The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1927, Page 6

_. That is precisely the claim of all oppressors who, in Page Six er rm sc a TN SURI I SCT LT IR ERTS. PTE EA GEE Be AEE Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 733 First Street, New York, N. Y. : Cable Address SUBSCRIPTION RATE By Mail (in New York only): By M. $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 pe: three months Phone, Orchard 1650 aiwork ide of New York): y $3.50 six months $2.00 three months ress and mail and make out checks to WORLER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. MINOR DUNNE e at New York, N. Y., ander ~Ada THE DAILY o Colorado-—The State Steps in Martial law has not been declared in Colorado yet but the officers of the Colorado national guard are in charge of the! Rockefeller interests just the same. It was no delegation of elected officials which delivered the anti-picketing ultimatum to the strike leaders day before yester- day but a squad of military men vested with the full power of the state. Colonel Hart, indeed, could have echoed the famous saying of the French tyrant: “The State, It is I,” as he told the repre- sentatives of the Colorado miners that picketing would be toler- ated no longer. It is evident from the I. W. W. press, and reports from the strike area, that some of the I. W. W. leaders have been inclined to look upon Governor Adams as a “friend of labor,” or at least as a neutral element in the clash between the Rockefeller wing of the American capitalist class and the Colorado miners. It was even believed, to some extent at least, that the gov- ernor was opposed to the use of troops and would permit picket-, ing. These illusions have been shattered. The governor has or- dered picketing to cease under threat of martial law. If picketing is stopped, no troops, of course will be used. They will not be necessary. The Rockefeller interests and the smaller companies will be able to bring in strikebreakers unham- pered. | The struggle, however, is really between the Rockefellers and} the miners. Rockefeller dominates the state of Colorado. It is his state and the state power is his instrument just as the na- tional government is the instrument of the class to which Rocke- feller belongs—the capitalist class. There could be no more dangerous illusion created in the| minds of the miners who are engaged in a life and death struggle than that the state government will or can be used in their in-| terests, or that it will or can remain neutral when the interests| of Colorado capitalism are menaced by a revolt of exploited work- ers. What has happened? The state government itself makes war on the miners. The Rockefellers, as individuals, their mining companies and steel concerns, their managers and superintendents, are relieved of all responsibility. “Democratic government,” “officials elected by the people,” “American institutions,” become weapons for use against the Col- . orado workers. ~*—fiverything is quite legal. Nothing is irregular. National guard officers and members, clothed with full legal authority, about whose legal right to ride down, club, bayonet, shoot and ’ arrest there can be no question, take the places of the private gunmen of the coal and steel companies. All is ship shape. Allin order. The official documents are signed and sealed with the great seal of the sovereign state of Colorado and countersigned by the governor. The state of Colorado is a strikebreaker. Its state apparatus is a gigantic strikebreaking machine. Its armed forces are at the disposal of the Colorado capitalist class. They will try to _ drive the miners back to slavery. The Colorado miners will have to resist the strikebreaking program of the state government—or surrender. Openly and brutally the state power is thrown against the striking miners. In Colorado it takes the form of a declaration that picketing is illegal, orders to discontinue it accompanied by a show of military forces. In West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio it takes the form of a federal injunction against strikes and picketing enforced by the armed forces of the United States—marshals, ete. i The labor movement, if the Colorado strike and the strike of the miners in other states, are to be won, must base its program of support on the fundamental fact that in this struggle, as in all important struggles of the workers, the government is the in- strument of the capitalist class. Once this becomes clear, the labor movement will waste no more time bemoaning “the prostitution of American governmental institutions to the uses of the employers’—the favorite complai# of labor officialdom which supports capitalist parties—but will proceed to organize its mighty forces for a decisive struggle whose implications are understood and not hidden. The Colorado miners must be given every possible aid in their fight against the state power of the Rockefeller dynasty. Yellow Tweedledum vs. Saffron Tweedledee Announcement is made of an impending debate and discussion on the subject “The Goal of Freedom and the Road to It.” Ber- trand Russell is advertised to present the anarchist view of a “free human society,” while Max Eastman is to present a “revo- Jutionary plan for achieving that freedom.” The chairman i Dudley Field Malone, the Tammany politician, who is a proper | person to officiate at such an affair. As to the principals, Bertrand Russell is a notorious defender of the most vicious and rapacious imperialism of Britain. Whil from the Olympian heights of philosophic anarchism, (itself a bourgeois illusion) he may proclaim some abstract, transcendental ideal of freedom, he aids the master class of his own country en- slave countless millions of workers and colonial subjects. Discussing the liberation movement in India in the September 25 issue of the English section of the Jewish Daily Forward, | Russell declared in typical imperialist fashion: ‘‘The various peo. ples of India are not yet at a level where freedom is possible.” their monu- mental arrogance, claim that they alone can judge when and under what conditions freedom may be realized. Baldwin and the rest of the tories say the same thing. Russell’s opponent in the debate, Max Eastman, has recently sunk rapidly from romantic dilettantism to counter-revolution. n Cp IN Jb COLORADO BATTLE FRONT tun CA pow, Down Tools! NEW YORK, THMSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1927 The Negro Miner Joins his Fellow Workers. ‘Her Winter Coat By SAM. ND now I'll get me a beautiful oat,” Nellie told me, last week, while telling the story of her life. She was brought up on a farm not far from Houston, Texas. She was one of children working on her + | father’s farm when George came along. “J hardly had any education, I was too busy on the farm, and I hardly knew what was doing outside of our town.” She is far from being called even fair looking. And she knows it. She knew it all the time. And that’s why she was glad when George came along. “To be truthful, I never cared for him, but I did not want to remain all my life on the farm.” George was a mill worker in the nearby saw-mill and was sick and tired of his job. He expected to save up a sufficient sum of money and open up a small business place, and become independent. And that’s why he married Nell. He knew that the sturdy farm girl will help him to get thru. She was no nder. Ir » ut a year after they got mar came Bob. A great deal of the savings went to the doctor, and for other expenses. But now there was a reason to work much harder. And they did. Both. George worked like a mule. And the foreman liked it. He gave him hope. Nellie did all she could to save. And then followed a period of sick- ness. First Bobby, then Nellie. It took almost all the savings. George saw his dreams shattered. | He lost interest in his work. But he did not quit. Neither did he take to By Fred Ellis “A x, as some of my fellow-vigilantes! How could I have been trapped into supporting the war? I thought that Woodrow Wilson really meant his | golden, glowing words; I thought he Literary Vigilantes oney Writes. a fool of myself, but because he fumbled the greatest opportunity that any statesman ever had in all his- tory, and wasted the efforts of a whole generation of his countrymen. By Upton Sinclair drink. But the foreman saw him slacking down, and reprimanded him several times, then he swore at him. And that was more than George could bear. He hit the boss in the face. Of course he could not go back to future that it becomes necessary for| work in the same mill. HE “muckraking era” culminated | in the efforts of the “prog | |to elect Theodore Roosevelt president | jin 1912. It wouldn’t have done any good, because Roosevelt, while he | talked like a crusader, always acted jas a “practical man’’—so he desevibed | | himself in a letter to Harriman, beg- | ging campaign funds from that super- |corruptionist. But the idealists gath- }ered in convention, and sang hymns |and went to battle for the Lord. Their enemies laughed at them, for by that time every great magazine that stood for the public welfare had been either bought up or driven into bankruptcy, and there was no longer any way to reach the great mass of the people; ‘there has not been from that day to this, and there never will be again |until the workers and farmers have united to forge themselves a weapon | of deliverance. | The world war came, and the ideal- jism of America was diverted into a jnew channel. The writers of America were organized and drilled, along with ! |the rest of the population; “vigilan- tes,” we called ourselves, and there jare many who would not enjoy hav- ing their anties recalled. Ten years have passed, and one American wri- |ter here purposes, as briefly as pos- sible, to record his shame, and ask |forgiveness from the thousands of} |young men he helped to decoy into the | slaughter-pit. | It was my task, self-assumed, tc |hold the radical movement in line for | Woodrow Wilson’s policies. Needless to say, I never sed or received a |cent from anyone, and the little maga- | |zine which I edited and published cost | |me a defict of six or eight thousand dollars for the ten months of its his- tory. I am happy to say that I never swallowed the propaganda of our al- i nd never ceased to warn our pub- gainst the perfidy of the ruling |class statesmen in Europe: so much |so that the post office authorities re- |fused entry to my magazine, and T | only got by through a series of ac- |cidents—that my wife happened to have a United States senator for ali cousin, and another for a next-door 1eighbor in girlhood; also that I had he fortune to have a telegram to | Colonel Hor delivered to him while he ith President Wil- y little ’ was barred from d on request of the United | son. was in position to know what I|My reason for mentioning the sub- couldn’t; know, and would take the|Ject here is to show the writers and obvious step to protect us against dip-|@rtists of America what it means to lomatie perfidy. I knew nothing of s them that all the sources of informa- the pre-war intrigues of the Frenck,! tion and publicity of their country and Russian statemen against Ger- many, which had made the war in- evitable, and had been planned for that purpose; I knew nothing of the secret treaties which bound the allies for the war. When the time came for us to enter, I sent President Wil- son a telegram, urging him to con- dition our entry upon the agreement that all territories taken ‘from the Central Powers should be neutralized and placed under international guar- antee. If that policy had been fol- lowed, the ghastly farce of Versailles would have been avoided; in fact we would never have entered the war, for the allied rascals would have been exposed, and forced to make peace by the public sentiment of their own peoples, We went in; and the story-writers and poets and illustrators and actors and musicians of America were set to work to do their part in making the world safe for democracy. They wrote patriotic songs and red cross appeals, and spied on their foreign- born neighbors, and drew posters and made speeches selling liberty bonds, and went overseas and sang and danced for the boys. And while they were in the midst of it, the Bolshe- | viki broke into the strong boxes of | the Tsarist diplomats, and published to the world those secret treaties which showed our precious allics in a series of bargains to loot the world, in defiance of President Wilson’s promises to the German people. And what did the literary vigilantes make of that? The answer is that the very few of them knew anything -about it, because the newspapers of America suppeessed this most vital news of the whole war. Only the “New York Evening Post” published t'e treaties, straightway it was driven to the !, and purchased by a member of use of Morgan. What the vig- jose to believe were ‘he ‘Sis- son dccuments,” forgeries whi:h the Russian reactionar palmel «if on an American editor who nad turned amateur diplomat, and proved him- self more silly than anything he ever printea in the “Cosmopolitan. Maga- zine.” Naval Unintelligence: so you ee, I do not have so much to confe My quarrel with Woodrow Wilson not because he caused me to make the most brazen manner the defenders of the Lenin tradition. In certain articles in the New Masses, Eastman perverts iff the most impudent manner the Marxian theory of historical materialism | with the coarsest vulgarizations of that modern capitalist class |vagary, Freudianism. His latest book descends to plain mendac- ity against Marx, where he tries to prove that Marxism is out- ; worn and has to be brought up-to-date with the aid of modern |bourgeois science, particularly the “new psychology.” Always a mere dabbler, a hanger-on, in the revolutionary |movement, it is logical that Eastman should now find himself an ‘open enemy of the revolution. There is no worse menace to the ‘revolution than he who tries to distort or revise Marxism, and to unmask such reactionary efforts is the duty of every revolutionist. It is in pursuit of this principle that we publicly brand Eastman as a counter-revolutionist, trying to conceal his perfidy beneath pseudo-revolutionary phrases. His opinions are utterly worthless and no worker should contribute to his delinquency by patronizing are held as the personal and private property of men whose activities have nothing to do with human welfare, but solely with the profits of their own predatory group. We Ameri- cans went into this hideous adventure, because the House of Morgan and its allied banks had backed the wrong horse, and stood to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. At any time in us to validate bonds held by the House of Morgan, we will go into a war with any nation whatsoever, big or little, Hayti or Nicaragua, Mexico, China, Japan Russia, France or Great Britain; and when that time comes, the great chains of newspapers and magazines and publishing houses and moving picture producers and ex- hibitors, all now tied up tight with the financial system, will see to it that you, the writers and artists of America regard it as a war to make the world safe for democracy, and re- peat all the antics you performed in 1917-1918: just as now they cause you, reading this statement of plain historic facts, to become indignant and call me harsh names. . Rockefeller Company and State Plan to Crush Miners’ Strike (Continued from Page One) dom of the Wyoming miners are do- ing all possible to assist in the speed- up in production of coal, which is be- ing shipped into Colorado. In New Mexico the Governor has ordered out part of the State troops and is openly protecting the capitalist interest against the workers. Colorado Capitalist Press Screams For Bloed. The Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and the Pueblo Chafton and the lesser lights of the state’s capital- ist press are clamoring for the state troops and would gloat over a blood bath if such were possible. The Colo- rado Fuel and Iron Co, have sung one song for the last two weeks and that was and is: “The Governor Must Send in the State Troops.” The gov- ernor conferred with the strike lead- ers and as they stepped out of the room the representatives of the coal companies stepped in. Governor Ad- ams of Colorado had ordered three planes to keep watch on southern zone. They will be stationed at Pueblo. This act of sending the planes to watch the zone for the com- panies followed his handshake with the workers’ leaders and on the foot- steps of this, an order was drafted for the mobilization of 1,000 state troops. The governor declares with the commissioners, ‘the press and the capitalists that picketing is illegal. Mass Pieketing--Youth Active. In spite of the fact that the jails hold over two hundred men and RULING CUTS PLAYERS INCOME WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Bonuses paid ball players for signing con- tracts, and purchases of players, do not constitute capital expenditures within the meaning of the internal revenue laws and hence cannot be de- ducted in .computation of income taxes, the U. S. Board of tax appeals ruled today. DR. COOK WINS DECISION WASHINGTON, Oct. 381. — Dr. Trederick A. Cook, who once claimed to have discovered the North Pole, today was granted an appeal to the supreme court for review of a circuit court decision denying him liberty from Leavenworth prison on a five years probation order. No explanation accompanied the court’s brief announcement of its de- cision to review the case. women pickets, in spite of the intimi- dation and the gunmen’s work in beat- ing up workers’ pickets, the mass picketing continues, and in spite of the fact that picketing is declared ille- gal and troops are being mobilized, pickets from the north fields in 50 autos came into the south zone to help their comrades. A young women in red, Milka Sablich, who led the pic- kets and was injured by Ideal min gunmen when they arrived at the mines, is now in the Walsenburg hospital recovering from injuries. The youth are doing their share to help the miners win the strike. All through the fields girls and boys are in the thick of the activity. C. F. I. Steel Mills Affected. Coal shortage has caused the shut- down of departments of the Pueblo plants and over two thousand steel workers will be laid off. Colorado Fuel and Iron stock has taken a tumble and now the company has been forced to shut down all mines. It is trying new tactics of treating the picketers with breakfast in their early calls on the mines. This turn to pacifie tactics came on the heels of the mobilization of the 19% tr and the companies’ clamor for depor- tation of leaders and troops for fields. Lenin “Not a single class in history achieved power without puttin “And besides I noticed he did not really care to find work,” she added. One day last winter he disappeared altogether. i! She waited all winter for him to return, but he did not. He never even wrote. “Then I was sure he deserted me. But, well, I never did care for him anyway. Only, I had to take care of Bobby.” So she sold everything she had, and came to Houston. Here she thought she will find work and bring up Bob properly. She arranged with a woman in the neighborhood to take care of Bobby for $3.00 a week, and began to look for work. At the end of three weeks she found a job in a tin shop. All her work consisted of is placing pieces of tin into a machine, which turned them into cans. She was receiving $10.00 to $12.00 a week, But she could live on little. Three years with George taught her that. Tt was much easier later, when with the help of the neighbors she placed Bobby into a home. Some sort of day nursery. And after buying some dresses for herself, and a lot of worthless suits for Bob she began to save up for a decent winter coat. Winter is not severe in Houstom but an overcoat is necessary. Then she worked a few weeks over~ time till 8, 9 p. m. and she really be- gan to look into the windows of the department stores for a suitable coat. “And now I'll get a_ beautiful coat,” she concluded. Last Saturday night she woke up to find Bobby in high fever. She could ‘hardly wait till morning to bring a doctor. “There is something wrong with his lungs, and he must have an im- mediate operation on his tonsils,” said the doctor, pocketing the two dollars. Of course she had to quit her job to take care of the sick child. Tomorrow she is taking him to the hospital. “There goes my overcoat,” she told. me. Said:- forward its political leaders and spokesmen capable of organizing the movement and leading it.” And he proceeded to organize the Bolshevik Party of Russia without which the Russian Revolution would have been impossible. We must organize a strong party in this country that will be able to organize and lead the masses. The Workers (Communist) Party asks you to join and help in the fight for: A Labor Party and a United Labor Ticket in the 1928 elections, The defense of the Soviet Union and against capitalist wars. The organization of the unorganized. ; Making existing unions organize a militant struggle. The protection of the foreign born. Application for Membership in Workers (Communist) Part, (Fill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th St., N. ¥. Gite oe Name . ‘He entered Russia and proceeded to write a life of Trotsky, which|a performance in which he takes part. Cook, who was convieted in Forth| Address ....-..+-sserssersesssrrnserreescer tetera iets test ect tae was the infantile babbling of hero worship. Next he wrote “Since In sponsoring such a debate between two counter-revolution-| Worth, Texas, in 1923 on a charge of Lenin Died,” wherein he tried to prove that Trotskyism was the| ists, each\\posing as a revolutionist, the New Masses certainly | \yr¥,c"‘yuecentenced to. serve 14 | Occupation .....-cssssecseesesecceatussereserseseegestnenaeass nf _ dominant factor in the ee: in this work he slandered in] renders a very dubious oe to the working class. Vhyeaxs and nite months in prison. + (Enclosed find one dollar for initiation fee and one month’s dues.)