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TH™ DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, SATURDAY. DECEMRER 17, 1927 isarm to Disarra RAE ee And so when | By WILLIAM PICKENS. The Russians have said it: way to disarm is to disarm. The no other way. To dicker about the matter, to see who is smart enough to make the other fellow disarm while he himself hangs on to his gun,—that | ¢ is not the way to disarm. | At last the Russians got to Geneva and said the word so frankly that it was a shock to the diplomats. think it unethical to say exact in effect: | mament, | a; y seemed a nglish and French, | ven to Americans. Nobody had yet come to Geneva to disarm; | ad all come to seé to it that the The n they themselves had, or reduction of a little more drastic than that his should k | Reduction Sale at the well known store of | | J. LEBOWITZ | 185 Stanton St., New York Corner Attorney Street Mr. Lebowitz invites all his friends and patronizers to take advantage of this reduction sale. 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Office: 69 Fifth Ave., cor. 14th St., New York TELEPHONE ALGONQUIN 6900 w had less arms and am-| armaments | ore The Test of Progressivism By JAY LOVESTONE. HE who is for a labor party in 1928 and fights for it is a progressive He who is against a labor party in 1928 is a reactionary. | He who does not work energetical- ly for a labor party in 1928 is ren- dering objective support to the reac- tionaries, This rule applies also to all organ- izations which claim to be of a work- ing class character. That labor or- ganization which fights for a labor party is a progressive organization. That labor organization which stands in the way of or hinders the forma- tion of a labor party is consciously or unconsciously serving in the role of | a handmaiden of the most dangerous | reaction in the country. S. P. Reactionary—Is Against Labor Party. This applies particularly to the so- cialist party, whose leadership pre- tends that the socialist party is the labor ,party. The socialist party is much too narrow in its composition. The socialist party does not corre- spond to the stage of political devel. ¢ opment of the American working class. | The socialist party bureaucracy of | the type of Hillquit, Berger and Company are part and parcel of the union-wrecking official leadership of | the trade union movement. “Third Party” and Labor Party. Of course, we must not confuse a third party with a labor party. | Berger, who is now national chair- | |man of the socialist party, and other lextreme right wing leaders of this | | organization, have declared their en- dorsement of a third petty-bourgeois party. | A third party need not necessarily | be a labor party. It may be a part of disgruntled, disappointed, middle and petty-bourgeoisie. While we wel- come the dissolution of the two-party system, while we welcome the confu- sion in the ranks of the bourgeoisie, we do not base our policy on these divisions within the ranks of the bourgeoisie. We only utilize these divisions and rifts in the interest of the working class, 5 “Third” Party Is Not Labor Party. A third party consisting of these petty-bourgeois elements and based 'on them is not a party of the work- ters. Such a party is not worthy of the support of the workers. Such a third party is an enemy of the labor party. Such a third “progressive” party j must be fought by the workers. It ‘cannot speak for the basic class in- terests of the prcletariat. Possibilities and Limitations of the Labor Party. The next step, a very basic step, in the development of the political consciousness of our workers, is to- wards the formation of a labor par- tv or a national united labor ticket. The break-down of the two-party sys- tem must be pushed by all militant workers, since this two-party system has been one of the worst obstacles in the path of independent workin, class political action on a mass basis. Trade Unions Must Be Base of Labor Party. A labor party must be based on the economic organizations of the work- ers, primarily the trade unions, otherwise it cannot live. A labor party will be the next step to serve as a unifier of the working class on a national basis in the United States. Of course, a labor party is not a party of the most advanced and con- scious militants. It is a federative organization of working class organ- izations and groups, political as well as economic, We should not and cannot permit the development of illusions in our ranks that a labor party is the agen- ey which will seize political power for the proletariat. The labor party is merely the next step in the devel- opment of our working class _politi- cally. The labor party can and must be made to serve for advancing in some measure the interests of the working class and as much as possi- ble impede the political aggressions of the bourgeoisie. Capitalist Parties Cannot Serve Workers. Such tasks the democratie and re- vublican parties can never fulfill. They are cutright enemies of the working class. Their best men’ and most progressive forces are likewise enemies of the working class. The “good man” theory of bour- | geois politics has only served to raise havoc in the labor unions and to make ‘the labor organizations bind* them- | selves to the capitalist parties. Look ‘nt the paralyzing grip that Tammany \Hall has on the New York labor , movement! ; j The Job Ahead. | We must all bend our maximum energies towards a labor party. We must utilize the improving con- ditions for a labor party as shown in | the present economic situation. A Happy Editor 7. 4 | } Robert Minor, editor of The DAILY WORKER with his wife, Lydia Gibson being admitted to the “Garden.” ‘ 'y convention. It is true that the reactionary trade nion bureaucratic clique will resist he progressive efforts for a labor arty. All the more reason for al! rogressives closing their ranks and ighting the harder for a labor party. Mass Movement Needed. Regardless of the political divisions hat may still exist in the ranks of he workers today, we must get the vorking masses to stand together and the leading government officials. Notice the Mellons, the Hoovers, the Daweses, who are at the same e leading the government and conduct- ing the biggest banks and industries of the country. The government in this way serving in every instance to centralize and direct the whole tack of the employing class against the working class. Next Step Js Labor Party. mder the benner of a labor party in Let us take the next step. Let us 1928. move on towards the unifying of t The Communists pledge them-| working class politically selves to work harder than ever to give the greatest basis to the labor party movement and to work untir- ingly to make the labor party a go- step is a labor party. nt, every left winger, e ssive, every Communist, louble his or her efforts for @ labo ng, living institution once it is es-|party. This is now the most impor- | tablished. tant task of the working c | Capitalists United — Workers Must Let us all throw our hats | Unite. The capitalists are united. Look at the constant increase in mergers Look at the solidarity of the bankers Watch the increasing between the leading banke vill arouse the workers to grea lass solidarity, to meet the enemie: to help pave the way citadels unity Do Not Fail to Read This! 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PARCEL POST ANY OF THE ABOVE MASTERWORK SERIES OR WE WILL BE MORE THAN GLAD TO SEND YOU COMPLETE CATALOGUES OF CLASSIC AND ALL FOREIGN RECORDS. European American Record Co. 86 — 2nd AVENUE (Dept. C) NEW YORK CITY. = i L “MASSACHUS CHILD LABOR IN Her and Mabel A. Strong. Mas 5 'HIS book records a Child Labor Tt purpose! ild labor is it. , step-child. of ed social de- velopment. m their middle clas xplanation “personal and even is basic, and k of child nowledgé le of the e spreading ” 0 I hology is of 5 nave the following (Child labor reform is) “not so much a come as spiritual outgo. Unless the n of child n may receive stor on are understood instead of bread....” r rudiments of z United States. In Massachusetts in 1836 was pa | law, mere gesture in that direction though it v the first compulsory school attendance law in the States was established. For fully half a century Massachusetts was the most “ade vanced” state in the union as regards social legislation. * * in this state. | * The authors refer with an almost Bostonian pride to these “accom# | plishments.” Massachusetts, we are told ha ‘kept well to the forefront | of progress in all that pertains to the protection and education of children? But of the reasons why God, the Lowells and the Cabots for thesé many years thus singled out Massachusetts to be the blessed among their’ chosen ones, the authors, if they know, tell us not a v The best we can discover by way of suggestion is that: “The traditions of Massachu- setts are progressive.” So’s your old man and Governor Fuller. . * « Of the reasons why from 1910 to 1920 there took place an increase in the percentage of children employed in industry, we likewise find na) clue. For the country at large during this period there was a significant, decrease in the percentage of child labor. The reasons are, of course, to be found in the shifting position of indu and manufacture but the authors are apparently unaware of such elementary forces as the “pro- gress” of Massachusetts in losing its main industries to other parts of | the country. * . * When the authors step from the level of regarding child labor as some- | thing to be “reformed” to the height of considering it as something td | be eliminated we have the equivocal admission: “There is no way of guars® | anteeing steady employment to girls and bo: 7 * | | Which is of course true. But in a much different way than the authors intend: There is no way of solving the child labor problem under the; | capitalist system; modification may be effected; reform should be fought | for; but in this instance as in all other fundamental problems of capi<; talism the solution cannot be accomplished short of “solving” the whole | system. ee | In other words, the completely superficial treatment here recorded. illustrates graphically the character’ fully grasp any really basic problem, CHILD LOOKS AT EUROPE THE HIGHER CRITICISM | In his book “A Diplomat Looks At | al Europe,” Richard Washburn Child,| 4 Magil, “that the Higher Criticism former ambassador to Italy, says:|/has been making great progress “One of the duties of a diplomat is|jately. For instance, an article in to keep his government informed of | the December 7, holiday book number what is happening, and if possible of |bhy Clifton P. Fadiman, one of the what is going to happen. In April,/newest and (presumably) brightest 1922, I sent word to Washington that | stars in The Nation’s critical firma- { was certain that something would| ment. Fadiman writes a survey of happen in Italy. I believed that there | contemporary American fiction and |would be nothing which could prevent | comes to the conclusion that the a dictatorship. I said so. | trouble with Joseph Hergesheimer and “I had never seen Mussolini when |J@mes Branch Cabell is that they are I wrote to Washington that, because | 0° soctolniies (Unter eegey Saaeey |nothing else could break thru the eee oe a aes wi Ee |mess, a dictator would be inevitable. | 2¢!mers In Wes heleat bt da ~ | But having made the prophesy, I thot Sinclair. has so painstakingly ie ¢ inability of the liberal mind to --ROBERT MITCHELL. SEE by The Nation,” writes A. B. - e a . cribed, with its ancient furniture, jit gay duty to Tollaw it up and find) delicate liqueurs and other simple . , & “| necessaries, is really a laboratory was not until October that a young) < : - [Italian who was my friend brought | Where Joseph ponders the social prob- | Mussolini to TAY: residence in the Pal-} “Exhibit B: Hevwiod Broun. When jlazzc. Orsini. (At this time, of abate] \I read the first two words of Broun’s M ussolini had not yet become dicta- jarticle (right you are; the words are tor.)” (p. 169.) |‘Gene Tunney’), I thought this was When Child met Mussolini the fol-|going to be another one of those lewing conversation took place, as|revolutionary utterances that have | Child describes it: | given The Nation such a militant tone Decent oti ., |Since Broun became one of its sta® Pe eavnally ie sone oe an said, | performers. But I was mistaken. The |‘What do ycu want to know? jarticle is a counterpolemic against | “‘I want to know what your pro-| Upton Sinclair's Money Writes, and | gram is.’ I learn for the first time that Sinclair “When Mussolini left me that day | 8s all wrong about James Brane'! Cabell is a revolutionist 07 [there was the beginning of an un-| Cabell. ast 9 ” the purest sort. The syllogism ‘ig | Herstaning: Herwoen ue : lsimple: Cabell is bored with the “The wext time I saw him, not| world. He runs away to a world of | many days later, he came into my em- | his own. Ergo, he is a revolutionist | bassy office and held out his hand and ‘As a matter of fact,’ says Broun, {smiled, Rome had been taken. He |‘ y who writes poetry or paints |was premier of Italy.” (p. 175.) cture or sings a song is a rebel? “One of the duties of an American | Well, well! a : ; Suceuadon ie to’ observe with ian-un- Exhibit C: The prize contribution ed vision, to report facts to to the Higher Criticism is made . ¢ isk ble to| Alter Brody in his review of Filo; | his boy baleen and Ha Be: eed Dell’s An Unmarried Father, “A sroph in- | oneal i tance with Mussolini before he came | 70vClist who knows anything abaae ‘into power had enabled me to per- ba F 2 under a tremendous handicep; m these duties with more informa- An artist ‘must not p\s hi s Brody. tion than was available to many and if to know too much. If lf t him: |perhaps with more than usual obliga- |i, jgnorant—so much the better. tion to be coldly impart pare 177.) | he is unfortunate enough to have be= | “I had written home long before | come infected with knowledge, he (the coup d’etat—Ed. note) a report | must hide as best he can. At all of the new organization of the fas-|costs he must remain superficial? Sorces. There could be no deny-|And the trouble with Dell, Saya } Aptaette nanavation for LOrody, that he isn’t superficial ”(p, 184.) who about ten years ago published @ volume of verse, Family Album, that arly in the morning J. P. Mor-|jis full of the pathos—social as well gan, who last night dined with us at|as personal—of the Jewish East Side, the meeting of the Harvard Club, | But judging from his own definitions, {came in to ask whether it was safe| Brody has now all the qualifications |for him to go with Mrs. Morgan on an} for a great nov bis lexpedition to the ruins of Ostia, Eman “b | where Sen. Lanciani was planning to| Vanguard Press reports that Heaye \take them. I used this inquiry as anjenly Discourse, by Charles Ersk lexcuse to make new ones of my own| Scott Wood, is its best seller. The of the army corps. Then it was dis-/ book is a collection of daring and brils ‘closed to us in confidence that the|liant dialogues on worldly affairs large squadron of fascisti were not|held in heaven by the great and n only following the railway lines but|great of all times. The’ second ones ‘also the sea coast, and were coming | popular title is Love’s Coming of Re Clas , i) up the valley of the Tiber.” (In on ajby Edward Carpenter, and the \military maneuvre—Ed.) (p. 191—J|is The Theory of the Leisure |quotation from Child’s diary.) by — Veblen, r » mB: tila

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