The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1927, Page 9

COARSE IS OUR SONG By EUGENE KREININ. Coarse is existence, And rugged the struggle of life, Brutal, the hold of oppression, And forceful the steps of revolt. Poets of proletarian thinking, ives of privation and want, Release the song of the masses, Summoning all unto strife. Spreading the voice of thunder Rolling for eras and ages, Sending a curse to all tyrants, And lifting the veil off tomorrow. Strong as granite, our action, ‘The word as keen as a blade, Digging a grave for the master, Building the world for slaves. arse is our song, The words unvarnished, M"s jis so crude, And struggles, unpolished. The Employer’s Nightmare. Monuments all about me: That big dirty factery on the Jersey shore. Warner’s sugar in electric letters. Grant’s Tomb—paunchy, imposing, an epitaph to another Damfool in the palm of Wall Street. So-an-so’s twinkling roadhouse Where the wines aren’t light, And neither are the “mommas.” Sky shot with chilly blue stars, the color Of Sheffield’s lower grade milk—monuments to what? This ribbon of a Riverside Drive, That floating barge of a ferry-boat—monuments? That dirty factory, that gray, looming, stenchy gas tank— Monuments? That chugging train and those snaky rails—monuments? Yes; these be monuments. Monuments to what is greater than the system which Encompasses them—to men, To men and work, to sweat and blood and thought. Which are far greater than your glib philosophies, Your puny individualism, your hypocritic transcendentalism, Far, far greater than the class lies of the system That breeds your 'stamp. --SIMMONS GUINNE. at ies weer IN ANSWER TO CERTAIN PLAUSIBLE YOUNG MEN Golden West Aimee To Clean Up Gotham In Three-Day Stay Aimee Semple McPherson, notor- ious evangelist; was in New York today confident that in three days time she can do more to reform New York’s great white way than all the other censuring elements put to- gether. : Mrs. McPherson says she _ isn’t worried over the fact that five radio broadcasting stations have closed their doors to her because of “un- pleasant notoriety she received on the Pacific coast.” The evangelist is here, she said, to eenduct a series of revivals which will lase three days, and will trans- init her lectures from the Glad Tid- ings Temple here over WODA at Paterson, N. J. “T am trusting to divine power to lbroadeast my message to New York,” Aimee said,