The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-30
CURRENT EVENTS
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| NCOHCHNGU FROM EUgG OU6J
For being fifteen minutes late he was
locked one hour and was so weak
with hunger before the dinner whistle
blew that he tainted three times and
almost fell off a scaffolding. No
doubt if he had the time to take the
doctors advice his stomach trouble
would evaporate and all his troubles
for that matter.
60 it would seem that patience is
virtue that cuts both ways, and
poise might be all right in enabling
one to stand the strain of being re-
ceived at Buckingham Palace, enter
| tanning Marie of Roumania or listen
| ing to a sermon while wearing a
| petrified shirt, but when up against
the rougher side of life the aristocrat
finds it as useless as the milk-chew.
ing hodcarrier.
AWAY up in the Canadian woods one
"A of those idylic incidents so char
acteristic of our American democracy
was taking place. The son of a
banker, internationally known for his
money and his connubial infelicity
was taking in marriage the daughter
of plebeian. The news value of the
affair was heavy so the photo
graphers were on the job. For the
benefit of those who do not read the
capitalist press it was a Stillman
marriage. But Mrs. Stillman did not
like publicity so she threw poise to
the winds and threw plates at the
photographers.
CHOULD the same kind of diversion
be INDUCED in by Mrs. Feigen-
flatt of Avenue A., by Mrs. Gioletti
Carminatti of Downing Street or by
a Mrs. MacDuff of 10 Avenue and
46th Street, the police captains of the
respective districts would have trans
ported the merrymakers to the near
est detention station and the trained
wits who emphasize the lighter fea-
lures of police cases in the capitalist
press would spread themselves on the
tale. There would be no danger of
committing lese majestic.
THE trouble with the workers is not
lack of poise or patience. 1t is
too damned much of it. They are
taught to believe that meekness 10y
atty and submission are the greatest
of virtues and they will suffer
humiliation and poverty to the I'M
bearable point before they kick. 10y
atty is virtue that changes it's con-
notation when the need out which it
sprung vanishes. The worker is loyal
to the boss because he feels that his
bread and butter depends on the
boss's favor. All his other loyalties
are also motivated by his physical or
emotional needs. And the loyalties
of classes can be similarly traced, and
much more exactly.
WHAT worker would not kick over
" the capitalist traces if he thot
his life would be richer after the big
burst! He still carries the slave mind
around in his head and this is not
surprising, he lacks class confidence
as well as class consciousness. He is
the product of many generations of
laves and of historical environment
that goes back to the days when the
savage with the heaviest club and the
best-fed ego forced others to dig their
shouts into the earth and bring him
the choicest roots or whatever was
the favorite article of diet those days.
He is getting over this inherited men,
tai malady and as he is beginning to
realize that there is not much more
room at the top for new crop of
exploiters, he is tending to fall back
on organization and collective effort
in this struggle for more Of the pro-
duct of his toll. The scalpel of evolu-
ton is lifting his brain pan and the
revolutionary propagandists are help
ing to separate his gray matter from
the gudgeon grease