The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 10, 1932, Page 4

Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 1932 Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co, 13th St,, New York City, N. ¥ Address and mail checks to the Yorker | Perty USA. Inc., daily except Sunday, at 58 E. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956, Cable “DAIWORK.” Daily Worker, 50 E. 18th St, New York, N. Ye GURSCRIFTION RATER: One year, $6; six months, $5.50; $ months, §2; 1 month, 70 New York City. Foreign and 35; 3 months, 33 exeepting Boroush of Manhattan and Bronx One year, $9; 6 months, The Working-Class Reply to Lies Against U.S.S.R. NEW barrage of calumnies and vilifications against the Soviet Union and the Five Year Plan has been started by the American imperialist pres The New York Times, the Daily News and others, in their systematic campaign to undermine the tremendous prestige of the Soviet Union among workers, and the achieve- ments of the Five Year Plan, aim in the first place to whip 1p hostility and the popular bas fi the carrying through the inter licy a © restore confidence yundn The New York Tir ently he e headlines despe! ing to In its edito day, Nover By mail everywhere Canada, failure of the Five Year 1 it states in part as fol- erprise does not differ basically from the crazy plan- y our own pre-1929 boom. This inherent vice char- s the Soviet Five Year Plan Today Russia faces a winter of scarcity for two-thirds of the people ‘The Five Year Plan drags The situation might have been different if there had been less of a plan and tore of a sense of proportion ‘The Daily News e up the cue from this leading reaction- ury sheet, in commenting on the 50th Anniversary of Marx's death slates: “The Marxian experiment in Russia, judging from the unbiased Walter Duranty’s reports in the New York Times, fs one of history's | shastliest failures”. The steadily worse conditions of the American masses have dealt deadly blows to the “pros around the corner” illusions. In their place is arising a powerful political awakening of the toilers. Larger and larger sections of the impoverished masses are beginning to see that the capitalist way out of the crisis means more starvation, unemployment, wage cuts and imperialist war. ‘The devastating s has exposed the rottenness of capitalism in its stark nakedness—its decay and decline can no longer be hidden, even by the most demagogic defenders of capi- talism. A growing interest in the achievements and progress of the Soviet toilers is shown by new sections of the American masses. They are be- ginning to see more clearly every day that to wipe out the scourge of unemployment and wage slavery. they must follow the path of the Rus- sian toilers. ‘The American capitalist class fears this. With the completion of the First Five Year Plan it conceals and distorts the tremendous strides forward made by the Soviet Union in developing heavy industry, in in- creasing production, in collectivization, in building new factories, in rais- ing decisively the material and cultural well-being of the masses. It says to the Amercan workers: The Five Year Plan is a failure—now it threat- ens the country with famine. Look at it—there is a shortage of food. Aren’t we better off? This is proof of the soundness of capitalism and he failure of socialism.” The Soviet workers have long answered such slanders. That great difficulties exist in the Soviet Union, in the country of 160 million workers and peasants building a new life, a new world, they would be the last to deny. What are these difficulties? Let us contrast these difficulties with the difficulties of bankrupt and decaying capitalism. In the words of Stalin at the XVI Congress of the Bolshevik Party they are: our difficulties are not difficulties of decline or stagnation but difficulties of growth, difficulties of revival, difficulties of progress. This means that our difficulties are radically different from the difficulties of the capitalist countries. When they talk of difficulties in the U. S. A. they have in view difficulties of decline, because America is now passing through a crisis, 1. e. economic decline But when we speak of our difficulties, we have in view not decline and not stagnation in our develop- | ment, but the growth of our forces, the surging upwards of our forces, the forward march of our economy It means that our difficulties are of such a kind that they contain within themselves the possibility of overcoming them.” ‘The great increase in the population (itself a proof of higher stand- ards), the transformation of millions of peasants into factory workers, the overcoming of the disparity between the cities and the villages, the enormous rise in wages, the rise in economic, social and cultural standards, has brought about a tremendous inerease in the needs and buying powers of the population. Comrade Manuilsky at the 12th Plenum of the Communist International exposed the villifiers of the Soviet power and Socialist Construction. “Yes, there is a shortage of things, say the proletarians of the U. S. S. R., because socialism has increased the requirements of the toiling population of 150 million who in the past dragged out miserable and wretched lives, lived amidst filth and vermin, etc. ate grass in famine years, died from epidemics. Before the war we made 25 million pairs of shoes a year and now we make 80 million, i. e. three times as many, and still there is not enough, because our peasants no longer want to wear bark shoes, because the nomad tribesmen of yesterday, the Kirghis, now work in a factory, and now justly demand a house with electric light, a bath, soap, working garments, factory made boots... .” Y tad enemy press will not be allowed to succeed in befuddling the minds of the American workers. Hundreds of thousands know and others | must be shown that these are temporary difficulties of growth which are | and will be overcoming the Soviet workers entering the Second Five | Year Plan which will raise the material and living conditions of work- | ers by two and three hundred per cent and establish a classless society. | Workers can see what capitalism has to offer—and=what victorious | revolution and Socialism has brought to the Russian workers. | In the U. S. there are 16,000,000 unemployed and the army of jobless is sti growing. In the Soviet Union unemployment has been abolished | completely and the army of factory workers has increased from 11,400,- 000 in 1927 to 21,000,000 in 1932. | In the Unitéd States the standards of living have been cut 70 per | cent in three years. Wage cuts follow wage cuts. In the Soviet Union | wages have increased from an average of 720 rubles per year in 1927 to | 1,250 in 1932—an increase of 70 percent. The benefits gained from so- | cial insurance, etc., adds another 60 percent to their regular wages. In the United States most of the factories stand idle or employ workers on part time at a hunger wage. In the Soviet Union thousands of new factories have been and are being built. During the first three years of the Five Year Plan alone 33 new blast furnaces and 144 open- hearth furnaces were blown in. The total production of Soviet industry in 1931 reached 30.7 billion rubles, two and one-half times the 1927 and three times the pre-war ontput. ‘The output of heavy industry is four and onc-half times the 1913 figures. Output of oil, electro-technical and industrial machinery industries in 1931 already exceeded the schedules set by the Five-Year Plan for the fifth year. In the United States the plight of the farmers is becoming even more desperate. Burdened with high taxes, debts, mortgages, they face fore- closures and sheriff sales. In the Soviet Union already in 1930 the income of a collectivized household averaged nearly twice as much as that of an individual peasant household. And already today more than 62 percent of the peasants are in the collectives. . In the United States 300,000 children roaming the country, millions of them starving. But even Duranty, from whom the New York Times gets its inspiration for its attacks, was forced to admit that: “In con- formity with the Soviet policy of paying particular attention to the wel- fare of the younger generations, children enjoy a privileged status in the matter of food rations.” There are no hungry youngsters in the Soviet Union. This is “history’s ghastliest failure”. Let the capitalist hounds yell and howl. The march of the Russian workers to socialism under the firm Leninist leadership of the C. P. S. U. ig sure, ceaseless and fast. They defeated the forces of counter-revolu- tion. . They began the job of reconstruction. They have carried through their first Five Year Plan—and are preparing for the second. They will establish a classless society on one-sixth of the globe. They have overcome all opportunism and capitulation. to. difficulties. They are stronger to- day than ever before! They know workers everywhere are preparing, or- ganizing to follow their footsteps. Workers, toilers! Learn the achtevements of the Soviet masses. Con- trast them daily with your own conditions, with the conditions of the workers you know. Defeat the slanderers! Stand ready to defend the | Soviet Union from all imperialist attacks! DECEMBER ISSUE OF “THE COMMUNIST” OFF THE PRESS | Service, who officially reported to | clear to every class conscious work- | er, who knows that Tom Mooney’s | dangerous” to release Mooney and meeting to be held in New York, at Second Ave. on Sunday at 2 o'clock. Mooney Still in’ Prison on His) 50th Birthday By 5S. P. LESLIE | HE working class of the world | greets Tom Mooney today on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday. Almost, 17 of his fifty years he has spent. in San Quentin Prison, con- signed to a living death by the vici- ous boss class of California in one of the most brazen frameups in the history of the class struggle. Tom Mooney’s innocence of the | outrage charged against him has been so conclusively proved that only the wilfully and hopelessly | blind and warped can even question | it. Not from his friends, but out of the mouths of his class enemies has come by far the most convinc- ing proof that every bit of evidence [| produced against him at the trial was unmitigated perjury, manufac- tured and coached by the police and prosecuting authorities of San Francisco, ADMIT PERJURIES It was Gocernor Young of Calif- ornia who officially reported to the State Legislature in 1930 that his | personal investigation has proved | the prosecution's chief witness, Ox- | man, a conscienceless perjurer. This characterization was openly con- firmed by Theodore Roche, then as w President of the Police Com- ion of San Francisco and then as now the law partner of the in- famous Judge Matt Sulliyan, whose lying report served as a basis for Goy. Rolph’s recent decision deny- ing Mooney a pardon. It was Lieutenant Governor Car- nahan of California who officially reported to the State Supreme Court in 1930 that his personal investi- gations and examination of the prosecution’s other main witness, McDonald, had proved his entire testimony to have been “sheer fab- rication,” uncovering two police rec- ord statements suppressed by the San Francisco police for 14 years, which revealed that McDonald's first. description of the supposed dynamiters made two days after the explosion in no wise even resembled either Mooney or Billings. It was Judge Matt Sullivan who | himself admitted in his vicious re- | port that the testimony of the two Edeau women had been totally dis- credited. It was J. B. Densmore, Director- General of the U. S. Employment | Secretary Wilson of the U. S. De- partment of Labor in 1918, that a dictaphone he had placed in the private office of District Attorney | Fickert, Mooney’s prosecutor and | framer, had disclosed Fickert and | his deputy, Cunha, shamelessly dis- cussing every detail of the frame- up they had engineered. It is the Wickersham Commis- slon, appointed by President Hoo- ver, whose suppressed report, re- | cently published, officially exposes the deliberate acts of frame-up and fabrication in every step taken by the police and prosecution of San Francisco to hang Mooney and Bill- ings for a crime of which they were completely guiltless. tlre See 3 Why, then, in view of all these revelations by his class enemies, is Mooney still stubbornly kept jailed in San Quentin? The answer is frame-up and imprisonment, is part | and parcel of the whole organized | capitalist campaign to starve and | enslave the workers and to terror- ize them by the frame-up, impris- onment, and torture of their most militant leaders. The answer was made clear again several weeks ago by the present district attorney of San Francisco, Matthew Brady, who | himself has repeatedly voiced his belief in Mooney’s innocence, when he unwittingly let the cat out of | the bag by declaring in an interview that it would be “psychologically Billings. What a frankly cynical admission and what a commentary on capitalist “justice!” The question to them is not whether Mooney is innocent or guilty; the point is that it would be psychologically dangerous” for the capitalist class to pardon and re- lease Mooney! Yes, it may be psy- chologically dangerous for the boss- es and their lickspittles in public office and the working class be- trayers in the A. F. of L. to free Tom Mooney, but it is every day becoming even more than phycho- logically dangerous for them to keep Tom Mooney longer in that Calif- ornia dungeon. The heroic strug- gles relentlessly waged by such mil- itant working class organizations as the International Labor Defense are @ warrant that capitalist repression, is becoming even more dangerous | for the capitalist class itself. The swiftly growing class consciousness of the workers of California, of America and throughout the world, struggling militantly and desper- ately against mass unemployment, starvation and hideous exploitation, is making this world not only dan- gerous bub catastrophic for the capitalist class and its reactionary and reformist supporters, | ‘Tom Mooney’s 50th birsrday and lith year in San Quentin prison should spur the workers to greater efforts to force his release from prison. Article on the Fifth Anniversary of Canton Commune, Mon. Issue. An article by R, Doonping on “The Fifth Anniversary of the Can- ton Commune and Reconstruction in Soviet China” will appear on this page on Monday, The anniversary of the Canton Commune will be celebrated at a mass the Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St. and Speakers will be Earl Browder, D. IGhen and Wm. Simons, ) ! “WHAT FOOLS!” Fo0p shoRtAce: IN SOVIET | RUSSIA. Senge emer —By Burek — MY. TIMES 4 Training for Class Struggle “Labor Education” in U.S.A. US. Rand School, Brookwood and Other Agencies of Capitalism Compared With Ten Years of Workers School By A. MARKOFF, (Director Workers School.) The Workers School, now in its tenth year, has endeavored to carry out the fulf meaning of the slo- gan “Training for the Class Strug- gle”. This implies that the the- oretical training at the Workers School has a definite aim, that of equipping the workers with knowl- edge for a more efficient partici- pation in the struggles of the work- ers against capitalist exploitation. Theoretical training is essential in the class struggle. Engels, re- ferring to the struggles of the German workers, said the follow- ing: “For the first time in the history of the Labor movement the strug- gle is being so conducted. that its three sides, the theoretical, the political and the practical eco- nomical (opposition to capital- ists), form one harmonjous and well-planned entity. In this con- centric attack, as it were, lies the strength and invincibility of the German movement.” Engels thus clearly indicates that the class struggle cannot be suc- cessfully conducted without an adequate theoretical training of at least the more advanced section of the class-conscious workers. But the recognition of the necessity for training is only a part of the prob- lem. The kind of theory supplied to the workers is the essential thing. Engels, in speaking of the- ory had in mind only one theory, the one based on the class strug- gle, the theory of Marx and Engels. Lenin carried the theory of Marx and Engels further, applied it to the specific problems of the period of imperialism and the epoch of proletarian revolutions and devel- oped it further, thus adding the Leninist phase to Marxism, en- riching the theory of the class struggle. It is the theory of Marx- ism-Leninism which constitutes the only correct theory for the work- ing class; it is the Marxist-Lenin- ist theory combined with the prac- tical participation in the class struggle which constitutes the in- yincible weapon of the working class. This is the real meaning of “Training for the Class Struggle.” The correct Bolshevik application of the Marxist-Leninist teachings in the class struggle constitutes the basis of the Workers School. “Unbiased Education.” We often hear individuals with a “liberal” trend of mind, say that the Workers School is biased, that it does not present all sides, etc. They claim that education should be non-partisan, that we should bring in all views and let the stu- dent make up his or her mind as to who is right. They will point to the New School for Social Re- search, to the Rand School, Brook- wood College, etc. ‘To these indi- viduals we have one answer to give: with us the class struggle is not a debatable question; it is ani estab- lished fact. Therefore our aim must be to develop the most ef- fective means of overthrowing the enemy and establishing a proletar- ian dictatorship in order ‘to build a classless society. We can also point out that those institutions which under the guise of workers’ education carry on so- ~called impartial, non-biased educa- tion serve es exceilent agents of the ruling forces of the capitalist system. The Rand School for ex- ample, in the announcement™ of 1931-32, in the section “Proposed Roads for Labor” had among its lecturers the scoundrel, the betrayer of the workers in the U. S., Mat- thew Woll. It also featured Wal- ter Drew, counsel of the National Erectors Association on “The Case. for the Open Shop.” The Rand School “educators” are evidently not sure whether the workers should organize against the ex- ploiters. We also find that Noel Sargent, Secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers, was scheduled among the lecturers to speak on “Labor Unionism from the Employers Point of” View”. Of course we also find A. J. Muste, the director of Brookwood College among these “honorable” gentle- men.- A d. Muste, the professed “defender of the interests of the American workers” did not object to being placed on the same list with all the labor haters. As iar as we are concerned we feel that Muste, Shiplacoff, Norman Tho- mas, Morris Hillquit, and the rest of the crew were actually in their proper places, for they are carry- ing out the aims of the National | Association of Manufacturers, on- ly in a disguised form, while Mat- thew Woll, Noel Sargent, Walter Drew, Hamilton Fish, etc., are do- ing the same thing in the open. This is an example of the non- biased impartial type of education. Sree Mone | E must also mention the A. F. of L: Years ago this organiza- tion established the Workers, Edu- cation Bureau of America for the purpose of organizing educational work in the unions. The aim of this body is -expressed in one of Spencer Miller's statements that the workers should receive an edu- cation which will prepare them for a “greater participation in/the cul- ture of the country”. Miller, the secretary of the Workers’ Educa- tion Bureau of America, is of the opinion that ‘present-day capitai- ism with its rationalization and speed-up is a blessing for the work- ers. In-an address delivered before the First World Conference on Adult Education, held jt Cam- bridge University, England, August 22-29, 1929, Mr. Spencer Miller states that: “The mechanization of industry has produced one other notab'e result, It has vastly increased the leisure time of workers.” And further: “With the development of me- chanization and the vast increase of free time, leisure has ceased to be the possession of a particu- lar class and has become the uni- versal opportunity of working people.” It is quite evident that Mr. Spencer Miller never felt the ef- fects of the “mechanization” capitalist rationalizat‘on—upon the workers. In the United States the inhuman speed-up compels the workers to expend 12 hours of energy in 8 hours of work. A ‘worker who after a day’s work is completely exhausted does not pos- sess “leisure”. At present there are 15-16 miilion workers in the United States possessing compul saty leisure. Mr. Spencer Miller does not connect education with struggle. He does not see or does not want to see the struggles of the workers. In the same address he states the following: “With rising wages and rela- tively stable prices, the people of the United States have become consumers of what they produce to an extent never before rea- lized. The diffusion of prosper- ity and the increase of economic well-being have made it possible for us for the first time in our history to contempiate the elim- ination of poverty within a rela~ tively short period of time.” According to Miller we were all to get rich in a short time and consequently what we neal is a general education in the arts and sciences “to make expiici those values whien are unplic:t in a rap- idly changing Civiliation.” ‘Lais is another example of the so-cal- led impartial education, This type of education is effective in tne class collaboration policy of the: American Federation of Labor, ~ The Workers School rejects such a conception of education. In the capitalist society the ruling capi-- talist class controls education. for its own interests. It uses the pub- lic schools, bigh schools, colleges, and other institutions to mowd the understanding of the worners in favor of the systein they con- trol, Education is biased. Impartial education in capitalist society can only benefit the capitalist forces. A good illustration of this is found in Professor John Dewey's “The School of ‘Tomorrow”: “It is fatal for a democracy to | + classes. Differences of wealth, the existence of Jarge masses of unskilled labor, contempt for work with the hands, inability to secure the training which en- ables one to forge ahead in life, all operate to produce classes and to widen the gulf between them. Statesmen and legislation can do something to combat these evil forces. Wise philanthropy can do something. But the onl fundamental agency for good is the public school system, Every American is proud of what has been accomplished in the past in fostering among very diverse elemenis of the population a spirit of unity and brotherhood, so that the sense of common terests and aims has preyailed over the forces working to divide our people into classe: Our “liberal friends’ and all those in favor of impartial, non- biased education may derive 2 good deal of comfort from the profes- sor’s statement. To us it is noth- ing but intellectual drivel coming from’ a representative ‘of a dying class. The working class is his~ torically destined to destroy the decaying system of society and build a new one. The knowledge needed for this purpose is the knowledge of Marxism-Leninism. | Compare John Dewey's state- ment with that of Lenin: “The more cultured was the bourgeois state the more subtly it deceived the masses by assert- ing that the scheol can remain outside of politics and serye the society as a whole. In reality the school was converted into a tool of domination by the bourgeoisie, it was throughout saturated with the spirit of this class, it ainred to furnish the employer with ob- liging serfs and expable wo: And at the First All-Ri Congress for Enlightenment 1918, Lenin said, “The workers, seek knowiedge because they need it in their campaign of conquest. Nine tenths of them realize that knowledge is a necessary tool in their struggle for liberation, that their failures may be traced to lack of education, ang that they | must now make educ&tion acces- sible to all.” THE GROWTH OF THE WORKERS SCHOOL, The Workers School, first estab- lished in the fall of 1923, has, dur- | ing the nine years grown from a handful of students to a registra- tion of over 1,590 in the fall of this year. The successful growth of the school is a proof thet the workers _ in New York find in the Workers | School the institution which pro- | vides them with the knowledge they are looking for, in a | HE Workers School is not amete | academic institution; it brings the problems of the class strug- ~ gle into the class room and brings students into the struggles them- selves. While definite progress has been made in this direction, more has to be done. The School must become an integral part of the labor movement, it must be | closely connected with the organi- | zetions of workers such as trade | unions and mass organizations. | This can be carried out only with the active support of the trade union movement and mass organi- zations. Let this Tenth Anniver- sary of the Workers School be the signal for a greater educational campaign. - The growth and sharpening of the class struggle demand bigger and better trained cadres of work- ers. The labor unions and mass organizations must realize the im- porvance of immediace training of their members; to delay this work is criminal, The Workers Schocl is ready to co-operate with the various organizations’ in planning the educstional work. ” ORGANIZE THE “FRIENDS OF THE WORKERS SCHOOL”, ‘The Workers School is not an endowed institution, The only source of income Js the tuition fee” paid by the student, This is en- tirely too sinall and inadequate. | ‘Che Suanclal aid mush come from i | NEGRO SLAVERY TODAY John L. Spivak’s Stirring Novel "GEORGIA NIGGER” a Nigge*’ is a smashing exposure of the hidsons parsecttion and | | NOTE.“ national opp’ to the white r treatment of of the Negro masse: =e class term, “nigger, The stillness of the jungle settled over them. Only the croaking of and the vague noises of the night ruffled the swamp's peace. With a high, excited chuckle El said: . did hit, eh?” David laughed neryously Yeah. Now whut we do? long we have tuh stay here? “Bout a week. Dey'll be buntin How us till den. De fus’ thing ter do is git dese shackles off.” BREAKIN THE CHADD They found a ciump of thick, intertwined roots, gnarled and bul- bous, hanging over the water and Sat on them. Ebenezer commenced ng immediately idn’t I tell you,” he said. “You me an’ I'll git you outer fe oni de way ter yo’ “I doan we folks, The oid thmically screeched ax: his right ankle “IT doan lak chain gangs nohow he said, nt tub git back tua my -be huntin’ me dey.” convict’s arms moved while the st the steel around “I want ter fine my two. chillun an’ gis’up no'th wid ’em.” Huty the first shackle fell he uttered a triumphant “Dey she is!” When the second was filed through he let them and the tweniy-inch chain drop into the water at his feet, laughing de- lightedly ‘at the faint ripples. “Dat’s one chain ain’ never gonter trouble no mo’.” he said grimly THEY HELPED SUPPRESS “Right here,” he said, pointing to the riveted eyes eneasing the ankles, FOOTLOOSE AGAW.. The sultry night turned cool by the time the spikes dropped with a splurge into the water. The boy rubbed the irritated ankles. It was hard to believe that his feet were free again, and he stretched and bent them in the sheer joy of free movement ‘Le's travel,” Eben got ter git on as daylight, Den we'll sleep, with no trail fo' dem houn’ dogs ter pick said. “We as We kin fo’ p. The dragging weight was gone. Even moving through slimy pools and thick vegetation was a joyous sensation. When. a gray patch spread cool over the branches and the red birds commenced their morning song, Ebenezer picked a dry’ spot under a curtain of low branches and told David to sleep while he watched lest some acci- dent bring the hunters or a trapper upon them. i was high ncon when David's sleep was broken to take the watch, + It was cool and shady in the heart of the swamp. Where the sun shone, it was on a primeval world of lush green. A small, lusterles: | pool, in which floated dead leaves and broken twigs, was at the right and a derse forest of dogwood and maple, hickory and cypress on all friends and sympathizers of the school, Thousands of workers have taken ourses at the Workers School during the past nine years and clese to 1,600 have registered for the Fall Term this year, An organization of the Friends of the Workers School would be in order This organization, ccnsisting of former and presert students of the school and their friends cculd aid the school in many ways. In Germany there is such an organi- zation with many thousands of members. Such an organization should bé not only a money gather- ing body but should organize lec- tures, debates, discussions, etc. The School is at a point where it is necessary to expand its scope of work, Branches must be estab- lished in. many parts of the city of New York and vicinity. A Work- ers School in every city should be our next job, Already a successful school is funetioning in Chicago, San Francisco; a school bas been sta*ted in Philedeiphia; one is to begin to function in Boston, Cleve- land, Detroit, Milwaukee, ete. An organivation of the Friends of the Workers School can help in this work, Under the leadership and guidance of the Communist Party of the U, S.A. the Workers School will go lorward for a greater Marx- dot-bepinist education, | br and to the oppression groes which if symbolizes, order to paint » true pleture of these horrible conditions, he considered it neoessery to use this term as otherwise he would have put into the months of the hose Iyach- era terms of respect for Negroes which they do not use.—Egiter, | level NACIS.—The facts contained in “Georgia Nigger” were suppressed by the capitalist press throughout the country. On the left is Kent Cooper, heat and on the right, Karl Bickel, chief of the United Press, which played the leading role in this suppression campaign. hes torn the mask off the ruling class torture system in the South, Build the Daily Werker! Subseribe now! The Dajly Worker Is retentlessly opposed 4 contemptuous view, bet. in ‘The author shares sides, shiny moss and thickets of ish and long grass and ferns. Life chattered and chirped, but only when a bird flew. scolding from its nest in a flurry of excite- ment did leaves tremble, catch the sun and send it shimmering over the dead water. SLEEP AND FREEDOM Ebenezi snored and turned restlessly, He slept with his mouth open, his legs spread wide in the luxury of 5 e. David stretched lazily, revelling in the sense of freedom. At this hour the convicts of Buzzard’s Roost were shovelling soil on Jeff Beacon’s road, shovel~ ling fourteen times to: the minute, minute after minute, hour after hour while the sum beat upon them and the sweat ran down their bod- ies and red dusé filled their nostrils and open, panting: mouths, Ebenezer awoke with a start. “Well, how you?” he grinned happily. “Dey ain’ foun’ no tracks, did dey? Didn't I tell you dey ain’ no dog livin’ kin fine me in a np!” : Yeah. Nothin’ bin roun’ here.” “I doan know how big dis swamp is, but we'll jes’ keep travellin souf till we git to hits edge. Mus’ be some farms. whey we kin fine water.” H led the way again through un- derbrush and paths tracked by wild creatures. ‘They walked bold- ly, no longer caring whether leave: rustled or branches snapped, and before the shadows of approaching evening threw « gloomy haze over the swamp they saw a tract of ground and a dilapidated nd barn through a net of leaves, Close by the swamp > ern of cane planted ap- cabin erpre; of the Associated Press, Only the Daily Worker | parently by the farmer for his own use. Ebenezer whispered to David to wait while he crept forward, mov- tng stealthily, with the grace of a wild cat stalking its prey and with as much sound. He returned with a broad grin. “Fo’ whites pickin’ cotton,” he chuckled, “an’ no dogs aroun’, Wren hit gits dark we'll fine water ay’ maybe somethin’ to eat.” FOOD AND WATER The slender cane brakes rose in a dark mass. They broke two stalks and stripped the bark with their teeth, chewing the pith. “Wonder who lives dey,” Eben- ezer said thoughtfully, staring at the two lighted windows of the cabin. “Whoever hit is, dey know dey's two convicts loose.” “Yeah.” When the cabin lights were ex- tinguished and they were con- vinced the farmer and his family were asleep they wormed their way around the cane to the first strip- ped cotton row, gliding cautiously on hands and knees lest their forms silhouetted against the sky tell a waking person of their pres- ence. Near the barn was the mule pen and a watering trough filled” with water. They drank in it ea- gerly, 4 ‘ * * lst barn dodr was fastened with a stick inserted in two rings, ‘There was & pleasant smell of hay inside. As their cyes Ww accus- tomed to the darkness they search ed the walls for overalls and find-" ing none, crept out. ‘They regained the safety of the swamps and followed its edge until another cabin rose against the sky, but a small pen near it made them uncertain whether it was for chickens or dogs and they dared not risk a close inspection. A mile south and. another cabin leaned drunkenly against a wide spreading, live oak. Ebenezer. left to recon- noiter for food and clothes while David waited. _ His companion did not return, — ‘The boy’s anxiety turned to fear ,and when a cabin window glowed yellow with the warning that farmers were rising, he knew Ebe- never had deserted him, He must have found a pair of overalls and had siarted alone without trouble; ing to say goed-bye. Pear lest the convict left his stripes where they could be found for the hounds to smell or that the farmer w learn a pair of overalls had been stolen and notify the sheriff or the warden, terrified him end adh treated into the swamp, through pools until, in a bed of Wierd ha eusweied ole dined here he st , . (Te Be Comeladed, . ' I | } | 1] | | [ ee ee Serene