The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-03
Are You Reading "A Week.?
By Jury LIBEDINsKY


BY Jury LIBEDINsKY
Published BY THE DAILY WORK
EK thru special arrangement with
3. w. Huebsch, Inc, Of New York
City: copyrighted, 1928, by B. w.
Huebseh & Co.
WHAT HAS GONE BEFoIEl
The Russian Communist Party
branch is governing this frontier
city and fighting the counter
revolution. Earlier installments
tell of the fuel shortage that pre-
vents seed grain from being
fetched on the railroad. The Party
meeting decides to send the Red
Army far away for fuel, at the
risk Of leaving the city open for
bandits and counter-revolutionists.
1t also decides to conscript the
local bourgeoisie for wood cutting
in a nearby park. Varied types
of party members are flashed on
the screen: Klimin. the efficient
president of the branch, who still
finds time to have a sweetheart;
Robeiko, the consumptive, whose
devotion is killing him; Gornuikh,
the brilliant youth of 10 on the
Cheka; Matusenko, the luxury
loving place-hunter and Stalmak-
hov, a practical workingman revo-
lutionist. Last issue brings the
startling news that Serezha Surf
kov, a checklist had been buried
alive by counter-revolutionists, far
out on the Steppes. Klimin and
Stalmakhov talk Of their friend
who was too sensitive and tender
hearted for the stern work of the
revolution. In this issue Klimin
reads a farewell letter from Surf
kov, written before his capture by
the (NOW GO ON WITH
THE STORY.
CHAPTER vIII-Continued.
ttT listen, Aniuta" for the
II first time he called her by
her name and she blushed with
happiness and emotion :. "don't
ask me, don't pay any attention.
It's stupid, but / feel as if
something were hanging over us
all. A fellow can work, work like
the devil, but you can't keep
track of everything. With me it's
just a feeling, but one Checklist, a
very clever, sharp fellow, has been
insisting all this week that there
is some plot in the town which we
have not yet discovered. And you
know, to tell the truth, l am afraid
of something. :"
She was already sitting beside
him.
"Klimin, you have overworked,
you have simply overworked your
self and are tired out. You want
freshening up. When the fuel
getting is over, go off for a visit
to Moscow. You'll come back and
get to work again with new
strength. l Judge by myself. 1
dawdled about in Moscow for near
~ two months, was at two con-
crosses, talked with comrades from
abroad heard Ilyitch (Lenin),
Lunacharsl1y, and, do you know, l
got homesick for our little town,
for our little work, and now am
getting down to it again with sat
isfaction.
"You can't do what we have to
do at single sitting, and these
moments of rest are inevitable. -.
/ know, many think, there's SIM
kova, hard as flint, always full Of
energy and free from doubts. Not
long ago a comrade from the
Politdep said that to me, you
probably know him i. Martuinov.
81 said nothing, of course, be-
cause the weak should always
know and feel that some one is
stronger than they, but, inside my
self, / laughed. If that Martuinov
only knew how doubtful l can
sometimes be. -.
"On the way here, ! travelled
from station to station, and every
where, on the station, in the wag-
ons, everywhere the same picture,
the same complaints, and you could
not help seeing how the people are
suffering.
"At one railway station there
was a sort of big staircase, and
from top to bottom it was covered
with people. Men, women, children
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