The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 31, 1926, Page 11

NOTE! Lewinsohn,.a noted bour- recently published with Fischer of . : book entitled, “The Restratifica- Eurgoe.” The present essay is an on ef a portion of Chapten Ten. try} Shukoff had made himself the al- untisputed master of the fat and soap tries. This great industrial now lives in on, and is probably still a millionaire, tho realthy than of old. The textile magnates ‘ed most severely in the storm. They not among the richest of the rich even * the old regime, for the Petersburg tex- dustry was mainly in British hands. The ishinsky family played a leading part g the Russians initerested in textiles. members of this family have remained issia, but others have settled in Paris. of the other Russian textile magnates shaken the dust of their fatherland off feet, and are now living in London or , generally in reduced circumstances. ON A VISIT TO A FELLOW VILLAGER t a eee rdia Gibson . some instances Negroes have purchased »ove protest and insults—food in certain ng places only to have the food so heavily 2d that it is impossible for the purchaser at it. It is not to be forgotten that there places where Negroes are told that they not be served at the tables and must eat he counters. nother method of eating houses is to rge extortionate prices for food served to oes. For example, a Negro may be charged n $1.00 to $5.00 for a 15¢ sandwich. ‘E “‘scrape-and-bow” metliod is most amus- ing to those who “get wise” to it, although 3 The smoothest and most effective of any h!d in practice. A Negro, for example, y Jo to a theater where they do not openly regate him, but in the most courteous man- possibly effected, “bow” him from aisle to e—or preferably from the main floor to balcony—until he is seated in some obscure ier. Sometimes he is told that there are other seats in aisle so-and-so” and after gets in the theater he sees that there are ity of choice seats left. Yomen may go into some of the leading de- tment stores for the purchase of clothing 7 to be immediately—but “politely” ushered » little fitting rooms where they will be out ight. It is only natural that an individual Id be easily deceived by this clever method, if they protest, could’ be made -to appear r-sensitive and foolish. This method can vy be discovered when the Negro patron in- 8s on going into the open display room to xt some certain article. The saleslady will, course, be very anxious to bring a great aber of things in the little room to show the ron—in fact it is this anxiety that betrays sinister purpose. © Y nother variation of the “scrape-and-bow” tem is practiced in shoe stores where it is uncommon for the “courteous” floor walk- Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul. Potnikoff, the Russian counterpart of Stinnes, a man with a passion for industrial adven- tures and one who had his fingers in almost every pie, has lost most of his property. Strangely enough the Reeders, great capital- ists whose possessions were exceptionally mobile and international, have come down in the world. So has Selenoff, the shipping mag- nate, who now lives in Paris. é Territorial Nobility and Princely Property. HE Russian gseat landlords. have, for the most part, come off worse than the indus- trials. The partition of the latifundia was one of the first revolutionary acts of the Soviet government, and it may well’ be that the dis- tribution of the land among the peasantry is the real explanation of the success of the So- viet revolution. In this ‘matter, above all, “thorough” was the watchword of the Bol- sheviks, and everything possible was done to insure that the expropriation of the landlords should be final and irreversible. The country seats were burned in the peasant risings. The dispossessed landowners (when they were not deported for political reasons, or simply driven away by the local peasantry) had no resource, if they wished to remain in Russia, but to set their own hands to the plough and till the land like any other peasant. But few of the Russian landed gentry proved- willing toeundertake such arduous labor. Tolstoy’s ex-squires and ex- noblemen, willing to wrest their own livelihood from the soil, were no. commoner in Russia than elsewhere. To nearly all the landed gen- try, the emigre’s lot seemed preferable. Count Orloff Davidoff, for instance, sometime owner of several hundred thousand acres of Russian land, now lives in Brussels. The owners of forest land have not suffered so severely. The ruling spirits in the Soviet government were wise enough to see that par- tition of the forests would be a mistake. Large- scale forestry is carried on as of old, and the sometime owners now function as lessees of the state forests. Provided, always, they know something about forestry! Speculators have even less chance in this domain than else- where in contemporary Russia. Thus Shit- ovotofisky, the most noted Russian spéculator in forest lands, who had amassed wealth by the purchase of vast forests during the war, is now a poor man despite the fact that he is By C. O’BRIEN ROBINSON er to usher the Negro women either into some obscure corner well out of sight, in the rear of the store, or into the men’s section. We could enumerate one after the other al- most unbelievable examples. Of course, in enumerating the more subtle ones we are not forgetting the places where there is no secret made of the treatment to these “undesirable” patrons, neither is their an effort to disguise segregation. ¥ AFTER suffering so-long a time, the less mili- tant Negroes develop a type of “inferiority complex” that induces them to choose the very worst places to go rather than be. subjected to humiliations imposed by segregation. To make this casual statement means but littlaguniess the individualfeaders can imagine themselves in the place of the segregated per- son—stared gt as though they were some strange species of a wild animal; made the center of attention by rude arguments. And what of the militant Negroes? Theirs is always a trying role. Fighting—always fight- ing for rights that should be freely given them. How rebellious and enraged they become when they think of how they are exploited by the millions; drained for taxes in the name of their “citizenship”; betrayed by the politicians whom they elect (where they are enfranchised) to champion their cause; drafted to fight in seg- regated regiments for some gibberish about “a world safe for democracy” where they give, if necessary, even their lives. Then always to be confronted by segregation—segregation— segregation. It is not a subject for sentimentalizing—and the Negroes are rapidly learning that there is no solution in sentimentalization. Many whispers have been overheard from the lips of ex-service men to the effect that “they won’t ever get me again—they can fool me once but not twice in the same way.” ' But the “worst” of it is, according to the Ja- Parisian Cafe, “Hass Boulatt,” Meeting Place of Russian Counter-Revolutionists. reputed to be a near relation of Trotsky. Among the principal landowners in Russia, as in other monarchies, the members of the reigning house ranked in importance with the territorial nobility. In so far as they escaped with their lives, they live abroad. Perhaps the richest, of these emigres of the blood royal is Prince Yurieffsky, the issue of Alexander II’s re-marriage. His sister was married to the no less wealthy Prince Beratinsky. A wealthy man, too, was Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaie- vich, who is still able to live in princely fashion on the Riviera or in Paris. Although on the retired list as grand duke and commander-in- chief, Nicholas Nicholaievich has little reason to complain of his lot, for he and his nephew Grand Duke Cyril are regarded by the mon- archist emigres as the predestined successors of the czars so soon as ever a restoration can be achieved. Marie Feodorovna, dowager em- press and widow of Alexander III, Vanish by birth (Princess Gogmar, daughter of Christian TX}, has withdrawn to her villa in Copenhagen. The rest of her private property was lost in a banking crash. Still, some of the members of the former ruling house are quite comfortably provided for. Others among the Romanoffs, however, are completely impoverished. For example, in July, 1924, in a British law court, the: widow. of Grand Duke Michael was .grant- .., ed right of succession to her late husband’s es- tate. It transpired that the whole property in question amounted to only £65. ment of the exploiters, Negroes are turning their eyes to force and they now meet issue with issue, like with like, which carries a very deep significance. According to the program of the past few decades, they have knocked and potinded and pleaded at the door of “freedom” and “liberty” to be admitted. Tearfully they have entreated and prayed. They have not been heard. Now there is a cry coming up from the most progressive of the Negroes and spreading like wild fire—‘Break down the door that will not open to you!” Segregation must go and segregation will go when this slogan becomes the by-word of the Negroes in America. Then the militant masses of black workers will unite with the militant masses of white workers and segrega- tion from the tenement districts of the north to the hell-holes of the south will be ended. It will not be stopped by rattle-brained “thin ice’ doctrines “fillygagged” by the agents (black or white) of the bourgeoisie. Moreover the Negroes are getting disgusted with the same old words to the same old tune for the same old dance in the same old way—they are disgruntled—they are discontented—they mean business and they are mighty damn tired of being segregated. a oles ire ee ee