The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 30, 1927, Page 7

| -May Day and the Soviet Union T= Soviet Union is undoubtedly the dearest pos- session of the international workingclass of to- day. Every hour of the existence of the Soviet Union strengthens the workers and weakens the capi- talists. Every new achievement in the building of socialism in the Soviet Union marks a fresh step forward in the development of the world revolution. To celebrate May Day is to celebrate the victory of the masses over their oppressors in what was for- merly the empire of the czars, landlords and capi- talists, and re-dedicate ourselves to uncompromising struggle for the liberation of the toilers the world over. May Day has become a symbol of international workingclass solidarity and struggle against capi- talism. It has become a symbol of determined op- position and militant struggle against imperialism and imperialist war. It has become the day of con- centration and mobilization of hundreds of thous- ands of workers to demonstrate readiness to fight for the abolition of capitalism and for the establish- ment of the rule of the workingclass. What is symbolic in May Day has become actual, living reality in the Soviet Union. International workingclass solidarity, the consciousness and spirit that transcends the bounderies of state, language, race, color, creed and religion, the power that merges millions of exploited and oppressed throughout the world inte an inspired and determined army of struggle against capitalism—these are the things that are incorporated in May Day, and these are the forces that brought about the downfall of czarism and capitalism in Russia. These are the forces that will inevitably bring about the downfall of capitalism all over the world. The Unfolding of the World Revolution. When capitalist politicians get into difficulties they invariably blame the so-called “machinations” of the Seviet government. This has beeome a regular practice with capitalist statesmen. It has almost reached the point of a new political science for the administration of capitalist affairs of state. Which is, of course, nothing else but a dishonest, demagegic trick of raising hostility to the Soviet Union and of covering up the failures of the capitalist govern- ments. It is sheer nonsense to believe, as Secretary Kel- logg would like us to, that the Mexican government is deminated by Bolsheviks and that therefore it becomes the “sacred duty” of the American govern- ment te interfere in Mexican affairs. Of course, we do not expect Secretary Kellogg or any of his col- leagues to speak the truth in the matter. Fer a truthful account of American policy in Mexico would ELECTRICITY AND GOD (Continued from Page 2) in behalf of god, religion, the devil—and what not! Many of them are doing it. And this is why one can see lately frequent attempts to betroth the still young ‘science to the old decrepit god. Every now and then someone of the learned gentry solemnly announces that science not only does not disprove, but on the contrary, confirms the existence of god. And herein is the substance and the purpose of Professor Pripin’s “learned” effusion. Of course, he doesn’t say that god created in six days every- thing out of nothing, that he made Adam from clay and Eve from Adam’s rib, as this wouldn’t be ex- actly scientific and in the spirit of our materialistic age. Therefore Professor Pripin eliminates from his “theory” of the electro-divine creation of the world that mysterious biblical “nothing” and replaces it by the electrons and protons: “God employed the heavenly host of electronic workers to build ‘the atoms, the molecules and the galaxies of burning stars,” and everything else above, underneath and between the stars, among other things our own little planet and together With it our sinful race. Our worthy professor, of course, doesn’t forget to emphasize the “mystery” of the origin of the tiny electron: “God created them and god only knows when, where and how.” So, everything springs from that tiny electron. In it is that “mysterious beginning of all begin- nings.” The same old story, the same ecclesiastic bunk about the creation of.the world disguised in a pseudo- scientfic “theory.” ; Of course, Professor Pripin knows that it’s all - bunk. He knows that not so very long ago the atom Now we know that it isn’t so, that the “indivisible” microorganism, the “beginning of all beginnings.” Now we know that it isn’t so that the “indivisible” atom is but a conglomeration of billions of electrons, Some nice day the electron will also lose its “indivis- ibility” and its “primogeniture.” Then God will be compelled to recreate, with the kind assistance of the learned gentry, the entire vast universe from some other microorganism, still smaller than the - electron. However, the time is nearing when it will be un- necessary and impossible for the scientists to sell their knowledge, when they will unselfishly help humanity free itself of all its , alb its primitive beliefs, superstitions and prejudices and build a bet- ter, sensible tife. It isn’t inopportune to add that in the poor and disclose the wetl-known fact that it is the profits and the power of exploitation of American capital- ists that the American government is defending in Mexico. Such an account would also disclose the fact that big American capital, particularly our oil and copper magnates, is wildly cherishing the am- bition of destroying Mexico’s national independence and to do with Mexico what American capital has done with the Philippine Islands, Porto Rico, Haiti, and what is now being accomplished in Nicaragua. War with Mexico to subdue and conquer it for the greater glory and profits of American big capital-— that is what the rulers of America desire. Is it to be expected that Secretary Kellogg would tell this story in so many words? Naturally, not. He would not be.what he is, a big capitalist himself and a true servant of big capital generally, if he were to tell the truth about Mexico. So he does something else. While he is engaged in terrorizing and blackmailing the Mexican government and the Mexican people to submit to the exploitation of American imperialism, he at the same time sets up a smoke screen of “Bolshevist dangers” and “Soviet intrigues” to frighten the innocent and to confuse the traces of the real intrigues of Amer- ican capitalists against the independence of Mexico. The Soviet government is also made to blame for “our” troubles in Nicaragua which is even more ridiculous and brazen than the charge of Bolshevist “intrigues” in Mexico. In China, which is passing through the most heroic and epoch-making struggle for its liberation from the ycke of foreign imperial- ism, a struggle which is caused by the brutal rule of English, American, Japanese, French, ete. imperial- ists and which derives its strength from the spirit of rebellion against oppressign inspiring millions of toilers in China, this tremendous social upheaval is wiso attributed to the “intrignes” of ‘the Soviet gov- ernment. Chamberlain, manager of ‘the foreign af- fairs of British capitalism, is particularly skilfull in the game of “blame it on the Soviets.” Foreign ministers of other eapitalist governments are studi- ously copying these methods of Chamberlain. But what is the truth? The world revolution is continuing to unfold itself with greater sweep and vigor. It travels now along two wide paths. The ever growing strength and socialist stabiliza- tion of the Soviet Union is one path along which the world revolution is unfolding itself, and the other path is the uprising of the oppressed colonial peo- ples, particularly the nationalist revolution in China. These two world revolutionary factors are steadily undermining the structure of world capitalism and bringing closer the day of its eventual collapse. Capitalist statesmen watch these developments and “BIBAYONET DRILL PITHE MOST VULNCRABLE (Avoro eones). TWiST BayoneT J7 Te MAKE LARGER WOUND a } i By ALEX BITTELMAN understand their meaning. Capitalist governments are drawing conclusions from these developments - and the result is the preparation for a large scale war on China, similar preparations for an attack on the Soviet Union, the opening up of the basic antagonisms between the big capitalist powers and the danger of a world imperialist war. The so-called impatience of the British government with the Soviet government is to be explained not by some.mysterious conspiracies of the latter, but by. the very real and substantial successes of the so- cialist development of the Soviet Union. The anx- jety and nervousness of capitalist politicians over Russie is caused not by what ther term “Bolshevist propaganda” but by the tremendoes power of in- spiration that is emanating from the positive achievements of the toiling masses in the Soviet Union. It is the example of the success and steady upward development of socialism in the Soviet Union, it is the ever growing sympathy of the international workingclass for the Soviet Union and the revolu- tionizing effects of these developments upon the minds and struggles of the toiling masses the world over, that is driving fear into the heart of world capitalism and is causing the imperialist prepara- tion for an attack upon the Workers Republic. The same is true with the imperialist war against China. The success of the Chinese revolution spells the end of imperialist domination in China. It means the less of a tremendously rich source of super- profits fer the capitalists of Great Britain, America, Japan, etc., with which to maintain more success- fully capitalist domination at home. In short, the suecess of the Chinese revelution means a death blow at world capitalism and imperialism. it is through the socialist pbuilding of the Soviet Unien ani through the upward swing of the Chinese revolution that the world revolution is proceeding forward at the present time. And in the process the workingclasses of capitalist Eurepe and America are becoming revolutionized. In the same process are becoming revolutionized the oppressed millions in the colonial and semi-colenial countries. Thus the word revolution is unfelding itself with ever - growing steadiness and persistency. In the celebration of May Day this year we shall remember the historic significance of the time in which we live. We shall prove by our demonstrations our realization of the fact that the Soviet Union is the greatest achievement of the workingclass in the history of its struggles. And along with the demands: “Hands Gff China” and “Down With Imperialist Wars,” we shall also demand: “Hands Off the Soviet Union. Immediate Recognition and Resumption of Complete Trade Relations With the Soviet Union.” DEN TWiST DE BAY NET m 'N DE BLOKES Guts Reticious seavices COMPULSORY, Tomisht 7:00 RM, PINE REV. HOKUM SPoureR AN "THE Menace oF PLSHEVISM.” . Nose. Moral Inspiration at the C. M. T. C. “backward” Soviet Union electricity plays one of the covered with a thick network of electric stations and powerful technical equipments, then our Com- munist economy shall serve as a model for the com- ing Socialist Kurope and Asia). So it is in the Soviet Union, But here, in the rich, “enlightened” and “civilized” America the scientists are trying, it appears, to employ electricity for the very opposite purpose. SILENCE. Mine is a song that millions sing Mine is a melody that flows From a million hearts; a peasant knows My tune far better than a king. — 32 ee And though I seem to sing alone I feel the throb in every breast A throb divine yet unexpressed A universal undertone, My heart is hope whene’er I hark From out the dark, from out the A chorus of a silence rare ns Murmuring ever “Rise and dare” The world is still but not asleep. —By ZING.