The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-26

I Wnen three members OF their editorial
board were arrested-and later given
three months hard labor-for publish
ing the reassuring news that a GER
tain regiment had been confined to
barracks for characterization and re-
fusing to take up their duties against
the strikers.
That same evening Brown, ponder
ing over his latest phase of the class
struggle and turning over in his mind
various sentences, most of which be-
gan with ''WeH, if anyone had told me
before the strike :" wandered on
his rustry bike as far at Trafalgar
Square and there fell victim to the
Red terror.
It happened like this. A newsboy
was rushing past in mad hurry call
ing out --latest Strike BuHetin!"
Now Brown had been caught that
way before in the last few days and
had found that the so-called strike
bulletin was often indeed no other
than the scab-produced British Ga
zette," alias the Morning post. But
still he was determined to miss moth
ing in the nature Of strike paper and
to his establishment, the newsboy
called him comrade and was wearing
the badge Of the Communist Party.
Brown bought his paper Immediately
and heard the priceless yarn of how
thousands of copies of the pre-strike
numbers of the Workers Weekly had
been sold on the street during the
strike, being bought in many cases by
people who had never seen or heard
Of the paper before and who had
bought it thinking it was some anti
striker paper.
Brown did not like to confess that
he had never read a copy of the
Workers Weekly" before, for he was
beginning to feel differently about the
Communists since he had met them
during the strike. For some months
past he had merely read the Daily
Herald from a sense Of duty and re-
minded himself, with dismay, OF the
number OF times he had refused to
buy the Communist paper from the
young woman who, rain and shine, win
ter and summer, stood outside his
printing factory on Friday evenings.
He was thankful, though, to remember
that he, at least, had refused politely
her offer of Workers Weekly, COM
rades, one penny!" After this strike
every Friday evening should find him
penny in hand, for it would be a great
mistake to lose contact with the real
thing" in the way of the workers
press. And. after all. Communists are
workers, only more so, as you might
say.
Another phrase which tickled
Browns imagination, tho he could
not quite remember where he had
heard it, was factory newspaper"
He decided to ask the young editor
of his strike paper for information.
And did so, hearing not only OF "fac-
tory papers (Which opened up all
sorts of delightful possibilities in
Browns mind), but also OF the wall
newspapers" of the Russian workers.
He heard more of the Russian work
ers from the young editor who lent
him papers and pamphlets about
things over there. 1t seemed strange
to Brown that he had never heard OF
this side of things in Russian. Even
the Daily Herald" had not empha-
sized, in the least, the news of life
and conditions in that workers coun-
try Of Soviet Russia.
At the top OF the Communist strike
bulletins was always printed the
phrase: "All power to the workers."
and this Brown began to feel fitted
in very nicely with his own pet
phrase Of the power of the press"
And so we leave "Comrade" Brown
waging the great strike which has
acted on his mind like huge spring
cleaning, destroying what was old and
dusty therein and fitting it up again