The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-26
COURTESY OF
INTERNATIONAL
PAMPHLETS
By WHITAKER CHAMBEF

By WHITAKER CHAMBERS
That morning the Mexicans left
Wardell. He heard them talking
all night, GARLIC urging, his wife
opposing, but at last her opposition
growing fainter, perhaps tired out.
In the morning they all came
down into the lower room. The
children stood in ragged line,
mute, and stared. The wife, look
ing much like the children, but
with twin in either arm, also
stared.
"Companero Ooardell,' said Car
rillo, Eve are going away. You
have no food for yourselves. The
roads opened last night. Companero
Oardell, you are good man. Your
wife, she is a good woman. Your
sons, they are good young men.
If I go east or if I go west, if 1 go
north or if I go south, will always
come back here. Sometimes I will
come to take, sometimes to bring.
But I will always remember that
you saved our lives. I thank you
my wife thanks you, and my chill
dren thank you. Goodbye, COM
paneroS."
His wife smiled and nodded, and
they all went away, having some
how gotten their Ford to start.
$50 the Carrillos have left your"
said Davis. II guess that Mex
figured there was going to be
shooting, and a fights a poor place
for a greaser."
think so? I wouldn't be too
hopeful about the shooting, Mort,
In the first place, what are we
going to get by shooting In
the second place, though that crowd
learned some kind of a lesson when
they took the milk from Purcell,
they've had time to think it over.
You'll see, those that come here
today are little scared of them
selves"
"You forget their kids are still
crying"
THE MEETING
Before noon the little house was
so packed with men and women'S
bodies, you couldn't walk a foot
The heat rose perceptibly and with
the smell of COW and horse manure
and humans.
1--WE can't talk in here" Wardell
called out. Everybody outsider
Line up those cars in a half
dozen rows" he said, "and sit in
them" His own car was standing
in front of the house. 1t was
open and the top was down. Ills
wife got in, and Davis. Wardell
stood on the front seat and talked.
I'm glad to see that there are so
few of us here" he said. 1T means
that only the most reliable and the
most needy are here. It means we
can move together easier, and have
more confidence in each other.
And we need that"
I'm glad to see, too, that you
women have brought your babies
with you. It's another sign that
you're not afraid, and it means
that we'll never lose sight of why
we're going to Paris.
"And we're going down to Paris.
We're starving, and we're going to
Paris to get food. I hear that the
Red Cross is going to give it to us.
Now I want to tell you how they're
going to give to us.
First of all, before they give us
aything, we've got to prove that
we're not 'impostrs.' That's what
they're calling some of us now.
In other words, we've got to prove
that we really are starving to
death. Can you prove it,
Growls.
"Then, when we've proved that
we're starving, I want to tell you
what they'll give us"
How do you qnow what they're
going to do?" asked a voice. Other
voices: Ssh! SSH"
Never mind, Al Croker, Just
remember that we did tell you,
when the time comes,"s Davis
bawled back.
They're going to give us one
loaf of bread! Not one apiece, but
one to each family! One bag of
flour-the same! Maybe some
bacon!"
How much milk?" called
woman
Enough for two days"
What good does two days do?
We had a days before, and we
made it last three. Now if they
give us two days, and we make it
last five, what'll we do when it's
gomez"
Its the same with all the rest