The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-16
By Upton Sinclair

This meeting with Paul was the most exciting event
Bunny life ransvauated all his values things that had been
wicked became suddenly heroic while things that had been
spectacle suddenly Bunny confronting the modern
industrial with manifold inustices been like
lost in tangled forest But here he had been taken bal
oon and shown the way out OF the ange Everything now
simple, plain The workers take the in
dusties and them for themselves instead Of for the
mus Win one sroKe the Knot OF social injustice would be CUT
Bunny this idea and it fantastic
and absurd But Paul to tell him that had actually
been done hundred million people occupying onesxth OF
the earh surface had taken their industries
ming them and would make Of hemf only the
canned greed OF the world would stand on and let them aone
Bunny took in his car to show what had hap
pened to the field while he had been away They wind
ing in and among the dercks stopping
chat with friend among the workers They
to the main road where stood the refinery that wonderful
work OF art Before them rose great building made entirely Of
enormous bakngpans inside anothera stack half
heaven the angels making caramels for the whole world
spread over the hills for miles and frightened the quail away
twilight, the white that from these
pans had faint violet tnge merged with the sky Eec
trio lights white and yellow and red until the place
looked like section of Coney Island And this resemblance in
creased as you drove farther and came to building long and
low in which forfour Dutchmen sat hidden putting forty
four pipes doing all unison like orchestral
ing time, quick sharp-puf- puff puff puff pu-puf!
bunny fet ms od embarrassment IN connection with the
and Paul bound be jealous realizing how his family had
been rcked But then in swift flashes of revelation Bunny
discovered how completely out Of date these old feelings had
become Nevermore would Paul be jealous for his lost heritage
more than the camss of the Ross family The Paradise
belonged workers. beautiful refinery
All that needed for point this
men, If Paul had been weak exhausted might
pointed that evening they could
plant and had ready operation under the management
by morning! All power to the Sovietsl
VII
Bunny the university charged with these
trical thoughts moment he would be trembling with
excitement frightened
what he had been thinking Some instinct him that the
industries
stand chance with his classmates he contened himself
with telling the dngs about Russiathat the revolution
blind ouburst of ferocy but the birth social
order told this and Peter received the gospel
his large OPEN while Gregor Nkolaief
why had they his cousin in JAIL and Rachel Menzes
they had thousands of Socialists JAIL and Billy George
sad Lets get group of fellows together and have Paul
and talk to them"
The spread with magical swness through
vesy the quick imagnaons of Bunnys friends supplied
all those details about which he had been silent Bunny
knew workngman who outand-out Bolshevik and
had made Boshevi
honare red became his future designation. Men
gathered round question with him.
ments often broke with furious word rows but the
interesting and they more Bunny
made into Of Soviet propaganda they
drove him to the wall with their arguments
to Paul for facts then them
at his advesares heads? His fraternity brothers up half
the night with him. wrangng his challenge everything
they considered good.
With and home cooking Paul picked up considerably
and in couple Of weeks down Angel City
friend Bunny joined him. and had another adventure
the head of small business college, affairs
into partners hands and in for Y work. during war
They had sent him to Siberia to help those
eighty railway whom the bankers paying
travelled and down the line seeing everything
he had kicked the telling the
truth about the situation in spite Of the protests
authorities and the army the department. and every
body that could put pressure on the head of business college