The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1933, Page 6

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Published by the Comprodaity Publishing Co., Ine New York City, N. ¥. Telephone ALgonquin 4 hacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E Dail Ceontrel ~ r Barty U.S.A ' Page Six SEPTEMBER 4, 1938 Italy, U.S.S:R., Sign Non-Aggression and Neutrality Treaty What | La World —By Michael Gold Literary Anecdote a le Ford Maddox Ford “That’s the Spirit, Young Man!” by Burek Sect 2G TI | Soviet Takes New Step to Strengthen Peace While Staying Out of Imperialist Rivalries, Say “Pravda” and “Izvestia” Even if you are a Red it doesn’t mean that sometimes you don't feel e wet By VERN SMITH © Special to the DAILY WORKER) MOSCOW, Sept. 3 (By Cable).—A pact of neutrality and non-aggression between Italy and the Soviet Union was signed in Rome yesterday by V. P. Potemkin, Soviet ambassador, and the Italian government. In connection with the conclusion of the pact between Italy and the Soviet Government, “Pravda” write: ——_—. | “Nazis Call Selves Chief Bar Against sadder than a hoot owl et night last winter I was ebb. My soul ¥ i by the twin bu despair. “ My formin€ icicl Iw eyes’ in a swamp of W S, I also had a should not me as it spoils those figur Rome as well the act W near Cienfuegos, 5,000 agricultural workers and. peasants have declared a strike against bad conditions and for the division of the land. C. P. and City Band Lead ion way, I Street witt r | “4 | Demonstration overcoat, 1 World € ‘out Jobless Council « | | Led by the Communist Party and ue oath in or ommunism Ou 0 ess und | the municipal band, playing revolu- : dy Wot ‘ x ie | Sis a Ba tionary tunes, 1,500 men on horse- r erat Exit wt Scett Offer No Program for Unemployed League | pack, and Suotwands: = qt, fies yay most o tim steady i } : . onstrated twice at the plantations, the’ better "sort ‘of authors. for eae Hungry at Big | | Invites Council After | ana the strike Coen oes point ce of the rt that if the strikers’ demands were deals on eg ge 80. to a apie eee Congr SBS | Date Is Set not accepted, the plantations would ; somebody's home 1 solidarity ; | be taken over and handed to the or to call at somebody's ho! nal solidarity} NUREMBERG, Sept..3.— “Any | : Ye {1 : game of checkers, when oy n 1 proletariat. | ,, eakening of Nazi Germans means | NEW YORK.—Determined to| workers and peasants, It will be re membered that the workers’ Joint Committee of Action has taken over municipal power. in Cruces. Another demonstration ‘was held in Cien- fuegos. prevent the misuse of the term United Front in any demonstration of unemployed workers, the Unem- | ployed Council told a conference | called by the Workers Unemployed | Hart Fawcett. He is a feeble verse I was the fir —just out of a foolish h' 4sm, I guess. I also hi money, and him to stands out} ‘ound of the and intrigues circles of cer- strengthening world Communism.” | This doclaration by Alfred Rosen- berg was the keynote of the ad- ss of Nazi leaders to 160,000 Nazi district leaders gathered here | on several occasions when he wan to shoot himself. AD this, of co had roused a deep and wel hatred. He always avoided me, first editor, but now he seemed plump, prosperous and friendly, and | carried a cane. “Ah, there!” he ¢hortled airily, e: amining me, and not hiding th that he found me a little shabby. Well, we conversed, or at least he told me all the trouble he w: with various women and market, on, on and on Then jnvited me along to some kind of| party at the studio of writer, with whose name I wasn't At first I wouldn't ¢ t aweett insisted, in fact ged me along, eemed almost me. to my surpri over-anxious t Well, for ave avoided so- | called “ * But I was so low t how much I of bour- hoping usually dis! geois art to get a talk to @ pretty But the d I feared affected; publishing stless wives or heroines wi i to Hey- wood Bro al bathtub gin and rye, t from mag- nificently labelled bottles, “just off the boat,” in pretentious Venetian Things were like set of the well- colored glas: that, the usual stage to-do phony. The so-called “studio” was in a penthouse whose rent couldn’t have been less than $300 a month. It was comfortable to live in, I guess, ex- cept that every penthouse I have ever visited seems to have been in- habited by a bore. ndorfs, while ty of Soviet-Ger- ality are system- ining them. While nd onstitutes a proof the Rome "pac of the calm confidence of the U.S.SR. | power, the policy of German | a demonstration of the inconsistency of those ism is U.S.S.R., the consolidation of the ower of the Soviet country, are facts ich capi Ww or less ta e into consideration. Just as every act of Soviet foreign policy, the U.SS.R.-Rome Pact is directed against no one, pursuing only the of protection of peace. The pol- of peace was in essence the for- eign policy of the Soviet country, | and the Rome Pact signed soon after | Pri Non - the nco - Sovie! | Pact brilliantly confirms it.” | Stays Out of Imperialist Quarrels “Izvestia” writes on the same sub- ‘The Rome Pact binds both countries not to attack each othér, | to take a neut A of a pact co: | government. ression enemies of the | country of Socialism wish the USSR. | would isolate herself or embroil her- | self in imperialist antagonisms. Such | self-isolation would facilitate attack against her. | “Interference by the USSR. in | imperiali: antagonisms would give | the agents of the bourgeoisie oppor- tunity sent the defense of the U.S efense of any coun- try wh éks one contracting | party. onism existing be- tween the n policy and that of | th 2 antagon- , in which imper' & B 8 BES E ¢ countries must more | from all parts of Germany for a party congress which is tinguished by the fact that those who attend are not delegates, and are not allowed to discuss any- thing. Paul Joseph Goebbels, propa- ganda minister, explained that the Nazi attack on the Jews was merely 5 } a phase of the attack on Marxism. ‘The colossal economic victory of | What he did not explain is that the attack on the Jews is designed to divert the anger of the masses from an attack on capitalism. A delegation of black-shirted British Fascists, another of Italian Fascists, and Gil Robles, leader of the Spanish Catholic Party, were conspicuous at the congress. Hitler offered no program in his speech for the hungry and desper- ate German masses. All he did was to call on his followers to form an “tron front” against their enemies. Rosenberg’s speech was devoted | to a justification of the Nazi pog- | roms against the Jews, and both he and Goebbels declared that all other countries would soon follow their example. | The congress closed today with | two parades, in which over 100,000 Nazis who had been routed from | bed at 3:30 a.m. marched past Hit- | ler and the other Nazi leaders, and a handful of representatives of foreign governments. The repre- sentatives of France, England, the United States and most other im- portant powers were conspicuously absent. Not a girl or woman was to be } seen anywhere. Nazis, their place is in the kitchen. dis- | ‘According to the | NEWS ITEM: The former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany sent a message to Président Roosevelt con- gratulating him on the NRA and urging all German workers in America to support it. Chinese Reds Fight! on Three Fronts as Hupeh Soviets Rise U. S. Officers Prepare to Help Chinese Bomb Soviet Forces SHANGHAI, Sept. 3. Fierce fighting is reported on three fronts of the Chinese Soviet Army ad- vance which has already doubled the Soviet territory in the seacoast province of Fukien. In addition to the north and south fronts in Fukien province, a new Red advance is reported in Hupeh province, northwest of Fukien. The Soviet armies haVe gained thou- sands of new recruits. Seven warships of the Canton fleet are on their way to Foochow, in north Fukien province, where they will go inland up the Min river to Yenping, which is in Red hands, and Kienning; which the Red army is attacking. Work is being rushed on four quarters: of the Irish Party, in Dublin a communication from the club. “The continued tenancy of Con- nolly House is of paramount im- portance to the progress of the struggle there. Contributions can be sent to the treasurer, Irish Workers’ Club, 40 W. 65th St., New York. Members of the club are also making collections.’ Only those with credentials and name lists should be recognized. The names of all contributors will be acknowledged in future issues of the “Irish Workers’ Voice”. The club is organizing a picnic to raise funds for this purpose in Van Cortlandt Park, September 10. * ¢€ 8 U.S. Irish Workers Seek to Aid Dublin Party Center Jim Gralton Writes Daily Worker About Articles on Revolutionary Movement in Ireland NEW YORK.—In response to an appeal from the readers of the Com- | munist Party of Ireland, the Irish Workers Club of New York has begun a campaign to raisc funds for the support of Conolly House, the head- “The Movement in the Irish Free State is in dire straits, due to the recent happenings over there,” says ® This was the local company in the Gowel area. I was quarter- master of the third Active Service Unit, made up of men picked from the eight companies of the Batta- lion. This Active Service Unit was disbanded when the treaty was accepted (by the Free Staters who sold out) in December 1921. I would like to have this little er- ror corrected, for people in Ire- land will notice details like that. I’m glad to see the Daily Worker is attending to news of the move- ment in Ireland. I read the Daily Worker regularly, even when. on the run. Fraternally, |employed Council League of four central unemployed organizations that the proposed City Hall demonstration must draw in trade unions and must permit joint | local preparatory struggles. The conference held last Thurs- day at the League for Industrial Democracy included the Unemployed Councils,’ Workers Unemployed League, Workers Committee on Un- | employment, and Association of the Unemployed. The conference was called for the| purpose of setting a date for the demonstration, after the New Lead- er came out with an announcement of a “joint” City Hall demonstration for Sept. 22. This is called a joint demonstration, without any men- tion made of the Unemployed Coun- cil, and of the three organizations included two are Socialist and the other Lovestonite-controlled. However. pressure from the rank and file of the Socialist organiza- tions for joint action with the Un- compelled the Workers Unemployed League to make the gesture of inviting the Council to the conference for the so- called reason of “setting a date for the demonstration.” The tactics of the League at the conference was to frustrate the desires of the Coun- cil for a real United Front so the league can come to their rank and file with the twisted statement that the Council refuses to cooperate. ~ At an enlarged meeting Of the Unemployed Council held Saturday at Irving Plaza the workers voted to endorse the action of the commit- tee to the conference in its insistence on joint local struggles to build up for the demonstration, and de- nounced the maneuvering of the Workers Unemployed League. 5,000 Chiidren Demonstrated In Cienfuegos the Young Com~- munist League and the Comite Jon- junto organized a demonstration for free school supplies, Five thousand children took part, and afterward 500 joined the Young Pioneers. Eighty young workers have joined the Young Communist League this week, Four hundred young workers on the plantations of the Caracas sugar central held a meeting and drew up demands for a seven-hour day with eight-hour pay, equal pay for equal work, and school and sport facili- ties at the expense of the company. At a meeting of students of the Santa Clara School of Commerce, after representatives of the reaction~ ary Directorio Estudidntil attacked the revolutionary Ala Izquierda, stu- dents’ organization, the students elected 15 Ala Izquierda members to the school council, and only two members of the Directorio. The recent shooting of one worker and the wounding of six others at the quarters of the Federacion Obrera de la Habana was organized by the renegade leaders of the Federacion, Junco and Villareal, They had in- vited a delegation from the revolu- tionary Confederacion’ Nacional Obrera de Cuba to come to a meet- ing, and opened fire on them when they arrived. -The police and the army sent large detachnients, and attacked the massed workers outside the hall. Junco, who fired the first shot, was not arrested. mae Om Tribune Writer Finds Reds Active NEW YORK, Sept. 3—The Herald- Tribune today. prints an article by Tom Petty, staff correspondent, con- st was ent- 7.8.8. t ipati: U. S. Student Beat ge y, : * firming the ‘special correspondence of fee bars, aight, a tall, tread: | devs ne “fo interfere in thelr | _ BERLIN, Sept. 3. — The U. §.| Sitfields near Nanchang, in Kiang-| ew YORK—Jim Gralton, Irish | 58 SEATON: a Tce the Daily Worker regarding the shouldered man in tweeds, with a imperialist redivi- | Consul-General protested to the| ViPhe sent against the Red armies. tevolutionady leader, recently de-| Ep:TOR’S. NOTE: All. ‘work- Opposition Parties growth of the revolutionary move-~ has | ment in Cuba under the leadership large, domed, Eugene head and a solemn D. the Second In- | | German government today against} the beating up of Samuel B. Bos- sard, 21-year old student from | Chester, Pa., who was attacked on beard. He wore pince- s | y serving world | with black cords la Emi rt y to assist in and talked with a high Oxford whine. for gun He made me feel bad, he was so hes peace with literary. He even smoked a pipe, | all, stinction whether like the great Kit Morley and other|a power is pursuing its capital- British authors. And his penthouse | ist policy the banner of bour- | ‘was just lousy with books, thousands | geois democracy or Fascism. The of fine books, first editions, esoterica, erotica, Rockwell Kents the rest of the things such people always are careful to own ‘ Well, after I had three drinks and @ literary conversation about Hey- ‘wood Broun, with some of the fem: press agents and professional w I discovered wv ‘awcett, the poet, thad dragged me here. The host was an esthete, and opposed to Marxism im literature or life. I was brought all S, there to be his chopping block. He} iked to defy Marxists in his cups, | his banal | Standing up against ‘Thomas Hardy fireplace, the Morle} pipe sticking out of his beard, mini host boomed in a loud, belligerent voice that only occasionally squeaked: | “So you aye one of these people | who want to shoot anybody who cares for Dostoievsky and art and not for Lenin and sausage machines?” “Yes,” I answered, automatically taking my usual stance in such situ- ations, the left foot and arm forward, the chin covered bys the shoulder against jabs, the trusty right poised at about the hip, ready to smear the enemy. “You Reds, you want a world where there'll be only useful turnips and not a rose,” he challenged. I did not block, but just rolled with this light jab. The host had gathered an audi- ence. “Most of our writers are so- cial apostles, religious prophets, poli- tical propagandists, or ice cream salesmen,” he orated profoundly. “Science, what has it done? It has p to now, only created machines and masses, things and animals. The two dullest things in modern life are the tour of a factory and an aviation meet. Preaching and politics destroy the freedom of the writer's mind, the ability to be interested in the uni- versal and individual.” “Maybe,” I parried, because he seemed to glare and wait for an answer. “In the long run there are only two games that do not spoil the writer’s mind: love and art,” he said. “Love and art! but art is more per- manent. The value of modern art is that it is a new escape from a new slavery, the slavery of the crowd, of standardization, of monotony, of | T the over-organized earth, of the over- | first time organized crowd, of the over-con- scious multitude. We are so many, howadays, we never have a chance to live our own life except through the help of religion or art—”. pne had heard so often from hairless liberals. Honestly, some- | times it is too much, especially when most of what this tweedy author was | taying was a plagiarism, word for! | Paris! and Gertrude Stein! And on and on, the same old spiel | relief! the | political aims of of peace,” ‘‘Izvestia” Ss, s strengthened by this new link.” Herriot MOSCOW, 5S ve tour icultural regions of the Soviet Union, Edouard Herriot, former pre- mier of France, lunched_yesterda: in Moscow -After an ex- through ernment, including Maxim Litvinoff. | Peoples Commisar for Foreign Af- fairs and had an interview with V. Molotov, president of the Council of Peoples’ Commissars. He will remain in Moscow unti! Sept. 8, and then go on to Leningrad | word, from a review of Gertrude |Stein’s autobiography by Bernard Fay to appear on September 2, 1933, in the Saturday Review of Litera- | ture, And I had to listen to this stuff, jthis stale straw that had _ been | thrashed so often by J. W. Krutch, | Henry Hazlitt, Gasset y Ortega, Rudy | Vallee, John Spargo, Mary Pickofrd, | Ernest Boyd, Harry K. Thaw, Eugene | O’Neili—. |_ Oh well, he went on and on, and| had gotten himself so lathered up | before the approving audience, that jhe didn’t mind my drifting away. |I had just been his springboard, the |fuse that-had touched off his power- | ful mind, ete., ete—. | “Listen,” I said to Fawcett in a | corner, “I’m going home. I’m bored. | But who in the devil is this host, of ours? What has he written? I’m kind of interested.” Fawcett stroked his little waxy | moustache, and smiled coyly. | “I work for him now,” he said. | “Why, Lloyd Cabot is one of the big- |Sest advertising men in New York, I knew you'd get him going—he likes to argue. He’s really a genius in | his way; he’s the man who thought | up the selling campaign, for colored | toilet paper.” |. “What?” I stammered, | him?” |_ Then to Hart Fawcett’s surprise, roared with laughter. It was the that day. Really, you cheerful people who aren’t authors can’t imagine how much better I felt that moment, and how even my toothache improved. So this was What a At least I didn’t have to vorry about beauty, the mob, God, individualism, the soul and colored toilet paper. I was only a failure, @ crass materialist, a revolutionary author “Is sthat f rs does not de-| the southern | with high members of the Soviet gov- | a Berlin street Wednesday by a | gang of young Nazis, apparently be- | cause he failed to give the Nazi} | salute. | PORTO RICO STRIKERS WIN | PER CENT INCREASE SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 3,— Having won a 25 per cent increase in wages, thousands of striking needle workers at Mayaguez went back to work yesterday. One woman was killed and many were injured in clashes between police and_ strikers before the strike was won. 25 These fields are under the direc- tion of American and Italian army officers who have been hired by the Chinese government to train pilots. At the southern border of Kiang- si province, just west of Fukien province, fierce fighting is report- ed. The Soviet armies are fight- ing to get control of a mountain pass which commands the plains of Kwantung province. The high mountain range which diVides the Soviet area of Kiangsi from Kwan- tung province has prevented the revolutionary farmers of the south- ern province from uniting with the ported to the United States, written to the Daily Worker the | following correction to the articles | on Ireland recently published in the Daily Worker in the form of an interview with him: | Dear Comrades: Workers in Ireland will be glad | to see news of their struggle re- ported in the American workers’ paper, the Daily Worker. But there was a little mistake in the first article on the growth of the revolutionary movement in Ire- land. There was no “Eighth Bat- \talion” of the South Leitrim Bri- gade, I.R.A. I was a member of H (Number 8) Company of the Soviets north of them. Third Battalion in South, Leitrim. ers interested in the Irish reyo- lutionary movement are urged to write to the Daily Worker giving their opinion of the two- part interview with Jim Gral- ton, and the article by J. Shields on Irish Fascism recently pub- lished by the Daily Worker, and to help make the “Daily” an ef- fective organizer of support for the Irish revolutionary movement. FRENCH JINGO DEAD PARIS, Sept. 3—George Leygues, French Minister of Marine and one of the leading advocates of a big French navy, died here yesterday, at Join Irish Fascists DUBLIN, Sept. 3.—Irish Fascism | gained new strength as the Center Farmers’ Party and ex-President William Cosgrave’s Cumann na nGaedheal Party voted to unite with Owen O’Duffy’s “National” Guard, the blue-shirted Irish Fascist party recently. outlawed by President Ea- monn de Valera. The new coalition will call itself the.“National United Ireland Party.” Despite de Valera’s proclamation | banning the Fascists, they are hold- |ing many meetings throughout the the age of 74. He had been premier of France. of the Communist Party. Although the Tribune corre~ |spondent did: not travel far, and kept to the main highways, he reported finding the workers in a revolution- ary temper,~and the Communist Party active everywhere. The average'wage of agricultural workers, he: says, is 8 to 10 cents a day. He writes that the invariable reply he received to his questions as to what the Cubans in the country think of Communism is: “When you cannot earn enough to buy food for yourself and family, you have a right to think as a radical. Cubans will Free State, unchallenged by the gov-' listen to Commiunism if its leaders ernment. have anything to-offer.” Writer Visits Happy Convicts Who Built Gigantic White Greatest Achievement of Great Construction’ ‘nis croup presented among other Job Is Regeneration of Paid Convicts Who Volunteered to Build It Editor’s Note:—This is the second | of two articles describing the au- | thor’s visit to the world’s greatest canal, the canal which joints the | Baltic to the White Sea, which was | opened this summer, having been | completed in the record time of a year and nine months, . * | . | By ALLAN WALLENIUS HO has built this canal? The answer to this question is the most interesting chapter of Bel- morstroi (White Sea Construction). | Imagine, if one could, giving the task | to the British police to build a canal? Such a thing is impossible, Even if | the prison authorities were mobilized, they would not be able to solve the problem, Certainly not a canal of |such gigantic proportions as this {canal from Lake Onega to the White |Sea, But in the Soviet Union, the G.P.U, was given the task of building this canal, In one year and nine months it was completed, built by. “prisoners.” “Ah, ha! Forced labor!” I hear | someone shouting, Of course, if one insists on calling it by that term. But allow me to relate the true story of its construc- tion—those “prisoners” who wanted to participate in socialist construc- tion had the choice between working in one of the “rehabilitation” insti- tutions, or in building for example such a project as this canal. Only those “prisoners” who chose the lat- ter, that is to say volunteered, were taken to the canal territory, where of course they were paid full wages, Almost two hundred thousand peo- ple, who had been isolated from so ciety, arrived here and built the canal—and well, let us illustrate their work with a few episodes. a band of 30 men performed. And how they could play! Sun-tanned, muscular musicians, During inter- mezzos, fun and laughter, unstilted joy. This was one of the construc- tion workers of Belmorstroi’s bands, This was the prize band, and could compete favorably with any one that I have heard perform, even with Sousa. Everyone of the m plus the leader were “prisoners.” No guard was on board—nor were they j under guard when they left the ship. This band was a living part of the canal-builders collective. They knew the canal and its builders. They needed no guards, They had learned self discipline, Workers Greet Their Government. As we.climbed up the canal (after the eighth lock the canal goes down, the fall being 104 meters to the White Sea), along the shores of the canal were lined thousands upon thousands of workers,—‘prisoners— who knew that on board the 8.8. “Karl Marx” were traveling mem- bers of the Karelian government, members of the Soviet Karlian Ex- ecutive Committee, They were greet- ed with never ending hurras, I won- der whether any European govern- ment in visiting its prisoners would be met in the same fashion? Let the “socialist” MacDonald attempt a visit to the Meerut prisoners, or the “Socialist” Pres, Roosevelt the Scotts- boro boys! Another episode! From the first lock to the seventh we were accom- panied by a treupe of actors who played one improvisation after the other, mostly concerning the canal or something in connection with its construction. Every member of this troupe were young ‘lawbreakers,” The leader of the troupe had mur- things a mass recitation of a poem written by some of the constructors of, the canal. A collective poem, mighty and artistic. It told of those who came here. to work, with heavy sentences. By good work they got their rehabilitation period consider- ably shortened. This was the first thrust forward. Another light came over their hopelessness.. They were isolated from society, but they were not thrown out—cast aside. Here in con- nection with their work they came into contact with society, not the old, but the new, the socialist society. This was the second thrust. Then came socialist competition. They got together collectively, one discussed matters over with them, one wanted to hear their opinion, They themselves were allowed to or- ganize and improve their work. Then, one of the groups was given 's Order of the Red Banner! ese prisoners received, hundreds of them, @ whole shock-brigade, Soviet soci- ety’s honorable distinction. This was a thrust felt by thousands. We saw our own “udarniks,” we began to feel proud. We got self- respect, our ties with the working class became real—living. Our pride in and love for our work grew. We dug in a hundredfold more, with greater energy. The canal grew un- der our blows and shocks. The spades dug—picks broke, sledge - hammers struck, our machines excavated and gripped. Long before schedule the canal to the White Sea was com- pleted. We began to sum up our work. It was as follows: freedom awaits us, —no—freedom we have obtained here during our work—freedom we already have. Now other jobs awaits us. We are now skilled workers, we have been schooled—we know how canals are built. The Moscow canal job awaits us, we will now proceed there. Then comes the canal on the river On board the steamer “Karl Marx” dered six people! Volga—the canal between the Black Seas—socialies waite | and Caspian us, the building of the classless so- ciety. ‘This was a poem! Words and ac- themselves, how tens of thousands of. Tay had been won back for society ‘by means of labor, by means of soci: under Bolshevik leader- lous, quiet, but intensively taneous. ‘Not ‘All Regenerated where thousands of Proletariat. But don’t run away with the that all these hundreds of thousands of workers that GPU sent here have been remade overnight. Among them were many of our class enemies, who still. had deeply entrenched within Sea Canal {Building at Record Rate Despite Privations, Led by GPU, Former Criminals Refuse Freedom Until Job Is-Done construction and as guide had had a “prisoner” who had been advanced as leader of one of the construction divisions. During this inspection tour this guide several times stopped to give orders as to the procedure of the work, but he did it with such familiarity and skill, showing such technical ability and knowledge that the two guests from Moscow were as- tonished. After their inspection was completed, these Moscow comrades urged that their guide should imme- diately be set free. He was already a worthy member of society. The political leader of this division an- swered: “Free him? We shall put the question to his division tonight.” In the evening a meeting was called. “The prisoner” in question led in the discussion of one of the i “Yes, but the canal is not yet com- pleted!” This broke the silence. Several other spoke in an organized cussion. Everybody considered that the question of freeing this comrade could 10 the corisidered separate from the completion of the man spoke himsvif: also mine, ‘Che canal ew being. I want | of the canal, to J school that has been working at Bele morstroi. ‘ % Success ‘Under Great Odds During the night, on ‘board the “Karl Marx,” I spoke with. the leads er of the GPU, a young enthusiast, He said: : quickly, not* With such labor enthu- siasm as we, but they can master technique. ‘But ‘what’ the capitaliste never could, have-done is to rehabili- tate tens of thousands of This we haye done. And this is most important single thing in construction job.” He was wrong such by-prodicts as the of thousands, hundreds of people are remade. ism one cannot separate this 1 from the construction of the They belong together. Capitalism never and can never be able to in this fashion... This is an illustrae ane the Character “of al But mark “well, these hunger, but not big enough portions —insufficient _vaniety of foods dishes that a table for workers e | out, mands. Only think when have succeedéd in wiping Remember this is