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62 THE WORKERS COUNCIL May 15, 1921 MAY 15, 1921 THE WORKERS COUNCIL 63 are TIT FOR TAT his heart (of a publicity director) that he feels constrained to unveil those Communist majorities in The Backyard of the New York Call has be the Russian Soviets. Well, there is another reacome the storni center of the Socialist Party son why he must do it. He also loves political de best niinds. There they vehemently debate the mocracy, anci he will certainly not stand for grave and momentous question: whether the So flub dubbing about the Soviet system of eleccialist Party shall or shall not tolerate the borers tions being the free expression of the will of the from within. You need not ask, of course, what sort of borers from within are aimed at. For you majority. As practised in Russia, it is nothing of the kind.
may pleasantly and undisturbedly indulge in boring, whether from within or without, toward the This from an especially prepared article on the right. No one will object to that. It is when you Feigenbaum Socialist News page of the New turn to the left that hell is raised. You may, as York Call. The same page where with, unfailing Grandpa Vic Berger does, openly advocate and ac regularity there appear reports of elections stolen tually seek an alliance with the Farmers Non Parti by our democratic republic from Socialist aldermen, san League, an organization of anti Socialist prop assemblymen, congressmen and votes from presierty holders and labor exploiters. Or you may dential candidates. With Lee and Cassidy cheated stretch out for conditionless surrender to the out of their seats on the New York City AlderL. Abortive Labor Party. yet you will be manic Board and with Rogoff counted out and outside the danger zone of any charge of political Waldman, Claessens, De Witt and Jager ousted adultry. But, for the sake of love, don you offer from the New York State Assembly Hall, Brother affiliation with the Third International, or the Feigenbaum takes up the cudgels of political dewrath of the Local Gods will destroy you. So beware, mocracy as applied in our land of the free and the ye Engdahls, Glassbergs and Trachtenbergs and the home of the brave. Isn he a marvel! To stand up rest of the brood of Third Internationalists.
so fearlessly and unflinchingly for what is the truth. Of course, you will wonder what made Get Out or Shut Up Julius Gerber has sounded Billy become so bellicose and why he has not done the keynote and, by the Eternal, he means to have the right thing so much earlier in the season, it. He will brook no opposition, and you will when it was so much more the fashion? Well, he either be good to agree or agree to be good. No had read a book and there the author, one of the alternative for the infidels, for Julius speaketh the most cordial supporters of the Soviet regime, acword of the Gods. And never mind the Waldtually says it, and Bill must repeat it. But don susman spasmodic fits of liberal mindedness. The Detroit Convention will have none of it. The genius pect him of meanness, however closely some of his statements may approach it. He is simply ignorant, and of Com. Hillquit will see to it that the Gerberian stupidity is certainly no crime, it is a misfortune.
substance be properly couched in suitable HillWhen he mixes up opposition to the Communist Party quitian form, may it be another Section Six, Article with opposition to the Soviet regime, he does it not out Two, or the like. The impossibilists will be done for of malice. He simply does not know any better. When, and, as the character in the Yiddish play puts it: while speaking of Soviet Russia under the dictatorship What for reason if the Constitution does The of the proletariat he brags of lack of Political Freefate of the mincrity is doomed. Will it not kindly dom, well, remember that after all there is one redeemplease sit down and take notice? And while dwell ing feature in Feigenbaum outburst against the Proing on the coming. convention may we not suggest letarian Republic. Namely, no one, not even himself, that the choice of Detroit by the E, is a rather takes him seriously, least of all, the Call Editor, or he strange one? With its City Labor Federation rep would not let him cause his nonsense to be published.
resented at the Red Trade Union Council of the Third International, Detroit is certainly no fitting Sir Wicks in the Detroit Proletarian is counsel for one Karl Marx vs. The Workers Council. The place for an Anti Third International Socialist Convention. With Comrade Hillquit still of the plaintiff maintains that defendant had badly mutilated opinion that the American worker has no stomach the said Karl Marx theory of. But just here trouble for anything stronger than the National Platform starts. The honorable jurist heard a great deal of Karl of 1926, the Detroit of Unions surely show Marx but knows of him little enough. As a matter of bad taste in sending a delegation to the Tradefact he is not precisely clear as to the real difference between Karl and Carolina. And because of it a great Union Congress of the Third International. Or do deal of really amusing mental disturbance in the head they want to contradict the leader of the Socialist party and its best theoretician? No, the American of the counsel for the plaintiff is exhibited. To start worker will stand for no strong Socialist words, with he maintains with laudable though stubborn and the coming declaration of principles, of the firmness, that said Karl Marx is a genuine Detroit resident, and is a thoroughbred American. Furtherparty must be devoid of any mention of Class more, it would appear from Sir Wicks that Karl Marx Struggle, Sovietism, Dictatorship, etc. Of course, Detroit, Seattle, the Virginia miners, etc. are had been the property of a certain Michigan Marxian Group. That is presumably the presently defunct puzzling contradictions. So much the worse for them!
Michigan Left Wing that was rather famous for its William Morris Feigenbaum ves dearly uncompromising fight it put up against the Almighty poor wretched little Soviet Russia. But he loves himself. Karl Marx, as one well dead, was then and truth still more. So he, himself, blushingly admits. there bodily incorporated in the Michigan outfit. In And just because it is the truth that is so near to fact the choice was most excellent. As a Jew by origin and a German in make up, who but he interested in the work he set out to do, namely the could attack a Christian God? And then again the overthrow of an established government, one of the name of Marx was rather popular with the Detroiters allies of the United States in the recent war.
for the exceedingly good clothes the Hart, Schaffner and Marx clothing establishment served good Ameri You see, Louis Marshall, the permanent president cans with. All this considered Sir Wicks may be of the American Jewishi Committee is thus directly unusually well qualified to speak for Marx. The implicated in fostering Bolshevism. And with him, trouble, however, is that Karl Marx has got nothing Henry Morgenthau, that sturdy democratic politician to do with neither Carolina nor the Hart, Schaffner and United States Ambassador, and Julius Rosenwald, and Marx firm. And to avoid any future misunder the Chicago multi millionaire and expert in paying standing we volunteer to enlighten our contemporary 00 a week to American girls working in his Sears, in Detroit on the following points: Roebuck and Co. mail order house. All these mem1. Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism, bers and leaders of the American Jewish Committeee nus shown up to be the godfathers of the godnever lived in Detroit and knew very little of the less Bolsheviki. And well, what the use hiding the Michigan Left Wing, which is rather fortunate.
bitter truth. Even the great apostle of the New Free2. Karl Marx was never a Marxian, He was a dom Woodrow Wilson himself did it, Hadn he rather original thinker and surely he believed not in hurry to recognize to the overthrowers of our ally labels. He preferred the real thing.
in the recent war. the Tzar! Of course, it is not Karl Marx did not know he would have any diknown, whether Trotzky (don forget he is Braunsciples. Would we have had any while he lived, he stein too) was a member of the Kehillah. But neither do we know whether he ever played with Clara Kimmost likely would have taught them to have good sense ball Young in the movies. Yet we say it. We can say to start with.
anything without blushing: we abhor the red any4. Karl Marx never said it, perhaps, but he believed where.
that just repeating: Holy, Holy, won bring one into Well, There Is More in Stock. Just read and see Heavens. The acid test is to be applied first. for yourself. It appears that The International Ladies The Dearborn Independent, Henry Ford Garment Workers Union is part of the Jewish Kehilantisemitic sheet, merits praise for having injected lah and therefore Communist. Isn it simple. some truly humorous stuff in his ordinarily brazenly The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America stupid outlay of matter. Indeed, the two page long is another part of the Jewish Kehillah and Comaccount of how Jew Trades Link With World Re munist. Sidney Hillman, President of the volutionaries reads with absorbing interest. It really of is a Sovietist; he is so radical that he would breezy. And it gladdens one heart to learn that there not even degrade himself by being called Socialist.
are Only 600, 000 Communists in Russia; more than 300, 000 in two Jewish Trade Unions alone, as the Benjamin Schlesinger, President of the sub title of the article has it. With this number of is another avowed Communist; last year he went to Soviet Russia and to cover his expenses all Communists a May Day Revolution may be somewhat more of an affair than is the common run of the members of the Communist Party were assessed 50 a piece. Get it? The two unions alone with the Palmer variety we have been treated to so far. 300, 000 Communist members contributed 450, 000.
Of course, somewhat bewildering is the next headline The Kehillah, a Clearing House of the ComSome Schlesinger this is. Got away with half a milmunist outfit. Why the Kehillah of all? This purely lion dollars just like that.
religious body for support of religious education, It goes without saying that Schlossberg of the Kosher butchery, etc. But this is just a slight misA. of is a Communist, for had he not said understanding. The writer of the Jew Trades Link that the industry is ours?
evidently mistook the English name of the Kehillah And Rabbi Judah Magnes, President of the. Jewish Community for, Jewish Communism. But Jewish Community, is a Communist, for the Kehillah what of it? Surely this does not affect the value is just what the word signifies the whole Jewish of the Dearborn Independent stuff, except that you Community. All of it with Jacob Schiff, the Belmay perhaps think that all the 300, 000 Jew Commonts and the Guggenheimers and the Strausses and munists are of the Jewish Community brand. But the Yiddish wing of the Tammany Hall in the bargain, even so, what of it? The story is interesting though untrue. And interesting it is. Just a few tit bits picked Furthermore, the Jewish Workmen Circle (Arat random will show it. Here: beiter Ring. is 98 per cent. Jewish; the 2, 000 Jewish organizations in New York City are officered by Jews. Russian Bolshevism came out of the East Side most Russian Jews come from Russia. of 2, 000 Jewish of New York where it was fostered by the en organizations presidents, 1, 270 are under 50 couragement, the religious, moral and financial en age (a characteristic Jewish Trick. the CzechoSlovak Charles Recht is a Russian Jew, etc. etc.
couragement of Jewish leaders. Leon Trotzky (Braunstein) was an East Sider. Whether he was Well, Gentlemen, this Dearborn Independent is a a member of the New York Kehillah is not known.
great magazine and the United States is a glorious country. But don worry. There will be plenty of But the forces which fostered what he stood for good Americans to read this Henry Ford stuff and centered in the Kehillah, and both the Kehillah and believe it. For, in the words of Lester Ward, nothits associated American Jewish Committee were ing is too absurd to be believed.
JAY BEE.
years of