The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-25

NOTE.-Here is another article by COmrade Eng
dahl on what he saw during his three days stay in
Paris, returning to New York City from Moscow.
Engdah writes about the tomb of Jean Jaures at the
Pantheon" which he visited. In the last issue he
wrote about the debate in the Chamber of Deputies
that resulted in the withdrawal of parliamentary
immunity from Marcel Cachn, editor of PHumanite.
Tomorrow Engdahl will tell about "The Red WALL"
the memorial to the $4,000 workers slain during the
last week of the Paris Commune, May 21-28, 1871.
THE center of attention in big anteroom to the
French Chamber of Deputies Worker. The big
thing about him that in this thrOng waiting at the
doorstep of the parliament of France he the most
sef-assertive
He was Worker and he did not choose for moment
to hide it. He was not humble.
His was the spirit of May Day demonstration the
celebration of Soviet Anniversary His cap was pushed
back his head; his hair in joyous disorder He was
still wearing his overcoat The shirt wide open, dis
playing grizzled chest that testified to weldeveoped
lung power.
The priest sitting in the corner with hands folded,
meek. The widow still in mourning, sat quietly in
her place Other elements distinctly middle class, tried
to appear unconcerned But there were plainly other
worker elements in this interesting gathering
All were attracted, however, by this Worker who
scoffed the necessity of filling out in detail lengthy
questionable just because he wanted to the deputy
that represented his district in the chamber. 1t was
clear that he did much writing. Then the pens
furnished in such public places always bad But the
ers passed to of the many attendants and
messenger took it on to the Chamber.
1t was not long before it came back. The deputy
"Not In" I did not understand French. So did not
learn his mission But it must have been very important
this Worker who showed his dismay. But only for
moment, He quickly surrounded by nearly everyone
in the he opened a attack the deputy he
wanted to In elegant satire, it must have been he
told of how fat and puffy this deputy could make
this out from his telling gestures. He finished
actor in this respect born to the class struggle He
the breath of the rising popuace that has often swept
Paris repeatedly in its many revolutions in 1889, $780,
1848 and 1871
have never seen workers in the Hobbies of the Amer
lean congress There reception at the
house of representatives the senate in Washington.
At the lower house the doortender takes in card
You wait in the corridor.
There is little splendor at the senate. More
door tenders; messengers; gilt, and small
waiting if you want to it. If the senator is
good natured and if the weather is fair he may take
you the balcony, with its view down Pennsylvania
Avenue, the best place to on the interview
But the visitors that to Washington and tap at
the doors of the house of representatives and the
not workers. Washington is not city with great
industrial working class Perhaps its most conscious ee
ments to be found among the machinists for in
stance, down in the government navy yard.
It is declared that Washington was established as
made to order capital city for the United States to
avoid the restless proetarn elements of the great Cities
like New York and Chicago
Only the other day the militant needle workers had
demonstration before the city hall in New York City
Some years ago. Chicago during big traction fight
ropes with in them dangled from the bal
comics of the Chicago city council chambers
ing to aldermen whose palms itched with the desire for
graft American senators and congressman, safely iso
lated in Washington do not wish TO be disturbed in their
dignfed deliberations by any such disturbing incidents.
They not
If the banking cliques in Wall Street wish to speak
to their office boys in Washington, they easily
them to New York Thus Washington and Capitol
Hill become the destination merely of honeymooners and
other sightseers.
1t is said of the French architects who helped deveope
the plan for the city, that they purposey provided for
the wide thorofares, like Pennsylvania Avenue so that
aroused people could be easily met and overcome by
oya" soldery These architects remembered that the
occasions too easily to barrcades hastily thrown up by
workers.
In Europe the national parliaments sit in the chief
cities of the nations London in England; Berlin in
Germany; Vienna in Austria; Warsaw in Poland Rome,
in Italy; Budapest, in Hungary and Paris in France.
So the throng that crowds the of the Cham
Der of Deputies is different from the class of visitors
that drifts to Washington. Here workers.
wondered if this had anything to do with the fact
that in this anteroom Of the French chamber huge
portrait of Jean Jaures the foe of French mtarism
who martyred the of the world war. French
Communists today claim Jaures their own. Yet here
is his picture, and passed inner reception
room, there found huge painting in magnificent de-
speeches before the French chamber with every member
in his seat and the galleries thronged
There is a Boulevard Jean Jaures while the tomb Of
this champion the French proetarat is to be found in
the crypt of the Pantheon fittingy inscribed with the