The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-04
By William F. Dunno

izations he challenges the integrity OF
the whole working class" At this
point the accuser interrupted to say
the Soviet and the conductor stopped
speaking long enough to hand him a
sheet of paper on which to write it.
He resumed: Comrades, this matter
will be settled by the proper authori-
ties but it also. calls for public re-
buke. We cannot permit such in.
suits always to go unchallenged. /
ask everybody who supports me and
resents such insults to the free work.
ers of Russia to hold up their hands,"
Everyone but the nepman raised their
hands, he subsidized and the incident
was closed.
The car had been running and max
ing the usual stops. all this time; it .
was jammed to the doors and the
conductor soon had enough change to
pay his debts. He stood at one end
of the car and called out: who do
owe money to-" A hand would be
held up and without any disorder the
change would be passed from hand
to hand to the claimant. All claims
had been liquidated when Sokolnikov
was reached and with the indicated
honor of the Russian workers safely
in his keeping the conductor signaled
for the car to start on its return trip.
No one sleeps much in Moscow in
summer. The reason l never inquired
but I believe it is because Moscow
nights are too beautiful to waste in
sleep. At any hour of the night one
can stroll around either the outer or
inner circle of the magnificent boule-
Yards that encircle the city and meet
groups Of people, generally young
people, walking and singing to the
accompaniment of from one to half
a-dozen balaikas.
Sometimes the balaikas are missing
and some one takes the lead and sings
verse with the rest joining in the
chorus. The boulevards are dimly
lighted and are ideal places for low
ers. Moscow itself seems to have
been built for lovers. At the darkest
hour of the summer night the vivid
blue Of the sky can be seen thru the
tree tops if one is on a boulevard or
in park; if out ,sjn the city, the
gilded domes of the mosques with
their delicate tracery stand out
against the sky with a reminiscent eff
feet that is puzzling until one remem-
bers that in ones youth one saw pic.
lures of just this kind in Illustrations
depicting the city in which the fairy
princess dwelt.
In the deep twilight and shadows of
the boulevards one cannot see the
singers until they meet one almost
face to face; the music from the dark
ness creates an air of pleasant mys-
terry and one walks miles without
sense of fatigue until a sudden weari-
ness sends one home to bed.
Without any set rules or regulations
certain sections OF the boulevards
have come to have definite uses. In
one section the Young Pioneers hold
sway; in another trade unionists can
always be found discussing the poll
cies OF their organizations; nurse
maids and their charges occupy long
stretch OF the most picturesque dis.
trict; Red soldiers and their sweet
hearts have pre-empted the section
that runs along the Kremlin wall.
Three nepmen were eating one day
in the little cafe we called the Hole
in-the-Wall but who's right name is
the Moulin Rouge.
II is a cafe frequented by workers
and one gets "Anglisky" beefsteak--a
thick steak with fried egg on top.
potatoes and garnishments of lettuce,
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