The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 19, 1926, Page 6

a « a “ Saranee Page Six Toe Dp ACE Y OW OR KE THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill, Phone Monroe 4732 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By maii (in Chicago only): { By mall (outs'de of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per year $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 Blvd., Chicago, IIl!nols J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F,. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB Entered ag second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Cni- cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. eee 290 Advertising rates on application. Where the Melons Come From William Durant, dominant personality in the General Motors company, cleaned up $1,500,000 dollars recently, thru a rise in the stock market value of his company’s stock. Shortly afterwards the company cut a $600,000,000 melon and distributed it among its stock- 8 SHOPS LOGK OUT FURRIERS | Refuse to Recoguiss New | Agreement About 100 fur workers, members of Local No. 45 of the International | Fur Workers’ Union that several days | ago signed an agreement with the Fur Manufacturers’ association and that supposed to end a strike in the | Chicago fur’ market, ‘are still locked out. Eight fur shops refused to re- | cognize the agreement made by the association of which most of them are or have been members and refused to open their doors to ithe workers when they went back supposing they con- sidered the strike settled. Dissatisfied Members, The strike of the: more than six AFTER ACCORD (Continued ifrom previous issue.) Wasmann’s book has been well criti- cized by a number of competent stu- dents, especially by Escherich and | France. While fully recognizing his great services, they insist very strongly on the great mischief wrought by this smuggling of the Jesuitical spirit into biology. Escherich points out at length glaring inconsistencies and the obvious untruths of this ‘‘ec- clesiastical evolution.” He summar- izes his criticism in the words: “If the theory of evolution can really be rec- onciled with the dogmas of the church only in the way we find here, Was- mann has clearly. proved that any such reconciliation is impossible. Because what Wasmann, gives here as the theory of evolution is a thing muti- lated beyond recognition and incap- able of any vitality.” He tries, like a good Jesuit, to prove that it does not tend to undermine, but to give a hundred fur workers was called off at a meeting of the union several days ago. Many members of the union holders, most of whom, particularly the big ones, weave not and neither do they spin. Frank Brunton and Art Rohan of the Auto Aircraft and Vehicle Workers’ Union were arrested for addressing a meeting. of. em- ployes of the Fisher Body company in Detroit. The speakers urged the workers to join the union for their own protection. The Fisher Body company is owned by General Motors, which in turn is controlled by the House of Morgan. General Motors is able to give away a fabulous sum in dividends to parasitical stockholders because its thousands of slaves toil for a miserable pittance. In order to prevent the workers from organ- izing for the purpose of fighting for a betterment of their conditions the police arrest trade union organizers and place every possible e in the way of trade union organization. Thus the workers are given valuable object lessons. They should have little difficulty in guessing who owns the police when they see those uniformed bullies violate city ordinances in their anxiety to serve the employers. What is the lesson to be learned from all this? The workers must strengthen themselves by organizing their collective strength thru a union. In unity there is power. And they must organize politically in a labor party so that the powers of government may not be in the hands of their masters to be used against them whenever they seek a little more of the fruits of their toil or a betterment of their working conditions. There are lots of other things they must do before they free themselves from capitalist oppression and wage slavery, but those cbst are expressing dissatisfaction with the decision and claim that President Millstein, who presided at the meet- ing, Steam-rollered the vote to sign the agreement thru the meeting. $100,000 Find. President Schachtman of the Inter- national Union who is in the city assisting with the strike said yes- terday that he had knowledge that the department stores of Chicago, in- cluding Marshall Field Co., Carson, Pirie & Scott, and Mandel Bros, con- tributed a fund of $100,000 to help break the strike. It is supposed that those shops that have refused to en- ter into the agreement still have ac- cess to this fund. It is reported that the president of the association, Rob- ert Steders, also refuses to recognize the agreement with the union, By noon yesterday, the union had come to.no decision what action would be taken to protect the inter- ests of the locked-out men, Gleitze Postpones two propositions are basic. An Encouraging Sign News of the organization of a Farmer-Labor Party in the state of Oklahoma cannot fail to hearten the workers and poor farmers who have persisted in the struggle to rally the producers together under the banner of a class political Seeks despite repeated failures. Oklahoma was once, and not so very long ago, one of the ban in the American working class political movement. But | rious the workers and farmers once found political expression. Not the jieast of the causes was the treachery of the socialist party leaders. The Oklahoma Leader, founded with the money of the workers, and now edited by a socialist went over lock, stock and barrel to the capitalist parties. This was a severe blow to the farmer-labor move- ment. v But the workingelass movement of Oklahoma like the working- class movement the world over does not stay down. It keeps on trying because it must. The launching of a Farmer-Labor Party in that hotbed of ku klux klanism should inspire the workers thru- out the country to redoubled efforts. talist lackeys on the democrat and republican tickets. a =| CTY One Communist prisoner for fourteen fascists is the rate of ex- change between Soviet Russia and Germany. In return for the re- lease of Alexis Skoblevsky, by Germany, the Soviet government turned fourteen German spies loose. The Soviet Union had the best of the bargain at that. It is rumored that John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor is a trifle peeved because a DAILY WORKER reporter in covering the slush fund quiz suggested that John’s anxiety to take the stand was for the purpose of helping the candidacy of Frank L. Smith, Samuel Insull’s white haired boy. Now, we hate to see John weep, but really John if you kept away from bad boys like Sam Insull, Len Small and Frank L. Smith we would not hart your feelings half as often. A prohibition director in California lost his job because of his tendency to throw gay little parties at which confiscated liquor was ased for lubricating purposes. Now comes Lineoln Andrews, na tional prohibition boss and dines openly on pancakes soaked in brandy. What next? Mass Meeting in Union Square For Passaic Strike Relief is ; York workers rally to open alr meetit of the striking textile workers of T nt month of their battie, factors helped to wreck the old socialist party in which | A United Labor ticket should} be the answer of the workingclass to the blandishments of the capi-| Attempt to Swim the English Channel DOVER, Eng., Aug. 17. — Mercedes Gleitze, the English typist who plan- ned to attempt to swim the English channel was forced to abandon the at- {tempt because of the storm raging jover the channel waters. The captain and crew of the tug which was to have |accompanied Miss Gleitze refused to | Put out into the heavy sea. ‘Cyclone Does Much Damage in New Jersey NEW YORK, Aug. 17. — One dead, five injured And property damage estimated at more than a million dollars was the toll of the cyclone which tore thru a portion of northern New Jersey; jumped over New York City and turned into a waterspout at Glen Cove and Sea Cliff, Long Island. | The twister sucked up the waters of Hempstead harbor and hurled a 150- foot wave against Glen Cove and Sea Cliff; smashing yachts and houses and telling 500 trees. STILL GOING UP! ONDAY, August 16, was a red /et- ter day for the settlement of the United Labor Ticket Assessment Stamps. On that day payments were received for 177 members. The nuclei making their settlements were the fol- lowing: DISTRICT ONE St. N. 1, Rumford, Me..... 4 3 OSTRICT TWO F. D. 2, New York City, N. Y. ps Fs Bronx, N. Y. ... D. N. 4, SA2, New York Hits Sec. % St. 2, Brooklyn, N. 9B, $5, Brooklyn, N. Y. St. 1, Perth Amboy, N 02 5D S17, Bronx, N, DISTRICT THREE D3 St. N. W., Baltimore, Md... DISTRICT FOUR D4 $91, Binghamton, N. Y. Shop 92, Binghamton, N. Y. DISTRICT SIX D6 St. 11, Fairport, O. DISTRICT EIGHT Shop 1, $0, Bend, ING. nnn _Saeenn 8388338 g ne $3 2 8 DISTRICT NINE 8 St. 3, Cromwell, 4 Cromwell, Minn, Regeens 8 883 8 8g3ssszz St. 3; New York Mills, M DISTRICT TWELVE . 4, Seattle, Wash. .. DISTRICT ae St. 31, Los Ang St. 2, Oakland, St. 3, Los Angel DISTRICT FIFTE . 1, New Britain, Conn. CORRECTIONS in list published July 12, 1926—St, 1, Pittsburgh, i» credited with $5.00, should be $10.00, In list published July 24, 1926—St, 206, Cleveland, O., was listed as St, 206, New York City, It Is only if the settlements con- tinue to come In at the same rate that the total will reach hia the end of the month, Every member n every nucleus secret: eee firm foundation to the story of super- natural creation, and that it was really not Lamarck and Darwin, but St. Agustin and St. Thomas of Aquin, who founded the science of evolution. “God does not interfere directly in the order of nature when he can act by means of natural causes.” Man alone constitutes a remarkable exception; because “the human soul being a spir- itual entity, cannot be derived from matter even by the divine omnipo- tence, like the vital forms of plants and animals” (p, 299). In an instructive article on “Jesuiti- cal science” (in the Frankfort Frei Wort, Nov. 22, 1904), R. H, France gives an interesting list of the promi- nent Jesuits who are now at work in the various branches of sctence. As he rightly says, the danger consists “in a systematic introduction of the Jesuitical spirit into science, a per- sistent perversion of all its problems and solutions, and an astute under- mining of its foundations; to speak more precisely, the danger is that peo- ple are not sufficiently conscious of it, and that they, and even science itself, fall into the cleverly prepared pit of believing that there is such a thing as Jesuitical science, the results of which may be taken seriously.”* While fully recognizing these dan- gers, I nevertheless feel that Jesuit Father Wasmann, and his colleagues, have—unwittingly—done a very great service to the progress of pure science. The watholic church, the most power- ful and widespread of the christian sects, sees itself compelled to capitu- late to the idea of evolution. It em- braces the most important application of the idea, Lamarck and Darwin’s theory of descent, which it had vigor- ously combated -until twenty years Gh AN AEM AR AEM 2 SR Ach, RAE REIS, eh Salle ce A The eel-like sophistry of the Jesuits, which has been brought to such a won- derful pitch in heir political system, can- not, as a rule, be met by argument. An interesting illustration of this was given by Father Wasmann himself in his con- with the .physician, Dr. Julian Marcuse. The “scientific” Wasmann had gone so far in his zeal for religion as to support a downright swindle of a “miraculous cure” in honor of the ““Moth- er of God of Oostacker” (the Belgian Lourdes). Dr, Mateuse succeeded in ex- posing the whole astounding story of this “pious fraud” (Deutsche Stimmen, Ber- 1 y. Jahrg., No. 20.) Instead of scientific refutation, the Jesuit d with sophistic perversion and per- j Sonal invective (Scientific [7] Supple- ment to Germania, Berlin, 1902, No. 43, and 1903 0. 13). In his final reply, Dr. Marcuse said: “I have accomplished my object—to let thoughtful people see once more the kind of ideas that are found in the world of dead and literal faith, which tries to put the crudest superstition and reverence for the myth of miraculous cures in the place of science, truth and knowledge" (Deutsche Stimmen, 1903, v. Jahrgang, No. 3). R LAST WORDS ON--EVOLUTION By ERNEST HAECKEL ago. It does, indeed, mutilate the great tree, cutting off its roots and its highest branch; it rejects spon- taneous generation or archigony at the BRITISH LEFT WING TO HOLD YEARLY MEET bottom, and the descent of man from | Gives Policy to Meet animal ancestors above. But these exceptions will not last. Impartial biology will. take no notice of them, and the religious creed will at length determine that the more complex spe- Crisis in Unionism (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Aug. 17.—The National cies have been evolved from a series | Minority Movement, which is the or- of simpler forms according to Darwin- ian principles. natural creation is restricted to the production of the earliest and simplest stemforms, from which the “natural species” have taken their origin; Was- mann gives that name to all species that are demonstrably descended from a common'stem-form; in other words, to what other classifiers call “stems” or “phyla.” The 4,000 species of ants in his system, which he believes to he genetically related, are comprised by him in one “natural species.” On the other hand, man forms one isolated “natural species” for himself, without any connection with the other mam- mals, The Jesuitical sophistry that Was- mann betrays in this ingenious dis- tinction between “systematic and nat- ural species” is also found in his philo- sophie “Thoughts on Evolution” (chap. viii), his distinction between philoso- phic and scientific evolution, or -be- tween evolution in one stem and in several stems. His remark in (chap. vii) on “the cell and spontaneous gen- eration” are similarly marred by so- phistry. The question of spontaneous generation or archigony—that is to say, of the first appearance of organic life on the earth, is one of the most difficult problems in biology, one of those in which the most distinguished students betray a striking weakness of judgment. Dr. Heinrich Sehmidt, of Jena, has lately written an able and popular little work on that subject. In his “Spontaneous Generation and Prof. Reinke” (1903) he has shown to what absurd consequences the ec- clesiastical ideas lead on this very question. The botanist Reinke, of Keil, is now regarded amongst re- ligious people as the chief opponent of Darwinism; for many conservatives this is because he is a member of the Prussian Herrenhaus (a very intelli- getn body, of course!). Altho he is a strong evangelical, many of his mys- tie deduction agree surprisingly with the catholic speculations of Father Wasmann. This is especially the case with regard to spontaneous genera- tion. They both declare that the first appearance of life must be traced to a miracle, to the work of a personal deity, whom Reinke calls the “cosmic intelligence.” I have shown the un- scientific character of these notions in my last two works, “The Riddle of the Universe” and “The Wonders of sife.” I have drawn attention especially to the widely distributed monera of the chromacea class—organisms of the simplest type conceivable, whole body is merely an unnucleated, green, structureless globule of plasm (Chroococcus); their whole vital ac- tivity consists of growth (by forming plasm) and multiplication (by divid- ing into two). There is little theoret- ical difficulty in conceiving the origin of these new simple monera from in- organic compounds of albumen, or their later transformation into the simplest nucleated cells, All this, and a good deal more that will not fit in his Jesuitical frame is shrewdly ig- nored by Wasmann, (To be continued.) UNORGANIZED DOCKERS PULL WAGE STRIKE NEW YORK, Aug. 17. — Tons of fruit destined for the New York mark- et and awaiting transfer to trucks from the Erie piers, at West and Duane streets were endangered by the walkout of 600 non-union freight hand- lers, who are demanding higher wages. The piers affected are 20 and 21 North River, ‘They are operated by the New York Marine company, Some seventy gangs have been at work load- ing the fruit, part-of it in freight cars on barges and part of it, stored on the piers, on the trucks, About sixty of these gangs went out. Make Wage Demands. The men have been getting 50. and 52 cents an hour, and straight time for overtime and Sunday work. Union men in similar work, it was said, were paid 85 cents an hour, The strikers demanded an immediate increase to 75 cents an hour, with time and a half for overtime and Sundays, W. J. Hayes, superintendent of piers, said he had no authority to grant the increased wage, but that if the men would hold the strike in abeyance he would try to obtain a satisfactory set- tlement today, To Many Promises, Thomas Reilly, spokesman of the men, replied that they had long been seeking a rise and had been put off so many times that they could not ac- cept this promise, He said the men would not go back until the increase had been granted, The tie-up affects more than 3800 cars, of whith sixty contain oranges and forty, melas, | INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ AID WILL HOLD OPEN AIR MEETING FRIDAY CHICAGO— International Work- ers Aid will hold an open-air meet- ing at Roosevelt Road and St. Louis Friday night, August. 20. The Brit- ish coal miners’ strike will be dis- Fred G. Biedenkapp, national sec- retary, and Jack Bradon will be Wayne Adamson will act as chairman. I. L. D. Membership Meeting in Akron Next Saturday Eve. AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 17.—A_ joint membership meeting of the Interna: tional Labor Defense of Akron, has been called for Saturday, August 21st at Liberty Hall, 601 S. Main St., Ak; O. The meeting will be held on Sept. 6th’ in Chicago, Ill, and: reors ganization of the city committee, WILL NOT LET U, S, ENTER THE WORLD GOURT WITH ALL ITS RESERVATIONS GENEVA, Aug. 17. — The entry of the United States into the world court with reservations likely, it was pig tery the invitation of t! in Geneva in September to bert ine the proposed United States ve intimated that they the byioWantig : whose |° ¢ and a majority of these | ganized left wing of the British trade The belief in a super- | unions, has issued the call for its third annual conference, to be held at Bat- tersea Town Hall, Lavender Hill, Lon- don, on August 28 and 29. The call is signed by Tom Mann, chairman, and George Hardy, secretary, and says in part: Masses Solid—Leaders Weak. “We have just passed thru the greatest strike labor has yet ex- perienced, ‘a strike in which the splendid solidarity of the masses was nullified by weak leadership. We are now in the midst of a great offensive of the capitalists against the hours of labor, almost the last of the post- war gains remaining to the workers. “All that the Minority Movement has said in the past about the need for a strong and determined trade union leadership, the need for a trade union reorganization, the intentions of the employing class towards the workers, has been driven home by the develop- ments of the present day. Weak Leaders Cry Against Strikes. “At the moment, many labor leaders are seeking to discredit the strike weapon and particularly the general strike, At the same time the employ- ers, recognizing the, power of the strike weapon, are proceeding to at- tack the unions by economic, political and legal means. The Minority Move- ment asks the workers to realize that without a vigorous trade union policy it will be impossible to prevent at- tacks being made on the workers’ standards. A refusal to reorganize the trade union movement can only result in further defeats for the workers. The next Trade Union Congress will have a decisive influence on the develop- ment of the trade union movement.” In order to prepare the trade unions for struggle, the Minority Movement proposes the following agenda for its conference: The General Strike and Its Lessons. a) The strike leadership; b) the strike machinery; c) the state and the strikers; d) the law and the strik- ers; e) the future of mass strikes. Reorganization of Trade Unions. a) A better leadership; b) greater powers to the General Council; c) speeding up union amalgamation; 4d) relations between trade unions and co- operatives; e) development of trades councils and their affiliation to the Trade Union Congress; ¢)* how to secure 100 per cent trade unionism. International Unity. a) The emergency powers act and the workers; b) seditious laws and the workers; c) Judge-made law and the trade unions; d) amnesty for all political prisoners. Cave-In Kills One and Cripples Another in Glendale, Calif. By L. P. RINDAL (Worker Correspondent) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 17. — Mack Kupilsch, working on a sewer excavation, was caught under fourteen feet of earth in a cave-in at Glendale, | a suburban town of this city, on Aug. 11. He was said to be so badly crushed that he will be a permanent cripple for life. His brother, Mike, rescued him—after being kept alive for two hours by an airline forced thru the earth, Last weeka.Mexican workman lost his life on the same job. As usual, the authorities do not seem to place any blame on anyone in particular for the operation of this death trap. Guards Kill Workers. HERRIN, Ull., Aug. 17.—Two special railroad detectives were called before a coroner's jury to give their ver- sions of the shooting in the Burling- ton yards whcih resulted in the kill- ing of Clarence Ingram and wounding of Cleo Campbell. The detectives said they thot the two men were attempting to break in- to a box car, Campbell explained that he and Ingram had gone thru the yards on their way home from a dance. Movie Star in “Con Game.” LOS ANGELDS, Aug. 17. — Rose Marie Dolan, motion, picture beauty and a resident of Chicago up to a year ago, was wanted by Hollywood police for questioning in connection with an alleged blackmail plot against Dave Allen, a casting director, Abandon Air Mail Line, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Aug. 17.— Air mail service between the Twin Cities and Chicago, was abandoned by Charles D, Dickinson, Chicage contractor, who wired the local posta’ authorities that he is endeavoring to cancel his ¢ontract for the daily air mail seryice. Solaboa now and get the apes five ‘8 for a year’s on “ca of wuricion WITH THE STAFF Being Things From Here and There Which Have pases” Us to Foily or Frenzy HOW TO PROSPER, Though Poor, An organization of saintly go- ters in Kansas City sends out a} - tle dime bank to help the fait Save money, lettered with scriptu¥al quotations and accompanied with the following “general instructions” to propitiate divine compensation: “Immediately tpon receipt of your request for a Prosperity Bank, we entered your name for our prosperity prayers. We de- sire that you obtain from these prayers the maximum of good. In order to do so, it will be necessary to follow faithfully the instruc- tions in regard to the bank. The most good will be abtained from the bank drill if you enter into it with an open mind, believing that all things are possible thru god. “The one thing you cannot af- ford to do is to think poor thots. Eliminate from your mind all thot of lack; do not see it or think it or talk it; cultivate the faith at- titude. Look upon all the money you handle as a symbol of uni- versal mind-substance, from which our Father has made all things. “The Prosperity Statement— All the earth is full of the glory of the lord and there is plenty everywhere—is to be repeated each time you make a deposit. Let us impress this fully upon “al mind: If you merely place th coin in the bank, repeating m| chanically the words of the state- ment, you will probably get only meager results. When the requir- ed sum of money has been saved, send it to us.” ‘oe MILITARY TACTICS WITH GOD “The General is sorry to be in- formed that the foolish and wicl* ed practice of profane cursing anid swearing, a vice hitherto little known in an American army, is growing into fashion. We can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly.”—-, from a general order issued to thy Continental army by Geor; Washington, July 1776. \ j ees Now You Tell One “The kaiser worked so hard for peace that the militarists called him @ coward and planned to depose him’ — Dr, A. Mendelsohn, Bartholdy of the University of Ham- burg. Rosenwald Gives $3,000,000 Towards Industrial Museum Julius Rosenwald has announced 4 donation of $3,000,000 towards the creation of an industrial museum similar to the one in Munich, Plans are being made by Chicago city of- ficials to renovate the Fine Arts build. ing for that purpose. Floods In Burma, RANGOON, Burma, Aug. 17. rental rains of the past few days har caused severe floods in the section het tween Mandalay and Rangoon - Rail. roads have been obliged to cancet train schedules because the tracks are flooded, The water is still rising. ...... 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