The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 9, 1933, Page 2

BARRI ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER THE STORY THUS FAR: The Wedding, in Berlin, demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite the ban issued by the Socialist Police Chief, Zoergiebel. tacked by the police. The workers erect a street barricade. Major Thomas, of the police, | advances to parley with the workers. . For a moment they stood opposite } one another in silence. The grey jacket of the proletarian with its/ crushed red paper carnation, and the blue, immaculate uniform of the of-j) ficer with its oflver epaulettes. One on one and the other on the other the barricade. They looked at side of r across @ black iron pipe u the leader?” The sharp voice of the major was not ive . At present he was not standing there as victor. “What do you want?” The major took a step towards the barricade. the strength of the barricade. The major | officer wanted to look at the} stopped at once. “If you clear the barricade, I shall give orders for my men to withdraw for that period.” “Only to storm the street after- wards, isn’t that so, Mayor?” Thomas replied mockingly. “The barricade | will remain until the last policeman has disappeared from the whole of Wedding and until you give us your guarantee that the workers can dem- onstrate without interference!” “Bravo!”—The major turned round sartled—a woman’s voice from & window. He again turned to Thomas and said nervously: IN BERLIN BY KLAUS MEWKRANTZ Stay where you are!” Thom- | d out sharply. He knew that} CADES Printed bby Special Permis- sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 381 Fourth New York City. Ayonue, All Werkers are urged to read this book and spread friends. QuIRT it ameng their workers of the projetarian district, The workers’ demonstration is at- the houses. In the room in the second back- yard Anna prepared beds for the chil- | dren ‘as best she could, on the floor, with cushions and blankets. Her-| mann’s little Heide crouched in a |corner and whispered endearingly to| |her kitten. Without her pussy she would never have come here. ANNA WOUNDED Anna placed the little ones side by | side and tucked them in. They were | | tired with playing and crying. A lit-| | | “You know car terms, Majer!” “I guarantee that you can clear| this whole thing away without inter- ference.” “You know our terms, Major!” The | door next to the “Red Nightingale”) slammed. The major stood alone in| front of the barricade. He felt how each of his movements | was followed by hundreds of sharp, hate-filled eyes. He knew that he was the vanquished now. He had been treated like a schooiboy. Bra- zenly and full of scorn this woman had looked at him from the window just now, with no fear that he would He returned to the car. “Start—back to the station!” At that moment the silence of the/| alley was broken by piercing shouts) and boos. The windows flew open. “Go to hell—you bloodhounds!” “Cowardly skunks!’ “Red Front!” ‘The alley almost burst under the screaming and scornful laughter of the men and women. Like a salvo of bursting shells the shouting and laughing tore the air and rang out over the bent heads of the police. out. The furious but powerless roaring) of the motors became softer. They had gone—withdrawn. Vanquished, without a shot, without the throwing of a single stone. One sole miserable barricade, thrown up in a hurry, had sufficed to fill them with panic. They had been prepared for resistance. A few minutes later the alley was again filled with people who tried to strengthen the barricade as quiékly as possible, police would return in a short time and storm the obstacle by armed forc?. But all felt at the same time that the red alley had just won a victory over the police. Slowly the evening shadows fell on DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bet. Pitkin & Satter Aves.) Bklys PHONE: DICKENS %-s073 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M., 1-2, 6-6 Pm, intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AU Work Done Under Wersdéns! Care of Dr. ©. ‘SSMAN DAYTON 9.4000 D. BACKER INTERVALE Moving & Storage Co., Inc.| BRONX, N.Y. 962 WESTCHESTER AVE. | THE LITTLE | WATCH REPAIR SHOP | SIT SIXTH AVENUE, AT 28TH STRBET | | | NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE ‘TRE NEW SOVIET COMEDY “BALL OF THE MANNEQUINS” In Three Acts—Festuring Bunin’s Marionettes DANCING UNTIL 3 A. M. HOT JAZZ BAND Saturday, May 13th 8:30 P. M. at WEBSTER HALL 119 East 11th Street, New York Tickets: 190 in advance—00e at the door On Sale at: WORKERS BOOK SHOP, 50 Bast 18th St. FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET UNION 799 Brosdway Room $30 Auspiées: FRIENDS OF SOVIET UNION and SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY c LA SSIFIED 3 people. ‘St. ‘Daily worker SHARE APARTMPNT—With @ Jone 1 to ae Plectrotus, Write J. 0, draw his revolver and blow her brates | 8 No one doubted that the | !* | tle five-year old girl from the front | house wore a white round her head. When the police had shot |into the rooms during the afternoon she had been wounded on the fore- |head by a flying piece of mortar. Anna opened the window and looked down into the dark water of | the Panke, flowing slowly and notse- lessly between dark walls. Here at | the back all was perfectly quiet. a high houses deadened the noise of he alley. A few miserable little shrubs, with the first delicate green hue of young buds, grew on the banks. Spring came in late between these |high sunless walls, where man and | nature had to fight against filth and | dirt for their existence. She felt the soft evening wind on | ner Rot face, it ie already Map, she | Was thinking. . . . Otitside in the large | gardens of the suburbs it will soon be summer. Then the foul smell would again penetrate their dwell- ings. Wearily she laid her head against the window frame. Thé soft, warm air caressed her forehead, her neck and her hands. Outside the | window ® bird was h in the sand, a grey miserable-looking spar- row. The strong scent of the May wind |which suddenly mingled with the foul smell of the water, discomfited her. It was a heavy, sickly smell of decay, such as sometimes comes from ivy afd tombstones and makes the heart heavy and oppressed. A rat jumped into the water with & soft i ap Tippling the surface in eco cs € ORAPTER V a € THE STORMING OF THE |“RED NIGHTINGDALE” | QHORTLY after seven o'clock it be- came known in the alley that Fro- bus the shopkeeper in the Kolberger- strasse only a few minutes off had been shot in the mouth and killed by a policeman under the railway bridge. In the Antonstrasse they had shot down the war invalid Reitnack outside a restaurant into which he had tried to escape. He had bied to death on the pavement. They had fired at everyone who tried to bring help. Erna Zielke, aged fifteen, had peg blag f wounded by a shot in thigh. after report reach- ee the Red Mightingtie’ Dead, wounded, beaten down, arrested, men women, children! Brety fresh report strengthened the determination to defend the alley and the lives of its inhabitants at all costs. It had be- come immaterial to what political creed they stibsoribed individiially, The workers had beeome free tar- | géts, the president had given liverty Lto each policeman to shoot and baton | whom he pleased. In number 6 they | had fired through the windows into the flat of the Social Democrat Hai- nen. “This is a punitive expedition against the alley!” called out old Hub- | her. He had been one of the first to | help in building the barricades, | “They know that this street i¢ the’) ved heart of Wedding,’ someone said as Ke lifted his nickel spectacies in his hand. “Hello! . . . Comrade speaker,” Kurt called out anid clapped the pale young comrade heartily on thé shoul- der, “Pine, that you have come!” ‘The others also greeted the spéak- ér and the young man was glad that seves bs tate dangerous gieusion and selves in this dangerous situal did net show any stispicion towards him. re ee oe enna here, unknown to all except the thembers of the street ceil who had heard him speak at fhe lat meet- ing in the “Red Nightingale.” A COURIER SHOT A quarter of an hour later, several couriers reported aed bed eee, had beguii t6 stirround the istrict. They had shot a cotitier, » youre fitteen- year-old worker from his cyéle near the Nettelbeckplate. Heavy wourd in the back. Me would seareely pull through. It began t6 get dark. The shi keepers in the Reinickendorfer- strasse had placed shéets of iron in front of their shop windows. In the pubs all the heavy wooden blinds except those outside the entrances had been lowered. Again and again the sutfounding streets were filled with workers Who formed demionstta- tions ahd marched to the centre of the town (Te Be Continesd,) . | tations and leadership of the 1 ]\NEWS Bi BRIEFS Assails British War Move. pila WURiGR, Naw | |Party Life] YOR, ’UaovAr, MAY 9, Loos COMPEL THE CITY TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE RELIEF AND PAY RENTS FOR ALL NEEDY! TORONTO, May 8—Prot. F. H.| Block Comm, | Underhill, history professor at Tor- onto university, charges that British liberals are being sent to Canada to lure the dominion into another Buro-| pean war on the British side. English |, liberals, says Underhill, such as Lord| Lothian, are always more effective in such activities than the more swash- | | buckling tories, which recalls that it| was the British liberal leader, Lioyd George, who headed the cabinet in the last war. Denouncing the Brit- ish objective Prof. Underhill said: takeable terms that the poppies| blooming in Flanders’ Field have no mere attraction for us.” | * | Mexiean Students Imprisoned. MEXICO CITY, May 8.—Ten stu- | dents, leaders of revolutionary stu-| dents’ organizations, have been ar-| | rested here in a drive to purge the | schools of militant leadership and in- | fluence. Among-them are Peter Jul-| ia, Rudolfo Dorantes and Robert At-| . Four workers arrested last | | March have been sent to the Penal} Colony at Isles Marias, Mexico's | “Devil's Island.” Kilt Soldiers in Mutiny. OPICHEN, Yucatan, May 8—Thir- | ty-eight soldiers were killed in the} | course of a mutiny here. They were| | members of an army maintained by | the government to fight the revolu- | tlonary movement of workers and peasants and refused to carry out | further outrages against those whom | the government seeks to exterminate. | The government faces a critical sit- | uation because of wide defection in the ranks of this special force. a Sine | Three Negroes Killed in Tornado. COVINGTON, Tenn., May 8—In a | heavy wind storm that swept this | area yesterday, seventy-five shacks that are homes for Negro families were demolished and three Negroes killed and about twenty injured. More substantial houses were not demol- ished and suffered but slight damage. Owe é Officer Stabbed in Brawl KANSAS CITY, May 8.—Major Ro- | land R. Long of Omaha, Neb., of the Inspection General's Department of the Seventh Corps Area, United States army, was seriously injured orderly house here in the residential district. He was unable to relate de- tails of the affair or describe his as- sailant. eI | Pilsudski’s President “Re-Elected.” | Marshall Pilsudski, the fascist butch- er, Ignaz Moscicki, was “re-elected” president of Poland at a meeting of the national assembly with 332 votes in favor of election out of 343 cast. ‘The inaugural will take place to- morrow. eo. Pass, Reconsider Code Bili. WASHINGTON, D. C—The senate today the administration bill to send to jail federal employees who reveal contents of official coded in- formation and then a few minutes later reconsidered it. The bill con- tains clatises that empower the presi- dent to gag the press on the pre: tense that revelations that might be printed has been derived from coded sources. Senate Adopts Sitver Resolation. | WASHINGTON, D. C—The sen- lf today passed the Wheeler reso- | ion, | gates to the World Economic Con- | ference to “work unceasingly” for in- ternational agreement for remonitiaa- tion of silver, . Power rest Agent ‘dete Job. WASHINGTON, D. C—Another agent of the power trust, Dean Ache- son, has got a job in the Roosevelt administration. He is under secre- tary of the treasury and was recom- mended by Lewis Douglas, director of the budget who has for years been a power trust agent. Deports 112 Japanese Workers GUAM, May 8-—Under orders of Captain E. S$. Root, governor of the! Island of Guam, a tae Hed oles cask na- yen base, 112 ssnarieds thle ip vert rdered ‘This is part ba a general pl of driving Japanese away from Islands that play a part in the naval preparations for war in the Pacific and is regarded in Japan as further provocation by its rival, ‘United States imperialism. Harry W. Smith, | of Kansas City, Mo., | Expelled from Party | pear am KANSAS OITY, Mo—The District | Buro of the Communist Party of this district has voted tinanimouwsly to ex- pel from the Party Harry W. Smith of this ¢ity (also known at Council | Bluffs, Ia. and St. Joseph, Mo), as @ disruptive and unreliable individual. He has constantly been slandering the leadership of the Party in this district, he has been guilty of vile, white-chauvinistic abuses against a leading Negro comrade, he refuses to be disciplined and to carry out Party decisions. Ih his appeal to the Central Con- ttol Commission of the Party, which appeal has been rejected, he has even to raising gtave accu- sations against leading Party mem- bers without any substantiation or basis in facts. He is still pretending to be in favor of the Party program and to be work- ing for the Party line athong the unemployed, among the farmers and in ai hing individual members. But that, of course, 1 only a cloak under which he is carrying on his dieruptive work against loca) jani~ fatty. Such elemerits have no place in the fighting vanguard of the working lass, have no place in the Communist Party, where clarity of principles (especially on the Negro birt afd maintenance of iron distipline is Of the utinost importance. All workers and Workers organi- | ations até warned against Marry W. Smith and against his false pre- tenses. “We must let them know in unmis-/| when stabbed in a brawl in @ dis-| ge: WARSAW, May 8—On orders of | «| stead of in the hands of the mayor, instructing American dele-| Up Because Unit Does Not Give Attention Dnit 308 goi a recruit through an unemployed struggle a year ago. Aft- | er being one month in the Party and attending a Section school this com- rade became unit organizer. At unit buro meetings he brought up the problems of the workers in the neighborhood, until the unit be- gan to consider these problems as its | own. Meetings in blocks were held. Committees were sent to the relief station to demand relief. Purniture |of evicted families were put back | by the workers in the neighborhood. | As a result of this activity we suc- | ceeded to build up thirteen block committees. Now, however, none of these com- mittees are any longer in existence, although there are other committees |in the neighborhood, and the reasons | for their disappearance are the fol- | lowing: 1, Only a few members of the unit | Participate in the actual work of these committees, while the others only discussed and criticized when the work. of these committees were taken he? at the unit meeting. 2. After the block committees were | established the unit began to con- sider that the work of these commit- tees were the concern only of the comrades in the committees and not of the unit as a whole. 3. The existence of an Unemployed Council branch near the territory of the unit caused some comrades to think that there was no necessity for block committees. The remedy for this situation is for the unit to again take up the con- ditions of the workers in the neigh- borhood. To assign all comrades of the unit to participate in one way or another in developing struggles around cases of starvation. —™M. W. Y. bs 8 93 vile cre a Communist mayor, Exnil Viously Comrade Nygard May First « holiday in Crosby, calling upon local business men to close their establishments to enable their work- ers to Hein pace lot in the May nan demonstration. business however, errant and in "ew “a the fact that police authority here| ed is vested in a in Comrade Nygard was powerless (6 a his proclamation of a holi- lay. fear Ped workers’ small business man is raj his economic advantages pony! , ea me into poverty along with the Counetl and the militant working class in general; but the workers are neither ridiculed or dismayed. The hatid writing is on the wall and capitalism is doomed. iver enemies of the workers hete that they will entertained moaeed in heeding the Communist E. W. B. DELEGATES TO REPORT AT MEET NEW YORK —The delegation re- presenting Emergency Wotk Bureau Workers will report the result of an interview with Commissioner Taylor demanding relief, at the Labor Tam- ple, 242 Fast 14th Street, tomorrow | Morning, 11 a.m, | The meeting is called by the City Commitiée of Emergency Work Bu- reau Workers, BRITISH WRECKERS The newsreel at the atre, this week presents the weloome that the convicted Brit- ish engineers of the Vickers-Metro- tat Co. recelved on their arrival England. bi ae porter 1 sees ile ual ea in a speclaily arranged is & thett imperialist. masters, _Tnoldentally the mush publicised crowd” _ Nena them is et: posed a4 wathering sarernineet Officials and nt ey cori Cials, numbering two hi te ‘ maximum, JEWISH ACTORS TO OR- GANIZE BIRO BIRJAN THEATRE A troupe of Jewish sectors, gradu- ates of the Moscow Jewish ‘Theatrical Technicum, will leave shortly for Biro Birjan to ¢stablish the First Jewish Theater in Biro Birjan. Their | u vepertoire Will include, “My Friend,” | by Pogodin, “Youlls” by Dantel, one classic play, & special lay dealing | where with Biro Birjan lite and probleme, several short plays by Smolom Al- ‘eichem and ot vicious support of these treckers and | and will i By ROBERT CHASE Evictions Rage As Tammany Stops Relief; Toilers Prepare to Fight Back NEW YORK.—In a two-hour walk through downtown East Side yesterday, choosing | streets at random, your reporter counted seven evictions. Almost all of the families evicted Evict Family of 6 ‘Take the case at 144 Nor- folk Street, the Tally family. There are six children. The mother | is heavy with another, due soon. The | | father has searched in vain for work, | and finally got relief from the Home | Relief Bureau, only to be suddenly cut off by the cities’ new order. of | paying “no rents.” | One of the children, about 12, was in the hallway crying, the others were scattered about wondering what would happen next, while their par- | ents were pleading vainly at the bu-| reau for a place to stay that night. When the marshall arrived at 211 Avenue A there were only two small children in the house. Not. waiting oe | five more families thrown on the jing people were Home Relief Bureau cases, on the lists from a few months to over a year. Each case is a tale of extreme need-and suffering to which the Bureaus and the cities agencies have turned a deaf ear. /218 E. 14th St., 72 Willard, 142 Suf- folk and 90 Ridge Street. A worker in the neighborhood of 14th Street and Avenue A told of more evictions in that section. On Norfolk Street streets. Workers Aroused Small crowds of workers gather around each eviction. The. talk is a signal. Rare is the tone of hopeless. ness, predominant 1s the voice of bit- | terness and hatred for the landlord and government. “The dirty bast- ards, I'd like to fix them,” “Throw- into the streets, the skunks,” “So this is Roosevelt’s new deal.” Some soft ones say, “well, the land- for the parents to come, they chased | the chikiren out in the street, took | down the furniture and padlocked | the deer. The children stood by cry- ing. $2 a Week Relief Mrs. Rossini at 421 E. 14th St. re- ceived the magnificent sum of $2 a | ® week for herself and two children. | Her husband is dead. Pleas that this | could not even feed them let alone | pay for rent and light, left the Home| Relief Bureau unmoved. Today she | and her children are on the sireets, | told to shift the best way they can. ‘The other four evictions were at | the grafters and -bankers, let. them lord has to pay taxes, he can't keep them if they don’t pay.” He is answered with contempt. “He doesn't worry about us, does he, the city has plenty of money for worry about taxes, we've got to worry about ng out own kind.” ——— Couneil Organizing The bitterness, hatred and fighting | mood is rapidly being gathered to- gether and harnessed by the Unem- ployed Council, who have members at each eviction, circulating around the crowd or holding open air meetings; giving directives to the workers on Crosby’s Toilers Join May Day March Led ee Communist Mayor Mayor “into being & good ‘eto Re! & good fellow, the, other mayors in the coun- yy are beginning to realize Communist prefers the good yl of the workers | of ‘the workers’ ene- Nygard has joined the Gouneil and is definitely | the workers’ strug- | Wy outlined, in his , the struggles of the working class for the short- , Which struggles led up to the establishing of May First as @ Working class holiday in America and then into a working class holiday throughout the world; Comrade| Tankka of Duluth addressed the) youth in particular, exposing the vici- | ous military forced labor scheme of | President Roosevelt. And Alfred) Tiala, Section Organizer of the Com- | munist Party in an. supplement- | ed the previous speakers by bringing forth the issues confronting the work- | ing class at the present time—the is- sue of threatening imperialist wars, | the issue of fascism and the issue of | the strugele for our daily bread. | ‘The best thing about the May Day} demonstration was the fact that all the National Miners Union, justrial Workers of the World,’ workers, the Ind | ployed Council | it is even more important for workers all answered ti call of the Unem- In the Bik of the workers in all organizations and among the unor- ganized masses is growing the sense of need of a united front. We are going forward with bigger, with more militant organization because, as Comrade Nygard, our mayor, has said, to organize than it is to elect their | 1 representatives into political offices. | overboard. how to organize house and block committees, anti-eviction committees to resist the evictions. Calling on them to fill the Home Relief Bureaus and refuse to leave until relief is given. “No Worker Without Shelter”! ‘The leadership of the Unemployed Council is bearing fruit. At 816 EB.) 9th St. there is a rent sirlke, a picket line is at the doors. Fifteen families out of 23 were given dispossess not- ices. “Fight,” was the answer of the workers. The furniture is still in the house. Such actions blaze the way for workers all over New York. “Workers” call the Unemployed Councils, raise the slogan “Not one family without‘ shelter,” enforce the slogan by organizing in your houses and blocks.” 10 CENT SUBWAY FARE PROPOSED Berry Also so Asks Fees for City Colleges NEW YORK—A 10-cent fare on | all subways in New York City was recommended by Comptroller Berry Yesterday in his report to Mayor O'Brien. With this step, all the ¢lection promises of Tammany about keeping the 5-cent fare are thrown | A 10-cent fare on ferry lines was | also recommended. On the other hand, Berry proposes | to cut relief further, to $2,000,000 a month. Other attacks on the workers pro- posed by Berry include the establish- ment of fees for students at all col- leges under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education. Workers’ sons and daughters at the College of the City of New York and Hunter Col- lege are among those who would be affected. A toil of 10 cents at all Kast River | bridges is also proposed. BOOK NOTES SHORT STORIES ABOUT THE REVOLUTION IN CHINA At a time when general interest has been @toused in China as a re- sult of the attack and partitioning by Japanese imperialism a. collection of short stories about revolutionary China, just issue by> International | Publishers should receive wide dis- tribution, The new boow is Tales of Modern | Ohina, by Oskar Erdberg. The author was the correspondent of the Soviet NEW YORK —The district office of the Daily Worker yesterday issued the following call to the workers er New York City: “The influence of the Daily Worxer| is gtowing, It is becoming a betser paper, fighting in every battle of the) workitig class. But the Daily Worker! if-it is merély a newspaper, loses a! certain force. It mist also be an or-| | geniger. “In order to #f6W moré rapidly, firmly arid systematically, the ‘Daily’ | Must build around itself a group of! honest, sincere workers who will do) everything in their power to aid its growth beth in ¢irculation and in content, For this purpose a Daily Worker Brigade will be organized. | “fhe Work of this Daily Worker) in the stowth of the circtilation and financial stability of the paper. Tt will the! be & membership Hzation, with fegular meetings, ‘ing out its own Piahs, with its own elected officers, operate in New York City ahd it6 surroundings. “Only those workers who have the intérest of the ‘Daily’ at heart, only those who will carry out the work as laid down by the Datly Worker Bri- gade, and those who are responsible 84 revolutionary workers will be ac cepted in this brigade.” Register at 35 H. 12th St., ground | Dail loot, during the next two weeks, re Bae: COLUMBIA STUDENTS WANT TO READ ‘DAILY’ a reflection of the increasing mili- Of the students is revealed in the flowing letter from @ student at coe niversity, in New York, the recent exptilsion of Prof- Donald Hend Bring the “Daily” to the Masses! 20,000 New Readers By September First! *2/To Choose Outstanding N. Y. «| Workers for ‘Daily’ Brigade Will Elect Own Officers to Carry On Work of Gaining New Readers Brigade will be very quickly reflected | pict wind of resentment and mass action on the part of the student body: “Several students at Columbia University have been asking for the ‘Dally’ at local n None of them carry it. I hate tried to | investigate farther the Feasons, | which were that they did not know where to apply they dia not know whether papers which were unsold coald re. turned. Pagbhanty ll Berg gl this matter immediate! ‘da You can probably be sure of sel re tt least a donen ‘Dailies’ every Here's something ‘or the’ New York district to tackle without delay! DENISON (TEXAS) FARMER SENDS IN HIS RENEWAL From J. L. Thomson, of Denison, ‘Texes: “Dear Comrades of the Day | losed you will find money order fot 75 cents for my tenewal, very corry I couldn't send in my renewal sib sooner, but just couldn't get the price. However, my truck stuff will then I'll at least the ‘Daily’ regular 4 a wn je rades, your stib ran out the nnn of March and yot sent it on to me for nine more issues. thank you for doing Loe s * + WHO'S GOING TO sed RED PRESS Bi iLDER? ora any wane cern in AN yearly “ne ie" gaburday edition subs is ‘entitled to any one of the following FREE 1, Little Lenin Library—15 tol- umes, 2, Toward Soviet Ameérica—By William Z. Foster—Autographed by the author, tapas a of Lenin—By N. K. cm volames. books should be in every workers library. Who's aoite to be T am nerntea fee Mls Weking | Work cess otitis hae stitred up ® whirl- the first to win them? t | monosco THEATRE, for them, amd si80 | sipp. 8:50; Matinees ‘Wed. & Set at 240 eaten Kaas dike Woes | press in China over a long period of time and became intimately ac- quainted with the lives and struggles | of the Chinese masses. The sketches contained in this volume give an in- timate picture of the developing revo- lution and cast a penetrating light upon the underlying forces. It is by far the best book of its kind in the English language, To assure wide distribution, it has been bound in attractive paper covers to sell for only 35 cents. Order at Workers’ bookshops or direct from International Publishers, 381 Fourth Avé., New York. i | MEET TOMORROW: TO HELP MAKE COUNCIL STRONG Militants from flophouse commit- tees, from trade unions and workers’ | clubs will help develop the Unem- ployed Councils into fighting weapons of the workers when the Council opens its Registered Supporters’ Week at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl., at 7:30 p.m, Wednesday. ‘The campaign aims at converting old branches into neighborhood or Ward Councils based on elected Committees of Action; renewing and refreshing existing committees and councils; attracting support of local unions, lodges and even church groups operating in the council's neighborhood, and a three-fold in- crease of supporters. No obligation is incurred when workers—especially members of Trade Unions and fraternal organizations— register their support by payment of a five-cent fee every three months, ‘The relief situation in New York, organization relations between unem- ployed councils and local committees, and the drive for registratéon will be discussed at Wednesday's meeting. ‘The session calls for one represen- tative from each house and block | committee, Hoovervilles, flophouses, | Secretaries of local councils and un- | employed committees in workers’ or- ganizations are also urged to attend as delegates—not as observers but as authoritative reporters. ‘TENANTS STRIKE ON Sth STREET NEW YORK.—Tenants of 816 East 9th Street have declared @ rent strike against the attempt of the landlord to evict a large number of | Workers unable to pay rent. An 8-year old woman who has | paid rent regularly for 25 years and now is confined to her bed is one of those who the landlord intends to evict. The workers are aroused at the threatened evictions and have organ- ized to resist them with ell their power. They urge workers to attend an outdoor protest meeting which will be held every night, at 8 p. m. at 9th Street and Avenue D. CITY EVENTS REGISTER NOW! John Reed Club Schoo: of Art Summer Term begins May 18! Classes in Poster Design, Life Drawing, Compbsi- tion, Children’s Art Class. Yor further in- forniation address $62 Sixth Ave., Ind floor, or telephone Grammerey 7- VOLUNTEERS was HreD! Come to the National Committee to Aid the Victims of German at 75 Fifth Ave. Ritter vietims Me soce hetp! Come at once! oe Tuesday SPORTS GROUP meets at the Flatbush Workers’ Olt, 1207 Kings Highway, Brook- lyn, at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday MOVING “THE END OF 87. PETERSBURG,” at the Prench Workers’ Club, 40 W. 65th st. ae ae es Announcement! REMEMBER! DEBA’ Saturday May 13. VED: Nations An Instrument of Peace and Free- dom?” Affirmative: Winter Russel of wee of Nations Association. Negative Simons of the Anti-Imperiatist League rip “Tremont Workers’ Club, 2078 Clinton Ave. ine AMUSE MENTS LAST & DAYS PUDOVKIN in “The Living Corpse” Based on TOLSTOU'S “REDEMPTION” Also “SOVIETS ON PARADE” & MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION wonstrs Acne Theatre WTH ST. AND UNION SQUARE THE THEATRE GUILD presents THE MASK AND THE FACE By LUIGI CHIARELLI W. Somerset Maughain 824 St, W. BIOGRAPHY A Comedy by S. N. BEHRMAN Thea., 45th St., W. of Bway Ry. 8:30; Mat, Thar., Set, 2:30 AVO. PEGGY WOOD AND ERNEST TRUEX in (ame SHAME?’ 154 ¥, 1PM. Bway & % Bt, SEE! Todsy and REAR! TOM MOONEY DEMONSTRATION i" t f fr rettal of, fomeee To nacre fair re-trial estan naa! snes" ee VIET RUSSIA ORBABOTAGE AND ESPION- AGE Bit Ptr INTERVIEW ton en iascrsoting program “ re wide news in sight Sonudeeus 6 ‘% te — Admission ol, times | Embassy News Reel Theatre 1560 Broadway, between 46 and 47 Sts. 8KO JEFFERSON 5 INOW EST SELLERS A NEW COMEDY “AIR HOSTESS” 45th, W. of Biwar Toad And SPECIAL ADDED pnavone TO ALL READERS OF THE “DAILY WORKER” TO ALL MASS ORGANIZATIONS HAVING WEEKLY ORDERS We find that a few of the organizations are cutting out theit orders because of the approaching summer months and because many of the workers aré leaving the city for that period. We urge every one of these workers to get a three-months’, two-months’, or one month subscription for the Daily Worker in their absence, so as to keep in doings and activities of the working class. constant touch with the Do not forget to send in your subscriptions when you leave town. SPRING SEASON to memibers of I. W. O. and Go-o) with a letter from your organivation Every Morning at 10:30 A. M. CAMP NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. ¥, REST and RECRBATION SPORT ACTIVITIES RATES: $12.50 per week, ine, tax Carg Leave Co-op Restaurant, 2700 Bronx Park East FOR INFORMATION call: eperative 810,50 per week $2.15 ROUND TRIP |) \ mY