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The daily worker., 1926-01-16
Another Hundred Victims

Before the echoes of the professional opmists exog the
of unmeasued prosperity security working
class had died down mued blast Oklahoma
1926 its series of mine hoocausts hundred
become the cloud of black omnousy
mine shaft
Those prostitutes the capitalist press who
about the risk of profits when workers strike conditions
that yearly take such CHASTITY toll consider the risks
sacrificed to the greed and the
This explosion is the of many Others
nonunion mine where the individual against power
of the capitalist where he protest
against conditions that his life unemployment
and hunger, whose sceptre hauns him.
Union men had been locked out period years
almost unaded by the United Mine Workers America
ged against the shop Had Lewis Co. spent
money for organization purposes that they rolling
country Pumans the operators this
non-union condition would
Workers lives will only be safe themselves
thru their organized enforce safety regulations
first step toward unonizaon of the country
the reaconary ofcadom be defeated union
changed into fighting organization that EMPLOYERS
terms of power-the only language they
State laws supposed protect disasters
fouted because their enforcement of old party
agents Of the employers labor party with representatives the
working class enforce protecting the workers
would aid in overcoming the constant life in the
mines of this country
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

day the Communists of other coun-
tries are in the same position. This
hard, stenuous work is the third
track, the main track Without 1t,
victory in England, Germany and
Czecho-Slovakia is impossible. We
are constructing the main foundation
of our work, the Communist nuclei.
Our success in the trade unions is a
reflection of the influence of the Com
munist Party on the masses of work
ers.
These. are the three tracks which
must be brot together and must be
strengthened into junction. Today
our whole wisdom consists in combin-
ing these three tracks into one. 1t
cannot be said that the first or sec
ond or third is important in itself.
All three are of Importance. They
present the picture of slow and diff
ficult process of the maturing of the
world revolution.
(The end.)
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

Giants OF men iffAniforms, snappy
informs. Soldiers toting long. vic.
ous-looking rifles on their shoulders
3ayonets on top of them. PERHAPS
hey were after exe8vating the bowels
OF counter-revolution or two. 1t
was good to see them, not because
oayonets are pleasing to the eye. but
IN world where bayonets still rule.
1t is consoling to a worker to know
that all the bayonets are not on the
other side.
: Lenin is shown speaking at the
Ihlrd Congress of the International
sitting close by, is Karl Radek, not an
Appollo in looks but he is wearing a
satirical smile that attracts. Kalinin
IS also near as Lenin pounds away
we see Lenin again a few years
later, but a different Lenin. This
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

neck round little to see the enorm-
Gus burden that my back supports.
Mott is only the immensity on me.
my gaze goes crawling. In front
of me there are dark things all linked
together, which seem to seize or to
| embrace one another. | look at those
hills which shut out my horizon and
initiate gestures and men. The multi
tude downfallen there imprisons me in
its ruins. l am walled in by those
who are lying down, as l was walled
in before those who stood. !"
While in hospital Simon finds out
that:
They do not wear similar clothes
on the targets of their bodies, and
they speak different tongues; but
from the bottom of that which is hu-
man within them, identically the same
simplicities come forth They have
the same sorrows and the same
angers, around the same causes. They
are alike as their wounds are alike
and will be alike. Their sayings are
as similar as the cries that pain
wrings from them, as alike as the aw-
full silence that soon will breathe
from their murdered lips. They only
fight because they are face to face.
Against each other, they are pursuing
common end. Dimly, they kill them
selves because they are alike" '1
When Simon is disillusioned he
thinks Of revolution:
After all" he says, 81 believe in
the success of truth. / believe in the
as yet few brotherly people that are
standing in all countries among all
nationalities in this wild dance OF
national egoism and they stand fast in
their places as those rocks cut out in
the wonderful statues that are repres
enting justice and truth" "This eve
nlng believe in it. That a new So
ciety will be built up thru the efforts
of these people,"
After his publication of "Light."
Henri Barbusse was considered in the
literary and liberal circles of France.
as well as in all other countries, as
a rebel. He distinguished himself
from all paclhsts in his acceptance of
the international revolutionary ideal
OF Comunism. And joined the Com
munist Party of France and took his
part with the Communist revolution
ary activities of the workers all over
the world.
BarDusse organized a small Bolshe-
vik literary circle in Paris and estab-
lished his publication. "Clarte."
c'Light'O, in which he undertook
struggle against all reformists and
morafists of the Tolstoy type who.
from the first day of the war. spranq
to life in Frace with Romano ROLAND
as their leader. Barbusse attacked
ROLAND for his theological point of
view towards the world war. and he
proved to the intellectual circles of
Europe that thru purely idealistic
struggles society cannot be altered
that it will not merely remain as il is
Dut VIII go deeper into reaction and
imperialism and wars because of the
The daily worker., 1926-01-16
Estimation of the international Situation

ority. This is actually true. The So
cial-democrats ask: with what
troops are you going to defeat us?"
When they ask us this question. am
reminded Of an old humorous illustra-
ton which appeared in an English
newspaper during our fight against
koltchak. In this illustration, Lenin
Is on the one side and Koltchak on
the other, Koltchak big and Lenin
small but supple. Koltchak asks.
with what troops are you going to
defeat us?" Lenin answers with a
smile: with your own troops "
When now the social-democratic lead.
ers, who still in many countries have
the majority Of the workers behind
tnem, ask with a superior air: with
what troops are you going to defeat
the international bourgeois and us.
the leaders Of the German and other
social-democratic parties?" then. in
view OF the mood OF the delegations
OF workers who have visited us. we
can confidently reply with those
troops which you still regard as your
own, with those workers who are still
at present In your ranks"
The second track is the revolutions
airy movement in the East. This is a
gigantic stream which is forcing its
way thru all the narrows. This is
Cnina' Japan, India. We have already
achieved certain amount of success
IN China. Canton today closely re.
semples Moscow But It cannot be
denied that other centers will soon
arise In the Chinese movement. that
other centers will join Canton. We
snail have important successes in
Japan which is pregnant with a
bourgeois revolution. II is inevitable
The daily worker., 1926-01-16
BY GREGORY zINovIEv.
Continued from previous issue)

The Three Tracks Of the international
Revolution.
WITH regard to the international
"-reyolutionary movement, our
task can be formulated briefly as fol.
lows; we are only beginning to use
the tactics of united front. II is
developing on peculiar lines. I think
we should now distinguish three
chief tracks of this movement.
The first chief track is the an.
proach between the workers of Eng.
land and the Soviet Union. 1t has
economic foundations, but is leading
to the English working class freeing
Itself from bourgeois influence. cast.
ing aside reformism more and more
and slowly but surely coming round
to our point OF view. The infux of
delegations OF foreign workers into
our country is a similar powerful
phenomenon. Only a few years ago
relief committees were formed in All
the towns of Europe TO help the
starving people in Russia, and now
numerous foreign workers delega.
lions leave our country overwhelm,
ed with profound joy at our success
and achievements. II we place these
TWO facts side by side, we shall grasr
what a gigantic step forward has been
taken In the reconstruction OF our
economics and in the approach to the
workers who still. TO u certain exent
stand on the ground Of reformism.
TiE social-democrats often point out
that the COMMUNISTS in the largest
countries are nevertheless in the min
The daily worker., 1926-01-16
BY MORRIS eAcKALL.

A FEW weeks ago Henri Barbusse,
"A the great French novelist who is
writing for the Saturday Magazine
supplement of The DAILY WORKER,
was attacked by the fascist in Ru-
mania. Barbusse went to Rumania to
investigate the atrocities against Com
munists in the dungeons of that coun-
try. The fury of the working class
against the white terror in that coun-
try had compelled the Rumanian gov
ernment itself to invite him. Henri
Barbusse has of late years become an
embodiment of the conscience of the
working masses in Europe.
Henri Barbusse, as naturalist in
literature, started to write his poems
and short stories before 1914. But in
his collection of short stories, 1--WE
Others" in which he demonstrated
great power of observation of the
minute and detailed occurrences of
everyday life, Barbusse nevertheless
had no definite ideal and therefore
his outlook on life was pessimistic.
Everything for him appeared in gray
shadows without happiness and with
out meaning. 1t was the time of the
transition period when the life of
Europe was changing and when the
social-democrats betrayed their ideals
of revolutionary activity. To Henri
Barbusse life at that period was
meaningless and cold, without a pur-
pose. Without future.
But the war changed the point of
view and the creations of Henri Bar
busse.
Henri Barbusse went to war as a
soldier in the French army; he saw
the battlefields and learned the TRACE
dies that are connected with it. AS a
great artist he observed not only the
romantic propaganda that came from
army headquarters and general staffs,
he also saw war in the trenches. And
in realistic, brutal, tragical fashion,
with artistic fire, he nodded his newer
works of art. First, his Inferno" in
WhACn nc unCONSIS lu6 Slaughter
houses of capitalistic war and shows
that the killing of the sons of Ger
many, Austria, France, England and
America is really in the interests, not
of the masses who are cutting each
other to pieces, but of the masters of
the world, of the classes that rule Eu-
rope and America. Henri Barbusse
himself was made invalid by she'll
shock; he himself suffered bodily and
mentally the tragedy of war. But at
the beginning he was only an eloquent
pacifist, he cried for peace and distin-
guished himself very little from those
who talk in the name of morality for
peace while leaving the world in reali-
ty to butcher itself under the aegis
of capitalism. But in his second vol
ume, "Under Fire." Henri Barbusse
appeared a new man,-no longer a
pacifist- but full of the new revolu-
The daily worker., 1926-01-16
THE Revolutionary Ideal in the Writings Of Henri BarbTse

tionary spirit that had begun to pene-
trate the workers and peasants of the
world. The spirit and ideal of revolu-
tion to change the order Of society,
by means of class struggle to do away
with a system of classes and class
struggle, which is also to do away
with wars, the human slaughter
houses, among nations, was in him.
1t is true that Barbusse's book, I'm
ferno," was sold in France in 10000
copies and appeared in 100 editions,--
but the real depths of his sincerity
and greatness were disclosed in his
later book Under Fire"
In his novel, Under Fire" Bar
busse tells us of conversation among
the soldiers. The soldiers on the
battlefield are not only disgusted with
the horror of war but they are con-
scious of the causes that brought it
about and are for a conscious and
deliberate method to end it. He
pictures to us this conversation in
such manner: YES" said one, "but
what will it be called tomorrow"
After all, what is it that makes the
horror of war;" 1T is the mass of
people. but the PEOPLE, that's u.s."
Yes, that's true. 74-"It's the people
who are war, without them there
would be nothing but some wrangling,
long way Off But it is not they who
decide on it, it is the masters who
steer them. THE people are strug
Cling today to have no more masters
to steer them. This war is like the
French revolution continuing"
To make clear his new ideal, his new
optimism which is not to be found in
his former writings Henri Barbusse
continues this mass conversation.
"The people of the world ought to
come to an understanding thru the
hides and the bodies of those who ex-
ploit them, one way and another"
All the masses ought to agree to-
gether."
In this conversation the interna-
tional class character of Henri Bar
busse's writings is already evident.
Seeing the corpses stretched on the
battlefields of different frontiers
German, French, Italian,-he realized
the narrowness of nationalistic ten
dencies and ideas that are spread by
the capitalistic philosophers and pa
cifists. Barbusse realized that the
masses all over the world are made
use of as machines are used in order
to serve the interests of the masters.
He realized that in reality the work.
ers OF Germany, ofa Austria, United
States, England and France have one
interest and must adhere to class soil.
darity if they want to avoid other
tragedies to occur Ike the last war.
He realized that their solidarity con-
sists of getting rid Of the masters and
creating new world. new order of
society that win make wars unneces.
sary and will establish a Communist
commonwealth and 9 union of workers
and peasants republics on the globe.
Thls spirit and ideal of Henri Bar
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

are the pallbearers. Kalinin and
zinoygiey are usually to be seen at the
mead Of the cofin-one on each side
ana in front holding the box with his
hands behind his back is Michael
Tomsky,s chairman of the Russian
trade unions.
Stain is there, and Kamenev; Buh.
Karin and Rykov. Lenin's wife and
comrade M. Krupskaya, stands DESC
lated with grief but fearless. Dem
onstrations, flags. Thousands of chill.
dren. Peasants with faces so wrin-
kled that they look like chips from
some ancient granite boulder. Peas
ant, worker, soldier and sailor-it is
a symbol of the unity of the decisive
forces that made the Russian revolu-
tion and who are today building up
the proletarian state.
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

busse was portrayed and brought out
n the most artistic style in his book
Light" 1t is possible that in this
struggles that he himself went thru
until he reached the stage of revolu-
tionary ideal and Communistic prin-
ciples.
In the book, Light" Barbusse pic
lures to us a commonplace clerk,
Simon. 1t could not be only a clerk,
and it could not be only Simon. 1t is
true of every person educated and
raised in a capitalistic order Of so
ciety. Simon is influenced by his en-
vironment He thinks we'll of the rich
and despises the poor, altho being
himself a struggling worker-a low
salaried clerk in an office. He longed
for wealth, and at least he looked
upon himself as a person being able
to accumulate fortunes. His ideal was
the ideal of the narrow, egoistic self
centered individual that is to be
found among all shades and groups of
society educated in the present public
schools and stimulated by the sur
roundings of present-day society.
Simon lived a double life. A hypo-
critical life. He appeared as a moral,
conventional personality among
friends and in society, while in the
shadows of the night he was running
to the criminal quarters of the city,
mingling with prostitutes and outlaws
of society.
When the war opened Simon was
caught by the fire of patriotism and
the slogan, my country is in danger"
Being married to Mary, his relations
with her meant nothing to him, be-
cause of his hypocritical and conven-
tional moral and social ideas. He
went to war. He felt that he was a
hero. That he would really serve his
country. He believed whole-heartedly
that the war filled his heart and his
soul and gave meaning and value to
his existence. But the war unmasked
for Simon the horror and the reality
and the lie that is embodied in the
patriotic utterances. He saw that
those who sacrificed themselves and
fight one another on the great battle
fields are poor devils like himself and
they are sacrificing their lives for a
cause that isn't theirs. OF course it
did not occur to Simon at once. He
had to go thru fire and hell until he
reached his disillusionment.
Barbusse portrays to us in very
deep and red color the change that
took place in Simon. This was the
way Simon pictures his own feelings:
Il am alone on the earth, face to
face with the mud, and | can no
longer move. The frightful searching
Of the shells alights around me. The
hoarse hurricane which does not know
me is yet trying to find the place
where l ami
i shall remain nailed to the ground
By clinging to the earth and plung-
ing my hands into the depth of the
swamp as far as the stones, l get nv
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

A BoLsHEvIK picture! Could it be
anything else coming as it did
from Soviet Russia? That's what the
Chicago's board of censors must have
thot when they heard that somebody
wanted them to give the once-over to
film that told about Lenin's death
and of the tremendous crowds of
workers and peasants that paid their
respects to their beloved leader.
None Of us had seen the picture.
The few who were privileged to be
present at its premier showing in
Chicago were just as much interested
as the censors. And of course we
hoped that the censors had good
dinner and were in an agreeable
mood.
1t was one o'clock when we were
ushered into the little projecting
room where every picture that is
shown on Chicago's many screens
must pass the scrutinizing gaze of the
board.
Each one had little pad of paper
in hand, ready, thot, to draw an in
dictment Of the film should it contain
words or scenes that might invoke re-
bellious thots in the minds of the
proletariat. But while the picture
was showing the pencils were idle.
Not so the eyes of the censors. They
used up all the available nervous can
dle-power in the collective censorial
system. They were fixed intently on
the screen.
Up where the operator was operat-
ing the machine one could hear the
buzz Of conversation. II can tell you
what Bolshevik is" said one. be-
lieve it was the operator talking as
just then there was a flicking sound
as one reel was spent and another
one started. Silence for a moment.
He returned to the charge. "Bolshe-
vik Bolshevik." he muttered delib-
erately 'is the Russian for majority"
Now what the devil do you think Of
that" replied his companion, 81 thot It
was sumthin' like birth control or
evolution"
1t was good to see the old hammer
and sickel appear on the screen. |
can imagine the thunder Of applause
that will greet il at the Coliseum,
Sunday evening, Jan. "a. Then, Lenin,
haranguing a great throng. Other
revolutionary celebrities appear now
and again. Crowds marching-always
marching except when they are stand
ing still listening to some speaker.
What crowds? There is snow almost
up to their ears. Yet they stand like
monuments. 4fst
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

present capitalistic economic and poll
tical order of society.
Henri Barbusse also criticizes Ro-
mand ROLAND for his attitude towards
the Russian revolution. Barbusse ridi-
culed the pacifists contradiction Of
being on the one hand against war
and atrocities and on the other hand
unable to grasp the significance of
the social revolution that is really
abolishing wars and atrocities. To
Barbusse ideals in life are not mere
moral objection and words, as they
appear in the sentimental writings of
the pacifsts. To him Communism is
in essence the whole and the complete
readjustment of the individual to-
wards the collective happiness and
class consciousness and the struggle
of the masses of workers and peasants
for new society.
In Light" Barbusse pictures to us
the former commonplace personality.
who when he realizes the new ideal
of revolutionary Communism, changes
his point of view not only in regard
to society but also in regard to the
meaning and value of personal life.
Simon comes home changed social
individual. He confesses to his wife
the double personality that he had
been before. He does his utmost to
be frank and outspoken and true in
his personal life as well as in his
social struggle.
Henri Barbusse is a new writer of
the world. He is a naturalist in con
tradiction to the romantic and sym
bolic schools of literature and art
TO him the earth, the everyday life.
he social struggle, the collective
deals, have meaning and value over
against the heaven, spirit, religion.
attitude of the pacifist and liberals of
the romantic schools. In his later
writings, "The Chains" and also
THE Beyond" now being published
in The DAILY WORKER Saturday
magazine supplement, Barbusse makes
step further and develops his revo-
lutionary and Communistic philosophy
of life, from. a historical and cosmic
point of view. He looks upon the
development of the world and the
life of the individual from the point
Of view of class struggle. He gives
artistic meaning to this spirit and
IDEAL Like Emil Zola, Henri Barbusse.
greatest artist of France, deals with
life of the masses and of the simple
persons Of France. But his portrayals
and his personalities are not only
true of the life of France and of the
color of the nation; they are universal
and cosmic representations of present
day life and struggle and ideal. The
bourgeois world has come to look
upon Barbusse as one of it's bitterest
enemies. 1t knows that thru literature
the masses can get a truer picture
OF their life. His novels are full of
the longings and ideals and strivings
OF the masses of the world for new
society where they will rule, where.
their life will be expressed and their
happiness accomplished.
The daily worker., 1926-01-16

There is more but of that later.
The picture is excellent. 1t is the
kind that is seen with intense silence.
You feel that you are witnessing
human drama, surprising anything
ever put together by the masters Of
the art. The death of man who
symbolized movement that is i'm
mortal, with the iron cohorts that he
forged into an invincible revolution
ary machine pledging themselves at
his grave to carry the banner of Com
munism to victory.
The Coliseum can seat several
thousand people. If the workers OF
Chicago know about this picture they
will fill the Coliseum.
The picture will be shown there,
for the censors granted a permit, Sun
day, Jan. "a. p. m.
The daily worker., 1926-01-16
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