The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1930, Page 4

a Puvtished by the Comprodaily New York City. id mail all checks to the Dally Worker, Publishing Co, Inc, daily, excax® Sunday, N.Y. Telephone Algonquin 7956-7. Cable: 50 East 13th Street, at 50 East “DAIWORK.” New York, N, SOME REMARKS ON THE SAFETY OF BANKS By MAX BEDACHT At present the whole propaganda machinery {capitalism concentrated on preparing mili ary intervention against the Soviet Union. Any- faing is considered a good enough excuse for a J capitalist scribe or politician to raise sentiment zainst the “Reds and against the So ) a sewer odes becaus? ¢) ole too much of the fumds assigned to pay for *aeir construction and thereby prevented safe onstruction, ne Capitalist scribe is sure to sus- ect a “Red plot;” some corrupt police depart- qent is sure to hint at some “proofs” in its ands about a Red pl ome corrupt politician Sure to Cail for “laws against the Red plot- alist fish is sure the Soviet Union ne Red plotters.” “ars,” and “> tall for in *> “stop the fi When s tors have ked the jioney of ¢ and failed, ihereby inkrupting ‘ons, there ig sure to to suspect a “Red plot iment is sure to h police depa s hands about the Red plot; “laws ician is sure to call for i plovters;” and some woll- s sure to call for interv ¢ Union to “stop ihe financing the event. if it can be twisted No mat or. propas t the Reds and against ae Soviet U nda is sure to be ajected. The latest. mani ns of this lying Topaganda eppeared in connection with a num- ber of recent nis connection much at stake. The banks instruments in the machinery capitalism roal rre yery imp <f eploiting ° Through jhe benks the capitalisis get use of “ae workers’ savings. They vse them to finance ~ew methods of exploitation. They use them >. get more machinery and thereby replace work- ©°s, throwing them into the army of unemployed. hey use them to financ> their efforts to defeat ye workers in their struggles for shorter hours “nd higher wages. In other words through the banks. the workers’ ings are turned into ad- Citional weepons against ihe. 4 Aside from. these * “leat ‘3 Anancial tran- attions” carried on With the money of a>posit- os, the board of directors of banking companies mse the money of the depositors for gambling in order to enrich their own private pockets. Whenever a ba 's these transactions become wublicly known. Such publicity is very undesir- capitalism in general. Such publicity wmdermines the confidenc> of ihe iaasses in the em-of capitali In order to reduce this dan *isky transactions with gressly forbidden that the very ex's Practices. In ovde> i and nations] Comm 3 are establiched to supervise banking. The osten- sible purpose of these Comissions and Commis- signers is to pro‘ect the depositor’s inonéy in the banks from being used in_ illegal speculations. “Tije recent experience condériiing the activities of the siate banking department of Néw York, ostensible mission of r banking is a pure capitalist deception. Mr. Broderick and his Com- mission of te New York State Banking Depart- ment are much more interested in covering up the transections that have led to the recent closng of a number of banks than they are to protect the d-nositors. Instead of investigating atid aénouncing the trarsactioxs cf the Boerd “of Directors of the Bank of United States ‘which havealed to the Ss ‘ble for banks and for wu ‘ closing of the bank, Mr. Broderick and his Com- mission er> shouting till they are blue ih their faces about “Fed plots.” This is a deliberate betrayal cf the depositors to serve the financial ‘nteresis of the benks and théir boards of direct- ors. Many incications prove ‘that there is method in ‘the madness f° Mr’ Br ‘Leading of- ficirls of Tammany Hell séém“to ‘be involved in sha actions with funds of the Bank of United States. This transaction endangered the bank's solvency and led to its closing. Mr. Brod- erick himself is a mogul of Tammany. All this noise about a “Red plot” is nothing but the time honored method of the thief being loudest in shou ng “catch thief.” The other capitalist press published the base upon which all of these accusations of Red pi are built. What is this base? The “Novy Mir,” a Communist weekly; pub- lished in the Russian language, in its issue of July 26, answering the question of a r as to reliable banks answered as follows: ‘he extreme economic crisis in the United States has forced the crash of hundreds of banks and only in the Soviet Union are the savings of the toilers guaranteed by gigantic might of the toiling masses.” The N. Y. World in “disclosing” this horrible conspiracy declares that it received the informa- tion from “a man who asked that his name be withheld because he fears reprisals.” It seems that there is no bottom to the slime that a cap- italist scribe is willing to wade in. Novy Mir is paper published openly in New York City. ssue of July 26 was printed in a New York hop; it was sold on New York newsstands; sent through the U. S. mail; copies of it can be found in public libraries. Yet some “hon- orable” capitalist scribe must insinuate that the man who called his ‘ettention to an article that appeared in this public newspaper has reasons to be afraid for his life. The contempt we feel for such brass check ladies, called journalists, can only be exceeded by the contempt these “journalists” display for the intelligence of their readers. But let us get back to the incriminating evid- ence: The Noyy Mir stated that capitalist banks are unsafe, but that the Soviet Union banks are safe. If thet is evidence of a conspiracy to un- dermine the sacred institution of capitalist bank- ing, we admit membership in this conspiracy. There ere certain facts that convince us that the Soviet banks are safe and the capitalist banks ave unsafe. For instance, only recently the Bank of United States in New York, a 100 per cent capitalist institution, closed its doors, with the depositors vainly asking for their mo. ‘This failure was followed by the closing of Bankers Trust Co. of Philadelphia. This failure was fol- lowed by the closing of the Chelsea Bank and Trust Co. of New York. These failures were and are accompanied by a number of bank failures | throughout the United States, easily checked up in the columns of the capitalist press, During the same period, no! a single bank failed in the A few months ago one of the oldest financial institutions’ in capitalist France, the Vas Bank, failed. On Ociober 21 the Oustric Ba Paris closed iis doors. is failure dragmed dowa the Ta dicu government nee. In the Ous failure were involved high officials of the Ministry of Finance of the French Republic. A number’ of other important financial institu- tions in France had to close their doors as result of the Oustric failure. As against t fact, we note that since the banking monopoly was established by the Soviet Government ‘here has not been one single bank failure in iet Russia. These facts could be multiplied through addi- tional comparisons betyeen any c*her capitalis! country and the Soviet Union. In spite of the hysterical ravings of the Tam- manyite Mr. Broderick and his State Banking Department, and in spite of all the propagnda by the brass check ladies in pants and skirts in the editorial Offices of the capitalist press, we maintain ‘thst capitalist banks are unsafe for the workers because they are conducted for the enrichment of the bosses’ class. The Soviet Union banks cannot but be safe for the workers because they are conducted by a workers’ govern- ment and in the interests of the working class. This is an irrefutable fact. If a statement of this fact undermines confidence in capitalist banks-and bankers—so much the better for the working class. _ _ Industrializing Agriculture By G. T. GRINKO Peop'e's Commissar of Finance, U. S. S. R. teats the results achieved in agriculture, past two yeats have been marked by a certain strain in regard to the food supply of the Soviet Union. Thi: hes caused the adoption of strict ulations for. giain procurement and supply in some instances, resort to measures of pression against the large kulak farms, which ‘been’ sabotaging the interests of the prole- state and resisting its economic policy. was to be expected, these developments gave ise toa veritable orgy of abuse in the pourgeois nd emigré press, with predictions of thé rapid decomposition of the Soviet Union, to be followed by a political one. It is now to everybody that clamor from abroad over y eConortiic crisis and lamentations within the try over the degradation of agriculture were fiections of the class resistance to the kulak forces. It is plain it ‘we ‘ate not facing a degradation of culttire, but its initial backwardness ft its growth behind that of the tion of the country. Th the central problem of Soviet economic i hhas become that of ascertaining the causes } lag and devising ways of accelerating the | they confronted the great problem of devel- ‘of productive forces in agriculture, the Party. and the Soviet Government ves, like the legendary hero, at the of two roads. first road suggested was that of allowing to the economi¢ initiative of the well- groups. In a more or less dis- as a complete system or as occasion- and with varying boldness, this consistenly advocated by in the Soviet Union adviserd’ abroad, especially at times of ‘stress, These views have penetrated to thé ranks’of the Communist Party, 2s those’ who maintain that the country above all else no matter on what with the one hend to build up in the cities, while the other the | of capitalism. The Soviet Union has not chosen and will not chocse that road. There is another road to agricultural progress. It runs through sccialist reconstruction of the peasant economy and a technical revolution in farming on the basis of socialized agricultural production, to bring about a system of large- scale farming based on the use of machinery and scientific methods—not capitalist, but social- ist methods. This task, in all its magnitude and historical importance, has been set squarely be- fore the Soviet Union. This road lies through the enhanced development of giant socialist farms (sovkhoz), through the active collectiviza- tion of the small and middle-size peasant hold- ings, which will efface the boundaries between individual holdings, combine their tools and ef- forts, place them on the basis of machine tech- nique and Strike at the very foundation of vil- lage individualism; through the building up of an extensive net of machine and tractor depots @s a means of wholesale collectivization; through the development of a cooperative organization of production and marketing to embrace the great majority of peasants. This second road is the one chosen by the Soviet Government and is that along which the practical construction work in the Soviet Union is advancing along the whole front. . 8 6 From The Five Year Plan of the Soviet Union, by G. T. Grinko, one of the original collaborators on the Five-Year Plan of So- cialist industrialization, a complete account of the Plan, containing the first two years of its operation and a political estimate of its place in world economy, By special arrangement with Interna- tional Publishers this $2 book FREE WITH THE DAILY WORKER FOR ONE YEAR( $8 in Manhattan and the Bronx, $6 outside New York. Rush your subscription to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St. New York, Mention this offer. TODAY IN WORKERS’ HISTORY DECEMBER 31, 188§—Unity congress of Austrian Social Democratic Party at Hain- eld. 1911—Textile mill owners of England locked out hundreds of thousands of men and women workers. 1924—All opposition the untold riches and | | Not a single news item. No articles. Darl orker Derg USA By mail everywhere: One year, of Manhattan and Bronx, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: six months, $3; two months, One year, New York City, Foreign: “OUR BANKING INSTITUTIONS ARE SOLID”—Broderick The Economic. Crisis and Our - Foreign Language Press By LOUIS KOVESS. ' S you look over the capitalist papers, any one of them and any day, you find that they are filled from start to finish with alarming (alarm- ing for the ruling class) facts, items of the re- sults of the crisis, which facts they falsify but are unable to completely suppress. Growing un- employment, wage slashing and speed-up cam- peigny bank failures, suicides, death as a result of hunger, evictions, police attacks on unem- ployed, a wave of lying demagogy of capitalist and social fascist politicians on fake “salvation” proposals, showing how panic-stricken the bour; geoisie is in face of the growing movement of the masses, towards the left, tow rds mighty strug- gles, towards our Party and the revolutionary | unions, But when you look over revolutionary press, written in foreign languages, you find that our press is far from fully reflecting the crisis sit- uation. And even further off from reflecting the struggles, led only by our Party and the revolu- tionary unions affiliated to the Trade Union Unity League against unemployment, for immed- iace unemployment relief and for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, against wage cuts, speed-up, evictions, etc. The capitalist press !s up to Its sclass task of feeding the hungry with false illusions. But our revolutionary press is not up to its class duty to destroy these illusions, lies, empty promises and lead the fight for real food for the starv- ing workers. The capitalist press is up to its class task weapon of the bosses and their government. It is also an organizer, concretely showing the way to the workers to fake charity institutions, police “food distribution” stations, away from the class struggle. Our foreign language press is not as yet or- ganizer of the masses, does not lead them as yet away from under the influence of capitalist and social fascist demagogy, into the unemployed councils, revolutionary unions, into the struggle for unemployment insurance, ete. The examina- tion of our foreign language papers proves con- clusively the above contentions. The Twelfth Plenim of the Central Committee of our Party characterized our struggle against unemployment, for unemployment relief and in- surance, as the “major campaign of the Party.” Speaking about the building of the revolutionary unions, the resolution stated: “The building of the revolutiguary trade union movement is the first task of the Party without which no con- solidated progress can be registered toward win- ning the majority of the working class.” Let us see how far our editors understood the directives of the Party: Rovnost Ludu (Slovak Daily) in six issues (November), there are two editorials which have something to do with the revolutionary unions. In other issues where the economic struggles are connect- ed with our unions, they are translated from the Daily Worker without any effort to present the questions in such a way so that Slovakian work- ers, the majority of them working in several in- dustries, should understand the problems as they involve them. In the campaign for unemploy- ment insurance, in three weeks there were 11 comments and articles published, only in three instances mentioning our unions and the un- employed councils. Trybuna Robotnicza (Polish bi-weekly): One of the best language: papers, correctly placing the unemployment situation and the building of the revolutionary unions to the forefront. But, still not sufficiently. It must improve much the. unemployment campaign. Ukrainian Daily News: In four issues (Dec. 14-18) there 1s only one small front page article and one editorial on the same question. The news on the crisis situation (unemployment, evic- tions, bank failures, etc.) is separated from the struggles led by our revolutionary unions and the Party against these conditions, far removed from the trade union movement. Freiheit (Jewish Daily): In four issues (Dec. 9-12) five articles and editorials on the econ- omic crisis, unemployment insurance campaign, In the Freiheit also the “news” belongs to a separate category, has nothing to do with our unemployment campaign and the building of the revolutionary unions. There are too many ar- rout fo pages, to the decisively important ‘problems of the working class, like unemployment, building shop committees, etc. Novy Mir (Russian weekly): In five issues an | editorial on the struggle for’ unemployment in- ' ‘employment insurance. surance, an article oa the- coal crisis and small news items and announcements on the struggle | against unemployment. No healines. The editor does not seem to find the struggle for unemploy- iment insurance important enough. Tyomies, Eteenpain ani Toveri (iFnnish Cailies): In every one of these papers there is hardly one ‘news item 6n the front page which is connected with our campaign for unemploy- ment relief and insurance, besides having one article or editorial on the same question at a time, when the entire paper ‘should be trans- formed into living instrument in the struggle for unemployment insurance, against evictions, against wage cuts, for building the unemployed councils and the revolutionary unions. Uj Elore (Hungarian Daily): In 12 issues (end of Sept. and first half of Nov.) there are alto- gether 13 news items, articles and editoriais re- Jated to the building of our unions, In four issues (Dec. 15-18) there are four front page news items and five editorials and articles on the un- employment campaign. Certainly, this is un- satisfactory. In one respect there is improve- ment, in connecting up the problem of unemploy- ment with the problems of the Hungarian mass organizations. Panover (Armenian weekly): In three issues (Nov. 29-Dec. 30) there are nine articles, news items, editorials, on the campaign Lied unemploy- ment insurance, Ti Lavoratore (Italian weekly): In four issues (Sept. 6-Oct, 4) there are 15 articles, news items | and editorials related to trade union problems, Better than any other language paper. On the unemployment campaign the paper is decidedly unsatisfactory. In Dec, 20th issue for example, there are only three correspondences, and noth- ing else. Vida Obrera (Spanish weekly): In two issues Oct. 6-Noy. 10) five articles and news items on the trade unions, Dec. 22, three articles on un- Somewhat better than | many other papers. Der Arbeiter (German weekly): As far as the | space given to unemployment and union work: | is concerned, the paper is good: But, in its ap- proach to the problems of the workers, too me- chanical. Takes little care about the industries (like aeroplane) where tremendous numbers of German workers are employed, and at present unemployed. Vilnis (Lithuanian daily): Even when it has one or two articles on the campaign for unem- ployment insurance, it is not saturated with the spirit of the campaign. The daily events are not linked up with the campaign. ‘Laisve (Lithugnian daily): Gives somewhat more on trade unions questions, but the same ctiticism stands good for Laisve, as for Vilnis, in the isolation of the daily events from the struggles led by our unions and our Party. Radnik (Jugoslavian daily): Takes somewhat more seriously the struggle for unemployment insurance than other language papers. The other language organs are also far re- moved from the’ unemployment campaign and from being instruments in building our unions. Most of our papers refuse to print the ready material sent to them by our unions. For ex- emple, the Mine, Oil and Smelter Workers In- dustrial Union gathered material on wage cuts, speed-up, rationalization, unemployment acci- dents, etc., worked these into a form of articles by concrete examples. Only two papers pub- lished these articles. The space is taken in many instances with material which should not be pub- Ushed in our press (like articles of the Foreign Ae Set eareet)s * Our editorial staffs (with very few exceptions) | do not hold editorial conferences to discuss the instructions of the Party. ‘No wonder then, that before the Party is in @ position to mobilize the masses for unemployment insutance, etc., weeks and months are lost, until our editors are mobil- ized to fully understand the great importance of this campaign. The Buros in most cases do not scrutinize the papers for which they are chiefly responsible, Oe ee ee How to Organize a D.W. Campaign IN the campaign for 60,000 circulation for the Daily Worker there have been made in var- ious parts of the country distributions of the Daily containing stories of special interest to workers in these sections. As thousands of new workers learn of the Daily Wo! for the first time in this way and as many subseriptions are obtained in the follow up, this activity must be regarded as extremely important. To complete a big distribution successfully, all parts of an extensive machine must work per- fectly. The Daily Worker has received many complaints when the machine for one reason or another has broken down. Today we publish the report of an extensive distribution which worked perfectly. It is described in a letter from Paul Cline, district organizer, and Mel Wermb!ad, district Daily Worker representative in District 10, Kansas City. Here is the letter: Dec. 23, , 1930. Dear Comrades: On behalf of the District Committee of Dist. 10, we wish to express our comradely apprecia- tion of the splendid cooperation we received from the Daily Worker business and editorial de- partments in putting across our Red Week for the Daily Worker. Comrades all over the coun- try invariably write in expressing their kicks and complaints, but very few take the trouble to comment on work well done by the hard-pressed comrades turning out our Daily. We especially want to call attention to the fact that practically all of our icles were printed—and printed on the right days, and that the 1,000 daily copies, dividéd into 5 bundles, arrived in the right places at just the rig’ i The comrades all over t! istrict pleased with this and an i wards the Daily has Because of the thorough advanee preparations by the District Committee, backed by the splen- did cooperation of the Daily Worker staff, we have been able to achieve good results, Although complete reports are not at hand, we can state that in Sioux City alone, where we secured 11 monthly and 6 weekly subs, our entire efforts have been more than repaid. Besides the subs secured, much literature has been sold, Party members enrolled and valuable contacts made. We expect a minimum of 35 new subs as a re- sult of this concentr:’: drive. And this ‘+ only the beginning. Comrades, as a result of putting across this drive from the district end, and the Daily Worker end, a decidedly improved attitude on the part of our comrades towards the Daily Worker has been realized. The path towards building a mass circulation for the Daily Worker, in this district has been indicated to the Party members. You can rest assured that this drive marks the real beginning of Daily Worker Building in our district. With Communist greetings, PAUL CLINE, District Organizer. ' 4 MEL WERMBLAD, - District Daily Worker Agent. are very Districts and cities planning distributions have | repeatedly been a pi to watch these three | points: 1. To send pistine to the Daily Worker sev- eral days in advance of the date of issue. 2. Send several short stories rather than one long story. 3. To order an issue dated sufficiently ahead of the distribution date to ensure arrival. papers instead of becoming real instruments in the struggle for unemployment insurance, and for the building the revolutionsry unions, would become barriers in the way. ‘she fact, that our papers {mproved in comparison with the past, does not mean much, when they are still, miles behind the requirements of the present. In a papers must be able to swiftly re-oricntate papers must be able to swiftly to re-orientate themselves, grasp immediately the needs and re- quirements of the new hour, of the new condi- tions of our revolutionary work. The millions of starving, demanding immediate relief and un- employment insurance, cannot wait until the forces who must lead them, will themselves slow- ily recognize their class duties and tasks. A con- stant bombardment of sharp criticism, the strongest self-criticism, a cons‘ant the problems and more responsilility, on the part of the leading committees in supervising our Papers are absolutely necessary and ih cases where without organizational d&ange no adic in an efficient, business-like manner, both | excepting Boroughe six months, $4.50. $1; $8; By JORGE Revolutionary, But Not Now For unadulterated jackass “logic” the I. W. W. press artists take the banner. We have before us the “Industrial Worker” of Dec. 13, and while we might find something highly peculiar most anywh in it, we are barred by space to Te: ow comment to the following: One Paul Kikke writing a dialogue, one of the famous Dia sisters, has a Wobbly talking to a rbill” in this wise: I thought that the I. W. W. was “Scissorbill pure ¥ i “Wobbly: The I. W. W. is not one mind or one man’s organizatio: It's true that we’ve adopted the real economics to a great extent of Karl Merx, Bakunine, Proudhon, etc., but the I. W. W. face the facis of the industrial conditions of the 19th century as they are.” So, the Wobblies, being broadminded, adopt a | generous portion of Marx and Bakunine and Proudhon—all mixed up, despite the small mat- ter that one contradicts the others. Do ydu want Marxism, they have it. But they can draw one from Bakunine if you like that. Being liberal like, the editor, also, shows the® he has the proper generesity by adopting in an editorial entitled, “At the Depth of the Slump,” the current capitalist optimism one can find in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or any other boss sheet. True, -he, like other capitalist editors, sounds a cautious note on account of the “unknown factor: nong which are “Russia and Italy,” both of ich he places in one basket, though mis-stating matters by saying that in Italy the national economy is “under control of the state.” But he rambles on to show that aside from these factors which are “unknown” to all except Marxians, “there is every prospect that Spring will witness a hectic effort at recuvery.” He said “effort” to leave a hole to slip out of next spring—as if the capitalists were making no efforts now. But further along he says flatly: “We shall have a temporary revival ‘in the Spring.” But, being one of those who have adopted not only Marx, but Bakunine and Proudhon, as well as “etc.,” he ain’t so certain, boys, he ain’t so certain. For he opines that— “Midsummer will bring the crisis if it don’t come in the Spring.” And to make the reader certain that he, the editor, don’t know, he adds: “Tt will be war or economic adjustment, and one man’s guess is as good as another's.” But he’s certain on one point: “One great in- fluence makes for" peace: the nations are so de~ pleted in finance and credit that war is dan- gerovs to their economic and political security.” So, ho! According to this Wobbly editor the world economic crisis makes for peace! And since every fool knows that if the capi- telist nations are prosperous and have ample merkets to absorb their exports there is «no cause for war—when the heck is there any dan- ger of war? Again, of course, this is baie capitalist pacifist bunk rehashed. Naturally, if there is no danger of war, there is no need of preparing the working class to struggle against war. Which brings us to an~ other remark of the dialogue by Paul Kikke, mentioned above. The Wobbly is winding up his arguments to the Scissorbill, and says: “We are -revolutionary, and the future will prove it.” Well, workers, maybe the future will prove, something about the Wobblies, but the present, proves that they are not revolutionary. In fact, they prove it themselves, out of their own mouths. ‘ Not All That Is Russian Is Red On Saturday, December, 20, the Daily, Worker ried an ad for an affair at the Wintergarden, the Bronx, saying in rather ‘small type s the—‘Seventh Annual Caucasian all, Cabaret.” About it a comrade writes: “The white guards have pulled a good one on the Daily Worker and the Freiheit, without any of the staff artists getting wise. Both papers ve been advertising a Russian-Caucasian ball, thout taking the trouble to find out who are these Caucasians. “A worker expects to see red when he goes to a ball which is being advertised in the papers of his class. But what a shock! The czar’s imperial colors on the lapels of the Tuxedo-dressed men told the story.” From others, also, who attended under the itlusion that it was some sympathetic organiza- tion to Communism, we learn that czarist songs | and religious songs were sung in true white guard | agert disguised as a movie man.” tact with | the masses of workers, the regular discussion of | style. So we investigated. And, found: ‘That the comrade in charge bf the Daily ad- vertising took the ad because the Freiheit sald it was O. K. That of the two comrades’ who seem occupied with ads on the Freiheit, one “thought” she had asked the Party’s Russian editor (about 30 feet away), then decided that the other comrade of the department had taken the ad. The Russian editor said nobody has asked him anything, though this outfit had tried to advertize in the Party's Russian paper, Novy Mir, but since they “were advertising also in the monarchist paper,” had been rejected, The second comrade in the ad department. of the Freiheit explained that he had taken the same organization's ad before for some years, and just taken for granted that it was alright, In fact he had attended their affair a couple of years ago and “saw nothing wrong.” Maybe he was affected by bad eyesight, Perhaps here- after he will use a better pair of specks. And the Daily will not take too much stock in such recommendations. We knew a comrade who attended one of these blow-outs a year or so ago, who, when he found out what he had gotten into, acted like a Com- munist, seized a chair, mounted it, and began @ mass meeting denouncing these white guards, and the deluded crowd forced the outfit seed turn their entrance fee, . o 8 A A Jumping Bean i We see that Ortiz Rubio is more nervous a Mexican jumping bean about Reds. The famous Soviet movie director, Sergel M. Eisen= stein, has been arrested in Mexico on the charge, says the N. ¥. Times, of “being a Communist That's a coed disguise for @ chap “who has forgotten more about movies than all the stupid Hollywood directors ever knew. But he is also hazed by these moxon directors. Altogether, we think he will have material for a fine film on copitalint culture when he gets ‘back to the cone *\