The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 31, 1933, Page 5

| n DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933 THE STORY Industrial Union aboard the S. 8. low-workers about the Soviet Union; the class struggle, etc. he fails in an attempt to to keep the: Copenhagen, his words are slowly Chief Engineer is the first to sign ping at Helsingfors, Finland, Where the Utah goes on to Leningrad, U/S.S.R., where the crew notices the | unusual activity and the happiness about their tasks. Everyone notices the difference in spirit that pre- vails in the U.S.S.R. Now read“onts INSTALLMENT SIXTEEN Blackie Dances at Interclub.. , Boe this is a pretty nice dump,” } remarked Eddie, inside. | “Yes,” said Lag, “this used to be the private mansion of a ship owner | before the revolution.” é “And where does HE live now?” “Huh, he’s either living like the rest of the workers here, or else he’s pushing up daisies.” i The dance hadn’t started yet. The fellers went down into the restau- rant, where a big stuffed bear) greeted them at the door. Slim) hunted around for the American section. Upstairs, there were sepa-. rate sections for Scandinavian sea- | men, for German, French, Colonial, Italian, for seamen of all nations. Finally, alongside the reading room, he found the Anglo-American sec- tion. “I’m a member of the M.W.LU.,” he introduced himself. “Welcome, comrade. How’s things in the States?” ti ‘ “Awful, and getting worse all the. time. Increasing unemployment, wage-cuts, speed-up, starvation, evictions. Hear about how they shot down the veterans in cold blood, at | night, in Washington? Czar Nicho. las had nothing on Hoover!” | The Leningrad delegate nodded. “And how’s the union getting along?”’ | “Pretty fair. I suppose you héard about the strike we won for th 200 Stockton rivermen, They cam out 100 per cent solid, and under our leadership the wage-cut was!” taken back. We also won other de- mands. But generally speaking, it’s | tough sledding building up a sea>. znan’s union in the States. ‘The country’s so damn big, it takes a lot of money to send organizers around to th edifferent ports. And now. with over 80,000 seamen out of jobs and iots of our members un- able to pay dues, it’s hell. The dele- gates live on ‘coffee,and’s’ if and when they get that.” THE delegate nodded understand- | _ ingly, He had been through the mill too. “How do the men on the “Utah” feel towards the union?” . “Well, the oldtimers have had: their fingers burnt by the yellow A. F. of L. and Wobbly unions, and some of them have lost confidence in all unions for the time being. They agree with our principles, but. are not convinced that we -are strong enough, or have the ability,,all fellow workers. That's the Com- to win better working conditions for them.” “Yes, that’s Prove.” Slim nodded in agreement. ou “Whet would you fellows like to see here? We can arrange excur- | sions to factories, or a Soviet ship, | or workers’ rest homes, or parks of culture.” | Slim promised to ask the men and | let him know. On the way down, hé* looked into the reading room. News- papers in all languages, and a big library. Also a mail desk, where Slim found a package of “Voic waiting for him from the Union. what we have to Ss. by an American heaman - MICHAEL PELL HlustrMions by Philip Wolfe SO FAR: Slim a member of the Marine Workers 4nounced “The orchestra’s not so “|no choice. After ths third dance he 4--going home.” Ga (CONTINUED TOMORROW) UTAK os BSE Utah, has been talking to his fel- Although m from scabbing on dock workers at bearing fruit among them. The up with the M.W.LU, After stop- ‘uniformed men crowd the streets, »with which the Soviet workers go | joined the men in the restaurant. They were parked behind schooners | of beer. “Hey Slim, try one of these cav- iar sandwiches,” called Blackie. | “Caviar? I thought that was only for the rich.” “Not here. It only costs a few kopeks.”’ Blackie ordered a schooner for Slim. “Here, wrap yourself around some of this beer. It’s got a kick in it.” ._“‘What’s this,” called Slim. “It ain’t human nature to be giving things away like this.” “Cut the comedy, comrade. Say, | when does the dance start?” “Any good-looking girls?” de- manded Eddie. “Yeah, plenty, but we’re’out of luck.” “How come?” asked both kids at once. “We ain’t good enough for them; they’re after the officers.” “Cut the comedy, comrade. We're in Russia now.” Blackey showed his white teeth in self-confidence and ran his hand through his hair. “You watch my speed.” | Si BOUT nine o’clock the dance started. Blackie rushed to it like a turkey cock. After the first dance, he came back to the fellows and an- hot.” “You picked out a pretty good looking jane though.” “Yeah, but she don’t know the latest steps.” The music started up again. The floor began to get more filled. Af- ter this dance, Blackie came back and reported: .. “For Christ’s sake, they let spices and shines and everybody on the dance floor here!” “Sure,” answered Slim “they’re munist idea.” “You're in Russia now” remind- éd Eddie. Blackie didn’t like it, but he had had another complaint: “Say, these girls don’t make no dates!” “No? Maybe she don’t like you.” | “It ain’t that! §he don’t drink either!” “No? Maybe she gets a bigger kick out of other things.” | Blackie shook his head. ‘No, sir, this ain’t my idea of a party. I’m Lou's Adame, disiinguished autnor tecently returned from his native Czechoslovakia, where he has been} Working after winning a Guggenheim: scholarship, will speak on “The Lit- erature cf Labor,” during the “Amer-| i¢e’s Grub Street Speaks” program’ on Monday, September 4, from 5:45 to 6:00 p.m., over the WABC-Columbia chain. He is the author of two books, and is a contributor to the -New) Masses, Harper's, and other maga- zines. Pre er TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. —P.2i.—Mountaineers Music 3:0 00—Capiain Henry’s Show Boat; Lanny) Ross, Tencr; Annette Hanshaw, Songs; and others. 10;00—Whiteman —Orch.; Narrator; Al Jolson, 11:00—Seott!’ Orch. U:18—Merot! Och. 11;30—Denny Orch. 12:00—Raiph Kirbery, Songs. 12:05—A.M.—Pisher Orch. 12:30—Dance Orch. . ‘Songs. ee WOR—710 Ke. 7:00—1.M.—Sports—Ford Frick. 7;18—Ronnie and Van. 14e-News--Gatrie Het 1:45—I featter. 8:00—Radio ‘um, "i 8:30—Dion Kennedy, he 9:00—Gordon Graham, Baritone; Ohman Table—Sketch. no Duo. r roy Waxman—Talk. 10: 20:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read. _ 10:30—Trint Orch, 11:00—Time; Weather 11:60; a :30—Coleman Orch. 12:00—Outler, Oreh. * * WIZ—760 Ke. 1:00-—-P.M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy. : 7:18—Marlo Cozzi, Baritone; Littau Oreh. ‘Alberto Sclarettl, Piano. ‘7:46—Tune Detective—Sigmund Spaeth, $:00—Ceptain Diamond's Adventures ~ ‘Bketoh. ¢ 30—John Fogarty, Tenor, $48—Rollicker: 's Quartet, Deems Taylor, 1 Oat } King, Secretary of the International Juri | wit be rehearsed, : -| Members, aly. :00—Death Vaiiey Days—Sketch. 0—King Orch. * 00-—-Canadian Exchange Program; Rev- clers Quartet; Kathryn Newman, So- ano: Littau Orch, resentation of Bendix Trophies for 1932-88 to Roscoe Turner and James Waddell for Transcontinental Plight; Presentation of the Guggenheim Medai for Aeronautical Achievement to J. ©. Hunsaker, Vice President, Goodyear Zep- pelin Corp., by Rear Admiral E. 8, Land, at Society of Automotive Engineers’ Dinner, Chicago. 11:00—Jesters Trio. 118A Broadcast from the Moon—Pro- fessor Robert H, Baker, Harvard Ob- servatory. 10:3 WABC—860 Ke' 00—P.M.—Morton Downey, ‘Tenor 5—NRA ‘Tall. 20—Dance Orch, }0—Mills Bros., Son 45—News—Boake Ca |», Songs; 9:30—U. 8, Marine Band. 0—Belasco Orch.; Sports—Ted Musing; Barbara Maurel, Songs. '45—Gladys Rice, Soprano; Concert oreh. A. Johnson, Na- 5—Phil Regan, ‘Tenor, |.41:80—The NRA—Louis tional Commander, American Legion, 5—Martin Or2h, WHAT'S ON ‘Thursday “NEGRO AND THE LAW" by Carol Weiss al Association at Pen & Hammer, 114 Qist St. 8:30 p.m, */ FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA re- hearsal at headquarters. All members, concertinas included, must be present. Music se PHARMACISTS UNION) Webster Mall, 119 8 ith St, 8:30 pm. | MEETING FILM Section Workers Film & Photo League, 9 pm.,'220 E. 14th 8t. * ‘TODES Of the Daily Worker | OHA: JIM MARTIN Black Bill of the Missouri-Pacific DONT SUPPOSE HE WALKED ouT ‘Page by QUIRT and NEWHC officers of the United States Navy are being told that it is their destiny to conquer the work. They are being told that their role in the new world war which is im- minent—the role of the armed forces of the United States, especially the navy—will be to establish and main- tain a world state on the basis of a | world-supreme American navy. They are being told that the present mo- ment is the lull before the storm, which they must use to prepare for impending action. This pernicious stuff (and much more) is set forth in the July issue of “United States Naval Institute Proceedings,” in an article by How~- ard G. Brownson, Ph, D. The article is entitled the “The Naval Policy of the United States,” with the slogan subtitle, “In time of peace, prepare for war—Washington.” The president and vice-president of the United States Naval Institute are admirals in active service; the | “Proceedings” are published monthly, in expensive formal, at Annapolis, Mad., site of the United States Naval Academy; the magazine is edited by naval officers, and copies go to 2,850 officers of the navy, as well as 4.000 other persons. Dr. Brownson, according to a thumbnail sketch of his life in the | Same issue, studied at the universi- ties of Illinois, Chicago and Pennsyl- vania, “specializing in economics, history, political science.” He is de- scribed as a Catholic teacher, religi- ous worker and writer. In 1926-27 he studied theology at the Pontifical University at Rome. Propaganda Machine Ready No one has forgotten how during the World War, especially after America’s entry on the side of the Allies, a flood of propaganda inun- dated this country about the “lust for world domination” of the Prus- sian military clique, and the cold- blooded German savants who ration- alized their soldiers’ brutal ambitions, Since the beginning of the Japanese conquest of Manchuria, similar tales (such as the Tanaka Memorial) have been finding their way into print, charging that the Japanese military clique has consecrated itself to a similar grandiose project. It is certain that if and when the United States and Japan go to war, the anti-German propaganda of | 1917-18 will pale into insignificance by comparison with the torrent of anti-Japanese news stories, articles, pamphlets, books and official docu- ments.which will prove the abhorrent designs of the “yellow dwarfs.” Meanwhile, what will the Japanese government be telling its people? Will it not reprint and circulate thousands of copies of Dr. Brown- son’s article, as incontrovertible evi- dence of the megalomaniac lust for | Dower of the Americans? No Hint of Class Forces Dr. Brownson specialized in the study of “economics, history, politi- cal science.” But his article, although it reviews world politics from Baby- lon to 1933, contains no hint what- ever of the economic and class forces that shape history, There is not the slightest indication of the connection between economics and war, or of the connection between projects for world dominance and imperialistic decay. On the contrary, Dr. Brownson writes in terms of “racial considerd- tions,” “New World expansion,” “Old World reaction,” “the Democratic upheaval of 1932” and “the vision of universal democracy implanted by the Declaration of Independence.” We may grant his complete sin- cerity. We may presume that the unreal world of shadows conjured up by these illusory notions is ac tually the world of his: thought—al- though to do so we must believe that he has forgotten whatever “econom- ics, history, political science” he ever learned. But the important matter is not what Dr. Brownson thinks, Distorted Interpretations ~ What is important is that these fantastically distorted and malig- nantly war-breeding interpretations are presented in all seriousness, by the semi-official “Proceedings,” to the officers and civilian authorities of the United States Navy as a basis for policy and a guide for conduct. It is not unreasonable to expect that this poison will spread. rapidly through naval and military cifcles, and from them to ever-widening ci- villan circles; that. it will be = sailors sol- thinking part the general public; and that finally, when the United States plunges into the next war, Dr. Brownson’s “vi~ sion of a world dominant American navy establishing world péace” wil) succeed Wilson’s “war to end war” and “make the world safe for de- mocracy” as the slogan of hysteri- cal, befuddling war-time patriotism. Tf the sailors and sol knew Union. Friday WORKERS LABORATORY THEATRE needs plays, skits, lyries, etc. for NRA re- vue, Playwrights group meets at 42 E, 12th ‘St. All incereatact arsed be! attend. MASS MEETING at Ambassador 3861 Third Ave. by Middle Bronx Unem- Jingoism in the Navy A Review of the United States Naval Institute Proceedings By WALTER BELL that they were going up against for- eign machine guns, mustard gas and bombing planes in order to win for- eign markets and raw material reser~ voirs for the great corporations, in order to preserve and increase the wealth of the great millionaires, in order to rivet upon larger areas of the world the greedy control of Wall Street, would they fight? If the people of the United States realized that the war was an im- perialist war for the redivision of the world, would they send their sons, husbands and brothers to the slaughter? Ugly Truths Hidden ‘They would not. Those ugly truths must be hidden. The sailors, soldiers and civilians must be hoodwinked again, as they were hoodwinked in 1917, into believing the war a just and glorious war, or at the very least @ necessary and inevitable war. Dr. Brownson’s article, with its speciously simple analysis of world | history,. past and present, is a tell- ing bit of propaganda for this pur- pose. A few quotations will show its trend: “Now the nation is commencing that sharp internal readjustment which has inevitably led in the past to another period of great outward expansion—1776, 181%, 1845, 1898, and 1917.” “Foreign governments, appreciative of the significance of the Latin revo- lutions, Japanese action in Manchu- ria and Shanghai, the importance of war debts and reparations, and the danger of a Bolshevist outbreak, are building their naval forces to the highest level in world history.” A Few Quotations Under “Racial Considerations” — “In the course of centuries Aryan civilization, culminating in Puritan Protestant Christianity in the United States, has become world dominant, with only Japan as a remnant of non-Aryan and non-Christian so- ciety.” Under “New World Expansion”— “Commencing with the American Revolution, the United States en- tered upon a period of outward ex- pansion in a succession of outward | and inward waves: outward in the Revolution, Napoleonic period, the Mexican War, Spanish - American War, and World War; inward in the period of internal development fol- lowing these conflicts. These succes- sive advances have broken down Old- World influence in the Americas; Old-World imperialism except for the | British, French and Japanese em- pires; and in the World War and League of Nations inaugurated a pe- riod of American world dominance.” Under “Conflict of the Old and New Worlds”—‘The rising tide of American expansion sets in motion opposing forces of reaction bringing about a conflict between the New and the Old World. British civiliza- tion, checked by the World War, is making a final bid for world suprem- acy in a growing British-French- Japanese Entente under the League of Nations, opposed by the discon- tent of the masses of the population centering in Bolshevism, American | civilization, impregnating the world with American ideals after the World War, has received a temporary check in the economic depression; is un- dergoing a drastic internal readjust- ment expressed by the Democratic upheaval of 1932; and seems prepar- ing for another wave of outward ex- Cea similar to that of the World ar.” « “Economic depression can be reme- died only by the establishment of international peave and) order in a universal world society; the United States is the only nation capable of establishing such a society; there- fore, the American public in its ef- fort to restore American economic development must ultimately com- plete the cycle of American democ- racy in the fulfillment of the Wilson Policies of an American dominated world state. Such a world state can be established and maintairied only on the basis of a world-supreme American navy. Obviously, the Unit- ed States must carry through to completion the Wilson program of universal democracy, an effective League of Nations, and a world dom- inant American fleet.” Final paragraph—‘The naval pol- icy of the United States under .the new Democratic administration is necessarily the realization of Presi-~ dent Wilson’s vision of a world dom- inant American navy establishing ot | world peace.” Notice that the Old World is “im- perialistic”, but the New World is merely “expansionist”. Notice that “American expansion” is a “rising tide”, but the Old World’s resistance is “reaction”. Notice the cool tak- ing for granted of “American ideals” of “universal det if But not a word about capitalism, | not a word about colonial exploita- tion, not a word about the trusts and monopolies, not a word about oil, Wall Street or Fascism, not a word about attacking the Soviet Union, not word about the danger that another world war may destroy all civilized life. are merely the ployed Counell, of 1400 Boston RLOTTR 4 Ma‘'snel Recovery Act at Irving Adm. 15¢, Auspices Offlce Workers Road, to organize werkers to fight against cutting! off of relief. b Hall,| No, these et réalities, merely ugly face behind py “glorious” mask of patriotism and \ | FLASHES -AND CLOSE-UPS | i | | By LENS Today we surrender the floor to Seymour Stern, editor of Experi- mental Cinema. Comrade Stern, at present in New York, has been working in Hollywood for several years, where he has gained renown | as a stormy petrel through his con- sistent unmasking of the artistic | bankruptcy of the bourgeois film | | and his relentless championing of | the revolutionary Soviet movie. | | Dear Lens: | | During’ the past few weeks I have | jread in the “Daily”—both in your column and elsewhere—odd bits of information concerning the case of Eisenstein, Sinclair and the soon-to- be-released “Thunder Over Mexico.” I believe your readers will be inter- | ested in the following necessarily- sketchy facts which I contribute as during its protracted and tempestu- | ous history. be | It is no longer a secret that fiéen- stein’s monumental revolutionary epic on the workers and peons of Mexico, originally called “Que Viva Mexico,” has been hopelessly man- gled_ politically, and criminally butchered as a masterpiece of film |art by Upton Sinclair and his back- fers among the bourgeoisie of South- | ern California. Sinclair recently made a_ state- ment that “Thunder Over Mexico” (as the present bastard version is called) had been “edited in accord with Eisenstein’s ideas.” He further been followed exactly. No one knows | better than Sinclair himself that this is not true. Entire Film Mangled Three of the most important epi- | Sodes of the scenario have been com- pletely omitted from “Thunder Over Mexico,” and a great deal of other .material, dealing with the ancient Aztec Indians, has been edited in the most unforgivably infantile manner and appears in disjointed fragments throughout the film. Be- sides this, the episode which has been taken from the scenario and used as the main material of “Thun- der Over Mexico,” has been so ed! ed as to make it overwhelmingly ob- vious even to those superficially ac- quainted with the work of Eisenstein, that the latter's original conception jhas been completely perverted. The |most outrageous atrocity committed by Sinclair is without question the elimination of the peon revolt at the jend. Eisenstein had taken thousands of feet of film showing a mass up- material HAS BEEN DISCARDED BY SINCLAIR’S VERSION FOR A FRENZIED GLORIFICATION OF THE PRESENT WALL STREET Ico! Turned Into Sickly Movie As if reactic enaracter of the film as well as to make a thorough job | of its destruction as a powerful work | of art, Sinclair made a contract with | Sol Lesser, an independent distrib- utor in E od. This man is aj fascist of 2 blackest dye. | responsible forthe distribution of | “German atrocity” films during the | war, out of which he reaped a huge | profit. Only lately he contracted to release an anti-Soviet propaganda | film by that arch-enemy of the So- | viet Union, Carveth Wells. Lesser's crowning achievement in this realm, however, is his mangling and dis- tortion of “Que Viva Mexico!” Un- der hts personal supervision, and with Sinclair's unconditional approv- al, Eisenstein’s anti-imperialist doc- ument was turned into a sickly Hol- lywood movie, with special emphasis on a romantic melodramatic plot and with an ending which would gladden the heart of a Mussolini or a Hitler. Sinclair Stands Indicted . . . Why has Upton Sinclair sanctioned the spoliation of the greatest motion picture ever photographed in Amer- ica? Why has he lent himself as the prime mover in the criminal task of hacking and butchering the 232,000 feet of material that Eisenstein sent up from Mexico,,and selling pieces | to capitalist film concerns? Until Up- ton Sinclair chooses to offer satis-| factory answers to these questions he stands indicted in the eyes of the | masses of friends of the Soviet | Union, anti-imperialists and admir- ers of the Soviet film allover the world. What has happened to one of | the most important features of Hisenstein's original, consisting of a merciless expose of the feudal-reac- tionary Catholic Church of Mexico? Eisenstein shot a mass of unbeliev- ably powerful material: grim priests, priests blessing the “pulque”’ drink (“opiate” for the Mexican masses), priests blessing poverty «stricken hordes on Mexican farms and haci- | endas, etc. etc. I SAW MOST OF THE ANTI-RELIGIOUS MATERIAL | OF “QUE VIVA MEXICO!” BUT) IT HAS “MYSTERIOUSLY” DIS- APPEARED SINCE THAT ‘| NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE SEEN OR HEARD OF IT SINCE THEN (about eighteen months ago). This scandalous affair has now become international in scope and the release of the present version of Eisenstein’s film is certain to meet with world-wide protests. This is something on which neither Sinclair nor Lesser figured, apparently. T have in my possession the origin. } one closely connected with the case | stated that Eisenstein’s scenario had | rising of the peons, but this crucial | BANDIT-GOVERNMENT OF MEX- | to better insure the ultra-) TIME, | forth’ Within the next few weeks. I | | JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, IJ, is an|Labor Defense must get out of Al éditorial writer for the Birming- ham ‘(Ala.) Age-Herald. He {s also | thé. ‘Alabama editorial correspondent | for ‘the’ New York Times. In this capacity, he has been one |of the most zealous of the repre-| lynching appes sentatives of the Southern white | landlords and industrialists in screaming for the lynching of the Scottsboro boys. He has been a} staunch defender of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. He has screamed, like | th N.A.A.C.P., that the International | . Minute Movie Review Mayor of Hell ‘This film has been ballyhooed as anathér epic expose of prison life; | this time it is the juvenile reform schogl, that comes in for exposure and the producers have rounded up all the old “bezprizorni” of the Our Gang Comedies, put long pants. on them, given them lines in every accent: Jewish, Negro, Italian, with special emphasis on their racial differences, sent them to a Reform School—all to what end? _ Well, we learn for one thing that Reform Schools can |be refprmed overnight, from hell to a paradise by sentimental ward heelers when pretty reform school | nurses plead for the unhappy vic- tims. All you have to do is send the regular warden away on a/ vacation, fire the prison guards, | | |interests of the inmates, with a the courts, trial by jury—in fact ja miniature “democracy” within | the school, abolish discipline, put the boys to work at trades, etc., ete, and by the time they are | ready to leave school they will be | | able to fall right into the nearest | | breadline that awaits them with | open arms—good upright citizens | |of society. When tougher bologna on prison life is made, Warner | Brothers will make them. Jimmie | Cagney is worth the price of| admission. | | —D. P. | Stage and Screen | “The Sellout” Coming To | | Cort Theatre Next Week; | | Group Theatre Plans Play | Albert G. Miller’s satire on the| | radio advertising business, “The Sell-| out;*4s scheduled to open next Wed-| nesday' night, September 6, at the) Cort: Theatre. The chief players are Minnie Dupree, Jane Seymour, Frank Dae, Robert H. Gordon and Ruth! Thomas. The play is sponsored by @ new group, The Theatre Craftsmen. The Group Theatre, in association | with Harmon and Ullman, are plan- ning to open their season with “Man | In, White,” a new play by Sidney | Kingsley. The production is planned | for next month at the Plymouth The- | atre..The play was formerly titled “Crisis,” | Rehearsals started yesterday on the | new Eugene O'Neill play “Ah Wilder-/| negs,’.,which the Theatre Guild is planning to open at the Guild The- atre on. October 2 as its first offer- ing of the season, George M. Co-)| han will play the leading role. | Basil Rathbone has been engaged | by Katherine-Cornell to play Romeo to her Juliet in Shakespeare's tragedy, Robert Browning in “The Barretts of | Wimpole Street,” and James Morrell in Bernard Shaw's “Candide,” the re- pertory Miss Cornell will present in New York and on tour this season. Patricia Bowman Back At; Music Hall; Lionel Barrymore On Screen Patiicia Bowman, premiere dan- seuse,'is-back at the Radio City Music Hall-in two numbers of the current stage»show. ‘The program includes, “Carnival de Venice,” “Divertissement Institutional,” with Nathalie Bodan- sky, Philadelphia Opera soprano, and Jan Peerce, tenor; “An Impression | front Alice in Wonderland,” with Miss ; Bowman, Peerce and Miss Bodansk: in ‘addition to Novelle Brothers, the Corps de Ballet and the Roxyett: e feature picture is “One Ma: Jourtiey,” with Lionel Barrymore | heading the cast. and T’am turning it over to the! Workers Film and Foto League | whieh: will publish it in pamphlet | am*<convinced that an energetic | campaign waged by the Workers Film and Foto League and backed by mass. support can force the re- turn of the negative to Fisenstein and compel Lesser and Co. to with- draw their version of the film from circulation. Comradely, Pd SEYMOUR STERN. ‘New York City al scenario as written by Eisenstofi Aug. 29, 1983, Trail of the Lynecher, 1906---1933 By LOUIS COLMAN bama, and leave the ts to carr, out their lynchings and frame-ups, | assisted by Southern lawyers and th N.AAC.P., undisturbed. Mr. Gra latest comment on| s in the New York| Times, August 20, in conn the lynching in Tuscaloosa of Pippen, Jr., and A. T. Harden. Mr. Graves deprecates this lynchi advances interesting reason: “Inasmuch as the Negroes at Tuscaloosa had refused to accept LL.D. lawyers for their counsel,” | he says, “the crime was as stupid and impolitic as it was vicious.” In other words, had the court and militia and gangsters not bodily | ejected the I.L.D. lawyers from Tus- caloosa, had they still had sincere defenders, the lynching, in Mr, Graves’ opinion, would have been sensible, politically expedient for the white Southern ruling class, and jus- | tifiable. Mr. Graves, of course, is| lying about the refusal of the I. L. D.| counsel, The I. L. D, counsel was re- jected under the gun, and only under the most extreme terror conditions aimed directly at such a refusal. Praised Darrow Steal On the Scottsboro case, Mr. Graves II has had much to say. He devoted a column jn the New York Times, once, to praise of Clarence Darrow for his refusal to defend the Scotts- boro boys after taking $2,000 con- tributed by thousands of workers to the N.A.A.C.P. on the understanding iM would be used for Scottsboro de- ense. Only three weeks ago, in his col | umn called “This Morning,” in the} Birmingham Age-Herald, he quoted ; ct eth ig sebtiare article by Elmer | |set up a juvenile republic in the} is, fascist ideologist, who argued | fyjy sh: |tist ‘the NAAOP. alone hed “al thet shove were ited on te wee mayor, chief of police, justice of | legitimate interest in the case” be- | cause “the Negro hoboes . . . had never heard of the dictatorship of the proletariat; they had never heard of Marx or Lenin.” On another occasion, in the Times again, he said: “The accused men were subjected to regular process of law and found guilty. Local opinion has considered the trial a fair one.” And he quoted, approvingly again of course, from the Montgomery Adver- tiser, a leading lynch organ which has called repeatedly for the blood of the Scottsboro boys, and of ILD. | lawyers and representatives: “There was no intimidation of the court and the jury,” in the original Scottsboro | trial. “An Inherited Thing” John Temple Graves cherishes that “II” after his name. It indicates he is proud of his father, also a South- ern newspaper man. ‘The Southern objection to having | Negroes on the jury is an inherited thing,” Graves said in the Age- Herald. The Tuscaloosa News, in “justifica- tion” of the Tuscaloosa lynchings, Says: “Social equality never has is not now and never will be zed in the South.” And this brings us to the inherit- nce of Mr. Graves, of which he is so proud. John Tempie Graves, I In a book called “Liberalism in the | South,” by Virginius Dabney of the ond (Va.) Times Dispatch, is an illuminating passage bout John Temple Graves “I”, In- cidentally, the book is @ true pic- |ture of upper-class liberalism in the South—a picture of the blackest ter- ror and reaction, And it was Dab- ney himself who suggested that “one or two” Negroes be put on Virginia juries, to avoid reversal of lynch- verdicts. Dabney, by this and other ‘ fens, belongs to the lynchers’ clan nimself, of course, and his ideology reflects itself in his phrases even in such a demagogic attack on lynching as the following. But about Graves the First: “John Temple Graves, an upper- | class Southerner,” Dabney writes, “is generally regarded as having been | largely responsible for the famous Atlanta race-riot of 1906. The At- | lanta Evening News, of which he was | editor, broadcast several extras in one day proclaiming four successive | ‘assaults’ on white women by Negro |men in the city, whereas no assault {had been committed. . . . The re- |sult of these news articles, coupled | with an incendiary editorial, was that feeling was raised to a tremen- dous pitch. . . . A lame bootblack who was shining a man’s shoes was dragged to the sidewalk and beaten to death. Another young Negro was | fatally stabbed with jackknives. Sev- eral colored barbers who were peace- | their shops were killed on the spot. In all, ten Negroes were massacred jim cold blood, and not one of them | was guilty of any crime other than |that of having a black skin. Sixty others were wounded. Vicious Attack on Negroes - “Despite his substantial share of responsibility for the mot, Graves | continued his editorial policy of cold | brutality toward the Negro. Several months after the clash, the Evening | News said concerning the black man | who attacks a white woman: ;_“‘No law of God or man can hold | back the vengeance of our white men upon such a criminal. If necessary | we will double and treble the law of | Moses, and hang off-hand the crim- inal, or failing to find that a rem- edy, we will hang two, three, or four |of the Negroes nearest to the crime until the crime is no longer done or feared in all this Southern land we inhabit and love.” This is the ruling class tradition of | the South that is in the veins of the editorial writer of the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Alabama edito- jtial correspondent of the New York Times. He lives up to it. AMUSEMENTS ‘Island of Doo “A psychological study in suspense. and Murnau’s Film Classic “Magnificent, Story _b: TODAY TO TUESDAY—2 BIG FEATURES - Excellent portrayal of the emotions that beset two men and a woman’-Ev. Journal c tremendons"—Daily News. 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