despite the plot, the play is very worth-while, There is much cleverness in the dialogue, epigram- matic. and punning, and the cast is most noteworthy, indeed. Helen Hayes, as Mary Sundale, the youth- ful, babbling daughter of the family, does nothing to destroy the suspicion that she is one of the most talented of the younger generation on the American stage—altho a more felici- tous part than this could be found for her. In the scene where she is compelled, against’her will, to have harsh words with her mother, whom she believes to have been stricken, she is most convincing, altho the scene itself is rather falsely written in that—played as it is—the mother could hardly have remained oblivious of the tension in the air. For this unreality we can, however, in no way blame Miss Hayes. 0. P. Heggie, Kenneth Mackenna, Isabel Irving, Mary Shaw—in fact everyone in the cast—are most praiseworthy, and the play has lost nothing in the manner in which it is staged. It is being presented at Cohan’s Grand Opera House. oar * Something Dangerous On Broadway. NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—United States Attorney Daugherty is paying no attention to “Beggar on Horse- back,” a Broadway comedy that is turning ’em away. But he ought to. Audiences of hardboiled eggs love it only because it makes ’em laugh at America and things American. They laugh a dangerous kind of laugh, deep and unreserved. The sound waves must be flowing all over |the country from this unseemly laughing, and they must be doing in- calculable damage. “Beggar on Horseback” unmerci- fully kids the yellow press; it unmer- cifully satirizes the modern Ameri- can attitude toward art, towards money, towards respectability. And, Oh Boy! how the tough Broadway eggs and the spectacled highbrows and everybody laugh! And Sumner, and Nicholas Mur- ray Butler and Bill Burns have done nothing to stop it. Black Denver Post Pot Shocks the N. Y. Times Kettle (By The Federated Prees) NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—The sen- ate committee’s exposure of the un- ye affairs of the Denver Post and editor, Bonfils, connected with the oil scandal, has had g peculiar echo in New York journalions At a public meeting of the Forei Policy Association here last week, the editor of the New York Times, Adolph Ochs, spoke effusively of the high moral standards maintained by the American, as contrasted with the European press. American news- papers, he declared, are immune to temptations of bribery, to which European journals frequently suc- cumb, The Denver Post disclosure, fol- lowing upon the Times’ editor's eulogy, placed this dignified New York organ in an uncomfortable - tion. The Times is now o to admit, editorially, that the senate revelations of corruption in a section of the American press, are “both plain and damaging.” It is interesting to observe the moral which the Times draws from this little experience. The great New York daily has nothing to say concerning the cesspool in h a “reputable” American paper is shown to have wallowed. The Times is shocked and pained at this “reflec- tion upon the Denver editor's intelli- gence,” meaning, of course, that Ochsian morality can overlook every- thing except the unpardonable sin of being caught with the goods, NOW YOU STOP!— vise ish ye Sam beggin 9H spite all arguments against war I’m sure The DAILY WORKER is for preparedness, ( ‘ave you noticed that most of the DAILY ads are of restaurants and doctors? e THE POWER COLUMN Advert ising THE DAIL x WORKER There are so many scandals emerg- Fo the first time in America, the English speaking workers have a newspaper which is fulfilling all of the newspaper needs of the working class, During the month which has passed since THE DAILY WORKER was first issued, thousands of letters have come from our readers telling us how much they are enjoying the paper and how enthusiastically workers everywhere are receiving it. THE DAILY WORKER is just the kind of paper which werkers have been looking for, and wherever there are intelligent workers who have an under- standing of their own interests, THE DAILY WORKER is meeting with a hearty reception. Making THE DAILY WORKER Known, Greatest Problem, Because: THE DAILY WORKER has merited the name of the greatest labor paper in America and because it is just the kind of newspaper which the workers need and desire, there ought to be at the very least a quarter of a million readers, getting THE DAILY WORKER every day. Of course THE DAILY WORKER is a long wa: from having such a circulation, but the only reason why THE DAIL WORKER hasn’t a circulation running into the hundreds of thousands ig that most of the workers in America don’t know about it. Adver- tising our paper is the most important task which DAILY WORKER boosters and readers can perform. If that task is performed there is nothing in the world that can stop THE DAILY WORKER from in- creasing at an enermous rate and within a very short period, taking its place ag the determining influence in the life of the American working class. ,., If THE DAILY WORKER had a million dollars to spend for adver- tising, that amount of money could be profitably spent in bringing it before the American workers, But of course THE DAILY WORKER has no such sum; in fact it can afford scarcely any expense for adver- tising at all. However, THE DAILY WORKER has an advertising asset which is potentially worth many times a million dollars; that is the advertising which THE DAILY WORKER readers and_ boosters can give if they understand the importance of the matter. To drive home this point, is the purpose of today’s Power Column. Talk it Up. From time to time, we have carried an ad in our paper headed “Talk it Up”.. We hope every DAILY WORKER reader has carried out the requests which that advertisement made: to talk about THE DAILY WORKER everywhere, to neighbors and friends, shopmates and fellow unionists, Of tremendous importance is: this “word of mouth” advertising. Thousands of workers can be reached by this method who can be reached in no other way. Those who are regular readers of THE DAILY WORKER, who find the paper a benefit to the working class have a duty to perform in informing others less fortun- ate than themselves about the daily newspaper which carries with it so much of the welfare of American workers. This form of advertising has more value than any other kind. Manufacturers and merchants would pay thousands of dollars \to be able to secure it. We readers and boosters of THE DAILY WORKER need do nothing but make up our minds, need go to no trouble or expense, we have only to carry out an obvious and easy task and we have that which is of immeasurable value to any capitalist business undertaking. Talk up THE DAILY WORKER. News Stands and Dealers. Of course there are thousands of workers who seldom if ever come into contact with the militants. In the course of our activity in behalf of THE DAILY WORKER we must not forget these; they can be reached even if it is more difficult to get to them. One of the best methods in which this “untouched-by-radi m” section of the work- ing class can be reached is by placing TH! DAILY WORKER on the news stands and in stores where newspapers are sold. To do this requires a little time and effort and in the larger cities some little organization, But it can be done as the results achieved by some of THE DAILY WORKER boosters in various sections of the country have shown. Those who would like to render a great service to THE DAILY WORKER and the working class are asked to write to the business office for details regarding this matter. Y. W. L. and Junior Groups. Another method which can be successfully used in bringing THE DAILY WORKER to the attention of the large masses of workers is by having the paper sold on the streets by newsboys. One boy calling out THE DAILY WORKER on the streets is worth a dozen news stands carrying the paper. Particularly the Young Workers League and its junior groups can co-operate most effectively with THE DAILY WORKER in this respect. One or two or three live young comrades in every city, selling THE DAILY WORKER on the streets can render a tremendous service to the labor movement and at the same time those who carry out the work can earn good money doing it. Militants who have sons in school can make them into splendid young rebels by encouraging such activity, to say nothing of the service they will be rendering THE DAILY WORKER and the movement. We particularly recommend this matter to the consideration of branches of the Workers Party, the Young Workers League, and City Central Committees. THE DAILY WORKER will be more than glad to render full co-opera- tion and assistance to those who wish to carry on this kind of activity. A post card or letter requesting full details concerning. this matter addressed to THE DAILY WORKER will bring an immediate response from us. Bundle Orders. During the time of the Weekly Worker, many of its readers were in the habit of ordering regular bundles for sale at union meetings, mass meetings etc. We want ‘to encourage the continuance ,of this practice. Naturally most workers cannot take a daily bundle and dispose of the papers. But almost every worker, especially those who did take bundle orders of the Weekly can and should take a bundle of THE DAILY once a week. - Selling these papers at union. meetings and other places where workers meet is wonderful advertising for THE DAILY WORKER. We will be glad to accept orders for regular shipment every Saturday to all those who wish to handle them, to charge at the regular wholesale rate of 3% cents per copy and to give credit to bundle order agents for all unsold copies. ; Get Them to Read; Then to Subscribe. We have set forth some of what we believe to be the best methods to use in giving publicity and advertising to THE DAILY WORKER. Of course such is not their only purpose. To get new readers for THE DAILY WORKER is in itself giving our paper the best oppor- tunity to fulfill its mission. From the financial point of view however, as well as from the viewpoint of propaganda and education to have these new readers get THE DAILY WORKER only occasionally is not satisfactory. We want the workers to read the paper every day, to become themselves one of the army of DAILY WORKER boosters. First get workers interested in THE DAILY WORKER, then get them to read it, then get them to subscribe, What methods do you think will best help make THE DAILY WORKER grow? What methods have you tried successfully? Write to the Power Column so that others can profit by your experiences. AS WE SEE IT By T, J. O'FLAHERTY. ing from the Washington cess pool these days that it takes all one’s time to keep track of them. A public rob- bery that fn odinary times would draw a streamer headline is liable to find itself tucked away among the death notices. The looting of a mil- lion or so is considered small stuff. Such is the fate of the discovery of a nation-wide counterfeit plot involving officers of a large federal reserve Abank allied with leaders of the Chi- cago and New York underworld. It was buried in an obscure corner of the Sunday papers, Only a few mil- lion dollars were involved. There is surely some incentive to make good under capitalism. Perhaps this is what the capitalist propagandists have in mind when they say Commun- ism would take away our incentive. eae There are others who profess to believe in Communism but dread its coming. William Reynolds, of De- troit, member of the Workers Party, approached one Frank Seidel, a mem- ber of the Proletarian Party, for a subscription to the DAILY WORK- ER. Mr. Seidel declined, saying he got all the news of Russia he wanted trom the capitalist press; he declared that he knew what to believe and what not to believe, He further stat- ed that workers who become too in- terested in Communism were un- happy. Not wishing to lay himself open to an attack of revolutionary en- thusiasm he refused to subscribe to the DAILY WORKER. * * * * If the war veterans demanded hon- ors instead of a bonus, things would be so much easier for Calvin Cool- idge and for the ex-soldiers. The easiest decoration to secure is a cross of some kind, from the Iron Cross to the Double Cross. If Sergeant Jake Ellex does not engage in the junk and pig iron to set himself up in business and supply the needs of a respectable trade for the first six months. Hardly a nation in Europe big or little but has kissed and dec- orated Jake. The following nations have added to his junk pile; France, Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, England and the United States. When this hero takes to the street with his jewelry on, he rattles like a two year old Ford on the way to a Hobo picnic. Ce eS The official organ of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, also a_ socialist (yellow) paper, has a lengthy editoral on the Indianapolis convention, in which it competes with the slimy Oneal in heaping abuse on the radicals but regrets that the convention did not show the same spirit of toleration to Howat that Gompers showed Wil- liam F. Dunne at the Portland ¢on- vention. One of the biggest things, says this renegade socialist, ever done by the American Federation of Labor was to allow Dunne the floor at the convention in order to reply to charges that he was a_ rebel. Comment on the rantings of such a political pervert would be an insult to the intelligence of our readers anda waste of time. * *¢ * «#& Louise Lawson, another “Broadway Butterfly,” met her death under mys- terious circumstances. The papers talk of “wealthy men” being in- volved. Millionaires perhaps! Some time ago another woman of easy virtue met her death in New York. It was learned that a man of mil- lions, son-in-law of Plute Stotesbury of Pennsylvana fame, financial as- sociate of J. P. Morgan, was in the habit of paying “Dot” King, the murdered girl, one thousand dollars a visit. The millionaire was not arrested. He was invited to walk into the office of the district attor- ney. The case is now forgotten. The millionaire is still at large. Other millionaires are spending the millions produced by the millions of workers in sweat and blood, on the White Ways of the great cities. Capitalist morality!” The whole social system stinks in the nostrils of civilization and its hypocrisy is by no means the least obnoxious part of it, De- tectives with the brain development of infants go around arresting young children who happen to become in- terested in the radical movement and the papers squawk about “the red menace” while murder, rape and vice , flourish unpunished beneath their very noses. DO THE MEMBERS OF YOUR UNION KNOW ABOUT THE DAILY WORKER? 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