The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-23
BY ANNA PORTER.


The sea, which was so quiescent that
1t seemed camoufiaged affair, on
which, after few placid rounds, we
should tie up again under the statute
Of Liberty, is now showing itself in
the character of a mighty monster"
tossing us about drunkenly and
drenching the decks with sudden un-
expected swashes. But we have our
sea-legs on.
Our sailing seemed problematical
for awhile. Harold Ware. who is TAX
ing his group out to the Ukraine, for
his most interesting agricultural pro
ject, and who is experienced in
threading red-tape labyrinths, was in
defatigable and more than humanity
good-natured in pursuing vises back
and forth and around, thru and over
and under, between Chicago, Montreal
and New York and da capo. And f.
nally the last photograph was pasted
and the last seal set, and our entry
into the promised land assured. My
own experience would suggest to
other applicants that if they wish to
go next year, they must begin last
year at latest to make applications. It
was mere chance that l made con-
nections which gave me entrance
with this group, after three years eff
fort to obtain an individual permit.
This is an unpretentious little boat
and by no means crowded. At our
first step at Copenhagen, we lose our
Danish passengers; next, at Danzig,
the Germans and Poles disembark;
and there the rest of us must trans
fer for Libau to take train for Riga
and Moscow, with probably some days
delay at each place. In New York, at
the party bookstore, the Comrade in
charge said to me, you are the third
today to come in and tell me you are
sailing for Russia Saturday" and so
today |. looked up Esther Mar in the
unit for Kusbas, in order to send
greetings to our California group out
there. | did not exactly look her up
either, for few of us had been mys-
teriously beckoned and led by devious
decks and gangways to the deserted
second cabin, where we held a meet
ing, called and chairmaned by one of
the Kusbas group, who wished to
unite the three strata" on board, in
the interest of raising money by a
concert for some penniless deportees
being sent back in our boat,-a woman
with two small children, who was not
allowed to join her husband, and an
old couple whose son had sent for
them in good faith. 1t is no use 60
ing into the reasons, which as in most
cases, seem to be quite unjustifiable.
Committees were appointed, and we
closed the meeting with the 'Interna-
tionaI" and the Red Flag" while one
Comrade waved a red bandana with
the hammer and sickle imprint.
1t was most interesting group who
met there, Russians going home and
those visiting for the first time the
country they were born in and had
left as children. The most eminent,
Russian professor, DR.. Tutyshkyn, who
, has been lecturing in America for ten
months in the interest of international
science, is scientist of the highest
standing. With his family, he lived
thru the Revolution in Moscow, and
seems to be one of those rare intel
lectuals whose poise was undisturbed
by the shifting of foundations, and
who has continued, "above the bat
the midst Of change and destruction
Whatever his original reaction may
have been, he now evidently under
stands and sympathizes with the So
Wet aspirations, as it would seem
every scientist must if he has intellec-
tual independence and integrity. He
is of our group since his introduction
on the wharf, and he and the Hilco-
vitx brothers make a brilliant trio.