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Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il, Phone Monroe 4712 SUBSCRIPTION RAT - By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside 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, III, J, LOUIS ENGD. \ weEbdttors Business Manager aptember 21, 1923, at.the post-office at Chi- 3, 1879. Entered as second-class mail cago, Ill., under the act of Mare The Coal Miners—Shock Troops of the British Workingclass The stern struggle of the British miners challenges the ad- miration of every working man and woman in the world. After five months and a half of battle with starvation gnawing at the vitals of the miners and their families, these workers hurl back the lies of the capitalist clas the capitalist’ press and the ireacherous reformist leadership bj tenance men and continue the strike. The vote of 767,000 to 42,000 for these propositions nails fast the lie that the miners are breaking ranks and going back to work in any considerable numbers. That this action was taken after the Bournemouth Trade Union voting to pull ‘out the main- Congress, dominated by the same officials who deserted the miners,| had refused to allow the question of the general strike or the miners’ strike to be discussed, is doubly significant. It means that the miners realize their responsibility to the dank and file of the labor movement, realize that they are the shock troops of the British working class and are going to fight without thought of surrender. The miners ask no quarter. This unshakable determination of the miners changes the situation. British capitalism has staked all on ‘a quick defeat of this workers’ offensive. But the British ruling class and their agents in the labor movement underestimated the fighting spirit and the endurance of the coal diggers, their wives and children. Last week the news came that 400 textile mills have reduced their working schedule to one week in three. Coal and othef fuel is being rationed. Heavy industry is paying suicidal prices for coal. British coal markets are passing into the hands of German and American coal concerns. In other British markets the customers refuse to wait longer for the commodities whose manufacture has been held up by the strike. And the miners are not beaten. They are bruised and bleeding but they are choking the British lion to death. The Russian trade unions have made it possible for the miners to fight as long as they have. From the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union has come the greater part of the financial relief sent to the coal fields. This, too, is a glorious record. Contrasted with this is the shameless and shameful conduct of the Trade Union Congress leaders and those of Amsterdam. They have joined hands with the British government and if the miners} are beaten they and they alone must take the blame. But will the miners be beaten? We do not think so. They may not win all their demands, but it is certain now that they will save their union and they have dealt their enemy, British imperialism, a blow from which it will never recover. The courageous struggle of the miners has accelerated the decay of British capitalism and will make it possible and necessary for the British working class to select a leadership for the new great struggles of the near future which will give the labor movement a general staff that will not sound the call for retreat when the masses are in the midst of an onslaught on the fortresses of British im- perialism. Cooking the Klan’s Goose it is generally and freely admitted that the political crowns on the heads of the G. O. P.dom are not sitting any too pretty nowadays. In capitalist politics, victory is only a prelude to disaster. Only a few short years ago there was great rejoicing in the G. O. P. camp because the old stalwarts of all that was most con- servative in republicanism won out in Indiana, Today there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. It seems that the Hoosier voters had as little to do with the election of Governor Jackson and his machine as J. P. Morgan had to do with witning the war. The job was done by D. C. Stephenson, protector of pure womanhood, defender of the Volstead law and half a dozen other worthy and laudable causes. But when the quilts were lifted Hoosierdom did not see much purity, or sobriety for that matter. Now it will be told. Because in the G. O. P. of Indiana, there are worthy persons whose needs have not been satisfied. No matter how susceptible graft may to the spreading-out process, there is a limit, and so the murder is coming out. Concisely, the present government of Indiana owes its existence to that infernal organization known as the ku klux klan. Stephen- son, head of the K. K. K. at the time the present government got into power, is now serying a life term in prison for murdering a girl he had previously raped. The beneficiaries of Stephenson's klan in- fluence are now willing that the ex-dragon should stew in his own juice. But unfortunately for the present officialdom, Stephenson was able to get ‘in touch with a number of dissatisfied persons, with the result that some of the truth is being told and the governor of Indiana and the prosecutor are beating a retreat to shelter. The K. K. K. represents fundamentally the rotting heart of cap- italism. It is based on graft and corruption, just as capitalism is based on robbery. Klanism is passing, for the time being. But the mental types that fall for kluxism are the types that get excited over a Coolidge interview on the value of religion. LENINGRAD WORKERS HEAR ZINOVIEV AND CONDEMN HIS FACTIONAL WOR MOSCOW, Oct. 8.—Continuing their open defiance of the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party’s resolution against unauthorized public meet- ings to discuss party policy, Trotsky and Zinoviev, leaders of the opposition against the policies of the Central Committee, addressed meetings of factory workers today, Zinoviev spoke ‘in Leningrad to a meeting of 2,000 workers and was frequently interrupted by shouts and whistlingy! po tising rates on application, | | ARTICLE NINE, By WILLIAM F, DUNNE. | qVHE gap between the unorganized | + semi-skilled and unskilled workers jin the basic industry and the organ- only in the sense that the waget ficials of the national and interna- tional unions involved placed the {question of their craft union rights |above the question of winning the | strike, The same symptom of a malady Not by several Irish miles. |ized workers is growing. wider—not | fatal to the trade union movement in hese days of huge concentrations of | working conditions and the extent of |/ndustrial capital, was evidenced in job control of the unorganized work- | ‘he strike of metal miners in Butte ers are less favorable, but the trade |and other great metal mining camps unions have lost a good deal of their | in 1917-18. former influence among them for two| Here the officials of -the Interna- | reasons in addition to those already |tional Union of Mine, Mill and Smel- | cited: | First, because the trade union of- | ficialdom makes little if any attempt |to reach these workers and in some | cases actually displays a contempt for them. Second, because the trade union of- ficialdom, saturated in craft unionism land tied to the bosses by the machin- ery of the capitalist parties and a thousand bonds of worker-employer | cooperation, is incapable of appealing | to these workers who, when they en- |sage ina conflict with the capitalists, | know little of and care less for the \internal politics of the trade union {movement and its perennial jurisdic- tional conflicts, its craft divisions and obsolete machinery which acts as a brake on the struggles of its member- ship and the unorganized workers as well, CLASSIC example of the impo- tence of the present leadership was furnished recently by the strike | |of the motormen and switchmen em- ployed by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York. After many attempts on the part of the strikers and thelr sympathizers to get action from the officials of the Amalgamated Association of Street & Electric Railway Employes, the trade union having jurisduction oVer this industry, a conference-was arranged. The strike itself was an inspiration to anyone except an old line trade union officer. The workers had broken jwith the company union, they had | struck without any guarantee of sup- ‘port from any section of the labor movement, the New York police had been mobilized against them, but the strikers were the last to acknowledge that they had tackled too big a job without adequate preparation, NSTEAD of taking charge of the strike and giving it organizational | direction, placing it under the auspices ‘of the recognized union and appealing |to the labor movement for support, the official of the Amalgamated Street |& Electric Railway Employes first in- |formed the strikers that they would jhave to be split up into separate }local unions in accord with the sacred {constitution and by-laws of his wnion, | The strikers quite naturally looked {upon this proposal as a method of | weakening the strike and particularly |were they unable to understand the jnecessity of such procedure when they were at grips with one of the most | powerful corporations in New York City, | To the trade union official the union /as an institution, with all tts rules jand regulations, was paramount, To \the unorganized strikers, the strike and the extension of the strike was the important thing. The strikers were right and here is shown the fundamental difference be- tween unorganized workers in motion ‘and a trade union officialdom which | thinks fF8t/of a “settlement” of “get- ting the men back to work.” HE same reverence for craft auto- The press reports Ha. ee. ‘ed on a resolution con- nomy in @ more aggravated form -demning Zinoviey ab who von ws . «, (mictean voted ™ va9 largely responsible for the defeat 7 favor. if Ng thy etvet strike tn 191920, The " t - |termen, confronted with the possibility jot organizing decisive sections of the |industry and regaining the ground lost in the previous ten years, insisted that jthe strikers must fifst go hack to work, bring up their grievances thru the “regular union channels” and al- llow the executive board to pass upon them. All this after a bitter struggle had been in progress for weeks. STILL more recent instance, is the elimination from the resolu- {tion calling for theorganization of |the auto industry passed by the A. F. jot .L. convention in Detroit of a pro- vision postponing jurisdictional ques- | tions for the time being. The elimi- jnation of this provision practically nullifies the purport.of the resolution as was no doubt intended. Instances of this sort could be mul- tiplied almost indefinitely and a still more recent one, small in itself but important as representing a general tendency, has occurred in the strike of 100 Negro women working for a low wage confectionery concern in Chicago, These workers struck against “ A MERICA needs a critic,” declares Michael Gold, editor of the New Masses, in the October number of the magazine, which appeared today, He declares that most of our young writ- ers turn to France for new ideas, but “young Americans ‘ean learn nothing from the 200-year-old -boulevardiers except to sit at sidewalk cafes and sip aperitifs, literariously.” of the fallacy of that dogma. He is popular, not for @sthetic reasons, but because he has @kpressed “the philos- ophy of our-nouv@aux riches. He has rediscovered Nero’s philosophy of feasting and futility. An idealist is not a good moneygnaker,.and if he is to get on the bapd-wagon, to share some of the immense boodle that is now circulating so freely here, he must cagt overboard all his ideals. This renegadism Mencken has made seem the jolliest ‘and most sophisti- cated of gestures,” ® Waldo Frank, Van Wyck Brobvks, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman, Jos. Krutch, Edmund Wilson and V, F, Calverton are all rejected in turn by Gold as the great eritie needed by the new generation of American writers. All are unequipped or have gone up blind alleys, he continues, His article ends with the following apostrophe: F A Poet's Prayer. “O Life, send America a great lit- erayf critic. The generation of writ- er#is going to seed again, Some of them started but are beginning to live fat andpphigh, and have for. gotton the ardors of their generous youth, The generation of writers is NM ls As The N. Y. Graphic Sees The Frame-up Of Passaic Strikers From Portland to Detroit | MIKE GOLD ISSUES FERVENT CALL FOR THE MISSING LITERARY CRITIC j¢an shame our writers back to their “Mencken,” Gold says, “is a salon-|task of civilizing America. singer celebrating the ‘freedom’ of the |8ldier who has studied history, Send artist, but is himself the best example |® Strong poet who loves the masses WHEN A MAN STRIKES IN PASSAIC! — a wage cut and appealed to the Chi- | cago Federation of Labor for assist- ance in organizing and conducting their strike. A leading official of the Chicago Federation of Labor spoke to the meeting of strikers and in place of telling the workers what union they could and should join, stated tft the question of organization should be postponed until the strike was settled. The truth of the matter is that the trade union officialdom lives in deadly fear of a great influx of formerly un- organized workers into the trade un- ipns. Their control of the trade union movement is made possible today by the slight changes"in the personnel of the movement. They have to deal now only with organizations, large num- bers of the members of which are vic- timized by the traditions of the past and who participate in varying de- grees in the special privileges of the trade unions which 8$kill, custom, strategic situation ‘or support of the capitalist’ parties give. HE trade union leadership does not want to,and cannot organize large masses of workers who can and must be organized, While these work- ers remain outside of the trade unions the officialiom has a comparatively easy time maintaining its control, While they retain control it is a her- culean task to get the trade unions to launch genuine organizing campaigns and a still more difficult task to pre- vent these campaigns ending in defeat and disillusionment for the workers involved. This is a vicious circle which the Communists and the left wing must break, corrupted by all the money floating around everywhere. It is unfashior able to believe in human progress any longer, It is unfashionable to work for a better world. It is unfashionable and unsophisticated to follow in the footsteps of Tolstoi, of Dickens, Shel- ley, Blake, Burns, Whitman, Trotsky. Send us a critic. Send a giant who Send a and their future. Send someone who doesn’t give a damn about money. Send one who is not a pompous lib- eral, but a man of the street. Send no mystics—they give us Americans the willies. Send no coward, Send no pedant. Send us a man fit to stand up to skyscrapers. A man of art who |ments in his talk he would forget the-English word. He had Gs ANEW J NOVEL Ghoa Sinclair {Copyright, 1926, by Upton Sinciatr) CHAPTER XI THE REBEL I At Southern Pacific University the class lines were tacitly ‘ but effectively drawn, and in the ordinary course of events a man of Bunny’s wealth, good looks and good manners, would have associated only with members of fraternities and sororities. If some Negro boy were to develop eloquence as a debater, or if some one taking.a course in millinery or plumbing were to dis- play fleetness as a hurdler, the hurdler, might hurdle and the de- bater might debate, but they would not be invited to tea-parties or dances, nor be elected to prominence in the student organiza-» tions; such: honors were reserved for tall Anglo-Saxons having H regular features, and hair plastered straight back from their fore-| heads, and trousers pressed to a knife edge and never worn two days in succession. But here was Bunny Ross; persisting in fooling with “dan- gerous thoughts,” that made his friends angry. Of course, as anyone would have foreseen, there were “roughnecks” and “goats,” anxious to break in where they were not wanted, and perfectly willing to pretend to think that our country ought not to intervene in Russia, if by so professing they could get to know one of the socially elite. So Bunny found himself on talk- ing terms with various queer fish. For example, there was Peter Nagle, whose father was president of a “rationalist society,” and who seemed to have one dominating desire in life—to blurt out in class that what was the matter with the werld was stiperstition, and that mankind could never progress until they stopped beliey- ing in God. In a university all of whose faculty were required to be devout Methodists, you can imagine how popular this made him. Peter looked just as you would expect such a boor to look, with a large square head and a wide mouth full of teeth and a shock of yellow hair which he allowed to straggle round his ears and drop white specks onto his coat collar—his coat did not match his trousers, and he brought his lunch to the university tied with a strap! And then there was Gregor Nikoliaeff. Gregor was all right, when you got to know him, but the trouble was, it was hard to know him, because his accent was peculiar and at critical mo- jet black hair, and black eyes with a sombre frown above them— in short, he was the very picture of what the students called a “Bolsheviki.” As it happened, Gregor’s father had belonged to one of the revolutionary parties whom the Bolsheviks were now sending to jail; but how could you explain that to a student body which dumped into one-common garbage-can Socialists and@ Communists and Syndicalists.and Anarchists, Communist-An- archists and Anarchist-Syndicalists, Social Revolutionaries and Social Democrats, Populists, Progressives, Single-Taxers, Non- partisan LeaguerefPacifists, Pragamtists, Altruists, Vegetarians, Anti-viyisectionists and opponents of capital punishment. Also there was Rachel Menzies, who belonged to a people that had been chosen by the Lord, but not by the aforesaid student body. Rachel was rather good-looking, though in a dark, foreign way; she ™ short—what feminine enemies would have called “dumpy”—and made no pretense at finery, but came to ¢ the university in black cotton stockings and a shirt-waist that did not match her skirt. There was a rumor that her father — worked in.a clothing. factory, and her brother was pressing students’ pants for an education. And here was the discoverer and heir-apparent of the Ross Junior oil field, letting himself be seen in public with these peo- ple, and even trying to introduce them to his fraternity brothers; excusing himself by. saying that they believed in “free speech,” As if it were not obvious that they would, having everything to gain and nothing to lose! Proletarians of all universities unite! Poor, Bunny got it from. both sides. “Look here,” said Donald Burns, president of the sophomore class, “don’t you in- troduce met to any more of your Yid fairies.” And then, “Look, here,” said Rachel Menzies, “don’t you introduce me to any more of your male fashion-plates.” Bunny protested, he had the idea that all kinds of people ought to know one another; but Rachel ~ informed him that she thought too much of herself. “Probably you've never been snubbed in your life, Mr. Ross, but we Jews learn the lesson early in our lives—not to So where we aren't wanted.” Said Bunny, “But Miss Menzies, if you believe in ideas, you oa we by teac| grees ank you,” she said; “I believe in m: ie teach Donald eng y ideas, but not enough : “But how can you tell?” Bunny protested. “You're - ing me, and J don’t belong to the gis 5 ay class.” He had athe that this girl was a member of the Socialist party, and it was "slaty commeiecmeaeay a well as Jewish consciousness. chel insisted that Bunny was one person in capable of -believing what was contrary to his pots Ry one ests. But. Bunny had no awareness of anything extraordinary about himself. Instead of being a conspicious and shining leader. as his high destiny directed, he was always looking for some one he could lean to, some one who was positive, and whom he could trust. He found some of this in Henrietta Ashleigh, whe knew exactly what was proper; and he found some more of it in Rachel Meanie whe arr Seah ies was true, and said it with ene ness: that were fla: wilig! . — Pacific culture. ow Saenae 4 YeRting F si ms » only trouble was, the contradiction authorities; it appeared almost as if what was nae hae ating pa and what was proper was not true! For Henrietta considered Rachel an impossible person, and was cold as a corpse in her presence; while Rachel’s idea of being insulting was to tell Bunny that it was with Henrietta he really belonged, his Creator had made him to také her to church, can match the purposeful. deeds of Henry Ford. Send us a joker in over- alls. Send no saint, Send an artist, Send a scientist. Send a Bolshevik. Send a man.” Victims of World War of 1917 Siill Lacking Hospitals to Die in WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. Recom- mendations have been forwarded to the White House as to the location of the new tuberculosis hospital for victims of gas and other sufferings im the world war. The hospital will be built near Tucson, Ariz, In it will bo gathered veterans who have been dragging out a miserable existence in other shelters where they testify the housing and attendance have been so had that they could not hope to regain health, ‘ i (Continued Tomorrow.) SNe ea ananninsemastalibintatids a See N.Y. PARTY SECTIONS MEET ON TUESDAY ' On Tuesday October 12th there will be held Section M embership Meet- ings thruout the city called by the District Executive Committee to mobilize the eigen for one of the most important campaigns of the party. le District Executive Committee will have a re resentati' H meetings and a Roll Call will be taken, ‘ ON ae The Meetings on Tuesday October 12th are as follows: Sec. 1—Will have no meeting since they met on Octéber 8th. Sec. 2--66 B. 4th St. (Manhattan Lycoum) at 6 p.m. ~ Sec. 3—At 301 W, 29th St. at 6p. m. ' Sec. 4—At 81 B, 10th m. . f Sec. 5—At 1847 8 p.m. / * \. Sec. 6—At ; ; Pern rooklyn, v= D, m. , tr All other p ‘this night 63 Members wh. f Por some tii ry ime or who are Not properly att mmootings traight ,