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- MICH lilustrati THE STORY SO FAR: Slim, a SS.UTAH te Neto Masten | AEL PELL ons by Philip Wolfe member of the Marine Workers In- dustrial Union aboard the $,-S. Utah, has been talking to his fellow- sailors about the class struggle, the défense of the Soviet Union, ete. When the ship docks at Copenhagen, he tries unsuccessfully to keep the sailors from unloading mail bags which the overtime pay. The sailors unload the bags under threat of the bos’n that | dockmen refused to handle without he would withhold their money. Once ashore, the sailors make a beeline for their favorite hang-outs, and spend their shoreleave in the traditional sailor manner, Now read on: . * INSTALLMEN Cadet Gets A Tough Break NE of the Cadets was a youngster named Smith who hailed from Washington, D.C, He was a medical student, making a trip “for-the hell of it” as he put it. He wasca tall, thin-necked lad with leaky eyes When talking to any of the.crew he tried to be “one of the gang,” but inwardly considered himself way | above them. In fact, after sizing up| everybody on board, he decided to his own satisfaction that , Everett Lloyd Smith, Junior, was -as well educated as any of them barring none, not even ‘the Captain. In Copenhagen, Smith tied himself up with the third assistant who talk- ed like he knew the high gpots of the town. Those, two and .the first assistant went out to paint the town red. First they wet their whistles with a couple of rounds in the Capel- | la. Young Smith hardly drank at home but now that he had crossed the ocean he felt like an old salt and stood up to his liquor like a man Soon the three hopped into “A cab} and headed uptown for WeeVil's, the third assistant tuning up with'a Spe verses of Tipperary with his sir kelly for a banjo. Young Smith could later »recollect | everything up to the noint: where the threé of them were standing at the bar of the Lido, The next he knew. was the following day,..when | is buddie woke him to get. up for! dinner, His head was in. fog, thru which he, could hear. bell ringing. He had a desire to go to the toilet. What he saw ‘aiid felt in there consituted the blackest moments in Smith Junior's: young | and heretofore-innocent life. .He was seared stiff. As a medical:-student, he had learnt enough about--vene- real diseases. Besides, he was aw-/ fully ashamed. | IN the officers’ mess everybody, was | uproarious. Swapping experiences about the places they had been) to, the drinks they had had, and the women they had had. | Everett was the last one in, and | sat down without a word. The. third assistant greeted him with Busta: | “Well Everett, how you feeling? Say second, you should have seen him doing his stuff last night! Boy, he shakes a wicked leg, I’m, telling “Yeah,” chimed in the first, “all the women in the place were after him, “especially when he told théin he was a virgin. Ho ho!” Smith pretended to be busy” with his soup, but this last remark “opened his ears wide. How did they “know he hacn’t ever done it beforélast night. as The first continued: “All thé’ wo- men in the house wanted the first crack at him! Ho Smitty, Ta have given anything to be in your place!” He nudgedsEverett in the ribs: “But that’s something happens. onty* once in_a Tifetime, hey?” Inside of himself Smith grvaned. And almost cried. He remembered the typical expression on his sister's face bigcseke: she bibcea PARKS ctioed up. He had been wounded ‘1 the World War— shrapnel has torn part of his jaw and neck, which made him speak in a chirpy sort of voice. “That.re- minds me of a feller I used’ to. be shipmates with on the WeéstsCdast. Frenchy the duke, we used “to~tall him. He was about\forty, and had passed thru everything on the calendar His teeth were rotten black, his hair was about all gone, and his fingers shook like they were about to drop off. But every time Frenchy the duke came into a port, he dressed up in his spats and col- lapsible cuffs and went around to all the houses, telling everybody he was a virgin!” The second mate looked fishballs. “That's a ‘fact, T ELEVEN second,” assured had a mania!” Sparks, Smith Junior was hoping the con- | versation would come back to what had happened to him — last night. He was dying to find out, for he didn’t remember a damn thing. But the others were busy bragging about | their own experiences. He slipped | out. “What's the matter asked the messman. The other cadet shoulders. before. Say third, did Smitty really have a woman?” “Did he?” exploded the third. “No, he didn’t have a woman, a woman had him. And she wasn’t a woman, she was a man-eater.” The third and second laughed together. “Re- member her, Joe? When I came into the back room, she was sitting in a big wicker chair, Smitty on her lap. And she was licking her chops like a priest after a turkey dinner.” shrugged his ce eee i spite of the fact that there were almost sixty “souls” on board, the ship carried no doctor. The only medical provision was a little safety first kit, handled by the Chief Steward. The extent of his first aid knowledge was to give the seamen a couple of “CO” pills when the cheap grub got stuck in their gut pipe lines. Smith Junior hunted up this half- man half-doctor, but found him too busy with the passengers’ lunch. So Smitty minutes. had to wait fully twenty Then he went into the Steward’s cabin and showed him what was the matter. He begged the Steward not to say anything about it to anybody. The steward looked at it and whistled. He told the kid he couldn't do anything with a thing like that, and advised him to see a doctor. Smith hurried to the mate. “Aw, that’s nothing to worry about” assured the mate. it sooner or later. Twice more and you'll be a real sailor.” But the kid was worried. “I want to go ashore and see a doctor.” “Haven't the time for it,” barked the mate. “We sail at two.” The sweat broke out on- Smith Junior's pimply forehead. He, | Everett Lloyd Smith, Jr., son of a prominent Washington doctor, was in danger of losing his health— maybe forever!—and wasn’t allowed to go ashore to see a doctor! His voice nearly broke: “I can make it! I'll hop into a cab and be back in no time!” “Nothing doing! This-leaving be- hind stuff has cost us plenty already! Do you realize what it costs to hold up a ship like this even half an hour?” Two bells struck. Smitty stood pe pipeely. looking down at the car- “mere it is two bells already”, warned the mate, “go out there and finish tallying. Smith Junior’s eyes began to leak. CONTINUED TOMORROW TODA1’s PROGRAMS \ WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00—-Mountaineers Music a2 7:15—-Red Davis—Sketch 7:30—Betty Boop Frolien 7 74b—The Goldbergs—Sketch Me Drétenette’ 8:00—Concers Gita. sre iT rtet ar 9:00—Pred Allen, Comedian: Grofe Orch. 9:30—The Carrolle—Sketch, With Hugh O'Connell and Ika Chase; Lee*Wiley and Paul Sre~" iongs; Young Ureu. 10:00—U. 8. Navy Band i : 10:30—Lum en. a Night So- ciable s vag 11:00—Davis Orch 11:30—Pisher Orch. ry 12:00—Ralph Kirbery, Songs 12:05 A.M.—Helen Morgan, ‘Quartet; Grant Orch: 12:30—Stern Orch. Friday Songs; Male | 7:30—Hols’ 8:00—Walter Shutts 8:30—Pota: 8: aes Oren, O'Keefe, Songs; Bestor Orch. ° and Perlmutter—Sketch naires Quartet; Eva Taylor, Comedian; Ethel Songs 9:00-—Leah Ray, Songs; Harris Orch. 9:30—Phil Baker, Comedian; Shield Orch.; Male Quartet; Neil Sisters, Songs 10:00—The Matchmakers—Sketch ' 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Songs 10:45—Hill Billy—Sketch 11:00—The Three Jesters 11:15—Poet Prince 11:30—Fifth Biennial Conference, Institute of Pacific Relations, Banff, Canada; ational Economic Trends in the Pacific Area—Jerome D. Gree Chairman of Pacific Council In: tute of Pacific Relations; Educ: and the Trend in International Pub- ic Opinion in Countries of the Pa- ciflo—Dr. P. C. Chang of China 12:00—Mills Orch. WOR—710 Ke. 91230 A, M,—Lopes Orch. 7:00—Sports—Ford Frick nertiti ered. T1s-—The Multi-Martied Malden--Sketeh WABC—860 Ke 7:30—The Count of Monte . 7:45—Jack Arthur, Baritone 7:00—Morton Downey, Songs 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery| 7:15—Denny Orch.; Jeannie Lang and Drama 8:15—Voorhees Orch.; Jack Smart; Gordon Graham 8:46—Musical Gazette ‘ 9:00—Bronx Marriage Bureau—Sketch 9:15—Willie Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard, Soprano 9:30—Robbins_ Orch 10:00—Organ Recital 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Varlety Musicale 11:00—Time; Weather 11:03—Seotti Orch, 11:30—Denny Oreh. wsZ—760 Ke. ten 7:00—Amos ‘n’ Andy , 7:15—A Planned Puture For 1207Million People—Roscoe ©. Edlund, President Association of Trade Association Executives; Charles F. Stuart, In- dustrial Engineer “ Scrappy Lambert, Songs 1:30—Martin Orch; ‘Travelers Quartet 1:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Green Orch.; Men “About Town Trio '5—Trappers: Orch, 0—Spitainy Orch.; Jullus Tannen, Co- median gipemenes 8. Cobb, Stories; Goodman Or cl 9:15—Vera Van, genie al oe Seas, ee ah Mngt ce em aid ‘Grantiand na’ Rice 10:00—Lou Holtz, Comedian; Grace Moore, Soprano; Hayton Orch. 10:30—Ja: Are! ‘eane Queens Quar- Renard Orch. 10:45—News—Edwin ©. Hill 11:00—Symphony Orch. i 30—Lombardo Orch. sco. Orch. 2:00—B | ih 30 A. M.—Dance Orch 3:00--Russell, Orch. “the man | with Smitty?” | “Morning after the night | ; | impatient. “Everybody gets | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1933 | JIM MARTIN aBLe to MAKE THE MINIMUM WAGE WITHOUT WORKING TWICE AS HARD. Tim ann HIS PARTNER ARE PLANNING To CALL AMEETING OF TH WHEN THE ‘CAP CALLS —- 4 You ey Bean you TWO CAN TAKE — MINERS THEM- THE LAM— COMPANY'S L oO SING MONEY Hitting GUYS IT ON THE the Road THERE'S THAT Ue eee WAY (PA IN HIS SKULL se! (Continued from yesterday) was our second visit to Comrade | Leonardo. Tuesday and Thurs- day are the visiting-days. He was] It was the First of Aug- ust, day of struggle against Imperi-~ alist War. The revolutionary work- | ers would be out on the streets. To- day in his coal district too, the strike was growing to greater proportions. To stay in this place on such a day! Almost all of his family were here to visit him. His sister Rose and his brother Jimmy—his mother, Elsie, Sammy, and the comrade of the ‘LL.D. The receiving-room was jammed full. On every bench sat a deportee and. his visitors. There was tumult, noise. On all sides stood civil and military guards. The visitors and prisoners mostly looked scared and humble. The greater part of them were new immigrants. Mother Damiano and her daughter | Rose were all excited. They chat- tered quickly in Italian. Old talk, as Elsie told me later: let him get rid of the reds. “Mother, sister, don’t worry about me. My family—the whole working- jclass—is big and strong. I am as- sured of safety, wherever I go.” Fear Fascist Terror “But they wii: send you to Italy! | We have a letter from our relatives in Ttaly, and it says that as soon as you are deported they will send you to the island, or perhaps cut your head off. They have already shot one of our relatives!” Leonardo's relatives are Ttalian | |revolutionists. Leonardo and Elsie are proud of them. | A bell rings. The visit is ended. |Comrade_ Leonardo embraces his |family. Rose is crying. The mother is flushed and excited, worried. Sammy is crying too. “The reds are responsible for our misfortunes, they have broken up our home!” Rose screams as they make for the Ellis Island launch. “Instruments and Books” Other people stop, look, listen in. Elsie is busy helping the comrade from the I.L.D. All at once Mother Damiano hands Sammy over to his mother. Sammy begins to cry. Quick, sharp Italian words stream from out- raged Mother Damiano. Italians, out- siders, mix in. Elsie bursts into tears. Jimmy, not quite 14, is quiet. He went through public school. One must help one’s family. Leonardo, his older brother, is a revolutionary. \By day, Jimmie shines shoes. — At |night, he studies mechanics.” “Instruments and books fill up the celler,” Rosie says. “If only I could take Jimmie to Soviet Russia, he would become the greatest mechanic there,” says Leonardo. ~ Jimmie takes charge of Sammy. “Always in Prison” ‘ “Leonardo only worries about others,” Rosie says. “He should be content with his wife, his child, his family. It is more than six years now, that he is like the wind—here and there — in the Massachusetts prison—in the Pittsburgh prison— now in Ellis Island. He broke up our home!” Most of the Damiano families are in Boston. The revolutionary ones are in Italy. Most of the others are good Catholics, good democrats. Leonardo, the good-hearted, honest boy, is off the track they think. But he must be saved! Let it be to the Soviet Union, so long as. it is not the Italian prisons, or death! In the family’s eyes, it 1s Leon- ardo’s fault that the family is a shame in its members’ eyes. The Statue of Liberty ‘stood on the left of the boat. Rosie was cry- ing, and Elsie could scarcely con- tain herself. Jimmie was holding Sammy, who wailed loudly. The Statue of Liberty stood on the beid harsh and cold, careless of the of the Americanized Soatane family. for Father Domiano built houses. Mother Domiano gave birth to five children. All were working. And as soon as Leonardo took the path (of organizing the starving miners, | they deported him. They separated Rt from his wife, his son, his fam- fly. “Wait, you beasts!” he had shout- ed at the Uniontown cops when they arrested him for deportation. “You will not separate me from my wife and my son. My class is everywhere! | di “My son is native-born, and so is my wife. My wife will continue with my work. My son, when he Lenin. And together with all my class, we will shatter your crazy in- human laws!” Elsie repeated her husband’s words proudly, looking steadily at the Statue of Liberty. Rosie stopped Rosie worked_In a candy-factory, day, for ten to twelve said, pointing to her mother, “No, I don’t earn enough money. We need a union,” Rosie said. Mother Damiano was looking over a Russian magazine. There were pictures of Lenin’s tomb, the Krem- lin, all things she had seen in Leon- DEPORTED: | miner, grows up, will. go in the road of |to the By REBECCA KAPLAN ardo’s books also. Suddenly, point- ing at a picture of a Soviet children’s home, she asked a question: “Will Sammy be happier wi! than with Elsie all the time?” She agreed with the comrade’s an- swer that of course he would. Jimmie | was smiling. Life Hard and Bitter “what have we got here anyway?” Rosi¢ asked. “My father and mother buried five children. I’m the only one left, And our lifé was like honey compared to that of the other mfn- ers. Snow and rain didn’t come in- to our housé like it did into the homes of most of them. My mother used to earn money, too. She was @ nurse. But still our life was hard chem | and_ bitter.” She kept on talking, giving por- traits of the lives of miners in Amer- iea—barbaric, primitive lives. These are the conditions of an American she said: terror and the beastliness of the bosses. Her father had already been on the blacklist four years. A year ago the com- pany cut off the water supply. Elsie carried water for the house a mile. “Our class-consciousness gives us strength,” she said. . “Workers in the mines are becom- FLASHES ————_- AN D ————_- By LENS FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! “Thunder Over Mexico” opens at the Rialto in New York following the current “Moonlight and Pret- zels.” The Mexican government has okayed it and the releasers have overcome some minor censor, trouble.. The membership of the | Workers Film and Foto League will be present in full force at the opening and asks all readers pres- ent in the theatre to help it fe over an old Australian custom. The only qualifications required are husky vocals and an elementary | knowledge of arithmetic. 8.5 Ree Walker Evans, thirty of whose re- | markable photos illustrate Carleton Beal’s “The Crime of Cuba,” is one of that small group of unsung he- roes who fought desperately but in vain to keep Harry Alan Potamkin alive...He was the last one to donate | his blood, though he had never met | Potamkin in person before... se 6 The film technicians’ strike has al- | ready resulted in a film shortage in| Minneapolis. Jewish persecu - tion in Germany has revived an old racket...Two films entitled “Wandering Jew” will soon be re- leased here al- most simultane - ously, one British the other native to these shores Both are infan- tile, sentimental tear-jerkers in- tended to replen- ‘ ish the pockets of a few very en- terprising fat. boys... ER RRA The editor of a certain movie trade weekly refers to you as the “dqumbell consumer mind”...In the same dyspeptic breath he adds that poor box-office drawing power is largely to be attributed to “stories about ‘how it is done,’ destroying consumer ilfusion about feats of daring on the screen”. rirery In “The Girl in Room 419” the powerful gang leader informs his young medical pal that he has just seen some “swell Louis Lozowick He Wanders— COD. distinguish John Reed Club,.a New Masses ed- itor, and one of the sponsors of the WFFL’s “America Today” pho- to exhibition opening Octobe: r 15... aes A film called “Havana Widows” is now in production...And lest you be misled by the title, be hereby in- formed that the story does not re- pica around the wives of recently lumped porristas...Universal Stu- dios think it positively unpatriotic to pay for their workers’ when the latter put in overtime...A memo home office dept. heads states: will defeat the purpose of the President’s agreement as far as this organization is concerned”... Not one, but two cameramen committed suicide in the Hollywood technicians’ strike,..The wrong way out, it’s true, but an indication of the magnificent bonds of solidarity that have kept the men from returning...Mussoli- ni’s government has invited leading world producers to a ten-day confer- ence in Venice “to talk over what can be. done about keeping pictures interesting and getting into them a constantly flowing line of new ideas and methods”...Judging from the current output of war and “New Deal” films, it’s a cinch the Holly- wood delegates will steal the whole chaer,., THE HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY CLOSE-UPS] j and here. f ing class conscious from day to day. | |The terror makes more fighters as | an answer to Roosevelt’s NRA. Last year Elsie led the women’s battalion of the miners’ wives, on the picket-lines. The papers wrote about this red-haired beauty. Elsie | Francis was her name then. They called her the “Red Flame.” “When Sammy was born, Leonardo | was away with the unemployed min- ers,” Elsie said. “I long ago made | up my mind that Leonardo belongs | more to the movement than to me. | My mother was my Sammy's doctor. | A doctor wouldn't come near 4 ‘red’ family. And we had+no money an; way. I was sick for months. “When Leonardo was arrested, I} didn’t find out about it for a week | “My Second Lenin” t “What use am I in America, ex- cept for our movement?” she said suddenly, turning to her relatives. | “What has Rosie to look for? Or you?” she asked Leonardo's mother. Life is bad in the Only our enemies lie like that!” Sammy was crawling over the | floor. | “Coma here, my second Lenin,” she said. and took him on her lap. “Leonardo says that Sammy will be the second Lenin.” When the Damiano family said goodbye to Elsie and the comrade, they felt more sure of themselves. They realized the difference between the life of a miner in America, and the life of a miner in the Soviet Union, the lives of the women there, Friday evening, the 8.8. Majestic heard the singing of the Interna- tional. Leonardo Damiano, or Jim | § Evans, as he was called in the move- | ment, was in his cabin with Elsi¢ | and Sammy. Other comrades were | there too. feet away. arrest, until the ship left the har- | bor. “Long live the struggle of American workers!” he “Smash Deportation terror! Live the Soviet Union!” the} shouted. Long Stage and Screen | | | | | | Eisenstein’s “Ten Days” And Murnau’s “City Girl” At Acme Theatre Saturday Beginning Saturday, the Acme | ture bill, “Ten Days That Shook The | World,” directed by Sergei Eisenstein,’ and F. W. Murnau’s production of “City Girl.” Both films will be shown for four days only. “Ten Days That Shook The World,” is based on the famous book by John Reed and presents the early days of the Revolution. “City Girl’ is adapted from the story “Bread,” and has the leading roles. The director, Mur-. nau, is well known for his European productions, “The Last Laugh” in which Emil Jannings played the lead, and “Faust.” ie | .Head Stage Show at Radio City Music Hall Tamiris, noted exponent of the modern dance, and Sigmund Spaeth,. the “Tuné Detective,” are features of the current stage show at the Radio City Music Hall. Tamiris is seen in two numbers—‘South Amer- ican Dance” and “Impressions of the Bull Ring.” The “Tune Detective” is assisted by M. Vodnoy, The Three Graces and Hilda Ecklor. The Roxy- ettes will be seen in a new number, “On the Bowery.” “A Bit O’ Old Ireland,” staged by Roxy,” will have Joseph White, the Ballet, the choral ensemble, the McNulty Family and | Joy! Sweet. On the screen, “Paddy, the Next Best Thing,” a Fox film featuring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter. Jefferson Theatre Saturday “When Ladies Meet,” screened from the play by Rachel Crothers, with Robert Montgomery and Ann Har- ding in the leading roles, will open at the Jefferson Theatre this Sat- urday and continue until Tuesday. The same program will have “The Devil Commands” with Alan Dine- hart, Mae Clarke and Neil Hamilton. Beginning Wednesday the program will include “Disgrace,”* with Helen Twelvetrees and Bruce Cabot and a second feature, “The Narrow Cor- ner,” with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Patricia Ellis, The New Roxy Theatre beginning Saturday will present “Pilgrimage” with Henrietta Crosman, Foster and Marion Nixon. From ‘Wednesday to Friday of next week the screen program will be headed “Her Bodyguard” with Edmund Lowe and Wynne Gibson. | By ROBERT KENT Soviet Union? ; The guards stood twenty | Leonardo was still under | ‘ers to :peach:: issue, | Theatre, will present a double fea-} Charles Farrell and Mary Duncen inigle . Tamiris and “Tune Detective”| | téahsportation department of the im- the attraction is | Rachel Crothers Film At | « Norman | 96 THE June, July, August issues. |*Organ of the Taxi Workers Union, TAXI WORKER, May, | Official ‘published monthly at 37 FE. 13th | [Se New York City. Many a time you and I have jumped mighty quick to get out of the way | fia rushing taxi. And what we murmered under our breath about | taxi drivers was hardly fit for the ears of a*\ Daughter of the Reyolu= | ar gading the “Taxi Worker” makes | es “yealize that behind the frantic driving of the “hackie” is the same eed-up system and exploitation that i workers in all capi- talist indust Intensely interesting and tnforma- tive-are ‘the letters from “hackies.” | "They reveal the espionage system | used» by’ the large fleet owners | against the workers. The Terminal | fieet, one of the largest, is, a sub- sidiary of General Motors. The let- | ters tell of working days as long as 18 hours, of drivers getting fired be- cause the. fenders of their taxis get scratched while the cars were in the company’s garage; of less than & living wage desvite the hectic driv- ing about town to pick up custom- ers. That these letters increase with eachnissue, and that the August is- | ‘sue, although only the fourth to be published, has attained a circulation | of- 8,000, indicate that the “Taxi Worker” is, gripping the interest of | the drivérs among whom revolt | | against exploitation is running deep. | Demand $18 Minimum Wage | “Behind the NRA Ballyhoo,” in| the August issue, ably strips the glamor around NRA, and is supple- mented by another article exposing the effect the NRA will have on taxi arivérs. The union’s own Code, pub- jiishéd in this issue, includes,a de- mand for a minimum wage of $13 weekly for the drivers. Who said } thé “cabbies” make a lot of dough? An‘ insutahce racket which swin- dled ‘independent taxi-owner-drivers to the tuné of $153,000, is the sub- stance of another extremely inter- esting arti¢le “in the last issue. The need for white and Negro taxi driv- unite -against the common the fleet owners, is well and pressed in practically enemy, consistently A galient shortcoming is that the | ; Writing is too much in article form, | making for rather heavy reading. | “Newsy” writing, exemplified by the | story-in the--August issue under the caption, “Cuban Texi Drivers Join | 21 1 Strike,” will doubtless make | the “Taxt Worker” more interesting. > Suggested Improvements ‘There should be more news of taxi- | arivers’ struggles outside of New York | ity, and of struggles by workers in--other industries, thereby bringing forth the unity of interest of all workers in the common class-strug- | | -A--comic..strip showing the life of a taxi-driver from day to day would | help popularize the “Taxi Workers.” Page, some talented brother taxi- ativer! And where are you John | Beed Club artists? Give a hand! “There should be an article on the | tex-drivers “in the Soviet Union. This is especially needed. since the reactionary publication, “The Taxi,” supported by “bosses’ ads, carried an attack on the Soviet taxi-cab indus- try, “ite rolé of taxi-drivers in the perialist ‘war machine is practically and ‘wrongly neglected. On the whole, this publication is an@aehievement for which the Taxi Drivers Union should be congratu- lated and Which all workers should support. It, is another weapon in the* hands of the working class for emancipation-from the bosses’ chains. 'S ON | MEMBI for Fall Season—decision on headquarters— plans for , outings—committees—groups—im- perative every member and friend be pres- MEETING ~~ Preparation ent at 122'Second Ave. Breanne 8:30 PM. . OPEN AIR: MEETING—Lydig Ave corner Cruger and Holland Ave. Pelham Parkway Workers Club, 2128 Cruger Ave. FLATBUSH WORKERS CLUB MEMBER- SHIP” MEETING, 1207 Kings Highway, 8:30 p.m. ‘Yd cHORUS at 1658 sabe st, Meefs every Friday. 8:30 p. mt OUTING TO NATURE FRIENDS CAMP FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND with Red Spark AC Club. Round trip one dollar Register now at 813 Broadway. 8:30 p. m. LECTURE ON NATIONAL RECOVERY ACT. -<Prominent speaker at Tremont Workers Club, 1961 Prospect Ave. 8:30 p.m. LECTURE—“The Theatre in the Soviet Union and the USA" by Comrade J. Boen at East Side Workers Club, 165 East Broad- way. Saturday COME WITH CLI-GRAND YOUTH CLUB to Camp Nitgedaiget for week end of Aug Ticket to camp one dollar round trip. Leaves from 380 Grand 8t Brooklyn “CABARET-BALL—Famous Russian Accor- dionist, Daniel Sobchick at Bronx Workers | Club, 1610 Boston Road Be. Admission 20¢, Auspices Units 26, 31 Section 15. CP, jac age ¥TW by QUIRT and NEWHOUSE JOB IN | NAZI CULTURE: THE BROWN) DARKNESS OVER GERMANY.| By Matthew Josephson. New York: John Day Pamphlets. 25c. Reviewed by MORRIS COLMAN The horror of blood and reaction which swept over Germany with the n of Adolf Hitler is too im- mense a subject for the scope of any pamphlet. Nevertheless, Matthew Josephson goes far toward giving some con- ception of barbaric pogroms upon culture which form the necessary mpral background of the reign of murder, torture, and terrorism by which Hitler seeks to give a dying capitalism one last moment of blood-soaked power before it is | swept away He succeeds in the brief space of a few pages in describing some of the specific forms that German Fas- cism employs to whip up the hostile frenzy of the ruined and despairing | middle classes to whom Hitler be-| longs, and who do his gruesome work. The Gangster Battalions He shows us the development of the coming, fanatical, shrewd Hit- ler, the dru@-soaked Goering, the| mind- and body-twisted Goebbels, | the pervert Roehm, the syphilitic Rust. He shows us the pimp, Horst | Wessel, “national hero” of the | Nazis, He shows something of the de- cay and degeneracy of the non.) proletarian Germans, without hope | and without responsibility, ruined | and humiliated by defeat in war, by | the veneegul Versailles treaty, by | the world crisis-spawning its thous- | ands of young men without future and without self-respect, ready re- | cruits for the gangster battalions | of Fascism. He affirms, too, that Fascism grows with the growth of the re- volutionary upsurge of the masses; he shows that the financiers and | the big indu-trialists not only of Germany but also of France are the | paymasters of German Fascism, and | call the tune. He declares \ that | Fascism can offer no hope: that it| is consciously and necessarily a pre- paration for war. 3 But he stops here, as if the re- volutionary upsurge of the masses | had stopped. Ignores Role of Social Democracy The role of Social Democracy, the | one force without which Hitler could never have gained power, the only effective brake the capitalists pos- | sessed’ upon the revolutionary | energy of the working class, is dealt within a fraction of a sentence And yet the phenomenon of Fas- cism in power in Germany cannot | j}be understood without the accom- | jefe) phenomenon of the Social | emocracy in power, paralyzing the | initative of its great working class ————— TUAT WAS A SWEET THE JAW BUT WE'LL NEVER LAND ANOTHER THE WooOS. SOCK ON THIS NECK OF S Under German Nazi Terror following, feeding the workers with usions until the time was come to call in Hitler and his butchers. The very fact that Hitler threw out the Social Democratic lackeys, as |contemptible stool pigeons of tap- italism who had served their turn, surely makes it essential for “any diatribe upon the “brown darkness’ to show the quality of one group of its victims, to show the role their like will play elsewhere. This, and the booklet’s conclusion, mar and cripple ah otherwise excel. lent little study, which can _ still serve to rally certain liberal forces for their small auxiliary role as |temporary and unwilling aids of the jrevolutionary working class, whose destiny is to smash Hitler, and cap- italism in Germany with him. No Menton of Communist Struggle It is this destiny which finds no exception in Josephson’s book. . He has not even a word about one force which js fighting Hitler in Germany, the force without which all his_acts are an incomprehensible madness: the Communist Party, which is lead- ing heroie and constantly more powerful struggles, despite the ter- rifie cost. He tells us in this booklet that Fascism is the last stand of eounter- revolution, and he concludes with a plea for a fight of all, even “the men with white hands,” against the “menace of extinction to our free institutions to all our civilization.” But counter-revolution does, not rise without revolution’s entry upon the order of the day. And revyolu. tion does not rise among “free in- | stitutions,” in a “civilization gee might have brought to beta lasting and glorious peace.” There is no Fascism yet in America, but there is no lasting and glorious | peace—nor is there in France nor England, those other centers of the highest forms of capitalist ¢ivili- | zation. The forms of barbarism Hitler has made spectacular in Germany are not unknown in the United States. They are common in the Pennsylvania mine regiofis; they | are common in Los Angeles, only on a smaller scale. They are developing wherever the class as grows il They are the in parts Eatin America, in China, in Peata, in Poland, Italy, Bulgaria, Roumania—they are only a little less spectacular. Matthew Josephson and his Tead- ers must not be deceived that bloody reaction is the property of Hitler, or that there is any’road to a glori- ous and lasting peace in Germany or anywhere else except the re. volutionary road to the dictatorship of the proletariat, the only decisive force against the forces which in | their crisis give birth to bie and little Hitlers every day. AMUSE MENTS “10 Shook EISENSTEIN'S MURNAU’S “BEGINNING TOMORROW—FOR 4 DAYS ONLY ” eCity Girl” Adapted from the Story _ ‘THEATRE 14TH STREET AND | “UNION SQUARE | c 9 a.m. te Ip.m. “Brena” (15 exc. Sat., San. | and Holiday RADIO CITY MUSIC HALI— SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy” ‘Opens 11:30 Janet Gaynor — Warner Baxter in “Paddy, the Next Best Thing” and a great “Roxy” stage show. 35e to 1 P.M.-55e to 6 (Exe. Sat. & Sun.) 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Y. 10 a. m, to Midnight Speaker: _ ROBERT MINOR Commanist Can- didate for Mayor Vote " NIC BAY PARK DAY 27, 1933 } Admission: 35 cents " Including 1 sent Tax for the Us jemploved Counefis”