The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-28
CEMENT By EH9PoF
Translated by "A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh
AU Rights -ItternatiOrtal Publishers, N. 2

eyes Jacob that a frghtful that forget
influence Dread? Vengeance? No. was
that There only cOmpusion end that tmehe power
And with the amount of consideration dld everything
possible the life of this worIman's wife"
He could check the palsied shaking of his head He could not
hold his cigarette steadily between his fingers 49,
Stay with me little Jacob don't feel very well"
"where home Abroad? Don't think my brave fellow that
How can you believe that Herman
rOwdy baw true but they peaceful and incapable
also trembling convulsvey
hardly when Engineer Keis threw
himself in his chair and his face BECAME ashen.
"Do remember Jacob? delivered this to his
rebounded Accompany jacob
wal rose anu ops, 4 Iah + +bs rpines hat and
stick and with Short hurried steps followed him into the darkness OF
3. RETRIBUTIoN.
ENGINEER KLEsT assembled slope mountain, passing
along path Uttered with bOude and srevn with refuse through
thorn and juniper The shadows
They below the high road and the
buildings of the factory The n s and @ sFed Fe
the ashees and wcems still eafless and partly
Transparent showed family and the pops swayed high their
branched heads like smoky torches
At the hard of the factory Be-
above its roofs and the appeared like qsess
crystal Above the opal sky gmmed with stars One could no
light large and small wnked in the black shadows OF the mountain
Everything seemed far off and strange For Engineer es only the
Of these immense BUILDINGS and he their creator Engineer s At
terrible when the xngushd factory sumbred menacg
silent the shadows its yawning courts tomb rung
the railway lines flights of by the walls and towers and
with the of the factory
This for the first time he the yawnng breaches of
factory walls gandose death the His graphic for
mua proving true the wheel of events running xorab
The strange signied Engineer
h 1i m track had come to an end and that MS lie had '
The factory should have up possible
persisted This would have been excellent
counter-blow according to the law of compensation
IF quite ready What
would really quite the simplest thing just to
him shoot him through the head The preparatory stages
already accomplished He only wished spend few
moments these buildings where his life had cyzed into
Out of what Gleb
less and uncomfortable and strength lay his dread And when
Ge had smiled today their meeting there was an unpumbsd pro
his helmet this ndefnabe significance and the
face and the helmet
An obstinate sinister face-an helmet.
This helmet stressed the menacng present Beyond the helmet
No out Engineer Kest ready 1t was better to be
murdered these buildings than at home These
and he nsearabe kill him meant destroy within him the
t as f ti ft eet 1b Un 'Hg n itit hi n
under tired hands frightened cuckoo cried the distance and
CLEB stood the the which like Obweb
of giders the had loaded here trucks
oWn I fI the he a we an o @
rails which through tunnels the house Now the stage
He casping the iron of the railing till fingers
He regarded the iron and blocks of buildings the high chin
less trucks. He clenched his jaws grinding his teeth
The factory roared like the fires of hell The earth shook with the
fury of machne the air eked with flashes from the flaming
windows from the dazzle the blast the bursting
countless purple moone bubbles and dynamite explosions the
heart of the mountain There the bay
alongside the their Unsuitable bellies swallowing mil
lions of fresh the factory the docks and
the docks the factory the trucks gliding like flying otose
whing moaning. Thousands of workers like gions demons
red with the glare the fire. demohng the mountain reducing
it rube and to DUST the days lit by sulphur smoke and wh
and the nights by flaming windows and fires.
THIS the past Now there stnessa giant tomb The
the rails and the the
with The metal abbed with the
walls of the buildings showed and the erosion caused by
mountain torrents.
Engineer K walked stopping frequently to contemplate the
high rectangular building the epoch He
thoughtfuly He walked then stopped again. pnsvey onem
plating.
Gleb bent the railing antve
Of the engineer.
Here whom he could with his
with the delight and that would be
to of officers for and DEATH Gb would able
to forget that day.
The factory workers ha been lined the main road in front
of the office building There them left
hiding and had off with the Red
his
through the street fighting One of the officers whip
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