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Britain's attempt to grab the oil de-
posits of Mosul and enslave the Mo
hammedan tribesmen there cannot be
separated from "the general questions
that arise between the East and
West" In Mosul is another danger
spot for British Imperialism and SAX
latvala would have said-and truly
that the Mosiil question is not entirely
matter of oil If Turkey gets Mosul
she will get Mesopotamia and the
British land route to India will be cut
in two
No, in this day and age, When there
are revolts Of colonial peoples from
the Riff to Shanghai and when the
beginning of liberation movement
can be discerned even in Americas
precious Philippines, Imperialism,
whether it be British or American,
wants no Sakltavala running at large.
| DUT the closest-knit unity between
- America and Great Britain is
found in their actions towards the
Soviet Union. 1t is so obvious that
it seems scarcely necessary to call
attention to it. 1t is fear of working
class support of the workers and
peasants government of Russia that
drives the imperialists to such open
violations of their ourgeois-democrat-
ic LOCALITIES as the exclusion of SAX
latvala.
This is to be found in the attitude
of the American capitalist press to-
wards Purcell. He was treated as
any other fraternal delegate to an A.
#. Of l.. convention until he urged
world trade union unity with the ALI
Russian unions as integral part Of the
trade union international. Then the
floodgates of capitalist wrath were
opened and beginning with President
Green every toady of Wall Street has
denounced him as IAN enemy of la
Dor and society" American imperial
ism is never so righteously indignant
as when it finds someone trying to
teach it's handled labor movement
little class consciousness and if in
addition to this the offender speaks
a good word for the Soviet Union, he
must be cast into the outer darkness.
THIS is, in fact, exactly what the
Washington Post proposes to do
with Purcell. In a recent issue it has
this and more to say of the chairman
of the International Federation of
Trade Unions:
Purcell is an advocate of world
revolution. He represents the agi-
tators who have led so many Brit
ish workingmen into the tolls of
Communism. Whether Purcell is
Willingly an agent of Moscow or
whether he is merely tool Of the
destroyers of organized labor does
not appear, but his own writings
show that he is working to stir up
. world revolution for the over
throw of organized governments.
In the August number Of Trade I'm
ion Unity, of which he is joint del
tor, he wrote:
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THE FINAL OAETNA TON BHMWd

that the whole thing was a hoax and
that the doctrine they teach a mon
strous lie? ete
Again: Why did he, at New Orleans,
on the very eve Of his final excom-
munication, painfully and with falter-
ing steps bearing his more than three
score and ten years, march in the
medieval parade of bishops and even
in Christ church, participate in the
communion services, which every per-
son on earth knows is survival Of can
nibalistic ritual, when mankind in its
infancy actually ate the body and
drank the blood of savage gods? Why
did this hereto of the church who
claims to embrace Marxism and
Darwinism so degrade himself as to
grovel before the altar in a church
when he knows that that church is
merely the survival Of the sheltering
structure of the tomb and the altar
survival of the tomb itself, Of the
dead ancestors of savages?
A PERUSAL Of the book for which
L he was tried reveals the reason
for these contradictory actions. In
this book Bishop Brown heralds a
new church and new religion. But
tho in theory he repudiates the mo-
tive for the practice. of.religious mum
merry, he desires to maintain it in
practice. The holy sacrament, of
which he partook with the bishops
that were about to excommunicate
him, symbolized to them the drinking
Of the blood and eating the body of
Jesus; to him it symbolizes an act Of
reverence to humanity. But to him,
as to them it represented symbolism,
unreality, the mummery of religion
They worshiped Jehovah, the god of
the slave masters. while his god rep
resented humanity,
In a speech before the Labor De-
Tense Council at Cincinnati, Bishop
Brown said.
~ banished the conscious person
al gods, not excepting the christian
god, from the skies as realities, tho
! still retain them there to be used
as symbols Of the real god"
| MANY sentimental revolutionists
A'A in their naivete, imagine his
book, with its propaganda of new
symbolism, based upon the ritual Of
the old christian symbolism, is ex-
tremely revolutionary and adopt It as
text book for themselves, or a
propaganda tract for prospective
Converts"
These comradess do not perceive
that the result d. accepting such
doctrine as that OF Bishop Brown
means to perpetuate a clergy, a
church and all the trappings of relig-
ion, even tho that religion substitutes
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MTAVE after wave of damnation
w from the official ecclesiastics of
the Protestant Episcopal church rolled
over the head of the Right Rev.
William Montgomery Brown, bishop
Of Arkansas, during his various trials
for heresy. The final, the culminat-
ing inundation swept over him last
week during the sessions of the house
of bishops at New Orleans, which re-
affirmed the judgment of two prev
ious church courts, adjudging him an
hereto.
The original trial instituted against
him because Of the publication of his
book Communism and Christianism, I"
which was based upon. the slogan:
"Bansih gods from the skies and
capitalists from the earth!" resulted
in sentence Of deposal from the
house of bishops on March 81, 1924.
A court of review on Jan. 15 of this
year upheld the previous conviction
and it was ratified by the house Of
bishops last Thursday. Today Mon
day, Oct. 12) the venerable ecclesias-
tic is summoned to st. Pauls episco-
pal church in New Orleans where the
presiding bishop, the most Rev. Eth
Gilbert Talbot, will formally excom-
municate him from the church.
THO the recipient heretofore Of
4 what passes for honors in the
church, this act of accommodation is
the highest honor that has been be-
slowed upon Bishop Brown or that
can be bestowed by any church upon
any human being. To be damned by
an aggregation basing its very exist
ence upon lie, to be communicated
from a set of creatures in human
form who pollute the minds Of chill
dren with the filthy. obscene and
slavish doctrine of the christian relig-
ion, to be reviled by these capitalist
lackeys who bless with pious words
the capitalist butchers of the world for
every blood-bath administered to the
working class Is an honor. To be ex-
cluded from association with the
bishops Of the Protestant Episcopal
church, that harbor as one Of their
leading lights such an intellectual at
avism as the cathedral builder, Bishop
William T. Manning, Of New York, is
to be distinguished before all people
possessing even modicum OF what
passes for intelligence and the fun
damentals Of modern education.
PUT, in considering the unfrocking
~ Of William Montgomery Brown
erstwhile bishop of Arkansas, one
question inevitably arises: Why did
he continue to associate himself with
these vultures Of capitalist ecclesias-
ticism after he became convinced
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were united against the bill "a bill
granting government aid to work
ing mothers-W. r. d. which was
defeated, In spite of Mr.. Joshi's NOV
ing speech.
THE 10000 mill hands mentioned
4 are on strike as this is written
and British Imperialism is delighting
in another terroristic orgy with the
strikers as the victims
\ But Saklatvala would not have
spoken Of the terrible conditions
among his people without speaking
Of the anti-imperialist spirit-that tre-
mendous new development in Great
Britain-aHong the British working
class in spite of their middle class
leaders. Saklatvala is Communist
and he would have related the refusal
of Macdonald, who, when in the office
of premier wrote to the Indian people
the most cold-blooded and threatening
letter ever sent by a British govern
ment, to form united front with the
Communists against British imperial
ism and who opposes world trade I'M
ion unity with the same arguments
used by Baldwin.
MACDONALD says that if the Brit
4fA ish labor party were ito toy with
revolution it would rightly forfeit the
confidence of all who. had heads to
think and minds to control action"
but Britain faces a revolutionary sit
uation and refusal to prepare the
working class for it is support Of the
imperialists.
Ramsay Macdonald does not like
Saklatvala because Saklatvala is for
the destruction of the slaveholding
British empire and It is noticeable
that the American press, in dealing
with the Saklatvala controversy and
the swing of British labor to the left,
is careful to speak kindly Of the Mac
Donaldites in the labor party.
CAKLATVALA might have quoted
~ Lord Parmoor on British war ex-
penditures, substantial portion Of
which is for the purpose of equipping
the colonial punitive expeditions and
armies of occupation which British i'm
perialism maintains in Africa, Egypt,
China and India. Said Lord Parmoor
on Sept 25 in an interview to the
press:
For expenditure, on past wars and
to provide for future was, Great
Britain is staggering under the an
nuaI charge Of 54o,ooo,ooo pounds.
How can constaney of industrial
prosperity be expected under such
a burden? Now comes the threat
of war with Turkey, which cannot
be disassociated from the general
questions that arise between the
East and West.
II ORD PARMOOR did not but SAX
II latvala would have pointed out
the real basis Of the general ques-
tons which arise between the East
and West is the robbery of the work
ers and peasants Of the East by the
imperialists of the West.
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Reuiew
"Desire Under the Elms"
Pictures New England
BY II. M. WIcks.

The long heraded Eugene o'NeIlI
play, "Desire Under the Elms," reach.
ed Chicago last night and was dis.
played at the Princess Theater. II Is
not play that will be enthusiastically
acclaimed by the ku kux khan, and
other halfwlt advocates Of the suprem.
acy Of white, nordc, protestant
natlve-born 10000 Americans, for /,
shows one Of the units Of this tribe
negotiating on a New England farm,
worshiping Jehovah with purltanic
fervor and incidentally stealing, com
hitting adultery and butchering d
baby.
A delightful family.
When old Ephriam Cabot returns
home after "whoring" expedition (to
use the Technology of one of his
sons), the two eldest of his, three sons
hot-foot II for the gold fields of Cali
for-nia" leaving the youngest, Eben
to inhabit the family homestead with
the bride and groom
The new wife and stepmother is
young and as vlvacious as a puritan
can be. Her first husband was a
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There is only one solution to
the problem of war, Just as there
is only one way to secure a uni
Versa one-hour day, to say moth
ing of the six-hour day that may
be possible when industry is con-
troled by the workers. Tit way
is the positive militant interna-
tionai unity of the organized work
ing class, consciously directed to
the overthrow Of capitalism. In
that way alone can we defeat our
selves against capitalism's pres
ent world offensive.
These are the words of Lenin and
Trotsky, repeated by Purcell. What
is this Communist doing at a meet
ing of the American Federation of
Labor? How did he smuggle him
self into the United States in VIC
lation of the law excluding Com
munists and agitators of Commun-
list doctrines? What is the bureau
of immigration doing that it permits
a Communist to violate the act of
June S, 1920? What about it, Mr..
Commissioner General Hull?
GREEN, since his attack on Purcell
VI has become the angel with the
flaming sword guarding the Eden of
American capitalism.
Purcell is not a Communist but he
is a fighter for "the positive militant
international unity of the organized
working class consciously directed to
the overthrow of capitalism.
He too is danger to British and
American Imperialism but he is not a
Communist like Saklatvala. More.
over even British imperialists are not
yet desperate enuf to brave the storm
his exclusion would have aroused.
Had he said no word in favor of the
Soviet Republics and the unions
which are its foundation, he would
have been left to go his way in peace.
IETE have said before that Saklat-
w vala and Purcell in America at
the same time was more than British
and American Imperialism could stom-
ach. They want no such exposures
from the lips of colonial subject in
America as is contained in Lansbury's
Sunday Worker for September 81,
while the chairman of the Amsterdam
international urges unity with the
Russian unions from the platform of
an A. F. of L. convention British I'M
perialism still has work for Ramsay
Macdonald to do and it does not want
his usefulness in misleading both
American and British worker de-
stroyed.
CAKLATVALA would probably have
~ told his audiences of the agree
ment entered into with Bulgaria
against Soviet Russia by Macdonald
while occupying, as a representative
of the workers, the Office that Bald
win now holds. The following quo
tation from the Sunday Worker, con-
tanned in a story vouched for by it's
correspondent, sheds a glaring light
on the efforts to keep out of the Unit
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dire straits before the rise of the pro-
letarian revolution and 1t is this revo-
luton that has shed a few rays of its
light into the mind of the former bish-
op of Arkansas. Just as there were
princes of the medieval church that
gave religious sanction to the rising
bourgeoisie in its struggle against
feudalism, so we have the spectacle
Of churchmen trying to reconcile relig-
ion with the proletarian revolution.
But while every other class in the de-
velopment of society had need of re-
ligion, the victorious working class
will find no place for it for the simple
reason that, as Marx pointed out,
when there Is no need for illusions,
all forms of religion will disappear.
ITO advocate preservation of the rit.
4 ual of religion without it's sub
stance is just as anti-Marxian as to
embrace the whole creed of orthodox
religion; and the religion of the "son
of man" is, as Marx emphasized, in
reality the essence of capitalist relig-
ion:
"For a society based upon the
production Of commodities, In which
Z the producers in general enter into
social relations with one another
by treating their products as COM
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ARTICLE ".

ARTICLE ~.
TINE Chicago Tribune with its vici-
L Gus denunciation of Communists
and the left wing Of British dabor per
the quotation with which the third
article of this series ended, speaks for
the middle western capitalist class.
It's sentiments are echoed by the New
York Times, however, and the Wash
ington Post and pretty generally by
the metropolitan press as a whole.
American Imperialism naturally is
not greatly concerned over the decay
Of British industry but its interests
as part of world capitalism will not
allow it to contemplate the rise Of the
British working class with anything
but fear and hatred.
lust at present American imperial
= ism is striving at Locarno for an
agreement among the foremost Eu-
ropean capitalist powers that will fura
i'ther STERILIZATION of industry and
credit The proposed visit Of Saklat-
vala would have injected a Earring
note into the, on the surface, amicable
relations between America and Great
Britain.
The Dawes plan was the first step
towards this sterilization but without
political guarantees it cannot make
for any kind Of permanency. It is
only now that the workers of Ger
many, Holland and Switzerland are be-
ginning to understand clearly that the
Dawes plan is slave plan. In Ger
many already it has heightened the
working week in practice from AS to
81 hours, in Holland to 5015 hours,
in Switzerland to SO. In all these
cases the lengthening of hours has
been accompanied either by reduc-
ton in money wages, in real wages
or both. The workers are rallying
again, urged on by bitter need.
! CAKLATVALA could and would not
~ have spoken about the oppression
of the Indian workers without point
! ing out the world wide character of
Imperialism and its ceaseless attacks
on the workers Of all countries.
He would have told us, for instance,
of the statements of ~ NJ. JOSH, rep
resentative of Indian labor at Geneva,
before the Indian legislature:
If there is hell on earth It is in
the city Of Bombay Of the $780,
900 mill hands in Bombay 95 per
cent live in one room dwellings.
According to the figures publish
ed by the labor office of Bombay
the mortality of children under one
year of age in these tenements is
s29.5 per thousand. Children are
born there only to die.
The correspondent of the London
Daily Herald who gives this report
states that Joshis statements were
greeted with laughter"-by the repre-
F., sentatives Of British and Indian CAPT
tai. He adds:
Thus the government and the cap
italists, both European and Indian,
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1885, $40 People-M Political Parties

Foryfour parties part Lavia
x Of these parties succeeded in eecng candidates parliament
Laa has population of $40 of square
miles.
In Holland with population of approximately 100000
&c parties took part in the last elections
What does the mushroom growth Of political parties these
little countries Simply that capitalist democracy
broken down completely-has become a farce.
Lava exists solely because she offers
ground for the coneng forces Of the working class world
the best trade routes to Soviet Russia The
Lavan government q of British imperialism. is
Dictatorship the Communist Party ouawed and legislative
having meaning elections opera
with shade economic having
party
The is largely of Belgium Holland
the powers The Belgium
petty bourgeois parties
themselves towards the other
choose between Soviet Russia and western Imperialism.
in Lava sharp that the franchise
the issue Of andhour between the
peasants and settled only by struggle
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The old man returns from the barn
where he has been holding commun-
ion with the cows "who are more
human" and blames the whole affair
on his god in the skies.
While the play bears the customary
O'Neill crudities, reminiscent of the
melodramas Of the past generation. it
has moments Of character delineation
that are Impressive and the setting.
the plot and the acting give one
lglimpses of the real New England
the Down East OF Calvin Coolidge. Of
Cotton Mather OF Professor Elliott.
and a host Of other luminaries.
The acting OF Mr.. Walter Huston.
who plays old Ephriam magnificently.
saves the play from becoming at times
ludicrous because Of the O'Neill
technique Tor lack of technique). Mary
Morris, the only woman in the cast.
plays the difficult role of the wife
with sustained emotionalism that
places her among the best on the
American stage.
BY all means If you want a good.
hearty laugh at down-east Yankees as
they are, see Desire Under the Elms, i"
before the meddlesome creatures who
censor plays in Chicago and In gem
eral interfere with other peoples
morals-because they themselves have
none to bother about-start their
crusade TO stop its performance.
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drunkard and loafer and her second is
AN old, hell-howling. bible-fumbling
despot whose best days have been
spent digging rocks out of the--soil
and converting them into fences sur.
rounding his property so that he could
raise crops on the cleared land. Ger.
tainly not romantic mate for young
widow. fol8
But there is young Eben, the son
of old Ephriam. The new wife
seduces him. When the child comes
the old man thinks II is his. A hilari.
GUS New England hoe-down is ar,
ranged to celebrate the new arrival
The whole iieighborhood attends and
enjoys itself at the expense Of the
old buzzard who struts with pride
considering IL an achievement, at his
age, to become a father. But every.
one knows Of the affair" between the
wife and her step-son.
The dizzy aftermath OF the party
causes young Eben to question the
love of the woman for him. To prove
her devotion she kills the infant
When she first relates the butchery
the son mistakes her frightened story
and thinks 1t is the old man she has
murdered. and is overioyed.
When he learns the facts he rushes
for the sheriff. Then, returning he
repents his rash act and wants the
woman to run away with him when
the sheriff arrives,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-14
By William F. Dunno

ed States a friend of the Soviet Union
against which every British govern
ment, including the Macdonald gov
ernment has plotted with American
assistance:
In September 1924, Mr.. ]. Ram
say Macdonald, labor prime minis
ter of Great Britain, was the chief
British delegate to the league of ma
lions assembly at Geneva. A rep
resentative of the Bulgarian gov
eminent was also present, and he
sought the opportunity Of a private
conversation with Mr.. Macdonald
II is now possible to reveal the i'm
pressions which Mr.. Macdonald
gave to that representative.
AT the outset, despite the fact
that the zankov government had
ecome into power by the murder of
Stanlb"liskY ann that murders Of
its political opponents were even
then almost a daily occurrence, the
labor prime minister was expansive
towards zankovs representative.
The British labor government, he
said, was disposed to come to an
agreement with Bulgaria,
The Bulgarian delegate had put
forward some of Bulgaria's de
mands, such as an outlet on the
Aegean Sea, settlement of the
minorities and reparations ques-
tions, and a larger army.
Then he turned to the "Bolshe-
vik peril" on which subject the
Bulgarian delegate had been skill
fully insistent. The British labor
prime minister assured the repre-
sentative of the zankov government
Of his personal support, and that Of
his cabinet, in the fight against this
"BoIshevlk peril" He explained
that It was the object of the British
government to build a barrier be.
tween Soviet Russia and the rest of.
Europe.
Therefore, few weeks after
wards, Kalfoff was able to assure
the Bulgarian cabinet of British
support, and to urge that it should
go confidently forward with its cam
paign of repression by imprison-
ment and murder of the Commun-
lists and should keep up its demands
on the allies for a larger army.
1t was not until after the Sofia
bomb affair, last April, that the per-
mission for a larger army was CIV
en-, temporarily and it is true that
Mr. Austen Chamberlain was then
at sthe foreign office. But the en-.
couragement to Zankov to continue
on his bloody path, which led to
those horrors Of the spring and
summer, was given directly from
the mouth of Mr.. Ramsay MacDon-
aid.
And it was given in order that
this butcher Zankov might be used
as the tool for preparing "a bar
~0~r rnst the workers repub-
lie Of Russia That was the deed
Of 5ritaln's first labor prime min.
lister.
(To be continued)
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TOMMY'S NEW SHOES
Or MARY .CPAHA1A. BONNER
49, WESTERN NeVSsAPs UNION ------

Tommy was not very old. Nor was
he so very, very young. That is TO