The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1927, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER | a Published by tae DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO, Daily, Except Sunday 8S First Street, New York, N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in New York only): By mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year 98.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 383 Firat Street, New York, N. Y. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL } Srechie Ri DUNE \ OE RON Su Editors PPUSe WE TEMSIOED vies 6 diac Vin saloina'e 4.0% business Manager — aca ee Ta ps An Apology for Disguised as Marxism | By H. M. V F. CALVERTON’S private publi- * cation, “The Modern Quarterly,” (June-September, 1927) carries an article labelled “The Sexual Revolu- tion,” by an individual writing under the pseudonym “John Darmstadt.” Resorting to a most shameless distor- tion of Marxism the article is a low petty-bourgeois apology for sex Sex Anarchism WICKS, enemy.” Of what possible use would | the monagamous family be as an in- strument against the working class in defense of a capitalist class that has been overthrown in a mighty revolu- tionary upheaval? Furthermore, is the monogamous | family a detriment to the working jelass? And do we want to abolish jit? Only enemies of the revolution to itself, with no means of making | fitting use of its freedom. The | bourgeoisie has left the working | class only these two pleasures, | while imposing upon it a multitude | of labors and hardships, and the | consequence is that the working- men, in order to get something from | life, concentrate their whole energy upon these two enjoyments, carry | them to excess, surrender to them in the most unbridled manner, When people are placed under con- ditions which appeal to the brute only, what remains to them but to rebel or succumb to utter brutal as not only true of England of the 40s, but any reputable physi- Summer Plans of the Theatre Guild | With Shaw’s “Pygmalion” taken} off the boards last Saturday, and the closing this aturday of “Right You Are If You Think You Are,” the} Pirandello play which has been play-| ing at the Theatre Guild is rearrang- | ing its summer schedule. Four plays will continue through the summer— | Entered as second-class mail at the post-office at New Yerk, N. Y. under anarchism and reeks with hatred n a working class section of any if the heat and attendance does not} the act of March 8, 1879. ‘against all genuine revolutionists and - | Marxists. The author of the article jreserves for The DAILY WORKER |and its staff some of his choicest bits of crude satire. According to the “Modern Quarterly” we never treat the subject of sex seriously “outside the reviews of books or plays,” and we can hardly speak of it at all “with. out @ sneer or smirk.” | “Otherwise,” says our critic, “the| ‘revolutionary proletarian’ WORKER keeps its columns as sweet and clean for its young and tender revolutionary readers as the Sunday School Times.” | * * * | HE “revolutionary politicians” (as we are disdainfully called) follows Advertising rates on application. ns ao Lowden’s Hat Is in the Ring. | Frank 0. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, and one of Elbett H. Gary’s favorites at the 1920 convention of the repub- lican party, has publicly announced that he is a candidate for the | nomination for president of the United States. That this son-in- | law of the scabby Pullman millions has long been a candidate, is | known to all who have watched his endeavors to secure a political | platform by preying upon the distress of the impoverished farm-| ers of the Middle-West. The formal announcement only confirms | what was known. | The medium through which the announcement was transmit- | ted to the public is barred from the nomination in 1920 because he was caught steal- ing votes in the state of Missouri and had to yield to a dark horse who proved to be Warren G. Harding, the political protege of the notorious crook and political swindler, Harry M. Daugherty, chief of the Ohio gang of looters of the public domains. Mr. Lowden’s candidacy was announced through Mr. Harvey Ingham. Let us introduce Mr. Ingham. He hails from Algona, Iowa, where he was the junior partner of a very able country journalist, Bob Warren. Ingham, after the retirement of Warren, joined the ranks of those petty prostitutes of lowa country journalism who sold out to the railroads, particularly the Northwestern, when investigations of their corrupt practices was the order of the day. So well did he serve his masters that he increased considerably his fortune. With another budding publisher, named Gardner Cowles, from the same town, he invaded the newspaper field in the capitol city, Des Moines, becoming proprietor of the Register and Leader, the oldest and most powerful paper in the city. Un- der the management of this worthy pair of mid-west go-getters the paper became the bulwark of reaction, supporting every vicious measure against labor and the farmers. Ingham’s support of Lowden only confirms our conviction that this millionarie labor-hater and briber of the electorate is the agent of the railroads, the harvester trust, the elevator and flour trust, and the other predatory combinations that prey upon the farmers. He represents the same interests in the republican interesting as Lowden himself, who WSS [sation ths Yaoted! off Wieabruenk ie: |vailing in modern journalism, while |the real revolutionary proletarian (as | distinguished from us) “is no doc- |trinaire fanatic, trying to live and |foree others to live, Puritan-fashion by rules and regulations; he is strug- gling to break away from those by |which he has been bound—and find) |new ways of living. . . He fights! to express his life.” (Emphasis in} original.) The “revolutionary politicians” are scorned because they “cannot under- | take anything so wild and impractical as would hasten the break-up of the |disintegrating bourgeois family; all) |they want is to take over the day- |factory and turn out the boss—noth- ing else matters. Take over one-half the works; leave the other half in eon- | trol of the enemy!” | What sublime erudition! surpassed scholarship and historical perception! What matchless Marx- ism! Surely before that last burst of} profundity we stand appalled—-speech- less! Blow after blow falls upon our unrepentant heads. But the final cul- minating blast comes when we are ad- monished to “Read the early socialist | revolutionary pronouncements on the | family and sex and compare the pres- | ent aims and practices.” { * * * | party that caused the Bull Moose split in 1912, but he will not be} able to repeat the performance of Roosevelt, for the simple reason that big capital plays a much greater role in controlling the des-| tinies of this economic group than in 1912. If the official leaders of the American Federation of Labor were anything other than lackeys of the capitalist class, they would utilize the present political situation to Jaunch a party of labor that would strive to consolidate into a powerful movement the discontent of the masses of workers and farmers of the coun-} try and enter the campaign against the parties of capitalism. Being agents of the identical forces that dominate the old parties they constantly betray the workers and farmers. Only the Workers (Communist) Party carries on a systematic cam- paign for the creation of a labor party that will also defend the interests of the exploited masses of the United States in industry and on the farms. A Base for Bombing Planes in California. An announcement by the assistant secretary of war, F. Trubes Davidson, is to the effect that his recent visit to California was in connection with the army plan to make that state the home of a bombardment wing of the air service, consisting of 27 bomb- ers, 48 pursuit planes and an observation and photographic unit. The pursuit planes will be stationed at Rockwell field, near San Diego and the bombers at March field, near Los Angeles. The geographical position of these bases reveal their political and military implications. They will serve as points from which to hurl death and destruction into Mexico in case that nation can- not be browbeaten and swindled into subserviency to the oil trust, the Guggenheim mineral bandits, and Hearst’s land interests. It is also significant inasmuch as military and naval activity on the Pacific coast intensifies in direct proportion to the extent that American imperialism becomes more deeply involved in the Far East and the antagonisms between the great powers become more intense. ' Such preparations for impending slaughters of the working | class of various countries must be viewed with alarm and anti- imperialist agitation everywhere must be intensified to the utmost in order to expose the foul conspiracies of the political agents of Wall Street, the armor plate trust, the ammunition trust, the air- craft trust against the working class, who will be called upon to sacrifice themselves as cannon fodder in another war that théir capitalist exploiters may become still more wealthy and powerful. An interesting sidelight on Mr. Davidson’s return from Day- ton, Ohio, on a Fokker plane, is the presence in the party of the vicious and ignorant Tammanyite and labor skate, Peter J. Brady, | president of the federation bank and trust company, which dramatizes the role of such creatures as Jabor spies for Wall Street’s government. The Farce of Referring Disputes to the League of Nations, :Albania, as the vassal of Italian fascism and British imperi- alism, has applied to the league of nations for a review of its dis-| putewith Jugoslavia. Italy consents to a review of the specific! incident of the arrest by the Albaman government of a member of the Jugoslavia diplomatic staff, but sets the limits of the inves- tigation. Mussolini refuses to permit the league to take up the basi¢ question of the Triana treaty which delivered Albania to| Italy. as a base fof operations against Jugoslavia. "hus again the inability of the league to defend the interests of sthall nations is manifest. In all the league’s history there is not:a single instance of a decision involving an imperialist power being settled any other way than in favor of the dominant impe- vialist groups in the league council. It is an instrument for legal- izing: the pillaging of small nations by the great powers and its pretaénse to impartially review the grievances of these countries is feyeical in the extreme.® {along in rather poor and servile imi- What un- | |] ONG before we ever dreamed that |“ human ingetuity could devise such | miserable apologies for social analy-| sis as Mr. Calverton’s “Modern Quar- terly,” we took the pains to familiar- jize ourselves with all the early (and |late) socialist pronouncements upon | the subject and we defy the editor or! lany of the contributors or admirers | of that magazine to point to one soli-| |tary writer of any consequence in the whole history of the revolutionary | movement that ever approached the question of the family and sex in any | | manner other than that expressed in | the columns of ‘The DAILY WORK- | ER. | | This ridiculous screed against us ‘on the subject of sex is a part and} | parcel of that same confusion that |imagines it is possible for the work- |ing class to begin building within the |shell of the old society the structure |of the new. The principal theoretical difference between the anarcho-syndi- calist and the Marxist is the fact that the former imagines. it is possible to | begin now, under capitalism, to build | the new ‘society, while we hold that only after we have raised the work- ing class to the popsition of ruling class through revolution and estab- lished our own form of state can we begin to build the new society. capable of asserting that if we take over the factories and do not destroy the monagamous family at the same time we will face defeat, as does our critic on page 144 of the “Modern Quarterly,” cannot be expected to comprehend Marxism. And certainly one is no Marxist who claims that if | the working class controlled industry land the monagamous family still con- tinued to exist it would leave one- half “of the works in control of the | only lead to the swamps of anarchism, DAILY | own and of the working class charge us| |with such aims! The writer of the| attack against us complains that we) jcall such as he “triflers, poseurs, de-| cadents, or enemies of the workers.” | Such people are all this and more.) They are perverters of the theory of! the revolution, and their doctrines, if epted by the working class, would where every person would consider his self-expression the most im-/ portant thing in the world, and his! sex-life just as important as the con- trol of industry by the working class. I presume by this time the “Modern | Quarterly” readers are damning me| as an incurable prude and monogam- ist who could change places “sexually | with our old maid aunt or with the |frequently violated. in the United States will report similar excesses today. Add to the poverty and ignorance of families living in the great indus- trial districts the housing conditions that compel two or more families to live in small, crowded, ill-ventilated, fetid rooms and it is easy to compre- hend that the rules of monogamy are Monogamy for many of these miserable victims of! capitalist rapacity is only an empty jest. Polygamy, polyandry and _ in- cest can by no means be regarded as exceptions among a very large strata) of the lower proletariat. Their very condition of life deprives them of any | other form of relaxation. * * * interfere, “Ned McCobb’s Daughter” plays at the John Golden next week, after | George. Mr. Lunt and Miss Gillmore | deacon: of the (ahaa end nobody | AS to the parasites at the other end which it moves to the Garrick, where | it will run through the’ summer. John/| Cromwell, who played in the Chi-| cago production will replace Alfred | Iunt and Hortense Alden replaces | Margolo Gillmore. Pillip Leigh re-| turns to his original role of Ren Me-! Cobb and Naurico NeRae will play | will continue in “The Second Man,” “In Right You Are If You Think which is now running at the Guild | you Are,” Pirandello’s chatty ‘comedy, theatre. Earle Larimore is also Ot | Row fn: ite: last Wwebk- at’ the Garrick of the “McCobb” cast and will con-| theatre. tinue in “The Second Man.” pasa - “Mr. Pim Passes By” will play | next week at the Garrick, and the; following Monday will move to the} puritan as he is sneered at by our; But then the type of mind that is; would notice the difference.” Let us read one of the “early so. cialist pronouncements on the famil and sex,” written by no less an au-| thority than Frederick Engels. On page 99 of his “Origin of the Fam- ily, Private Property and the State,” he declares: “Since sex-love is exclusive by its very nature—although this exclu- siveness is at present realized for | women alone—marriage founded on sex-love must be monogamous. . Remove the economic consid- | erations that now force women to | submit to the customary disloyalty of men, and you will place women on an equal footing with men. All present experiences prove that this | will tend much more strongly to | to make women polyandrous. “However, those peculiarities that make men truly monogamous, than were stamped upon the face of monogamy by its rise through | property relations, will, decidedly | vanish, namely the supremacy of | men and the indissolubility of mar | riage. The supremacy of man is his economic superiority and will | fall with the abolition of the late | ter.” | It is very easy for dilletanti and) sex-anarchist vulgarizers of Marxism | to refer glibly to “early socialist pro- nouncements,” but the facts reveal} them to be as ignorant of the facts of the history of the-revolutionary move« ment as they are of the correct ap- plication of revolutionary theory. Perhaps Marx and Engels were old fogies! Perhaps Lenin was also a critic gvho from his self-constructed | promontory disdainfully refers to the! “Russian complex’ of Leninism.” * re ae HAT would our critic have the proletariat do to enable it to over- come capitalism on the sex field? He does not openly advocate “free love,” but he chides us for suppressing or discountenancing such ideas, so the inevitable conclusion is that he pre- fers that sort of sex-life. | He thinks the workers suffer from |sex-hunger and that the “perverted | popular taste in matters of sex is the result of repressien of natural im-| pulses.” (Emphasis is our critic's.) | Not only does the writer who so| bitterly assails us not understand the theory of the revolution but he knows | nothing of the pastimes of the ma- jority of the working class or he would know that it is precisely sexual excesses and not repression that most {seriously affect the workers. Again we refer to Frederick Engels for the social background of this fact and to prove that it is nothing new. Says the brilliant co-worker of Karl Marx on page 128 of his “Condition of the ! Working Class in England in 1844”; “Next to intemperance in the en- joyment of intoxicating liquor one of the principal faults of the Eng- lish working men is sexual license. But this, too, follows with a relent- less logic, with inevitable necessity out of the position of a class left Get Out of Peking John Van A. MacMurray, representative of American impe- and Out of China. |lutionary of the social scale, surely our critic will not presume to deny the well-| known fact that those idlers who roll in immense wealth and go from ex-} cess to excess practicing all the re- finements of depravity need to fe rescued from their lives of suppres- sion. As Marx and Engels said in the “Communist Manifesto” the bour- geoisie spend their time seducing each others’ wives.” Surely those individuals who con- | stitute the lunatic fringe of the revo-| movement and talk sex-/ anarchism are decadents, apeing the} {worst features of the ruling class as| it approaches its doom, If they want to experiment in so- cial analysis of devote a little of their worthless time | to analyzing their own role in society. But that is too much to expect of them, for they would then discover that they cannot teach the “political | vevolutionists” the intricagies of their weird ideas of economies and so-| ciology, but must learn from us if ever they hope to play anything other | at that theatre. playing Elliot Cabot’s Role in “The| “The Silver Cord,” which continues Edward Lighter, is Silver Cord,” and Maurice McRae will take up the role of George in “Ned| | McCobb’s Daughter.” | What the Daily Worker Means to the Workers More Encouraging Contributions to Our Emergency Fund. Comrade J. Smolin, of New. Brigh- ton, Pa., sends a donation of niet The L A D D E R something they might |“to our DAILY WORKER, be-| cause without it the American work- ing class will be like an army with- out guns.” ES * An anonymous sympathizer, from| Nampa, Idaho, sends a $10.00 dona- | tion to help The DAILY WORKER. | “IT read the paper quite a bit,” he! - | says, “and I believe you are telling | |the truth about what's going on. I | would like to see you -win out over than their present clownish roles. * * * | sheets of “feeding the popular appe-| these periodicals, called yellow jour- | |new set of brains. \ty has lost its fcremost leader and the American 'HE choicest morsel of the misera- | ble perversion of Marxism that} this phrase-monger hurled against us} was the charge that we are not pro- perly appreciative of the role of the yellow journals “in dethroning | re-| spectability.” He assails Comrade} O'Flaherty for accusing these yellow! tite for slush,” and indignantly asks | us “what sort of proletarian inter- | pretation is this?” Must we always) stop and give a proletarian analysis of slush when we mention it? True, | nals, do talk a great deal about sex! and capitalize the escapades of the| nabobs as well as the morons like! Snyder and Gray, but they also in- dulge in the most nauseating moral- izing. If O’Flaherty’s criticism of the | “Graphic” is unintelligible to the “Modern Quarterly” writer that is not! his fault. It is not one of the duties of a Communist writer to give every | decadent who disagrees with him a It is sufficient for us that our writings are understood by the proletarian readers of our pa- per who do not seek their revolution- ary inspiration from the phrase- mongers, plagiarists, publicity-seek- ers and perverters of revolutionary theory and practice. | | Let's Fight On! Join | The Workers Party! | In the loss of Comrade Ruthen- berg the Workers (Communist) Par- working class its staunchest fighter, This loss can only be overcome by many militant work. | ers joininz the Party that he built, | Fill out the appileation below and | mail it. Beeome a member of the! Workers (Communist) Party and carry forward the work of Comrade | Ruthenberg. td | I want to become a member of the | Workers (Communist) Party. |A. Kozma . “big biz.” * © . Comrade J. A. Dontzig, of the Bronx, has borrowed $25.00, and sent it to The DAILY WORKER sustain- ing fund.” “I can’t express with words,” he says, “how sorry I am that I cannot give more. I am sure that the workers are realizing as well as I do, the importance of giving all the money we can, and then some, to our only daily communist working | } paper in the U..S. A.” * ° ° The West Side Ukrainian Fraction, of Detroit, Michigan, sends a dona- tion of $25.00, Additional donations: from Shop Nuclei and individual com- rades in Detroit, total $41.20. Chae Ses Comrade D. F. Snyder, of Kansas City, Mo., sends $15.00 as a personal contribution towards keeping up The DAILY WORKER, and says: “The class-struggle is on most savagely, ae it is only the fool that can’t see it.” * * * Victor Cibulsky, N. Y. C. A. Auerbauch . Freedman A. Almaida . H. Leff ... N. Kara Marten ... 00 Mrs. Hollande: 2.00 McKeesport, Penn, Niagra Falls; W. P. Buffalo; W. P. . Buffalo; W.. P. Schenectedy; W. Albany; W. P, Ridley Robins | Britain) despotism, slavery, and christianity in the service of im- rialism at Peking, objects to moving the legation from that city to Tientsin because it would be viewed by the other powers— Great Britain, France and Japan—as an admission of defeat of the powers and an “admission that Western influence had come to an end.” Reports also declare that General Smedley Butler, marine commander, is opposed to moving the legation and that he advises employing airplanes to bomb Chinese who attempt to interfere with railroad transportation between Peking and Tien- tsin, a distance of 80 miles. Approximately 11,000 foreign troops are situated at Tientsin of which 4,000 are Americans in various branches of the service. Not only should MacMurray be forced to get out of Peking and stay out, but he and all the rest of the agents of Wall Street, ineluding its 4,000 gunmen should be forced to get out of China und stay out. ‘Western influence” has brought to China nothing but the curse of opium, (in which traffic America shared with perialism. It is to be hoped that if the powers do not withdraw of their own accord (and they won’t) the mighty power of the Chinese revolution rises high enough to scourge them from the country. In such a task they will have the sympathy and support of the advanced section of the working class of the great powers who recognize their governments as the enemies alike of the workers and the colonials and semi-colonials, Name .. Address Here is an opportunity Oveupation Union Affiliation............ Mail this application to the Wo ers Party, 108 East 14th Street, New | o} | | York City; or if in other cit Workers i’arty, 1118 W. Washingto: Blv., Chiengo, Ill, Distribute the Ruthenberg pw phiet, “The Workers’ (Communisi Party, What it Stands For and Wh | —By Margaret Larkin Workers Showld Join.” This Ruther. | ~-By Wm. Z. Foster berg pamphlet will be the basic pam ‘ 1pTCy phlet thruout the Ruthenherg D BANKRUPTCY OF THE MOVEMENT ~-By Wm. Z, Foster A total of 70 cents us must coll ry member and wil) Every Party Nuc 50 cents from e receive 20 pamphlets for every mem | ber to sell or distribute. Nuclei in the New York Distriv will get thoir pamphlets from the Div | trict officc.-108 Mast i4th St, Nuclei outside of the New Yor" Diatriet write to The DAILY WORK ER publishing Co, 38 East Firs: Street, New York City, or to thy National Office, Workers Party, 11) W. Washington Blvd., Chiesgo, 1). Books offered © in limited quantities, e@ and filled in turn as received, | John Golden and there alternate with | HEATRE GUILD ACTING CO. RIGHT YOU ARE IF YOU THINK YOU ARE 65 W, 35th. Evs. 8:40 GARRICK Mts, Thur.&Sat. 2:40 Next We wi Pa By “The SECOND GUILD 72 MAN W. 52-St. Evs. 8:30 Thurs, & Sa 0 The SILVER CORD John Golden? ®.58,B.0fBwy.|Circle Mes. Thur.&Sat.| 5678 Next W'k: Ned MeCobb’s Daughter Now in its 7th MONTH CORT, h > of Biway. MAT. —$—$< KL. ‘Thea. 45th, West of Bway AW Evenings 8:30. Mats. Thurs, & Bat. 2:30. MerryGoRound Hi The successor to “AMERICANA.” THEA. West 42nd St. Twice Dally, 2:30 & 8.36 | William Fox Presents 7th HEAVEN Mats. (exc. Sat.) 50c-$1. Eves. 50c-1.50 “s_ CHAPLIN "8 THE MISSING LINK B.S. ¢ BROADWAY ' | MOSS’ 0 L 0 N Y AT 53rd ST. | Contin. Noon’ to Midnight.—Pop. Prices. Pobses Little Theatre sam HARRIS | heatre ==GRAND Hrenings ai a0." STREET AY FOLLIES “Countess Maritza” will not con- clude its engagement at the Shubert Theatre this Saturday night, but will continue for an indefinite period, at least until the new Texas Guinan show “Padlocks” is ready to leave the road and come to Broadway. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle returns to the stage tonight at Chanin’s 46th Street Theatre, where» he will open in “Baby Mine,” Margaret Mayo’s farce, which is being revived’by John Tuerk. | A. Marfehy . H. Rosenblatt. . J. Borenstein |L. Cramer .. |M. D. Litman . : J. Loekeman p R. Newman . +200 K. Johnson .,....... 5.00 Lithuanian. Lit: Society 8.00 8. Bas ees Fests -5.00 South Slavie Branch 20.00 A. Rosen ...... -1,00 J. Rotenberg 5.00 AT PPRECIAL PRICE? On American Labor to secure four impor- tant booklets on American trade unionism at an especially low raté. Each is a most interesting and important little volume. TRADE UNIONS IN AMERICA ~-By Foster-Cannon-Browder 10 ‘THE LEFT WING IN THE GARMENT UNIONS 10 THE RAILRGADERS' NEXT STEP 25 AMERICAN LABOR 25 worth of books for 50 CENTS in this column on hand All orders cash j | 1 i} \ i} i} | 1 i