The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 2, 1927, Page 10

ne The Day They Celebrate | | (Continued from Page One) i revolution unaccompanied by violence is not on record, hearken back to the Boston Tea Party and to the activities of the dignified smuggler John Hancock who was elected president of the Contin- ental Congress in 1775 and the first governor of Massachusetts. Hancock, whose name now graces the letterhead of a big insurance company was “the prince of con- traband traders” according to Lalor’s “Encyclo- pedia of Political and Social Science” and with John Adams as his counsel, was appointed for trial be- fore the admiralty court in Boston, at the exact hour of the shedding of blood in Lexington, in a suit for $500,000 penalties alleged to have been in- curred by him as a smuggler.” All honor to Hancock for his lack of seruples in dealing with the foreign tyrant, but there is a noticeable absence of eulogy of this side of his character in the patriotic effusions that tear the atmosphere on the national holiday. Today, when every bawdy capitalist rag in the country uses columns of space exposing the Com- munist disregard for the niceties of capitalist con- stitutionalism, it is in place te point out and ‘to prove to the American workingclass that the men who led the revolution that culminated in the ex- pulsion of Great Britain from the colonies did not hesitate to use every available method to aceom- plish their purpose. ; Smuggling today is considered an unpatriotic avo- cation in the United States, but to the men who established the bourgeois government known as the United States, smuggling was a highly patriotic business, in the days before British power was broken in the colonies. It was a revolutionary wea- pon. This might serve as an object lesson to misguided workers who place counter-revolution against the Soviet government on the same ethical level as rev- olution against the former czarist government or against any capitalist government. The aim is what determines the character of action and not the method employed. The same rule applies to the methods employed by a workingclass government to defend itself against its enemies. The revolution- Answers to Last Week’s Puzzle The answer to last week’s puzzle No. 20 is: DECORATION DAY IS USED BY THE BOSSES TO MAKE THE WORKERS AND THEIR CHIL DREN PATRIOTIC TO THE BOSS AND THE GOVERNMENT. The following have answered cor- rectly: Elsie Melniker, Ferndale, N. Y.; Clara Ogulewicz, Paterson, N. J.; Mae Malyk, New York City; Mae feurer, New York City; Hilda Wolf, Baltimore, Md.; Leah Scharf, New York City; Evaline Leven, Pitts- burgh, Pa.; Peter Rimkus, Utica, N. Y. More Answers to Puzzle No. 18 Solly Klein, Los Angeles, Cal.; Ulm Caminker, Los Angeles, Cal. THIS WEEK’S PUZZLE NO. 21 This is an addition and subtraction puzzle. Try and solve it. WORRY+E—RYE + K+HER—H=- ? Send your answers to the Daily Worker Young Comrade Corner, $3 First St., New York City, stat- ing your name, age, address and number of puzzle. CAMP NEWS ' Next week the Young Pioncer Camp will open. What a wonderful time is in store for the workers’ children who are going there! They are going to swim in a wonderful lake. They will go hiking and ¢limb mountains: There will be countless games to play, baseball, punchball, football, volley ball and many, many more. Do you want to be in on all this fun? If you do, tell your father that you want to fo to the Young Pioneer Camp. The office is Room 41, 108 East 14th St., N. Y. C. 4 The COMRADE Edited by the Young A Page for Workers’ ists of 1776 did not hesitate to make THe miserable for their enemies and the historian, Beard, tells us of loyalists hanged without trial, others tarred and feathered, blacklisted and one fellow was given a preferred position on a cake of ice “until! Kis loyalty to King George might cool.” According to Charles Stedman in his, “The His- tory of the Origin, Progress and Termination of the American War,” we are told that Hancock cared little for legal forms but unhesitatingly used what- ever methods seemed most feasible to him. A. M. Simons in his “Social Forces in American History,” says, “When his (Hancock’s) sloop, Liberty, was endeavoring to run the customs, he first tried to bribe the officials, and, this failing, locked up the guard in a cabin and unloaded the sloop under the protection of a gang of thugs secured for the oc- casion.” There is no intention here to cast the slightest reflection on Hancock’s moral character. He was fighting for his own class interests and was jus- tified in employing whatever methods seemed most suited to the purpose he had in view. But 151 years after the publication of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, the government which has the declaration as a preamble to its constitution, is busily engaged framing laws to strangle the development of the power of the workingclass and perfecting the nec- essary suppressive machinery to keep the workers in ‘subjection, not even stopping at the contempla- tion of legalized murder, as in the Sacco and Van- zetti case. One hundred and fifty-one years after the Amer- ican colonists adopted their charter of liberty, which meant liberty only for the owing class minority of the population, this government is preparing a colossal program of imperialist development with its corollary: a gigantic naval and military pro- gram. The werld conflicts between the rival imperialist powers is manifesting itself alongside the sharpen- ing of the struggle between the industrial workers and the exploited colonial and semi-colonial peoples on one hand and world imperialism on the other. We see the USSR assailed on all sides by open foe and quondam friend in the imperialist world, and supported by the enlightened and progressive sec- tions of the workingclass everywhere. The Sovict Union stands as a mighty bulwark of the oppressed and is the nucleus of the future world labor state. It is hated by the executive organs of the capitalist FREEDOM — THEN AND NOW On July 4, 1776, a small group of men, including such famous fighters for liberty as Thomas Jeffer- son, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin and John Adams met at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and drew up a famous document. it was called the Declaration of Independence. This document de- clared that all men were created equal. It also said, “That whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to alter or to ABOLISH it and to institute a new govern- ment.” And these men of 1776 did not only talk of freedom, but, with the help of the workers and farmers, also fought for it until they drove their oppressors (the British bosses) from off the Amer- ican soil. One hundred and fifty-one years have passed. Many things have changed. The Thomas Jeffersons, the John Hancocks and the other fighters for lib- erty have died a long time ago. Trade and com- merce that was just a baby in 1776 became a giant in 1927. And with this great change there was also created a great change among the American people, A small group of bosses, thru robbery and other means became the owners of almost everything. The big mass of people became the siaves of the bosses and owned nothing. And that is not all. The rich bosses controlled the government thru bribery and forced the American people into many wars such as the World War, where thousands of workers and poor farmers were killed and wounded, And this was dene to make more money for the bosses. In Central America, in a little country called Nicaragua, the workers and farmers revolted against the tyrants who oppressed them, just like the Americans did in 1776. What did the American government do? Why, they sent mang battleships and soldiers to put down this revolt and to protect the property of the American bosses in that coun- try. The same thing is now being done in China, where the people are fighting for freedom. This is what ‘America has come to. If Thomas Jefferson were alive today he would say, “Now is the time to put the Declaration of Independence into effect, since our government no longer serves us, we must abol- ish it,” What do you say? - pesca | een Young SECTION Pioneers of America and Farmers’ Chifidren po\rers but their greed tor profits and their clash- ing interests prevent them from coming to an agree- ment to wage a united war against the Workers’ Republic. More than a century and a half since British power was broken in the American colonies we see the giant imperialism that rose from those disunited states again challenging the power of the British empire, this time not to throw off a foreign yoke but to contest for world commercial and political supremacy. In the coming struggle as in the revolu- tionary war, the workers will be the pawns. They will be asked to fight for “their” country, but in reality for the Morgans, Rockefellers and Mellons. On this holiday, when the patriotic gas of bour- geois oratory will pollute the air with its poison, the workers of this country should pledge themselves to fight against imperialist wars, to oppose the im- perialistic policies of Wall Street, to defend the Soviet Union against attack, to rally to the defense of the Chinese masses who are shedding their hearts’ blood in defense of the right to be masters in their own land and to free themselves from the thralldom of foreign exploiter and the ‘hative mili- tarist, to organize politically thru a mass Labor Party in this country and to enroll the workers in trade unions, with an eye on the goal of a Work- ers’ and Farmers’ Government, that will write a new Declaration of Independence which will sound the death knell of exploitation at home and abroad. YOUNG COMRADE By MARY VAINAUSKAS. Look out everyone! Here I come, Hurrying, scurrying on the run, I’m hurrying home to be on time So I ean get my Young Comrade. 2. 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