The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-04

The rulers of this powerful insti-
tuition, remembering that the heydey
| Of the church was in the Middle Ages,
constantly plead for return to the
| guild system Of that time. Their la
Dor program today is that laid down
by Leo XIII, which boosts this meth
cd of class collaboration. But moth
ing dangerous. Oh, mol
"Our first and most fundamental
principle" says the holy father,
question that, within certain limits, it
would be right to call in the help and
authority of the law"
Nor is this the only way in which
when we undertake to alleviate the
condition of the masses must be the
invioIabiIity of private property"
Strikes, of course, tamper with this
sacred institution, private property.
IF by strike, or other combina-
ton Of workmen. there should be inn
minent danger of disturbance to the
public peace there can be no
the modern st. Peter would protect
the capitalist from the workers. IRE
ligion teaches the working man =.
never to injure- capital, nor to outrage
the person of an employer; never to
employ violence in representing his
own cause, nor to engage in riot and
disorder; and to have nothing to do
with men of evil principles who work
upon the people with artful promis-
| eS
These men of 'evil principles" are
hose who tell the workers to help
themselves, and not to wait for the
generous capitalist and their ally god
to help them.
Now, where, in all this, is the sooth-
ing syrup Mother Church promises
her children? So far it looks like
pretty bitter dose-a stiff physic.
But listen:
There are several ways Ito say
nothing of going to church regularity
by which a worker can be made
healthy, wealthy and wises~ The
church urges cooperation with the
bosses. She endorses company UNI
ions, and all organizations which have
a tendency to smother the class strug-
gle. She breaches economy, thrift,
and tells the workers ito be content
with frugel living" She supports mild
reforms, as living wage" cries. But
on one point she is emphatic.
Whatever may be the industrial
and social remedies which will APP
prove themselves to the American
people, there is one that, we feel con-
fident, they will never adopt. That
is the method of ~?
For it there is neither justification
nor excuse Thru the ordinary
and orderly processes all social
wrongs can be righted."
The most modern dress Of the
church militant is the sheet and pill
low case of the Ku Klux Khan. These
are the -Four Hundred" of religion;
native, white, protestant and gentle,
and as is proper to~the elite-espe-
cially hostile to labor.
The Ku Klux Khan sprang up in
the South after the Civil War, to ter
rify the Negroes into submission, and
warn them against taking advantage
Of their newly gained freedom. It
has recently been revived as a fas-
cist organization.
A small group of men make COM
Portable profit from the sale OF uni
forms and other organizational clap
trap. The senate investigation of the
Khan MAY 16, 1920 disclosed their
payroll to be four million year.
This organization OF native Ameri-
can Christians has distinguished it.
self by lynching, tar-and-feathering,
and many pleasant little variations of
| the innocent game of murder.
BY terrorizing progressive union
lists, by lynching striking workers, by
constant howls for Cooperation be-
tween employer and employee" and
thousand other Of the favorite sio-
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