THE DAILYWORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1928 Page Five THE BLACK HOLE OF Describes Prison Tortures BOOKS and COMMENT Back from China Is It Coffee
” Or Is It Not GALATA IN RUMANIA Dunn's “Company Unions Analyzed Nothing like a stiff cup of coffee after a long in the crow’s nest, By HENRI BARBUSSE. “Simion died one night. watch The Mechanism the Class A Tepid "Liberal” Writes say sailors. But if you your java “On the following day we were of ¦ like account re- ; strong avoid the Katrina Luckenbach, The following is the made to take off our clothes to have Struggle a Novel sult of investigations made by ; one of the big coast to coast freight- them exposed to the vapour of an en- By Henri and a group of COMPANY UNIONS. By Robert W. SILENT STORMS. Ernest Poole. ; or# of the prosperous Luckenbach Barbusse gine boiler. What wa3 the use of this European associates into the white Dunn. Vanguard Press. Fifty cents. The Macmillan Co. $2.60. line. caress, when it would have required UAVING found that he could a terror conditions in Rumania. The earn "¦ , • ' .¦ - ¦ A sailor just back from a round, fire and flood to cleanse this single rVENTS which have followed on the “Comfortable livelihood by flattering investigation was carried out under “ cruise to Seattle told the Federated cell! heels of one another during the the rich, Ernest Poole, who once extreme difficulties, the Rumanian pass that the war- Press how the ship's coffee is made. “Italso came to past few months give a timeliness wrote that unusual novel of the class fascist government throwing pvery ders all the prison staff ceased “The captain drinks postum so he 1 and and importance to the subject of com- struggle called, “The Harbor,” has possible obstacle in the way of the doesn’t worry what the rest of us to come to us. They kept out of the pany unions as not hitherto investigators. The subsequent re- such has 1 been a liberal for a number of years. drink. The two first mates have a way. They disappeared. The serv- been the case. The labor movement Regularly novels which ports which showed a systematic who, he turns out percolator. And for the other 46 ice was performed by soldiers may be said to have waked up rather are widely reviewed as books dis- persecution of workers and peasants for anything. 1 20Wy$M&4%r members of the crew the steward as you know, are good late to the menace of the company cussing “great problems of our almost unequalled in the history of prisoners, the boils up one pound of coffee. Each “Still it was the ingen- union. The officials of the trade age.” “Silent Storms” is his latest. bourgeois repressions appeared sub- occasion, man averages four cups a day, so you iously intoxicated for the unions, in spite of their at- To Poole, the “regretable sequently in L’Humanite, the who Simion from his bed, verbal thing” can figure the strength of the brew.” removed tacks, to "sleep the about a Wall Street French Communist daily. him lime, then buried still continue on multi-millionaire Good coffee is supposed to give 35 sprinkled with is that he doesn’t see the “valuable Henri Barbusse is the celebrated him. HENRI BARBUSSE. issue” for the well-known reasons. to 40 cups to the pound. On the But in the meantime the company work” the League of Nations, “that French revolutionary novelist, best “Finally this this same ¦ Luckenbacker a pound makes 184 happened, union may pass through another strange new laboratory of peace,” has known as the author of “Under day: the other, Vasili the ¦ cups. And yet some folks wonder one after stage incorporated done. Fire,” “Chains,” “Light” and a robber, Fedor the pickpocket, and and become an why American boys don’t want to go of development. When Poole is not filling his book spirited appeal to the French in- Wasja politician fell sick. factor industrial to sea as they used to. the Fighting the brought out at the recent , with New York World editorials, he tellectuals, "The Knife Between the “No about them. I Evidence one troubled proposed , deals with a great modern marriage Teeth.” He is the sponsor of the have that we no longer saw hearing on the anti-strike said the - problem: why a middle-aged Amer- REVEILLE Clarte group of revolutionary writ- the law at the Bar Association indicated Scott Nearing, author and lec- officials. They, spiders, were Frame Up ican millionaire, who is shown to be Early Morning: ers and intellectuals. waiting in at the ends of their very clearly, if such a law is passed I turer, has just returned from the shelter as clean as a newly-washed pair of burly Cop for prisoners. the company union with its hand- (The giant * * * webs the By MAX SHAgHTMAN diapers, cannot get along with a flip- Soviet Union, after having made a • * * maiden, the “yelow-dog” contract, Drives ! [ pant French his age who study the hours and putting and By Lener String Quartet of everything on one side to telegraph for the release of all class In Six Parts, on Three 12-inch Double Disc Records, with Album. which we used pass looking the war Dunn reports that “the wage-cut- Complete. to at this these simple words to Galata: ‘Until prisoners confir’d in {4.50 heap of rags which writhed and the peni- ting campaigns of 1921 revealed the WORKERS further orders, no more convicts from tentiaries of American capitalism. Beethoven: I.eonore Overtut No. 3. writhed and made the last of human company unions as effective instru- By Henry Hall Orchestra. Galata work on my fields.’ Sir J. Wood and New Queen’s strength groan dung, for TOWARDS this end, the tour of ’ company In Four Parts, on Two 12-inch Double Disc Records, Nos. 67J49-D on a mattress of * ments. Some textile unions j “As he knew that precautions must LIBRARY! 67350-D. $1.50 Each. %s you may imagine that it was never James P. Cannon, the national voted themselves as much as 30 to 40 I be taken against contagion.” secretary of changed, still less when it was taken International Labor De- percent cuts in wages.” Fresh in our Tnrtlnl: Ln TrlHe du Dlnbl: .The Devil’s Trill), Sonata. the fense, has been organized. The tour MM By Albert Sammons. to small tub. He was surrounded minds is the recent publicity given to In Four Parts, on Two 12-tnch Double Disc Records, No*. by a stench so dense that it seemed as will not only serve to make clear the the methods by which the Inter- 17002-D--17003-D. SI.OO Each. if you could touch it. the Miners character and work of the frame-up borough Ranid Transit Company Aid system, Trotsky RECORDS will offer a of The RUSSIAN PROLETARIAN SONGS ON “A week before someone had ven- but program union was able to put over a 10 per- atcion to combat it. The first 20033 F VMol po Pitcrnkoj (Dubinus»hka) • tured to say to the head warder, ‘Sup- For the striking miners of Pennsyl- sec- cent wage cut when all the locals of TchornyJ Voron) tion of tour begins in SOO7JF Mnr*elllnl»«* (A pose Simion were given a bath?’ vania, Ohio and Colorado $672 was the Pittsburgh, the “Brotherhood” voted against it. 20074 F Hymn of Free Knftflla (jfc Mo»kow) Feb. Moya (National) “The face of the chief warder had collected at an enthusiastic mass Wednesday, 29, and will take As for speed-up, the constitutions 20080 F Ech ty Holla, Holla him Pacific coast Opposition ,r,:ilE Vmcr bednlngn (AKorobushkn) to the and back become as red as a volcano in erup- meeting, held recently at the Arena of practically all company unions al- 00 NS El Knrie Glnski {A Lnpti) again to (Hymns National) tion. ‘A bath! He has held out quite Gardens, Detroit, Mich., the Chicago. 64000 F Ely Uolmem & llonkwn under most uniformly have their references Potpourri A Sonujs well for five years without auspices TOM MOONEY, Billings, Matt Its Significance 201 IGF Hum inn taking a of the Workers Internation- * to “cmalify and quantity of produc- for 2OOOSF PollanuMlaka A I wan there and a of the bath!’ bellowed the potentate in an- al Relief, with national headquarters Schmidt number the tion,” “for the good of the industry,” j American Workers 20060E On the Volga A She Stood In Field swer, and on bawl: Centralia men have already written 12053 F Black Eye*; scene of the Volga Boatmen. went to ‘Others in at 1 Union Square, New York City. etc. And these references are no j •‘Bolshevik” Galop A Novara ailcn—Waltz that they are glad the Bertram D. 20A70F the prison have done very well with- Genevieve Taggard, famous Amer- to learn of mem formality but actually the flesh j By Wolfe 50039 F Liubov i Vewnn—Vmnn Prekannay«—Waltz out taking a bath for seven years. poet, has $36, the royal- tour," for in the course cf it, Cannon 59030 Poet & Pennant—Overture ican donated end blood of the worker-employer re- j A keen analysis of the role 59035 Lisrht Cavalry—Overture And besides, it to will visit these old fighters and dis- what’s to do with ties on her book “May Days,” the lationship. the Opposition in the 50045 Dream Autumn—Charming Waltz you?’ cuss with them plans for a of Rus- A Silver—Vienna Fife Workers' International Relief, 1 new cam- A million and a half workers are , Party, cutting 50038 Gold “You the paign release sian and a 27028 F fkminim* Ey rie hong—S. F Sarmatiff, Comedian problem: Union New York which for their ~ see wearing Square, City, expose its counter-revolu- 20075 F Hindk;* I.o*liihl Zapringayet—Glbel Yaryngu clothes which had been bequeathed to is conducting an active campaign to THE support, of the tour in every SKETCH j of 201)70E Klrpitehlkl—Own Arabian Slten * in Amcr- us a tionary supporters 20678 F Krutitnin-Vertltnln—Yule Govorlat by prisoners who had disappeared provide relief for striking miners and city where meeting is hold is T looked into the eyes Arcwtanta—Botlnotehkl of | ICO. 2008 IF Pimm under the earth, fed with a little their families in Pennsylvania, Ohio one the means by which every of a ragged dishevelled old man I 20084 F Aeh, Zntrhem Eta Notch—Hnrmrmhkn warm water called tea, with ice-cold and Colorado. worker can help to make successful in the subway train, 100-Page Pamphlet 50c 20085 F Wiirahnwrinnkn— PochoronnyJ Mnr*li Eeh ty Hoh:s, Moya Holla pap and a soup of - - this fight against the frame-up sys- year: jev—Ynbloteliko—Yn lukewarm rotten The Pennsylvania Ohio Colorado breathing his last b'tter j Today 005 IE Ho rod Mkoln tehnrhotkoyn atnidayi beans, unwashed and doctor Committee is tem and show that he separated Order From 731 HE Chudny mienlnc—ketcll kuku*hkl with a Miners' Relief co-oper- has in agony... Ey Ilo**(l who refused to be a from “the apathetic throng—the 64000 F uclinem—Hymn Svobodnoy doctor, sucked by ating in this campaign. 20042 F Yn chotehu Yam rar.*knr.af—Tehuhfehlk kutcherlavy poisoned vermin and heaped on top of Miss Taggard, who is a member of cowed and the meek” and joined the There I read: WORKERS LIBRARY 20110 F I'opurri ir. lltiKsklch Piemen—Part I—21 —2 other, the question to militant army of fighters 7222E HubiuuMliku—Cborua of “IlukMian Izba”—Vale po matushkle go each was how the national committee of the Work- that has Hunger PUBLISHERS Volgie escape deadly contagion. decided to fight obstinately ers’ International Relief, will also with all Poverty 39 125 “Sometimes we hoped: one has such turn over to the organization all fu- its power for the vindication of the And Hate... i E. St. New York UKRAINIAN WORKERS’ SONGS ON RECORDS strange dreams! But above all we ture royalties on the book. The book, victims of vicious class “justice.” -ABRAHAM WARSHOFSKY. 37U3 HOW I CAME TO AMERICA were afraid. Our teeth chattered “May Days,” edited by her, is an an- Sons by N. Dancsenko J 37110 MINER FROM PENNSYLVANIA more and more and we felt our bellies thology of radical poetry that ap- Words by E. iiukowsky gripped and the stench of Simon’s bed I peared originally in the “Masses” and 27117 SONG OF HAYCUTTERS embraced us ( the Chorus and Orchestra like death itself. “Liberator.” 2711# REVOLUTIONARY FOREVER WHAT GOOD NEWS! I Words by Ivan Franko
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