The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WUKKER, NEW LORK, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933 BARRICADES Printed by Special Permis B & R L ' hd sion of INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, 38) Fourth . Avenue, New York City. BY KLAUS NEUKRANTZ Ail Workers are urged to read this book and spread / RT ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER QUI sk aem fuednnande. THE STORY THUS FAR: The workers of the proletarian district, Wedding, in Berlin, demonstrate May Day, 1929, despite the ban issued by he Socialist Police Chief, Zoergiebel. The workers’ demoristration is at- Students Fight for NEWS BRIEFS Begin “V FORT KNO> | most extensive wi by the a first manouy of Cincinnati were in combat ni was technically a mass of smoulde: ing ruins after tw Games” in Ohio 15. The here are three coast artillery ment. nti-aircraft and m uns, search- id sound detectors. They are the defense forces, who fight off forces equipped with the most ef- with bat s of | “Appeal Not For My Freedom Academic Freedom d ‘i q But Class Issues’—W einstein “I don’t care for my _ personal freedom’ said Sam Weinstein, framed furnittre striker when in- terviewed in jail by the Weinstein Defense Committee. “But if there are enough class issues in the case to make it worthwhile to spend the money, the International Labor Defense should go ahead.” Weinstein made this being made in his case and learned it would cost $2,000. “A worker with such spirit. should not be allowed to rot in jail,” the Defense committee said. ‘‘Collect after being told that an appeal was | funds and send it to the Weinstein | acked by the police. Defense preparations are made THEN the dawn of the 2nd of May | Waerts’—— Like a béar, raving with | broke, Kurt left the alley. It was | fever, Kurt stumbled through town. | to be expected that the district | When he saw @ policeman he trem- | would be cut off again presently and so the immediate task was to estab- 1 connections with the outside ld; to see what was the general inion in town about yesterday's events; and to collect some informa- tion for the people in the alley. Men thered in front of the newspaper m their way to work. They ched the papers, wet from the , out of the hands of the ven- dors. “Blood Guilt of the Communists” “Vorwaerts” in black front page. “Mos- That was the reamed the adlines on th needs corpses!” cow “Volkblatt” of the workers laughed scornfully: the same lefts who previously had called the Police President the May Day “mur- ‘Jeft” S.P.D, The ; in the workers’ quarter. bled with hatred. He did not understand all this. | Why did the people walk about calm- \ly and as if nothing had happened? |The trams ran as usual. The trains | rolled over the bridges under which | Kurt was standing, and the thunder- ing noise of the iron girders was mu- | sic to him in the unbearable silence of the morning. It ought to crash, everything ought |} to crash, to break. Why don’t the | workers smash the printing machines | that spit out these lies, why do they | just talk and swear and then go on to their factories as usual? There was the branch office of a newspaper. People were standing in front of the windows reading the | morning editions which were hung | tive bombing equipment known Four Die in Ohio Floods. CINCINNATI, May 15.—Four are dead and many homeless as flood waters rose over parts of Kentucky and Ohio yesterday. The flood stage was sed here last night and the | Ohio river is still tising. The poorest sections of the towns and Cities are affected Six Die in Indiana Floods. | INDIANAPOLIS, May 15.—Rivers and streams of Southern Indiana | became raging torrents and over-} flowed their banks yesterday, bring-} ing in their wake a toll of death and disaster. Six were drowned in the waters at Terre Taute and here. Four Killed in Tornado. BATESVILLE, Ark., May 15.—Four farmers, living in tumble down shacks | died when a tornado swept through | derer.” The Communist baiters rev-| out. Workers, a tram driver in uni- | mile-wide territory near here yes- elled im orgies. No bourgeois paper could rival the lies and calumnies of the Social Democratic newspapers. form with his bag under his arm, prostitutes who had found no clients that night, night club visitors with | terday. The substantial houses were | not badly damaged, but hundreds of families ate without shelter because | of destruction of flimsy houses. A scene at Columbia University the influence of the reactionary school administration failed in an at- tempt to stop the one-day strike demanding the reinttatement of Donald Henderson, Support for Rivera Protest | | | yesterday when students still under | | Is Urged by John Reed Club United Front Demonstration at Radio City To- Defence Committee of the ILD. Room 339, 799 Broadway.” CALL CONFERENC TO FIGHT NO RENT ORDER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) |MoNamara has written to the Inter-| “The ponce as demonstrator,” was | tightly buttoned-up overcoats, smeil- | morrow; Meeting in | Club Headquarters APPEAL OF UEL LEE, FRAMED NEGRO, COMES UP SOON IN SUPREME COURT ‘Sentenced to Die in Electric Chair June 2; Carol King and Ades Represent I.L.D. BALTIMORE, Md., May 15.—Ca rol Weiss King, well-known woman statement | lawyer of New York, will be associated with Bernard Ades, Baltimore In- ternational Labor Defense attorney, in the appeal to the U. 8. Supreme | Court in the case of Euél Lée (Orphan Jones), it was announced today. Lee has been sentenced to die June 2. A writ of ceriorari, for an ap- | peal, Will be filed with the clerk of@- | the U. S. Supreme Couri before May | 25, ib was announced. | Lee, framed on murder charges, |has been twice convicted, and the | TLD, has once obtained a reversal from the state Supreme Court. As |@ result of this reversal, obtained on | the ground of Negro ex¢lusion from |Jury services, Negroes have been placed on Maryland jury panels, al- though so far they have not been | allowed to serve. An appeal in the second lynch con- viction was sustained by the higher | state tribunal, and it is from this! fonviction 4nd sentence the present appeal is being taken. | | | cases winning relief. All workers are | urged to join the picket lines. A woman holding a baby in her | arms threw an inkwell at a cop and official at the York Avenue bureau yesterday when her demands for re- lief were turned down. The officer called a doctor saying “She's insane.” The doctor examined the woman and said, “No, she is merely starved.” | A Negro mother was rescued from | the hands of a policeman at Willi- | amsburgh bureau after she shouted | her demands for relief. All these actions had little effect as they were done without organi- M’Namara Says Money | for Him Go Instead to’ Scottsboro Boys’ Folks | NEW YORK —In prison 20 years| for his working class activities, J. B. hational Labor Defense asking that prisoners’ relief money which he has! been receiving be sent instead to the| families of the Seottsboro boys. { “Your April Qist letter contained @ money order for one dollar,” McNamara writes. “Through the “De- Speaker Rainey Is Met by Scottsboro Protest onArrival in Columbus COLUMBUS, Ohio.—A picket line grééted Speaker Rainey of the House of Representatives when he came here to speak to the Bankers and Manufacturers Association. Shouts of “Free the Scottsboro boys’? and “We want unemployment relief” came from the pickets carrying huge banners, which read: “What have you done about the Scottsboro case?” and “Rainey! Free the Scottsboro boys,” as he entered the Neil House, guarded by police and & company of regular soldiers, A mass meeting was held neay the State House, which was attended by a large crowd. The League of Strug- gle for Negro Rights sponsored ‘the protest. The effect of this “welcome” on Rainey is shown by his speech, in which he lauds Roosevelt for “saving the country from communism.’ N. Y. Education Board the heading of a leading article in| ing of cigarettes and beer. Kurt |_ one of them. Kurt read out the juic-| pushed his way to the window. He| | did not hear someone swearing be- | zation. Asks Teachers to Take | fender” express my deep appreciation f to all the members for their com- * | NEW YORK.—The John Reed Club yesterday called on all workers’, | cultural, and student organigations to join actively in all actions in protest | Gonshak Defense | hind him. He started to read, any- where, in the middle of the page: | “Even if due allowance is made for | the strained nerves of the overwork- | ed police and officers, the ruthless | | handling of the baton is open to! | Stave criticism. The punishment of | | whipping was abolished from our | Party Life HowWe Built a United Front With Socialist | against the Roekefeller family's dismissal of Diego Rivera, Mexican painter, | | because his mutal in Radio City contained @ group which ncluded a figure | International Labor Defense against of Lenin. Tt called on all workers and or- tomorrow. The first is a mass de-| monstration in Columbus Circle at 5 p.m., to be followed by picketing | Oe Club, however, at a special me | ganizations to take part in two events | Sunday, reaffirmed its well-known | to 2 years in jail on charges of ‘“dis- An appeal is being made by the ..._... | the conviction of Sam Gonshak, mil- eting | itant unemployed leader, to 6 months position toward Rivera, which it first | orderly conduct.” All funds collect- declared over a year ago, based on | ed for Gonshak should be in the I. the fact that he retained a fat po- | L.D. office, 799 Broadway, by today tadely thoughts of all those behind Walls and bars. In the future send money orders to the families of the| Scottsboro comrades. I will inform) those who ask questions that I re- quested it be sent to them. “May 2 contained a copy of a letter | from the workers of the Tools De-| partment in the Stankostroi Works, Payless Summer Jobs NEW YORK—The Board of Edu- cation has decided to follow the ex- ample of Chicago and compel teach- ers to work without pay, in the re- quest just issued asking teachers to “volunteer” their services for suri- mer school work. No coercion is to | Penal code largely because it bru-j| yy | talized the officials. The police haye | Youth for N. Y. D. | re-introduced it and the result is | ——s that they apparently enjoy beating| BOSTON, Mass.—A call for united what comes under their hands. Pe- | action was issued by the Provisional U. 8.8. R. It was an inspiring and forceful message and I consider it a great honor in having received it. “Greetings to all farmers, students, | and workers, “Comradely yours, J, B. McNamara, 25314.” in front of Radio City. It called for | sition in the Mexicah government | Noon, the carrying of slogans attacking the | While that government was conduct- | | cultural reaction of the American|ing @ reign of terror against the |ruling class, represented in this case | Mexican workers and peasants, and | ‘% 4 5 | * by the Rockefeller family, murder- | that he is the organizer of mass de- | | National Youth Day Committee to ail 3 , | eseni =| against imperialist wars. The call|the linking of the Rockefeller van-| Detroit to starvation in their own | be pag reasons ST ead pede A |dalism with Fascist vandalism in | Country. be used according to the Board of Education but Associate Superin- tendent Grady is threatening wage cuts for teachers if they refuse to work without pay during the summer, Principals are appealing to sub- stitute teachers to take the payless summer jobs, in the hope of lining TO EVICT 36 NEGRO TENANTS — . . threw it to the ground and trampled on it. jest bits to workers round him on Wedding station: “Freedom to dem- onstrate exists, but not for the scum and those people who have only suc- ceeded in demonstrating that they have forfeited their political rights in Berlin and can only be dealt, with as eriminals.” An old Social Democratic worker tore the newspaper from his hand, his face red with fury, threw it to the ground and trampled on “Swine, those swine,” he shouted again and again. “Are we scum?” A slogan which appeared in differ- ent variations in all the 8.P.D. news- papers had been issued by the So- cial Democratic press service. It was: “Moscow needs corps!” Feverishly Kurt tried to read all the néwspapers he could lay hands on. He could not buy all of them. re he saw a man standing with paper he went up to him and begged him to let him see it for a moment. “Sheer madness!” he thought again and again. There aren't as many lies as all this. He always looked first at the reports on | the fighting in the alley. In one paper the attack of the po- lice on the barricade in front of the “Red Nightingale” was described like this: “ . On the word of com- Mand about 150 Communists stormed out of the surrounding houses and erected a barricade six foot high out of lorries, builders’ vans, gas pipes, stones and beams across the street. ‘The action was so well prepared that the police who appeared ten minutes | later were received by a real fusi- Jade. Behind the barricade about 100 Communists armed with army revol- vers and rifles had taken position and opened a furious fire. Presently fir- ing broke out in the rear of the po- lice. The Communists had occupied attics and roofs from which they kept up an incessant fire. In a short space of time hundreds of volleys were fired. The weak police detachment had to withdraw for a few minutes | to await reinforcements.” Kurt was breathless with amaze- ment. When the police appeared for the first time not a shot had been fired. “Behind the barricade about 100 Communists armed with army re- volvers and rifles had taken position.” Behind the barricade two were lying dead when the attack began. Was it they who had fired the salvoes? He became more and more con- fused. Who had written this? He turned the paper round—the “Vor- NEEDLEWORKERS APPRECIATE THE LITTLE WATCH REPAIR SHOP 517 SIXTH AVENUE, AT 28TH STREET For Brownsville Proletarians SOKAL CAFETERIA 1689 PITKIN AVENUE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF | WOCOLONA come to a Meeting Friday, May 19, at 8 P. M. WORKERS COUNTER, 50 FE. 13th Sireet to discuss plans for a WORKERS’ TENT COLONY CLASSIFIED SHARE APARTMENT —Wi Jone 1 to Oct. 1, VINGLE ROOM—Private bath, private fi ily, St weekly. 235 W, 110th St, Apt, 9 | dent, were roughly handled by the | police. Anyone who protested to a | police officer would be told (this ac- | which was sent to the City Commit-| | tee of the Young People’s Socialist | | League retnained answered. Germany. At that time Rivera, in coopera- Meeting at Club Also | tion with former secretary of labor, | ON THURSDAY, \ tuelly Happened at the corner of the | 4 member of the Provisional Com- Turm and Stromstrasse in Moabit) | ‘We are not Jews, we don’t negoti- ate. The baton is used readily. If the questioner did not retire in great haste, he received a blow on the head.” jaction. Upon entering the room, he | asked to speak to the organizer and | was introduced to Winer. Going into |@ little side room, the delegate from) . At 8 p.m. the same evening, the | mittee went to the Y. P. S. L branch| John Reed Club will hold a meeting | “repatriation of unemployed Mexican | in Dorchester to appeal for united! in its headquarters, at the National | Workers in the U.S.” The Club there- Student League, 583 Sixth Avenue | (near 16th Street) at which speak- ers of the club will clarify the po- ition of the revolutionary artists and | Doak, organized a committee for the NEW YORK. — Thirty-six negro) fainilies at 16, 18, 24 West 134th 5t.) Jim Crow apartments, denied relief | by the Home Relief Bureau are all | to be evicted Thursday. fore decided to refuse to send a gag- ged speaker to the Irving Plaza meet- | ing. Instead, the John Reed Club dis- | it. Kurt looked at the héad of the pa- per, a bourgeois journal. The first voice raising a timid protest against the police. Oh, how stupidly written, he thought, “roughly handied’”—that idiot should have been with us in | Wedding. | “Man, we didn’t notice anything of that sort in the ‘White Mouse,” a fat, oily voice croaked behind him. |He turned and stood in a cloud of | alcohol-infested breath, stale smoke | and disgusting penetrating scent. | “Well, what's the matter, my |man?” The speaker was corpulent, |rubicund, a bowler hat was tipped lon one side of his head and white | withered flower stuck in his button- | hole. The old roue and the tired hatred shining from blood-shot eyes disturbed the night bird. His drink- sodden brain did not grasp what he saw, but this stare made him feel un- easy, spoiled his feéling of saturated | content. | “What's the matter?” His growl | Was unpleasan} and touched with a | suspicious aloofness. He put his hand in his pocket and took out a hand- | ful of loose money. | “Here you are, fellow, go get your- | Self a beer!” He held out a piece of money to him. Kurt saw the silver | coin lying on the flabby palm. Next | moment he rushed it away like ver-| |min. With a hard clink the money | fell on the pavement. A woman bent down and picked it up. |. Speechless, head down, he pushed | his way through the people and went on, “Scum!” he murmered and took/| a deep breath of the fresh morning air to rid himself of the drunkard’s disgusting smell. | (To Be Continued.) WHAT'S ON | Wednesday | LECTURE IN PRENCH— Revolution Sex- uelle”—Lecturer—Dr. B. Lieber. At French Workers Club, 40 West 65th &t. 8 p.m, | Admission free. Announcement REGISTER NOW! John Reed Club School | of Art Summer Term begins May 15! Classes | in Poster Design, Life Drawing, Composi- tion, Children’s Art Class. For further in- formation address 583 Sixth Aye., Ind floor, or telephone GRamercy 7—-9629. ANTI-FASCIST MEETING to Wednesday, Mey 17th, 1933, Mansion, 1998 Bath Ave. near | Prominent Speakers. | mission 10 cents, | be held on at Colonial iy 22nd St. Auspices LL.D. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 Bristol Street (Bed. Pitkin & Gotter Aves.) Bhiyn PRONE: DICKENS 2.5012 Office Monrs: 8-10 A.M., 1-3, 6-8 P.M. Intern’! Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 15th FLOOR AD Work Done Under Persons! Care of Dr. C. WEISSMAN SPLENDID LARGE Hall and Meeting Rooms TO AIRE Perfect for BALLS, DANCES, LECTURES, MEETINGS, Etc. IN THF New ESTONIAN WORKERS HOME 27-29 W.115th St., N.Y.C. Phone UNiversity 4-0165 | the Provisional Committee told the | ¥. P.S. L. organizer who he was and | that he would like the floor and pre- sent the appeal. Winer thought for | @ moment nm said “O. K.,” but} ri after seuaad tugs “he answered | Hounced that it will actively parti- \that he would refer it to the City | CiPate, and urges all workers and cul- Committee. ‘They went into a dis- tural organizations to participate, in cussion and the outcome was that|#! struggles against the American | | the hesitation of the Y. P. S. L. or-|‘uling class on this issue, despite the | | ganizer was overcome and the repre- | glorification of Rivera by other ele- | sentative was given the floor. ments which have taken an interest After a talk by the representative, | in this situation, the discussion from the floor started. | im One member stated that the City) NEW YORK. | writers both toward capitalist reac- | tion in the field of culture, and to- | | ward Rivera, The John Reed Club also an- | — Four hundred | Committee had received a call but did| People attended a meeting Sunday | not approve. The rank and file mem-| night in Irving Plaza, 16th St. and bers showed by their attitude that| Irving Place, and heard Rivera and they did not approve the stand of the| speakers from organizations affiliated City Committee. |with the TW.W., Trotskyist, Love- tributed a leaflet at the Rivera meet- ing, exposing the gag tactics of Ri- | vera’s friends. Joseph Cohen, who spoke for the National Student | of a John Reed Club‘speaker: Phil Bard. Speaks | The sentiment against. these-tac- | so strong that Ben Shahn, chairman | and friend of Rivera, was forced to} call for someone to speak for the | John Reed Club. Phil Bard, revolu- | tionary artist, took the floor, expres- | sed the Club’s position that the issue | is a political issue, and praised Rob- | ert Minor's article on Rivera in the| worker stood face to face. A glare of | Another member asked if the Com- | munists Were in back of the call. The | representative said the Communists| | participated in the organization of| the Provisional Committee. The! Young Communist League is the initiator of National Youth Day. The | main issue is to fight against im-/| perialist war preparations. A long discussion followed on the Mooney Congress. The Y. P. S. L. member sat down satisfied. | A vote was taken. Out of 12 mem- | bers present nine were in favor and only three against. The branch then elected two delegates to the National Youth Day United Front Conference. |The organizer of the branch, even | though he was not elected a delegate, promised to attend the conference. In fact he stated that regardless of whether delegates would be elected he would go anyway. The representative stayed till the meéting was over and then walked | toward his home with the organizer | | and another member and they talked | about the united front action. The | organizer of the branch stated that it would be a good idea if the Y.C. L. }and Y. P. S. L. held a hike or party | together, and that they would also} like to attend a meeting of the Young Communist League. We see by the above that the rank) and file members of the Y. P. S. L. | are ready for united action in spite of | their leaders —H. W. John Lamb, Centralia Frame-Up Victim, Is Out; Served 13 Years CENTRALIA, Wash—John Lamb,} one of the Centralia armistice day | prisoners has been released from) Walla Walla prison after spending 13 years and five months behind the bars on a framed charge of second degree murder. Two others were previously paroled, | one died in prison, and a third, orig- inally found insane, was freed as) sane in 1930. There are still jailed— Ray Becker, Bert Bland and Britt Smith, Lamb {s now at his home here with his wife and his 15 year old daughter, Ruby, who was 26 months old when| her father was framed by the lumber | barons of Washington. Lamb was a member of the militant I. W. W. among the lumberjacks in| Centralia, when a gang of American) Legionnaires and hoodlums attacked | the I. W, W. hall during an armistice Daily Worker, which had been the | original excuse for the Rivera com- | mittee’s adopting its gag policy to-| ward the revolutionary writers and | artists. Shahn then recalled the | previous speakers, who made dema- | gogic appeals for “unity at any price,” and against any reference to Rivera’s relation to the revolution- | ary movement, attempting to show that this would be a “disruption” of the struggle. STAGE AND SCREEN Reactionary Dialogue Makes ‘Forgotten Men’ Pro-War Film By DAVID PLATT (Workers Film-Photo League) | “Hot from hell, FORGOTTEN MEN, not recommended for those with weak hearts or shattered nerves,” reads the blurb in the capitalist press on | this newsreel of the World War from Sarejevo to the Armistice (released | by som dubious organization calling itself the Public Welfare Pictures Cor- | poration) now playing at the Rialto | stonite, and Socialist parties ful- somely praise Rivera as a révolution- ary artist. Tried to Muzzle Speaker The John Reed Club had been in- ited to send a speaker to this meet- ing, but only on condition that he accept a resolution praising Rivera, and that he refrain from referring to Rivera's relation to the revolu- tionary movement. The John Reed y | Theatre, Broadway. | While it is true that the various) scenes themselves, photographed on! the spot by intrepid cameramen re-| veal the horror and terror of war far | beyond any possible studio film, yet| the demagogic, reactionary dialogue accompaniment to these documents) have the neutralizing effect of turn-| ing what may in other hands haye| easily become a stark anti-war film,| into an enthusiastic, patriotic drama | of heroism, adventure, glory and| medals, As a matter of fact, the entire film, which pretends to be a brief for the forgotten war veterans and an expo- sure of the hideousness of war, is in reality nothing more nor less than a long paean of praise for President Roosevelt and his regime. Battle after battle is unrolled before our eyes. But we watch in vain for one single image on the screen, or one word from the mealy-mouthed orator who is describing the events, that will tell the truth of the conscious forces behind this slaughter, one word that will throw light on the underlying cause of war and put some kind of order into the chaos of events before us. All the bourgeois commentator has | Horizon Interesting Film On Jewish Question But | Is Lacking in Continuity | At the Europa this week there is | én interesting film, “Horizon,” about the world-wanderings of a young Jewish mechanic. The film comes from the Soviet Union. | Born under the rule of the Czar, this young Jewish worker learns ear- ly of the pogroms and Jew-hating brutality of the Russian ruling clas- ses. An offer of escape comes from far- off America in the form of a steam- ship ticket from his American uncle. At this moment the world war breaks out, and he is conscripted into the Céat’s army. He escapes from the army, and makes his way to the golden land of which he has héard so much, America, | The film then presents us the life of the Jewish immigrant to America, The golden land is not so golden. The méchanic enlists in the Amer- jean army to get away from his pri- j vations. His regiment is sent to Ar- | | changel with the other intervention- | | ist armies in 1919. To eliminate $5 court expenses for) each case, dispossess notices written | in pencil and obyiously manufactured | by the landlord were issued. In most of the families there are | | League at the Rivera mecting, also | children, and due to the special dis- |exposed the reason for the absence | crimination against Negro workers by the city relief agencies hunger and destitution has haunted the families for months and with some over a | tics on the floor of the meeting was | Year. The family of Mrs. C. with four children, the oldest 14, has been liy- ing without gas or électricity for six| months. One child after the other| contracted the grippe bécause of un- dernourishment and cold in the; house. | Although paying high rénts in the jim-crow apartments no repairs are made. Charred and sooted walls from a fire in the apartment are not fixed. In front of the toilet bowl is a hole in the floor the landlord re-| fuses to board up, | DEMAND PLAYGROUNDS OPEN NEW YORK.—A meéeting of the United Parents and Téachers Associa- tion of the Bronx, including Public Schools 51 and 61, was held last Fri- day in Royal Mansioh with 200 present. A demonstration and march is be- ing prepared for May 27 to the Bronx Borough Hall Book Reviews KRUPSKAYA CONTINUES HER MEMORIES OF LENIN IN SECOND VOLUME | Lenin’s wife and co-worker, Krup-| skaya, continues her reminiscences which she started several years ago, in MEMORIES OF LENIN, Volume 11, which has just been published by International Publishers. In the first volume, which is still available, she tells of Lenin's life and work from the beginning of his act- ivity in the revolutionary movement until afier the defeat of the Revolu- tion of 1905. This is the period of the first stage of the Marxist movement in Russia, the struggle against re- visionism, the period of the building of the Bolshevik Party and the de- veloping revolution in city and village. In the new volume Krupékaya tells of the “second exile’—of the years Lenin spent in Europe summing uw) the experiences of the révolutionary struggle of 1906, fighting against the reaction in Russia following the de- feat of the first revolution, and strengthening the Bolshevik Party for the second revolution which Le- nin foresaw clearly. She tells of his struggle against Menshevism and against the opportunism prevailing in the parties of the Second Inter- national. She pictures his untiring struggle against the imperialist war and the social patriots and “centrists” of the Kautsky type both in Burope and in Russia. The strike in the Lena Gold Fields of Siberia in 1912 marked the begin~ ing of the revolutionary upsurge in Russia. Lenin’s wife tells of Lenin's immediate appreciation of this fact as soon as he had received word of the events and of his constant vi- gilance and directions to his co-work- “ers in Russia, The final chapter deals with Lenin’s arrival in Russia fol- |& pledge to cease his activity for | |to say is that the heroes of these jgreat days deserved their grand | geoines and medals. We are forced | to listen to idealistic speeches that their lives) must be wiped out. How? “Just day parade, Nov. 11, 1919. The Wob- blies defended their lives, remember- ing that the previous year their hall had been wrecked and ‘The most dramatic moment comes lowing the February Revolution of when two White Guard officers shoot | 1917 and with his preparatory work down the fleeing peasants with ma- | for the October Revolution. chine-guns. The peasants are being |, Those who have read the first vo-| | , |lume of the MEMORIES know how mowed down. But the Americans | | Wala) sthl MatlanAta. Vera Jeome. to. their rescue, led by the |2VSluable these intimate renuns- Protest Attempt to Close Summer Schools | Today at City Hall) | NEW YORK —A students demon- | stration against “any attempts to close the Summer schools sessions or to imiposé fees on students” will be} held today, 11 am., at City Hall. Students of all branches of three city | colleges, City College, Hunter and) Brooklyn, will participate. The Committee of the Whole will be meeting at the same hour to “de- cide”? whether it will agree to the de-/| mand of the Board of Higher Fduca- | iion to turn over the funds for sum- | mer schools to the Tamimany Hall) Board of Estimate who say they need cash. A resolution supporting the demon- stration was adopted by the Student Council of Hunter College and a peti- tion sent to the Dean to excuse all students absent that day. Students in the schools havé been called to cut classes to be at the meet. ee gee NEW YORK. — Morris Oshatz ex- pelled from New Utrecht High School Brooklyn when he refused to sign “academic freedom” was re-instated yesterday after a campaign of vigor- ous mags protest meetings and de- fense activity of the International Labor Defense. up the unemployed againet the em- ployed teachers. Opposition among the teachers to this payless plan is widespread and it seems cértain that the summer schools will close this summer. Chil- dren who have failed certain sub- jects will thus be set back 6 months. ‘Teachers, parents and students have @ common stake in the fight to keep the summer schools open with full pay for the teachers. Amsterdam News Owner At- tacks Negro Worker NEW YORK.—Mrs. William Dav? owner of the Amsterdam News ant wife of its editor, William Davis, attacked and seriously hurt Her-. man Mitchell, Negro lather, in an attempt to break up a Scottsboro protest meeting Thursday night at 134th Street and 7th Ave. : ‘Mrs. Davis swung a heavy cane . at Mackawain, main speaker, wlio © was criticizing the Amsterdam News editor for his treacherous conduct in the Scottsboro case. ‘When Mitchell stepped forward to defend the speaker she struck him in the face with the heavy cane, breaking his glasses. A piece of glass entered the Negro worket's eye, endangering his sight. AMUSE MENTS Getting Reary for the New Revolution in the Reich! KUMLE WAMPE (FIGHTING HITLERISM) English Titles Also: SYMPOSIUM AGAINST HITLER }lic By HATHAWAY, THOMAS, DAHLBERG and Others ‘TRE WORKERS ACME. THEATRE Mth Street and ‘Union Square 9 tel py. m. Exe. Sat. Sun. and Holidays. For One Day Only | 8:80 to 10:80 A.M. ALL SEATS = Je W:nh AL ME. th 12:0 Midnight -ALL SEATS J5¢ Associate Featuré: Stuart Erwin & Alison Skipworth in “ME LEARNED ABOUT WOMEN” Russian Lessons FREE! Complete LINGUAPHONE Course Station WEYD (1300k—-231m) First Lesson Today, Tu May 16 5:30-5:48 P.M, Also ‘Thut May 18th, 10:15+10:30 P.M. | | } Free Correspondence Assistance Enrell now—Send in your name to WEVD Broadway at 44th Street, N. Y. TELL YOUR FRIENDS The Theatre Guild Presents ——"—"" Mth St. & CITY THEATRE iene Fuse || The MASK AND THE FACE "NIP R” By LUIGI CHIARELLI E Atanet 1. Somat THURSDAY, MA 18th GUILD om ail BIOGRAPHY A Comedy by 8. N. 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Wesley| mettator,. bi aie Chi dal Maean Everest, ex-soldier and lumberjack, an aly 4 was mutilated and lynched in his|,4 Vivid series of war scenes. But the jingoistic dialogue makes it clear learned that the new Russia is not | 08 of Lenin and his role in the rev- the old Ozarist Russia, that it is a olution, The 2nd volume has the same warm touch and intimacy of the first “| that the purpose of the picture is not | to arouse struggle against war, but rather to arouse war hysteria and more jingoism, beaten and tortured. With the capitalist press shouting for their blood, and the whole coun- try terrorized, eight of the T. W. W.’s were tried for second degree murder and sentenced to 25 to 40 years in Prison, Five thousand new YEARLY sub- sribers by September 1. \land worth fighting for. | The film is lacking in continuity and mechanical in its presentation of | the Jewish question. It is not one of the outstanding Soviet films, but (it is worth seeing i and its importance is inereased by. the fact that it deals with ® more recent and important period. Like Vol. I, board ed. 75 cents, workers’ bookshops or direct from Interna- tional Publishems, 381 4th: Avenue,! New York, \ —P. WwW. month subscription for th absence, so as to keep in doings and activities of the working class. forget to send in your su town. workers to get a three-months’, two-months’, or one of the workers are leaving We utge every one of these e Daily Worker in their constant touch with the Do not bscriptions when you leave