The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-19
THE FIRST TRUCK.

TRUCK.
THE wheels powerhouse humming pokes
beating slopes and angles
Like cobweb threads, the cables
Communists headed by the bond Lukava Engineer Keis
looking silent admiration at the electric flight Wheels
and listening to the resurreeted music machinery
An avalanche of people running down the valley
the bouders through gue boiling
heaving roaring with its thousands of voices It seemed
muscular COMMISSIONS spasmodcay like the commissions the
gigantic centipede.
highest point of the caene down to the bottom where
lay pyramids of stones the human divided parts
between which four taut cables stretched
ming strange tunes.
And cleavng torrents down. was moving
tortoise cnging to the cables by pulys which
"Hurra-a-a -ah! Hurra-a-a-ah!"
You would not have thought that this was the of crowd
mountain.
THE detachment of armed workers descending from the
summit the ragged Red soldiers
vgant were leading the armed workers
Behind them the body of comrade being carried rifles
their rifles Their faces bore tha rae Of nt emotion J @
covered with dust and They laid the body of
of the crowd Pressing against dscordanty
crowd rushed to the detachment surrounding closely Laughing
and yelling they Selling Gleb
their midst Them with and legs flying he flung into
the air like dummy falling back into the thick Again seized
amid laughter and they
and again and then again.
Another grief gath
cred round the impossible to this boodcotted
gasped rifle and thrust himself into the
Amidst the tumut of the crowd, girls of Young
munst League were bandagng the wounded.
you've been sweating Comrades! pretty! WE'LL
we've let them have it! They've dug their
"Ho, no, workers! Well them
H0 sru Ta t sn01g wit" Rnjo Joy tbon.,nd
send them the right about! brothers.
without Let's sing the nenational We them then! The
Bring the whole Women Section here embrace them ALL"
MORE people approaching cheering And again Gleb
" Enthusiastically tossed up in the air. Then they crowded round the
corpse murmurng with grief
Mekhova ebowng through crowd shouting
the time: Comrades! Comrades!
Her face was all eyes,
Engineer approached Geb working nervouy with
his usual gravity he silently pressed his hand.
looked him with wet which joy
But she n of the crowd
And the most important thing of a-he
flight night the eyes of
the factory opened like electric and the dead bulbs
factory trembled aready already its hidden
ing its underground depths and its windows looked yearg
like human The had awakened the
died in wilderness and mdew The rpsway crying out with its
the oro of the air will fly down the docks and back their
heights deourng the chalk in the quarres The
this will be finished '~N 's''NN''S
machines waving crying
There changing somewhere the wheels stirred
CLEB steps engines large flat truck COW
cred with dust and smelling of decay stood
the platform
Pa our Comrades body in the truck He shall be carried
down with honor Let everybody seel who heree
right to the end"
Many hands raised the body Silently
down the steps and the
Comrades! My lads! His pick! And his them by
him, Comrades!"
Geb stood the abumnts between the blue obesk
raised his a great
"Iet her down now! All together! Ready"
And to the of the wheels, the truck slopA
riding like bird, easily and arily.
Again Gleb raised his high.
Comrades, listen! A sacrifice labor
strength. No sobs The victory of
factory We have We shall make
and machinery The building the Workers Republic
Ourselves with brains and bodies. The
of the strugge-The winning
Let it Brothers."
And he began to sing waving his Then the
louder The
the air eddied
quake.
And the truck floated and the
the SCATTERING thunder
lTO BE CONTiNUED)