The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1925, Page 6

rotate Ge Rt peers aa Ne Page Six a Y ~ THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. | 1118 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, D1. | (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall: | $6.00 per year 93.50....6 months $2.00....8 months By mail (in Chicago only): | $8.00 per year $4.50....6 months $2.60...8 months pace ta Res ata tion e th abe cesar toned Adress all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER $918 W. Washington Bivd. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL 5 WILLIAM F. DUNNE ert) MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager Chicago, illinele Bntered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 8, 1879. <=> 290 Advertising rates on app*cation = CAE ERR SPREE th Se i aa The Flivver to the Rescue The growers of apples have not yet learned to increase their sales by frightening the populace into devouring their product or else be devoured | in turn by the “Bolshevik menace.” They could| argue that radicalism was caused by a nervous dis- order which could be traced to eating an over- abundance of proteins and starches. Specialists in dilapidated human anatomies attribute most of our physical ills to ill-treatment of the boiler. Most of them agree that apple juice, when not aged, is a good lubricant. An orderly stomach produces smiles instead of grouches, and who ever saw a cartoon of a smiling revolutionist in the capitalist press? Apples as a cure for Bolshevism. A slogan: “An apple a day will keep Communism away” would get babbits, labor fakers and all members and potential mem- Joccasion. A Wise Fool Speaketh It is said somewhere in the bible that the “truth shall be spoken out of the mouths of fools.” Per- haps in biblical days as today only those to whom truth was dearer than material success said what they wanted to say instead of what should be said. The biblical quotation above seems to fit the case of William Jennings Bryan versus evolu- tion. The perennial candidate for the presidency has entered the lists against the teaching of evolution in the public schools. The specific object of attack from the leader of the Neanderthalers is a Dayton, Tennessee, school- teacher who purposely violated a state law against the teaching of evolution in order to test the strength Of the moron element and their right to block the advance of freedom of thought. William Jenniigs Bryan is what the title of this editorial designates, a “wise fool.” He has made millions peddling his religious hokum and Florida real estate. God has been good to him in the way of making a living, so he stands by his friend. And he speaks the truth at least once, when he stated that “the hand that writes the teachers’ pay check rules the schools.” Upton Sinclair, expert on pedagogical goose and gosling factories, never hit the nail on the head with more unérring aim than did Bryan on this The capitalist class in the industrial centers do not particularly care whether the pro- duct of their universities believes in one god, half a dozen or in a hole in the wall, provided they understand chemistry and other sciences needed in runing industry profitably. But to the witch hunting Southern brain, the odor from the burn- ing flesh of a heretic is like incense to the nostrils. Education under the capitalist system will be bers of the ku klux klan eating up whole orchards. But the apple growers lack originality. Not so| the flivver manufacturers. | George M. Graham, chairman of the National | Automobile Chamber of Commerce, gleclares that the automobile is the greatest foe of Bolshevism in the United States. This should bounce the sale of tin lizzies over night. A capitalist editorial writer agrees. It must be confessed the editor writes that the automobile has aided the devil considerably in his What is more conducive to sin, than a triangle composed of an auto, a male and a female of the human species parked in some shady | lane out the ken of a ku klux klan dragon or a methodist minister? Without the auto youthful sinners might have to serve Satan precariously on a front porch lighted by an ubiquitious street lamp | and within eall of an easily angered and particular parent. But rapid travel stirs the blood and dis tance makes the heart grow fonder. Therefore many sermons have been preached on the evil re- sults flowing from the increased sales of automo- biles. So much so that automobile manufacturers have been obliged to pay the preachers handsomely to preach about something else. But the automobile has redeemed itself. Not only does it tempt those of weak flesh to stray from | the front parlor, but it also tempts the whole fam- ily to take excursions into the country. - nefarious wor the kind that finds favor in the eyes of thosé who foot the bills, who as Bryan puts it write the teacher’s pay check. There is an object lesson for workers’ educationshere, which should not be lost jon the radical movement. They who pay the piper {can call the tune. The workers cannot expect to be told their place in society by college professors j;paid by the money of a Rockefeller, a Ford or a |Gary any more than they can expect to be told workers must own and control their own schools. The Kaiser Is Next? Field Marshal von Hindenburg is at last installed president of the German republic. The leader of the kaiser’s armies during the most criti- cal period of the world war, now occupies the wing in the imperial palace where the “Iron Chancellor” Bismarek once made his plans to forge the scat- tered states into the empire which staked its exist- ence on the flash of the sword in 1914. Hindenburg, one of the kaiser’s closest friends, now sits in the chair vacated by the traitor Ebert. There is nothing now left of the German republic but its name. The monarchists are not acting precipitately. They have probably read the history Those excursions, says the worthy capitalist | scribe are “soul expansive, wholly wholesome and | enjoyable.” His peroration is worth quoting in full: “This sort of family life, of course, makes for contentment, and where there is family content- ment there is community loyalty and countrywide | patriotism. It is not in this sort of atmosphere | that Bolshevism thrives. Therefore avyaunt Bol- | tion. No sooner was Hindenburg elected than the| shevism as a menace to Americanism!” This r “the Ford the flivyer is an installment plan and take week-end trips to the North Pole, Bolshevism will be completely frozen out. When there are no unemployed and all work- | ers are capitalists there will be less Bolshevism than ever, And when morons are not allowed to write editorials for capitalist papers, we may rest assured Bolshevism will no longer be a menace. No, Bolshevik professors will then be lecturing on the “Recent Collapse of Capitalism.” Charles Moyer, president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers is lin- ing up with the labor fakers in Montana, who want to kill the lively little paper known as Great Falls Town Topies. The men Charles is now fight- ing helped to save his neck from getting danger- ously stretched some years ago, But Charlie's memory is even shorter than his neck, tho his con- | science is more elastic than either. Kar! Kantsky has written another book in which he vomits every revolutionary idea he ever enter- tained. The renegade tries to dismiss the Russian | classes, of the French revolution to good advantage. Hin- denburg can play the role of “First Consul” for a while and gradually prepare the masses for the return of the Hohenzollerns. Democrats, socialists, centrists, catholics, na- | tionalists and fascis s—all join in paying tribute jto the “sterling character” of von — Only the Communists provide a genuine opposi- |Communists issued an appeal to the followers of - explain the gift of $1,500,000 given by | the socialist party to join in a united front cam: mily to the Y. M. f°. A. recently, If | Paign against monarchism and its allies. Agains}| ‘antidote to Bolshevism, why should |the dictatorship of the capitalists and their Hin-| uot the owners of the medicine fork up? When|@enburgs, Marxs and Brauns, the Communists | the masses are purchasing flying machines on the |24vanced the slogan of a workers’ and peasants’ | | government. Hindenburg may prove to be the entering wedge for the return of the kaiser to the throne. The so- cial-democrats have succeeded in demoralizing the German masses sufficiently to make the restora- tion a probable success. For generations led to believe that the socialists once in power would prove a real government of the toilers, the German workers learned that Ebert and his gang were but the servile tools ‘of big capital. In their despera- tion a large number of them turned to the mon- archists. This is the result of the social-democratic policy in Germany. They have betrayed the workers and betrayed the republic, which was never anything but the tool of the capitalist and landowning Ebert kept the president chair warm for von Hindenburg. The Jatter will hold his seat until the kaiser turns it into a throne. The only party in Germany today that carries the banner of the class war against collaboration with capitalism and monarchism is the Communist Party. It has not yet secured the leadership over revolution in the first chapter, but it keeps bobbing | up in the rest of the book. Kautsky says it is our | business to help capitalism transform itself into | socialism. We might as well try helping a pole eat to transform itself into a lily. Harriot Stanton Blatch, writing in a New York socialist paper, not the official organ of the Gen- sto spend his salary on booze eral Electric company, congratulated the German | people on the election of Hindenburg. He is a fine fellow, she says, and the women like him. It looks that way. So do the socialists, men and women. The Seattle Union Record commends the meet- ing of capitalists and labor fakers with a view to solving the problem of waste in industry. Capital idea, says the Record. Yes, for the capitalists. a majority of the workers. But its propaganda and the conditions foreed on the German workers by their masters will accomplish that aim, | Itis rumored that a certain judge who is all het |up over radicals having ulterior designs on the | daily more obvious. Marx’s indefati- capitalist constitution, confiscates dice prepar- atory to using them in a crap game, He is alleged and cannot afford to invest. in gambling machinery. It is also reported that he auctions off the dice after he-is thru with them. Now that Coolidge has joined the anti-rum allies we may see the cider industry take a jump, and Vermont chin whiskers wiggle as they have not done in years, Coolidge is strong for home in- dustry. , the truth about the bible in schools supervised by | | medieval relics like William Jennings Bryan. The | Inspiration Introduction to Engels’ “The Prin- ciples of Communism,” No. 3 of the Little Red.Library. | Ed. Note.—This booklet of the Little Red Library can be had from the DAILY WORKER Publishing Co.— 1113 Washington Blvd., Chicago, IIl., at 10 cents a copy—12 copies for $1.00. oe The years immediately preceding the revolutionary period of 1848 were years of indescribable political mis- ery in Germany. Its several dozens of miniature monarchs were just that many bulwarks of reaction, so much so, that even thinking of a political change was regarded as a major crime and prosecuted as such. It is true there existed a, budding capitalist class which dreamt ofa unified nation and that possessed) ‘aspirations to- ward acquiring the political rule over this nation. But the,hehavior of the German bourgeoisie towards its here- ditary parasitical primeelings has ever been characterized by cowardice, and this cowardice enhanced by fear of the independent revolutionary ambi- tious of the newly deyeloping prole- tariat, resulted in the bourgeoisie never permitting its. dreams to be- come inspirations to, action, And even when in an ungyarded moment they were drawn into the turmoil of the revolutionary struggles in the days of March, 1848, the bourgeois quickly became frightened by their own courage and repaid in decades of slavish servility for the moments of insubordination, ire In this stifling atmosphere of pre- revolutionary Germany it was impos- sible for men with spirit and. intelli- gence to live. For the privilege of thinking, speaking or writing, the best men of the nation paid the price of exile in this period. One neéa only mention the names of Karl Marx and Heinrich Heine as examples. During this epoch when the old semi-feudal order in Germany was der, revolutionary thinking was not confined solely to the proletarian ele- |ments. The revolutionary circles of German refugees in the large cities of Europe, in Brussels, Paris, London, were therefore by no<means hetero- genous groups. Alongside of the pro- | letarian elements, the revolutionary | bourgeois intellectuals. were quite nu- |} merous. Among the proletarian ele- | ments it was the most. intelligent and | most advanced itinerary journeymen (Handwerksburschen),, that domin- ated. This class, not yet fully prole- tarianized, had developed its own ide- ology which found ts clearest ex- pression in the theories of one of thelr number, Wilhelm Weitling, a journeyman tailor, 29, | These groups of ¢migrant revolu- tionists developed themqueerest ideas and programs for their circle. socialist ideas of the;ingenious jour- neyman tailor, Weitling, the teachings and preachings of the revolutionary bourgeois intellectual in their midst, the influence of the Jabor movement | in the countries in which they lived, | like that of the Chartist movement in | England and of the»Proudhonists or | the Blanquists in France—all these together resulted in atheoretical mess extremely conducive to. fruitless squabbles that weregbarren of all practical results and.reyolutionary ac- tivity. % | Suth were the contlitions that pre- vailed in the circles;of revolutionary proletarian emigrants from Germany 1847, Repeated attempts were made to unite’ these groups organizationally, these efforts culminating finally in the organization of the “League of Com- munists,” in 1846. In converting these clubs of philosophizing, debating and quarrelling emigrants into active reyo- lutionary organizations with proleta- rian predominance, Marx and Engels were tirelessly active, Marx later wrote about these activities as fol- lows: wee “We published simultaneously a number of partly printed and partly lithographed pam; in which we subjected the mixturg,of French-Eng- lish socialism, Communism and Ger- man philosophy at that time represented the seeret principles of the leagfle to a mepeiless criticism; in place of this we {ried to spread a scientific unders' of the eco- nomic structure of keurgeois society as the only firm th ical basis, and finally we explained ima popular man- ner that the questiongis not the estab- lishment of some Utepian system, but the conscious partichgation in the his- toric process of change of society that takes place before oyr very eyes.” This positive criticism found a ready echo in the league. In Janu- ary, 1847, its centrajy bureau, in Lon- don, dispatched somp).representatives to Brussels to im and Engels to join the league, ®With the devel- opment of a more lueid understanding by the members and the clarification of the purpose of the league itself, the |need for a unifying program became | gable efforts in Brussels soon succeed- |ed in transforming the Brussels or- ganization into a proletarian revolu- tionary club, Engel, meanwhile, had gone to Paris, wherg.old revolutionary illusions and new theories had created a most disastrous ideo- logical chaos in of the mem- bers of the league, did his best e the prevailing confu- idee, In an attempt to ate the League of Communists a clear program, the Lon- pare committee Ly drat pregnant with the new, capitalist or- | in Brussels, in Paris and in London in | The |. for the Struggle it to the aflliated clubs for discussion. This draft also reached Paris, where Moses Hess, a “philosophical” social- ist, made what he thought were im- provements and prevailed upon the Paris club to accept this document. But in a later meeting the decision was reversed. Engels writes about the incident in a letter to Marx, dated November, 10, 1847: “I have played an infernal trick on Most (Moses Hess). He had forced thru a ludicrously improved ‘Confes- sion of Faith.’ Last Friday I took it up in our circle and criticized ques- tion after question. Before I had gone thru half of them our people declared themselves satisfied. Without opposi- tion I then had a motion passed in- structing me to draft a new one.” Meantime a congress had been call- ed of the League of Communists to meet in London on November 30, 1847. The purposes of the gathering were to work out a constitution for the league and to adopt a program. In preparation for this, Marx who came to London for this congress from Brussels, and Engels, who repre- sented the group of Paris, had written | separate drafts of such a program.! Engels evidently had used as a basis for this draft the one that he had pre- pared in compliance with the instruc- tions given by the Paris league. On November 24, 1847, Engels wrote to Marz: “You had better consider this ‘Con- fession of Faith’ somewhat. I think we had better drop that catechism a ee Ks oe Manifesto’; for inasmuch as it must deal more or less with history, the previously accepted style does not fit at all. I'll bring with me the one that I made here. . . J begin: What is Communism? And then right after the proletariat, origin, difference from former workers, development of antag- onisms between proletariat and bour- geoisie, crises, conclusions. In be- tween a number of minor points and finally the policies of the Communists. This one from here has not yet been submitted for adoption; but I think nothing is contained in it against our views.” This last sentence seems to indicate that Engels’ draft made for the Lon- don conference is that same one pre- pared by him for the Parisian league. while the first part of the letter sug- gests that there was an understanding between the two friends to make in- dividual drafts for the London gather- ing and that the form of a catechism should be followed by both. The “Principles of Communism” herewith published for the first time in English evidently represents the draft of Engels. The manuscript written in German was found among Engels’ posthumous papers. We know now the final and classi- cal form which the program of tha} Communists took when it was pub- lished ultimately as the “Communist Manifesto.” However, the world fame the Engels’ draft. form and call the thing ‘Communist not in. the least lessen the value ti The Communist Manifesto is a ¢are- that this document has achieved does | not By Max Bedacht fully prepared document. Hach one of its sentences stands out like a work of art hewn in granite. Altho a docu- ment prepared for the political strug- gles of the hour of its publication and tho dealing with problems character- tstic of a period long past, the mani- festo is not only a historic document but also a timely source of inspiration for the struggles of today. The draft of Engels is a manuscript written on the spur of the moment and was never put into final form for publication. Yet we find in {t a clear outline of the ideas and gems of his- torical analysis in which the manites- to excells. The Hngels’ draft is proof that the Communist Manifesto is truly the result of the combined efforts of thhe great intellectual heroes of scien- tific Communism: Marx and Engels. The draft, as contained in the dis- covered manuscript is not complete. Question No. 9 is unanswered. Ques- tions twenty-two and twenty-three are answered with a remark referring to an earlier manuscript, and a8 no such manuscript could be found, these ques- tions remain unanswered. For the sake of completeness we will supply, in an appendix, answers to these ques- tions based upon the writings of Fred- erich Engels or from the Communist Manifesto. For the convenience of the readers, and to make possible a clear under- standing, a number of explanatory es have been prepared and printed in the appendix. Clarifying interjec- ‘tons in the text, set in parenthesis, are supplied by the translator, THE CHIEF OCCUPATION OF SOCIALISTS AS WE SEE IT -:- (Continued from page 1) sian labor officials are co-operating | with the Soviet government to: lift! the standard of living and raise the cultural level of the workers. Our) American labor officials of the Wil- liam Green type are co-operating with the employers to skin the workers. That’s the vital difference, te OME time ago, the DAILY WORK- ER carried a story of the kidnap- ing of Harry Pollit, leader of the Brit- ish Minority Movement, by a gang of fascisti, The minority movement in England is the prototype of the Trade Union Educational League in the United States: When Pollit’s kid- napers were brot to trial they were acquitted by the court despite over- whelming evidence that they had vio- lated the law which the British ruling class is supposed to be so particular about, This miscarriage of “justice” so outraged British labor that even a reactionary like ©, T. Cramp, indus- trial general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, wrote to the Lohdon Daily Herald protesting against the verdict, oe 18 letter is herewith published as| a sidelight on the difference be- tween the official leadership of the labor movement in England and in the United States, Can you imagine Wil-| liam Green or John L, Lewis writing a letter like the foll6wing, when Wil- Ham Z, Foster was kidnaped by the cossacks of Pat Hamrock in Colorado a few years ago? TC | Ae be * HE Daily Herald: “I am in com- plete agreement with your leader of Saturday. On the subject of trade By T. J. O'Flaherty wish to say with emphasis that, what- ever may be the views of Mr. Pollitt, every effort should be made to see that he receives elementary justice in precisely the same way that every citizen has a right to claim, If hooli- gans are to be allowed the privilege of physical force while other citizens are to be condemned for merely ad- vocating the same thing, a very serious position arises, in which very wide public issues are involved. I do not know what legal remedy is now open to Mr. Pollitt as against this iniquitous verdict, but I certainly be- lieve no means should be left untried to obtain a reversal of the same, If necessary, I should be prepared to subscribe to any fund which may be opened ‘to carry this matter further.— C. T, Cramp, Industrial General Sec- retary, National Union of Railway- men, London, N.W.1.” Do Some Militant Decorating at the | T.U.E.L. Picnic, May 30 If you miss that T. U. E. L, pienic on Decoration Day, Saturday, May 30, | you are jist naturally throwing away | big time. If you must decorate something on this day, come out with | the rest of the folks aand help deco- rate Aldenheim Grove. Get a ticket from any live wire and come early, Ball game, bowling, swings for the youngsters, merry-go-round, singing societies and races galore. Yes, and dancing to the music of Mitchell's or- chestra, If, after the day is over and you are ready to go home, you think you haven't had the biggest 50¢ worth of union methods, Pollitt and myselt| your life, just tell the committee and are in it but I) see what happens to you. v7 Vd * k Vitis aosact Ce a Ps Our Readers’ Views Worker Loses Hand. Editor the DAILY WORKER:—In view of the fact that despite the let- ters received from Soviet land by the DAILY WORKER, the yellow social- ists still claim that the American worker is better off than the Russian worker, therefore, I have decided to send your column the facts of an in- cident in the shipping room where I work in New York City, the financial metropolis of the capitalist world. One of the recently invented chines which altho it Nghteng the bor of the toiler nevertheless tke the anti-social use to which it is put, in the end hurts the workers, is the stripping and nailing machine which nails and strips cases automatically. White working at this machine my mate threw on the power whereupon the trigger which drives the nails began to shoot out nails, I immediately jumped but both of my thumbs hurt anad barely escaped losing them entirely. Tat The other worker obeying the slay- ish ideology inculeated into him by the schools of the masters to stop the machine and as a result of his attempt to save his master's property, lost his right hand and the ring finger of his left hand. He is twenty-six years of age aand has only been married for seven months, All he received from his grateful mas- ter was the regular workmen's com- Pensation of four hundred dollars, . Brothers, compare thig with the status of the Russian workers and ask yourselves if it is worthwhile to keep on selling our birthright, the earth, for a mess of, pottage, # fair day’s pay, of Rahs Praternally yours, lerael |. Huewits, New sh je 4