The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 12, 1927, Page 8

\ Page Eight THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927 THE D AILY WORKER JOIN THE MARINES AND SEIZE THE WORLD ees Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 32 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: Phone, Orchard 1080 | “Daiwork” ony 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): 68.00 per year $4.50 six manths $6.00 per years $3.50 six months 0 three months $2.00 three months | "Address and mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ROBERT MINOR .WM. F. DUNNE lass mail at the post-orfice at New York, N, ¥., under the act of March 3, 1879. An Imperialist Challenge to Latin America ver was there a more flagr perialism than is afforded by the con States ruling ss in Nicaragua established by American armed force plete subjugation of that country. The r i was designed to consolidate the eted for the pur formidable its m rampant im- f the United rhtful tyranny lude to com- of Nicaragua ] toc sir American claims to territory cov- e of building a second canal to make still more} ury might on both the Atlantic and the Pa- cific and to further its predatory aims in all Latin America. £ The milit conquest is followed by the appointment financial dictator in the person of Dr. W. P. Cumberland, has already established a reputation for himself by acting in a similar capacity in Haiti, another former southern republic that! was destroyed, by the gunmen of Wall Street. As far as Ameri- can imperialism is concerned the future of Nicaragua as vassal is settled. It can only be reversed by driving at the invading hordes. The first act of the financial magnates in consolidating the “victory” won by the marines is to grant to Nicaragua the privi- lege of borrowing two million dollars in Wall Street to pay for | some of the destruction wrought by the invading American forces. | re This situation in Nicaragua is a challenge to the delegates | to the Pan-American conference that is soon to convene in Havana, | Cuba. If the delegates there are representatives of the countries | from which they come, instead of pliant tools of American im- perialism, they will raise the question of the vandalism of Wall, Street in Latin America and strive to create a united drive against its monstrous despotism. | Besides President Coolidge, the political agent of Wall Street, | Dwight Morrow, the new House of Morgan ambassador to Mexico, | will be present during the conference. There will be a splendid opportunity to dramatize in one united denunciation the predatory | designs of American imperialism. However, the very fact that Coolidge and Morrow are to be present is evidence that the stage is set for their benefit. When|hundreds of packages of Groene! oe te ee question comes up, there will be ready Be eGR egrets poskages Bue gua who will rise and hail the murderers of his people as the |as a feast. saviors of the country. The puppet, Diaz, who is maintained in| What ae to aoe Sastre tee the presidential chair by American bayonets, will appoint another | aM “Whey cae tpitig. 10 it Bees of his kind to pay homage to Wall Street. of a} who / (Continued from Last Issue.) XIX The Bookleggers ns sow» ‘ation not under the complete domination of Wall Sie pera a ete poser een | ; . ‘ 820] use that conference at Havana as a forum from which | the problem is more difficult in the iG . tk to the oppressed peoples of Latin America in an effort) case cf beoklegging, because you can to create a powerful anti-imperialist counter-offensive. only drink liquor once, but a book can ae 1 : : * ‘be read by a hundred college boys, and But, after all, in the last analysis, the movement for libera-, will be, if it gets enough police-adver- tion from the yoke of despotism must come from the masses of | tising. . these countries themselves and Nicaragua today should be a tre-| Moreover, experience proves that | when you get a censor, you get a fool, mendous incentive for anti-imperialist agitation throughout all| snd worse yet a knave, pretending to the southern republics. The inhabitants of these countries must|be a guardian of morality, while ac- recognize that this is not alone a question for Nicaragua, because | ting as a guardian of class greed. In if they fail to act the present condition of Haiti, Santo Domingo | (050".. ove pee Pee and Nicaragua portrays their own future as abject slaves of Wall|cjergy. We have had a censorship of Street, where their every demand will be met with bloody and| moving pictures for years, and has it ruthless suppression. ever barred elegant and luxurious vice, or the preaching of mammon- worship on the screen? No, but it barred “The Jungle” from Chicago, on ‘the express grounds that it injured a William J. Burns and His Playmates. ‘leading Chicago industry. Pennysl- : We do not share the indignation expressed by certain seC-|vania conducts a systematic political tions of the press relative to the statement by stoolpigeon-in-chief | censorship, and will not permit you to William J. Burns that the government was also trying to influ-|#°W 2" employer who is unkind to ; : fi |his workers. (As I revise th ence jurors outside of the courtroom in the Fall case. | ariote, “they rs jaa “wile “ihe We submit that if anyone in the United States is competent |Jungle.”) In Berkeley, the home of to give expert testimony as to methods employed by the SOVErH: | armed trareeiceoritemariton hes ment to obtain convictions it is William J. Burns, | cause it showed a king of Spain who It was only a short time ago, as history measures time, that was insole: ape oes films # ‘i Has 7 ,,,Committee explained matters in the Burns was part of the government—head of the most vicious Wing | Rorkeley “Gazette”: “Plays which be- of the government, the secret service department. In his capac-|little offices of authority are in- ity as chief stoolpigeon for Wall Street’s executive committee dur-|centives for radicalism.” ing the years of Harding “normalcy,” when railway shopmen and|_,*5, “radical,” I affirm the futility Saal auiners we eric d dawed } ae lof plasters on a cancer. You can I S were on strike and were outlawed by federal injunc-|never stop the writing and selling of tions; Burns must have learned a great deal as to government/ depraved books, so long as you per- methods of gathering evidence on which to base prosecutions. ee Secret of an idle rich class, Why all the indignation? willing to pay unlimited sums of money for the only kind of amuse- Didn’t the federal government railroad hundreds of workers|™ment it can ungerstand. Depraved to jail during the war? Didn’t hundreds of government spies cir-| nee mats betit pall nat | culate throughout the labor movement during the war and did| of every great empire in hist not the government base prosecutions upon their evidence? Read the “Banquet of Trimalchio,” That Doheny, Sinclair, Fall, Daugherty and others tried tol nner eee Sa hes ce steal government oil lands is not something that needs further the “arbiter elegantiae”; here is ivory proof to establish. They themselves do not deny it. All they | tower ne ae flower, every ele- Be ri ert % ee ¢ ;ment of Cabell and Van Vechten in a claim is that the theft was engineered in a legal manner. story nineteen hundred years old. Neither can it be denied that Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt |They had it in Alexandrian Greece, Jr., and other members and appointees of the Harding administra-| i" Byzantium, and in Nineveh and tion knew what was going on. Burns, who was aiding officially | Pteitdeglatidinnn ca olen yeohiehd the big thieves under Harding, is now trying unofficially to keep were destroyed by the edmapinationio® them out of jail under Coolidge. Playmates have quarrelled. aes acts top and poverty at the Another thing is certain. If Sinclair, Doheny and Fall Were lj, werner eee ec eee eric we rking men accused, for instance, of violation of a federal in-| speed of a racing car as "compared inction against a labor union, they would have been in jail Jong | with an ancient erage PR ii Sie if i ou can prove this thesis by his- go. It is obvious that extra: legal methods employed by federal |... and also you can prove it by attorneys to influence jurors in such cases are not applied with | psychology. Not one human being the efficiency which prevails when a “labor case” is being tried. jin a thousand has the moral stamina Burns is a loathesome enemy of the labor movement. But! *?.%° biti ree when Ee sores function in this capacity only b itali Athen | sospla! was nate "nate worked” usd he can func t pacity only because capitalism glorifies | people who have never worked, and the role of such swine, protects them and uses ae whenever it needs them. fact that he was and is an instrument of American capitalist gov-| government. ernment, that he will continue to serve it against’the labor move- THERE are scores of other ivory | towers we might visit; there are | |from them, rvile mercenary traitor to the people of Nicara-| enough excrement is surely as good, Some people } |ton—and turning the book-trade into | It is to be hoped that there will be some representative of|a mail-order business. If they keep | {never will work so long as they are { | _—<——————————————————————— ——— ———— | which exist by virtue of the fact that they are available always The temporary difficulty which Burns is in due to a shift | for anything from perjury to murder when there is a decisive in capitalist class relationships should not blind workers to the) struggle in progress between workers, capitalists, and capitalist But after all, the only real difference between Burns and | hood; they have had servants to wait |upon them and deprive them of ini- Money Writes permitted to own the means of life of others. They have been parasites from the formative years of child- tiative; and now they live, each one a little king or queen, surrounded by flatterers trying to get easy money studying their weak- | nesses, and persuading them that they are wonderful and great. How many children can grow up sound and | strong in such an environment? Read | the history of princes! | The rich nourish their own glory, | and bring. into being a culture in their own image. Just as an individual | prince is fawned upon by courtiers, | so a privileged class is coddled by a literature and art of snobbery, such as I have shown in my studies of Mrs. Humphrey Ward and Henry James and Robert W. Chambers and Gertrude Atherton and Booth Tark- ington and Rupert Hughes and Elinor | Glyn and Wallace Irwin and Joseph | Hergesheimer. And what is that swarm of tame writers Colonel | Lorimer has gathered about him, but | the courtiers who danced attendance | on the Grand Monarque and sang his praises? Louis, who said, “I am the State,” went about on red-heeled shoes and carried a jewelled staff; while Colonel Lorimer has a ma- hogany desk and a purring limousine | with a chauffeur in uniform, and says, “I am Culture,” and all the choir of authors reply, “Yea, sire.” Their fiction tells him what a wonderful world he has built and what a mar- velous great dog he is. “I ha’ buried many bones, tho’ my aging hide to itch.” And then, the second generation, and the third—raised in the purring limousines, and waited on by lackeys in livery. The fathers have made big business so perfect that it runs itself, with only a little oiling, attended to by competent executives; the golden flood of profits pours in, and the chil- dren have only to spend it. They have no restraints—who shall restrain a multimillionaire? Will it be the teachers—the fawning sycophants who have portrayed themselves in “The Goose-step” and “The Gos- lings?” Will it be the press, which has made the millionaires into gods, so that when they appear on the street their lives are endangered by mobs of people seeking to get near them? Will it be the police? When a millionaire gives an order, the law bows down and hits its forehead on the ground. There is a great rich newspaper proprietor in California who was re-| cently rumored to have shot and killed a moving picture director in a guarrel over a mistress. I am told | on good authority that it never hap- | pened; but a great many people be- | lieved jt, and here is the point: I have heard scores of men discuss the | case--no radicals, but leading men of affairs, Journalists, doctors, lawyers, merchants—and I have yet to meet a single one who did not take it as a! matter of course that such a man| would be immune to punishment. The career of this man, a child of vast wealth, shows all that you need to know about hereditary privilege as a destroyer of morality. He is keeping a leading movie star as his mistress, and featuring her in luxury plays, and using his chain of newspapers to exalt and glorify her. All members ment unless labor can bring to bear enough pressure to smash| Coolidge, so far as the Teapot Dome case is concerned, is that the whole rotten band of spies, thugs and agent-provocateurs| Coolidge keeps his mouth shut about it. os Cd ¥ a» mae vi _ By Fred Ellis of the ruling class in California know about it, and most of them wish they could do likewise. The children of the rich run wild, and each new batch outdoes the last. It takes only ten years to make a generation now, and when you are thirty, you are a dead one. Read Gertrude Atherton’s “Black Oxen,” and see her horrified picture of a flapper; and then see Gertrude Ather ton herself suddenly abdicating her judgment before a tattooed novelist. Maybe, after all, it isn’t so bad for a fifty year old female rouee with a title and a fortune to cohabit with a seventeen year old boy! There are thousands of such female rouees in our society. You can sce them in the luxurious hotels, white- haired old grandmothers dancing all night with their backs half naked. | York ; Here in California they have cabins in | Angeles. the canyons to which they motor with By Upton Sinclair | boys out of the high schools. Between \their visits to the hairdressers and the facial surgeons these up-to-date grandmothers want something to pass the time with, so they command au- {thors to entertain them, and the au- thors jump, just like the hair-dressers and the facial surgeons; the work is so easy and the pay so princely. Thus comes the literature of Cabell and Jan Vechten and Morand and Cocteau and Aldous Huxley and Michael Ar- len. And it will go on to new |extremes; there are still many forms | of unnatural vice which have not been | exploited in best sellers; and if the | Boston censorship spreads over the | rest of the country, the publishers | will move to Paris, and you will. see , book-fleets hovering thirty miles out |from the ports of Boston and New and San Francisco ‘and Los | (To be Continued) Anachronist ic Literature By EDWIN ROLFE. I work for a “swell” magazine. It is the sort of magazine that college sophomores like to carry under their arms while walking up Fifth Avenue to impress casual onlookers with their intellectuality. It creates the same exhibitionistie feelings in them that the “American Mercury” does to a woman who has just pur- chased a green dress. It is not a literary magazine. Rather, I would call it literarious. There is nothing true in it, no delin- eation based on the complexities of life. There are only pages filled with verbose flourishes based on the com- plexities of word-contortions. Know- ing this, one should not take its flow- ery utterances seriously. There is perhaps as much sincerity in its make-up as in ‘the epigrams of Oscar Wilde. One wonders (that is, one who pos- sesses a sprinkling of intelligence) what sort of people edit the maga- zine. I often speculated, too. Chance, however, plus a severe case of econ- omic determinism, and a money-fleec- ing employment agency gave me an opportunity to see them for myself end study them. I procured a job in the office of the publication. The sub- sequent contactwith them explained the contents of the magazine. Dr. Henry S. Canby is the editor. | He is a small wizened man whose only credo is “art for art’s sake.” He visits the office every now and then to satisfy his editorial ego Once | rooted at his desk, he leans back in |his desk and reads James Branch | Cabell or Gertrude Stein. Observing |him thus, he might be a boss furrier jor a right wing union leader. (His ;mustache, as a matter of fact, does resemble Sigman’s). But there is less work and more prestige in edit- ing this kind of magazine. Therefore he edits. There are two associate editors. One is an old maid with a pickled pro- fessional smile. To me it seems that she missed her natural calling when she refused to become a schoolmarm |in a small Massachusetts village. All she does is smoke cork-tipped Mela- chrinos and open letters. The other associate editor writes poetry when he is not writing “we are sorry, but your poem though good, does not quite reach our usual standard... Try us again. . .etc.. .” His greatest achieve- ment, however, is his golf game. His desk is decorated with trophies. The contributing editor once wrote a good novel but has since reverted to concocting children’s stories. At the height of his novel’s popularity he was photographed with a pipe in his mouth. It is still there. He is never without it for fear that he will not be recognized. It has come to be a part of his physiognomy just as his hair or eyes. I do not wonder any more.why the | magazine is so stilted and lifeless and literarious. A group of people more mid-Victorian than this staff was never assembled on any paper. ARMISTICE 1918 Now desolation lies upon o ur faces. “The war is over!” shriek the shattered stones. The cripples drag themselv Joining their voices to The mad men jabber and t es from hidden places the common groans. he gassed men cough, The widows and the orphans never smile, The cannons wa!low in the bloody slough, The bayonets are gleaming mile en mile. 1927 On battle fields the flowers are blooming red, The cripples bear their scars and shattered bones, The mad men jabber, the gassed men are dead, The war lords still ar e sitting on their thrones. The flags are gaily flapping in the breeze. Here at the unknown soldier’s lavish grave The multitudes in homage bend their knees. ~ : New ditches quickly dug shall house the bravel. HENRY REICH, JR. Red Rays (ee number of deputies in the Ital- ian parliament will be reduced from 560 to 400. Only those who belong to the fascist organizations will be per- mitted to vote and the whole of Italy will be united in one electoral college. This means that even the formal pro- vision for an opposition party is now dispensed with and that the few crumbs of parliamentary democracy that Mussolini hihterto left for the anti-fascist,gpetty-bourgeoisie, to chew on, are now swept into the discard. Tete: . G. WELLS, the novelist has en- dorsed a liberal for a seat in the house of commons. Wells claims to be a socialist-laborite but declares that since the labor candidate stands no chance of election that a vote for labor would be a vote for the tory government. Wells is an intelligent person, and has made a fortune plac- ing words one after the other. But politically he is as bankrupt as a scissor-bill. The liberal party of Great Britain is as loyal a servant of Brit- ish imperialism as the tory party, tho not as efficient. That is the only dif- ference, Cue ORD WESTER WEMYSS, com- mander of the British fleet in the Dardanelles during the late war de- livered a speech in the house of lords in which he said that the British gov- ernment should notify the world of its intention to denounce the Declar- ation of Paris treaty of 1856, and as- sert her intention in future wars to exercise her right of search of neu- tral vessels and to confiscate mer- chandise destined for enemy countries. * * . ORD BALFOUR butted*in to say that the question was not a proper one for discussion and might lead to discord rather than to peace. Never- theless, Wemyss was voicing the opin- ion of a big chunk of the tory party and the message was intended for the United States. While England theo- retically observed the Paris conven~- tion against the search and seizure of neutral vessels in the late war, she practically ignored it. The lord’s speech is another straw that shows the political winds are blowing in the direction of war. * ee Interboro Rapid Transit Com- pany threatens to have officials of the American Federation of Labor ar- rested for insisting on organizing the traction employes into a union. Those officials stress their peaceful incli tions and vow that they are not in favor of strikes at all. Indeed indus- trial peace is their motto and they are never happier than when fighting the radicals in conjunction with the capi- talists and the government. The I. R. T. however, fears the men organized into a. union, regardless of how con- servative its leadership may be at this time. wor the dissatisfaction now pre- vailing among the slaves of the I, R. T. it should not be a difficult task for the trade union movement of this city to organize them despite the worst the traction barons can do. There are supposed to be over 500,000 workers enlisted under the banner of the Central Trades and Labor Coun- cil. If this army should be mobilized to carry on an organizing campaign among the traction employes the job would be accomplished in short order. Green, Mahon and other conservative labor leaders. will never beat the I. R. T. thru the courts. This is where the bosses are invulnerable. *_* * ING BENJAMIN of the House of David is now a 140 pound wreck of his former self and he has been ousted from the House of David by order. able wealth thru the exercise of the magnetism he possessed. He repre- sented himself as the Seventh Messen- ger of the lord and thousands of peo- ple believed him and turned over their worldly goods to him. He had a bag- full of tricks by which he satisfied * * * Benjamin amassed consider- _ his desires and now when the evening | of life has spread its mantle around him, Benjamin is hog-tied by the courts. Benjamin should worry. He had-his day. * ee General Motors company has distributed $65,250,000 to its stock- holders. This action is looked on as a challenge to Henry Ford, who is about to launch his new model flivver. The House of Morgan is behind General Motors. The employes of the Ge... Motors company are unorganized, ‘ead it is to them and not to the divectors that the lucky stockholders shguld give -|a Yote of thanks. Z . * ° HE Sinclair-Fall bribery investiga- tion is making progress. There is little likelihood that Sinclair will see the inside of a jail on a charge of jury-fixing. William J. Burns may get into some trouble but that is the gentleman’s business and he knows how to get out of a scrape as well as how to get into it. The whole busi- ness will drag until the newspapers stop playing it up. Money is king. * * $ FoR two minutes yesterday the city of New York bared its collective head in honor of those who died to make the world safe for democracy, This is according to the press. As a matter of fact the people of the city of New York did nothing of the kind, but General Motors, backed by the House of Morgan, declared an extra dividend, and this was the best trib- ute that could” be paid to the men who laid down their lives in the gory trenches of Europe in order that de- mocracy might flourish.