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Page Six THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. A Wise Fool Speaketh - Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING 00. It is said somewhere in the bible that the “truth Inspiration for the Struggle . fr Ull W. Washington Bird.. Chicago, QL shall be spoken out of the mouths of fools.” Per- it to the affiliated clubs tor discussion. . , Manifesto’; fully (Phone: Monroe 4712) for inasmuch as It must prepared document Each one of haps in biblical days as today only those to whom Introduction to Engels’ “The Prin- This draft also reached , where i deal more or less with history, the its sentences stands out like a work ciples of ,” No. 3 Moses Hess, a “philosophical” social- previously accepted style does not fit SUBSCRIPTION RATES truth was dearer than ■ of art hewn in granite. Altho a docu- material success said what of the Little Red Library. ist, made what he thought im- at I’ll bring with me the By mall: were ■ all. one that ment prepared for the political strug- Ed. Note. ! they wanted —This booklet of the Little provements and prevailed upon the here. ~ It-tS par year 93.50....A months »100._.i months I to say instead of what should be I made J begin: What is gles of the hour of Its publication and Red Library can be had from the Faris club to accept this document. , Communism? And then right after problems By mail (In Chicago only): said. The biblical quotation above seems to fit tho dealing with character- f 1.06 per year months $2.50._9 months DAILY WORKER Publishing Co.— But in a later meeting the decision . the proletariat, origin, difference from istic of a period past, 94.50....6 the case of William long the mani- Jennings Bryan versus evolu- 1113 Washington Bird., Chicago, 111., was reversed. Engels writes about the i former workers, development of antag- festo is not only a historic document all mall and Address make out checks to tion. at 10 cents a copy—l 2 copies for SI.OO. Incident in a letter to Marx, dated i onisms between proletariat and bour- but also a timely source of inspiration THE DAILY WORKER The perennial candidate for the presidency has * * * November, 10, 1847: geoisie, crises, conclusions. In be- for the struggles of today. lilt W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, years points initials entered the lists against the teaching of evolution The immediately preceding “I have played an infernal trick on tween a number of minor and The draft of Engels is a manuscript the revolutionary period of 1848 were Most (Moses Hess). He had finally the policies of the Communists. 3. LOUIS ENGDAHL I in the public forced written on the spur of the moment EdUOT* schools. years of . This from here has not yet been WILLIAM P. DUNNE Indescribable political mis- thru a ludicrously Improved ‘Confes- one and was never put into final form for f The specific object ery adoption; MORITZ J. LOEB Boslneas Manager of attack from of in Germany. Its several dozens sion of Faith.’ Last Friday I took it submitted for hut I think publication. Yet we find In It a clear the Neanderthalers is a Dayton, Tennessee, school- of miniature monarchs were just that up in our circle and criticized ques- . nothing is contained in it against our outline of the ideas and gems of his- Bntered as second-clasa mall Sept. 21, 1929. at the Poet- teacher who purposely violated a state law against many bulwarks of reaction, so much tion after question. Before I had gone, views.” torical analysis in which the manifes- Office at Chicago, 111., under the act of March 3, 1879. so, that even thinking of a political thru half of them our people declared This last to Indicate the teaching of evolution in order to test the sentence seems to excells. The Engels’ draft Is proof change was regarded as a major crime themselves satisfied. Without opposi- that Engels’ draft made for the Lon- that is truly Advertising rates —tlan strength of the moron and their right and prosecuted as on -rr“ element to such. It is true tion I then had a motion passed in- don conference is that same one pre- the result of the combined efforts of there existed block the advance of freedom of thought. a. budding capitalist structing me to draft a new one.” pared by him for the Parisian league, thhe great intellectual heroes of scien- William Jenniugs Bryan is what the title of this class which dreamt of a unified nation Meantime a congress had been call- while the first part of the letter sug- tific Communism: Marx and Engels. The Flivver to and that possessed aspirations to- ed of the League of Communists gests understanding as the Rescue editorial designates, a “wise fool.” He has made that there was an The draft, contained In the dis- ward acquiring the political rule over to meet In London on November 30, between the two friends to make in- manuscript The growers of millions peddling his hokum and Florida covered is not complete. apples ..have not yet learned to religious this nation. But the behavior of the 1847. The purposes of the gathering dividual drafts for the London gather- Question No. 9 is increase their unanswered. Ques- sales by frightening the populace real estate. God has been good to him in the way German bourgeoisie towards its here- were to work out a constitution for ing and that the form of a catechism tions twenty-two and twenty-three are ditary parasitical into devouring their product or else be devoured of making a living, so he stands by liis friend. And princelings has ever the league and to adopt a program. should be followed by both. answered with a remark referring to been characterized by cowardice, and In preparation for this, “Principles in turn by the “Bolshevik menace.’’ They could lie speaks the truth at least once, when he stated Marx who The of Communism” an earlier manuscript, and as no such this cowardice enhanced by fear of came to London for this congress herewith published manuscript argue that radicalism was that “the hand for the first time could be found, these ques- caused by a nervous dis- that w rites the teachers’ pay check the independent revolutionary ambi- from , and Engels, who repre- in English evidently represents the order tions remain unanswered. For the which could tie traced to eating an over rules the schools.” tious of the newly developing prole- sented the gronp of Paris, had written draft of Engels. The manuscript sake of completeness we will supply, abundance of proteins and starches. Specialists Upton Sinclair, expert on pedagogical goose and tariat, resulted in the bourgeoisie separate drafts of such a program. : I written in German was found among in an appendix, answers to these ques- never permitting its dreams to be- Engels evidently had used as a basis Engels’ posthumous papers. in dilapidated human anatomies attribute most of gosling factories, never hit the nail on the head tions based upon the writings of Fred- come inspirations to action. And for this draft the one that he had pre- We know now the final and Engels our physical ills to with more unerring aim than did Bryan on this classi- erich or from the Communist ill-treatment of the boiler. even when in an unguarded moment pared in compliance with the instruc- cal form which the program of Manifesto. Most of them agree occasion. The capitalist in the industrial they (the given by that apple juice, when not class were drawn into turmoil of tions the Paris league. On Communists took when it was pub- For the convenience of the readers, revolutionary 24, 1847, aged, is a good lubricant. centers do not particularly care whether the pro- the struggles in the November Engels wrote to lished ultimately as the "Communist and to make possible a clear under- days bourgeois An orderly stomach produces smiles instead of duct of their universities believes in one god, half of March, 184$, .the Marx: Manifesto.” However, the world fame standing, a number of explanatory quickly became frightened by their “You had better consider this ‘Con- that this document grouches, and who ever saw a cartoon of a a dozen or in a hole in the wall, provided they has achieved does notes have been prepared and printed smiling own courage and repaid In decades of fession of Faith’ somewhat. I think not in the least lessen the value appendix. Clarifying revolutionist in the understand chemistry and other sciences needed in of In the interjec- capitalist press? Apples as a slavish servility for the moments of we had better drop that catechism the Engels’ draft. tions in the text, set in parenthesis, cure for . A slogan: “An apple a day riming industry profitably. But to the witch insubordination. form and call the thing ‘Communist The Communist Manifesto is a care- are supplied by the translator. will keep Communism away” would get babbits, hunting Southern brain, the odor from the burn- In this stifling atmosphere of pre- revolutionary Germany was impos- labor fakers and all members and potential mem- ing flesh of a heretic is like incense to the nostrils. it sible for men with spirit and intelli- THE CHIEF OF bers of the ku klux klan eating up whole orchards. Education under the capitalist system will be gence to live. For the privilege of OCCUPATION SOCIALISTS " "" - ■ But the apple growers lack originality. Not so the kind that finds favor in the eyes of those who thinking, speaking or writing, the best IK —_ the flivver manufacturers. foot the bills, who as Bryan puts it write the men of the nation paid the price of George M. Graham, chairman of the National teacher's pay check. There is an object lesson for exile in this period. One nedfl only _____ Automobile workers’ which should be lost mention the names of and Chamber of Commerce, declares that educatiomhere, not Heinrich Heine as examples. the automobile is the greatest foe of Bolshevism in jonthe radical movement. They who pay the piper During this epoch when the old the United States. This should bounce the sale : can call the tune. The workers cannot expect to semi-feudal order in Germany was of tin lizzies over night. A capitalist editorial be told their place in society by college professors pregnant with the new, capitalist or- writer agrees. i paid by the money of a Rockefeller, a Ford or a der, revolutionary thinking was not confined solely the proletarian \ It be Gary any more than they can expect to be told to ele- t must confessed the editor writes that the ments. The revolutionary circles of automobile has aided the devil considerably in his the truth about the bible in schools supervised by . German refugees in the large cities of nefarious work. What is more conducive to sin. medieval relics like William Jennings Brynn. The j Europe, in Brussels, Paris, London, than a triangle composed of an auto, a male and a workers must own and control their own schools. were therefore by no means hetero- genous groups. Alongside female of the human species parked in some shady of the pro- letarian elements, the revolutionary lane out the ken of a ku klux klan dragon or a The Kaiser Is Next? bourgeois intellectuals were quite nu- methodist minister? Without the auto youthful merous. Among the proletarian ele- sinners might have to serve Satan precariously on Field Marshal von Hindenburg is at last j mfents it was the most Intelligent and a front porch lighted by an übiquitious most advanced itinerary journeymen street lamp installed president of the German republic. The (Handwerksburschen), and within that domin- call of an easily angered and particular leader of the kaiser’s armies during the most criti- ated. This class, not yet fully prole- parent. But rapid travel stirs the blood and dis tarianlzed, had developed its cal period of the world war, now occupies the wing own ide- tance makes the heart grow fonder. Therefore ology which found Its clearest ex- here the Chancellor” many sermons have been preached on the evil re- in the imperial palace w “Iron pression in the theories of one of Bismarck once made his plans to forge the scat- their number, Wilhelm Weitling, a sults flowing from the increased sales of automo- journeyman tered states into the empire which staked its exist- tailor. $ biles. So much so that automobile manufacturers groups emigrant ence on the flash of the sword in 1914. These of revolu- have been obliged to pay the preachers handsomely tionists developed the queerest ideas friends, to preach about something else. nindenburg, one of the kaiser’s closest and programs for their circle. The But the automobile has redeemed itself. Not now sits in the chair vacated by the traitor Ebert. socialist ideas of the ingenious jour- There is nothing now left of the German republic neyman tailor, Weitling, the teachings only does it tempt those of weak flesh to stray from preachings but its name. The monarchists are not acting and of tljp revolutionary the front parlor, but it also tempts the whole fam bourgeois intellectuals in precipitately. They have probably read the history their midst, ily to take excursions into the country. , the influence of the labor movement Those excursions, says the worthy capitalist of the to good advantage. Hin- in the countries In which they lived, Consul” like that of the Chartist movement scribe are “soul expansive, wholly wholesome and denburg can play the role of “First for in |a while and gradually prepare the masses for the England and of the Proudhonlsts or enjoyable." His peroration is worth quoting in the Blanquists in —all these | of the Hohenzollerus. France full: return together resulted in a theoretical mess “This sort of .family life, of course, makes for Democrats, socialists, centrists, catholics, mi j extremely conducive to fruitless j tionalists and fascists—all join in paying tribute squabbles that were .barren of all contentment, and where there is family content practical to the “sterling character” of von results and revolutionary ac- inent there is community loyalty and countrywide j j tivity. U)nly the Communists provide a genuine opposi- patriotism, it is not in this .sort of atmosphere! SuCh were the conditions that pre- that Bolshevism thrives. Therefore avaunt Bol- tion. No sooner was Hindenburg elected than the vailed in the circles of revolutionary shevism as a menace to Americanism!” i Communists issued an appeal to the followers of proletarian emigrants from Germany ! This may explain the gift of £1.500.000 given by; ! the to join in a united front cam- in Brussels, in Paris and in London in 1847. Repeated attempts family Y. A. j paign against monarchism and its allies. AgainsJ were made “Ihe Ford to the M. recently. If! to unite' these groups the dictatorship of the capitalists and their organizationally, the flivver is an antidote to Bolshevism, why should ! Hin-j these efforts culminating finally in' the not the owners of the medicine fork up? When J denburgs, Marxs and Brauns, the Communists | organization of the "League of Com- the masses are purchasing flying machines on the J advanced the slogan of a workers’ and peasants'; munists,” in 1846. In converting these government. clubs of philosophizing, debating and installment plan and take week-end trips to the quarrelling emigrants into active Hindenburg may prove revo- -;- North Pole, Bolshevism will be completely frozen to be the entering wedge lutionary organizations with proleta- AS WE SEE /I By T. J. O’Flaherty Our Readers' Views out. When there are no unemployed and all work- for the return of the kaiser to the throne. The so- rian predominance, Marx and Engels ers are capitalists there will be less Bolshevism cial-democrats have succeeded iu demoralizing the were tirelessly active. Marx later (Continued from page 1) | w-ish to say with emphasis that, what- Worker Loses Hand. wrote aboitt these activities sian labor officials are co-operating may ever. when morons are not to German masses sufficiently to make the restora- as fol- ever be the views of Mr. Pollitt, Editor the DAILY WORKER:—In than And allowed lows: with the Soviet government to 1 ! every tion a probable success. For generations lift effort should be made to see view of the fact that despite the let- write editorials for capitalist papers, we may rest led to "We published the standard of living and raise the that he elementary justice simultaneously a receives ters received from Soviet land by the assured Bolshevism will no longer be a menace. believe that the socialists once in power would partly cultural level of the workers. Our precisely way number of printed and partly j in the same that every DAILY WORKER, the yellow social- prove a real government lithographed American labor officials of Wil- No. Bolshevik professors will then lie lecturing of the toilers, the German pamphlets, in which we jthe citizen has a right to claim. If hooli- ists still claim that the American subjected liam Green type are co-operating with gans on the "Recent Collapse of .” workers learned that Ebert and his gang were but the mixture of French-Eng- are to be allowed the privilege worker is better off than Russian lish , the employers to skin the workers. physical the the servile tools of big Communism and Ger- of force while other citizens worker, therefore, I have decided to capital. Iu their despera- That’s the vital difference. man philosophy whfcih at that time are to be condemned for merely ad- send your column tion a * • • the facta of an in- large number of them turned to the mon- represented principles vocating Charles Moyer, president of the International the secret of the same thing, a very cident in the shipping room I archists. the leagfle time ago, the DAILY WORK- where Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers is lin- to a criticism; serious position arises, in which very work in New York City, the financial This is the of in place of this we to a SOMEER carried a story of the kidnap- wide public issues are involved. ing up with the labor fakers in Montana, who result the social-democratic policy tried spread I metropolis of the capitalist world. / scientific understanding of the ing of Harry Pollit, leader of the Brit- do not know what legal remedy is now in Germany. They have betrayed the workers and eco- One of want to kill the lively little paper known as Great nomic structure of bourgeois society ish Minority Movement, by a gang of open to Mr. Pollitt as against this the recently invented ma/ betrayed the republic, which was never anytlring chines which lightens Falls Town Topics. The men Charles is now light- as the only firm theoretical basis, and fascisti. The minority movement in iniquitous verdict, but I certainly be- altho it the la- but bor of the toiler the tool of the capitalist and landowning finally we explained in a popular man- England is the prototype of the Trade lieve no means should be left nevertheless thru ing helped to save his neck from getting danger- untried the classes. Ebert kept the president chair warm for ner that the questions not the estab- Union Educational League in the to obtain a reversal of the same. If anti-social use to which it is put. ously stretched some years ago. Rut Charlie’s in the end hurt) woikers, von The lishment of some Utopian system, but United States. When Point’s kid- necessary, I should be prepared to the is the neck, Hindenburg. latter will hold his seat stripping memory is even shorter than his tho his con the conscious particteation in the his- napers were brot to trial they were subscribe to any fund which may be and nailing machine which until the kaiser turns it into a throne. nails and strips science is more elastic than either. toric process of change of society that acquitted by the court despite over- opened to carry this matter further.— cases automatically. The only party in Germany today White working my that carries takes place before our very eyes.” whelming evidence that they had vio- C. T. Cramp, Industrial General Sec- at this machine mate threw on the power the banner of the class war against collaboration This positive found a lated the law which the British ruling retary, National Union of Railway- accidently Karl Katitsky has written another book in which criticism whereupon the trigger with ready in league. class is supposed to be so particular men, London, N.W. 1.” which drives capitalism and monarchism is the Communist echo the In Janu- the nails began he vomits every revolutionary idea he ever enter- ary, 1847, its central’bureau, about. This miscarriage of "Justice” to shoot out nails. I Party. It has not yet secured the leadership over in Lon- Immediately jumped tained. The renegade tries to dismiss the Russian don, dispatched representatives so outraged British labor that' even a but had both of a of tin* soma my hurt majority workers. Rut its propaganda to Brussels reactionary like C. T. Cramp, Indus- Do Some Militant thumbs anad barely escaped revolution in the first chapter, but it keeps bobbing | to invite/Marx' and Engels 1 losing them [and tiie conditions forced on the German to the league. trial general secretary of the National entirely. up in the rest of the book. Kautsky says it is our workers! Join »With the devel- I Decorating at the by their masters will accomplish that aim. opment of a more lucid understanding Union of Hallwaymen, wrote to the | The other worker obeying business to help capitalism transform itself into T.U.E.L. Picnic, May the slav- by the members and the clarification London Daily Herald protesting 30 ish ideology inculcated into him by socialism. We might well helping of purpose the as try a pole It is rumored that the of the league itself, the against the verdict. schools of the masters attempted a certain judge who is all het * * .* If you miss that T. U. E. L. picnic cat itself into a need for a unifying program to stop the machine and a to transform lily. up became on Decoration Duy, Snturday, Muy 30, as result over radicals having ulterior designs on the dally more obvious. Marx’s indefati- TJIS letter is herewith published as of his attempt to his you naturally save master’s capitalist constitution, gable efforts sidelight are Jnst throwing away property, lost right confiscates dice prepar- in Brussels soon succeed- a on the difference be- big his hand and the Harriot Hfanton Blotch, writing in a in a time. If you must decorate New York atory to using them in a crap game. He is alleged ed transforming the Brussels or- tween the official leadership of the ring linger of his left hand. He is ganization something on this day, come out with twenty-six years socialist paper, not the official organ of the Gen-1 to spend his Into a proletarian revolu- labor movement in England und In the of age aund has only salary on booze and cannot afford to tionary the rest of the folks uand help deco- congratulated German; club. Engels, meanwhile, had United States. Can you Imagine Wll- been married for seven months. AH erai Electric company, the invest in gambling machinery. It is also gone rate Aldenhelm Grove. Get u ticket reported to Paris, where old revolutionary liuin Green or John L. Lewis writing lie received from his grateful people on the election of Ilindcnburg. He is a tine from uny live wire and early. mas- that he auctions off the dice after he-is with illusions and new llliislonary n following, come ter was the regular thru theories letter like the when Wll- Ball game, bowling, swings workmen's com- fellow, she says, and the women like hint. It looks had created a Ideo- ltnm Z Poster was kidnaped by the for the pensation of four them. most disastrous youngsters, merry-go-round, singing hundred dollars. way. Ho do socialists, and women. logical chaos In the heads of the mem- cossacks of Pat Hnmrock in Colorado that the men societies and raceH galore. Brothers, compare this bers of the league. Engels his a years ago? Yes, und with the Now Coolidge did best few dancing to the music status of the Russiun has the • •» of or- workers that joined anti-rum allies to disentangle • » Mitchell’s and the prevailing confu- ask yourselves The Seattle Union Record commends the meet- we may see sion. | chestra. if it is worthwhile to the cider industry take a jump, and Daily Herald: ”1 am in keep on selling of capitalists and fakers with attempt rpHE com-j If, after the day Is over und you our birthright, the ing labor a view to Vermont chin whiskers wiggle ns have In an to give the League of plete agreement with your they not -*■ leader are ready to go home, you think you earth, for a mess of pottage, a fulr solving the problem of waste in industry. Capital ( Communists a clear program, the Lon- of Saturday. On subject of day's done in years. G'oolidgc is strong for home in- the trade haven’t had tho biggest GOe worth of pay. don committee prepared a draft en- union methods, myself idea, says the Record. Yes, for the capitalists. , Mr. Pollltt and your life, Just tell the committee and Fraternally dustry. titled, "Confession ts Faith,” *«"* yours, and are la profound disagreement, but 1 see what happens to you. larael L Hurwlta, New York Ofe