The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-27

foreign port the crew are paid
up and given two weeks advanced
Think of that being done on any
other boatsl The quarters are clean
and fitted out with bedding such as
no other sailors have. 1t is taken
from houses of the rich Of old Rus
STA. In addition every ship has a
piano and a large library for the
use Of the crew. Imagine that on
the boats you sail on, you /. w. W.
sailorsi
Four-Hour Shifts.
Shifts on deck work four hours
on and eight hours OFF, below deck
being harder work, three on and
nine off. All around, conditions are
so much better on Russian boats
that hundreds Of sailors from Ger
many and England are continually
trying to get into Petrograd and
get on a Russian boat. Russia
thinks lots of her sailors because
they have always been revolution
airy. But all workers are given
the best that Russia can get. Soviet
Russia takes from spectators and
gives to the workers. The specu-
lators and Nep-men are social out
casts.
Business Men In Bad.
When a fellow becomes a "busi-
ness man" in Russia he loses his
right to vote and about every other
right as well, along with the re-
spect of the people. Everything
costs him ten times more than a
worker has to pay, until quite often,
his real net profit is less than a
workers wage.
For electric light I paid ten ko-
pecks gold, but a Spectator paid
two rubles. For a room paid
thirty-five kopecks (while working),
Spectator paid four rubles, and
no better room than mine. The
Spectator or business man under
Nep lives in constant terror, with
some reason. His prices are set
by the government. If, in order to
make something to cover the high
rates he is charged for everything,
he should overcharge, he may be
arrested and exiled and his goods
confscated. They are so deathly
afraid of being reported by a men,
Der of the Communist Party that
they will hardly talk to anyone they
do not know. They must keep
their mouths shut ABOUT politics,
about the workers government, and
that is no jobel One wrong move"
and they are arrested.
Political Prisoners"
In Russia saw both spectators
and priests being taken thru the
streets to trial. As soon as they
are pinched. spectators often begin
to claim that they are Socialists"
That's the kind Of political pris-
oners" American workers are asked
to worry about.
It may be we'll to note, that
Emma Goldman, who could not
hoodwink the Russian workers, is
living in luxury and idleness at
the Hotel Plaza at Charlottenburg,
the millionaire suburb of Berlin.
With an /. w. w. who went to
Leavenworth in 1913, I met Emma
at Hamburg. Ny companion, re-
quiring change, turned to Emma
Goldman, who astonished US both by
searching thru a great roll of Eng
fish FIVE pound notes for something
smaller. Later, he visited her Ber-
lin apartment, where they were
waited upon by serving maids with
fine foods, champagne and cognac.
At the same time, the German work.
ers were starving and begging by
tens Of thousands around her, and
Communists were being pointed out
on the streets by Social Democrats
for arrest and often secret execu-
ton, Emma Goldman was living lux
uriously, calmly and safely in the
same suburb where Karl Liebknecht
was murdered. Her neighbors and
companions are German exploiters
and the White Guard generals and
mobility" of Czarist Russia. It is
fit company for those who lie about
the revolutionary workers and peas
ants.