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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
Workers Lives
Cheap Under
Ca pit alism
By M. RENUD.

THIS mad and insane machinery
age, with its established institution
of exploitation, slavery and oppres-
sion, daily claims its toll of victims
from the ranks of those whose posi-
ton in life is to toll eternally and
serve industry. How often it is the
life of a worker, or a serious injury
disabling him while performing his
task in return for miserable wage?
There rarely passes period with
no accounts of tragedies which take
F, the lives of workers, leaving their de-
pendents without any means of live
lihood.
We are filled with horror and pain
when visualizing miners struggling
amidst the black giants of destruc-
ton, overcome by the deadly fumes,
away from the sun and light, seek
ing air, dying amidst an agony of I'M
told torture. Only recently the lives
of twenty-one miners were taken in
an Illinois town. They went down
into the dungeon, to earn bread for
their hungry wives and children and
a maintenance in the company's barn
but they never saw the light again.
The bosses were warned against the
possibility of infloating gas-but hui
man life is cheaper. An hours work
was Swaziland new slaves took the
vacant places of their martyred COM
rades, perhaps to await the same
fate.
Such tales are plentiful and end
less; the guilty murderers are cleared
of their share of responsibility, and
the undisturbed exploiters continue
their vicious methods of slaughter.
Will it continue? Will those work
ers not throw off the yoke of their
masters?
The suffering of the proletariat has
for centuries accumulated to go down
into history as glorious page of
heroic martyrdom, but the spirit of
discomfort in the ranks of the weak
and oppressed will rise and unite in
the great cause of international eman-
cipation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
Young Communists and the Red Army

banking interests are preparing a
direct attack on the U. S. S. r. Gas
witness the severance of diplomatic
relations with the U. S. S. r. by the
British Tories, the raid on ARGOS, the
raid on the Pekin Embassy, the or
ganization of terrorist acts against
the most prominent figures in the U.
S. S. R., etc.,.
Under these conditions, during the
period of peaceful construction, the
Y.CL. devoted much attention to
questions of defending the U. S. S. r.
in the ranks of the Red Army and
among the broad masses Of the toll
ing youth.
Army of Workers and Peasants
The Red Army is an army of work
ers and peasants. The leading role
in the Red Army as in every phase
of life in the Union of Soviet Social
list Republics, falls to the proletariat
as represented by it's vanguard, the
Communist Party. The Young Com
munist activities in the army consti-
tute a component part Of Party ac-
tivity (see decision of the Sixth Con
gress of the Russian feminist vel.
on work in the Red Army and Navy
Ito Be Continued).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
Davis Deceiues ON Tariff Issue

Secretary Labor Davis following the footsteps of the
democratic politicians is attempting exploit the sufferings of
the unemployed the interests of the republican party
interests of those capitalists who protng by the
tariff.
The must not permit themselves to be fooled by
these maneuvers of the republican politicians.
Mr. Davis attempts impress the workers that the to
solve the unemployment situation maintain the tariff
foreign goods says that the of the tariff would
danger employment and wages of the American workers
American workers will not believe this stuff
They remember that despite the fact that the American
arnnen the hands of republican administration for
administration which has main
high protective tariff in the interests of several big
dustra combinations yet unemployment has been growing and
not diminishing The workers will also remember that despite
domination of the republican party with its high protective
tariff policies working class of America today passing
through the unemployment crisis since 1924 Today
five million unemployed workers. with consequent
l'fcring, misery and starvation.
republican politician to utilize the resentment of the working
interests of the republican and the big
talists Of the United States
The Workers (Communst) Party will wage determined
struggle against these 1t will continue to bend all
its efforts mobilize all organized well unorganzed work.
ers we'll the unemployed for militant
gle against unemployment and for effective unemployment relief
The nRuthenberg drive for the increase of the Workers
Party membership for the building of the circulation
The DAILY WORKER designed to strengthen this campaign
AGAINST unenplovment1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
EpisCopalian Socialism in Massachusetts,

Furthermore, Mr.. Moore's own
church, the Episcopal church, finds
no necessary opposition between
socialism and religion. Both Edith
Williams, who has several times
been a candidate of the socialist
party, and myself, the state secre-
tary of the socialist party, are
members of the Episcopal church. -.
"Alfred Baker Lewis
Cambridge, Feb. 49,"
The Episcopal church, to which
Lewis gives allegiance, is the church
of the aristocracy as Upton Sinclair
so ably proves in his profits of Re-
ligion." But this is a small matter
compared to the fact that a leader
of the socialist party in one of the
most important industrial states takes
so much trouble to show that there
is no antagonism between socialism
and religion.
What is the reason for this?
The churches are institutions of
and for the ruling class. The whole
theological doctrine of salvation-a
paradise in a supernatural world
after death for those who follow the
clergy-has the effect of fixing the
thoughts of the masses on the future
instead of on the present. If one is
assured of heavenly home after a
brief stay on earth-and misery suf-
fered on earth together with servile
obedience to the clerical code is the
best guarantee of ghostly happiness
it is clear that it is more or less a
waste of effort, and even jeopardises
ones place in the heavenly mansions,
if one fights oppression increasingly.
Religion is made for slaves and
helps to make slaves.
Furthermore, the meekness and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
Continued from Last Issue.)

Continued from, Last Issue.)
The defeated White Guards left be-
hind many gangs of bandits. These
gangs terrorized the civil population,
raided factories, trains, and destroyed
whatever they could. The Ukrainian
Young Communists performed enor-
nous tasks in combating this bandit
ism. There are some very striking
cases on record. In the Don district
there were 10 nuclei with 202 mem
bers. These POP members fought in
154 battles in the course of l " years.
Twenty-seven m m b ers were
wounded, 16 killed, 55 were taken
prisoners, 81 of whom were tortured
TO death. The Young Communists re-
vealed great heroism in their strug-
gle against banditry. There were
also some tragic cases, for instance,
the destruction Of Young Commu-
mist detachment in Tripod. The de-
tachment did not take any protective
measures and settled down in the diff
ferent homes Of the neighborhood;
the lSulaks, knowing that the detach-
ment was scattered, attacked he
members individually and kille d
them all. That gang was soon after
suppressed by the Red army.
Underground Activity
Then the underground activity which
he Young Communists carried on in
the enemy's rear lin the Ukraine
during the Petlura period, in the eau
easus, in Odessa, Simferopol, Niko-
laev, White Russia, etc., merits at
tention.
There were cases when spies be-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24

trayed Young Communists, who died
for the proletarian revolution I'M
flinchingly. In Odessa nine young
Communists were sentenced to death
by the Whites and before their exc
Icution they made statement: eve
die, but we are triumphant and we
hail the victorious offensive Of the
Red Army. We look forward to, and
believe in, the final triumph of the
Communist ideals. Long live the Red
Armyl Long live the Communist In
ternational! (Signed):< Dora Lubar-
skaya, Ida Krasnostchokina Yasha
Roiffman, Lev. Spivak, Boris Mix
hailovitch Duninovsky, Vas Pet
trenko, Misha piltsman, Polia Park"
The Red Army detachments which
smashed the enemy forces captured
this letter of these young heroes. But
how many unknown heroic Young
Communists fell in he defence of the
proletarian revolution?
Reduction of Army.
The final destruction Of the
conference.-the and the freeing of
the Soviet outposts from bani ry,
raised the question Of reducing the
Army and placing it on peace foot
ing. The Workers and Peasants
Government not aiming at conquests,
decided to keep an army for defensive
purposes only as to protect the U. S.
S. r. from attacks of the West Euro
pean bourgeoisie. The u. S. S. r. was
continuously menaced by an attack,
but at the present time that menace
has greatly increased. The British
Iimperialists and now the French
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24

golden rule christianity" which the
theologians preach is only for the ex-
plotted section of the population. 1t
is intended to lull them into acquies-
cence to the demands of the ruling
class-and it does SO where it is not
counteracted by scientific socialist
propaganda and the conduct of the
class struggle in a militant manner.
The only time the clergy have
played progressive role has been
when individuals among them, at a
time when scientific thinking was I'M
known, have broken with the HER
archy and joined with the proletarian
and peasant masses in onslaughts on
the ruling class which were not and
could not be conducted in accord with
the prevailing concept of christian
conduct. At such times, these clerics
have merely symbolised the rise of a
new social epoch, have been swept
along by a shift in class relation
ships.
But since the rise of capitalist So
ciety and the appearance of the work
ing class as a class separate from
all others, carrying the social revolu-
ton in it's hands, the churches and
the clergy have played a completely
reactionary role. They have been and
they are found on the side of reac-
ton in every struggle between the
working class and its oppressors.
Lately there has been noticeable a
tendency in both the Roman Catholic
and protestant churches for sections
of the clergy to ally itself to some
extent with the labor aristocracy-to
favor the organization of unions,
higher wages, better working and san
itary conditions, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
By Fred Ellis

This is by no means the dominant
tendency and it appears chiefly among
those clergymen depending for their
support on sections of the middle
class who find themselves in conflict
with the big capitalists over certain
points of the imperialist program,
who feel the burden of increased tax-
alton for imperialist adventures, etc.,
and who need the support of the
masses.
But even this activity of these Sec
tions of the clergy is by no means
progressive. AS matter of fact it
is the clerical expression of the class
peace and efficiency unionism theory
of the labor bureaucracy. The policy
has as it's goal not the encouragement
Of resistance to exploitation, but sub
mission to it. 1t is reactionary in es-
sence and it's objective effect solely
that of retarding militant working
class organization and the develop
ment of Inconsistencies.
There are two possible reasons for
a socialist party leader belonging to
a church-Episcopal or otherwise:
One is that he believes the super
stitions disseminated by the clergy,
and the other is that he wants to ap-
pear respectable and avoid conflict
with and criticism by the upper
classes.
If Alfred Baker Lewis belongs to
the Episcopal church for the first rea-
son he is so ignorant that no worker
should trust him.
If he belongs for the second rea-
son he is a hypocrite and coward
and likewise unworthy of the conf
dence of the working class.
The reformist theory that religion
is a private matter is put forward by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
Dictatorship at Havana

In regard to American policy Havana the New York Times
for February p says editorially
1--WE have made it clear that the surest guarantee
against upon the Caribbean states is for these
their affairs without impering American
lives legitimate American interests
Since the state department all passports stands
American citizens Cat least all czens) who
enter Latin American countries and since likewise
passes upon all foreign loans its stands back of the enterprises
which American capitalists The word Legitimate as
by the Times therefore that all American interests
are backed by the state department.
Further since Wall Street government nterpres the Monroe
Doctrine that the sole authority which determines
whether the conduct of their affairs by Latin American govern
favorable unfavorabe to american interests the
stating the bald fact that American mperiast govern
itself the dictator the Latin American
republics and their peoples.
Charles Hughes the chief spokesman of American
imperialism in the Havana reserved for it the right
intervene country in manner and at any Time II
sees to the interest of the imperalst rulers
This is the cold fact established by the Havana conferences
That the American republics stand always in danger
of armed invasion by American forces in the Judgment OF
perasms invasion will advance the of
conquest of which the the Nicaraguan people is part
Wall Street government Havana asserted its right Of
aregnty over This sovereignty be given
setua expression only by and the Havana
conference policy of American government is war policy
The Latin American peoples will not submit to American i'm
asn The fact that only the Argentine delegate made
fight (and at that timid fight against this policy does
mean that the peoples of republics have abandoned
bought struggle. It only that American diplomacy
ked by Wall and it's army and able to ntimi
bride Latin American officials into betraying the in
terests of the at Havana.
These the last word and it is only by the
support American workers and peasants organza
ons nationalist movements directed against Imperialism by
American workers that Imperialism be defeated
The Havana conference flaming danger signal to the
masses United States Canada and Latin America 1t
has brought made clearer the danger of mpera
The forces that making the striking coal
miners their Misunderstanding to starve 100000 women
and children submsson-are preparing for the
workers and peasants of Latin America.
The weapon the of two continents is organization
for against United States Imperialism the arch maker
and the enemy workers of the United States and of Latin
America alike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
By BILL DUNE.

HRELIGION," said Marx, sis the
~ opium of the people"
Alfred Baker Lewis, state secre-
tary of the socialist party in Massa-
chusetts, disagrees with Marx. In a
letter to the Boston Transcript, pub
lished on February IA, Lewis states
that he is a member of the Episcopal
church.
The Lewis position as set forth In
his letter is that there is no conflict
between religion and socialism. This
is about the same as saying that
there is no conflict between super
stition and science-which is about
the most obvious untruth one can in
dulge in.
Socialism is scientific or it is not
socialism. The Utopian theories of
Fourier, Owens and st. Simon did not
survive the scientific MARKHAM analy-
sis of the evolution of society, of it's
class character and it's commodity
method of neutrality-suspicious. for
sale and exchange, production for the
market exclusively-the proof that
history "is a series of class strug-
gles."
Religion proceeds on the false
theory that mankind must be "re-
deemed" i. e., made better by the
adoption of code of morals con-
trived by a supernatural being-a
god. All evil, according to theologians,
is the result of mankind's evil dis
position and the god-there is much
difference of opinion among religion
lists as to whom and what he is
must be respected and obeyed. His
mandates are made known to the
masses by self-appointed spokesman
who claim that the god speaks thru
them.
This procedure of selecting the
gods spokesman has not changed
since prehistoric times. The Episcopal
church uses the same age-old method
and it follows therefore that the re-
ligious adviser of Alfred Baker Lewis
has no more of mandate than do
the medicine men of primitive tribes.
Religion Is Superstition.
Socialism has a conflict with re-
ligion. Leaders who call themselves
socialists may not have conflict with
religion but this merely proves that
they are not socialists but middle
class reformers or outright capitalist
agents.
Let us take a look at the letter
written by Alfred Baker Lewis:
"To the Editor Of the Transcript:
"Your correspondent, Mr.. Moore,
seems very determined to have
your readers believe that there is
some antagonism between socialism
and religion. / am glad he admits
that the socialist party of the Unit
ed States is not opposed to religion.
That is at least a step for him in
the right direction.
"That the other socialist parties
affiliated in the labor and socialist
international, such as the British
labor party, are not opposed to re-
ligion is also undeniable. That
prominent individual socialists in
this country are not only religious
but ordained ministers of religion
is also true, among them Rev. John
Haynes Holmes, Rev. Norman
Thomas, Bishop Paul Jones, Rev.
Harry f. Ward and, to come near
er home, Mayor Brakeman of Pea
body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24

socialist officialdom to cover up just
such fragrant instances as that in
which the secretary of the socialist
party in Massachusetts is involved.
The doctrine that there is no con-
flict between socialism and religion
can be true only when socialism sur
renders to superstition and becomes
reformism. In respect to his religious
beliefs, Alfred Baker Lewis is far to
the right Of middle class political
leaders of France, Germany and
Italy whose atheism and anti-clerical-
ism is the expression of what mill
fancy they have left.
Such types as Lewis are a menace
to the working class. They know thai
the term Socialism" has a powerful
appeal to the most advanced section
of the working class-the section
from which is recruited the speakers,
organizers, writer's and fighters OF
the labor movement and which IS
found always in the forefront of the
class struggle. These leaders disem-
bowel socialism, crawl inside the
corpse whose vitals they have ex-
tracted and by their reformist antics
in the name of socialism create con-
fusion and decentralization in the
ranks of the masses.
1t is from such a source as this
that emanated the theory that the
Sacco and Vanzetti campaign should
be conducted as a great humanitarian
crusade and it's class nature con-
cealed. 1t was from this source that
came attempts to sabotage the build
ing of a powerful movement with its
base in the working class and to
make the main feature of class case
involving the lives of two revolution
airy workers appeals to their execu-
TONERS on the grounds of "justice"
and Saving the fair name of the
courts"
Leaders of the working class who
swallow the superstitions of the the
ologians, or who are afraid Ito make
religion an ISSUE" are weak leaders
at best and at their worst are treach-
erous leaders.
Their adherence to religious doc
trine or their failure to expose it's
anti-working class character is proof
that they have not freed themselves
from illusions relative to the class ma
ture of capitalism's institutions, that
they fear the non-religious masses
and will not lead them in open strug.
gle against the capitalist class and it,
government.
The socialist party in Massachu-
sets is not led by socialist but by
an Episcopalian. This socialist party
leader, like all the rest, having at
tanned responsibility, has no desire for
revolution.
Religion and the social revolution
are in conflict just as the social revo-
luton is in conflict with all other
class instruments Of the capitalists.
A Communist leader who professed
religion Of any brand would be kicked
out of the party publicly. In the so
cialist party, as evidenced by Lewis
letter, it is matter of pride to have
as many preachers as possible.
The revolutionary workers of the
United States have already made
their choice between the revolutionary
socialism of the Communist Party
the socialism of Marx and Lenin, and
the religion and reaction disguised al
socialism which is ladled out in poi
sonous doses by such leaders as Lewii
the Episcopalian.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-24
SO. BUT HAS TO WORK.
Ito Be Continued).

LAWRENCE, L. l., Feb, 3D.
James Laucheim of this town is SO
years old, but still must work as a
clerk. He is said to be the oldest
clerk in Long Island.
New Britain herald., 1928-06-08

mana gerial changes and financial
trlbu latlon.
An all-Cleveland board of direc-
tors. elected by stockh olders meet
ing recently at Richmond. Va, re-
places the Detroit interests which
have been connected with Peerless
for some time.
The change is regarded her as
personal victory for Leon X. Ger
man, former VICE president and
general manager. who MAS elected
president. German himself has
had an interesting career. starting
life rs a farm boy. working as q
cantor, then entering the automo-
tive Held as stenographer with,
the Uidsmohile company after
studying at night. and moving up
"ard to sales manager for Durant
before Joining the Peerless staff.
Battle for control of the company
dates back TO 1921, when +. II.
Collins, then president of Cadillac
took over the management. Two
years later i, a. Burke, sales man
New Britain herald., 1928-06-08

,marathoner, ruled off the floor when
a physician sad her heart was weak.
complained in vain to the states at
torney that her heart had been IL
belled.
Boston-Legislati\e wild party"
/ investigators close that phase OF in
quiry liquor diversion charges 10 be
probed next by joint committee.
Bost on-John Tartar, former
taNicab driver and boxer, surrenders
/ to police and is arrested for MUIR
! der OF Mary c, Mahan, whose body
with 10 bullet wounds was found in
Milton last week.
| Cambridge, Mass-Defensc opens
4 in knowlton murder trial.
/ Boston--Police Inspector de-
, scribes recovery Of 100000 from
| Detroit banks in trial of three wom-
IN charged with receiving stolen
Eastern Steamship funds.
/ Salem, Mass.-Counsel for George
/ Taylor, itinerant barber and con
Nicted slayer of Stella Pomikala OF
/ Lawrence. files new trial motion az
state announces death sentence will
! be asked Saturday.
New HaNen-Supreme court re
serves decision in appeal of Dukc
/ Marino Torlonia from divorce award
| to Elsie Moore Torlonia of Green
Wich.
! New Haven - John OHiakala o,
Merid"n, is awarded damages OF ST.
S23 by jury in superior court.
against Albert Rookie who shot him
in the leg during an alteration last
September.
New Haven - The granting of the
demands of Journeyn'en BARRIERS by
the owners Of two large shops indi-
Gates the end of the strike hich has
been in effect for ten days. The
BARRIERS demand s27' . week and
half of all receipts over S37.
New London The tenth annual
com enCement exercises at Connec-
tiCut College for Women is official
~ opened With the senior BANQUET
as the first event.
New London-A referendum vote
supports the appointment of Ulhhar1
\. Alexander as tax collector despite
opposition led by Mayor James 4
May.
New London--Mrs. Sarah Rogers.
50. suffers a fractured hip when she
trips while leaving a voting booth
Mrs. Rogers had just cast her ballot
in the referendum on the petition to
rcscind the appointment of Hlhbarl
\. Alexander as tax collector when
the accident occurred.
Stamford - Anna Gentle is.
sends her father Charles Gentle, %.
to the hospital With a possible frac-
ture Of the skull when she strikes