The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-08
Students Of the First
Moscow University Show
Keen Interest in America
By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

MOSCOW, u S. S. R. (By MaiD-When hundreds Of
thousands of workers thru the of Moscow
in May Day Demonstration, it may be asked how suci
an outpourng of the is organized and directed
IL is very simple The fountain sources of the demon
stration the places of work The marchers gather
where they toll builders of the social order Thus
one section along. is that of the Prava the
central organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union The employees of the Comintern Communist In
ternationaD building march together But the great
btaons come of course from the shops and factories
The time and place of every section of the Great Red
Parade is mapped out with Red Army military precision
the time to assemble when to start moving and the
streets along which to proceed to finally join with the
great human flood pouring the Red Square be-
fore the kremln The parade does not break up how
ever the Red Square has been passed To permit
this would result in uncomfortable human jam in one
section of the city Instead the workers march in
derby array back to the starting place, back to their
places of work, where they dispense
Church Holiday Is Abolished.
May 1st this year, came on Sunday But Monday,
May End, for that also legal holiday thru
out the Soviet Union The workers decided to take off
Monday thru the actions of their organizations at the
same time however, voting to work August 9Th, which
has been recognized religious holiday This year,
however, August 6th is stricken from the map as a
holiday The workers enjoyed instead May Day
This switch in holidays being explained to as
stood watching the procession of workers by in
the Red Square. But the explanation interrupted
by a student from the First Moscow University who
wanted "the American comrade' to come and make a
speech for them at IL o'clock 1t then IL 80 o'clock
The student Russian, spoke to Finnish comrade who
knows both Russian and English, and l got the re-
quest and agreed.
On the minute was taken away on the promise that
could return had finished giving my greet
ing from America. A Chinese comrade who had been
to the Brussels Conference later addressed huge
ant-imperiais demonstrations in Germany came along
with us. We worked way thru the throngs getting
out of the Red Square near the Sobakna Tower Then
Tn he Of +bo+1
alongside the Alexander Garden that covers the
Neglinka Rivulet which is conducted thru subter-
ranean conduit and hidden from view.
Russia's Oldest University.
The buildings of the First Moscow State University
not far away in the Mokhovaya, shortly after it
branches off to the left from the beginning of the Tver-
skaya The buildings are to be found on both sides of
Herzn street This the oldest of the Russian Unver-
sites having been founded in 1885, due the efforts
the scientist Lomonossov The building of the old uni
versty at the northern of Herzen Street,
erected IN 1877 by Gard in the Muscovte Empire style
On the building is tablet bearing the inscription The
task of science is to mankind In front of the old
University are two monuments erected by Andreyev in
1922 one to the revolutionary thinker A. Herzen and
the other to his friend Ogarev who both students
of this university
The new university occupies the southern corner of
Herzen Street opposite the 'Manege, formerly riding
school of the cavalry section of the czarst army which
has now been turned into garage On the corner wing
of the New University find the inscription Science
Belongs to the Workers. which was put up after the
revolution. In front of the university is monu-
ment to Lomonossov professor at this university erected
by Ivanov in 1876 Anatomical anthropoogica geolog
lcal and geographical museums attached to the uni
versity Next to it in the Mokhavaya Street the build
ing of the University Library crowned by dome (this
library contains about 100000 volumes).
Scene of Horrible Massacre
In October, 1905, great concourse of over 100000
people gathered the Square between the University
and the Riding School, returning from the funeral of
Bauman, a murdered revolutionary This crowd was
fired on by the czarst police horrible massacre re-
sulting
But today the youth of the workers and peasants are
attending the First University of Moscow It is theirs
and they were anxious to get greeting from the
rade from America There thousands of them gath
cred here waiting their turn start off in the May Day
Parade One of the students mounted the portco be-
fore the main entrance which bazes with crimson bunt
ing May Day slogans flashing everywhere Quiet pre-
walls But it is quickly broken as am presented as
member of the Central Committee of the American Com
munist Party and the editor of it's Central Organ The
DAILY WORKER. What faith these workers peasants
students of the Soviet Union have in our American Com
munis Movement What interest they show in it! The
applause grows and the Student Band breaks into "he
International"
reviewed at some length the grip of the capitalist
reaction upon the educational system in the United
States upon the lower schools the colleges and the uni
versities told how the youth of America were being
mitarzed in the schools, making them plant instru-
ments of the Dollar Imperialism
But also pointed out of the hopeful signs
told of the participation of students various strikes
especially in New York City, where they had been Jailed
the picket line, along with the striking workers
told IF 4bo e