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EDITORIALS small shop-keepers incmad revolt against life itself, in revolt We Haven't Cracked Under the Strain against combination, against big industrialization, against JHE non-appearance of the November issue of this maga- invention, against the evolutionary trend. Hitherto the re-~ ‘zine meant that we were in desperate financial difficulties. volts that have come out of the West have been led by a dy- ‘The appearance of a November-December issue now, means ing class, a class nine-tenths of which dies out each year; that we have weathered the storm, ‘We expect to direct our the small business men, a class without a destiny. attention more than we have for some months past to political Labor has a destiny. As a class it is rising. ‘Will it take {ssues, and to direct attention more deliberately than hereto- the lead of the Revolt Out of the West? fore to The Workers Party, the organized political movement which, as we declared at its inception, best represents the rev- A Capitalist Manifesto olutionary interests of the American workers. HE majority of the Railroad Labor Board has issued a Capitalist Manifesto—which, oddly enough, agrees with the Communist Manifesto in all essential particulars. It is Revolutionary an important document well worthy of careful attention, It EVOLUTIONARY” is still a dangerous word to use in attacks “the living wage” as a basis for determining wages print, But for the sake of cleatness we intend to of railroad workers, and declares that such a course, “if car- use it in these columns whenever the occasion arise ried to its legitimate conclusion, would wreck every railroad For about a year we have refrained from inflaming the im- in the United States, and if extendéd to other industries, ‘agination of Mr. Daugherty and Mr. Burns by the use of the would carry them into communistic ruin. ‘common-place and useful phrases of Communist intellectual ‘These are ringing words. ‘They mean that capitalism can- discussion. ‘The time has not, perhaps, yet come when w not afford to pay a living wage to the workers. ‘They mean ‘can mention the d-ct-t-rsh-p of the pr-l-t-r--t with impunity; that capitalism exists necessarily and inevitably upon a but the efforts of Capitalism, through aa obliging government, basis of starvation. They mean that there is no hope for the to make everybody pretend to believe that capitalism was workers under capitalism. ‘They mean that if the workers seem to have failed; their extraordin- going to last forever, want event what is called “a fair share” of the fruits of in- tyrannies have had to be explained, and the only ex- dustry, they might ag well set about putting an end to planation possible was their fear of—revolution. They had to ism, since that is the only Way they will ever get what utter the word themselves, We claim the same privilege. they want. ‘The Railroad Labor Board majority is to be congratulated on its courage and its candor. ‘These are the sort of things The Elections iat Communists get put into jail for saying to the workers. OMBTHING serious is ‘happening oxt West. Te is ev ‘This manifesto was issued in reply to an argument of the Ge enty one ofthe big tides that sweep this country pert “Iabor” minority of the Board, in which an increase of wages ically when the dead moon of Hard times isin the fl, determined by “the living wage” standard had been pleaded wihon the rt” farmer's bran is drawn to deaperato think: for. In such a situation, all that can be done by labor's rep Ihe, and Labor ean see nothing ahead tut the midnight resentatives (appointed by Capital) on the Labor Board, is freight oot of town plead. But there is a reason—a good capitalist reason—why Tecra that the seed of farm-mortgages lst) of unem- their pleas are of no avail. And for once the representatives payment, normalcy and injunctions, ie growing crop out of capital have come right out with this reason in plain words. Went Te may be ony snothererop of alfaia for the sythe They have said, in effect: “Don’t let’s have any nonsense Of tho evolution hate, easy pickings for Wall Street's sec about ‘the living wage.’ Capitalism can’t pay the living wage. tha line of defenge~the Willa J. Bryans For Capitalism can exist only so long as the workers will accept Dut wo doubt if tho crop wil all be reaped by them, something less than the living wage. Capitalism wilt tall in tits tine wo heat the vame of Labae spoken loudly in the rains—in communistic ruins—when the workers really try to

fuimltsCabor au a politcal class. And if thie las should get enough to live on.” byrtls time prove to have been suicintiy goaded into po- Attorney-General Daughert got out an excellent piece of Heal clad organization, the tide mony leave a permanent communist propaganda in his famous injunction, ‘The Rail- fosidue: If Labor should tak the leed this time, in an or road Labor Board majority has got out another in this mani

anise) way, Che uprising may not expend ito in the seam festo. And the beauty of having these Communist Propa- Stauackery. The lead was taken exch tone before by a class gandists on the job in Washington is that they can’t be put in

hat nad no destng-by the small Business stavelings, by the jail for telling the truth about capitalism.

ie THE LIBERATOR head of the German Shipping Trust to form a “democratic” The Communist International . ministry. Your German Hillqujts are conferring in Berlin HE “Red League of Nations” is meeting in Moseow. today with Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan to save Germany from Stronger and more vast in significance each year, the bolshevism, as a last hope for a dying “democratic” capital- Gommunist International opens its Fourth Congress in a ism. What do you think of it? You bet on the eapitalis Workers’ Russia for the first time at peace. The Communist horse. We bet on the proletarian. Which do you think is International is the big organizational outcome of the war running the better? which the poor old League of Nations was intended to be. ‘This great International is too little understood throughout the non-communist world, Its peculiar character is indicated ‘When Thieves Fall Out by the one fact that it is but-a single political party extending (THOMAS E. CAMPBELL is governor of Arlzona, A em over the entire world and possessing a single will, and a dis- ‘weeks ago he ran for re-election on the Republican tic- cipline as rigid as that of any military organization that ever ket. His chief rival for office was George W. P. Hupt—need- fexisted. We hope to have in our January number a first- Tess to say, a Democrat, Various polities! wisesctes of ma hhand description of the Fourth Congress, written by a distin- tional standing in both parties have been confessing of late guished American. that Demoerats and Republicans have no real quarrel; but it seems that in Arizona they were particularly shy on cam- Pardon of the Russian Social Renegades paign formulas with which to bamboozle the voters into be- Hieving that an election is anything more than a sham battle "HE united tears of socialists, anarchists, democrats, mon- between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The political program archists and republicans have mingled in a wild world of the Democrats was condensed into the motto which heads ‘wail of sympathy for the Social-Revolutionary Party leaders their official organ The Democratic Bulletin. “A Democrat”, ‘who were condemned to death by the Russian Communist gov- says this profound aphorism, “is one who votes the Democra- ‘ernment for their proven treason in an alliance with foreign tie ticket.” In case any one should dismiss these words as the Capitalist governments to make war on Soviet Russia. It {dle chatter of some local politician, it is best to state at once ‘was fine anti-bolshevik propaganda—or at least so thought that they are ascribed to no less a statesman than Woodrow Charles Ervin, Abraham Cahan and the rest of that group of Wilson, Citizens whose profession is now daily more confined to fight- ing bolshevism. We do not know what the aims of the Arizona Republicans But strange to say the propaganda value of the incident were; probably that a good Republican is one who votes a ‘turned out to be on the other side of the ledger. The Russian Republican ticket. ‘These opposing formulas, however, did ‘Communists have used the incident to illustrate to the pro- not seem to impress the voters of Arizona sufficiently. Som Ietariat of the world that treason to the working class is at thing more exeiting was needed and this something, if we are Teast as serious a thing as treason to capitalist masters. It to believe the Democrats, was furnished by the Republican, has gone a long way toward destroying the old half-conscibus We quote the following from The Democratic suitetm of concept of the slave mind, that betrayal of a revolutionary November 3: ‘cause is only one of the natural rights that come under the “Ad¢ised by the eminent counsel of one of the leading min- hhead of “freedom of opinion.” But, having used the incident ing companies of Arizona, the Republican publicity bureau re- ‘with terrific effect upon the minds of millions, the Commun- leased for publication a story alleging that an I. W. W. leader ists are through with the pitiful creatures concerned. Not hhas been arrested in Phoenix, and that he had in his posses- wanting any useless vengeance in bloodshed the Bolsheviks sion literature alleged to have been written by I. W. W. mem- finish off the affair with a complete pardon effective as soon bers urging’ the election of George W. P. Hunt. * * * as their S. R, party ceases its treason, ‘Two men arrived in Phoenix October 29. They have been here two days. They visited Democratic State Headquarters early on the morning of October 81 with a deputy sheriff Vladivostok to Constantinople! standing handy by and the arrest was made, charging one A PIER five yours, and after all the military efforts that ‘Antonie Pape with the crime of sabotage. Ralph Rollins, Capitalism could put forth have soaked Siberia in blood publicity agent for the Republican party of the State of ‘a score of times, Vladivostok finally hoists the red flag over ‘Avizona was in close consultation with the Republican sheriff a peaceful city. The Far Eastern Republic rules but a mo- ‘and deputies of Maricopa County in connection with the ar- ‘ment and then declares itself a part of the Russian Soviet rest of Papa. That the arrest of Papa is a frame-up is Republic. ‘The flag of the Communists flies from near the clearly indieated, for, when interviewed, all that he could say ‘center of Europe to the Eastern tip of Asia five thousand is that ‘Tam an LW.W.’ Asked what branch he belonged to, miles away. he said that did not know * * * He is grossly ignorant of the LW.W. and is clearly a dupe hired by the Republican And Capitalism, the Mighty, has picked up its righteous- party * +, ‘ess and fied from Constantinople—fled before an ally of So- viet Russia! Fled and left behind the spoils for which ten ‘The Democratic State Central Committee claims that the million men died in the War for Righteousness! What do you details of the frameup were carried out by the Thiels Detec- think of this, you Socialists of “realism”—you seoffers at the tive agency. “dreamers of the East”? You democrats-with-the-word-so- “The Thiels Detective Agency”, The Bulletin continues, cialist-thrown-in, you collaborators with Capitalism,—what “will be remembered * * * for the criminal activities in do you think of the policies of the Communist International connection with the 1916 election; two of the Thiel detectives which rules the Russian Communist Party, which in turn ‘well known to the people of Arizona as ‘real revolutionists? ules Russia? In Germany your comrade Ebert implores the ‘ DECEMBER, 1922

aS Wrote Gate lato, Far Ly. Yount Rocker ELLER UR, ¢ — A IILTNT cere or COMMERCE E/GHT HOURS A DAY 15 LONG Mas, Rotary CLu8 ENOUGH TO WORK, DONT

Art Young ‘The Rake’s Progress

A Political Psychoanalist Italy Learns SE elections are seriously interesting, anyway, and we TT IE Socialist Party of Italy has returned to the Communist have asked a serious man to analyze them for The International. It will be remembered that at the time Liberator—a man whom we consider one of the wisest heads of the factory occupation, the leaders of the Ttalian Socialist in American polities—Charles EB. Ruthenberg. Ruthenberg Party, who had followed their followers into the Communist is Seeretary of the Workers’ Party, which Mr, William J. International, turned traitors and sold out the workers in the Burns says is just a legal organization to bootleg the out- exact letter of the yellow socialist program. ‘The Communist Jawed Communist propaganda to the working élass in these International immediately ordered the Italian party to expel

days of opinion-prohibition. On the chance that Mr. Burns its yellow I ders or else get out of the International. ‘The might be right about it, and as we want to get some Com- Italian Socialists let the fine words of the centrists lure them

munist brains to give our readers a cold-blooded, materialis into a sentimental loyalty to “great men’ and the Party tie analysis of a phenomenon that might otherwise be lost in was shut out of the revolutionary International, ‘Since then: 2 fog of emotion and assumption, we take Ruthenberg’s analy- hhas come the reckoning. Italy has been plunged into the sis as the best of many that are floating around. Ruthenberg bloody sea of Fascism, and the workers have seen their yel-

knows more about practical polities—typical American poli- low socialist party sell them out again by making a treaty ties—than most idealists do. He gained the knowledge as a with the Fascisti in a common line up against bolshevism, five-time candidate for the mayoralty of Cleveland, jas eandi- date for the governorship of Ohio (when he received 90,090 But the Italian socialist workers learned at last. In their votes and néarly put even the Socialist Party on the may) recent party congress they voted to throw out their contempt and in a campaigh for the United States Senatorship and ‘ble leaders and to return to the Communist International. for numerous other offices that we don’t remember just now. ‘The bitter lesson is learned at last,

Lydia Gibson,

Gene Debs and Bernard Shaw. Sons of Big Guns of great men have been advising the WV EB ane very ad to give ur renders this month a taste TWO descendants son of Rocke- pens of two Socialists of international re- American people lately, John D., Jr., the from the are feller, and Jean Longuet, the grandson of Marx. John D., Jr» nown—Eugene V. Debs and George Bernard Shaw. They our eapital (of which we haven't any), and not Communists, a fact which we regret, but each of them is ‘advises us to save us to save standing in a way—and each in his Jean Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx, advised ‘an international character capitalism, Or else we didn’t undersatnd Jean's lecture fown separate way—above, if not apart, from the Socialist our grandson of Karl Marx parties. Each of them has a habit of speaking out more ‘on “Europe After the War.” ‘The than his part didn't dare to mention revolutionary Russia in, a “socialist” courageously or more brilliantly lecture on Europe after the war! The advice of Mr. Rocke- It sounds like the old Debs’ voice when he speaks of the feller’s son is at least clear—but why did Karl Marx go and Russian revolution; and his praise of Lenin, the man who led get married, anyway? it, is a recognition of greatness by a man who knows some- thing of greatness. We wonder, though, when Debs so justly ‘condemns those who are guilty of “cowardly non-support” The Capitalist Radical fof the Russian revolution, why Debs does not kmow that the ss FTIRAM JOHNSON”, says a political reporter of the only way for a Socialist to support the Russian revolution is, New York World, in counting the noses of the “radi- ‘to support the International whose establishment expresses cal group” in the Senate, “has not been inordinately radical more than anything else the purpose for which the revolution lately.” ‘was fought. ‘The Russian revolution is not an abstraction. ‘And we wonder, as we swim in the sensational headlines of Neither is it Russian, Its purpose was never canceived by its, the election results—we wonder if Hiram Johnson didn’t sell Jeaders to be a Russian purpose. Support of the Russian out too soon? This “radical” man Johnson, whose sole claim Soviet State is praiseworthy. But it is a thing that many to mention in history will be as the jailor of Tom Mooney, progressive merchants can do. For a Socialist it is only a sold himself out in the provincial stock exchange at San small part of a much’ grander duty. We almost feel like Franeiseo a long time back. ‘praying when we see how the old warrior Debs has been tan- fled into a maze of systematic misinformation, shut off from ‘At one time Hiram Johnson bade fair to ride the next “ris- contact with the greatest events of all history. ‘ ing tide out of the West” into a sort of Lloyd-Georgeship of the United States, He might have been a sort of William J. ‘We are seriously disquieted about Bernard Shaw. He gives Bryan-without-the-failure—without the — failure—because the European capitalist governments the presumption that Hiram would not have been fool enough to be honest, as we they will continue to live longer than he, and reminds us that sometimes suspect that Bryan is. he is sixty-six. We had heard more reports of the ill health of European capitalism than of Bernard Shaw. If he knows Just think how nice it would be now to be the “Thundering ‘of some concealed vitality in the vegetarian-dieted govern- Voice of the People” out of the West, and to slip into New ‘ments that no one else in the world knows of, he should go York and make a trade in a back room of Morgan & Co on immediately to Berlin and stabilize the Mark. the present bull market! If the two renowned Socialists seem from our point of view But Hiram didn’t have imagination enough. He sold out to have missed something of significance in this epoch, we oa .a provincial market. Some other politician probably will " remember that during much of this world-shaking period Debs reap the reward as the “capitalist radical” to sell out the “Rising Tide of Popular Indignation” to Wall Street. DECEMBER ) 1922

Bernard Shaw and the Revolution We wrote to Bernard Shaw: Bernard Shaw wrote us in reply:

the Russian Soviet Republic continue to hold out? Why not? mL. Does it offer, aside from local and accidental features, the It formally inaugurated a new epoch; but its patterns are pattern of a new world-order? still in a very early experimental stage. ML Do you look for a general European revolution in your life- Not again at 66, Burope is too big, and not sufficiently inte time? grated and organized, to be capable of any single simultaneous | ‘operation; but Ihave seen her shake off three super-empires | ‘and replace them with republics; so that she is now predomi nantly republican and only apologetically and shakily dynas- | tie-monarchical. Surely that is enough for one lifetime,

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Perils Comausiee juke ‘ Saved Again! RESIDENT HARDING, not content with the fame his At- HANDSOMELY lettered posteard came to our office the torney-General has secured as a Communist Propagand- other day from the New Republic, It’s message begins: ist, offers us this little stunt of his own—a slight thing, a kind “Revolution, not reform, is the goal of af alarming propor- of joke, but very pointed, and very telling. He has referred to tion of Americans. Everybody knows this, except those who. Attorney-General Daugherty the request for the suspension of prefer to play ostrich with facts. It is a situation that d Attorney-General Daugherty pending investigation of im- mands more than the usual ‘stand-’em-up-against-a-wall’ ree- peachment charges against him. Attorney-General Daugh- ‘commendation, more than strikes, injunctions, optimism—or erty will decide whether or not to suspend Attorney-General words, Daugherty from office. So far we have not heard Attorney- General Daugherty’s decision, but his special assistant writes “What it demands is enough intellectual effort on the part that the Attorney-General has noted the request, as referred of edueated Americans to bring about a return to faith in fan- to him by the President, and that it will receive “serious con- damental Americanism”—and this in its turn is to be brought sideration.” In the meantime Art Young has doubtless drawn about, apparently, by subscribing to “the most profoundly ‘a picture of Attorney-General Daugherty, deeply immersed American journal in the land”, to wit, the New Republic, in thought, asking himself: “Shall I—or shall I not—suspend ‘The efforts of the Lusk Committee, of Detective William J. myself from office? What would my illustrious predecessor, Burns, of Attorney General Daugherty, of the New York Pontius Pilate, have done? Much depends on my decision!” Times and the Boston Transcript, to stave off the menace of | ‘The request for Attorney-General Daugherty’s suspension revolution, seem not to have been sufficient, More drastic | wwas preferred by Arthur T. Hopkins on behalf of the Com- action was required—and here we have it The New Re- | mittee of Forty-Eight. Mr. Hopkins, the newspapers inform public will save America from Red Revolution. Messrs, Hers ‘us, has written to the President, protesting against “the gross bert Croly, Alvin Johnson, Philip Little, Robert Morss Lovett. impropriety of referring a demand for Mr. Daugherty’s sus- and Stark Young, editors, have rallied round the Constitution pension to Mr. Daugherty himself.” It is to be feared that ‘with, we hope and trust, the enthusiastic approval of their ‘Mr. Hopkins, like other earnest reformers, has no sense of contributing editors. including Miss Jane Addams, Mr, Bruce humor. He ought to realize that this disposition of his de- Bliven, and Prof. John Dewey. Now all “educated Ameri- * mand is exquisitely appropriate, cans” may sleep of nights. The Old Republic is safe. Russia's Embattled Tibevators By Eugene Vo Debe HERE is nothing in all the struggle of the oppressed peoples of the earth for freedom that begins to com- pare in historic importance to the significance of the sublime spectacle that the Soviet Republic of Russia, on the fifth ‘anniversary of the stupendous revolution that gave it birth, presents to the world. ‘The Russian revolution, whatever may be its ultimate fate, its final outeome and results, will stand forth im per- spective and be chronicled in history as the greatest and most luminous and far-reaching achievement in all the annals of mankind. ‘That the revolution and the republic which sprang from it have survived, not only to be commemoratea on their Fifth Anniversary, but are today more puissant and’ prom- ising, and pulse with keener life and activity than ever efore, in the face of every conceivable attempt to crush ‘and destroy them on the part of the combined capitalist powers of the earth, is a’miracle no less marvellous and seemingly impossible than the révolution and the republic themselves. ‘The invincible revolutionary spirit, the noble heroism, the sublime faith and fortitude, the flaming idealism and the stoical self-denial of the Russian revolutionary warriors fare infinitely beyond human speech and will be recorded only in the triumphant liberation of the race. For five years they have stood with more than Spartan courage against the foul assaults of the whole criminal capitalist world. vege ‘They have waded through hell in their own blood to MERE Dnish hell from the earth and bring peace to the world Hugo Gellert ‘They have fought in rags to clothe the naked, they have He's Well Again starved themselves to feed the race, and they have died in “fetters to free the world. ‘The Russian Republic stands triumphant, gloriously t- imperialist monsters have foreseen it, they would never umphant on its fifth anniversary, a beacon light of hope have precipitated that barbarous and bloody catastrophe ‘and promise to all. mankind! ‘upon the world. If there has been retreat it has been only to secure a ‘The Soviet Republic, though but an infant of five, stands firmer foothold; if there have been concessions it has beon before us a towering menace to all the empires, dynasties to lay a stronger and deeper foundation’ for the first and thrones, rulers, crowns and scepters of capitalist imperial- only working-class Republic, whose blood-red banner of ism that crush humanity,| banish liberty, devour the sub- Socialism and freedom waves in defiance of all the black stance of labor, and cumber the earth. flags of capitalism and piracy that surround and threaten ‘The Red Russian Republic, the monumental achievement it. of the ages and the crowning glory of our century, under If there have been days of doubt, misgiving and sore the superb and inspiring leadership of Lenin, Trotzky, and trial, it has not been due to the weakness or wavering of their equally high-souled and lion-hearted compatriots, is the red Russian warriors, but/because of the cowardly non- battling bravely, immortally, against the autocracy of all support of the working classes of other nations, for whom the empires of imperialism for the emancipation of all the Russia was pouring out her noblest blood in the red rivers people of the world. ‘of the revolution—the supremest sacrifice known to history. All ‘hail, the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Republic Long ago I said that Lenin, as the incarnation of the on their fifth anniversary! These colossal events blazo Russian revolution, is the one great thing that came out ‘and flash in vivid red letters on the pages of history and | of the world-massacre, and /could the blind and petrified make the twentieth century eternally glorious and immortal! DECEMBER, 1922

We Want A Labor Party By Robert Minor WV © west the working class in America to take power. 1G Business has ruled through various parties. For ‘And by that we mean that we want the Labor move- some time after the Civil War it ruled through the ‘ment to obtain physical control and ideological domination of Republican Party, while the Democratic Party represented the Southern cotton planters. But since the spread of the this country. By physical control we mean the governing power—the industrial system over the whole of the United States, Wall power to make decisions and to enforce them—the power Street has come to rule through both of these parties alter: which is now being used in issuing and enforeing injunctions nately, playing off one against the other for competitive power to direct an army and a nayy—the power that hhas in recent times been enlarged in spite of us into the ‘The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have come power to dictate in specific detail the terms of life for Labor— to represent the same thing, and Wall Street owns them both, ‘the power to control industry—the power to say who shall be ‘This has long been true, but it has been a secret, Now the in jail and who shall be out—in other words, POLITICAL millions haye found out the secret—that these two parties power. We want this power to pass into the hands of Labor. are one and the same thing, divided only lightly into two By ideological domination we mean the power to set the cliques of politicians who compete here and there for jobs Pace of mass thinking—the power of the class whose ideals and co-operate generally in the service of the same master— are taught in the schools and given first place on the public Industrial and Finaneial Capital platform and respected by demagogues who value thelr skins. ‘The result is a grand split-up. The Democratic and'Repub- ‘We want this domination to pass into the hands of the Labor lican parties have virtually come to their end in this election, movement enlarged to include all gf the organizable working And as the parties split wide open, the secret splits wider class, open. ‘The secret is now publicly admitted by the tightest ‘We want the class called “Labor” to become the ruling class, and to remain so until there are no more classes ana no more ruling. Classes and class rule will continue until after Labor shall have used its physical control and ideological domina- tion to socialize productive wealth—to make this country the possession of its population. We think the class of Wall Street has ruled this country Jong enough. It is time for the power to pass into the hands of another class, HERE was a day when some tender souls and some thugh ‘ones could say that there are no classes in Ametica, Then came the Railroad Labor Board. Everybody admits now that there are classes in America, Those who have the'slightest amount of modern political un- derstanding know that the power of political rule has never been held except by a class, has never existed except as a ‘class weapon for domination by one class and the suppres- sion of another. But class divisions were obscure until re- cently, in this country. and consequently national government ‘was lax—we had what was called “fiberty.” In the past six years the class divisions have been tremen- dously sharpened; and as the class crystallization of the ‘workers became clearer and the friction with the capitalist lords on a national scale became sharper, the centralization ‘of the national government sharpened in proportion, in order to safeguard the domination of the capitalist owning class. For instance, when there came the slightest suggestion of possibility for two million coal and railroad workers to act together on a national scale, the national power to choke them thtough one immediate, centralized action, was at once ‘established. ‘The Daugherty injunction—backed by Harding, the courts, the police, the Army and the Navy—assured a good part of thirty million workers that the railroad owners and the stock- holding class generally own the Government,

mouthed liars that have been guarding it for their own pur- same thing and concludes that “the overwhelming majority poses so many years; and all are scrambling for advantage in of Republicans and the overwhelming majority of Democrats, the ruins of the wrecked lie. ‘who are in substantial agreement on all fundamentals, should forming new parties on speedily find ways to take such steps as may be necessary to Frank A. Munsey, a moderately wise but bean-spilling pro- form a Democratic-Republican party * * * ” phet of Wall Street, says of the two old parties: Big Business must have its party or its several parties, the Republic they represented distinct definitely working out its will in political rule. It had two “In the early days of ideas parties and was satisfied. These are being broken up, and ‘and positive ideas, But with these great fundamental two, so as to mai ‘converted into history there are no longer any big outstand- it must organize one or two more—better {ng issues between them that have any place in our politics. tain the sham battle, There are, to be sure, many small points on which the Re- It is very plain that the present unreal groupings of “Demo- publican and Democratic parties differ to-day. It is their crats” and “Republicans” are not parties. A party does not business to'differ, to create differences, to work up issues, exist unless it represents a separate economic class. If you with which they would cease to exist as political parties. don't want to take the word of Frank Munsey or Nick Butler = + + While this political jockeying has been going on for it, then take the word of James Madison of the old “Dem- since the great old issues disappeared, a new issue has de- ccratie-Republiean Party” who became the fourth President veloped that divides all America into two political eamps, as of the United States in 1809, and who had such a big hand in yet without political names. They are the radical eamp and the writing of the Constitution that he was called the “father” the conservative camp, and within each camp there is a wide of it, Madison wrote: range of thought and fecling. Somé day, and not a very dis- tant day at that, these two groups will evolve into organized “The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights political parties with names that signify what they stand for. of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to * * * ‘The salvation of our present situation would be a a uniformity of interests. ‘The protection of these faculties liberal conservative party, numerically strong enough to hold is the first object of government. From the protection of the balance of power against the radical forces.” different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property imme ‘And it comes in the same way from all sides. The Ol" Doc, Giately results; and from the influence of these on the sent Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, says the ments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a dix vision of society into different interests ‘and parties. * * * The most common and durable source of factions hhas been the various and unequal distribution of property. ‘Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. ‘Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. ‘A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile in- terest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations and divide them into differ- ent classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. ‘The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the prineipal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government.” ‘Thus “the father of the Constitution” told the world that a “manufacturing”, a “mercantile? or a “‘monied”” interest, ete,, divide a nation “into different classes” and that each class makes its impress on government through having a political party. And all the intellectual hired men of Wall Street are busy building a class party for big business and a class party for little business, These fellows, a little too frankly, say right ‘out that the new parties will represent economic classes and ‘that these economic classes intend through their class parties to keep or to grab all they can in the way of political power. In face of that, can Gompers continue to make a political eunuch of Organized Labor by persuading it not to have its ‘own class party? Will Labor eontinue to be the only economic class without its party in these days when every fight of Labor becomes a political fight? Adolph Dehn. We think not. He will try, but we think he can't succeed Vive M’sieu Clemenceau! any longer. We think a Labor Party will be formed. DECEMBER, 1922

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We have received the advance proofs of a pamphlet is- without which the formation of a Labor Party, as well as by the Workers’ Party, entitled For: a Labor various recent labor phenomena, would have been impos Party. It is a marvelously good piece of work. It seem: sible to differ from most of the so-called political pamphlets that Its description of the disintegration of the Demoeratie and are issued in this country, which are usually homilies without Republican parties gets into the realm of hilarity in spite of any information. This one, on the other hand, is nothing the fact that it is deadly serious and true. sliort of a brilliant analysis, On the question of the “non-partisan policy” of the A. F. For a Labor Party is a piece of American historical w. of L. it rubs Mr. Gompers’ nose off. And its analysis of the ing which not only shows that a Labor Party is desirable which alone would be a weary commonplace, but gives a most need of meeting Daugherty-Burns injunctions by “Amalgama- biilliant historical study demonstrating why a Labor Party tion and a Labor Party” is unanswerable, ig inevitable, why and how it is now possible, and why a Labor Thope the pamphlet will be read by every forward-looking Party never was formed before and never cold union man and woman in the country—and also I hope to God have been, formed before in this country. some more of our labor writers will begin to write in that ‘The pamphlet goes into the question of “third partie: and cool-headed, analytical and condensed style, for we are sick digs up. some startling facts which show that all the condi \d tired of the kind of writing that has been the fashion in tions for the launching of a suecessful third party exist now labor movement, It takes up the history of each of the past “third parties” ILL there be enough guts in the Cleveland conference’ turn—the Greenback Party, the People’s Party and the Pro- to take the Labor Party—a Labor party—a clase gressiye Party of Roosevelt—and shows how and why they party? Or will stupidity, venality and cowardice merely use ‘came fo be, and how and why thé then goes back the Labor movement to build another business men’s “pro- gressive” party?—a party expressing no\hing but the last to the foundation of the presgnt Republican Party and shows that it was a third party that proved an exception to the rule. kick of the dying petty business man? Is it necessary, O The pamphlet throws a startling light upon the fact. that I to continue lying to the workers to the effect the conditions which brought about the founding and the vi- that “there are no classes in America” when even Wall Street tality of the Republican Party are to be found in every neces- has come out of its hole and said that there are classes and sary detail today, and that a new third party will inevitably each class must have its party?

be created by these conditions. One of the conditions referred The formation of a Labor Party, for and of the workers to is the enormous centralization of government (taken in id responsible to the workers alone, would be at one stroke relation to other factors) which has reached its summit dur- a recognition of the class struggle—a capitulation of the first ing the World War, and which is described in interesting and fortress of American labor-yellowism which is the denial of entertaining detail. Another condition described, is the for- the existence of the class struggle. Will the Inbor aciegates mation of a comparatively uniform working class which, the who meet in Chicago be, for all that, so timid pamphlet says, had never existed in America before, and to shrink from this step? or so servile as

THE LIBERATOR political fight against this nationally centralized political au- f Will resenting they, in the fear “good of making litile business a class men”, party, with make Labor a party at- thority. Labor ean’'t even strike without the National Gov- shed as an appendage? ernment jumping in to beat the workers down in behalf of We don't want to change the ruling power from WallStreet Capital; it can’t even surrender éxcept through a politically Ain Street. Labor has no interest in transferring power appointed “Labor Board. Nm tho financial conter of New York to the petty Chambers, Commerce that run their own little tyrannies in @ myriad “Byery class struggle is a political struggle”, but it takes seattered towns. We know that transfer is impossible. Daugherty to prove Marx to the American work ‘ “le country is industrialized, It cannot be changed back- HERE is just one class that Labor can make an alliance frd into a primitive farming country. Power, industri ‘with—the class of the exploited farmer—the small mort- 4 political, is nationally centered. Tt-will remain s0,. It will gage-ridden farm owner and the tenant farmer. Against the taken at the center or not at all, ‘The omelet is made; the mortgage-holding leeches of the cities he has a quarrel as old 48 Cannot be unserambled. as the\Thirteen Colonies. It's a quarrel that can't be eom- If Labor allows little-business reformism to take the lead promised, and its a quarrel that ean be won against the same Cleveland, Labor is betrayed again. The small business class leech class that Labor must fight. With this class Labor ean am have no program but the de-centralization of industry make an alliance. ‘nd of political authority—which is a dead Tn taking Colonel Moxitgomery, the Republican General Controller of stich a éause and following the lead of such a class, Labor the Shipping Board, gees this and is frightened about it. He ould be following a dying class to its doom, said the other day that the “results of the elections in 1922 and in 1920 show that the two. big parties are today a total Labor itself, on the other hand, is a class on the ascend- loss,” ‘This Republican Colonel sees that the salvation of ney. Labor has ¢ destiny towering into the future higher ‘Wall Street lies in getting the Democrat, Barney Baruch, to han men can see. go out and flim-flam the farmers into making an alliance with With the declining small-business class——the “unseram- Wall Street against Labor. As Barney Baruch is the handy- ‘blers” of industry, Labor cannot make an alliance. The man for J. P. Morgan & Co—in fact he is the one who nursed fomelet.cannot be unserambled. The single nation-wide res- through the financial clauses of the Versailles, treaty for the faurant of Childs cannot be changed back into a hundred Morgan Eank—this is very interesting. Since the Peace hhousand “Beefsteak Joe” hasheries, ‘The transcontinental ‘Treaty job, Barney has been working overtime on the very limited cannot change back into forty-eight local trains. far-sighted chore of fixing up some compromise of the whole- sale dispossessing of farmers of the West for debt, in the ef- ‘And it is all reflected politically in that the governing fort to keep the farmers from “(going radical.” business is centralized along with the railroad and the oil business. You can't unscramble government any more than “Get, the farmers and the manufacturers together”, says you can unscramble business, ‘The struggle for local auton- Col. Montgomery. “Put our chief, Mr. Baruch, at work or- omy is a reactionary struggle. I was raised on ‘State's ganizing that alliance, and you will have the strongest, safest Rights”, that is, the rights of each of the separate forty- party this country ean produee, one that may be depended on tight local States to rule independently of the national— to pick big men for big jobs, men whom the publie will ae~ “federal”—governmént. To be a patriot, in my early boyhood, claim because they will be men who can handle big jobs. ‘meant to be “a true Texan”, or at most, to be “a true South- Alliance of the farmers and radicals is ridiculous, a contra- erner.”. We had “Alabamans” and “Tennesseans” and “Hoos- diction of the character and history of the American farmer. -iers” and “Buckeye-Staters”, but who ever heard in those Such an allianee would be unholy.” days of the non-provincial Nationalism, of plainly being “an )American” as it is understood today? I remember as a Labor, take the tip! Form an alliance between the farmer child getting my first hazy conception of it while my brother and the radical—that is, Labor, Col. Montgomery 15 wrong; ‘whispered to me through the din of the patriotic air, “There'll such an alliance is not a “contradiction of the character and Be a Hot Time in the Old Time Tonight”, that lots of the history of the American farmer.” As is pointed out in the “Rough Riders” that weré marching by were “not Texans”, Workers’ Party pamphlet that we referred to, an alliance be- ‘and that Colonel Roosevelt was “a New Yorker.” I remem! tween the impoverished farmer and the workers is a thing ber searching wistfully over the masses of marching men for that has happened in just two countries in the world—Russia the “Lone Star flag” of Texas, and my patriotic sense was and America. hurt by its non-appearance, We must not forget'that the farmers also divide into two It’s a long time since then. As some ardent patriot put it economic classes—they are not all prosperous landlords. the other day, this country shall be “nolonger these United With the exploited, rent-ridden and mortgage-ridden farm- States, but this United States.” It is one country. There are, ers—the working farmers, the “dirt farmers”—Labor can and in fact of power, no longer forty-eight States, but one Na- will make an alliance. tional State, with forty-eight provinees—after the fashion of "HIE first step will be for Labor torrecognize that its strug- Europe. gle is a struggle for political power, which is the power to And the power of control over the affairs and lives of the rule. When the Labor organizations say, “We, a class of people in the country is in the hands of a single central com- people defined by the fact that we work for wages, enter as mittee in Washington, and the hand to which is delegated the a body into the struggle for the power to rule”—that is ‘committee's power on certain occasions is the hand of Harry enough for a beginning, ‘M. Daugherty. After that beginning will come much yellow betraying—a ‘Whether Labor wants to do so or not, it has to engage ina long course of political faking, We see a forecast of that in DECEMBER, 1922 the yellow socialists of New York who tried to) forestall the “Here comes my party. This time, sure. Look at the peor Labor Party by the formation of a fake party under the name fish. Nuthin’ but a kid. Runnin’, almost runnin’ to me. No, of Labor Party, but composed of nothing, practically, but the birdie. I ain't goin’ to beat it. I'll wait for you. If you remains of their own dead organization, knew what you wuz runnin’ to, you'd fly the other way. But A Labor Party will be a Labor Party only if it is formed , you'll find out soon enough, son. Watch the line I hr-«« him. bby the trade unions, on the basis of trade unions, and con- ‘Loin a perfession while your Uncle Sammy pays the board taining a large part of the millions that are the trade union bil’ * * * Swallowed it, line and sinker. Hell!” ‘membership. It must be a mass organization, and has no sig- * * * * “Sure! Come on! We'll take you up now nificance otherwise. for the medical exam. Absilootly. Sure I advises you to ‘We cannot foresee the detail of events in the career of Join. Best in de woild. Kid, if you don't, you're de grand the coming Labor Party. ‘This we know: that the samie mer- jackasses’ mother. Come, on!” * * * ‘cenaries, cowards and fools among their leaders who betrayed Be Lucien BURMAN, the workers in strikes will betray them again in a Labor Party—and again, and again, and yet again, Anything may happen in the event of a Labor Party—anything except the “continuation of the present stagnation, ‘The formation of a Labor Party in this country under the existing circumstances would be, objectively, a revolutionary step. 4 But what of our principles? What of the form of rule, what of the Soviet system of dictatorship class? of the working Never mind—we have not deserted any of our principles Ror any of our organizational forms, ‘We want Labor to start moving on the road. We know where the road goes. ‘The workers will learn on the road; it is enough now that they get started along the path of struggle for political power. They will learn soon enough that there is no political power except complete political power. And they will find the form for this political power. ‘They have already discovered that injunctions cannot run " ‘ailroads. They will discover later, and we will help them to discover it, that the whole political form of which these in. Junctions are a part, cannot ran industry, nor even a State for Labor. If our program means anything at all—if the very ground basis of it is not false—it is certain that our program ‘will sooner or later be the program of the Labor movement, We have never wanted Labor to go anywhere except where it will have to go through iron economic necessity. We only ask now that it get on the road, Let's have a Labor Party. The Recruiting Sergeant § “eB, FH That wind’s cold! I’m sick o” freezin’ out here, Wish I wuz on duty in Peking. Warm there, And they, says Chinese dames is swell and easy picking. The bucks there sure got it soft. Hell, I wish I waz army! *\* * out of this man’s “Bir'r! Hello! Here comes a Looks like a hick. Maybe I can land him. Naw Alright, go away. See if givea goddam * * * I “wo more years to go. What in hell made me sign up for, anyway. Drunk, I guess, Standin’ here, day in, day out, spiderin’ fies, a dollar a fly. At that, I got with them a pipe, Compared ms guys doing drill and kitchen police. Not for “Here comes another guy. Looks like he was out of work. Maybe I can land him. Christ! He's turned the corner Good-bye, dollar. Gotta change my luck, It’s rotten * * * josh, T'd like to make one buck. anyway. Get @ doll to- William Gropper night, and we'd have some time. Ain't been on a real party ina heluva while * * * Madonna and Child THE LIBERATOR

A Look At The Elections By C. E. Ruthenberg

HE sovereign American citizens have spoken again. In their voices there is the confused sound of booze, bonus, subsidy, tariff, revolt against gover mental oppression, and general discontent. But the American sovereigns have no finite conception of what is wrong, nor any clear program for changing the conditions which rouse their protest The Harding landslide of 1920 was the #esult of two influ ences. The first of these, was the desire of the industrial capitalists to take full advantage of the strong position in Which they found themselves at the end of the war. They wanted to produce goods and sell them at the high profits which still prevailed in 1920, ‘They were against the Leagu of Nations, against assuming any international obligations, in the affairs of Europe. They wanted a ment which would support ‘their policy of economi nationalism. ‘The second ‘influence was the discontent of the Ameri people with the situation in which they found themselves a the end of the war. High hopes had been aroused by great promises of better things through which the war was Kept alive—and none of these promises mal ial After the war it was the same as before the war— rather little worse. ‘The result was that the candidate of the Wilson administration was buried under the greatest mound of vote in the history of this countr The struggle between industrial capital and fingnee capi- tal (in the shape of the great international bankitfg houses) was the central issue in the 1922 elections. ‘The Harding Administration has loyally served the eco nomic interests to which it owed its power during the twenty ‘months in which it has been in office. In its foreign policy it has fought mote aggressively for American industrial capital William Gropper than for the international bankers. It has stood like a stone The Grave-Diggers ‘wall against cancellation of the debt of Europe to the United result of the policies of the Wilson Administration and they States, desired so much by the international bankers. It has flocked to Harding in the hope that they might secure relief refused to assume any obligations in Europe. On the other from the things which were hurting them. Having found no hhand it has fought valiantly for the rights of Standard Oil relief in Mr. Harding’s “normalcy”, they are in turn express {n the oil fields of the world. It has passed the tariff bill de ing their discontent as they expressed their discontent in sired by the industrial capitalists. It has on its program the 1920—by voting for his opponents. ship subsidy bill in the interest of another group of industrial While these are the broad lines of the election results, there capitalists. is something more promising in some of the undereurrents However, the poliey of economic nationalism which looked apparent in the election returns. The American people have 0 good in 1920 is no longer so attractive in 1922. The in- een (and still are) politically the least conscious of all the dustrial capitalists have found that things have not worked peoples among whom capitalist civilization has reached a out as-well as they expected. Cutting loose from Europe and high point of development, ‘The economic groupings have not pursuing the policy of grabbing everything in sight, has not found clear political expression. freed them from the effect of economic forces generated dur- ‘The election returns indicate the strengthening of a new ing the war. In place of a great market in which to sell group, definitely representing the economic interests of a goods at high prices, in place of the high profits of 1920 they section of the American people. This group of so-called “radi- have passed through two years of depression. Their strong, cals” is made up of men of both political parties. ‘These men position in relation to the broken-down industry of Europe represent the interests of the middle class and well-to-do has not availed them, because the market for their goods ha farmers as against the big eapitalists, ‘The development of collapsed. ‘Thus the enthusiasm for the policies which carried this group is a promise of a new political alignment, an Harding into office has waned even among the most earnest alignment which will bring into existence in the United supporters of those policies—the industrial capitalists of th States a conservative party of the capitalists; a progressive United States. party representing the interests of the middle class and As for the sovereign American citizens, they have merely wealthy farmers; and a Labor Party, the mass party of the reversed the process of 1920. ‘They were uncomfortable a workers, DECEMBER, 1922 19 ‘The tendency toward this development shown in the elec- tion returns by the election of “radicals” from a number of Dislegue Ia AnGraye Western states—Brookhart in Iowa, Shipstedt in Minnesota ee Frazer in North Dakota—is the most promising thing’ in A white worm mumbled, American political life, Where, cramped and humbled Betw Mr. Gompers hailed the election results with the comment,

“Principles have won a wonderful victory.” It is hard to discern any victory for labor in the election returns. Labor My body, too dry played the part which it has always played in American po litical life—the part of a mere appendage to one or the other For a worm's last mor of the old parties, with no conscious political program of its Rattled its torso own, Labor in this past election was still playing the part And creaked a reply of the sovereign America citizen, whose privilege it is to “Flesh, long ago, swing from one of the old parties to the other. Served me as cover; ‘There will be no victory of principle for labor until it does I was a lover what the middle class and well-to-do farmers seem about to If you must know.” do—develop a political party which will represent their class interests. Bones 90 tonph, One item of news in connection with the election returns deserves particular notice. It) throws light on our system of ‘Spare me your government—on the provisions which are made by the Con- I yielded enough.” stitution for the protection of the ruling class in this country. “The warmest of curves ‘Under the Constitution, the newly elected representatives TI at met mine so snugly, ‘and senators go into office next March, but a session of Con- This stiffened and ugly lgress is not due until December, 1928. In commenting on Cold frame-work preserves.” this situation, one of the capitalist newspapers remarked “The edge of the feeling of protest which brought these suc- “Hear how the tones cesses (of the ‘radicals’) may be dulled by that time.” Of this: skeleton cohimper! Suppose in place of merely cutting down the Republican The skull is one simper! majority, these successes represented the accession to power of a party antagonistic to the interests of the American cap- italists, Under the Constitution, the capitalists would have “Till Death closed her eyes,

‘a year in which to prepare for the struggle against the new She slept on my shoulder,” party, a year in which all the power of the government would “Bah! You will moulder remain in their hands for use in destroying their opponents. ‘That shows how well the Forefathers safeguarded themselves against any revolutionary changes through successes in the “Here her hair spread elections; and what a hoax, on all essential points, bourgeois The long wings of a swallows democracy is, ‘That is the hollow Worn by her head.” He wormed off, defeated.

Se Gas Louis Untermeyer.

Exhalation TILLNESS at night ends months of busy fe, a ne My hearing stretches limitless, the strife ma Of worlds is gone, no cricket chirps, just air— And the cool, disdainful moon the. thoroughfare Tempers with burnished lemon, Flowers and grass Are torpid. Palpably their lives now pass Into the upper reaches with the haze. Nature at lowest ebb breathes in a daze. Woodeut by J. J. Lankes Sylvia Stragnell,

Santa Marianova By Eugene Lyons sa tondyarts s'a mle be story be plea and stil she was as haughty as ever. As there were Bitten torn eros: Ga tecaat tae only three acts he was spared a third rejection. Atter the Pie Castccie of coun: Show she accepted him, as he knew all along she would, the Be ifae cate and formate far the preperation smart masealzone, ‘The chairs were removed for dancing: and hetti beyond compare, its founder “Santa some Mirtnpva, fabled hero. the Soyer But later in the evening Gino mounted on the shoulders of a Bt tesco exception on ¢ Macchessh friend and clinched his vietory by a hilarious announcement Fi caety Nnating onsooa though ellteetng of the engagement. When they returned to Italy they brought eal, ; ‘with them a five year old giel whom they called Impavida— He ren chet ruts great waves tote Horsdty & the “Fearless.” I should have said, “when they were re- Be ica jecy hese a cea to ovary balow. Woon ste: turned to Ttaly; for the gentle, quiet, painfully docile Gino Se Gouliions wee avorslo, to fevof Adritle rises had been deported by the American government as a “a dan- Se like « Joe uirage Want this town aay woo 1 gerous character, a Red.” Be ates peo 7"Tuoadzmieion of pronnd isigeitccact “

Robert Minor.

(Continued from page 21). shoes had paraded arm-in-arm with asked cavaliers. In several stables there had been dancing to the aecompaniment of a guitar or accordion, in blissful oblivion to the reck ‘of the place. The Sindaco of Santa Marianova, a boy of twen- ty-three and the richest landowner in the district, had driven a diminutive horse from a two-wheeled carriage (both gor geously decorated with colored paper and jangling bells), Seattering hard candy as he went, from one end of the town to the other. The people were jubilant. Nicoletta took a long time for her toilette and Gino rubbed his beard in nervous impatience. “Just wait and see”, he told me over and over again. “She's @ queen in all her swell Boston clothes.” And when she came down he exclaimed, “Here's my wife!” It was a tocsin of pride. She yielded to his exuberant embraces for a minute then put him off gently. as one does an annoying child. Indeed, she was a queen in Santa Marianova. Her hair was piled high in tiers of resplendant gold and held in place by eordons of tortoise-shell’ combs elaborately designed and studded with eut-glass. The “dress without sfeeves” was white and much embroideréd in colored beads. A blue silken veil over her shoulders; high-heeled slippers. I complimented her on the metropolitan style and she blushed to her ears. We went to the Carnival Ball—the proceeds of dance and ‘buffet to go for the families of the bersaglieri soon to be tried for insubordination, The turn-out was splendid, For once there was an abundance of color: young men in checked and striped suits with red and green kerchiefs overflowing the outside breast pocket; women in red blouses, black hair ar- ranged in tower effect; a fe w soldiers; old women wearing bizarr ‘erchiefs; shiney faces and muddy shoes every- ‘where. % ‘The place soon became oppressively hot as the dance gained impe' the buffet did a thriving business. Colored pa per sailed through the air and entangled the dane- ers. T quickly covered with a thick layer ot con- fetti and paper strips. ‘The odor of sweat and harsh cigars Adolph Dehn. filled the room. The ill-assorted orchestra provided more Ina Berlin Café than the stipulated quota of sound. It could be heard even “Holy above the never-ending talk and laughter of the dancers. Russia, my friends, must have a democratic Every now and then the notes of some one of the instru. government.” ments—of the violin or the accordion—would suddenly be abstracted, while its manipulator wiped the sweat from his “Come home, caro Gino”, she said, “I’m bored.” from under his collar I accompanied them to their door. ‘She was melancholy the sensation of the evening. Santa Mari- and he bewildered. such elegance, and stared in bewilder- Nicoletta was again in print cloth and ash-stains next day. rather embarrassed and in ‘The tower of yellow hair had fallen and the blush was gone. her" self-conseiousne ss tried ineffectually to make the veil Of her queenhood only the melancholy remained. But Gino cover her arms, shoulders and neck, At first she basked in was no longer bewildered. the admiration, walked ‘om thi corner to that, danced. ‘They took me to the railroad station in Jesi. We unwound ‘Then her mood changed, sat down among the elite—th the revolving panorama of the week before as the carriage Sindaco's family—and there remaine silent, absorbed, fan- uushed the donkey downhill. ‘The mud flew in all direetion, ing herself-with a newspopor getting onto our clothes and faces, Gino's exuberance had subsided as soon as we entered the ‘You'll never forget Santa Marianova”, Nicoletta said choked room. ‘The admiration of which his wife was the sadly, “All its mud and stupidness.” object frightened him. He took a seat on the raised platform ‘at one end of the room and left it only to get a caffe sport “Cll not forget it”, T assured her, “but quite in another fat the buffet in the corridor. When Nicoletta danced his way. It’s been a delightful experience—this life in the hill eyes followed her. Once she came over and took him for a town and your kindness.” She persisted in her mood: dance; over his protest. ‘They had to stop beeause he could “Santa Marianova, not Keep in step. At midnight she came to him again, Se non si porta non si trove.” DECEMBER, 1922

John Reed and Raymond Lefebvre By Simon Felshin H sister republics And they fired the salute over his grave You were without pity for these twain. Beside the Kremlin of Moscow. Where was your vauinted protection for your citizens? His death was a birth. ‘Oh democracies ‘You have taken to devouring your children. Oh bourgeoisie Raymond Lefebvre— Tt was your blockade of Soviet Ru: Which struck down these twain. Blood of the Commune in‘him, Blood of four revolutions— Dead in an Arctic sea. Oh John Reed— Prairies and lakes, Raymond Lefebvre— Rivers and mountains, ‘Young also, Fields of grain and cities of trafic Unheeding of the lure Sang in him. Held out by the bourgeoise— “Revolution or Death” was his ery. ‘Oh John Reed— He had youth and beauty, ‘And now he is dead. ‘The War had swept over him T shook his hand once, With its blood and its stench. I saw him smile, Out of that mud he came cl And I heard him speak From that War he took the t With the voice of a big boy. To turn it against the perpetrators. Lintroduced him once from the platform Calling him Jack Reed, He with the face and the sweep of an eagle, ‘And now he is dead. He also went to Russia. There he saw the new life. He was not like the other young men ‘There he announced his great faith. Who take eare\to guard their skins— ‘There he advanced from high fervors ‘The little souls with their petty ambitions, ms of reat ideas. ‘The climbers with their successful jobs. conquered against the last doubts He was not an egoist centered on himself. Lodged in him His life was a sacrifice. By the poisonous contact with the bourgeoisie. ‘Take heed you other young men! He wanted to come ack To be a pilot to the masses He brought his great heart to suffering Russia, Who in their surge forward He wanted to heal the wounds, Might miss the way. ‘And it was the blockade which brought a plague To elude the blockade of the bourgeoisie ‘And struck down Jack Reed. He sailed in an Aretie sea, His name is not taught in the schools, And there in the sereaming of a storm For he was a rebel. Raymond Lefebvre perishe: ‘The bourgeoisie have not raised a monument for him. In the far north he lies ‘This they reserve No stone marks his grave. For the politicians, the generals, and the philanthropists. ‘The water swallowed him, But in Soviet Russia And left no trace. Soldiers of the Red Army Oh Raymond Lefebvre Stood guard over his-body. Under the stars of an Arctic night ‘The crowds followed his coffin, Far away in a lonely sea. ‘And a woman's heart was bleeding, And a woman's eyes were weeping. ‘They had no»pity for these twain— Soldiers of the Red Army— ‘Two brothers, ‘Tall as he was tall, ‘Twin eagles, Strong as he was strong, ‘Tribunes of the people, Brave as he was brave. ‘Trumpet-calls, ‘Marched in his wake, ‘Their death was a Toward Amalgamation By Stanley Boone EVIEWING the triennial national convention of the decision would arrive before the convention elected officers United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes for the next term. He was confident that the wage award ‘and Railway Shop Laborers in Detroit would cause any earn- would be generous enough to obtain for him another term est participant in the working class struggle to pull the visor of office, But the board double-crossed him, Nothing but of his cap far down over his eyes in an ostrich-like effort to discouraging rumors were forthcoming from Chicago prior shut out the spectacle. to the election. And when the convention ended there was nothing in sight beyond a wage increase of two cents an “Why does the convention wish to move the organization's hour. headquarters from Detroit to St. Louis?” an, expensively ‘Two days before the election of officers “Grand President” dressed “grand vice president” was asked, as he sat among Grable telegraphed the Railway Labor Board that the’ de- on the traveling salesmen in an expensive hotel. liberations of that body to date were not in accord with what “Because the city of Detroit does not seem to appreciate he had been allowed to expect. And he added that anything all the money this organization brings here”, he said. “If I tess than a quick decision on wages and rules “would be dis- ‘were the president of the Detroit Board of Commerce I would counting our loyalty and devotion to the eause, and would be a little more polite to a national convention of this mag- encourage our loyal members to adopt extreme tacties, fos- nitude.” mt tered by questionable leaders, to remedy their just grievanges “But what does the vice-president of a working class’broth- of Iong standing.” erhood care what the president of the Board of Commerce It would be interesting to know exactly what he meant by does or thinks?” the ‘grand vice-president? was asked. “loyalty and devotion “We like to be shown a little courtesy, at least”, the grand to the cause.” What cause did he vice-president said. Tt became apparent as the convention progressed that If this sounds like Danny Deever it is not my fault. ‘Two Grable throughout this heroic last summer had been a strike- other ‘grand vice-presidents’ gave similar explanations before breaker at a salary of $14,000 a year, paid: out of the dues the sad fact, with all of its sad implications, was accepted. ‘of 400,000 organized workers, and that as “grand president” “I am not able to discuss, even with a representative of @ of the brotherhood he had entered, with the Railway Labor labor paper, the problems before this convention”, said one Board, into nothing short of a conspiracy against the working of these ‘grand vice-presidents’ “You must see the grand class. Even more is true, His activities in this eapacity president, E. F. Grable.” were the brazen and perhaps cynical boast of his supporters, His success in keeping the 400,000 members of the brother- “But may not even a “grand vice-president? open his mouth hood out of the strike in “loyalty to the cause”, that the unless the ‘grand president’ says he may, not even to give his ‘trains might continue to run, was his campaign material. ‘opinion on the fighting trim of the brotherhood 2” The organization of a committee to act as spokesman for Alll fears were confirmed. The grand vice-presidents were the convention, and the suppression of all other statements, really not grand at all. is not being attacked here on principle. ‘The delegates cor ‘These illuminating discussions took place the day before tainly had a right to go into executive session if they wanted the convention. When the convention opened, a few news- to, and it is argueable that misrepresentations by capitalist Paperman were assembled before William G. Donne, the newspapers might be reduced by such a plan. But the con: young and distinctively well-mannered secretary to ‘Grand vention gave the responsibility of making its official a President’ Grable. nonncements into the hands of a person whose sole aim in was to keep Grable in the “grand president's” chair, “There are three members of our publicity committee”, One day Mr. Donne whispered to newspapermen that W. Z Mr. Donne explained; “and I am one of them. Twice a day Foster, in his capacity as secretary of the Trade Union Edu I will hurry from the convention platform and dictate to a cational League, had visited the convention incognito and was stenographer a report of the proceedings. It has been ar- probably to be found at a certain hotel under an assumed ranged that nothing in addition will be given out. name. With frequent references to what he called “Reds” “And throughout the convention there will be opportunities and “menaces”, Donne suggested that Foster had probably to drop a boost here and there for Mr. Grable, | He is a can- ‘come to the convention to organize a movement for the amal- didate for re-election, ‘The public ought to know of the great gamation of the sixteen railroad unions. Two of the report service that he has given, especially in connection with the ers, who knew how their bourgeois patrons loved to be fright- recent shop crafts’ strike. The non-strike policy of this or- ened by “red menaces”, tried to find Foster but failed. And ganization was due to Mr. Grable. If it had not been for him without being particularly interested in whether or not the railroads would not have been able to keep running.” Foster was actually in the city they printed stories anyhow, founding them on quotations from Donne; very accurate ‘Mr. Donne went on to explain that it was Mr. Grable, with quotations they were, too. A few delegates on the floor the his supporters in the ‘grand lodge’, who re-submitted the next day asked Donne to explain this publicity, charging ‘wage demands of the organization to the Railway Labor that he had tried to discredit the convention before the public. Board instead of electing to join the shop crafts in the walk- And Donne not only promptly denied that he had seen Foster out. It developed, also, that Grable expected that the board's but denied also that he had said he had seen him. or DECEMBER, 1922 Donne stopped newspa- And Grable was beaten for re-election. F. H. Fljoadal, of ‘And then, after the session ended, ‘Minneapolis, was chosen to replace him. Fljozdal eame from permen in the corridor of the convention hall and said, “Just the leaders in the fight for the the same, what I said about Foster and the reds was true, the Northwest and was one of on the face of it, all of this horse- amalgamation resolution, Well, it is all laughable So this cloud like all others had its silver lining. The un- play by a $14,000 a year president and $500 a month vice in itself, ‘The and the salaried delegates who put them where seating of Grable was really a little revolution presidents humor here. For while only discouraging feature in it was that Fljozdal had a margin they are. But underneath there is no ‘of only 3,000 votes out of about 6,000. It is certain, however these men were stamping their feet, hooting, talking, gesucu- and the majority which set it on and casting their votes solemnly for each other, there that the new administration lating in the high is closer to the rank and file than the old, and has no class, toiling were 100,000 members of the working uncertain amount of genuine stuff in it, ‘The immediate fu- road-beds, tunnels, bridges, and railroad shops of the United significanee, ‘States and Canada, to whom they were theoretically answer- ture of the united brotherhood may be of great able fof every word they uttered and every vote they cast. Certainly the organization, owing to its place in the railroad Here in one convention was the answer to many questions industry, is of great strategic interest. Here was the explanation for But one more little sidelight! Early in the convention the relative to the class struggle. informed that “radical” literature the growth of the company unions on so many railroads of the police department was country. Here was why the Pennsylvania railroad could so might be found at the convention. A sergeant and five pa easily and safely refus@to give leaves of absence to the duly trolmen were sent to the hall. ‘They found an I. W. W. news- ‘elected delegates to the convention from that system. Here boy outside selling Industrial Solidarity, allowed him to con- on the very heels of the tinue, und were about to go away when a “grand vice-presi- ‘was why the Railway Labor Board shop crafts’ strike could dare insultingly to offer the 400,000 dent”, one of Grable’s aides, rushed out of the convention railway shop laborers an and begged the sergeant not to leave but to station his officers maintenanee of way employes and He said that a insignificant increase of two cents an hour. instead in the very corridors of the hall. Three encouraging things were accomplished in two full very stormy débate was taking place on a very important weeks. A resolution was adopted endorsing amalgamation, issue and that the delegates might get beyond control. The to the horror of “Grand President” Grable and his fellow sergeant remained and for the rest of the day the convention workers. A large group from the Northwest swept into the hall was patroled by uniformed officers. convention, like a stiff breeze from Medicine Hat, and jammed And the important issue was the demand by a majority of the resolution through. Supporting the northwestern group 1e delegates that the “grand lodge” officers refrain from were scattered delegations from other sections of the country. pressing their suit against a former “grand president”, whom ‘The resolution did not provide any machinery for earrying on they were charging in Circuit Court with misappropriating ‘a campaign for amalgamation or did not present-a specific large sum of money. plan by which to realize it. But the principle of it, at least, If the election of Fljozdal, the reduction of the number and salary of vice-presidents and the amalagmation resolution was approved. ‘The number of vice-presidents was cut from 14 to five. could have been voted the first day, the 1,200 delegates might and their salaries were cut from $6,000 to $4,200, while many better have ended their convention on the second day and vice-presidential candidates wept salt alligator tears in their gone to see Eugene O'Neill’s “Hairy Ape”, which was-being inside coat pockets. played downtown.

Mountain Pool Nocturne l3L POURED by a hundred rills {CLF the two travellers, our lives, mest with each other The blue cup of the hills Out of the dark, lonely spaces, so that my hand, Is lifted into light Finding your eager hand, need grope no further; ‘Through birches pale of limb So that our looks take fire, one by the other fanned; ‘That lean to its granite rim ‘And are mirrored green nd white. “And if no sword of sin, of strangeness, of sorrow, Lie, menacing, between us who would unite in love, This is the cup of storm; Need I be desolate because we part on the morrow?

No sun can make it warm Love cannot waste nor spoil more than love can improve. ‘That passes overhead; And here in channeled stone; JB) Cold and quenched and alone, “Why should the narrow bonds keep us coldly. decaying? ‘A fallen star lies dead. Could we not wheel asunder, one east and one west, Till through unkindred worlds we were distantly straying, Drink at the deep cup Yet circle together always, with breast towards breast?” ‘That the hills have lifted up, So my thoughts went wild when the moon w: ‘And it will make you old; inking, For you taste the long-drowned sky, ‘And when the darkness let my vision free ‘And the glow of suns gone by, Among the stars’ deceptive company. In this water, clear and cold. So, in the earth’s brief slumber, I was thinking. Bernice Lesbia Kenyon. Dorine Elsmie.

Let's Have Some Liberty By Edward Pyle \ THIS new flood-tide in the West—this cloudburst of what of farmers nor make an uncultivated (and therefore unmort- ‘the bankers call “radicalism’—what effect will it have gaged) desert of the wheatlands. ‘This group does not for a upon life in America? What will its representatives do? moment suggest the abolition of capitalistic exploitation, but Shipstead of Minnesota, Brookhart of Iowa, Frazier of North only tries to put a brake on the stupid capitalism which at- © Dakota, Wheeler of Montana, Howell of Nebraska, Ferris of ‘tempts to strangle the labor movement with the clumsy hand | Michigan, Ralston of Indiana—what are they, lions or lambs? of a Daugherty instead of with the adroit hand of a Gompers. ‘What position will the new Senators take upon the question Borah and his group are constructive engineers ot eapital- ‘of restoring these provisions of the Constitution that would, ism who would put a safety valve upon the engine. Tt is if applied, put some slight limitation on the baiting of the commonly said that free speech is the safety valve. ‘There labor movement? is complete logic in expecting the “radical group” to demand Senator Borah has told great mass meetings that he stands @ halt upon the blind czarism of Harding. It is reasonable for the release of political prisoners. Senator La Follette to expect that group to keep its promise to demand the aboli- has taken a similar stand. The press says that the new crop tion of imprisonment for political opinions. ‘of Senators elected by the radical vote will join the Borah- This is understood to mean a pledge for the release of La Follette group in the Senate, and that the so-called “radi- Ralph Chaplin and A. V. Azuara and Richard Brazier and cal” members of the House will co-operate, Forrest Edwards and Charles L. Lambert and James Rowland If the West has in its groaning brought forth something and Manuel Rey and Sam Scarlett, who are each now spend- more than mice, we have a right to expect something in the ing twenty year terms in prison at Leavenworth on no other ‘way of a restoration of the elemental political rights that are charge but that of holding certain opinions, and of fifty-two ‘about the only boast of “democracy.” other men who are spending lesser terms there for the same Not that we imagine that the newly strengthened radical cause. In all, sixty people are now in Federal prisons which group are radical in any revolutionary sense; we can’t agree are’by their presence given the character of political Bastilles. | with the Minneapolis Journal, which says (as quoted in the ‘The Borah group, generally, has pledged itself to open these Nation): Federal Bastilles. Very good. We demand that the promise “Whatever the ideas and purposes of those who are march- be kept. ing along the fringe of radicalism, let us not one moment for- get that in the heart of the army, guiding 1ts movements, | planning its strategy, stalks communism—wearing some of The System of “Pass the Buck” its many disguises. Whether its face be that of socialism, of BU what of the political prisoners that are in state peni- bolshevism, of I. W. W.'ism, its heart is the same. It is the tentiaries? ‘The State prisons are loaded and stuffed heart of red revolution.” with political prisoners, and the process of filling them con- © This gem of comedy, together with such others as that of tinues faster every day. This is an interesting condition, “President Harding’s father who denounced the Borah group ‘The Federal Government—representing the national reaction | of Senators as “bolshevists”, reminds us of the second para- —eannot afford to take the responsibility for making a Bas- tille-studded monarchy of the country in ‘Therefore too obvious a way. “Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried it has become the universal custom for the Federal 8 communistié Government sinee the close of the War to go slow itself on by its opponents in power? Where is the putting men in prison for political views, ‘opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of that function and to delegate Communism against the more advanced opposition parties, to the separate State Governments! ‘45 well as its reactionary adversaries?” President: Wilson was obliged during the War, for nationat | and international reasons, to identify himself with the move- No, the Borah group are not radicals in any radical sense ment to save Mooney from hanging. The national 6f the word radical, Borah, La Follette and their mino ment could not afford Govern= | Block are anti-communistic, and in-an objective sense they to take the responsibility for the beastly f) re more anti-communistic than. are crime of framing Mooney. If Mooney were in a Federal Harding, Newberr; prison today, the Federal Government would have Harry Orchard and Harry Daugherty. They represent In. him. But Mooney to release } dustrial Capitalism and capitalistic agriculture from the remains in a State prison; the Federal | point of view ernment ean wash its hands of responsibility and there- of Little Jeff who says to Mutt, “for the love fore the movement for a national general [| of Mike, be reasonable.” They represent the general and far- Telease strike for Mooney’s sighted point of view of Capitalism as against the hectic, peters out into a helpless notion of a “boycott on in- California products.” Tite object of political imprisonment P bred point of view of specialized finance-capital contered in is attained—the fact of |) the Wall Street office of J. P. Morgan & Co. To the political imprisonment remains— )) ofa capitalism which allows 80 cents gluttony but the “buck is passed” effectively, so as to prevent the make to a farmer for a bushel ing of a national issue of each of these essentially (of wheat which costs him $1.25 to raise, the Borah group cases. Even the national Shouts, “Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden dull-witted Gamaliel Harding saw that for rah’s group wants egg!” Feasons of public policy it was necessary to release ‘Gene the banks to foreclose their farm mort- Debs. If Debs had been sent to a State in a way that will neither start an armed insurrection there yet. prison, he would be DECEMBER, 1922 29 Since the Mooney case showed the way, it has become the is consigned to hell when it’s a case of the constitutional finiversal custom to delegate to the State governments the rights of workers. fanction of keeping the political prisons, the functioning of ‘How about the new Senators and Representatives from the ailing, framing and perhaps murdering on the gallows the West? Are they going to demand the restoration of the men in the labor movement who are objectionable to national Constitutional rights of the masses? ‘capitalism but out of which it is impolitie for the Federal Goyernment to make a national scandal. It is interesting to observe that the only “States’ Right” Daugherty’s Hand in Michigan government, is ‘that remains under this now highly centralized or to assault, deport or murder labor is any doubt of the fact that these perseet- the right to imprison UT if there leaders, tions are the work of the national reaction under the In a number of states the legal machinery is now busily cover of a lotal prosecution—ithe prosecution of the twenty full of political pris- is a startling proof. engaged in cramming the penitentiaries Communists at St. Joseph, Michigan, ‘ners, at the very moment that the liberal group which de- ‘The United States Government is doing it. Harry Daugh- its victory. pulled off the filthy is recording hands that mands release of political prisoners erty is doing it with the same one of the most able of the United States In New York Ben Gitlow, considered of the railroad injunetion. ‘The head of the Irish job that faniong the Communists, and Jim Larkin, head secret police—the odious professional strikebreaker ‘Transport Workers, convicted as a Communist, have just been Harding chose as his seeret service chief—William J, Burns,

sent back to prison after being out a short time on appeal is the active agent in the arrest of the twenty men, the t- bail. tempt to arrest some forty more, and the attempt to put them Im Chicago eleven men convicted of holding éommunistic ‘ll, including William 2. Foster, William F, Dunne and ‘opinions have just been condemned by a final decision of the Charles Ruthenberg, into the state penitentiary of Michigan Illinois Supreme Court to serve heavy terms in the peni- for five year terms, There is absolutely no charge except fentiary. ‘The national political significance of this is seen that of expressing opinions and holding a meeting. ‘The when it is noted that this group of convicts includes L. E. thing is inextricably connected with the recent national rail- Katterfeld, formerly a member of the National Executive road and coal strikes. The persecution is aimed to strike Committee of the Socialist Party, who became a national down the leaders who were primarily responsible for the of the “left wing” and took part in forming the Com- the railroad and coal strikes into a gen- Teader ‘movement to enlarge munist movement; that it includes Jack Carney, editor of the ceral strike; and especially Foster who has become the very Voice of Labor, Iudwig Lore, editor of the Volkszeitung, symibol of the trade’ union amalgamation movement and the | Max Bedacht, etc, ete. national opposite of the cgawling Gompers, Daugherty’s Jn Oakland J.B. Synder, known far and wide as an ex- agents are in control of the whole affair—the day after the ceptionally able labor editor, together with a group including arrests were made on Daugherty’s instruction, an official J. H. Dolson, E. B. Smith, J. C. Reed, J. A. Ragsdale, and agent of Daugherty went from New York to Michigan to take C. C, Tobey, are being eased into prison witn a jury carefully charge of the prosecution. The whole affair is a brazen at- ‘and brazenly selected for the purpose. tempt to slaughter the hational radical wing of the labor In West Virginia, the Coal Mine owners are paying for the movement with the hand of Daugherty covered ‘in the glove conviction of Frank Keeney, president of District 17, United of the Michigan “criminal syndicalist” law. Mine Workers, In Herrin, Ilinois, the attempt is being made ‘Will the liberal. group have the honesty and courage at least by the Mlinois Chamber of Commerce to put five union men fo call off the National Government from this contemptible in the penitentiary in a prosecution openly paid for by pri- role? vate capitalists. ‘The “radical” members of the House and Senate will have In Sacramento, the State of California proceeds with the to face the following issue framing up and imprisonment of I. W. W.’s where the Federal Shall the views of all political parties in America be subject Government had to leave it off because of national scandal. to the approval and supervision of the police power ‘Thus, while the liberal movement for the release of political ‘The Federal prosecution of the Communists under the guise prisoners gains ground on paper—the imprisonment of men of a Michigan prosecution, will force this issue and compel for political opinions in fact proceeds with a heavier toll than all figures in the National political life to take a stand one ‘ever. The ugly growth of political prisons will be bigger way or the other. than ever after the liberals in office deliver on théir promise It is useless to try to distinguish between political views to “release political prisoners.” that are “legal” and those that are “illegal.” To make @ Will the “radical group” close its eyes to this “pass the distinction is, by the very act, to decide that all politieal views buck” game? Or will it insist that the principle of release of of the people are subject to police approval. Are the newly political prisoners apply to the prisons that the political pris- lected liberals ready to take that stand? ‘oners are in—the State prisons? Will they attack the roots Who made the Communist Party “underground”? Who ‘of the political imprisonment system—the state “criminal outlawed it? ‘The Federal government agents. The Com- syndicalist” laws? munist parties were organized in the first place in an open ‘To do so would involve a demand for the application of the hall, publicly advertised, in the City of Chicago. ‘The Com: United States Constitution. munists had not the slightest intention of ceasing to be an In all of these sedition cases, not only is a national issue open organization, and only after the most desperate struggle hhidden’ under a “state” prosecution, but the United: Stater with the police tyranny and bratal prosecutions resulting in Constitution is by general capitalist consent shoved aside. If twenty-year penitentiary sentences, did the Communists pull ‘a banker or a Tin Plate Trust magnate were concerned, the together the remaining wreckage of their police-destroyed Federal Constitution would be applied. But the Constitution party and organize out of sight of the Monarch, Mr. A.

Done For William Gropper Mitchell Palmer, who had taken to himself the power to pass ‘The spokesman for this electoral wave will have to tai: ‘on the political views of all men. stand one way or the other, for or against the principle of the Even if one is so forgetful or go dishonest as to ignore the freedom of any political party to operate publicly without fact that the Communist Party @as driven underground by submitting its politieal views for approval or rejection by the force, it is evident that as long as the Communist Party is police. deprived of its right to exist in the open, it is going to con- ‘What do you say, you liberalé? tinue to exist as an underground party. Confining oneself entirely to American history, one must ‘The Communists are a revolutionary party. What of that? ‘observe that every movement that expressed an economic de- In England and France—in fact in all of the most advanced mand has persisted in secret organization when denied an rropean countries—the Communist parties operate openly ‘open existence. A secret organization with a system of in the elections and have their representatives in the legii underground communication was maintained by Washington, lative halls. We say that itis not a erime and never has been Franklin, Jefferson, Paine, Henry, ete., when the then existing a crime to advocate revolution in America. government attempted to exterminate the movement because Have you forgotten that Abraham Lineoln said in his In- revolutionary objects. Likewise the “underground rail- augural Address in 1861; continued sécretly to liberate Negro slaves in the "fifties in spite of legal efforts to exterminate it. One might “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people almost say that if the various countries are different in this who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the ex- respect, America is the land above all where an economically isting government, they ean exercise their constitutional right based movement will have its “underground” to the extent of amending or their revolutionary right to dismember or that it is suppressed. The American Communist movement overthrow it.” will continue to exist, overground or underground. If our Advocacy of revolution has never been a crime in this rulers decide that the Communist Party shall not exist over- country until a few modern autocrats took it upon themselves ground, they are ruling that it shall continue to exist under- to make it so. But if you take the position of the King of ground. Spain or the dead Czar of Russia that the question of revoli- It is very plain that the reaction that is personified in tionary views a matter to be settled by the police and the Daugherty would equally suppress the coming Labor Party if political prisons, then give us no more talk of releasmg pris- It could. And, in time, it may be able to do so if it is now ‘oners—political prisoners—but be consistent and agree to granted the right in genéral to jail whatever party it con- \make America permanently into a Mund of political police, a siders subversive. A reading of the railroad injunction will people living in the shadow of political prisons, ruled by sedi- show what mental diseases pass as the institutions of our tion acts and enlightened only by such newspapers as are Country in the cloudy little brain of a Daugherty. It will passed as non-subvérsive by a police authority. show also what will be considered “subversive”—the right of Otherwise—demand # the inquisition of political opin- a labor union to use the telephone, for instance. Evidently, ion be hauled off, and that any political party, no matter what Daugherty and the very strong forces that he represents its views, shall have the right to make its open appeal to E would suppress anything of the labor movement that might theAmerican masses. Will you demand that, “Radicals” of be at the given time weak enough to suppress. the West? Are you lions or mice? DECEMBER, 1922 aL

Jobbers In Justice By Karl Pretshold TV EST VIRGINIA as undertaken to prove that the ‘Attorney Porterfield, of Jefferson County, to take charge ot laws of these free United States are enforeed in the the prosecution. interests of phe ruling class. In West Virginia the ruling Now only a day before this appointment, Porterfield had ad- lass is représented by the coal operators; and the courts of mitted to newspapermen that he knew nothing about the that state permit them to pay the costs of prosecuting on a Keeney ease; but when Judge Woods told him to take charge charge of murder the president of District 17 of the United of the ease in order “to uphold the honor of the State”, Por- Mine Workers, Frank Keeney. terfield, without even troubling to move to the counsel table, Keeney is on trial at Charlestown—in the same court house declared he was ready to proceed. where John Brown was tried for treason. ‘The murder with Keeney's trial began with a motion by the defense that they ‘which he is charged was committed during the famous march be granted a change of venue, since the defehdant could not ‘on Logan County a year ago, Everybody knows that Keeney get a fair trial in Jefferson County. The prosecution—paid fadvised against the march, Everybody knows that Keeney by the coal operators—contended that since all the Logan tried to get the marching miners to return to their nomes. County march eases had been sent from Logan to Jefferson ‘These facts were placed on record in the four previous trials County for trial, the court could not properly grant that arising out of the march. But Keeney is an official of the United Mine Workers, and that is a erime for which the coal ‘The court did grant the motion; but before Judge Woods ‘operators would have him pay with his life. ‘The miners of named the county where the trial should take place, the pro: West Virginia think that the life of their union is also at secution rushed off to the State Supreme Court, and obtained stake in this trial, and they have good reason for thinking ‘a temporary injunction prohibiting Judge Woods from fixing challenged ‘a place for the trial other than Jefferson or Logan counties. [At the opening of Keeney's trial, his lawyers the formal declaration of opposing counsel that the State [At the present writing Judge Woods and Keeney have been. ‘was ready to proceed; they protested that all the lawyers act- ordered to appear before the Supreme Court and show cause were paid employees of the Logan why they should not be prohibited a change of venue. In plain ing for the prosecution Gounty Coal Operators Association. Furthermore, they English, the Supreme Court has been asked to prevent a fair charged that in all the previous trials arising out of the trial for Frank Keeney. march on Logan County, the coal operators had paid all the A Wheeling newspaper man explained to me why the prose- lawyers for the State and all other expenses connected with cution is against a change of venue. “First, they want to | the prosecution; that they had paid their witnesses and paid try Keeney here, where they have been carrying on a long jury. The total cost to the State in these previous cases against the union; and secondly, they don't want ‘thé propaganda ‘was $32,405.50. This entire sum was paid by the coal opera- to invest any more money in shipping their witnesses around. tors through a deputy sheriff of Logan County who was also They have paid to bring a big bunch of witnesses here, and it expense if they have to go and move them to in their employ will mean more In proof of these charges, Keeney’s lawyers produced a another county. But they only consider that as a mere in- certified copy of the State record showing that the trial for vestment, since they intend to sue the U. M. W. A. for dam- treason of William Blizzard had cost $17,747.34, and that ages; and then they will try to collect the money they spent this sim, too, had been paid by the coal operator in these cases. Keeney’s lawyers also charge that Governor Martin of While the big coal operators are busy in Cliarlestown, the elected through the efforts of the coal smaller operators in the western end of the state are doing West Virginia was who paid his campaign expenses. all in their power to assist the machinery of ‘‘justice” to fune~ barons, detectives from the Burns agency are Keeney’s lawyers later called on the legislature of West tion, In Wellsburg, their charges, and they offered to pro- busy rounding up men whom they:helped to indict. Virginia to investigate the evidence in their possession before a committee Last July during a mine battle between deputized mine duce all Sheriff Duval,—who deputized the of the legislature. They offered to prove their charges in guards and union miners, court, and to prove also that the prosecution of Keeney was mine guards—and seven union miners were killed. Tl by the steel mine owners got the Burns agency on the job right after the merely the beginning of a conspiracy fostered trust to wreck the labor unions of America by involving battle collecting evidence to present to the grand jury ‘unions in damage suits and putting their leaders in jail. through their efforts 218 miners were indicted for killing the sheriff; and nobody was indicted for killing the seven union _ It seems Judge Woods was afraid that Keeney’é lawyers miners. Since the return of the indictments, Burns’ men would prove these statements, He adjourned court till next have been busy in three states—Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West day to see what he could do about it, When court reconvened, the indicted men and bringing them to the judge ruled that no reference could be made to Governor Virginia—arresting Martin, as the court is not responsible for the governor. He Wellsburg. said, furthermore, that there is nothing improper in the coal In brief. the Coronado decision has encouraged the mine owners of Wést Virginia to invest in “Justice”, in the hope of ‘operators paying the costs of prosecuting a ertminal case. He added, however, that the State ought to have at least one being able to collect the cost from the men whom they send lawyer on the prosecuting staff. He then directed District to prison.

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Sellebration By Howard Brubaker WEIS country recently observed memorial week in honor of (AWARD of Order of the Raspberry to the inventor of the the five hundredth fall of Soviet Russia, The figure patent collapsible Soviet Government wartanted not to includes collapses, overthrows, disintegrations and flights last longer than a week from Thursday. of high officials with gold reserve and crown jewels. PPEAR. (CE of the Deuce of Deuces, holding the rec TLE admission for each performance was one million rou ord for the highest flight of the imagination. bles or twenty-five green certificates. A partial list of the attractions staged during that week follows: HERE are many others who promised to attend and nevertheless did so, LL the editors of the New York Times were present and received the Order of the Long Bow for having re- FFICERS of the Gnashional Civie Federation ported the Soviet Government's death oftener than any other brought their gnashing. “news”paper. ‘They responded with their popular giggle- gong, “All the news that’s print to fit.” r™ ESTIGATING committees with euspidors. BORIS BAKHMITEFF, the exest living exambassador (process servers permitting) exhibited his troop of RITERS of hysterical romances. Extra-special corre- ‘wild exiles, emigrés, hasbeens and neverweres, none of whom spondents running around in well informed circles. hhas tasted solid food since last March. TESSES charmingly dressed in pawn tickets; and REPRESENTATIVE of the Misstate Department spoke Dbabygrand dukes. in support of the Hughes Doctrine, that America will ‘recognize any Russian government not located’ in Russia, and H™ of a hundred bottletieliis, ‘open trade relations with anybody who has nothing to trade. GEGRETARY HOOVER spoke in advocacy of the dietator- ROPHETEERS and patrioteers, guardians and black- ship of the commissariat. guardians, upholders and bondholders. FLONDRED persenators, tommyrotarians. NTI-VICE PRESIDENT COOLIDGE was invited; the loss was fully covered by insurance. CATERPILLARS of society. ONTEST among predictors, prognosticators, inventors ‘and dumbell ringers. Senator Lusk presented a silver ‘spoon out of his well known set to the player who thought Ho Davenenry: up the highest number of atrocitjes. EREMONY 6f the burial of the unknown liar, who may have been, for all anybody knows, the discoverer of the THE LIBERATOR nationalization of women, EDITORS, ) { WILLIAM GROPPER. OUCHING meeting of the authors of the Sisson docu- ments and Ford protocols. Side-splitting act of picking ‘each other’s pockets of counterfeit money. ROBERT MINOR EXECUTIVE EDITORS TOSEPH FREEMAN MANAGER RESENTATION of Russia leather medal to hero who, ALLISON alone and single-handed, killed Lenin sixteen times in ANCY ADVERTISING MARKOFF Helsingsfors, Riga and Stockholm. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Cornelia Barns, Maurice Becker, Howard Brubaker, Eugene V. Debs, Untermeyer, Crystal Eastman, Clive Helen Weed, Keller Charles W. J.J. Lankes, Wood) Art Mastice Young Sterne, ECEPTION to correspondent who personally conducted Published Monthly. 20 cents, Yeorly subscription $2.00 ‘a Red Terror without leaving his chair in a Copenhagen 80 Fast 11th Steet, New York gin shop. as ‘They argued with him about it. They told him they were ‘all Iiberal-minded, that he didn’t have to believe in any par- tigular notion of God, just so long as he believed in some kind BOOKS of God. But he insisted that he didn’t believe in any kind of God. Well, they conceded, that didn't make any difference to them; but he had to answer the question “Yes.” ‘They told Babbit and My Russian Friend him to go ahead and say “yes”, and forget about it. But he “Babbitt, A Novel. By inclair Lewis. Harcourt, Brace & Co. ‘wouldn't; and the show broke up right there. For the next two weeks the prominent people of the town, A RUSSIAN friend of mine as been reading, Sinclair ‘who were all members of this fraternal order, came around % Lewis's Babbit. He insists that it is a good novel— ‘and talked to him and tried to get him to be reasonable; and "he tells me s0 every time I see him. I never dispute his opin- whert he refused to'be reasonable, they threatened him. ‘They “ion, because as a matter of fact I also think it is a good told him they would drive him out of business—as they easily novel. My friend’s insistence arises from his previous in- could, And he said he didn't care, they might drive him out “credulity, not about Sinclair Lewis, but about American nov- of business, but he wouldn’t pretend to believe in a God when lists in general. He has always’ shared the widespread Eu- he knew damn well there wasn't any God. ropean impression that no Americans except Jack London, "Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair, and James Fenimore Cooper “And he stuck it out?” I asked. "ever wrote any good novels. Now, in great astonishment, he “Oh, yes”, said my Russian friend. hhas had to admit another American novelist to that select “And did they drive him out of business? “company. In fact, he pays Babbitt the compliment of saying “No, ‘They laughed at him. They made a joke of it. But that it is like Russian novels. I think they admired him for it.” By this lie means a. very special and quite obvious thing— | that Sinclair Lewis has drawn in this book, as so many Rus- | I went away, thinking about all the Babbitts I had ever ‘sian novelists were wont to do in their books, a common and Known who had ever become in any manner any to any degree © recognizable national type—drawn him not merely well, but “radical.” Had they gone back on their views? ‘To my great done him once for all, and given him a name by which he will surprise, I found that my memories corresponded exactly "always hereafter be called. ‘That is a feat by which my Rus- with the conclusions of my Russian friend. I would not for sion friend sets great store, and for which he thinks, indeed, a moment set up my experience against that of Sinclair that novels exist. I should add that my Russian friend has Lewis, who may for all I know be personally and intimately spent most of his life in America, becoming in all this time acquainted with all the business men in the United States; | a5 much of an American as it is possible to be without eeas- but such as my experience is, I give it, I know of a number “ing tobe in any respect a Russian; and that he knows very of Babbitts who have become, after their fashion, “radical” — well the American type which Sinclair Lewis has drawn, and hhave espoused in conversation some unpopular doctrine or 4s quite entitled to have'an opinion as to the merits of Sin theory—and been subjected to all the pressure their family, clair Lewis's portrait. neighbors, and townspeople could bring to bear, to make them F But if he is entitled to praise the portrait, he is also conform—and they have only become more set in their new : + entitled to pick flaws in it. And he does pick a serious flaw ways. There is, according to my observation, a streak of in it, ‘The fault he finds is the last thing in the world that stubbornness in George F. Babbitt, which makes him a 7 Iwould ever have suspected, myself, to be a fault. He com- fanatic when aroused. And when not aroused to fanaticism, plains that Sinclair Lewis has Babbitt begin to get “radical”, he admires fanaties, He deplores the cussedness of a good "and then, under economic pressure, go back to the ways of man gone wrong, but likes him all the better for it—envies conformity. “That”, he says gravely, “is not true.” him, I really do believe—and yields to the man the tribute of “What”, I asked him, “is not true?” a genuine admiration, even when he is utterly hostile to the “That he would go back, after he had once commenced to be man’s ideas, / Sever s0 little—a radical.” ‘This does not prevent him putting the man in jail, in self “But”, I protested, “that is the whole point of the book— protection; but, after all, what do we need protection against, | that he does yield to economic pressure, and returns to the unless it is something to which we ourselves are prone? The fold English are said to believe in free-speech: “Let them holler “It is not so”, said my Russian friend. their heads off”, is their aristocratic and elegant motto. But Texplained to him that he was probably judging Babbitt, by we Americans are afraid of free speech; afraid that if we al- the standard of the Russian temperament, low anybody to preach dangerous doctrines, we may stop and © Pitt, would have stuck it out as a radical, if it led him to Si isten to him some time, and take up the cross and follow the Beria. But our American Babbitts— path that leads to the prison and the scaffold! And, unless “No”, he said. “They stick it out, too. I know them.” the figure of Babbitt is to be construed in an extremely nar- And he began to tell me stories about 100 per centers, red. row sense, there are certainly a good many Babbitts—plain, | Blooded he-men, Americans he had known, who got some radi ordinary Americans, previously indistinguishable from the | edt idea or other in their head, and nothing could ever get it mass of flag-waving, prosperity-shouting citizens—to be out again. One of his stories was about a druggist, Babbitt’s found on the roll of honor of forlorn hopes, lost eauses, and ‘own twin brother, it seems, who came across a book of Inger- hell-raising minorities in these United States. ‘soll’s, and became converted to Atheism. That did not get And I confess that some such notion as that is implicit in hhim into trouble until the time came when he was being initi- my sense of the American people. It may be that I cherish ated into one of our great American fraternal societies. The a romantic conception of my fellow-citizens. But I do find © question was asked. “Do you believe in a Supreme Being?” that trait even in the sheep-like generation which was nerded ‘And Babbitt answered, “No!” into the War for Democracy. Sinclair Lewis has drawn s0

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84 THE LIBERATOR is # has given us his talk, his inous conclusions of most reformers. George Basine admirable a portrait of Babbitt, figure in high places. ‘gestures, his outward manner so well, that it would not be familiar Tam strange if we overlooked a mistake in his description of Bab- Hechi’s women are all neurotics of an extreme type. to is that Babbitt is, accord- not disposed to quarrel with his characterizations. I am not Ditt’s soul. What it comes down with the type of women who are almost i ing Sinclair Lewis, not merely a poor boob, but a coward, sufficiently conversant duties om Yet I am not at all sure that Babbitt is incapable of dying completely self-centered, who have no exacting out- ‘on the barricades for some idea to which his intellect might absorbing responsibilities; and for whom nothing exists as, let us say, the single-tax. side theinselves, their husbands, their homes, and their conceivably rise—such become sex-obsessed, pov Det friends, Such women, undoubtedly, Henrietta, to whom Basine quite unintentionally gets him an exeeedingly sweet and proper young erea= self married, is Basine conceives What's All the Shootin’ For? ‘are. In a moment of boredom and vanity, Liveright. to possess the regard and homage of this gitlt Gargoyles. By Ben Hecht. Boni and the whim though, or perhaps because, she is engaged to be married. against the obliquity of “nice people”, scene which leads to the denoument between the sophisti $ an incursion ‘The A> Gargoyles, Ben Hecht’s new book—widely advertised cated Basine and the naivté girl is amusing and illuminating, novel”—proved ra wera dud. Devastation he whispered, ‘I'm sorry bout you and Aubrey. as a “des astating “ ‘Henny’, has Become altogether too catholic, in life as: well as in lit wahy? Grature, to justify the hardihood or naivté which induced the of Gargoyles to feature it as an intrepid excursion. “ogpis was the sort of boy and girl scene at which she was Sublishere and literary realists exposing one almost adept. People held ltands and even kissed without What with peychonnalysts inured altering the correct social tone or content of their talk, THost esoterie thoughts and feelings, we Have become I love you. tq gargoyles and gargantuans. * P “«Because’, said Basine, ‘Oh, well, because Mo those-if there be anywho do’nat suspect that behind “phe phrase stirred, as it always did, a faint emotion in the correct curtains of matrimony and the correct activities his heart, He used it frequently, even with prostitutes, and fof the most eminent people there is as much depravity as it had always given him a fugitive sense of exaltation . . « may prove devastating. But was pulling her slowly toward him. mong “bad” people, Gargoyles “Basine sophistication, wearily sad, admits that wealth and culture, «Don’t you love me”, he said. ‘Don't you love me at all?? Prominence and the apparent fear of God, do not exempt their “He was talking aloud to conceal the fact that he had drawn Fossessors from the iniquities of the world, the flesh, and the her to him and was placing his arms around her. ‘To do any- devi thing like that in silenee would have frightened Henrietta. But Then why this pother? Why the hysterics over such un- to talk while one was doing it, that made it seem less definite, abashed truths as every newspaper retails daily with suf- One could ignore what one was'doing, ignore the hands touch- ficient minutiae to satiate the most salacious mind? At the ing one’s shoulders and the touching of bodies, by pretending into a cliché, we must confess that sex discus- risk of falling Neither to interest oneself entirely in the conversation. ‘sions—be they ever so eandid—no longer shock us. to girls and do they bore us. Only, Hecht’s tenacious magnification of tasine knew this because he had made love almost total neglect of more taken liberties. As long as he kept talking and asking ques- the non-essentials of sex to the tions the girl would pretend she was so occupied in listening fertile avenues of exploration, becomes irritating. being taken ‘The sex adventures of George Basing, the lawyer-politician that she was oblivious to the liberties that were who is the protagonist of Gargoyles, and the adventures of with her * * * the other characters, are numerous. Sometimes they are ‘This theme with variations is played through many scenes especially in the case of Basine, who has a one begins to feel that Hecht is urging himself onward, real, Often, until pretty aptitude for glorifying his most sordid amours, they like the Alpine traveler, but with “Devastation” ringing in Basine loves to remanticize, to philoso- his ears, instead of “Excelsior.” ‘are partly fictitious. phize. Sensuous, rather than sensual, Basine enjoys his de- When Hecht turns from women and sex for a few chapters pauches more in contemplation and /in retrospect, than in he is truly superb—a satirist unsurpassed. Mr. Gilchrist’s deed. faneral is a masterpiece in poignant pasquinade, achieving @ ‘After a night spent in a house of prostitution, Basine be- vigorous brilliance without the hint of invective. ‘The death comes sentimental and confides to his friend Keegan that of Mr. Gilchrist seemed to Basine chiefly important as an op- “she” was. different from the usual girl of that kind portunity for the lesser dignitaries to make hay qwhile the “Wouldn’t talk for a while but then got confidential and know.” Keegan didn't tears poured, cried a bit, They usually, do, you now but he nodded wistfully. “A convent girl, too “They were utilizing the camaraderie of prestige and the You could take a girl like that and make something of her. intimacy of a common emotion to impress themselves upon Give her a month .” By which he meant, give the greater dignitaries. Women of dubious social standing George Basine a month and see the miracle he would work. gravitated as if by general accident toward women of solid “The mystery of a bad woman is that she was social standing and exchanged whispered condolences with He goes on, It struck him now as a childish faree—an. once virtuous, just as the mystery of a virtuous woman them. that she could become bad.” absurd hoeus-pocus. Poor Gilchrist going to heaven and a Basine becomes a judge and the chairman of a Vice In- long-faced man in a black coat speeding his soul heavenward vestigating Commission, yet he never achieves nor attempts from the Gilchrist library! People crowded in a to acquire a more definite concept of the fundamentals that tiny room taking this opportunity to assure each other that determine morality or immorality. This is typical of the the immensities over their heads, the clouds, the stars, the slipshod thinking, the superficial investigation, the platitad- spaces were their property 2

35 DECEMBER, 1922 are so numerous leader at a football game to further efforts or heroistis, com- Glaring errors in English and punctuation menting meanwhile with barbarously hoarse eries on the that one wonders whether the book has been proof read. We simply draws the wicket, so to the cost of these errors in telephone bills progress of the game. He began computing to ms pub- speak, and the reader perceives everything. ‘after we heard the story that Hecht had ‘phoned ‘Now both ways of writing have their appeal as well as their ishers from Chicago, at the cost of $12 in order to have a used, For example, Rebecea West after “you” in the sentence, “If there were native charm when deftly ‘Gomma inserted bad men”; but in her recent novel The Judge, employs a method which is more women like you there would be no more wholly antithetieal to the one used by Miss Mansfield, Miss the total threatened to be too staggering. marginal and delightfully is vivid and interesting, but hardly iconoclastic West is scintillating, brilliantly Scotch Gargoyles Geemmupe Wen. Keen voluble in her causerie about her people, especially the girl, Ellen. She reminds one of the skilful dinner table raconteur (a guest, not the host who, according to ancient ‘usage, nods his head and merely wedges in an apt comment The English of Her here and there) who unfolds an implicated tale with all sorts of side-remarks. Miss West, like Henry James, can write the most The Garden Party. By Katherine Mansfield. Alfred A. Knopf. charming table-talk of this sort. Miss Mansfield, on the other hand, is spare, neat, parsimonious in her tale-telling; no word F one were to assert that Katherine Mansfield’s stories are is supererogatory or out of place, no least gesture, no shaded. salted down with the pungencies of Maupassant and inflection of the voice. ‘Chekhov, one would be overlooking the inescapable brown-ale- Her gestures, such as they are, are sublimated into indirect colored English of them which creeps out on almost every comment by being stopped midway; the very stoppage of page. In atmosphere, in overtone, in chosen situations they them releases the point of view of the author; and the reader ‘breathe the English setting’ in which they were conceived and is thus trapped into supplying what he thinks is his own inter~ ‘written, and from which they derive their vigor and pulse. which is really that of the writer. Read the and Chekhov, fails to take pretation, but there ‘A comparison with Maupassant of Ma Parker with this in mind, and you will see these stories were writ Life into account the important fact that compressed as tight! be, the tragedy of a simple life; ten by a woman whose deft and humane hand is visible in ‘and you are left in no two minds as to what Katherine Mans- their texture as well as in their trend. It would be more thinks about the whole business. It is, briefly, the story probably far more accurate, to say of Kath- field other people and eonvineing, and of a charwoman who always did things for ferine Mansfield that she has implicitly followed the advice in the end—no, not in the end but anywhere along the line of Flaubert gave his disciple, Maupassant,—namely to observe her squalid uncertain days—she could not even find a place starkly and relentlessly the life he seeks to portray for the emotional escape of a good ery. Her First Ball , again, ‘This Katherine Mansfield has certainly done. She is de- the emotions that besiege “plotty” writer. shows a perfect understanding of cisively not what the editorial officers call a a young girl on her first dance; and is The Singing Lesson Dealing with flesh-and-blood human beings, their more com- about a singing teacher and a near-tragic but highly dra- prehensive moods, their exposed emotions, and occasionally ‘matic moment in her life which is at least resolved into joy. their half-born-impulses, she is in no need of resorting at ‘The poising of the suspense, of the variegated emotions, is every turn (which is the American idea) to an obvious or manner in which she con- in order to breathe depicted entirely by the fluctuating flamboyant, skeletonized framework duets a singing lesson. throbbing life into her human material. She catches her ‘Miss Mansfield is intent on giving us people as they appear people, like a sculptor who knows his business, at a oddities and agonies. She deals, always with a big moment in their lives, and she arrests that mo: touch, with what may be called the primary ment for us. She takes a single person, as in emotions of life. She is more like Maupassant and Chekhov The Life of Ma Parker, Miss Brill, The Lady's Maid and Her Artzibashev, and less probing than either Sherwood An- than First Ball; or two people as in Mr. an Mrs. L \d Marriage derson or May Sinclair. She resembles May Sinclair not a ala Node and The Singing Lesson (in this last the other pers in both her ghters of little, however, in the deep saturation she betrays never appears) ; or three people as in the The Da atmosphere which walls them about. Late Colonel or in Bliss (in an earlier volume), and with clean: people and the Presse Lovine. feut incisions, she hollows down to intimations or contours of dark-watered depths, yearning souls, profound humanity— men and women, in a word, as they are and as she finds them The Adventures of A Liberal

just beyond her own garden's white paling: Katherine Mansfield regalls Maupassant and Chekhov only The Last Mile. Ry Frank McAlister Doubleday, Page & Co. by virtue of her serene detachment. When looked into, how- ver, this is found to be no detachment at all, since no one A. SPVEL of contemporary liberalism as the game is warm-blooded, full-bodied human beings with Played in New York, wherein a bewildered but well- = can write about ex-army officer fluctuates helplessly between indig- utter impersonal aloofness. This is one of the blind myths meaning fof scholars and teachers of short-story courses. By detach- nation at the brutalities of the status quo and contempt tor ment these folk merely imply a method which, as a matter of the theories of communists and such-like. The atmosphere fact, is the very opposite of detachment. The writer identifies of the book is suggestive of the Civic Club, or—in its indig- himself so intimately and sympathetically with the characters nant passages—of the Rand School. Even that atmosphere, he has ereated and set in motion, that he finds it superfiuous however, is more congenial for civilized nostrils than the ‘and in bad taste to explain them other than by the gestures, putrid air of seores of stories in the season's outpour of fic- Jooks and words which they themselves use. Since creator tion which will inevitably be read more widely than The Last fand created are indissolubly one, the writer doesn’t have to Mile. 9 dance around their movements, exhort them like a cheer- ‘The author shows an intimate appreciation of the diffieul~

ties involved in walking the tight-rope of liberalism, the con- 1 should be delighted to hear from any communist, or other ‘Yersation frequently attaining to a more than sophisticated radical, who favors a different policy in/international affairs. cleverness. Though the hero acquires few positive political Certainly these are principles to which the Russian So and economic convictions in the coursé of his adventures authorities have again and again professed adherence, am among near-radicals between 12th and 40th’ Streets, he suc- which they’ seem to have carried out as far as they have ceeds in putting himself outside the magie circle of 100 per able. It happens that Wilson did, when speaking in the ab cent respectability. And he does achieve, incidentally, cer- stract on foreign policy, frequently voice principles tniverse tain definite opinions as to the kind of women best suited to ally approved of by radicals. That, of course, has very little his own temperament; after all we cannot expect too much to do with the Fourteen Points. ‘ ae » from a fellow as heavily handicapped by good upbringing ‘The remand of my Gal chapter up to the last two pee and orthodox contacts as Lieut. Broadhurst. is a concrete enlargement upon my’ second paragraph. Tt is | The book hits off nicely the racking ordeal vouchsafed to simply a program of withdrawal from Haiti, the Philippines, @ conscientious middle-class young man driven by some sud- den accident (the death of a sweetheart in this case) to look have ete., and never a general heard of renunciation any radical of who imperialistic was opposed activities. to any 1) . ‘squarely and without blinking at the social mess. The story the suggestions that I hare make, is worth while if for no other reason than because its scenes and persons are thinly disguised copies from life, and it is Finally, I should like to ask your reviewer if these closing an engaging pastime to discover the originals under the cam- words of Shall It Be Again? coal have Yoon eettes ya EM muflage. The reviewer thinks he has penetrated to the iden- crn or anyone psetsed with any ofthe halnenatons GE tity of a number of the protagonists. Attorney Streeter’s erate : office, for example, is described in such tell-tale details that At siple sbeervencetof tho’ Gonstifatiou wail - not only the lawyer but his hard-working stenograpuer are preclude the imprisonment of persons for expressing theit instantly recognizable, views upon public affairs, but real freedom of speech and of oa ‘The adventures in Americanism through which the author the press cannot be restored without fundamental economic _ pilots Lieut. Broadhurst upon his return from France include changes, such staples as the raid on the Russian workers’ headquarters some years ago. He assists in the abortive birth of a new “So long as a handful of men in Wall Street control the Liberal party. He joins his new friends in ridiculing the credit and industrial processes of the country, they will eons “extremists” whom they are “defending.” And in the final trol the press, the government, and, by deception, the people, pages he is firmly, though prosaically convinced, that “at They will not only compel the public to work for them in east there’s lots to laugh about.” peace, but to fight for them in war. BL “Democracy is not a reality in America, America is @ nancial oligarchy, in which the President is the willing, though pretendedly reluctant servant of the great financial powers, ‘Who Said Wilsonism! not only the moral bankruptcy of the politcal and intele DITOR of the Liberator: lectual leaders that eapitalism has given the world, but the ‘The review of my book, Shall It Be Again? by Karl Pret- inability of éapitaligm shold, in the September Liberator, is extremely compliment to save the world from periodic: distil ary, until it comes to the last chapter. I would like to ask Mr. aster. Imperialism is simply, 4 phase of capitalism, Big | Pretshold to read that chapter again, For by substituting Business government must go, but Big Business Government the word is for would have to include, and the principles for will not go until Big Business goes. Only the institution of a principles, he has contrived to draw conclusions wholly un- new social order, based upon economic equality, will save the Justified either by the remainder of that chapter or any other ‘world from more and more wars for Business.” ‘part of the book—namely, that I advocate a “return to Wilson- ian dogma.” Joun Kenwerst Turner, My final chapter begins: “The programme that would pre- serve the peace of America, promote its prosperity, and serve Spring Night At Lachaise’s democracy at home or abroad, would have to incluae an hon- fest application of principles by which President Wilson pro- GHYLY and slowly and softly, fessed to be guided in sending American armies to European ‘Exultant and trembling our faces, battlefields.” 3 We moved from that room down the What particular principles? I am dealing with foreign A cortege to Beauty. Policy. I proceed to specify. My second paragraph reads: ‘To Beauty enslaved of two masters. “For international application, the cardinal principles are For were not the wide curving bronzes self-determination and equality of sovereignty. Before there Cryptic and poised, unexcessive— could be any question of fighting to compel the observance of Her own body captured? these fundamentals by others, we would first have to observe And under the dark window's archway, them ourselves, as well as to heil, as far as may be, the ‘A maple’s impulsive young branches, scars that we have cut in trampling upon them in the past. Screening the tenement’s squalor— In other words, we would have to purge ourselves with a Her very gesture! ‘course of repudiation, withdrawal, and reparation.” Jean Starr

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2 September, 1922, COMMODITY 3 SOCIETE RUSSE DRAFTS E LA CROIX ROUGE FROM DUTY, may be > Commodity drafts on sent through the Rus- omit CENTRAL. the State Universal "sian Red Cross by indi- map Store, and its branches | a riduals in thi country | gay'n ‘There deep is no and Russian enturing who gratitude does not tthe have American in his heart people to- | {in yy Russia, tnnotieats willbe ana issued _ : to individuals in Russia. foe ifons ens Giese of helpless aid and during terviled the crisis people, of stricken the past year. by ‘ rile oe Bie cies ICLER OF catastrophe from which there seemed to be no escape, ganizations ina Bea Chose by the Rus- PRIME NECESSITY ome a'world thet avay. liven ta They the help eannot which forget came their to them debt. from half : pan ACCEPTED, timely Not the assistance least of reached the many those agencies who through which this ‘These drafts are sent, pet. heen the American branch of our own most Rustian required Red it Cross has registered mall, io direct eae Earesee conta Society, whose tireless activity kept the need of the famine to the individuals im _ ing articles of luxury district before the | or articles sent for any Russia food, clothing American and medicines people, which and so forwarded largely con- to Russia by (as the persons BS "other purpose than the stituted Rutan Red the equipment Grose wherever of the medical-relief the need was greatest, stations of the chasing or organizations them. pur ‘The Bs ae ot? ct ot the ths b a ‘The The ravages effects of of disease the famine and bunger will be have long shaken in being the healed, cour- beneficiary ; has only to Age warm of clothing many. ‘The itis need imperative. for medisinos ls very feeding great will an strain for present the draft at the resources of Russia to the utmost, and every additional any. of the State Stung und Ally, new of food life to.a sent people to Runa sorely from tries abrond will me, Iter in Russia to receive in The Russian Red Cross Society is a permanent institu- exchange WHATEVER a : NON-PER. tion, work is He one has of no, pure pliieal mercy. characier As ies resources ‘whatsoever, bs and only is ARTICLES he is : in ae ISHABLE NONFER, F 00D what to its-worlg generous and people without within continued and without support Russia its work contribute taust ‘need retail ‘of, value at the at ordinals the rate ecrs® BP aw fail, that its Tho workers Russian are Red almost Cross entirely Society, volunteers by virtue of i in the a fact po cof ‘exchange’ ‘ currgnt ee 8B j mended. Hhealth-building sition to secure for the a minimum maximum of result expenditure. in life-saving and s0 nec- and that time. commends with shat itself they giv to those who wish to accomplish the most white ‘Throughout flag with the its vast ed famine cross district -has flown, of Russia, it bas where meant the lite; supplies, and te wherever going will that mean flag must death, be taken Knowing in for this, lack T-ap- of peal Red Gross on’behalf Society of the to those Central in America Committee who of have the Russian already done ‘until the so much, danger to has continue passed their for good. help a little longer nov, Chairman ne of the Central fat Committee, - %. Russian SOLOVIEV. Ted Cross. ‘ CHICAGO, ILL. — BAYONNE, N. J. wn Levinson’s Stetani Drug deems’: Store, © s RUSSIAN RED CROSS Tarlow's Amaiganatel Drug Store San 1 UNION SQUARE SW elon oie, GrnNeverk agevos: ST. PAUL, MINN. a TOLEDO, OHIO rc . NEW YORK CITY Rossner and Epstein ‘The Commercial ‘& Trust Company Savings Bank BataINORE, SoCs Sin eee a, BOSTON, MASS. 8005 Bastern Aven OE American, Committee for Relief of Russian Children HOUSTON, TEXAS 3 Tremont Row 812% Preston, Avenue THE LIBERATOR Isadora Duncan on Russia Culture and Revolution FTWO years ago upon the invitation of Lunacharsky, Ts OMMENCING with ‘the January number, the Liberator dora Duncan went to Russia to conduct a school where ‘will publish a series of ten articles on Russian culture 1,000 children were to receive a complete education through under the Soviets. ‘These articles will be the first systematic the medium of the dance. Upon her arrival, she realized that deseription for Ameriean readers of the imaginative side of ‘under existing conditions she could do better and more ef- the Revolution. ‘They will be written by Alexander Chramoff, fective work with a small group. She therefore selected fifty ‘a young Russian now residing in America, who saw various ‘of the most talented children, For these fifty children she phases of the Revolution as a journalist, theatrical director foresees a promising career. She speaks of them as “geniuses ‘and soldier. every one of them. You will hear from these cl Chramoff was in charge of the theatres in the Ukraine, will bring them to dance here in America very soot where old and new plays were presented to large audiences “Do you prefer living in Russia to living in America?” I of workers and where important experiments were carried asked her. out, Later in Moscow he directed the Red Cock, the model “J don't think of my work in terms of Russia vs. America. theatre conducted by Lunacharsky; and at the same time Iam returning to Russia because these children need me. edited Theatre, the national theatrical journal of Soviet Rus- ‘You should know these children. ‘They are remarkable little sia. In 1919 he entered the Red Army. He gained consider- beings. ‘Though undernourished and with only rags to cover able distinction as commander of the division along the Kiev= their little bodies, they never complain, At night when I'd Ghernigen front, but after two years’ of service he was cap= tuck them in snugly under their thin coverings, I'd see them tured by the enemy and taken to a Polish prison. From there shivering with the cold. ‘Il find something to cover you he made his escape to Vienna, and thence to the United States. with’, I'd say. ‘Niechevo—it’s not necessary. Tm quite al- For a time he was scenic director for D. W. Griffith, ‘The list of his forthcoming articles follow: right “Yes, I'm going back to Russia now, but give me a school 1. The Moscow Art Theatre, in America, give me your children and T'll come back to 2. The Red Cock, America. I don't want to dance, to perform, I no longer 8. The Socialist Theatre in Soviet Russia. feel it in my feet, in my hands.—I feel it here in my heart, in 4, The Theatre in the Red Army.

my head—and I want to give it to tho children. In Russia 5. Three Powers in Russian ‘Art. they say our hope is in the children, They shall continue 6. Futurism and the Russian Revolution, what we have begun. 7. Proletarian Culture, “Miss Duncan, are you a Communist?” 8. A Diary of the Revolution ‘am not in polities. Wherever I see poverty and misery, 9. Impressions of Lenin, Trotzky and Lunacharsky. I want to take the children and teach them to dance, to enjoy 10, Builders of the New World, the beauties of nature that they may rise above their sordid STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULA: surrounding: TION. £1C, REQUIRED BY Tiie! ACT OF CONGRESS “If conceiving of a world in which all are happy, uplifted by ‘music and the dance, not only the children, but boys and girls, Of The Likerator, published monthly, at New ‘men and women, everybody, so that they may sing and dance State Before of New me, a York, Notary County Polile of in New tad York, for the ss State and county afo ‘even in the kitchen among the pots and pans, if that is Com- persussliy appeared Tria Fralkta, who, Reviog te=n defy oeura. munism, then I was a communist twenty years ago in Ber Eng tony, Seposcs ead fare that be i) Get Genera) Metapsr ote tines eel when I started my first school.” ftatement and that ihe of the following ownership, in, to management the best of (and his Knowledge if a daly paper; and. belief, the eictlae 4 true Nancy Manxorp Hon)r tts Fcquired of the by aforesa{d the Act publication of August 24, for 1912, the date: embodied showh in fa. section the aba 44

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Money Money drafts sent thru the Idgescom from money will be paid out at an unusually high America to relatives and friends in Soviet Rus- rate. “In cases where people to whom the sia, Ukrania and White Russia will be paid out money is sent canfot be found, the money will in the large centers thru the National Bank in be refunded to the sender in American dollars. American dollars. In the smaller localities Food For a ten doliar food draft bought from the kets. THE FOQD WILL BE SENT DI American Bureau of the Idgescom, the Russian RECTLY TO THE PERSONS ADDRESS: Bureau of the Idgescom will supply the follow- ED through the Russian Dept. of the Idgescom ing articles: 50,lbs. of the best wheat flour; which is found in every more or less important a 20 Ibs. rice; 10 Ibs. cereal; 10 Ibs. sugar; 10 Ibs. city of the Ukraine or White Russia. YOUR = fat (meat or vegetable) ; 3 Ibs. kosher corned RELATIVES WILL NOT HAVE TO Aga. beef (canned) ; 3 Ibs. cocoa ; 6 Ibs. soap; 10 cans COME FOR THE PACKAGES. After a condensed milk (not evaporated), altogether lapse of three months if the addressee is not 120 Ibs. of food, All products are of the very found by the Idgescom, the full sum will be Sher best quality available in the American mar- refunded to the sender. Clothing For each $35 that is paid to the American Alll the enumerated articles are bought in the Bureau of the Idgescom, the following articles United States from the most reliable firms such will be given to the addresses in Russia: the famous American Woolen Co., and are 10 yds. (1 width) or 5 yds. (double width) ansported to the warehouses of the All-Rus- cloth for men's clothing sian Jewish Public Committee in Russia, In 10 yds. (1 width) or 5 yds. (double width) the Ukraine and White Russia, these articles cloth for women’s clothing; iwill be sent to the addressee through the de- 6 yds. lining, unbleached linen, et partments and representatives of the All-Rus- 18 yds. flannel for underwear; sian Jewish Public Committee. In’ places 20 yds. white goods (plain or checked) ; where there is no branch of this Committee, 15’ yds. muslin for sheet and other bed- the package will be sent through the post- clothes; office or other safe cha ‘This will be 1 quilt of pure wool, 6 prs. stockii (4 for done after the addressee gives his written con- grown-ups and 2 for children) ; sent. 3 prs. shoes (2 for grown-ups and 1 for chil- Tf, in the course of 90 days (figuring from the dren); day’ the draft is received in Russia) the local Sewing material, needles, thread, buttons, office cannot locate the addressee, the Ameri- hooks and eyes, etc.. can Bureau of the Idgescom will be notified ‘The sum of $35 which you pay in for the ar- and will return the sum paid in (with the ex- ticles enumerated includes the cost of the arti- ception of $3.50 which will be retained for gen- cles, the expense for sending them and dis- eral relief) to the person who purchased the tributing as well as $3.50 for general relief. draft. All other particulars regarding Clothing drafts as well as Food drafts and sending money can be obtained at the office of the IDGESCOM, : Room 207 : 110 West 40th Street Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 7 p.m. daily, Saturday 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.

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Help to Train Builders of Russia 85% of the Russian people work on their land from sunrise to sunset—and yet Russia is hungry. Why? 33% of the population of the United States ts engaged in agriculture and they not only feed the country but also produce a large surplus of food, Why? Because the United States farmer knows the tise of farm machinery. Because he is familiar with modern methods of agriculture. Increase the production of bread and you give new vigor to Russia's industries. Primitive Russian farming is to be replaced by the introduction of modern machinery and the best known methods in agriculture Russia’s greatest need to-day is for farming machinery and trained men to operate it. The Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia aims to meet this supreme need. Already it has organized and sent industrial and agricultural units to Russia. They are pioneers of technical progress in Russia. Equipped with modern machines, these groups are increasing the food supply and teaching the Russian peasant masses the most modern agricultural methods, Lenin Congratulates S.T.A.S.R. on;the Success of its Communes. Extract from LENIN’S message to S)T. A: S.R. wspapers have carried unustially favorable reports about the work of members of y y on Soviet agricultural estates and mines T am reqitesting the Pres- Hdium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to have your communes exhibited as models and to lend them special and extraordinary assistance for the successful development of their work... . I take pleasure in congratulating you on your plan for the organi- tion of 200 agricultural communes.—LENIN.” he Central Bureau of the S. T. A. S. R. is at present engaged in the organization of 15,000 well trained farmers to form 200 model-farming units. ‘These units leave for Russia next Spring. ‘The members of these units need training in the use of up-to-date farming implements. ‘The Society for Technigal Aid to Soviet Russia opened the RUSSIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Inc. where these men receive expert training in the working of tractors and other power farming machinery. To increase the facilities of the Institute WE MUST HAVE FUNDS. YOU, who. stand: by Soviet Russia, WIL sLP_ US TRA PROLETARIAN COMMONWEALTH BY BUYING SHARE SFFECTIVE HELP IN THE MIGHTY TASK OF RE- JCI ‘THE FIRST WORKER'S R BUY SHARES. JOIN THE AGRICULTUR. For further information apply to the CENTRAL BUREAU of the S.T.A.S.R. Room. 603, 110 W. 40th St., New York City ‘THE SOCIETY FOR TECHNICAL AID TO SOVIET RUSSIA Room 603, 110 West 40th Street New York City Russian Institute of Technology, Inc. Twant ....cccssssssssssseescere shares of your stock at $10.00 per share, for which I enclose $ eee oom I want further information about the Institute. I want ... copies of your literature to distribute to my friends. Name F ae: recycling: Address se CSiatee se tees

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WU Just the same as other children, or you or I THE ORPHANS OF SOVIET RUSSIA MUST EAT OR DIE There they are, a million hungry little tots. They If Soviet Russia is to live, its children must live. hhave never in all their little lives had a meal as ‘The future is built upon children. Active spirits good as you enjoy EVERY DAY. are needed; the kind that will not only give of who, will also) reqostd ‘We want to fill their plates HEAPING FULL this thelr, others own! to give. méana; but! P Christmas, a We want to give : them so much to z ie fow many Christmas dinners will you help provide eat ¢ that they Eh will for once feel COMFORTABLE. 7 iuany Christmas tewatta, How many wil be problem which the famine, the blockade, the al- your guests this Christmas Day? ‘The at counter-revolution has created Enter into the spirit of this task at once. Visit Hied attempts of the coming genera- ‘everyone you know, Tell them the story of Sov- ig colossal. One million are fet Russia and its orphans, Help gladden dreary heirs of the Russian Revolution, hearts. JOIN US IN A NATION-WIDE COLLECTION OF ONE MILLION DIMES FOR ONE MILLION DINNERS FOR ONE MILLION ORPHANS THIS XMAS. THE FRIENDS OF SOVIET RUSSIA 201 WEST 13th STREET, NEW YORK CITY JU Russia, ITE AND SAY ADOPT AN ORPHAN wis of Soviet haa sak 01 West my dimes 13th Street, totaling New $, York City. n... with | Pledge yourself to pay $2.00 each month for the Hore which are to buy. Me SGhrtstmas dinners tor | care of one of Russia’s million orphans. Square | Russia's hungry orphans. i'shall collect dimes from | yourself with your conscience by feeling assured Russia that friends and make another remittance soon. | +4.4¢ there is one needy child in Soviet all my Name eats whenever you eat ‘Midreed Si i eear sete | ten cents. Each WE SUGGEST: Write for a coupon book. Fifty coupons per book. Each coupon sells for ten cents will buy one Christmas dinner, yes, a day’s meals, for one of these needy children.