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


buttons, 100000.
Mary G. Thompson, P. E. Cathedral,
100000.
Payne Whitney, Y. w. c. Assoc.
900.
The total sum being $11,526,334.
This is by no means a complete
statement Of how much is donated in
one year by American capitalists to
religious opium injeetors. A low to-
tai estimate for individual contribu-
tons from small group of capital
lists would be $25, 5000, 900, outside of
the regular contributions, amounting
to about $5OO,OOO,OOO a year.
Besides the regular church bodies
there are special subsidiary organiza-
tions which concern themselves with
keeping the workers in check. Fore
most among these are the Y. M. c. A,
the Knights of Columbus, the Ku
Klux Khan, the Salvation Army, the
Y. M. H. A, and the Catholic Welfare
Conference.
The Y. M. G. A. is the most i'm
portant of these subsidiary institu
tons. 1t claims one million mem
bers. Early in its career this body
recognized the necessity of organizing
on the job and with the aid of the
boss has been able to construct head
quarters in or near every important
industry.
The U. S. Steel Corporation not
long ago donated 100000 for a "Y"
at its Gary plant; julius Rosenwald,
tho Jew, donated more than $780,
900 to the Christian Y. M. C. A. to
keep the young wage slaves of Sears
& Roebuck contented. Most of the
s5O,0OO,0OO which the Y. M. C. A. gets
yearly comes out Of the pockets of
capitalists.
On many plantss-Y preachers use
up the lunch hour preaching to the
Workers and instilling love for the
boss. Special books of instruction
have been issued on how to conduct
this work. Instances of the "Yis" pro-
tecting and furnishing scabs are pIen-
tiful.. And that the Y. NJ. C. A. is a
counter-revolutionary force was prov
ed by its activities in Siberia where
it directly aided Kolchak in his at
tack on Soviet Russia.
The Y. w. c. A., tho ostensibly IL
beral, in reality conducts the same
type of work that the is noted for
and receives support from precisely
the same sources.
For over nine years the knights Of
Columbus has been carrying on a
fight against what it calls extreme
radicalism." 1t is the duty of the
X. of C. to keep the workers con-
tented, sooth them and groom them
for the bosses war whenever the call
is issued. The labor program of the
X. Of c. is laid down by the mother
church. A little more of this later.
The Salvation Army concerns itself
mainly with the slum proletariat. 1t
does not fail to take advantage of
every opportunity to exhort the work
ers to be meek and accept the yoke
of the bosses. The Salvation Army
has 1928 offices with over 5000 pie
in-the-sky preachers on the street.
With the penetration of capital in
to colonial and undeveloped terri
tories we see growth in missionary
work. In 1928 Mrs. Netty F. McCor-
mick, of International Harvester
fame, donated $25O,OOO for Y. M. c. A.
work abroad. j. d. Rockefeller gives
literally for saving the souls and en-
Shaving the bodies of the Chinese.
Standard Oil sources in 1923 donated
over s1,00O,00O for this work; the u.
S. Steel 100000.
The latest is the attempt of the
Hebrews to raise $4,000 for Jewish
theological and talmudical school in
Eastern Europe ito fight the advance
Of bolshevistic culture"
The supporters OF the drive, Rab-
bis e. Epstein, S. Schach, Ephraim A.
Carbon and e. Mishkin, insist the