The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 15, 1933, Page 5

& on 3E iim, custrial Union, signs on for a job Sfockbotm, Helsingfors, IV.—A Good Girl. HHREE days out at sea. A clear morning, and the sea smooth as ilk. ‘Off to leeward, the hazy out- lines’ of Cape Race were receeding. Over it,-a-trail of thick round clouds rolled aeress the sky» like covered wagons on a white prairie. A fine y, and a Sunday at that. Most of * men were busy cleaning up: boil- : dungatées, scrubbing themselves jown, airlig the ‘blankets, mending clothes, eté.. Lag and Stanley, the latter a frail looking A.B. from Aus- tralia, were beginning to come out} of their saldohotic: stupor. They had been drinking raw aleohol mixed with black coffée,and when that gaye out, had swalewed all:the hair tonic in sight to’slake their awful drunkthifst. Stanley .was..in bad shape. Could hardly . eat without puking. The, night before; he had vomited out of his bunk .all over the clothes of the Or ry; who sleptvunder him. Even a giant of a-Finn, powerful as a young-bull, showedvthe groggy ef- fects of the spree. Barney, the deck engineer, ‘had hissphonograph going in the sailor's fo'castle, and was shi ig everybody the-picture of his girl in Copenhagen»-He had a long pointed nose, and when he came close to talk, one felt afraid of get- cuts -Barney's:eyes were always =, amd he always agreed with verybody:» It was: easy to see how 2 it. his job on one vessel for: over. ee yeats..and that the women had.him for,a sucker. ““Scmne Kid, Hey?” “That's ‘some kid; hey?” He handed | the pheté’'on to” Slim, and started singing’ “Oh boy, When I get her alone toniignt. es What’ “Slim saw.on the photo was a typicgl loose woman of thirty, try- ing to smile. like sweet sixteen, at the. same time careful not to show hss testh,... “Somespippin, hey 2”. “Where did you meet her?” “Over in Tivoli Gardens. Oh, she's ®@ good girl!” “Good girl! Haw, haw, haw,” bray- ed ‘the deckboy, a ‘horn-bespectacled Prinezton. lad whovanade a trip to sea every summer. “His old man had a drag withthe company. That was erfough to make any seaman dislike him, but. in addition he had a snotty y way of ‘butting inteseverything, and lau2zhing dike a jackass being tickled uricor tho tail. “In the mess, he shov- eled down every kind of slops that came along, and was always there for seconds on dessert. Slim hoped Barney would shove: the phonograph ddwn the ~rofessof's”. throat, but Betney conti.c2d his good-natured smiling, and: insisted: “Oh, nosshe's avgood girl’ alright. I know itt! Believe me, I had to go through something before I even got a kiss out of her.” y antisyhat doescthat prove?” It was easy to picture the “Pro- fessor”. in: college, asking the same question im“the same way. Stanley leaned out of his bunk and called: “Say Professor, what do you call a good girl anyway?” “Those so- * * Soe broke out Slim. ciety debs of syours, trained to wear tightfitting silks and satins to teas& a man’s eyes, then dance with him, drink eocktails neck and rub up agai he’s half crazy —but nothing more —they’re good girls, ain't they?” e The restrained “threat in Slim's voice made~ the Professor look up through his spectacles. But still, a fact was.a fact. A good girl had to fgick’ “Well, what would YOU “rn tef"you of” one,” broke in Stanley. "“'The girl I had in Sydney. back. All I had was my last pay- off-and m*dose. I had spent most. of my wages trying-to-get cured, but t always came back. Well, there I found Annie still waiting. She was ing in a dress:shop;-and had laid yy more than. me. |.She.saw me look- worried, and thought it was the , “E see now we,ean’t get mar- id haye a home,on a seaman’s ,” she’d tell me; . {Ill keep on ig until. you.get: something to :im, Sydney.” Stanley pointed: his finger at the that Gat at ta bee a 1 cut. oul a land lubber. But. every time T want- ed to kiss that fin J thoutht cf my dosé“and gee, I didn't have the heart. Then I figured’ we might hay> kids and they'd be infected too, I didn’t have the heart.°: One day I couldn’t ‘starid it nod méfe and ship- ped out again without telling her.” 1 ea Bl cigarette and tried to sound gay. Pareles . “Yes, kid, there was/a good girl The Professor was’ touched, and kent his:ctongue stitlie: “Yon know, Stanley,” observed Slim, “a girhlike your;Annie isn’t ex- actly my ideal of a good girl either. I don’t give a hoot in hell if a girl’s ae z 3 ii & i rE - MICHAEL PELL Leningrad and Gdynia. the S.S. Utah, going to Copenhagen, a virgin. And I don’t want her to| wait and work for me. What I want is a straightforward, wide-awake comrade, who knows what's going on and is willing to fight to make this world a better place to live in.” “That's a great yarn,” ‘laughed | Stanley. “Ever see any women like! that anywheres outside of a book?” “T’ve seen them on the picket lines and in hunger demonstrations all| over the States.” “Ah well!, We sailors never run| into that kind.” “What about the wives and sweet- | hearts of the English sailors, the} time of the Invergordon strike? They stormed the British Admiralty with letters and protests against cutting the wages of their men! They en- couraged their men to strike, and stuck right with them! Yessir, that) was a strike. | “Now, now!” calleé¢ Gunnar, skep- tically. Ci ae 'TANLEY interrupted: “I believe that, Gunnar. I got a letter from a friend in Sydney who told me how | the sailors in Australia followed that Invergordon example. They even went further. They raised the red | flag!” This was too strong for the Profes- | sor. “Now Stanley!...” “Straight stuff! A real mutiny of about 2,000 men, at Cribbs Point Western Port. The Government nat- urally censored all news about it.” | “Let’s take the whole British Em- pire,”’ suggested Slim, “That mighty empire on which the sun never sets. What happens to her when you tie up her Navy? She can’t send troops and guns ‘to keep down the hungry natives and coolies of India, Asia, Africa. And how long do you think those coolies would allow themselves to be sweated and starved if not for those battleships and bullets? Man, without these the mighty British lion would soon become a pretty small| pussy, very glad to be left alone in her corner.” This set Stanley's brain working. | “Man, come to think of it, where the hell would England ke without her) Navy?” “Take it easy,” advised Gunnar, who was manicuring his toe nails. He pointed the blade of his knife at Slim, “England’s got a big merchant marine too, and could transport all the soldiers and ammunition she needed on her freighters. And take those new fast super-liners! The Leviathan alone during the war used to carry over 15,000 doughboys at a clip!” “alright,” returned Slim, “and what does that go to show? How im- portant the merchant marine is. Take, for instance, if all we workers in the American merchant marine struck for higher wages and shorter watches! Boy, they wouldn’t be able to export a nickel’s worth of goods, and wouldn’t be able to import rub- ber, magnesium, coffee, or silk! Think of all the factories would have to shut down, if a strike like that lasted a couple of months!” Gunnar horse-laughed the idea. “Wouldn’t-Wall Street have some- thing to say about that?” “Of course,” agreed Slim, “Wall Street knows damn well that the merchant marine is the most sensi- tive nerve in the whole capitalist sys- tem. That's why they got the gov- ernment to ‘pase the Seamen’s Act. Thai's why they’ve got the Naval Reserve Bill. That’s why they tie our hands with special Shipping Ar- ticles and Mutiny Laws. But what the hell do all these paper laws amount to, if we would only stick together like the Invergordon sailors did! Man, all they won back was the wage cut, but if they knew their power, and if we knew our power— the power that we've got when or- ganized solid into fighting trade un- ions, we'd demand a few things more than higher wages! And we'd get it too, believe me!” It was good just to think of it. But the Professor whined determin- edly: “Well, I don’t see what all of this has to do with the definition of @ good girl.” (CONTINED TOMORROW MOVIE NOTE I Love That Man Two years ago a gang of ‘safe- crackers captured an entire a) ment house next door to a bank in Chicago, held all the occupants prisoners for fourteen or so hours, bored their way into the side of the bank containing the safe deposit boxes and got away with $250,000. The central episode in this movie is substantially the same story, except that the gataway of the gang was stopped short by the law; ‘will Hays saw to that! f Page Vive In the Throes of Creation / QUIRT: Come on, don’t stand thére smoking. We've got to start that strip in a week. Think of something .. . NEWHOUSE: I’m thinking. QUIRT: What’re you thinking? NEWHOUSE: I’m thinking maybe we should never have let ourselves in for this thing. QUIRT: What’s the matter, idea? don’t you think it’s a swell NEWHOUSE: It’s a swell idea alright but can we handle it? QUIRT: Why, of course we can handle it. TWO HOURS LATER QUIRT: Come on, don’t stand there smoking. Something .. . NEWHOUSE: I’m thinking. Think of Landlords Make Negro Share Croppers Destroy Own Toil By AL MURPHY. BIRMINGHAM, Ala-When you go into Chambers county, everywhere you look either on the right or the Jeft hand side of the road, behind you or in front of you, you will see a Negro share-cropper or a tenant slowly walking “behind the plow” dragged along by an aged, half fed, exhausted mule. Behind these mules, in the past, scores of Negro croppers have followed and are dead now, and almost forgotten. The ‘sun shines down awful hot while the thermometer dances around one hundred degrees and then soars up to one hundred and six.’ The old mule pants and pants for breath fol- lowed down by the Negro cropper who frowns and gasps and is ready to “take out” now. He is ready to Tejoice at the ringing of the rusty dinner bell. His ragged clothes are covered with the snow white salt which oozed from his tired body and which proves that he has sweated flowingly from sun to sun. You will see small groups of Negro share-croppers sitting and lying on the ground and on the dilapidated cropper hut porches discussing their miserable living conditions. One tells how the landlord beat him and forced from the plantation, another tells how the landlord foreman on the R. F. C. job refused to pay him for two days work after slaving twelve hours a day for the promise of fifty cents per day; and a third tells how the landlord denies him food» for himself and family because he dis- liked the idea of plowing up his share of the cotton. Such are the discus- sions you hear among the Negro croppers and (unemployed croppers) R. F, C. workers in Chambers county. Very seldom’ can you see or hear one in these groups laugh or even smile, but instead, all the threads and lines of perfect discontent are expressed. Not only do they express fever- ish discontent at their conditions; no, but this expression very reasonably explains that within them, deeply, is preserved years of bitter hatred and spite against the landlords and, the white ruling class as a whole. They now foresee the robbery by the land- lords of their life and bread this winter. Their anxiety for freedom, to free themselves from oppression is Worker Wants “Depth of Character” In All Daily Worker Fiction Editor of Daily Worker, Dear » Comrade: You asked for criticism and 1 would like to offer some on the’ subject of the short stories you publish weekly. " The writing of short stories is, after all, supposed to be an art. As such it should show some depths in its charater study, some newness of ideas, some intrinsic, artistic values entirely apart from the fact that it doubtless ought to bring out the injustice of the existing conditions, Some of your fiction writers show no faith in the intelligence of the masses in supposing they can grasp no thought not simpli- fied to the Poa) of triteness; where character, the and bad type in the American movie, is expressed by the fact as to wheth- er the man’s a war veteran stary- ing unt he joins the Unem- ployed Council. . Surely it is not debasing, his ability. to the eet of the child that the writer will to the proletarian cause. writers are doing no service; how- ever, they would probably raise their standards if you raised yours, and to those with any real literary ability you are doing a great in- justice in forcing to turn elsewhere for support. Why is it necessary to publish short stories of this type? All the facts brought out in them have been much more forcefully expressed in many of your news articles. As a newspaper my admiration of the “Daily Worker” is unlimited. Culturally, however, it falls far below the level set by the “Frei- helt,” the Jewish Communist dally, the artistic and literary features of which the staff of the “Daily,” it seems to me, could study to much advantage. —Ss. J. hot. What holds true for the Negro masses in the Black Belt, also holds true for the Negro workers in the industrial cities, and especially in the southern cities, the same holds true for the entire toiling Negro popula- tion in the South. The struggle of the Negro share croppers at Camp Hill, in 1931; the} struggle of the Negro share croppers and poor farmers on December 19, 1932; the powerful reaction of the Southern Negro toilers around the Scottsboro case; the participation of the Negro industrial workers in the November 7th demonstration, May First demonstration, etc. In Birming- am, theatremendous upsurge of the membership of the I. L. D., the Com- munist Party, the winning over of Many élements from among the ranks of the Negro petty bourgeoisie in support of the Scottsboro case, all this is evidence that the Negro masses in the South are looking for- ward to the revolutionary organiza- tions in the South. Hoping under revolutionary leadership to release against the white ruling class their stored up anger and spite, in the form of a struggle, a revolutionary class struggle, the struggle for the right of self-determination for the Black Belt. In the same county, in the little town of Lafayette, a Negro girl was walking down the street, the wife of @ Yich landlord was meeting her, with her neck stretched its full length and seeing nothing in front ee brushed against the Negro girl. 5 The white woman stopped and gazed accusingly at the Negro girl who understands that Negroes who touch white women in the South, even if it is unavoidable, are knocked down, arrested, shot and very often lynched within sight of the county court house, The Negro girl was ter- rifically scolded by the white woman who went and told her husband that “that nigger gal” the girl tried to knock her off the street. George Burton the white woman’s husband immediately started hunting down the girl and finally found her as she was about to cross the street. He rushed up and without warning, knocked her to the concrete side- walk: ‘The girl,-lying on. the street, said “I asked her to exc me please.” The girl was then ragged to a building and struck again by the brutal landlord who knocked her screaming and bleeding to the floor where she was beaten mercilessly by the landlord and his brcther. The girl was left in the building bleeding and unconscious while the landlord’s wife stood outside waiting until her “brave” husband could “finish” the job. ‘This same landlord ts also threat- ening to run the croppers off his plantation if they show any sign of opposition to plowing up their share of the cotton. ‘The Negro share-croppers and ten- ants arepbuilding their union, the Share Croppers Union, and together with the most militant poor white farmers they are preparing to let the landlords know that they are not willing to starve this winter, and will not, The first step taken by the Negro share croppers and poor farmers recently, was their rallying to the anti-war meetings August 1. More than a hundred attended an open air meeting while two hundred at- tended indoor meetings. Many more croppers would have been present but were forced to work on August 1 although they have laid by the crops. More than a hundred were warned by the landlord on one plantation to stay away from the meeting but see- ing that many of them went anyhow by slipping out through the back of the fields, etc., those that had not been able to get away were put to work. Over! one hundred share-croppers, tenants and small farmers unani- mously voted for and adopted reso- ; lutions. One to Governor Miller and a Horton, demanding release of the Scottsboro boys; that minimum bail be granted and set. One reso- lution of protest demanding Hitler stop fascist terror against German comrades and immediate release of Comrades Thaelmann, Torgler, Dimi- troff and all other imprisoned lead- ers and class war prisoners, victims of Hitler fascism and pledged to car- ry on fight against fascism in America. ‘A Letter About ‘Daily’ Reviews | | Editor, Daily Wor 50 East 13th St | New York City Dear Comrade In the Daily | Worker of there is a lette | from Cor fe dith Knight pro- | testing against B's” unfavorable | criticism of “The Island of Doom.” | The letter is important more as be- ing the typical attitude of a great many comrades and Daily Worker readers. It has also been the atti- tude of the Daily Worker for some time. That attitude is one of taking | offer at any unfavorable criticism of the Soviet cinema. The “Dail for example, had never published unfavorable criticism of a Rus! film. i cate: 3 |cally all of them. there have | been a number that deserved severe | criticism. It was a good sign when jthe “Daily” published “S. B's” re- | view. | T also saw the film j Several times; once in the original | Russian version, | sible, due to the lack of space to go | into a detailed analysis of the film's | faults. It did, however, lack every | thing that has made the Soviet film | not only the most important and | Stirring example of Soviet culture, but | also. has demanded the re: Not once, but | every bourgeois critic. That is, the | vitality, honesty, sincerity nd the stark realism of the proletarian rey-| | olution. And when a 8S t film |lacks all of those things it is our duty as friends of the Soviet cinema and as comrades to protest and criti- cize such a movie. Even the Rus- sian workers refuse to accept their own films categorically. Director Timeshenko has been severely cen- sured (and that is putting it mildly) for both “Sniper,” released here some time ago, and for “The Island of Doom.” “Kino Gazette,” the official Kino newspaper of the Soviet Union, went so far as to say that the “Island of Doom” shouid be suppressed be- cause “it was 4 desertion of reality.” Comrade Knight makes a serious mistake in underrating the American audience when she accuses them of being “incapable of absorbing any subject in the movies unless it is through the medium of a love sto Even Hollywood producers now know that this is not true. The capitalist est, is no longer sufficient. The audi- ence is demanding more realism, films that are closer to their own lives. And the Wall Street-wWash- ington-controlled Hollywood is an- swering back with viciously dema- gogic “topical”. films. The Soviet cinema is one of the most important means of counteracting all of the “Mayor of Hells,” “Heroes for Sale,” etc. And it is precisely for this reason that bad Soviet films demand our criticism when they are like the “Island of Doom” and our utmost support when they are like “Shame” and the forthcoming “The Patriots.” I should like to take this oppor- tunity in extending to Comrade Knight and to all other interested Daily Worker readers an invitation to attend the meetings and classes of the Workers’ Film and Photo League,. where these problems are discussed fully. Comradely, IRVING LERNER. While there is a great deal of merit in the points raised in Com- rade Lerner’s letter, it is neverthe- less not correct to say that the Daily Worker has been consistently uncritical of Soviet films—Editor- ial Note. Workers Film, Photo League toOpenExhibit of Crisis Photographs IN OCTOBER 15, the Workers Film and Photo League of New York will open at its headquarters at 220 E. 14th St., an exhibition of photographs dealing with the social and economic aspects of American life during the last four years of the crisis. This will be the most compre- hensive pictorial presentation of contemporary America ever exhi- bited in New York City. Its scope will be practically unlimited and will present “America Today” with all the social and economic trans- formations it has undergone during the last four years. Unemploy- ment, housing conditions, militar- ism, child misery, are only a few of the subjects which will be covered. The Committee sponsoring this exhibition include Margaret Bour- ke-White, Greenleaf Lewis, Joseph Freeman, Louis Lozowick, Ralph Steiner, David Platt, Bernice Ab- bott, Irving Lerner, Theodore Black and others. of Soviet F ilms| It will be impos-) pect of | poison, diluted with love story inter-| | | i Stage and Screen | THE LITTLE GIANT With Edward G. Robinson “The Little Giant” pictures the ‘New: Deal” among the racketeers. “With. the election of Roosevelt, th racketeer decides its all uj BY Wlessness and decides to inv: Switions in getting c Ghe-inso high scciety. fang, tekes up art, 1 *@sy end the wooing of a la Dhe-lady turns vut to be a cee |“@iiher family trims the unsus |MHE little giant of some of h: \dighs. But the other lady, “ATreal lady, tips him of ao fidstiriess of high society. She iim from going back into the old Fatket, and accepts his proposal of ririage. she Little G muy g film, comed mis3 fire, Hurwitz Coward’s “Bitter Sweet” At Rivoli August 23 | “The opening of the Rivoli Theatre, due to exter fi has been} | postponed until V st | 23, when Noel “Bitter Si * opens - } son. Ant Neagle and and | |-Graavey play the leading roles. The| | Picture was directed by Herbert Wil- cox for British and Dominions pic- |tures. The adaptation was made \from the play which ran for two years in London. | |- The short subject program at the Trans-Lux Theatre t cludes “The Radio Murd y 'y in which Jack Fulton, Alice Joy,| Peggy Healy, Louie Sobel, and David} Gordon are featured; a comedy, “Pri- vate’ Wives,” with Skeets Gallagher and Walter Cattlett, and “Rough| Sport,” a short reel of well known wrestlers. | Anita Page, Smith & Dale, Charlie | King, Cardini and twenty-four show] duction by Billy Rose titled “Billy | Rose’s Crazy Quilt Revue,” to be pre- sented in all the principal RKO the- | atres. John Murray Anderson will} stage the production. i Frank and Milt Britton, heads the/ Palace vaudeville this week. Others| on‘the bill include Rex Weber and Dora Maughn. George Raft in “Mid-| ; night Club” featuring Olive Brook| | and-Helen Vinson is the screen feat- ure | “Red and White” at Acme This is the last day of the Soviet | film “Red and White” at the Acme Theatre, The picture is a drama with a background of the civil war. It is| @ Story of individuals caught in the/ maelstream of the war for a class- less society. The cast is headed by L. M. Leonidoff, who played in “Ivan the Terrible” and “Seeds of Free-| dom” and includes leading players! of the Moscow Art Theatre, | » “The Strange Case of Tom Moo-| ney” and “Sampans and Shadows,” | | study of China, is on the same program; Misterious Rider | This picture opens with Congress in: session “legislating” for the con-) struction of Boulder Dam, which is supposed to provide irrigation to the | settlers in the far west valleys, and | tien‘ gees on to show how the farm- ers in this region are robbed of their | land by the bankers and insurance conipanies. Of course, in this typical | Zane Grey Western the settlers get | back. their land, the irrigation pro- gram is carried through successfully as Yer decisions of Congress, prosper- | ity arrives from Hollywood none the | worse for its trip across the desert, and? all is well forever afterward. | The. mysterious rider who does so miich to help the farmers out of| their difficulties is a tall, dark hand- | somé man white horse and escapes exactly a/ hundred out of a hundred bullets fired at his head by enemies. | | | girls will be seen in a special pro-| © jover the great ma who rides a beautiful | _ What Happened at the Daily Worker After the First Six Page Issue Came Off the Press The Editor, the Staff, the Printers, Pressmen and Business Office Hold a Celebration By EDWIN ROL speake A mig manded de- the ddenly of (Goldstein blames it on the hot weathet). Goldy, as he called by friends and efi- emies, is a man \ CLARENCE HATAaWay n, not words,” ll I have to say day, and we'll keep night, where men torial and busine shop and the pressrc elebrate the appear page Daily Worl n he took a deep breath, ex= is barrel-chest and opened The party was given to the Worker editorial and staffs by the full wor! the printshop and the pr From ) saved his rep- rt what Gold- hem would have speech he ever greatest Clarence = away, at the head J¢ succession, Tittle Weiss of the huge T-a if mM. CNW Golos of the D & (®) @& F. Printing Co.,\ «a he other end, the \ entire force that \‘>* put our paper out =? gathered to make —S merry over the | \ new man, Daily V s that henceforth will car redoubled effort the mysterious editor, who writes our “Sparks” column—Milton Howard— | claimed the floor on the excuse that jhe felt himself in a “luminous mo- ment, workers to class militant struggle. Nobody Sleepy or Tired Strangely enough, nobody seemed | Hathaway Winds Up sleepy or ed after the y day Sr Wet. AC UMaE cue own Floyd | Then Hathaway made the final Gibbons r Sender | Speech. Garlin!) three “The fact that we are holding the the table. He 8 ’ in our hands right between Harry Gannes and Carl Ber-|now is more important than any- ger, our make-up man, like the Door-| thing we can say about it, Let us mouse between the Mad Hatter and| go back now, de- the March Hare in “Alice in Won- termined to keep derland.” Every | our new paper, to time his head -be- | improve it a hun- gan to sag, it} dredfold, to make came up with a] it the spearhead bang against| of our advance Gannes’ elbow,| into every work= who was rayen-| ing class commu- ously tearing| nity, every indus- apart the breast try, every big of a fried-chicken. farm region in When Garlin’s| é th ne petted he| — is restaurant, “Citi- bunked into a|2¢n Joe” Schoenberger of the print- hunk of sashlik, | Shop was overheard commenting on balanced like a boxing glove on the | the new features, the sports, “In the end of Berger's fork. | Home,” Doctor Luttinger Advises, ; |the daily feature page: _ Garlin jumped up with a revolu-| “By god!” he said, clapping John tionary yelp! McInnis on the back, “Now I'll be “Comrades!” he shouted in the|#ble to take the ‘Daily’ home to the’ voice that is known to thousands of | Wife and kids! illustrated slide-lecture audiences | throughout the country: “Comrades! We are gathered here to celebrate a great and momentous event. I knew from the very start... signi- ficant turning-point ... my frequent articles in the pages of our pa- per...” “A Man of Action” the country!” Leaving the Help improve the “Daily Worker.” send in your suggestions and criticism | Let us know what the workers in | your shop think about the “Daily.” | Amusements At this point the printers, the| pressmen and the staff, fearing that 6 99 | “RED and WHITE he was actually going to start one A Soviet Production of his celebrated illustrated-slide- lectures, insisted that he'd said “THE STRANGE CASE 4. OF TOM MOONEY” 14TH STREET | MUSIC Also: Tomorrow at Seven. Every gag known t6 mystery films is in this one. Hands knocking on doors, lights that go out at the right tiie, girls being dragged through windows by arms without bodies, able-bodied men completely sur- rounded and guarded dying exactly on the stroke of seven just as the Black Ace threatened—it’s too much! As,usual, the man who you least sus- pect because he appears to be the most innocent—is the villain! «NOTICE FROM EDITORS: All announcements intended for the “What's On” column must be in the office of the Daily Worker before 12 o'clock noon the day preceding publication, By H. F, WEVD, the Socialist radio station, has appointed Osborn and Souvaine @ commercial radio program bureau as its program counsel to supply ideas and talent. Looking back a few years to the day when funds were raised by Socialist workers And others to open this station as a memorial to Eugene V. Debs whose name the call letters WEVD spells, one cannot help being astonisned at this turn to bourgeois commercialization of the station. I remember very well the letters sent out soliciting funds.’ They gave the impression that the station was of Debs, It. was to be a powerful to be a living memorial to the ideals propaganda machine for the working class. With this in mind many sin- cere Socialist workers contributed their money, Today WEVD resembles very little indeed these ideals. It has a com- mercial department that calls on all the advertising agencies soliciting their business. If an advertising man happens to ask such a question as “Isn't WEVD the Socialist Radio | station, the one that has all the prop- aganda”?, the answer is usually, “Oh/ we're soft pedalling all that” and) then a regular radio sales talk ensues. | It is to be the job, of Messrs. Osborn | and Souvaine to turn whatever rem-| nants there were of Debs idealism! into'a regular series of programs such | as will appeal to big business and be/| considred on a par with other small! bourgeois stations. A glance at a typical day's series of programs from WEVD reveals such class conscious program material as “Mortimer's Follies,” ‘“Yodeling Cot- ton Choppers” and “Rhyme and Reason—Poetry.” The only serious! note is struck by David Dubinsky notorious misleader who goes on the air over WEVD to lead the workers farther than ever away from Marxian Socialism, ‘To every Socialist worker who con- tributed to this station, the conduct of, the management is a bitter lesson. ‘To every class conscious worker it is still another demonstration of the anti-working class feeling of the So- clalist Party leaders and an obvious, wafning bid on their part for collar- boration with the bourgeoisie enough and called for the next THE WORKERS ACME & UNION 8Q. | RKO Jefferson {ith St. # | Now JOHN BARRYMORE and DIANA WYNYARD in “Reunion In Vienna” Also:—THE SILK EXPRESS” with NEIL HAMILTON and SHEILA TERRY Lewisohn Stadium, Amst. 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