Reds Page #16

If you got there at all,

it would take you six months to...

Terry said that he thought that

you could arrange a freighter for me

- as far as Norway.

- Don't know why you're saying it.

You know what I mean?

Sit down.

I want to talk to you about something.

...indicates the map.

I could go.

I can sign on as a seaman.

There'd be no questions asked.

I think under the circumstances...

Don't look at me like that.

Jack Reed's a friend of mine.

I'm not gonna let

the son of a b*tch rot in jail.

Just seemed to me

that I'm not as interested...

...and at this point...

Okay.

Wasn't he supposed to come over

to me on this?

I'll talk to Terry in the morning.

Where the cross is made...

I wish these son-of-a-b*tches could act.

Your blood pressure is very high.

They only give me

some kind of salted fish.

The blood in your mouth

is from the gums.

You have scurvy.

An impressive shade of red, comrade.

Could you send a cable to my wife?

Mr. Reed, I have something for you.

- Is there a cable?

- There's nothing yet.

You should take one of these powders

in a glass of water, once a day.

Has she sent word to me here?

They won't say.

Our people can find out nothing.

You are being released.

You know, I must tell you,

I lost sight of John Reed completely.

But what I heard was

the Bolsheviki traded

some Finnish professors

for the release of John Reed.

John Reed.

We are here to welcome you.

Could you take me

to the telegraph office?

- Yes. Get in.

- Thank you.

"Louise Bryant, Croton-on..."

Hudson.

"...Hudson, New York, USA.

"I'm safe. Stop."

"Please contact..."

Contact. Please contact.

"Contact Petrograd telegraph office.

Stop.

"Have received no word from you. Stop.

"Please for... Forgive..."

Please forgive Christmas.

"Please forgive Christmas. Stop.

Love, Jack."

Could you send that right away?

Comrade Lenin said

he would trade,

for John Reed, fifty professors.

"Louise Bryant, Croton-on-Hudson,

"New York, USA."

- USA.

- "USA. Immediate."

- Immediate return...

- "Immediate return..."

- ... United States...

- "...United States..."

- ... impossible.

- "...impossible."

- Louise Bryant, Croton...

- Croton.

- "Croton-on..."

- Croton-on-Hudson.

"Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA.

"Still no word from you. Stop.

Have no fixed address. Stop."

"Louise Bryant.

Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA.

"Must know, are you well? Stop."

- "Do not..."

- Do not understand.

"Do not understand

why no word from you. Stop."

"Louise Bryant.

Croton-on-Hudson, New York, USA.

- "Need..."

- Need word.

"Need word from you. Stop.

Do not understand your silence. Stop"

"Louise Bryant. Croton-on-Hudson,

- "New York, USA."

- Did you check R-E-A-D?

Yes. Yes.

And you checked R-E-l-D also?

I have looked R-E-l-D,

R-E-A-D,

R-E-D.

I have looked Goldman and Bryant.

I'm just... Excuse me. One second.

Lf, if...

I thought maybe there's some other way

of misspelling the name.

- You also looked under R-E-l-D?

- Yes, Comrade Reed.

- Yes, yes. What do you want?

- There's many people wait.

- Excuse me.

- Lf something come, we'll notify you.

What have you heard?

Not much. What have you heard?

I don't hear. I wait.

They've jailed more anarchists.

But they made Bill Shatoff

head of the Siberian railway.

They treated me very well,

and I'm reserving my judgment.

- Well, that's wise.

- There's so much I don't understand.

There are forests within easy reach

of Petrograd.

Why is this city freezing?

I asked Zinoviev.

He said our enemies have destroyed

all the means of transportation

and killed off our horses

as well as our men.

How would we get at it?

I said, "What about

the people of Petrograd?

"They could go there together on foot

and haul the wood back with ropes."

He said, "Oh, yes, it would make

the people warmer,

"but it would interfere with the carrying

out of the main political policy."

- You get letters from America, E. G?

- Oh, yes.

All opened by the Justice Department.

I hope they enjoy what they read. I don't.

So I asked him,

"What are the main political policies?"

He said,

"Concentration of all power in the hands

"of the proletarian avant-garde.

"The avant-garde of the revolution,

which is the Communist Party."

Anybody mention Louise?

I don't think so.

You haven't heard from her?

I've sent her cables,

but I don't get any answer.

- For how long?

- A long time.

Wait.

Rhys Williams

mentioned her in his letter.

He hasn't heard from her, either.

What'd he say?

I think he said

that he'd tried to reach her

sometime after Christmas,

but she'd left New York.

How long ago was that?

Well, you know how these letters take

a couple of months to get here.

By the time I get them, whoever sent it

is either in jail or deported.

- That's it.

- Which?

- There.

- Rhys Williams.

Oh.

- First the eyes go, then the legs.

- Yeah.

Yeah, I don't understand

the fuel situation, either.

I don't know...

He says she seems to be out of town.

That's all he said?

Yeah.

What did he say about O'Neill?

O'Neill? Nothing.

Come on, what did he say?

Nothing.

Can I see it?

I'm sorry.

I just don't know where...

Jack, sit down.

If Louise were to come here,

she'd have to leave

the United States illegally,

then live in exile with you,

and never go home again.

All for the sake of a revolution

she was never any part of.

Why should she?

You chose the life of a revolutionary.

She didn't.

Your cables only focus the

Justice Department's attention on her,

and the most seditious thing

they can accuse her of

is being your wife.

Leave her alone.

Let her choose her own future.

Why hasn't she answered me?

I think she has answered you.

He's been released.

They won't tell me where he is.

Do you know, she was much hated

for her extravagance in clothes.

Well, a long time ago,

somebody said to me,

"People who...

"Women whose lives

have been in danger

"over a long period

are always the most extravagant."

Comrades, as wrong-headed

as many of its policies are,

the IWW is a revolutionary union

and the American Federation of Labor

is not.

To think we can infiltrate

the American Federation of Labor

and convert it

to revolutionary policies is hopeless.

Translation.

Comrades, that's the wrong translation.

That's not what he said.

What's he saying?

For us to make a point

on the floor of the Congress,

we have to go

from our own English language

into the official German language

to the Italian, or Spanish,

or French language.

- And then, when the response from...

- What is your question, please?

Simply for the labor union issue,

could we have the English language

as an official language

on the floor of the Congress?

Comrade Reed, this is the third time

you have raised this proposal!

The issue has been decided.

We must move on

to the national and colonial issues!

Real revolutionary workers

in the United States

quit the AF of L a long time ago

and joined the IWW.

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