The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-05
COMMENT.

ONE of the mysteries of the revolutionary movement
is why such vital and interesting publication as
the Labor Defender is not available the newsstands
The monthly organ of the International Labor Defense
the magazine has broad appeal, reaching all ele-
ments in the American labor movement
The November issue contains a large number of I'M
usual articles, including a graphic description of the
brutal assault the Cheswicl, Pa. miners (bv A.
Jakira, with drawings by Don Brown; stirring nara
tive by Charles Yale Harrison dealing with the attempt
of Mussolini and his American henchen to railroad
to the electric chair Donate Garlic and Caogero Greco
New York Italian workers, framed-up charges Of
murder growing out of the shooting of two fascists
during their Memorial Day parade here.
The present number also contains an account Of the
case OF the nine furriers who facing long terms in
Sing Sing in connection with the Mneola frame-up All
OF the articles are illustrated with photographs and
cartoons.
In Karl Marx: Man, Thinker and Revolutonist (Inter-
national Publshers) is found much fascinating bio
graphical material The book remarkable collection
OF essays by Engels Mehring Luxembourg William Iieb-
knech Lenn and Ryazanoff The latter essay contains
some private detail which reveal among other things
Just who among the great writers of the world Marx ad
mired most.
The following confession" was obtained from Marx
by his two daughters, Laura and Jenny:
"Favorte virtue-smplicty; favorite virtue in
man-strength; favorite virtue in woman-weal-
ness; your chief Observation-Disclosures of pur-
pose; your idea of happiness-to fight; your idea
OF misery-submission; the vice you detest most
serviltyj favorite occupation bookworming; fav-
orite wrters-Shakespeare, Aeschylus Goethe and
Dlderot; favorite hero-Spartacus, Keper; favorite
color-red; favorite dsh-fsh; favorte maxim
Mill humanum a me aienum puto II regard moth
ing human as alien to me).
obviously" comments Ryazanoff ain these COMES
sons must take everything in dead earnest The
framework is one of jest-but we shall see that good
deal of the content is earnest after ALL"
A dramatic account Of the collapse of the Brother
hood OF Engineers banks and investment companies will
be found in Wrecking of Labor Banks, by William z
Foster an advance Of which has just reached this
office This new book issued by the Trade Union Edu
cationa League and distributed thru the Workers Ii
brary Publishers will be ready soon
1t is an almost incredible picture that Foster reveals
wholesale robbery of the savings Of the railroad work
ers; wildcat speculation in the swamp-lands of Florida
eliminating In one OF the greatest catastrophes in the
history of class collaboration
In this wild adventure of labor officialdo that near
~ wrecked one of the biggest unions in the United
States S2OOOOOOO of the workers savings We're lost
local wit once remarked that if the citizens of The
United States were suddenly granted absolute freedom
of speech, the first thing the uninhbted Americans
would say is; otis fine day, isn't it,"
This profound observation is recalled in view
recent essays by Haywood Broun in The Natio
giving up job which paid him $3.50 week
confined himself since he to that dgnified a.
interesting journal to the whimsical tho quite unmpor
tsnt topics which Ralph Pulitzer said he liked so much
when he sadly accepted Brouns resignation from the
New York World SENDER GARLIN