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December 6, 39)

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Vancouver, B. C., December 6, 1935
CANADA’S REPUDIATION

‘HE virtual repudiation of the position of
2 Canada’s representative in the League of
Wations by the Canadian government is glee-
fully welcomed by Mussolini. This repudia-
tion of Canada’s agreement to place an em-
bargo on oil shipments to Italy is direct sup-
port of the fascist attack upon Ethiopia.

The capitalist governments of the world
are reluctant about applying sanctions
against Italy, preferring to carve up Ethi-
opia amongst themselves, including Italy, ap-
plying only sufficient pressure, by means of
sanctions, to compel Mussolini to be content
with what they consider his share instead of
his taking the whole works.

The muddle-headed pacifists and laborites
who oppose sanctions on the ground that
their application would provoke Italy and
lead to a world war find in the latest threat
of the fascist braggart that an embargo on
oil would cause him to declare war on all
the nations in the League, a justification of
their opposition to the application of sanc-
tions. But they cannot explain how Musso-
lini could carry on such a war without oil
when a lack of such an all-important com-
modity would make it impossible for him to
defeat even small and backward Ethiopia.

That an embargo on oil would bring the
Mussolini adventure in Africa to a speedy
termination is incontestable. Such collective
action would be the surest means of smoth-
ering the embers of world conflagration
which the invasion of Ethiopia kindled. _

In the breakdown of the collective applica-
tion of an embargo on oil there lurks another
great danger which the Trotzkyites and
other enemies of the Soviet Union welcome.
It lies in the imperialists’ and counter-revo-
lutionists’ desire to see the Soviet Union
alone apply sanctions against Italy. For the
Soviet Union to do such a thing while the
others supported Mussolini by shipping oil
and other much-needed war materials would
encourage Italy, Germany and other nations
to declare war on the Soviet Union. The ap-
plication of sanctions, as has been stated over
and over again by Soviet statesmen, to be
effective not only in halting Mussolini’s dep-
redations in Africa, but in preventing a world
war, must be collective.

The Canadian government’s repudiation of
sanctions has been seized upon by the capi-
talist press to make Canada appear as an
agent of world peace instead of a provoker
of war. They are interpreting the govern-
ment’s assistance to Mussolini as a sign that
Canada has broken the military alliance with
Great Britain. This lying claim is for the
purpose of lulling the people into a false feel-
ing of security:

Canada has not broken the military alli-
ance with Great Britain, and it is likely that
the government’s repudiation of sanctions
was made at the suggestion of Great Britain
in order to give the latter the excuse of an
empire divided on the question of sanctions
to permit Mussolini to have all the oil and
other materials he needs to carry out his
murderous plans.

Whilst the utmost pressure must be exert-
ed upon al] capitalist governments and upon
the League of Nations to apply sanctions
against Italy, the workers must not let the
matter rest at that. They must not repose
too much faith in the League of Nations, but
must use their own organizations to prevent
the shipment of materials, including oil, to

Italy.

OUR MASTERS’ COURTS

HB workings of the capitalist courts was

brought out most vividly in the cases of
five waterfront pickets a few days ago.
These workers were charged with—it mat-
ters not what the nominal charge was—but
the real reason for them being hailed before
the beak was that they were pickets in the
watertront dispute.

Learning that the dispute was about to be
settled, insofar as the seamen were con-
cerned, the learned judge gave them light
sentences of one month, dating from the time
of their arrest. The judge in his final judg-
ment said that the sentences would be light

because the waterfront dispute was about to
be settled!

We are not quarreling with the compara-
tive lightness of the sentences, but the in-
ference to be drawn from the remarks of
the judge was that if it were not for the pros-
pects of an early settlement of the water-
front dispute, the sentences would be much
heavier,—that is, more in keeping with the
Savage sentences meted out to strikers dur-
ing the hottest days of the lock-out, which
sentences included lashes, and also more
suited to the requirements of the Shipping
Federation and the fascist Citizens’ League.

It has become glaringly clear that the
bosses of the waterfront used the capitalist
courts, as they used the police forces, to de-
feat the waterfront workers. All of which
should dispel whatever legalist illusions the
workers may have harboured and teach them
to rely more on the power of their own or-
ganizations to gain their demands.

WEBSTER’S UNITED FRONT

HE cause of the united front of all anti-

capitalist forces against capitalist aegres-
sion was not advanced by the address of Ar-
nold Webster, president of the provincial
council, ©.C.F., and C.C.F. candidate against
Gerry McGeer in the recent federal election
in Wancouver-Burrard. In the address re-
ferred to, delivered at a banqet of the AOTS
Club in the church gymnasium of Wesley-
St. Andrews Church, Webster, speaking on
the subject: “‘Lsh Us All Reason Together,”
called for unity of ALL classes in thought
and action to establish an entirely new social
order.

Webster, in the recent federal election,
plainly demonstrated that he did not desire
unity of even the oppressed classes against
the oppression of the capitalist class, for he
repudiated the support of the most advanced
section of the forces arrayed against capi-
talism, viz: the Communist Party, prefer-
ring to crawl before the bourgeoisie for sup-
port, which weak-kneed policy turned many
of the really anti-capitalist forces against
him because of lack of confidence in him and
all the eclecticism for which he stood.

What does Webster mean when he appeals
to ALL classes to assist in introducing C.C.F.
“socialism”? He must mean by all classes
the enlistment of Hall and the whole Ship-
ping Federation tribe, the rotten Fascist
Gitizens’ Weague, with its maniacal Tom
Macinnes, in the noble cause of introducing
sociailsm a la C.G.F.

Can Webster ever learn that the emanci-
pation of the working class, and with them
the whole of worth-while society, from thral-
dom and cultural degeneration can be
achieved only by the working class, aided by
the most far-seeing sections of the intellectu-
als and professional people and the clearest-
sighted lower middle class? And can he ever
learn that the achievement of such an aim
can be accomplished only by the suppression
of the upper bourgeoise and the decadent and
parasitical sections of society which Web-
ster seems so anxious to enlist?

The statement of Webster is an illuminat-
ing example of the confusionist eclecticism
of the bourgeois intellectual, frustrated in
all the hopes he held of accomplishing the
emancipation of the oppressed classes
through working class action, —if he ever
entertained Such hopes.

The statement of Woodsworth after the
Winnipeg conference of the C.C_F, that the
C.G.F. would “got it alone’ was a reaffirma-
ation of the policy of cooperating with “all
classes” except the most advanced section,
the Communist Party, for the institution of
“socialism,” and must be repudiated by the
rank and file membership of the C.C.F. For
after all, bourgeois intellectual-Christian-
Socialist though he is, his mass base is the
working class which he is misleading into
the morass of reformist defeat and disaster.

It is about time that Webster and his kind
learn that there is a class struggle, and that
the one class, allied with those elements that
can be won over to the class struggle, has to
array itself against the predatory class and
exterminate them as a class—the very class
that Webster appeals to for a united front
while rejecting the only united front that can
hurl back the enemy offensive of lowering
standards of living of the oppressed sec-
tions of society, the menace of fascism and
the imperialist war which is in the making.

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CONTRAST

FOOD SHORTAGE
STILL ACUTE

BERLIN, Noy. 1. — The
provision shortage
acute as ever.
side stores are growing in
length and number. To ob-
tain a quarter of a pound of
butter, each customer must
register his name, address
and occupation in a special
book a day in advance.

In Weissenfels the au-
thorities have asked the
population to consume less
fresh meat so as to leave it
for the production of sau-

NO SHORTAGE OF
FOOD HERE

MOSCOW, U-S.S.R., Nov. 1.
—A novel, large fish store,
in which one may choose
from among 220 kinds of
fish, including many live
varieties, has recently, been
opened here.

With its ceiling painted
sea-green, walls adorned
with a mural depicting the
denizens of the seas and
rivers, brown marble en-
trance and white marble
counters, the store presents
a2 unique and attractive ap-
pearance.

sage.

Grants All Demands
But One

the Conference of
Mayors in Washington last week
W.P.A. Administrator Hopkins teld
this one:

Addressin=

A certain Bronx landlord had a
number of Communist tenants who
were always picketing him, bear-
ing placards on which all sorts of
demands were written. Finally he
called the tenants together and told
them he would grant every demand.
He weuld cut rents, repaint rooms,

is as
Lines out-

repaper halls, install new plumbing
and lights:

“But,” he demanded, ‘will you
please tell me how in hell I am

going to free Tom Mooney ?’’—N.Y.
Times,

When you have read this paper,
pass it on to your friend.

By C. HICHIN

sion of Gur militant werking class
press and sharp, decisive increase
in the circulation of all labor litera-
ture is brought sharply to mind by
the tacit admission from St. James
Street, that organizational steps
have been taken there to “under-
take a counter-offensive on broad

general lines” against “socialist
propaganda.”’
That this “counter-offensive’’ is

already under way is admitted in a
pamphlet just released by the
CP-R., which, after criticising a
certain labor publication in partic-
ular and all labor literature in gen-
eral, states, “For the good of the
State, it is highly essential that
capitalism should rally its forces
and undertake a counter-offensive.”’
Great Propaganda Drive

The big financiers then give be-
geruding recognition of the influ-
ence of labor literature by adding,
“There is every danger, however,
that lack of concerted action to
combat the spread of false ideas
will permit the country to drift
more readily, even than it has in
recent years.”

Steps already taken towards con-
certed action in the counter-offen-

j

The immediate need and import |
ance of a Daily Worker, the exten-'

Financial Interests Plan Wide
Publicity Against Labor Press

Sive by major financial houses and
railroad heads, in addition to the
publication of the pamphlet re-
ferred to, include wide publicity to
recent specially prepared speeches.

The London speech of Railroad
Head Beatty, in which he deplored
the radicalization of Canada’s stu-
dent youth has been given the
widest publicity and reprinting. The
speech of Dodds, head of the
Bankers Association and general
manager of the Bank of Montreal,
given on the occasion of his re-
tirement from the Bankers Asso-
ciation post, deliberately differs
from all previous retiring speeches.
It has not only been published ver-
batim in most Canadian dailies,
but where these failed to publish
it as ‘news’ it has ben inserted as
a paid advertisement,

Beatty’s speech has been already
turned into circular form and a
copy sent to event agent and every
employee of the Sun Life Assur-
ance Company.

Big Finance in Control

Transcontinental lecturing itiner-
aries are already being prepared
for agents of big business. These
intend to “defend capitalism’ and
discredit labor literature before au-
diences of the service clubs: Speci-
ally inspired articles are already

appearing in Canadian periodicals
of the “Maclean’s” type.

Further activities to be under-
faken by these big interests who
want “concerted action” against
the labor movement include the
publication and wide distribution
of pamphlets, the issuance to em-
ployees of the biggest firms of anti-
labor literature, use of the daily
press for articles specially prepared
by a St. James Street publicity
committee, and the contacting of
bodies throughout the country to
co-ordinate similar activities in the
different localities.

Senator Meighen has already
been on the road attacking the
idea “that wealth in Canada is con-
centrated in a few hands.”

One can well understand that
such planned activity on the part
ef the Ganadian capitalists will
most certainly be accompanied by
the organization of the most re-
actionary forces throughout the
country. Never was the need for
a Daily Worker and increase in
number and circulation of working
class papers, as well as the exten-
sion of the circulation of labar lit-
erature more urgent. Never before
was this such a decisive issue con-
fronting the working class of
Canada.

The World

Oil, one of the most indispensible
commodities of modern life, is caus-
ing international political disturb-
ances. Without its supply being
assured no nation can prepare for
war. Waithout it airplanes, tanks,
motor ears and trucks, mechanized
transport for artillery is impossible.

The quantity consumed by the
Italian forces in Ethiouia must be
enormous, and if the League of Na-
tions had two months ago collec-
tively clamped down on Italian im-
portation of oil, Mussolini would
have been compelled to drop his
plan for the conquest of Ethiopia.

A month ago it looked as if the
oil sanctions were about to be en-
forced. Dr. Riddeil, Canadian rep-
resentative to the League of Na-
tions, had brought the matter to
the attention to the League Coun-
cil. Britain and France appeared to
approve, and it was therefore a sur-
prise when the Canadian sgovern-
ment announced the other day that
it did not stand behind the oil
sanctions and that Riddell had act-
ed on his own responsibility only.
It was hinted-that perhaps Riddell
was acting on instructions received
from ex-Premier Bennett and had
not yet received definite directions
as to the attitude of the Mackenzie
King government, It was also hint-
ed that maybe he had made his im-
portant announcement at the insti-

gation of Captain Anthony Eden,
Britain’s League representative.
And then following Canada’s  re-

pudiation of oj] Sanctions Britain
Says she will carry on with them
anyway. The time set by the league
for the imposition of the sanctions,
December 12, has been again post-

poned.
There is just one interpretation
of this seeming muddle. Britain

does not want to impose oil sanc-
tions on Italy, and in order to fur-
ther her own plans her politicians
are shifting back and forth, side-
stepping and twisting first one way
then the other, to confuse every-
body concerned as to what she ulti-

This Week

mately intends to do- E

Just eactly what Britain’s plans
are can only be guessed at. The
one thing immediately certain is
that she wants to give Mussolini a
helping hand, she does not want an
Italian defeat. An Italian defeat
would resound throughout Europe
and Africa. It would inspire the
inhabitants of the french and Brit-
ish colonies to challenge their im-—
perialist masters. It would cause
such an anti-fascist revulsion in
Italy that the overthrow of capital-
ism in that country would be in-
eyitable. Rather than see this
Britain agrees to Italy retaining
possession of certain Ethiopian ter-
ritory adjoining Italian Somaliland
and Eritrea, and by so doing she
differs from Mussolini in degree
only, not in principle.. Britain ap-
parently agrees to Mussolini getting
almost anything he wants in Ethio-
pia provided he does not get control
of the territory including Lake
Tana. This lake is the headquar-
ters of the Nile, and if the waters
of jit were diveried by Italy the
major portion of Egypt would be-
come a sandy desert, and the Brit-
ish cotton growing interests would
suffer heavily.

* x = *

In less than a month after being
returned to power the Baldwin goyv-
ernment of Great Britain acts on
its pre-election policy. It prepares
for war. Hundreds of millions of
dollars are to be spent at once in
strengthening the world’s strongest
navy, and in inereasing an air force
that has few equals.

Armaments is one industry that
all capitalist governments love to
spend money on. The thirst for
armament expansion is unquench-
able, because science is devoting®
more time and research in the art
of wholesale destruction of life than
in any other industry, and its prog-
ress is so rapid that very often
before a new death dealing imple-
ment is manufactured in the quanti-
ties ordered it is alrealy out of date.
The armament industry is goyvern-

ment controlled, and internal com-=
petition need not be feared, Profits
are huge and the government pays
the bills. It is capitalism’s safest
investment.

ES = * *

In Germany armament is the only
industry running full time at full
capacity. But this cannot continue
forever. The time will shortly ar-
rive when this armament must be
used. No country can be a one-
industry country. German unem-
ployment increased 114,000 in Octo-
ber, in spite of the jncrease in
forced labor public works, the steady
outpouring of armament, and the
introduction of conscription. The
breaking point has been about
reached. The fiercest Nazi perse-
ecution cannot prevent it. The ru-
ture leadership of the German work-
ers is being forged in the hottest
pre-reyolutionary fires in history.
In a land where trade unions are
illegal, where centralized leadership
is almost impossible, where there is
no legal press, where there is no

means of communication, the
world’s greatest fighters are being
trained. They have successfully

adapted themselves to these condi-
tions. As one refugee stated: ““‘We
have a card game in Germany at
which you do a lot of talking. Tf
have seen a strike organized over a
game of cards. To listen you
couldn’t say a strike was men-
tioned. But next day work slowed
down in the factory.”
% = % *

The People’s Front in France won
a great victory this week. The pro-
fascist Premier Laval was compelled
to introduce a bill declaring against
illegal organizations. He was urged
to state specifically illegal fascist or-
ganizations, but he refused. Hus
game was clearly to help fascism
by using the powers of the bill to
declare Socialist and Communist
organizations illezal and persecute
them only and let the fascists do
what they like.

But when the bill came up in the
Chamber of Deputies he encounter-
ed such a wall of opposition,
aroused by the People’s Front, that
the bill was altered to declare the
fascist organization, the Croix de
Feu (Cross of Fire) illegal.—F. B.

By JAN PETERSEN

Gondensed from Story in “The
Worker”

He swayed and hiccoughed ...
But listen to what he had to say!
“The Achilles heel of Hitler is its
mass basis,” says Dimitrotf. It was
the heel of Achilles that brought
about his fall.

The Berlin excursion trolley, which
was to take us back to the hot city
from our Sunday outings, stopped at
the station with a quick jerk, and a
piercing shriek of brakes.

Suddenly a man came running
across the embankment, his gait un-

steady, his arms waving. “What's
your hurry?’ he cried. ‘‘Wait
wait?’

All heads turmed, everyone smiled.
The conductor simpered, too, seized
the late-comer under the arm and
drew him up.

“Always hurryin’ always
hhurryin’ ... hic... rushin’ home to
mother?’ He tapped the conductor
amicably on the shoulder. The con-
ducter took him up.

“For a fellow like you there’s
plenty of time, eh?” he said.

“Right .. . right,” the red head
nodded. His index finger floated
around in front of the conductor’s
face, Out of the inside pocket of his
eoat hung flowers, which nodded
mournfully at each of his move-
ments.

As he stumbled slowly down the
aisle the passengers nudged one an-
other and made room for him, ¢rin-
ning.

“Go on . hie ... go on, Kids,”
he said aloud. He was certainly
aware of the fact that everyone was
staring at him.

“Fares, please!”

The conductor stopped in front of

the red-headed fellow. “‘Well, what
about you?”’

“Whadaya mean . Whadaya
mean... hie... fares, from me?’

“Yes, fare, please!’
eu (noun |= .2ie
we were all .: .*hic . .

. IT thought
. all one big

happy family now .. .’’

The Achilles

Heel

He swayed to the side and tapped
a placard near a window, which
read:

“Citizens of Berlin, the B. R. T. be-
longs to you.”

“Why, that’s a part ...a part of
our German socialism now.’

It became very quiet, timid glances
stole all around. I made sure, too,
there was no uniform in the car.

The drunkard suddenly stretched
out both his hands, heavy, calloused
hands.

‘“Fronor every horny hand _. . hic

. but you won’t take honor for
fare, eh? ..- Hie... that’s what
they talk .. -that’s what they print

. hie... but ya ean’t buy any-
thing with it, can ya?”

‘Well,’ said the conductor, slowly.

“And as for what we make _..”
the red-head continued, unabashed,
tapping the conductor on the chest,
“the deductions... hice ... Workers
Front... Unemploved Tax... Avia-
tion Fund... hic .. .- it'll take too
long to list ’em all for ya . - let
them cancel them first ... hic...”

Embarrassed and perplexed, the
eonductor shrugged his shoulders,
turned and went.

The air in the car seemed sudden-
ly to have become too thick to
breathe. The noise of the wheels, the
signals, semed to be amplified. This
ominous silence! If it only ended up
all right! I did not Jet the man out of
my sight. Was I mistaken? No! True,
he was staggering, but he glanced
over-the rows, quick as lightning.

a, know what my pals say ... hic

. . they ought to pay us the deduc-
tions and keep the wages .._. hic...
that would be better...”

The people all around stared like
dolls. It could be read on every face:
don’t react, don’t make yourself sus-
pect.

“Then they just deducted seven
and a half marks from us .. . hie

. for Hitler’s *My Strugele’.. .-
hic ... wonder if I'll have to read it
now... . .if Pll have to .... hic - .

The car passed a sharp curve. He
swayed to one side, against a youne
girl.

““*Scuse me, miss

”

Steins

ad

get off now...

He balanced himself down the
aisle, fished around in his pocket
when the conductor took hold of him
again, and paid. About a half dozen
people got off with him. They all
scattered quickly; he alone remained
standing against the station post.
When the car was about eight or ten
yards away, IL saw him turn about,
draw himself up and walk across the
embankment straight as an arrow.
The conductor gaye me a Significant
look. When I got out the car was
almost empty.

“Who would have thought it?” I
said to the conductor, cautiously. He
understood immediately.

“{ noticed it at once, he didn’t
smell from liquor at all!” he said,
without changing the expression on
his face. Then, after a short pause,
he added, ‘‘That’s a new method!”

i

COMMEMORATE
CANTON COMMUNE

Terrorism against the workers of
Canton, China, and the ruthless mas-
Sacre by the agents of foreign im-
perialism, led by Chang Kai Shek,
in 1927, will be commemorated in
the Labor Temple, 805 Bast Pender
Street, on December 12.

There will be speakers, Oriental
music, dances and dramatics. The
whole event will be staged by the
Sino - Canadian Commemorative
Committee. This committee hopes
that progressive organizations will
also arrange anniversary meetings
during this week and that religious

bodies will arrange for services
against imperialism.
Speakers for meetings, speakers’

notes or other material can be sup-
plied by the committee at Room 13,
163 West Hastings Street,

Our paper must be good. We're
drawing the enemy’= fire. Shoot us

gotta subs.

up some more ammunition. Send

SHORT JABS |

By OF Bill

The first number of the “Cop
munist Journal,” official orzan (7
the Communist Leasue, was pat
lished in London, in 1847. It soj
for the modest sum of ‘tuppenc |
or 2 groschen, or 6 Kreutzer, or 18
sous, or 1% batzen, in the cn
rencies of Britain, Germany, Aj q
Tia, France, Belsuim and Switze: i!
land. The League, of which May 7
and Engels were by that time 1
guiding spirits, entered on this ve; 4)
ture with a great deal of trepide }
tion. In their introduction the ed |)
tors say ‘we hesitated, for ¥ |)
dreaded , lest after a very sho; |)
period of activity, publication wont
cease for lack of funds. .... Pie |:

subscription list was opened and @]
members of both the workers’ edy j/
cational societies in London 4d -
everythings in their power to Swe
the fund. Nay, they did more eye. |!
than seemed possible and in a sho; jf
time the sum of £25 was collecte |
.... and here in actual fact is th >
first number of our paper.’” =

Real working class papers alway jj
have the same financial problem: |}
Im reference to the difficulties ¢ |)
maintaining preyious worker jj
papers, the editors of the “Journal jj
say, “Jsither the police took a hanj
and scattered the staff or the neces |
sary money was not forthcoming 7:
for the proletariat had not thi i
wherewithal and the bourgeoisi:

would not help.” 7

How easy it would be for us & *
the present drive for “The Worker
and the “B.C. Workers’ News” ?!
we only had to raise $125 as thes:
comrades of nearly a century ag
But our $2,000 objective is not, wit
the conditions of today, any harde
task than that of the Communis
League. Then a specter was haunt
ing Europe—the specter of Com
munism! “Today the specter of -
Communism is haunting the world
Six months after the appeal of the
“Communist Journal’ for (finan
cial support, France, Germany, .
Austria and Huneary were in the |

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throes of revolution. Six months |
after the date of our appeal the |
world may be plunged into the |
vortex of world war and revyolutic
This should be our inspiration t
accomplish our $2,000 objective. ‘

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Radio listeners had a rare treat |
one night last week, that is, those —
of them who are discriminating. —
The flood of slanderers of the Soviet
Union was added to by a delirious
gospel-mongering, spell-binder from

Belfast, the leading centre in Bri
tain for manufacturing relizious ~
bigots, products of  Calvinistid

witeh-burning= hocus-pocus and
Roman Gatholic thumb-serew neq
romancy, the result of a sort of in=
verted dialectic process. Recount
ing the marvellous power of prayer
this ignorant windbage told how he
set out from his home town with
only 65 cents; to tour almost all
the countries of the world, and how
when he needed money he just ask-\
ed God for it. If he pulled his hand.
kKerchief out of his pocket a roll ot:
banknotes would fall out from i
How it got there he did not know
Only God knew! On one occasion
he arrived in Sweden and did not
know anyone in the country. He)
went to an address, the first he’
picked out of a telephone book. He
eould not speak any Swedish and)
the party at the address could not

speak Emglish, but the simple.
Swede forced a couple of hands
full of bills on him. This man’

actually had no experiences to re=
late of the Soviet Union, as he)
spent the time denying the truth of
the impressions of the Rey. Wilk
lard Brewing. 7

When he said that religion i&
persecuted in Soviet Russia, Hh)
enly echoed the malicious abuse
indulged in by all the religious
panders to the madames of capital
ism. The Soviet Union is the only
country in the world where a man
or woman is free to practise any
religion they please, from ‘voodoo-
ism to monotheism, or to worship
any god they like, from Mumbo
| Jumbo to Jehovah. What this ia-
natical Belfast apostolic pedler of
hellfire and brimstone is sore at is,
that he was prevented from forcing’
his brand of superstition down the
throats of people who are intelligent
enough not to want it...

= * = *

Morality for the workers is sum=
med up in the copy-book maximy
“Honesty is the best policy ’’ But
it does not apply to the ruling
class, at least not in practice. “The
Guardian,” organ of English
industrial capital, brings to our
notice a correspondence in
which the Osaka Manufacturers
Association of Japan makes the
“narticularly insidious suggestion”
to a Bengal cotten-mill manage-
ment, that they would stamp the
words “‘Made in Japan’’ in such @
manner that they could be easily
removed and the goods sold as tHe
product of the Indian mill. “‘Made
in Japan,” they say, “is to be
stamped for getting the goods from
the Calcutta customs.” The Indian
firm was willing “‘to think it over”
while they got a little more in-
formation. Huropean and American
millowners don’t like this because
they cannot manufacture textiles
cheap enough to be sold as the
product of Indian mills, but they
are just as willing to cheat the
buyers of their wares as the Jap-
anese and Indian millmen. Morality,
like conscience, is an elastic stock-
ine that will fit any foot. When it
has to fit a workers’ foot it can be
stretched to cover all the corns and
bunions—thou shalt not lie, cheat,
deceive, swindle, ¢o on strike oF
ask for more wages; but when it is
for the capitalist foot it is nao big-
ger than a fingerstall and allows
for every kind of swindling, decep-
tion and robbery. It is no accident
that Hermes, the god of Commerce,

is also the patron of thieves: -