The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 27, 1926, Page 6

qj it a€ SS > a Se a. Eeeaca Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Phone Monroe 4712 2 Honea ik ses lataioa SUBSCRIPTION RATES By maii (in Chicago only): By mail (outs'de of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months | $6.00 per vear $3.50 six months 2.50 three months $2.00 three months | — ARTICLE Vi. The Independence Struggle Sharpens, By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, iWwau STRERT certainly wants the Philippines—not as a _ colony | which is buoyed up by hopes of inde- 5 Entered as second-class mail September £1, 19238, at the post-office at Cni- d i pendence promised in the Jones bill, but as a colony or colonies which cago, lil, under the act of March 3, 1879. AEH 290 — American imperialism has no inten- Advertising rates on application. Real Relief for the British Miners Is an “tue! siarsiman Nacionat Bank os Embargo on Coal for Britain | been publishing advertisements in the New York Press favoring the Bacon Great Britain, up the first of August, had imported ap-, Proposal to divide the islands and also a ay : : ~ decreasing the ‘.22ex both portions of the archi- proximately 2,000,000 tons of coal from Germany, decreasing he | lago. The advertiseinént” published surplus stocks of coal held by German capitalists by about 38 per cent. | June 19 said in part: The German mines increased their output in June 900,000 tons and | Representative Robert Bon is are still unable to supply the demand for hard coal and gas coal. | doing fine work for the ‘Philippines This coal is being used to break the strike of the British miners altho the Federation of British Industries sometime before the strike Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hlinols _———$—$——$—$———— see kiditors AHL NNE J, LOUIS EN WILLIAM F. D MORITA J. 10 -Business Manager — to | in congress. All good citizens should | read the bill Mr. Bacon has just in- | troduced in the house. It denotes began had raised. the slogan of “Buy British Goods.” The slogan| careful study of conditions in the : Philippines. . . . The Moros are lias been amended now to exclude coal. havingithe dapleonike: Shusiwant Two: things are apparent: | to be permanently under the Amer- 1, That while the British government howled to high heaven | ican flag, free from rule by the Fili- pino government. HE Harriman National Bank does not appeal to us as an impartial spokesman for the Moros or any other section of the population of the Phil- ippines and that its eagerness to in- clude the Moros as part of the 100 per ent American citizenry is dictated by its desire for weakening the struggle for Philippine independence rather abont the money sent by the Russian trade unions to feed the strik it is trying to break their wnion, starve the miners and, their families and drive them back to work at starvation wages by coal secured thru the aid of the capitalist class of other countries. 2, The complete failure of the official leadership of the British Trades Union Congress and the International Federation of Trade Unions (Amsterdam) to counteract this move of the capitalists by declaring an embargo on coal for Great Britain. a rr enema et nt ee tty ee nen Independence Movement. than by its regard for the truth is shown by the fact that on March 24 Philippine Commissioner Pedro. Gue- vara placed in the congressional rec- ord six documents signed by more than 170 Moro leaders repudiating Statements that the Moros were against Philippine independence, ACK of space prevents our giving all these documents: in full, but they are of a similar character and one will serve as am illustration of their general tone: We, the undersigned; affix. here- with our thumb-marks with our own initiative, willingly and, voluntarily. We do not like that our land be seg- regated from Luzon and the Visayan Islands. We want independence. Nevertheless we must. govern our land like our brothers in Luzon and in the Visayan Islands, We do not want a territorial form of govern- ment like that of the Hawaiian islands. We want independence. March 5, 1924. (Signed by 60 Moro leaders). HE demand that “they be perma- nently under the American flag” does not seem to be made by any con- able section of the Moros them- selves. They may desire some sort of in independent or autonomous status within a Philippine republic, and this they are entitled to, but that they sud- lenly have become desirous of being serfs of American imperialism is be- yond belief, An embargo on coal would be worth more to the British miners than $50,000,000 dollars in strike relief. But because it carries with it the possibility of another general strike, would bring a revival of the militancy of the working class displayed during the general and be a challenge to British imperialism, the leadership of Life and strik the Trade Union Congress and the I..F. T. U. salve their consciences __ By ANISE. by urging—not very energetically—financial support of the strike. ‘ mekeage ae ae ede Deh | This is a duty that every worker must fulfill, but it should no ULY #4, “There ie a new marriage | be allowed to blind us to the fact that more effective weapons are} at hand, but that the official leadership is too cowardly to use them. code under discussion in the So- viet Union. Perhaps you don’t get the full meaning of that word “discus- | sion.” It is not merely being discuss-| ed by legislators in congress. Thru- out the land in labor meetings and wo-| men’s meetings, they are discussing and deciding what sort of marriage they want to have. This is the first time in history such a thing has happened. Always mar- Let’s Have a Statement on Passaic! The Passaic textile barons not only have demonstrated since the affiliation of the strikers with the United Textile Workers (af- filiated with the Amreican Federation of Labor) their intention to allow no union except a company union find a foothold in the mills, | but they have made the executive council of the A. F. of L. appear} riage ides Bava been Tannen ane ridiculous in the eyes of every. worker who has been following} ¢rom a higher authority. Hven in a| developments in Passaic. | republic like the ter Histon ee The mill barons complained of .the fact that Communists were | BOHR VOR? Oe Tear with alvento active and occupied leading positions in the strike committee and| a hace isc adorcien a valine gave this as a reason for their refusal to deal with the strikers. The| | above” somewhere which tells folks A. F. of L. executive council, always anxious that the labor move- | what, is authoritative and proper on| ment shall appear as a 100 per cent American institution accepting | the, ren of ner lathe American capitalism as the final. word in economics and govern- pie “ Sue sae ange De ment, echoed the mill barons, issued a denunciation of the strike] (.. our own ideas, has been unthink-| leadership, urged trade unionists to ignore the Passaic relief com-} able till now. mittee and send money to the A..F. of L. Objectively, the statement | The law of the Soviet Union hab of the A. F. of L. executive was sabotage of the strike. Previously it} lSetekinn he Sek Bre ger aed a had done nothing to support it. \ naeriage, It provided that only. those Having put itself on record in this wise the A. F. of L. executive! marriages were legal which were reg- sat back and waited for the strike to collapse under the avalanche) istered in the civil registration bu- of criticism and withdrawal of financial support it expected to follow | '°20- It pect 4 ether seid its statement. Sut nothing of the kind occurred. Instead, the teed dans uae an na oeeate Mean action of the A. F. of L. was seathingly criticized in many quarters. | orty Street’s pet measure. But this failure will not stop the drive against independence for the islands. The whole plan is conceived on the basis that op- position to it must be ernshed (this is plain from the speeches quoted in the series of articles we have been publishing on this page and from the language of the Bacon bill) and the nationalist move- ment must broaden and strengthen itself to meet the strongest re- sistance it has yet encountered. erty to speak of in those days any- Some unkind persons even hinted that there was connection between | how. It expressely stated that ier the Botany Mills advertisement carried by the American Federa-) Was not distinction between legal an tionist and the statement of the executive council. | obliged ‘to look after afl his children | equally, however begotten. show no greater regard for the welfare of the strikers under the Life Changes Fast. Fi 2 x hen the United guidance of the A. F. of L. union than they did w | ; i = Te ion. In eight years new interpre Front Committee, headed by Albert Weisbord, was in charge of the, inlisi ot law aakean to otaep ttt the | courts, especially around the question) Will the A. F. of L. executive council now issue a statement against the mill barons as sharp in tone as was their statement | ed unions and having pers ae re eader: 2 e the children were entitled to a e against the Communist leadership of the strike? Sinaia ct acaculds wiarviie eeladlel: strike, discontinue the publication of the Botany Mills advertise-| penefits to the woman. Then therq ment? | arose complications. Suppose a man It seems to us that these two things should be done by the| #8 Tesistered as married to one wo: ’ | lived with a different one, and had pressed desire for the organization of the unorganized and the up-! children by her,—who got his prop- building of the trade union movement. lerty when he died. The registered | So the high officials of the Depart- |ment of Justice prepared a new code . to take care of these matters, but Colonel Carmi Thompson has had a conference with Moro |‘? “y eaders and it is evident that some one has blundered. Not a single} entive committee, opposition develop- a Moro ne in favor of the division of the Philippines and the crea-|ed. The framers of the bill, rather than push it thru with anything less Many Neh spoke against the division of the islands. withirew 16, ena denetiplout ‘to’ the One, Sultan Rambin, said according to a New York Times dis- peopte tor discussion. And now all patch, that “Mindanao will fight and die rather than be separated over the Soviet Union, common folks * . : tat? they want,—right from the ground up. There was objection from, some Moros to rule by Christian ‘Ana this lends to aliothd?one of thoee Filipinos, but a provision for Moro autonomy would doubtless re- }i¢te “soviet primers,” put out to in- nove such! friction as exists. ee guage what it is all about. To Make Marriage Convenient their Moro support’ for this conference and the result of it is a THe atriking fact abdut the whole victory for the national liberation movement and a blow at Wall it does not treat it as a sacred mystery vidual will, but as a human relation which the law must make as orderly and convenient as possible, concern- weak and safeguarding the interests of children, No law sets out to pun- ish personal immorality as such. |illegal children, that a man was However that may be, the cold fact is that now the mill barons IFE changes fast in the Soviet Un- strike. ; ot folks who were living in unregister- Will the executive council, now that the strike is an A. F. of L.| my, court began also to extend these aos . A man but actually for some years had A. FP. of L. leadership if it wants anyone to take seriously its ex- | wife, or the “actual wife.” . Moros Are Not for the Bacon Bill when it came before the central exe- eparate “Moro P if y he Bacon bill. tion of a separate “Moro Province proposed in t than ractlodlis aWAMaIGN eappart, from the Philippines.” are discussing what kind ‘of marriage form everyone in the simplest lan- The Bacon Dill _propa idists seem to have failed to organize Soviet approach to marriage is that to which man must submit his indi- ing itself only with protecting the There is no Mann act, following sweet- American labor must prepare to prevent annexation of the! hearts into hotels to discover if they i 1 have a certificate. The law merely a | holds everyone responsible for the | other, | nations jdren were illegal, | count. | marriage Work in “How did folks used to get married” runs the little primer. “The parents of a girl and boy arranged matters and often brought the:young folks to- gether when they hardly knew each Naturally, some unhappy com- binations resulted. But these combi- were permanent; marriage was a sacred mystery with which man might not tamper. So often a man} who did not like his wife took a wife| on the side and had children by her. Such a wife was illegal and the chil-/ and this caused} much suffering to innocent children. . Even if a young man wanted to marry the girl he had /seduced in the village, the priest would not perform the ceremony without the parents’ consent. Such a girl, who might have become a good mother, had no choice but to commit suicideyor become a prostitute, “Today church marriage does not You can get blessed in church if you like, but that does not make legal. What makes mar- riage legal is being registered in the book of marriages. According to the | Droposed law, even this is unneces- sary. People living together regularly have all the rights and duties of mar- ried persons. Not that the new law is against registration. Far from it. It is always much more; convenient to register your marriage, For if you come into court for any purpose, reg- istration is the easiest and quickest proof of marriage. But: it 1s not the only proof. . Health Certificate: Required. Sp eons who wish to register marriage go to the county com- mittee where there is a special de- partment for this. The man and wo- man must each give a written state- ment that each of them knows that he is In full health, that he enters the relation of his own free will, and that there are no legal hindrances to the marriage (brothers and sisters, un- cles and nieces, may not marry), He must also state in writing how many times he has already been married and how many children he has, “Why do the marrying couple as- sure each other of their health? Very simple. One of them might have an infectious disease which would infect the other, or cause blindness or weak- ness in the children, “Why do they write down how of- ten they have been married and how many children? Again very simple. A person who has been too often mar- ried shows perhaps that he is un- stable or hard to live with, and. the other person can take warning. Also, HE Wall Street propagandists do not believe this either, because the Bacon. bill, as has been noted in pre- vious articles, provides for a military dictatorship and excludes all Moros from participation in either its legisla- tive or executive wing except by ap- pointment by the pro-consul of Ameri- can imperialism or the president of the United States, f The Fillpino leadems) are. beginning to understand that the Bacon bill is no mere gesture, but that it expresses the policy of the American govern- ment, Speaking a f@w days ago to the Philippine senats,of which he is president, Manuel Quezon said, accord- ing to an associated: press dispatch: The Washington’. administration could not have made clearer its re- versal of policy in the Philippines than by its failure to counteract the presentation recently of reactionary measures in congress. ... If we care to see independence for. the Philippines we cannot fold our arms and wait for the good will of the ad- ministration. We must fight for our quests within the domain of peace, law and order to prevent the United States committing an act of injus- tice against the. Philippines and to compel it to fulfill its solemn pledge given in the Jones law. By will American imperialism al- low the Filipinos to carry on their fight for independence “within the do- main of peace, law and order?” | Fhe Fish on Filipino Freedom rie Vanished “Little Brown Byother Period’’—“Divide and Con- quer’’—Philippine Rubber Possibilities—The Philippines as'a Strategic Base for Amer- ican Imperialism in the Pacific Area-—Natural Resources Other Than Rubber—DMobilizing ‘Public Sentiment’”’—Some Defects of the ‘We think not—at least not a strug- gle that. welds the mass of the native population into a powerful weapon of the independence movement, So far the Filipino, independence movement has been conducted as a sort of legal parliamentary: opposition, It is thoroly réspéctable and its lead- ership {is entirely of a middle-class character, Even, its, correct. policy of opposi- tion to the division of the islands as provided by the Bacon bill has shown certain weaknesses in method which a militant nationalist liberation move- ment’ should not have. OR instance! The Philippine independence mag- azine, “The Philippine Republic,” does not hesitate to appeal to Christians as such against the division of the island on the ground that the Moros are Mo- hammedans. Tr its issue for June it refers to the proposed division as “The Baconian formufa for penalizing chris- tianity.” This sort of argument merely strengthens Wall Street in its conten- tion that christian Filipinos and Mo- hammedan Moros cannot get along with one another, The movement for national libera- tion should not be marred by such ut- terances. It is facing a bitter struggle | and must strengthen itself both politi- | cally and organizationally and it. is) possible for it to do so, (To be continued.) i | the Soviet Union Divorce Free and Easy. N every other land, when states- men introduce a bill making divorce a little easier, they apologize for it. In Russia they brag of it, considering the difficult divorce of the old regime |And this is true even for some time} one of the greatest oppressions’ of} man, in a marriage relation” says the stat- ute. to make people live together who do not want to, but to see that all actual relations which a person may choose to assume are properly registered, and | that he is responsible for all results| the man’s begotten. from his actions. Nothing more. after divorce. A man cannot seduce} a girl in Russia and escape the conse-| quences, if the girl chooses to demand} them. The expenses of her pregnancy) and of the future support of the chil-} dren will be a lien on his wages, ex- “There cannot be compulsion! tracted right from the pay-roll. A friend of mine remarks casually The law is obviously written not! that in:his establishment, ten men are “paying alimony.” This means in Rus- sia that»money goes right from the pay-ro}l: to women who come and col- lect it,:for support of children which Whether he | was ever legally married to these wo- There are two kinds of divorce,— men is a question which no ‘one asks; those in which both parties wish it,| it is no)shame either way, as long as and wants it. Collusion,—so flagrantly illegal in rove:'too frequently and those in which only one party | he does his duty by’ them. Butyifva man allows his fancies to widely, he New York,—is the best and simplest! may'not suffer shame but he will cer- kind of divorce in Russia. If both pa’ ties agree, it is no other person's bus! ness. They draw up a written state-| three-fourths of his salary for three ment of their agreement, covering the| different children living with different tainly\suffer extreme inconvenience, ven as high as the deduction of disposal of children and property, reg-| mothers: This: perpetual penalty fol- ister it in the same place as the book of marriages, and the matter is ended. Only if the parties disagree does the matter come to court, like any other disagreement. In that case the court decides about property and children. But even then, the court has no power | Being Things From Here and | There Which Have Inspired | ‘Us to Folly or Frenzy | Textilers! Behold Your Product! Mrs. Nash Is Beautiful DEAUVILLE, France, August 25— Mrs. Jean Nash is pleasing this resort of the idie rich with her rapid changes of costume. She brought here a hun- dred and, fifty expensive evening gowns, valued up to $10,000 aplece, 500 pairs of silk steckings, valuenot ascer- tainable, and scores of dainty under garments. She seldom wears the same frock more than three times. She be- lieves she is performing a social duty by shifting her. shirt. She says: “lf we had no luxurious women we should. not have the splendid hotels and restaurants that fill the civilized world." Mrs, Nash also states that any woman who lacks beauty can be- come attractive and sought after if she will cultivate the art of wearing good clothes. Some years ago she de- | cided that she was not beautiful but by keeping well dressed she could “pass current with the great beauties of the fashionable world.” Mrs. Nash has never worked for @ living, A PEACE CONGRESS. Bierville, France.—The peace con- gress of more than six thousand dele- gates from churches and: peace socle- ties of thirty countries, ended with the passage of a resolution stating that in case the league of nations makes a declaration of war against an “outlaw” natlon— “the congress denies the absolute right of conscientious objection to military service. Objectors must take up civilian service equally dangerous and hard.” With great skill the managerial caucus avoided all resolutions which had been prepared with regard to such vexed questions as Morocco, Syrla, China and Arabia, where war is stil! in progress, and even a_ motlon brought forward by Asiatic delegates condemning colonization “got lost” and was: never debated.—From a news item. If you plan to kill your neighbor And-desire an alibi; If. you wish to murder children lows:him* wherever he. goes, more permanent and severe than any arbi- trary.coart penalty. For persons will- ing’ and able to accept the conse- quences of their actions, and mutual- ly agreeing, there are no legal or so- cial penalties in the Soviet Union; to refuse divorce to either person who} no judgment by acquaintances except persistently demands it, since “marri-| as it concerns the general seriousness age cannot be a matter of sion.” compul- Parents Responsible. HAT the law can do, and does do, is to make both parents respon- sible for the support and education of children, and to make each of them responsible for the support of tlie other, in sickness or Gnemployment.) or lightness of character displayed in this, ‘as well as other, relations of life. Many-moralists will exclaim that un- der these circumstances men will change partners every week. As a fact, divorce in the Soviet Union is only five to six cases in every hun- lred marriages, or about half as fre- jaueait as in the United States. And to find a reason why; If the daughters of some “back- ward race” Excite. your perturbations—~ Go and.get a hunting license from The Holy League of Nations! For the Holy League of Nations. Issues permits for to rob Anybody east of Suez, and Will help to do the job, Discounts notes on profits, Guarantees the rape and loot, And will underwrite the chances That the Christians learn to shoot. super- “Republican Germany” Celebrates Constitution Day since every person must support his children, both parties must know fairly how many previous children can claim support. Marriage Is Free? Bye, don’t pay anything to register a marriage” declared the little primer in italics, ag an inducement to the poverty-stricken peasant who avoided the expensive church ritual, . Marriage may be registered in the book of marriages either before or after it has actually begun. If reg- counts from the time when the two began to live together.” Surely never has a marriage law been arranged with such. reasonable- ness and convenience, 80 correspond ing to the actual situations and serv- ing actual needs of human beings, Feminists In all lands will note the ensuing paragraph which states that “a man and woman may take one name after marriage, either his or her name, if they register this at the time, | results of his acts and for the support lot all his children and for the care of any woman with whdm ha may have | been in relations... The Jaw sets out \to make sex relations:responsible, but | not neceasarily of aay one pattern, o otherwise each keeps his own name,” “.. , Until the revolution, a wife was obliged to submit to Mer husband, who might lawfully take possession of her against her will, Méw neither is obliged to submit to the other, istered afterwards, then the marriage With Almost Pre-War Pomp and Military Display the founding of the republic, Germany's over-worked and under-paid workers and her army of 2,000,000 unemployed cannot have been very well pleased with the return to Kaiserism that marked the celebrations of the day. Hinden- burg, leader of the Worst reaction and still loyal to hig’ Kaiser, is the president of the so-called republic while the Industrial and financial rulers of Germany, aided by the Dawes pian, are engaged In vipa aad the German workers at a more intense rate than ever before 1G : i bd §