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Page Six THE DAILY WORKER, NEW. YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1928 THE DAILY WORKER Published by the NATIONAL DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ASS'N, Inc. | Daily, Except Sunday $8 Ficst Street, New York, N. Y. Cable Address: SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): By Mail (outside of New York): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six months $2.50 three months. $2.00 three months. Addrese and mail out checks to THE DAILY WORKER, 33 First Street, New York, N. Y. ...-ROBERT MINOR ...WM. F. DUNNE “putered ea seccnd-class mail at the post-office at New York, N. ¥. the act of March 3, 1879. a * CORR ACN eS Teepe 2 Fighting Mood of the Miners Those men of little faith who had thought the American working class had lost its fighting capacity and could be forever sold like sheep by William Green, John L. Lewis and company— have received a surprise and.a shock in the tremendous wave of fighting spirit which is today sweeping through the United Mine Workers of America. It is a fighting spirit which promises to | put an end to the treacherous and murder-laden rule over the mine workers by hired agents of the coal operat able Cappelini, his hands ‘dripping with the blood of Tom Lillis | Sam Grecio, Alex Campbell and Pete Reilly, is headed for the} serap-heap for worn-out stoolpigeons. Others, too, will go. But this fighting spirit, equally shown in the bituminous fields where 125,000 mine workers have fought and starved for eleven and a half months against the power of the bosses, the state gunmen and the treacherous John L. Lewis, is only begin- | ning to gather its full power. | This fighting spirit is only an instrument—it is not yet the | victory. The victory is still to be won, but with the present spirit | of the miners it can be won. | The call of the Save-the-Union Committee of militant miners | for the conference at Pittsburgh on April 1 is a call to the heart | the mind and loyalty of every coal miner in the United States If it is answered, if it is worked for with indomitable spirit anc carried through with courage and true working class understand ing it can be made to result in the biggest victory in many decade for the working class in general and the Miners’ Union in par- | ticular. ‘ The bloody-handed agents of the bosses must go out of office in the United Mine Workers of America! Lewis must go! Cap- pelini must go! Murray, Kennedy, Golden, Hall, Fagan, Fishwick, and all traitors of their kind must go! The strike must be won! The miners of Illinois, Indiana and Kansas must walk out on April 1. The mine workers must take the United Mine Workers’ Union into the mine workers’ hands! All eyes on the Pittsburgh conference April 1. Contempt of the Senate Colonel R. W. Stewart’s indictment for contempt of the sen- ete ought to amuse Col. Stewart. It ought also to amuse John D. Teckefeller, jr.. Stewart’s boss, by whose acquiescence Stewart re-elected chairman of the board of directors of the Standard o. ef Indiana after telling the senate to go to hell. Stewart ought to laugh because Stewart knows about the .909,090 loot in the Continental Trading Co. steal—knows where it went and how it was used to put Coolidge into the power with Hard'ng and thus led to his becoming president. Stewart must laugi because he will “go to jail” just like Harry Sinclair “went” and just like all of the rulers of the country put themselves in jail when caught in the routine technique of ruling. And the senate ought to-laugh because the indictment will save the senate’s “honor” and capacity for bluffing. Senator Walsh just can’t help laughing, for now his candidacy for the presidency can be oiled with a new victory and a new alibi for not exposing the truth of the Teapot scandal which would show the United States government as a filling station for the Standard Oil Co. And everybody in the bourgeois world should laugh because John D. Rockefeller, jr., is going to give just as much money to the republican campaign fund—and also to the democratic cam- paign fund—this year as either of these ever received before. And perhaps Harry Sinclair will sive more than before. And Wal! Street should laugh again and louder still because Stewart is both “repudiated” and rewarded, and won’t talk, and the corruption of the United States government is covered up from the eyes of the less conscious masses with such little scraps of paper as the in- dictment of Col. Stewart. ; Contempt for the Senate? The entire working class should open its eyes and become indictable for contempt of the senate. “Gutter Thrills’ in the Movies The nation-wide monopoly of moving pictures is consolidating itself so rapidly as to cause squawks of rage from some of the little movie men who are being frozen out. by methods of pre- vention of loans from banks, and by temporarily cut prices in the trust theatres. The small proprietors describe the pictures they are forced to take (at unfavorable prices) as “gutter thrills.” This is a fight in which 5,000 smal! business men, running small moving-picture theatres, feel the iron heel of monopoly bent on exterminating them. It is a struggle similar to the onc which is nearing its end in the retail tobacco trade, where the colossal chain-store combine of United Cigar Stores and Schulte Cigar Stores has exterminated many thousands of little busi- nesses, reducing their former proprietors to-clerks for the trusi or driving them still lower into the scale of wage-labor or inte the army of unemployed. Also in process is the monopolization of retail groceries, not so far developed as yet. Menopoly in the distribution of commodities is a present so ¢ a! phenomenon of immense political significance. Phone, Orchard 1680 “Daiwork” under rs. Already the miser-| But the monopoly in moving picture distribution has extra- ‘vd nary political significance, for it, like the monopoly of the ress and radio, means a direct added control over the ideology .* the masses. No more do we hear of anti-trust laws except their r(pudiation of them by the rulers on high, Coolidge particularly. _ * Of course the masses are given “gutter thrills” by the entire apparatus of ideological control, including the pulpit, the schools, _ the press, the radio and the lecture platform. “Gutter thrills” are a necessary diversion of the masses from the truth of present- day social conditions and changes. But also the “heroic, upright, beautiful and ennobling” stuff for which the small producers are clamoring (at easier financial terms) is merely the propaganda of American imperialism (a la Lindbergh, for example). This monopoly of the moving-picture field is only another of the immense of the Wall Street tsarism which ; to fight and destroy. GHOST OF THE CAESARS By Fred Ellis Mussolini again rattles a threat of world war. “This time words; the next time deeds,” he said in a speech on the Tyrol question. The imperialist ambitions of the terrorist fascist government feed the sparks of the coming world war. Home in the Stronghold of By EDITH RUDQUIST. 4EJOME,” a most sacred thing in American bourgeois society. A yungalow, with a back yard, pretty curnishings, mother and the children. We build our billion dollar armies nd navies to protect it. We send aarines to China and Nicaragua to protect the honor of American women ind the home. We electrocute “dan- zerous radicals” to protect the sanc- ity of the home. We elect our gov- rnment officials because they are ‘home loving men.” Scores of our urrent magazines reap immense pro- its on the fact that we are such home oving bodies: Good- Housekeeping, uadies’ Home Journal, Farm and *ireside, Home .Beautiful, only to 1ention a few. Yes, to hear us prat- le one would get the idea that we all live in roseate charming surround- ings. A False Picture. Yet how unlike crass. reality this sham picture is! With over 8% mil- ion women working outside the home, vith over 1,060,000 children over 1. ears of age in industrial work, one sets a dim picture of the home life of a large percentage of the popula- ion. Add to this the even larger aumber of women who work outside of the home though not in “full-time” occupations, the picture is yet incom- olete. One must add more: the small innual net earnings of the entire fam- ily, the frequent and long unemploy- ment periods, high cost of the neceéssi- ties of life, the many cases of indus- rial sickness, the wretched houses n the workers’ districts (even at a not inconsiderable cost in rent), and let us not forget the barracks and he tent colonies of the mine workers, .nd the picture nears completion, here ‘n its misery is the ideal, the “home reautiful”! “Women’s Place at Home.” We are told that women’s place is n this home. That the father is the natural” provider for the family. But -zpitalist society by its ever more in- onsive grind for greater and quicker vofits demands the work of the wom- n and children, The duties of the “provider” are put upon the shoulders: £ the women and children, and the home-maker” becomes an industrial slave. the right of fulfilling their “duties.” Then the cry goes out “mothers ne- glect their homes and children’; “fathers fail to provide for their fam- ilies.” Society, condemns them, pun- ishes them because they do not know, they do not understand their true {clus ofthe troops of Poland, Lat- ‘| viey: Esthonia, ‘etc. “places”! The question of women’s place in society is not a question of morals or duties, as the bourgeois moralists ar- gue. Women’s place in society is gov- erned only by one rule, whether or not she is a necessary factor in the economic life of society or whether she is a secondary, a subordinate fac- tor in its economic life. In those so- cietias where she is the custodian of the key to the economic wel!b ing of the group she is also p: complete freedom and is recognized as the leader, the head of the group. It is only in those societies where plays a subordinate roll in its aie Capitalist society denies them’ omic life thet she loses her freedom, 1 -comes-a slave to society and the property 04... uwan, Obsolete Customs. The evolution of society has pro- It is these things that we must con- sider when we go to discuss the sanc- tity.of the home and the “immorality” of the present day. We have today reached a stage where many of the duced many customs that persist and. contradictions of capitalism are clear- are accepted by the people even after ly expostd. While it is necessary for the system of production in which! the self-preservation of capitalist so- they become fixed has long since ciety to keep within certain bounds passed, In tracing back some of our’ of the bourgeois moral code, yet in ustoms we can find a reasonable,/order to develop capitalism to its ften logical cause for such a cus- | highest stage, in order to wring out om, which cause naturally is ob-;as much profit as possible, women secured when the necessity for it is|and even little, children are drawn ong passed. Such is the way that/into production, with the result that nost:of our moral laws are laid down,| all home ties are split asunder, fam- and we are told it always was so and /|ily relations are dismembered and we lways will be so. Even tho some cus-| today ean clearly see. the crumbling oms are passed down from one sort | of all home life, the disintegration of of society to another a change in| the family. It becomes more and more norals is always taking place and| physically impossible for a father and what was once considered good mor-|a mother to keep together even the ls in one form of society (because of |mere semblance of a home, and cries seconomie necessity) becomes today |of alarm comes from the social work- immoral, not to say cruel or barbaric. ers (the adhesive plasters of capital- merville, Pa. y ism) and from the preachers (the perpetuators of the capitalist class morals) of the highly immoral ten- dencies of the present day generation. The home has served its purpose in history, it now belongs to a past per- iod of society, to a gone stage in the mode of production, and it will never return again. The drawing in of ‘women into production destroyed the home. To assign any other reason for the destruction of the home and home life is to fail to recognize that the economic factors play the dominant role. With the old home life almost a thing of the past, a new set of so- cial relations, of social morals, is in formation, one that will fit in with the newer mode in the method of pro- jduction. But there’ is one obstacle to the full blossoming of this newer mor- al code: capitalist mode of produc- |tion and distribution. As long as so- ciety produces for profit and not for How working class families live in the stronghold of capitalism. Photo at left shows miners’ family at Martins Ferry, Ohio; photo at right shows miners’ barracks at Har- the general wellbeing of the collec- ec Cangas in which the interventionists acted in Russia, suffice it to cite an ex- tract from one of the documen.s, the protesting note of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic on March 14,-1919: ' “By orders of the Krench com- mand, poor people were gathered time there were British troops land-| from the outskir s of the town, old ded in northern. Caucasus: and in| Were locked up in bounds at the har- Central Asia, Japanese, American per and either burned or shot——” and. British troops were landed at|--nd further: Vladivostok and began to develop| “During the last few days the operations along the Siberian - rail- Greeks \and the French, under ihe way. At that time, the total strength perpetrated ineredible brutalitios. of the allied troops upon. the or. On i ites oe were about 300 vit ‘of Russi: {people shot on the mere suspicion erry, Henna: reached 460,000; ex of Bolshevism. They were locied up in bounds in the harbor, the build- ings were drenched with liquid fuel and burned down toge.her with the people inside——” No comments: are needed. Aided All White Generals, Besides the direct arming of those taking part in the Civil War, the allied imperialists extended material (Continued from Last Issue). In the beginning of 1919, about 20,000 allied troops were landed in the district of Cdessa, composed of British, French, Greek, Poles, Rou- ménians, ete.,.under the united com- mand of “the French General D’An- selme. Approximately at the same All these forces had-nat only enabled. the local counter-yevolutionary. forces to or- -ganize themselves in the fight against the Seviets, but haye also taken active part and rendered armed assistance. At the close 07 1919 the ring was tightened around Soviet Russia. The country was surrounded on all sides leged with by enemies armed to their teeth, Moreover, the Anglo-French fleet blockaded its shores, allowing no com- munication with the outside world aM dooraing the country to starva-, on t n a Na atte assistance to all the White Generals, such as money, arms, ‘munitions, clothing, ete. Without this aid the counter-revoluntionary forces would a hong Peer to survive even a months, ‘ieularl, it al ais Boe oe WHOM DID THE RED ARMY FIGHT? Denikin and Wrangel- and. subse- quently also to Poland. The Wrangel “‘Treaty.” In a treaty signed by General Wrangel with the French govern- (1) to recognize alk the debts con- tracted by Czarist Russia and the yarioug municipalities, with the pay- ment of compound interest; (2) to guarantee the payment of in erest and principal instalments by (a) placing the railways of European .tussia under French control; (b) placing the customs and port duties under French control; (¢) placing at he disposal of France, the corn sur- plus of the Ukraine and Kuban: re- gion; (d). extending to France .hree- quarters of the output of petroleum and benzine and one-quarter of the coal output, and (e) establishing French officers at the Russian min- istries of finance and industry and commerce. ‘ From the terms of this trea’y it is quite obvious that in the event of Wrangel’s triumph, Russia would have been transformed into a French volony. It was only thanks to the heroism of the workers’ and peasants’ Red Army that the plans of international imperialism have joviets has eme! unequal fight failed, and the| The Circuit School is a- Big Success The first circuit course experiment attempted by the National Agitprop Department, with Delbert E, Early as traveling instructor, is now coming to a close, and is pronounced a distinct success. Comrade Harly will now be sent into other fields. How Circuit School Works. t Early went up into a district where very little educational work had been {done and covered the towns of Buf- |falo, Niagara Falls, Erie, Syracuse, |Rochester and Jamestown, spending eight weeks in the district, and ap- pearing in each one of these cities one night a week for the entire per- iod of eight weeks. - Thus each city jhad one or more classes with eight }sessions; some of them had never ‘been visited by an outside speaker before and had never had educational activity of any sort. Circuit School Finance. Out of the small tuition fee charged ‘and profit on the sale of literature, | Comrade Early was able to finance all s | the expenses of printing and advertis- ing and running the classes, and the expense of traveling 500 miles a week in order to cover all of the cities every week, and his living expenses as well. The various classes totalled over 100 students, and paid $180,00 in tu- lition fees. He sold over $150,00 worth of literature, over $33.00 worth of subs for the DAILY WORKER, and took subscriptions for various |party magazines. || More Circuit Schools and Teachers. The system will be extended to other districts as fast as additional circuit teachers can be secured or as soon as Early has finished his work in the other end of the Buffalo dis- trict. All districts interested should write to the National Agitprop Department of Agitation and Propaganda, also in- dividual comrades who believe that they are capable of conducting such work. Capitalism tive, we shall continue to clash over moral problems. Attitude Toward Home. In a form of society where pro- duction will take place for use and not, for profit, where all members of society will have the right to be well- housed and clothed and fed in return for useful necessary work for the so- ciety, there will be no women’s prob- lem, and no further discussion of “women’s place.” Women will fill a very necessary part in society, she will be as she is now, a producer, with this difference, society will re- cognize her because she is a producer, a prime, necessary factor in the eco- nomic life of the community, We must change the attitude of the majority of the people in regard to the home. Why should we insist on living in the same way as did our ancestors, in a small closed family group, when the necessity for such a mode of living has long since passed? In the homes of our ancestors the necessities of life were produced, everything centered in and about the home. This is not so today, we have advanced from the home manufac- ture period. We are modern in our methods of producing goods for so- ciety, yet most of us refuse to ad- vance when it comes to the mode of living. : Yet, despite our old-fashioned ideas, an almost complete revolution has taken place in the mode of living, but only to the advantage of the wealthy. Witness our modern apartments and hotels, with their day nurseries and playgrounds with trained attendants, its community kitchens, laundries, dining halls, living rooms, music rooms, club* rooms, gymnasiums, swimming pools, solariums, libraries, ete., and containing every labor sav- jing, electric device and contrivance yet invented, to be used by all the occupants who need or desire it. The days of private homes of immense size with private servants, etc. are counted: the whole trend of modern living as shown by modern architec- ture and equipment is towards the community idea, but this is only for the selected few, the rich, the idlers, the parasites! When will the workers, the women workers,learn the lesson of solidarity and cooperation? The Russian women minded .of women hayg learned a lesson and are working most ener- getically toward fulfilling their ideas on community living and community housekeeping. How much easier will workers to do? In our country we produce all the necessary time and la- ‘bor-saving devices known, we build cooperative community hotels, but for the parasites. When sha'l we be- gin to build them for ourselves? those who do a socia ly necessary bit of work that shorld enjoy the bene. fits of society? When workers et to see this, the women, the wo workers will become — emancipated not only politi from the nerve-wreckin workers, said to have been among — the most backward and conservative- ~ this not be for the American women | When shall we realize that it is only : t ) | | i A ANI BE, i eed

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