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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
The LAWBREAKERS '" sa"stt > ;*s
A STORY OF LIFE in the u. SSR By LYDIA SEzFULLNA

Grigori Ivanovich Peskov (Grish-
KAY, homeless waif, escapes from
a home for juvenile delinquents, to-
gether with number of other
! young inmates. They live by beg
ging and spend their nights in a
cemetery. Here they are discOv-
cred b. Red soldiers and taken to
the Narobraz Oocal department of
educatiOn). Sergei Mikhalych
MartynOv, a man of energetic,
incisive personality, takes ten
of them along with him to
work in childrep's colony
that he organizes. Here the chill
dren change entirely; they become
very devoted to Martynov and the
colony and are conscientious in
the performance of their tasks.
Various more or less official Wis
itors come to the colony, voice
their disapprovaal and are given
a chill welcome by Martynov.
((Conclusion.)
MARTYNOV himself is always on
w the go. He does not read books
and does not tell stories. He has
no time. He would get things GO
ing at the colony, and then, off to
the city, for flour. Then he sees
to the lumber for the colony. He
brings everything to his ant-hill.
The stove-builders demanded air.
tight hampers tor the stoves. The
colony was getting ready for the
winter. The hampers are not to be
had. So he took Nikolai with him
and carried off the hampers from
4he empty bungalows of the Zdra-
votdyel Department Of Healthy
The health-resort authorities COM
planned to the district headquarters:
1.-THE bungalows are empty, but they
are going to be repaired, and he
stole our hampers" The Zdravot-
dyel had been a whole year planning
these repairs.
Martynov received a document
from the city.
"Khny!"
And he tore the paper to pieces.
What is to be done with him?
The fall had spun it's thread half
way. The birches shed their leaves.
The forest grew stern and gloomy.
The sky frowned, weeping bitterly
with continuous rain. The lake was
no longer blue. It had turned black,
and it beat, roaring, against the
shore. The birds flew away. A wolf
was seen in the field. At the bun
galows the stoves were fired. The
logs put on long trousers, the girls
skirts. The health resort became
deserted. An angry wind blew
from the hills, whistling through the
empty bungalows. 1t tugged ire
iully at the roofs of the colony. 1t
tried to tear them off.
And it was not merely rain and
fog that came with the fall. Hun
ger, too, approached nearer to the
colony. Mcrtynov returned from
the city, weary End "~oss r.
"khny" no longer cafessed; it inen-
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farmers as yet. The food they had
stored up during the summer was
soon eaten up. Very few mush-
rooms were left. The potatoes had
been dug up late. Half was stolen
by the villagers. The vegetable gar
den produced but little. And from
the city-nothing! The greats were
giving out. The children's cheeks
faded and began to grow hollow.
They felt WEAKNESS, and went to
bed earlier. But laughter was still
heard, and not infrequently.
Martynov was still smiling and
commanding:
Tighten your belts! Lace your
bags! Khny!"
But he made faces less frequently,
and went often to the railway sta
ton. One night the lake grew
stormy. 1t beat against the rocks
with a mournful pounding. Then
suddenly it burst into a rage and
Numbered:
"Ou-oukh d. . Ou-oukh GU
fkh~
THE wind shook the walls. 1t tried
to break them down. 1t howled
in the Observation-Disclosures
WHO'D! When it died down, q diff
ferent bowling was heard. Wolves,
or hungry dogs? The electricity
was not yet installed. Gloomy night
chung to the window-panes and en-
veloped the bungalows in "a weird
darkness. The children could not
fall asleep. Conversation broke off
and trailed into silence. They lis
tened to the creaking of the walls
and to the roaring of the lake. 1t
seemed to be trying to tear the
mountains asunder. And it was
hurting curses in all directions.
Grishka shook his head:
elements"
But he no longer thought of be-
coming a mighty hero. The whole
colony seemed to him small and
fragile. And forsaken by all. They
are alone in the mountains. And
somebody behind the wall is weep
ing, menacing and bowling funeral
dirges. Why are they all in so eery
mood tonight? Taichinov said
wistfully:
death walkin' round"
The vestibule-door banged. They
were startled. Woicechovsky cried
out in fright. But the sound of
heavy steps Gained them.
Grishka exclaimed joyfully:
"Sergei Mikhalych?"
cts mel"
And Martynov entered the dormi-
tory. Grishka slept near the door.
Martynov sat down heavily on his
bed.
"Wel!, you are not asleep yet?
Still chatting? Khnyw
Grishka's uncanny mood disap-
peared. And the other boys, too,
stirred ioyfully.
well be asleep in y minute ].
Pe5hov, promise lcr All. Wen be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
FORMAL BREAKUP
TODAY uni. ESS
GERMANY YIELDS
Each Delegation Tries
to Blame the Others

PARIS, April 23.-The repara-
rations conference of financial ex-
perts started editing its own obitu-
airy notice tonight after a so-called
decisive plenary session this morn
ing at which the German delegation
failed to produce figures of which
the allied harpies and militarists
would approve.
A last-minute appeal by Schacht
0 the American delegates, Morgan
and Young, yesterday, was CURLY
denied by them, on the specious
grounds that Germany in stating
that it could not pay the war in
demnity without the Ruhr, Silesia
and the colonies was putting for
ward, political demands"
The plenary session ended in an
obscurely worded communique which
clearly left an opportunity for DIR.
Hjalmar Schacht, chief German
delegate, to yield at the last moment
and make an offer which would re-
suit in resumption of discussions.
1t was anticipated that the subcom-
mittee would take about ten days to
draft the report of failure.
Would Have to Pay Heavily
In order to reopen negotiations,
DR.. Schacht apparently would be
forced to reverse his position and
offer annual payments which would
be close to the figures which the
four principal creditor nations have
demanded. In past sessions, his
offers were far below the demands
of the allies and the introduction of
political issues-in which revision of
the Versailles treaty was implied
resulted in the breaking of negotia-
lions last week.
DR.. Schacht is a member of the
committee which started work on the
\ final report, apparently insisting on
continuing his efforts to avoid as
far as possible placing the blame
for collapse of the conference on
Germany. The chief German dele
gate appeared before the plenary
session for approximately 20 min
utes this morning but failed to in
crease his offer although he had
made special trip to Berlin over
the weekend to discuss the situa-
ton with the cabinet.
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At the meeting he told the chill
dren:
"The flour we now have on hand
must last Us a MONTH"
THE House Committee took stock
and determined the ration: three
quarters of a pound of bread per
day. Meat disappeared. Fish from
the lake was help. But it was
hard shedding for the children. The
work was hard. They plowed the
fields. There was not enough
ground for sowing. They pulled out
the stumps in the woods. They did
the last of the farm work. A tech
rician came to install electricity. In
their joy they forgot their fatigue.
Grishka had recently heard from
America, and now his eyes shone:
Comrades, we have new land
at the farm. This is America. And
the old colony is Europe. Amt that
bully?"
And the kids took up the cry:
"Come on to Europe! Who sleeps
in America tonight? Whose turn
is it,"
Squads took turns in staying up
nights with the electrician. In the
evenings they stitched quilts. The
Toys and the girls-all of them.
They had to hurry, the cotton wad-
ding had only just come. One more
seamstress was brought from the
city. But the seamstresses were
busy making clothes.
And the wind from the mountains
grew more and more ferocious. 1t
beat with angry bowling against the
windows; it howled in the chimneys.
The stoves grew cold in no time. A
lot Of wood must be prepared and
carried in. 1t will be impossible to
struggle through when the snow
drifts come.
NEAR the colony there was viii
~ lage. 1t was in bad way. The
people had not had enough bread
even in summer. They fed on ber-
rics, mushrooms, potatoes. But the
potato crop failed. They began add
ing bark to the bread. Hungry
children would come in gangs to
the colony. Like sparrows after
crumbs. There was a Children's
Home in the village. The children
were starving there. Even in sum-
mer they were worse off than those
at the colony, and now death stared
them in the face. Boys from the
Children's Home were caught in the
yard of the health resort manager.
They had stolen some meat.
Martynov told the colonists about
this.
Grishka trembled. His eyes grew
dark, and he began to beg:
"Takc them in, in our colony!"
The meeting decided to regard the
village Children's Home as a
branch of the colony. Bread was
n - "nrer.iored to ther, also. It
ed to half g pound for each
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

STUFF ENLARGES.

Directors of the Stutz Motor Car
Company yesterday offered stock
holders additional common stock at
$40 a share in the ratio of one new
share for every ten shares held as
of May go. Stock of the company
outstanding now totals 269,762
shares.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Ex-SOuthern Worker Tells of
Sends 81 to "Daily"

THE Daily Worker is needed in
the South. The textile strikers
need it in their struggle. Work
ers from all parts of the country
have realized this and sent in funds
to pay for bundles of the Daily"
for distribution in the strike area.
The following is a letter from
Sallie kovack, Detroit, which was
accompanied by So:
Gas read the Daily Worker and
see the present struggles of the
southern textile workers, | was
really shocked to know that the
southern people did wake up at
last. As / was one of the slaves
until few years ago, and was
enslaved from eight years of age
until | was 25, know the condi-
tons of the textile industry very
well and how the workers are sup
pressed from childhood.
CHILDREN START EARLY.
There were eight of us children
in our family and all started to
work at an early age at the Pelzer
Manufacturing Co., Pelzer, S. c.
Our wages averaged from 10 to
Is cents day for II hours, so the
earnings of our family could
hardly buy us food, pay the rent
and fuel.
well, dear comrades, / want to
tell you what happened at the
time l was shaving in the textile
mills. The speed-up on us con-
sumptive vouth was so great that
we could not keep up our work.
Then the bosses would get angry
with us and would pull the chill
dren's hair and slap them and
pinch their arms.
FOOL FATHER.
another terrible thing hap
pened to my brother, who at that
time was IL years old. He was a
doffer on section with five other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Workers in Legue, Port
in France, Are Striking
Against Poor Wages

PARIS, (By MaiD.-A strike of
lockers has started at the small port
of Legue, which is the port of the
City of st. Brienc, in the Cote Dor
department of France. The work
ers are dissatisfied with present
wages, hours and conditions. Sew
eral hundred are out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Workers Dying After
BlOw-In of Oil Well

LOS ANGELES by MaiD.-
Three workers were critically in
iured, following the "blowing in" of
the Union Oil Co. well No. a. at
Santa Fe Springs, near here. Seven
ether workers were also injured.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Injunction Against
Toledo, Ohio, Building
Workers, on Strike

TOLEDO, Ohio by MaiD.-An
injunction has been obtained against
the local sheet metal and carpenter
unions whose members are on strike
against the Fred Chirsten Co., a
roofing and sheet metal contracting
company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
40 Workers Hurt When
London Bus Overturns

LONDON by MaiD. - Forty
passengers, many of them workers
returning from work, were injured,
some seriously, when a crowded bus
overturned in Shirland Road. Most
OF those hurt were shop girls. Sew
eral may die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

On May Day, the revolutionary
workers and oppressed colonial
peoples rally under the leadership
of the Communist Parties to take
stock and grid themselves anew for
struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Rankings and Military
Dress for Messengers
to Make Them Slaves

LOS ANGELES (By MaiD.-The
Postal Telegraph Co. here has in
augurated a new style of uniform
for the messenger boys who slave
for it. The uniforms will have mill
tary rolled collars, leather belts,
badges and military caps.
The plan is to begin workers as
Chuck privates" and reward sheep
ishness to the company with the
positions of lieutenant and captain.
Make the May Day Demonstra-
ton demonstration against the
rule of the injunctions of the
bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Manganese Syndicate
Exports On Increase

TIFLIS, U.S,S.R., (By Mail).-In
March the Chiatury Manganese
Trust exported through Poti $3.50
tons of manganese against 41,750
tons in February.
At the present time the Chiatury
Trust operates II refineries. The
Hartman concession had only one
refinery in operation.
Down Tools on MAY Dny.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

bad to Khiva in Sahara" auto
mobiles. This will make Impossible
to determine whether the sulphur
can be transported to the railway by
automobiles.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

young boys. My little brother
told the rest of the boys, Let's
quit and the boys did so. The
higher boss came to my brother
and started to curse him and slap
him and push him over the doff
boxes. When the boss saw he
could not make him go back to
work, he sent for our father and
told him a bunch of lies which he
would not let the child hear. My
brother and the other five were
called into the office and one of the
bosses gave my father a strap,
Fill out this blank:
which the bosses had made for
this purpose, and my father did
give my brother a few lashes in
the presence of the bosses.
"The bosses told my father that
if anything like this would happen
again, the whole family would be
fired and made to move from the
company house.
WORST EXPLOITED.
Il want to say to every reader
of the Daily Worker that southern
textile workers are exploited
worse than any other workers.
Only to know this thing we
should send the workers paper be.
cause capitalist papers do not
print such things.
in conclusion l want to say to
all workers and to workers or
CARNATIONS to support the
southern textile strikers in their
struggle for better conditions.
Il am donating these 81 for the
Daily Worker and l want to tell
you that | did donate some to
southern strikers and l will help
all can"
Fellow workers, a bundle Of
1000 Daily Workers costs Sc.
Send in funds to make possible the
actual flooding of the strike area
with the workers paper.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

On May Day, the revolutionary
workers and oppressed colonial
peoples rally under the leadership
of the Communist Parties to take
stock and grid themselves anew
for struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

In the Soviet UniOn-the seven
hour day. On May Day we inten-
sify our struggle for the S-hOur
day, 4O-hOur week!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24
Prisoner Killed in
Trying to Escape
Philippine TOrtures

MANILA, P. I. (By MaiD.-One
prisoner was shot to death and two
wounded in an attempt to escape
the horrible conditions in the Bilibid
prison here recently. The prisoners
were goaded into attempting to flee
the prison after tortures. They
were trying to climb the wall when
shot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-24

Send i'm Your Contribution
bundles the Daily among the
tile strikers in the South.
NAME
.
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Long live the First of May-the
day of class struggle and class
solidarity!
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Down Tools on May Day.
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07

fully be used to pay current expenses
and these funds should not be confused
with the general fund, from which cur
rent expenses of the state are paid.
In justice to the present administra-
tion it must be borne in mind that the
state advalorem tax of six mills was
fixed by the former administration for
1928 If the present advalorem rate OF
egh mills, six for general purposes and
two for pensions, is maintained the
revenues inherited by the next admin
straton will be much greater than the
inheritance of the present adminlstra-
ton. This difference should be applied
to whatever deficit may be shown to
exist because of the operations of the
present administration for the four
year period. To offset part of this,
however, is the issuance of S1,70O,OO
bonds by the present administration for
current expenses. 1t will be remember
ed that the WhitfieldMurphree ad-
ministration did not issue bonds for
improvements of more than million
dollars at state institutions and for the
payment of about $4,000 in bonds due
| in 1926, but appropriated the money
/ from the general fund.
Many important matters will demand
the attention of the next regular ses-
sion of the legislature. None, however,
can be as important as that of provid-
ing an adequate and equitable revenue
program for the next two years, and
one which will absorb the deficit made
during the present biennium. Judging
from statements of large number OF
| legislators, there is no probability OF
increasing the state advalorem tax
above the present rate of eight mills,
since many legislators were pledged
during their campaign not to raise the
property tax. Il. l.. Is.
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07
News and Views
From State Capital
Especial Correspondence

tSpeclal correspondence
JACKSON, Nov 2, 1929.-Taxpayers
can get birdseye view of the financial
chaos in Mississippi if they will stop a
few minutes and face the facts. Visual
ize if you please, the cost of the in
tesest on state bonds and notes-$2.15
for every minute of the hour; 1929 for
every hour of the day; $3,096 for every
day of the year and for the year nearly
one and one quarter million dollars.
Consider the deficit of approximately
five million dollars facing the state
treasury on January 1st. Think about
the general fund of the State Treasury
being practically gone with perhaps
$400,000.00 worth of warrants and requi-
sitions for the support of the states
institutions due to be paid by Nov 15,
some of which will be paid from No
vember collections.
If this chaotic condition was the re-
suit of a slip in cog of a reasonable
financial program, it might not be re-
garded as alarming, but as only tempo
rary and easily remedied. But under
the present administration there is no
reasonable finance program. In fact,
there is no finance program of any kind
money to pay current expenses. That is
what has been done since the Inaugural
ton of Gov. Bilbo. In his zeal to put
over his 80 million dollar road bond
scheme and control the state highway
department.; his state printing plant;
his purchasing agency; his charities
board and his numerous other schemes
he disregarded the matter of providing
nues to pay the states expenses.
Gov. Bilbo never loses an opportunity
to exhibit his contempt for the "Payas
you-go" idea of doing business, state
or personal. The years 1924, 1925, 1926
and 1927 have not passed SO long ago
that the taxpayers of Mississippi have
forgotten them. No such critical con-
dition of the states finances arose dur
ing those years while the state was
operating on "pay-as-you-go" basis
No state institution nor creditor suffer
ed during those four years and it has
been said that during no period of the
states history was the development and
progress of Mississippi so great.
A continuation of the present rate of
state financing can mean nothing but
financial ruin. No private corporation,
however large or small, could operate
on such a system. 1t has been stated
in this column before that the most
vital matter facing the. people of Mis-
sissippi today is not statewide high
way system, but an adequate and equi-
table system of providing revenues to
meet the states expenses. The sooner
the taxpayers come to realization OF
this fact, the sooner Mississippi will
be dragged from its present unenviable
! position.
The statement of the State Auditor or
November 1st shows more than three
and one half million dollars in specia
funds, but none of this money can law
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

No. 4767 Letters of Administration
having been granted on this day by the
Chancer Court of Holmes County, Mis-
sissippi. to the undersigned upon the
estate of J. D. Mansfield deceased,
notice is hereby given to all persons
having claims against said estate to
present the same to the Clerk of said
Court for probate and registration ac-
cording to law within six months from
this date, or they will be forever bar
red
This October IT, 1929.
l.. A. ALLISON. Administrator.
G.. H. McMorrough, Attorney. (24-4t)
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07
CHANCERY SUMMONS

The State of Missssippi-To Walter
Wade, post office address, Gould
Arkansas.
! You are summoned to appear before
the Chancery Court of the County of
Holmes in said State, on the Third Mon
day in November 1929, to defend the
suit No. 475S in said Court, of Eliza
Montgomery ct al, wherein you are a
defendant.
This October 22nd, 1929.
NOEL WHITE, Chancery Clerk.
G.. H. McMorrough, Atty. (24-4t)
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07
CHANCERY SUMMONS

No. 4765-I. B. Hibbler VS.. Jennie v
Hibbler.
To Jennie V. Hibbler, whose post office
address and place of residence is
unknown.
You are summoned to appear before
the Chancery Court of the County of
Holmes in the State of Mississippi, on
the 3rd Monday of November, 1929, to
defend the suit of l. B. Hibbler in said
court wherein you are defendant.
This the 18th day of October, 1929.
NOEL WHITE, Chancery Clerk.
Boothe and Pepper, Soils.
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07
CHANCERY SUMMONS

To Lutiita Kelly, whose post office ad-
adress and place of residence is un-
known:
You are summoned to appear before
the Chancery Court of the county of
Holmes in the State of Mississippi, on
the 3rd Monday of November, 1929, to
defend the suit of Tom Kelly in said
court, wherein you are defendant.
This the 18th day of October, 1929.
NOEL WHITE, Chancery Clerk.
Boothe & Pepper, Soils.
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07
DISSOLUTION NOTICE

The firm of Haffey & brennan, COM
posed of G. P Haffey and W. E. Dren-
nan, doing a general mercantile bust
ness on Route 3, "Pickens, Miss, was,
by mutual consent dissolved on Oct. l,
1920 All accounts due said firm are to
be paid to C. P. Haffey who assumes all
debts due by said firm.
(24-3t-pd.) w. f. BRENNAN.
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07
LECALS

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE TO

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE TO
CREDITORS
No. Observation-Disclosures Notice to
Creditors of Mrs. M. o. Bertron, de-
ceased.
Letters of administration having been
granted to me on the 14th day of Octob-
er, 1929, by the Chancery Court of
Holmes County, Mississippi, notice is
hereby given to all persons having
claims against said estate to present the
same to the clerk of said court for pro-
bate and registration according to law,
within six months from this date or they
will be forever barred.
This the 14th day of October, 1929.
SAM R. BERTRON,
Administrator C. T. A.
The Lexington advertiser., 1929-11-07

Market price on Staple and
Short cotton. Dale-Sample Chev-
rOlet Co.