The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 3, 1927, Page 6

Fi | ~ that will free humanity from the curse of wage slavery. Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER ~ Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO Daily, Except Sunday Street, New York, N. ¥. Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ae Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, { J. LOU WILLIAM F. DUNNE { BERT MIL! . Editors Business Manager s mail at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. ’ Entered as second- Advertising rates on application, The Threatened War on the Soviet Union A Geneva dispatch published in a New York morning news- paper stated that there was no doubt but England was trying to build a steel ring around the Soviet Union threatening it with a Polish invasion in the event of any Soviet assistance to the Cantonese in repelling the British attack. This dispatch strikes at the heart of the present interna- tional situation. World imperialism sees in the Soviet Union a constant men- ace, and world imperialism has never relinquished the objective of crushing the workers’ and peasants’ government. Great Britain happens to be the leader of the imperialists in the con- spiracy to destroy the Soviet Union. As The DAILY WORKER has pointed out time.and time again there can be no peace between the Soviet Union and world capitalism. One or the other must go, and it is written in the stars that it is capitalism’s next move to shove off the historical checker board. It is no accident that fascist governments have arisen in Poland and Lithuania, It is no secret that another fascist gov- ernment is being conceived in Latvia. Indeed the period of con- ception is long past and the hour of delivery is near, according to reliable reports from the Baltic states. Great Britain was behind the Polish coup de’etat, behind the Lithuanian fascist seizure of power and is the guiding brain behind the plot to overthrow the complacent socialist government of Latvia and supplant it by a black shirt dictatorship. : @reat Britain has no intention of relinquishing her spoils in China without a struggle. Just now, she is indulging in honeyed speech while her steel bulldogs are growling in front of Shanghai. She knows that the masses of the Soviet Union are in sympathy with the revolutionary movement of the Chinese people struggling to throw off the yoke of the foreign brigands. She knows that the people of the Soviet Union sympathise with the hundreds of millions of imperialist victims who are ground down beneath the iron heél of imperialism all over the Orient. She knows that as long as the Soviet Union exists there is a dagger pointed at the heart of world imperialism. So she thinks this is the time to strike the blow. We are not indulging in fanciful language. This is a critical moment. The imperialists have their inner conflicts they recog- nize one mortal foe, the Soviet Union, The Soviet Union is more than a piece of territory. It is the fatherland of the world’s working class. It is the headquarters of the world ceding t is the beacon light that is guiding the untold millions of workers, peasants and subject people along the road to their emancipation. The imperialists say that the Soviet Union must go. The inter- national proletariat say that the Soviet Union must be defended with the last drop of working class blood. The imperialists want to crush the Chinese revolution. Four hundred millions of Chinese stand in the way. The imperialists want to destroy the Soviet Union, but the revolutionary masses of the world will chant the funeral dirge of the bourgeoisie in- stead. The American working class must do their share in prevent- ing the Wall Street government in Washington from carrying out its purpose to aid in the crushing of the Chinese revolution and to strike at the Soviet Union through Canton. “Hands off China.” “Hands off the Soviet Union.” Thsoe myst be the slogans of American labor. Har, Har! Mr. Lewis. The New York World rises 'to applaud the action of John L. Lewis in fumigating the constitution of the United Mine Workers of America by removing therefrom the revolutionary clause that the coal miners were entitled to the full social value of their product. This smacks too much of Communism so John turned around and decided that if the mine workers receive.an “equitable” share of their product they will have no kick coming. Who is going to determine the miner’s share of his product? The coal operator or the miner? If the former, the miner’s share would be a bowl of canned vegetable soup and a toothpick. If the latter, it would be every black diamond he sent to the surface. Under the present system neither side is in a position to en- tirely determine the distribution of the product. Where the miners are strongly organized they are able to get more of the value of their product and where they are unorganized they are obliged to accept what the boss is willing to grant them. What is equitable in. both cases depends on the weakness or strength of the miners in relation to the power of the coal operators they have to bargain with. In Lewis’ opinion the miners have no right to the mines, even tho they dig all the coal that keeps the wheels of industry moving. The mines belong to the operators by “divine right,” according to labor manager Lewis. Those few words were an eyesore to Mr. Lewis and his com- pany lieutenants for several years, but they were afraid to remove them lest the miners stage a revolt. The miners’ union has a revolutionary tradition. It was and still is—despite the treachery of the Lewis leadership—the iron battalion of the American labor movement. Lewis is now determined to bury that fighting tra- dition. Lewis can have the applause of the capitalist press. He can well afford to spend part of his $12,000 a year on a clipping serv- ice. But he can no more prevent the coal miners from carrying on the struggle to secure for themselves, in common with all other workers, the full social valye of the product of their toil, under a workers’ government than old King Canute could keep back the . tides with his broom. Get Another Subscriber for Your DAILY WORKER. > Marxian Social Science By EMANUEL KANTER and ALEX SCHWARZENFELD Introduction. This articles in the “DAILY WORKER” on different aspects of social science, in order to counteract the false and perverted education that the capital- ists have disseminated through their corrupt press, subsidized schools and universities and their servile and time-serving churches, The educators of capitalist civili- zation, have perverted all knowledge, that pertains to ancient and modern society in order to justify the ex- tence and permanence of capitalism, which is the system of war, of ex- ploitation, poverty, disease, misery and hate. They would have us believe that war, exploitation, private property etc, were always in existence. That war was born and bfed in the soul of man. They would havé us believe that we have inherited the instinct, the passion for war, exploitation and private property from the social apes, the ancestors of man. We will point out in thege articles that the capitalists and their ser- vants, the bourgeois scholars and pro- fessors, are fundamentally in error on these issues, We will show that war, private property. in the means of production, the exploitation of class by class was unknown in primitive society. That the savage and Matriarchal Bar- barian was unfamiliar with these social phenomena. Then we will pro- ceed to demonstrate how Patriarchal Barbarism sowed in the seeds of these institutions, Civilization, which is divided into three phases, Slave, Feudal and Capitalist developed more and more until today in the declining phase of capitalism (or Imperialism) the work- ing class is being overwhelmed with misery, disease, poverty and war. We are living in the last phase of capitalism, namely Imperialism, when the struggles of the workers are daily growing greater for conquest of pow- er. The Soviet Union, a living sym- bol of working class accomplishment shows the workers that they too can establish a workers and farmers’ gov- ernment. It is our intention in these articles to be printed daily to take the history of the past ages and bring them be- fore our readers in the light of His- torical Materialism. To ‘explain the development of the human race and its characteristics. It is essential to have a clear in- sight into past history, to know the why and wherefore of things not merely for the sake of being educat- ed as an ideologic factor in our daily struggles. With a clear insight of the past and present we are better fighters—Marxian, Leninist fight- ers for the future order. *. * * War in Savagery. The workers of America have been taught to believe that war was always GIN AND THE JACKASS is the first of a series of} {with us, They have had it drilled into their ‘heads, by the educators, the priests, and the lying capitalist jour- |nalists and editors that man, and par- ticularly the savage, was a warrior, always fighting, always killing. They have been convinced by the poisonous propaganda of the educated lackeys of capitalism that humanity began its career in war. That war is a part of human nature, that it is bred in the bone and marrow of man, and therefore can never be done away with, This false notion that humanity originated in war, that it originally waded’ in blood and slaughter has been put forth by Ralph Waldo Emer- son, the philosophic representative of the New England aristocracy. He would have us believe that war ex- isted in the infancy of society, that it educates the senses, calls the will into action, and perfects the physical con- stitution, In ‘more recent times William James, the father of Pragmatism in accord with the swash-buckling mili-} tarist, Theodore Roosevelt, has pro- claimed that war is a law of nature, He has further contended that we must instill suitable habits into the| working class so that they might! never attempt to overthrow their sup-| eriors, the capitalists, “Is the contention of these propa- gandists of war based ‘on fact, or is it founded on falsehood? Are they telling us the truth as to the nature of the Savage, or are they lying about him? The Marxian turns to the past his. tory of the human race for an an- swer, What does he find recorded in that history? He finds that the lowest savages known to us—the Australians, the Tasmaians, the Veddalis, the Punans of Borneo, the Sakai, the Sernangs, the Andamanese, the Eskimos, ete. are absolutely unfamiliar with the“art of war. The Marxist learns that these Sav- ages never go to war, tribe never fights against tribe, we discover, and this may be surprising to many, that he (the Savage) lives in a society of peace, in the society that practices the “Christian” virtues of brotherly love and good will toward men. He lives in the golden age of peace and natural happiness. : In illustration of our contention that man originated in a society of | peace let us mention the fact that! among the Australian Savages where| war never takes place, if one tribes- man fights another, the first blood spilt ends the contest. Seldom, if ever, do they go so far as to kill each other. The Eskimos never go to war, and do not understand what it is, for their language lacks the word “war”. Travellers have found it practically impossible to make them understand that there are people that engage in killing and exterminating one an- other. In fact the word “Savage” does not signify one who slays and kills other human beings, it doesn’t mean the! warrior, but merely the hunter, the! | right to hunt on the land, which was |no one’s private possession. | when an animal was slain all the woodman, the man who earns his liv- ing by hunting the wild animals of the forest or the plain. Suppose it were suggested that, far from civilization having tamed the savage, it has made man into a “savage”, into a being who has learned modes of violent conduct en- tirely unknown to his forerunners, Suppose it be suggested that, as civi- lization has developed from“its most primitive stages mankind has been educated in cruelty as in other ways. An argument such as this, which seems to turn thought upside down, to reverse our current conception of the meaning of what we term “civi- lization” will have to be supported by many facts if it is to gain any hearing, Yet I submit that this con- tention is sound, and that all we know of history goes to support it.”—(W. J. Perry, “The Growth of Civiliza- tion.” ee How are we to explain the exis- tence of, peace, and the absence of war, in Savagery? How are we to ac- count for the reign of peace among our savage ancestors? Among people who had no ‘houses, no laws, no chiefs, no state, who went about naked or nearly so. Who were un- clean, who were unchaste, for there was no institution as monogamy among them? The answer to this question is very simple. It is to be found in the fact that they held the means of produc- tion—the land on which they hunted and the rivers in which they fished in common, Every hunter had the The hunting instruments, his tools of pro- duction, were his own, they were not monopolized by anyone, so that he did not find it necessary to hire himself out in order to make a living. The result’ of this material con- dition was that society was classless; there are no propertied or capitalist class and no propertyless or working class. All were free and equal, men and women alike. In Savagery men and women appropriated the fruits of| nature directly, and whatever food was acquired was shared in a com- munistic fashion, That is to Say, members of the tribe—men, women, and children, received their share, No one ever went hungry for ac- cording to the hospitality: practised by them, any man or woman had the right to take some of the food of his fellow tribesman, who may have been more successful in the chase. So that we see that in such a society where private property did not exist, in which warring classes were unknown, in which the state, the armed power of the property owners, had not yet been developed, where everyone had the right to the food, even though he or she may not have worked for it himself. In such a society, war could not exist. For war is the child of private property, of the division of, society into classes, the property owners and the propertyless, as we will show in the articles that are to follow, (Next Article Tomorrow) . Under the slogan of : “Yo, Ho, Ho and a bottle of rum! Alfred L. Smith, known for short as Al, will lead the battalions of moist democracy against the arid hordes of thp south and west, led by Crown Prince William Gibbs McAdoo. Smith is a roman catholic and Wall street pet. ers and withall as willing a servant of the House of Morg: 4 s Adoo is a favorite of the anti-evolutignists and klux- as the genial Al. A pox on both of them. a XI ’ Then another strange affair for them to discuss; one you would have found still harder to guess! The American newspapers in Paris published a despatch from Angel City, setting forth that Eli Wat- kins, self-styled prophet of religion, was believed to be drowned. He had gone swimming at the beach, leaving his clothing in a hotel room, and had never been seen since; a search was being made for the body. That was all the news for a time; and Dad shook’ his head, and said, golly,. what a strange saved so many others, but couldn’t save His own prophet! What would become of that big Taber- nacle, that had been Eli’s personal property? Then the New York papers came; and later on, the papers from Angel City, with the story spread all over the front page day after day. The) body of Eli could not be found. The people of the temple employed divers—they had searchlights sweeping the water at night, arid thousands of the faith- ful patrolling the sands, holding revival services there, weeping and praying to God to give them back their beloved leader in his green bathing suit. This went on for a week, for two. weeks; and it was puzzling, because the longest time a body could stay in the sea with- out floating \was nine days, and never before had it happened that a drowned body had failed to be washed ashore. Then, more and more amazing, there began to be rumors in the papers—they were afraid to say anything direct, but they hinted, and quoted others who hinted—Eli was possibly not drowned; Eli had been seen here, he had been seen there—and always in the company of a certain young woman, whom rumor declared to have been the keeper of the sacred robes in the Tabernacle. Of course, the first time Dad saw one of those hints, he remembered what he and Bun- ny had seen that day at the beach hotel, and he went up into the air. “By God, that fellow’s playing a trick! He’s gone off on a spree with a woman!” There was a thrill for you! Dad talked about it for hours—it al- most drove the spooks out of his mind! It was no joking matter, because in the course of the search for Eli’s body two men had lost their lives—one diver had been taken with pneumonia, and a mem- ber’ of the Tabernacle, seeing what he thought was a body, had swam out too far and gone down. And here was Dad with the key to the mystery! Was it his duty to cable the facts to the Reverend Poober? More sensations yet—the people at the Tabernacle began getting letters from kidnapers, who al- leged that they had taken Eli in his green bathing suit, and had him in hiding, and demanded half a million dollars ransom for him! What was that? Nobody in Angel City could be sure. Had the prophet really been kidnapped? Or was it rtue that he was driving over the state, in company with Miss X, as the newspapers re- ferred to the former keeper of the sacred robes? One of the fun- niest aspects of the scandal was that various young couples who had gone off on love-expeditions in motor cars—a favorite diversion of the well-to-do—rfow found them- selves in an embarrassing situa- tion; all over the state newspaper reporters and police officials were looking for Eli and Miss X, and woe to arty blond man who hap- pened to register at a hotel with a girl and no marriage certificate! The denouement, when it finally came, was so sensational that it got itself cabled, and thus spared Dad a tedious wait. Thirty-five days af- ter Eli’s disappearance, some fish- ermen, rowing in a harbor several hundred miles from Angel City, encountered a man swimming, to shore, and picked him up; and be- hold, it was a tall blond man in a green bathing suit—in short, it was ; the prophet! The story he told was~ that, finding himself being carried out to sea, he had prayed to the Lord, and the Lord‘has heard his prayer, and had sent three angels to hold him up in the water. The name of one of these angels was Steve, and the second was a lady angel, whose name was Rosie, and the third was a Mexican angel, and his name was Felipe. These an- gels had taken turns holding onto the shoulder-straps of Eli’s green bathing suit; ‘and when he grew faint, one of them would fly away and bring him food. They had up- held him, even while he slept, quiet peacefully in the water. For the entire period of thirty-five days ANEW y NOVEL pon Ginclair Eli had been thus alternately swim- ming and sleeping. The devil had tome, with wings of flame, and driven the good angels away, and bound Eli’s hands behind him so that he had nearly drowned. But he had prayed to the Lord, and the angel® had floated him to a rusty old can, and held it while he rubbed his bonds against the sharp edges, and severed the bonds and was able to swim again. So here was the prophet, none the worse for his adventure; and when he had landed on the shore, and got some clothing, here came the .reporters hot-foot--for there have not been so many miracies in these skeptical recent days, and this was an indubitable one. Crowds of people swarmed about the pro- phet, they sang hosnnnas, and strewed his path with flowers, and when he got back to Angel City, you just couldn’t imagine the ex- citement— fifty thousand people at the railroad station, it beat any- thing that even the greatest mevie stars had achieved. And when he out to the Tabernacle, there were his followers falling on their knees end weeping for joy, because the Lord has answered their prayers and given them back their prophet; six times a day the vast auditori- um was packed, and outside a park was filled with people, and Eli’s mighty bellow was conveyed by a dozen loud-speakers, ard men and women fell down at the sound, and shouted “Praise the Lord!” Of course there were skeptics, people with the devil in their hearts who) refused to believe Eli’s story, and persisted in talking about a blue-colored automobile driven by a good-looking girl, having a heav- ily veiled man wearing goggles in the seat beside her. They talked about signatures on hotel-registers, and hand-writing experts, and oth- er such obscenities; but all that made no difference to the glory- shouters at the Tabernacle, which was packed all day and night, as never before in the history of. re- ligions. Over and over Eli would tell his story, full of the most con- vineing details—why, he even told how the angels’ wings had swished, and sometimes splashed water into his face; he. told the very words the angels had spoken to him., Said the prophet, if God in His Omni- potence could keep Jonah three days ‘in the belly of a whale, and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the burning fiery furnace, why could he not keep Eli Watkins afloat on the sea? It is obvious that no one could answer that. And then came an incident which settled the matter, completing the glory of the Third Revelation. Elf happened to look inside his green bathing suit, and what should he find but a snow-white feather! He recognized it, of course—a proof of his story, left there by the mercy of the Lord! When this fresh miracle was announced, the hosan- nas of the faithful shook the roof; and presently the angel’s feather was mounted in a glass case, set up behind the place where Eli preached, and, such was the Lord’s mercy, whoever even looked upon this relic, was instantly cured of all his’ ailments and had his sins forgiven—yes, even the most deadly sin of fornication! (To Be Continued.) Daily Worker Costume Ball in Detroit Will Install Lenin Portrait . DETROIT, Mich.—The first annual DAILY WORKER costume ball been arranged ‘in Detroit by The DAILY WORKER Agent's’ Confers ence for Saturday, Feb. 12, at 8 P, M., in the newly completed Workers! Home, 1343 E. Ferry. The DAILY WORKER Agents Conference plans to make this an am nual institution in the left wing la bor movement in Detroit. The huge portrait of Lenin origin« ally unveiled at the Lenin memorial meetings will be permanently ine stalled in the Workers’ Home on thiq oceasion, " Lovett Fort Whitman And Sadie Van Veen Speak in Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio. Feb. 2—« Lovett Fort Whitman, organizer of the American, Negro Labor Congress, and Sadie Van Veen, organizer of a Cleves land inter-racial group of workers, will speak at a mass meeting Friday, Feb. 4, at 8 P. M,, at the Zion Con« gregational Church, corner 55th and Ave, Serene. 2240.6 6 ie © we tee eee suede: aaktaa diincameiaind outlets teats danas Me ganar ear ne EERIE. 2 aman