The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1925, Page 11

“ry” is the order of the day. A Herald of Revolution ‘HO nothing officially ean be no- ticed, business boycotts and petty horse-play among American “Babitt- The crux of these boycotts, takes place in the’ smaller communities where the Babitts make it their business to know the affairs of each’other. Protestant cockroach businessmen of the three K.’s variety are boycotting catholic and Jewish small-town merchants and they in turn retaliate. .Some leases are never renewed and in. some towns the streets are painted. with such words as “Kigy,” or “Akia” and “Ay- ak.” Kigy means “klansman, I greet you.” Ayak means “Are you a klans- man?” Akia means “A klansman I am.” With the above gibberish the knights of the knight gown recog- nize each. other. In the manufacturing centers, ad- vertisements calling for “christian help” are not common. Evidently christians make good slaves. The Ford, the poison has reached some elements of the working class and we must not permit this poison to re- tard, even for a moment the forward march to Communism. © The French revolution—the very ex- ‘pression of Industrial capitalism’s coming of age — cold-storaged the witches of medieval religious:and rac- ial prejudice temporarily. The cap- italist state became the concilliator between the budding businessmen who needed stability and the church which was becomitig too clumsy to minister the new state. A convenient wedlock, however, be- tween church and state—each party to the contract maintaining their own home but living amicably together— was affected. This wedlock is now successfully operating in most west- ern democracies. To bring the war to the people, the almighty on high and the state, have worked hand in glove: : ‘Sigh of Revolution. Whenever the working class begins masters are seeking to feed the most! to get conscious of the fountain-head willing slaves first and they choose ‘their ‘workers according® te the partic- ~~ wlar brand‘of ‘religious opium they in- frale) © An'<artificial dine-of gentile, ‘\uedtholic »and! Jew «is ‘tightly being - drawn and ali'the prejudice and witch- craft of old is arrayed to befuddle the uncouth, So long as this sort of horse-play is confined among the various ele- ments of two-by-four bank patrons, known as the middle class, the harm done, tends to weaken the unity and strength of the capitalist state, but of late, thanks to our efficient Mr. of exploitation and bourgeois society is threatened, the, handmaids of that society will unearth ‘the: old ‘stinking carcass of religious and race hatred and create a condition of intolerance, which for a while holds back the for- ward march of the working class. It is the last connivance and calumny— after that the deluge. There only re- main. internal military suppression and external invitation to mercenary, troops to hold the working class in leash. We are now passing thru the state of intolerance. When it be- comes clear to the workers that they have been misled and that they are not divided along religious and race lines, but only along class lines, they will know what’s to be done, Up to 1914 the United States indus- trial development was so intense and rapid that the various phases of in- tolerance that were rampant. in Eu- rope could not develop here. The Negroes suffered the most up to that time and if there had been no Ne- groes to roast it can be supposed they would’ have roasted foreign-born workers or the next minority that “heroes” pick on. Religious intolerance began to be felt in America during ‘the few hard years prior to the world war, when it was necessary to give>the workers a dose of prejudice in order to stem}, the tide of industrial unrest that was sweping the country prior to 1914, With the coming’ of the great carnage and” with “plenty of jobs” for the ‘) slaves and profits for the masters and with a war on hand which gave them a better subterfuge than internal in- tolerance; mainly... “death to the Hun”, .and, “patriotism,” we experi- enced a lull. : Post War Hatreds. The war has been fought, workers have returned to jobs which machines and capitalist efficiency have replaced. The world “market is ruined and an age of specialization, such as has never been heard of before, is con- fronting the American worker today. ‘The American land squatter has long ago lost title to his land, and has been reduced to tenantry. Such a condi- tion presents a most fertile soil for By M. D. Litman the capitalist apologists. They come before the pedple and tell them that “foreigners,” “catholics” and “Jews” are depriving them from their profits and from their jobs. The smallest and most unprofitable enterprises are in the hands of the so-called foreigners. The hardest mine.and farm labor is being perform- ed by so-called foreign labor;’’ yet, there is that ‘politically and class ig norant “native son,” who allows him- self to be misled by this drivel of hatred. To show their patriotism, some ‘bosses are handing out the “easy” mine and mill and factory jobs to natives and take pride in em- ploying. none but “christian, white, Americans.” The Ku Klux Kraze. Born inside of the stinking carcass of race and religious intolerance and germinating from the swamps of southern United States, the klan is the agency which has rendered the most service to American capitalism. The old decayed carcass of haté and intolerance was dressed up in a white robe-and placed on 2 horse and is now being paraded around cetere the un- couth. Conflicts must result freq this cam- paign that will tend to weaken the capitalist state organism and will make the state a weaker enemy of the working class. Sectional disputes in regards to authority will arise and with it internal warfare into which the working class led by Communists will throw their forces and organize the tirst step towards Communism—the dictatorship of the proletariat. Religious Opiate for the Children APITALISM, with its powerful weapon, thé school, is burying its poison fangs still deeper into the hearts of the children by at last estab- lishing in News York City, religious instruction for public school pupils. At a meeting a few days ago of Roman catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and protestant ministers, it was de- cided that such opiate must be ad- ministered as’ often as possible to as many scholars as possible. The at- tempt will be made to inoculate the 1,200,000 New York public school children, with this virus instead of 400,000 now receiving such injections -in one way or another. Catholics At it a Long Time It has also developed that the catholics, always working jesuitically, have been for the last two years giv- ing religious opiates to children after school hours. This was announced by no less an official than Dr. William J. O’Shea,,;superintendent of schools, who made no explanation of how they do it and whosé children they are teaching. Cardinal,Hayes, chief of the opium squad of the catholic branch of wor- ship, has given his “august” sanction -. to this movement and his Machiavelli, Dr. Lavelle, is the active force carry- ing out the cardinal’s dictum. It was declared with pride that the public school officials are in favor of this religious instruction for the school children .and the immediate establishment of such teachings seems to indicate that capitalism knows what it is doing and that it needs must be done to withstand the onset of labor waking up to the wiles and op- pressions of capitalistic ethics and sweatshops. These medicine men have now ar- *TENTION! — uP, AND AT THEM ¢ W GWOUAGL 1 US Of SER i ranged for one day a week of religious instruction in one school, P. 8. 46, at St. Nicholas avenue and 156th street. They are wily in announcing that in- struction will not be given in the school building, but in places apart, . The Jews, protestants and catholics. will have separate classes, It is also intended not to dismiss classes early to receive this instruction, but it will be dane after school hours. They will catch first, it is said, the part-time class children who, deprived by the niggardliness of the capitalist politic- ians, of full-time lessons, will be pounced upon by the witch-doctors and given as frequent doses as pos- sible, of this venomous narcotic, s0 that they may be “good,” meaning docile workers for capitalism. Superintendent O’Shea, to calm the people who might be’ disturbed by this new plan to take possession of their children mind’s minds, says that attendance at these classes will be purely voluntary. But they will work on children they find not attending in 4 similar fashion to the catholic witch- doctors who dangle a devil before the eyes of a terrified child and its mo- ther. ; The Mephistophelian horror enters the trustful souls and they are dullod in spirit by the poisonous fear. The parent relents, the child is staggered by fear and successive doses of the opiate render it immobile and thought- less. Thus the public school wil! con- tinue its efforts to create imitative monkeys out of the magnificent po- tentiality of adolescent human brains. Capitalism is ena alive to its interests and it knows the child is its future earner of profits. If: it doesn’t receive opiates enough it will join the Communists who strike directly at the villainies and abominations of profit- making. It is a frightful step towards bring- ing the working class into subjection and its effects will be far-reaching if it continues, In the whole city of New York with ‘ts 7,000,000 people only the Workers (Communist) Party combats this men- ace in an organized manner.