The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
CURRENT EVENTS


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prospect Of seeing the United Mine
Workers Union going completely to
smash. Lewis has done their work
well. Frank harrington, who sold
out TO the Illinois coal operators has
a three year contract in his safe at
a salary Of $4,000 per. After all
Harrington only strangled the Illinois
Miners Union. Lewis did the job on
a national scale. There is no time to
be lost if the union is to be saved
from disaster. The left wing elements
in the union must rally around the
program and slogans of the Brophy
ticket in the last election. The slogan,
Save The Union" must now be past
ed on every miners hat.
ONE of William Randolph Hearst's
Omost notorious poison pen artists
is dead. His name is George w. Hin
man and day seldom passed that
did not witness a vicious attack from
his pen on the working class. When
Arthur Brisbane still retained some
vestige Of decency and his column
sometimes carried a paragraph or
two that distinguished him from the
Elihu Root school of reactionary,
Human balanced things up for ''Yel-
low Willie" by outbursts against the
workers in another section Of the
paper. We shed no tears over this
corpse.
/ THERE is something rotten in the
1 state of Washington, tho not be-
ing liberal 1 cannot get much con-
1 ISOLATION out of the news item that
prompted this paragraph. Harry Sin.
clair has been denied a new trial ami
/ the fat boy faces a four-month jail
term, in common Jail" at that.
However, be that as it may, I would
not like to be minus food between
now and the date of Sinclair's entry
into a Common jail''.
MR.. POSTGATE of London. as
4FA sistant editor of Lansbury's
Weekly, writhes thru two columns of
The Advance in an effort to prove
that the reason he left the Commu-
mist Party is because of their auto
cratic methods and their tendency to
smother with abuse those who differ
with them. This attitude as we'll as
their itch to control outside organ
/ 1zatlons is considered un-Marxian bv
Mr.. Postgate, tho in the same article
he admits that Marx carried a brand
of utuperation which he used with
abandon against his enemies that was
the envy of his friends and a night
mare to his foes.
/ DOSTGATE'S objections to the in
L sistence Of the Communist Party
on obedience to party discipline on
the part of its members, comes with
bad grace from one who is assistant
editor of an alleged radical periodical
that is under the control Of an indivi-
dual, George Lansbury. The policy
of this is determined by Lansbury
and should Postgate step outside the
limits Of the elbow room allowed him
by his paymaster he would be shown
the open door, tho it is not likely that
George would shower any more abuse
on him that he does on the capitalists
George is too much of christian for
that.
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THE ADVANCE correspondent
4 agrees that the Communist posi-
ton is fundamentally correct. How
long will he concede this much? Wal
ton Newbold, the renegade defender
Of the world oil interests, the prota-
gonist of Anglo-American imperial
ism, believed in the fundamental cor
rectness of the Communist position
immediately after he quit the party
but he gradually eased himself out
of this belief and went down the
creased skid TO the capitalist cess
pool like a rotten head of cabbage.
Mr.. Postgate is irritated by the Com
munists' belief that only disciplined
mass Communist Party is qualified
to lead the workers in the final strue-
gle against imperialism. But unless
one believes this he has no more right
to be member Of Communist Par.
ty than a millionaire has TO be in
a poor house.
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