The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1927 THE D AILY WORKER ROCKEFELLER RULE IN COLORADO Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Cable Address: Phone, Orchard 1680 SUBSCRIPTION R. By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six manths $6.00 per years $3.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months ‘Address and mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N, EDITOR........ ....ROBERT MINOR ASSISTANT E “.WM. F, DUNNE Hntered as second-class mail at the post-office at New York, the act of March 8, 1879. Y., under The Latin American Bloc, the Havana Pan American Union Conference and the American Working Class Dr. Max Jordan, the Washington correspondent of the Ber liner Tageblatt, having completed a tour of Latin America, is writing a series of articles for the New York World. setting forth his opinion of the status of American and Latin American rela- tionships. Specifically in regard to the Sixth Annual Pan American Conference to be held in Havana, January 16, Dr. Jordan states plainly that the Latin can governments are “manifesting their anim i United States in the affairs of her neighbor republics in Central America.” ne us opposi Wall Street government evidently attaches great importance to the coming conference since President Coolidge is to attend in person. Coupled with the recent appointment of a member of the House of Morgan as ambassador to Mexico, it is clear that Latin American relations have taken first place in state department policy. The demand is being made, with Mexico the most emphatic voice, for the removal of the headquarters of the Pan American Union from Washington to some Latin American capital. The invasion and conquest of Nicaragua has aroused intense. n to any further interference by the; feeling in al] Latin American countries and there is little doubt: that the Havana conference will find a solid Latin American bloc | demanding an end to American intervention. It is likewise prob- able that the whole question of the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine which in official Washington makes the interests of American imperialism paramount, without regard for the sover- eignty of the Latin American republics, will be raised. The Mexican government, having stamped out the latest coun- ter-revolution, altho burdened down by something like a half- billion dollar debt to Wall Street, is in a position to give some lead- ership to the Latin American bloc. For the moment the special interests of the oil companies are shoved into the background and the Mexican government finds itself confronted openly by Amer-: iean. finance-capital. Much will depend upon the line followed by the Calles-Obre- gon forces at the Havana conference. A firm resistance to Wall Street pressure will strengthen immensely the Latin American bloc. A weak policy will tend to demoralize it and make easier of accomplishment the extensive program of penetration and cor- ruption, with the use of armed force where “necessary,” which Wall Street’s policy in Nicaragua exemplifies. For the American working class and the organized labor movement it is of great significance that the conference is to be| held in Cuba where the suppression of the labor movement by the government was of such a widespread and bloody character that the executive council of the American Federation of Labor was forced to protest. The Machado government, American imperi- alism’s puppet, has reopened the campaign of suppression. It is evidently planned to present Cuba to the representatives of other Latin American governments as a country where no voices of dis- content, coming from the working class are heard, as proof of the iy met Dr, Grey personally, at a ball| beneficient nature of Wall Street aid to struggling republics. As the date for the conference approaches there should be organized and sponsored by the American labor movement, at one and the gram of Wall Street government in Latin America and for the fullest exposure of the horrors which the National City Bank and other Wall Street institutions have, thru the Machado govern- ‘ment, inflic upon the Cuban masses. Oppression of the Latin American masses and American im- perialist domination of Latin American countries go hand in hand. The Robot (The Westinghouse Electric Company has created a new mechanical man.—News item.) The myth became reality, indeed, The Robot toiled and served his every need, And now the master cried in joy: “At last The days of unions and of strikes are past! This beats the Federation—and no @aft To pay!” And so the master loudly laughed. One need but speak, the Robot must obey. Of four and twenty hours his working day. 2zme time, a campaign against the imperialist pro-| © (Continued from Last fesue.) of portraying the “wob- tic” “ror ft to another y. Dr. Grey-—who at the more useful work rote a novel “The Des- ” in which he portrayed workers as degener- life {the industrial jates and’criminals, whose occupations burning barns and crops, and labducting beantiful heroines. It has [been my fortune to meet some hun- | dreds of “wobblies”—they have a way of coming to see me when they get out of jail, and telling me what has happened to them. They are men with souls of steel, tried in a fiery fur- ‘nace. I happened to seg the filming icf the moving picture made from Dr. ' Grey’s romance, and could discover no resemblance the haggard yr faces IT knew, and the moron pes selected by the casting director. \ were between It happened that shortly afterwards ‘in the home of a moving picture pro- ducer, We were standing on the side- lines watching the show--since neith- ‘er of us happens to be an ornamenta! festive person. Desiring to be af- T remarked, “IT have noticed a curious things—I make my heroes out jof the same fellows that you make | your villains of.” I don’t remember what Dr. Grey replied, but I learned afterwards that my remark had caused him great uneasiness. He re- peated it to our host, asking plain- _ | tively, “How do you suppose anybody | dust and scrub the floors, and second ‘could make heroes out of my vil- lains?” And while we are listing the great | romantic champions of hundred per} ‘cent Americanism, let us not over-! look Harold Bell Wright. Rev, Wright | —he began as a Christian (Disciples) | clergyman—has evolved out of his | inner consciousness an America of the} open. space: st, clean and whole-{ e, a C ian (Disciples) clergy- | an’s wish-fulfilment. In this roman- | tic America, virtue is always rewarded | at page five hundred and something,’ with good common sense rewards} ‘such as good common sense Amer- | icans appreciate. As to the relation- Money Writes »probability one in six hundred thou-*method of getting something sand. Auntie Sue has sent some Bra-| nothing represents the dearest wish an bank-notes to the Chicago bank | of every member of the leisure classes, which the hero has robbed, and as | and so their favorite fiction deals with | there are eight thousand banks in| charm-poachers. America, that is an item eacy to fi >" Eight years ago a clever writer pub- ures a He sucreeateived. on the. Vety:inished. the, life-history ofa: eharmn<| day that ane hero could steal them. | poacher by the name of “Jurgen.” I| which inirodaces yet another element don't know just how it happened, met of uncertainty. doubt some friends of the author called It is a very long novel, and there|the attention of the anti-vice socicty | enter such elements as Auntie Sue’s/of New York to the book, and the | happening to select just the right one | publisher was arrested, and the price | ‘out of thirty thousand stenographers | went up to twenty dollars a copy. The in the United States, to come and/|result was that every college under-| type the hero’s manuscript; also the graduate of any literary pretensions ! jchance of the hero’s faithless wife | made it the aim of his young life to. with her paramour selecting a cot-;get “Jurgen” and sit up all night with tage just across the river for a sum- | it, and start trying anything once the mer-resort. With such striking coin-/ following night. So it has come about cidences, the odds mount up fast, and|that James Branch Cabell is the hero when we get to the end we find that! and idol of ninety-nine per cent of the chances of this particular wish-|our young intelligenzia, and his ivory fulfilment of a Christian (Disciples) |tower in Richmond, Virginia, almost clergymen ever being brought se ae that of Mr. Hergesheimer. by a law-abiding Providence are one a nae , in 3456 followed by thirty-two ciph- | Tne eon pf a Sena biaben on ers; or if you find it easier to say,| ‘7m tamuy earned his vying: a jone chance in three hundred and for- | Many ie batted genealogist; that ce ty-five billion and six hundred mil-} ayy i Was employed GEE NO lions of thousands of millions eth eeeee ancient lineages and con- of millions of billions. [Eeruee Pepe arees ) L0r, Disme proud {snobs. This has given him inventive- XVI jness, pliability of mind, and intimacy | x {with ancient documents and titles; as | a fiction-writer he has employed these i. Fhe Charm-Poacher | qualities in the construction of a | mythology so plausible that you can |THE moral content of ivory tower art | hardly tell it from the rea!—in fact | consists ¢f cruelty and sensuality; |I never did make sure how much of | the former deriving from the fact that|the Jurgen legend is found in the | the artist repudiates the brotherhood | encyclopedia and how much is cabel- lous. Jurgen wanders far, and many |of man, and the latter from the fact | that he repudiates the comradeship of | strange experiences befall him, and for a while you are puzzled as to what woman. There are two uses for women lin the ivory tower—tfirst, to sweep and | it is all about; but soon you discover |the key, and after that it is all sim- ple; there is a male generative organ, and a female generative organ, and f |to entertain the master by the exercise of that mystical thing he calls By Upton Sinclair | | trols” the radicals. for®and depraving books ever published |merely at marriage, but at love, and | ographer, Floyd Dell, who is reading in America. It is'a long jeering, not every notion of loyalty and honor in love. Jurgen’s formula, “I will try anything once”—meaning, of course, I will have sexual relations with any woman once as had eight years to be thoroughly bootlegged among the college youth of America; and I am moved to wonder how many thousands of lads have been caused to suffer | trocious torments from gonorrheal infection, or to spend their later years in wheelchairs as a result of syphilitic infection. I write this, and my friend and bi- proofs, is moved to violent protest. He thinks “there are so many other moving and realistic persuasions to sexual intercourse”; also that “such books actually take the place of overt action for the people who read them, | as Omar’s verses take the place of booze.” My answer is that of course a great many book-people do lose the! habit of action, but surely not all. I have known a numler of “booze- fighters” who quoted Omar with gen- uine fervor. Of course it is not true that an art-work inspires every per- son to action every time; neverthe- less, it is true that art-works are one of the great sources of human action, and have been so recognized by all who wished to incite to action. To say that people can be taught to! ridicule true love without ever being led to practice false love, seems to} me to overlook the most elementary | facts of psychology. Tt happens that Floyd Dell is not} a worshipper of Cabell’s art. But oth- ers are, and these fly into a rage with me. “Jurgen” is a priceless work of literature, they tell me; so charmingly written, so witty and sophisticated— surely that makes a difference! came from many quarters. |“charm.” The worst enemy of ivory tower life is boredom, and this puts a heavy task on the charmers; a great many are needed, and they have to work desperately to keep their charms active with lipsticks and scented ex- éraetsin slender violet or green vials from “Paris. With the best of efforts the former approaches the latter, and that is all that ever happens in the Cabell ivory tower, and all you need to know about the fiction, mythology, history, philosophy, art and Episcopal | religion of the gentleman in Rich- |mond, Virginia. ! TI have friends who know Mr. Cabell, \they are unable to equal the charming | of néwer-and fresher rivals, and so we have tragedies, which afford themes for splendid art works by the and report him as an amiable person, and protest against the vehemence of my loathing for his books. It is not My answer is, it makes just as much dif- ference as does the fact that a rattle- snake has the scales on its back ar- ranged in pretty patterns, or that the teeth and claws of a tiger are of} ivory whiteness and gracefully curved. | You know exactly how much differ- ence that makes to you, when you RED RAYS ‘OR the first time since the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union celebrated an anniversary of the No- vember Revolution the capitalist press was free from the croakings of prophets who specialize in predicting the doom of the Soviet government. On the contrary, testimony to the stability of the revolutionary regime Even the which reactionary Herald-Tribune, |comes as near to being the official mouthpiece of the Republican Party as possible under the political condi- tions existing in the United States, declares that the phenomenal growth of trade between this country and the Soviet Union, brings recognition with- in bounds of probability at a com- paratively early date. * * ie is interesting to note that Alex- ander Kerensky, short-lived premier of Russia in the days that intervened between the overthrow of the Czar’s government and the rise to power of the Bolsheviki, chose the Tenth An- niversary of the Soviet regime to pub- lish a book entitled “Catastrophe” which presumably pictures the down- fall of Russia under the present gov- ernment, as seen thru the eyes of a bourgeois agent. A catastrophe there was it is true, but it is sufficient to say just now that one of the chief casualities is Mr. Kerensky. * * S these lines ave written William J. Burns may be facing a grand jury to account for his latest attempt at jury-fixing. In the meantime I ghall give you one good reason why there are detectives. It was taken from the fils of a Burns man in a Washing- ton Hotel: “Pursuant to instruction from principal W. J. B. I left the agency at 12 noon, packed my bag and proceeded to Washington, D. GC. to meet manager C. G. R. Upon arrival I was given juror Number 10— Goucher as my subject. I checked in- to the Washington Hotel and discon- * tinued. Expenses $17.52. Time one day.” I submit that this is not so bad for a day’s graft, in addition to salary. i * * * HE Greek government wants to know how the United States “con- So we are in- formed by Arthur Brisbane. And Arthur saves the government the trouble of replying, with the one word prosperity. But should the Greek government read the American press it will not have to rely on Mr. Bris- bane’s charm against rebellion. It can see the pictures of soldiers with guns “controlling” the striking miners of Colorado, who would like to have Brisbane’s friend John D. Rockefeller share more of his prosperity with them. The Greek government has nothing to learn from the United States in the art of crushing the workers. The gun is the thing and speaks a universal language. * * * ILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST has had another relapse, but physicians report that his chances of recovery are good. The noted pub- lisher has suffered from periodical at- tacks of this malady for several years and it is known to strike him in its most malevolent form preced- ing elections. The disease takes en- tirely opposite forms at times. The present attack is the mild variety as is manifested by an editorial in his New York American in favor of Al Smith. The editor is expected to be sufficiently recovered next week to call Al Smith a rascal. * * Wate Hale Thompson of Chica- go has offered a prize of $10,000 for the best history of the United States to go along with his “America First” campaign. Here is a chance for one of our chronic biographers to write a popular life of Uncle Sam with just enough of his léves to an- tagonize the daughters of the American revolution. A history be- ginning with the “Stars and Stripes” would surely win the prize,’ since Thompson is one of those fellows who likes a book with a fly leaf for a first page. * * * * HE woman in “The Spirit of Vie- tory,” a drama enacted at Gov- ernor’s Island last week, seems to me to be doing al Ithe fighting with the consent of the uniformed males, judg- ing from a picture that appeared in the New York Times. find the rattlesnake or the tiger in The only other H your home, open is a fellow who is waving his (To Be Continued.) next generation of ivory tower dwel- lers: It is notorious that a few women considered good form for radical writers to object to obscenity, for fear jof giving aid to the cens6r. Because }you don’t want to haye your oppon- person willing to step out into haf sword in the direction of the enemy. with the suggestion that the heroine follow the sword. Behind the female is a husky warrior who holds her in mes { The Robot had no union, so it seems, ship which this romance hears to|are not content with either function, And no class consciousness and no fair dreams Of freedom or of justice, for his head Was but a block. He was not housed or fed But he was simply told to do a thing And to obey he’d always quickly spring—- Close, open doors, or help a lady stout Unlace her shoes, or put the house cat out, Or lift great burdens in his tireless hands, In fact, do all the labors that were man’s. reality, the figures have been worked out by a mathematician—one of those bright young writers for the “New Republic” whom the hundred per cent- | ers so cordially despise. This young} writer studied Rev. Wright’s novel, “The Re-Creation of Brian Kent,” ac- cording to the laws of compound mathematical probability, and I sum-} marize briefly: The hero, a criminal flecing from | jents hit over the head by a police-' }man’s club, it is assumed that you jmake no opposition to them whatever, but take a flabby attitude on moral s, granting anybody’s right to hing without rebuke. At bering myself among the s, I rise to say that all life : of acts of choice, and that, r the the dusting-sweeping-scrubbing, lipstick-scented-extracts-from-P a ri s- charming. These women insist upon having something to do with their | own destinies, and they are \ “shrews,” and are the especially of ivory tower artists; the condition | r of being entangled with one of thera } affords the basis for the comedies of | ace as we choose wisely or ivory tower life. The artist who is so | oth ely, we have happiness or suf- unlucky as to have his tower seized |furing, for our innocent posterity as by a shrew is obliged to flee from her! well as for o I ! HEAR |a most indelicate manner by both eee |shoulders while his legs show the Fi . \strain of trying to push forward an beating, beating, beating: | almost immovable object. Behind them In the slums jall are several others having a good men are marching toward a greeting; | time blowing Bugl ets We hepa Te banhsibe Hlady didn’t $e vata senses fleeting, fleeting. | HILE on the subject of fascist | dictatorships, we notice that Mus- , ‘solini is about to call on his friend |J. P. Morgan for another $100,000,000 I hear drums I hear beats— booming, booming, booming: grain g . ren P selves. i Through the streets, 1 D hi that Benito i o But soon the Robot he began to rock justice in Chicago, arrives in a village i : urselves. That is the 1 , oan, Does this mean that Benito is 4 And rattle and his knees began to knock, lin the Ozarks, an home of “Auntie | 07S¥e, and he manideys over the world, | meaning ef morality; and while seien- passion flagrant, passion fuming, again facing a political crisis? _ When, = = A v ’ he | Guth: * Sa: "alleee Haiwad” and golden- | oking for some charm belonging to| tific progress will alter our choice, there retreats after the murder of Matteotti, Italy For he grew tired, worn out with so much toil, | heattads toceeuecbeer Estimating that |£°™e other man, which the wandering | nothing will do away with the need hie cnonie t ibeent stood on the brink of a political vol- And his machinery began to spoil. | cheney apethinae, thousand villages to artist can steal, because the other man | of choosing, or the importance of, onstrous tyrant looming! cano, the House of Morgan came to ‘a One day, while polishing his master’s shoes, The Robot broke. And no amount of glues Or wires could mend him, for his work was done, } Devoid of thought, of leisure or of fun. And so we laid the Robot in his grave. Don’t be a Robot!—this the moral, Slave! } —HENRY REICH, JR. \ | “» which he might have fled, we have an initial probability of one in three thousand. The hero, drunk, drifts upon a roaring river, and it would take a hydrographic chart to deter- mine the chances of his boat stopping on a certain sand-bar; but we figure conservatively one chance {n two hun- dred, which make the julative is obliged to be away from home, | choosing right. The fact that we abol-| earning money to pay for the lipsticks | jsh the polieeman’s club implies that |! hear songs and scented extracts from Paris. The artist thus flits like a bee from charm, and has a gayly impudent formula which expresses his attitude, “V’ll try anything once.” Afterwards he can put it into a novel, and live for a@ lifetime on the royalties; his | we intend to make ail the more vig- |orous use of other forces; to wage what William Blake calls “moral fight” in favor of wise and sound life- choosing. ° Therefore I give my opinion, that “Jurgen” is one of the most depraved |rising, rising, rising: | ba of wrongs jturned to gladness, realizing Giant prongs , ‘ Labor is at last devising. —TRAAL THAISIS. the rescue of Fascism and with the aid of American gold the blackshirt regima was able to survive. The black dictatorship of capitalism in Italy is holy in the sight of Wall Street but not so the red dictatorship of the workers and peasants in the Soviet Union, —T. J, O'FLAHERTY. | . eet \