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Page Six SSRN THE DAILY WORKER 8 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4712; SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mali (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, IlInols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUNNE i MORITZ J. LOEB... ——$—$<— Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-offite at Chi- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879, Advertising rates on application. a A Priestly Strike When over three million of British workers downed tools in aid of the miners, Cardinal Bourne, agent of the vatican in England, denounced their action as immoral and called on them in the name of his god and under threat of eternal damnation to return to work. They were in rebellion against their king, he said. This was in Britain where the catholic church is a pillar of the capitalist political machine tho it is not the state religion. Now the sandal is on the other foot. On orders from Rome, sometimes called the Black International, an episcopal letter has gone forth to every catholic church in Mexico announcing that on July 31 when the new anti-superstition laws go into effect, the priests will be withdrawn from the churches and no masses will be celebrated. We doubt very much if such a strike will seriously affect either the economic or intellectual life of Mexico. If all the priests on earth suddenly halted their mummeries it would not stop a blade of grass from growing. Not only does the pope withdraw his priests from the altars, | Editors’ ... Business Manager <p> 230 | necessary to point out that there are Stalin Reviews the British G This is the third and last of a serics of three articles on the British General Strike by the sec- retary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. THE LESSONS OF THE GENERAL STRIKE, 1 » The crisis in the coal industry in * England and the general strike in connection with it sharply raise the question of the socialization of the instruments and means of production in the sphere of the coal industry, with the establishment of workers’ control. That is a question of the conquest of socialism. It is hardly and there can be no other ways of a fundamental solution of the crisis in the coal industry except that pro- posed by the British Communist y. The trisis in the coal indus- nd the general strike bring the British ‘working class very close to the question of the practical realiza- tion of socialism, The British working class was * compelled to discover by personal experience that the basic obstacle on the way to its aim is the political power of the capitalists, in this case, the conservative party and its govern- ment. If the general council of trade unions feared like the plague to recognize the indissoluble bond of the economic struggle with the polit- ical struggle, then the British workers cannot help but understand now that the question of power in their difficult struggle with organized capital is and that | the British working %class, and that but he announces that all government officials guilty of formulating| now the basic question, the anti-catholic decrees are liable to excommunication. This means} that they are declared outlaws by the church. What would have happened to Calles aud his supporters had they bearded the pope several centuries ago is not pleasant to contemplate. But the day of the inquisition are past. The worst that can happen to them} now is to incur the wrath of the Wall Street bankers, run into aj} counter-revolution fomented by the pope or to see the republic in-| vaded by the American imperialists, with the blessing of the cath-| olic hierarchy in America and the vatican. And this is the punishment the catholic church has in’ mind| for the government of the Mexican republic. The pope has never | relinquished the idea of regaining the temporal power lost to the} vatican when Luther nailed up his famous theses on the door of a, humble church. . Rome lost out to protestantism, the favorite religion of the} capitalists. But protestantism is now losing out to Rome. This is| the era of centralization, and protestantism is too decentralized to} cope with the disciplined machine of the man who pretends to be custodian of St. Peter’s keys. Rome is trying to crack Mexico. When it gets a thoro licking, it will compromise with tongue in cheek. But it would rather have the task of being spiritual stevedore for Wall Street than be toler afed by the radical petty bourgeois Mexicans who control the govern ment of that.country. Is the Press Subsidized? + The Chicago Tribune of July 28, asks this question ard our reply is a loud “yes.” The Trib, needless to say, did not have The DAILY WORKER in mind, but we could not live without a subsidy any more than could the Trib. We are subsidized by the dimes and nickels of the workingclass. Sometimes they only give us pennies. The Tribune is subsidized by the millions of dollars spent yearly by manufacturing, commercial and transportation interests. The same is true of all other capitalist papers. Whenever those interests have a struggle with their employes, sheets that live on revenue from their advertisements naturally without solving the question of power it is impossible to solve either the isis in the coal industry or the general crisis in the whole industry of England. The course and outcome of the * general strike cannot help but convince the working class of Britain that parliament, the constitution, the king and the rest of the attributes of bourgeois power are no other than a shield of the capitalist class, directed against the proletariat. The strike re- moved the protecting fetishes and the inviolable sanctity from parliament and from the constitution. The work- ers will understand that the bresen | constitution is a weapon for the bour- geoisie, directed against the workers. The workers cannot help but under- stand that they also need their own workers’ constitution. as a weapon against the bourgeoisie., I believe that the mastering of that fact is the great- est achievement of the British work- ing class. The course and-outcome of the * strike cannot help but convince the working masses of Britain of the worthlessness of the old leaders, grown up in the old school of the British policy of compromise. They cannot help but understand that the old leaders must be ¢hanged by new revolutionary leaders, The British workers cannot help * but understand,now that the Brit- ish miners are the advance troops of support of the miners’ strike and securing of its victogy: is, therefore, the cause of the whole working class of England. The whole course of the strike dictates to the British working class the absolute immutability of that lesson, The British workers cannot help * but convince themselves in the difficult moment of the general strike, when the platforms and programs of the various parties are tested in ac- tion, that the only party capable of maintaining the interests of the work- ing class courageously ‘and deter- minedly to the end, is the Gommun- ist Party. Such, in general, are the principal lessons of the general strike in Eng- land, A Few Inferences. OW I will make a few inferences of practical significance. ; The first question is that of the stabilization of capital. The strike in England showed that the decisions of the Communist International on the temporary and unsteady character of the stabilization are absolutely cor- rect, The attack of British capital on the British miners is an attempt to transform the temporary, unsteady stabilization into a steady and per- manent stabilization. This attempt was not crowned and coyld not be crowned with success, The British workers, replying to that attempt with a tremendous strike, showed the whole capitalist world that it is im- possible to reestablish a durable stab- ilization of capitalism under post-war conditions, that the experiments of the British kind are pregnant with the danger of destroying the basis of capitalism, But if the assumption with regard to the durability of the stabilization of capitalism is incorrect, then the opposite, that the stabiliza- tion is at an end, that it is liquidated, and that we have now entered upon a period of the highest wave of revolu- tionary storm, is just as incorrect. The stabilization of capital is con- tinuing; it is temporary, unsteady, but nevertheless it is stabilization. 'URTHERMORE, for the very reason that the present tempor- ary and unsteady stabilization Still eneral Strike| world, how risky for the life and ex- istence of capital an experiment of that kind is which the conservative party undertook in England, That the experiment will not pass without in- jury to the conservative party, there is hardly any reason to doubt. It is equally impossible to doubt that this lesson will be learned by the capital- ists of the whole world, Nevertheless, capital will still endeavour to make fresh attacks on the working cass, for it feels insecure and it cannot fail to feel the need of steadying itself. The task of the working class and of | the Communist Parties consists in preparing their forces for warding off such attacks on the working class. The task of the Communist Party consists in continuing in future the | organization of the united front of the | workers, to apply all energy toward | transforming the attack of the capital- | ists into a counterattack of the work- ing class, into a revolutionary offens™ ive of the working class, into a strug- gle of the working class to set up the dictatorship of the proletariat and to | do away with capitalism. ¢ | INALLY, in order to fulfill these | tasks, the working class of Eng. land must, above all, free itself from its present leaders. One cannot wage | war on the capitalists with such lead- | ers as Thomas and MacDonald. On cannot hope for victory with .such | traitors as Henderson and Clines at one’s back, The working class of Eng- land must learn to throw such leaders out for theré is a choice of but one of two things—either the working class of England must learn to throw out the Thomases and MacDonalds, or it will not see its victory any more SATURDAY | JULY 31 . Segregation A flaming protest on the injustices perpetrated on the Negro worker, by C. O'BRIEN ROBINSON. With unusual illustrations by the noted proletarian artist LYDIA GIBSON, What Has Become of . the Former Ruling Class of Russia? A splendid article by the German scientist RICHARD LEWINSOHN. Translated for The Daily Worker by the well-known English writers EDEN and CEDAR PAUL, Life and Struggles in Ireland A record of the life of the. Irish worker «today brilliantly -pietured., by T. H. O'FLAHERTY, Other features, including CARTOONS by Av JERGER, VOSE, ELLIS, MINOR and others. You Will. Find These: Splendid Features in Saturday's Issue of The New Magazine Supplement That worker next door to you may not have anything to do to- continues, capital will continue to en- | than it can see its own ears, deavour to attack the working class. Of course the lesson of the British strike must show the whole capitalist Such, comrades, are a few infer- ences which are obvious in them- selves. | LETTERS FROM OUR READERS Dear Comrade: The DAILY! WORKER, as well as all the members of our party, makes always its job to} explain to the workers the need of! class solidarity. I think that there | are still in our party members that need a little explanation as to the: real conception of solidarity of the work- ers. | The strike of the I. R. T. workers of New York is still going. on and, on the other hand, the trains are start- ing to work almost normally, This is not due only to the number of scabs employed by the I. R. T., but also to ‘he assistance that the public indi-| -egtly is giving the company by riding un their cars. Need Instructions. i A great number of workers and also | members of our party are boycotting the I. R. T. lines since th beginning of the strike. This should be what every worker Ought to do. However, there are ‘still members of our} party that think that riding on the! elevated trains of the I. R. T. is not} \going against the strikers, because, they say, the strike is in effect only in | the subway. | I think The DAILY WORKER| should write an editorial calling the | party qembers and all the workers | of New York in general to abstain | themselves from riding on the “L.”| They should be made to see that in| riding on the elevated they are help- their side against the workers. When an accident occurs in the large Chicago department stores, the dailies hardly ever mention it in their columns. It might hurt business. The Tribune suggests that the senate committee investigating primary campaign expenditures in Illinois, should probe into charges that newspapers are subsidized by one or the other side of the pro- hibition issue. Some evil spirits circulated the rumor that the Trib was taking money from the wine growers of France in return for singing the praises of light wine and beer. The Trib thinks it is only fair to the press that those charges should’ be included within the scope of the slush qniz. It is willing to submit to the senate committee’s dissecting knife in the interests of political hygiene. All of which is the bunk. What the Tribune wants is publicity and increased circulation. It does not have to accept bribes from the drys and the bootleggers on one side or from the wets on the other. It gets its subsidy from its advertisers. The advertisers pay rates in proportion to the cir- culation of the advertising medium. Therefore a paper, that lives on such revenue will use any means to jack up its circulation. The Tribune flays prohibition because it caters to a territory that is more wet than dry; it used columns of space telling about the Eucharistic congress because the catholic church is a powerful po- litical organization and also well represented in business life. This policy brings both circulation and advertising revenue. One subsidy is as good as another. Money is money. They par Hasina a Wonderful Time Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, and Theodore Rousseau of the Guaranty Trust company are vacationing in the pleasant land of Brittany, France. They have not a-care in the world, Mellon did not make the ocean trip in the interests of business, we are informed, That Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and J, P. Morgan happened to be in Europe at the same | time is only a coincidence! With the bankers, business is pleasure. Commuting between the United States and Europe on palatial liners is not exactly disagree- able work. 3 The surprising thing is that the capitalists do not become demoralized thru Juxurious living, tho the workers are constantly told that it is better for them to live frugally, and guard against enervating poison of idleness, . Mellon’s business in France is to help putyanother ball and) vhain ou the feet of the french workers and. peasants. This is the kind of work that gives Wall Street's secretary of the treasury , Plgusure. He is having a wouderful time. ‘ 4 acc ing the company, also the “Brother- |hood,” which is fighting the strikers. | A Plain Case. | They should be told that it is no more a question of boycotting the sub- ;ways because we want to help espe | cially the workers that struck for a raise of wages, but that the strike aims at organizing all the I. R. T. | workers in a real union and that all j|those that oppose this move are |strikebreakers and should not be helped. Deeds, Not Words. In short, I would ask the editor of The DAILY WORKER to write an edi- torial bringing out all these points and calling particularly to the mem- bers of our party not to ride on any cars belonging to the I, R. T., whether they run on the subway or elevated lines, and thus show our solidarity with the strikers in fact and not in words, as people are starting to ac- cuse us of doing. With Communistic greetings, David Amariglio, Member of F. D. 2, Sec. 1C, W. P. A. Textile Workers to Have Prisoners for Their Competitors WASHINGTON, July 27—(FP) — Attorney General Sargent announces that the textile mill in the federal prison at Atlanta has been authorized to buy 600,000 pounds of white yarn at the prevailing low prices, to make departments during the next fiscal year. An order of 120,000 yards of khaki canvass has been delivered to the marine corps depot at Philadel- phia, and has been accepted as being of good quality, Four German Pioneers to Visit Soviet Union MOSCOW, Jnly 27.—Responding to an invitation extended by the Moscow bureau of Young) Pioneers, a delega- on of four Plotters, children of Ge: man workers, is being sent on a visit lo.the Soylet. on by the German Union of Young Spartacans, ’ ization of Big Capital. miles of track. is ¥. 7 fl semen we al VE the railroads which will combine a Found sun NI fa night. Hand-him this copy of the DAILY WORKER. L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hudson Rallroad, show below, is one of the moving spirits in the huge proposed merger of three southwest rallroads comprising 6,600 The interstate commerce commission has been asked to o. k. the merger of of approximately $600,000,000, The three roads are the Kansas City Southern, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road and. the St. Louis South- western. Map at left shows the St. Louis and Southwestern. “Map at right shows the other two, the roads running somewhat parallel, the “M. K. & T. on the west and the Kansas City Southern on the east, The M. K. & T. runs from St. Louis to Galvesténvand extends west to Wichita, Kansas, and Amarillo, Tex. The Kansas City Southern runs from Kansas City to Port Arthur. This is but one of a series of huge railroad mergers belng maneuvered by finance capital in Wall Street and the natural outcome of which is the domination of the entire system P Bi RMSE by one banking group. The railroad bosses are giving the workers a lesson in amalgamation. LF Lovee 5 "i —_———$ low worker sisters and brothers? erican workers realize that they aro How long will the American work: | simply being used as tools by theie ex- ers not recognize the fact that what) ploiters in every instance? concerns one individual or organiza-| How long will it be before the Am- tion of their class concerns every in: | erican’iworkers realize that’ they can dividual member of the working class | get along without their exploiters? of America, aye the world? » How long will it be before the Am- How long will the American work-|erican workers. will resolutely or- How Long, American Workers, Oh! How Long? Tey By J. B. W—LA. How long, oh! how, long yet will the American workers tolerate the injus- fighters, their best blood, by the boss controlled courts, ete.? How long will the workers allow canvass for the post office and navy | rs allow the police to club and slug tices practiced against them? How long will the American work- workers, even children and women, when they make efforts to better their living conditions? How long will the American work- ers, Who produce the wealth in this magnificently wealthy country, pray and beg for a better living? ~ How long will the American work- ers allow their fellow workers, bro- thers and sisters, to be jailed for go- ing on strike in an effort to get a lit: tle more of the wealth they produce? How long will the,American work- ers tolerate a government that takes sides with their ex, ers, the bosses, the monied oligare! How long will t merican work: ors stand for jdiling and “legally” mur: Saceo and Vanzetti, Mooney and Bill- known fighters for the most humanly sons and meet death in the electric ings and over a hundred other rights of the workers to linger in pri- ers allow their meetings to be hinder- ed, stopped and participants in them be jailed by the boss-controlled gov- ernment? How long will it be before the Am- ganize to take charge of the affairs of the country, 1. e. their own affairs (the country belongs to the workers) ? erican workers transform the old How long will it be before the Am- ee en ears erican workers as a whole realize the fact that there exists a working and’ an exploiting class in America? How long will the American work- ers allow themselves to be used to fight their bosses’ wars, to shed thelr blood for their exploiters, to suffer un- told misery from them? How long will it be before the Am- erican workers realize that wars are created by their exploiters because of in the capitalist to be more specific: because of the financial onslaughts' by one clique of capitalist exploiters of workers agat another clique of cap- italist exploiters of wor! ing, “from the sweat of thy brow, etc. to “It ye shall not work, neither shail chairs, the hangman's nooses or from the prison diseases or become crippled for life? How long will the Amerlean work- ers allow the exploiters to revel in luxury while the workers themselves toil day after day in order to make a living? How long will the American work- ers allow themselves to be cajoicd and beguiled to believe that the workers have the same privileges as thelr em- ployers, their exploitetery,, How long will the A ers let themselves be d that they have nothing in common with the workers of other 2 How long will it be before the Am- erican workers realize that they have but one enemy: their exploiters home and abroad? Above are some of the questions I wish to ask my fellow workers of America at the present time, In ‘the future, jf space be allowed in tho columns of this paper and the capita). iwt “gods” that be allow me I will bene Wasa matters, euch as “Our al ”" “Are 4 rights,” “Are we work ers free "Who. _ work ‘people’ am iis >

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