The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1929, Page 3

y¥ WORKKER, NEW ms, TUE DAY, APRIL »’ 192) Page Three Two Bombs Are Hurled at Repressive Indian Legislative Body; Barely Missed Simon GOVERNMENTMEN. HURT; JOB MAY BE WORK OF SPY Resentment Shown to British Commission LAHORE, India, April 8.—About 100 persons were injured yesterday when police dispersed a group of | Arya Samajists who stopped in the street and refused to move after au- thorities had forbidden their pro- cession. The procession was formed to carry the empty bier of the Ma- | hasha Rajpal, who was stabbed Sat- urday by an imported Moslem! honeh to be a British agent sum- Scene in Samarakand, Turkestan Capital Market day in Sama Tourist agent, no American had arrangements for a tourist group. al to the World set foot until he arrived to make according Me eae = Ot Cp POwerlul Tenants’ DELHI, Tha, Aprit 8.—Two bombs hurled from the gallery of the Indien legislative assembly here and bursting in the government benches, wounding several members and narrowly missing Sir John Simon, punctuated the mass resent- ment of the Indian workers and peasants to the Anglo-Indian gov- ernment and the Simon commission. Three government benches wrecked by the explosion. Those arrested were Butukeswara Dutt, from Bengal, and Bhagat Singh, from the Punjab. chamber was filled with A pamphlet headed “Hin- Socialist Army Notice” and by Balraj, honorary chief, The smoke, dustan signed was thrown with the bombs. Simon With President. Police locked the council house at or and prevented ingress John Simon, head of the Br ish comm yn, was in the pre: cent’s gallery when the bombs fell. One of the bombs dropped near Sir George Schuster, finance mem- were | ber of the viceroy’s executive coun- | ig him. Hate cil, inju: Legislature. | ants’ organization, which will fight ! leame to the Daily Worker | 5 est paid worker: OU League, “The way to combat the housing conditions which exist in Harlem is by an organized fight of only |the tenants,” declared Otto Hall, na- tional organizer of the Ame Negro Labor Congress, when h office yesterday to discu the exposure of housing evils in Harlem made by the “Daily.” “The campaign is absolutely nec- jessary in Harlem, because the ma- jority of Negroes there are the low- and they must pay exactly double the rent that work ers in other districts pay. “While little can be expected from the legislature, for it serves the interests of the landlords, organized mass pressure can make it give us concessions and force the legisla- tors to relieve the situation some way. “For this however, it is neces sary to build a strong mass ten- is The Indian National Assembly is | militantly against insanitary condi- a fake legislative body, controlled | tions, mechanically by British government | sions. It |is an organization with such a pro- officials and renegade Indians. rent raises and disposses The Harlem Tenants’ League has recently aided the Anglo-Indian gram and it must be built up to government to put through anti-|mass proportions during this cam- lab Red raid, during which trade union enders were arrested. | The imon commission of the ;lem r union measures, to conduct a | paign. “The American Negro Labor Con- |gress will cooperate with the Har- Tenants’ League in holding |. British parliament is a hand-picked | street meetings in Harlem on the bedy sent to pirety of allowing self-government to the Hindus.” imperialist. body British police and soldiers who have several times fired on crowds pro- | testing its presence. It is a thoroughly | solution to the housing problem.| The lower middle class, the small|the vast territory of the Soviet ; nie : nufacturer, the shopkeeper, the | 1; which marches.| That is for the tenants in a strong an, the peasant, all these fight | Union. about ia with a heav. uard of | organization to~take the houses ainst the bourgeoisie, to save a BT: gR | eealnidin: with ye ba a i She slundineaa ined nl from extinction their existence as| The other classes decay and finally dart rom the landlords and place fractions of the middle class. They |disappear in the face of modern in- | them under their own manage- are therefore not revolutionary, but |dustry; tke proletariat is special | meant? [conservative—Karl Marx (Commu-/|and ersential product—Carl Marx “inquire into the pro- | housing situation. “There is, however, only one real | sane Urges Otto Hall OPEN SEAMEN'S a Get arine Wor kers Baltimore Club Headquarters of the Marine Work- ers League were opened at 1710 Thames St., Baltimore, Md., y day, George Mink, national tary of the League announced. “Organizational work has been proceeding in Baltimore for the past | three months,” Mink declares. “Sea- men and longshoremen have sponded enthusiastically to the call for a fighting, industrial union is- sued by the Marine Workers League. We are also completing prepara- for the opening of an Inter- ional Seamens’ Club in the same rooms, and ever, ience for seamen will be provided— so that they will have no need to watch for the stool pigeons of the corrupt I. S. U. officialdom. DEFEAT COMPENSATION BILL CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, (By Mail).—A bill to increase compensa- tion for labor in case of death or| injury failed to pass, being tabled | by the senate judiciary committee. ‘nist Manifesto). re- | DAWES BOARD DEADLOCKED OVER PAYMENT Schacht ‘Offers Less Than Half Demands PARIS, April 8—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, chief of the German re- parations delegation, at a special | session of the Dawes board, offered a starting annuity of approximately | $300,000,000 a year, increasing over a 87-year period to a maximum of 500,000,000. The Dawes plan board of eres conference was perilously ne: | | deadlock today, with the Allies aa | mittedly lacking unity among them- selves and the German delegate, Schacht, openly declaring that Ger-! many could not pay the demands of the war victors. New Demands. At one time it seemed that the Allies had agreed on $550,000,000 payments annually. The only trouble was how to divide it among the| looters. Germany under the old} Dawes plan would have had to pay | $625,000,000 this year, and there {was some hope expressed among the delegates that she would, how- ever protestingly, agree to the new! and lower figure. Overnight, however, France, Bel- gium, Italy and England submitted further claims for $75,000,000, mak- ing Germany’s plight as bad as if| .|no conference had been called. | It is thought here that the Ger-| man delegation may yield to the} |threats of the war victors, but iti lis not believed that this will settle anything, as there will be first of | all considerable trouble getting Ber- lin to ratify and more trouble get-| ting it to pay. World Tourist Agent. ‘Visits Samarkland In »| USSR to Arrange Tour, A story of Samarkand, the an-| {cient capital of Tamerlane, the Tartar conqueror, and the temples and tombs he erected there is told by Milton Goodman, director of the | | World Tourists, New York travel bureau, holder of a franchise which permits the sending of American tourists to Soviet Russia. Mr. Good- man recently returned from abroad where he spent nearly three months | | exploring hitherto unknown parts of (Cormunist Manifesto). A STORY of LIFE in the U.S.S.R. :—Partly because of her origin her mother was a_peas- ant—partly because she has spent many years in the village.as a teacher, Lydia Seifulina (born n 1889) knows the psychology and the language of the peasant. She understands the vilage and she, fecls the revolution. The tradi- tional peasant themes found in the older Russian literature, Sei- fulina treats in an entirely new fashion, charging them with an unprecedented dynamic _ signif- icance, In her work we see the mass of savage peasantry caught up by the irresistible enrush of history and hurled into the vortex of Civil War, Revolution and Com- munism. Seifulina began her literary career in 1920. She produced two long tales that attracted the at- tention of literary Russia: ‘Decay,’ a remarkable representation of a revolutionary Siberian village, and “Virineya.” “The Lawbreakers,” printed here, describes the life of the “homeless waifs” whom the Soviet Union is doing so much to convert into useful citizens. It is one of her best stories. at ea E was caught at the depot. He had been buying foodstuffs from the market women. He took his ar- vest with the cheerfulness of an old- timer. He winked to the gray man who held the rifle, and asked: “Where are you goin’ to take me, comrade, to the Rtucheka (county Chekha) or the Gubcheka (provin- cial branch of the Cheka) ?” “A hot one, you are! It’s a cinch you've been through everything.” They took him to the Ortcheka (district Cheka), too. They they ‘took him to the Gubcheka. There he sat down quietly on the floor of the anctroom, awaiting his turn, When questioned, he answered willingly end cheerfully, ' “Your name?” “Grigori Ivanovich Peskov.” “What district?” the commandant. questioned in a weary, disdainful Tanner. | “From far away. Guess I'd have to go some to find my way there ‘now. I'm from Ivanovo-Vozne- sensk.” “Well, how did you happen to come to Siberia?” ' “Call this Siberia! farther still.” And with these words he glanced proudly at those present. T've been a lot Tre LAWBREAKERS By LYDIA SEIFULINA International Publishers. Copyright, 1929 “But what the dev here from Ivanovo. He corrected stolidly “Not the devii but a train.’ And when the soldiers and man who was serawling something | }on paper with a pen roared with |laughter, he responded merely by brought you esensk 2” | spitting gravely on the floor, \ a “They brought me on t comrade. The ’Mericans. Some Fetrograd kids with teachers v brought here to fatten ’em up. It’s the Red Cross, or something. None | o’ my business, though. ’Mericans, that’s what they are. have paid ’em for us: feed ’em up.’ Then Kolchak came. Some went farther on and some died off, and I got into a children’s shelter and from there I ran away to the country.” “What did you do there?” “Worked as a farm-hand for the priest. Don’t you think ’cause I’m | skinny! I’m handy for work, brother!” “And did you enroll as a volunteer with Kolchak?” “Yep. But I ran away.” “How did you get to be a volun- | teer" then?” “When the Reds came, every- body ran away and I ran with ’em. Well, nobody wanted me, so I en- rolled‘as a volunteer.” “But why did you run away from the Reds? Were you afraid?” “Afraid? ... What’s there to be| afraid of? I’m of the Red Party my- self, I am. But they all started to scoot, so I scooted, too.” The soldiers again roared with laughter. The commandant repri- manded them and gave the order: “Search him.” * yes ITH the same willingness he let them search him. He raised his hands in the manner of one ac- customed to this procedure. His large, gray eyes sparkled merrily in the pallid, childish face. They lit everything up, like spots of sun- light. They lit up the emaciated, shrunken, little face, and the shag- gy, lice-ridden head of the color of dirty straw. A large sum of money was taken away from the boy, to- ether with a keepsake locket with ilvered lids, a pound of tea, and a few yards of woven stuff that was in his kit. “Where did you get the money?” “Stole some of it, and made some tradin’.” “What were you trading in?” the Lenin must | ‘Go ahead, | | “Tobacco, cigarettes, and some- |times I’d swipe somethin’ and sell it.” mandant, astonished. “Where your parents?” “Pa was killed in the Joiman war, and ma got some new kids |So she went somewhere with her) are rain, |new feller and the kids, and fixed | right. me up on the ’Merican train.” And again he met the command- ant’s dull gaze with the clear shin- ing of his eyes. The commandant |shook his head. He wanted to say, “A hopeless case.” But the light in Grishka’s eyes stopped him. He | smiled and rubbed his chin. “Well, what did you do when you | were with Kolchak?” “Nothin’. - away.” “So you're of the Red Party?” | recollected the commandant. “Right you are. Give us a light.” “You ought to be spanked for smoking. Well, here’s a light! How old are you?” “Fourteen last St. Gregory’s Day.” “So you know the saints. And why do you wear that locket?” | “To remember my dad. He’ll feel | better in heaven when he gets to | know ’bout it. Mother forgot him, | but Grishka remembers.” “And you think he’s in heaven?” “Where else? The soul has to have some place to kick around in when it leaves the body.” The commandant’s eyes again | wore their blank, official expres- sion. | “That'll do, now! I'll have to | detain you.” “To jail? All right. But the ‘eats there is punk ... well, never }mind. I c’n stand it a while, | Goo-by.”” | They remembered Grishka for a long time at the Cheka. * WE WAS soon summoned from the prison by the Juvenile Crime Commission, He liked it less at the Commission than at the Gubcheka. At the latter place they were jolly fellows. They laughed. And here everybody pitied him, and then the doctor pestered him for a long time. “What's he frettin’ like that for?” wondered Grishka, “He’s measured my head and my fingers. Maybe he’s tryin’ to make my marks fit jinto somebody’s. ... Bet they’re lookin’ for some feller with a block like mine... .” * seas | “He’s a real cae!” said the com- Just enrolled and ran} Another unpleasant thing was | that the doctor looked him over for |a long time, naked. He had been| scrubbed clean at the bathhouse, | but the doctor examined him in |such a way that Grishka felt as if his body were dirty. Then the| doctor started to question him about | the shameful things. That was not | Grishka had seen a good | deal and fooled around a bit him- self. But it isn’t right to talk about |it. It’s disgusting to recollect it. |And he doesn’t, feel like fooling | around any more. When he emerged | from the doctor’s his face was red| and his eyes seemed to have lost their sparkle. He had aroused him so, the “goggle-eyed one.” But in the evening, at the home for juvenile criminals, he was cheer- ful again. He approved of the focd. “This ain’t like the slap-hash at the Soviet dining room, brother. | This is milk, The kasha is sweet. Bits of meat in the soup. Great!” | * 8 8 |pur AT night he felt ill at ease. The boys were restless and the teacher scolded them. Somehow the teacher reminded him of the doc- tor. For a long time Grishka could not fall asleep. He wondered why. “There, that’s it! Reck’n I ain’t |used to the piller. It bothers me.” And he spent the whole night in| sad yearning, half asleep, half awake. At times he saw his mother. | She was combing his hair and say- ifig: “You're growing, j you're growing, sonny! a Grishenka, We'll have rest when you get big. You'll | make money and you'll take care |of father and mother. ... My own boy!” And she kissed him. It’s strange! His eyes are open and the lamp is throwing its light up ,toward the ceiling. He knows that it is the Children’s Home. His mother, surely, is not here. And yet he feels it on his cheek—she kissed him, And he wants to cry. But he hemmed like a grown-up man, restrained his tears, and turn- ed to the other side. And then he seemed to see the doctor. He re- called the women. And again‘he felt a sense of disgust. And he was un- easy. He wanted to pray, but could not recollect “Our Father”, And he did not know any other prayer. In way he tossed about all night (To Be Continued.) long. 1A Block in Harlem Reveals Struggle ot Negro Workers (Con windows in the kitchen and two in the front room. rooms must be illuminated by a 1 j there are no windows in them. thruout. There is hardly any v on at all. stand how there are so many ¢ s from coal gas in the tenements when it is bitter cold ou through the flimsy walls. The kitchen window overloo} with papers and dirt. An old ru: along the back of the house. Th ance with the law in the whole buil Garbage? There are no dumbyw tied up in bundles and carried cut selves, Baths? Mrs. fs Have there been a renovations lately landlord repainted the kitehen by cracky walls, t didn’t make instead of painting it in light c ; gloomy as before. The walls are actually “The landlord won’t do any we will have to take a rent raise.” We were to hear that repeated again : * ILLIAMS has not had steady employme “He worked at the Kn pany for five years,” Mrs, Williams said, cut hands so he lost his jeb about three months ago. Since then he has been working at the docks, but not steady. He leaves about four or five o'clock every morning to look for a job, and if he nued from Page One) _The intervening It is easy to under- and illuminating and the wind roars nti a desolate back yard which is spotted d very n, fire escape runs about t attempted compli- iters here. The garbage must be into the street by the tenants them- here. Williams No, there are no bat ago the veen paint over the id Mrs. Williams, for ined as dark and we want repairs upply Com- decided to Williams, his wife, four children and two lodgers in the kitchen of their “apartment” of five cubby-holes at 18 E. 134th Street. —Photo by Nippon Camera Club. finds one he makes about $5 a day. every day It w returned. Williams has to go rustling for a job every morning at about four or five and if he is lucky enough to find work he doesn’t return until late in the evening. When he returns he comes home through a slough-tray which is called a street, walks up a smelly and crumbling hallway, into his hovel for which he pays $33 per month. Here is a fellow worker who slaves thru the day—when he is given a chance to—for a meagre pay, comes to that section of the city where his employer and others like him have told him he must live, to a hovel which is called a home and for which he pays a high rent to persons in the same class as his employer. There are many oree workers” like him. He has to get re-hired Many days he doesn’t find any wor! already after six o'clock and Williams had not yet The same conditions prevail in the whole row of eight houses on East 134th Street. Holmes and his wife and three others live in an apartment at No. 18. Although the apartment is even worse than the one we just described he pays $35 for five rooms. Both Holmes and his wife are blind. He works at a broom and mop shop downtown and works piece-work. The brooms are made by machine and there is much speed-up. Holmes makes cn the average of from $10 to $12 a week. The ceiling is coming down, there are large holes in the walls near the plumbing, gas light, coal stove, no baths, community toilet, no garbage disposal, dark, unventilated. In an apartment in the next house lives D. W. Heddleston, lamed Negro veteran of the Spanish-American war. He pays $30 for his five rooms, and has gotten the few dollars grace over the other tenants because he lived there for the last 11 years. When he first moved in in 1917 he paid $15. His rent has been doubled since then. In these eleven years there had been no improvements to speak of in any of these houses. They were allowed to go from awful to worse while the landlord raised the rent. Heddleston sits in one place and meyes his legs with difficulty. He served in the quartermasters department which was located at Tampa, Florida, until a severe epidemic of yellow fever forced the headquarters to move. He was lamed in an accident. He does not get a pension because the army department reported they could not find his name on the roll. “The more I think of that war,” said Heddleston, “the more I think it was a big money making proposition.” The department houses we have just described are known as “double-decker dumbell tenements.” ‘The clever architect who de- signed them obtained first prize for planning such an inexpensive cage back in 1879. The tenement law of 1901 condemned this type of building. Now, in 1929, they are still being used for housing Negro workers. * * «© The lodgings we have just described are not isolated instances but are fairly numerous. Nor are they the worse. If you con- tinue following the Daily Worker investigator into other sec- tions of Harlem, you will see almost unbelievable conditions. Tomorrow we will go to a “higher-class” apartment, and see what terrible crowding the Negro workers must suffer for the privilege of having a dumbwaiter which does not work, and « hot-water supply which is only present in the lease. { three months. Subscription Drive of Daily Worker Is Blow to Imperialist War Plans greatest significance to every clares Albert Moreau, head of the of the “The U. ription drive of orker is of the in worker,” de- me rican Department mper t League. “subs S. Section, Ail-Amer Moreau writes: against imperial imperialism in N ploitation. 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