davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1934-11-18

O little, pitted with shallow gulles He slid
down a bank and began walking along one OF
them. He stopped to detach his own water
bottle and drank deeply. The water was warm.
He went on.
Firing suddenly sounded Just ahead 1t
seemed to be of to his left little He stopped.
Thought So" he murmured to himself Cant
tell me them krauts would give up a nice piece
of woods like this without fight Somebody's
gonna get hurt"
I IUGGNGS continued to stand and listen.
! ! There was no doubt that q brisk, If minor,
engagement was opening few hundred yards
ahead
There wasn't any question In his mind about
whether he should take part In it. Complaining
about carrying an officers bottle was one thing.
Ducking q fight was another. Higgins didn't
consider the latter.
What he did consider was how to declare
himself In with fair chance of escaping with
a whole skin. That bespoke the professional
soldier who realized that dead heroes are Of
little value for all immediate purposes.
He was again conscious Of thirst. He drained
what water remained in his canteen, but was
still thirsty He considered the bottle of tea.
Lieut.. Ward, he knew, wouldn't deny thirsty
man q drink. And then there was always
chance that Ward might never want the tea.
Or anything else in this world Higgins un-
screwed the top from the bottle, lifted it and
drank. He lowered it from his lips, shook it and
drank again. He slung the bottle over his
shoulder and went on.
The gully began to play out as he neared the
crest of the slope. Just before he reached the
skyline he dropped to his hands and knees.
He moved bush and peered through.
Ahead the ground went down sharply to
border a small stream crossed by stone bridge
Bodies lay about the bridge. They wore olive
drab. Firing came from hidden men. Some of
those firing, Higgins knew wore sea green. The
bodies near the bridge told that
Higgins began to crawl forward and slid into
another gully. 1t bore slightly away to the left.
The going was difficult He paused for a mo-
ment and again drank from the tea bottle. The
heat Of the sun was beating on him.
The gully narrowed deepened, and then made
an abrupt turn. Higgins followed it and then
suddenly halted. Even above the rattle of rifle
and machine gun fire he thought he heard the
sound Of voices. He listened and then con-
cluded he must have been mistaken.
Then new sound attracted his attention.
He looked back. Coming over the ridge in a
struggling file was column of men. They
were Americans. Higgins, cursing at the
stupidity Of their commanding officer at so ex-
posing them, decided to wait where he was.
They would pass, he saw, between him and
the bridgehead Failing in with them would
be better than going on alone.
-, Then again, he heard. 1.-THE sound Of voices.
It seemed to come from beneath the ground
Evening star., 1934-11-18

his grasping fingers closed about the hips Of
the German who was firing.
His shoulder was numb and seemingly useless.
He was tired, spent, and even as he struggled
for hold his body hinched in expectation OF
another shot. But he drove forward. wedging
his head between the others knees. He strug-
gled upward. Something beat on his head. The
German was using the pistol as club.
Higgins reached upward and clawed at q
hand. He pulled sharply down and backward
and went over, the German beneath him. He
turned like a dog-fghting cat Knees and fist
struck blindly. His fingers felt the bristles on
an unshaved chin and neck. His fingers sunk In,
closed frightened. A fist smashed him across
the eyes.
He shook his head, trying to clear it. There
was roaring in his ears and bright fire before
his eyes, He was spent. He was in agony. He
couldn't go He felt himself slipping. In
one last effort he squeezed his fingers Then he
seemed to be falling and far away he heard
voice.
Blackness engulfed him, and for time he
heard and saw no more.
\A /HEN he awoke Higgins found himself
w lying on stretcher. His head was
pounding and he knew that it would soon burst.
He was sick with pain and he gradually became
aware of the fact that one of his arms was
strapped to his side. He opened his eyes and
closed them again Once more he opened them
to the binding glare and his swimming gaze
could just make out Sergt. Mallin's face.
Despite the pain he tried to grin. How
they comm, sarge?" he whispered.
Mallin bent over him. Take it easy, Hug"
he said. They knocked the skin off you in a
couple of places. You sure did clean out that
joint? Why didn't you yell for little help?
Boy if they had ever turned loose with that
machine gun on US? Ward sent me back for en.
They're gettin' ready to give you a dozen
medals How'd it happen?"
Higgins tried to lift his head but quickly let
it sink back again. Listen, SARGE he whis-
pered. Look around, will you and find that
tea bottle I tossed it somewheres around here"
Malln bent over. Here it isl he said.
"Somebody put bullet through it. Must've
been of them krauts shootin' at you. Well,
you won't have to carry it any more. That's one
break you get"
Higgins looked at the bullet-pierced cam
cursed again. What is the matter?" asked
Mallin.
"You call that break?" answered Higgins.
'Where in hell do you think I got the steam to
60 after them babies instead of takn quick
sneak over the hill? Right out OF that bottle,
that's where. There wasn't no tea in 1t. That
bottle was full of wine that the lieut. was
holdin' out on us. Just think OF me luggln IL
all over France and never KNOWN 1t TIL now.
Evening star., 1934-11-18

realized that he was soldering, that he was
following the line Of least resistance in declining
to assume responsibility for any one or any
thing except himself.
They came to small group of men. 1t was
beginning to grow q little lighter. Higgins
recognized Lieut.. Ward.
We'll be moving in few minutes, Higgins"
said the officer. Get that tea bottle. Bring
it to me at the usual time. don't know just
where I'll be, but find me. Understand"
"Yes, sir"
Higgins went away to the covered space
where the cook and his current helpers were
applying a minus quantity of heat to a mini
mum of rations. The cook had the canteen-like
bottle ready sling made of cartridge belts
had been fashioned for it. He grinned as he
handed it to Higgins.
GO ahead, laugh, you grease ball." said Hug
gins. "One of these days I'm gonna put little
somethin' in this bottle and when the lieut.
comes around with blood in his eye I'm gonna
tell him you musta done it because never open
it. What would want with tea?"
Higgins went back to his platoon. It was
beginning to grow warm and the woods, wet from
recent rains. were steaming in the early light.
Higgins companions said nothing to him as he
returned to his place. AS fellow companions in
misery they secretly sympathized with any man
being crowded by an officer.
After a short delay the line began to move
Far off the daily business of war went on with
deep rumble. But directly ahead there was only
silence.
1t was hot work, walking and stumbling
along. Higgins could feel the perspiration
streaming from his body. His clothes were
damp and sticky He damned the war, himself
and Lieut.. Ward. But most Of all he cursed
the tea bottle which, for fully-equpped fight
ing man. was as awkward to carry as a baby.
He began to drop back.
He knew that a second line would follow the
first, looking for stragglers and pushing them
on. But, then, he had the bottle as an alibi for
his slow progress. An officer, held back for some
reason, passed him and disappeared ahead.
Dust askin' for it," said Higgins to himself.
He paused and looked about. Ahead he could
see q few men through the open spaces In the
trees and bushes, but they soon were out Of
sight. The ground had begun to slope upward
Evening star., 1934-11-18

- AVN was half an hour off. Only the
sound Of restless movement betrayed
the presence Of men in the woods.
The ground was wet. 1t smelled Of
rotting bark and leaves.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-02-15
THURSDAY, FEB. Is, 1884

Name of Subdivision
Owner of Section
p. j. G Andrew Petersen. sen of sen
VIM. Kohleppel, neH of swA ........
VIM. Kohleppel. swA of swA. less
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Spreading Confusion

GENERAL SMEDLEY BUTLER, who re-
tons of how and by whom fascism is being
organized in this country, spoke on Friday
at the Mecca Temple in New York City.
And this speech revealed that despite his start
ling revelations the fascist plots in this coun-
try Butler himself is playing his own special part
in strengthening the rule of the Wall Street
nopolies who are the organizers of the advance of
fasciSm.
Buffers whole line in this meeting is that the
danger of fascism comes only from outside the
White House and the Federal government He urged
his audience to trust the government as the bull
wark against fascsm and the instrument to
bring about social change. Doesn't this serve to
prepare the way for fascism in America through
concealing its main source, in the Roosevelt gov
eminent?
How will you fight fascism?" he was asked. And
he replied, you have the right to vote and you can
vote men into Office who will fight it for you, The
worst thing in the world is to get rebelious about
it and fight 1t. just keep as you are going"
Now what is this if not the most valuable kind Of
service to the organizers of fascisn? If Buffers
advice is taken then fascism will have no trouble
In advancing itself.
If the masses depend on voting against fascisna,"
then fascism, which is the most brutal advance of
time. Notice that Butler specifically advises the
people mot to get rebelIious" about fascsm-that is
to say, not to fight it in mass demonstrations mass
protests, and strike actions, the only way that fas
cism be stopped in its advance.
What is this if not giving fsscism helping hand
in this country? Did not the miseaders of the Ger
and Austrian people also advise them to "vote
against fascism by voting for Hindenberg and DOLL
fuss, both of whom ushered in fascism?
Builder also showed himself tn he subtitle nrOoa-
gandist for imperalist Despite all his radical"
speeches about war as a racket" for the capital
lists lin which he is right far as he goes) Butler
proceeded on Friday to warn his audience that the
way to fight imperalist IS ito vote in support
of your Senate. They'll do it for you"
Now it is clear that this kind of stuff has its
important function in keeping the masses from
fighting the war-makers in the only effective way,
by mass actions, by strikes against war shipments
etc.
Watch out for this Butler. He is serving capital
ism and fascism in his own way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
The NRA Auto Hearings

AUTO workers testimony before the
"A n. R. A. hearings in Detroit revealed
the most terrible conditions of speed-up,
low wages, spy systems, company union
ism and black list. Employees of all the big
auto companies testified to these inhuman condi-
tions. The employees Of the Ford company showed
that Ford is the greatest bloodsucker in Detroit
number testified they were better of on relief
than on the auto companies payrols.
These conditions were brought about largely
through the treschery of these same A, F. of L.
lesders-William Green Collins Dillon etc. The
rotten conditions have come about under the re-
gime of the Auto Labor Board. which was set up
last March with Green's support. At that time
when the auto workers were ready to strike for their
demands Green and company prevented the strike
helped Roosevelt and the companies set up the Auto
Labor Board and thus defeated all the auto workers
demands.
Now when the auto workers clearly see that the
Auto Labor Board is responsible for the company
unions growth, for blscklisting, speed-up and low
wages, these A. F. of L. leaders have been forced
to ATTACK" the very board which they helped set up
But what do Green and Dillon propose in place
Of the Auto Labor Board? Not strike preparations,
not united front Of the auto workers to fight for
their demands-but another impartial" board set
up by Roosevelt.
These A. F. of L. leaders are trying to do over
again what they did last March-to keep the auto
workers from preparing strike for their demands
to keep the auto workers satisfied with Roosevelts
employer controlled boards to maintain their faith
in the federal government, whose boards have
brought the auto workers to their present deporabe
state.
THE rank and file auto workers demand the thirty
hour week without reduction in pay higher wages
union recognition an end of the killing speed-up.
They demand the passage of the workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill.
These demands cannot be won through NF.A.
Investigations" or frsmed-up elections" which IA
vor the company union. These demands cannot be
won by reliance on Roosevelts Auto Labor Board,
any similar board of Roosevelt which claims to
be Impartial but which is controlled by the
companies
The demands of the auto workers can be won
only through preparing a strike. The immediate
task Of the auto workers is to achieve the united
front of all auto workers. to achieve rank and file
control of the union, to build the union to a 100
per cent organization
The building of the united front of all auto
workers to fight for these demands the prepara-
ton of strike for these demands-this is the only
road whereby the auto workers change the in
human conditions brought about by the employers
through the government Labor Boards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
39,231% War Profits

IMAGINE Mr.. Pierre S. du Points en-
L barrassment when the fact was brought
out that OH one government contract his
war munitions firm made 1921 per cent
profit
Karl Marx has said that for 33 1-3 per
cent profit almost any capitalist would sell his
grandmother For thirty mine thousand two hun
dred and thrty-one per cent profit, he has COM
junction whatever in having several millions of
workers slaughtered.
We can we'll understand that when the Senate
Arms Inquiry brought out the fact that the du Pont
firm got return of nearly 100000 on a $1,000 war
investment in the Old Hickory powder plant that
Mr.. Pierre S. du Points face got crimson with
feeling"
An assistant United States attorney general, in
office at the time this thirty mine thousand two hun
dred and thirty-one per cent profit was made de-
clared his attempts to prosecute this robbery
blocked at every avenue in the government
The main purpose of the Wall Street govern
ment, whether under Wilson, Hoover, Harding or
Roosevelt is to protect the interests profits of
the big trusts and the richest exploiters.
Was insult punished? Is Weirton Steel Budd,
or any other auto manufacturer in the slightest
threatened by wilfully violating the demagogic
rights" Roosevelt promised the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
The Communist DriUe

THE House Committee on un-American
activities, which has been dabbling in
the exposure of Nazi and fascist activities
in this country, is now turning its main
attention to its real work. The committee
will enter on Monday into Investigations of Com
munist activity"
What is it that the Congressional Committee is
already contemplating? A Federal drive against
the Communist Party, with Congressman McCor-
mack, chairman of the committee, already pro-
posing Federal registration system for all "radi
cal propagandists."
This drive against the Communist Party by the
House Committee supposedly fighting fascism comes
very nicely timed with the call by the U. s. Cham
Der of Commerce and the National Association of
Manufacturers for the outlawing of the Communist
Party.
1t comes timed with the whole new reaction
airy drive of the Roosevelt government, which is
now moving forward to execute the latest wage
cutting open-shop policies of the Wall Street mo-
nopolies.
The Dicksiein investigation of the Nazis thus
turns out to be only ruse by which the main guns
can be turned against the Communist Party, the
leading fighter against fascism and capitalist ex-
plotaton.
If the Communist Party is outlawed and its
activities seriously hampered by the Dicksten Com
mittee, then the advance of fascsn1 will proceed
without any obstacles in its path For the Commu-
mist Party as the revolutionary party of the work
ing class is the leading organizer of the mass fight
Against fascism.
The Dickstein Committee, like all capitalist
groups allegedly fighting" fascism wages sham
battle against fascism only the better to wage
real fight against Communism, the true enemy of
fascism.
And it is significant that the first witnesses in
this new Red batting" investigation will be Will
liam Green and Matthew VOL. Is not this united
front of the A. F. of L. bureaucrats with the most
reactonary sections of the Wall Street ruling class?
Does not this show the role Green and VOL
playing in organizing the new Roosevelt wage-cut
drive?
1t is the solemn duty of the whole working class,
especially of the Socialist Party and trade union
members to rally to the defense of the Communist
Party against the new Red batting" of the Dick
stein Committee and The A, F of i. bureaucrats
like Green and WoL
For the blows that are aimed against the Com
munist Party are aimed at the whole labor
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
MONDAY, DECEMBER IT, 80
Nothing NeW!

THE Roosevelt Advisory Committee on
/ Economic Security has ended its IN
ouiries-and its labors have brought forth
a scheme substantially the same as the
Wagner-Lewis Unemployment Reserves"
Bill The actual act to be presented to Congress
during the coming session has been left up to the
bil-drafting committee Of Congress, but the gen.
eral principles proposed are all contained in the
Wagner-Lewis Bill, except for a nebulous laid and
grant" plan to be addended.
The scheme proposes a 3 or 4 per cent tax on
pavrolls, and the government would "subsidize the
Insurance in States setting up funds Of the stand
ards in the Federal act"
Thus the brain-child of William Green OF the
American Federation Of Labor, Walter Teagle OF
the Standard Oil Company, Gerard Svope Of Cen
eral Electric and other industrialists and bankers
on the Roosevelt Advisory Council, is shown to be
scheme to deny all benefit payments to the present
unemployed, to agricultural workers, in the vast
numbers of which are almost the entire Negro popu
lation to domestic and professional employees and
In TRANSFORMATION workers 1t is not system of I'M
employment insurance, but the fake reserves
scheme
Seven dollars a week is the benefit set up by
the Wagner-Lewis Bill, and complicated provi-
sion allows up to SIS for favored few.
aid and grant, the Advisory Committee urged
and a tax on payrolIS Under Sucn a system, Cne
paramount questions arising in the minds of the
workers are Who will psy?" and Who will
beneft?"
The impost will come directly out of the workers
wages and by added prices on all goods-direct and
Indirect tax imposts on the wages of the workers!
This barefaced robbery of the workers through
a fraudulent scheme must be cOuntered by the
widest propaganda for the Workers Bill and broad
est mass representation possible at the coming Ma
tionaI Congress for Unemployment Insurance.
mighty historic event that will make its decisions
reverberate in the councils of the Federal legisla
tive bodies.
While the Roosevelt regime evades the granting
of real unemployment insurance, it hacks away at
relief standards, keeping at the time an ever
closer ear to the ground to sound out the reactions
of the masses Witness for example the contra
dictory maneuvers in Cleveland where the one
hand it is forced to increase relief but at the same
time dooms to starvation the sick, aged and the
blind.
In such a light, the pious mouthings of Federal
Relief Administrator Hopkins who spoke in New
York Saturday on Federal Relief and the Yuletide
Spirit" is mockery of the misery of millions.
Taken in their entirety, the workings of the
objective the denial of real unemployment insurance
The plans of the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance, on the other hand will place
the demand squarely before the owning class and
their government-real unemployment Insurance for
all workers to be paid by the bosses and their gov
eminent
Elect delegates to the National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
by Burck


A short time ago the Presidum of
the Central Executive Committee
finally approved the plan which has
been elaborated in all its details by
the State Planning Commission for
the development of the national
economy of the US.S.R. for the
Second Five Year Plan-1933- 1887
Soviet Architecture
An architects conference took
place in Moscow a short time ago
which decided upon the following
agenda for the first Architects Con-
gress TO be convened at the begin
ming Of 1885:
1.-The tasks of Soviet architec-
ture.
2.-The architecture of the FEEDER
ated Republics.
3.-The architectural educational
system and the training of highly
skilled builders.
4.-The planning of socialist
towns.
'5.-The building and the planning
of the collective farm villages.
6.-statutes of the Soviet Archi-
tects' Union.
The conference decided to or
ganize an All-Union architectural
exhibition in Moscow within the
near future.
No National MinOrities"
In all the districts of the Soviet
| Union, and not only in the autono-
nous republics, the toilers of any
nationality who are in the majority
in a given locality or district form
their national local Soviet which
looks after the economic and cul-
tural needs of the local population.
| The language of the nationality in
question is the dominant language
in this area and in the work of all
the bodies of the local Soviets. In
Soviet Ukraine, for example, there
are 1873 such village Soviets and
district Executive Committees
among which there are ITO Polish
lib Jewish, "a Moldavian, Al Bull
garian, 81 Greek, IL Czechoslovak-
ian, 2 White Russian, etc. Besides
! that, one Swedish and three AL
bantam village Soviets are now be-
ing formed in the Ukraine. In this
way the Soviet Ukraine creates all
the necessary conditions for the
! economic and national development
of all the nationahties that live
| there.
New Collective Peasants
The reflections to the Village
I Scviets are taking place in the So
Wet Union hand in hand with an
! increased influx of individual peas
j ants into the collective farms. This
influx had already commenced in
the summer months when the sue
cessful struggle of the collective
I farms against the drought had
demonstrated all the merits of the
collective farm system in particu-
larly striking manner In the Kiey
! district alone (Ukraine) $1,000
peasant households joined the COL
lective farms during the past few
| months.
Ito Be Concluded Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-17
Chicago Workers To
Celebrate Opening of
Biro-Bidjan Soviets

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. IA. = The
workers of Chicago will celebrate
the election of the first Jewish
Soviet in Biro-Bidjan on December
23rd at the Masonic Temple, 80
West Randolph Street.
Noted speakers will explain how
the Soviet Union solved the Jewish
question. Among them are: Robert
Minor, a member of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party;
DR.. Curtis w. Reece, head of the
Abraham Lincoln Center; Professor
A. j. Carlson of the University of
Chicago: Charles Kuntz, who spent
six years working and studying
farms in the Soviet Union, especial
ly Biro-Bidjan; and S. Almazow,
national secretary of IGOR.