The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-16
CHAPTER 1.

CHAPTER l.
THE spaces of moher-ofpearl between piles grey
motioness clouds, the joyful sky turning dark blue
three the Spring had been the sreames had
broken the snowds beginning carry them
the the river and the streets had become noisy
dirty But the fourth the Spring dozed again. laid
her head her knees and went to sleep sitting somewhere in
distant forest glade; and only before the
smiled the earth and then off again behind the motion
But the joyfulness of Spring remained only
behind everything just the behind the
blue palid lilac clouds which, for hours hung the
earth like grey wet stones.
you climb past the ratings and little houses of the
outskirts slipping in the sticky mud to the hock which
had already cleared of where there is solitary
rock and then to look back would
all the way the river with its blocks of wooden houses
There few people be probably all asleep dogs
bark and with the Spring the cocks are Growing loudly On
the broad and the lanes gmmer the remnants
of the last There few big wosored houses but
MANY Churches Solitary factory chmneys pour into the sky
endless ribbons of black smoke and far beyond the town. the
ash falls the snowdrifts.
The sturdy, custgray watchstower sent Out.
regular after another five blows into the dim silence
and after two quiet minutes in reply singing sounds flew from
the bees fingered the air. and fell far beyond the town in
the grey mist of the villages
At this quiet hour when the sum- dulwhite spot had
long passed people coming together to the Circus
building the broad They walking by the low
ratings the scattered snowacs the waste
where last years wthered hes stick thru the snowdr
they stepping the street. full of the of Spring.
and walking along the ootways cut in the earth They
huyng met each other greeted each other sometimes smiled
at each other and often than DID, in
grey coats blue black Different
Smiles gait and yet there something
lighting them all.
In the Circus quiet all day and the big grey rats slip
noiselesy about the yellow tw But the double
DOORS which hung taers of old bills and announcements
opened wide; the muaed words and
short spoke of something past and lighter
in the Circus and the people poured into their places rising
higher and higher the arena huge build
ing with suppressed noise of step and voices
Two persons appeared the table standing the
middle of the Single voices from all the Circus
threw to hem and then by the will of hundreds of
lifted hands, Comrade Kmn in soldiers coat whose
features but for his ne quietly obseant eyes, ndsnc
in the half light of the Circus announced from the middle of
the
Comrades declare the meeting of the Town District
R. c. P RUSSIAN Communist Party open. On the agenda list
report of the President of the Public Economy
the economic situation of the district No objections?
call upon Comrade Zman."
The grew queter and queer and the assembly Of
the President and its stare fixed that
other the who standing the middle of
and with nervous hand crumping scraps Of paper.
naudby, duly raising his voice, figures pools corn
sazhns of wood the number of locomotives huge of
numbers Of days and weeks Zman his report
But all listened greedy and all understood-the of
housekeeping goods fuel food and question after question
conveys of little of flew to the table of
Praesidum.
town was far from the big main RAILWAYS
and connected with the rest of Russia only by 5O0-vest
branch line The district almost without forests had
little coal of its and the railway almost ceased
working And it had been bad harvest corncolection
had taken the last and seed forthcoming sowing
time, there would be famine in town and country.
Every knew what those words meant hunger rould
would working the workmen would scatter and the o
Der bands who wander far off in the eppes would grow bold
approach the railway and spoil the track bring seed fuel
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