The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 14, 1926, Page 6

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LOEB....... ..Business Manager Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- under the act of March 3, 1879. cago, Il., _ Advert Romany Marie—American Imperial- ism’s Hetaira The visit of Queen Marie of Roumania to the United States ac- companied by lyrical blurbs in the capitalist press (she has been giving advice on how to be beattiful to charmless women ‘thru the | columns of the Hearst press as one of the syndicated writers) is} reminiscent of the arrival of captured queens in ancient Rome with the difference that this pampered hetaira of American imperialism instead of being chained to a chariot is given the royal suite on an American government liner. Different time, different methods. But there js nothing figurative about the chains which bind the Roumanian workers and peasants to American ‘(and French) capital and the Roumanian rulers. With the possible exception of Bulgaria, the lot of the Roumanian masses is the worst in Europe. So horrible are the conditions inflicted upon Roumanian work- ers and peasants that the French unitarian trade union federation, representing, one-half the organized workers of that country, has scnt the following protest to the Roumanian ambassador in Paris: “We ask you to inform yeur government that the working class of France in solidarity with the persecuted Roumanian workers and peasants, cannot tolerate that in Roumania the system of political provocation and terror is applied by the government of Avarescu. “The Confederation Generale Travailler Unitaire appeals to all organizations which count themselves on the side of the jworking class or stand for democracy, to raise their voices against the shame- ful actions of the government in Roumania. “If the present protest should not be sufficient, we will organize against the government you represent and manifestations which prove necessary, the echo.” The*close relations which the French government maintains with the Roumanian regime make this protest of French trade union- ists all the more significant. The American Federation of Labor convention now in session in Detroit can do a real service to the working class of Roumania and make a strong gesture of real international solidarity if it will authorize an emphatic protest against the official welcome extended to this royal parasite whose garments are dyed with the blood of hundreds of murdered workers and peasants. If the American labor movement were still, actuated by the anti-royalist spirit of the revolutionary colonists, Queen Marie, the gory bitch of a royal family which bathes in the blood of the toiling masses, would be allowed to land only if she swam ashore. Pax Vobiscum—Requiescat in Pace American Federation of Labor officials went back to the churches, the ministers defended them against the charge of un- Americanism hurled by the open shop papers of Detroit, Major George L. Berry, head of the Printing Pressmen’s Union, proved that it was not necessary to engage in a rough struggle with em- ployers, that it was necessary to be fhuch rougher with workers, pressmen, for instance, who went on strike and thus discredited their live-and-let-live officials, President Green got off some plati- tudes about the brotherhood of man and everybody in and near the official A. F. of L. family is happy at the gentlemanly ending of what looked for a moment like a real break between the labor lead- ers and gospel sharks. But the extremely class conscious organs of the Detroit cap- italists will have none of this. They are not fooled by ‘the protesta- "From Portland to Detroit |co-operation with the |strangling the labor ARTICLE TEN. By WILLIAM F, DUNNE, N trying to break the vicious circle with which the labor officialdom in capitalists are movement, in- {cluded in this circle being the loyalty to the parties of American capitalism, | we must bear in mind that American |capitalism is not the capitalism of the | | period which saw the formation of the | {militant struggles of m “mERET | workers. ing rates on application, | | | | tions of the labor officials because they know that officials cannot | always control workers organized in trade unions:and they know further that in proportion as the officials become more like the bosses the difficulty of their controlling the rank and file grows. The open shoppers would have no objection whatever to unions made up of Major Berrys and William Greens. But unions have to haye members as well as officials and these members, especially in these days of Communists and left wings, quite often get out of hand. The open shoppers have seen in Passaic an A. F. of L. union compelled to take over a strike which it first ignored and then de- nounced and they have lost a little confidence in the ability of respectable labor leaders to keep the brakes on permanently. So we have the spectacle of certain middle class elements mak- ing up to conservative labor leaders while the really~ class con- scious capitalist elements keep up their attack with the expectation, fully justified by developments, that the A. F .of L. officialdom will make further concessions in order to keep the peace. The protestations of patriotism, the solemn oaths of fealty to worker-employer co-operation, the determined clinging to craft lines in the auto organization resolution, the declaration for a “pro- gressive shortening” of the work-day instead of a demand for a five day week—all of these are concessions to the capitalists, They indicate that the last thing A. F. of L. officialdom in- tends to do is to call upon the American working class to struggle for organization, higher wages and a reduction of hours. SUBSCRIBE TO TITE DAILY WORKER! movement and the early and the American labor ILITANT struggle period. The great struggles of the Western Federation of Miners, of the American Railway Union, of the United Mine Workers in its effort to| establish the union, the still earlier |struggles of the steel workers and |railwaymen, represented the revolt of | the workers against the new condi- |tions which concentration. of capital industry had | and centralization of made them face, HE steel workers’ strike in 1919-20, the coal miners’ strike in 1919, the railway shopmen’s strike in 1922, can be considered as the last mass strug- gles of the American workers before the imperialists and imperialist labor leaders brought the official labor movement, in policy and tactics, in Mne with the new period—the period of American imperialist supremacy. The development of American cap- italism has been so rapid that many of the epochs; which in Great Britain for instance, lasted a decade or more, ap- pear here simply as passing and tem- porary phases whose asijgnificance escapes all but the closest observa- tion. IROM 1846, beginning with the re- Peal of the Corn Laws and the establishment of a free trade policy, Great Britain until after the Franco- Prussian war and the foundation of the German steel industry based on the captured coal and iron of Alsace- Lorraine, had a monopoly position in the world markets. Two decades are manifestations of which you wit hear more than | included in this period, but it is only since 1915 that America can be said to have established a superior posi- tion in regards to industry and finance. b" Goetg to Marx, Engels describes the labor movement of Britain in that period in these words: Everywhere the proletariat is the ragtag and bobtall of the official par- ties, and if a party has been strengthened thru the new elec- torate, it is the Tory Party..... practically | ceased with the close of the war | But nevertheless %t remains a ter- rible testimony of the low niveau of the British proletariat. The priesthood has given evidence of un- expected power, and so has kow- towing to official respectability, Not a single labor candidate has a ghost of a chance, but Mylord Tom- _Nod or some parvenu snob carries off the votes of the workers with | the greatest ease. |. With some slight modifications the above description can be applied to the American labor movement of today {even to the undoubted strengthening | of the republican party. by woman suff- tage amendment, the “unexpected power” of the priesthood (the recent | Eucharist-Congress "and the attitude |of the churches in Detroit), “the kow- | towing to respectability,” a notorious vice of the American Betor movement, jete. T is easy to fall into an error, how- ever, when making such compari- sons and an error can be made from two directions: First, from attaching too much im- portance to the militant.wage and organization struggles of the American | workers which took place in the pre- imperialist epoch and’ thereby beliey- ing that all that is necéssary to revive the labor movement ‘is to concentrate on certain obvious needs of the move- ment such as extension of trade union organization, higher wages, shortening of the work-day, etc, These measures alone will not give the American labor movement the character it must have in this im-| Perialist epoch. HE second error can be made by attaching to much importance to the absolute influence of an imperial- ist environment on the American working class, by carrying the analogy with the British movement in the rising capitalist period too far. The Great Britain of which we speak existed in- a capitalist world which was fairly stable, in a world where capitalism was still on the up- grade. American capitalism exists in a world where capitalism has reached its zenith and which is being torn asunder by irreconcilable conflicts be- tween groups of imperialist nations and by the similar Conflicts between capitalist class and working class, a world in which capitalism is chal- lenged by the —— of the Soviet Union. EVERTHELESS the history of the British labor movement contains many valuable comparisons and les- sons for American revolutionists be- cause we can see, thi in immensely slower growth, the ess by which Lye the British labor movement developed) into the powerful anti-imperialist and revolutionary force (I speak now of the movement itself and not of the leaders) which it has become, By the late eighties the competition of Germany (and. to some extent of the United States) was being felt by Britain in the world markets. She no longer enjoyed a monopoly position, In 1889, Engels writing to Sorge de- scribes the change that could be noticed in the British labor movement; The movement is at last in mo- tion and as | think for good, but it is not downright socialist Formally the movement is a trade union movement, but totally differ- ent from the old trade unions, the skilled laborers, the labor aristo- cracy. x People proceed quite differently now, they bring much bigger masses Into ‘the struggle, they bring for- ward more far-reaching demands: the eight-hour day, general federa- tion of all organizations, complete solidarity .... +. Moreover, the people themselves look upon thelr Present demands in the light of provisional demands, altho they do not as yet know for what ultimate aim they are working ..... Like eVeryone else they must learn by their own experience and from the consequences of thelr own mistakes. But this will not take very long as they, contrary to the %old trade unions, deride any illusion to the common interests of capital and la- bor. T will be seen that in 1889 large sec- tions of the British working class, under the influence of the competitive struggle which the ruling class was engaged in and which already threat- ened its world supremacy, had ad- vanced farther than the American working class has in 1926, but had taken about forty years to do this. But here again we must keep in mind the difference in the world situa- tion and the immensely more rapid tempo of the class and imperialist conflicts today. The favorable position of American capitalism will not last as long as that of British capitalism did, and already we eee the beginning of a new compe- tition for world markets in the rise of European industrial trusts which, ironically enough but serving to show the conflict between industrialists and financiers, are backed by Wall Street. There is in addition the ever-in- creasing burden of militar‘sm which presses heavily on the masses and the ever-present danger of world war, (To be continued.) <By ERNEST HAECKEL ‘ (Continued from. previous issue), Critical philosophy, moreover, long ago pronounced its doom. In the first place, the most famous critical thinker, Immanuel Kant, proved in his “Critique of Pure Reason” that absolute science affords no support to the three central dogmas of/ meta- physics, the personal God, the immor- tality of the soul, and the freedom of the will. It is true. that he after- wards (in the course of his dualistic and dogmatic metamorphosis) taught that we must belleve these three great mystic forces, and that they are in- dispensable postulates of practical reason; and that the latter must fake” precedence over pure reason, Mod- ern German philosophy, which clam- ors for a “return of Kant,” sees his chief distinction in this impossible reconciliation of polar contradictions. The churches, and’ the ruling powers in alliance with them;'accord a wel- come to this diametrical contradie- tion, recognized by all candid readers of the Konigsberg philosopher; - be- tween the two reasons. They use the confusion tliat’ ‘results for . the © pur~ pose of putting the light of the creeds in the darkness of- doubting reason, and imagine that they save religion in this way. Whilst we are engaged with the im portant subject of réligion, we must refute the charge, often made, and renewed ‘of recént years, that our Monistic philosophy and the theory o! evolution that forms its chief founda tién destroy -religion. -It. is only” op: posed to those lower forms of. re: ligion. that are based -on superstition and ignorance, and would hold man’s reason in bondage by empty formal- ism and belief in the miraculous, in order to control it for political pur- poses, This is chiefly the case with Romanism or Ultramontanism, ‘that pitiful caricature, of pure christianity that still plays so important a part in the world. Luther would turn in his grave if he would ‘see the predomi nance of the Roman center party in the German, empire . “today. “We find the papacy, ~ the deadly enemy of protestant ‘Germany, controlling “its destiny, arid the’ Reichstag submitting willingly to be led, by the Jesuits. Not a voice do we hear raided in It against the three most dangerous and “mis- chievous institutions ‘of Rémanism— the obligatory celibacy of the clergy; the confessional, and’ indulgences. Tho the’e later institutfone of the Roman ehureh have nothing to do with the original téaching of the church” and ‘pure christianity; tho their immortal consequences, so preju- dicial to the life of the family and the Labor Party Issue Raised by Max Hayes (Continued from trom page 1.) the delegates felt that here was a subject upon which they could ex- Press their real feelings. Altho the talk by Hayes did not put the Labor Party issue squarely before the con- vention, nevertheless it got a warm reception as compared to the cold shoulder accorded to Delegate John H. Walker, president of the Illinois Fed- eration of Labor, who announced, “We've made up our minds in Illinois to give the A. F. of L. non-partisan political program a tryout. We're go- ing to give it a good tryout.” Evidenjly most of the delegates felt that the A. F. of L. program had been {given an excellent tryout in Illinois where the candidacy of Sammy In- sull’s hired man, Frank L. Smith, who got the republican nomination for United States senator, had been en- aorsed by the state federation with Walker at its head. No doubt the delegates had to hold their noses with their hands, while Walker was talk- ing, rather than use their hands in ap- Dlauding his remarks. Walker Talks, Walker started out by ‘telling of the fight for the primary in Illinois, where it has been declared unconsti- tutional.- Walker declared that 90 per cent of the people in Tlinois are for the primary, and if the primary law is declared unconstitutional, he de- clared the next legislature will pass a tiew primary law. “Like the previous speaker I have been affiliated with practically every- thing that has appeared under the name of independent political ac- tion,” he said, then making this con- cession, to those with whom he had formerly been associated, “I believe that those who now stand for the Labor Party idea are honest and sin- cere. If these men had joined to- gether and supported us in our prac- tleal program, we would have made greater progress. I know that they can't be bluffed or bribed, and we want them to come into the regular novement,” Walker did not say if his continued fforts to give the A, F. of L, non- vartisan political program a tryout neant that Sammy Insull’s man, Fri- ‘ay, would continue to get the sup- ort of the Illinois Federation of aabor, In fact all the speakers were wetty shy in boosting the republican ind democratic party candidates, Thus Frank X. Martel, president of he Detroit Federation of Labor, and 1ost to the A, F, of L, convention, told in detagleof the recent “palace revolution”. he staged within the Wayne, Cott (Detroit) republican .J convention, that resulted in his being thrown with*his followers into the street. But Martel gave no inkling what he would like peg see the organ- ized workers of Detroit do in the future. ; Andy Complains, Delegate Andrew Furuseth, of the Seamen's Union, outlitied what he de- clared to be a deliberate campaign to discredit the whole system of repre- sentative government: He said this was part of the program ef attack against the primary. Delegate BE, S. McCullough, of the Typographical Union, ’*declared that the primary law in his*home state in Nebraska had been written in part on his desk. He was formerly managing editor of the Omaha, Neb., Bee, a cap- italist newspaper. Woll Closes. Delegate Matthew Woll, secretary of the resolutions committee, then closed the discussion. He did not answer any of the demands for in- dependent political action. He refused to be drawn into a discussion of the success of the A. F. of L.’s non-par- tisan policy. He declared that the resolution, introduced by Harry W. Fox, delegate of the Wyoming Fed- eration of Labor, merely cafled for support of the primary system as against the cgpvention system of selecting candidates, Woll claimed all the delegates had expressed ap- proval of the primary ahd called for the vote. The resolution was adopted. This was the only resolution that aroused any discussion with the first re day's consideration’ Of the report of the resolutions committee. Neither Delegate EB. D, Barry, of the Pennsyl- vania Fedération of Labor, nor the members of the deléegation of the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, who had introduced resolu- tions attacking the Citizens’ Military Training Camps, would take the floor to defend their resotutions. Military Trainthg Camps. The resolutions against the camps declared that the slogan of the A, F, of L, should be, “Down with War!" and against the militarization of the youth, It had been pointed out that the large open shop employers domi- nated the camps. They called on the A. F, of L. to fight the move to force the youth of labor to serve as cannon fodder in the next war. The resolutions committee offered a substitute telling of the visit of the A. F. of L. executive council to the Plattsburg Camp in New York City, in which it was claimed that workers derived benefit from the training they that it received in these Camps, that they pline, For taught them citize were improved by this reason the cot disapproved of the resolutions offered and approved of the executive cg@unecil’s report on that the camps had a wholesome in- fluence on those attending them, the committee report lauded the super- vision and discipline under competent officers that helped develop the inde- pendent and creative citizen. It was claimed that all this develops “good trade union members.” The commit- tee report was thereupon carried. Sacco-Vanzetti. The resolution offered by Delegate Sam Squibb, of the Granite Cutters’ Union, calling for a federal investiga- tion of the charges made against the department of justice in the Sacco- Vanzetti case was referred to the executive council for action. The committee report also called for a re- affirmation of the previous demands made for a new trial. There was no discussion. The struggle ofthe Bakers’ Union against the bread trust was endorsed, including the demand for a congres- sional investigation into the reasons why the department of justice per- mitted the proposed Ward Merger to escape, punishment in the recent Bal- timore suit, permitting this combina- tion to remain as powerful and domi- nant as ever. It was urged that labor, thru its national and international unions, come to the support of the stricken trade unionists in the Florida area. Porto Rico, Resolutions declaring that Porto Rico had betome the property of a few financial interests and calling for as- sistance from the A, F. of L, to build the organized labor movement on the islands, were referred to the execu- tive council for action. Resolutions- protesting against any increase in postage on printed matter were endorsed. It was declared that the postal agency is a social agency not run for profit, Efforts on the part of Delegate 9. M. O'Hanlon, of the New York Fed- eration of Labor, to secure an en- dorsement of Governor Al Smith for the 1928 democratic presidential nomi- nation were sidetracked by the com- mittee’s declaration that “Tammany Al” is now running for re-election as governor, and that it is too early to consider 1928 presidential endorse- ments, The conyention thereupon en- dorsed the committee's report urging that the A, F, of L. withhold any ex- pressions of judgments as to the pre: dential nominees two years hence “until the opportune time.” Gifts Distributed. In the annual distribution of gitts to the fraternal delegates,'‘the usual watches were presented to the repre- sentatives of the orga: labor movements of Great Bri a and Mexico. The usual speediies were made, The wives of teyge the ari this question, Lt wag further claimed | delegates also got wal ; ish, German, French and Swiss frater- nal delegates to the gathering of the metal trades department are no longer in attendance here and were not in- It took Bert M. Jéwell, president of the Railway Employes’ Department of the American Federation of Labor, just about five minntes to make ‘the report for the mittee “on adjust- ments, which les jurisdictional disputes. The most important’ con- troversy seemed to be raging between the painters. and the electrical work- ers. The painters’ delegation here in- troduced, a resolution declaring” that members of the Electrical Workers’ | Union were painting poles, light and alarm boxes and other electrical equipment. matter referred to a special commit- tee for adjustment. Doyle Gets Audience. | Delegate John J. Doyle, of the Paint- ers’ Union, got ‘an audienée in the rear of the convention hall, shortly before tha gathering convened -after the noon recess, ‘by engaging” in an argument with a local Communist in his own union. Doyle voiced his proud satisfaction at driving the Commun- ists out of the union. He didn't get much sympathy out of his audience, however, the gathering not being un- der the gavel of President Green. Among those who joined in'the oppo- | sition to Delegate Doyle was Delegate Frank J, Weber,’ of the Milwaukee Central Labor Union. Delegate John L, Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, has been in thé convention hall the last few days: So far he has not taken the floor’ once. It is declared that he 1s eparing a new blast against the non-union mines owned by the Brotherhood ‘of Locomotive En- gineers, ee Farrington Out. Delegate Walter Nesbit, an Illinois official of the miners’ union, says Frank Farrington, the ousted -presi- dent, is expected back in the country | of any day now, after his trip to Europe, | live! during which his connections with the Peabody Coa} Co, in this country were |dox revealed. Nesbit says Farrington has resigned, in addition to being suspend- ed, and is out of the union, Delegate William L, Hutcheson, co- fraternal delegate with Farrington to ‘the British Trade Union Congress, has not yet made his report. Farrington did not get to the British congress after the exposure in this country of his relations with the coal barons. None of the other fraternal delegates of the A. F. of L, to.the labor con- gresses in Canada and Mexico has re- tons | Lid Beas Theodore Debs, is with LAST WORDS ON EVOLUTION It was voted to have this | State, are known to all, they exist just as they did before the ‘reformation. Unfortunately, many German princes foster the ambition of the Roman clergy, maying their “Canossa-jour- ney” to Rome, and bending the knee to the great charlatan at the Vatican. It is also very regrettable that the increasing tendency to external show and festive parade at what is called “the new court” does grave injury to real and inner religion. We have a, striking instance of this external re- ligion in the new cathedral at Serum, which many would have us regard as “catholic,” not protestant and evangel- ical, I-often met in India priests and pilgrims who beliéved they’ were pleasing. their God by turning prayer- wheels, or’setting up ‘prayer-mills that: were. set.in motion by the wind. One might utilize the modern invention of automatic machines for the same pur- poses, and set up praying automata | in’ the~ cathedral, or indulgence-ma- '} chines that would give relief from lighter sius for one mark (shilling), and from graver sins for twenty marks, It would prove a great source of revenue to the church, especially if similar machines were set up in the other churches that have lately been erected in Berlin at a cost of millions of marks. Jt would have been better to. have spent the money on schools. These observations on the more re- pellent characters of modern ortho- loxy and*piety may be taken as some reply to the sharp\attacks to which ( have been exposed for forty years, and which have lately been renewed with great violence. The spokesmen of catholic:and evangelical beliefs, es- pecially the Romanist Germania and the Lutheran Reichsbote, have vied with each other in deploring my lec- tures asa desecration of this vener- able hall,” and in damning my theory of evolution—without, of course, mak- ing any attempt to refute its scientific truth-: They have, in their christian charity, thought fit to put sandwich- men at the doors of this room, to dis- tribute scurrilous attacks on my per- son’ and my teaching to those who enter, \They have made a generous use of the fanatical calumnies that the court chaplain, Stocker, the theol- ogian, Loofs; the philologist, Dennert, i and.other opponents of my “Riddle of | the Universe,” have disseminated, and to which.I make brief reply at the end of.that work, I pass by the many un- truths of these zealous protagonists of»theology., We men of science have a different conception of truth from that which prevails in ecclesiastical circles.* As regards the relation of science to christianity, I..will only point out that it fs’ quite irreconcilable with the mystic and supernatural christian be- liefs, but that it fully recognizes the high ethical value of christian mor- ality, Its true that the highest com- mands of the christian religion, espe- cially those of sympathy and brotherly love, are not discoveries of its own; the golden rule was taught and prac- ticed centuries before the time of Christ... However, christianity has the distinction. of preaching and develop- ing tt.with a fresh force. In its time it has. had a beneficial influence on the de@lopment of civilization, tho in the middle ages the Roman catholic |) ¢ church became, with its inquisition, ‘f its witch-drowning, its burning of here- | ties, and its religious wars, the blood- dest caricature of the gentle religion of love. Orthodox historical chris- tianity isnot directly destroyed by modern science, but by its own learned and zealous theologians. The enlightened protestantism that was so effectively advocated by Schleler- macher in Berlin eighty years ago. the ‘later works of Feuerbach, the in- quiries into the life of Jesus of David ‘Strauss and Ernest Renan, the lec- tures recently delivered here by De- Ntesch and Harnack, have left very little of what strict orthodoxy regards as the indispensable foundations of historical “christianity. Kalthoff, of Bremen, goes so far as to declare that all christian traditions are myths, ‘and that the development of chris- tianity is a necessary outcome of the civilization of the time. (To be continued.) J pare oe .remind those who think that the all of the Musical Academy is we " by my lectures, that it was as ao same place that Alexander , Hu umboldt delivered, seventy-seven years (1828), the remarkable lectures The erent le up his Cosmos. r, whose clear mind had teen cane mats of Nature, and had, discovered. therein the i 5 or tage to conv “es Bel ten and to ata oh my establish, Phe! ds the +» aS Fey a tes wi Precisely what. nah. to exist in inorganic nature, [ wanted to show how the great advance of modern biol (since Darwin's time) enables us to solve the most difcult of at oe aie the historical development lants’ and animals in humanity, Humbolat in his day earned the most rely, appro val and gratitude of all free- thinking and truth;seeking mien, and the displeasure and suspicion of the ortho- and conservative courtiers at Berlin, ° Debs Confined to : Elmhurst for Rest ELMHURST, Ill, Oct, 12.—Hugene V, Debs, internatignal known social- ist leader, is fl in the Lindlahr gani- tarlum here, it became known today. Comrade Debs, it was said, is suffer- ing from a generally run-down condi- tion, and, altho it is expected that It will be oa re before he is able to return to hi } Physicians de- clared his Raa mn WAS not serious,