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show them how to clench fists and
say, RED 'FRONT.'"
nerve destroying rhythm Of auto
matte stamping machines, OF falling
masses of concrete.
Women cry out in their sleep be-
cause their bodies cannot forget a
torture long since SCARED over.
Dreams OF youths in whom life has
yet been fully al-nt out, miserable,
petty, bourgeois longings, a white
washed dwelhng-room with big yell
low sunflowers. "a swing for little
girls on Sundays. glowing red paper
lanterns on summer evening
children dream of new Shoes, of the
warm fire in the schoolroon, Of the
apples sold by the Old applewoman
outside. And while the children
dream, bugs fall from the stained
ceilings on their soft warm skin.
Resembling knocks sound on a
door. In three, or four of the bed
rooms the heavy humping beats like
a fist in the brain Of sleepers. In
the few second between subconscious
perception of the noise and conscious
hearing crowd terrifying dreams
Dreams of the marshal coming for
eviction. of the police coming to
search the house, Of the rent-collec-
tor with a threatening demand for
arrears.
Damp with sweat, the sleeper
wakes, his dreams dissipated by a
new burst of knocking.
who is that. -"
open the door, Paul. I've for
gotten my key"
1t is only the ledger. In three or
four bedrooms, sleepers fall back on
their pillows relieved.
A long poison draught of night.
A DIFFERENT WORLD
IN big light rooms Of the bourgeois
L quarter, open windows inhale the
tranquil air Of the gardens. Children
are asleep in white beds. Every
evening they pray:
Tired I go now to my rest.
Let my eyes to sleep be pressed.
Heavenly father, let your eyes
Guard my bed till I arise.
They then 90 to sleep, and dream
of god, the father with the long
white beard, of night with her train
of stars, of snow-white horses that
carry them on wings over the noe
turnal city, and of their new dolls,
named Ruth and Rose, dressed In
silk.
In the alley of Wedding, the yards
are so close to each Other that little
Haidi, when she stands at the win
dow in the evening cannot see the
stars. In the Wedding alleys, nights
train Of stars has been transformed
into an oppressive blanket, half
suffocating the children. In the al
leys Of wedding, the grown-u ups do
not teach children to fold their
"a. is, but show them how to clench
fists and say, RED 'FRONT.'"
And many dreamed of this in the
red alley, on this night, which was
separated by four times twenty-four
hours rom the LIST Of May.
At five o'clock the first steps sound
on the stairs, and men walk shiver-
ing, with bundles under their arms
across the still dark yard. From
Wedding railway station, early trains
full Of silent, sleepy workers, set out
for the industrial quarters Of Sic
mensstadt, johannesburg and Rein
ickendorf 81.
lTn 20 GnvnAinundl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-30
BY KLAUS NEuKRANTz

FAR-Kurt a cemen
tired
er movement Anna, again
to a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-30

drunken man, and several hundred
people living in the different blocks
heard it and thought; Franz is
drunk again!"
1t is all too narrow "a man must
have some air. "a prisoned creature
always hurting itself bashing against
the other man and the walls mus
have air. Make room! Make room
therel Will, give us another sChnappS
O.. that IoosenS the Jumps in your
throat, and makes everything bright
And then Franz comes home and
wants to break things up.
DREAMS
Men slept and dreamt in the night.
Not such dreams as those have who
rest in big, clean, bedrooms. Short
torturing dreams, overcast by the
fixed repulsiye faces of pawnbrokers,
the charity organization officials,
Labor Exchange DULLES, the Poor Law
doctor, the Workhouse porter -"
Threatening, hostile faces, grotesques,
ghostly distorted shreds OF a brutal
reality still haunt the night in
dreams that bring sweat to the
bodies Of the sleepers. dreams Of
ever swifter conveyors. of roaring,
crushing steam hammers, of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-30
FOR ANTLNAU MEET AT GARDEN BRINGS FLOOD OF ANSWERS
Capitalists Use "Forced Labor" Lies in
Drive Against Soviet Union
World Build Free romS

is difficult to reconcile armed
guaI ig' with an absenteeism so
great that Il endangers the 'execu-
ton OF the years plan. The ire
mendous labor turnover in Soviet
inaIstry-abOut $50 per cent g year
would seem in itself to be a
refutatiOn of the forced labor
charges. 1t is impossible for labor
10 be 'conscripted' Gnd yet to move
The fact is that the special inter-
ests which circulate forced labor
charges make little effort to be
either accurate o. consistent"
The holy crusade OF the past two
or three years against forced labor"
in the Soviet Union has had one re-
suit certainly not desired by the in
itiators OF the campaign. 1t aroused
general interest in the problem Of
forced labor, which in turn led to
the discovery" that much forced la
Der exists in every capitalist cou-l-
try-especially the United States.
In Russia, new form of labor was
ushered in by the October, 1917, Re
volution. The essence Of the Reyo-
luton was the appropriation of the
capitalists and Of the large land
owners and the seizure OF power by
the proletariat and the poorest strata
of the peasantry. The formerly eX-
plotted and oppressed classes became
the new ruling class; the former OK
ploiterS were suppressed.
Through the succeeding years Of
the Revolution the whole economic
and social structure Of Russia is be-
coming socialized The last bulwark
of entrenched capitalism is rapidly
being overcome by the collectiviza-
tion OF agriculture, which is making
impossible the existence of the in
GiYidUal peasant proprietor. The
Second Fiye-Ye2r Plan lays down as
a practical task the emergence of a
classics society, ready technically
and ideologically to begin the trans
formation to Communism.
NOTE:-The book, Forced Labor
in the United States" from which
the Daily Worker has printed six
instaIments, is, full of similar facts
and arguments that are indispensable
to workers. Every worker should read
the entire book in order to be able
to effectively smash the antiSoviet
forced labor lies and to expose the
horrible forced labor conditions in
the United States and it's colonies.
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THE STREET SLEEPS

THE street slept. It's few dim lamps
only served to increase its DESC
late appearance. The last saloons
were closed. From somewhere came
the rafting sound Of a wooden blind
being let down. A startled cat ran
across the street and vanished
through the broken pane OF cellar
window. Then everything was quiet
The night wind brought from the
railway bridge on the Nettelbeckplatz
the hollow, long drawn-out rumble
of the last trains. A few glimmers
of light behind curtained windows
marked the sompre looming faces OF
the tenements. One after another
they were extinguished. In the stony
ADVISES of the Wedding district night
comes early. The workers night is
short.
The only sound in the street came
from the hob-nailed boots Of the po-
lice patrols passing at regular inter
walls. Always three together.
Between black walls and narrow
yards flowed the turbid waters of the
Panke. A sewer for factory waste in
which the children bathed in the
summer-even the stars on this cold,
cloudless April night were not re-
Elected in it.
The cramped rooms contained
several people apiece. A fetid air en-
yeloped the faces OF the sleepers,
stairs, passages, bedrooms, yards-all
intolerably crowded together, the
smell of humanity permeating walls,
cracks, partitions; compost of te-
nants, tenants, dodgers and
children, the curse Of the street,
Hardly Child had a bed to itself,
In all great, hungry Berlin nowhere
else was such poverty to be found
and so many children.
HOMELESS DERELICTS
Homeless derelicts nuddled undis-
turbed on the stairs. Strange, human
bundles, these also slept and had
their short, painful dreams, their an
xieties and longings.
In one of the yards the silence was
broken rhythmically by the hacking
cough Of a consumptive. Behind the
rcd curtains of a fourth-floor win
dow, light went out. In the mar
row kischen lay not only old mother
Johannsen who never managed to get
to sleep until morning but also the
lodger, young metal worker. In
the heavy atmosphere of the narrow
space, he felt the hot mouth Of the
girl who was sleeping with him. Be-
hind the wall radio set still played
dance music.
A windowpane Gathered in the
yard. There was the shout OF
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The grown-ups do not teach
children to fold their hands, but
chow them how to clench fists and
say, RED 'FRONT.'"
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SntMrdnH

ENTERTAINMENT and DANCE-Section
4. @, p at $50 Lenox Ave- April 1st Red
Dancers, chalk talk, revolutionary songs.
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Sundny

SENDRE CARLIN OF the Daily Worker
staff will describe a personal interview with
Tom Mooney in San quentin In Lecture On
"Frame-ups in q. 6. Labor History" 90 the
Coop. Auditorium z7O0 Bronx Park East
Sunday at $3.50 pm,
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ANNOUNCEMENT


WORKERS FILM and PHOTO LEAGUE
announces symposium 'Crisls and the Tilm.'
Sunday April Q, at $3.50 pm az John Reed
Club headquarters. 45o Sixth Ave.
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Editors NOte:-This is the con-
Guiding instalment from the new
book, Forced Labor in the Uni
ted States" by Walter Wilson. The
book was prepared by the Labor
Research Association, and has an
introduction by Theodore Dresser.
International Publishers, 3Sl Fourth
Ave, New York City. Price 81.
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Notwithstanding rhythm Of auto
matte stamping machines, OF falling
masses Of concrete.
The daily worker., 1933-05-09

Mayor into being a good fellow, the
same as all other mayors in the coun-
try; but they are beginning to realize
that sn honest Communist prefers the
respect and good will Of the workers
to the respect Of the workers enc
mics. Emil Nygard has joined the
Unemployed Council and is definitely
associated with the workers strug-
gies. So he Is ridiculed.
Comrade Nygard outlined, in his
May Day speech, the struggles Of the
American working class for the short
er work day, which struggles led up
to the establishing of May First as
a WORKING class holiday in America
and then into a working class holiday
throughout the world. Comrade
Tankka Of Duluth addressed the
youth In particular, exposing the yici-
Gus military forced labor scheme of
President Roosevelt. And Alfred
TialA, Section Organizer of the Com
rf1ttntst Party in Crosby, supplement
ed the previous speakers by bringing
forth the issues confronting the work.
ing class at the present time--tf1e is
sue OF threatening irrperialist wars,
the issue Of fasoism and the issue of
the struggle for our daily bread.
The best thing about the May Day
demonstration was the fact that all
workers, the National Miners Union,
the Industrial Workers Of the World
The daily worker., 1933-05-09
COMPEL THE CITY TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE
RELIEF AND PAY RENTS FOR ALL NEEDY!
MEET TOMORROW
TO HELP MAKE
COUNCIL STRONG

Militants from flophouse commit
tees, from trade unions and workers
clubs will help develop the Unen-
ployed Councils into fighting weapons
Of the workers when the Council
opens its Registered Supporters Week
at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and Irving
Pl., at 1880 pm Wednesday.
The campaign aims at converting
old branches into neighborhood or
Ward Councils based on elected
Committees Of Action; renewing and
refreshing existing committees and
councils; attracting support Of local
unions, lodges and even church
groups operating in the councils
neigfborhood, and a three-foid in
crease OF supporters.
No obligation is incurred when
workers-especially members Of Trade
Unions and fraternal organizations
register their support by payment Of
a five-cent fee every three months.
The relief situation in New York,
organization relations between unen1-
ployed councils and local committees,
and the drive for registration will be
discussed at Wednesdays meeting.
The session calls for one repreSen-
tatiYe from each house and block
committee, Hoovervilles. flophouses.
Secretaries Of local councils and url-
employed committees In workers or
ganizations are also urged to attend
as delegates-not as observers but as
authoritative reporters.
The daily worker., 1933-05-09

218 z. 14th st., "a willard, 142 Suf-
folk and 80 Ridge Street. A worker
in the neighborhood Of 14th Street
and Avenue A told Of more evictions
in that section. On Norfolk Street
five more families thrown on the
streets.
Workers Aroused
Small crowds of workers gather
around each eviction. The, talk is a
signal. Rare is the tone Of hopeless
ness, predominant is the voice Of BIT
terness and hatred for the landlord
and government. "The dirty bast-
ards, I'd like to fix them" Throw
ing people into the streets, the
skunks," 80 this is Roosevelt's new
deal"
Some soft ones say, well. the land
lord has to pay taxes, he can't keep
them if they don't pay"
He is answered with contempt.
He doesn't worry about us, does
he, the city has plenty Of money for
the grafters and bankers, let them
worry about taxes, we've got to worry
about our own kind"
Council Organizing
The bitterness, hatred and fighting
mood is rapidly being gathered to-
gether and harnessed by the Unena-
ployed Council, who have members at
each eviction, circulating around the
crowd or holding open air meetings;
giving directives to the workers on
The daily worker., 1933-05-09
Crosbys Toilers Join May Day
March Led By Communist Mayor

CROSBY, Minn.--The May Dag
demonstration here was the biggest
OF its kind that Crosby has witnessed
One hundred and fifty workers gath
cred at p. m. on an empty lot on
Main Street and began marching, two
abreast, around town. Gradually naoes
workers fell In line until at least twc
hundred and fifty were In the parade
Due 10 the cold weather the firia,
gathering was at the workers Hall
where practically ali Of the proletAx1at
Of Crosby assembled to the number
Of four hundred and fifty or more.
The working class parade and DEM
orstration was headed by Crcsty's
Communist mayor, Emil Nygard. Pre-.
viotlsly Conrade Nygard had declared
May First holiday In Crosby, calling
upon local business men TO Close theii
estab blisffnerts TO enable their work
ers to participate in the May Day
demonstration. The business men
however, disobeyed; and In view OF
the fact that police authority here
is vested In police commission In
stead Of in the hands Of the mayer
Comrade Nygard was powerless te
enforce his proclamation Of hoA-
day.
Speaking TO the assembled worker.
In the hail, Conrade Eygard lam.
nasted the locsl business men for
their arltagonistic stand. He pointsc
out that under the deepening crisis
the class lines are becoming more
and more clearly drawn. That vi
are getting into position TO see
more clearly who are With US Ane
who against the workers. He pointed
out correctly that the pettJ
bourgeois, small business men siYosilc
support the workers struggles. IN,
small business man k rapidly loeirie
his economic advantages ana Ia beinf
driven into poverty along with TN
workers.
The business and professional ole.
n1ent here now may laugh deY1siveiJ
about "Nygards army" when theJ
refer to the Unemployed Council asi<
the militant working class In general
but the workers are neither f1dieuiee
or dismayed. The hard writing 4.
on the wall and capitalism is doomed
The enemies OF the workers her,
have entertained hopes that they vii
stjcGfsd in whaadlin9 fra Cnsnsv5Ssysis
The daily worker., 1933-05-09
Harry w. Smith,
of Kansas City, Mo-,
Expelled from Party

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The District
Buro of the Communist Party Of this
district has voted unanimously to ex-
pei from the Party Harry W. Smith
OF this city (also known at Council
Bluffs, Ia and st. Joseph, MOI, as
disruptiYe and unreliable individual
He has constantly been slanderins
the leadership of the Party in this
district, he has been guilty OF vile,
white. .chaavinistic abuses against q
leading Negro cor1rade, he refuses to
be disciplined and to carry out Party
decisions.
In his appeal TO the Central Con.
troll Commission Of the Party, which
appeal has been rejected, he has
stopped even to raising grave accu-
sations against leading Party mem
befs without any substantiatiof or
basis In facts
He Is still pretending to be In favor
Of the Party program and TO be work
ing for the Party line among the
unemployed, among the farmers and
In approaching individual members.
But that, OF course, is only cloak
Under which he Is carrying on his
disruptive work against local organi-
cations and leadership Of the Party.
Such elements have no place In
the fighting vanguard OF the working
class, have no place in the Communist
Party, where clarity Of principles
Especially on the Negro question:
and maintenance Of iron discipline
Is Of the Utmost Importance.
All workers and workers organi-
cations are warned against Harry W.
smith and against his false pre-
lenses.
The daily worker., 1933-05-09
Party Life
Block Comm. Breaks
Up Because Unit Does
Not Give Attention

|. Unit 30S got recruit through an
unemployed struggle q year ago. Aft
er being one month in the Party and
attending Section school this COM
rade became unit organizer.
At unit buro meetings he brought
up the problems Of the workers in
the neighborhood, until the unit be-
gan to consider these problems as its
own. Meetings in blocks were held.
Committees were sent to the relief
station to demand relief. Furniture
Of evicted families were put back
by the workers In the nciRhborhood
AS result Of this activity we suc-
ceeded to build up thirteen block
committees.
Now, however, none Of these COM
mittees are any longer in existence,
although there are other committees
in the neighborhood, and the reasons
for their disappearance are the fol-
lowing:
1. Only a few members Of the unit
participate in the actual work Of
these committees, while the others
OAAAJ AAo(Oo0CA am AVkNAdCA WAAC1I pAkS
work. OF these committees were taken
up at the unit meeting.
2. After the block committees were
established the unit began to con-
slider that the work Of these commit
tees were the concern only Of the
comrades in the committees ana not
Of the unit as whole.
8. The existence of an Unemployed
Council branch near the territory Of
the unit caused some comrades to
think that there was no necessity for
block committees.
The remedy for this situation is
for the unit to again take up the COR
ditions Of the workers in the neigh
borhood. To assign all comrades Of
the unit to participate in one way or
another in developing struggles
around cases Of starvation.
M. ~, z.
The daily worker., 1933-05-09
Evict Family of s

Eviet Family of s
Take the case at 144 Nor
folk Street, the Tally family.
There are SIX children. The mother
is heavy with another, due soon. The
father has searched in vain for work,
and finally got relief from the, Home
Relief Bureau, only to be suddenly
cut of By the cities new order. of
paying mo rents"
One of the children, about IL. was
in the hallway crying, the others
were scattered about wondering what
would happen next, while their par
ents we're pleading vainly at the bu-
reau for a place to stay that night.
When the marshall arrived at 211
Avenue A there were only two small
children in the house. Not waiting
for the parents to come, they chased
the children out in the street, took
down the furniture and padIocked
the deer. The children stood by cry
ing.
Sc Week Relief
Mrs. Rosslr1i at AL E. 14th st. re-
ceived the magnificent sum of 81 a
week for herself and two children.
Her husband is dead Pleas that this
could not even feed them let alone
pay for rent and light, left the Home
Relief Bureau unmoved. Today she
and her children are on the streets,
told to shift the best way they can.
The other four evictions were at
The daily worker., 1933-05-09

tie five-ysar old girl from the front
house wore q white bandage round
her head. When the police had shot
into the rooms during the afternoon
she had been wounded on the fore
head BY . flying piece Of mortar.
Anna opened the window snd
looked down into the dark water Of
the Panke, flowing slowly and noise
lessly between dark walls. Here at
the back all was perfectly quiet. The
high houses deadened the noise Of
the alley. A few miserable little
shrubs, with the first delicate green
hue Of young buds, grew on the banks.
Spring came in late between these
high sunless walls, where man and
nature had to fight against filth and
dirt for their existence.
She felt the soft evening wind on
her hot face. It Is already May, she
was thinking. Outside in the large
gardens Of the suburbs 1t will soon
be summer. Then the foul smell
would again penetrate their dwell
insz. YEARLY she laid her head
against the window frame. The soft
warm air csressed her forehead, her
neck and her hands Outside the
window q bird vss hopping In the
sand, a grey miserable docking spar
row.
The strong scent Of the May wind
which suddenly mingled with the
foul smell Of the water, discounted
her. 1t was heavy, sickly smell Of
decay, such as sometimes comes from
ivy and tof1bstones and makes thu
heart heavy and oppressed.
A rat jumped into the water with
q soft pionk, ripping the surface ir
It's wake.
The daily worker., 1933-05-09
JEWISH ACTORS no OR.
CAME BRO BRIAN
THEATRE

A troupe Of Jewish actors, gradu-
ates of the Moscow Jewish Theatrical
Technicun, will leave shortly for
Biro Brian to establish the First
Jewish Theater in Biro Brian. Their
repertoire will include, MY Friend
by Pogodin, "Youlis," by Daniel, one
classic play, a special play dealing
with Biro Brian life and problems,
several short plays by sh6lenA Al
eichert and othen
The daily worker., 1933-05-09
10 CENT SUBWAY
FARE PROPOSED
Berry Also Asks Fees
for City Colleges

NEW YORK.-A 10-cent fare on
all subways in New York City was
recommended by Comptroller Berry
yesterday in his report to Mayor
O'Brien. With this step, all the
election promises OF Tammany about
keeping the scent fare are thrown
overheard.
A 10-cent fare on ferry lines was
also recommended.
On the other hand, Berry proposes
to cut relief further, to $2,0o0,000 a
month.
Other attacks ON the workers pro-
posed by Berry include the establish
ment of fees for students at all COL
leges under the jurisdiction Of the
Board of Education. Workers sons
and daughters at the College Of the
City of New York and Hunter Col
lege are among those who would be
affected.
A toll Of 10 cents at all East River
bridges Is also proposed.