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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
AZURE. CITIES AsToRY Of LIFE IN the ussR
FROM "AZURE CITIES" "ss %t P%a@ By ALEXEY IOSTOY
International Publishers.
Copyright, 1929

the boulevard above the cliff, and
looked at what he had done. Flames
were rising in several other parts of
the town now. The wooden roofs,
the fences, lonely trees, starlings'
nests, were flooded with wild light.
The flames danced over the whole
market place. The booths and the
tents moved in the fire as though
they were living things, then curled
up and fell. The beams CLEANED like
red Goals through the roof of the
Renaissance"
Women with bundles, and crying
children ran over the boulevard. No
one paid any attention to Buzhen-
inov. A woman shrieked in sick
ening voice, and fell to the earth.
A bearded man in underwear ran
by, his hands raised. Some one was
carried by and laid down under a
tree. All this was taking place be-
fore the eyes of Vassili Alexeievich,
as if it were not real, as if it were
a fragment of his imagination, a
series of colored pictures in the
movies. There is no doubt that his
mind was clouded in those minutes
The town was burning in whole
sections. The boulevard became emp
ty-it was impossible to remain
there because of the great heat
But Buzheninov stood on bench
and looked.
| Here there is a gap in Buzhenin
ov's testimony. He cannot remem
Der anything except tormentine
feeling of pain in his brain at the
sight of a telegraph post, with wires
hanging on both sides of it on thu
square among the smolderine
booths.
An insistent idea takes hold o.
him. 1t is hard to understand
how he was able to make his way
through the burning streets to hi
house. Here he remembers how
he climbed through a window int
the dining room and tore the plal
of the Azure City from the wall. Thu
roof Of the house was already II
flames.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
BEL Clan COAL
Miners STRIKE
Fight Against Lack of
Safety Measures

BRUSSELS, March 29.-Coal min
ers at the Braconnier mines at Til
leur have walked out on strike fol-
lowing the imposition of conditions
which provoked unanimous resist
ance among the miners. The condi-
lions are the work of new manager.
The lack of ventilation and the
disregard of all safety measures is
so extreme that the miners have
refused to enter the mines.
An important strike meeting was
held at the Maison du Peuple (Peo-
pies House) Immediately after the
walkout where the strike situation
was thoroughly discussed by the
miners.
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the river. The skies split with thun-
der. Buzheninov, crouching, ran
across the square to the hay
wagons. Behind his back sounded
whistles. The wind threw discon-
nected words at him: "There he is.
Catch him. /. Catch him.. -"
1t seemed to him that rocks nest
flew above his head. "Some storm.
the nests are flying" flashed in his
consciousness. He dived among
the wagons, and tore the hay with
his hands, pushing through, crawl
ing on his abdomen. Then he sat
low, listened, trying to stop the
beating of his heart. (. The whis-
ties came from left and right.
There were more and more voices.
"He is here. J.. he won't get
away. /. Quicker. :" Appar-
emily the entire beer parlor had
Joined in the pursuit, and moved,
nosed and felt for him among the
wagons.
Then Buzheninov struck match
and thrust it in the hay. Several
innocent stems and dry leaf began
to burn. Buzheninov painted, pushed
a little further and set fire to the
hay to the right and the left of him.
self. Then he crawled under the
wagons to the windward side, and
pushed his last bundle of matches
into the hay.
White waves of smoke began to
roll among the wagons. Buzheninov
ran off bit, and turned. Flames
broke out. His pursuers began to
howl. Tongues of flame broke out
in three places at once. The wind
pushed them down, carried them far
around, and tens of wagons rose in
tremendous pillar of red flame
The fire rushed into the darkness OF
the crafty sweeping wind and grew
greater. Sparks and bundles OF
burning hay began to fly over the
town. The alarm sounded. The
trees with their waving branches
and the cloud of rocks over them
were lighted up.
puybop;nov stood on bench or
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
By HERBERT Fam.
(Continued)

Can we say, comrades, that we
have completely succeeded in mob
ilizing the League to work accord
ing to this analysis, according to
this orientation? We cannot say
that. 1t is much more difficult to
organize the League in this relation
than even the Party because our
League has less experience in the
class struggle than the Party. But
we have had certain successes ip
this orientation.
We have orientated ourselves to
the basic industries in the country.
We have endeavored to mobilize the
entire League to participate in our
struggles. We have endeavored to
mobilize the League in the struggle
against the war danger on a real
Communist basis and to break with
many of the traditions of the past
which have hampered us.
Right Tendencies Overcome.
might say that in general in con-
nection with our change in sorienta-
ton, we have overcome what today
would be and should be recognized
as Right tendencies in our League
and partially Right wing orienta-
ton which existed prior to our last
convention.
| refer for example to our orien-
tation to light industry-biscuit
mail order-as against heavy indus
try; to our not only pacifist errors
but pacifist line in the struggle
against the war danger; to mistakes
which we made in the election cam
paign; to a wrong attitude towards
the Young Peoples Socialist League
wrong line which effectively
meant the building up of the Young
Peoples Socialist League.
This, comrades, we have decisive
ly broken with. This line we have
abandoned and because we have en-
deavored to work on the new line
we have achieved successes which
we could not show in the period
when we worked on the basis of the
old line.
Achievements of League.
The League has participated as ar
organization in mass struggles II
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois anc
Colorado, in the textile strike il
New York. Not with sufficien
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Through the pasture and the old
graveyard he returned to the boule-
ward. This was near dawn. Instead
of the market place black ruin
smoldered wide on all sides of him.
sooty chimneys stuck out Of it, and
lonely, above the ashes, stood the
telegraph post with the hanging
wires.
"Comrade Investigator, / assure
you that in that moment ] was over
whelmed by sensation of deep de-
light and sharp grief, l was alone
in the midst of a desert. The ter
rible sensation of the self, of my
own, personal THAT letter which
rested its paws on the hot Goals and
was burned in the clouds and the
dawn! At times now find it dread
full to conceive: it has always
seemed that one affirms ones self
in creation, in expression. But
/, you see,-in what. j.. Or is it
that I don't understand something?
:. Is it Chat / miss some screw?
Or do l live at the wrong time
--unplumbed, strange, wild? :.
Or is Comrade Khotyaintsev right?
don't know. But l told every
thing honestly. And l had to
confirm the plan of the Azure City
during the fire, that's all. >"
Holding the piece of canvas in his
teeth, Buzheninov climbed up the
post, but slipped, and lost conscious
ness. The rest is known. The in
vestigation of this unprecedented
case is ended.
Buzheninov, Vassili Alexeievich,
appears before the Peoples Court.
(The End)
The first installment of a new
story by Soviet writer will be
printed in Mondays Daily Worker
The story is called "Marya the Boil
shevik" and Is the work of Alexan.
der Neverev. one of the best of the
Russian proletarian writer's. In its
central character it reveals the new
woman that is emerging in the Rus.
sian village.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Bankers, Job Done for
Them on Farm Swindle
by Hoover, Keep Mum

WASHINGTON, March %. -
Most of the millionaires asked to
testify before the congressional ag-
ricultural commission as a prelim-
mary to the drafting of bill that
will be sufficiently slippery TO fool
the farmers and still leave control
Of their farms in the hands of bank
ers and Of their produce in those of
middlemen, have refused to take a
step certain to be exposed and prove
unpopular.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
.M|SLEADERS or
SCOT COAL union
ExPEL MILITANT
Allan Leader of Save
Union Movement

LONDON, England, March 20. -
By thirty-five votes to eighteen the
delegate council of the Lanarkshire
Miners Union has suspended William
Allan from his office as general sec
rotary. The decision followed an
unbroken torrent of abuse from the
old gang.
This is the sequel to the Scottish
"Save the Union" Councils call for
the formation of a new Scottish
Mine Workers Union based on Fife,
which William Allan signed.
That call was issued as a result
of the discredited Scottish bureau
Gratis final crime against the Scot
fish miners in distributing the Fife,
Kinross and Clackmannan Miners
Association and accepting Adamson
scab union.
Officials Refuse Fight.
Allan yesterday stated despite
repeated motions by me during the
months of December and January
the Scottish Miners Executive flatly
refused to call a Scottish conference
o: miners to oppose the efforts OF
the coal masters to take away over
time payments.
Suddenly they met and at Q
weeks notice summoned special
conference, which dominated by Of
ficials, rushed thru the change OF
rule which has cut Fife off entirely
from the Scottish miners on the
grounds of arrears which were ac-
cumulated during the last sever
years, primarily while Mr.. Adam
son was secretary of the Fife min
ers.
Cut Off Unions.
"The new rule has also cut OIL
the Stirlingshire Miners Union, which
is sixteen months in arrears, and II
a matter of four weeks time will also
cut off Lanarkshire.
"This leaves only the two small
unions, East Lothian and Ayrshire
! and the very small union of Wes'
Lothian which, taken altogether
have less than $4,000 men organized
out of the 10000 men working IL
the coal field, to continue as the
Scottish Miners Union.
"The present Scottish officialdon
is prepared to "draw the timbers
and let the union crash to ruins
rather than give up the posts the!
at present hold.
Nothing less than the setting VI
of a real One Union for the whole
Scottish mine workers can now b.
of any service to the miners"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Japanese Seize
Chinese Peasants
Land for Airport

TSINGTAO, China, (By Mail).-
The Japanese authorities here have
forcibly occupied an area OF 6Oo
NOV of farm land belonging to the
villagers in Kaomi. They are con-
verting it into an aviation field for
the accommodation of japanese mill
tary planes. japanese troops guard
the land from the peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Wall ST. Bankers Ready
for Clash on New Plan
i'm British C.. E. Stocks

LONDON, Mar. 29.-The British
controllers of Britain's General
Electric practically declared their
intention of keeping Wall Street in
terests out when Sir Hugo Hirst
presented terms for settlement
which leaves the Yankee financiers
out of the running.
While the Wall Street share hold
ers will be given chance to ex-
change the old shares for new
shares, they will have to dispose of
their British rights Immediately ac-
cording to the plan.
When Thomas L. Chadboune and
Herbert Bayard Swope, head of the
American stock-holding committee,
were notified by cable they did not
acknowledge the message and set
out Immediately for London. They
are playing on the backing of the
Hoover administration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
LAND DEMANDS
ARMIES STAY
| MIC AR A C VA
limits Soldiers Suffer
from Disease

DION, Panama Canal Zone,
'ch 29.-"I would not recommend
withdrawal of marines from Nj
lgua now," Brigadier- General
an Feland, director of the Amer
/ invasion of Nicaragua, stated
~. The general is on his way
the United States, where it is
erstood he will confer with the
secretary of state, Stimson, on
Nicaraguan situation.
Gland committed a number of
scretions in the course Of his
rview which throw light upon
condition of the marines in Nj
aqua and of the outrages Of the
ional guard under marine Off
Admits Disease.
eports of jungle fever, laying up
,es Of the invaders in the hos
lis, have from time to time
ched Managua from the interior,
the United States authorities
e been particularly Industrious
covering up such reports.
Gland today made the amazing
cement that if the marines who
sent away from Nicaragua on
cunt of sickness were not re-
ced "the public would soon
AIKEN to find that the number (of
rines) had been considerably de-
ased.'
SANDING Rules North.
The only present trouble" he
!, SIS in the northern portion, in
ection probably four times larger
n the rest of the country" This
aid seem to be trouble enough,
&c it has taken the United States
rines the better part of two years
make no effective impression.
leland also repeated the usual non
e about General Sandino's army
tg made up of foreigners, by
n it is supposed he means Hon
an poems. He knows as well as
zone else. however, that the mair
ength of the army of indie
ldence is the Nicaraguan pea,
.ts and poems who swell the ranks
enever the need is great and re
n to the plantations when Tht
lger subsidies.
interesting light was shed by Fe
on the outrages of the Nicara
IN national guard under marine
dershin. "The guardia naciona
hastily enlisted and trained b.
rires before the elections" Fe
d admitted. "Under these cir
= Instances it was only natural tina
re were indiscretions and tina
ae misconduct should occur
viewer, both the enlisted and vol
5eer guardia have the approva
the administration"
Landowners in Guard.
e attributed part of the success
the volunteer guard to the fac
the government permitted then
declare martial law in the troubl
tiers and thus "enforce the Law
a manner not permitted to tn
rines." A more brazen admis
n has seldom been made.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
WORKER KILLED

BALTIMORE, Md. (By MaiD.-
Struck on the head with an iron
pile while at work at a wharf,
Charles Bogue, construction
worker, dies as a result of frac-
tured skull.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30
Pa. Railroad Profits by
Naturalization With
Speed-up of Workers

The Pennsylvania Railroad gen
eral offices announced yesterday
that naturalization had progressed
to a new high point, the operating
ratio" (per centage of total expend-
lures in moving freight and passen-
gers) having fallen to 73.1 from
.S7.3 per cent in 1921.
AS prices of materials used have
fallen little the real saving has been
from making one man do the work
of two, and cutting down the wages
of workers in various ways.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30

Editorial Note:-This is the
fourth installment Of the report
delivered at the Sixth Congress
of the Communist Party on the
activities of the Young Workers
(Communist) League by its ex-
ccutive secretary, Herbert Fam.
Additional installments will be
published until the report is COM
pleted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30

Vassili Alexeievich Buzheninov,
)me TO recuperate from a ner-
)us breakdown incurred while a
udent in the Moscow School of
rchitecture, falls in love with
adezhda (Nadya) Ivanoyna. his
others ward. Though Nadya
)es not return his love, the town
ossips about them, and Utyov-
n, office manager in the place
here Nadya works, is very jeal-
is of him.
BuzheninOv, q highly neurotic
,rson, spends much time BROOD
g over his plans for rebuilding
oscow-the Azure City-on the
ms of the past. One morning
Iva discovers that the garden
has been smeared with a vul-
a. word. Both she and Zuzhe-
nov are certain this dishonor to
er is the work of Utyovkin.
uzheninov goes out in the eve.
ng to lok for Utyovkin, deter
ined on revenge. He finds him
I'd murders him with stone.
He returns home, his hands
cody, and finds Sashok Zhiga-
v. young blade of the town,
akilsg love to Nadya. Sashok
YES Gut and the maddened Buzz
,ninov goes after him. taking a
esaing iron and a box of
l ltcIhes along. In the official in
\ stEgation afterwards Buzheni-
! " tells of his sharp inner con-
cts, how he was actuated by his
eat love for Nadya and his de-
re "to sweep away all that was
hten." He finds Sashok and
icy struggle together, Sashok
nalIy knocking him down on the
cund, where he leaves him.
(Conclusion.)
)R a, few seconds Buzhenino
TODD behind a corner. He wa
hiking rapidly, judging his SUI
ndings. The meeting with Sash
was again deluged by a wave G
apressible desire. His teeth raj
! with, impotence. Through tn
It crimson lightning fell benin
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-30

The prOIetarian movement Is
the sclf-c n CT o N S, Independent
movement of the immense major
ity.-Karl Marx Communist Mani
festO).
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Buzheninov stood on a bench on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
General Strike
IN BUENOS aires
More Workers Joining
Fight on Fascist

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July
15.--A general 48-hour strike, in
sympathy with the Rosario port
workers who walked out sometime
ago, went into effect here today
Thousands of dock workers walked
from their jobs, tying up shipping.
The strike also includes the port
of Santa Fe.
Government Will Conscript.
The report is widely circulated
that the government will Official
ize" the port and use CONSUMPTION
in an effort at strikebreaking.
The strike will spread to the
chauffeurs and other unionists soon
Railroad workers refuse to take
trains into Rosario, because the fas-
cist "Patriotic League" is supplying
strikebreakers and armed guards
there.
The Communist Party is making
a united front of all militant ele-
ments to broaden the strike and in
crease its effect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
.USSR Purchases End in
US Machinery Market;
S40,00O,0O0 Tn Trad

Purchases of industrial machin-
cry during the present fiscal year
have advanced Soviet Russia to Sec
ond place in Importance of this class
of American goods, according to a
report made public yesterday by the
Amtorg Trading Company, Only
the British empire now buys more
machinery than the U. S. S. R.
Since October 1, 1928, American
concerns sold machinery valued at
s1S,00O,000 for shipment to the
Fatherland Of the Workers. This is
about 60 per cent more than the
purchases of all the previous years
and two and half times more than
the purchases for the full twelve
months two years ago. Orders
placed by Amtorg during the first
nine months of the fiscal year, in
Guiding the value of tractors con-
tracted Tor last week, exceed S44,-
100000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
ON
BIG SILK drive
Delegates of 6 States
to Meet August Is

A National Silk Conference is
being organized by the National
Textile Workers Union. 1t will be
held in Paterson, N. j., on August
%, in the N. T. w. U. hall, at 205
Paterson St., Paterson.
Delegates will be there from six
different states, having silk centers.
They are Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New Jersey, New
York and Massachusetts.
In all of these states the N. T. w.
has been organizing, and in all the
silk centers in these states there
have been strikes, and movements
among the silk workers against the
speed-up during the past six months.
To Coordinate Movement.
The conference will attempt to
unite all these different actual move
ments through one common center.
The chief work of the conference it
self will be to ~ set up program
of uniform national demands for the
whole industry, and (2) to elect a
national silk strike committee, which
will have the function of starting
definite preparatory work for ma
tional silk strike.
In the campaign for the confer
ence, the N. T. w. U. is laying spe-
cial emphasis on the four major silk
centers: the dye houses in Paterson,
where 80 per cent of all the silk
made in U. S. is dyed; the anthra-
cite, in Pennsylvania, where most of
the silk throwing is done, and Paw
tucket, r. l., and Allentown, Pa,
where The biggest silk weaving
mills are located. Into all of these
centers, organizers have now been
sent by the N. T. w. u, to push
the campaign.
On the same date as the silk con-
ference, there will be, either in New
Bedford or in Lawrence, Mass, a
New England cotton conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
Page for Gastonia
Frameup Victims in
daily" Tomorrow

A special worker correspondence
page for and by the Is workers
whom the Gastonia mill bosses
and their courts are trying to
frame up on a murder charge will
appear in the Daily Worker to-
morrow.
Letters from Fred Beal and the
other frame-up victims, together
with letters from workers
throughout the United States de-
manding the release of the pris-
oners and expressing their soil
darity with the jailed strikers,
will feature the Prisoners
Page"
Photos from Gastonia will also
feature. Workers are urged to
continue to send letters express
ing their support of the Gastonia
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
u. S. Trade Delegates
On Special Train for
Trip Through U.S.S.R.

BERLIN, July 15.-Eighty-five
American business men, heads of
corporations and sales managers,
are on their way on a special train
for a 4,000-mile trip through the
Soviet Union. They are trade en-
voys, travelling under the guidance
Of the Russian-American chamber
Of commerce. They pay $1,000
apiece for the trip, and receive
special consideration from the COM
missariat of foreign affairs and the
state railways and trade depart
ments. Their train will be equipped
with radio, in direct connection with
The Wall Street stock market. Their
corporations have realized that they
must begin to compete with Eng
land and Germany for U. S. S. R.
trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-16
CITYWIDE Meets
Will CHALLENGE
WALL ST. PLOTS
Militant Speakers to
Address Masses
Continued from Page Onc)

Continued from Page Onc)
and Jamaica, Astoria, l.. /.
A call just issued to the work
ers of New York City says: wall
Street with the aid of other i'm
perialist powers has instigated the
seizure of the Chinese Eastern
Railway by the war lords of Man
churia; they have arrested all Of
the officials of theaU. S. S. R. who
were on peaceful trade missions;
they have arrested, in mass, Off
cials and workers, members of Ia
hor organizations who were in
sympathy with the First Workers
Republic; they are spreading false
rumors concerning aggressive war
preparations of the u. S. S. R.
so that they can justify their own
preparations for war against the
Soviet Union.
Protest. Demonstrate!
Workers, your fatherland, the
socialist fatherland of the worlds
workers, is in danger. We must
join in demonstrations to defeat
the imperialist war aims"
WORLD DEMONSTRATIONS.
In Berlin and other continental
centers the militant workers al
ready voiced their determination
to combat the threatening attack
on the stronghold of socialism by
pouring out to mighty demonstra-
tons such as are planned for New
York City this week.
These street meetings will serve
to prepare for the mass outburst
Of working class indignation which
will break forth in New York, as
in every other great city of the
world, on August list, when all
class conscious workers will down
tools at 4 p. m. to march to Union
Square and participate in a mon
ster demonstration of protest
against imperialist war prepare
tons being pushed on every front.