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Jubilant Negro dailies throughout the U. S. hailed last week the "race justice" of Soviet Russia's courts. In Moscow two white U. S. workmen, Lemuel ("Lem") Lewis of Detroit and William ("Bill") Brown of Toledo, had just been sentenced to two years' imprisonment for assaulting a Negro waiter in the mess hall of a Soviet factory-this crime being known to Red jurists as "racial Chauvinism...
Just as tempers were rising, one Dr. Soltan Klars, municipal physician, tooted past a group of angry workmen in a new and shiny automobile. That was all that was needed. With howls of rage they sprang on the running board, beat the frightened doctor, set the car afire...
Karl Payer, Socialist Deputy who had helped organize the park mass meeting, suddenly grew frightened at the turn of events, tried to calm the rioters. He had to flee for his life. Like locusts the workmen swept down Andrássy Street, looting shops, smashing windows. The three most expensive restaurants in Budapest, the Edison, the Western, Weingruber's (beloved of plump monocle-eyed Ferenc Molnar) were gutted. Piling chairs, crates, table tops to make street barricades the mob raised the old polysyllabic clarion of Communism, "Long Live the Dictatorship of the Proletariat...
...number of gigantic public utility corporations in Britain Dominions, backed by the British government and the various Dominion governments. These corporations would be granted large tracts of land at specially favorable rates with the understanding that the new corporations would create new self-supporting communities for British workmen, technical and agricultural, to emigrate...
...England's unemployment situation: the falling off of emigration. Britons are unemployed at home not because English industry is doing badly (despite Indian boycotts and U. S. and German competition, more than a million more men are employed in British factories than were in 1921) but because British workmen who used to emigrate by the hundreds of thousands annually are either unable (foreign quota laws) or unwilling to leave the United Kingdom. Chief drawback to the scheme is that it once more passes responsibility for unemployment from Great Britain to the Dominions, who are not at all anxious to increase...