The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1927, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1927 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: Phone, Orchard 1680 “Dai work” RATES By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 per years $3.50 six months $2.00 three months SUBSCRIPTION By Mail (in New York only): 68.00 per year $4.50 six manths $2.50 three months Address and mail and out ckpn to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ; OR. ey ....ROBERT M New York, N. ¥., under Entered as second-class mail at the po the act of Mar Hearst’s War Drive The protracted and vi ; campaign on the part of Amer- ican imperialism for intervention in Mexico, again brought forcibly before the public by the launching of a new series of accusations in the Hearst newspapers, indicates that Mexico is regarded by Wall Street as the leader of the anti-imperialist forces in Latin- America. The Hearst papers in their latest outburst in behalf of the predatory interests which desire to ravage Mexico and all Latin- America published a series of documents, declared by representa- tives of the Mexican government to be forgeries, purporting to show that the Calles government furnished arms and munitions to the forces of Juan B. Sacasa, former president of Nicaragua. These documents are claimed by the Hearst publications to have been supplied by “former officials” of the Calles government who opposed the “Bolshevist tendencies” of that government. That the documents are palpable forgeries is of minor im-} portance. Even if they were authentic, the Mexican government would be fully justified in pursuing such a course as the Hearst papers say is indicated by them. As the government of a coun- try that for seventeen years has been the victim of the ravages of Wall Street adventurers, it displays an attitude that is ad- mirable when it comes to the aid of other nations fighting against the attempts of Wall Street to revage and reduce to the condition of vassal states every country in Latin America. Furthermore it is no affair of the United States government ernment.- Even according to the Hearst documents the transfer of arms and munitions from Mexico to Nicaragua was made in June, 1926, before the armed forces of Wall Street overthrew the Sacasa government and placed the puppet, Diaz, in his place. After the intervention there were for a time two alleged gov- ernments in Nicaragua—one the duly constituted government of President Sacasa, which would not grovel before the arrogant power of Wall Street. The Sacasa government was officially recognized by the Mexican government. The other government was spurious, the government of the usurper and Wall Street flunkey, Diaz, maintained in power as an outlaw government by the armed forces of the United States government that had in- vaded the country without a declaration of war. The Mexican government is to be commended because it refused to recognize the attempts of Wall Street banditti to disperse the constitutional government of Nicaragua and replace it with a puppet of the banking capitalists. So much for this aspect of the case. Virtuosos in forgery and duplicity, the Wall Street gang will stop at nothing to achieve intervention in Mexico. None should minimize the danger, once the propaganda mills of the imperial- ist interventionists get busy, supplementing the intrigue of the agents of Wall Street in Latin America. In considering this question no one should imagine that it is the work of the Hearst Papers alone and view the depraved journalism of that chain of reptile sheets as something separate from the general policy of the Coolidge-Kellogg government. The appointment of Dwight W. Morrow of the House of Morgan, far from indicating a friendly approach to the Mexican government, now proves to be th~ signal for a new outburst on the part of the interventionists. This new campaign may possibly be merely a part of the governmental policy to bring every form of pressure to bear upon the Calles government of Mexico to force its capitulation to Yankee imperialism. If that is the objective the Calles govern- ment is partly responsible for it because of its weak, vacillating attitude toward the ambassadors of Wall Street. Certainly the action of Calles in weleoming Morrow upon his arrival in Mexico City and aiding the illusion that the coming of this Wall Street magnate means a new deal in relations with Washington was in- terpreted as an invitation to renew the attempts to make a vassal of the Mexican government. The Calles government is a nationalist regime, but serving the interests of petty native capital, hence subject to all the hesi- tations and waverings of the class it serves. The one guarantee that the Calles government will not capitulate under the barrages of Wall Street and become a servant of imperialism is the mass pressure of the workers and peasants of Mexico, many of whom have defended the revolution with arms in hand and who are a powerful force today. As the organ of vanguard of the working class in the United States The DAILY WORKER will follow step by step this latest outburst of anti-Mexican propaganda and endeavor to expose its sinister machinations so that it will be impossible to mobilize the workers of this country in a war on Mexico. Letters From Our Readers They Sell a Few Papers. party. Editor, Daily Worker:— |. They seem to admire the good job During the last month I have by|the Bolsheviks accomplished in Rus- chance passed Union Square (the|sia; but in the next breath they de- south-east corner), and on several oc- easions I have noticed the same pair or trio of speakers expounding some sort of philosophy of “rationaliza- tion.” They discussed in a pedantive manner Spinoza, Tolstoi, Karl Marx, Lenin, Wells, and other noted men. It was hard to follow their line of thought and argument. However, I stuck to the end on one occasion to find out what is their purpose, and I was surprised to learn that they are for Communism. But they are against all the old radical parties because they make very slow progress. Therefore they have provisionally organized a new party and they intend to enlist the native American workers in their nounce the Workers Party because, they say, it is inspired by Moscow. They say that they are the real thing for America. One of the speakers |said they do not hold any meetings on the east side among the foreigners; no sirree, they come out on Union Square to talk to the native Amer- icans (and only about 10 per cent of the audience looked like natives), And to show how effective is their | Propaganda, last Saturday night, jafter haranging an audience of over |100 for over 2 hours about God, Spin- oza, Hegel, Shopenhauer, etc., th offered their official paper for sa |; books, I | “REMEMBER THE MAINE” “You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.’’—William R. Hearst to his staff artist, Frederic Remington, in 1898. —2 Cc | (Continued from Last Issue.) | | XXL Muddlement | | have stated that some of our pro- |” testant writers are muddled. I be- in with one who is muddlement and nothing else; muddlement not merely) by nature but by choice; muddlement jas a religion, a philosophy, and an | ethical code. ‘How are you going to! lunderstand women when you cannot \raasanana yourself? How are you) {going to understand anyone or any- \thing?” So Sherwood Anderson ask- led himself at the age of twelve; and inow he is fifty-one, and has asked it |in six novels, three volumes of short stories, a collection of poems, a note- book, and two autobiographies. Eleven years ago I came on a first novel by an unknown writer; a novel which gave me a thrill because it |showed real knowledge of poverty and real tenderness for the poor. So |tew of our magnificent wealthy writ- ers condescend to be aware of pover- ty—except when they need a contrast} to heighten the charms of a pluto-| leratie career. So I wrote a letter to} \the author of “Windy McPherson’s Son,” seeking to make a socialist out of him. He answered, on the letter- head of an advertising firm in Chi- cago, and we had a little correspon- dence, from which I quote a few sen- tences: “To me there is no answer for the |terrible confusion of life. I want to jtry and sympathize and to under- stand a@ little of the twisted and} maimed life that industrialism has brought on us. But I can’t solve things, Sinclair. I can’t do it. Man, I don’t know who is right and who _ Money Writes if Mexico does sell or donate arms and munitions to another gov-| create beauty, and had to live in a dirty hovel, upon a supply of cab- bages which rowdies had thrown at his mother’s door one night. Then he had to go out into the world of hustie and graft, to fight for a living; he had to become manager of a paint factory, without the least interest in that kind of paint. And all the while the repressed artist in him sobbed and suffered, and lived its own subcon- scious life, and occasionally surged up to the surface, driving the respecta- ble paint factory manager to actions which his stenogrpaher and office force considered insane. It drove him to drop the paint job, all of a sudden, right in the middle of the dictating of a letter; it drove him to a nervous breakdown, and the life of a wander- er; it drove him to throw up a first class advertising job in Chicago; and finally it made him a man of genius, the object of adoration of all those critics who have been fed on warmed- over cabbage soup, and whose test of great literature is that it shall be muddled, This is the age—I was going to say of Freud, but I correct myself and say, of Freudians, Freud himself is a great pioneer of science; but like many another master, he has raised up a horde of followers who pervert his doctrine in spite of all he can do. We know the swarms of Nietzscheans, who think that the superman is em- bodied in a big-fisted bully; we know! the Whitmanites, who think that genius means brag and bluster and exhibitionism. In the same way there are Freudians, who find the cause of all “complexes” in failure to follow every sexual whim. Freud himself teaches “sublimation,” directing the sexual energy into the channels of artistic and intellectual creation. I read his books before any of them had been translated into English, so I have watched this cult from the be- ginning, and have seen my muddled young friends in Greenwich Village set out on a crusade to “syke” all the wrong....Really, I am tempted to go# at you hard in this matter, There is) something terrible to me in the} thought of the art of writing being | bent and twisted to serve the ends of propaganda...Damn it, you have made me go on like a propagandist. You should be ashamea of yourself.” And then came a_ second novel, “Marching Men,” to make clear to me that I need have no hope of social understanding from Sherwood Ander- |son. Here is the story of a labor lead- ‘er who rouses the workers; and for} |what? To march! Where shall they }march? He doesn’t know. What shall | |they march for? He doesn’t know t. What is their marching to be} understood to symbolize? Nobody knows; but march, and keep on} |marching—“‘Out of Nowhere into Nothing,” to quote the title of a married couples they know, and dis- cover that they are suffering from “repressions,” and persuade them to a divorce, or at the least a few adul- teries. And so came Sherwood Anderson, right in the Freudian swim; alk Kis characters are victims of dissociation, and always they find the solution of their problem in following a sexual impulse. Civilization is repressed, Says our novelist, and ‘he writes a long novel, “Dark Laughter,” to show a man and a woman, mentally disorder- ed, and therefore drawn to each other, as happens with all neurasthenics, and discovering in the free, happy laugh- ter of Negroes the state of natural- ness they seek, Mr. Anderson finds about the Negroes what Whitman found about the animals, they do not Sherwood Anderson short story. I have never met this writer, but he has told me everything I need to} | know. He began life in poverty; the! \erities compare him with the Rus-| |sians, and the only way he can ac- count for it is that he was rai jfully, apparently not realizing that} \the thwartings and humiliations of jextreme poverty do actually produce mental disorders in sensitive and high-strung children, and account for ttly those muddlements which e the literary stock-in-trade of the ctims of the rdom. Upon the basis of the data in the venture to psychoanalyze a on cabbage soup. He means this play-|¢ring that they have a complex, due| China and the Soviet Union are con- ‘ at 5e each, and lo and behold! after | Mr. Anderson, and tell him that he is a great deal of coaxing they sold just |the victim of a dissociated personal- 4 copies. J. GOLDMAN. lity. From childhood he wanted to s t worry about their sins; and so his |couple go off together, and we are left to assume that they will be happy. But I can tell him that they won't, because I have lived a good part of my life among neurasthenics—who has not, in modern civilization? —and his two people presently discov- to the fact that one is repressing the other’s nature. There is a cancer, eating out the heart of our civilization; but no one is permitted to diagnose that cancer, under penalty of losing his job and social standing. No one who under- stands economic inequality as a cause of social and individual degeneration is permitted to hold any responsible post in capitalist society; and so it comes about that muddlement is the ideal of our intellectuals. Suppose that Mr. Anderson had written in his letter to me, “Yes, of course, I see the class struggle. How could any clear-sighted man fail to see it? How could any honest man fail to report it?” Would he then have become the} white hope of all the intelligentzia, as | he is today? No indeed! The way to} be a genius of the Freudian age is to write, “How are you going to under- stand anyone or anything?” When the intellectual reads that, he slaps his leg and cries, “Aha! Here is sin- cerity! Here is naturalism! Here is the real, elemental, primitive, naive! Here is a true overflow, red-hot lava boiling up from the subconscious! Here is something Russian! Here is cabbage soup!” You laugh, perhaps; people general- ly laugh when you state an obvious truth about this crazy world. But take the thirteen volumes of Sher-| wood Anderson and analyze the char- acters: men and women who cannot adjust themselves to any aspect of | By Upton Sinclair life, cannot live in marriage or out of it, cannot make love, cannot consum- mate love, cannot restrain love, can- not keep from being suspected of per- versity; and always, everywhere, over and over again, the one repressed artist personality making agonized efforts to state himself in words, say- ing the same thing over and over, a dozen times.on a single page. He tells us that artist’s story in “Windy Mc- Pherson’s Son,” and then he tells it, with variations, in “Poor White”; he tells it, full and complete, in “A Sto- ry-Teller’s Story”; he tells the child- hood over again in “Tar,” and the married part in “Many Marriages,” and again, with changed circumstanc- es, in “Dark Laughter”; and then the philosophy of it in a “Notebook”; and then the short stories—this or that aspect of the same theme. Some of them are great short stories, but I have said to myself, long or short, I have read that story enough times! (To be continued.) By WILLIAM S. WEI. | (Feature Service of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League) | We have just celebrated the Tenth | Anniversary of the founding of the | Soviet Union; and this is a good op-| portunity to discuss the relations be- tween the U.S.S.R. and China. Ten years ago last March, Russia was under the yoke of the Czar. To the tyranny of the Czar was added the tyranny of imperialist war—the’ war of 1914-1918—, which plunged | the old Czarist society jnto ruin. Rus- sian economy was broken down; in-| dustry, transportation, the distribu- | tion of supplies, were disorganized. | There was a great food shortage. | Meantime, the badly equipped masses | of soldiery were goaded on continu- | ally to fresh slaughter, in the in-/| terests of their rulers. Conditions | failed to change with the coming of | Kerensky to power, and! the workers | and peasants realized finally that | they must take their fate into their | own hands. On November 7, 1917,/ under the leadership of the great) genius, Lenin, they initiated the great | revolution that has made Moscow “the | capital of the proletariat” for ten years. Not only the proletariat, however, but all oppressed peoples have re- ceived fresh impulse from the exist- ence of the Union of Socialist Soviet | Republics, * * * | Ten years ago the Chinese masses, |beheld the founding of the first pro-| |letarian republic. in the world. All j nationalist forces in China—all cle- |ments opposed to the domination of China by imperialists—but especially {a new vision. We were preparing to) jopen a new chapter in our history. | * * * | China is bound by close ties to this first proletarian state, because both fronted with the same imperialist enemies. | The Chinese revolution, inspired in no small degree by the Russian up- |heaval, is carried on under the banner of the Kuomintang, founded by Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the first President of the Chinese Republic. The Chinese | revolution is based on the famous Three Principles of Dr. Sun. Dr. Sun, who was the founder of the Kuomintang, laid down Three “Prin- ciples” for its revolutionary guid- ance, later supplemented by his i 4 oot | the workers and peasants, got a new. | | | faith and a new strength. There was * ‘The Soviet Union and China “Three Policies.” The “Three Policies are the wheels on.which the Three “Principles” depend to attain their realization. These Three Policies are: (1) the policy of cooperating with the Soviet Union; (2) the policy of organizing the workers and peasants and cham- pioning their cause, and (3) the policy of treating the Chinese revolution as part of the World Revolution. * * * The imperialist nations know that the Three Principles depend on the Three Policies for their realization. Therefore, they try every means to confuse us, to induce us to abandon our weapons. Some may be confused, some may be deceived; but the true revolutionists cannot be confused or deceived. Chinese revolutionists will stick to the principles and to the policies of our dead leader, Dr. Sun Yat Sen. The reason why the Koumintang has determined on the, policy of co- operation with Russia as one of the three great policies seems to me to be that Russia, being a sympathetic nation, treats us on the basis of equality. * * * For a century the Chinese have been humbled before the great im- | perialist powers, who have *come in, one after the other, to rob China of her economic heritage. In the Sino- Soviet treaty of 1924 China finds a basis for independent action because she is backed for the first time by {real support from the West. tn Dr. Sun’s. parting message to his people he says: “that the experi- ence of these eventful years has con- vinced me that in order to attain this great end (the Chinese nationalist revolution) we should and must enlist the support of the Common people at home and gain the sympathetic co- operation of those nations which treat son a basis of equality. The Soviets nion is the only one, and therefore ina must cooperate with her,” For these reasons—not only be-| cause Soviet Russia treats with Chi- na on a basis*of equality, but because of, the idea of internationalism, be- cause of its class organization, be- cause of the attacks of imperialist countries ,and because of our common cause against a common enemy—this is the significance of unity between the Soviet Union and China. China and the U. 8. S. R. should uniformly attack the same enemy and cooperate with each other at all times and in all ways. Red Rays QS8caz SLATER has been released by the British government after being in prison for eighteen years. He was originally charged with mur- der but the charge against him was so flimsy that the government could not make it stand up. Few know who Slater is, or anything about him but jhe spent eighteen years in prison for |a crime of which he was innocent and *‘|he has no redress. He might as well | have been hung. eee * (ies Hearst papers are busily en- | gaged trying to prove that Mexico | sympathized with Nicaragua in its struggle for thesright of self-deter- |mination against American imperial- jism. From reading the story one would think that the Nicaraguan lib- |erals were criminals and that Wall | Street was trying to save the country from a foreign enemy. The fact is that Wall Street was engaged in an attempt to overthrow the present gov- ernment of Mexico which is non per- ifona grata to the ruling classes of the United States. The Mexican gov- ernment favored the liberal elements in Nicaragua while Wall Street favor- ed the reactionaries, \ * * * HESesp is at his old tricks again. Tho posing as a friend of Mexico he has published documents purport- ing to prove that the Mexican govern- ment financed the struggle of the liberals in Nicaragua against the re- actionaries backed by the, United States government. Even if the story were true every real friend of free- dom would wish Calles good luck. But every’ well-informed person will be- lieve that the documents alleged to have come out of the Mexican gov- ernment’s archives are forgeries. * * * (pens a few months ago the Calles government tame into possession of documents which proved that Sec- retary of State Kellogg sent instruc- tions to his agents in Mexico to fo- ment civil war against the present Mexican government. Calles turned copies of the documents over to the United States government and there was not much talk for some time afterwards about Mexican “plots” against the United States. SaaS | * A FEW weeks ago we remarked that the honeyed phrases used by Am- bassador Morrow were suspicious. American imperialism wants to rule the southern half of the American continent as well as the northern part. Mr. Morrow had ham and eggs with Calles but this did not mean that Wall Street changed its attitude. The publication of Hearst’s forged docu- ments and the attempt on the life of Obregon proves otherwise. * * * Rae ELDER looks happy on her arrival here from Europe. It is said that the American Tobacco Cem- pany, which backed her flight, has no reason to be sad. If you see Ruth’s picture appearing on a package of your favorite sweepings next month, don’t be surprised. You will pay for her trip and be glad. Even if you are a damn fool, what of it as long as you enjoy the sensation? --F. J. O'FLAHERTY. Florence Mills, “Dem- ocracy” and the Stage By WILLIAM PICKENS (ee last time I saw Florence Mills, she was in a theatre in London, playing a beautiful role in her “Black- birds.” A weman of ordinary looks in everyday life, her grace and art and plain make-up made her a handsome brown bird on the stage. “Isn’t she cute,” said an English woman sitting near. The papers published by white peo- ple now refer to her as a “Harlem dancer.” I do not know whether they are thus alluding to Claude McKay's poem, or whethey it is just the white “slant” of always thinking of colored entertainer artists in terms of danes ing. Perhaps some are confusing her with Josephine ‘Baker, also of world- fame, but of a slightly less enviable heath But Florence was above aii best interpreter of the “Blues” I have ever heard sing. The affectionate regard which her |fellow-artists of all races and colors have shown on the occasion of her un- |timely death is but another illustra- of artists is much more. demoératic than the world of high-brows and churchgoers. There is a nearer approach to dem- ocracy on the stage than in the draw- ing rooms of the “social set.” This truth has been made very clear in the vicissitudes of American Negro musi- cal and histyionie artists in recent years, and will become more and more a customary and ordinary thing in the | future. ‘ WORKERS’ EDUCATION. Workers’ education activities in 13 states are reported in the current news release of the Workers’ Educa- tional Bureau. Most space is given to the Pennsylvania Labor College, with special emphasis on the experi- ment being undertaken by the elec- trical workers who are combining the technical side of apprenticeship train- ing with a study of trade union prob- lems. GET A NEW READER! BOOST THE DAILY WORKER! Ise a song artist, a song bird—the ° tion of our contention: That the world’