The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 1, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1933 Page Fiye by QUIRT and NEWHOUSE JIM MARTIN Tight Spot “COME BACK Tdope LW | GERE, You TAIS WORKS couse i! Illustrations by Philip Wolfe 4 THE STORY SO FAR: The'S.,8., Utah, one of the members of whose crew is Slim, of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, has made the voyage across the Atlantic, stopping, at Copenhagen, Helsingfors, Finland, and Leningrad. Slim has been. talking to his ¢ellow-workers about the class struggle and what they can do; about it. He signs the Chief Engi- neer up with the M.W.LU. In Leningrad, the sailors of the Utah are getting the surprise of their asia heniarane the new society in action. ‘Now read on: * INSTALLMENT SEVENTEEN | How About Women? HE next noon, when the Interclub delegate came into the mess room; he was greeted by a regular chorus of catcalls. “Say, what-kind of a country do you call this, anyway?” “No women.”—“No decent jazz ors chestra.”—“Cafes dear as hell.”—‘“No: cabarets.”—“Drinks dear as hell.”-— “No place to go to.” “One at a time,” called the dele~, gate. “I won’t- run away. Who's, first?” Stanley spoke up. “How come there ain’t no women here?” on “Women? Leningrad is full of them. In the factories, on the docks; on the street cars, they're. busy work- ing all——” vie tanley cut him off. “You know what I mean. Women for the sailors.” “The women in the Soviet Union | don’t haye to become prostitutes. They all have jobs, and they make just as good wages as the men, in: fact better, when you consider their privileges. If a woman worker: be- comes pregnant, she gets eight weeks off with full pay., Four weeks before: birth and four weeks after. Then she gets clothing for the baby, milk free, time off to look after the baby... . “Yes, but how about us sailars?, We got to have a woman once in a while!”. “Do what the Russian’ seamen, did. —Fight for Higher wages and better working conditions. The Russian sea- man can afford to get married and, come home to his wife every couple of weeks or months,—whenever he |- returns to his home port. And. one }. month each year he gets vacation |” with full pay, which he can spend with his wife or best girl.” “That's all right for him,” insisted,|, the Swede, “but how about us?” “You do what he did. Build up a strong red union.” Gunnar interrupted. what he did. He made a revolution.” “Correct. most necessary to make a successful revolution is to have strong revolu- tionary trade unions.” Stanley wouldn’t see into it. “That | ain't helping us’ right. now,” cBe inz sisted. “No, nor did the Russian seamen get what they have in one day. Nor did the Russian women free them- selves from the’ miseries of prosti- tution in one day. They. went thr blocd and hell-for it, and are Stilt) working hard to finally build, So= cialism, for themselves, and for"; orathe werld Proletariat,” ? 3 = TANLEY dian” answer, but “now Lag growled: “Yow shout there being so ¥% Sach vets here, and those few dear” Aue “Those few cabarets are not meant for workers but for tourists. “The workers here have their clubs for en- tertainment and recreation. What do you get in the cabarets in ca) i=] talist ccuntries? Booze, dance, pros=) titute, dope your minds with alcohol fumes and your bodies with venereal |" diseases, something Which pleases thé capitalists, thinking.” “What the hell, a feiler’s got! ‘to have a.good time once in a while, and” that’s tre only place we can get” it." “That's just it! You beat it»off the ship to have a good time. Con- dition$ on board are so bad, you rush away the first minute possible. But “That ain't | But one of the things|” because it prevents your’ * the Russian seaman considers the ship his home, has it fixed up ac- cordingly, and has a good time on board if he pleases. He has a clean, roomy cabin, writing table, electric fan, bathroom, library, chess and music, radio. In addition, he can take a course in Navigation or En- tineering, given by the ship’s officers rat high sea.” “To hell with all that gab!” snort- ed the Swede, “That ain't doing us ho good right now!” The delegate became energetic. “Listen here! You’ve got plenty of other ports to do your whoring in. While you're here, you’ve got the Seamen’s Club and many other things to learn and see, which you peannot get anywhere else.” “For instance?” questioned the Polack. “Houses of culture, parks of ,rest, workers. clubs, revolutionary mu- !Seums, movies with sense to them— all kinds of civilized, cultured enter- tainment. These things have been created by the freed workers of Len- ingrad for themselves, and for you "too, if you have the intelligence to enjoy them, But don’t blame the Soviet workers because you come here with your minds. poisoned with capi- talist habits of “amusement.” Stanley returned to the charge. “What's wrong with taking a few drinks?” “There's a big difference between a few drinks at the Seamen's Club, for instance, and im a eapitalist-own- ed cabaret. In the one place, you sit around with your friends and ship- mates and have a chance to talk over things which are important to you (*—conditions on board, what’s going on in the world, etc. But in the abaret, with loud-crashing orches- “tras and. painted women, you fall nto the capitalist trap; no chance for sensible discussion.” “Aw,” growled Log again, “we get all the sensible diseussion we want when we're at Sea. Slim sees to that. >When ware in port we want some- tonight we'll give you scmething else. How would*you like -to see a House of Culture?” Everybody g' wed. Lag made a dash for the deck “Has it anything besides a reading zoom and library?” asked the Polack. “Yes, there are a few other attrac- tions.” . “Attractions!” echoes the Polack. That's what he calls attractions!” , (CONTINUED TOMORROW) With Chekhov” Coming ‘To Acme Theatre Following the run of ihe Soviet tekie “Island of Doom” and Murnau's “Sunrise,” the two picturcs now eur- rent, the Acme-Theatre, beginning Wednesday, Sept. first, American showing of the new. Soviet film, “An Hour With Chekhoy;? | STAGE AND SCREEN New Soviet Picture, “An Hour) ,| en William, Genevieve Tobin and 6, will present ,the:|: dapted from last season’s play by George Haight and Allan Scott War- ‘Wallace Ford head the cast. The chief item at the Trans-Lux | Theatre this week shows over 100,- Galina Kraychenko “| we had brought. And certainly col- Colman and attraction at the Rivoli Theatre Re . ginnin produced in the USSR by Mejrahs pomfiim and released here by Am=j/ kino. The picture, which was produced by the Soviet studios to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Chek- hov's death, consists of the follow=" ing stories: “Death Of A Goverment Clerk,” with the noted Soviet artist Ivan Moskvin; “Chameleon” and “Anna Round His Neck.” The cast’ includes many of the prinicipal play~" ers of the Moscow . Ari eatre. ., ‘Katherine Hepburn In “Morn: ing Glory” At New Roxy ,, “Morning Glory,” with Katherine | Hepburn, Adolph Menjou and Dou» glas Fairbanks, Jr., will be the scteen, feature at the New Roxy Theatre Saturday to Tuesday, Wednesday to Friday, the program will incluude Lew Ayres and Ginger Rogers. in “Don't Bet On Love.” Starting Saturday, the Jefferson, Theatre will present Lili Damita and’ Charles Morton in “Goldie Gets Along and a second picture, “Don’t! Bet On Love” with Lew Ayres and Ginger Rogers. Wednesday to Friday the double bill includes “Gambling|."” Ship” with Jack La Rue, Cary ant) In the Sex and Benita Hume, and “Hold eee hae bia with Jean Harlow and Clark|, showing at Gable. ears ‘Masquerader” ‘with Ronald Elissa Landi will be the t talkie “Island Of tory of the civil war, now the Acme Theatre, \ 000 in a Lert demonstration in Red Square in Moscow, celebrating this Saturday following Noel}'the beginning of the second 5-year “Bitter Sweet” now playing. by Langston Hughes Author of the Novel “Not Without Laughter” ? ‘The following article is to appear shortly in number 3 of “Interna- tional Literature,” published in Moscow by the International Union of Revolutionary Writers. “Tf you can’t carry from New York, then buy in Berlin. Everything: Canned goods, sugar, soap, toilet paper, pen- cils, ink, winter clothes, can openers, toothbrushes, shoe- strings, and so on, and so on, | and so on. Otherwise you will} go hungry, dirty and ragged in Moscow,” thus good friends earnestly advised me. “You will be guided, guarded and watched all the time in Moscow—the G.P.U.,” they warned me. “The peasants and poor folks have control and they're the stupidest people on earth. You will .be sadly disappointed in Moscow,’ estimable gentlemen who had especially studied the “Russian experiment” told me. “Qh, and what might happen to your poetry! There's only propaganda in Moscow,” charming ladies. with artistic souls exclaimed. “They only want to make Commu- nists out of you-all, you and the rest of these Negroes going in that group—and get you slaughtered when you come back home—if the Ameri-. can government lets you come back,” genteel colored people told me. “You'd better stay home.” “Can't, I said. “I want to see Moscow. So when the Europa sailed from New York on June 14 in the year of our one-time Lord 1932, there I was in a group of 22 Negroes going to| the Soviet Union to make a film, “Black and White"! No One Pale or Undernourished Moscow met, us at Leningrad—in the persons of some officials of the Meschrabpom for whom we were to work. And among them was a Ne- gro! None of these men from Mos- cow appeared pale and undernour- ished or in need of the canned goods ored Comrade Whiteman didn’t look anything like “A motherless chile “A long ways from home.” And he has lived in Moscow for years. The banquet they spread for us at the October Hotel in Leningrad ran all the way from soup on through roast chicken and vegetables right down to ice cream_and black coffee. And an orchestra playing dinner mu- sic. All of which was Better, better, than I gets Pu home.” The speeches were short and warm with proletarian greetings and the orchestra played the “Internatio- nale”: “Arise, ye prisoners of starva- tion.” But we were all a litéle too full of good food at: the moment to give that line its real meaning. 4 “Arise, ye slaves no TAY in thrall.” We did better on that: we Ne | Moscow and freedom! The vet Union! The dream of all the poor and oppressed—like us—come true, “You have been naught, “You shall be all.” We slept on the Express roaring through the night toward Moscow. In the morning we emerged from the train to the clicking of a battery of newspaper cameras and the greetings of a group of Moscovites come to meet us. And among them were two more Negroes! One was Emma Har- ris who's lived in Russia for 30 years, sings, and makes the best apple pies in the world. And the other was a grandly black boy who we thought was from Africa—but who turned out eae from Chicago. His name was job. Carried Along In the Crowd Our hands were shaken. We were hugged and kissed. We were carried along in the crowd to the bright sun- shine of the street outside. And there a flock of long shiny cars waited for us—Buicks and Lincolns—that swept us through the Moscow boulevards making as much time as the taxis in Central Park. We drove across the Red Square past Lenin’s Mausoleum and the towers and domes of the Kremlin—and stopped a block away. at the Grand Hotel. Our rooms were ready for us— clean and comfortable, with hot and Coward’ 7 The pieture is an adaptation of John, sou Hunter Booth’s dramatization 4 novel by Katherine Cecil Thurston. “On Saturday the Daily Worker has ‘The Strand Theatre is now showing| 8 Pages. Increase your bundle order a screen version of “Goodbye Again,”! for Saturday! cold water, homelike settees and deep roomy chairs. Courteous attendants there were, baths and elevator, a book shop and two restaurants. Ev- erything that a hotel for white folks at home would have—except that, & LANGSTON HUGHES quite truthfully, there was no toilet , frankly a business for the making of | juction of an art for the|a in ideas of so- too, ‘oducers will paper, And no Jim Crow. Of course, we knew that one of the basic principles of the Soviet Union is the end of all racial dis- tinctions. That’s thé main reason we had come to. Moscow. That afternoon another long table #| Was spread in the hotel dining room, and we ate again. Around this wel- coming board we met our first Rus- Sian. friends, And learned to say, “Tovarish.” And thus began our life in Moscow, the Retl Capital. eRe ERE there should follow several 4 pages about how we made the movie that wé had come to take part in—except that the movie was not made! Why? Well, here’s the inside dope. A few days after I got her was contracted to revise the dia- logue so, with an interpreter, I sat in at most of the conferences. I lis- tened to Pudovkin, Eck, and other, famous kino experts analyze and dis- sect the proposed script for “Bla and White” as prepared for filming. There were heated discussions on every scene and every line of dia- logue. There were a dozen different disagreements. The defects of plot and continuity were merc y exposed. And finally the production of a picture based on the scenario at hand was called off. Moving picture studios all over the world are, after all, more or/ le: alike. Pictures are listed and c celled. Directors are hired and fired. Films are made and shelyed. What happened to “Black and White” in Moscow, happens to many films in Hollywood. But between the studios of Hollywood and those of Moscéw there: is this difference: In Ho. wood the Production of films is quite TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke, 7:00~P. M.—Mountaineers Music, 1:15—Rollickers Orch, 1:30—Betty Boop Frolics. 1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch. 3 8:00—Concert *Orch.; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Cavaliers Quartet. 9:00—Fred Allen; Commedian; Gréfe Orch. 0—Dramatic Sketch, with Rose Keane and Charles Lawrence; Lee Wiley and Paul Small, Songs; Young Orch, 10:00—U, 8, Navy Band. 10:30—Lum and Abner, Friday Night So- clable, 11:30—Davis Orch, 11:30—Fisher Orch. 12:00—Ralph Kirbery, Songs. 12:05—A.M.—Stern Orch, 12:30—Lowe Orch, « WOR—710 Ke. 7:00—P.M.—-Sports—Ford Frick. ‘7:15—Kiss in the Moonlight—Sketch. 1:30—The Count of Monte Cristo~Sketch. ‘7:45—News—Gabriel Heatter. 8:00-—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama. 8:15—Voorhees Orch.; Jack Smart; Gordon Graham. 8:45—Mustcal Gazette. 9:00—Bronx Marrtage Bureau—Sketch. 5—Willle Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard, Soprano. }0—Robbins Orch, Organ Recital. 5—Ourrent Events — Hérian Bugene Read. 0—-Varlety Musicale, ‘Time; Weather, 02—Seottt Orch. 11:30—Denny Orch 412:00—Aaronson Orch / Even money. In-Moscow the films is quite fran! advancement of cert cial betterment writers, directo squabble over a but in the end, of the writers are opposed to the money-making ideals of the produc- ers, the ar' ideals go and box- office appeal takes th In Moscow, on the othe: profit-making motif is entirely sent. It has no need for being, as the films do not ne the kox office f In Hollywood, for weeks, of the Soviet ‘pe ople. In Moscow, the. aim is to create a so- ially important film. In Hollywood, it is to make money. ‘see Evils ‘of Moscow” So. of the So- viet film ind. nario of “ ally weak they said that the: 1 @ better r the post- ponement of ti film until a more effective scenario could be prepared. Nevertheless, a few of the members of our group, loath to leave the com- forts of the Grand Hotel and return to Harlem, shputed loudly that the black race of the whole world had been betrayed, and they had bar: cheated and d: WJZ—~760 Ke. ~Amos 'n’ Andy, doliers Quartet, lolst. Orch. 8:00—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Shutta, Songs; Bestor Orch 8:30--Potash and Perlmutter— 8:45—Southernaires Quartet; Songs. 9:00— ah PR: Phil B: Scngs; Harris Orch. y Comedian; Shield Oreh., tet; Nell Sioters, In. Attrection—E! m Newmen, Soprano. Headline Hunter—Floyd Gibbons, sters Trio, :15—Poet Prince. 11:30—Childs Orch, 12:00—Mills. Orch 12:39—A.M.—Lepez Orch. WABC_360 Ke if. the artistic {deals Bthel ketch Eva Taylor, A Noted American Writer Relates His Experiences | fall°for the four months ‘of our con- tract, fare in dollars reimbursed, and | that effect. —D, P. sent home via Paris,” some few still continued to weep in the Harlem Papers about the evils of Moscow which housed a film company that would not make a bad picture from a it. howéver, so great is the urge to go in the movies, even among us Ne- groes. Many an aspirant has left | Hollywood cursing Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. But between leaving Holl: | wood'-and Moscow there is this d | ference: Many disappointed would- be screen stars depart from Holly- wood hungry. Our Negro artists left Moscow well-fed, well paid, and well entertained, having been given free excursions that included Odessa, the Black Sea, Central Asia, Tiflis, and Dnieprostroy. They went home via London, Paris, or Berlin. Or they could have stayed (and several did) with offers of parts in other films or jobs in Moscow. But I hear from New York that a few are still mad because they could not immediately star in “Black and White,” be the scenario good or bad. O, Movies, Temperaments. Artists. Ambitions. Scenarios. Directors, pro- ducers, -advisors, actors, censors, changes, revisions, conferences. ° It’s complicated art—the cinema, I’m glad I ‘write poems. * * FTER three months of the movies, I was delighted to pack my bags and.go off on a plain prose. writing ignment to Central Asia for a tudy of the new life there around ukhara and Samarkand—socialism tearing down the customs of ages; veiled women, concubinage, mosques, Allah-worship, and illiteracy disap- pearing. When I came back to Mos- cow -in the winter, those of our Ne- gro group who had remained, seven in all, had settled down comfortably to life in the Soviet capital. Dorothy West was writing, Mildred Jones tak- ing sersen tests for a new picture. Long.. tall Patterson, who paints houses, had married a girl who paints pictures, and together they have e: * for the May Day celebration. Way- land Rudd was studying singing, fenc- jing and dancing, and taking a role ine a new Meyerhold play. McKenzie stayed jn the films, working for Meschrabpom, And Homer Smith, as consultant in the Central ost: Office, was supervising the in- s lation of an American special de- ivery system for Moscow mail. So the Negroes made themselves’ at home. Some ‘were getting fat, After five months in Asia, I was | glad to be back in Moscow again— great;~-bustiing city comparable in some ways to Chicago, Cleveland or New York. But very different, too. For instance, in the American cities money is the powerful and respected thing. In Moscow, work is powerful —and not money. One can have ever so meny rubles and still find many places and pleasures closed to him. Food, lodging, theetre tickets, medi- cal'seryice, all the things that dollars buy at’ home, are easily available in Moscow only if one is a worker and has: the proper papers from one’s fac- tory, shop, office or trade union. T | wes #lad I belonged to the Interna- ; tional Union of Revolutionary Writ- | ers Credentials were far more im- portant than rubles. * “AN Doors Open to Us.” And. another thing that makes Moscow’ different from Chicago or Cleveland, or New York, is that in the ‘cities. at home Negrocs—like me —must stay away from a great many places—hotels, clubs, parks, theatres, factories, offices, and union halle— because they are not white. And in Moscow all the doors are open to us just the same, of course, and I find myself forgetting that the Russians are white folks. They’re too damn decent and polite. To walk into a big hotel without the doorman yelling pat me (at my age), *“Hey, boy, where’re you going?” Or to sit at the table: in any public restaurant and not be told, “We don’t serve Negroes 7:00-—-P.M2-Morton Downey, fray é heré.”’ Or to have the right of seek- 7:15—Denny Orch.; Jeannie ing ant j ™ > Fes cyan Shwe sb ing &job at any factory or in any 7:30-—-Martin Orc 7:48—News—Boeke Oar! 8:00—Green Orch.: Man About Town ‘Trio. 8:15—Trappers Orch. elers. Quartet. 8:30—Spitalny Orch.; Jultus ‘Tannen, com- edian, 9:00—Irvin 8. Cobb, Stories; Goodman Orch, 9:15—Vera Van, Contralto, 9:30-—-Dance Orc’ Mary MeO Grantland 10:00--Rich Orch. 10:30—-Boswell Sisters, Songs. 10:45—News—Edwin C. Hill. ; Betty Barthel, ‘Soprano; Songs; Sport Talk— office where I am qualified to work and never be turned down on account of color or a WHITE ONLY sign at the door. To dance with a white woman in the dining room of a fine restaurant and not be dragged out by the neck—is to wonder if you're really living in a city full of white folks (as is like Moscow). But then the papers of the other lands ate always calling the Musco- vites red. I guess its the red that .;makes the difference. I'll be glad when Chicago gets that way, and Birmingham, (Concluded tomorrow) saan weak scendrio—so they could act in | One can understand that attitude, | ecuted some of the finest decorations seer Mier ae LTR | THE AUGUST NEW MASSRS | By EDWIN ROLFE The New Masses, although it seems to make no headway in catching up with its normal publication date, con- tinues to improve steadily in con- tent. It is a pity that the excellent and solid material which appears in the August number could not have been on the stands and in the book~ shops until last week. The editors as- sure me, however, that they are hot on the trail of the thus-far elusive first-of-the-month appearance. Four articles in the August num- ber seem to me to be first-rate, timely, important contributions. Included in these Big Four are two excellently- written. polemics: “Choose Your Uni- form,” by Joshua Kunitz, and “Five Days That Shook Durant,” by Pro- fessor H. W. L. Dana, Putting Eastman In His Place Kunitz’s essay is a reply to Max Eastman’s snobbish piece of distor- peared in the August number of “The Modern Monthly.” By referring con- tinually to the proceedings of the Kharkov conference of the Interna- tional Union of Revolutionary Writers, Kunitz exposes the true intent of Eastman’s article, which was to ridi- ference which was “primarily an anti- war conference.” Kunitz's last sentence deserves quo- tation: “Whether he ix s it or not, Max Eastman too is a writer in uni- xm; but not in that of the Red Obit—Dr. Will Durant H. W. L. Dana places a -permanent Will Durant to honesty or self-inte; It seems that the grasshoppe ish little goatee’d saint of Simon &| Schuster spent five days of 1932 in Moscow, sang @ little song of praise for the U. 8. S. R. for the Moscow | Daily News and, hopping back to the| United States, decided to change his mind for the Saturday Evening to the tune of several thousand dol- |Jars. His articles in ‘the Post were published in book form and titled “The Tragedy of Russia.” I, for one, | should like to see Durant attempt to answer Professor Dana’s article. He probably. won't, because the New| unfortunately lacks the one ry to move Durant to ted word: money to pay butions. The two other outstanding pieces in the issue .are Seymour Waldman’s “A Six Per Cent War,” a masterly | exposure of the plans under way by | American capitalists to insure huge | Minute Movie tion, “Artists In Uniform,” which ap-| cule and in other ways discredit a con- | tombstone on the pretensions of Dr. | WHAT'S ON- Friday SYMPOSIUM AND TWO- BATE on NRA. J. I. Wallace for NRA card; H. Rosner for Socislist Party;'H. M. Wicks for Communist Party. Nationsl Stu- dent League, 683 Sixth Ave, 8 p.m, Ad~ DE- CAMP KINDERLAND by Youth Club, 1588 Madi- Sept. ard,’ 7:30 p. yourself of # seat; Round LABORATORY THEATRE plays, skits, lyrics, etc. for NRA revue, hts group meets at 42 E, lath &t. terested urged to attend. WORKERS | _LECTURE—LONDON CONFERENC® AND | NEXT WAR—M. Taft—et Bronx Itumgarian Club, 569 Prospect Ave, Admission 10¢. OPEN AIR MEETING—Lydig Ave. corner er and Holland Ave. Pelham Parkway | Workers Club, 2128 Cruger Ave., Bronx. ILD CHORUS MEETS—8:30 p. m., 82nd St., Brooklyn, Everybody invited. (Philadelphia, Pa.) PICNIC AND PRIZES—At Vytautes Park, Hulmville Pke. é Galloway Rd. BaseBall games, wrestling, boxing. Prizes to bé | awarded. Good orchestra for dancing. Lec- ture by A. Bimba. Benefit of Daily ‘“Laisve.” September 3rd. (Ci tepelandl: Ohio ) CYI¥ WIDE MEMBERSHIP MEETING. At 6021 St. Clair Ave. at Grdina Hall, In portant matters to be discused on Sept. 2, (Portland, Me.) WEINIE ROAST AND CAMP FIRE at | Workers picnio at Limington, Me., cars will | leave workers center, 82 Union St., Portland at 9:30 p. m., Sept. 2nd. Take Route 25 to North Ltmington. Guide will be. there Please bring box lunches, Come ax have a day full of Review | College Humor | Sure proof that colleges are breeding grounds for Fa i There is a fraternity initiation in this humorless movie w y of the Brown Pest Bands in Ger-} many. Foot glor d toa point of insanit; At m., the day of the big game, the hero, (R. Arlen) is found stupefying! drunk in the town hoosegow; bi after working on him with wat {and alcohol, he comes through |soker as a trapeze artist, is able |to enter the game at 2:30 and makes the necessary touchdowns. Classes in biology, anatomy and |physiognomy are conducted by| Bing Crosby singing Croon Your Way Into the World or words to 1658 profits for themselves in the next wat; and Bill Dunne’s “NIRA—Strike- breaker.” The latter article is an ad- mirably concise presentation of the jrole of the National Recovery admin- istration in throttling the struggles of the Pennsylvania miners. Workers who want to know the background of the present situation in the coalfields are urged to read this piece. “Prelude to a Lynching” “Prelude to a Lynching,” by Allan Taub,-is’a first-hand account of what occurred in the Tuscaloosa court be- |fore the International Labor Defense lawyers were forced, under veiled threat of death, to give up their de- fense of the two Negro boys who were later lynched—Dan Pippin, Jr. and A. T. Harden. ‘Taub shows that it was no “fre! mob” which was re- sponsible for ‘the lynchings, but “a carefully organized lynch party,”. thi existence of which was known. te the court from the very start. ‘The August New Masses devotes almost four pages to the work of Harry Alan Potamkin, whose death in |July took from the American .revo- lutionary movement one of, ita staunchest’ and most brilliant cul- | tural leaders. Two pages are given to his poetry; an additional page and a half to an excerpt from a pamphlet on the film soon to be |published by International Publish< ers. But if the intention of the edi- tors was to present Potamkin’s ac- complishment as a completely in- tegrated whole, I believe they ‘have failed. What the reader réceives is a scattered series of piecemeal“ im- pressions of Potamkin’s life and work—impressions that are “both | fragmentary and garbled. Other contitbations to the ‘Silouk |New Masses include Joseph North's |“The Earth Rumbles”; “August 22, 1927-1933,” a poem by Ben Maddow; “Their Hero,” by Ilya Ehrenberg; several timely book reviews by Carol King, Michael Gold, Karl Pretshold, William Prohme, Sender Garlin, Louis Lozowick and others. | And, lest I forget: the August New | Masses presents, for the first time since—well, it’s too damn long if one |has to stop to remember—the Jnimi- jtable Otto Soglow in a ie eae |stories called “A Cock-Eyed. World.” | Nothing more to say except: By all means, get hold of this se A MUSE | Island of Doo |] “A psychological study in suspense_ the emotions that beset two men and a wi » Murnau’s “Magnificent, Film Classic tremendous” ERM. Excellent percent of MENTS —2 BIG FEATURES, New Soviet THE WORKERS m “Gin CME THEATRE TH STREET “AND UNION SQUARE | 15° 9a.m. to Lp, oman”-Ev, Journal ‘Sunrise’ fly News. SHOW PLACE of the NATION eso “Roxy” Opens 11:30 Li NEL BARRYMORE in “One Man’s Journey” e show. Sat. & Sun.) RKO Grenter Show ‘Season ~ vs NEW ROXY “HER BODYGUARD” LOWE and W 2he to 6, 400 to clo: Opens 11 A, M, with EDMUND GIEso! Si Sun.) EXTRAORDINARY PROGRAM STRANGE CASE OF Apollo Theatre 126 CLINTON STREET A FICTURE EVERY WORKER SHOULD SEE | Sustaining Fund! 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