The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1925, Page 11

— Views of Our Readers on Many Subjects | In the Midst of the K. K. K. Being a migratory worker, hunting my daily bread—migrating from town to town in our so-called civilized cap- italist America, recently I have come to. a small town, situated_in-the sub- urbs of Detroit, Mich. about nine) miles for the city hall, called Ecarse. It is known as a wide open town for immoral, purposes and_bootleggers who transport whisky from Canada. The prov. of Ontario and the city of Windsor, are just across the Detroit River, therefore, it is easy to bring whisky and beer into this country. Never did I see-so many K. K. K. men as at the Michigan Steel corpora- tion, whic is situated in Ecarse, Mich. Tn this plant every other worker is a member of the K. K. K. The presi- dent, who answers to ‘name of: Fink, is a member right alongside of 4 common laborer. The superintendent, ‘who was advanced recently, to’ the | “position of genéral’ matiager and ’sec- ond vice-president, is also a member of this ‘hypocritical 6rgatiization. He received a Christiias présént from the ‘Company’ of $10,000 éompaniy in stock. “The workers received nohe: He has “had” $75,000 in stock before the pres- ent was given to him, thus making him a total of $85,000, plus his yearly _ Salary of $18,000. The corporation made a net profit— @ surplus value, as Marx would call it—of $2,000,000 during the year of 1924. This capitalist enterprise was put up only two years ago and em- ploys about 800 workers. Considering these two facts the company made dn enormous profit out of the workers’ toil. ‘ I met two comrades, members of the Workers (Communist) Party, working in this capitalist hell. There’s an organized spy system which is so secretly conducted that hardly a man will notice it, and, of course, the K. K. klansmen are the ones-who claim the leadership. If aman employed there shows 5 signs of radicalism he is either imme- diately’ “fired” df reduced to the smallest job to discourage him and he quits of his accord. I've been told by a K. K. K. that they have about 15,000,000 members in this country. “They are,” he says, “for the Americanization of all those who wish to be 100 percenters.” The others they will deport to their re- spective lands. He himself is a for- eigner. The admission fee is $100.00. He asked me to join this fascist or- ganization, knowing that I am Amert- can born. I told him lam a Commun- ist,.a Bolshevik, if you like. i ‘ But this ignorant patriot let the cat out of the bag before he found out that I am a Communist. He gave me -in a haphazard way the foliowing in- r foration about the K. K. K.: They want the yellow race driven _out of the country; they are against ,¢the, Jews in the east and their influ- ential power in business; they are against the Negroes, particularly _Workers, for the mass of Negroes are ' workers; they are against the for- eign born workers because they all come here to preach Communism. I asked him about the Teapot Dome steals. He replied‘ “They ought to be severely punished for their crime.” I asked him if the K. K. K. ever hopes to control the government, “Thru educational methods and peace- ful tactics,” says he. I cited the Herrin riots and others in southern states. His poisonous lips turned blue and exclaimed very harsh- ly, “They were not the work of real K. K. klansmen.” Later on I was told that no Negro workers are employed there, Com- rades, we have three Communists toil- ing there, myself, a Roumanian and an Italian, and I am of the opinion that it is high time we organized a shop nucleus, even at the risk of our jobs. For Karl Marx said that the way to Communism is not paved with beau- tiful roses. We should always remem- ber this. ; Tom J. Bergen. “Use Cold Logic with Murderers! To the DAILY WORKER: One of the socialist papers recently published an article named “Blood and Dirt,” written by the Jewish “poet,” David ee Einhorn, once a “Bundist,’ now a yéllow, like the paper he writes for, The Jewish Forward. This article is the first of a series to be devoted to attacking the Communists. For he as well as his pal and fellow traitor— the notorious white-guard—R. Abram- ovitch, were imported here by our yel- lows to propagate the American workers against the Union of Social- ist Soviet Republics. In this article he criticizes Com- munists for being so aggressive in their. attacks upon their enemies and social-traitors. Why, asks this “yel- low,” do the Communists apply such names as “Traitor,” “Sold Soul,” etc.? Can they not by “cold, logical reason- ing’ convert their. enemies? And why did the: Communists imprison . their “comrades,” (!) the menshe- viks? These who had united with the Kolchaks, Denekins and Wrang- els, who were supported by the capi- talists of France, England, America, etc. Why did they imprison these “comrades”? And why did they criti- zise and fight against the yellow so- cialists in Esthonia? Why did they not use “cold, logical reasoning” with them ?.- These yellow socialists in Esthonia in a report to their Second Interna- tional complained about the “intri- gues” of the Communists at the time of the Esthonia revolt, These social- ists.excuse their actions in the follow- ing way: “From a distance our action may appear like counter-revolutionary, but we could not help it? Here was E Isvestia, in publishing the above cartoon of Baldwin, the British imperialist premier, remarks in a prophetic vein: “The Egyptians have a custom of mummyfying their rulers.” I NOCUG = By ALFRED V. FRANKENSTEIN. 'HE Bach mass in b minor, given by the Apollo club at Orchestra Hall last Monday evening, is an in- teresting combination of modernity and antiquity. It was written nearly two centuries ago. As a mass, then, it is fairly modern, but as music it is old, no antique. It leaves one with a peculiar mixed impression of mono- tony, and yet a monotony that be- comes tiresome only after a few hours. The mass has existed as a part of the Roman catholic liturgy for untold centuries. In its classic form it has six sections, but Bach, by elaborat- ing the opening section into three parts, the second into eleven, and the third into seven, changed the simple twenty minute service into a long ora- torio nearly three hours. Anyone familiar with the Bach style can understand the sort of mu- sic he set to the Latin text. The style of Bach was so hidebound that all his melodies sound alike, tho there may be considerable variation in the actual notes. In all the b minor mass there are only two tunes that stand out as essentially different from the dead level of the composer's style. ee roe parr areas (EEERAT It seems as if J. S. Bach never could have been young. All his mu- sic sounds like the creation of an old man. But in some of the chor- uses ef this oratorio are passages of a great singing glory of tone unsur- passed because unsurpassable. There are some fine solos in the work too, but they were all indiffer- ently done by a mediocre quartet of soloists. They were Arthur Board- man, tenor; Emily Stokes Hager, so- prano; Florence Evans, contralto, and Robert Maitland, bass. The psychology of the religious” hold on mankind is intimately tied up with works like this mass. Without the masterpieces © of architecture, painting and music the church would lose its following. But one may en- joy the esthetic works that religion has turned to its own purposes with- out in the least subscribing to the beliefs of the church. One may hear the Apollo club sing “Credo in unum dominum, Jesum Christum,” without in the least believing in one lord, Jesus Christ, and knowing that thru- out the ages the church has been the most reactionary force in society, but nevertheless deriving a thrill of es- thetic enjoyment from the chorus. Harrison Wild, the club’s conduc- not the question of an uprising, but a conspiracy forced by Moscow... Rus- sian warships were stationed in the ‘waters of Esthonia. With their help the revolt would naturally turn into a successful revolution, and the prole- tariat would establish its dictatorship over the people.” The socialist party of Esthonia according to what they say in their report are satisfied that the bourgeois government of Esthonia was successful in crushing this revolt and maintaining the bourgeois “re- public of Esthonia.” The socialist party of Esthonia wishes rather the government of the bourgeoisie than that. of the proletariat. The Second ° Internationalists the. representatives of the socialist parties in all countries will naturally, approve of this action. They will,not for a moment consider the contradiction between. their action and, the theory of the class. struggle and revolution, which some are up to the present day meaninglessly. preach- ing. " In the face of these facts this rene- gade, yellow socialists, asks why Com- munists imprison and attack so vigor- ously, these traitors, ARES Use “cold logic”. with them? Use “cold logic’ against Kolchak d | Wrangel, when the. Kolchaks have | united with the, yellow socialists to | overthrow the only workers’ republic on earth? J. Durke Egeberg, Terror of Gary Steel Mills Stabbed by Laborer GARY, Ind., Feb. 20.—H. 0. Ege- berg, employment manager of the United States Steel corporation mills at Gary, is recovering from wounds he claims he received at the hands of Z. Plasco, a Mexican laborer. Egeberg refused to hire the labor- er and ordered him from the employ- ment office, charging. him.with being, wroebin aber Egeberg, formerly a member of the socialist party, is; known among the workers in the Gary mills as a ty- rant who “never forgets a face.” Workmen in the mills who have been . discharged for organizing the work- ers into unions find it difficult to get by Egeberg’s blacklist. The laborer was badly beaten by other members of the steel mills staff, and was thrown into jail. The May Day will be celebrated by Workers Party, Local Chicago on May 1, 1925 at the Ashland Auditorium. Comrades—Settle for Lenin Mem- orial tickets. We want>to’ straighten out all the accounts for this affair. ¢ AN HM IN ‘ ii : tor, is on the sick list and Edgar A. Nelson substituted for him. Nelson is ore of the ablest musicians in town, as a conductor, organist, pian- ist and teacher, and gave a charac- teristically excellent performance. The Chicago Symphony orchestra accompanied. 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