The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-07

To The DAILY WORKER:-In the
columns of CAS- We See 1t" by T. ].
O'Flaherty of October IA, you refer to
the recent society formed in Utica, ~
Y. by the Masons and knights Of
Columbus, Jointly. You state:
I'm Utica, New York, Catholics and
Masons have joined in local organ
ization known as the Hamilton-Je ffer-
son Association. Prominent members
of the knights of Columbus are lead
ing the Catholic wing. The members
of the new organization are profess
sional and business men. AS far as
we know there are no priests involved
in the movement. 1t is not likely that
there will be- The Catholic hierarchy
in America is not very well pleased
with the attitude of section of tho
Knights of Columbus. AS this organ
ization has grown in power and in
1uence a tendency has developed 20
act Independently Of the clergy This
kind of thing has reached the point
where the Bishop of Detroit, Michael
Gallagher, limited that the pope might
be obligated to place the Knights
under the ban as he did similar or
ganization in France.
1.-THE so-called atheist" element IS
now in control of the organization. II
is an open secret that many of tho
leaders are Catholics in name only
and rarely attend mass or any Of the
other Catholic services. This element
favors a friendly alliance with the
Masonic order. The bishops are
strongly opposed to this move, fearing
its effect on the rank and file who are
led to believe that all those who are
Catholics go to hell, after DEATH"
Religion Used to Divide Workers.
Why were those two columns placed
in the paper? Surely Comrade O'Fla
herty must be aware that religion Gall
denominations) are controlled by the
international bankers. Religion is a
weapon in the international bankers
hands by which workers have been
divided for countless centuries to this
date. Masons, Knights of Columbus,
Holy Name Society, Elks. ETC., etc.,
Salvation Army, Y. M. c. A. etc. etc.,
are all controlled by one string, the
international bankers-regardles Of
the iabyrinths by which these organ
izations are divided or sub-divided, or
ganized or disorganized or merged to-
gether. AS l stated once to Comrade
Engdahl that in my way of thinking
religion (all denominations) is the
internationally organized espionage
agency of the international bankers.
These two paragraphs of Comrade
O'Flaherty is disiIlusioning to work
srs, and is not the truth. Well trained
Jesuits often write that way. 1t is
s:ckcning to read such material-in a
Communist paper.
Yours for more power for it's work
tcrs and for moro power to comradc
lO'Flaherty so long as he gets under
the skin of both the international
bankers and his thoroughly en-
trenched reptile agents, priest, parson
rabbi, the trinity, which in its naked
hess, is but one, holding the sring by
which the international bankers
reigns supreme in all countries but
Soviet Russia.
Louis Reguera, Boston, Mass.
Reply-The irritibility of my critic
can be excused on the ground that he
is as Spanish as l am Irish, and there
fore holds the Pope in as high esteem
as on who once watched the priest
pretend to turn crackers and wine in
to an ancient Hebrew, tho, unless the
metamorphosis took place in. the holy
mans stomach, it did not take place
at all as far as could see. This and
other miracles" were responsible
for my present lack of reverence for
the Holy Father and his army.
Opposition to organized or morgan
lied religion, however should not
blind one to the fact, that the capital
list system is not as plain as the nose
on my critics face, or any other nasal
appendage for that matter. There
are various props of the capitalist sys-
tenn, beside the Catholic Church, and
they are fighting for the premier posi-
tion at the table of capitalism. They
fight each other for that privilege
just as the capitalist parties fight
each other for the lucrative honor OF
being the governmental organ of Wall