The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 2, 1933, Page 7

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1933 Page Seven JIM MARTIN by QUIRT and NEWHOUSE $0 Long, sLim/ TLVe JUST TEN MILES SouTtu oF Counting the Ties MAYBE I can LIVE Ow hove LISTEN DoPE!/ THE OLY GUYS WHO LIVE OW Love Y— ARE THOSE THAT SELL ELowses GOODBYE, Jim. MAYBE , SEE You again SOMETIME. AY COMING HOME WILL SURPRISE THE FOLKS HALF To DEATH. MAYBE IT CaN GET 4 soB—— Illustrations by Philip Wolfe THE STORY SO FAR: The S. S. 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 fellow-workers about the class struggle and what they can do about it. He signs the Chief Engi- | meer up with the M.W.LU, In Leningrad, the sailors of the Utah are getting the surprise of their lives, watching the new society in action, be: _ olice and the judge and the district |system.” The film, however, Now read on: INSTALLMENT EIGHTEEN Only a Factory Girl spuds. He was the only one of the \sang who understood Russian, OST of the men weren't satis- fied with the Soviet Union. Be- Ades the objections already men- tioned, they kicked about the cob- blestone streets, about it being hard ito buy anything in the stores, about he overcrowded trolleys... - In the mess room the next morn- ng, the men swapped experiences. tanley and Gunnar told how they had wandered through the whole own, without being able to find ‘anything’ except a couple of res- aurants where they tanked up on eer, Finally, on the way back to the hip, they ran across a gang of wo- en unloading foodstuffs into a fac- ory kitchen. They peeled off their oats and dug in, remembering the ongshoremen. “Boy, then the fun’ began,” laughed Stanley. “The wo- men kidded us and patted us on the heads like we was kids, Gunnar here, he tried squeezing one of them, and what a smack he got for it! But she yasn’t sore or anything, was she, unnar?” “Nah, she liked it.” “Then they took us into that fac- ory kitchen and we all had tea,— how do they call it, Gunnar?” “Tehai.” “Yeeh, that’s it. And boy, what a | ig restaurant that is! All kinds of blectric dish washers, potato peelers, team-tables and conveyors. And ev- prything white and sanitary. The gal- : ey alcne must have been half the ize of this ship. How many meals a | lay did she say they served?” | “One hundred thousand,” replied | unnar, tco busy with his breakfast po talk. The swede couldn’t believe it. “Fact,” assured Stanley, “not all erved in the same restaurant, of bourse, It's all cooked there, then a | hart is stewed into big tin cans and Mlivered to small factory dining | em, workers’ apartment houses, | | it m8 ‘HE Swede couldn’t see the sense of | it, and Stanley yas proud to show’) im that this was cheaper and saved he housewives’ time. It was plain hat he had learnt all this from one f the women. He turned to Slim: “Did you go to the House of Cul- | ure?” “Yeah.” “What's it like?” Slim didn’t like the idea of ex- Jaining to these men who were too zy to see for themselves. “Tl tell you,” offered Eddie. “It’s a ig building right on the main square, vith big glass windows two stories igh. The whole pbuilding is built in somi-citele, end looks like a swell useum. There’s everything inside of ‘at one building: two theatres, one pve heuss. free for the workers. nere’s a kindergarten, where the parents can leave their kids when jney go to the theatre or library. hed there’s a nurse and toys and edical kit there for those kids! hen on the other floors there’s health exhibitions, anti-religious and ‘echnical exhibitions, meeting rooms, jtudy rooms, chess and checker jooms, special libraries for special subjects, a restaurant,—oh, I don’t iow what all.’ ” cbse Same Polack came rushing in, all in | a sweat. “Anything left to eat?” “Hey, where the hell you been all ‘Oh, boy!” He dug into the boiled “You don’t mean to say you had a girl?” asked Stanley. “Did I?” The Polack let ’em guess awhile. Finally, when he had washed down some chow, he sat back like a hero and spun his yarn: “You know that park on the other side of the club there? Well, I was strolling around there, watching the people. There was some fellers there- playing the balalaika, and girls were dancing; yeah, right out there in the park, and some of them were making love and all that. Boy, was I jealous! Finally, I walked as far as the rub- ber factory on the other side of the wooden bridge. One shift was com- ing out. The factories work day and night here, you know. Well, a bunch of girls were standing there, and one of them noticed my white duck pants and started kidding. I goes over and starts talking to them. They asked me.about the States, what’s going on there and all that, and boy, they knew more about it than I did. After a while, I walked two of them home.” Stanley moaned. them!” “Pretty soon one went up one street and I walked the other one home. “Man, two of She was a peach, just my size, with nice healthy red cheeks. And neatly aressed, too!” “Yeah, 70 on,” urged Stanley. “This is gettéa¢ hot!” “Well, let me tell you one thing. She was only a factory girl, but she was better educated than any kind of girl I ever met in the States. She could talk about anything: politics, economics, conditions on ships, re- ligion, marriage, anything!” “Yeah, and what else could she do?” urged Stanley. “Yes, she could @p that, too,” re- plied the Polack,” and knew how to take care of herself, too!” “Was she clean?” asked Stanley. He couldn’t hear enough details. “Yes, she was, and I had to be too, or she would have nothing to do with me.” . “What was her name?” threw in Eddie. “Sonya.” Stanley sighed. “Don’t that listen good, man! You going to see her again tonight?” “TI sure am! You know fellers, I think I'd like to stay in this country for good!” (CONTINUED TOMORROW) e Mille Borrows Liberally From Soviet Cinema in “This Day and Age” Cecil B. DeMille, the most fastidious ‘lassicist and biblical historian in as “impressed.” He also saw that rman film of Fritz Lang, “M.” After aking “Sign of the Cross,” De Mille ecided that it was about time he did famous movie stars. Here he had the outh of America —clean, strong, Age” was born. ~%e film shows how a mob of high hool students form an extra-legal oup to clean the town of racketeers er the corrupt police fail to do so. owever, the picture implies that the ttorney are honest and sincere but y cannot do a thing because one loes ot make any effort to say what it is true that the story is full of illogical and absurd situations, the legal portions of the film tirely cock-eyed, “This Day and The director, as I've indicated be- , has made an attempt to trans- + what he thinks is the Soviet thod of handling mob scenes, Also, imitation of the trial sccne from ” is pretty raw—even for a Holly- director. IRVING LERNER. TODAY’S FILMS “Moonlight. and _ Pretzels” Falls Below Musical Comedy Film Standard You either like musical comedy films or you don’t. I don’t. But this is not even up to the usual standard of such films. The musical numbers and the dance routines are ordinary— although at times entertaining. There is a story but it is the usual one about the romance of a hardworking song writer and a girl. There are the usual struggles with “angels” and some hot singing. But even our mu- sical comedies are going political. The film closes with a “depression” tab- leau with a group of unemployed pathetically singing about “dusty Shoes.” It ends up with Roosevelt ballyhoo: and New Deal stuff about 5,000,009 men going back-to work, etc.. ete. id then they bawl me out for being too hard on these films! Well, here is a film not made in Hollywood, but made right here in New York City. Geographically New York may be 3,000 miles away from Hollywood but not (I hate to use this word) filmicly. One would have expected a geod photographic job from the man who] wig did such splendid photography ot “Variety” and the “Last Laugh.” But now that Karl Freund has graduated to a director he gives us a second rate musical film and a third rate piece of caraera work. LL ‘Strange Case of Tom Mooney’ Now Being Shown at Three New York Theatres Three neighborhood theatres are film,| Showing “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney” for three successive days be- ginning today. They are the Apollo Theatre, 126 Clinton St.; the Palestine Theatre, 11 Clinton St.; and the Daly .Theatre, at Tremont Ave. near Southern Blvd., the Bronx, Workers who live in these neigh- borhoods are urged not to miss this unusual and important iilm, PART IL Ee me, as a writer, Moscow is cer- tainly different, too. It’s the first city I've ever lived in where I could make my living entirely from writ- ing. Not that I write more here than I do elsewhere, but I am paid bet- ter, and there is a wider market. In ‘America the magazines in which one can frequently publish stories or poems about Negroes are very few, and most of these do not pay, since they are of a social service of prole- tarian nature. ae big Sg red bourgeois publications are vel jr ful abort kinrsee they publish by or about colored people. Exotic or hu- morous tales , they will occasionally use. Stories that show Negroes as savages, fools, or clowns, they will often print, And once in a blue moon there may be a really sound and se- rious literary picture of black life in a ‘big magazine—but it doesn’t hap- pen often enough to feed an author. They can’t live on blue moons. Most colored writers find their work turned down with a note that "the files are already full of “Negro material,” or that the subject is not suitable, or, as happened to me re- cently when I submitted a story about a more or less common situa- tion in American inter-racial life— the manuscript was returned with regrets since the story was “excel- lently written, but it would shock our good middle-class audience to death.” And thus our American publications shy away from the Negro problem and the work of Negro writers. “No Harlem of Literature” In Moscow, on the other hand, the editors welcome frank stories of American Negro life. They print them and pay for them. Book publishers welcome volumes by black writers, and, in spite of the paper shortage, a great many books of Negro life have appeared in translation in Moscow. As to writers in general, I feel safe in saying that members of the lit- erary craft, on the whole, live better in the Soviet Union than they do in America. In the first place there is a tremendous reading public buying millions of books, papers, and maga- zines, in dozens of different lang- uages. Translation rights of a So- viet writer's work here within the Union alorie may bring in thousands of rubles. And there are, in Moscow, and other cities, co-operative dining rooms for writers, specially built modern apartments with very low rents, excellent clubs and tennis courts and libraries—all for the workers in words. As for me, I received for one edi- tion of my poems in translation more money in actual living value than T have yet made from the several edi- tions of my various volumes of po- etry in America. For an edition in Uzbek, a minority language that most Americans never heard of (nor 1 either till I came here), I was paid enough to live in grand style for a year or modestly for two years— which is more than poetry alone ever did for me at home. Saw ar Seana is in Moscow a great curi- ‘ osity for things American, and a great sympathy for things Negro. So, being both an American and a Negro, I am met everywhere with friendly questions from children and adults as to how we live at home. Is there really a_crisis, with people hungry and ragged when there are in Amer- ica so mahy factories, so much tech- and live stock? How can that be? Do they actually kill people in electric chairs? Actually lynch Negroes? Why? The children in the Moscow streets, wise little city children, will oft-times gather around you if you are waiting for a street car, or looking into a shop window. They will take your hand and ask you about the Scotts- boro boys, or if you like the Soviet Union and are going to stay forever. Sometimes as you pass a group of children playing, they will stop and exclaim, “Negro!” But in wonder and surprise a long ways from the in- sulting derision of the word “Nigger” in the mouths of America’s white children. Here, the youth in the schools are taught to respect all races. And at the Children’s Thea- tre there is a sympathetic play being given of how a little Negro girl found her way from Africa to Moscow, and lived happily ever after. *“Here ‘There Is Eriendliness” zens of Mosoow. “Inastranyetz,” they will say, and let you go to the head of the line, if there is a crowd wait- ing at the stamp window in the post office, or standing in the queue for an auto bus, or buying tickets to the | theatre. If you go alone to the mov- late for you, should they happen to know a little German or English. If you hand a written address to a citi- zen on a Moscow street, often said citizen will go out of his way:to lead you to the place you are seeking. I have never lived in a more truly courteous city. True, there is not here anywhere in public places the swift and efficient directness of America. Neither is there the servile, tip-chas. ing, bowing and scraping service of Paris. But here there is friendliness. In Moscow there are often mountains and swamps of red tape that would rive you crazy, wer> it not for the gentle palicnes ‘ond kincsscs of the nique, so much wheat, and cotton, ies, someone is sure to offer to trans- | MOSCOW AND ME A Noted American Writer Relates His Experiences By Langston Hughes ordinary citizens and simple workers anxious to offer to strangers their comradely help and extend their ser- vices as hosts of the city. So in spite of the entirely new routine of life which Moscow offers it does not take one long to feel at home. Of course, there is the room prob- lem, for the city is the most over- crowded in the world, A foreigner coming to Moscow (unless as a tour- ist) should really bring a.room with him, The great Eisenstein, maker of marvellous movies, lives in only one room. In spite of hundreds of new apartments that have been built, the growth of housing has not been able to keep up with the growth of the populace. A Moscow apartment is as crowded as a Harlem flat at the height of the great Negro migration from the South. Yet, with all their own housing difficulties, the Musco- vite can Iften patiently to irate for- eign workers who are indignant at not immediately receiving on arrival a three room apartment with kitch- enette and bath, * eee, W kas Negroes whom I know in Mos- cow are all housed comfortably and are not as much given to com- plaints as certain other nationalities who come to the workers’ capital with a greater superiority complex as to their world importance. The colored people in Moscow move easily in Russian circles, are well received, and cordially welcomed in private homes, in workers’ clubs, and at dem- onstrations. There are always dark faces in the tremendous May Day demonstrations that move for hours through the Red Square. A great many Negroes took part in the gigan- tic Scottsboro Demonstration in the summer of 1932 at the Park of Rest and Culture. The pictures of Negro workers are often displayed in the windows of shops on the main Mos- cow streets. During the recent May holidays there was a huge picture of Robinson, the colored udarnik at the Ball Bearing Plant, on display in a busy part of Gorky Street. Moscow’s black residents are well woven into the life of this big proletarian city, and they are received as comrades. As for me, I’ve had a swell time. T’ve spoken at demonstrations, read poems at workers’ clubs, met lots of poets and writers and artists and ac- tors, attended all the leading thea- tres from the Opera to Ohlopkov’s Realistic Theatre where the stage is all round the audience and you sit in the middle. I’ve seen the finest Gaugin’s and Cezanne’s in the world, have eaten soup with the Red Army, danced with the Gypsies, and lived excitingly well, and have done a great deal of writing. I shall go back to America just as clean (there is soap here), just as fat (and food), just as safe and sound (and the G.P.U.) as I was when I left New York. And once there, I'm thinking that I'll probably be home- sick for Moscow. There’s an old Ne- gro song that says: “You never miss the water till the well runs dry.” Those who ought to know, tell me that you never really appreciate Moscow until you get back again to the land of the bread lines, unemployment, Jim Crow cars and crooked politicians, brutal bankers and overbearing police, three per cent beer and tHe Scottsboro case. Well, the Russian workers and peasants .were awfully patient with the Tsar, but when they got rid of him—they really got rid of him. Now they have a right to be proud of their red flags flying over the Krem- lin. They put them there. And don't let. anybody in America kid you into believing what with talking about Jack of soap and toilet paper and food and the GP.U., that Moscow isn’t the greatest city in the world today. Athens used to be. Then Rome. And more recently, Paris. Now they'll put you in jail in Alabama for even men- tioning Moscow! That's one way of recognizing its leadership. THE END By RICHARD BROWN Do the workers of New York know that Sept. 4 will see the opening of the Harlem Workers School at 200 West 135th Street? On that day Williana J. Burroughs, director of the school, veteran leader in the Negroes’ fight against discrimination and the Scottsboro frame-up, and Communistt candidate for Comp- troller of New York City, will greet the worker-students from all sections of Harlem and assist them in regis- tering and choosing courses in their own proletarian school. On that day, too, Harlem will add to her growing roster of vital organizations the name of the Harlem Workers School. Several months of hard work have gone into the making of this school. With little funds, but with much more fire and determination, the Friends of the Workers School and the Harlem branches of the Interna- tional Labor Defense decided to add this much-delayed, yet needed sword of the class struggle to the weapons of the city’s proletariat. ‘The school now becomes a reality. But now also its work begins. For the life, the activities, the crowds that will eagerly fill its classrooms—in short for its actual success—all will depend on the workers themselves in popularizing it. The school admin- istration, with its fine record of achievement in the downtown branch of the Workers School, and its assur- ance that it will send its finest in- Workers of Harlem to Have Own School; Opens Sept. 4th structors to the institution uptown, will take care of the rest. It is therefore our duty to see that the name and purpose of the School will reach every section of the city so that all workers, residents of Har- Jem eager to equip themselves with scientific knowledge of the class struggle, may find it the source of information and equipment they have long wanted. With this assured, we can be cer- tain tf * it will stand in the very g > ‘1 the struggles of the Negro and Lalin-Amorican for liber- ation from Jim Crowis:n and ruthless exploitation. It will stead there sol- | idly as a dynamo of tested theory, analy2!s and fact for the inquiring studer: an” the veteran fighters of the workers vanguard. The following are some of the courses that will be given: Current Problems of the Negro Liberation Movement; Revolutionary Traditions of the Negro Peoples; English, both elementary and advanced; Marxism- Leninism; Public Speaking; Funda- mentals of the Class Struggle, etc. Tuition fees will be $2 a course. Students sent by workers organiza- tions will pay only $1. Those unable to meet part or all of the tuition will be aided accordingly. Contributions, as well as books on the Negroes and Latin-Americans and their problems, are earnestly solicited, and may be sent to the Harlem Workers School, 200 West 135th ‘Street, New York City TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS * WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Davis Orchestra 7:30—Jack and Loretta Clements, Songs :45—The Optimistic Mrs. Jones, Sketch, with George Frame Brown 8:00—-Lucille Peterson, Soprano $:15—Sizzlers Trio 8:30—Sous Les Ponts de Paris, Program from Montreal, Canada 9:00—Antobol Orchestr: 9:30—K-7, Secret Service Sketch: The Decoy 10:00—Rolf Orchestra; Men About Town Trio 11:00—Lopez Orchestra 11:30—Stern Orchestra 12:00—Gerston Orcnestra 1:15-1:00 A.M,—Symphony Orchestra; Ber- nardino Molinari, Conductor, from Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles * -* WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Sports, Ford Frick 7:15—Inspirational Talk :30—Aaronson Orchestra 6-00—Little Symphony Orchestra; Grace Castagnetta, Piano; Philip James, Conductor 9:00—Holst Orchestra 9:20—Verna Osborne, Soprano 9:45—John De Bueris, Clarinet; Josephine De Bveris, Piano 10:00—Helene Daniels, Sonzs Boroi, 10:15—Mabel Stapleton and Marie Songs Piano Duo; Edward Nell Jr., 10:30—Organ Recital 11:00—Time; Weather 11:02—Trint Trio 11:30—Danzig Orchestra 12:00—Cutler Orchestra Nee ere WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00-—-John Herrick, Songs 1:15—Ethel Waters, Songs 7:30—Kaltenmeyer's Kind room; Sketch, Jest Gallicchio Orchestra 8:00—Denny Orchestra; Sigmund Spaeth; Shirley Howard, Songt 8:30—Brown and Llewellyn, Comedians 45—Hillbilly Songs 00—Tales of the Titans; Willle Collins's jarten—School- ‘Vocal Trio; ‘Sisters, tralto; Edward Davies, Baritone 10:40—Cuiceo Program, with Ray Knight 11:00—Leades Trio 11:15—John Fogarty, ‘Tenor 11:30—Scott! Orchestra 12.00—King Orchestra 22:30 A.M.—Childs Orchestra ro eae a WABC—860 Ke 71S P.M.—Mildred Bailey, Songs; tor Boys Quartet; Berrens Orchestra 7:30—-Blder Michaus. oad Congregation 8:00—Zvan Evans, Baritone #:15—Gray Orehes'~ Songs; FLASHES, —_—— AND ——— | CLOSE-UPS Carl Laemmile Jr. had a bodyguard | By LENS | of six pluguglies to protect him during | | the technicians’ strike. ... . Gunmen} are costing the magnates some $1,200| a day... . Earl Taylor, of California, | has named D. W. Griffith, dean of merican directors, and the notorious vernor Rolph Jr. in a suit claim- ing that these gents plotted his! “exile” to state’s prison to squelch any possible action growing out of | Griffith’s “betrayal” of Taylor’s flan- cee. . . Matador Sidney Franklin, of Brooklyn and Seville, is suing Co- lumbia Pictures, . . . The offscreen narrator referred to him as a “bull-| thrower” in the midst of a sequence where Sid was displaying all his} skill... . Ar Gi Mary Pickford’s “business engage- ments” are the fake excuse she gives for refusing to go to Wash- ington at the request of Hollywood extras and bit players to fight against the proposed code which would cut their wages 60 per cent Amorica’s sweetheart. * Villages which became filmless with the advent of sound will now be equipped with 16-mm. (amateur size) sound facilities. . . . A member of the National Board of Review's Ex- ceptional Photoplay Committee in- forms me that not a single Hollywood film has been recommended to that | committee for judgment for many, many months. . . . And the manag- ing editor of the Film Daily in a brief survey of the past 15 years of movie history admits that “except for top- | ical events, there is nothing to do but | revamp and revise and rehash the same old handful of situations.” . . . Jimmy Durante will try his hand at | what he calls “literatoor.” . . . His | first try will be found in an anthology called “Spoofs.” . . Other con- tributors are George B. Shaw, Chris Morley and others. . . . Pro- | fessor Hawkins of New York Uni- versity awarded a student “A” plus, @ swell compli- ment, for a theme entitled “American Cinema: Bourgeois Art.” . . . $35,000 to Carnera for one week’s work in “Prizefighter and The Lady.” . . . Lil Harvey is pro-Hitler and adver- tises the fact in a recent newsreel. Paul Muni will be funny in his ne: one. . . . Variety admits “bribery, graft, and a host of other items” as some of Hollywood's less distinguished | characteristics. . . .. I'm looking for- ward to Metro’s forthcoming “Dead Policeman.” . . . And what do you think of a title like “Pink Chemise”? ‘ . A lIccal reviewer thinks that Peramount’s “This Day and Age” is “a highly improbable and fantastic story,” but goes on to praise the rib- bon because “kids all the way up to the ‘adolescent stage will picture themselves the herces they probably feel they'd like to be.” .... Ho tries “literatoor.” INTERNATIONAL NEWS— | AND HOW! * | | BERLIN, Aug. 18... . Big Ger- man Film Co. Fails... First Bust | Under Hitler! 1 ROME, Aug. 18. . Govern- | ment Subsidy for Films in Italy... . | Industry Collapsing. Succor | Promised by Mussolini. . (An all-day “succor,” Benito?) It required the services of no less than four scribes to supply the gags for the Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup.” . . . And we hear that E. J. Mayer and L. Birnesky are the real authors of “Nana.” . . . Who's that guy Zola, anyway? . . . Garbo, the underpaid wage-slave, turns down $10,000 for one short radio program, . . . One | hundred actors, extras and techni- cians apply for car-washing jobs every week at the Muller Bros, service station in Hollywood. . . . Assistant | Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt en- | tertained by Merian Cooper, RKO production manager. . . . Just friends, eh? . . . Jesse Lasky Jr. announces he has lost interest in movies... . Good! . . . Oh, say, I nearly forget our weekly “beligve-it-or-not.” . . . From Variety: “Jack Cunningham is the only scrivener at the studios who can pound his typewriter with his feet cn the desk.” . . . Jack knows many | card tricks, too... . | CHICAGO WORKER PRAISES “3.8. UTAH” “Please extend my compliments to the author, Michael Pel!, of “S.S. Utah,” the serial novel in the Daily Worker,” writes John A. Masek, of Chicago. “T have read every installment. The tery sure gives a true insight on the ives of the seamen which I am glad to learn of.” 8:45—-Gertrude Niesen, Songs 9:00—Esther Leaf, Organ; Charles Carlile Tenor 9:30—Robitson Orchestra 10:00-—Jones Orchestra 10:30—From Montreal, Can.: 11:00—Freeman Orchestra 11:30—Davis Orchestra 2:00-—Rapp Orchestra "80 A. ens Orchestra 1:09-—Ruscell Orchestra THE VOICE OF W: [ END, Sept. Published by Voice Publishing Co., 4012 Eighth Ave., Brooklyn, d rd of 11, re resenting 58 's’ organiza- tions in the West End territories with over 6,000 members. By EDWIN ROLFE. This is a neighborhood paper some- what similar to the Queensboro Voice. In its pages the many local jobless and strike struggles find ex-| pression and editorial comment. Pub-| lished for a long time in mimeo-} graphed form under the name of} “The Voice of Boro Park,” the edi-| tors found it necessary to expand | both in size and in the localities | covered. Hence the new name and| the larger, printed format, | Although it still has far to go be- fore it can adequately treat the many | aspects of workers’ struggles in the! neighborhood, “The Voice of West | End” nevertheless shows indications | of becoming @ lively as well as local- ly-important paper. The present issue covers several local strikes and relief and eviction battles. It devotes a solid section of its four small pages to workers’ correspondence. It announces meet- ings and election rallies to be held under the auspices of local mass and fraternal organizations. It has made a beginning in covering the news of youth and children’s clubs. All of these activities should receive clearer and better treatment as the editors of the “Voice” gain experi- ence. But the start on the road to @ good paper is clear, is unmistak- able. It is encouraging to find in the present issue a cartoon on “Tammany Law and Order Upheld” which really | hits the mark, so far as backward workers are concerned. Its inclusion in the issue reveals an understanding on the part of the editors of their major job—which is to attract those workers who have not yet become part of any of the various local or-|. ganizations, The “Voice” shouid grow steadily | in prestige and quality. And it will, | if local groups take seriously the con- ference at the Bath Beach Workers Club, 87 Bay 25th St., tomorrow at| 10 am. The editorial board calls} on organizations of Bay Ridge, Boro | Park, Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Brighton and Flatbush to send two delegates each to this important conference, which will at- tempt to coordinate the news with the growth of local workers’ organ- izations, 2 “Feel Superb Future,” iSays Michael Strange on Return from Russia NEW YORK “What Russia akes you feel is energy and life. You are imp ed, not so much by the present as with the future. You re going to come into superb.” the quoted remark of Mi- playwright, wife of veed, and former wife of ymore, on’ her return to ork after a visit to the Soviet mion and Germany. She found Germany very “dead,” but the Soviet theater impressed her and the Soviet program for women she found “magnificent.” WHAT’S ON-- Saturday OUTING TO NATURE PRIEND CAMP over Labor Day weekend, Sept. 3, 3, and 4 by Red Spark AC leave city today 2:30 P. M from 813 Broadway. Round trip ticket $1. See athletic pageant tendered by LSU on Sunday and Monday. BRIGHTON BEACH UNEMPLOYED COUNCH: arranged Package party and dance also 7-course dinner, Sunday, Sept 3rd, from 1:00 to 8:00 P, M. Price Both affairs take place at Brighton W ers Club, 3068 E. 3rd St. Brighton Beach * * * 0c. REGISTER NOW FOR THE WORKERS SCHOOL FALL TERM. Office 35 E. 12th 5! Room 301 * * * HOUSE PARTY AT FRENCH WORKERS CLUB, 40 W. 65th St. 8:30. Admission free, 8 . DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT by YCL at Prospect Workers Olub, 1157 Southern Blvd., Bronx. Come and haye good time . * ¢ OUTING TO CAMP KINDERLAND BY HARLEM: PROGRESSIVE YOUTH CLUB. 1538 Madison Ave., Sept. 3rd. 7:30 A. M Register and be sure of a seat, Round trip $1.00. Sunday ALL DAY EXCURSION TO HOOK MOUN. tennis, baseball, leaves 9:30 A. M. returns 11:00 P. M. Pier 11 East River foot of Wali St. Auspices 99 Broadway, Round trip 85c in ad- $1.00 at pier. dining, vance, tee COUNCIL 5, Coney Island, will have beach party one o'clock. Beach 29th. ROXBURY WORKERS’ CHORUS ROXBURY, Mass.—The Amer- ican Workers’ Chorus of Roxbury, which in its first year of existence has already been called upon to take part at many proletarian entertain- ments, is opening its season witb an International Cabaret and Cos- tume Night including a floor show, impersonating artists, a five piece orchestra and costume and waltz contes' It is expected to be a lively get-together which will at- tract many workers from Boston and outlying districts. The affair will take place September 15th, at the International Hall, Wenonah .' Street, Roxbury. AMUSE “A psychological study in suspense. the emotions that beset two men and a woman"-Ey. Journal , a c Y > UNION SQUARE ~ Murnau’s »=,. Sunrise | 15 tte pm “Magnificent, tremendous"—Dally News. | 5 ® Sun. Story by MANN SUDERMANN and Holidays TODAY TO TUESDAY—2 BIG FEATURES ‘Island of Doom’ New Beviet | THE WORKERS Gann | ACME Uxcellent portravat ot | THEATRE MENTS TH STREET AND FRIDAY. SEPT. 8 Workers Center “49 Pacific Street Stamford. Conn. at 8 P.M. e SEPT. 9 Tolstoi Club 706 Hallet Street Bridgeport, Conn. 6 and & p.m. SUN., SEPT. 10 The Little Cinema 38 Howe Street New Haven, Conn. Cont. Showing Start 2 p.m. SAT., M ED Connecticut—Take ‘Notice EXCITING—STARTLING—STIERING New Soviet Film Based on M. Gorki’s Famous Novel“ Mother” “1905” jasterpiece of the great Soviet Director PUDOVKIN ROYCE touring for the “Daily” will speak at all showings Added Attraction 2 News Reels—-Building Social- ism in. Soviet Union. Lenin Revolutionist in Action. BENEFIT OF THE ‘DATLY WORKER’ — World’s Greatest RADIO CITY MUSIC HALI SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy"* Opens 11:30 LIONEL BARRYMORE in “ONE MAN'S JOURNEY” | and a great * stage show. 85¢ to 1 p.m.-5he to G(Ex. Sat., Sun, Hol.) RKO Greater Show Season NEW ROXY, KATHARINE HEPBURN in “MORNING GLORY” 25e to 4, 40¢ to close (Ex. Sat. Sun. Hol.) I] | ‘Todey | Opens to Tues, 1 A.M, | - ptayeiinstenanncntsicpsomcnstan cthinapi { Sat., Sun., Mon., Sept. 2, 3, 4| EXTRAORDINARY PROGRAM TOM MOONEY, Apollo Theatre 126 CLINTON STREET ) PICTURE EVERY WORKER SHOULD SEE | or uy } Contribute to the Daily Worker) ing Fund! Help to keep up sR Susts int J-page “Daily”! Po. 4B gh cen nemartrrsent oe Mkaneemd annie eecnnere tremens een een | STRANGE | ®S° Jefferson 1 st & | Now LILI DAMITA and CHARLES MORTON in “GOLDIE GETS ALONG” and “DON’T BET ON LOVE” with LEW AYRES and GINGER ROGERS Sat., Sun., Mon., Sept. 2, 3, 4 SHOULD SEE THIS TRAGIC ER OF CLASS CRUELTY ams TOM MOONEY Palestine Theatre 11 CLINTON STREET Bet. Stanton and Houston Streets, New York ‘Sal., Sun., Mon., Sept. 2, 3, 4 AN EPISODE IN CLASS STRUGGLE TOM MONEY Daly Theatre Tregont Ave. near So, Blvd., Bronx py ee Extra Features Low Price CASE OF