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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
The Letter-BoX
Class War Prisoner Writes.

Editor, Daily Worker:-No doubt it rather UNI
usual for comrade and friend to write from the pen
on the open-shop shore And no doubt what have to
say will be of minor Importance compared to letters
from other fellow workers and comrades One thing of
interest class Isl only seven classwar prisoners
remain in San Quentin prison. Another is due to leave
week from today.
About the only news we get on China comes via the
yellow press But from their censored reports
can see that the Peoples Army knocking ell out Of
the capitalist tools (the northerners). Now what
offer for your perusal is the summing up of all the diff
ferent angles of the Chinese affair." and want to know
il I've got the dope straight have the facts been dis
torted in the "brass chech press that my data is
roneous?
From what gather of the events in China, the up
heaval has been 80 years in gathering its adj
herants that the Boxer rebellion was only temporary
defeat So to the leadership Of Sun Vat Sen.
Now the movement has grown to such extent that
the native capitalist thought they had oppor
tunty to drive the foreign expoiter out and reap
golden harvest for himself! He the native capitast)
joined the cry of "Chna for the Chinese" Also he
trbuted to the cause" always with the provision that
he to be member of the governing board But at
this stage ws the work of diplomacy. His money
accepted and his election assured-but for every
capitalist board member elected Labor put it's repre-
sentative that board. AS long the fighting
to gain control of all China continues this board will
work in harmony This places the native expoiter in
dutch with his European and American brother-robber
AS the Cantonese win victory after victory the "babbits
of China" begin to puff out his chest and endeavor to
grasp tighter the regns of controls and here his soap
bubble of dream bursts and he awakens to the sad
realization that his enemy the working class, is armed,
and that the talk of he world for those who work. is
beginning be popular among those who have done the
fightngl yes, he his mistake-but it's too late
now His fellow-exploter in Europe and Wall Street,
U. S. A. calls him traitor! while every side the work.
ers Red Dawn!
l hope Comrade Millers Communist Training Camps
meet with success! Also in Comrade Ruhenbergs death
feel the labor movement has lost a militant worker.
Hearnc M. Haislip San Quentin Prison California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
The Passing of Carl Sandburg

he expressed the slime, the brutality
Oh lie; here he sang of smoke, of steel,
OF buns, of trains, of cities. Much
could have been expected of Sandburg
after such showingl But like James
.Oppenheim, he became tired. Life
was hopeless. What was the use of
protesting? 1t was nature. It was
evolution. And evolution is stronger
than man.
After Smoke and Steel we had
Slabs of the Sun-burnt West. And
what was this remarkable volume that
lead Gorham Munson to declare that
his fame will most likely depend upon
this volume? Mere vapid escape
stuff. Mysticism. Subjective stuff.
Beautiful sunsets. The beautiful
West.
In his first three volumes Carl
Sandburg growled, shook himself, and
spattered few red drops for history
to remember. Then he forgot.
Yes, Carl, good old Carl who was
worth more than concert hall full
of esthetes, is getting old. After all,
there is nothing like beautiful sun
set, nothing like the spacious west.
Out there where the west begins
one can forget Anna Imroth, one can
forget the slaves in the steel mills
and coal hells, one can forget the
slime, the dirt, the brutality. One
can even forget his own proletarian
past, cumming on freight cars, wash
ing dishes, driving milk wagons, poll
ishing stoves.
For out where the west begins, out
beyond brutal Chicago in beautiful
Santa Fe, one forgets that the "best
of me is sucked out and wasted" one
forgets that everything but Death
comes to me and makes me work and
give up what / have"
Carl has forgotten. And ''his young
wild ways are not so young any more,
nor so wild"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04

It may be we'll to have the names
of some Of the capitalists and corpora
lions who back Gerardo Machado, the
presidential dictator and virtual as
sassin.
First the Bankers.
Start with the bankers. Dwight
Morrow, confidential advisor of Pres
ident Coolidge, and member Of the
firm of ]. P. Morgan & Co. has offer
ed toasts to Machado at banquets Of
business men; he has assisted Major
General Crowder dictate loan laws
and revenue measures for the island.
National City Bank has handled
most of the loans to American sugar
corporations doing business in Cuba.
Il has "a branches in the Island and
is the largest of the three American
banks which, with three Canadian
banks, control 900 of all the banking
in Cuba. National City Bank finances
the leading sugar companies which
dominate the economic life of the
country. Some of the larger sugar
corporations are Cuba Cane Sugar,
the Punta Allegro Sugar Co., and the
Cuban Dominican Sugar Co. Seventy
five percent of Cuban sugar, consti-
tuting 900 Of her entire exports, is
produced in American owned mills,
most of them controlled by American
bankers.
General Electric Has Them.
Public utilities in the cities are all
controlled by the American & Foreign
Power Co., identified with the General
Electric Co. All Cuban holdings of
General Electric are operated by this
company.
Railroads, serving the sugar cen
trails, are also in American hands. 1t
was on them that the strike, which
opened the Machado trade union mas
sacres, began. Seventeen railroad
union leaders were imprisoned; were
slain. Consolidated Railroads of Cuba
leads. The Cuba Railroad, one of the
consolidated units alone represents an
investment of about 500 million in
Guiding its sugar properties. Some of
the leading figures in the Consolidat-
ed are E. J. Berwind, also president
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
IN THE SUBW AY
By C. NJ. (Ex-subway Guard)

By c. NJ. (Ex-Subway Guard)
1t was during the year of 1918
that I entered the service of the In
terborough Rapid Transit Co. as a
guard. Labor being scarce then on
account of war conditions / was given
the job without many formalities.
After having filled out number of
application blanks and other impress
sive documents, and having passed
the medical examination, / was told
to report for work the next day at
the Bronx Park division.
When l reported for work l was
placed in a train with veteran con-
ductor who showed me how to operate
the doors. There was nothing to do
but open and close the doors. You see,
very easy job! Thus I started my
underground work which lasted for
seven long years.
Worse Than Slavery.
That job was worse than slavery. l
had to be on the job IA and some
times Is hours day for nine hours
pay. Before / became a regular" l
had to wait on the extra list for 2
and hours each day before l was
sent out to work. Then, after MAX
ing a trip or two in the morning /
had to come back in the afternoon
to finish my run. It was 8 or 8
o'clock in the evening before / was
able to go home. There was no Sun
day or holiday off. After working
for two months continuously ! de-
cided to take one Sunday off. l asked
the "starter" for permission but he
said that it couldn't be done. / re-
manned away that Sunday anyway.
The next day when reported for
work ! was told that in order to get
off it was necessary to get an o. X.
from the superintendent. I went to
the superintendent office on Goth
ST., and after waiting for two hours
to see him he told me that l was sus-
pended for two days for disobedience.
| was also warned that one more
suspension would be cause for my dis
missal Since that time ! never stay
ed off again until / was assigned to
run.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
In a Shoe Factory
A young Italian worker speaking.


The only trouble with my job is that can't get fired.
up for them damaged Shoes Last mite the boss told
me to work little later. Like hell went home half
hour before five. That boss hates me like poison.
Why the hell don't he fire met
This afternoon the boss come around and says A little
speed therel Wake up you make $50 week if you
HUSTLE
Hes good. He wants me to make lot of money. Sup
posing don't want TOT don't want to, that's all;
don't want to make a lot of money.
/ know that game, it's old stuff When l worked in
the Hood used to cut back stays The boss would pick
them up and pack them in box about thousand in
box When he had plenty, enuf to last all summer, he
lays off See, he don't fire me- he just lays off
know that lay-off too. Try and get the job back
know fellow been laid off for three years and he can't
get the job yet.
Say, got a light? Thanks. See that pile Of leather?
Christ, day it will burn. Let it burn, burn down;
who cares2
On the boss The boss, he's good fellow He put in
lights every table, work overtime Work
till eight and nine o'clock at night Sure. know fac
tory where they work Sundays.
Hi! John working last mite till nine o'clock.
Money! Who wants to work till nine o'clock? Who the
hell wants to work anyway? Christ don't know. That
place Maybe he sleeps here All right. Get pile of
soft leather you sleep fine. Have you got better
bed to sleep anyway? What's that you don't sleep
here nights, John? didn't it. was only kidding.
Don't worry / know we're all going to get laid off
soon because the boss is telling to speed up Summer
time coming, who the hell wants to work? Go swim
ming; the boss, he's fine: let's you take vacation
little vacation long vacaton oh, just vacation you
know: vacation. In the good old summer time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
S4,00O,OOO,OOO
By JOSEPH KALAR

a YEAR ago spent four months
\ wandering over the streets of
Chlcago-the Chicago of Carl Sand
burg. 1t had not changed. It was
still the brutal, lusty, cruel. crooked.
and wicked city of Chicago Poems"
1t still needed its bard. In the hideous
greasy room where three of us spent
the evenings, cooking our grub on a
gas CRATE, we had a radio, a cheap
tawdry crystal set that yet enabled
me at one time to hear Carl Sandburg
speak. l forget what he said, but !
think he spoke about Abraham Lin
coin. Even then felt that Carl Sand
burg, the good old Carl who hurled
such lusty defiance and blasphemous
philippines at the fat men, was sIip-
ping. 1t is an i'll omen when a writer
turns from the brutal present and
with tear dimmed eyes resuscitates a
fallen, if noble, giant. Look at what's
happened to Van Wyck Brooks!
But that was not ALL AS often as
my finances permitted ! purchased
one Of the capitalistic newspapers in
search of employment. | CHANGED to
open the Chicago Daily News at the
cinema page and my brief and con-
temptuous glance was arrested by the
name of Carl Sandburg. He was re-
viewing Sally" the most puerile show
have ever had the misfortune to see.
l expected to find the old Sandburg,
Sandburg beyond falling for the
cheap pie-in-the-sky stuff that satu-
rates the tenth art. But no. Edgar
Guest might have written that review.
The Chicago Daily News could hard
ly afford to irritate Balaban and
KATE. And a man must live. :.
Carl Sandburg is getting old. The
Dial esthetes, and Mencken, and Ezra
Pound have convinced him that art is
above life. Carl was too virile. The
obese neurotic ladies who go in for
art were at first thrilled by his BIAS
phemy, but when he began to sheer
at them and their own good men and
true, it was too much. The past /.
the beautiful past :. the melancholy
past. Amy Lowell, that woman
starved into scrawniness by poverty
(sic) said he was unjust to the mil
lionaires. 1t was all part of evolution,
she said.
Has Carl, whose very name strikes
a responsive cord in many a breast,
fallen for that stuff? don't know.
Yet the fact remains that his evolu-
ton was not into a fiercer hate of the
existing mad and swinish society, but
into one Of sane and pure poetry. as
devoid Of genuine thought and emo
ton as the profound outpourings of
DR.. Van Dyke. Chicago Poems. Corn
huskers, Smoke and Steel, progress
sion that is worthy Of any poet Here
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Wouldn't Defend Workers.


The officers of the brotherhood, y
the company union, never opened
their mouths to defend fellow-work-
er. The only thing they were inter-
ested in is to collect the dues each
month and do their spying work in
the interest of the l. R. T.
These officials are nothing but the
mere tools of the company. All of
them are in conspiracy, under the
leadership of Pat Connolly, to keep
the principles of real unionism from
the workers. In 1920 the rank and
file succeeded in electing a man by
the name of Green from the Bronx
Park division. This man opposed the
installation Of the new rubber
bellies" 1.-THE one-man trains) because
he believed that it would throw many
men out of work. The company fired
him without. a hearing, and when he
asked the delegates" of the brother
hood to bring his case before the
meeting they ignored him.
Workers Hate Brotherhood"
The workers on the /. +. T. are not
interested in the brotherhood, be-
cause they all know that this is the
cause of their miserable conditions.
In every meeting held each month
there are to be found no more than
10 or Is attending. And during the
meetings it is seldom that member
is allowed to speak about improving
the conditions of the workers. They
are all afraid to speak against the
company for fear that they might
lose their jobs. If anyone is ever
bold enough to agitate for an increase
in wages or improvement in the con-
ditions of labor he is Immediately
quoted down by Mr.. Mangan of the
brotherhood" The discussion is
usually centered around plans for a
"beef-steak" affair, or a visit to a
sick brother.
Such are the conditions Of all the
subway workers, and unless they
unite in a strong union under the
leadership of experienced men, they
will never be able to improve their
miserable conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04

Of our great anti-union Berwind White
Coal Co., which crushed the United
Mine Workers in 1929; w. II. Woodin,
president American Car and Foundry
CO.; Percy A. Rockefeller; C. H. Wal
ker of Hartman g. Co.; II. C. Lakin
Of the Long Island Railroad; w. V.
Griffin, president Agrilin Chemical
Corp. and Fl. S. Rubens of the U. S.
Industrial Alcohol Co.
Other American corporations with
large Cuban properties are Bethlehem
Steel Corp. the American Tobacco
Co., the Standard Oil Co., the Inter
national Telegraph and Telephone Co.,
the American Metal Co., United Fruit
Co.. and large number Of shipping,
transit, dock and terminal companies,
The total American Investment in
Cuba is estimated at about a billion
and a half dollars. AT least a fifth
Of the soil Of Cuba is owned by Amer
leans
Elected MachadO.
According to DR.. Leland H. jerks,
formerly of Amherst College, who has
completed a special study of Ameri-
can investments in Cuba, American
corporations doing business in Cuba
contributed heavily to the Machado
campaign funds" Machado has been
their friend and agent since the day
Of his election. They have backed his
program to deport and do to death
the undesirable elements" as Macha-
do calls the trade union workers.
Along with this policy Of blood and
iron against the unions has gone some
welfare work" for the non-union
workers. Various housing and recrea-
tional facilities have been provided
for the enslaved workers much as in
India or in Illinois. The Hershey Choc-
olate Co., controlling extensive sugar
centrals and railroads have even at
tempted to introduce the company
union" among their employees. Like
Rockefeller and other American prac-
titioners of "Employe representation"
they know how to combine the militia
and cold steel with housing programs
and personnel management.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
The French Ambassador Walls

very considerable sum of money, four
billion dollars in fact.
This was most embarrassing, as the
state department not anticipating any
such problem, had arranged for an
official dinner at which both the am
bassador and the president were to
be present. This problem was finally
solved by keeping the dinner secret.
Under the social usages that operate
in this democratic" capital, the pre-
sident may not break bread, or even
meet for that matter, the represent
tative of foreign nation until he
has been formally introduced to him.
NJ Claudels Fluctuations" were
returned to him with the blunt de-
mand that he revise his remarks so
that they said something about
French obligations to the United
States. This he could have done no
doubt without extended delay; but he
personally could not proceed until he
had been authorized by the French
government.
AAA AuHAllS OGUl.
This apparently is what caused the
delay. 1t was some days before M.
Claudel submitted his improved"
statement. As made public when he
was finally presented" it had this
to say concerning the debt:
II am glad that l am entering up
on the duties of my new post at the
moment when France has given fresh
evidence of her firm intention to dis
charge her Indebtedness and meet her
just obligations.
Cesar, Likewise.
The last instance of a diplomatic
officer being kept waiting with his
hat in hand was when Alexandres
Cesar, minister of the present Mar
ine-maintained Diaz government in
Nicaragua came to Washington
around the first of the year. He pro-
posed urging upon Coolidge the pro-
position that the United States es-
tablish permanent protectorate over
Nicaragua, or in other words acknow-
Lodging as fact what it has been
doing for many years. Congress was
then in session and several senator's.
particularly Borah were eagerly
scanning the horizon for sometime
to hop the administration for in its
Central-American dealings.
The state department and Coolidge
got cold feet and ordered Cesar to
prepare another speech. This he did.
but it took some time. In his case
the state department explained that
High Hat, ]. Butler Wright. the
official accompanied of foreign repre-
sentatives when they present them
selves, was out of the city. In M.
Claudel's case the official abb SER
iously put out by the state depart
ment was that the White House cal
endar was filled with other engage
ments.
TO which one member of the French
embassy is said to have replied:
mo doubt with the official spokes-
man."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
(By A staff Correspondentl


Official and diplomatic circles are
relating In confidence-with much
pleasure-the story of the unusual
delay Of the formal presentation cere-
monies Of the new French ambassa-
dor, M. Paul Claudel.
The episode Is particularly anus
ing in view Of the effusion of bull
and blah that was expressed by the
Coolidge-Kellogg administration con-
corning M. Claudel. He was ac-
claimed as a prodigy, a poet and a
diplomat.
Cash Also Counts.
Now it develops that while he may
be both, nevertheless the dollar too
must be served. And therein is the
story.
Usually a foreign diplomatic Of
flcer, particularly one representing
first class power such as France,
upon taking up his post in Washing
ton, is received by the president with
in a week. Only rarely is the func-
ton delayed ten days. To extend the
time longer is literally an affront,
and can be excused only on the
ground Of illness.
But That Debt.
But in NJ. Claudel's case. it was not
illness, either on his part or Mr.. Cool
idge's. The trouble was that M. Clau-
del had forgotten" to include in his
"felicitation address" a statement
about Frances willingness to nav her
war debt to the United States. And
so because the statement he was to
make did not contain the desired COM
ment, M. Claudel was kept waiting at
the gate until he came across.
Deliberate SpontaneIty.
Presentation ceremonies are very
carefully arranged affairs. The am
bassador upon instructions-very ex-
plicit ones-from his government,
prepares statement which he reads
to the president. The president then
replies from an qually we'll prepared
statement. The ambassadors state
ment naturally is first submitted to
the state department for perusal and
approval. When both are satisfac-
tory they are then released to the
press, with due caution that the "feli-
citations" were most enthusiastically
presented and heartily reciprocated.
The capitalistic press of both ma
lions then solemnly write long ac-
counts of the ceremony-to which re-
porters are not admitted-and later
follow with wordy editorials laudinp
the occasion as another example Of
the peace and traditional fellowship
between these two great nations"
S4,OOO,OOO,OOO
And thus it was that when M. Clam
del came to Washington almost three
weeks ago, he Immediately prepared
ms statement and sent it to the state
department. There it was promptlv
discovered that he had somehow or
other overlooked the fact that his
nation owed the United States q.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Great Shipping Center

Leningrad is fast becoming one of the worlds great
shipping centers 1t is the terminal Of many vital inland
and railroads Internal waterways connect
it with the Volga provinces and the Caspian Sea, while
railways connect it with the central provinces of Soviet
Russia proper and with Siberia.
Goods brought from all parts of the interior to
Leningrad for shipment to all parts of the world The
principal export cargoes at present timber grain,
butter and eggs the chief import cargoes machinery
textiles and paper (newsprint).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Eunuch Vainly Waits
For Return Of Emir

OLD BoKHARA, U. S. S. R.
Waiting for the return of his former
master, an emir who once ruled over
100000 natives here, an old
eunuch is standing guard over the
old harem quarters hoping for his
return.
For 80 years the eunuch worked
in the harem of his royal master and
he refuses to leave the spot which he
considers sacred.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Growth of Industry

The total value of the gross output of the large scale
State industries for December 1926, amounted to 1884,
100000 rbes (37s 200000) increase Of 26 per cent
the output Of the preceding month"; and 26 per cent
the output of December 1925
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Who Backs Murder of Cuban
Workers Under MachadO?
By ROBERT DUNN, Federated Press).

Obert Dunn the author Eorelsn
on the subject published by Viking Press New York;
Who the regime
Cuba? Between
been killed the last
since the railroad strike crushed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Moscow Has Two Million

The urban population of Russia is placed at 25,30o000
according to the latest urban census of the U.SS.R.
The population of the largest cities Moscow 2018
0O0 Leningrad 1611 OOO Kiev, 1OOO Balu, 433OOO;
Odessa, Ill 900; Kharkov, 40s00O
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
NOTES FROM The SOVIET UNION
s33. SOC. coo For Housing

MOSCOW, March 20.-Seventy-seven million roubles
will be expended this year for building workers houses
in Moscow and Moscow province.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
1O.5OO.OOO In Schools

Ten and half million men, and children attended
educational establishments in Soviet Russia in 1885,
This represents one and half million increase the
attendance for 1924-5.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
s.27s.OOO Trade Unionists

Reports presented at the Seventh General Congress
of Trade Unions of the Soviet Union indicate that trade
union membership reached the total of 927S 900
members July /, 1926
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Gale Sweeps Channel.

LONDON, April 3.--The English
Channel is being swept by a heavy
gale today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-04
Best European Radio

The most effective radio station in Europe has just
been put into operation in Moscow with length
Of 1850 meters All the technical apparatus of the sta
ton made in Soviet factories.