The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1927, Page 6

Page Six There Was Significance| In the Fact That 22,000) Attended “Freiheit” Jubilee | By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. H ed in « night. FREIHEIT, our Jewish Communist dai 100 workers to the New Madison vation of its Fifth Annive: day This ts the gre t throng of worker: y assembled in the United St at the call of a revolutionary pub: lication of the i Of course, th i mpt such gather- It remained for an organ of Com- left wing in the labor movement to fill the largest auditorium in the land. * * * This gathering had tremendous significance. It testimony to the fact that not only The Freiheit, but our Workers (Communist) Party as well, have become the leaders of the masses in the needle trades. For several years The Freiheit struggled desperately |; | and it was unable to total a circulation in the whole Nation equalling the numbers in the mighty throng that Joined in celebration of its Fifth Anniversary. Those 22,000 workers constitute the firm base that The Frei- heit has established for itself in New York City, strengthening it for greater efforts in other sections of the land, according to plans already made and to be executed immediately. * * * The most vicious attacks by the reactionary labor of- ficialdom have not succeeded in alienating the workers from their support of Our Paper and Our Party. Presi- dent William Green and Vice President Matthew Woll, with the lackeys in the needle trades,-the Sigmans, the | Schachtmans and the rest—might well pause to consider | the meaning of this outpouring of labor in New York} and vicinity in support of the Press and the Party that! they so vehemently denounce. * * * If these agents of American imperialism had followed the proceedings at the Freiheit Jubilee, they would have heard the appeals made to these workers, and their en- | thusiastic response to those pleas, which were as fol- | lows: | 1. To build The DAILY WORKER, the official organ | of the Workers (Communist) Party, published in the English language. 2. To rally in aid of the Ruthenberg Enrollment Drive, not only by joining the Workers (Communist) Party, but by getting other workers to join the party and strengthen its ranks. 8. To stand solid as adamant as the left wing in the needle trades, and to give every possible support to the | militant workers in all other industries, to the coal | miners now engaged in a giant struggle, to the railroad | workers, the steel workers, the automobile workers, the | rubber workers as well as labor in the other great in- dustries. | 4, To render every possible support to the struggle | against imperialism in Nicaragua, in Mexico, and in| China, especially speeding the fraternal greetings of the | gathering to the Central Council of the Chinese Trade | Unions, to the Kuomintang and to the Communist Party | of ‘China. * Thus New York labor, not only declared its solidarity with the workers thruout the land, but voiced their will . m Aa i Ss, @ vi | r he company. All of battle with those oppressed by American imperialism, | *!V® documents, and having passed | mere tools of t q oilite their ctrendeh ina Hk Png bond of traternts the medical examination, I was told|them are in conspiracy, under the with the valiant efforts of the Chinese workers on the other side of the earth. . * When 22,000 workers go back into their shops and into their union meetings, they should be inspired to create here seething centers of sympathy in support of the Far East front of the revolutionary struggle of labor. | It is recognized that the working class in the United | States is probably less responsive to the rapidly devel- | oping events in the Orient, than the workers of any | other nation. Encouraging gatherings under the slogans | of “Hands Off China!” “Withdraw the Battleships From Chinese Waters!” have already been held, in many cities, in response to the appeal of Our Party, or thru co-operation of our Party with other forces. That the | Movement is growing, however, is well indicated by the | fact that the 22,000 workers gathered in New York to! celebrate the growth and spreading of influence of the Freiheit, should also be profoundly stirred by China’s ~ revolutionary struggle, ees: The standards of The DAILY WORKER were held aloft by practically every speaker. The prophecy was ly made that the time would soon come when DAILY WORKER would be able to hold its anniver- Sary celebration in the Madison Square Garden and at- tract similar hosts of labor. _ Not only Jay Lovestone, Acting General Secretary of Our Party, Ben Gitlow and M. J. Olgin, but other speak- ers as well aroused great enthusiasm by calling for | every possible support of the Party’s Official Organ | that was now being published in New York City. * * Like the Freiheit the Party has grown in New York City. When The Freiheit was established the Workers (Communist) Party was only a few months old. There ‘was considerable skepticism, in the early months of 1922, whether the Communist movement, driven under- | ground by the Palmer raids in 1920, could function suc- | cessfully in the open. In those days speakers appealed seldom for Party members at the mass meetings that were held. One speaker that never failed to make this appeal, however, was our late leader, C. E, Ruthenberg. ‘It was fitting, therefore, that applause in thunder tones should greet the plea for “Members for the Work- ers (Communist) Party!” in the Ruthenberg Enrollment Drive. The Party has become a living, fighting giant in the eyes of these workers, Its leadership is treas- It has been said that great masses of workers have been driven to The Freiheit as a result of the growing hatred of the workers for The Forward, the yellow so- cialist organ of reformism, edited by Abraham Cahan. This is held up as an argument that these workers are not yet Communists, not yet ready for membership in the Communist Party, and that some turn.of the tide may cause them to again drift from us. But hatred of The Forward as the traitor organ of Socialism, is the beginning of an awakening that will gradually lead to a correct understanding of the Com- munist program, and make of these workers intelligent soldiers of the social revolution, ais ¥ * Before the workers generally over the land will be- come convinced Communists, they must develop a hatred of capitalism and all its forces, much akin to the hatred of the New York needle trades workers for The For- ward, for Cahan and Sigman, and for the social system that spawned them. The Fifth Freiheit Jubilee was historic. The Freiheit, in common with the American Communist movement and the American working class from which it springs, faces its Sixth Year with more history in the making. il the Sixth Year of the Freiheit! Hail greater vic- | been killed\in the last y t- of son THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1927 ene en ee Who Backs Murder of Cuban Workers U nder * Machado? By ROBERT DUNN, (Federated Press). (Robert Dunn is the author of Ameria on the subject, published b Who are the American business men behind the Machado murder regime |8n hour before five. Between 260 and 400 Cuban workers and trade union leaders have | Why the hell don’t he fire me? Hundreds have been imprisoned and tortured crushed in 1925. Scores have been deported, | speed, there! Wake up, you can make $30 a week if you in Cuba? since the railroad strike v It y be well to have the names of the capitalists and corpora- tions.-who back (€ rdo Machado, the presidential dictator and virtual as- sin, First the with the Dwight , confidential advisor of Pres ident Coolidge, and a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. has offer- ed.toasts to Machado at banquets of business men; he ha: sted Major General Crowder dictate loan 1 und vevenue measures for the island. National City Bank has most of the loans to An cor tions doing busines: branches in rgest. of the thr h, with three in Cuba. Island and » American Canadian he banks banks, in Cuba. Natic the leading sugar companies whic dominate the economic life of the country. Some of the larger sugar corporations are Cuba Cane Sugar, |the Punta Alegre Sugar Co.; and the Cuban Dominican Sugar Co. Seventy- five percent of Cuban sugar, consti- tuting 90% of her entire exports, is produced in American owned mills, most of them controlled by American bankers, General Electric Has Them. Public utilities in the cities are all controlled by the American & Foreign Power Co., identified with the General Electric Co. All Cuban holdings of General Electric are operated by this company. Railroads, serving the sugar cen- trals, are also in American hands. It was on them that the strike, which opened the Machado trade union mas- sacres, began. Seventeen railroad union leaders were imprisoned; 4 were slain. Consolidated Railroads of Cuba|tempted to introduce the “company | been put into operation in Moscow with a wave length leads. The Cuba Railroad, one of the consolidated units alone represents an investment of about $100 million in- cluding its sugar properties. Some of the leading figures in the Consolidat- ed are E. J. Berwind, also president IN THE SUBWAY By C. M. (Ex-Subway Guard) It was during the year of 1918 that I entered the service of the In- terborough Rapid Transit Co. as a guard. Labor being scarce then on account of war conditions I was given | the job without many formalities. | month and do their spying work in | After having filled out a number of | the interest of the I. R. T, application blanks and other impres- to report for work the next day at the Bronx Park division. placed in a train with a veteran con- ductor who showed me how to operate the doors. There was nothing to do but open and close the doors. You see, very easy job! Thus I started my underground work which lasted for seven long years. Worse Than Slavery. That job was worse than slavery. I had to be on the job 14 and some- times 15 hours a day for nine hours’ pay. Before I became a “regular” I had to wait on the extra list for 2 and 3 hours each day before I was sent out to work. Then, after mak- ing a trip or two in the morning I had to come back in the afternoon to finish my run, It was 8 or 9 o’clock in the evening before I was able to go home. cided to’ take one Sunday off. I asked the “starter” for permission but he said that it couldn’t be done, mained away that Sunday anyway. The next day when I reported for work I was told that in order to get off it was necessary to get an O. K. from the superintendent. I went to the superintendent’s office on 96th St., and after waiting for two hours to see him he told me that I was sus- pended for two days for disobedience. I was also warned that one“ more suspension would be cause for my dis- missal. Since that time I never stay- ed off again until I was assigned to a run. ‘A When I reported for work I was} There was no Sun- ; day or holiday off. After working! for two months continuously I de-! I re-_lose’ their jobs. an Foreign Investments, standard work y Viking Press, New York.) of our great -union Berwind White Coal Co., which crushed the United Mine Workers in 1922; W. H. Woodin, president American Car and Foundry Co.; Perey A. Rockefeller; C. H. Wal- ker of Harriman & Co.; H. C. Lakin of the Long Island Railroad; W. V. Griffin, president Agrilin Chemical Corp. and H. S, Rubens of the U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co. Other American corporations with large Cuban properties are Bethlehem Steel Corp.,, the Am an Tobacco he ard Oil Co., the Inter. ‘aph arid Telephone Co., an Metal Co., United Fruit arge number of shipping, and terminal companies American investment mated at about a billion alf dollars. At least a fifth soil of Cuba is owned by Amer- icans, Co. Elected Machado. According to Dr. Leland H. Jenks, |formerly of Amherst College, who has completed a special study of Ameri- corporations doing business in Cuba | contributed heavily to the Machado campaign funds.” Machado has been | their friend and agent since the day | of his election. They have backed his program to deport and do to death the “undesirable elements” as Macha- do calls the trade union workers. iron against the unions has gone some “welfare work” for the non-union | workers. Various housing and recrea- tional facilities have been provided for the enslaved workers much as in | India or in Illinois. The Hershey Choc- olate Co., controlling extensive sugar eentrals and railroads have even at- union” among their employees, Like Rockefeller and other American prac- titioners of ‘“‘Employe representation” | | they know how to combine the militia | and cold steel with housing programs | and personnel management. | Wouldn’t Defend Workers. The officers of the “brotherhood,” |the company union, never opened | their mouths to defend a fellow-work- er. The only thing they were inter- ested in is to collect the dues each These officials are nothing but the| | leadership of Pat Connolly, to keep | the principles of real unionism from the workers. In 1920 the rank and file succeeded in electing a man by the name of Green from the Bronx | Park division. This man opposed the installation of the new “rubber- bellies” (the one-man trains) because he believed that it would’ throw many men out of work. The company fired | him without, a hearing, and when he | asked the “delegates” of the brother- hood to bring his case before the) meeting they ignored him. | Workers Hate “Brotherhood.” | The workers on the I. R. T. are not | interested in the “brotherhood”, be-| cause they all know that this is the cause of their miserable conditions, can investments in Cuba, “American | Along with this policy of blood and | | In a Shoe Factory |The French Ambassador Wails A young Italian worker speaking: The only trouble with my job is that I can’t get fired. I swore at the boss last week when he wanted to charge me up for them damaged shoes. Last nite the boss told me to work a little later. Like hell, I went home half That boss hates me like poison. This afternoon the boss come around and says, ‘A little | hustle.” He’s,good. He wants me to make a lot of money. Sup- posing I don’t want to? I don’t want to, that’s all; I don’t want to make a lot of money. I know that game, it’s old stuff. When I worked in the Hood, I used to cut back stays. The boss would pick | them up and pack them in a box, about a thousand in {a box. When he had plenty, enuf to last all summer, he lays me off. See, he don’t fire me, he just lays me off. I know that lay-off, too. Try and get the job back. I know a fellow been laid off for three years and he can’t get the job yet. Say, got a light? Thanks, See that pile of leather? Christ, some day it will burn. Let it burn, burn down; who cares? Oh the boss! The boss, he’s a good fellow. He put in lights over every table, so we can work overtime. Work till eight and nine o'clock at night. Sure. I know a fac- tory where they work Sundays. Hi! John was working last nite till nine o'clock. | Money! Who wants to work till nine o’clock? Who the hell wants to work anyway? Christ, I don’t know. That guy must be in love with his job. He must like this place. Maybe he sleeps here. All right. Get a pile of soft leather, you can sleep fine. bed to sleep on anyway? What's that, you don’t sleep | | here nights, John? ‘I didn’t mean it. I was only kidding. Don’t worry. I know we're all going to get laid off | soon, because the boss is telling us to speed up. Summer- | time coming, who the hell wants to work? Go swim- | ming; the boss, he’s fine: lets you take a vacation, a | little vacation, a long vacation; oh, just a vacation, you know: vacation. In the good old summer time. | NOTES FROM THE SOVIET UNION $33,500,000 For Housing MOSCOW, March 20.—Seventy-seven million roubles will be expended this year for building workers’ houses | in Moscow and Moscow province. | * * * | Best European Radio The most effective radio station in Europe has just | of 1,450 meters. All the technical apparatus of the sta- | tion was made in Soviet factories. * * 9,278,000 Trade Unionists Reports presented at the Seventh General Congress} of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union indicate that trade union membership reached the enormous total of 9,278,000 members on July 1, 1926. * * * Growth of Industry The total value of the gross output of the large scale State industries for December 1926, amounted to 734,-| 000,000 rubles ($378,200,000), an increase of 2.6 per cent | over the output of the preceding month, and 26 per cent | over the output of December 1925. * * * Great Shipping Center Leningrad is fast becoming one of the world’s great | shipping centers. It is the terminal of many vital inland water routes and railroads. Internal waterways connect it with the Volga provinces and the Caspian Sea, while railways connect it with the central provinces of Soviet Russia proper and with Siberia. Goods are brought from all parts of the interior to Leningrad for shipment to all parts of the world. The principal export cargoes at present are timber, grain, butter and eggs; the chief import cargoes are machinery, raw textiles and paper (newsprint). * * * 10,500,000 In Schools | Ten and half million men, women and children attended | educational establishments in Soviet Russia in 1925-6. This represents a one and a half million increase over the attendance for 1924-5. * * * Moscow Has Two Million The urban population of Russia is placed at 25,300,000 according to the latest urban census of the U.S.S.R. The population of the largest cities are: Moscow, 2,018- 000; Leningrad, 1,611,000; Kiev, 491,000; Baku, 433,000; In every meeting held each month | there are to be found no more than! 10 or 15 attending. And during the! meetings it is seldom that a member | is allowed to speak about improving | the conditions of the workers, are all afraid to speak against the | company for fear that they might If anyone is ever bold enough to agitate for an increase in wages or improvement in the con- ditions of labor he is immediately quieted down by Mr. Mangan of the “brotherhood.” The discussion is usually centered around plans for a “heef-steak” affair, or a visit to a sick brother. Such are the conditions of all the subway workers, and unless they unite in a strong union under the leadership of experienced men, they will never be able to improve their miserable conditions, 5,000 to $12,000 each between ies for Communism in the United States of America. yea covery of gold-bearing rock. A MODERN GOLD RUSH SCENE Frank Horton, Sr. (left) and Frank Horton, Jr., his son, are vine ara at Weepah, Nev., with sacks of ore estimated at from them. Young Horton and another boy, Leonard Traynor, started the gold rush by announcing the dis- They |. Odessa, 111,000; Kharkov, 408,000. The Letter-Box Class War Prisoner Writes. Editor, Daily Worker:—No doubt it seems rather un- usual for a comrade and friend to write from the pen on the open-shop shore! And no doubt what I have to say will be of minor importance compared to letters from other fellow workers and comrades. One thing of interest to our class is: only seven class-war prisoners remain in San Quentin prison. Another is due to leave a week from today. About the only news we get on China comes via the yellow press. But even from their censored reports one ean see that the People’s Army are knocking ’ell out of the capitafist tools (the northerners). Now what I offer for your perusal is the summing up of all the dif- ferent angles of the Chinese affair; and I want ta know if I’ve got the dope straight or have the facts been dis- torted in the “brass checle press” that my data is er- roneous ? From what I gather of the events in China, the up- heaval has been 80 years or more in gathering its ad- herants; that the Boxer rebellion was only a temporary defeat. So we come to the leadership of Sun Yat Sen. Now the movement has grown to such an extent that the native capitalist saw or thought they had an oppor- tunity to drive the foreign exploiter out and reap a golden harvest for himself! He (the native capitalist) joined the cry of “China for the Chinese!” Also he con- tributed to the “cause” always with the provision that he was to be a member of the governing board. But at this stage we see the work of diplomacy. His money was accepted and his election assured—but for every capitalist board member elected Labor put its repre- Have you got a better | | | replies from an qually well prepared (By A Staff Correspondent) Official and diplomatic circles are relating in confidence—with much pleasure—the story of the unusual delay of the formal presentation cere- monies of the new French ambassa- | dor, M. Paul Claudel. | The episode is particularly amus- | ing in view of the effusion of bull| and blah that was expressed by the Coolidge-Kellogg administration con- | cerning M. Claudel. He was ac-| claimed as a prodigy; a poet and a! diplomat. | | Cash Also Counts. | Now it develops that while he may! be both, nevertheless the dollar too! must be served, And therein is the! story. Usually a® foreign diplomatic of- ficer, particularly one representing | 4 first class power such as France,| | upon taking up his post in Washing- | ton, is received by the president with- in a week, Only rarely is the func- tion delayed ten days. To extend the time longer is literally an affront, jand can be excused only on the | ground of illness, | But That Debt. But in M. Claudel’s case, it was not j illness, either on his part or Mr. Cool- idge’s. The trouble was that M. Clau- |dei had “forgotten” to. include in his| “felicitation address” a statement about France’s willingness to pay her |war debt to the United States. And so because the statement ke was to make did not contain the desired com- ment, M. Claudel was kept waiting at the gate until he came across. Deliberate Spontaneity. Presentation ceremonies are very carefully arranged affairs. The am- bassador upon instructions—very ex- plicit ones—from his government, prepares a statement which he reads to the president. The president then statement. The ambassador's state- ment naturally is first submitted to| the state department for Perusal and approval, When both are satisfac- tory they are then released to the press, with due caution that the “feli- citations” were most enthusiastically presented and heartily reciprocated. _ The capitalistic press of both na-/ tions then solemnly write long ac- counts of the ceremony—to which re- porters are not admitted—and later | follow with wordy editorials lauding | the occasion as another example of the “peace and traditional fellowship | between these two great nations,” $4,000,000,000 And thus it was that when M. Clau-| del came to Washington almost three | weeks ago, he immediately prepared | his statement and sent it to the state | department. There it was promptly discovered that he had somehow or other overlooked the fact that his| nation owed the United States a- very considerable sum of money, four billion dollars in fact, This was most embarrassing, as the state department not anticipating any such problem, had arranged for an official dinner at which both the am- bassador and the president were to be present. This problem was finally solved by keeping the dinner secret. Under the social usages that operate in this “democratic” capital, the pre- sident may not break bread, or even meet for that matter, the represen- tative of a foreign nation until he has been formally introduced to him. M. Claudel’s “felicitations” were veturned to him with the blunt de- mand that he revise his remarks so that they said something about French obligations to the United States. This he could have done no doubt without extended delay; but he personally could not proceed until he had beeri authorized by the French government, He Admits Debt. This apparently is what caused the delay. It was some days before M. Claudel submitted his “improved” statement. As made public when he was finally “presented” it had this to say concerning the debt: “I am glad that I am entering up- on the duties of my new post at the moment when France has given fresh evidence of her firm intention to dis- charge her indebtedness and meet her just obligations”. Cesar, Likewise. The last instance of a diplomatic officer being kept waiting with his hat- in hand was when Alexandres | Cesar, minister of the present Mar- jine-maintained Diaz government in Nicaragua came to Washington around the first of the year. He pro- posed urging upon Coolidge the pro- position that the United States es- tablish a permanent protectorate over Nicaragua, or in other words acknow- ledging as a fact what it has been doing for many years. Congress was then in session and several senators, Particularly Borah were eagerly scanning the horizon for someting to hop the administration for in its Central-American dealings. The state department and Coolidge got cold feet and ordered Cesar to prepare another speech. This he did, but it took some time. ‘In his case the state department explained that “High Hat”, J. Butler Wright, the official accompanier of foreign repre- sentatives when they present them- selves, was out of the city. In M. Claudel’s case the official alibi ser- iously put out by the state depart- ment was that the White House cal- endar was filled with other engage- ments, To which one member.of the French embassy is said to have replied: “No doubt with the official spokes- man.” The Passing of By JOSEPH KALAR ' A YEAR ago I spent four months | - wandering over the streets of Chicago—the Chicago of Carl Sand- burg. It had not changed. It was still the brutal, lusty, cruel, crooked, and wicked city of “Chicago Poems.” It still needed its bard. In the hideous greasy room where three of us spent the evenings, cooking our grub on a gas grate, we had a radio, a cheap. tawdry crystal set that yet enabled me at one time to hear Carl Sandburg speak. I forget what he said, bat I think he spoke about Abraham Lin- coln. Even then I felt that Carl Sand- burg, the good old Carl who hurled such lusty defiance and blasphemous philippics at the fat men, was slip- ping. It is an ill omen when a writer turns from the brutal present and with tear dimmed eyes resuscitates a fallen, if noble, giant. Look at what's happened to Van Wyck Brooks! * * * But that was not all. As often as my finances permitted I purchased one of the capitalistic newspapers in search of employment. I chanced to open the Chicago Daily News at the cinema page and my brief and con- temptuous glance was arrested by the name of Carl Sandburg. He was re- viewing “Sally,” the most puerile show Thave ever had the misfortune to see. I expected to find’ the old Sandburg, a Sandburg beyond falling for the cheap pie-in-the-sky stuff that satu- rates the tenth art. But no. Edgar Guest might have written that review. The Chicago Daily News could hard- ly afford to irritate Balaban and Katz. And a man must live. . . * * . Carl Sandburg is getting old. The Dial esthetes, and Mencken, and Ezra Pound have convinced him that art is above life. Carl was too virile. The obese neurotic ladies who go in for art were at first thrilled by his blas- .phemy, but when he began to sneer at them and their own good men and true, it was too much, The past... sentative on that same board. As long as the fighting to gain control of all China continues this board will work in harmony! This places the native exploiter in dutch with his European and American brother-robber! As the Cantonese win victory after victory the “babbits of China” begin to puff out his chest and endeavor to grasp tighter the reigns of control: and here his soap- bubble of a dream bursts and he awakens to the sad realization that his enemy, the working class, is armed, and that the talk of “the world for those who work” is beginning to be popular among those who have done the fighting! O yes, he sees his mistake—but it’s too late now! His fellow-exploiter in Europe and Wall Street, U.S. A. calls him traitor! while on every side the work- ers see a Red Dawn! I hope. Comrade Miller’s Communist Training Camps meet with success! Also in Comrade Ruthenberg’s death T feel the labor movement has lost a militant worker. Hearne M. Haislip, Son Quentin Prison, California. the beautiful past ... the melancholy past, .. Amy Lowell, that woman starved into scrawniness by poverty (sic) said he was unjust to the mil- lionaires. It was all part of evolution, she said, Has Carl, whose very name strikes a responsive cord in many a breast, fallen for that stuff? I don’t know. Yet the fact remains that his evolu- tion was not into a fiercer hate of the existing mad and swinish society, but into one of sane and pure poetry, as ion as found outpourings Dr. Van Dyke. Chicago Poems. Corn- huskers, Smoke and Steel, a progres- sion that is worthy of any poet. Here Carl Sandburg he expressed the slime, the brutality of life; here he sang of smoke, of steel, of bums, ‘of trains, of cities. Much could have been expected of Sandburg after such a showing! But like James ppenheim, he became tired. Life was hopeless. What was the use of protesting? It was nature. It was evolution. And evolution is stronger than man. * * * After Smoke and Steel we had Slabs of the Sun-burnt West. And _ what was this remarkable volume that lead Gorham Munson to declare that his fame will most likely depend upon this volume? Mere vapid escape stuff. Mysticism. Subjective stuff, orca a sunsets. The beautiful est... In his first three volumes Carl Sandburg growled, shook himself, and spattered a few red drops for history to remember, Then he forgot, * * * Yes, Carl, good old Carl who was worth more than a concert hall full of esthetes, is getting old. After all, there is nothing like a beautiful sun- set, nothing like the spacious west, Out there where the west begins one can forget Anna Imroth, one can forget the slaves in the steel mills and coal hells, one can forget the slime, the dirt, the brutality. One can even forget his own proletarian past, bumming on freight cars, wash- ing dishes, driving milk wagons, pol- ishing stoves, For out where the west begins, out beyond brutal Chicago in beautiful oe tg at forgets that the “best of me is sucked out and wasted,” or forgets that “everything but ‘Death comes to me and makes me work and give up what I have,” Carl has forgotten. And “his young wild ways are not so young any more, nor so wild.” } Eunuch Vainly W For Return of Emir / OLD BOKHARA, U. S. S. R.— Waiting for the return of his forme: master, an emir who once ruled 12,000,000 natives here, an eunuch is standing guard over old harem quarters hoping for return, For 80 years the eunuch in the harem of his royal master he refuses to leaye the spot which considers sacred. Gale Sweeps Channel. LONDON, April 3—The English Channel is being swept by a héavy gale today. i fi f