The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-27
MAY DAY DAWNS In RED CAPITAL
OF SOVIET UNION
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.
Especial to The DAILY WORKER)

Then entering the city, the seat of power of the wor
social revolution, the growing sprnkling of scare
gradually becomes veritabe sea of crmson-the revo
lutionaIy crimson of International May Day. No build
ing anywhere, large small without its revoutonar.
banner.
Ten o'clock last night we left Ozery textile center
on the southern brink of Moscow Province
/ By midnight we had reached Kolomna, where we haC
to change trains, Ozery being branch line. since
we had left Kolomna in the afternoon the railroad
stations had been decorated with Red Flags and mas
of evergreens.
The station was crowded. Tomorrow would be MAY
Day. No one cared to Sleep Everyone sat about
drinking tea, discussing Comrade Gerish and joined
The express came thru for ODESSA and then our ex
press for Moscow arrived from the opposite direction
20 o'clock to the second It nearly five ocIocI
and breaking daylight train to a stop il
the Kasan Station in Kalantchevskaya Place Moscow
Here the trains came in from Kasan and the Urals
On the opposite side of the square stands the OCTOBER
Station, formerly the Nicholas Station Once named
for car, it recalls the October (Our time, Nov
l. 1917 Revolution. It's trains depart for Leningrad
Reval and Hesngfors what is said to be the best
railroad in the Soviet Union.
In the square is the Yaroslav Station next tc
the October Station from which trains depart fol
Yaroslav and Archangel in North Russia.
Thus toward three points Of the compass trains from
this square depart Over the entrance each station
is huge emblem of the Soviet Union with a con
spicuous hammer and sickle. But on this day they
also brilliant with crimson bunting and banners
and in the square itself there was a huge Tribune
speaking PLATFORM, also draped In red.
A Gala Day.
The streets cars not running today. So we de.
cided to walk to hotel Crossing the square anC
going up Myasntskaya Street, we came face to face
with huge building beautifully decorated It was the
General Post Office. The largest banner carried the
slogan Long Live the First of May"
Others carried the slogans follows: Long Live
the Communist lnternatonal-The Leader of the World
Revolution" The Military Strength Of the Union Oh
Soviet Socialist Republics Is the Guarantee For Our
Successful Socialist Construction" eve will Strength
the Union of Soviet Socialist Repubcs-the Base
of the World Proletarian Revolutionw There were
others But this will to give of satisfac
ton to workers in America who know the General Post
Office Buildings (The Federal Buldings) in the United
States that house the federal courts the scenes of
the most vicious prosecutions of revolutionary workers
That satisfaction came to
From this point on building after building We'd with
each other in the beauty of the decorations Buss
Lenin, some small, but many very large, were seen
everywhere in the windows. Others contained pictures
of the various Soviet Leaders, Ryckof Bucharin Stain
Kalinin and others
Djerzhinsky Square
Especially beautiful the buildings housing the
Moscow Union of Consumers Societies and the Peoples
Commssariat for Transportation that passed. Also
the Custom House. Many places had huge electric
decorations that would be illuminated at night
Then into Djerzhinsky Square, formerly the
Lubyanka Square, opposite the Vladimir Gate in the
Ktai Gorod WALL In the center of the Square, named
after of the most courageous fighters of the Rus
sian Bolshevk Revolution is beautiful fountain the
work of Vital 1885,. But today it is not gushing
water. Today it has sprouted huge cluster of beaut
full Red Flags. On the northern side of the square
stands the gorgeousy decorated building occupied by
the United States Political Department (The G. P w.
formerly the "Cheka" headed by Djerzhinsky while he
alive
Cavalry and infantry detachments of the "G. P. u
come swinging around the The horses are
especially spirited, early in the morning They are
off to every section of the city, to direct the task OF
maintaining order thruou this day, when hundreds Of
Jc ha in Tho ef7a
From here a street called the Bolshaya Lubyanka
leads northward At the of the Kusnetzky Most
rises the huge building of the Peoples Commissariat
for Foreign Affairs Narkominde) of the Soviet Union
Between the two wings of this construction stands
monument (execued in 1924 by the sculptor Katz) to
the memory of VorovsSy the ambassador of the Soviet
Union who assassinated in Lausanne, Switzerland
in 1928 In front of this building garden has replaced
the church which demolished in 1924 Today also
everywhere, May Day flags bunting decorations of all
kinds
Monument to Karl Marx
Then into Sverdlov Square, formerly
Tearanaya of the handsomest and largest squares
of Moscow. In portraits of the revolutionary
leaders reproduced in grass mosaic elevated
flower bed in front of the Bolsho Theater, gaiy
decorated with red flags and streamers In the south
half of the square find Vtals Fountain erected
in 1885, in front of which, in the middle of the square
lies the foundation stone of monument to Karl Marx
made of Finnish granite
Then find ourselves in the Tverskya perhaps the
velest street in Moscow. This thorofare starts from
Revolution Square where, during the February revou
on 1917 the troops sent against the population tool
sides with them and thereby ensured the victory of the
revolution in Moscow On the facade of the Second
House of Moscow Soviets Formerly the Town Duma)
there is relief showing Revolutionary, sweeping
ward, with Rosa Luxemberg's saying: "The Revolution
is storm which blows away anything that stands in
it's way"
Scene of Battle.
Prominent again, in May Day attire is the build
ing of the Soviet of the Town and Government
of Moscow in Soviet Square, formerly SkobeeN
Square Until the February Revolution this build