The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-05
CEMENT By FEoPoK
Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashlegh
An Rights Reserved-lnternatioraI Publishers NJ r.
THE PARTY CLEANSING.

MEKHovA Serge the Factory
M because he had been specially attached to and
Poa because she had been unable to attend the cleansing IN her own
group because of illness.
Group meeting opened large hall of the club large
people present Nonmemb of the Communist Party
they filled The Com
munss two front and the nonPay workers filled the
of the hail. The around the reflected the crowd
infinite that appeared that there thousands OF
people present Actually there hundred and thirty Geb
the table front of the stage chandelier of fifty electric
flashed parked with its crystal pendants and chains
members of the Special Commission Both
military coats One had prominent chekbon and
grey impossible to know whether he smiling or in
Bosom He constantly taking between three fingers and pulling
When he down he shriveed into the smallest possible
When he raised his they disappeared under the
lids When he Intercepted Communist summoned before him. he did
not look him. but spoke though he were
He did look at the Party card belonging to the questioned
which he would pressing between his thin stiff fingers
,u.e. ,..., !, .,...,.. ,.,;,, :, ~
"He's hard he He'll grind hell He's going to
take all right And the otherdd him? He
purrs like tger!"
And the gaun Grenada Serge
whether he who spoke the beside him. Again he heard
a whisper behind.
you that like bloody ventrloqus skin US
like expert"
The whisperer choked laughter
of leaped up
hare, stretching out his towards the bony
Again behind that sobbng laugh could
not resist shouting:
"Blow your Gromada yourself you
running or whether he was just
: whstling sniff.
hall rocked Serge screehng laugh
split
laughter
lows The pmpes of the first member of the
ing and down with merrment Gb struck the bell raised his
"Order Comrades! Be serious This serious business Com.
THE gunt Commission still deaf and immovabe
He just pulled his beard with three fingers with kind of milking
motion
"Comrade Gromada-your autobiography"
"This autobiography, working proletarian,
working dog since little child need
self how consumption has got me by the chest and and
"Ah he's going it! He's showing his teeth, the btch"
"When did you the Party?" 80
Under the new Soviet regime--making year. asM
What apprentice becomes before his tme' Haven't
been apprentice
through the.ml and so and SO forth. ;"
1--we asked you why you entered the Party so late?"
Everybody went off their heads in that time"
Were with the Red-Greens?"
Comrde actually mountains what
you might call but went up the mountains daily and
forth wasn't 1 beyond the mountain But didn't make
gang of us with Dasha, putting the screws on them
home and wait for good weather, eh?"
CRoMADA peril questions of bony ques-
tons bstled with spite and facts. This getting
all round him with his obstinate questions and word there
lay hidden serpent which singing him painfully but nbly
When Grenada felt this he suddenly became still
his Perhaps the thin noticed
d. He scrubbed something with pencil and waved him
may 60 Does anyone want to say anything regarding Com
Grenada? Oh, Gromadas trump. He'll give anyone forty
points and win"
"Next-Conrade Savchuk"
The stirred, whispered and began to laugh.
Savchuk long linen blouse without hairy
torn trousers and barefooed walked jostng ebowg
people they looked wondngy him by the
shirt
"Heh damned cooper! Be careful thee!"
Savchuk stood before
began to nod his wooly head.
"Eh you, Cleanser trouble me about nv life
biography"
Why? 1t is necessary; all examinations
Don't poke into rotten life You've in IL.
ing at that because the coope workshop at the factory
heap But If Gleb-this bastard hew
he's worth the will begin hum, get
barrels"
you have written here that
lately and that you'll land else Whose
and about whom speaking?"
EVCHUKS face swollen and the brow neck
thick like twisted cords He and
his eyes were filled with laughter and
They hoping that Savchuk would explode all his
force and that there would be
how Savhuk burst out with words like
thinking of consequences hoarse laugh rolled his did
not rise to his hairy face The rush blood to his