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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10
Wise Cracks

form with the winning exhibit,
ali eyes were fixed on the large
red nose he displayed. Only years
of patient cultivation could have
produced an object Of such briliF
ance.s'
Not Red Enough
"Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter p
full of color. =
Yes; but do you think It's rean
enough7.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-10

NTa'trimoniaT Martyrs

You wouldn't call q patrolma1E
shoes = pair of police dogs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
From The design t0 re JNne Ne0 Masses 6y Hugo Gert
REBIRTHOF NEW MASSES
Gold Now Editor; June Issue Is Lively

than nominal connection with the
American workingclass. Another:
that the liberals have finally been
tossed over the wall into the waiting
arms of Oswald Garrison Willard and
Herbert Croly. Still another: that in
the course of time the Neao Masses
may lose a few of it's classy wise
cracks and acquire something else.
The most strategic reform insti-
tuted by the new editor has been the
cutting of the price from 25 to Is
cents. 1t makes world of difference.
That dime is healthy shove towards
the only reading public that matters
the workingclass.
The new New Masses is still a
hybrid. Building upon ruins is a
tough job. I move that a society be
formed for the suppression of Alfred
Kreymborg. And Ezra Pounds con-
tribution to Leninism is idiotic. SEN
fences contradict each other, ideas
with specific gravity below zero
cape in midair. Pound should stick
TO his cantos.
But there are other things that
offer hope and point way "An eff
fort will be made to enlist the great
submerged unpublished voices of
America" says an editorial note.
Mike Gold makes good this promise
in the first number under his direc-
ton. There is an entire page of the
first published poems of Martin Rus
SAX, young Patterson silk weaver.
There is the remarkable Poorhouse
Anthology by an inmate of one of
these ornaments of capitalist civiliza-
ton. And then the Letters from
America, from workers all over the
country-"a sublimated Workers
Correspondence"
Dudley Nichols description of ami
mal-killing in Chicago stockyard
is superb. Perhaps too well done.
The phrases too glittering, their beau
ty too hard and cruel.
And best of all Mike Colds chap.
ter from his book of East Side mem
oirs, jews Without Money. Work
such as this is in the direction of
what may some day be American pro
letarian literature.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02

The members of the association
have enriched Soviet literature with
series of artistic works on modern
life, including The Rout, by Fadeyev;
Calm Don, by Sholhov; At the Open
Hearth Furnaces, by Shvedov; Hoao
the Steel Was Tempered, by Busy
gum; Nathalie Taprova, by Semenov
and others.
The congress decided to reorganize
the association into, an All-Union
Federation of Associations of Prole-
Farians Of RSFSR, Ukraine, White
aussia, Transcaucasus, Uzbekistan
ard Turkeministan.
This federation has been Joined al
SO by the writer's association, "The
Forge" which had in its ranks
number of the best-known writer's,
such as Gladkov, Nikoforov, Liashko
and others.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
LIBERATING LITERATURE
Revolutionary Writers Meet in Mosco,v
Reviewed by ROBERT W. DUNN.

THE rallying of all forces of
proletarian literature, struggle
against the scornful attitude towards
the old cultural inheritance and to-
wards masters of the artistic word,
development of MARKHAM criticism,
development of literature which by
its form must be national, by it's sub
stance proletarian-these were the
main tasks outlined by representa-
tives of 80 nationalities attending the
first congress Of the ALL Union AS
ISOLATION of Proletarian Writers
which has just closed in Moscow.
Within the past two years the or
ganization, which has 1890 members,
has grown into large literary and
public organization welding consider
able influence not only in literature
but also in cinematography and the
theatre.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02

HENRY REICH, Jr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02

THE new editor of the New Masses
: is Michael Gold. This is likely to
mean certain things. One of them:
that the Neao Masses will have more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
A Visit to w. K.
Billings, Victim
of the Frame Mb
By JAMES P. CANNON.

VISITING Folsom Prison IS not IA
cilitated or encouraged. Few go.
I left the stage and walked towards
the main gate with a depressing feel
ing of loneliness.
1 was given a seat in the warden's
office to wait for Billings-there APP
peared to be no special visiting room
The warden's secretary went out OF
his way to make me comfortable.
Made a little conversation about the
weather Offered me a copy Of the
Saturday Evening Post or perhaps it
was Libertv-I didn't read it.
The warden returned soon. Billings
was with him. A rather slight man,
somewhat less than medium height.
Reddish hair and sandy complexion,
A friendly boyish countenance with
lines carved in it which seemed
strangely out of place. had never
met him before, but I am sure ] know
him now. His characteH is all writ
ten in his face and manner and his
ready, engaging smile. A warm per-
sonabIe fellow, without guile or subj
letv. The kind that mixes well and
makes friends easily. He is thirty
five years old now. There are lines
in his face that usually come only to
later years, but his manner and APP
pearance on the whole are those of a
yoanger man. He was only twenty
three when he was caught with Tom
Mooney in the frame-up trap and he
has been in prison the whole interven-
ing twelve years-all his years of
flush young manhood and ripening
maturity. In many ways he sug-
gested a youth of twenty-three, as
though the characteristics which be-
longed to him at that age when he
was first imprisoned had frozen in
him and become a permanent part of
his personality.
In the June issue OF the
Labor Defender"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
Muller and HIS
Choral Society
IN the Factory
By EDWIN ROLFE.

EAR back in a corner of the cutting
room, near the window through
which the light of the sun shines in
the afternoon, is the table at which
Muller works. The silk notes dance
like COLLINS on the fiddle of Sara
safe, in the dazzling sun. Through the
window, the bottom of which Muller
raises about a half inch every day,
the wind steals and plays with the
silk stretched on the table, raising the
edges of it in tiny ripple that ira
verses the length of the cloth. And
Muller goes about his work, some
times whistling to himself, singing
old German lieder, sharpening the
knife he holds in his pudgy fingers,
cutting the silk with deft long-ac-
customed strokes. Does the knife
sometimes slip and cut Muller's hand !?
Does the wind sometimes penetrate
his body sending chills through his
frame? Muller does not mind. The
bell starts his cutting in the morning.
The bell ends his cutting at evening.
So has it been for the last thirty
years; so, Muller thinks, will it be
till he dies.
Muller has a terrible cough. 1t is
dry and convulsive, and the sound of
it is like the twang of a bow string
after the arrow has leapt into the
air. Muller is a quiet man. Before
Ted, the student, came, he was never
known to speak to anyone, in spite
Of the fact that the taboo on CONVEX
sation was not applied to those in
the cutting room.) Only now and
then at intervals of amazing length,
can one hear Ted speak to Muller
and Muller answer.
Ted: you're always singing, John.
Why don't you organize choral So
ciety in the factory?"
Muller: Choral society, hell! l
tell va, Ted, the best thing for me
to organize now is an emergency fund
to defray travelling expenses to Den
yer, Colorado. There's nothing else
left for me in life. All l hope for is
to see Denver before / die. Yep, that's
the best place for people like me to
die in"
Muller: MAY this lousy country
burn to the ground together with the
men who first put me into the cut
ting room! Kid, take my advice. Get
out of this sinking factory as soon
as you can if you ever want to enjoy
anything at all in life. l know, kid.
Thus does Muller talk when he
talks. The rest of the time he works,
counting the strokes of the knife,
counting the pieces of cloth, counting
the breaths of air that he takes,
counting the minutes, the long pound
ing minutes of his life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
WORKERS PROTECTED
IN THE SOVIET UNION

times as much protection as other
countries" And by other countries
DIR. Price means the more progressive
European countries. The United
States is the most backward "civil-
lied" country in the world in its So
cial insurance and labor legislation.
The Soviet Union is easily the most
advanced.
The worsted workers of Passaic,
where women work nights at the spin
ming frames, might be interested in
this statement on page IA: "As a
rule, women are prohibited from
working during the night between 10
p. m. and a. m. No women un-
der eighteen years Of age, or preg-
nant or nursing women are permitted
to work at night under any circum-
stances"
What is the effect of reading such
an adequate and unbiased book as
this? DR.. Alice Hamilton of Har-
ward University states it in her in
PRODUCTION to the volume: Through
his sober, critical though sympathetic
language, we gain the impression not
of Paradise of Workers but of
country that is definitely committed
to st. Paul's principal, IF man will
not work, neither shall he eat and
to the principle that the worker has
right to health and the pursuit of
happiness"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
NEW MASSES. June, 1928. 5 .15.
Reviewed by A. B. MAGIL.


THE Ne4o Masses died in April and
: has been reborn in June-a lusty
infant. The fact that few people real
lied that the New Masses had ceased
to exist shows how feeble it's voice
had become during its declining days.
Starting a little over two years
ago with loud fanfare and an enthu-
siastic crowd of proletarian intellec-
tuals-ex-Masses and LiberGtor. read
ers-ready to push from behind, the
Neto Masses soon began hitting the
rocks. Too much water had flown
under the political bridge. Ten years
ago, even five years ago, the orienta-
ton of the liberals was towards the
revolutionary camp. But class distinc-
tions have become sharper. The at
tempt to run the Ne1O Masses as a
coalition between liberals and revolu-
tionists, with the revolutionists pull
ling the confused and spluttering
liberals desperately to the left, ended
in disaster. A compromise was eff
IScLeu WHICH was LII realty re-
ductio ad absurdum Egmont Arens,
who was not fervently on either side
neither fish nor fowl-became sole
editor. And to prove that he was
redder than any of the Reds, Arens
went in heavily for Hoch-Politik. And
he began to sway unsteadily between
open counter-revolution dorothy
Wong ON the Chinese Revolution) to
concealed conference.-the (the neo-
revisionism of Max Eastman). Re-
suit: worse disaster and complete
arrangement of the Ne1O Masses
from it's only real reading public
"the intellectual vanguard of the
workingclass."
Personally, was praying fervent-
ly during those last few months that
the thing would die and would stay
dead.
1t died. 1t didn't stay dead.
THE new editor of the NeaO Masses
> is Michael Gold. This is likely to
mean certain things. One of them:
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
MaRxist Philosophy
of History
tTIPoN the different forms of prop

tTTPON the different forms of prop
y erty, upon the social conditions
of eristence, as foundation, there IS
built a super-structare Of Diversified
and characteristic sentiments, illus
ions, habits of thought, and outIooks
on life in general. The class as a
uohoIe creates and shapes them ont Of
ats material foundations, and out Of
the corresponding social relationships.
The individual in lUhon1 they arise
through tradition and education, may
fa7.cg them to be the t77te deternpir-
ants, the real origin, Of his activities.
(Marx, eighteenth Br1tntaire")
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
Tires de Lmre

The high power motors parr pleasantly
and the pretty ladies pur sa0eety
in their luxurious imousines,
driven by Rveried chauffews.
The linaousines glide smoothly
the aOel-paUed dUcnue
that not the slightest unevenness is felt
By the pretty ladies seated oithn.
The Hnousines tires
made from rubber grown the plantations
Of South America and East Afaico,
gathered By a0orkers than SLAVES
(some DID, handles ones
from the days Of Leopold of Belgatm)
toiling IN the tqopic heat
for bare Subsistence,
drUen By the aohip,
stall tortured and hung up.
And the Rubber tires
of the luxurious hnaousines
seem TO be made of the harassed flesh of these toers
and the pretty ladies seated in the tuoatsines
puar sweetly and placdly
and the orchids
in the glass vases
scarcely trenbLe. HENRY REICH Jr.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02

girls like Vera. But there are per-
haps only handful who are so de-
termined and of such character as
she. The others are pale faced young
girls from the sewing rooms of the
towns or red checked girls from the
country who We're arrested and put
into prison after having taken only
the first few steps on the path of the
struggle. For these girls the bond
which holds them together is repre-
scented by the tales of the leaders Of
the working class, and they are never
tired of listening to them.
dearest friends" they write. awe
do not know you well, but little, and
that gives us great pleasure. We
have even seen the photos of some of
you. In our priso4- came somehow an
American magazine, and in this we
found the photos of the young poets
Utkin, Sharov and Bezymensky, and
then our pleasure knew no bounds.
Many many hearty greetings and
kisses for the young fighting and
creative guard of our movement. We
wish you success in your work. Go
on, be strong and courageous"
Do these girls lose their own cour-
age? No, they do not. Vera writes
Of her companions as follows:
"If you knew with what impatience
we 1873 are all awaiting our trial! We
shall not stand our trial as repentant
sheep. We shall not beg for mercy,
not beg for release, but come with
pride, our eyes flashing, our heads
proudly borne and we shall declare
that not all the fortunes of the De-
'ensive Polish secret police) and not
all the years in prison can brighten
us or turn US away from the struggle
in whose victory for US we firmly be-
lieve.
Gust think how happy l must be.
| think of the coming trial as of some
day of great holiday. 1t will be
day Of triumph for US although we
shall receive many years of imprison-
ment. But what does their sentence
matter to me! What power have they
over us? The day is not far off when
we shall pass sentence upon them.
And our sentence will be harder than
years of Imprisonment which come to
an end"
They are wonderful words. Words
Of revolutionary, words of real
Bolshevik! Think of those words this
evening when the dusk falls and the
stars begin to show silver in the eve
ming sky, then these young girls sing
their revolutionary songs. Let us
think of them in that moment when
the hateful Polish reaction passes
triumphant sentence upon Vera and
the other 1872 revolutionaries!
We shall not be passive witnesses
Of this process. We shall read the
sentences in the newspapers with
hard lips. 1t will give US greater
strength. We shall swing the ham
mer with still greater energy in the
building up of the future. We shall
carry on the struggle with still great
ar intensity not only in Poland but
in the whole of the capitalist world
(To be co'atimued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-02
mTHEoRY becomes the greatest force

NTHEORY becomes the greatest force
in the labor movement If is IN
dissoIubIy bound up aoith revolution
oYy practice, for 1t alone can giUe to
the movement confidence, guidance,
understanding of the inner relations
bet1Ueen events; 1t alone can help to
make clear the process and direction
of class movements IN the present and
near future. Lenin himself has mani
times said that 'without reUoJutlo1t-
arr theory, there can be no reUoLutioa-
aY,y increment He understood better
than anyone else the e1tren1e impor-
lance of theory"
(Staljn, "The Theory and Practice
of Leni9Sism. ,
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-14
BY JAMES p. KIRBY
NEA Service Writer

CHICAGO, Sept. IA What is
Chicago doing to end the racketeers'
reign of terror and their domination
Of legitimate business?
Primary day, April 10, which
marked the downfall of the Grove
Thompson political machine, also
seems to mark the limit of endur-
ance of the exasperated citizenry of
Chicago at these conditions
This election demonstrated con-
clusively what had been generally
accepted as fact, but which had
heretofore lacked specific illustra-
ton, namely: the alliance between
politics and crime with the resultant
Immunity from apprehension and
prosecution of notorious gangsters.
Just before the election, the
homes of United States Senator
Charles Deneen, leading the fight
against the Grove Thompson ma
chine, and of Judge John A. Swan
son, Democratic candidate for
States attorney, were bombed.
Then followed the killing of joe
opposite and a Denen follower. On
election day there were kidnapings,
ballot box stealingS and numerous
other vote frauds.
Suddenly public opinion was cleo
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-14
: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

his son, Judge Emmanuel Eller of
the Criminal Court.
The police department, under
Michael Hughes, refused to make
arrests, claiming that to be duty Of
the sheriff.
Loesch and Stansbury then ap-
pealed to Chief Justice Harry Olson
of the municipal court. who dis
covered authority buried in ancient
statutes to appoint special court
constables.
John Siege, former police cap
tain, whom the Thompson admin
istration had dismissed from the
force after twenty-six years, on a
technicality, was brought back from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to serve the
indictments.
Then things began to happen.
The chicago Tribune secured
judgment against Mayor Thompson
and several of his political allies,
for the repayment of 100000 in
city funds the Thompson regime
had spent in spoils.
Chief of Police Hughes resigned.
Capt. William Russell, who had
never stood in high favor with May
or Thompson, was appointed chief
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-14

trif1ed with the announcement that
group representing the Chicago
Bar Association, the Chicago crime
commission, the Association of Com
merce and other civic organizations,
had petitioned Judge William v.
Brothers Of the Criminal Court for
the appointment of a special grand
jury to investigate the primary day
occurrences and racketeering in
general.
The petition was granted. Attor-
ney General Oscar Carlstrom at
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Springfield appointed special assist
ant attorneys general-all men OF
known integrity-to handle the in
vestigation.
Public Opinion Aroused
Frank j. Loesch, corporation law
yer, counsel for the Pennsylvania
Railroad and numerous other cor
porations, and more important,
president Of the Chicago crime COM
mission, was named to head the in
vestigation.
AS his first assistant is David D.
Stansbury, former U. S. district at
torney at Chicago.
But with the appointment of the
special grand jury and a staff of
special prosecutors, the investiga-
ton was checkmated by the activ-
tiles of the still powerful Grove
Thompson machine.
The appeal to the Grove Thomp-
son controlled county commissioners
for an appropriation of $150,O0O to
carry on the investigation was
fatty denied.
Public opinion, however, was
aroused, and an appeal to the gen.
eral public by the crime commits
sion and other civic organizations
to provide funds through popular
subscription resulted in the SUBJ
scription of $154,000 in twenty-four
hours.
Jury Meets Secretly
Meeting secretly behind closed
doors the special grand jury be-
gan voting indictments.
Already there have been approx
imately sixty such indictments in
volving the principals in primary
election crimes, and including Nor
ris Eller, Grove Thompson, leader
of the bloody Twentieth ward, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-14

of police, under strong pressure
brought to bear on Thompson.
John Siege became deputy police
chief and commissioner of detec-
tives.
The first grand jury has COM
pleted its work and another is to
follow. 1t appears that q cleanup
in Chicago has started at last.
Next: The downfall Of big Bill,
the Builder"
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IDENTIFY MARION BANDIT
Man Wounded at Springfield, ILL.,
Identified in State HoIdup.

Earl Redman, wounded in a hold
up attempt at Springfield, Ill, re-
Gently, has been identified by Mar
ion, Ind, persons as one Of the ban
dts who staged the $4,000 Roessler
jewelry store holdup at Marion a
year ago, M. L. Fruits, head Of the
Pinkerton Detective Agency here,
announced today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-14
CHICAGO PUBLIC
GIVES $154,OOO
TO FIGHT GANGS
Indict 60 in First Drive
After Politicians Refuse
( Funds for Qiuz.

This is the fourth of series Of articles
on racketeering, the new "big business"
by James P, Kirby, authority on
Times and NEA Service.
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-05-18
Player on Bagpipes
Stir Canadian CITY

When William Brand, twenty-five.
year-old Highlander in Sandwich Ont,
pours forth his soul In the shrill
tones Of bagpipes, neighbors plug their
ears and call the police.
For months he had been practicing
In his bedroom. But Scotsman, to
he finished artist on the bagpipes.
must march as he plays, and when
William decided to tramp around his
back yard to the tune of the pipes
that was worse.
Sandwich police investigated and
reported that Brand, with typical
Scottish caution. did not put foot,
nor half a foot, outside his own lot.
But Sandwich has a curfew law. A!
. the town bell sounds the knel of OBJ
jectionable sounds. The neighbors
watched the clock. To their dismay
they discovered that at $3.50 each night
the bagpipes ceased.