The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1926, Page 11

*. Letter Pronk Lenin The first . Instructions. to. comrades In Russia gfter the collapse of Czarism. In the bulletin of the Lenin Institute In Moscow are published the letters of Lenin to Com- les Shijapnikov and Kollantai, who were In the i ndinavian countries during the war and kept connections between Lenin and Russia. We publish the following letter which Lenin wrote to Comrade Kollantal In Christiania (now Oslo), who was to leave for Russia and had agked for instructions, Lenin wrote: e e e DEAR ALEXANDRA: & i I have just received your telegram, which is written in such a way that sounds almost like irony. You think you can get “instruc- tions” from here, where information is ex- tremely scaree and when there are probabl) in Petrograd not only some comrades in ac- tual leadership but also comrades with formal tes from the central committee. Ipave just read the message from the Petro- crag Telegraph Agency containing the pro- of the new government and also the news about the message to Bonar Law, that the czar has not yet abdicated and that it is not known where he is. Yesterday it seemed as if the government of Gutchkov-Miliukov had come off completely victorious and had already begun negotiations with the dynasty; today the situation is that there is no longer any dynasty, the czar has escaped, and is, of course, preparing the coun- ter-revolution! We have begun to prepare theses, which will — yrobably be finished tonight and we will of .sourse, send them to you. If you can wait for he|theses, these will modify (or replace) what Inow write only in my own name. We have just completed with Zinoviev the 1rst draft for the theses, a rough draft, and in the formal sense not at all satisfactory (we shall of course, not print it as it stands) but it will, I hope, give you a conception of the gen- eral lines. : ; We beg you urgently to give this informa- tion to Yuri* and B. Bosh, and Ljudmifa** and at the same time scribble us some lines before jou leave—and without fail make an arrange- taent with somebody who is to stay in Norway vbout the sending of our letters to Russia and of the letters from Russia to us. Please do tiat and urge some comrade who is to stay here (or some Norwegian who knows Ger- nan, French or English) to be extremely |rrompt. ’ I,consider the most important thing now not to ‘get mixed up with foolish “agreements” with the social-patriots (or, what, would be even more dangerous, with the organization committee,*** and vacillating elements like Trotsky and company), but to continue the work of our own Party consistently in the in- ternational spirit. Now the order of the day is: To broaden out the work. organize the masses, rouse new *Piatakov. **Stalin, ***The Mensheviks. the clattering of the silverware that was handled at a furious speed in the silver room by the workers. Everybody swears in the kitchen. In the dishwashing department they swear in Span- ish and in Greek, from the terrific heat and steam.. The workers know they are in hell, 80 they swear. The cooks are surrounded by fire, fire all around them, but the boss is a phil- anthropist, he supplies them with near beer to, quench their thirst. We managed to get | pur order togethér and’ in two, heavy loads of food covered with big shining silver covers we headed to the elevator. NE service elevator for fifteen floors was not enough when the rush started so we had to wait. The head waiter came down from the guests elevator. He took the express ele- vator and came to the service elevator where we were, mad as a bull. “You damn dumb- bells,” he said, “you shoemakers. What’s the matter? You are as slow as molasses. Why don’t ae walk up the stairs if you can’t get the elevator?” - The other waiter who had. been working in the place quite long, made me a sign not to wer back. He told me afterwards that he, | headwaiter, gets that way many times but ' hf cools off later. Finally, the elevator came. FWe or six waiters with big loads packed ‘in like cattle holding the trays high up like Atias held the earth in mythology. We got off at our floor, rushed quick, and in time we took off the cups of the consomme, and served se fish filet of sole and the vegetables. We pass around everything, from one guest to the other. All the guests were discussing different sub- jects by couples. One young couple discussed a criticism on a novel, “The White Monkey.” Another young couple discussed a criticism on some opera singer in the role of Madame But- terfly. One fat old lady who was deaf was speaking thru. a radio-like ear trumpet about charity activities. Another couple spoke about g millions of dollars, about business, ex- p!@itation, speculation in Wall Street, /JPo we had to wait holding those heavy burn- silver plates in our hands till they got thru with their story in order to pick up a piece of fish or a spoonful of vegetables. The same way we served all the courses in the order of the menu. One of the captains was an expert dressing maker for the salads. He made the dressing with the luxurious name “coronation,” He tmixed whipped cream, lemon, red pepper, Bar- Leduc. We served the salad, the cheese, the demi tasse and then the dessert, The profit rolls which is ice cream filled in rolls covered with chocolate sauce. They eat that to pay tribute to the profit system which allows them to live so luxuriously. Others had baked Alaska which is ice cream and cake covered with meringue and then baked in the oven, At,Jast ie strata, backward, rural, servants, military nu- tlei, to a systematic, detailed, minute unmask- ng of the new government, and to prepare to take “over power for the Soviets or Workers’ Representatives. Only such a power can give bread, peace and liberty. Now to strike a blow at the reaction! Not a shadow of confidence in or support of the new government, not a shadow of confidence in Kerensky, Gvosdjev, Ghenkeli, Cheidshe and Company,**** But armed waiting for the next development, armed preparation for it. As there is free speech now, you must pub- lish (as an explanation of recent history) our fiercest writings, and wire us, if we can help by writing thru Scandinavia. I am very much afraid that we will not succeed very soon in leaving this damned Switzerland. I shake your hand warmly. Yours, L. : I wish you every, every success! P. S—I am afraid that the weakest spot in Petrograd now will be mere enthusiasm, with- out systematic work for the new type of Party, which will under no circumstances be after the pattern of the “Second Interna- tional.” Broader work: to arouse new strata! vo arouse new initiative, new organizations ”’ among all social groups, and show them that peace can come only thru an armed Soviet of Workers’ Delegates, ~which has_ seized power. ****Prominent social-revolutionists and Mensheviks, well-known social-patriots. we got thru. One waiter was left to serve the cordials, and the two other waiters, I and an- other one, took the dishes to the elevator— piles of them. THE bus boys carried the dishes to the dish washers, and we went to the kitchen to get something to eat. We asked the night chef if he had anything for the waiters. He showed us a big pot full of beef stew, cooked several days ago and mixed with flour and restewed rey day to look fresh and appealing to the eip. s y F ~ . 10 IB TOD vs “Help yourselves, boys, plenty for éverybody. Go to it,” he said. But nobody cared, so the stew stayed there untouched. We took some soup and a glass of milk and we went down to the helps’ hall, or mess hall as they call it. And it is a real mess. All the steam and hot water pipes of the hotel pass thru the helps’ hall. They are placed in the ceiling. The heat that comes from those pipes gives us an- other shower bath. Once more we swim in our sweat. There are four waiters,-two bus boys, a houseman, and three dishwashers at my table. They all kick about the meals. They are get- ting worse every day. One of the waiters tells us his story that he had an order of prime ribs of beef and an order of mashed potatoes to be served in a certain room. He went up with full service, silver, ice water, bread, and every- thing. When he got up in the room the guest told him to cut it in small pieces and serve it to a pet alligator or crocodile which she had in the bath room. Another waiter tells us a story that he served an order of lamb chops and vegetables the same way as the other waiter to a pet dog. All the waiters in one voice said: “Gee, the dogs ‘have a better chance than the workers undér the capitalist system.” : A young Italian worker who was working in the ice plant which was located right oppo- site the helps’ hall, came in and askéd us if we wished music with the dinner. The work- ers that were working long in the place, knew the joke, and told him to put the piano in a high tune. I could not get the joke, but in a few seconds the Italian worker started a motor in the ice plant, to cut fine ice for the guests. It was making such a sharp noise cutting the ice that it was getting on everybody’s nerves. We could not stand it. It would drive us crazy if we stood there any longer. So we started to our lockers to change our clothes. JN front of the locker room there was posted ~ @ wall paper. A company eee this wall paper to every hotel owner in the city. The subject is presented to the workers in pictures and.a few explanatory notes down below give the dope to the workers, this way, Every fif- teen days a new subject is presented to the workers, ee is _ On one of them was a picture of a dragon with a big mouth exactly as the Steeple Chase A Wot /DLGB ers on a bench in the park, and at the bottom ef this whole picture was written: ‘Waste brings unemployment. Don’t waste, save everything you can. Help your boss to give you a job.” On another poster they had a pencil with this caption: “Does it belong to you? If not, return it to the office.” | @m another one they had a big factory with different machines and inventions with the~ following caption: “Who thought of that? Workers, if you can think of any facility which will do the work better, don’t be afraid, dbme and tell it to the boss and you will get a favor- able comment.” Such are the methods that the bosses use to keep the workers down, unorganized so they can exploit them as they please. We went to the lockers to change. My dress coat was soaking wet just like a wet woolen blanket. The stiff collars were wet and soft as if you had soaked them in boiling water. I took off my underwear to wring the water out, but it was impossible to wear it any more. The weather outside was below zero and if I were to go out with wet underwear it would mean sure pneumonia. So I was forced to put on my street clothes without any underwear. There is no bath room in the helps’ quarters, but every room in the hotel in the guest rooms has two baths— a shower bath and a tub bath. There is no room in the lockers to have an extra suit of underwear. leave the hotel with wet underwear. why most of them get sick. Only a powerful union can better the condi- tions and the slavery that exists today-in the New York hotels. We dress and wait for the other waiter who was left to serve the cordials to see how much will be the tip—our wages of the day. But we were disappointed when the waiter came down and told us that is not within the nS an to present the check the same night of the dinner, while the guests are in the house. So Mrs, Van der Parasite holds on to the eti- quette in this matter. And when we present the check next day she finds different’ com- plaints and excuses on the service so as to cut down the tip. - : ' Iwas thunderstruck by the explanation giv- en to me by the waiter. for I was flat broke. I had spent everything I possessed in order to get the job, hoping to get a few cents from the tips, and now I had to wait till Mrs. Van der Parasite sees fit td reward us‘for our services rendered, THIS is, in short, heaven for one class and hell for the other that exists today in the New York hotels, 2 Most of the cooks and waiters in Coney Island, devouring everything. At the bottom was written: ‘Waste,” and in the op- posite side was a picture of unemployed work- That is 7 Pita