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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Subscription Drive of
Daily Worker Is Blow to
Imperialist War Plans

"The subscription drive of the Daily Worker is of the
greatest significance to every Latin American worker de-
cares Albert MOreau head of the Latin American Department
of the U. S. Section AIlAmerca An-Imperas League.
MOreau writes:
"Ihe Daily Worker has contributed much to the struggle
against Imperialism has exposed the role of Street
Imperialism in Nicaragua, Haiti China and other fields
potatOn The Daily Worker did much mobilize support
the striking workers the banana plantations Columbia
the intrgues the United in
conflict
AT when United Imperialism becoming
enslaving the colonial
rivals
Imperialism realize the
Worker and powerful
The Daily Worker the efforts mpca
the Union which Of
mperialst world.
every worker should realize the tremendous
ing the circulation of the Daily Worker the
imperiasts nnsyng their preparations power
yOu!"
Atho the Daily Worker hardly
that the workers realize the importance of building the
circulation However the the represents
but small fraction of the minimum
effort must be made this
drive for the Daily Worker will be powerful blow mperst
preparations
The totals for the drive viii be published Monday
scpions the week ending april the
tricts is given below.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

WHdnS has children Iod0er Eitcboo
OF the" 0partrnet of fire cubby-hoo 13h Street
Photo By Nippon Camera Club.
finds one he makes about s. get re-hired
every day. Many days he doesn't find any work."
1t was already after six o'clock Williams ad not vet
returned
go ustng for job every morning at about four
late in the evening. ~
When he through slough-tray which is
called street walks smelly crumbng hallway into his
howell for which he pays $33 per
Here is fellow worker who slaves thru the dywhen given
chance o-for to that city
1T ana onerS IKE MN nave told him ne must live to howell
which called home and for which he high persons
the same class as his employer
There are many other workers like him
The same conditions prevail in the whole
apartment No 49, Although the than the
one we just described he pays $35 for five
Both Holmes and his wife blind. broom and
mop shop downtown and works pceok The by
machine and there is much speedup.
Holmes makes the average $40 to $12 week
The ceiling coming down, there
the plumbing light baths community toilet no
garbage disposal, dark, unventilated.
In apartment in the lives Heddeon famed
Negro veteran of the pays $50 his five
and has gotten the few dollars the
because he lived years moved in
9f he paid $50 His rent has been doubled since then In these
eleven there had been improvements
these houses They allowed from awful while the
Heddleston sits place and his difficulty
He served in the department which
Tampa, Florida epidemic yellow fever forced the
headquarters to He famed accident
because the department reported they could
his
think of that war;" said Heddleston the more
think it was big making proposition"
The department houses we have Just described known
signed them obtained first prize planning inexpensive
back in 1879 The tenement law of 1901 condemned this
type of building Now in 1929 they still being used for
housing Negro workers.
lodgings Just isolated instances
but fairly Nor they the you
t"e following the Daily Worker Investigation into other
tons of Harlen will almost unbelievable conditions.
TOMORROW ~e '0lH go to "higher-ca apartment, and
what terrible codng the Negro aOorkers suffer
the privilege of harig dunbeOaier work.
hot-0oter supply wh'ch as only present IN the lease
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

A Block IN Harlem Reveals
Struggle OF Negro Workers
Continued from Page Ong)

windows the kitchen and two the front The intervening
must be illuminated by Pickering jet oil lamp
there O
turnout There hardly any ventilation ALL 1t under
stand how there many deaths coal and Illuminating
in the tcnemen when is bitter cold outside and the wind
through the flmsy walls
The kitchen window overoo desoae back spotted
with papers and dirt rusty very escape
along the back of the house This only attempted comp
with the law in the whole building.
Garbage? There garbage
tied in bundles
selve
Baths? Mrs Williams laughs. No, here
Have there been rnovaon lately? years
landlord epaned the kitchen by smearng dark paint
cracky walls 1t didn't make any difference Williams
instead of painting in light oo
gloomy as before. The walls actually crumbing
THE landlord won't do anything He says that repairs
will have to take a raise"
We were to hear that repeated again and c-a.H
WILLIAMS has not had steady employment
" He worked at the Knickerbocker Supply
for five years. Mrs Williams said Then they decided
cut hands he lost his job about three ago.
he has been working the
four five o'clock every morning job
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
OPEN SEAMEN'S
HEADQUARTERS
Marine Workers Get
Baltimore Club

Headquarters Of the Marine Work.
ers League were opened at 1710
Thames St., Baltimore, Md, yester-
day, George Mink, national secre-
tary of the League announced.
"Organizational work has been
proceeding in Baltimore for the past
three MONTHS" Mink declares. "Sea-
men and longshoremen have re-
sponded enthusiastically to the call
for fighting, industrial union is
sued by the Marine Workers League.
We are also completing prepare
tons for the opening of an Inter-
national Seamens' Club in the same
building which is one of the finest
in Baltimore, in few days. Library,
checker rooms, and every conven-
fence for seamen will be provided
so that they will have no need to
watch for the stool pigeons of the
corrupt I. s. U. officialdom.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

'But what the devil brought you
here from Ivanovo-V oznesensk?
He corrected stolidly:
'Not the devil but a train
And when the soldiers and the
man who was scrawling something
on paper with a pen roared with
laughter, he responded merely by
splitting gravely on the floor.
"They brought me on a train,
comrade. The 'Mericans. Some
Fetrograd kids with teachers was
brought here to fatten 'em up. It's
the Red Cross, or something. None
O. my business, though. 'Mericans,
that's what they are. Lenin must
have paid 'em for us: Go ahead,
feed 'em up Then Kolchak came.
Some went farther on and some
died off, and l got into children's
shelter and from there l ran away
to the country"
"What did you do there?"
"Worked as Farmland for the
priest. Don't you think cause I'm
skinny! I'm handy for work,
brother"
"And did you enroll as volunteer
with Kolchak?"
"Yep. But I ran away"
allow did you get to be volun-
teer them"
when the Reds came, every
body ran away and l ran with 'em.
Well, nobody wanted me, so l en-
rolled as a volunteer"
"But why did you run away from
the Reds? Were you afraid"
afraid? +. What's there to be
afraid of? I'm of the Red Party my
self, / am. But they all started to
scoot, so / scooted, too"
The soldiers again roared with
laughter. The commandant repri-
manded them and gave the order:
SEARCH him."
WITH the same willingness he let
w them search him. He raised his
hands IN the manner of one ac-
customed to this procedure. His
large, gray eyes sparkled merrily
in the pallid, childish face. They
lit everything up, like spots of sun
light. They lit up the emaciated,
shrunken, little face, and the shay
gy, lice-ridden head of the color of
dirty straw. A large sum of money
was taken away from the boy, to-
gether with keepsake locket with
'silvered lids, pound of tea, and a
few yards of woven stuff that was
in his kit.
"Where did you get the money? 2"
"Stole some of it, and made some
tradin'."
What were you trading in"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

tobacco, cigarettes, and some
times I'd swipe somethin' and sell
it."
Hes a real cneI" said the COM
nlandant, astonished. where are
your parents ?"
"Pa was killed in the Joiman
war, and ma got some new kids.
So she went somewhere with her
new Teller and the kids, and fixed
me up on the 'Merican train"
And again he met the command
ants dull gaze with the clear shin
ing of his eyes. The commandant
shook his head. He wanted to say,
"a hopeless case" But the light
in Grishka's eyes stopped him. He
smiled and rubbed his chin.
"Well, what did you do when you
were with Kolchak ?"
"Nothin'.. Just enrolled and ran
away"
$50 you're of the Red Party?"
recollected the commandant.
Fright you are. Give US light"
"You ought to be spanked for
smoking. Well, here's light! How
old are your"
Fourteen last st. Gregory's Day."
$50 you know the saints. And
why do you wear that locket?"
ITO remember my dad. He'll feel
better in heaven when he gets to
know bout it. Mother forgot him,
but Grishka remembers"
"And you think he's in heaven?"
"Where else? The soul has to
have some place to kick around in
when it leaves the body"
The commandments eyes again
wore their blank, official express
sion.
"That'll do, now! I'll have to
detain you"
"To jail? All right. But the
eats there is punk well, never
mind. l en- stand it while.
Goo-by."
They remembered Grishka for a
long time at the Cheka.
LIE WAS soon summoned from the
a. prison by the Juvenile Crime
Commission. He liked it less at the
Commission than at the Gubcheka.
At the latter place they were jolly
fellows. They laughed. And here
everybody pitied him, and then the
doctor pestered him for long time.
whats he frettin' like that for?"
wondered Grishka. "He's measured
my head and my fingers. Maybe
he's tryin' to make my marks fit
into somebody's. Bet they're
lookin' for some teller with block
like mine. -"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

| Another unpleasant thing was
that the doctor looked him over for
a long time, naked. He had been
scrubbed clean at the bathhouse,
but the doctor examined him in
such a way that Grishka felt as if
his body were dirty. Then the
doctor started to question him about
the shameful things. That was not
right. Grishka had seen a good
deal and fooled around a bit him
self. But it isn't right to talk about
it. It's disgusting to recollect it.
And he doesn't. feel like fooling
around any more. When he emerged
from the doctors his face was red
and his eyes seemed to have lost
their sparkle. He had aroused him
so, the "goggle-eyed one"
But in the evening, at the home
for juvenile criminals, he was cheer
full again. He approved of the food.
This amt like the slap-hash at
the Soviet dining room, brother.
This is milk. The kasha is sweet.
Bits of meat in the soup. Great"
RUT AT night he felt ill at ease.
The boys were restless and the
teacher scolded them. Somehow the
teacher reminded him of the doc
tor. For a long time Grishka could
not fall asleep. He wondered why.
There, that's it! Reck'n l amt
used to the piller. 1t bothers me-"
And he spent the whole night in
sad yearning, half asleep, half
awake. At times he saw his mother.
She was combing his hair and say
ing:
you're growing, Grishenka,
you're growing, sonny Well have
a rest when you get big. You'll
make money and you'll take care
of father and mother. My own
boy!"
And she kissed him.
It's strange! His eyes are open
and the lamp is throwing it's light
up toward the ceiling. He knows
that it is the Children's Home. His
mother, surely, is not here. And
yet he feels it on his cheek-she
kissed him. And he wants to cry.
But he hemmed like grown-up
man, restrained his tears, and turn
ed to the other side. And then he
seemed to see the doctor. He re-
called the women. And again he felt
a sense of disgust. And he was I'M
easy. He wanted to pray, but could
not recollect "Our Father. And he
did not know any other prayer. In
This way he tossed about all night
long.
(To Be Continued.) sTs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
Up Powerful Tenants
League, Urges Otto Hall

"The only way to combat the
housing conditions which exist in
Harlem is by an organized fight of
the tenants" declared Otto Hall, ma
tional organizer of the American
Negro Labor Congress, when he
came to the Daily Worker office
yesterday to discuss the exposure
of housing evils in Harlem being
made by the DAILY"
"The campaign is absolutely nee
essary in Harlem, because the ma
iority of Negroes there are the low
est paid workers and they must pay
exactly double the rent that work
ers in other districts pay.
"While little can be expected from
the legislature, for it serves the
interests of the landlords, organized
mass pressure can make it give us
concessions and force the legisla-
tors to relieve the situation in
some way.
'For this however, it is neces-
sary to build a strong mass ten
ants organization, which will fight
militantly against insanitary condi-
lions, rent raises and disposses-
sions. The Harlem Tenants League
is an organization with such pro-
gram and it must be built up to
mass proportions during this cam
paign.
"The American Negro Labor Con-
gress will cooperate with the Har-
lem Tenants League in holding
street meetings in Harlem on the
housing situation.
"There is, however, only one real
solution to the housing problem.
That is for the tenants in a strong
organization to take the houses
away from the landlords and place
them under their own manage
ment."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

The other classes decay and finally
disappear in the face of modern in
dusfry; TIE prOletariat is its special
and essential p-oduct.-narl Marx
fCOremunist Mnnifestol.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
The L. AWBREAK ERS '~s s"";+ o: %;
ASTORY OF LIFE in the I. S. S.R. By LYDIA SEIFJLZNA

NOTE:-Partly because of her
origin-her mother was a peas
ant-partly because she has spent
many years in the village - as a
teacher, Lydia Seifulina (born
1880 knows the psychology and
the language of the peasant. She
understands the village and she,
feels the revolution. The tradi-
tional peasant themes found in
the older Russian literature, Sci
fulina treats in an entirely new
fashion, charging them with an
unprecedented dynamic signif-
icance. In her work we see the
mass of savage peasantry caught
up by the irresistible enrush of
history and hurled into the vortex
OF Civil War, Revolution and Com
munism.
Seifulina began her literary
career in 1920. She produced two
long tales that attracted the at
tention of literary Russia: Decay
remarkable representation of a
revolutionary Siberian village, and
''Virineya." THE Lawbreakers,"
printed here, describes the life of
the homeless waits" whom the
Soviet Union is doing SO much to
convert into useful citizens. 1t is
one of her best stories.
HE was caught at the depot. He
IL had been buying foodstuffs from
the market women. He took his ar
rest with the cheerfulness of an old
timer. He winked to the gray man
who held the rifle, and asked:
"Where are you goin' to take me,
comrade, to the Rtucheka County
Chckha) or the Gubcheka (provin-
cial branch Of the Cheka) ?"
"A hot one, you are! It's cinch
you've been through everything"
They took him to the Ortcheka
district Cheka), too. They they
took him to the Gubcheka. There he
sat down quietly on the floor of the
anctroom, awaiting his turn. When
questioned, he answered willingly
and cheerfully.
"Your name?"
"Grigori Ivanovich Peskov."
"What district ?" the commandant
questioned in weary, disdainful
manner.
"From far away. Guess I'd have
to GO some to find my way there
now. I'm from Ivanovo-Vozne-
sensk."
"Well, how did you happen to
come to Siberia? ?"
"Call this Siberia! I've been lot
farther still"
And with these words he glanced
proudly at those present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
World Tourist Agent
Visits Samarkland In
USSR to Arrange Tour

A story of Samarkand, the an
cient capital of Tamerlane, the
Tartar conqueror, and the temples
and tombs he erected there is told
by Milton Goodman, director of the
World Tourists, New York travel
bureau, holder of franchise which
permits the sending of American
tourists to Soviet Russia. Mr.. Good
man recently returned from abroad
where he spent nearly three months
exploring hitherto unknown parts of
the vast territory of the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
C0vERNME !
HURT; JOB may
Be WORK OF spy
Resentment Shown to
British Commission

LAHORE, India, April 8.-About
100 persons were injured yesterday
when police dispersed a group of
Arya Samajists who stopped in the
street and refused to move after au-
thorities had forbidden their pro-
cession. The procession was formed
to carry the empty bier of the Ma
hasha Rajpal, who was stabbed Sat-
urday by an imported Moslem
thought to be British agent sum-
roned to start religious war.
DELHI, India. April 8.-Two
bombs hurled from the gallery of
the Indian legislative assembly here
and bursting in the government
benches. wounding several members
and narrowly missing Sir John
Simon, punctuated the mass resent
r1ent of the Indian workers and
peasants to the Anglo-Indian gov
eminent and the Simon commission.
Three government benches were
wrecked by the explosion.
Those arrested were Butukeswara
Dutt, from Bengal, and Bhagat
Singh, from the Punjab.
The chamber was filled with
smoke. A pamphlet headed Hin
dustan Socialist Army Notice" and
signed by Balraj, honorary chief,
was thrown with the bombs.
Simon With President.
Police locked the council house at
once and prevented ingress or
egress.
Sir John Simon, head of the Brit
ish commission, was in the presi-
dents gallery when the bombs fell.
Ore of the bombs dropped near
Sir George Schuster, finance men,
Der of the viceroy's executive coun-
Gil, injuring him.
Hate Legislature.
The Indian National Assembly is
4 fake legislative body, controlled
mechanically by British government
officials and renegade Indians. 1t
has recently aided the Anglo-Indian
government to put through anti
labor union measures, to conduct
Red raid, during which trade union
leaders were arrested.
The Simon commission of the
British parliament is a hand-picked
body sent to Enquire into the pro-
pirety of allowing self-government
to the Hindus." 1t is thoroughly
imperialist body which marches.
about India with a heavy guard of
British police and soldiers who have
several times fired on crowds pro-
testing its presence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
DAWES BOARD
DEADL 0CKED
over PAYMENT
Schacht Offers Less
Than Half Demands

PARIS, April 8.-Dr. Hjalmar
Schacht, chief of the German re-
parations delegation, at a special
session of the Dawes board, offered
a starting annuity of approximately
$500, 100000 a year, increasing over
a 37-year period to a maximum of
$500, 100000.
The Dawes plan board of experts
conference was perilously near a
deadlock today, with the Allies adj
mittedly lacking unity among them
selves and the German delegate,
Schacht, openly declaring that Ger
many could not pay the demands OF
the war victors.
New Demands.
At one time it seemed that the
Allies had agreed on $550,000,000
payments annually. The only trouble
was how to divide it among the
looters. Germany under the old
Dawes plan would have had to pay
$625, 100000 this year, and there
was some hope expressed among
the delegates that she would, how
ever protestingly, agree to the new
and lower figure.
Overnight, however, France, Bel
GUM, Italy and England submitted
further claims for $75,000,000, max
ing Germany's plight as bad as if
no conference had been called.
1t is thought here that the Ger
man delegation may yield to the
threats of the war victors, but it
is not believed that this will settle
as there will be first of
all considerable trouble getting Ber-
lin to ratify and more trouble get
ting it to paw.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09

The lower middle class. the small
manufacturer. the shOpkeeper, the
artisan the peasant, all these fight
against the bourGeOisie, to save
from extinction their existence as
fractions of the middle class. They
are therefore not revolutionary. but
cOnservative.-karl Marx (COmmu-
mist ManifestO).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-09
DEFEAT COMPENSATION BILL

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, (By
Mail "A bill to increase compensa-
ton for labor in case of death or
injury failed to pass, being tabled
by the senate judiciary committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
WELLS PRISONER
IS GIVEN CHANCE.
Man, Held in Shaft AZ
Hours, Is Expected
to Recover.
By the Associated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
OTTUMWA, Iowa, September RE
leased this morning from caved-in-
we'll in which he was imprisoned for
more than AZ hours, Wilkins Priest, So,
late today was recovering from the
effects of cold and exposure more IA
vorably than physicians had dared
hope.
Unless pneumonia develops, DR.. d. L..
Rator said, Priest will recover. HIS
injuries we're confined TO bruises, al
though his body, when taken from
3O-foot shaft, was numb ana he was
suffering from hunger and thirst. HIS
temperature, Subnormal in the morning.
was normal this afternoon.
AS he lay in the hospital bed today,
Priest expressed renewed wish TO 1--we,
a desire which. he said, he nearly lost
Friday night when rescue workers
seemed to be moving most slowly to
him He had fought a creeping death
while scores of rescue workers mad
raced against time-and won.
Frequently during the night while
iaborers were completing the sinking OF
a shaft beside the well and the digging
of q connecting tunnel to Priests BODY,
the buried well cleaner was encouraged
with shouts of it'll be only an hour and
a half" But this cry was repeated too
many CmeS 10 buoy has ldIAis Splll1o
At $50 am, coal miners in charge
OF opening the final tunnel. thought
they had reached him. They called
to the crowd of 1000 persons who had
stood silently, many of them all day
and night. Tension was at its height.
A faint crunching sound suddenly pene-
trated to the surface. It was a new
cave-in. Feverishly the workers doubled
their speed.
Air was driven to the prisoner by a
pump and tube through the well. Priest
vas able to converse at intervals with
the rescue party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
CLARKE LOSERS ORGANIZE
Depositors Plan to Open Bank to
Recoup Losses.

NEW YORK, September P.-De-
positors who suffered in the $4,000, 900
failure Of the Clarke Brothers private
bank plan to open a bank of their
own. in an attempt TO recoup their
losses.
Notice Of intention to organize the
new bank, has been filed with the State
superintendent of banking. The insti-
tuition will be known as the Park Row
Trust Co., and will occupy the premises
of the Clarke Brothers Bank in Nassau
street.
A group of professional bankers will
control 81 per cent of the stock, the
remaining 40 per cent being distributed
among the Clarke Brothers depositors
IN proportion to the amount of their
claim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
PREMIER RESIGNS.
formation of New Government
Asked in Saskatchewan.

REGINA, Saskatchewan, September
Z (P.-J. G. Gardiner resigned as
premier of Saskatchewan yesterday
Lieut.. Gov. H. w. Newlands accepted
the resignation to take effect next Mon
day.
On suggestion of Mr.. Gardiner the
lieutenant governor will call on DR.. j.
T. M. Anderson. cooperative leader, to
form new government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08

Herbert Weld. q well known English
yachtSman and owner OF Lulworth
Castle, In Dorset, calmly sits with
lady guest on salvaged furniture and
watches his historic home tshOwn
above) reduced to a shell by flames,
which ragged for many hours. The
water supply became exhausted when
the flames were nearly under control.
Two firemen were badly burned by
molten lead. p. 81 A. PhotoS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
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