The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 21, 1926, Page 7

JN Mexico the preachers have gone on. strike, not for higer wages but because they do not like the new re- strictions _put..upon preachers and churches. by Mexican. law. When preachers strike, what does it~ mean? °~No..more: salvation? At least. no. more baptizings, no mor? wine-and-bread feasts, fewer prayers, no more sermons, no church mar- riages—and no more “collections.” Perhaps the read to heaven will be closed and the way to hell packed. Let’s see: did the Christ ever stop preaching when he found the laws unfavorable to him? “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's.” “Turn the other cheek.” What is the logic of a preachers’ strike?. If Mex- ican laws are wrong, does not Mex- ico need more preaching and more prayers? Evidently these preachers of Mexico have more faith in strikes than they have in prayers.» Isn’t it funny for them to say in Mexico: “Be- cause we believe you are wrong, we will not give you any more religion until you get right.” As if a doctor should say: “Because your are sick. you shall have no more medicine until _ you get well.” “Humility?” No sir: defiance is what preachers use in Mexico. If these Catholi¢ preachers will get all other denominations strike’ at the Same time, and close =tight the highway to heaven, they may have some chance of winning. A little while ago the subway employes in New York struck, but they forgot Buyploment of THe DRILY W ORKER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926 Preachers Go On Strike By William Pickens. to get the elevated railway employes and the taxi drivers to go out at the same time. These catholics may have some chance to win out, if they can get the Methodists and Baptists to shut down ‘their heaven-bound trains, the Presbyterians and Episcopalians to stop operating their taxi lines, and the Holy Rollers to park their fliv- vers at the some time. But so long as these competing roads keep open, what earthly or heavenly good will it do simply to shut down the Catholic jlines to glory? If they get us stirred | up, we may organize a religious revo- points, to go on| RUMORS FROM ROUMANIA. (Special Cable from the Associated Prevaricators) | BUCHAREST, Aug. 20.—It is retiably reported from unconfirmed sources that | Mutinous red cavalry ride thru the | streets of Kiev with eighteen heads of | Rykoff on their lances, At a later meet- ing at the Kremiin, i that Trotsky commit hari-kari, but Zino- viey shot Stalin for having given Kam- nenev poisoned prunes. In his dying mo- ments Stalin ordered Zinoviev. deported both to the Caucasus and the. Urals at ithe same time, and was then imprisoned |in both Petrograd and Moscow before |the loyal troops from Viadivostock ar- rived to exile the triumvirate to (peo . & jlution, institute some interdenomina.- | | tional soviets, set up a communism of | the church and operate our own lines | to heaven,—and to all other terminal | ‘ /mutiny ‘and revolution have broken out) § against the red triumvirate in Moscow. | Rykoff demanded} ALEX. BITTELMAN, Editor. Second Section: This Magazine Section Appears Every Saturday in The DAILY WORKER. Carmi Thompson’s Mission ect AMERICAN IMPERIALISM ° THE question of giving.the Philip- pine Islands complete, absolute and unconditional independence is again becoming a burning and urgent question for the American working class. This issue is now forced to the forefront not alone by the Filipinos, who are categoric in their demand for independence, but particularly by the American rubber ‘manufacturers and Coolidge’s government, Why did Carmi Thompson go to the Philippines? What is the nature of his mission? A month ago there were still doubts about it in the minds of some. Now there can be none. Carmi Thompson went to the Philippines for the rub- ber magnates of the United States. He is there to make the Philippine Islands safe for large scale plantation of rubber, He ig there to bring about completé, absolute and unconditional subjugation of the Philippine Islands to the American imperialists, It is part of the big bloody game played by American capital to secure monopolistic control over sources of raw material. It is part and parcel of the powerful urge of American im- perialism to subjugate the world to its control and ¢omination, What does Thompson's mission hold forth for the Philippine masses? Brutal exploitation on rubber planta- 8. Starvation wages. Long hours of labor, Speed-wp and squceze-out systems that are life killing. The establishment of a veritable prison for millions of Filipino men, women and children. super-profits of Firestone and hig like. And what doos this perspective carry to the American working class? A larger army aud @ larger nary. More appropriations for the military. And eventually a permanent Amert- can army of occupation fn the Philip pine Islands to “protect” the invost- LLL LLL LOC CL LLL Ct atti teat tig A All this for the greater glory and ments of American capital and to crush mercilessly every manifestation of dissatisfaction or protest on the part of the Filipinos masses, The Filipino masseS demand that they be given immediate, complete, ab- solute and unconditional independ- ence. In doing so they are demand- ing what is their inalienable right fo determine as a nation, and of their free will, what government they will owe allegiance to. They have decided time and again that they. want to be let alone by the United States and do their own governing. But the American capitalists will not let go unless forced by a determined strug- gle of the Filipino masses backed by the workers and poor farmers of the United States, In the face of the present attempt, thro the mission of Carmi Thompson, to enslave still further the Philippine Islands, it devolves upon American la- bor, in its’ own interests as well as in the interests of the exploited masses thruout the world, to say clearly and unmistakably that we de- mand that the Filipinos be given im- mediate, complete, absolute.and uncon- ditional independence. Alex Bittelman, In the Next Issue The Raliroad in Fiction, by V. F. Calverton. This will be the second article of the series on Labor and Literature, The first article appears in this issue, America’s Peasant Ploneer, by Harry Gannes, * . . Russia in 1926, by Jessica Smith. 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