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The Vine-Clad Factory And Its Hot, Noisy Slavery For Another Day.
Three Girls Fainted On The Fifth Floor And Two On The Sixth Next
Morning. They Were Not Carried To The Cool And Shaded Rest-Rooms To
Revive, But Lay On The Floor With Their Heads Huddled On A Pile Of
Waste, And Had A Little Warmish Water From The Rusty "Cooler" In The
Back Stairway Poured Upon Them As They Lay. No White-Clad Nurse With
Palm Leaf And Cooling Drinks Attended Their Unconscious State, Although
There Was One In Attendance In The Rest-Room Whose Duty It Was To Look
After The Comfort Of Any Chance Visitors. When Any Stooped To Succor
Here, She Fanned Her Neighbor With Her Apron, Casting An Anxious Eye On
Her Own Silent Machine And Knowing She Was Losing "Time."
Susie Fainted Three Times That Morning, And Katie Lost An Hour In All,
Bringing Water And Making A Fan Out Of A Newspaper. Also She Had An
Angry Altercation With The Foreman. He Said If Susie "Played Up" This
Way She'd Have To Quit; There Were Plenty Of Girls Waiting To Take Her
Place, And He Hadn't Time To Fool With Kids That Wanted To Lie Around
And Be Fanned. It Was His Last Few Words As She Was Reviving That Stung
Susie To Life Again And Put Her Back At Her Machine For The Last Time In
Nervous Panic, With The Thought Of What Would Happen At Home If She Lost
Her Job. Up Above Her The Great Heavy Machines Thrashed On And The Floor
Trembled With Their Movement. Black And Thick And Hot Was The Air Around
Susie And She Scarcely Could See, For Dizziness, The Machinery Which She
Worked From Habit, As She Stood Swaying In Her Place, And Wondering If
She Could Hold Out Till The Noon Whistle Blew.
Down In The Basement, Near One Of The Elevator Shafts, A Pile Of Waste
Lay Smoldering, Out Of Sight. One Of The Boys From The Lumber-Yard Down
The Next Block Had Stopped To Light His Cigarette As He Passed Out Into
The Street After Bringing A Bill To The Head Manager. He Tossed His
Match Away, Not Seeing Where It Fell. The Big Factory Thundered On In
Full Swing Of A Busy, Driving Morning, And The Little Match Lay Nursing
Its Flame And Smoldering.
How Long It Crept And Smoldered No One Knew. It Seemed To Come From
Every Floor At Once, That Smell Of Smoke And Cry Of Fire! More Smoke In
Volumes Pouring Up Suddenly Through Cracks And Bursting From The
Elevator Shaft; A Lick Of Flame Darting Out Like A Serpent Ready To
Strike, Menacing Against The Heat Of The Big Rooms.
Panic And Smoke And Fire! Cries And Clashing Of Machinery Thundering On
Like A Storm Above An Angry Sea!
The Girls Rushed Together In Fear, Or, Screaming, Ran Desperately To
Windows Which They Knew They Could Not Raise! They Pounded At The Locked
Doors And Crowded In The Narrow Passages, Frantically Surging This Way
And That. There Was No One To Quiet Them Or Tell Them What To Do. If
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While We Cannot And Do Not Solicit Contributions From States Where We
Have Not Met The Solicitation Requirements, Weontribuanybody_. There Is Probably Not
A Militarist In America To-Day Who, However Bitterly Opposed To Disarmament
As A Present Policy, Would Not Agree That If, In Some Future Time, Mankind
Reaches The Happy Condition Of Universal Socialism, Disarmament Will Then
Become Practicable And Logical. It Would Not Be Difficult For General Wood
To Subscribe To That Doctrine, I Think. It Would Not Have Been Difficult
For Mr. Roosevelt To Subscribe To It.
Not Only Is Lenine Willing To Support National Armaments, And Even To Fight
For The Defense Of National Rights, Whenever An Attack On These Is Also An
Attack On Proletarian Rights--Which He Believes To Be The Case In The
Continued War Against Germany, He Goes Much Farther Than This _And Provides
A Theoretical Justification For A Socialist Policy Of Passive Acceptance Of
Ever-Increasing Militarism_. He Draws A Strangely Forced Parallel Between
The Socialist Attitude Toward The Trusts And The Attitude Which Ought To Be
Taken Toward Armaments. We Know, He Argues, That Trusts Bring Great Evils.
Against The Evils We Struggle, But How? Not By Trying To Do Away With The
Trusts, For We Regard The Trusts As Steps In Progress. We Must Go Onward,
Through The Trust System To Socialism. In A Similar Way We Should Not
Deplore "The Militarization Of The Populations." If The Bourgeoisie
Militarizes All The Men, And All The Boys, Nay, Even All The Women, Why--So
Much The Better! "Never Will The Women Of An Oppressed Class That Is Really
Revolutionary Be Content" To Demand Disarmament. On The Contrary, They Will
Encourage Their Sons To Bear The Arms And "Learn Well The Business Of War."
Of Course, This Knowledge They Will Use, "Not In Order That They May Shoot
At Their Brothers, The Workers Of Other Countries, As They Are Doing In The
Present War ... But In Order That They May Struggle Against The Bourgeoisie
In Their Own Country, In Order That They May Put An End To Exploitation,
Poverty, And War, Not By The Path Of Good-Natured Wishes, But By The Path
Of Victory Over The Bourgeoisie And Of Disarmament Of The Bourgeoisie."[90]
Universally The Working Class Has Taken A Position The
Very Opposite Of This. Universally We Find The Organized Working Class
Favoring Disarmament, Peace Agreements, And Covenants In General Opposing
Extensions Of What Lenine Describes As "The Militarization Of Populations."
For This Universality Of Attitude And Action There Can Only Be One Adequate
Explanation--Namely, The Instinctive Class Consciousness Of The Workers.
But, According To Lenine, This Instinctive Class Consciousness Is All
Wrong; Somehow Or Other It Expresses Itself In A "Bourgeois" Policy. The
Workers Ought To Welcome The Efforts Of The Ruling Class To Militarize And
Train In The Arts Of War Not Only The Men Of The Nations, But The Boys And
Even The Women As Well. Some Day, If This Course Be Followed, There Will Be
Two Great Armed Classes In Every Nation And Between These Will Occur The
Decisive War Which Shall Establish The Supremacy Of The Most Numerous And
Powerful Class. Socialism Is Thus To Be Won, Not By The Conquests Of Reason
And Of Conscience, But By Brute Force.
Obviously, There Is No Point Of Sympathy Between This Brutal And Arrogant
Gospel Of Force And The Striving Of Modern Democracy For The Peaceful
Organization Of The World, For Disarmament, A League Of Nations, And, In
General, The Supplanting Of Force Of Arms By The Force Of Reason And
Morality. There Is A Prussian Quality In Lenine's Philosophy. He Is The
Chapter 28 Pg 171Treitschke Of Social Revolt, Brutal, Relentless, And Unscrupulous, Glorying
In Might, Which Is, For Him, The Only Right. And That Is What Characterizes
The Whole Bolshevik Movement: It Is The Infusion Into The Class Strife And
Struggles Of The World The Same Brutality And The Same Faith That Might Is
Right Which Made Prussian Militarism The Menace It Was To Civilization.
And Just As The World Of Civilized Mankind Recognized Prussian Militarism
As Its Deadly Enemy, To Be Overcome At All Costs, So, Too, Bolshevi
Down To The City For Over Sunday. An Inexpressible Longing Filled Him To
See Tennelly Again, Before His Marriage Completed The Wall That Was
Between Them. He Wanted To Have A Real Old-Fashioned Talk; To Look Into
The Soul Of His Friend And See The Old Loyalty Shining There. He Wanted
More Than All To Come Close To Him Once More, And, It Might Be, Tell Him
About The Christ.
He Took Down His Road-Book, Turned To The Map, And Let His Finger Fall
On The Coast-Line About Midway Between The City And The Seminary.
Looking It Up In The Book, He Found Shadow Beach Described As A Quiet
And Exclusive Resort With A Good Inn, Excellent Service, Fine
Sea-Bathing, Etc. Well, That Would Do As Well As Anywhere. He
Telegraphed Tennelly:
Meet Me At Shadow
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