SUICIDAL CAPITALISM

...Many beautifu| articles have been contributed by individuals anil organizations and the Debs Auditorium will be decorated by Louis Brom-berg so that the Fair itself will be held on a Russian Village street...

...No other Government on earth would have been guilty of sucn cowardice and infamy...

...bete the biggest event in year...

...It has "become a positive j mania with the ruling class...

...IN "BARBAROUS MEXICO" The Bank Clerks Learn the Power of Industrial Power Coupled With a Political Labor Party By ELIZABETH GOLDSTEIN...

...On the eve of the strike, tht bank officials, backed by the Bankers' Association of Mexico, declared that sjnee th* reason they fired the mtn was hie incompetency, the Union net trying to maintain incomp*t*nt people...

...His paper suspended sons tim* ago for want ef patronage...

...tried To liiy Him So tager was th* hank to rid themselves of this pernicious* union or...

...Local political, racial or religious issues have kept the Klan going strong in a few centers, but these are all exceptions to th* general rule of decline and decay after the second year...

...providing, however, that the employee is willing to accept this money in lieu of his job...

...For several days an expectant public was waiting, looking forward to the moment when the red and black flag (the flag of the Mexican Federation of Labor) would be fluttering in the breeze, over nothing less than a bank, El Credito Espanol...

...Ordinarily, when an employee refuse* to be discharged, even though three months' wage* are guaranteed him, with the union of which he i* a member supporting him in his determination to hold on to his job and the firm in which he is employed determined not to retain him, tho matter must, under the Mexican Constitution, be submitted to a Board of Arbitration and Conciliation for consideration and decision...

...On Tuesday, April 21, at 8:30 p. in , Dr...

...Benjamin C. Gruenberg will l*ctur> on "Guiding (he Child's Leisure" at the Rand School...

...Both in Virginia and New England such rules were early given a trial Thus, in old court records, on* runs across such statements as the following-: "September 27, 1633, the wife of Nicholas Maye, of Newbury, Connecticut, was presented for wearing silk coat and scarf, but cleared, proving her husband was worth more than two hundred pounds...

...V' i But Jimenez wtjs obdurate...

...A special price of 25 cents is made for children...

...SUICIDAL CAPITALISM By EUGENE V. DEBS MORE laws are enacted and more decisions which have the binding force of law are rendered, vastly more, in the United States than in any other nation on earth...

...ASTRIKING decrease in the power of the Ku Klux Elan Is reported by the American plies of correspondent* i.i Klan tar-Civil Liberties Un.on, in s report issued this week, based on the re-ritory to a proposal for holding meetings in behalf of tolerance in Klan stronghold* According to most of the correspondents the Klan is dying out owing to "factional disputes within the organization, failure ef meat-, bars to pay their dues and lack of interest in its objects...

...Thty further «tat*d thst should this Committee fipd Jimenez incompetent, not only would they accept his discharge, but would also see that the bank did not pay the five months' wages that it had offered to pay...

...So th* Commercial Employees' Union, of which the bank clerks are a branch, decided to call a stfrike...

...tlcular quarrel, and J)ts decisions art final and binding...

...The foreign bank clerks, mostly American and English, have refused to join the Union...

...Rand School Notes On Saturday, April 18, at 1:80 p. m., Scott Hearing will dlscuts "The Temper of the Far West" In his Current Events lecture...

...The Oklahoma correspondent informs the Civil Liberties Union that "th* Klan'* Stat* paper, which had a large circulation, ha* been suspended end thousands who joined the organisation are either publicly withdrawing or art refusing to pay further Hue* " Similar report* have come from Arkansas, Georgia aad Texas...

...But the workings in such a procedure in Mexico are somewhat different from what they are, say, in the United States...

...Flint-Faced Elders The glorification of the Puritans in history has bee based upon falsification of their character and their performances...

...Their principal business is to enact laws that no one understands...

...K. K. K. DECLINING...

...MEXICO just missed by a hair's-breadth one of the most interesting and unusual sights of its usually hectic career...

...First, the Mexican Constitution provides that any employer discharging an employee, unle«s for justifiable reasons, must pay the discharged person three month*' salary or wag*s...

...Tickets are now on sale at the School, 7 East 15th street...

...On the other hand, should the result of the examination favor Jimenes then he was to be reinstated in his position...

...A buffet with cabaaret program will make the cafeteria on both evenings a scene of gaiety* As all big Rand School affairs have always been, so this will be a'great reunion of comrades and friends of eythe Rand School...

...Another correspondent in Oklahoma writes that "th* Klan is dying and if left severely lions will be completely dead within another year or tare...

...When a strike is declared against any institution, the black and red flag of the C.R.O.M...

...The Board of Arbitration and...

...The conclusions expressed ar* summarised by the Civil Liber...

...Since strikes in Mexico are legal, protected by the very Constitution Itself, the pickets are unmolested...

...Russian folk songs by Manya Ra-chintkaya and S. Stengel, dances by Dersha, folk dancing by the Rand School gymnasium group, Oriental dances by Dhimah, artists from the Jewish Art Theatre, Labor songs by Sam Friedman and Gertrude Klein...

...Suspend the Strike In order to prov* the untruthfulness of this charge, and to influence public opinion in Its favor, the Union agreed to suspend the strike, in tht meantime making tht following proposition to tht bank officials, namely, that a committee of thrtt certified public accountants, ona appointed by the bank, on* by tht Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, and one by the Union, bo authorised to examine tht qualification* and work ef Jimenez...

...The Klan hss been further crippled by political failures, "unmssking" legislation and "the general apathy on the part of the public...

...Many of the members have become discouraged and nave quit paying duel...

...Every decent American ought to blush for it...

...Correspondent* from West Virginia, Pennsylvsnis, New Jersey and New York report thst "th* Klan is on the wane...

...7 E*st 15th street, New York...

...Gentry Who Founded the Republic "In 1651 the Massachusetts court expressed 'its utter detestation that men and women of mean condition, education and calling should take' upon them the gat be of gentlemen by wearinge of gold or silver lace or buttons or poynts at their knees, or walks in great boots, or women of the same ranke to wear silke or tiffany hoods or scarfs.' " And these are the gentry who laid the foundations of the great republic and who breathed the breath of liberty into its institutions...

...Many surprises are planned for them...

...We learn from history that the magistrates in the colonies established by the Puritans "regulated the styles and cost of female clothing...

...w at the Brooklyn headquarter*, 1ST Tompkins avenue...

...Kirkpetrick it on* of the moat effective *n*ak*rt and writer* in the Socialist Party...

...There is a historic reason for the pitiful plight of this law-bound republic...

...For the benefit of those who ar* not yet acquainted with the technique of a Mexican strike, let me give these few brief pointers...

...laws that fetter the people, deprive them of their liberty, and complicate their daily affairs, in all of which the lawyers thrive and out of which they multiply and swarm in increasing numbers...

...It is strangling itself in its own blind and impotent attempt to perpetuate its foul, sordid, liberty-stifling and soul-destroying misrule...

...Thev can be nur-sbaaed at the Rand S'hool...

...The outrageous gagging of Michael Karolyi, the Hungarian liberator, by our Yiritanic State Department is a 'case in point...

...We have it, moreover, that "The Puritan Elders wh< believed that everything could and should be controlled by law, even attempted, until far into the eighteenth century, to decide just how women should array themselves...

...On Thursday, April 23, at 8:30 p. in , Dr...

...The Committee of Examiners reported that Jimenes Is s capable and efficient worker...

...The average Congress and State Legislature consist mainly of and are dominated wholly by lawyers, many of them of the shyster breed...

...Th* colossel farce of prohibition and the notorious fact that its chief agents and promoters are also the leading bootleggers is another case to make angels weep...

...Now banks as a rule, whether in Mexico or anywhere else, are not much in love with unions...

...The bank had to '¦••pi this decision and, in addition to re-employing the discharges bookkeeper, had paid him for every day he has been out since his discharge...

...Things Are Different Suppose an ordinary bank clerk is discharged from a tank in the States...

...From the very beginning, in its earliest colonial history, tht precedent was established to forbid everything by law, to regulate everything by law, and to punish everybody by law, so as to insure the freedom of the people to bow to the law, to be tied hand and foot by the law, to be gagged and muzzled by the law, and thus fulfill the duties of freemen in the great American republic...

...The bank was equally obdurate...

...The Bank Clerks' Union, though one of the youngest, is perhaps the most vigorous union in Mexico...

...U the latter State, "the Legislature that has just adjourned passed aa anti-masking law that virtually puts the Klan out of basin...

...Flint-faced Puritanic despotism is steadily generating the forces that will sweep it from earth and clear the way for the real freedom and happiness of the human race in th* triumph of Socialism throughout the world...

...Sam De Witt, editor of "The Chatterbox," will be master of ceremonies...

...They find the idea of their employees be-' ing union members somewhat repugnant...

...Conciliation decided that they were right and that the strike was justifiable...

...It is pot impossible that before long, owing to the splendid union that the Mexican bank clerks have perfected for themselves, there will be trouble in the banking world...

...There is a possibility that in the near future these various sections niay separate and form independent unions, joined together, however, into one Federation of Commercial Employees...

...From that time to this the spirit of Puritanism has ha*- controlling influence in public affairs and it hat uniformly made itself felt in face of despotic regulation as if the people were wards,, and against the exercise of the liberty which has been their boast and of which they enjoy actually leas than any other modern civilized nation...

...The growth of antagonistic factions in the Klan is common knowledge out here," writes a correspondent from Indiana...

...They were driven out of England because they believed in freedom, in worshipping God, as they declared, according to the dictates of their own conscience, and the very hour they landed and planted their puritanic banner on the soil of the new world in the name of liberty they began to persecute others for attempting to exercise the right they claimed for themselves...

...General admittion i* fifty cent* aad reserved seats can be obtained for one dollar...

...The Klan is reported to be still strong in Alabama, Colorado, and in part* of several middle-western States...

...and Broadway, ha* been secured for the debate which will be held on Sunday afternoon, April 26...

...And the excuse was "incompetency...

...If he is not, then the trouble begins...

...Among the numbers on Friday and Saturday evenings, April 24 and 25, will be selections by a Balalaika orchestra under the leadership of Roman Silinsky...

...It is a port of the Commercial Employees' Union, which includes, besides bookkeepers, stenographers and accountants, clerk* of all descriptions, such aa bank clerks, grocery clerks, drug clerks, etc., etc...

...Confederacion Regional Obrera Mexicano), Mexican Federation of Labor, is immediately nailed upon the door of the institution involved, the institution it closed, and pickets are placed in front of it to see that no one either leaves or enters th* building...

...And Jimenez was not willing...

...It sll happened because this particular bank chose to discharge one of its employees, Enrique Jimenez, who, besides being a bookkeeper at the bank, was also delegate from his union to that particular shop, and who was ever active in recruiting more members for the Union...

...Practically all the correspondents advised against holding the proposed meetings on the ground that they would strengthen the Klan through opposition and publicity "on which it thrives...

...The Board of Arbitration and Conciliation has full power to determine the joetice or lack of it, of th* par...

...THERANDSCHOOLFAIR THE Russian Villsge Fsir, the spring festival conducted, by the Rand School, the Women's Committee and the Fellowship, for the benefit of the Sustaining Fund, will offer a program of excellent artists...

...The Union of ! Mexican Bank Clerks is planning to demand the closed shop in th* banks, which demand must be granted them,' under Paragraph 15, of Article 128, of the Mexican Constitution...

...Kirkpatrich Seligman Debate Socialist* of Brooklyn expect to meke tbo Kirkpatrick-Seligroan do...

...The poor woman who dared dress decently was arrested and made to give an account of herself, but the bell-hats of the flint-faced elders promptly touched the dust in the presence of the lady who had the coin...

...The Civil Liberties Union, as a result of the opinions received, has decided not to arrange the proposed meetings in Klan territory...

...tie* Union in saying: "The peak of Klan membership and activity appears to%e reached the second je*r of its invasion of any section, and after that it decline* rapidly...

...For this ronton one of tbe largest auditorium* in Brooklyn, Arcadia Hall, Haltey (tree...

...The bank, however, denied the right of the Board to intervene in th* matter'anil defused to abid* by the decision of th* Board that Jimenez be reinstated in his position...

...they began to cheat and swindle the Indians in the name of their religion, and through their vicious and damnable blue laws to make a hypocrite and liar of every citizen, and to convert 'he new nation into a model penitentiary...

...In all of this tsngled and complicated developments we see capi-talism ripening and rotting for its own inevitable doom...

...Both men are effective debater* and will undoubtedly* draw a large audience...

...The Texas correspondent alto declares that "ta* of the Klan leaders, BilUe Mayfiefd, who published a daily Klan paper that boasted of 200,000 circulation, and that one time get out an issue of 1,000,000 copies, has just been sentenced to prison for two years for slandering through his paper T. W. Davis* n, one of the candidates for Cover, nor...

...Profe**or Soligmen is one of the most noted economist* in thi* country and a thorough *tud*at of Socialism and the Socialist movement...

...Margaret Daniels will lecture on "The Elements of Psychology," while on Friday April 24, at 8:30 p. m., Dr...

...Well, what can the poor mortal do, except, stay discharged...

...ganizer that they even offered to pay him five months' salary instead of the required three!if only he would stay away...

...It can readily be seen what sycophants they were in discriminating against the poor and in catering to the rich...

...So an excuse had to be manufactured for ridding the institution of this pernicious person, Jimenez...

...But in Mexico things are done a little bit differently...

...Morris H. Kahn will give the last lecture in his course on "Heredity and Eugenics...

...On Saturday afternoon, April 25, beginning at 2 p. m., Alice Bentley's dance pupils will give several numbers, piano and violin recitals, and August Claessens in psntocnime and spetial leader* in james for the kid-dits will be the features...