The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-04
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TerpischOre or
Something Else
BY JORGE

We have been receiving letters from several
comrades about our dances. One comrade, 1og
example wants to know why SO many other9
forget that their duty at "red" dances, just ae
in other places, is to approach wall flowers for
Daily Worker subs. He got seven in one week
that way
Another, young worker, brings up the mat"
ter of approach from another angle, and reg.
listers protest we have often heard, but about
which little or nothing has ever been DONE. -.
He is mot Victorian he claims, and being
frank goes on to state his positive attitude to-
ward certain functions that we all share, and
rather enjoy sharing, by the way-but which
we need not detail here. Anyhow, he. convlnces
us that he is neither an early, middle or late
Victorian but an earnest young worker who Is
disguised by what is permitted to get by az
some of our dances because, evidently, those
in charge permit it.
We can understand why they permit It,. We
don't want to be hll-joys for workers who are
regimented and fenced round with rules ana
regulations by the bosses, when they come TO
our affairs to play and make merry. We scorn
bourgeois conventionality and expectorate on
capitalist laws, blue and otherwise. So Those
in charge" let anything-and sometimes-eyery=
thing pass. But s
Those in charge may forget, however, soma
N0AASSSAS
of them, are not those of the working aclass,
Particularly is this true when, In this, the age
of capitalist decline, the bourgeoisie sheds its
pretensonS and exhibits its true vileness (antis
social tendencies in economies, politics and even
in SEX. The lead in this is taken by hesbourr
geois diletante, which seeks to elevate degener-
acy into philosophy and stick some label on
/ it about freedom"
1t is natural that some workers. not all by
any means, become infected, looking upon I'M
masked bourgeois degeneracy as if it were not
thoroughly bourgeois and adopting 1t as their
own standard of conduct, in spite Of the fact
that it is utterly out of harmony with healthy
proletarian standard, political healthy because
| harmonious with a progressive economic class
rising to power as a ruling class.
If anything interferes with this basic work
ing class aim it is anti-social and immoral, and
bourgeois degeneracy, carried into our own ranks
by occasional germ carriers" does interfere
hence should be checked by those in charge"
Occasionally" writes this young worker, IT have
! brought five or six workers with me to our
! dances, and these young workers have turned
| away in disgust" Nor is his the only complaint,
not by any means
Soon with the dance, and let joy be uncon-
! fined. But make it the joy of revolutionary
workers who keep deep purpose for tomorrow.
and not the 'joy" of bourgeois pig who dazed
! at the shaking of his historical class rule and
not knowing what else to do about it, takes to
the hog wallow to obliterate his dread of a red
! tomorrow
And while we're about it, we recommend that
! you attend the Needle Trades Ball on Friday
night, Dec 5th, at Manhattan Lyceum, 6S East
Fourth ST., where you will meet the entire Daily
Worker staff, provided they contribute us com
! plimentary ticketsD -