The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-30
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD


Laboratory Theatre delegation of about Is of the
taxi strikers appeared to make collection appeal for
funds to aid their strike Joseph Gilbert, of their
leaders, was the spokesman He is tall PALE serious with
fighting in
great
The grouped while
audience of 1900 rose and cheered them Tor many minutes Inc
demonstration moved these strikers emotions saw the strong
watherbeaten them turn pale with feeling They
been the trenches fighting formidable The General
Motors has lined up its millions dollars to force company union
them The Mayor of New has been playing all the shabby
politician pretending while
knitting them Tacherousy at every turn The newspapers have run
ediorazed them police
their skulls taught them the bitter that
against the capitalist police always
be counted defend the power of
And these soldiers out Of the trenches of the class struggle
workers
warmth loyalty
workng-cass solidarity In this
through flash Of revelation and affected for life.
may sure strike thousands
among working
New York is that way in Paris where twothirds Of the taxi drivers
up
years company
we're mostly Russian exdukes and counts parasites who had been
forced at last to work for living but who still retained their
class hatred of the
Both my brothers were taxi drivers in New York for
and have known something Of the
workers lead In the last starving
Job Their first strike betrayed by liberals like
nobody fool them They have found
leaders determined the right a
Sophisticated magazines like the New Yorker"
anecdotes from time time point
young college punk male or female talks to taxi driver and
amazed to find that the ideas things long
ought visit one OF the strike meetings of the taxi drivers
discover what might them drivers aren't
nkys but rebels against system young
lice in
best of proran luck to you Taxi Drvers You are putting
wonderful fight; New York working
class in the struggle against the slavery and unkeym the
whatever happens You
have learned great lesson solidarity you
will Only do hey make
concessions; don't forget that
A YOUNG PRoLETAR1AN POET OF MEx1co-1t has always
inteectuals pay
Imperialism stages bloody achey another
capitalism srmory
from which will turned
What happens down there k Of supreme Importance to every
American who is fighting capitalism. their
the exploers who kill off the workers
of Costa Ra and the miners of Mexico enrich themselves
Except open against
out the recent Cuba deeply
There American writer's like
voted themselves to life interest in But his
hcaiy and vacon typical of attitude group
and make him unreliable interpreter
How year English the
rich mine Of Latin American neate9 publishing
recently young proletarian
literature comparable splendid young revolution
airy pawrgh have appeared and gala of poets
the situation that the Gutierrez
List Azlbide Maria Lsa
OF the best Known have appeared frequently translation the
OF the Soviet magazines Not Of the writers
United States however. this
Langon Hughes necessary wears
ago. when ne translated of the powerful
revolutionary, Regime Pedroso
have just received from Jalaps Mexico pamphlet
Mexican mani
fstos this the the social
volcano that ready explode prostitute girls
his land OF poverty the
disease He tells of the lies Of the hope the
future There will be justice says poem on patriotism only
when the national hymns
the International the people, when
the classes class when no bosses and
workers. when the yrans quded
will not faint in the misery hunger of our life
would young Reed Club writers
bonds with our comrades of Latin the
necessary tasks Of revolutionary can think of the
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