The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 12, 1926, Page 6

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Quiet Comes to the Riga-Reval-Warsaw- Bucharest Front After a week of intensive anti-Soviet propaganda, during which a new record for lying on an international scale has been set, the capitalist newspapers, on their inside pages, are beginning to retract in short paragraphs the categorical statements they made in seven- column lines and first page stories. The counter-revolution in the Soviet Union is off. It never be- gan, except in the pages of the capitalist press, but when, the wish is father to the thought, and wherf the thought is a wish for the de- struction of the Soviet government, news writers are given a lat- itude which, if taken in other circumstances, would send them look- ing for a new job. So we find the following in the Chicago Tribune under a Warsaw date line of August 9: Professor Charles Marion of the political science depart- ment of the University of Chicago arrived here from Moscow tonight and declared that all the rumors of riots in Moscow were untrue. He said that when he left Moscow last night the town was perfectly quiet. Professor Marion was in Russia to study civie life, together with Prof. Harper. His report was corroborated by Robert P- Lewis, of New York and Honolulu. ‘ ® Then there is a further six-line story under a London date line which, in speaking of the Russian situation; says: There is no evidence of revolutionary outbreaks, according to information received by the British foreign office this after- noon. Comes a Riga dispatch, dated August 9, signed by Donald Day, cne of the most versatile liars possessing a Corona. Markedly mild in contrast to the scare stories he was sending out while the propa- ganda was at its height are the two following sentences: Rival groups of Communists are striving for control of the Soviet government. This does not mean the open revolt, which has been rumored, but now is denied. This is evidence enough that the Riga dispatches were made up cut of whole cloth, the Tribune correspondent being too modest to state that he was responsible for fifty per cent of them. The same can be said for the veracity of the dispatches from Reval, Warsaw and Bucharest. * é The offensive against the Soviet Union is not over yet. But one of the lessons we learn from it in its present stage,is that what- ever occurrence in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union can, be interpreted by the watchful advisers of world capitalism as a sign ‘cf weakness becomes the signal for a new attack on the workers’ and peasants’ government: ‘ * These attacks are the best proof of the falseness of the con tention of the world capitalist press that the Soviet Union is return- ing to capitalism ipstead of building a socialist economy.. -If. the former were true the ruling class would not waste so much energy attackiz overnment which was driving the workers and peas- f a back into the family of capitalist nations, “Solid Citizenship” The Chicago Tribune in an editorial in its issue for August 10, furnishes us with a new definition of the phrase “solid citizenship.” In lowa, for instance, according to the Tribune dictionary, the “solid citizenship” is composed of those who voted against Brook- hart. As for the majority of the Iowa citizenship which voted in the Republican Primaries for Brookhart, the Tribune dismisses them with two sentences: Brookhart does not represent the solid citizenship .... of lowa and his success thru temporary discontent has no proper relation to the real intelligence and prosperity of the Common- wealth. He represents radical labor from outside of his state, and the radicalism of the unsuccessful farmer. ‘ The radical labor from outside of the state to which the Trib- une refers, consists of the American Federation of Labor, and the Railway Brotherhoods, They are just as radical as a small town banker. 5 The “unsuccessful” farmer element which supported Brookhart, are farmers who have failed in trying to make a decent living by selling farm produce, which tariff laws do not and cannot protect, in a market where all the commodities they. buy are sold at mono- poly prices which tariff laws help to fix. That section of the Iowa ‘farmers which has discovered. the futility of such a struggle and in addition has had sense enough to draw some partially correct conclusions from the refusal of the Coolidge administration to pass the MeNary-Haugen Bill, is the section which the Tribune is denouncing. The Tribune, therefore, is waging war on the most intelli- gent section of the Iowa farmers. We hold no brief: for Brookhart. Ilis recent compromise with the republican party machine in Iowa which brings his followers again under the domination of the elements they are fighting shows the impossibility of establishing political independence for farmers by such men and methods. But the Tribune's attack shows that even this side-tracking of revolts of poverty-stricken farmers causes such sheets a great deal of worry by giving proof that farmers are beginning to do a ilttle thinking. For such contingencies the Tribune, as the mouthpiece of big industrial capitalism of the Middle West, has a candidate in readi- ness. He is none other than Frank O. Lowden, the millionaire gen- ileman farmer prospect for president. If the farmers are going to do any thinking, the Tribune prefers to have them think of such spokesmen as Lowden. Even the amiable Brookhart is too much to the left. Regular republicans are preferable, because there is’ always the danger that, in spite of continual betrayals, the working farmers being in the majority, will think out the strategy of their struggle to its logical conclusion—independent political action in alliance with n Labor Party (The following is a brief account of the activities of one trade unionist in Britain durifg the great general strike. Thousands of such stories could be told. While the official lead- ership was lethargic, if not worse, the crisis drew from the rank and file the type that is capable of taking the initiative in a crisis and scrap con- ventional formalities in obedience to the law of necessity. It is types such as the writer of this article (a letter to an American friend) that will sup- ply the British working class with leadership in the near future.—Ed.) | About the national position, you will jread in the papers of what led up to the strike. So far as the calling off is concerned, I think A, J. Cook's ac- count is correct. : First, 1 must say that I have not given up in. despair, for as one who was working inside the local Council of Action I could see a break, or should I say surrender taking place, not locally, but nation- ally, At the same time I hoped for the best. The response of the men was wonderful, despite the way it was conducted, or should I say miscon- ducted, by the Trades Union Council. It appeared to me as tho the Trades Union Council was forced into the po- sition by the various executive com- mittees in the conference held on the Saturday before the strike was de- clared, all unions placing power in the hands of the Trades Union Council's general council, Well, we find the general council in a position of hav- ing to make a stand, and of course, knowing the makeup of the majority of the general council, they wanted to finish it as soon as possible, not by fighting but by belly-crawling. From the first day of receiving power they became afraid of it. They go out of their way to point out that the strike is an industrial dispute. Then, again, instead of them making up for lost time and trying to build up that machinery which is' necessary to eope with the strike, they lay still, for not even the first essential thing for conducting a strike—communica- tion—had been established. Instead of putting into operation’the maxim of war, “hit hard and hit fast,” they started calling out one industry and then another, with the result that the men would not wait for the executive committees or Trades Union Council, but called shop meetings and went out, the order calling them out coming along after, If the maxim of hit hard and hit ‘drst had been applied the first day the government would have found some way out, or would have been kicked out. The active ones in the workshops, rails, etc., had been call- ing for action previous to the strike. Iwas working inside, and while IL accuse the leaders of cowardice, I must say that I feared what would happen with the situation as it was, no attempt being made to meet it, some of the leaders belly-crawling to the government. In*the face of this leadership, I could see a blood bath of the workers, with’ no chance of us hitting back. I feared it all, for when | enter a fight in the fing (this com- rade is an amateur boxer), I have never retreated from the moment I have started, for I know that spells “finished.” No doubt we will be fur- nished with all sorts of excuses, but for me there is one, and one only, and that is leadership. Now for the loca? position. ‘Tues day found all transport at a stand- still, docks, road and, rail, not a wheel LINE. Echo (note, local papers): offices to see the newshoys. It was now diner time. The fact that it was.a morning paper, also the Herald, they also looking forward to some sort of an evening paper, the boys would have none. I knew that not only our own men were thirsting for news, but that the “general public” of Lord street, etc,, also wanted some. I got six chaps busy on Lord street, who sold them as quick as they could give then} out. This proved too much for the boys, who soon got on the job, with the result that not one copy re- mained of the 8,000,: The following day, \after-a deal of lobbying, members of ‘the Council of Action decided upon a typed news bulletin. I pressed for.a printed one, but they would not. Jisten} The get- ting out and delivery of the bulletin was in my charge, the Council of Ac- tion, appointing me on the job, they supplying a draft copy each day. What a task!—what a job! Type- writers, duplicators, etc., were in va- rious trades union offices thruout the city, After the first issue I had them moving. Not a newspaper of any sort after Monday midnight. Reports coming in of sections not yet called brought into one building, the Trades Council offices. How we managed the first issue? upon having downed tools on their Well, it would take pages to tell. The own, like my own shop walking out to a man, foremen, etc., not waiting for the call. To give you some idea of the position on the Merseyside, I wili second issue found us going hell for leather, for we had to supply all or- ganizations. This we did, I building up a machine for distribution which give you my own activities during | Worked splendidly after the first day. that period which is a true statement of facts, After supplying the needs of the trades unions, the idea struck me of Tuesday morning saw the last of | getting them on the streets, and my the dope, for all workers engaged on | experience with the Sunday Worker the press ceased work Monday mid- night. Herald being left at the wholesaler’s, came in useful, for I had the boys on This resulted in the Daily |the streets selling them. Within a quarter of an hour I had taken in it having arrived too late for delivery | £11 (selling them at 6 pence for 12). with local papers, also the Trades | Of course I had done this without ask- Union Council had closed down the | ing the Council of Action, for I then Herald as well, after Monday mid- night. policy? Because you close the bosses mouthpiece you also close your own! Well, I made inquiries on my own, then proceeded to the Council of Ac- received a phone call telling me to Did you ever hear of such a|stop selling the bulletins, But on the Council of Action read- ing my report the following morning they endorsed my action. Tuis I found the best way with this body, “to do a tion to explain the position. “Finding | thing first and ask them after.” I them busy, I borrdwed money from | was not satisfied with the output, so some people, and away I go and bought the whole of the Daily Her- I arranged for relays of workers for the machines, with the result that to- alds, which would ‘have laid there | wards the end of the strike we turned till the end of “the strike. then was to get them on the streets, My task | out 60,000 a day for the trades unions besides supplying newsboys in town. so I went over to the Express and|{1I had also been busy on the phone Philosophy, strictly so called, paid little or no attention to this dilemma Absorbed almost exclusively in meta- physical and dialectical speculations, it looked with supreme contempt or indifference on the enormous progress that the empirical sciences were mak- ing. It affected, in its character of “purely mental science,” to build up the world out of its own head, and to have no need of the splendid material that was being laboriously gathered by observation and experiment. This is especially true of Germany, where Hegel’s system of “absolute idealism” had secured the highest regard, par- ticularly since it had been made oblig- atory as “the royal state-philosophy of Prussia"—mainly because, according to Hegel, “in the state the divine will itself and the monarchical constitution alone represent the development of reason.” Hegel's abtruse’ metaphys- ics has also been greatly appreciated because it has made so thoro and con- sistent a use of the idea of evolution. But this pretended ‘evolution of rea- son” floated far above real nature in the pure ether of the absolute spirit, and was devoid of all the material bal- last that the empirical science of the evolution of the world, the earth, and its living population, had meantime accumulated, Moreover, it is well known how Hegel himself declared, with humorous resignation, that only one of his many pupils had understood him, and this one had misunderstood him, From the higher standpoint of gen- eral culture the difficult question forces itself on us: What is the real value of the idea of evolution in. the whole realm of science? We are bound to answer that it varies considerably. The facts of the evolution of the. indi- vidual, or of ontogeny, were easy to observe and grasp: the evolution of the crust of the earth and of the mountains in geology seemed to have an equally sound empirical founda- tion; the psyyical evolution of the unt verse seemed to be established by mathematical speculation. There was no longer any serious question of creation, in the literal sense, of the deliberate action of a personal crea- tor, in these great provinces. But this made people cling to the idea more than ever in regard to the ori- gin of the countless species of animals and plants, and especially the crea- tion of man, This transcendental problem seemed to be entirely beyond the range of natural development; and the same was thought of the question of the nature and origin of the sow, the mystic entity that was appro- ariated by metaphysical speculation as ts subject. Charles Darwin suddenly srought a clear light into this dark chaos of contradictory notions in 1859, His epoch-making work, “The Origin of Species,” proved convincingly that this historical process is not a super. 4 ph ~ a =i § LAST WORDS ON EVOLUTION By ERNEST HAECKEL eh (Continued from previous issue.) cis | ER A Story of the British General Strike BY A MILITANT ON THE FIRING: with people in tho newspaper trade who I met on the Sunday Worker and was supplying them with 200, 300 and 400 dozen to cover the outside dis- tricts. What a job! I was getting what sleep I could on the floor in the Trade Council offices, having my food while doing some sort of work, I do wish you could have seen me with my coat off, and as I have been told since the. strike, very insulting to some people. Inside the main office I fixed up a huge notice: “There’s a war on. If you are not in it, clear out.” This was for those people who can talk about doing things, or who tell you what to do, or, on the other hand, want to sing praises to you on your work, Well, by selling Bulletins we cleared the cost of all paper that was used for the 60,000 that went free to the trade unions, also handed over a handsome balance of £30. Never saw home from the beginning till the end, and I was not. the only one, for other fellows, seeing the lack of ma chinery, fitted themselves into the va- rious jobs, such as despatch riders. etc. Fellows arrived at the Council of Action offices at all hours of the; morning, in some cases wet to the skin, one of us getting “out of bed” to make the “blighter” a cup of hot tea, which no doubt proved very ac- ceptable after being on a motor bike from London or Manchester. We are now holding the post mortem on the strike, controversy goes-on briskly, and the climax will be reached at the conference of trades unions execu- tive committees when the general council will have to give an account of its actions, I have been busy night and day~in all sorts of ways. I have fought two fights in the midst of the aftermath of the strike. They were staged for the miners’ relief fund, and I entered the ring on the two occa- sions without any training, so you will have some idea how I feel; in fact, J have been told by my doctor that I will have to take a rest. What, with my unfon, district committee trades council, literature secretary for same, which has resulted in us setting up a depot fromthe trades council offices for supplying of literature to all af- filiated* organizations; now another job on the committee for relief for the mines, then to suggest a rest, whett'the’ sees the great stand by these: mén. t | Farmers and Farm egislators By J. E. SNYDER. i hag co-operative marketing associa- tion, under various names, such as natural mystery, but a physiological | Farmers’ Unions, Missouri Farm As- phenommenon; and that the preserva- sociations, Farm Bureaus, etc., have tion of improved races in the struggle | been gradually gathering strength un- for lite had produced; bya natural | tii now they are powerful enough to evolution, the whole wondrous world | cause quite a disturbance in the gov- K of organic life. ernment circles as each succeeding Today, when evolution is almost uni- | election approaches. versally recognized in biology, when thousands of anatomic and physiolo- gical works are based on it every year, .|the new generation can hardly form Each of these organizations is seek- ing to regulate the flow of products on the market, Heretofore they have been an idea of the violent resistance that tempting to do it separately, but in was offered to Darwin’s theory and the |'e Past two years @ number of at- impassioned struggles it provoked. In tempts have been made to form fed the first place, the chtirches at once | ©T@tions of the various groups. Each raised a vigorous protest; they rightly |8TOuP has national Zonist as the each state organization is nearly inde- regarded their new a! connections but deadly enemy of thé legend of crea- | Pendent of the others, “fhe corn belt tion, and saw the very foundations of | #880ciation, the cotton belt, wheat and their creed threatened, The churches |!ive stock belts, criss-crossing each found a powerful ally in the dualistic | other. metaphysics that still claims to repre- The Farm Bureau is furnishing sent the real “idealist philosophy” at | “Farm Directors” paid for by the gov- most universities. But most danger-|ernment, who work with the exten- ous of all to the young theory was|sion workers and teachers from the the violent resistance it met almost | agriculture colleges. everywhere in its own province of em- The farm bu- reau is considered by the other farm pirical science. The prevailing belief | organizations as a subsidized govern- in the fixity and the independent crea- ment farm agency. They have all unit- tion of the various species was much | ed recently as the “Corn Belt Associa- more seriously menaced by Darwin's theory than it had been by Lamarck’s transformation. Lamaiex had said substantially the same thing fifty ‘ate. domi years before, but had failed to con- vince thru the lack of effective evi- dence. Many scientists, some of great distinction, opposed Darwin because either they had not an adequate ac- tion,” The farmers’ unions are run by the members in theory, but in reality they inated by the managers and officials of the various enterprises ‘owned” and “controlled” by the un- ion. The Kansas Farmers’ Unions, for instance, has a bank, a creamery, a quaintance with the whole field of Droduice association, an, Sssunanch call biology, or it seemed to them that his ho gmmen an suditing’ department, - bold. apseaiaaien. aaannaed F600, MY |e tive tren ak aetna. matiier from the seaiire Aine FEeU Sere: of grain elevators organized into a When Darwin's ‘work appeared in | grain exchange at Kansas City, Mo. 1859, and féll like a flash of lightning | The officials of these institutions dom- on the dark world of official biology, | inate the conventions and steer things I was engaged in a’ scientific-expedi |about as much as any big business tion to Sicily and ‘taken up with a |concern is steered.,.The membership thoro study of the''gracefal radiola |send many “dirt farmers” as delegates rians, those wonderful microscopic ma | who would have the power to domi- rine animals that surpass all other |nate if they were trained up to that organisms in the beauty and variety | point, ‘ he v of their forms, The special study of this remarkable class of animals, of |, The task of holding -thatr products, "7 4 and regulating the flowon the mar- which I afterwards’ described more than 4,000 species, after more than ten | “¢ has been handicapped by lack of ‘4 funds, Altho the farmers deposit mil- years of research, provided me with one of the solid foundation-stones of of dollars in the banks each year they have not done their depositing my Darwinian ide But when I re- in their own bank, in Kansas City, turned from M: o Berlin in the spring of 1860, I knew nothing as yet | Kansas, nor in North Dakota, where the of Darwin's achievements, I merely | 240k 1s actually “owned” by the state, heard from my friends at Berlin that | Of course, there is a reason and that a remarkable work by a crazy English. |!8» that the local private bank stock man had attracted great attention, and | #0lders are, in many ci a majority that it turned upside down all pre- |! farmers, and besides that the farm- vious ideas as to the origin of species, |° often needs money quickly and he (To be woakinied,) cannot get to Kansas City, Kansas, or ” Bismarck, North Dakota, to do his banking business, branch banks is now under discu Send a sub now and get the spe-| sion, * cial rate of five dollars for a year’s| ‘The associations Made, tibtétore, ap- subscription and the pleasure of| pealed to congress for a fund to be help Our Deltng set aside as a bids sn a G ee CMs The question of | operatives, when they need it to regu- lete the sales of their yearly products. That. is the reason for the Haugen, the ‘Tincher and Aswell bills now be- fore congress which is causing the western; politicians to sit up nights wondering which way to jump. The Haugen bill, recently debated in the house, has been defeated before. The government is, of course, concern- ed enough about the farmer vote. It is therefore, likely that a compromise will be’made and the Tincher admin- istration’ bill will be merged with the Aswell‘bill. The Tincher bill backed by Jardine of the agriculture depart- ment and ‘the Aswell bill are both de- signed’ to''let the farm co-operatives have money to regulate their crops, the co-operatives to stand their own losses, if any, while the Haugen bill would throw the burden of loss on the government, to be recovered by a tax on products handled. The Haugen bill might be compared, and in fact | is compared, to the subsidy now in vogue in the coal industry of Eng- land. The farm heads, that I met last year, were more in favor of the loan proposition with the co-operative mar- keting association allowed to handle their own affairs. This hag been pro-| moted by Mr. Yodkum of Washington, D. C., former president of the Frisco railroad who“backs the Farm Maga zine issued at the capital and sold to the farmer association members at 25 cents a year.” He has fought gov- ernment domination of farm organiza- tions and hag made alliances, many think between the farmer officials and the railroad companies, of the west, that are dependent on the “prosperity” of the farmre for keeping up the high freight rates, The Farm Union editor in Kansas speaks of Mr. Yoakum as a high mind- ed sacrificing: rich man spending his private fortune-in behalf of the farm- ers, while the Nebraska Farm Union editor calls him»"Mr. Hoakum” and thinks he is a bunco man of big busi- ness leading the farmers’ organiza- tions into a trap,» They are likely both wrong. Mr. Ygakum is mérély a business man seeking business on a more orderly seale for his railroad and would give the farmer organizations a little more in order that his enterprise might be able to exploit them to a greater advantage, The fact seems to be that this be- ing an age of centralized and organ- ized industry the farmer is being fore: ed into collective activity in market- Ing his products. He organizes into co-operatives and is struggling to have them fiinction free from the domina- tion of the big bankers, That is why the farmer is much interested in the proposition of united political action with organized labor. Gsi a cub 256 thsi 1 SARS WITH THE ‘STAFF | | Being Things From Here and | There Which Have Inspired Us to Folly or Frenzy A Statesman Speaks. The president front of a Franklin stove poking) up the open fire in the Coolidge farmhouse when the message con- taining an outline of the Clemen- ceau letter was carried to him from Miss Cilley’s general store, to which it had been telephoned. No direct comment was forthcom- ing from the president. He gave no indication of his reaction for a considerable period. He would be seen occasionally thru a front window walking about the room where three years ago he was ad- ministered the oath as president. At last, following a particularly vigorous jabbing with the poker at the fire, the president straightened up, signs of cogitation began to appear between the presidential chin and forehead. Drawing up to his full height, he gave an ex- pressive gesture of blended dig- nity and disdain and exclaimed— “AMP !” eee Hopeful Mr. Garvin. a J. L. Garvin is an Englishman. A capitalist scribe writes of him as “one of the greatest editors and writers of the world.” This gen- ius far surpasses us poor boobs on The DAILY WORKER. So much so that we feel like quitting after reading the following link of Gar- vin sausage, wherein Mr. Garvin’s “brilliance” in attacking Marxism is only equalled by his ability to explain the perfectly lovely situa- tion England,is. in, not under Marxism, but capitalism. He says: Marxism “Marxism isthe Prussianism of economics and the mere goose-steps of the mind. It’is the fairy-tale corpse on the back of British labor; only by riddance of it can British labor sur vive.” . And Yet “Our unparalleled debt is $40,000, 000,009, our wealth declining, our tax- ation prodigious, our production costs high, our competitive was seated in. fa i j ] gr senna position diffi-)\ cult, our basic industries in distress, — our shipyards closing, our agriculture decaying.” 4 eres WE THOUGHT SO In his youth the Reverend Edward W. Hall, victim of the sensational New Brunswick murder, had worked on sheep ranches in Montana and Arizona; and newly discovered correspondence tends to show, it is said, that he intended to re- tire from the ministry and go into the sheep raising business in Mexico.—News item, ee OBJECTS TO BEING ABOLISHED, Dear Editor:—I note that your “With the Staff column has had no comment on Kansas City for the last few di Fo ,help you out of this difficulty you w find the following worth while, taken from the chamber of commerce book, “Kansas City.” LABOR SUPPLY. American Jabor predominates in Kansas City, only eight per cent of the total population being foreign-born. This accounts large- ly for the absence of labor con- troversies, from which the city has been exceptionally free thruout its history. The labor supply comes in large part from the surrounding farm communities, and has been found by local manufacturers and. to be exceptionally efficient. There are no radical or — American groups to be found if | Kansas City. ¢ -* “The Russian workers and red soldiers are revolting against the Noviets and killing Com- muniat leaders,.”—So all capitalist papers. | | |