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

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9, 1927 HOW TO BE RELIGIOUS THOUGH SCIENTIFIC. EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE. By Henshaw Ward. Bobbs-Merrill Co. $3.50. ee book stands out among th i arm of texts populariz- ing (¢ sitions of science first, by being on average; second, by inviting in religic d of as usual v bour- y through the trance. le list of scic the author tronomy and the take up each neredible in qui¢ h the ee general phases: Future. Of boc evolution, an plent) But hee, by able detail in others, the a tere mi dis: omitting some ath voids y is omitted for ,» and some aspects book. ype of to be to ‘ , even to the and various other that his method | infinitesimal dis- | nolecule” It agination must owever, of both astronomical and space throughout the book is given up to the f to be nothing but an attempt to com- nt sweep of phenomena from ultra-telescopic to | ; into the narrow frames of petty-bourgeois preju- | of the author swings all the way from what Engels| hamefaced materialism” to pure idealism. “Our sen- “furnish no assurance about the nature of what| But even thi: not sufficient. “Science limits | the world ix: which things happen by invariable natural | vyhat other parts of the world there are? ‘‘Apparently | » carried away by natural laws that they argue, more ge, that there is nothing in the universe except those} matter ganized according to those laws). “To ng beyond a eal laws is sillier than to conjure up » who operates them. No sensible scientist denies that an exist beyond his laws.” The author poses as a thor- rialist in his actual scientific subject-matter, but to justify ing to let even the above-quoted trash serve. It only em- dictum: “Not a single professor among those who are able t valuable contributions to th an be trusted even so far as a single word when it comes rd of th which shows it org. ‘make it} | CHIEF ZOBER OF PASSA#€:FLEES FROM HIS JOB IN A STOLEN CAR) ent | “I do not believe that ac-| field of the Soviet Union. to philosophy 2 (The emphasis is Lenin’s.) On biology thor announces that he has, among others, the fol-| lowing prej have a familiar ring): quired ¢ ers can be inherited.- I always incline to minimize the im- 2 enyironment. I do not believe that evolution is a general principle wh applies outside the realm of plants and animals think it not be g ed in astronomy or philosophy or social organization.” | John J. Leary, Jr., for the New York | 2ut now on the state payroll, Kennedy by the American labor ieacers | WhY show girls who earn a living by| And of the boo ‘Many good reasoners are convinced that|Sunday World. This gentleman, on | *ormerly of District 7, and now secre- | whc enmity for the Soviet Union is dancing on the stage should be so evolution will do 2 out harm if it is lugged into the social sciences.” | extremely close and friendly terms asurer of the United Mine] only one expression of their connec-|anxious to dance as soon as their This is deliciously naive. The evolution which brought capitalism must now| with the department of justice, by one Workers, and other ler fry, will | tion with the enemies of the working | grind is over is still more amazing.'so a few members of the cast who stand st capitalism may not be superseded. Alas for the “many |of those arrangements so common in to defeat Mai f he runs | class. | Yet, the girls in “The Happy Prince” | good aSOr whole Mont he p William rork is directed at none other than our old nery Bro But the gem of t Comrade Bi “It (astronomy) is a ifie lesson. There are fearsome corollaries to it. Poor Bishop Brown, for example, when he learned of stellar spaces and that nothing travel faster than light and that our souls would through an absolute zero of cold for millions of years id reach y destination where a heaven could be—poor Bishop gav his faith....The bishop came to regard his religion as mbolism that applies only to our earthly life. Here is an example of the destruction that science can do; here is the conflict that disturbs the church today.” Which merits the obvious retort that the most aloof plaée in the world is a lunatic asylum. —N. SPARKS. d have to sp before th “LABAW” PROBLEMS. COTTON MILL PEOPLE OF THE PIEDMONT. By Marjorie A. Potwin. (Columbia University Studies in History, Economies, and Public Law, 1927.) The author of this volume is “social director” of a company-owned community center in a southern cotton mill village, and in addition has learned all about labor at several of our best bourgeois universities. Of course she has a very rosy view of what is going on in the southern cotton mills. She is particularly enthusiastic about the employers whom she calls “public benefactors,” and “disinterested patriots.” The condition! of the workers is just lovely. The rather difficult problem of low pay and| bad working conditions are dealt with by being ignored entirely. unions and yellow dog contracts are merely hinted at in passages like the| following: “Real southerners, they stress the personal equation and hold in- dividual sovereignty and freedom of contract supreme. They despise ra ven to the philanthropy of the bosses and to the} fl rutting in: progress of cola, Chri cult as symbolized by player-pianos, company houses, coca- ngs clubs and the reading of books and confession maga- zines. She is a little doubiful of the value of books for she says: “One just how much genuine enlightenment has come with the de y when the leader of a religious sect in the village . comn $ not to work on the night shift because in the bible it is wr ‘The night cometh when no man can work.’” * * * On s ‘al other asions she again lets the cat out of the bag. Speak- ing of the gh standard of | g in the mill towns she says: “One of the greatest found in the floating pop Their detriments to high standards of home life is on. The floa move around from one shiftlessnéss village to another. is x onsible for the lowest standar¢ f the mills. These people are alwa: undernourished and unkempt not downright filthy. Few mills tolerate their presence for long.” & The disc she saj n of the Negro question is another gem. In tk ‘ou of relegating the lowest forms of work to the Negroes is al le as the color distinction itself. Negro masons put up th Ul and colored laborers under white supervision bu en the Saxon Mills were ready to operate only th 1 roll and two or three scrubbers force 2 retained.” used by the boss to get extra work out of the Negro and a small maintenance Of the me workers she say: “Once in av s its colored labor with a ’possum and ’tater supt of unusual i-nportance is completed.” And the united front patiuah the bosses and the Negro preachers is described in these choice words: “The preaching worthy of notice as it centers around regret for the impudence and laziness and moral laxity of young. Old time ways are sighed for and a plea is made for more observance of law and self- Cy As for child labor in the mills, well, the bosses have always been against | t but political conditions have always prevented its abolition. For one thing ihe question of state rights which the owners patriotically defend has inter- fered. Then again the workers themselves are not so anxious. For: “The operators in the mills now tell of the enviable and robust fun of having been doffers in those days when kids learned something use- ful.’” These quotations show what a bundle of trash this book is. Its sole interest lies in its exhibition of the kind of lies that our bourgeois universi- ties are helping to propagate, —CY OGDEN. hile the mill the seir BOOK NEWS. The newly organized Workers Library Publishers, Inc., report a re- markable response to their first publication, The Tenth Year, by J. Louis Engdahl. This story of the achievements of Soviet Russia (No. 1 in the Workers Library uniform series of publications), was printed in an edition of 5,000, which is now practically sold out. Arrangements are being com- pleted for issuing a new large edition to supply the continuous demand. New titles in the same series on various subjects, with covers specially de- signed by the noted proletarian artist, Fred Ellis, are now in preparation, ” a ae | Of the Negroes | T” E. and that Coyle, as editor of its that is, I| jems,” | Company |'‘\MBRICAN FEDERATION OF LA- |; uence a the mill environment. She is enthusiastic about the | Whatever the official reasons for his |and slander of the }movement unless they repudiate th« special domains of chemistry, | stand they have taken for recognition |the job by Messrs. Woll, Lewis and |: | Russian activities, the new manage- | circumstances and A. F. of L. official-| By Mors Pass | . The ehaxcine fairy tale by Oscar | Wilde, has been adapted to music and jis now playing to appreciative audi- |the 38th Street Playhouse. A nice prince who likes nothing etter than to make love and be left | ne is constantly pestered by his flunkies who insist that he prepare for his bath, be measured for a suit |of clothes or take a physic. The | Drince dies (in a dream) and finds jhimself in the publie square in the {form of a bronze statue. Here he |has an opportunity to learn of the suffering that exists among the masses while he and his court live in j luxury. | "When the prince awakes from his j dream he is a changed man and de- | cides to devote the rest of his life to \y o American Trade Union |re-election on the votes the miners ha in his State federation. That rganization is bitterly opposed to all} the Soviets stand for. Nor is his close ssociation with Brophy, who is fight- | g the national organization, lik kely | » help him much. The above paragraph sounds very ausible until we read “miners’ offi | ” for “miners.” | How it Will Be Done. if Capellini, president of District 1, | Golden, formerly of District 9, | WILLIAM F. DUNNE. Members of the First American Trade Union Delegation to the Soviet Union are to be driven from the labor d retract the friendly estimate con- tained in their report of the achieve- ments on the economic and cultural This much is to be read between the lines of “Labor Plans and Prob- the regular piece written by a labor movement whose officialdom n—as they defea maintains the most intimate relations with imperialist government, is recognized as the semi-official spokes nan of the executive council of the Aes Federation of Labor. Chosen For Dirty Work. Whenever there is a dirty piece of work to be done, for which the co- operation of the capitalist press is needed, Leary usually is: selected for d John Brophy | s with paid} of political left to the decision of the rank | and file, Maurer would undoubte: edly be elected. Officialdom, however, will try ‘to’ see to it that he either] rdiates the Trade Union Delega- | on’s a or is relegated to the’ card ] d rt_of War Om Left Wing: The attack on the First Trade Union Delegation, beginning long before it was really organized and intensified now since its return, is part of the general war on left wing. It is only by recognizing this fact and acting in accord with it that a Takes Crack at Coyle. real resistance to the sinister designs In his article for Sunday, Oct. 25, | of labor officialdom can be organized. Leary first remarks that anew eon The Problem. has “been deposed as editor of the} JF Coyle, Broph 7 = Locomotive Engineers Journal.” tinue eee ae “The fact is,” says Leary, “that he) jahoy unionists, interested in and | was deposed because of his pro-| sympathetic toward the progress be-| ing made by the Soviet Union with- out any connection with the strug- gles.of the rank and file of the Amer- y A ican labor movement, if they continue | |BOR ON RUSSIA WAS NO PART |to appear simply, as labor men whose \or ITS JOB.” i |interest in recognition of the Soviet | The Real Story. | Union finds no real link to the strug- Behind the above lines is hidden the | gle for militant unionism, they will | story of a long campaign waged by }be isolated from the masses, whom | A. F. of L. officialdom to “get” Coyle. | they want to reach, by the boycott | bureaucrats: | What Bureaucrats Want. Green. Sometimes, when the task is of such an unusually obscene nature that even this trio shrink from it, (this occurs rarely, however) Leary is allowed a free hand and labor offi- cialdom does not appear to sponsor it in any way. |ment of the brotherhood having de- | cided last June that FIGHTING THE} discharge may have been, the fact’ re- | mains that the A. F. of L. executive} Jt js exactly this that Woll, G council brought the greatest possible |and Lewis are tryi pressure to bear upon the Locomotive | Maurer, Engineers executive to force his dis-| tured charge and thereby prevent the En- gineers Journal from continuing the | friendly approach to the Soviet Union | it maintained under his editorship. Some Handicaps. reen ing to accomplish. | Brophy and Coyle will be nic-’ as “Russian fanatics,” “Mos- ;cow agents,” “Communist tools,” ete. That Brophy and Maurer are so- cialists and Coyle a Jeffersonian | |democrat, will not make any differ-| jence to bureaucrats whose anti- Soviet | West Virginia under the corrupt anti labor Warren one regime, gav Lewis of the United Mine Workers powerful argument against the B. of take a leading part in the general j struggle of the left wing against the | labor agents of A n imperialism, on the basis of such issues as the or- sanization of the unorganized, estab- lishment of a labor party, democrati- a official organ suffered from this. Our criticisms of this policy of the B. L. The Fight That Confronts the First | | Delega | [aie people happy. The theme is in harmony with Wilde’s utopianism | le good prince playing the role of avior. Prince and pauper wind up) Aside from the political infantilism of the tale, as presented at the Play- vhouse it is good entertainment. Delegation vation of unions, ete., in addition to} the recognition issue, the delegation | will not be able to make much of a} fight against the powerful machine of | the A. PF. of L, executive council. The Coming Test. For their own successful work- n —it is necessary that the Fi an Trade Union Delega- tion members take a leading part) in opposing efficiency unionism, trade | unicn capitalism and the general | of surrender that is being fol- final curtain comes down.’ Then the jname I can remember) goes thru the! | audience and drags the customers to} | the stage where they are invited to! |dance with the cast, And such dancing! I have often wondered why motormen spend their offdays in the subway and why it is so hard to keep editors away from| | their desks even when they have the |privilege of taking a vacation. But if for | | D The next few months will be a test for the members of the Trade Union > They will find did dance with a vengeance and if our uals veaders envertain the _ambition | that | | Leary’ in the world are no empty specula ations but the expression of the policy of the A. F. of L. exec- utive council. It Was a Wilde Evening “The Happy Prince” Set to Music Pleases Audi- ence at 38th Street Playhouse — !ences at the cozy little nest known as nging of the brotherhood of man.) — In-} deed the fun really begins after the, impressario, Patric Farrell (the only | HIZI KOYKE. B A new San Galt ganghind who will’ |be heard this evening in “Madam Butterfly” at the Gallo Theatre. |to dance with an actré |two birds with the price of one ticket at the 38th Street Playhouse. | And if they don’t dance it will not [be Patric Farrell’s fault who, despite time’s ravages on his head-foliage dances as wildly and as untamed as the little “swallow” who was the | prince’s messenger of good will, He lis a jolly fellow and does everything /he can to make the audience feel at | home, including the opportunity to leontribute $5.00 to the theater’s din- jner pail. Sorry that I lost my program else I would have mentioned the lady who plays the piano and who made the production of “The Happy Prince” pos- Al- ible by writing the musie for it. did a business-like job without ap- | pare ent strain. —T. J. O°FLAHERTY. Maurer, Brophy, Coyle and Palmer | (whom Leary for some reason un-! known to the writer did not mention) | jean follow three courses: What Can Be Done. First, become active in the work} An Actors’ Theatre’ Production K tee Thea. Agth st. *9 MA THE N OODS pres: | THE FANATICS ‘The Theatre Guild Presents PORGY of the left wing in the United Mine | Workers and other unions, second, | become isolated and lose what in- | fluence they have in the labor move-| ; i | Guild 7» W. 524, Rvs. 8: ment, third, accept the dictates of the | Mats.’Thurs.& Sat., 2: 40| bureaucrats and either keep their, Extra Matinee (Hlection | mouths shut or open them only in| _ Day) “ Tuesday defense of the reactionary program of | National Thenire, 41 St. W. of Bway; Evs.8:30. Mts. Wed.&Sat. Ixtra Mat. (Election Day) Tuesday “The Trial of Mary Dugan” By Bayard Veiller, with ANN HARDING—R CHERRYMAN Woll, Green, Lewis and Co. The first course is the correct one | and the only line of action, that will serve to make the issue af recognition of the Soviet Union one of broad ap- peal ih the labor movement while at the same time broadening and strengthening the struggle against the reactionary leadership that has brought the American labor move- | mert, weaker than for a decade, face | to face with a period of industrial de- pression and unemployment, whose length cannot be predicted as yet, but which will bring new problems and new struggles. 45th. St. Eves, $:30 Wed. & Sat. at 2:30 Special Election Day Mat. Tuesday WINTHROP AMES presents JOHN GALSWor aes ESCAPE LESLIE. Cowan The Desert Song i with Rebt. Halliday & Eddie Buszell 2nd Year IMPERIAL *!! a 5 St.W, nA ei way TREASURY SEES DEFICIT WASHINGTON, Nov. 8—The United States Government will face an unbalanced budget and a deficit in 1929 if congress exceeds the amount Weather Clea Tr a Fast | of tax cutting, recommended by Secre- With Joe Laurie Jr, & Wx m. Courtleigh tary of the Treasury Mellon, said the |—>-357q aoe non ha WALT treasury today. It cannot, of course, be denied that! Union policy is challenged by the re-| U. 8. BUYS OVERSEA PLANES John Golden REND Me fapee phat we roe eg a ae gots |. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.-The War! x: axtra Mat., B lection Day ci esd been operating non-union mines in less they are willing and able to|Department today let a contract for recline eight new cargo ai similar to the army plane in wh’ Lieuts. Mait- land and Hegenberger flew to Hawaii. The Atlantic Aireraft Corporation, at Brouck Heights, N. J., secured _ the ~ DAVENPORT THEATRE of E. were much more fundamental than those made by Lewis. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the principal reason for Coyle’s dis- charge was the demand made for it by the A. F. of I. executive council grow- ing out of his opposition to their Soviet Union policy, his organi of the Trade Union Delegation and jhis advocacy of recognition. Made Most of Opportunity Even though the B. of L. E. is not affiliated with the A. I’. of L., it has to maintain certain relations with it! Further, the collapse of its trade union capitalism schemes undoubtedly | lereated difficulties for its Cleveland bank which the open hostility of the A. F. of L. cutive council prob: could have made much more serious. The discharge of Coyle was com- paratively easy to secure under these; ( | the movement and Jeading it.” able to organize and lead the mas The Workers (Communist) in the fight for: dom evidently made the most of it.| Jim Maurer Next. | Having “got” Coyle, A. F. of L. of-| ficialdom, thru Leary and the New| Application for Membership in Maurer, president of the Pennsyl- | vania State Federation of Labor, and | Nathe chairman of the First Trade Union| ce Delegation, is the next on the list. | Address Maier Maa tess ing bp C Soren AMOUR a G's she AR VAG ort mp OMA ote Hen AEM TAN UN Le pias tant classconscious workers."—-Ludwig Landy, in the Daily Worker. as there is some doubt as No. St. City State Help support this theatre and The DAILY WORKER by buying to what the future may hold for . ticket: James H. Maurer.... To a very | Occupation. eC Re ickets at The DAILY WORKER office, 108 East 1th Street, great extent Maurer is dependent for (Erglosed find one dollar for initiation if Na ‘one month's dugs, * semen ae m Lenim Saidc:- “Not a single class in history achieved forward its political leaders and s| 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 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. York World, hints broadly that Jim | (Pill out this blank and mail to Workers Party, 43 E. 125th 138 & wilte St. near Lexington A Byenin Mat. ‘Sat. 2: “HAMLET” with BUTLER DAVENPORT axcellent Cast, contract for $525,000. | o| with Garrick Players in the | Bi . | | Thea., 65 9 | GARRICK Mats, Thurs, Extra Mat. (Election Day) ‘Tuesda BASIL SYDNBY and 3 ARY ELLIS Modern TAMING of the SHREW Wm. Fox presents the tenon Picture | Directed by ISUNRISE «. Ww'strwiv | By HERMANN SUDERMANN | Symphonic merietont Accompaniment 7 Bes ings 8:30" | REPUBLIC } mings 8:20, | j wich James Rennie & Claudette Colbert WAL’ N in Ibsen's comedy _ “AN ENEMY OF THE PEOP | Evenings at 8:30, |natiness Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 14 St. & 6 Ave. Prices 50c to $1.50 VA LE GALLIENNE iced Se. Sek The Mulberry Bush it HaMPDE i Ha mp den’s Thee Bway at 62a st 1 CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. HE GOOD SONG BE" er pt Monday nthrop Ame «cc . ’ Gilbert & Sulliva: M kz 2 ? Co WEKAGO: © Mon, Eves. Gnly—“iOLANTHB” St., W.ofB’y. Eve. 8.16 Kngagement onty. Yonight, BUTTERSLY,. ‘Thurs. | PAUST. $1 to Mats. Tie to | (Plus Tax). power without putting | pokesmen capable of organizing | 40 Commerce Strect, near She TELEPHONE sses. Party asks you to join and help iS. THE Workers (Communist) Pavey St. N.Y. City) for some time pounded the Leader, “This play is labor's own, and | attempted in this country, It show The NewPlaywrights Theatre THE ONLY HOME FOR LABOR PLAYS IN AMERICA . Presents Paul Sifton’s play The first modern labor play to debunk company unionism and the so-called prosperity in the Ford factories. WHAT LABOR CRITICS SAY OF “THE BELT” “The Belt is the truest revelation of our industrial life that has stage,” ridan Square Greenwich Village WALKER 57 f BELT —Joseph T. Shipley in the New s far ahead of anything of the kind uld receive the support of all mill+ = = — =