The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-19
BY HARRY CANNES.

UdIloHdt pTOpiCIu OT TCCVHCttaItOHs'
Knowing the horrible conditions Of
the Indian workers and peasants, Hre-
Cancellation" can mean only one
thing.
THE entire orient is covered by the
4 Y. M. C. A. as by net No coun-
try is too small or out-of-the-way
when the expenses are paid by some
capitalist. For instance, the Y. M.
G. A. tells of the inauguration Of its
work in Jerusalem as follows:
"on Christmas eve, 1924, there
was put into the hands Of the Y.
NJ. c. A. a draft for the expense
of a modern building to be erected
on a site just outside the Jaffa Gate,
on the highest point in Jerusalem.
(The name of the donor Is discreet
Iy omitted.) From it's doors will
stream an influence which will
reach Arabia, Syria, Persia, and
Transiordania."
Should the Communist Internation-
al establish such modern building"
to stream its influence into these
countries, the capitalist world would
be aflame with protest.
But from the birthplace Of Chris
tianity will surge turnout the East,
young, well-trained, go-getting Y. M.
c. A. crusaders bearing the message
Of submission to Christ and to his
| favored devotees, Rockefeller, McCor-
mick, Morgan and others high in
church circles.
TN Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, the
Y. M. c. A. has a membership OF
over 700 men. A strong student work
Is carried on ct Assault and in the
Christian College. The foreign de-
partment-sounds ominously political
enthusiastically announces that, "aI-
tho the population is ninety-five per
cent Mohammedan, the Y. M. c. A.
has established and maintained It's
full Christian character and program
and control"
There is a new spirit Of national
ism arising that seems well nigh suf-
ficient to defeat the efforts of these
Christian crusaders. Yet they, are not
TO submit so readily, especially when
the home Office has so bountifully a
supply of shekles. A new plan has
been adopted and that is to inculcate
Egyptians into the art of misleading
their own fellow sufferers. Says the
instructions to the Y. NJ. G. A. men,
at is plain that the leadership OF
the association must be Egyptian.
Foreigners are under suspicion. A ma
tional development is essential"
Among the other Asiatic countries
which are intensively piled with po-
litical christianity, a la Y. M. c. A.,
are Korea, Burma, Ceylon, Japan, the
Philippine Islands and Turkey.
THE foreign department eyes Rus
= sda with longing and flirtatious
glances. What an opportunity for
propaganda under the guise of reli-
gious and social welfare work. And
prevented merely by the prejudice Of
an irreligious Communist govern
ment!
The Y. M. G. A. must admit that
it could do very little in Russia. It
says that its chief task has been one
OF salvage" 1t claims it disregards
political lines; but we cannot forget
its activities before and during the
Russian revolution. The allied army
Of Intervention in Siberia In 1918 con-
sisted Of $4,000 men. The Y. M. c. A.
had 200 secretaries working among
the czechs, white guard Russians and
American troops. The cost OF this
work was 100000, and was mainly
directed against the workers gov
eminent. When the revolution was
successful, the Y. M. C. A. dismissed
any of its secretaries who talked in
favor of Russian recognition.
Now, having failed On its nefarious
work of aiding to drown in blood the