The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1927, Page 6

SUOMI are een eseypaen tee neti tee a A REA PL SEED EOP DERI LES ‘ } f i } i Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1927 Ruthenberg, the Leader, | Marks New Advance of the| American Working Class| By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. | E. RUTHENBERG was the outstanding representa- '* tive of the new type of revolutionary leadership | that is developing in the United States. | The mere fact that the American working class strug- | gle for power could produce a Ruthenberg, and the party | of. Ruthenberg, the Workers (Communist) Party, is the | best reply to those pessimists who refuse to admit the | forward surge of the labor movement in this country. * * * | Ruthenberg, as the founder and leader of the Workers | (Communist) Party, was a product of the development | of the American class war. Thus he belongs to the whole working class, out of which the Communist Party | also springs. Thus the progress of the American revolutionary movement may be judged by the type of leadership of labor in the various stages of advance achieved by the working class in this country. * * * Twenty years ago the Socialist Party had reached the Same age, to which the Communist Party has grown at the present time. In 1904, Eugene V. Debs had polled nearly half a mil- | lion votes as the socialist candidate for president, and | extraordinary prophecies were being made for the inau- | guration of Socialism at an early date in this country. Thus the Socialist Party attracted to itself many peculiar eleme among them the highly advertised “millionaire socialists.” The socialist party developed the referendum as one of its chief methods of reaching decisions, not only in determining policies but in select- ing officials. Thus the selection of such “millionaire | Sééialists” as J. G. Phelps Stokes, Robert Hunter and | Joseph Medill Patterson for prominent positions in the | Party was a fairly accurate reflection of the desires of | the Party’s membership at that time, expressed thru the | réferendum. The common saying was that socialist | party leadership fell on the shoulders of the “writer and | speaker,” because of his coming most frequently in con- | tact with the party’s membership, but it was declared | with equal truth that the capitalist press often selected | socialist party. leaders thru the publicity that it gave to| “millionaire socialists,” first, upon their entrance into | the party and later because of their activities within | the party. * * * Certainly J. G.-Phelps Stokes, who joined the Socialist Party in 1906, and became a member of its national ex- ecutive committee two years later in 1908, never dis- played the least symptom of a qualification for leader- | ship in what claimed to be a revolutionary organization | of the working class. He turned 100 per cent pay-triot with the outbreak of the world war and has since been | lost in oblivion. | Robert Hunter, no doubt never a millionaire, but given | the title of “millionaire socialist” by the capitalist Press, | graduated from social work in Chicago, London and New | York, to socialist party leadership as a member of its executive committee, 1908-1912, and then disappeared. | He made some contribution to the socialist literature of | the time. He showed no qualifications for the political | direction of the forces of labor, however, being content to fall in line with the Berger-Hillquit-Spargo leader- ship. One characteristic anecdote concerning Hunter | told of his attending campaign meetings on New York's | East Side during the heat of an electoral struggle. Great | throngs were in the streets, as well as at the meetings held, which led Hunter, who lived over in less populated | Connecticut to declare, “With such numbers following} us, the revolution i8 surely near.” * * ® It was the same outlook that brought Joseph Medill Patterson, now one of the editors of The Chicago Trib- | une, and also editor of its weekly magazine, “Liberty,” | into the Socialist Party. Young Patterson, in 1905-6,! was commissioner of public works in Chicago under the | regime of the liberal democratic mayor, Edward F.| Dunne. But he thought the social revolution was com- ing on, in a hurry. He quit his job in the city hall, | joined the socialist party and helped start the Chicago Daily Socialist in the fall of 1906. He co-operated with | Algernon M. Simons in its editorship, and for a brief Space became one of the mosv prominent figures in the * But the social revolution didn’t hurry, not even to ac- | comodate young Patterson. Months measured the length | of his stay in the movement. ‘I met him in the Calumet | copper country, in northern Michigan, during the bit- terly fought s e of the copper miners in the winter of | 1918-14. At that time he reiterated the views I have} ere attributed to him. He confessed he had lost what | faith he had had, if he ever had any, in the working | class; pointed out with true capitalist superiority that copper strike was.a miserable mistake, and drank the | wine of the mine owners at the exclusive Calumet Club. The world war made him “captain” and now his biography | in “Who's Who in America” omits all mention of his | connection at any tise with the Socialist Party and its press. | * * * “Tt might be added that none of these even gave lip service to the revolution. In this they differed from Jack London, who worked with Stokes in organizing the Inter-Collegiate Socialist Society; William English Wall- ing, and the most recent example of William Bross Lloyd. Instead they belonged peculiarly to the reform- ist wing of the party. They helped make up the leader- ‘hat was thus constituted with Berger, Hillquit, - hing Stokes, Hunter, Simons as outstanding figures. | Berger and Hillquit are the lone survivors, not even be- able to retain such figures as Charles Edward Rus- and Allan L. Benson, who later joined the party, coming on the scene with the period starting in 1910, that brought the first socialist electoral victories of any magnitude in Milwaukee, Wisc., and a few other localities. Both Russell and Benson proved’ the thin- nest intellectual froth. Russell was a jingo from the beginning of the war. In spite of this fact he nearly became the party’s candidate for president in 1916. He was replaced, however, by Benson, who held to a pa- cifist anti-war stand until 1918, when he quit the party “because of its attitude toward the government during war.” * * * That the socialist party has not changed is shown by the fact that many of these renegades are now being | asked to contribute and are actually offering their con-| tributions to a symposium on “The Problems of Ameri- | ean Socialism” appearing in The New Leader, the party organ in New York City. The socialist party leadership has not changed. The working class has changed. It has brushed the reformist socialist leader- ip aside and developed as its revolutionary expres- sién, a Communist leadership, that has won mass sup- port in many instances and is developing it on an in- creasing scale. Ruthenberg was the symbol of this leadership. Its organized expression is the Workers) (Communist) Party, Ruthenberg and his party both ihe satisfactory progress achieved by American in the face of great problems and obstacles re- from the developing class war. “Shingle Weaving Is a Battle” By CA RL BRANNIN. {but so long as a thumb and one fin- “Shingle-weaving is not a trade;| ger remain, even the little one, a it is a battle. For ten hours a day|™an can still battle with the saws the sawyer faces two teethed steel|for a livelihood. I asked one man | If the singing blade rips fifty rough | fice of a manager who had just re- | turned from an up-state club where discs whirling around two hundred times a minute. To the one on the] left he feeds heavy blocks of cedar, | reaching over with his left hand to }remove the rough shingles it rips|Yeally be a blessing if the mills off. He does not, he cannot stop to see what his left hand is doing, His eyes are too busy examining the shingle for knot-holes to be cut out} by the second saw swirling in front of him. Saw Sets Pace. “The saw on his left sets the pace. shingles off the block every minute, the sawyer must reach over to its teeth fifty times in sixty seconds; if the automatic carriage feeds the odorous wood sixty times into the hungry teeth, sixty times he must reach over, turn the shingle, trim its edge on the gleaming saw in front | of him, cut out the narrow strip con- | taining the knot-hole with two quick movements of his right hand and toss the completed board down the| chute to the packers, meanwhile | keeping eyes and ears open for the sound that asks him to feed a new] block into the untiring teeth. Unprotected Hands. | Hour after hour the shingle weav-| er’s hands and arms, plain, unar-| mored flesh and blood, are staked against the screeching steel that! cares not what it severs. Hour after | hour the steel sings its crescendo note as it bites into the wood, the| sawdust cloud thickens, the wet sponge under the sawyer’s nose fills | with fine particles. ma,” the shingle weaver’s occupa-| tional disease, does not get him, the| steel will. Sooner or later he reaches | over a little too far, the whirling| blade tosses drops of deep red into| the air, and a finger, a hand or part | of an arm comes sliding down the| slick chute.” | Most Lose Fingers. | Thus wrote Walter V. Woehlke, editor of the Sunset Magazine in 1917. Except for the supplanting of the ten-hour day by eight hours, through organization, the description of the working life of the sawyer is much the same today. Ask any mass meeting of strikers here for a show of hands and concrete evidence will be afforded of the awful hazards of the industry, Ninety-five per cent of the work- ers have lost one or more fingers, If “cedar asth-| ' | costs still higher. what compensation he had received for a missing digit. Two hundred and fifteen dollars was the answer. No wonder strikers say that it would should remain closed and the work- ers forced to find their living in some less hazardous industry than the making of shingles. But under the present industrial system there are too many men for the jobs. And there’s the rub, Pitiful Low Wages. Wages in the shingle industry are pitifully small considering the dan- gerous nature of the work. The work- ers of Gray’s Harbor are on strike to resist the attempt of the bosses to reduce wages still further. Pay- ment is on a piece-work basis and the strikers declare this will be elim- inated when their union is stronger. Skilled workers receiving an average of from $5 to $6.50 per day the boss- es would cut to $4.10 and $5.90. The sawyer receives from 17 to 20 cents per thousand for the shingles, which the consumer buys at $4 or more per thousand. | Always Cutting. | The packer receives a little less. | Day labor, relatively unskilled, the boss would cut from $4 per day to $3.50. The former wages may be a trifle higher than those paid in some other shingle districts but the in- creased cost of living in Gray’s Har- bor more than. makes up the differ- ence, Food is from 15 to 20 per cent higher than in Seattle. High Rent. A dilapidated. four @ five room house, unfurnished, will rent for $22.50 per month. Water, light, etc., is extra. Board at one of the com- pany hotels for single men is $10.50 per week. The fact that most of the strikers now have to buy their gro- ceries on credit boosts the living While the mer- chants thus far have extended credit freely there is a disposition now on| the part of some of them to cut this/ off. Ninety per cent of the strikers | are married men with families and| the problem may become acute. The | strikers are endeavoring to raise money locally but they need help from the unions in other cities. Have your union vote a monthly contribu- tion at its next meeting and send same to International Shingle Weav- ers’ Union, 305 Eighth St., Hoquiam, Wash., R. E. Lovelace, Treas. Sure Thing By SPECTATOR. Those who appreciate the humor of the “Honest John” title adopted by a thousand Main Streets’ thousand poli- ticians will find an added source of entertainment in the alibis offered by defeated ring favorites. The sting of the trouncing, actually handed to the suckers who swallow the ballyhoo | prepared by subsidied sports writers, is cleverly healed. Swelling Swells. Thus, the slight swelling noted in, Jack Delaney’s thumb after his un- expected defeat by Maloney last month became a fracture. And the light heavyweight’s unexepctedly poor showing was due to worry over his wife’s illness. When Tom Gibbons took the count in his bout with Gene Tunney in June, 1925, the upset was accounted for by the “fact” that one of Gibbons’ children was ill. In an earlier fight with the champion, Dempsey, Gibbons’ had stayed the limit. When Tunney kayoed Bartley Madden who had lasted with Harry Wills, sports writers proclaimed the “fact” that Madden’s pugilistic star had outworn its brilliance. After a decent interval of “retirement” Bart- ley came back and recently defeated “Soldier” King. Useless Bribe. Recently the writer was in the of- one of his meal-tickets had decisively trounced a local favorite son. The manager bemoaned the fact that he had been so uncertain of his proteges worth that he bribed the two judges to give his man an edge in the event of a close battle. Facts like these may be received with amazement by the unsophisti- eated. The Rialto and all local fight clubs buzz with talk of a similar na- ture. Albany knows all about it— Governor Smith makes an occasional gesture. But recall that the fair- haired boy of metropolitan politics, Sportsmen Mayor, “Jimmie” Walker, was the father of the bill bearing his name | which legalized boxing in this state, | and also recollect that “Tex” Rickard | and Humbert Fugazy, millionaire | sports promoters, are among Walker’s strong backers. They and other “sportsmen” can connive and manipu- late with impunity. Nobody was ever hurt by a com- mission “investigation” and its in- evitable whitewashing. And, so far as the press is concerned, it would take .a light stronger than the one carried by Diogenes to locate a sports scribe or cartoonist on one of the me- tropolitan dailies who is not properly instructed and provided for by the publicity department maintained by the promoters. * Nefarious Trades. Broadway has its pimps and pros- titutes—and also its promoters and their press agents. And the public receives a generous closing of sugar- coated purgatives. Sometimes these take the form of “benefits,” similar to the one staged in Brooklyn last summer when practically not a cent went to the charity involved. Hooked In Sports. When a fight is framed the charmed inner circle pass around the word that | ; it is “in the bag.” As far as the public is concerned the whole business is “in the bag” and the bag encloses | name. IN THE BRITISH COAL MINES (From a Worker Correspondent.) NOTE.—Copy of a letter sent from Mansfield, Eng- land, Jan. 25, 1927, OMRADE:—Since I saw you in London last Septem- ber many great changes have taken place. You will perhaps remember meeting me at the Headquarters of the Minority Movement, London, Then we had dinner and had a talk with some Russian comrades who were at another table. After that we went to the Miners’ Of- fices in Russell Square, where we,parted,—you were soon to leave for America, and I for Russia\ with the Miners’ delegation. I.was much impressed by the conversation and now take the opportunity of telling you of conditions here. Along with many other fighters, I am victimized, can- not get work anywhere, have been unemployed since last May Ist. I am getting no union benefits because we have no union funds. Unemployment benefits are stopped because we refused to take work 14 miles away at an old mine which is deep, wet, and hot, and a two and a half miles journey underground. On reaching the coal face it is found only two feet four inches thick. This would mean kneeling and sitting down to work in water. In addition, this pit starts to wind coal at 6 A. M. This would mean being in the pit yard by 5:30 A. M. To do this we should have to get out of bed at 3 A. M. and leave Mansfield not later than 4 A. M. For this we were to receive 11 shillings a day (approximately $2.75) after spending 9 shillings (approximately $2.25) each week on bus’ fare and 15 shillings (approximately $3.75) forjrent, and pits here are only working 2, 3, and 4 days a week. You can see the impossibility of accepting such work. Because we refused such a rotten offer, all bene- fits ceased. I have been in the habit of going to the colliery at which I worked prior to the stoppage, to collect money for victimized miners. To get there I had to go on the miners’ train. To put a stop to my collecting and there- by increase my hardships, the ¢oal-bosses wired to the station master telling him not to book me on the miners’ train. This is victimization de luxe. To make matters: worse for us here, one of the county miners’ organization officials has gone over to the coal- owners and negotiated a separate agreement, which was accepted, and forced on our exhausted comrades. This | was followed up by forming a company union with this| reactionary social-democrat as leader. Spencer is his As a consequence, the Nottinghamshire Miners’ Association* which has been established and recognized for years by the bosses, is now refused any recognition whatever. But I am pleased to say that in spite of all the propaganda and bribes, the men refuse to join this new union. Spencer is having a rough time wherever he goes. The miners in Notts will not accept Spencerism. I am sorry to say that just at a time when I am most needed in the district to combat the growth of reaction, I shall be compelled to leave the district through lack of financial assistance. On leaving, all my Trade Union and Labour connections, which it has taken years to es- tablish, will have to be surrendered. It is a tragedy to the revolutionary movement here in Mansfield. Our next great fight is for One Union, for all mine- workers—a task we are just getting busy with. Con- ferences are being held in various parts of the country. I am organizing one in our town for March 12th, when one union will be the chief item on the agenda. In Appreciation of Ruthenberg’s Services. Editor, Daily Worker—To show a small fraction of my appreciation for what our Comrade Ruthenberg did for my class (The Workers), I am sending $1.00 for as many copies of his pamphlet “The Workers (Communist) | Party” as you can afford. From a Class War Prisoner’s SMether—Mrs. Allora Merrick, Methuen, Mass., March 12, 1927. SEND IN YOUR LETTERS The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters from its readers, giving their views on events of in- terest to workers. They should be brief, not over 200 or 300 words, carefully written. Do not resort to in- vective or abuse, but state your opinion ‘clearly and con- cisely. Address all communications to “The Letter Box,” The DAILY WORKER, 33 First street, New York City. Girl Studies Effect of Alcohol every one of the fight fans who swal- low the stuff provided by the pro: titute press. The American boob hooked in sports as well as in busi- ness and politics. Prison Break Fofled. AUBURN, N. ¥., March 17. — A second attempt to escape from Au- burn Prison by Lillian MacDowell, alias “Cat Eye Annie,” international known jewel thief, was revealed to-|F day after her removal from the prison here to the state hospital for the crim- inal insane at Matteawan. WOMEN’S HOME WORK MAKES CHILD SLAVES — (By Student in Workers School Journalism Class.) Sweated home sewing is cheating children of workers in New York and the suburbs of their schooling. Six year old Michael’s teacher made this discovery on his visit to his home. This bright little fellow had made a good start in school. However, after frequent absences he began to lag behind. In a few weeks he lost his standing altogether. Sweat Shop Helper. Answering the questions of Michael’s sorely tried teacher, the mother said, “I keep him home to help with the baby.” se | “You see I must go after this work | and take it back.” She pointed to a huge pile of coat linings. _boys helped nightly with this work.” ing her hand distractedly over her head. “What with this sewing and the housework and all, I just can’t always manage to get him ready.” All do Home Sewing. “All the mothers in the neighbor- hood take home sewing from the fac- tory,” said the head teacher, “They have done it all the years I have been here, Why we had one family where the boys used to go to sleep in school. We found out that all these Stagger Under Bundles, Michael’s teacher has gotten used to the sight of women and children staggering along under a load of cut out clothing. This is work that the wives of workers can do and at the same time try to look after house “Oh, I am so busy,” she said, pass- and att 4 " “Wanda Blanchard, junior at Woodrow Wilson High School, Long Beach, Calif., is studying the effects of aleoholism and herédity in the rats of the biology de- partment of the school. She is shown in the photo feeding Genevieve, white rat, the favorite pet of the de- partment. The effect of alcohol stimulants on both the rats and: their progeny is noted by the class members, i iP SE ORR AN eR kad Aiba ORION baie A WORKERS’ PLAY. “The Machine-Wreckers,” by Ernst Toller. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. $2. We have our poet of the revolution in Ernst Toller. Toller is the proletariat’s own dramatist, writing with a burning pen of the workers’ struggles and aspirations. He is no slinger of fine phrases or painter of pretty pictures, sitting aloof in a quiet room far from the fight and com- posing. No! . Toller’s finest works were written, seated on a hard stool be- hind steel prison bars, And he was behind those prison bars because of his active participation in the memorable revolutionary uprising in Germany dur- ing the Spartacan struggle. Surely a’ fine schooling for a revolutionary artist, ‘ * * * This play is a dramatic yersion of the uprising in 1812 of the English Luddites against the introduction of machinery in the weaving industry. Hundreds of weavers, skilled craftsmen with a trade, are thrown out of work and replaced by one “iron man.” There is no more necessity for trained mechanics, Women and children can do their work for smaller wages and labor longer hours. The weavers strike in protest. Not only savagely ex- ploited, but they feel their manhood has been insulted by this dumb iron monster, feelinglessly taking their places. The weavers are left to starve with all its attendant miseries. Their wives sell their bodies for a bread crust and their children begin to resemble bony skeletons. Finally they gather at the factory and in blind fury smash the machines and their leader who counsels patience and international organization. The military arrives with the usual results. * * * Here is red meat for a real Workers’ Theatre. The play cries for ex- Pression. There are three or four scenes which will cause the blood of every worker to rush faster and his heart to beat madly. Come on you new play- wrights in 52nd street; show us what you can do, A. Resika. STILL MORE ABOUT “THE NEW MASSES”. “It seems to me,” writes Lawrence Williams, “that Benjamin Weiss in his letter about “The New Masses” commits a flagrant injustice against the magazine. With all its faults, I don’t think “The New Masses” is one-tenth as black as he has painted it. He seems to be entirely oblivious to the dif- ficulty of doing what “The New Masses” has attempted to do and the courage that it requires to buck not merely a social and economic order, but a debased artistic sense that extends to the vast majority of the people who are hostile to the capitalistic system. d “T want to ask Mr. Weiss what he expects “The New Masses” to do. Granted that Waldo Frank and Kreymborg are not proletarian writers (what- ever that may be), can he suggest others who are more “proletarian”? Artists are not autonomous creatures, but the products of specific societies. “The New Masses” has been attempting to function in a society which is not proletarian, and in that society it has been trying to discover proletarian tendencies. That these tendencies are frequently vague and obscure is*not the fault of the magazine. And if certain writers who have no interest in the class struggle deliberately write in a manner that seems sympathetic and succeed in imposing on the editors of “The New Masses,” it is the writers who have dishonored themselves and their art, not the magazine. ete * “T agree with Mr. Weiss that there should have been something about China in the last issue and that there should bea more unified expression and support of specific working-class struggles. But this doesn’t mean that discussions of sex are irrelevant and fatuous, The fact that sex has been overwritten in novels and vulgarized in the tabloids doesn’t mean that it is unimportant. It seems to me that any discussion of a new social and economic order must make some provision for a reorientation of the relations between the sexes, which are at present to so large an extent based on the conception of private. property. Perhaps the editors phrased it rather pedantically when they called it “the correct revolutionary proletarian attitude towards sex,” but that doesn’t invalidate the discussion itself. “Personally ‘The New Masses” has meant a great deal to me and I should hate to see it cease publication. There is no magazine in the country like it.” CELEBRATING WITH THE AMBASSADORS. It is highly probable. that the two million six hundred thousand readers ef the SATURDAY EVENING POST are beyond regeneration; that the psyche of these readers corresponds in level to the bilge and pie-in-the-sky material contained in its pages, but it may be instructive to make a brief examination of the species of canard gobbled hook and sinker by the more ignorant of the farmers, and that portion of the wage slaves which has deluded itself into a belief that it has something in common with the cap- italists. A very recent splurge on the Nicaragua question by that disciple of Kelloggism, Richard Washburn Child, who, unless I am greatly mistaken, at one time served as an ambassador from these states, will serve in this instance. * * * Mr. Child makes a long-winded and platitudinous rejection of the ac- cusation that Kellogg & Co. are imperialists, with ears straining to hear the clink of golden kale jingled in the hands of Morgan & Co. Any intelligent person who has escaped the obviously capitalistic curriculum in our public schools will have only a snort of disgust for the Rev. Child. For, after sev- eral thousand words, we are only more convinced that Kellogg and Cal are imperialists. e058 * He wants us to take particular notice of the facts. That alone, he in- timates, would convince one that the Saint from Minnesota is a humane and far-seeing gentleman. What the facts are is common knowledge to nearly every one by now. He also asks the two milion six hundred thousand read- ers of the Post if we want to see a foreign country controlling the Latin- American states. In his tremendous effort to make a good case for Cal he raises the dubious red herring of a foreign nation only too willing to control of these Latin states. Of course terrible Bolshevism is also its insidious propaganda. . . . We must, he urges, even protect the citizens of these republics when the republic itself arms, He accuses Mexico of sup- porting a revolution in Nicaragua, by sending arms and ammunition into the territory parceled by God to the exploitation by the U. S. A: He has conveniently forgotten that what the U. S. is actually doing is helping a revolutionist, Diaz, and attempting to suppress Dr. Sacasa, the constitu- tionally elected president. The adult Child has forgotten many things. But it will hardly matter. The readers of the Saturday Evening Post will hardly notice or attempt to correct any error. * * * I suppose Mr. Child includes this passage in his argument against the aforementioned accusation: “Will we say goodbye, Panama Canal; au revoir Magdalena Bay; adios, Fonseca; farewell, Nicaragua Canal?” That, in ef- fect, is the essence of imperialism. Get the Nicaragua Canal before England will get it... . It might be well to ask here if the U. S. is so intent on being the new Messiah will Nicaragua be the first party to benefit from the proposed canal, or will the United States? And will the United States bene- fit with the consent of the Nicaraguans and at their expense? The fact that there is a revolution seems to suggest that Diaz is given aid by imperialistic United States because he will make no objections to exploitation. ad that Dr, Sacasa is such a nit-wit as to believe that Nicaraguan land should be- long to Nicaragua. That is to say that Nicaragua should herself realize on her natural resources, and not the United States, The trouble in Mexico amounts to this: Calles believes that the people of Mexico should be benefited by her natural resources; while the United States imperialists believe that the Standard Oil Co. should benefit. e * * * de The workers should, indeed, look at the facts, Rut they can hardly exX- sty to get accurate impartial facts from Child. His facts are all am ‘ou can look at them and be convinced that the United States is wrong, if you are a reader of the Saturday Evening Post your psyche would have been prepared to accept the view that the United States is right. * * * This article is probably one of many that will soon be issued, ¢ubtle propaganda to prepare you for the next war. We shall soon undoub' see many profound articles and editorials “proving” that China is in the 4 Yes, we may soon expect impartial and accurate reports to the effect that the Nicaraguans, Mexicans, and Chinese are cannibals, crucifiers, raj of helpless women and children, and all the rest of the bilge that con: 80 many people that the last war was fought for democracy. } * o* ; Organized labor should present a solid front against’ the imperial} activities of “our” government. If they don’t—we will soon enough bathe once again in blood, in order to preserve the inalienable rights of the capital. ists to rob whatever countries they please, aN JOSEPH KALAR. Get Another Subscriber for Your DAILY WORKER, | :