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Page Four DAIL * ——= PA ! | Continued from Previous Page litical party of the American niasses. 4. The Party must carry on active campaigns for the organization of united front action with the masses from below on concrete and imme- ‘diate issues of struggle against the aapitalist offens on the political a®@ well as economic fields. More than ever must the united front policy from below be applied by our Party i e fight against the re- nd to win the masses for class struggle. In the present period, the Par- ty’s chief means of furthering the political awakening of the American masses, is the vigorous participation and leade in the everyday struggles, deepening the content of these struggles, carrying out ener- getically the program of the organ- ization of new unions. In the process of these struggles the Party will wtablish united fronts with the Masses on the political field. 6. The theory that the CP of the J.S.A. can make little or no gains in election campaigns until a labor party appears must be combatted vigorous! The grave opportunist errors of the Lovestone group in the labor Party work, places squarely before our Party the need of discontinuing the old labor party pol The fol- lowing are the main error: 1, Abandoning the industrial base by failure to carry on political cam- paigns among the working masses in the industrial centers. 2. Orientating the struggle for independent working class political action largely on the farmers and farmer-labor movements of the Northwest. 8. Persistence in advocating the organization of workers and farmers in one patty (Farmer-Labor Party) contrary to CI decision. 4, Proposals to send Party mem- bers into the socialist party to fight for a labor party. 5. Reliance upon the trade union and Socialist bureaucracy for the building of the labor party, criticized in the April letter of the CI, a mis- take shared in also by the minority of the Polcom. 6. Wrong conception of the role of the labor party in the class strug- gle (“emancipation of the working class”) noted and criticized in the Comintern letter of April. 7. Wrong conception of the rela- tion between the Communist Party and a labor party. Reducing the Communist Party to a left wing in the labor party and farmer-labor movement (Minnesota, Alleghany, county labor party). Reducing the Party to an instrument for the or- ganization of the labor party. 8. The Panken and Bearak man- euvers criticized by the CI. X. Failure To Build the T- -E.L. In numerous letters and resolu- tions the Comintern and Profintern have repeatedly stressed the neces- sity of building the Trade Union Educational League. With our Par- ty orientating itself towards the organization of new unions the TUEL acquires added importance. Tt must through its general organ- ization and industrial committees, actively proceed with the organiza- tion of the new unions. It must continue and extend its activities in building the left wing in the old unions and coordinate these with its major task of organizing the new unions. Notwithstanding the importance of the TUEL as a factor in the trade union work, little is being done by the Party to build it up. Party support of the TUEL is most- | ly mere lip service. It still re-| TY PRE-CON | spective National mains largely a skeleton organiza-| gro masses in industi ampaigns jtion in most localities and indus-| to mobilize the white workers for| tries. No efforts were made by the| CEC to follow up the recent na- tional conference of the TUEL by an active campaign to establish lo- cal groups.” The return of the Profintern and trade union delega- tions have not been utilized to build a TUEL, The TUEL nationally and its re- Industrial Com- mittees must be brought more prominently to the front in a lead- ing role in industrial struggles. There is a strong tendency to push them aside and liquidate them by conducting all industrial activities directly through Party fractions. | The official organ of the TUEL,| “Labor Unity,” now neglected by the Party, must be strengthened) and developed into a weekly mass| organ. | struggle on behalf of the Negroes against all forms of imperialist op- pr ion and discriminations, link- ing up race questions with econ- omic questions, systematic work among the Negro peasant masses of the south, their organization for the struggle against white oppression, truggle against white chauvinism | in the ranks of our Party; the training of a cadre of Negro Com- munist leaders, the drawing of Ne- gro workers into all organization campaigns, the intensification of the struggle inside the existing unions, the development of the influence of our Party as the leader of the struggles of the Negro masses— these are the immediate tasks of our Party. The Lovestorie majority has sys- tematically and continuously _ne- a ae . | gleeted work among the Negro XI. Pacifist, and Petty-Bourgeois| masses. This error is based on an Liberal Tendencies in the Anti-War rdercctimati 5 pevolisions and Antilmperialist, Work | underestimation of the revolution ‘ | ary role of this most exploited and {oppressed section of the popula- tion, This is expressed by Comrade Lovestone in his speech at the Feb- ruary plenum as published in the Daily Worker, where he refers to | the Negro farmers in the south as a “broad social reserve cf capitalist reaction.” It is further shown by| the complete absence of any refer-| ence to work among the Negro peas- antry in the south in the program introduced by Comrade Pepper in The Party manifested many paci- | fist and liberal deviations in its| anti-war and anti-imperialist work. The following illustrates this point: 1. Calling upon the workers to protest against the death of Amer- ican marines in Nicaragua, and treating the death of these marines as of greater consequence to the American workers than the murder of hundreds of Nicaraguan rebels by American marines, (Central For | members, refusi truth about it: | mounees all ¢ as factionalism, a The “self-criticism” of the Love-| developed by New York City College| stone majority is a caricature. It consists of a formal ‘&cknowledge- ment of the most obvious shortecom- ings of the Party without estab- lishing their nature, cause and re- sponsibility for them, and taking steps to overcome them. The most serious errors of the leadership are concealed from the Party or onl; formally admitted even in case where the CEC has intervened to correct them. The great opportunis- tic errors in the Panken case, the rades who were students, teachers, attitude to the socialist party and the labor party, which were pointed out by the ECCI in a special let- | ter, have never been explained to the Party members, whose ideas on/| these questions have been derived from the propaganda of the CEC on! the basis of the false position. A decisive struggle against diplo- macy and evasion, and for the inau- guration of a course of Bolshevik self-criticism in all aspects of Party work is a pre-requisite for a correc-} tion of the errors and the ‘setting of the Party on the right track. XIV, Denial of Right Danger and| Militant Attack Against Left. In the face of all these facts, the| Lovestone_ majority not only fails to| take the hecessary steps to change to tell them the] mistakes, and de-| The upper stvatum of the Lovestone| of 5 | " a icism of its policy, group leadership is composed main-| failed to consolidate its influence in| ment of policy on the main ta: the Party of an unhealthy character. ly of a special type of intellectuals and graduating from it or similar institutions into leadership of our Party, without appreciable experience in the class struggle. The connec- tions of the Lovestone group with dilettante elements, and thei: ing these elements special privileges creates a feeling of resentment in the ranks of the proletarian mem- bers. ; The decisive elements of the Love- stone leadership is composed of com- artists, philanthropic society and commercial investigators, insurance agents, etc. before their rise to leadership of our’ Party. XVII. Summary and Proposals. The Party has extended its influ- ence among the workers during the past year, but has not taken advai tage of the opportunities offered by | the favorable objective situation. It allow-| -Y WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER Al, 1928 j has succeeded in leading a number; The CI must thoroughly examine important struggles but has’ the situation and give a clear stat organizational form. of the Party. The opportunist line The period ahead, which will be| must be corrected and the basis laid one of growing unrest and struggle| for the reozganization of the Party of the, workers, offers exceptional| leadership in such a way as to in- prospects for the Party. With cor-| Sure the carrying out of the line of rect policies and leadership the Party| the Comintern, will be able to take advantage of/ ‘To this we propose the following the opportunities to popularize itself) measures: more widely as the leaaer of the} i workers in the daily fight to fulfill) 1. The sending of an open letter its vanguard rolc in broadening the/ to the Party for the purpose of edu- struggles of the workers, developing cating the Party on the policies and their implications, and hastening the| tasks and mobilizing the member- process of their development. to-, Ship for executing the policies. wards revolutionary struggles. 2. The authorization of the hold- The main danger to the proper ing of a Party convention within carrying out of this revolutionary two months after the end of the task in this period comes from the national election campaign. | right, and the line of the Lovestone| leadership is a right lire and con-' | trary to the CI policy as shown in the foregoing pages. A continuation of the present opportunist line will) | endanger the Party’s prospects and) 4. A thorough consideration of the hamper its development as the rev-| Party apparatus and a redistribu- ‘tion of the Party forces. Qualified 3. Provision for the holding of a full and free discussion on the Party problems and tasks prior to the Party convention. ‘ olutionary leader of the masses. VENTION DISCUSSION SECTION |comrades now factionally excluded or relegated to minor positions to be drawn directly into the Party ap- paratus. A reconsideration of the whole question of district organiz and the language bureaus, is espe- cially necessary in those important industrial districts where the main task of the Party pointed out by the Cl—the organization of the un- organized into new unions—must be applied. A reorganization of the staff of the D. W. and the language press to strengthen its Communist poli- tical quality and to provide for the | drawing into the staff of politically | qualified editorial workers from the present minority. (Signed) ALEX BITTELMAN MANUEL GOMEZ BILL DUNNE v JACK JOHNSTONE WM. Z, FOSTER | G, SISKIND \ J. CANNON. Films that hail from the Soviet Union are of utmost interest to us because they come from a land where workers have taken power and where socialism is in the con- struction. We have a perfect right | , showing their yellow tickets with a flaunting gesture, and off again into) the streets. Of course, the director makes the peasant woman stand out, pure, simple and innocent in the) crowd of prostitutes—so that no) Committee Nicaraguan Manifesto, July, 1927) never repudiated by the CEC nor repudiated by the Love- stone group. 2. Tendency to obscure the inde- pendent and aggressive role American imperialism (Lovestone group theory of American imperial- ism being the “catspaw” of British imperialism, and its newest theory of American imperialism “support-| ing Japan in China.”) 3. Failure of the Polcom to pre- vent the issuance and stop imme- diately the use of pacifist slogans in the Nicaragua campaign, “Enlist, with Sandino—Stop the Flow of Nicaraguan Blood”—a mistake cor- rected lately by the Polcom. 4. Pacifist and liberal appeals to the marines (leaflets in California, Boston and elsewhere, corrected by the Polcom). 5. The tendency to build the united front in the All-America Anti-Imperialist work, chiefly upon petty-bourgeois liberal elements and failure to draw labor elements into this movement (also corrected by the Poleom in formal decision). 6. By failure to carry on active anti-militarist work among the American forces in Nicaragua and China. of | the Polburo April 80; 1928. its policy, and to acknowledge and| two and a half years’ the Negro| Correct its errors, but it militantly work of our Party has been bank-| 4nd persistently denies the existence | rupt. (1) The Negro organ was|0f right tendencies and right ele- |liquidated, (2) The organization of ments in the Party. It has consoli- the Pullman Porters into a Negro! dated itself into a closely bound fac- | union was carried out by social re-| tion with all the prominent, former | formists without our Party making, ™embers of the Lore growp, and) any serious ‘effort to establish its| With the right wing in the needle! influence. (3) No struggle against | ttades, and has given up all strug-| | white chauvinism in the ranks of| gle against their opportunist errors: | the Party has been carried on (such Neither the political report nor the | accidents as Gary, Harlem, Detroit,| 'esolution of the May plenum con- Pittsburgh, are proof of this) and tained a word regarding the Right continuous retreating of the Party| danger in the Party and not a sin- leadership before the chauvinism of | le word has been published to’ ex- the whites. (4) The last Negro pro-| Plain the right errors pointed out gram of the Party, written by Com- by the ECCI and similar errors cited | rade Pepper makes no reference to, here. | | the necessity for such a campaign.| At the same time, the majority (5) The Lovestone majority entire-| concentrates it; whole fire against ly underestimates the necessity for! the left dangers and errors, as well struggle for the mobilization of|as against the comrades who criti- white workers on behalf of the Ne-| cize the opportunist errors and try gro masses. (6) Systematic fac-| to bring the line of the Party into tional corruption to conceal bank-| accord with the policy of the CI. | ruptey of the Negro work. (7) No! It demagogically distorts and mis- systematic attempt to build real| represents the position of the min- Communist cadre of Negro com-| ority, falsely attributing to it a fan-| | tades. (8) Orientation towards Ne-| tastic overestimation of the radical-. gro petty-bourgeoisie rather than ization of the American workers and towards workers and farmers. (9) an opposition work in the old unions. Failure to connect Negro work with| In this manner it sets up a false} issue and wages a war against it | general trade union work of the} as a cloak for its opportunist poli- | | | to expect a complete revolution in| clear-sighted audience could mistake | the cinema as well as. in other in. | her ehasity. But the part is acted stitutions of the old society. Jn that whole series of Sovkino productions | which has gained so much of our admiration and enthusiasm, both be- cause of their revolutionary back- ground and the use of scenic adapta- tions so fitting to the action and | moods portrayed, we have witnessed a wide range of subject and treat- ment, from the massive tempo of | the “End of St. Petersburg” to the centering of a whole age in an in- dividual as in “Tsar. Ivan, The Ter- rible.” “The Yellow Ticket,” now show- ing at the Cameo, could perhaps be called the younger brother of Tsar | Ivan, in that same general class, but not so matured and finished both in yconception and execution. Here the new director, Ozep, is vague in just exactly what he wishes to do. The story is a simple one. One of the master class takes a fancy to a peasant girl who has just been re-united with her hus- band, recently returned from ser- ving his military in the tsar’s army. The couple, out of the kindness of the master’s heart, is rented a farm all stone and stubble. Orders come well and she takes her yellow ticket, | amidst the laughs of the’ girls of | joy, fully believing that she had got-| ten an excellent recommendation. The dance hall is an excellent) piece of work. Men and girls dance and drink mechanically—there is no | spirit or real will in the pre-couch | merry making. Couples go off to | their compartments. There is al simple realism in the peasant wo- . man and her peasant companion as : : ih they lie on the couch. | The fault might be found that} 7 Flora Sheffield, one of the prin- “The Yellow Ticket” does not ex-|cipals in “Sign of the Leopard,” a ploit all the fine opportunities for| London importation, by Edgar Wal- social contrast, that it centers itself| lace, which the Shuberts will pre- too much about the two individuals,|sent at the National Theatre this the peasant and his wife, that it is) evening. hazy in its conception and brings| with it no sharp enough attack upon the society of the tsar—something, Railroad Profits Sky we certainly should expect from aj High While Men Slave Soviet film. | If Sovkino has succumbed some-| Harder for Less Wage (what in this film to American) cinema tradition, it has, however, countered by a broader grasp of es- sentials by broadening out into the life of the peasant, and its deep-| soiled rendering of certain moments. | |“The Yellow Ticket” does not mark Although the railroad workers are getting less wages than they did in 1920, the rail lines are piling up vealed by the reports submitted by 88 of the leading lines for October record-breaking profits. This is re-: from the city that the master must 4 distinctive step forward above the| business, showing an unprecedented 7. Pacifist ideology in work| Co™tAades into general Party work. among women. “We cannot even stop that terrible scourge of hu- manity—war” (first issue New York Working Woman). | The cooperative work of the Par- The above deviations flow from ty in New York, the largest dis- | XU, Opportunist Errors in Coop- erative Work. the general right wing orientation| trict, has been and still is charac-| and main line of the. Lovestone terized by gross opportunism and group. virulent factionalism. The coopera- | Party. (10) Failure to draw Negro cies and practices. Comrades re- svonsible for opportunist errors are} shielded from criticism and _ pro- tected in the most responsible posi- tions, while those criticizing dre | continuously attacked and discrimin- ated against in the assignment of Party duties. (For example, the | appointment of Comrade Poyntz, a former leader of the Lore group, as have the peasant girl to take care of his baby. A year’s toil on stone- filled soil, no harvest to reward the year of labor, the mortgage must be. paid—so the peasant girl goes to the city to work in the house- hold of the master. leaving her two small children in the hut in the gully with her husband. In the city Soviet films we have already seen—, in fact its plot is a little disappoint- ing. But its rendition and execution place it high in the films of today. —SOL AUERBACH. HOOVER TRIES inerease of 27.5 per cent in net prof- its income over the returns for Oc- tober of 1927. The increase in gross revenue is 6.1 per cent, and the difference be- tween these two percentages’ rep- resents more “efficient” manage- ment, largely in getting less work- ers to do more work at less wages XII. Underestimation and False Conception of Work Among Negro Masses. The problem of Communist work among the 12,000,000 Negroes in the United States, the overwhelming majority of whom are workers and working farmers and their families, must be approached from the Len- inist viewpoint that this most ex- ploited and oppressed section of the population forms an immense re- serve for the proletarian revolution. The main tasks are: The development of a revolution- ary Negro race movement led by the Negro proletariat. Systematic work among the Ne-| 5 tion work (United workers coopera- | tive) has been based on buildings j and financing cooperatives which in| turn are based on‘speculation in real estate, etc. These enterprises are) now in a financial crisis which threatens to discredit the Party. The extreme right wing which co- operated with non-Party elements against the Party, refused to accept | CEC decisions, has been placed in control of the organization and en- couraged even by the Poleom mem-; bers of the Lovestone group in im- permissible violation of Party pro- | cedure, The worker members of the co- operative, both Party and non- ag are demoralized and discour-| Regime. | aged. | In spite of the continual struggle The Lovestone group has consoli- lofether’ mingrity; ragainat i) ithe dated with the former following of head of women’s work, failure to correct the opportunist errors in this sphere and many other appoint- ments of a similar character.) The denial of the Right danger and the concentrated fire against the minor- ity are a component part of the op- portunist policy of the Lovestone group, The many errors which have been criticized by the ECCI have been er- rors to the right without exception. The denial of the existence of right dangers by the Lovestone group is in effect a denial of the position of the letter of the CI. XVI. Right Wing Internal Factional | |her husband, who before could not the peasant girl rejects the advances of the master and leaves the man- sion only to be rcunded up in the public garden in a police raid on the prostitutes. In the police sta- tion she is given a yellow ticket. She thinks it is a recommendation and offers it as such in an employ- ment agency. She is of course shown the door ard soon finds her- self employed in a public dance hall and prostitution house. The first night there she lies with a peasant from her neighboring village who tells her that her husband has been burt in an accident. She rushes out of the hall and to ‘her husband. When she comes into the small hut TO BUY CHILE ‘Competes With British | Imperialism | Continued from Page One to express to your excellency my | good wishes for the suecers of the| administzation over which your ex- celc:.:,) will preside: ar” it is the |unanimous desire of the Bolivian | people that the powerful nation of | the . ..h will continue to be the promoter of progress and regulator of justice in the destinies of the world. walk, advances sturdily toward her. And the picture ends with every- “HERNANDO SILES.” body happy. * @ than ever before. The Daily Worker will be five years old on January 5. Workers from all parts of the country are sending in greetings. Have you went in yours? If not, send it in today. “THE YELLOW TICKET? "3°" "°"*™ pIQNEERS FIGHT | Mobilize Cleveland” to End Official Brutality CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 9.—In the name of the Young Pioneers of | America, a new campaign has been begun in this city against the sys- tem of corporal punishment in the public schools. The particular issue around which this campaign is centered is the case of a 14-year-old eighth grade pupil, | who, because he failed to bring his gym suit to school, was compelled to run around a track five times, which completely exhausted him, and then was forced into a cold shower. He has been in bed with a bad attack of influenza for three weeks as a result of this brutal punishment. This is only one of a series of brutalities perpetrated upon the pupils in Cleveland schools with the sanction of the entire city school administration. And the charge is that only children of workers are treated so shamefully by the school | authorities, who prefer to keep their hands off the well-to-do children. The Young Pioneers are organ- izing a real fight against this | shameful system of oppression. Al- i ready several thousand leaflets en- | titled “Stop Punishment of Workers’ Children” have been distributed, and have received an excellent response. Pioneers are organizing further dis- tribution of leaflets within the schools. They are chalking up the blackboards and streets with slo- gans, such as “Stop Whippings of Workers’ Children!” etc. Efforts are being made to enroll the exist- |ing working class women’s organi- zations in the fight. A resolution which is embodied in the leaflet is being pushed in the class rooms, and the Pioneers are taking votes on |the resolution among their school- mates. Keith-Albee Best Film Show In Town AME NOW! | DARING! SENSATIONAL! Another Remarkable Sovkino Production 00,000 or even criticize this disastrous pol- icy. The cooperative section of the Comintern should conduct a thor- ough investigation of this enter- prise and officially inform the Par- (ty of its findings and conclusions. The work of the Party in the co- operatives is exceedingly weak. The Party has no program for coopera- tive work. Lovestone group refuses to abandon, Lore into the right wing of the Party, against the present minority and conducts a factional regime in support of its opportunist policy, The secretary, the organization de- partment, the agitprop department, the WIR, the Council of Protection of Foreign Born, all foreign lan- guage bureaus, all Party press and| all districts except two minor ones, are in the control of the Lovestone | group, which, as a matter of policy | sacrifices mass work for internal If the plot smacks a little too much of the American ending and a stretching of reality to bring about an insipid finale, the producer takes every opportunity for psychological effects and telling contrasts. Wav- ing wheat on a Russian steppe is a sight for any eye to delight in; peasants advancing in unison swing- ing scythes;: the peasant soldier coming home, swinging his boots on a stick, stopping to rub wheat in| Another Warship. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UP).— | The U. S. S. Utah, which will trans- |port President-elect Hoover and his |party up the east coast of South America, to Central America and to | )“ YELLOW TICKET” By the Producers of “END OF ST. PETERSBURG” _the West Indies, arrived at Monte- | | video at 3 p. m. today after an 18-/ |day trip from the Brooklyn navy yard, the navy department was ad- | vised. Hoover will board the battleship | eatre GUILD Productions WingsOver Anniversary Edition JANUARY 5, 1929 FIFTH BIRTHDAY RDER A BUNDLE NOW for distribution on the anniversary of th e only revolutionary fight- ing English Daily in the world. We must make this Anniversary the. occasion for bringing the DatLty WorKER to thousands of workers that we have never reached before. This edition will have additional features, special photos and will be larger many times the present size. Price, $10 per thousand. Order a few days in advance, Baily Worker Please send me..... NAME ADDRESS.......+.+++. CITY To arrive not later than . 1am attaching 26 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY. sseeee-Gopies of The DAILY WURKER at the rate of $6.00 per thousand. STATE... | The work of the Party in the con-| factional expediency. |sumers cooperatives in the north- Factional composition of Profin- | west and Massachusetts is carried on | tern delegation, trade union delega- | without any direction from the cen- | tion, mining campaigns in anthra- | ter. jeite, Pittsburgh, Illinois, Ohio, shoe campaign, Massachusetts, automobile campaign, Detroit, New York, I.L.D., Secretary Jewish Section IL.D., | Secretary New York Needle Trades, | factional removal of Comrade Swa- | XV. Phe Rejection of Self-Criticism. | | Leninist self-criticism is one of the greatest necessities of our Par- ity. to enable it to learn from its beck, one of the most qualified or- | mistakes and to clarify its policy, | ganizers in the Party, as district or- | The whole party has been guilty) ganizer in Illinois, which resulted in | of failure to criticize itself, in the| greatly weakening the mining cam- Leninist method, and its ideological! paign and a loss of membership in development has been thereby | the district, discrimination against | greatly retarded. Diplomacy, the| Comrade Aronberg in favor of right | covering up of errors, the reconcil-| wingers, arbitrary removal of Com- ing conflicting viewpoints on “unani-| rade Dunne. from Profintern Exe- mous” resolutions, passing resolu- | cutive, factional campaign against tions for the record which ae T.U.E.L. and LL.D,, removal and never carried out, the concealment! persecution of Comrade Costrell, re- of weaknesses and failures and the! moval of Schachno Epstein as Frei- gross and bombastic exaggeration! heit editor, systematic exclusion of of achievements in Party reports, competent comrades of the minority the failure to explain errors in such) from leading party positions. a way as to educate the Party—! ie | these practices foreign to a Commu-| The Social Composition of Lovestone | nist organization amount to a deep-| Group. | seated disease in the American Par-| ‘The social origin of the Lovestone ty, which can be cured only by the| group leadership is petty-bourgeois, [inauguration of a ruthless and [t has built around and attracted to |thorough-going course of genuine jtself a circle of more or less pros- | Bolshevik self-criticism. | perous petty-bourgeois elements. A | The Lovestone majority rejects number of these elemer.ts, some of | such a course, and resists all at-|them non-Party, know the inner tempts to introduce criticisms which _workings of the Party, enjoy privi- zo the heart of the Party errors leges that are denied even to poli- pane shortcomings. It systematically tical committee members of the op- practices diplomacy with the Party! sition, and exert an influence upon his hands to test the quality of the at Montevideo to continue his good- | crop, his meeting with the peasants | will trip while the U. S. S. Maryland, on the field and his simple enibrace | his present transport, will return to/ of wife and child. Moments like | the west coast. The Utah expects) these abound in Soviet films, which to leave Montevideo Dec. 17 and ar- | are so close to the earth and fac- rive in Rio De Janeiro on Dec. 20,/ tory, so at home to the life of the | the department said. worker and peasant. | . Sovkino productions fully exploit | nature to express the mood of a character or of a mass. And here, | too, nature is shown, changing with | the mood of the husband as he) trudges to the city, pulling his new- born child in a small cart behind | him and holding his daughter by the | hand, Cloud formation, trees wav- ing their tops at a threatening sky from the brim of a hillock; buds and blossoms decorate the homecoming of the soldier, the coming of the child and the return of the wife. There is also a directness and simplicity here, which throws the idyllic plot into bad relief. The leave-taking of husband and wife— with*such a sense of inevitableness and study resignation, with no ca- resses and kisses, centers in itself years of labor and oppression with no way out. The peasant does not tell his wife that their son has died —-but only shows her the baby’s woolen socks and she understands this direct language of the soil. 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