The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-09
Salxlatvala Greets The Daily Worker
British Communist Excluded from u S. Sends Message to

In the far west. May send you on
this second anniversary Of yours my
greetings not only from Battersea or
Britain but from Bombay and the east
ern world?
As the only existing English speak
ing Communist daily, you have broken
the monopoly of the capitalist daily
press published in the English Ian
guage, which undoubtedly Is today the
most powerful and most widely cir
cuIated, Let us hope that our Com
munist comrades in other English
speaking countries will be able to
emulate your example. and we shall
soon have a worldwide English Com
munist press.
In ones calm moments, when "one
revolves only the doom of mankind"
it seems surprising how human folly
and weakness on the one hand, and
how human arrogance and rapacious-
ness on the other hand are as it were
conspiring together to thwart human
progress at every stage of its deye-
lopment. r,s.,
Legal rights" that do wrong to
millions of human lives seem to grip
the soul not only of those who enjoy
the legal rights, but even of those
who suffer as victims from them
These Criminals of want" are larger
body than the criminals of super
abundance, and they stand in their
own way far more efficiently than the
barricades of the possessing class.
You sometimes hear that there are
forty millions of oppressed class un-
touchables in my country, India, or
that, there are haremfuls of women
of some one eastern potentate, who
are kept under perpetual veil. If Just
in a weeks time each untouchable
deliberately touched two high class
touchables, or-if all women behind the
curtains tore their sheets and shrouds
to shreds, the trick will be done, the
bond must break, and mo power upon
earth can restore it, But1the tragedy
and curse of human folly are that it
is the untouchable who breads to
touch, and the covered women who
feels offended to expose her beautious
form that keeps the trade of oppres-
sion going. And so it is with the toll
ing wage-earner, who is more in dread
of the rightful possession of his
product than of the scowl of his
master.
The stupid critics of the Communist
Party assail us with an intention to
murder everybody and to take posses
sion of his or her belongings. No sound
Communist ever thinks of such a fool
ish and futile game 1t is not at all
necessary to kill the landlords or
mine owners, or railway magnates, or
directors of book or cloth factory
ito take possession" of houses, coal,
railroads, boots or cloth for the COM
munity. The houses are in actual pos
session of the tenants. Let your poor
est tenants imagine how comfortable
and clean and progressive their homes
can be made if each Saturday the
tenants spent 5 or 10 or Is dollars
whatever is your weekly remit on
the actual improvement of his dwell
ing place, instead of superstitiously
handing it over to landlords agent,
for some other family to spend it
upon themselves. You do not require
to kill anybody, you only want to
respond to human progressiveness,
and to kill the old time Legislative
superstitions and mythical civic vir-
tues. Keep possession of your homes
as members of community, spend a
portion of your earnings month by
month on maintaining, improving, and
embellishing these homes in accord
ance with the advancing scientific
ideas and sanitary needs of the whole
community, and do not yield to the
terrors and blackmailing calls of the
old-fashioned rent collector who
quotes phrases from our old barbarous
law books. That is all.
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