The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-15
CEMENT e ey FnoPoK
Translated by A. S. Arthur and C. Ashleigh
All Rights Reconsideration Publishers, N. Y.


. and his hair utering like unshon fleece blowing into his
and his bald patch The hwled like mighty
ghtooted People wind but he
did not see their faces only their crushed and fatened hats and the
womens heads with shawls warmly
Against the stone sides of the docks Turkish felucca
spindles.
shidky had been expecting him to speak and he had
to have gone the Department of Political Education meeting
longer the library did living now
Verhka had recently Serge speaking
Serge vanovtch Ivan Arsenitch he's getting along speny
vanovtch but he said that you need not . . :" ~ e
She did not chdk him. Serge did not know
Serge IvanOvitch! If you only knew. dying Serge
And smiling tearfuly she had away, turning back
when he called her.
ND matter what happened his process selection
in life infabe and unavoidable Where serges
Perhaps his personality would become ed like that
mm Of hf Elk & d The impact these past years had been
bd still and hour
of his energy Work nothing grey
outne-et be routine this the dream transformed into
Would he be readmtted Party mpor-
If he to be thrown like garbage
future He coneaed to history element
of strength, element the to
whole world, to all mankind, by unbreakable
heart Where was she? But wasn't
it all the she had gazed him with full significant look
She had him through
bedside she had into him through like
secret JOY unquenchabe fire sh
stride the Republic with
heroism of toll Nothing change destiny: Serge
strength sacrifice link the chain of mighty achievements
RELow the docks the waves were splashng and
Dfoaming with There landngplace
moerng steamers and the waves had washed and nbbd the con
Beyond the where the dust whed the wind Serge
Quite breakwa up against the
the seaweed lying the body newborn child
could
quite and the little mwhite peaceful quite
and the driven by the outer Storm and broke softly
the seawed? From where this sucking
The warmth of its mothers hand almost still could be
chubby looked him
humanity sacrificed arOusing him such poignant PITY From
wrecked ship? Thrown into the sea by frenzed mother?
He stood there unable to- turn his gaze away from the little body
tined their They muered question but he neither
heard them He stood there gazing without thought
full his full of establishment and PAIN and he felt deep
grief enrcng his heart Then uncOnsouy he spoke aloud without
"well yes 1t must be That is the very thing )"
m the landing steeised Gleb shdky and
Badn the members of the Factory Committee and Engineer Kt
But Geb felt alone amidst the countless crowd below swelling
could reach They there and he here.
long
the landing itself gowd with floating the metal
crossbars The banner the Party Group suspended from the
other flags the crowd below On the other where Badn
Shidky standing the the Building
Union And below ratings expanse
red bunting immense white letters flashed.
We Have Conquered the Civil War Front y a
We Shall Conquer Also the Economic Front!
with shoulders
flashing with red
everywhere inscribed like
They hid the behind them
surgng eddyng slope
crowds and banners and slogans like field They
of the valley thousands higher higher
band march, and from the depths the
Glamour Of the people mingled with the of the Diesel and
the changing of metal 1t impossible distinguish
crowd from the Of machinery
people The silent
life individuals movement
always ready for Eruption.
THE day transparent autumna fresh and bracing The far
points seemed the Geb looked
the mountains and the sky which filled with
invisible ken shmnerng
like mother-of-pearl.
Geb graped tightly the iron railing and could control
exhausted trembling of his body His heart swelling his
until he could hardly breathe From where this muue
already twenty thousand people here still
arriving There marching nearly mile
mountain bouders pouring themselves
into the general and spreading higher higher
the human could the whole mountain
Nearby behind the tower the right
standing at east Once he had