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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
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STORY OF LIFE IN the U.S. S.R By LYDIA SEZFULLNA

Children's Homes. Martynov was
not without wonder.
There, you see, Mother Nature
and work! They're cured. And what
crust of dirt the city had plas-
tered over these children. But
they've washed it off. They arc
now growing healthily, as it should
be-"
He made one of his grimaces,
slapped his thighs, and finished with
the thought:
They'll give a good offspring in
due time"
THE broad porch is humming with
life. The whole colony is here;
the children, the supervisors, the
coachman, the baker, the laundress.
and the seamstress. 1t is difficult
to spy the grown-ups. There are
only nine of them at the colony, and
a hundred children.
After tea they formed into little
groups and scattered in various
directions. One squad went to the
woods TO gather mushrooms against
the winter. The horse walked slow
ly along the road dragging a wagon.
Children tumbled about in the grass.
A Tartar boy, slender, 1.-THE, stately
as a young pine, walked ahead,
pointing the way to the best places
for mushrooms. There is no "hil1er"
like him in the colony. He knows
all parts of the woods. Once, they
had gone to camp in the woods
seven versts away, but had forgot
ten to take blankets with them. He
had run back and brought the
blankets. And after that, for a
whole day, he had skipped tirelessly
after the hunters. And now, too, ne
walked as if he had wings On his
back to help him. Suddenly he stop
ped and shouted:
Heres the spot! Come on!"
So they set to work.
AnotEef squad went away, sing
ing, in boat. They were going to
the opposite shore to gather bright
rcd sorb-apples. They must be
gathered for drying before they are
spoiled by the early frosts. The
lake is FLASHING at the shore, but
not a ripple in the middle. What a
day!
Grishka is in third squad. The
biggest boys--they started out, sing
ing, for farm about three versts
away. Martynov with them. He
had won his fight for new farm
ior his colony. A whole estate. Con-
s''resioa-VorS VIE going on there.
The coloni@ts built bcrns, duo holes,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22

Grigori IvanOvich Peskov
Grishka), homeless waif, es-
,pes from a home for juvenile de-
nquents together with a group of
ther young inmates. They live
y begging and spend their nights
cemetery. Here they are dis
,vered by Red soldiers and taken
} the Narooraz (local department
education). Comrade Marty
ov, an energetic man of incisive
arsonality, comes in and decides
take ten of the children along
it'll him to his children's colony.
ere the children are employed at
arious tasks and become filled
it'll the joy of a new life.
ELL, everything is ready now.
Milk, hot water. The girls have
iced around the portions of bread
And the horn sings out melo-
,usly but commandingly:
'Tu-ru-ru-turu-ru-turu!'
The shore soon became crowded
tn children. All kinds of voices,
sorts of heads, blue-eyed, black
d, all kinds. Splashing, tumbling,
ittering. The boys hemmed and
uted in their bathing place. The
is were bathing at the landing.
ey screeched in high, shrill voices.
ey were short-haired, and jumped
out nimbly. They looked like
VS..
The horn sang out for the second
ne.
The noise from the lake rolled
ward the bungalows. The white
Lighthouses of girls flashed by.
.e naked torsos of boys glistened
! the sun. All rushed to the porch
ning-room, as if about to storm a
1T.
The voice of little, dark-haired
Il rang out in the crowd:
Monitors, come for tea"
Grishka, clad in a gray kitchen
It. shouted from the porch:
Hey, hey! made up a rhyme.
stem:
The horn blows gay-ly,
Calling to tea"
yadtochi growled in reply:
Not tea, but coffee. :"
Ind there, right on the spot, is
irtynov. He made face and
ig out in basso profundo, like
ICON:
Don't give me tea to swill, my
w with coffee fill. Noble lords,
MT you have some coffee?
\ roar Of laughter drowned cvcrv-
ng. And Martynov il already
the yard near the barn!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
POLICE PREPARE
TO BREAK FRENCH
MAY DAY Meets
Entire Force to Be on
Special Duty"

PARIS, France, April 21.-Extra-
ordinary preparations are being
made by the Paris police for at
tempting to smash May Day demon
strations, it has been made known.
Under the leadership of Chiaope,
the project of police of Paris, who
made himself odious to every French
worker by his prosecutions of work
ers during the Sacco and Vanzetti
demonstrations, the French police
are being assigned for special duty
"on May Day.
A specially large contingent with
reserves will be on hand in the Paris
+ Red Belt, Gordon rouge, of Commu-
mist workers towns which surround
the city on every side. Many of the
towns have Communist admins
trations and are planning large
demonstrations. 1t is Chiappe's
purpose to break up such demon
strations. viz
1t is rumored that in line with the
policy Of the French government in
arresting the entire Paris district
convention of the French Communist
Party and arresting delegates and
keeping the national convention I'M
der strict surveillance, specially out
rageous sentences will be handed
down to all workers arrested for May
Day demonstration.
In spite of the action of the police
the working class all over France is
preparing for one of the biggest in
ternational May Day celebrations in
its history. Not only in Paris but
in every city and village in the
country, the French Communist
Party is leading the May Day
preparations Of the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22

carted lumber, carried stones, broke
stones with picks. They worked
stubbornly. .
THEY hurt their feet to bleeding
at their work. but their joy was
not extinguished by pain. Martynov
PLANNED to build a hot-house there
for the winter. tto.
They taunted him at the Naro-
braz: 81, s,.a
Maybe you're planning electrifi-
cation of your colony?"
He smiled, rubbed his hands, and
said firmly:
Il am. l shall install dynamo
by the winter" Q
They all laughed at him. But he
actually brought the dynamo from
the city.
At the Narobraz they said in as
constituent:
Hes marvel, that fellow!"
AND the children said:
"Martynov is--khny!"
And when Martynov would start
to tell how their colony would
spread light all around, how it
would scatter three, ten, twenty
such colonies all around, the chill
dren believed him. And they laughed
in new way. Laughed for Joy, as
enc laughs when overwhelmed with
breathless delight.
Grishka thought:
I've seen all kinds of people, but
never a man like him. He's a brick!"
THERE were all sorts of children
at the colony. Some taken from
POOR parents. Some from the mines.
Children from orphan asylums. And
.awbreakers, like Grishka. The only
ones Martynev turned down were
weak and sickly children.
"Sentimentality! The earth must
be cleared. Let the sick die. When
there is but one piece-give it to
the healthy. Make !. way for the
healthy! If he's a thief or a crook
send him here. If he has a sound
tooy he'll straighten out"
But not all Of them could be
Strengthened out. In some the rot
stuck stubbornly deep inside. They
languished in the atmosphere of
constant toll. They Jagged at their
work and sulked afterwards. Mar
tynov would make face and send
them back to the city.
He sent back many supervisors
too. ..
"You GO and write instructions;
that's what you're fit for.'
-. (TO Be Continucd) LIN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22

"Who scattered the brides about
Khnyl Hey, you gapers, there are
no servants around here. Petrukha
Fcdyakhin, were you on night watch
over the horses? Who else? You
took 'em out for racing again!"
! He spread his legs and seemed to
grow into the ground near the barn
The farm-manager standing next to
him pursed his thin lips, complain
! ing:
'That's the result of your not let
ting me hire some drivers. Nikolai
is away most of the time. And
what kind of farmers are these
They'll do for all the cattle. They're
workers in name only"
"Ah, what's a worker? They'll
learn. Peskov, why do you gallop
like a stallion with that boiling-hot
water? Don't you see the pots
splashing over? Khny"
1t was because Peskov had no.
ticed Anna Sergeevna. She enters,
tall, white, quiet. She Fuckers one
corner of her mouth at the children.
That is her smile.
CRISHKA had never before loved
anybody or anything. Things
and people had all been one to him.
But at the colony he learned to love
everybody. And Anna Sergeevna
more than all. She is like sunshine.
The mountains, the lake, the woods
all very well! But the sun is bet
ter than all of them. Why is she
sunshine? Because. Grishka did
not know. Only, when he looked at
her everything around grew still
more beautiful. When they were
on duty together, he would follow
her, carrying the pail of Stops like
an icon. Martynov noticed it twice.
He hemmed:
Hes growing, the rascal" he
said to himself, and added "khny,"
angrily.
But later he understood it better
Spring has come for Grishka,
healthy, pure. His eyes are clear,
unclouded. All the scaly crust of
the former wanderings has dropped
off. Not trace of it. He is whole
some. Martynov frightened.
"Grigori Peskov, khny!"
He watched the others too, keenly.
There were some tender glances ex-
changed with the girls. The kids
teased Lysiaev and big Niura, but
there was no premature, lustful de-
sire. The boys were used to the
Girla. Their touch did not burn.
There was nothing Of what frequart-
" happened in the cities at the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22

after all, that it is not the intention
of the Standard Oil trust to take any
severe revenge on its defeated rival.
The leases Sinclair got were long
ago cancelled, and the present cases
are mere "mopping up" 2
Much more important for the oil
industry than Sinelair's trial now is
the administration policy of assist
ing the oil trust to keep prices high
by forbidding new permits for drill
ing.
The high price policy today met
opposition from the American Auto
mobile Association, which issued a
statement declaring that while it
was in favor Of conservation, it
would fight the higher prices that
might result fror, the policy of the
administration and of the American
Petroleum Institute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
MONCADA LAUDS
U. S. INVASION
OF NICARAGUA
Praises Guard Famed
for Atrocities

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 81.
Reviewing the Nicaragua national
guard, whose atrocities against the.
natives surpass, if possible, those Of
the United States marines. president.
Moncada yesterday was lavish in. his
praises of American imperialism's
dirty work in his country.
1t is significant that representa-
tives of the American army of occu-
patton stood at Moncada's elbow
turnout the review and his speech.
The officers of the Nicaraguan ma
tional guard are picked from Ameri-i
can marines.
Referring to the national guard,
whose actions have been so ,atrocious
that they have even found their way
into the strictly censored press, Mon
csda admitted that the guard might
have made some errors, but to err
is human"
The Nicaraguan president, who is
kept in office by American bayonets,
declared that the United States for
i, ces had not come to Nicaragua to
conquer the country, altho they are
now in absolute control of it. "The'
United States has come to Nicara-
qua for peace" was Moncada's,
amazing discovery.
Supplementing the national guard
is the volunteer national guard made
up of business men and plantation.
owners, whose brutalities against
the Nicaraguan workers and peas.
ants have been more terrible than
those of the national guard.
May Dny-the day which began
with general strike for the S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
New Zealand Blames
''Foreien Sailors for
Native Slaves Strike

HOBART, New Zealand, (By
MaiD The government investiga-
tors into the recent demonstration
and strike of native workers at
Eabaul blame the instigation of the
strike on "somc foreign colored sail
ors," as their report reads.
The natives struck about two
months ago when they were no lon
ger able to endure their slave con-
Gitions. They were suppressed by
troops.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
BOOKS

DER KAMPF UNI DIE GEWERK-
SCHAFTEN, By Heinrich Farwig.
Red International of Lab o r
Unions Press.
Comrade Farwig's book is an i'm
portant addition to the historical
literature on the development of the
German. labor movement. 1t traces
the ,oppositional struggle against re-
formism and social-imperialism in
the labor unions from the 10Th cen
fury from about 1848) to the world
war and shows that the construction
of nuclei of revolutionary workers
had begun during the last century
and had become the most important
factor in the fight of the revolu-
tionary minorities against reformism
and social-imperialism.
For that reason, the book is not
only of great historical interest, but
is also of great practical value. The
material with which it is crowded
is very pertinent exactly at this
time when the class war between the
revolutionary workers and the new
German imperialists, reformists and
social-democrats' has sharpened.
The book also is very handy at
this moment in view of the intensive
discussion in Germany following the
Nv Congress of the r. I. L. U. since
it gives every worker the oppor-
tunity to distinguish, without pour
ing thru large historical works, the
main struggle between the revolu-
tionary minorities and the reformist
leaders, and to orientate himself
along an historical perspective to-
wards the situation at present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
Beat Negro Worker
to Force Confession

PINE BLUFF, Ark, (By Mail) -
Charging that he was crippled and
nearly blinded by brutal beating
administered in an attempt to ex-
tort a confession" of crime about
which he knew nothing, Dick Cor
nix, Negro worker, has filed suit
against the officials of the Cot
ton Belt Railroad for $4,000.
The beating occurred on prison
farm near Sheriff, after the worker
was accused of stealing cotton from
the railroad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
Green Urges Sabotage
of Militant Strikes

LOS ANGELES, (By MaiD.-A
personal letter from William Green,
reactionary head of the. American
Federation of Labor, appearing in
an issue of the Los Angeles Citi-
zen, stated in effect that A. F.. of
L. members are called on to quit
supporting strikes conducted under
left wing leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
f COMMUNIST
OF" AS EXCUSE
)R new TERROR
Lnsu Moslens Revolt,
Famine Grows

HANGHAI, April 21.-Captain
Ito, treasurer of the Japanese
y of occupation, was shot down
the main street of the interna-
al settlement in Tsinan-fu last
1T, presumably by assassins of
ang Kai-shek, who is interested
seeing the Japanese remain in
ntung.
he Chinese aut h critics i'm
ately raised the cry of Com
list plot" and several alleged
.munists were thrown into Jail,
ling the number of accused work
in the prison IS.
,ater the workers succeeded in
aking Jail, killing a police officer
attempted to stop their escape,
wounding two others. This es-
the Chinese and Japanese au-
rites, who cooperated in house to
Sc searches for the workers, are
e;npting to use as evidence of a
)mmunist plot"
he incident, as Chang antici-
ed, has increased the tension be-
zen the Japanese and Chinese
ces and may lead to the formers
naming indefinitely and thus pre-
ting the troops of Feng Yu-
ang from Selling the province.
\ temporary lull in the struggle
ming between Chang and Feng
5 announced yesterday with a
lpromise which permits Feng's
ops at Taian, $4,000 men, to enter
nan-fu within two weeks and to
upy the Tsingtao-T sinan railroad
125 miles from Tsinan to Web
n. From there to the sea it will
occupied by Chiang's troops.
Feng is thus excluded from the
! and state of armed tension
SIS between the two warlords.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
WORKER BADLY BURNED.

LONDON, (By MaiD. - John
LAYERS, worker, was so severely
burnt in a blast at Charing Cross
Power Station that his clothes fell
off him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
Moslem Revolt in Kansu.

EKING, April 21.-Reports from
nsu state that the Moslems are
ain in revolt and have virtual con-
j of the entire province, having
'eated the armies of Feng Yu-
ang. These have retreated into
echuan.
The famine in Kansu is now so
rible that thousands of peasants
dying every day while the Mos
/ soldiers sometimes go three days
thout food. The peasants have
n robbed of everything they pos
IS by the soldiers.
To add to the horrors of starva-
n and military looting, the winter
Kansu has been unusually severe,
ow zero weather continuing for
eks at time.
Cannibalism is reported to be on
increase.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
DIES OF HUNGER.

LONDON (By MaiD Henry
Heron, an unemployed : worker,
dropped dead of hunger while wait
ing on a relief queue in Bermondsey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22
PARENTS IN SCHOOL STRIKE.

LEICESTER, Eng, (By MaiD
Over 800 parents in the Mar
borough district of Leicester, OPP
posed to the grouping" system put
into operation in the schools, have
declared a Strike" keeping their
children from school.
May Day-the day which began
with a general strike for the eight
hour day in the u. s.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-22

On May Day--we hail the
Chinese revolution! Long live the
Indian revolution! a....s.,ss;s,s
The Washington times., 1929-04-18
LIBERTY
GOING, SAYS
FORBES
By B. 9. FORBES

Should Americas newspapers
pass into control Of the gigantic
public utility corporations that
are now being created?
Should the nations newspapers
be sold out to owners Of huge
paper mills concerned only about
controlling consumption Of white
paper2
Should the American press be-
come the tail to the kite of In
dustrial or financial or public
utility corporations?
These questions are forced upon
public attention by the purchase
of two newspapers, the Boston
Herald and the Boston Traveller,
by the International Paper and
Power Company.
without knowing anything be-
yond what has appeared in the
newspapers, one cannot but feel,
and feel very strongly, that the
very influential financial and busi-
ness leaders identified with the
international Paper and Power
Company have committed a grave
blunder.
The American people have had
their suspicious aroused by the
numerous charges made by the
Federal Trade Commission against
the light and power business.
Some of the things done to in
fluence public opinion have.
rightly or wrongly, aroused wide
spread criticism. Judgment
should be suspended, of course,
until the corporations have had
opportunity to present their side.
But the allegations made should
have been more than sufficient to
cause any group of capitalists
identified with the power industry
to think oftener than twice be,
fore taking any avoidable step
calculated to stir up fresh criti-
cism.
The powerful bankers and other
highly responsible business men
forming the directorate of the
International Paper and Power
Company. and also its leading
officers, should have foreseen
that their purchase of two Boston
newspapers would be Immediately
Interpreted as an attempt to mold
public opinion in favor of the
far.flung activities and plans of
the international Paper and Power
Company and its ally. the New
England Power Association. Stand.
ard Statistics describes the Inter.
national Paper and Power Com
pany as formed ''for the purpose
of bringing the properties OF the
International Paper Company and
the New England Power Associa-
ton under more closely con-
solidated management"
Copyright. 1929. by r. C. Fcrbes)
The Washington times., 1929-04-18
q s. FxDenses Increase

Government expenditures increased
W. Il 1854. 900 the first nine months OF
the 1929 fiscal year, reaching a
total OF $2,S67 ,07S, 10000 for the
period, the Treasury Department
announced today,
The heaviest increase in cost was
In the Treasury Department, with
q total of $144, ,5S4, 900, gain Of
A$31,914, 600. Operation of the War
Department cost 1919, 10000, a gain
of $23,617 900, while that of the
Navy Department totaled $273,S39,-
200, an increase of $2S,701, 900.
Interest on the public debt was
*he heaviest item of expenditure in
kthe nine months, representing an
outlay of $433. .351 900, reduction
BIZ 1854, ,O00, 900 from the same period
last year. The Veterans Bureau
ranked second, costing $S07,7S4, 900,
Fan increase of $1,000, 600.
National defense and expenditures
attributable to the war represented
s1,s0S,52O, 900, an increase of $S,OOO.-
600 in spite of the public debt de-
cline.
Excepting the Postoffice and Hk.
eutive branch, all departments and
establishments of the Government
0pst more for operation in the nine
D<Ynonths than last year. Increases
y Legislative, $4,000; State De-
partment. 81 GAL 900; Justice, $685.
900; Interior, $2,296 900; Agriculture,
$S,22S, 900; Commerce, $3,S1S,000, and
Labor. 81 loo, 900.
The Washington times., 1929-04-18
phone RATES To
'AOLD Z YEARS

with the agreement between the
puhlic Utilities Commission and
thes Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
nhene Company that there would
he no change in rates, for a period
of two years, ending June l, the
commission is preparing to revise
present rates.
~ Byers NICK. Bachman, statistical
expert for the Public Utilities Com
Whission has been going over the
hooks OF the phone company for
the past two weeks and getting
wconapiete data on income and eX-
penditures.
On paper the company is ap-
nearing to be making more than a
return of per cent on it's invest
ment. but until full valuation fig.
urss. which will include recent In
stallations have been arrived at 1t
win be hard to determine whether
4he rates will be reduced under
New agreement or an increase
granted by the commission.
Ralpfl b F'leharty. Peoples
counseI. lis, preparing, it is under
stood. to battle any application the
company may make for an increase
In rates.
A 1t is generally believed the COM
,,sg1v will seek some revision In the
aid agreement of 1927 and will ask
that revision be upward.