The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1927, Page 6

£1 . THE DAILY WORKERS. 9 Hhadesrnemencrsord NEW yvorn, WOUN=SDAY, NOV. 2, 1927 5 ‘ THE DAILY WORKER "E GOVERNMENT OF COLORADO By Jack Burk. |= | \ Rodel cast coat Current Events | 4 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. | q Daily, Except Sunday : 22 First Street, New York, N. Y. Phone, Orchard 1680 | By T. J. O'Flaherty 4g Cable Address: “Datwork” as | — “ ae SUBSCRIPTION RATES i : ECE aa By Mail (in New Yor:: only): By Mail (outside of New York): Re will Durant, the Satieneronie s * = S60 7 $3.50 six months philosopher, has discovered tha’ $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per years $ 0 a t J $2.50 three months $2.00 three months | He Abe ee gonpower en it s re | ‘or war, bu or fireworks. 2 ae Address and make cut checks to | made other important discoveries. 33 First Street, New York, N.Y. “But those were little things” says ERT MINOR the Dr. “The great thing was to 1 4 ere DUNNE j deepen and ,aaiet the soul with un- : —< derstanding.” The professor must be q st-otfice at New York, N. ¥., under right, because we have read of Wu : ee Pei Fu, the reactionary tuchun of a eck jpeee |few years ago writing a sonnet to * ‘one ‘ ere a . + ” | the moon in a safe retreat while his Distaste for the Use of Mlilitia in Industrial Disputes [tnfostante “oops were "betn | | massacred y those of @ general so im i erate that he could not read the it Colorado i | legend on a Chinese laundry check. ¢ Picketing has been suspended in the Colorado coal fields,! a8 eee 1 “temporarily,” s fficial reports of the I. W. W. which is i pe Durant seems to have found the ae OES Te secret of soul-quiet during his so- one the surike: : Bape | journ in the fastnesses of Chinese his- : 1pon the minds of the state officials,” says \tory, w that the return § ion we did not relinquish the right of | | of the B indemnity to China as = . communications and conversations and that we would use, our ie at r vs gird ripe rights of free speech and free assemblage as guaranteed by the: iGehama Wa, popetaritey John bo Rocke: t constitution of the United States and the state of Colorado; that; | feller’s oil cans. Returning to gun £ we also protested against the unwarranted actions of the sheriff’s | powder ue uencedly of helontnion < * > A : . : ni ne clen iH office of Los Animas county in using the picket law asa means | cs sual Aa Rtas Go ainke to arrest any man actively connected with the strike.” (Our; |their adversaries that the people of t asi | Jorn China have. emphasis.) | modern Chi: 5 i It may seem presumptuous to workers who are facing and| * * * { fighting the might of the Rockefeller dynasty and its govern-| Haut youne Chinese student should ment in the Colorado coal fields, for us, sitting in comparative | r Se A safety in a New York office, to say that in spite of the protesta- | leeciell’ Be Gis the history dof! ather ; tions which were “impressed upon the minds of the state offi-| | countries there was a class that could ; cials,” we are not greatly impressed by the manner in which the} Lee te eran plulosophers a i ae a dene * " in the! split verbal hairs over the general whole question of the part played by the state government in the; |euuliey Ge theses while de erase , strike has been handled by the I. W. W. leaders. i muateceislayed: mi orderiie, Bee Thee ' We stated yesterday that evidently there had been pone [at the quiet ony vee Hey j illusions relative to Governor Adams and the state power gen-| ee Asner ty, mek ie erally. \@ aE © | spiration for their ‘odes and sonnets Today, after reading the official report sent out by the e : i Fela ea ees re oe I. W. W. press committee we are more than ever convinced that | By [ ipton Sinclair or paar ee ee a considerable confusion still prevails. | O i ie i ] eS any: On October 29, a wire received from I. W. W. leaders in| sa 8, Ae Walsenburg stated: | See : Pay peeae cen See a Seeaieiee NE of the most amusing sub-titles ven # he eyegele a ow torship. This makes it appear anti-?America attractive, and distracting?in those days we thought they were that I saw on a news story for a : “Governor Adams’ distaste for the use of militia in indus- | (Continued from Last Issue.) | democratic, whereas it aims at the! the masses with jazz and sex and! just poor devils, and it was a shame long time appeared in the Morning trial disputes is well-known and we doubt very much that the! os . | widest democracy over known. Need-| luxury and fashion and crime and for the police to poke their batons /iyov1d of October 31. It reads: “Sis- governor will ever send them in.” | x less to say, we have never had democ- mystery and every conceivable form | into the abdomens of the pregnant | tors Say Mrs. Knepp Will Shock the In the same message there is the following statement: “The| ' Beas in perce ve ae the Civil Set rae te GEIR ORR eee ee Tee ee eee wile State.” Ms mane has not 4 mia? ereten is rac sears = . beaneca el a! ; | War we have had plutocracy, main- | artis y bE eRe 1 Se AD-| already jaccomplished at purpose national Suards arrival which was predicted by the brass check Red Ver sus White tained by the subsidizing of political but rest assured that’ the | domens! Some of us went out to! this nee shackepioot state. As you press failed to materialize. Airplanes, however, were observing| APOLOGIZE . |parties and the purchase of legisla-| masters of the payroll know, and se-}make speeches for the poor devils,| may know, Mrs. Knapp is a former strikers’ activities during the day.” \" ee eid dicetee a readers, | tures and courts. Our democracy is a lect our cultural diet with care and | and get arrested with them; and as| secretary of state and a member of Further, in the official press report of the I. W. W. com-|new age has come, and unjess “you | 2os pads vasiamtioenp gi Ramadi aaca eee ate re eins preenal ee aia heanne aoe Cees . eis = “ 74 5 | fs ae . | surely the Russians also have a right | | tive mittee today it is stated, in speaking of the conference between | know its economic bases, you cannot | e e | Meet my old comrade and fellow- |p cand eked a id heh taki of eaniek Prahes £ 4 i 4 A to hope—since they are applying the) __ - ageant, and worked day and nig! ask of making a private census o: I. W. W. leaders and national guard officers, that “the colonel eee its pleraitte no art.| creat principle to industry, the reai at Joseph eee pales over it, and bankrupted ourselves—/the state, a superfluous duty since i 7. W. y | Have patience with me for just two/ i [ENvGROY Wears. Bao. C08. wae |how well I remember that agonized|the federal government does that ‘aii garrett ago pen i ent preaennaens lawyer | Saragraphs more, and we are dong |e ore am acd weereeg | hone of the radical, movement, the | ginal omeetiney when Mabel Spode work. 3 for him og sl up good-naturedly. ty : | with politics for good. to having our business affairs run by, Sener oe pees prckrahing | pledged her furniture to get the last ° . * sass = But picketing has been stopped under threat of martial law | The Russian revolution came. The|Henry Ford and Judge Gary and | nove o a eee Bee ° a . re five hundred dollars! And then the MES: Knapp had an appropriation of f made by this same military officer who “gave up good-naturedly” | greatest event in history, it has de-| Rockefeller and Doheny and a few. Tinie yOUE eet See Leow ta tank |e implied” that. somebods ML ova. cue million dollars, But’ by and who speaks in the name of the state of Colorado. | termined the past ten years, and will/ such masters, The democracy of the { ily epee tes ate the public encase robbed the strikers of the pro-| ine time she Got thin apandiagrit ene The state and the coal barons have given up nothing. Arrests |@etermine the thinking of mankind| Soviets, a thing in the womb seeking |°" Choo) the land “aron which its (ros oF the show! | barely knew how many people she had ‘ aang ba é = Roy eh Sean tet |for the rest of my stay on earth, and|to be born, and the democracy of | “mlcag P 4| Well, Thompson Buchanan was our|on her payroll, tho she was aware till cont It is the miners who have given up something— sali : imo | Steat newspaper stood, and had| > P; l oak t is the miners oO have g ip “ g yours. It was not merely the crash| capitalism, matured into a SARE aie eeoeat slectibnk ay order to Publicity man, and worked like the| that 90 per cent of them were rela- elr picket ine. |of a great empire; it was the fact) prostitute—such are the two forces x “ AN AN. We do not blame the I. W. W. leaders for maneuvering to|that for the first time a revolution prevent a declaration of martial law and the occupation of the | occurred in a country which had come strike zones by troops. We are not urging, from our New Nore oes ieee We pee office, that the miners and their families bare their breasts to! revealed that in such a society the the bullets and bayonets of the military in order to give it prac-|strongest single group is the organ- tice on human targets. We do not know how far successful picket-| ized machine workers. These work- ing may be possible under the circumstances. jes, through their trade councils, took y is ; |charge of Russia; and in so doing But this we do know and this has to be said: |they gave us a sketch of history for The Colorado strike cannot be won without picketing and | {he exe be star years. The Hae that in sending soldiers to stop picketing the state government | ities, industry, Psa pee ee is breaking the strike. and art of mankind into a struggle The trouble here seems to be that the methods by which ee two opposing forces, the armed forces of the state are being brought in to fight the battles | newly awakening labor organizations, | of Rockefeller interests are of x more skillful kind than those | ren sopen. ee Era omen Baca) ) itles to the means of used in 1914. | preduetion, struggling for power, and their strug- gle conditions the thinking and writ- ing of every author in the world. I set aside books for later discus- sion; there are still independent pub- lishing houses, and a writer of books ean, in the last extreme, beg or bor- row the money and print his own writ- ings. But books do not count for much; what rules the thinking of Americans are moving pictures, ra- dio, and Sunday supplements and popular magazines which circulate by the millions every week and month. All these great capitalist institutions are now agencies of propaganda, and all writers who serve them are hench- men of big business, making war hold its loot. But as time passed, the ties of blood asserted themselves, and Joe weakened in his rage against the criminal rich. He went to war, and poison gas bombs, and now he has a store of them ingthe basement of the new white stone palace in which his great; murder-newspaper is housed. Captain Patterson, ex-Comrade Joe, is now a master-fascist; and he has not only the Chicago “Tribune,” but the “Daily News” of New York, the trashy tabloid with more than a mil- |lion readers; also “Liberty,” the bar- |ber-shop weekly, upon which I am {told he has lost several millions, but {he does not mind, because it is a cause |—the liberty of American big busi- learned the use of machine guns and} | wily Ulysses to cutwit the capitalist | tives of hers. If Mrs. Knapp has any- ‘press. And now here he is writing | thing more shocking she had better poison-propaganda for Lasky, and he | ith it, before some one else can do it so easily—all he has to do} her to it by spilling the dirt on is to turn everything upside down, | e Tammany grafter. | portraying it exactly the opposite of, ~ es 8 « | what he knows it to be! The Tsarist \aristocrats become beautiful and ypae manager of a prosperous West saintly and patriotic heroes; the peas- “ Side restaurant placed a “dish- ants are well-fed and groomed like | washer wanted” card in his window Hollywood stars, and love their mas- yesterday morning. Inside of ten ters and pray to God for their safety; ; nrinutes at least ten applicants ape while the Bolsheviks are monsters cared. The boss gave each the with twisted and distorted faces, who | once-over and decided they looked too divide their time between murder and |»¥osry. Only one of the rejected lust--just as Thompson Buchanan ob- | 00S had the energy or spirit to form served during his work with John. ®. Silent curse on his lips as he went. Reed and Ernest Poole and Leroy | They all approached King Boss with Scott and Gurley Flynn and Mabe! | ‘he mpner User. pineal ny, oe 7 : ; ee eee ae upon the new freedom in the inter-| ness ii i | Dodge and Margaret Sanger and Mary *" ° et Governor Adams » se ing the = niged ne Bs i sig The new Soviet ferm of gcevernment ane of the old slavery. I do not mean! ints Sere ey ea Bs | Craig Sinclair! bi hike eee Saae ah rt The military eae laugh and ¢ Ey ae 2 the I. W. W. J€aers,' was born amid the horrors of revolu-|to say that ali such writers conscious- | a copy on Lincoln’s birthday of this! Also, meet that great statesman of |faces. The wealthy restaurant pro= they admit that th are worstec in argument—but picketing they stops just the sume. Behind the grins of the guardsmen are the guns of the government. The capitalist class rarely uses open force when it can ge’ the same results by methods 2 leave the true relations be- tween it and its state power hidden. But t one word or deed the imvression of the miners of the hundreds of thousends of other work- convey by solorado, or ise than an enemy of the miners, that the miners cau to do anything else but aid the coal barons, is to make the greatest and most disastrous mistake that can be made in thi ther struggle of the same kind. The miners of Colorado should understand, and it is the duty of the I. W levs whose courage and devotion to the to make clear » weapon of the cause of the wo aunot be questioned to them t the C same interests w the min wt if is not what Governor Adams says that con but what he does. In no way, shape or form, should the strike leaders make it possible for the state government to stop picketing and break the strike while at the same time being able to pose as “a neutral force” or “friendiy to aber.” If the strike cannot be won without picketing then the strikers will have to picket—or surrender. But no matter what the next Cavelopment in the Colorado strike is, it must be given the unswerving support that such a heroic struggle against the most powerful and ruthless section of the capigalist class and its government deserves from all sec- “tions of the labor movement and the working class. The “Peepul’s” Socialist Parson Rev. Norman Thomas is the socialist candidate for wlderman in the eighth-assembly district and his fellow-parsons, believing that they should stick together regardless of such trifling facts as party labels, are praying for his success. Had his former customers in the Brick Presbyterian Church ‘Fifth Avenue paid more lip service to pacifism and less to - struggle, that the state covernment} tion and civil war; therefore it is a military thing, pretected by a dicta- i ——- ly produce anti-Bolshevik propagan- da; many of them are just making heir poodie dogs, Thomas might not have quit his job as repre- sentative of the militant christ made for the rich for the role of nouthpiece of the meek, humble and pacifist christ given to the New Leader. In all the socialist election literature that we have read, there is not a single indication that the socialist party considers its standard bearer a working class leader tho we have heard that a |socialist campaign soap boxer once referred to the “working ‘people.” A case for expulsion! i The endorsement of Thomas’ campaign most prized by the ‘socialist party is that issued by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who ‘puts his hero in the same category as Lincoln, Wilson and Debs, | Thomas evidently being regarded as the perfect Wilson type of ‘bourgeois politician. To be mentioned in the same breath with the mountebank Wilson is an outrage against the memory of | Debs, one of the most outstanding victims of Woodrow. Wilson’s | campaign of persecution against the radical workers who protested | against the dragooning of the workers of this country into the shambles of Europe for the benefit of Wall Street. If there ever was a More nauseating and hypocritical agent of American im- |perialism than Woodrow Wilson in the White House, history does ‘not record the fact. He put a halo around the head of the stool |pigeon and officiated at the ushering in of an era in the life of ‘this country which made the land one gigantic finkery. Yet this | is the man who is linked with the rebel Debs as a model of political purity in their attempt to collect from among the democratic _voters whose nasal organs gag at the Tammany cesspools those ‘of them who worshipped Woodrow Wilson as the perfect type of capitalist politician, the kind that knows capitalism is more ef- ficient and less offensive when its political organs are kept in a sanitary condition. There is no depth too low for the socialist party to sink to | when out hustling for votes. But we submit that the placing of Debs, who with all his faults was an anti-capitalist rebel, on the same moral level as his persecutor Wilson marks a new low level of political depravity even for the socialist party. ‘poor. This much we gather from a special election issue of The |vear, and I found an editorial’ call- |ing for a new war with Mexico, and | praising the last, one as the best thing that had ever happened to Mexico; also a panegyric on Jincoln by a | preacher—but you bet that preacher didn’t quote what Lincoln had said concerning the Mexican war! Meet the great Jesse L. Lasky, (newspaper man, gold-miner, band- leader, magician-manager, and now lord of the moving-picture realm. Mr. Lasky has no military title, so let us call him Emperor of Orgies. The emperors of old knew only the orgies of all times and places, and at three weeks notice will produce a set of the ruling class diversions of Pers polis or Paris, Nineveh or New Yo Sodom or Chicago, Harnak or Holly- wood. But when the Russian revolu- tion cante and threatened the orgy- enjoying rich, Mr. Lasky hastened to the rescue, to make the world safe for orgies. Who could better reveal the horrors of the nationalization of women in Russia, than one who knows so well the moving picturization of women in America? in the year 1919 jat the height of our white terror, Mr. Lasky produced, an elaborate feature- picture called “The World and Its Wo- man,” with Geraldine Farrar, opera | singer, and her husband, Lou Tellegen as the stars, and it took my prize as the most hideous piece of hate-pro- paganda that had ever come under my eyes, And how do you think Mr. Lasky got all the details ‘about the blood- thirsty “reds”? Why, he hired an author who had lived among them— had aetually been one of them, in fact. None other than my old friend Thompson Buchanan, volunteer pub- licity agent for the Paterson Pageant! That was fourteen years ago, when ten thousand silk-workers of Pater- son, New Jersey, went on strike, and’ letters, that strong Silent ‘Man who has made more speeches than any other occupant of the White House, outdoing Carlyle with his gospel of silence in forty volumes. When civili- zation was in peril, Cautious Cal Cool- idge did not hesitate, but rushed to the rescue with a series of articles, “Enemies of the Republic,” published in the “Delineator,” one of the Butter- ick chain, certified circulation 2,102,- 223 women per month; also an article in “Good Housekeeping,” one of the Hearst chain, certified circulation 1,- 150,947 women per month. Cal real- ized the importance of reaching the women because they were the ones ho were destined to be nationalized by the Bolsheviks; also it pays to because they don’t ‘mow any better than to believe what you tell them. Also that, other great artist, Gen- eral Charles G. Dawes, violin-virtuoso and composer of a melody. Fritz Kreisler edited it—but of course not because the author is a millionaire banker, powerful enough to rob his stockholders of a couple of hundred thousands dollars to subsidize the master-corruptionist Lorimer. Re- cently Hell-and-Maria made a cam- paign tour of the country, and his progress was a tornado of “Melody by General Charles G. Dawes.” Of course the reason why every radio station in his path played it several times every day was not that he was presiding officer of the Senate, which controls appointments to the new radio board having power to seize all radio stations whenever Calvin or Charlie wish to call their political op- ponents Bolsheviks, as during the La Follette campaign. Keep your eye on Heli-and-Maria, for when American Fascism begins its march on Wash- ington this great artist will be the Mussolini. carry on propaganda among women, | |prietors are Armenians, who likely: |bought liberty bonds during the war, | contribute to worthy causes, such as clergymen and goose-step professors, |while the Americans who sought the {humble dishwashing job will have nothing in the way of patriotism to worry about until the next war when they will play with a Kefty gun, un- less they have died of starvation in the meantime, in a land of billions of dishes and oceans of stew. *“ 2° «© Cooney Cparles A. Lindbergh, once known as the “flyin’ fool” rejected all jobs offered to him since, ‘his successful flight to Europe, but accepted a post with the Daniel Gag- |genheim Fund for the Promotion of | Aeronautics. The suggestion , ‘con- |tained in this bit of information is that Lindbergh spurned financial re- muneration, but decided to devote his, life to the furtherance of aviation a® ja patriotic duty. Of course this is the essence of bunk, Lindbergh is not even a “flyin’ fool” any more, but | excellent material for a dollar-a-year man in the next big war. ° * . | i eel siey they were stupid enough: to count every note in their pre- cinct for their political boss, two Chi- cago women. are stepping lively be- _ tween the county jail and their homes. | It is customary among political gentleman in Chicago to make a ges- ture towards the loser’s dignity by counting at least five votes in each precinct for him. In Chicago elec- tions, victory is always on the side of the bigger battery of machine guns. The rightful wrath of a Democratic | judge bubbled over the safety line at this gross infringement of a tradi-| tional unwritten agreement so he, clapped a year’s jail sentence on the two faithful women employes of the | Eepeblcen bo: Then other things. Dogan ei