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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
An Encounter

But the pioneers not quite agreed
with it. They said that it Is neces-
sary to collect money but not to buy
presents, but to arrange a festival.
The teacher approved the latter idea
and l consented, for to be sure was
the initiator of the proposal.
The train arrived at 8 o'clock in
the morning and we pioneers and
even all the not organized children
we're at the station at z.
There comes the train
A drum rattles; we see them de-
scend from the train, all very thin
and pale in discoloured shirts, but
their looks tell us that they would
not submit to the bourgeoisie, even If
it were very difficult, but on the con-
trary would fight on.
We got acquainted on the spot,
surrounded them and went together
to the school, where all was ready for
the tea, pasty and so on. We look
on them and it seems to us as if we
were long ago acquainted, born to-
gether with them.
It was difficult to speak with them,
but we have Polish children at school,
who know Polish as well as Russian.
They were our translators and told
us all that was said and very disgust
ing it was to hear of the capitalism
and all its horrors.
Afterwards we began to speak.
We explained who was Hitch, how
the pioneers are working and told
them of many other things.
Then we showed them our school,
books, work shop.
Regarding our teacher the Polish
children told US:
She is like a mother to you. Our
teachers are malicious-one can't go
near them.
1t became dark but we talked and
talked and even the unorganized chill
dren didn't wish to go home.
Afterwards we went through the
town with our drum and sang the I'm
ternational," being ourselves real
international: Poles, Russians, Jews
and one Grizko Yashchuk, even a
Moldavian.
-SERGEJ BELOFF.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
By ]. RAsHELL.

By j. RASHELL.
On the horizon of a light blue sky,
toiler bends holding pillow. He is
trotting after harnessed horse.
The sun bakes down upon his neck.
The wind fills his eyes and lungs with
dust.
Day in, day out, he passes across
the vast green fields. Year in, year
out, the soil is swallowing his power.
1t saturates his sweat, and in return
gives bread to man.
His eye engulfs the greatness and
Wilderness Of the horizon. He breaths
the spaciousness Of the broad border
less fields, and his heart becomes as
gentle as the tender field flowers.
His mind is as light as the mild winds
that blow over the stalk of corn
field. Thus he works the land eagerly,
Industrious and creates food for men.
Far away from the wide green
fields, and from the clear blue skies,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
HOW MOSCOW WORKERS RECEIVED THE
NEWS OF SHANGHAPS FALL

News of the fall of Shanghai into the hands of the
revolutionary liberation movement of China reached
Moscow early in the afternoon of March 21st. The
TASS telegraph agency telephoned to the newspapers
and soon the presses turning out single-sheet
extra" printed side only, sponsored jointly by
"Pravda" and 'Isvestia" This may seem quite or
binary proceeding in America where any turn Of
a racy scandal is greeted with extra, but it is
something very much out of the ordinary in Russia,
where there seldom than one or two in
whole year.
The News Spread.
Long before the paper appeared on the streets, how
ever the had filtered into the city First of all
caught by the universities, and one such in
stuton the "Salin University of the Toing Peoples
of the East staged big street demonstration in front
of its building at which Chinese and Russian speeches
and songs alternated After this short program the
students and the gathered crowds formed into parade
and marched five abreast to the office building of
the Communist International the world staff of the
proletarian revolution
Sun Yat-Sen Students.
Here the marchers greeted by speakers in vari
Gus languages, Chinese English and Russian predomin
ating Close their heels marchers from other
schools prominent among them the Sun Yat-Sen Uni
versty bearing proudly the blue velvet flag of the
Kuomintang side by side with the embroidered red ban
of their school.
1t was not long before the factory whistles of all
Moscow were cheering, and quitting time came the
workers, hundreds of thousands of them, formed i'm
promptu parades and like the students marched to the
Comintern.
Revolutionary Order.
Headed by factory-cub bands, bearing aloft special
and banners with slogans which the paint
was still dripping wet, the workers. and women,
streamed in from all parts of the city, not in any regu
lar planned parade formation yet maintaining abso
lutely perfect order
From four o'clock until almost midnight the endless
detachments of Moscows army of workers depoyed be-
fore their own international headquarters, demonstrate
ing their joy the great victory of their Chinese fell
Observation-Disclosures. And this is only the beginning,
every Chinese comrade in Moscow is lionsed workers
clubs are making gifts and holding innumerable
smitchka meetings to show their solidarity with the
fighters in the new East.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
A Toiler

in crowded large cities under turbid
skies, are people paying the price for
the products of the fields, eating to
their hearts content. But they never
find time to ask themselves who has
given the sweat to the soil to grow
the foods that gives them health and
strength.
The rich, the masters of life, throw
a bone to the toiler for his toll. and
he never knows who is enjoying the
bread that he produces thru toll.
Sometimes toward twilight when the
faint rays of the crimson sun are pat
ting his face and painting it red
dish hue, and the coming cool eve
ming breeze is playing with his dis
heveled hair, he is trudging over the
broken burrows of the vast fields,
weary, bent, thinking, "How long will
parasites consume my strength? How
long will this devilish play continue ?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22

Letter of Young Pioneer in U.S.S.R.
Three days ago our leader told us,
that from Poland pioneers viii come
to Kiieff and that Wen meet them
on the railroad station. All pioneers
thought at first, that the expected are
children like ourselves or perhaps
footballists, because in summer ar
rived footballists from abroad.
But the day before their arrival
our teacher told us, that those are
very unhappy children: the father of
one was shot for the sake of the
workers and the revolution, the
father of another was sent to prison
and the same is the case with all the
others. We were grieved very much
and all of us even the not organized
children, exclaimed: we all will go to
the station.
After the lesson there was much
agitation: some of us said, that the
Polish children will not remain in
Kijeff, but will travel farther; others
said, that they will go to school to-
gether with us and there were even
such, who said that they will arrive in
the night and that it will be i'm
possible for us to see them.
will not boast, but always direct
the publication of the wall paper and
had a secret idea. told nothing but
went away and wrote the following
article:
I'VE will be visited by Polish chill
dren, very unhappy children, but
they are Just such revolutionaries like
ourselves and they fulfill the same
tasks. We have all-they have moth
ing. There is no sense in it to meet
them with drums and red necRties
only.
Comrades, what would be your
feelings, if the father or mother of
some of us were killed for the revo-
luton, what. would be then?
made the following proposals;
Let US collect money and buy pres
ents for them to show them our pro-
letarian sympathy and gladness.
I pasted the article to the wall and
said that it was written by order of
the Young Communist League.
This l did to evade questioning
and discussion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
Editor. The DAILY WORKER:

Editor, The DAILY WOhhEh.
MANY of our radical friends seem
to take gloomy view of the Left
Wing split in China. In to-day's is
sue of the paper, for example,
O'Flaherty in his excellent column
says, "Chiang-Kai-Shek has dealt a
serious blow to the Revolution"
All this seems to me an erroneous
view of the situation. Let us review
some history. We know that the
Kuomintang contained within itself
all elements of the workers, peasants,
and middle class. We can safely as
sumo, think, that what Chang did
now he always intended to do, mas
much as he is in the middle class and
is a product of his class. Also that
the middle class was afraid of the
growing power of the Left Wing.
Again, it must be remembered that
he was trained in a Japanese Mill
tary Academy which also left its inn
press.
The question now arises: would it
have been more advantageous for
the radicals if the split had occurred
later, say after the capture Of
Picking? l say no. Consider. 1t
was the policy of Chang to incor-
porate tie defeated troops with their
Northern militaristic generals into
the Canton armies. Already the
southern troops were being out
numbered-later they would have
been swamped-and the northern
generals would all be for Chang.
Chiang's power would have increased
greatly.
Let us observe, now, our side of
the picture. First, the Left Wing
possess the provinces Of Human
Hupel, Kiangan, Shensi, and Khan
sen,-the last two coming in with
the so-called Christian General.
Secondly, the right-wing general in
Shanghai said that Anhwei Province
is doubtful. If he admits that it is
doubtful" it is fair to assume that
il will be in the hands of the Left
Wing. Especially since Hankow is
sending troops to Wuhu in that pro-
vince. Also the section about
Swatow, in Kwantung Province,
which is north Of Canton, according
to an unconfirmed report is in the
hands Of the Left. If true, it cuts
off Canton from Chang, except by
boat, thus making the capture of
that city with its arsenal fairly easy.
And il must be borne in mind that
the people are with the Left.
Again, when two groups arc fight
ing, 1t is logically inevitable for the |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
TWO-FISTED MUSIC
George AntheiPs Ballet Mecanique'')

George Antheils Ballet Mecanique'O
Staid and conservative Carnegie Hall received the
shock of its life the other night The respectable ghosts
of Bach and Beethoven for one hour wrhed in agony
in the wings. Mozart spun like top in his mouldy
grave while Wagner grinned sardonically.
revolution had occurred on the stage too Nothing
arranged nicely and demurey and as expectedy
for symphony. A futuristc curtain hung in back of
the stages a curtain with gorgeous black and white
splashing screaming all it. An enormous spark
plug hurled its rays in all directions skyscrapers
toppled crafty over one another the elevator trains
zgzagged drunkenly they do gigantic wrenches and
hammers striking blows;-in word Metropolis
was there
The orderly symphony orchestra missing too.
In its place twelve pianos stretched semcrculary
the stage. mechanical piano occupied the
ter. In the a of xylophones and bass
drums Electric bells there and electric horns and
whistles and thundermakng machines and wind makers
and wind TANNERS and aeropane propelers-pecular
looking apparatus for concert--all were there.
The conductor, lean and somewhat fearful stepped
the platform and raised his baton The audience jammed
to the pit tense expectant and craving excitement
1t knew that at performance in Paris of this concert
riot had occurred many hurt and the police had
been active participants. The baton fell, and then all
began.
Trrrrrrr Trrrrrrr-the air drills biting into
the protesting rock Rat-a-tat rat-a-tat-iron was
being riveted to ronlusty swung picks dug into the
earth. Shhh-theres the warning bel-get out of the
way you of B. Silence for a while. BANG
off went stick of dynamite. Trrrr trrrr the drills
againRat-a-tat rat-a-tat rat-a-tat There's heavy
log to be showed out of the way-PUSH. No lullaby
this. The pianos crashed-out you son of gun, and
the burden heaved away. Like a fury the
chanical piano being pumped-the subways got to
be finished, the tunnel must be dug. Trrrrr trrrrrr
rat-a-tat rata-tat trrrr Here comes
a lull-lunch time dream time. Only the sivery
notes of an xylophone sound Dream-dream Of water
flashing through green forests of the yielding EARTH
of polished pebbles sparkling in the And its quiet
so quiet; there is nothing here.
Whrrrrr the city again-theres fire. Hear the en-
gines roar-the bowling siren whrrrrr. Put out the
fire. Block it. Stop it. The AK The hose. Ssssss--
the water Kisses the fames the gray smoke-ts
choking; pressure-axes-bang put it out, out,
out.
All right, it's out. Night time-work stops? No
damn, no, turn the lights. Shift changes Begin
Trrrrrrr trrrrrr trr rat-a-tat rat-a-tat rat-atat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
DEFEAT-LAST STATEMENT

Stand up to glory, soldiers! From this spot.
We shall not stir, till bone is torn from bone.
The White Guards riddle with effective shot,
And their countless mercenares bear like stone
Our bones shall break, from nerves shall
sever.
We ebb and sink, first of the rebel waves.
But armies follow. The dream shall perish never,
Stalking in victory through laurels our graves.
Not tomorrow shall the ponderous shells
Beat down the people, who press to dawn ahead.
Take cheer, o comrades, in these flaming hells,
We fashion daybreak! So be happy. So be dead.
Behind us, chains and novels foul with dirt.
Ahead fair dreams, the cities like the sun.
Oh, shall we cover and yield and taste the qurt?
Or go down in full armor, free men every one?
Something it is, to die with jaw stuck out,
In manly act of driving the bayonet home.
On glazing eye fair dreams rise roundabout
And grateful Freedoms kiss makes sweet the quiet
tomb
This is our swan-song soldiers. Give stare
To sun-lke cities smiling ahead.
Then tighten grip on gun-stocks Close ranks there!
Stand up to glory. So be free men. Or be dead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
Artists, Plays and Proletarians.

Artists, Plays and PrOletarians.
Editor, The DAILY WORKER:
Many of our young dramatists and
artists in general are attempting to
destroy the dragon of bourgeois cul-
ture. But in it's place they are
creating monster of mysticism and
confusion. am especially referring
here to those artists Disguised with
capitalism and the prostituted art.
What is the trouble? AS a reac-
ton to capitalism and its legitimate
offspring, bourgeois art, our artists
begin, so to speak, to walk on their
heads. They create something which
is neither bourgeois, proletarian, not
art.
When these works are presented in
the name of proletarian art, it is
time that we take note of it. And
when Harbor Allen, in reviewing En-
10 Basshe's drama, Earth" says
among other things, that it is an hon
est attempt am inclined to ask
him, for what sit is an honest at
tempt?" The "count-your-days
staging surely does not count the
days of capitalism. Of what else it
counts the days, is quite mysterious.
The decaying of capitalism and the
consequent heavy footsteps Of the
proletarian revolution has thrown our
liberal-radical intelligentsia off their
feet. And in its blind search for
something new, it goes off at such a
tangent Of muddleheadednes that
only Greenwich Villagites can gloat
over the deep" incomprehensive
nothingness.
The masses to whom they are ca
tering cannot understand them. The
daily struggle in mine and factory
are too crude that the masses should
understand any of the mystic bosh
handed out to them. Under capital
ism, we cannot have a proletarian
art but we can and must approach
the struggles and yearnings of the
workers. Nearer to the masses in
work and deed should be the clarion
call to these artists sympathetic with
the aspirations Of the masses.
EUGENE KREINEN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
Let Fathead Miners Consider What
They Are After Little

What in the ell do you think you're after,
miners?
Sunshine, play,
Shorter hours, more pay.
o damn them bolsheviks
Ludlow, Cripple Creek,
And Red Wind blowing from the East.
What, by God, do you think you're after, miners?
Happiness, bread,
And an uncowed head.
O damn them bolsheviks!
Masaba Range, Paint Creek,
And Red Wind blowing from the East.
Mr.. Lewis speaking:
Thatll do, boys You mustn't brighten the boss
to death or whatll become of Industrial
Cooperation?
What in the ell are you after, miners?
HENRY GEORGE WEISS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Right to become more Right and the
Left more Left,-to show that they
are fighting over something vital.
This will make those Let's who are
not Communists approach that pO-
sition more closely. Thus it seems
to me that recent events are not re-
grettable from our point of view.
On the contrary. = Robert Julian
KentOn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-22
SEND IN YOUR LETTERS

The DAILY WORKER is anxious to receive letters
from its readers stating their views the issues
fronting the labor movement. II is our hope to de-
velop Letter Box" department that will be of wide
interest to all members of The DAILY WORKER family
Send in your letter today to "The Letter Box, The
DAILY WORKER. SO First street. New York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
ENTERTAIN MASONS
Sarah Grotto Will Hold Car
nival for Lodge.

Sarah Grotto, Mystic Order Yelled
Prophets of the Enchanted Realm,
will entertain prophets and master
Masons with an athletic carnival in
'romlinson ball today at p. m.
Feature of the program will be
ten three-round amateur boxing
bouts staged under direction of Will
liam Bowman, amateur boxing show
promoter.
Other entertainment is to be I'M
der direction of Karl Erath, general
chairman of the entertainment
committee. Purpose of the show is
to acquaint the members of the Ma
sonic fraternity with Grotto activ-
tiles, promote good fellowship, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
TIP. A. DRIVE OPENS
link Named to Supervise
Member Campaign.

Charles M. link, secretary-treas-
urer Of the Indiana division of the
Travellers Protective Association,
has been named to supervise the
State membership drive in honor of
the national T. P. A. president, ].
E. McKeown, st. Louis.
Rally squads will be ordered into
the field Saturday by link. Cues
tionnaires have been sent to manu-
facturers, jobbers and wholesale
merchants in the stage, and the
workers will be supplied with eligi-
bility lists.
Secretary links plans for the
campaign are the most constructive
we have ever had" said Royal E.
Mower, president Of the local Post
B.
Clarence j. Traugott. chairman of
the membership committee, will be
in charge OF, the local squads. The
goal OF Post B has been set at
1000 new members.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
RELIEF CORPS
PLANS MEETING
G. A. R. Members Will Be
Guests at Fl. Friendly.

George H. Thomas Women's Re-
lief Corps No. 20 will meet Monday
at 2 p. m. at Ft. Friendly, 512 N.
Illinois st. Mrs. Rhoda Dawson
will be hostess for the social hour,
and she will be assisted by Mrs.
Charlotte Tyner, junior vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Jane Biglow. Mrs. Char
lotte Alexander, Mrs. Maud Allmon,
Mrs. Sylvia j. Matthews and Mrs.
Matte SCOOTER.
Mrs. Bigelow, who has charge of
the program, will give a reading.
Others who will give readings are
Capt. D. H. McAbee, Mrs. Emma A.
Bristow, Mrs. Lola w. Park and
Mrs. Ella Holland. Mrs. Lulu Agnes
Singer viii sing a solo. Mrs. Akron
will entertain with several piano Sc
lections.
The George H. Thomas Post Nc.
II, Grand Army of the Republic,
are to be special guests. Mrs. Au-
gusta M. Stratford is president of
the woman's organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30

Interest is being shown in the
election of three representatives
to the Supreme Lodge of the
knights of Pythias at the annual
convention of the Indiana Grand
Lodge here Tuesday and Wednes-.
day.
All five of the candidates in the
field hold the rank Of past grand
chancellor. DR.. Frank A. Priest,
Marion, was grand chancellor in
1916 and 1917; Judge Charles L.
Pulliam, Terre Haute, 1918 and
1919; Dore B. Erwin, Decatur, 1924
and 1925; Nathan j. Lane, OAR
lington, 1925 and 1925; and Will
liam A. Morris, Frankfort, served
as grand master of Exchequer
for twenty-nine years from 1894
to 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
DRAMATIC CLUB IS
FORMED BY BEN-HUR

Miss Myrtle Swing Is Elected Head
of Group.
Miss Myrtle Swing was elected
president of the Dramatic Club of
the Arrius Court No. 5, Tribe of Ben
Hur, Wednesday night.
The dramatic group was just re-
Gently organized, and the first regu-
lar meeting will be held Oct. Z, at
the home of Miss Henrietta Bern
loher, 5122 Ralston Ave. Other meet
ings will be held on alternate Fri
day evenings at the homes of the
twenty-six members. Hur mem
bers wishing to gain admission to
the club should call the local chief,
Miss Louise Mills, 3242 College Ave.
An open meeting OF Ben-Hur will
be held Monday with dancing and
other entertainment on the pro-
gram. Initiation win be held the
following meeting night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
ERATERN|T|ES
BODY MEETS
ON THURSDAY
New Problems Facing Gen.
trail Organization
Gathering.

Several important questions vital
to the life of the organization will
be brought before the Associated
Fraternities of Marion County at a
meeting Thursday night in the Mod
ern Woodmen OF America hall, 322
E. New York ST. E. H. Palmer, pres
ident, will preside.
The society is comparatively
young organization, and its policies
and functions are as yet in an en-
bryonic state. 1t is to be decided
whether they will meet monthly or
to recess until the time of the an
nual parade and celebration.
Act AS Clearing Station
If the society meets each month
it will act as a clearing station for
all matters of general interest and
business. The twenty-five lodges
now in the association are about
evenly divided on the questions, but
many of them are strongly in favor
of using the Associated Fraternities
as a central organization. The bod-N
les will be brought together fire.
quently, stimulating interest and
activity in the fraternal system.
An increase in the activity of the
association will mean that consti-
tuition and by laws will be presented.
1t is planned to invite all orders Of
a fraternal nature composed OF
white persons to become affiliated.
Promote Membership
This would increase membership
to more than 100000 with the plr-
pose of promoting good fellowship
on fraternal, non-sectarian and
non-political basis. The slogan
would be 1.-THE Brotherhood Of Man
and the Fatherhood of God"
Delegates to the Indiana Fraternal
Congress to be held here in October
will be elected at the Thursday night
meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
PLAN WINTER PROGRAM
Marion Camp, M. w. A., Officers to
Meet Saturday Night.

O2icers of Marion Camp, No. 1858,
Modern Woodmen of America, will
hold a special meeting at p. m.
Saturday at 1922 E. New York ST., to
plan winter activities.
The meeting is open to all men,
bers Of the Marion Camp who might
be interested or able to offer sugges-
tions. officers of the lodge prom
Use the 1914 members that there
will be some unique and interesting
features incorporated in the pro-
gram.
The bowl party which was to
have been given by Riverside Camp,
No. 6443, Tuesday night has been
postponed indefinitely, according to
M. T. Wright of the Woodmen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-30
Lodge Nez0S

Secretaries of lodges and fra
ternal organizations are asked
to send to The Times Fraternal
Editor advance notices Of
meetings and accounts of other
lodge activities.
These notices should be
mailed in time to reach The
Times not later than Wednes-
day afternoon. However n
case of late events, r,'s.sA can
not be covered gy Snat time,
important news items will be
accepted in writing or by tel
ephone Main $500 as late as
4 p. m. Thursday. Additional
lodge news today will be found
on Page 10.