The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 27, 1925, Page 11

he "piles dash away. iles in the white night. » @eorpses.. _ire dying out. . * * a he wife is waiting in the humble. worker’s ie. he has already wept all her tears. Where can William be?” farguerite wakes up. hei rubs her eyes. Had she fallen asleep? se. An auto. Dolly. laybe he is ‘back home now? - ; r is he home? But Dolly is ‘barking. ts out of the window. She cries out. white is approaching. A ghost! he listens. soors open. he trembles. Nickles? “Sean no longer bear the uncertainty. She the door leading to his room. The bed is She Some- liekles ? * * * * n the morning Marguerite informs the Broidins t Nickles had gone out for ten minutes yester- - and wasn’t back yet. ihe reported the disappearance to the police . She telephoned to Joe’s shop, but received information that Joe hadn’t yet come down to sk. she did one thing and another, but didn’t know lly what to do. it lunch Mr. Broidin was very nervous. Te chased out the dogs. With the whip. He 3 especially angry at Dolly. 200r Dolly! twas a sunny winter day. t should she do? Where should she look | a ge lle Sede > “he evening paper. \ photograph. “ind another photograph. 1 article: The ku klux klan has burned three workers at stake.” ~ \ . we ery of a woman. ‘arguerite collapsed. ‘he whole thing coursed wildly through her in. She read the article again and again. She ad to collect her thoughts. ‘ Nho is the murderer? there was only one witness who saw the autos hi the ku klux klan. vie the white as les dom: suit xov sie bas w she Won't remain pe ‘hte hous any: longert! bs woman was happy that Marguerite wanted * ind the 1 man offered her money. 2s He Te Thiched her cheek. : Marguerite: shuddered. ‘She ran siete: She hur- 1 to William’s wife. . They discussed everything. . All night. Then the e said that Marguerite: must. go to the magis- ud report everything to him. : telephone. . . the dog... . the auto Jean satecaseg the banging of the door * All this betrayed. regain who one of the oP Wate was. dlarguerite was very pe. ih “Her talk s disconnected. The magistrate listened to her th a serious expression. fhen he said to her not to talk about it to any- » and to come back the next day. (he next day he closed the door behind her. de roared at her. “Th to have you locked up. You want mislead the authorities for revenge.” Marguerite was scared. ‘You want to blackmail Mr. Broidin, but you i" do it.” ig @ a of the Working Class) _-:. Marguerite opened wide her eyes. “You have demanded money from Mr. Broidin!” “9 “Yes! And now you come with your lies here, because you didn’t get any money! I’m going to have you locked up!” Marguerite trembled with anger from: head to foot. She couldn’t utter a word. “Up to now I haven’t taken down the testimony. If you wish you can dictate your false facts now and then I’ll have you locked up.” Not a word passed her lips. “Now then, if you wish you can begin your con fession”—and he stressed sneeringly the word “confession.” The room spun with Marguerite. She remained ‘silent. Her lips moved. She stared about her, to see if ‘they were going to arrest her. Then she ran out of the room. At the home of William’s widow she collapsed and couldn’t utter a word for a long time. * * * * The “Springs Paper” tried to make it clear ‘to} the workers that only their continued agitation forced the citizens to resort to self-defense. * * a * The guilty ones could not be found. Only one worker was found who could not give a good alibi for the day in question. The case came before a jury. Marguerite prepared herself for the trial. She secured a revolver and concealed it in her pocket. “If there’ll be no judge I’m going to get justice myself!” Mr. Broidin was invited as witness. He knew Nickles. In the hall-way he was talking’ loudly about the rabble that was using this opportunity too for making trouble. Marguerite stood behind his back. kill him”—she thought. “But no. “Now I can Not yet. Let By John Lassen How slowly the time passes! She had gone pretty far. She must be careful. There are few people in the street. The doors are being guarded ..and watched. She was not noticed. At last. . People are coming. , She gathered all her force together. Still no Broidin. : One auto after another rides off. , Now: Mr. and Mrs. Broidin appear in the door. Now! Her heart contracts. Her hand trembles. It requires tremendous will-power to stretch out the hand. To force the hand to murder. De- liberately to extinguish the life of another. One must be so transported ag to see more than an indi- vidual, to see all of society. Marguerite stretches out her hand, Mr. Broidin helps his wife into the car. He does not see that the muzzle of a reyolver is staring at him. The last moment. The right moment. Marguerite presses the trigger. Once. Twice. But the re, olver misses fire. A powerful blow comes down on her hand. She is dragged forward by detectives. It was only in the police station that she realized that she hadn’t’ unlocked the hammer. They took down her testimony. The cause of the act: Broidin is one of the mur- dereds. Mild excitement. ° But Marguerite was sent away the same day to the insane asylum. In the “Springs Paper” the following notice ap- the workers see what the justice of the masters] Peared: looks like.” She went on. She looked for a place from: which she would surely hit him. She walked to and fro. Maybe her look.was wild. Perhaps in this sur- roundings she looked out of place. A detective spoke to her: “What are you looking for here?” “TI want to be present at the trial.” “Have you got a card?” “No.” “i <ateys % “Then you can’t stay here.” . “Are there any, cards left?” “No. ” ; She had to leave the building. Mr. Broidin went before her into the court-room, but she. didn’t have the force to shoot him. She looked fér the exit. She was very much annoyed not to find it. She opened the door of a check room. There was no one here. The coats hung on the clothes racks, “At the end of the trial there was a painful inci- dent ;which came by a hair near costing the life of Mr: Broidin the worthy citizen of our City By gers crazy woman wanted to shoot him but the woman forgot to cock the revolver. The madwoman has been put away in the institution. The case will not even come before the jury.” ae: ee’ * * Mr. and Mrs. Broidin left the same day for New York. The friends of Joe and William and William’s widow smuggled pamphlets and leaflets into the insane asylum. Marguerite learns and works a great deal. She is altogether calm now and doesn’t speak any more about Mr. Broidin having been one of the klan- murderers. Her lawyer makes every effort to free er from the insane asylum. In Colorado Springs they did not succeed in kill- ing the labor movement even with the murder of Joe, William and Nickles. The life and death of these martyrs is only a If someone found her here he might think that she shining example for the millions of workers, giv- wanted to steal coats. Her heart beat Vidlently., If they should search her they would’ find the re- volver—what should she say in that case? She turned pale. “At last she found the exit. _ _ And now she had to wait three hours until the trial was over. She looked around at the automo- biles, She knew the Broidin car well. jig them zeal to continue with iron will and i imex- orably the struggle for freedom. ‘The ‘slaves*fight against the masters! Oppression? ‘ Torture? Death? © Reign of terror of the master? The wheels of time cannot be stayed, cannot be stopped. The millions of slaves gather under new battle She locked the safety-bolt” ‘Three hours is a/fage. . - Jlong, time—the revolver could ‘not go. off in her pocket. She sat down in the park on a bench.” In the distance shines the red star. . . Ta. — of everything! ' +e ki The End. Russian Weights, Measures and Currency I pond equala 86 Iba. About 60 poodsequal a ton. © 1 verst equals about two-thirds of a mie’ (0.66). 1 arshin equals 0.77 yard. 1 sazhen equals 7 feet. 1 deissiatin equals 2.70 acres. 1 vedro (bucket) equals 3.25 gallons. 1 gold ruble equals $.514, 1 kopeck equals .01 of a ruble, 1 chervonetz equals 10 gold rubleg; its gold parity t $5.14. Soviet Russia Buys U. S. Cotton Valued at $26,340,000.00 NEW YORK, June 26.—Soviet Rus- sia bought ‘about 30 per cent more cotton in the vane States the pres- ent crop year than last, the ‘All-Rus sian Textile Syndicate, Inc., announce- ed today, closing purchases this week having brought the total to 243,098 bales, valued at $36,340,000. The syn- dicate is the official purchasing agen- cy in the United States.