The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
The Use Value of God


pay roll to be four million a year.
This organization of native Ameri-
can christians has distinguished itself
by lynching, misunderstanding, and
many pleasant little variations of the
innocent game of murder.
By terrorizing progressive union
lists, by lynching striking workers, by
constant bowls for Cooperation be-
tween employer and employe" and
thousand other of the favorite slo-
gans of reaction, the K. K. X. has
declared itself again and again the
enemy of the proletariat. It attacks
not only Soviet Russia, Communism
and all forms of radicalism or liberal
ism, but every activity of organized
labor.
More than once the X. X. K has is
sued proclamations accusing strikers
Of interfering with the laws of god"
meaning the laws of capitalism. It
fights the strikers by propaganda,
threats, mob outrages and murder.
And it always carries on these activi-
ties in the name of hundred per cent
Americanism, and hundred percent
christianity"
Protestant Preachers Find New Meal
Tickets in X. X. X.
lnOES the protestant church, up
II holder of law, order and the right
to exploit, oppose the violent and
bloody deeds Of the khan? Most of the
organizers and speakers are ministers.
There are $4,000 protestant ministers
in the organization Catholic priests,
Jewish rabbis, foreign born sky
pilots and black shepherds are not
invited to join this exclusive group
These figures we have on the unques-
tionable authority of a minister, the
Reverend Oscar Haywood of South
Carolina, in speech made on the
21st of October, 1923.
These American fascists boast not
only holy, but millionaire organizers.
David c. Stephenson, a millionaire
coal company promoter of Evansville
and Indianapolis, took over the or
ganization of the Indiana territory in
1928. He asserts that he Increased the
membership of the Indiana khan to
$4,000, and the Ohio khan to 225,0OO
members.
Jealous of the part the catholic
church has played in promoting igno-
rance and misery, in defending cap
italism from class conscious prole-
tariat, the X. X. K. has become the
protestants' champion in the fight.
But where the catholics preach inter-
Inationalism, under the absolute domi-
nation of the pope, the X. K. K.
breaches nationalism; and the only
alliance possible between the two
chief forces of religious reaction is a
bitter war on Communism.
Religion Always Enemy's Dope
for Workers.
100 religion with it's million forms,
~ whether it wears the flowing robes
Iof the papacy, of the ghost clothes of
the ku klux khan, is at heart the
same. Sometimes it masquerades as
liberal, as the Y. w. G. A.; some
times it proclaims itself reactionary,
"fundamentalist," as do the hardshells
of the christian creeds. Whatever it's
costume for the minute, however
styles may change outward appear
ances, it is the legitimate descendant
of the spook with which priesthood
first frightened the lowly of the savage
tribe. Formerly it was the weapon of
feudalism. Now it is the tool of cap
italism. 1t is always welded by the
ruling class of the age and country in
which it finds itself.
Markets may fiuctuate and business
face bankruptcy, but there is no
change for the capitalists in the use
value of god.
THE END.