A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCESSIVE FEATURES after readinq the daily worker" jjrpj^ boys and girls„ here we all are In East Ftourw teenth Street at a meeting- ef the good, old Nuc,jl ready to hear the...
...The old republic was dead...
...Here it is: " 'A gift of SfiOO.OOO, more than double any previous gift from an individual, was announced yesterday,' by Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army...
...onntibutidn or wealth, prom 1*70 to 1900 the wealth of the United States increased, threefold and was less evenly distributed than before the Civil War...
...The money le to be used to erect an up-to-date residence for young business women on the Salvation Army property in Fourteenth Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, and run- ' ning through to Thirteenth Street with accommodations for between 300 and 400 young women.'" Voice of man behind corncob: "Brother President I want to make another amendment to the motion we passed a while ago...
...The spirit of Cavanaugh seemed to come over him and possess him...
...Fannie Hurst in the Hearst Press...
...It seems, according to Comrade Sodopolsky, that tat fractions of the pitch-fork proletariat of Red Dog aft to be drawn into the revolutionary vortex by the asBversion of the functions of the .bourgeois State through the process of cataclysm into a genuine polltburo...
...Capital, by this behaviorism, is turning the heart of labor into gall...
...The wife of this striking miner had a face of the thick lumpy texture of half-cooked oatmeal, and bonyheaded, furiously smeared babies crawled over her while she tried to talk...
...He concludes that "The inequality and class concentration of ownership of income-yielding property is overwhelming, 6.4 per cent oi the gainfully occupied owning 67.5 per cent of Income-yielding property...
...More ample credit and obtained on easier terms will help Mm...
...and at the same time the door gave way before them, causing them to be swept outward by the accumulated water like straws...
...Henderson even went so far as to explain the new shield to him, its excellent points...
...With conscription of youth, censorship of the press, sedition lews, and invasion of the rights of tree assembly, all the characteristics of an empire ruled by a class of masterful Owners became evident...
...Did you ever see a more flourishing...
...Brother to the left of stove offers amendment to the amendment to the effect that word "grandest'' be added to "richest and, greatest" Now all in favor of the motion as per amendments one and two say "Aye...
...Hsre comes Agitprop Sodopolsky with his thesis .astry typed so that he can read It aloud to a plenm Of the embattled agriculturists of Red Dog, Kacajg, what time he goes agltpropping around these parte...
...McGiathery stared In amazement...
...The duPont Company is an example of the blending of the vertical and horiaontal types by expansion into various fields...
...McGiathery, the new spirit of Cavanaugh in him, even turned and looked back through the bull's eye Into the chamber they had just left...
...Even as they waited for the pressure here to lower sufficiently to permit them to open the inner door he saw this last chamber they had left bis foreman and a dozen fellow workers buried beyond...
...By now McGiathery was the father of eight children and as poor as any average laborer...
...Only God, only St Columba, could tell him, perhaps, and St...
...Day after day Public Opinion, passive,, unbeetir* ¦ red, phlegmatic, flows past the cruel and Ironic spectacle of miners' ex-homes boarded up and vacant," while the evicted families live opposite them In wooden, huts, where even the most ordinary of human decencies cannot be observed...
...Government figures, we may add, appear to be presentd with the purpose of concealing the real facts...
...Columba done that—or God—or who...
...Feeling sure that it was the river that was calling bun, he went over to St...
...Instead, he assumed partial command in here...
...Mothers have not the milk for their wretched , babies...
...He an assistant-foreman in charge of timbering...
...a woman whose brain Is dulled by ' months of malnutrition and whose eyes at 83 have the - look to them of drained beds...
...Pour years later it became one of five powers that drew the map of the new world...
...Should be...
...But what could he do...
...The revolution in property brought other phases of Industrial organisation, vertical and horizontal trusts...
...Activities once remunerative to the farmer have been fished out of the farm and have bseome capitalistic IndusUlaa enriching corporate owners...
...These two forms often overlap and are also generally tied to powerful financial Institutions...
...His pudgy bands Were crooked as If to throw the fatal switch— And then I heard shrill criee through all the lands That filled the air with anguish dark as pitch...
...Now in these songs I hear those anguished criee That swept through all the lands like living area...
...He ceased to tremble, almost to hurry and awoke to a new idea, one of undying, unfaltering courage...
...It certainly ^ McAlister Colcman American History for Workers An Outline — By Jamet Oneal Contemporary America VBOM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE...
...Bright green mildew on the rug across ' which Mrs...
...Hw simple implements once made and repaired by the village blacksmith have become machines that have passed Into the hands of great corporations...
...With our cat-calls and oar hoots...
...A celebrated engineer of another country—England ,no less—had appeared on the scene with a new device, according to the papers...
...Children are hungry and sore-eyed in their kennels...
...He did not understand very much about this new shield idea even now, but even so, and In spite of himself, some of the old zest for tunneling came back to him, What times he had had, to be sure...
...My fine i^y of Pittsburgh, with the plumes In her hair, has had her garments jerked aside and, beneath her finery she Is covered with sores...
...American bankers came into control of the money vats of the world...
...Greathead was his name, and he had Invented what was known as "The Greathead Shield," which finally, with a few changes and adaptations, was to rid tunnel work of all Its dangers...
...Knock it out Dennis...
...This claim Is subjected to a keen and critical analysis by Lewis Corey...
...It's been going around all day' with that trick srolst-cult and from here it looks a bit liquidated, although you never can tell...
...With a lot of swell parades...
...But come on over here for a minute and take a look at this polcom...
...All right, brother behind corncob amend* mo-, tion by adding word "greatest" to "richest" Now, all In favor of the motion as amended say...
...There could be no calamity this time...
...The ferst scene is in a depe-fiend's back parlor in the gymnasium of Ohio State University...
...The super-trust is the fruit of the property revolution...
...Columba's and prayed before his saint putting a dollar in the Orphan's box and a candle on his shrine, and then arising greatly refreshed and reassured, and after consulting with his wife, journeyed over to the river, where be found the old supervisor as before In a shed outside, considering one Important matter and another...
...What you ridiculously thought was gj* a merely solidified talcum powder, to be used srier ¦*» apsuge bath...
...Colomba And The River by THEODORE DREISR (Continued From Last Week) j3ut, although the air pressing outward toward Cavanaugh held the bundles in place, still this was hot sufficient to keep all the air in or all the water out It poured about the dead man and between the chinks, rising inside to their waists also...
...But there ' is no lack of ventilation...
...It was useless...
...Listen to me, Dennis...
...Knock it out...
...It stirred up all the memories, old fears, old enthusiasms, but no particular desire to return...
...More production means larger incomes for those who control the essentials of farming...
...To Be Continued Next Week) and queerest, too MOTION made aad seconded that this is the rich est country on earth...
...Just you wait until word of this gets, around the poetoflce at Red Dog and out on the R. F. D. routes and watch the rush' to Join the Workers Party...
...The, outbreak of the World War in 1914 found the United States ready to play the row of a world power...
...McGiathery, sitting outside the door of bis cottage overlooking Bergen Bay, read it all in the Evening Clarion, arid wondered whether it could be true...
...With the death of Cavanaugh and this accident, as has been said, he had forsworn the sea—or water—and all its works...
...THE REVOLUTION IN AGRICULTURE...
...Marching round and round 14th Street, Underneath the burlesque shades...
...Now we are going to sing a couple of prolet-songs...
...Vnd why did Dennis hear him so •iearly...
...Ordinary house shoring and timbering were good enough for him, only—only—it was' so hard to get enough of this at good pay...
...He felt that it was...
...L "They'll be forgotten—" yes, when truth expires...
...m 1800 George k. Holmes estimated that "91 per cent of the famlIc of the country own no more than 38 per cen...
...Will we rough-house right-wing pickets, . Will we cheer for Comrade BUI, Will we take It out in yelling T "fee, you bet your life we win...
...But the new shield made everything safe, he said...
...he called with an air of command "Help knock It out...
...HENRY REICH JR...
...No, It aint I had another piece...
...They have gone to bed...
...It began by making explosives...
...Had St...
...Through a bedlam of cries jvithin, he heard, but also realized 'hat If he or they knocked out the bull's eye in the other door, and the lir escaped through it inward, the chances of their opening it would be mproved, but the life of Cavanaugh ind his helpless companions would certainly be destroyed...
...His wife and children were still living in Flatbusb...
...wild have thought that with your wefl known raflf.Tsapathifi you would have hesitated to refer to year E*7**»t experiences...
...all in favor-, What's that...
...This makes every one feel at home and establishes that intimacy between the actors and spectators so essential to the new drama...
...Tis the will av God," he murmured humbly—but why had God done that...
...The small enterprise is doomed to eventual extinction...
...He was not afraid now for himself...
...Ihfftrni* of his team reaching the market the railroad is his medium and it Is in the hands of corporations...
...She kept batting these coil...
...Henderson neglected to say that because there had been so much trouble with the tunnel and the difficulties so widely advertised, it was rather difficult to get just the right sort of men at first although McGiathery was good enough any time...
...What...
...r "Sure I am...
...The work would be pushed right through...
...With a mighty burst of energy they assaulted the thick plate and burst it through...
...Including churches and stores...
...But McGiathery, listening, was dubious, and yet he was not thinking of the shield exactly now, nor of the extra pay he would receive, although that played a big enough part In his calculations, but of one Thomas Cavanaugh, mason foreman, and bis twelve men, buried down below there in the ooze, and how he had left him, and how It would only be fair to take his bones out his and the others', if they could be found, and give them a decent Christian burial...
...but it wlU not give him independence...
...And then one day when he was about as bard up as ever and as earnestI from somewhere*-was waited a new I scheme in connection with this same old tunnel...
...It came from John Markle, coal operator, of 530 Park Avenue, whose recent donations to charity have totaled nearly 15,000,000...
...The S3 a week allowance from the union must furnish food, ¦ clothing and other necessaries...
...John Roach Straton Sunday Moro*g Breakfast and Bowling Club...
...A PAGE OF EXCESSIVE FEATURES after readinq the daily worker" jjrpj^ boys and girls„ here we all are In East Ftourw teenth Street at a meeting- ef the good, old Nuc,jl ready to hear the reading- of a bunch of snappy 1"^— on The Degradation of Revisionist ideology or fnc DOution of Militancy by Right Deviation...
...It would be only fair to dig him out and honor his memory with a decent grave if it could be done...
...They'll Be Forgotten-" (On Reading in "America Arraigned", an Anthology of Sacco-Vanzetti Poetry "They'll be forgotten in a week," he said...
...W. L King estimated the poorest class of our population at 05 per cent which owned only S per cent of the wealth...
...and it was through the one at his end that Javanaugh was peering...
...He arils, in ft cheap market and buys in a dear one...
...The vertical trust means a union of Industries from the bottom up, from raw materials, coal, forests, shipping, railroads up to the plants...
...He was never faring as well as he should...
...Over-crowded...
...Although he could have wept something broke in him—fear...
...He divided the middle class into upper and lower layers, the upper comprising 18 per cent of the ropulatlon who own from 93,000 to MO.GPfl worth of property...
...the rich at 2 per cent of the population but In possession of 60 per cent of the wealth...
...Once in, they heaved a tremendous sigh of relief, for here they were safe enough—for the time being anyhow...
...Why did he call to Dennis, the atter often asked himself afterwards...
...Still, here he was now, a man with a wife and eight children, earning three a day, or less —mostly less—whereas tunneling paid seven and eight as much as himself, and he kept thinking that if this should start up again and men were advertised for, why shouldn't he go...
...Then, once more spiritualized and strengthened, he returned and told Mr...
...the lower layer constituting IS per cent and owning about $1,000 worth of property...
...In that moment McGiathery was reborn spiritually...
...WIS we crash all S. P. meetings, Making pretty nasty snoots^-^ will we drown oat all their speakers...
...w instance there fa your absurd error concerting tne 5**Ce that reposes hi the brass cuspidor adjacent to •eh alley...
...We know that you are interested in anything that will help the workers...
...You couldn't think how nicely they speak over the telephone...
...Five depressed stationary engineers are committing suicide by drowning in the swimming pool which comes down from the top of the atage directly over the parlor—It's the new expressionist scenery you know...
...And drained his coffee cup and laughed again: "Those anarchists are now most safely dead"— And as he said it I could see the stain Of murder on his lips...
...Even the retail business Is being gathered in by chain store systems and farmer proprietors slowly decline to the status of petty vassals in the employ of the great overlords...
...If you're all through singing, come on over here and meet the boys and girls of the, Innocent Front We me .them to dig the jack out of the Liberal Suckers and they are certainly doing a splendid job...
...At any rate that seems to be thh opinion of all the functionaries and subsection trganiaers present and these are the boys who know sB about the psychology of the corn belt...
...What he wanted to know was this —did McGiathery want to take an asslstant-form ansh 1 p under a new foreman who was going to be in charge of the day work here, one Michael Laverty by name, an excellent man, at seven dollars a day, seeing that he had worked here before and understood the difficulties, etc...
...This uncivilized spectacle of families evicted from their homes, and living like dogs among slops in kennels, opposite the very threshold of their vacant homes (from which they were evicted) is wrong...
...death a dozen brawny hands j were laid on it...
...For example, the Ford Motor Company does not make only automobiles...
...With the mam facilities of the old days of rural Independence changed, and now In the hands of great corporations, the farmer has become a serf of our Industrial an financial kings...
...I don't know how it fits in with these other pieces, but I'll read It anyhow...
...For a family of five this means a little less than nine cents per day.'— New York Evening World...
...You see, we're starting a little school and we want you to be one of the charter members and of -course, well be only too delighted to put your name on our letterbead and couldn't you tell us the names of some of year friends who might be interested...
...What will your readers say whenthey 2»* that for the past six months yen have carefully ""JU anything that remotely resenthfee s strike...
...But I Am keeping up the struggle, * And the bourgeois I defy, For I'm the Popper Agltpropper Of the Partes.' Aad swing into this one:— Will we make a revolution...
...President Pickpacker, addressing Secretary Mule-, whacker, who is frantically searching his pockets: "Is that all, brother...
...In the panel of the door which confronted him, and the other, which they were trying to break open, were thick glass plates, or what were known as bull's eyes, through which one could see...
...came the muffled voice of his foreman from within where he was eyeing him calmly...
...There was Cavanaugh { outside there, unafraid, and here was he, Dennis McGiathery, scrambling about like a hare for bis life...
...o But somehow, the river was not done with him yet, and that, seemingly, in spite of himself...
...Said the Plenum to the Polcom...
...They deal with conditions in the coal camps around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which, as you all know, Is located In the United States of America: " 'We saw thousands of women and children literally starving to death.'—New York News...
...And hasn't Kamenev said: "The exigencies of the direct and immediate struggle with the bourgeoisie, which was working underground and using its industrial position as an instrument of political aad economic struggle—was at bottom a political situation of our nationalization policy...
...For by now he was a better Catholic than ever, and he owed that much to Cavanaugh, for certainly Cavanaugh had been very good to him—and anyhow, had not St Columba protected him so far...
...So is the country, wherefore, I move ; to add the word 'queerest' to the 'richest, greatest and grandest ' .Adam cwcttgger...
...It's yer only chance...
...Soil analysis, improved fertilisers, extermination of parasites, deeper plowing, adaptation of crops to the soil, and the introduction of a variety of machinery have increased the productivity of' the farm many fold, but the increase has gone to others...
...When it became apparent to him that the men were not going to be able to open the farthest door, a new thought occurred to binc Then it was that'his voice was heard above the tumult shouting: "Break open the outside bull's eye...
...There being no further business before the house, the secretary will -. now entertain us by reading humorous excerpts from * the newspapers of the "richest greatest and grandest country on earth...
...So he hesitated...
...This he is going to prove by reading some of tie livelier passages from N. Bukharin and Preobraptjisnsky and there is no doubt but that he will get A jag hand in Kansas...
...Henderson that he would come back...
...The market is "rigged" against him by those who gamble in his products...
...m 1916 Prof...
...We veteran bowlers know that H is placed 3fw a* that the bowlers can indulge-hi a sponge bath J*** each roll or "chukker" (so called from chucking the ¦J* down the alley...
...You're out of order, Brother^' announces Brother President bringing down the gavel...
...The Commission compared 2,854 estates in 1912 and 4180 In 1923—estates considered fairly representative of city, town and rural population: It concluded that the comparison shows a tendency toward a wider distribution of wealth...
...And at seven dollars a day...
...And might he not in the future, seeing the position be was in ? Wasn't this a call really...
...Where are all your nuclei...
...The sovereignty of the overlords trsseends state Jurisdiction, Ignores frontiers, and is expending over the world...
...WeU, what do you want...
...it cuts trees, saws timber, mines coal and ore, runs a fleet of steamers, operates a railroad, blast furnaces, steel plants, rolling mills and glass plants and owns whole towns...
...What a life it had been, if a dog's one— and Cavanaugh—what a foreman...
...And then, for the first time in all the...
...With the temperature below freezing and a 30-mile wind howling down the valley and across the hillsides, there is warmth and a mean- - ure of comfort in snuggling up close as the cold air rushes in through the unmatched boards...
...About • per cent of the total wealth of the world is owned here, moat of It by the overlords...
...The mastery of other essentials by city magnates condemns him to a hnmhlo status in society...
...me of the more exclusive Bowling Fsriors, which «"*v*aes.tly you never patronise, small balh tabs witn no* eeld running water are furnished by the management...
...It now manufactures artificial silk, transparent wrapping paper, moving picture films, paints and varnishes...
...It is now a world market In control of others...
...The ayes have it and so ordered...
...The horizontal trust consists of the union of all industries in a certain field, such as steel, electricity, or automobiles...
...Henderson under whom Cavanaugh had worked, asking him to call and see him...
...Cavanaugh, on the outside, his whole mind still riveted on the men whom he was thus aiding to escape, was the only one who realized what was to be done...
...It is the overlord of rural and urban workers, a monstrous offshoot of former capitalist enterprise...
...It's from the New York Sun, and tells what helluva great philanthropists we coal diggers are...
...They'll be forgotten—" yea, when freedom dies...
...which opposed militarism In that year as a "sure forerunner of compulsory military service and conscription," and which denounced this as "unAmerican, undemocratic and unrepubUean...
...You bet...
...Just an extension of the adult education idea...
...Haven't they been over to the model garden in Union Square talking to the employees of the Park Department and dkln't they all go on a hike last summer up to Bear Mountain...
...Don't you want to come along with us to the Proletheatre...
...More' production will not help him...
...Then, scrambling to their feet they tumbled into the next lock, closing the door behind them...
...and with a will born of terror and...
...Columba had saved him—or had he?—him and fifteen other men, the while he had chosen to allow Cavanaugh and twelve men to perish...
...The water would rush inward from the river, Wing up this chamber and the space In which stood Cavanaugh...
...Break open the outside bull's eye...
...owns and operates a large hotel and a great building construction enterprise: and dominates a merger of 83 concerns which ma • nufaeture five types of automobiles, most of the taxicabs and a large number of motor buses and trucks...
...won't seat be fun...
...years he bad been working for him, McQlathery heard the voice of his superior waver slightly: "If ye're saved," it said, "try and do what ye can fer the rest av us...
...Go to it secretary...
...Oh, no, my dear, of course this hasn't anything to do with Communism...
...He adda that "Owe—ship Is a ¦en-wageearner serogalrre...
...Ja Jolly sight to watch the bowlers sponging themselves gj a hard fought roll, their bodice tingling with a rlow, splashing the water gaily* over one another Ji of harmless fun...
...In 1928 the Federal Trade Commission estimated the shares of the product of industry going to labor as wages and salaries, hut as salaries include Income received by officers of corporations, proprietors, and firm members, this report conceals rather than reveal* the distribution of wealth...
...Killing and dressing meat once a source of income for him, has become a huge buselllnc fruits have also largely passsd Into corporate control...
...His life bad been almost miraculously saved these two times—but would it be again?—that was the great question...
...Listen to me...
...And his body was still down there entombed—erect, no doubt as be was left He wondered...
...one...
...Tea, be would come...
...Jsdiereier's youngest baby had crawled, - and the barrel of rainwater which the Jsdiereier's kept' indoors for washing, was filled with *""fl"g objects that seemed to make it smell...
...He looked about, saw a great stave, and seized it...
...Although he prayed constantly for the repose of the soul of Thomas Cavanaugh and his men, and avoided the water, until five years later, still there was a sequel...
...Sure...
...Knock it out...
...The civilization which countenances the wretchedness that exists along the hems of this fine city (Pittsburgh, U. S. A.) becomes a horror...
...jya'ei when yen speak eg s*ctQ|r 39 you're Just w.t WeU would it surprise you WTcnow that once r^Sunday we got gji or niiiety-esgijt...
...Almost unceasingly he referred the matter to bis saint on Sundays in his church, but receiving no definite advice as yet and there being no work doing on the tunnel, he did nothing...
...A fife and drum corps wearing masks which disguise them as Armenian rug-dealers are in hiding behind the seat occupied by Comrade Otto Kahn and during the big second act they come out and throw bromo-seltzer bottles at the audience...
...It is less than two years since the writer returned from a tour of Russia, but in this brief survey of strike conditions in this city (Pittsburgh) she can safely say that she had never beheld the equal of the scenes of human squalor, degradation, poverty, and misery that exist here on the outskirts, of,Pittsburgh...
...of the wealth, and 9 per cut of the families own about 71 per cent of the wealth...
...The whole thing creates the illusion '#> reality, grim yet lively...
...Except for a few regions isolated from the general current of economic progress, agriculture has become a flshedout industry...
...Universal military conscription had become a fact, enacted and enforced with prison penalties by a party which bad, in its platform of 1900, warned that «v»"t»«rt«m ''would be a constant meance to our liberties...
...Incipient red bolshevism is stalking these mining camps, children are born and reared into abhorrence of present conditions...
...NEW FORMS OF CAPITAL...
...But then one day the following spring the papers were full of the fact that work would soon actually be resumed, and shortly thereafter, to his utter amazement McGiathery received a note from that same Mr...
...It's going to be a pretty big night They're putting on, "Sock 'Em and Knock *Em", a delightful little thing by Pica Em Dash...
...Just the same, he was nervous and troubled, and went home and consulted with his wife again, and thought of the river and went over and prayed in front of the shrine of St Columba...
...The farm was ones a free soranmtn unit The market was near the fanner and be reached It with a team...
...Secretary Josh Mulewhacker rising: "Brother President and Brothers: These here pieces ' I'm about to read I found in a speech delivered by Senator Hiram Johnson before the 'Senate of the United States...
...In case you •Ave any trouble getting in, here are forty-eight 1 ~ " ,To eevert for a final moment to the discussion of bawling which we conducted in these columns recently, we axe in receipt of a letter from Fellow Bowler "•wrnan Levy, who, like ourselves, is a prominent ¦ember of the Dr...
...Oh, hare it Is," comes back the secretary...
...V. B. Levy writes, ¦fir Sir: _By attention has been called to year screed concern ins •»*mm, or Ten Pins as we call R on the upper west etde...
...At.intervals they blow on a siren borrowed from tea municipal ferry landing and one man stands in the wings firing off a semi-machine gun borrowed from Herrin, Illinois...
...The chief agencies of production, transportation, marketing, credit and so on, have passed out of the bands of the farmer...
...The cries were echoed by the mountain peaks And carried by the sea to distant climes— And I beheld the pallor on his cheeks Of one who had been «<«w«wh a thousand times...
...Privacy...
...His credit was in the hands of a neighbor, generally bis friend It is now controlled by city financial kings...
...Here, men...
...Air rushed in...
...Said the Polcom to the Plenum...
...I have held strike-born babes in my arms who were brought into a shambles-like world orltbsh eight and sound of the other children of the family...
...The Imperial revolution summoned collective capita] and finance to the throne and the two leading parties served this class...
...To fee Concluded Next Week) From the Jacket of "Baguste" (Doubtedsy, D area) St...
...Dairy products have witnessed a similar transformation This Is what is meant by the fishedout farm...
...r article demonstrates your .total wnfamittartty with g *he points of the same—something I long smspected "•m watching your antics on the bowling Hnka...
...Its non-paying dregs have been -left to the fanner...
...Meantime tenantry Is Increasing...
...He wanted to go back, to do something, but could he...
...dren's hands out of her eyes and hair as I attempted to get her to explain to me the riddle of why she la - willing to starve for a policy she only half under* stands...
...Once more it threatened their lives and now their one hope was to pull open the shoreward door and so release themselves into the chamber beyond, but this was not to be done unless the escaping air was completely blocked or some other method devised...
...Do come...
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