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Rush for Jobs Construction OF California Da Says Correspondent
OF Soviet Union 10Th
Anniversary VIII Be Shown

THOSE who had no opportunity to
visit the Soviet Union during the
10th anniversary celebration and
those who did and desire to renew
acquaintance, will have an oppor-
tunity of viewing the first workers
government in the 10 reel motion pic
ture "a Visit to Soviet Russia, to
De shown here shortly under the
auspices of the Provisional Com
mittee of the Friends of the U. S.
5. r., it was announced yesterday.
The motion picture was taken in
the Soviet Union by nine operators
during the celebration of the tenth
anniversary of the October revolu-
ton and has been shown in many
countries outside of the Soviet
Union. The verdict has been that
it is one of the most remarkable
films ever produced anywhere, at
any time. According to many film
critics of Germany and France, it is
the best pictorial ever filmed, and
there is no doubt that the American
audiences will receive it with as much
satisfaction.
The picture opens with the arrival
of the foreign workers delegations
in Leningrad, before the celebration
and their tour through that city.
They are then shown visiting the
other sections of the Workers Re-
public including Moscow, the
Ukraine, the Don Basin and eau
casia. In Moscow the workers rep
resentatives view and participate
in the gigantic demonstration of
working class solidarity.
The achievements of the masses
of the Soviet Union are brought to
the screen in a graphic fashion, so
all friends of the U. S. S. R. can
view the progress being made.
None of the scenes in the picture
are staged. They are actual hap
penings in the day by day life of the
workers and peasants living in the
Soviet Union. The audience ac-
companies the delegations in their
visits to the factories, the farms
and then the monster celebration of
the tenth anniversary. 1t is a pic
ture that will leave vivid impress
sion in the minds of all who see it
in the United States just like it
did to thousands in Germany,
France and other countries.
The date of its showing will be
announced in several days.
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The Soviet Increases
It's Industrial Export

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., March A.
Exports of products of mining and
manufacture during the first two
months of the current fiscal year
October November) totaled $4,000
900 rubles as against 47000,00o
rubles for the same period last year.
Exports of oil during the two
months period .otaled 100000
rubles and increased over 80 per
cent in comparison with last year.
An increase Of 46 per cent was
recorded in shipments OF timber,
! IT'D to 25,200,000 rubles.
Exports of coal and magnesite also
led large increases. Soviet
1Retrial products are exported to
met instant markets, primarily the
near and far cast.
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Origins Act to Go Into
Effect Soon; Is Aimed
at European Workers

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Altho
the House of Representatives last
week voted for one weeks postpone
ment of the national origins act, the
Senate failed to pass the same bill
at its last session today, and as mat
tiers stand, the origins act goes into
force. 1t will cut the immigration
from Germany and Latin and Slavic
nations about half, and permit more
immigration from the British Isles.
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MILITANT metal
WORKER ASSAILS
BETRAYER
Makes Attack at Meet
in Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio (By Mail.
In connection with the organization
drive of the Metal Trades Council
of Cleveland, a mass meeting was
held in the Moose Hall, on February
IA. Present at this meeting was
Brother O'Connell, president of the
Metal Trades Department of the A.
F. of L. Also a number of other
national orga -,izers of all the Metal
Trade Unions of the A. F. of L.
The purpose of the meeting was
supposed to be to work out ways
and means of organizing the metal
trades workers of Cleveland, which.
by the way, means 10000 men and
women.
In line with the policy carried
out by the Cleveland Federation of
Labor, that the rank and file of
the metal trades of Cleveland are
not capable of conducting their own
affairs, they found it necessary that
one of their own clique, a cigar
maker, should be chairman and con-
troll the meeting.
An Hour of Nothing.
The chairman in introducing the
principal speaker of the evening.
Brother O'Connell, pointed out that
he would sound the keynote for the
extensive campaign to be carried
out in the city.
However, after hearing Brother
O'Connell speaking for an hour or
more, the rank and file of Cleveland
realized that Brother O'Connell had
nothing to offer but the same old
time methods of organization, especi-
ally the no-strike policy, negotiation,
house to house campaigns by union
members, etc. During his speech he
also pointed out that the industry
has undergone radical changes since
the war, new methods; rationaliza-
ton, the classification of industry,
made more difficult the task of or
ganizing industry. He also pointed
out how new machinery was con-
stantly replacing workers and
throwing thousands of men into the
ranks of the unemployed.
On the whole the A. F. of L. Of
ficials We're not too pleased with the
general results of this meeting.
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The HISTORY or all hitherto cx-
rstlng society f~ the history of
rlnE~ xfrnEElcs.--KarI Mars (C0i.-
nsunist .annifcstO).
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ANOTHER EDGAR WAL
LACE PLAY ON WAY

E. f. Give, producer of "The
Whispering Gallery" the mystery
play at the Forty-Ninth Street The
atre, has acquired another Edgar
Wallace play for American produc-
ton. 1t is "The Man Who Changed
His Name" which ran eight months
in London. Mr.. Give recently an
nounced that he would produce "The
Ringer" by the same author. Both
plays will be presented first at the
Copley Theatre, Boston, before show
ing on Broadway.
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n q Worker CORRESPONDENT

fBg q Wofhef correspondent
REDWOOD CITY, Calf. (By
MaiD.-I am writing about condi-
tons in the cement plant in which
1 have been working for nearly four
years.
The bottom of the Bay of San
Francisco has immense deposits of
small oyster shells, in layers from
10 to 80 feet deep. A certain chem
list got the idea of Analysing these
shells ard found that they contained
about 95 per cent lime and other
substances to make cement out of
them. After that capital was in
terested to build a factory consist
ing of five raw mills which grind
the shells to a shiny, Shiny sub
stance. The raw mills are 80 feet
long and about seven feet in diam
cter. The mills are filled with cast
steel balls from the size of walnut
to four inches in diameter. The
mills are driven by electric motors
of 700 horse power each with a
magnetic clutch.
The slurry, as the stuff is called
when leaving the mills, runs like
thick soup and is pumped by rotary
pumps into large cement tanks
called slurry tanks, which are as
feet high and 20 feet in diameter.
There are 10 of these In all. Five
large 225 horsepower Sullivan air
compressors, which I overhaul occa-
sionally, are furnishing the COM
pressed air to stir the slurry in the
big tanks. All slurry tanks are
made of concrete.
Before going any further l want
to mention that the shells are
dredged up by a large suction dredge
which pumps them into big barges.
These shell-loaded barges are then
towed by tugboats to the shell I'M
loading dock. A six cubic yard
grab bucket is let down by means
of crane, which travels upon a
crane railing 80 feet over the
ground, 400 feet in length, and
dumps the shells into large bins.
In the bottom of the bins are two
feet in diameter drain screws turn
ing, keeping the shells moving for
ward into large washing tanks.
The clean shells then enter the
raw mills and are then pumped into
special waste pans. The slurry is
pumped into the kilns, which are
26s feet long and have a half inch
to foot rise or incline.
This factory has four I1ilns and
produces $500 barrels, A sacks to
a barrel. The kilns are fired with
crude oil and air. The clinkers drop
from the kiln into 100-foot long
coolers and from there into the fin
ishing mills, where it is ground into
cement, and then, by means of a
large belt, is carried into storage
tanks, also made of concrete, hold
ing 100000 barrels, which is their
total storage capacity.
Steamboats,, barges and freight
cars take the finished cement away.
Everything is electrified. Cement
is made at cost of dollar a ton
and sold for $12 to S13 ton.
About 200 men are employed.
Wages range from 81 to SIS day.
The operating staff has never a
Sunday off.
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FAKE FARMERS
union NOT FOR
The SOIL FILLER
Stir Up Racial Hatred;
Use Religious Dope

by q Farmer Correspondent
With the poor farmers groanins
under a veritable avalanche of tax
alton, mortgages, ETC., the need fol-
organization becomes more eviden
than ever. Many and varied arr
the organizations and remedies sug
rested, ranging from placing faitE
in the supposedly progressive Sen
ttors Norris, Frazier, Shipstead
ETC., down to organizing in the
Farmers Union.
In Minnesota, Upper Michigan
and Wisconsin the Farmers Union
seems to be making Roadway
Meetings are being held and good
militant farmers are being misled
into joining.
1t is proper at this time to an
alyze the constitution of this
Farmers Union" Purposes:
"To pecure unity, establish Justice
and apply the golden rule.
ITO strive for hegemony and good
will amohg all mankind, and bro
therly love among ourselves.
ITO garner the tears of the dis
tressed, the blood of the martyrs,
the laugh of innocent childhood, the
sweat of honest labor, and the viz
tue of a happy home as brightest
jewels known, ETC."
How many mortgaged farmers be-
lieve an organization, included in
whose constitution the above trash
can be found, will ever lead a move
ment for organization?
apply the golden rule!" The
mortgage holders sucking the blood
of the farmers will be interested in
applying this rule.
Harmony and good will" The
big bankers whole heartedly SUBJ
scribe to this sentiment on TIE I'M
Outstanding, of course, that you
meet the note on time. Now let us
spend a few minutes on the men,
bership clause of the constitution:
Section l says: "Any white per-
son or Indian may be admitted to
membership if he believes in a
Supreme Being" Section 3 says:
Negroes or persons of African de-
scent shall not be admitted. :"
The point about the Supreme Be-
ing" is probably a relic of the times
when farmers believed that storms,
drought, bad crops etc., were an
expression of the wrath of God. No
sane farmer takes that viewpoint
nowadays. All know that the enemy
OF the farmers is the banker, mort
gage owner and implement trusts,
ike the international Harvester Co.,
and, last, but not least, the grain
spectators. The most implicit faith
in the Supreme Being" will not
tend to curb the exploitation which
is crushing the farmer today.
Negroes and Whites Must Unite.
The second point, dealing with the
exclusion of Negroes, is surely the
height of Ku Klux Klanism and
powerful factor for Reorganization
rather than organization. Do those
responsible for the constitution de-
sire a substitution of a racial war
for the class war? Do the mort
gsge holders differentiate between
the races on collection day when the
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SOVIET SNOW TRACTORS.

LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R, (By Mail)
THE tractor division of the Krasny
Putilovetz factory in Leningrad is
at present engaged in the production
of new type of tractor especially
designed for use on ice or snow. AL
ready Is of these tractors have been
completed and shipped to the timber
regions.
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FOX BUYS OUT LoEw's

Fox Theatres have bought a con-
trolling interest in Loew's, Inc, thus
strengthening a rapidly growing
moving picture house trust which
aspires to monopoly, it was re-
ported here today. William Fox, of
the Fox Company, admitted today
securing "a substantial portion" of
the Loew Circuit by direct purchase
from Marcus Loew.
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cHILDs BOASTS VICTORY

In statement Saturday night
William Childs, chairman Of the
board of the Childs Company, said
he had proxies from So per cent of
the stockholders for the stockhold-
ers' meeting, March 7.
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IALL QUIET On 1HE Wf)1ERN IRON s 5sSs sci

myself to wait until I am relieved.
Then go into the dugout and find
mug of barley. 1t is cooked in fat
and tastes good. I eat it slowly. l
remain quiet, though the others are
in a better mood, for the Smelling has
died down.
The days go by and the incred-
ible hours follow one anothersaS a
matter of. course. Attacks alternate
with counter attacks and slowly the
dead pile up in the field of cratas
between the trenches.
We are able to bring in most of the
wounded that do not lie too far off.
But many have long to wait and we
listen to them dying.
For one of them we search two
days in vain. He must be lying on
his belly and unable to turn over.
Otherwise it is hard to understand
why we can not find him; for it is
only when man has his mouth
close to the ground that it is i'm
possible to gauge the direction of his
cry.
He must have been hit badly-one
Of those nasty wounds, neither so
severe than they exhaust the body at
once and a man dreams on in a
half-swoon, nor so light that a man
endureS the pain in the hope of be-
coming we'll again.
Kat thinks he has either broken
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pelvis or a shot through the spine.
His chest can not have been injured,
otherwise he would not have such
strength to cry out. And if it we're
any other kind of wound it would be
possible to see him moving.
He grows gradually hoarSer. The
voice sounds so desperate that it
prevails everywhere. The first night
some Of our fellows go out three
times to look for him.
But when they think they have To-
Gated him and crawl across. next
time they hear the voice, it seems to
come from somewhere else alto
gether.
We search in vain until dawn We
scrutinize the field all day with
glasses, but discover nothing. On
the second day the calls are fainter;
that will be because his lips and
mouth have become dry.
Our company commander has
promised special leave with three
Gays extra to any one who finds him.
That is a powerful inducement, but
we would do all that is possible
without that; for his cry is terrible.
Kat and Kropp even go out in the
afternoon, and Albert gets the lotc
of his ear shot off in consequence.
1t is to no purpose. They come back
without him.
1t is easy to understand what he
cries At first he called only for
help-the second night he must
have some deliriun, he talks with
his wife and children, we often de-
tect the name Elise. Today he mere
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ly weeps. BY evening the voice
dwindles to croaking.
But it persists through the whole
night. We hear it so distinctly, be-
cause the wind blows toward our
line. In the morning when we sup
pose he already has long gone to
his rest. there comes across to lis one
last gurgling rattle.
The days are hot and the dead lie
unburied. We can not fetch them
all in, if we did we should not know
what to do with them. The shells
will bury them.
Many have their bellies swollen up
like balloons. They hiss, belch and
make movements. The gases in
them make noises.
The sky is blue and without
clouds. In the evening it grows
sultry and the hta rises from the
earth. When the wind blows to-
ward us it brings the smell of blood,
which is heavy and sweet.
This deathly eXhalation from the
shell holes seems to be mixture of
chloroform and putrefaction, and
fills us with nausea and retching.
The nights become quiet and the
hunt for copper driving bands and
the silken parachutes of the French
star-shells begin. Why the driving
bands are so desirable no one knows
exactly.
The collectors merely assert that
they are valuable Some have
collected SO many that they will
stoop under the weight of them
when We 60 back.
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But Hale at least gives reason.
He intends to give them to his girl
to supplement her carriers. At this
the Friesians explode with mirth.
They slap their knees: by Jove
though. he's wit. Hale is, he's got
brains"
Tjaden especially can hardly con-
tain himself; he takes the largest of
the rings in his hand and every now
and then puts his leg through it to
show how much slack there is.
Hale, man, she must have legs
like an ELEPHANT"
Hale beams, proud that his girl
should receive so much appreciation.
she's a nice Bit" he says with
self satisfaction.
The parachuteS are turned to more
practical uses. According to the size
OF the bust three or perhaps four
will make a blouse, Crop and I
use them as handkerchiefs. The
others send them home.
If the women could see at what
risk these bits Of rag are often OBJ
tanned, they would be Mortified
Kat surprises Tjaden endeavoring
with perfect equanimity to knock
the driving band off dud. If any
one else had tried it the thing would
have exploded, but Tjaden always
has his luck with him.
TO Be Continued
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CHAPTER xiv Continued


Between the meadows behind our
town there stands a line of old
poplars by a stream. They were
visible from a great distance, and
although they grew on one bank
only, we called them the poplar
avenue.
Even as children. we had a great
love for them. they drew us vaguely
thither. we played truant the whole
day o9 them and listened to their
rustliIZ. We sat beneath them on
the bank of the stream and let our
feet hang over in the bright, swift
waters.
The pure fragrance Of the water
and the melody of the wind in the
poplars held our fancies. We loved
them dearly, and the image of those
days still makes my heart pause
in its beating.
1t is strange that all the memo
ries that come have these two quail
lies. They always are completely
calm, that is predominant in them;
and even if they are not really calm,
thew become so.
They are soundlesS apparitions
that speak to me, with looks and
gestures, silently, without any word
and it is the alarm of their silence
that forces me to lay hold Of my
~-@eVe and my rife lest I should
abandon myself to the liberation
and allurement in which my body
would dilate and gently pass away
into the still forces that lie behind
these things.
They are quiet in this way. be-
cause quietnesS is so unattainable
tor us now. At the front there is
30 quietness and the curse of the
'front.' reaches so far that we never
bass beyond it.
Even in the remote depots and
rest areas the droning and the
muffled noise of Smelling is always
In our ears. We never are so far
off that it is no more to be heard.
But these last few days it has been
unbearable
Their stiffness is the reason WHY
tleSe memories of former times do
not awaken desire so much as sor-
roW-a strange, apprehensibIe
melancholy. Once we had such de-
slreS-but they return not.
They are past, they belong to an
other world that is gone from us.
In the barracks they called forth
rebellious, wild craving for their re-
turn; for then they still were bound
to us, we belonged to them and
they still were bound to us. we be-
longed to them and they to us. even
though we we're already absent from
them
They appeared in the soldiers
Songs which we sang as we marched
Between the glow of the dawn and
the black Silhouettes of the forests
to drill on the moor, they we're a
powerful remembrance that was in
us and came from us
But here in the trenches they are
completely lost to Us. They arise
no more; we are dead and they
stand remote on the horizon. they
are an apparition. a mysterious re-
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Election drawing us home. that We
fear and love without hope.
! They are strong and our desire
is strong-but they are unattainable,
and we know it.
/ And even if these scenes of cur
youth were given back to us we
would hardly know what to do. The
I tender. secret influence that passed
/ from them into us could not arise
I again.
We long to be in them and to
move IN them; we long to remember
and to love them and to be stirred
by the sight of them. But it would
be like gazing at the photograph of
a dead comrade; those are his fea-
lures, it is his face, and the days we
spent together take on a mournful
life in the memory; but the man
himself it is not.
We never could again, as the same
beings, take part in those scenes.
1t was not any recognition of their
beauty and their significance that
attracted us, but the communion, the
feeling of a comradeship with the
things and events of our existence,
which cut us off and made the world
of our parents a thing Incompetent
sible to us-for then we surrendered
ourselves to events and were lost in
them, and the least little thing was
enough to carry us down the stream
of eternity.
Perhaps it was only the privilege
of our youth, but as yet we recog-
nized no limits and saw nowhere an
end We had that thrill of eXpecta-
ton In the blood which united us
with the course of our days.
Today we you'd pass through the
scenes of our youth like travellers.
We are burnt up by hard facts;
like tradeSmen we understand dis
tinctions, and like butchers, neces-
stiles. We no longer are untroubled
we are Indifferent. We long to be
there; but could we live there?
We are forlorn like children, and
experienced like old men, we are
crude and SorroWful and superficial
i believe we are lost.
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CHAPTER XIV

MY hands grow cold and my flesh
Iva Creeps; and yet the night is
warm. Only the mist is cold, this
mysterious mist that trails the dead
before us and sucks from them their
last, creeping life. BY morning they
will be pale and green and their
blood CONCEALED and black.
Still the parachute-rockets shoot
up and cast their pitileSs light over
the stony landscape, which is full
of Craters and frozen lights like a
moon.
The blood beneath my skin brings
fear and restlessness into my
thoughts. They become feeble and
tremble, they desire warmth and life
They can not endure without SYM
pathy and communion. they are dis
ordered before the naked picture OF
despair.
] hear the rattle of the mess tins
and Immediately feel a strong desire
for warm food; it would do me good
and comfort me. Painfully I force
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