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THE DAILY WORKER, N EW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1948 Anti- Imperialist League Will Continue to Sell Ni icaragua Campaign Stamps Here Is the Post Office Letter tn Facsimile ‘BURE AUCRATS IN. THREAT OF POST i tage. aeoi on jedi 70 GANT Geek TOG ANS RELSTERY IPce ae OFFICE Wt Ge | sak te Gale ae ae DEMONSTRATION * = ae em AT STEEL MILLS avs (MOFFET URGES ~ HUGE AIR FORGE _INNAVY PROGRAM an) Production at baw voc Artistic ‘—~ DEFIED: GOMEZ a / Jeawary. 3, 1998 the Liberty Theatre | alate | ee: ; - cera x7 40 oh ea J Conference to Organize ‘Send Organizers, oa W. GRIFFITH’S newest cinema} W “ng : é More Plans : : Joamertca anti-f 34 eg Se f eet “De , ae a F a Local Committee Called Vie Mineee | OR ‘Record Is Against Them ¥* <reation, “Drums of Love,” pre- | 25 New Cruisers oe fork | ic sented by Joseph M.'Schenck in as- | | i ze On Yew York (Céntintind te Pace:2): sociation with Morris Gest at the Lib- | WASHINGTON Jan. 30. — The agg . NE aa maa an erty Theatre is an impressive outlay | navy will require 140 new airplanes, f 1 sold and it Gentlement jonly action they will ever get from of ‘finances, promotion and reputa- costing $88,253,067 to equip the five § According to information received ty the Post Office ie: Dreseae leadership wf the A. F. tions, Such a combination can pro- | rireraft carriers and 25 new cruisers of L. will be in the columns of the! quce no simple movie. So “Drums of | trptaded in the Cighecregaitois: aNd Department, you are offering for sale a stamp reading “Protest capitalist press. 'Love” is as you have noticed, the| We \dhoeran panibatora “aonecees Ageinst Marine Rule In Bicaragua" which it 1¢ proposed shall be Collins Counsels Obedience. “newest cinema creation.” We expect | Rear Admiral William A. Moffett\ y a lot of so much trumpeting. And we | While Colitis urges the striking jo get a great deal. It is without |members of the United Mine Work-! question a thing of beauty. But the ers to continue tv observe “the law as | poet to the contrary, it is no “joy for- prescribed in the American constitu- ever.” It is beauty of rare scenic ef-! tion” the operators are importing) fect, superb photography and acting scabs with impunity; they are sicking/|of high order. Over it 2il hovers the! ‘ the. criminal “yellow dog: and the |artisiie soul (and no mean ability) of| Director of the new cinema feature no less brutal state troopers on the|D. W. Griffith who has given the | “Drums of Love, striking miners and their wives and! screen a good deal of whatever claims | told the house naval affairs commit- \ tee today. The cost represents the expendi- ture required to build and maintain this equipment and the army of men required to operate this great fleet of planes. The planes will cost $60,670,100, said, while maintenance and re- pasted on the outeide of mail. By direction of the Solicitor for the Post Office Department, you are informed that the plating ef euch stomps upon wall will bring it within the purview of h-handed in- Section 212, United States Penal Code, @ copy of which is ee Here. ” enclosed berewith. Any mil with such stemps thereon will, ction to de- against Nic- Ne Classic he basea cu refore, de treated as unmailable. : okt eRe story of Paolo and Francesco, at the | ron lacements over the period,will cost nal New York tting away with it. Collins and the|it can lay to cinema art. ‘ ip } Please‘ acknowledge the receipt of this letter and gel ig away | t | erty Theatre. % a % y, trade-unionis A other Green and Lewis lieutenants; The story is the old classic of Paolo | Liberty Tiere Bak ca ae ae a slots ig publicists x-soldiers yesterday | ‘furnish several specimens of the stamp using the enclosed here, know that the constituti». 7cs/and Francesca—the love of two|= | tions naval aviators, pilo 3 tions to a lo 1,980 enlisted men would be required. Sunday after- Labor Temple, Sent broadcast i _not. mean a darned thing in *D»® brothers, one deformed, for a maiden./from reality, its imagination so un-| ; . i | , + n addition Pennsylyania.”. But instead 0: Wad |The location for the picture is trans-/ founded on any base of somethin; ee ee ee acarad under “img the hundreds of thousa: ey. 9! ferred to Portuguese domain in South | that exists for us workers, it is only le Ryans se ss already laid down mhiners’in.a real struggle ‘») mech; 4<-crics in the middie ~of the nine-| another and superbly done film story | phic Sisal efficial envelope which requires no postage. Sincerely. youre, rey . yi; venference to be } noon, Feb. 19 243 E. 84th The onference will “consider ways l4njumetions and make it impwesible|teenth century. Here, in truth, we|—well, yes, even the “newest cmema | PY Congress. und means to meet the Nicaraguan "2 aes. Postmaster aT tea ot|have no simple movie to deal with.|creation.” And I’li be generous—I'll situation” and will set up a perma- See: Lee eee eaatie “they are |The whole thing, in contrast to.the| not even compare it with “Potemkin” DEMPSEY NOT BLIND. tent New York branch organization ate setae Ne aa Mae bE RONEN | Aallying’ fi the ‘ante-rooms of ‘capital- jbulk of screen showings, moves} or other simple movies. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30. — Jack of the All-America Anti-Lmperialist | jg. on ,ef-marine, rule, Such brazen) rivals, leading to inevitable war.” list politicians, begging for favors | ;Slowly, more intent on telling the| j,,. whatever faults “Drums .of | Dempsey emphatically denied at his League, under the auspices of whose hy classic story than on other well known national committee Socrates Sandino, ties Sank |ways of bringing joy to the box of- ying in -the face of notor-| gutdoes “anything yet at The . All-America. Anti-Imperialist home here today that he weuld quit -League’ was founded some three years the prize ring because of an injury i fighting: against a Labor Party and|/ Love” has—it has artistic virtues | the pro- which raise it high ai i - “i brother of. the Nicaraguan liberation | |tempted by Mr. Kellogg’s department| ago and has national sections in 11 | waBing. Beery Wee Cactt De |fice. It is all elaborately costumed, | . hich hi See eee to his eye received in his last bout leader, made his first public appear- | gressives and radicals. | beautifull hotographed, carefully | “Wes, Which however, as yet, have nu ' ader, Pi PP | of state. The state department gives] countries of J.atin America as well as| " : . pUbIE BY. __ PROUCES aD: Y\ claims to any art in the interest of | With Gene Tunney. i @uce in this country. sly protests for the marine occupa- | in the United States, | Injunetions Must be Smashed. directed. The tempo of the acting is|/ ono. An tlie) virtues) pictured: an —— Committee Members. ‘kept in line with the unhurried way {tion of Nicaragua, but even it does} The New York conference called by | While William Collins; Green’s right | re Ei in this re- EXPLOSION KILLS WORKER. ‘not attempt to deny, while the bullets | the Provisional New York Committee! hand man in Pittsburgh continues his this film story of medevial times, of WEST HANOVER, Mass., Jan, 30. honor, love for one’s kind, heroic Am those sign the cali of the whole production. tees pprovinional New York |spect, the Griffith method does not Migtibers of the provisional! New York! are flying, that the occupation exists.| in cooperation with the United States |idle bluffing, Lewis organizers are | heights of mankind of one kind or a 0 vas killed and 20 w - . ) Mi n Sun 2: y n-|—-One man was killed ant were rt F branch committee of the anti-imperial- | Fight U. S. Imperialism. | headquarters of the league, will be fol- | making no effort to put life into the | allow the she’ bt oie Lb on other, are pictured only as the virtues | ported to have been seriously injured ist league are: Paxton Hibben;/ “Phe All-America Anti-Imperialist! !°Wed by conference: in other cities. |strike. There is no use denying that ie aeuld be eaiy titix leds able of another class—not ours. May the|in an explosion that destroyed the gcott Nearing; Dr. Ed . {League, whose sections in La.in } jae operators are importing scabs and director to wander into. This docs|N€W, Playwrights branch out into |plant of the National Fireworks Com- director of the Labor Temple; Freda) America as well as in the U.S. are) |. Section 212. | producing coal. There is no use deny- that Griffith d *t know | Movies.—W. C. pany here today. Kire hway, menaging editor of the |e, itted .| Section 212, s mal Code, is as | hat th think they h: not mean that G 1 ioesn t know ommitted tc unceasing struggle} ing that the operators think they have], ‘ 1 He di 1 en ennikaace tenet 5 Nation; nn Dos | author of ins ariean. 4 fali: follows: ‘ is sentimentality, ¢ does, plenty. . u against American imperiaiism, would f iy the union on the run. The injunc- One would be grateful however if| “Three, Soldiers; Milliken, of |jike nothing better than an oppor-| “Sec. 212, All" matter otherwise | tions are working—wherever the min- Guehth vaaottod ts eas Gab” of the typographical Union No. 6; Dr. W.E./tunity to prove in court its naive| mailable by law, upon the envelope or ~ B. Dubois, executive officer of the dyaitional Association for the Advance- ment: of ored People; Arthur Gar- field Ha counsel for the American Ci Liberties Union; Louis F. Bu deiiz, organizer of, the Knitgoo Workers Union; Robert W. Dunn, au- thor of “Ama Foreign Invest- and Gom@. To Censér Letters. ts,” “According.to information received by the Post Office Department, you ‘libel’ that there is such a thing as| Outside cover or wrapper of which, or marine rule in Nicaragua. jy postal card upon which, any de- ers have accepted the Lewis policy to obey it. Four men, several yards | apart, cannot stop hundreds of: scabs fade-out, for which the movie world | knows it has him to thank. “The league ‘will continue to fight| against American imperialism, not only in Nicaragua but on all fronts. Nicaragua protest stamps can be purchased at the U. S. headquarters of the league. They seli for five \cents each, or one dollar for a book of 20.” Conference Cali, lineations, epithets, terms, cs lan- guage of an indecent, lewd, leacivious, obscene, libelous, scurrilous, defama- tory, or threatening character, or cal- culated by the terms or manner or} style of display and obviously in-| tended to reflect injuriously upon the | | character or conduct of another, may be written or printed or otherwise im- | from going to work in a mine. Where | mass picketing has been inaugurated |there is a different story to tell. It is becoming clearer every day that the defense of trade unionism rests on the shoulders of the progres- sive, fighting elements in the ranks of organized labor. Alleged progres- In this careful way, the tragic role} of the deformed brother played by Lionel Barrymore, is a strong, acted part. It is given good support in the role of the other brother, well done by Don Alvarado and of Emanuella, the loved one, by Mary Philbin, an- other graduate of bathing beauty roles who has risen to movie eminence Broadhurst | pressed or apparent, are hereby de- sives who fear to take a stand lest | tho still lacking in movie greatness. WINTHROP AMES presents JOHN GALSWORTHY'S ESCAPE “hows? BOOTH Thea., W. 45S8t, Evs, 8:40 Mats. Sat. & Wed. 2:40 Jou. M. Schenck & Morris Gest present cuits “DRUMS OF LOVE” with MARY PHILBIN Th., 42 St., West of B’way LIBER’ ‘Bwice daily, 2:30-8:30 Sunday Matinee at 3. Th.,W.44 Stfove.8:30 Mats, Wed.& Sat.2:30 crorce A RELI S S in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE — The Theatre Guild presents —— PORGY The call to the Feb. 19 conference ; ‘ in tm a an ee . s »~are.offering for sale a stamp reading, |. ae: 4 . clared nonmailable maiter, and shall|they lose their jobs are in the same Tully Marshall (whom you may recall renee Republic 1-, W. 424. Bvs.8:40 \ “Protest Agai Marine Rule in| 8 ay slay cleat civic, women's and! not be conveyed in the maiis nor de- | boat with Lewis, Green, Murray, Woll | With pleasure in “the Covered! — P Mats, Wed.&Aat : Nicaragua,” which i: is proposed shall Ske Gane aa Se ee ae livered from any post office nor by | and the rest of the reactionaries. The) Wagon”) gives a good account of him-! | Wecwaca biawl Gamcay be pasted on the outside of mail,” |) Riser iat iecr care ea any letter carrier, and shall be with-|men who built the trade unions in, Self in no unusal role of Bopi, the | | ; Postmaster Kiely’s letter to the! # i ee with tusds. drawn from the mails under such | this country, in the days wher a trade|‘lown, who helps events in the story | DOCTOR’S DILEMMA Hf league said: “By direction of tne |), !™Phasis is laid im the: commu regulations as the Postmaster General ¢,come to a weepy end. i “Mare ” Olicitor for the Post Office D tion on the Jan. 21 speech of Charies | era] shall prescribe. Whoever shall intensive A Ogre EAS: SEATON ter cits of Love” has lavish outla Biway, 46 St. Evs. 8.3 be Sa gat Prk ae Es G as vost ifice 4 rt- pies % e Oe | . rf Hf _ vy) way, Y Th., vy. 52 St. Evs. 8: . ered. that thew |E. Hughes, at Havana, in which he4 jn a en cull the capitalist government as a Com- : Mats. Wed.&Sat, 2 GUILD rate nurs & Sat | good acting and in order to give due|* credit—it has brains. it or cause to be .de- | ment, you are informed. that the pla- } reiterated the U. iling or delivery, any- cing of such stamps upon all mail wili| i S, cerertiaston to | continue as impartial policeman in the munist is today, did not shirk a strug- + ‘gle for fear of losing a meal ticket. This is said in “BETTER THAN THE BAT” { bring it within the purv of Section | Orsi isco |thing declared by thia section to be | tes ‘Kae 4 a full justice and in the face of bom-|-——— ie OPENS TONIGHT AT 5115 212, United States Penal Code, a cupy | Caribbean area. elivered ii the !nonmailable matter, or shal} know- n the crisis that is now facing bastic pretense which might get the} Eves. 8:30: suman Nlof which is enclosed herewith. Any| Presence of many Latin-American take the same cr cans: the {ade union movement in general and money, but gets this reviewer's t the Winter Garden Thurs. & Sat. 2:3 Bis” Strange Interlude | delegates, this speech is declared in the anti-imperialist league communi- {eation to be “a step beyond any previ- fous declaration meant for Latin- | American ears?” The document declares that unless Street WORLD'S rae SENSATION! Artists 3 * Models Phmail with such | therefore, be the United Mine Workers in particu- ]t is all a calm and damnably able s-|ler, 2 histerical task rests on the | production. Yet somehow it leaves or aiding in the lat or |Shoulders of militant labor. It is the jone cold in its theme and its lack of M be. fined | task of saving the union from annihil- |eontact with life itself. Love is life! ~ Tragedy is life itself} imprisened not more than five | in defense of the interests of all | too-—and don’t we know it. This love | of both.” ‘ | workers. \and its tragedy however, is divorced | be taken from tha mails for purpose of cirenla er dist mps thereon will, treated as unmailable. Ask For Stamps. “Dlease acknowledge the receipt of this:letter and furnish several speci- qmieps of the stamp using the enclosed| | Gificial envelope which requires no |powerful resistance to “Wal John Golden 'Thea., 58th, E. of B’way Evenings Only at 6:15. the Ing of disposition of the same, s not more than five thousand dollars, jation and rebuilding them for battle jitself, surely. i ‘Theatre, 41 St. W. of Bw: | National EYS350 atte Wea. aSat ANTI-WAR “The Trial of Mary Dugan” i postage.” and Washington is built up now, with Ann Harding-Rex Cherryman the stamp, being sold in books, :is}American imperialists will go for-) Seamer ai MUSIC AND CONCERTS about the size of a two-cent stamp.| Ward from one adventure'to anvther, The inscription is in black type on a}entailing tremendous sacrifives on’ the yellow background. | workers and fartsérs in this country | ASTOR “rice’ batiy, Ba0-s:30.. MERICAN OPERA COMPANY a Y. SEASON, SUNG IN ENGLISH GALLO THEA, Eves. 8:20. Mata, 2:20, 44 St.Evs.8.30 SRLA ‘Thea. dy The American Empire. as well as on the oppressed peop: ‘ERLANGER’S je WAd SL Bva orn si ta “In Great Britain it is said that ‘no} of Latin’ America ard the Var @a ( ‘tetas, PHONE ia Aes . Thur. Evs., Sat. Mat., ,# Subject is sacred save the King and | intonsifying conflicts with Eurepean THE MERRY MALONES eeuction frou Sergio, Wed. Mat, with GEORGE M. COHAN Sat. Eve., Marriage of Figaro. tye _ empire, Gomer said. “They sito ? Mypited States has no king, but it has} ~ un_empire neverthel a rapidly €x-} « panding empire which is being built’ lp at the cost of immeasurable sacri: fices on the part of oppressed peopies| abroad and of workers and farmers] in this country itself. So dear is ‘the! American empire’ to the hearts of the Faust. Tickets on Sale Now at Daily Worker, 108 E. 14th St.—10% Discount. DRIVE Bae as eS From Lenin Memorial Day to Ruthenberg THE INTERNATIONAL ‘ 4 “sbase, that they are extraordinarily] > * @. tauehy about it. They dare not tol- Memorial Day BY JOHN HOWARD LAWSON a | evate the slightest criticism of it—| i ees nothwithstanding their pretense of| | ales oh Terogarinst ; lemocracy and tree speech! VCUa CYS ( 1 MOE Seazen: ibe cacveeionene viel L “An honest and courageous attempt to treat a subject which thus far has been strictly taboo in the American bourgeois theatre. ... Lawson i¢ anh af the most vital and advanced of the younger play- wrights of this country. The play is worth seeing.” a ’ —DAILY WORKER. afraid of protest against marine rule| in Nicaragua is that the overwhelm-? ing majority of American workers and JOIN IN A REAL FIGHT Many of our readers like | to get the DAILY WORKER | | farmers are opposed to the war of || at their newsstands or news- |}, AGAINST FOR “Mr. Lawson has picked out a big theme—in fact just a the invasion which Wall Street and| dealers, dndh¥ed eneiouk ea: : s }. Organization of the unorganized. biggest that a playwright could choose. —WEEKLY PEOPLE. is ea i slits Rea sai ‘ ae nay a * © beaten track o! ie ‘ied | . | state s a 4 ith their newsdealer, . peat toe | 4 > of marines killed in action in ill out the coupon, and send 3. Unemployment. 4 eer fyi | DON’T MISS IT—GET TICKETS N NOW! aragua. it in to us, so that we will be ; ; ra ae bor Farty. é is Subterfuge. able to make the nevessary 4. Persecution of the Foreign Born, 5. A Workers’ and Farmers’ Govern- The New Playwrights. Theatre “Postmaster Kiely’s letter to us as-|§) arrangements, to have it de- 5. War. ment, Sserts that our s 98 Violate Section livered regularly, 36 COMMERCE ST.—PHONE WALKER 5851. ete of the | venal code. This is % Blocks South on 7th Ave. Subway from Sheridan Sq. Mewidiculous subterfuge: Section 2191 ——— ———— — — CLOSING FEBRUARY 11. wn as tae obsecnity law, ter of an ‘indecent, lewd, scene, libelous, scurrils s» defamatory or threatening chars | acter.” % | “Stamps reading Against ! _ Marine Rule i: could not Mhe considered indecent even by an ex- Pet—unless the point of view be a YE cepted that the presence of the mar- a mes on Nicaraguan soil is 7” itself aA indecent. Nor ean stamp. ling for] be considered threatening. Favor Marine Rule. Kiely's attitude mu . JOIN, A FIGHTING PARTY! Join the Workers (Communist) Party of America SSE CIRCULATION DEPT. WORKE First St. New Yorke City DAILY Read a Fighting Paper _ THE SUB BLANK BELOW AND MAIL. Application for Membership In Workers j Wiloue this Meghan. nail (Pall out this blank and mail to Wor a 42 EB. 126{h St, N.Y, C.) A ay td otest My newsdealer is . FILL out TO DALLY WORKER, 23 FIRST ST., NEW YORK. 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