The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-10
AT THE TURNING POINT
CHAPTER XIII
SLACKENING PACE

AT THE TURNING POINT
AGAIN quiet days activity Again
the daily impecpble work the departments the organiza-
lions and in the factory.
Greens and of the Cossak Documents used the
offices and again held of the Soviet Executive the
Trade Union Council the Council amid sufocatng
tobacco fumes floors covered with cigarette ends endless discussions
the Saturday was the marketay country
potatoes flour vegetables poultry and gam-which
strongly and In the valleys where hardly
rider or pedestrian could pass safely the paths the woods
creakng CARTS and with the slow of the peasants
military leather without portfolios
from their tightly dwellings and easements into the
and the nights of through which they had all passed
WITHIN Shores bay sky;
along the rolled carts and motor On the roadead
beyond the moes far the horizon ITSELF twned the white sails
appearethey euccas dancing
against the concrete their masts designing arab
and on footpab but thew now spoke rr out in
about the New Economic Policy the of exchange the Turkish
feluccas and contraband.
principal street. of shops previously
used sorehou for economic organizations
lorries rumbe The horses stamped Weighed the
day long yelling and swearing under the weight of bales boxes
bags The main street burning in the sum- scented with spring was
There had been time when had been with smart shop
windows smelling perumery rstg with the ken promenadng
ad signs The street dreaming of tomorrow smiling and we'll
fed like the bygone without the chea without bread
raon without obligatory housing control without registration
reregrston, without compusions of forced labor.
WOMEN young girls pinned up knees
and epadders washing the big of patega
and the dirt
smell the cellar songs girls
the emptiness of the shops broken occasionally by squekng laugh
and by orders passed from the other open
doors and windows people wandered here and there forming
panes bare calves Square and oblong white notices
written in large black capitals showed brightly the canate
glass windows behind which the black interiors where hammers
banged and saws hummed.
A Cafe will be Opened in a Few Days.
Retail Cooperative
Commercial Manufacturing Company.
On the smooth, walls of the Town Ha-now
He no Does Not Work Shall Not Eat
On the Ruins of the Capitalist World We Shall
Edifce of Communism.
We Nothing nd Shall Gain the
Whole World
m the market-pace stalls
swinging golden shangs falling and in the
town there was the smell of pine.resin and paint
four the afternoon school with blue
owdng They standing sitting the groups
They gathering building all
through the winter Ind the month of March The school buildings
and had been piaged and the desks broken
mn Why then did they come and wait there So humy for the
wages that had not been paid since Autumn?
the street he would Immediately get oled and breahess the
compact jam and tumut of the teachers He could neither street
uva of uncn bodies and Clothes and of blue faces
dull distressed whining humility
round him into impenab wang duplicating
like beggars dry teeth between eartcoored lips like
And it always the groans
whispered, singly OF chorus.
Serge Ivanovch Serge Ivnovitch! Dear
You teacher yourself You know what What
then, Serge Ivanovtch be done?"
Serge through begging look
ing past and smiling confusdy He worried by
of guilt in the presence half dead
II can't do anything Comrades. have request,
claimed and demanded but what do? know all Com.
anything opportunity
don't know"
And he FASTENED without getting crowd
without these submissive
cheeks.
Again they had Sundays voluntary Again
Of workers clustered anike about the galloway laundering
pckaxes and leaning stick En
Kst personally the rope
again Like with its pueys wheels again
CTo be Continued)
WAR is INSEPARABLE FROM CAPITALISM Impe-
ralism, the monopost stage Of capitalism, sharpens
all the contradictions of capitalism to such an extent that
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