The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-13

There also martial law in the coal strike in the
Paint and Cabin Greek Districts in West Virginia, in
1918, in many other industrial struggles in that
state AS publicity director of the United Mine Work
ers' Union, found difficult to get thru the various
sections Of the
got the same feeling of the grip of the military
only intensified Stolbzy, in Poland where leave
the train behind that has brought us from Moscow, u
S. S. r. pass the customs officers and board the train
that is to take US on to Paris.
Everybody sautes! The porters carrying baggage
salute! Maybe it is the baggage master the station
master can't make out, that receives this attention
The Polish imitation Of the American boy scouts and
of the high school and university cadets very much
in evidence But then there also the many branches
Of the regular army, in multitude of vari-coored
uniforms, all Seemingly represented.
This railroad station with its martial surroundings
gives the feel of military outpost close to the front
line trenches in time. You might interject that
1.-THE Polish Pisudski mtarsm doesn't know that the
is over" But that would be hardly true The Pill
sudski tyranny only knows that for it, the'
ended, because with the signing of the Versailles bandit
peace the Polish reaction merely became the catspaw
of the imperalisms at Paris and London, in the
attacks the Union of Soviet Republics Always ready
with their dollars the international bankers in Wall
Street have been continuously the job bolserng the
Polish reaction financially. Polish fascism, like its
Italian counterpart has the full sympathy of the CAPT
talist regime in Washington
Poland is today imperialist outpost against the
Soviet Power of the workers and peasants and Stolbzy
Polands eastern frontier is the edge of the
feared border of the First Workers Republic Hence
the soldiers the strutt1g officers, the pompous
era who thru the station and boards the train
looking for all the world like the Russian prince that
had seen in the Moscow prison that I had visited.
It was motley train made up of first second and
third class coaches and sleeping of Polish French
and German origin, shrieking testimony to the many
national divisions in bourgeois Europe. Yet there
some relief when this train started moving toward the
west.
But what nation we passed thru of men and women
in rags and barefoot, Polish workers who showed to
all the world their detection
1t is not unusual of course for the peasant to walk
barefoot in the fields following the pillow, tending
his herds and focks.
But here in Poland the city workers. and women,
toed barefooted feet bleeding At station, did
take down the name, but it was typical of all, a
huge basement being excavated for build
ing There giant steam shovel to do the heavy
work. Men and women massed together, in large
numbers shovelng passing the dirt from level level
like japanese coolies coang ship passing the coal
up its sides.
The train stopped for few moments at one station
during the hour Many of these workers dropped
their shoves and running the tracks, find
ing place the station platform their lunches.
Some of them had their feet bandaged
The employer might claim that many of them are
strong and we'll equipped physically for this manual
labor. The fact that many very fra in ap-
pearance. One pathetic sight that of very young
and weak appearing worker who had a
IL
stroy her womanlness.
Another sight of many workers, picking
their way barefooted about they unloaded freight
cars, especially cars loaded with huge timbers.
It isn't because there is scarcity of labor Poland
that women well must thus toll There are
from quarter to third of a million unemployed in
Poland These oppressive conditions that American
capitalism upholds because it would like to see the
workers in the United States reduced to the level
We passed a river. Cavalrymen of the Polish
army could be seen at the waters edge They had re-
moved their polished BOOTS rolled up their colored
trousers and bathing their feet in the cool water
Their feet not bleeding like the feet of the workers
we had just
That is Poland. And so it was all the way to War
saw that reached toward evening, arriving at the
railroad station in the Polish capitol the platform
of which Peter L. Vokov, the Soviet Ambassador had
been shot down by assassin inspired by the i'm
perialist attack against the Soviet Union
1t is a rather fororn looking railroad station where
priests with robes that ground vie for attention
with the soldiery Numerous guides offer show the
travellers about the town. until the train shall continue
it's journey, One guide even has slip of paper
signed by with address in Brooklyn, N. "
testfyng to his reliability There cathedrals and
palaces to be seen, they say. But Europe is full of
cathedrals and palaces and they all look less
alike, and there interesting in Berlin and
Paris The interesting, of course, the Soviet
Union where the workers have turned them to useful
purposes rest homes and museums.
But train time is welcome again find that for the
night am to share my sleeping compartment with DR..
w De Vrient who is his way Berlin participate
II international Conference Of Scientists He says
that 20 scientists the best known in Russia are plan
ming TO leave the Soviet Union in few days journey
to Berlin for the purpose. We talked until long
after midnight.
The next misunderstanding into Germany.