A NIGHT IN BOMBAY
A NIGHT IN BOMBAY By Raymond Fuller IJTHKN I saw how absurdly simple it was, this demolishing of some ot the gravest Anglo-Indian problems in a single night. I was reminded of that scene in...
...one who had lived .among and loved mankind...
...Sanctimonious pity is no substitute For equity to the aged...
...Flashes Picked Up On* of the Air From the fVomane mi Station WEVD, the Fagreiw V. Debs Meenorial Station LXNDY Uf MEXICO AIX credit to Lindbergh...
...He hurls back upon his erstwhile comrades and present traducers, that they instead are conspiring for the Revolutionary downfall...
...sb which be describes a iiiinlliig of the first session of the Second congress of Soviets of Workers* and Soldiers' Deputies...
...Certainly not much divided in the course and sequence of revolutionary event...
...A lunatic at large secretly poisoning the food of people in restaurants would bring the idiot to a padded ceM where he would spend the rest of his life...
...All of them seemed to sense the Ironic circumstances that had brought them together with their burgeols enemy to view a scene in which their revolutionary tactics and faith were being presented through effective illusion into drab disillusionment...
...Our duty to the Russian proletariat doesn't permit us to remain here and be responsible for these crimes...
...The mob bowls again...
...Speaking to the Pennsylvania Society of New York Governor Fisher declared that "There is no reason why business custom should not be as thorough in the conduct of public affairs as in « great steel company or a railroad company or any other form of private enterprise...
...Notice the cosmopolitanism of that gathering: The lodge ceremony (anciently coming from Semitic origins in Asia Minor) followed Irish usages' and ritual...
...Owing to the archaic survival of the relations between church and state...
...I THOUGHT ATE MIGHT START SOMETHING EXITING, AND BY DOING SO START V CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE NEW YORK AND MEXICAN OFFICES...
...It would take you just one full week of play going a year to see everything of value In the big city, and then you might as well stay home and do the chores for the balance of the year...
...The importer with whom I had come to do business invited me to accompany him...
...Unity of action in the election next yearThe Socialist Party and its voters are made up of men and women who have taken such a resolution and have kept it for years...
...The one touch of humor that the first night at "Danton's Tod" had for me was during the intermission when my eyes fell upon some two dozen left*' winger and Communist leaders who had crashed In on the play...
...Whole herds of holy men threatened to go over en masse to the Catholic Church, while the lowchurch adherents danced in all of London's streets...
...Tor scenic glory and for dramatic artistry, the presentation at the Century- Theatre reaches in my poor mind the highest peak fa human accomplishment...
...On the other hand we agree with Mr...
...Furthermore, the legislators insist that net aB of these spfimvnctfis tia\ve teen strictly *spJsrttSa\«U In addition to other mtoermranpri...
...Hearst has indulged in a poison crusade that might result in the death of millions in this country and Mexico...
...Organizing Transit Serfs PRESIDENT GREEN of the A. F. of L. is no doubt right in declaring that the National Association of Manu facturefs is taking an active part in the injunction proceedings to prevent organization of the workers on the transportation lines of New York City- However, we do not think with Mr...
...If Cal Can, Anybody Can There are people who point to Coolldge and say that be la evidence that ANYBODY can be elected President In this country...
...Long ago Mr...
...I would like to mention by name some of the Communist big boys who were present last Monday night...
...Nor do we believe that anything is to be gained by assuring newspaper readers that the union organizers are not thinking of a strike...
...Invested capital, politics, raw materials, ballots and the open shop, the creed of capital and the material interests of the capitalist class taken for granted and openly stated...
...The ballot box,' he said, "is just as essential to wholesome public life as raw materials are to industry...
...They constitute big unions of capital and finance and display a class solidarity from which organized workers can learn much...
...Called before a Senate committee, Hearst admitted that he did net know whether the documents were genuine and that he had blotted out the names of four Senators in one document who were alleged to be listed for sums from Mexican sources...
...Will that bring him to his senses...
...While I am young with rage, I'll sing Until hypocrisy fall away...
...Moscow and Paris are after all not so far apart in time...
...there ISNT any wall...
...However, let it suffice that they were all there, and through the genius of Max Reinhardt and his great troupe of German actors were given the Intellectual trouncing of their young riotous Uves...
...as many of my class have been driven into the cities to compete with wage workers or jobs...
...I am just wondering whether we political actionis ts ought not to get up a fund to subsidise tin* striking play of the futility of force in revolution and see to it that every left winger and howling fanatte of force is given a forced sitting through the three big scenes at least in which Dan ton, Robespierre, Stalin and Trotsky and the bloodthirsty mobs uadar them are portrayed in such realistic manner a* w>forever spoil their taste, if not their inherent last tor the tactics ot force and terror over i ease* and" education...
...No other large city in the world would put up with it...
...The Governor is charged with having so fallen under tbe bastoenee of hto secretary thai he has atsssdhd many spiritual seances with her, and that he can make no deesdea without her approval...
...There is plenty of room inside and meml)ership is not a worthless and costly luxury...
...For certain we have the great theatrical districts to cavort around in, the sky-tickling buildings to consort with, and millions of dizzy electric sign bulbs to give us eternal dayligbt...
...How many who read this will sign one...
...The theatre and the opera particularly are tbe twin jewels of strange brilliance that dazzle and draw you on...
...The maidenly beauty of a world is concentrated within ten short squares of brick and asphalt...
...This was the gentleman who, in 1912, created a stir by declaring that the Socialist is" a "mad dog" who should be shot...
...Green that this support constitutes a "conspiracy...
...sobering contact with this elemental and ultimate fact made plain to every man of us there...
...My address Is Route 2, Cleves, Ohio, not Cleveland as was signed...
...Hearst also played a shabby trick on The Nation and its editor, Oswald Garrison Villard, printing a document that had carried their names but blotted out as it appeared in the American...
...However, with the exception of tbe Scripps-Howard chain of paper*, and one or two others, the oldline press to America woaM undoubtedly have done test as Mr...
...The rustic m>nd views all this imposing heap of human wonder with great fear and self-made inferiority...
...Green that responsibility for the feudalism and unsatisfactory conditions in the transportation service "rests on the officers of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company...
...Trotsky wonders how he can subvert a Revolution, when be alone has been the Revolution...
...Also may I add my letter wasn't Intended for object of charity...
...HEAKST AND HIS FOkGkRIES If anything could pierce the rhino:eros-like hide of William Randolph Hearst, then certainly the Senatorial in /estigatlon into the Mexican forgeries )ut out by the unscrupulous editor as jenuine should have caused Hearst some uncomfortable moments...
...This insolent snobbery is positively disgusting, ff the aged.are worthy of care they are entitled to t not as alms.collected for beggars but as earned rompensation for useful service and collected from society as a whole...
...therefore, I resolve to give up the worthless and costly luxury of i Democratic and Republican ballot and henceforth wrill use my ballot to destroy these two parties and help to build one representing my family and my class...
...I ought to scrub the red away And mtke my thoughts conservative...
...It was the day of the aVdeuavac insurrection...
...EITHER OLD AGE OB TOTAL DIBABZLTrY IS THE IVcw Lmadar' Mail Bag TROTSKY, THEN AMD NOW * Editor, New leaner...
...This is what old age pensions nean...
...Now, THERE was the answer...
...In a sense it was rather the band of death than the mind of life that guided the participants just as it required the shepherd's death to shatter the make-believe wall There had Just died at Bombay a Parsl gentleman "self-made," philanthropic, simple...
...Moreover, they are tied into a network of intimate relations of cooperation and generally in a powerful cohesion with great financial institutions...
...For the farmers: That as the politics of the twin parties of capital and finance have cost me my farm, my home, and the prospects cherished for many years...
...How remarkable It is that when ear old men have bungled up some 'Mpluwialhv undertaking, when experts in international relations have fallen down on the 'oh to which they are supposed to be peculiarly fitted, they have to" call in 'ormer cowboys and youthful aviators to -e-establish the good will between nations vbich they have so stupkuy imperilled New tt is salt that___,_ to ge to Central *merfaa, and fly { ever nations which bave every nil reason to seaport aasertoaa ambition...
...He is at large, still publishing "newspapers...
...These officials regard this public service as a rich cow for them to milk and the workers as stable boys to feed the animal...
...BENJAMIN MX7SSER...
...Justice alone will suffice...
...Robespierre became Stalin, and Dan ton somehow squirmed into the shape of Trotsky, The old accusations of betraying the Revolution shaped themselves into cries and epithets from the rostrum and out of the galleri is in the Kremlin Assembly Chamber...
...By something "exciting" be had in nind Intervention in Mexico, with all he tragedy that such a bloody underaking would Involve...
...Hearst is so royal i patron...
...Of coarse all Ids newspaper rivals are loudly gloating over what they call the expose of the Yellow Kid of journalism...
...But nationality and race did not echo here...
...wage cuts to the :extile workers...
...The local Masonic lodge was to hold a memorial service the evening of my arrival...
...New Year Resolutions fHE old year is dying and a new year will be ushered in within a week...
...I was reminded of that scene in Malay's "Aria da Capo" where a shepherd having lust murdered his comrade during a quarrel Involving a wan between their pastures, suddenly remembers that It was after all only an imaginary wall erected in a game of pretend: "Why . . . why...
...Both are cases of class solidarity, not conspiracy...
...A British Family Row 'J'HE innocent-sounding Book-.of Common Prayer has started a wild hullabaloo in England...
...If they had ear/ seat Lindbergh before they sent the saartoes...
...Its saosabers claim that they are possessed of the secrets of nature, that Usey can prophesy events to eease, and can transmute baser metals into gold...
...And Trotsky has no stentorian gift of infecting the Soviet Assembly with such hilarity as brought down the dizzy hoi-pollol of France during his self-defense before the Revolutionary Tribunal...
...They hate laughter...
...A poisoner at large, yjjrough his chain of papers he evidently hoped J bring about a crisis in the relations between the United States' and Mexico favorable to his dollars invested across the Rip Grande...
...Those who accumulate workless earnngs may ignore* it...
...As a play, "Danton's Tod" is superb...
...was spoken to English over the body of a Persian in a city of Hindustan...
...Strangely enough, the New York Times, owned by that prominent authority on episcopal affairs, Adolph S. Ochs, comes out with an editorial saying that the attitude of the House of Commons should be a warning to Socialists that Englishmen will not stand any tampering with their ancient tradition...
...FORGERIES FOR SALE Forged documents concerning Mexican elatlons have been floating around New fork for several years...
...This book was many years in the writing, and it received the approval o^-the Conservative House of Lords...
...Of course even now, if I dared to suggest political education and action as the sanest and surest means to bring about a permanent social change, the whole bunch of them would start their wolf-pack bowling, shout me down into perdition as a cheapjack bourgeois counter-revolutionist, and hark back to a Greenwich Village speak-easy to discuss new means and methods of sovietizing this poverty-stricken land of Ford and Cadillac owners...
...The mob bowl is still the same...
...Comparison of the two showed that Hearst's "revelations", at least regarding this particular document, constitute a raw piece of forgery...
...The New York Curtis organ nust go in for the "humanities" and alms for the iged is its substitute...
...In fact, a powerful strike may be necessary to teach the traction Junkers the lesson .that the workers of this century are as much entitled to organization as the owners of industry...
...Will you...
...It was pointed out by opponents of the book that certain ceremonials prescribed therein smacked of Catholicism...
...We all met on a common ground: the death of a common man, whose wealth, ancestry, business, position, counted for less than that he was a man...
...The sanscullotes are now mujiks and toilers...
...Till social structure be rebuilt I'll fight, and leave nice words unspilt I ought to say...
...I base Jjast reread an article by Mm Reed ealJJd "N11 wilim Tth, 1*11...
...Admire the usual thinjrs...
...Hearst did with the doc omenta that came into hit possession, provided they got hold of them...
...You didn't have to know a word of that queer Slav palaver...
...As propaganda for Real Red, Rough and Ready...
...IF THERE IS ANY Mf—I >F THAT BODY WHO IS INNOCENT 09 MORAL TURPITUDE...
...WATSON TK8TIPTEX>, "I WANTED IX) PLANT A MAN THERE WHO VOULD KEEP HIS EYES OPEN AND 3EE WHAT WENT ON...
...That sentiment would be unthinkable in a gathering of workingmen...
...Here is one for the wage worker: Resolved, that as the politics of the twin parties )f capital and finance have brought me and my family heavy penalties...
...We saw that there was nothing after all to fight about...
...Here and there you find a genuine attempt to present something worthwhile in drama, such as the work done by the Theatre Guild, and the onelady organization* called the Civic Repertory of Miss Eva Lie Gallienne...
...In view of the fact that the whole matter hinged on whether the church should go to Rome or not, the Times seems to lie going a long way around the block to find a stick to strike at Socialism...
...Such provision for veterans of industry was regarded as Bolshevism, Jacobinism, Illuminismand i few other isms...
...Hammonds, the Governor's secretary, who is supposed to be a Roeteracian, that is, a believer in4 a curious mystical order which nourished to thi seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
...There may have been, probably were, other racial streams flowing underground unseen...
...So to order to get him by hook or crook, the legislators bave di egged in Mrs...
...Everyone who (rears long trousers and is over twentyine should be able to recognise them >y this time...
...It was thought that this conflict, which was taken most seriously by churchmen both here and abroad, would be composed by adoption of a new Book of Common Prayer...
...The packing of passengers, especially in rush hours, is disgusting...
...Well, we have come to the conclusion...
...he gasps, horror stricken, as he walks right through It I was present In person when this momentous solution was arrived at...
...We recall that the morning and evening Curtis publications in Philadelphia fought to the last ditch against old age Tensions in that state...
...To that statement Trotsky replied: "AH these so-called Socialist compromisers, these...
...Those resolutions are the essence of logic and common sense...
...When it got to the Commons, however, the cry of Popery was raised against it...
...We all had our money's worth and more then...
...When that scene faded from the stage, and an interlude cf smaller personal tableaux took its place, my mind hurdled back the thirteen and one half decades, and skipped over five thousand miles of space into Moscow...
...We submit a resolution for the jew year for all those who earn their living by ieef ul work...
...Death to traitors of the Revolution" is the cry on all sides...
...It is the season for >reaking with past habits and making resolutions, earning from mistakes and resolving to avoid a •epetition of them...
...A strike may be necessary if the men are organized...
...left us without loyal fighting groups of jur class in the legislative bodies...
...WE WERE TN OKLAHOMA ONCE *OR THREE DREARY MONTHS AND JAW THE LEOTHLATORE AT FIRST 3AND...
...We all stood silently before one Ood and gave a few minutes solemn thought that we were all brothers...
...Support of the miners in their terrible struggle by other labor organizations may be paired with the support by the manufacturers of the New York traction magnates...
...He admits ¦ ownership t y in Mexico to the amount of 'eeveral million cioitars...
...Many have been the work >f a clever forger named Nosovitskl, who las made a living by making photostatic ;onles of harmless stolen letters, and nsertlng in them two or three lines which hange the entire content of the leter and lead to all sorts of hair-raising inclusions...
...OKLAHOMA'S GOVERNOR Out in Oklahoma the Legislature wants to impeach the governor, mainly because Governor Johnston has not been as kind as most Oklahoma governors are to the oil interests of that state, nor has be handed out sufficient patronage to "the boys...
...Eddie LeVinson suggests to me however not to do so, since every mention mads of them by name in the "counter-revolutionary press" might be immediately clipped and sent to Moscow with a veiled bint for increased salary or subsidy...
...If bis poison produced war ft would not be Hearst whose carcass would rot under a tropic *un> - That fate is reserved for the sons of tanners and workers in general...
...These are fine resolutions and if kent only require one thing more to bring a political revolution...
...brought injunctions, destiution and hunger to the miners...
...1 surely think it cruel to leave you with no illusion at all, but from my own observation of twenty-flve years in the whirly-world of stage and play-acting, the gay white way and the average dramatic performance are simon-pure bunk, and just another of those come-on-get-the-Rube's money—games played by city wiseacres for the questionable benefit of the boob from the broad acres of barley and dandelions...
...Last Monday night, Mr...
...That memorial service not only made it obvious that all vexing inter-racial and inter-nation questions CAN BE solved...
...Well, I Just bate to break up such fairytale faith on your part...
...Gest brought over the Russian extravaganza called "the Chauve Souris" and then right after that—the Moscow Art Players...
...Attending were several Hindus (In, turbans), Parsls (Zorastrians, wearing the curious black helmet-cap they affect), Arabianancestored Mohammedans (in tarboshes), a Jew of Damascus, a Sikh from the Punjab, an Egyptian, two Englishmen, a Scot, an Irish Celt, and myself, an American...
...no ends worth such means...
...Sincerely...
...Ood grant the day is close at hand when Our Great Nation can realize right from wrong, and the poor "under-dog" can understand the difference between cheers and sneers...
...The hard-boiled of Hearst's editors vas exemplified by Victor Watson, now dttor of the gum-chewers delight^ the .Ilrror, of New York, a Hearst tabloid...
...Will he Join with the rest of the Socialists tbe world over in a huge cry that the prisons of Russia be opened and that those people who have given almost all of their lives to the Russian Socialist movement be set free...
...LEONA HAIGflT, K Z; Cleves, Onto...
...The intellect and creative genius of a nation are squeezed into several acres of urban chaos...
...speaking for the Bund, the organ of the Jewish Social Democrats, said: "What la taking place now in PeOugrad to a monstrous calamity...
...And there you are...
...They are saying the same thing about him now that he said about the Social Democrats In 1917...
...For some years that church has been torn up the middle, both in England and America, by a bitter row between the followers of the high church, who lean towards Catholicism, and-the adherents of the low church, who call themselves liberals...
...Then he was questioned by tbe Senate Committee about planting a man in the lew York offices of the Mexican Coun;ul...
...These owners are more powerfully organized than capitalists are in any other country...
...Mohammedans, ANthejists, Socialists, Laborites, Theosophists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians and Non-Comformists, Osteopaths, Vegetarians and Seventh-Day adventists all took one side or another of this Episcopal fracas, and as a result the adoption of the book was defeated, an arch-deacon was led weeping from the scene, family rows sprang up all over the Empire, and there was great talk of the disestablishment of the Church and State...
...The Russians have no sense of humor...
...Parliament has control over many of the affairs of the Anglican Episcopal Church...
...In the next ^Mition this document appeared with another date...
...as big capital has taken out of the farm all the activities that pay and left the farmer with those that do not pay...
...Instantly the house was in an uproar...
...increasing unemployment in the arge cities which threatens chronic misery for many millions...
...RRRRREVOI.UTION the play at the Century Theatre is decidedly a cold-water dash on all true builders of barricades...
...as the politics of the two ruling parties have been a worthless and costly luxury to me therefore, I resolve to destroy these two parties and help to build one representing my family and my class...
...a-TOU folks out in the cactus trimmed provinces, * and you home bugging city edgera, sometimes have a secret envy for us round-thc-townera...
...Editor, The New Leader: I wish to correct the mistake in address signed to the letter from a Veteran's Wife, published in this week's New Leader...
...obey Sapient laws by sapa decreed: I know the obvious that you plead I ought to say...
...Daily misses objective prey...
...The Creed of Capital gO thoroughly has the idea become that government is a matter of rule by business and invested capital that men in office like the Governor of Pennsylvania discusses it frankly...
...William Randolph Hearst has for weeks been giving prominence to such documents in his publications...
...The Bund groups Join with the declaration of the Menshlviki and Social Revolutionaries and will leave the Congress...
...an outstanding example of that fine kindliness and Inherent dignity for which Bombay Parsls are so deeply respected...
...I do not wish charitable aid from my comrades, but win be glad to answer letters from anyone and can also tell more concerning our treatment by The Veterans Bureau and their assistants...
...The only thing lacking in the Russian tragedy as it is being imitated today from off the old French pattern is laughter...
...Yes, sir, I lived fright through it for the crudest hour of experience I can remember...
...Chinese, Philippine, Nicaraguan, Mexican — scores of world questions, bora of emplracy, exploitation, Jealousy or contempt, are not as intricate as they seem once men apply the key to the cryptogram...
...Nosovitskl, who was recently arrested .wing to some marital troubles, has stepped out of the picture...
...what round-tables, ambassadors, conferences, plenary sessions, treaties, commissions, wars, failed to achieve...
...THE CHATTER BOX The Whole Duty of Man I ought to say No word your pity need forgive...
...Laborers are the raw materials in industry and their ballots in politics, all for the glory of big business and *to provide for its intellectual police These gentlemen feel just as secure as slave owners did when they reached the conclusion that black and white workers should both serve as mudsills in a class-ruled society...
...In this dirty Hearst has been careful to avoid the ] but his intention apparently is to bring ir with Mexico...
...At that Congress, vltch...
...Once this year you tillers of the soil and small towners appear a btt pale in the picture...
...1 The Post Snivels QUR compliments to the Evening Post which is conducting a drive for the aged who are in need...
...They are just so much refuse which will be swept into the garbage-heap of history I" Now Trotsky is getting a bit of bis own medicine at the bands of the ruling officialdom of the Communist Party of Russia...
...frightened Menshlviki, Socialist Revolutionaries, Bund—let them go...
...There, the theory to make practice, the plaster to cast into bronze . . . "Why!—there ISNT ANY WALL...
...The New York Telegram showed that Hearst printed one document with a date obviously in conflict with its contents...
...It is on a par, with the gouging and wizard finance of the oligarchs is coptroi oj the lines...
...Artists speak a universal language in perfection and beauty when they talk through their creations...
...Isn't it charming...
...A Poisoner At Large CJHOCKED as we are when crimes of revolting cruelty are committed with human life as the forfeit, we award the palm of infamy to the newspaper proprietor who reprints documents intended to inflame opinion againslv another nation without attempting to ascertain whether the documents are genuine...
...they charge Governor Johnston with moral torpKade, a strange charge, indeed, to cease frees am Ohlshssaa legtelatore...
...The substitute enables capitalist organs to ndulge in sentimental snivel and pose as sheets with i conscience...
...but also that a certain line of technique was the way to do It...
...This criminal episode shows now far some men in this country will go to crush the aspirations of the Mexican people to be free...
...If the ether papers came into court with clean bands, one might applaud their indignation...
...Father Belford of Brooklyn added the "spiritual" view by an attack on workers organized in the trade unions...
...Equity would require that he keep company with the lunatic in the padded cell...
...H. N. B. r Philadelphia, Pa...
...There weald be fewer dead NlearaIt might be suggested that the State Department be abolished, all diplomatic epresentatlves recalled, and the bustless of maintaining decent foreign relations be left to a younger generation nore Interested in the clean-cut achievenents of men and machinery than the levlous ways of politicians...
...Imagine yourself actually carried back one hundred and thirty five years into Parks of the Revolution, and sitting to the National Assembly under the vicious oratory of Robeajaaraa and his lieutenants, and amid the mob savafwry of taw sanscuiiottos, watte Canton and his friends are being doomed to the guillotine...
...The service itself is a disgrace...
...Once in a decade some philanthropic theatre magnate gets the Christmas spirit and actually gives us city folks a real present in drama...
...There is a growing belief," he said, "that the open shop is the solution.of the labor problem...
...Gilbert Miller presented the famous Max Reinhardt with his Auatro-Germanic troupe.of artists in George Buchner'o "Dan ton's Ted"—The Death of Dan ton...
...The speaker carried the analogy into politics with a reference to politics and raw materials...
...I-ought-to-say, A missile that you daily fling...
...None of them looked any too cheerful...
...But If the Senate Committee could get hold of htm they rould undoubtedly learn a good many ineresting things about the forgery lniustry of which Mr...
...It is hostile and antagonistic to any interference and dictation from the outside...
Vol. 5 • December 1927 • No. 1
