The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1933, Page 5

JIM MARTIN TM Wot A STRIKER by QUIRT XI Got GEAT UP IN S. THE STORY SO FAR ®he c has stopped at Copenhagen, Helsingfors, UTAH hs A aed MICHAEL PELL of the S.8. Utah, after the boat ard Leningrad, U.S.S.R., aw Te- turn to their boat, deeply impressed by what they have seen in the Soviet port, as contrasted With the ports in the cther count So, when they are awakened ate#30 one morning and have to wait arcund for an hour before beginning work; on Sunday, their day off, they refuse. a-member of the Marine Workers and when they are ordered to work In this move their leader is Stim, Industrial Union. You read how the seamen, after organizing. for the strike, held their ranks solid- ly and stood for their demands before the threats of the Captain. You also read how they won their demands and how Piits had, unknown to Slim and the others, joined up with the M. W. I. U. at Leningrad. At a meeting of the ship's group, Slim and Titts, a strike is planned. Now read on: INSTALLMENT 31 A Snake Gets a Dressin; own “@TAND by fore and aft!” «i S. Utah was: coming into~-Gdynia, Poland. Fritz and Shorty -were up on the poop deck looking ‘the ‘po:t over, as the Uteh waited for the! tug. ! The last’“time years ago, théy ti have emything but a r and a, tin warehouse. Ni place!” exclaimed Sho: -“Yeah,” sniffed Fritz. “Albjthose madern warehouses and docks.; keen built with French and .Amer can capital, by Dutch engineef: at these cruisers and subnistines there! Gifts from France! Thé So- viet border is so close by!” 7/"> The men looked for signs™bf’ the strike, but couldn't nctice anything from a distance. The tug came. It began to rain. In c st to! énin- grad, this pert was pra cemetery. Preity soon grcuns of’ shoremen could be made outytait ing in the rain for a chance t “How's the chance of gett draw here?” The third mate, ae been “Cadet, leave heféi? d the S#ede. s Well as fit! two d, supoc aly into every Roce in “onder the lucky citizens look was pasted, wait for the lor . His job wes cut if the strike was and then inform, to find the=holds d yet. The Tong- don the doéks. In oe to gain time, the crew ‘d@éided send’ the Polack ashore’ He took tte strike coll2zction mornéy''with him, The men sat down to ‘dinne: .. five minutes he was’ ba . He bad spoken with foreman of the longskoremen, ia out frony him had already. blown over. How do we know if he’s: °Fehiing athe" truth?” demanded Gunrlaf and some of .the others. “I gouldn’t say much to hifi He was suspicious, too. Too many*Wétch- men and spies around this covititry.” eS. 'HE men decided to get in_touch with the shore anyway, The Swede was in good with the third. He was taken to one side, and Slim, @tm- nar and the Polack gave ~in- structions. The Swede shovelled down some food while Slim made an Preparations, He had his foot on the Tastes already, when the third called: “Hey, Swede, where do you thinkayau're going?” “Take a look around.” “No shore-leave here, I told you.” “Well, I got a letter here to. my Bet . Mother, that’s got to’ be matted.” He pulled the envelope out of his pocket. The third cast a glance at. muttered: “All right, but smy of it.” On the quay the Swede asked for the nearest post office. A motinted . policeman offered to mail the letter for him, but the Swede said he’d do it himself. As he turned behind the warehouse, he ran into a squadzon of soldiers, fully armed. Well! What are these chappies doing here? And out _ of sight of the ship! ! The ‘Swede hurried. In the post office, he pulled the letter out of his pocket. It was addressed to his mother all right. He tore the envelope open, and took the inner envelope out. Now for the first time he read - himself to whom this was addressed: “Secretary of the International pene Club, Danzig.” ... With a sly grin he bought, a, samp pe abo it off per mail. ie Interclub would see that ot to the right hands, Cie 3 - On the way back, the Sw amined the soldiers a bit closer. New uniforms and modern equipment, but their faces were stamped typical, dulled look of so) in capitalist armies. The Swede couldn’t help. thinking of the two Red sol- diers he had met in Leningrad. He chad. got lost one day, and asked for . the way back to the ship. One_of the . Red soldiers spoke English,’ Wéll,— “an interest in symphony muste’ + Aides i Uc aU REA Oe |Mass Protest Meeting had learned it, in the arniy arniy ‘ school. But what made the biggest impres- sion on the Swede were the *tues- ee he had asked: What ct theatres and dramas were be! -en-in the States ... what et me music . . . whether the St CHICAGO, Til. TORGLER, DIMITROFr, POPOFF and TANEV SAVE Wednesday, Sept. "20 WICKER PARK HALL 2040 W. North Avenue MARIA HALBERSTADT, Exiled School Teacher, will be. Main sae tives ont Imagine soldiers taking an interest in such stuff! IT WAS raining. The around the fo’castle. nothing to do, Stanley back in his bunk, serenely puffing a ‘igarette. When in this position, he was always bound to philosophise: “Did you notice those longshore stiffs hanging around the docks here? An ugly bunch of cut-throats. Hun- sry looxing? Man, I wouldn’t throw my leg over the side of the gangway here, for fear they'd bite it off. Hmm. Figure how hungry the women must be here —And did you see that sawed-off army officer kiss the pas- senger’s hand? She must have money. It felt like giving that runt some- thing else to kiss, All decked out like Fatty Blub getting ready for a Le- gion parade. Must take three cadets to fey all that tin on his chest men hung There was lay on his He “puffed a few seconds in si- lence. Then: “What. do they drink in this country, vodka?” “Yes, vodka, beer, spreet, whatever E: broke in somebody, It range voice and the men looked up. A tall, thin young fellow, dripping wet all over. Nobody had heard him come into the fo’castle. and leaned up against Lag’s bunk. “And all the wemen 708 want!” There was a s: e twist to this v’s make-up th: t Slim didn’t thin shoulders looked like e made for wriggling through prison bars. . “You_a Polack?” asked somebody. No, I’m a Latvian. But I can talk Polish. And I been in the States. I worked on American ships for quite Got left behind?” asked the Pro- fessor. “No, I deserted a Latvian Grub was too awful, and no wages. Any chances on board here?” The men shrugged their shoulders. Slim was leery of this fellow. Was he ary’ y ? How'd he man- age to get on boar “You fellows are just coming from Leningrad, aren’t you?” Some of the men nodder “How'd you like it there The answers came slow good,” said the Swede. “Sure building up there,” the Professor. “Everybody’s got work there any- how,” called Stanley, “don't see the workers hanging around there, like here, half-starved.” “Better than this God-awful coun- try,” called Gunnar. “I wish I could have stayed there for good,” trumped Eddie. Ro ee ship. “Pretty offered LIM was surprised not to hear any knocks against the Soviet Union, afier all the kicking the men had done there. He said nothing. The stranger waited a minute. He seemed to be weighing the feeling of the crew towards the Soviet Union. Then he started feeling out again: “Yes, that’s a great thing they’re doing there. But it’s tough on for- eign seamen there!” “How do you mean?” Gunnar. “Oh, no joints, no place to go.” “I don’t know about that,” an- swered Stanley, “we had a pretty good time there.” “Till say I did, anyway,” bragged the Polack. The stranger rubbed with his thumb and forefinger: “Oh, you can have a good time there all right, if you have the roubles.” “That's the hell of it; everything is so dear there for foreigners,” moaned the Professor. He had drawn exactly ten roubles during the whole stay in_ Leningrad. demanded s waodrtnacoLse rt VIDAL NI RHEE VET ARSE BI The Latvian inquired how many, roubles he got for a dollar. “Not quite two for one.” “Two for one!” The Latvian seemed surprised. “I know where you can get six for one!” So that was it! All of a sudden, Slim realized what this fellows’ game was. He kept on ‘sewing, exchanging a look with Gunnar, “Where's that?” inquired Gunnar now. “Oh, not far from here,” parried the Latvian, * “Why, you want to buy?” “Not at that price,” answered Gun- nar, “I heard you can get 10 roubles for a dollar here. The Latvian feigned surprise. “Where did you hear that?” At this point the bos’n came in and ordered the men to turn to. Gunnar and Slim stalled behind a while un- til they were the last ones left in the fo’castle. Gunnar went over to the Latvian: “Well, what’ do you say?—fifty roubles for five dollars?” The Latvian hesitated. “Take five dollars each, and I'll give 100 roubles for ten dollars.” Gunnar looked at Slim, who said: . K, Got them on you?” took | 2h man nodded in the affirma- ve. “All right,” said Slim, “wait out- side a minute, I want’ to get my money.” As the man made to go, Slim added in a half-whisper: “Go into the toilet the: We'll meet you there in a minute.” When the door closed behind them, Slim and Gunnar exchanged a few words. Gunnar spit on his hands... . A few minutes later, a whole wal- letful of roubles and chevronetz was emptied into the toilet bowl. The Latvian came out holding his hand over his mouth and nose. The two seamen followed him at a distance to the gangway... , (Continued Tomorrow) WAS SENT ON HOw FLASHES AND CLOSE-UPS By LENS Louella Parsons thinks that Holiy- wood, “where girls like Greta Garbo, once a barber's assistant, amass great wealth and gain world-wide popu- larity,” can laugh at any threat to its supremacy .., The fact that some 12,000 extras starve, resort to prosti- tution and suicide is also a unique Hollywood feature that challenges duplication in any city in the world, eh, Louella? . .. Regina Crewe, movie editor of the N. Y, American, says of the forthcoming “Wild Boys of The Road” that “it constitutes a chal- lenge to America and every Amer- ican” . . . She wants the American “bezprizorni” (homeless children) con- fined in. reforestation camps “before it is too late”... Reading the as- sorted opinions of some of these bour- geois movie scribblers is beginning to make me think some kind of a camp ought to be rigged out where these so-called film critics would be put to solving cross-word puzzlés, or “reforesting,” or ditch-digging or any- thing... Sean See The imminent advent of television has so frightened some of the movie critics in New York that many of them are already flirting with the radio industry by attending radio |press luncheons . , . H. H. Rogers, of the Rockefeller family, is invest- ing a cold million in the production of films “designed for uplift purposes, with regenerative finales” . . . Being a beginner, Mr. Rodgers ought to start with something simple, like the Lud- low massacre, for instance . . . The fan magazines are reviewing films either still in the process of produc- tion, or on which production has not even begun ... “Chrysalis,” which will not go into production until November, is commented on favor- ably by “New Moviet Magazine”... Likewise a dozen others . . . Nobody wants “Cry Of Asia,” Japanese talkie in search of a booking here , . . Anna Sten thinks Zola’s “Nana” should be followed at least a little, so after a little stubborn kicking she let director Fitzmaurice walk off the lot .. . Now changes in the story are being made to suit la Sten . . , George Cukor is the new director... Sue aes I'm informed that Soviet films have to sweat blood to find exhibitors in New York . . . “Patriots” found homes in Philly and Chi long before it did here . . . There are now fifteen tele- vision broadcasting stations in the Jackie Coogan is reviewing films for a college paper and thinks, as do our own “Daily” critics, that Holly- wood products are lousy, just like that! , The French Minister of Public Education has banned the film ver- sion of Stefan Zweig’s “Amok” for political reasons . The same tyrant banned Eisenstein’s “Old and New” a couple of years ago because he thought prize-winning state-raised bulls a danger to organized society ... ee ye I like the “B.O.” abbreviation in professional moviet parlance to de- note “box-office” or commercially successful ribbons . . , © gy Bal Al Jolson leading the moviet con- tingent up Fifth Ave. in the NRA parade was the hammiest piece of acting that guy’s put over since “Hal- lelujah, I'm A Bum!” .. . For twenty dollars you can learn something about the movies at the College of The City of New York beginning October . . Director Mervyn LeRoy urges the pro- duction of movies “your mother can understand” to revive attendance .. . Paramount has thus far rejected 6,500 applicants for the titular role in “Alice in Wonderland” . . . Lloyd Bacon thinks kids make the best movie audiences, after all .. . You know your films, don’t you, Lloyd? ... “I do not sock women in my private life."—James Cagney... Rane nei Your Lens hereby reports Itself completely out of focus in its crack about Edward Weston a coupla weeks ago... Permit me to eat dirt in full view of all my readers and take it all back ... Tom Brandon, Na- tional Secretary of the Workers Film and Foto League, is good and sore and wants me to inform eh} that Weston reads the “Daily” and is a friend... Faculty of Four to Teach Farm Problems at Workers School NEW YORK.—The Workers School has revised its course in Agrarian Problems and brought it up to date. H. Puro, head of the Agrarian De- partment of the Communist Party, is in charge of the course and will be assisted by John Barnett, member of the Agrarian Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party; Harold Ware, who has made @ special study of farmers in the United States; and Moe Bragin, author of a series of dynamic articles on the American farmer, written af- ter an extensive tour of the agricul- tural sections of the United States. They will take over those sessions of the course which deal with the topics in which they have specialized, Registration for the course is now going on at the office of the Workers School, 35 E. 12th St., Room 301, HERE BUT SINCE LT TO SCAG T SHOULD SAY A FEW WORDS Tv AAP PENED ~ HERE JAIL BY THE coPs BY MISTAKE AND THEN CHIEF OF POLICE BROWN FIXED 1T UP WITH ANOTHER GUY FoR ME TO WORK HERE / DoYou BELIEVE TAAT. JOE? BROwN’S A SOCIALIST- WHY —_——, DID GE SEND ME To $CAB? a LIEVE 1T- SOCIALIST WOULDA'T OO 2 THa Aspects of Negro Struggle - The following letter, addressed | “to the Editors of the Daily Worker and to Comrade Mike Gold” by a reader of the “Daily,” correctly points out several mis- conceptions and dangerous errors in one of Michael Gold's recent columns, In the September 11 issue of the Daily Worker, we find a paragraph in Comrade Gold's column which, in my opinion, is not a contribution to our “Daily’’ on the question of op- pressed nations, but on the contrary, this paragraph deviates from the Party’s line and only helps further to confuse our readers. If my com- ment on this is not printed,~I sin- cerely hope that the Daily Worker editorial staff will make the neces- sary correction. I'm referring to the paragraph called: “KKK.” While the purpose of the article “KKK” was no doubt to assist our readers to understand the peculiar sensitive- ness which oppressed people possess, and to express Comrade Gold’s per- sonal resentment (a thing which is overdone in Comrade Gold's column, namely, his column reflects entirely too much his personal and subjec- tive reactions to various phases of political and other events which he deals with) to certain chauvinistic expressions; yet, each sentence, if carefully analyzed, contains devia- tions from the Communist Party's understanding of the Negro ques- tion. His first sentence reads: “The Irish, like the Jews and Negroes, have suffered centuries of slavery, and this oppression always gives a peculiar twist to a race’s character.” It is incorrect to put the Jews, Irish and Negroes in the same pot and lead the readers to the conclusion that the Negro question is to be treated as a racial question, suffering from the same peculiarities as the Jews and Irish, Confuses the Problem His second sentence further en- courages the idea that the Negroes are an oppressed race and not an oppressed nation, when he says: “Op- pressed races become sensitive in a way that others can never under- stand.” This sentence is further in. correct for the following reason: While it is true that those who are not members of the oppressed peo- ples, those who do not have to with- stand the various forms of oppres- sion and persecution cannot react with the same sensitiveness and alertness as those oppressed proper; it is not true, however, that they cannot understand it. This assertion leads to the negation of the role of the Communist Party, as the leader of all oppressed peoples. How can the Communist Party work out a correct program for the Negroes, let us say, unless this pro- gram is actually based upon a full understanding of the needs and de- sires of the Negroes? To take it a step further, how can the Communist Party become the leader of the mil- lions of Negroes unless it under- stands and thus is in a position to explain the sensitiveness of the Ne- groes; a sensitiveness which grows out of centuries of oppression and persecution of the Negroes as a nation by the white bourgeoisie? It is pre- cisely because the Communist Party understands these national peculiari- ties of the Negroes that enables it to stand at the head of the struggles for Negro liberation. Comrade Gold then says: “They Race an nd National’ develop sharp nostrils, as do all hunt ed animals, and can quickly smell out an enemy.” I can appreciate the fact that Comrade Gold--wished to em- Hees e that Negroes are hunted, but make an analogy between theim and hunted animals in itself betr: a note of chauvinism on the part of the writer. It is the bourgeoisie and apologists of the system of lynching and discrimination who continuously point out that the.Negroes are in- ferior to the whites, are not. fully “civilized,” and are very close to the animal kingdom. We, therefore, must be careful in using such a term as “they develop sharp nostrils as do ail hunted animals.’ He continues: “Sometimes it is a delicate job to degli: with them, they are so touchy and over-alert.” True, the question of oppressed peoples is a delicate one. In order to win the confidence of us whites among the Negroes we must understand them and we must have the correct pro- gram. But this will be impossible if we consider them “so touchy and over-alert,” instead of considering the Negroes’ alertness to the deep-rooted Stage and Screen League of Workers Theatres To Award Prizes For Best Revolutionary Plays Two annual awards for the best revolutionary plays have been estab- lished by the League of Workers Theatres of the US‘A. a silver medal to the author of the best full-length play and a certificate to the author of the short play.” These awards will be known as the “New Theatre Awards,” and will ké announced every April after consideration by a special New Theatre Award committee. The committee will include representatives of various branches. of the theatre profession. Hohorable mention will be also given to other revolutionary plays of special merit. The first awards will be madé*next April. WHAT'S ON Monday SPEOIAL MEETING” ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE Down Towit Branch, 90 E. 10th St. Cuban Campaign. will be discussed. ALL PRESENT AND PAST MEMBERS and their friends are invited-to come to our re- union 8:30 p.m., 3133 Hubbard St. Basement Ballroom. Entertainment and refreshments. Admission free. Auspites Brighton Beach Branch PSU. REGISTRATION BEGINS TODAY FOR FIVE MONTHS course-in fundamentals of revolutionary movie theory and camera tech- nique at Workers Film and Photo League 220 E. 14th St. Headquatters cyen every eve: ning except Tuesdays and Saturdays. Capa. ble instructors. Small fee payable in ad- vance, VOLUNTEER TYPISTS WANTED! call immediately United States Against War, 104 Fifth Ave. Room 1507. MASS. PROTEST MEETING on Second Anniversary of Japan's Invasion of Man- churia. Excellent program of Authoritative speakers: Malcolm Cowley, James Ford, Win- ifred L. Chappell, Earl. Browd Temple Auditorium, 14th St. and Secend Ave. 8:30 p.m. Admission free. ALL GREETINGS FOR T77 PARTY AN- NIVERSARY EDITION: Si 1D BE SENT TO THE BUSINESS OFFICE CF THE DAILY WORKER IMMEDIATELY. REGISTRATION NOW ON “FOR THE WORKERS SCHOOL. Pall Term. Office 35 E. 12th St. Room 3di.- MEMBERS OF WIR BAND. Rehearsals at 29 St. Marks Place. 7:45 p.m. New players needed. All instruments, SPECIAL MEETING OF J. LOUIS ENG- DAHL Workers Club et Club rooms, 3092 Hull Ave. corner 20%th St. Kindly attend. * * Please Congress Tuesday OPEN UNIT MEETING at 1400 Boston Road. Discusion on 14th Anniversary of Party. Auspices Unit 11, Section 5. TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00—Mountaineers Music, 5—Davis Orch. ‘30—Lum and Abner Sketch, 45—The Gold! ‘00—Dramatic Sketch Grofe Orel 9:00—Gypsies Orch.; Frank Parker, Tenor. 30—Robots and Romance—Sketch. 10:00—Jules Lande, Violin, 10:30—Haenschen Orch.; Arthur Boran, com- 7, Conrad ‘Thibault, Baritone, and 11:00—Bestor Orch, 11:15—Rogers oe 11:30—Denny 1a: d0—Hollywood. © on the Air 12:30—Meroft Orch, 45—Conrad Thibault, Baritone; he WOR—710 Ke. 7:00—8ports—Ford Frick. 1:15—Jack Arthur, Baritone, 1:30—The Count of Monte Cristo—Sketch. HI 45--News—Gabriel Heatter. 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama, 15—Veronica Wiggins, Contralto. ‘30--Morros Musicale. eee Marco Sisters; Frank Sherry, nor. 9:15—Horatius at the Bridge Table—Sketch. 9:30-—Wilberforce Quartet, 10sls—Current Events ‘urrent Events—Harlan Eugene Read. 10:30—Alfred Wallenstein's Sinfonietta. - 00—Time; Weather, ce 02—Robbins Orch, 130—toln Ore* 12:00—Gerston ¢ WJZ—760 Ke 7:00—Amos 'n’ Andy. :18—Baby Rose Marie, Songs. 1:30—Golden Orch.; Mary McCoy, Soprano; Betty Barthell, Songs; Sports Talk— Grantland Rice. 8:00—Russian Ensemble. 8:30—Potash and Perlmutter—Sketch. 8:45—Ortiz Tirado, Tenor, 9:00—Minstrel Show. 9:30—Pasternack Oreh.; tone. 10:00—Sanford Orch, 11:00—Leaders Trio, 11:15—Poet Prince. 11:30—Habn Orch. 12:00—Harris Orch. 12:30—Gerston Orch. | WABC860 Ke. 7:18—Denny Orch. 7:30—Martin Orch.; ‘Travelers Quartet. 7:45—News—Boake Carter. 8:00—Green Orch.; Men, About Town Trio; Harriet Lee, Contralto, 8:15—News—Edwin ©. Hill, 8:30—-Studio Orch. 8:45—Fray and Braggiotti, Piano Duo. 9: ith, Son; Phil Duey, Bari- Comedienne; Shil- 9:30-—Theatre of Today—St. Louis Blues 10:00—Kostelanetz Orch.; Gladys Rice, S0- prano; Evan Evans, Baritone. 10:30—Jack Little, Songs, 10:45—Symphony Oreh,.. - i :15—Phil Regan, Tenér, 30—NRA Developments — Benator Robert ¥. Wagner of New’ York. 11:45—Gray Orch: +» + 12:00—Belasco Orch, 12:30—Rapp Orch, 1:00—Conn Orch A Reader Points Out Michael Gold’s Errors on the Negro Question ’Only Participation in| | Struggles Can Wipe Out Chauvinism white chauvinism as sa healthy potentially revolutionary quality. Divert Resentment to Struggle We must utilize this “touchiness” and “over-alertness” on the part of the Negroes, and divert it into chan- nels of struggle against the oppres- sors, and if you please, white chau- vinism in the ranks of the labor | movement, even if it be a writer of a column of a revolutionary paper. It is precisely the above statement which leads Comrade Gold to “The best way is to be casual and matter-oi-fact.” Oh, no Not at all! This is what the Socialist Party and renegades from Communism say. Treat the Negroes as you treat the workers generally, By the Communist Party making the Negro question a special question, they contend, the Party is guilty of segregation and separationist tendencies. The best way is not to be “casual and matter- of-fact,” but in all of our writings, in our speeches, in the demands which we work out, to place special emphasis on the needs of the Ne- groes and to give a conscious and bold expression to these needs and desires. To blur over this problem, is to fail to see the Negro question as a special question. If the object of this sentence was to instill a sense of equality on the part of the whites towards the Ne- groes, of avoiding a paternal (which is nothing less than inverted chau- vinism) attitude, etc., then this will be done only when we will treat the Negroes not in a “casual and mat- ter-of-fact” style, but when we will iully grasp the meaning of the alert- ness which the Negroes possess and make a serious attempt on our part (I mean we, white workers, including the writer of “KKK”) to consciously and persistently root out and exter- minate all tendencies of white chau- vinism which we inevitably possess because we live in a white chauvinist world: and thus prove to the Negroes that we understand their reactions and suspicions towards us, and that we will assist them in directing this suspicion and hate not towards their fellow-slaves in white skin, but to- wards those who oppress them and and A Question to Michael Gold Den’'t you see, Comrade Gold, that this “touchiness and over-alertness,” if treated in the “casual and matter- | of-fact” manner, will not help to break down the susvicion towards us but on the contrary, if it is treated }as a natural result of centuries of oppression of the white bourgeoisie, can be made into a powerful weapon cf struggle not only of the Negroes, | but ef the working class generally, | because the Negroes then become the active allies of the struggling white proletariat? Comrade Gold then says: “If you have any race feelings in you, elimi- nate it, study it, fight it. Then when you are cured, be casual and hu- man.” Yes, we must study all of our inner race superiority tendencies, we must fight them and aim sincerely to eliminate them. But this, in my opin- ion, can be done only to the extent | that we actually mingle and struggle with the Negroes for Negro rights, only to the extent that we under- stand the importance of the problem of struggling for Negro rights as part of the general struggle of the prole- |tarlat. We cannot separate our little self and precious individual from this. Therefore, I think, it would have been better had you said: “If you have any race feelings in you, you can best kill them by participat- ing in the struggle for the rights of the oppressed peoples. Develop an alertness towards those who express chauvinism in one way or another. Jump at the throat of those who dis- criminate against Negroes. BECOME. AFIGHTER FOR NEGRO RIGHTS.” Actual Participation Necessary mistake of separating the curing of white chauvinism from the struggle, and could have saved yourself the unpleasant breath when you said: “Then when you are cured be casual and human.” We will be “human” when we prove our readiness to fight for Negro rights and not when we think we have cured ourselves of white chauvinism. Let me conclude with a word of comment on your last sentence which reads: “Better to have persecution, frank and bitter, something that can open chauvinism can be fought bet- ter than covert. But this does not mean that we always have a guaran- tee of being able to fight against persecution because it is “frank and bitter.” The persecution of the Ne- groes in the South is brazenly open. No apologies are made about the hundreds of Negroes lynched in the South, nor are apologies made for the very “frank and bitter” discrimina- tion and Jim Crowism directed to- wards the Negroes in the South. Does that indicate that the struggle in the South against these forms of per- secution easier than in the North. I don’t think so! I do not think that we should wish for “frank and bit- ter” persecution in the columns of the Daily Worker, we should instead use these columns as a means of ral- lying all sources at our disposal, of both white and Negro masses of workers, against all forms of perse- ution, open or hidden, TH Then you would have avoided the | be fought in the open.” Undoubtedly | Ss rie Reporter,| 'Gorged With Food, |Lies About Jobless, By SAM BOYLE. _CHICAGO, them only two out of 4 . It is quite evident, just after having gorged himself, w: grape fruit, ham and eggs, and ever: thing that goes with it. sitting in a : looking out his | as it is onl he it would be iting pulled. Anyway interesting A know who paid for those two hours of v work. I don’t suppose he least concerned, haven't hada square meal for two or t years, and that tof them are ur dernourished and affected with mal. nutrition. Their breakfast that morning a few spoonfuls of cracked wheat cooked, all the milk tk unfortunately it’s mostly composed |of Lake Michigan. Nothing more ‘to | eat till 5 o'clock, when they get a which looks like a mixture of osters paste with a few unwashed | and unpeeled potatoes thrown in. They are supposed to work two days a month, at the same rate as city ‘kers, but only get 25 cents per ef the rest is supposed to go for their food, and this is where the bare faced robbery comes in, as it has been proven conclusively the meals cost 6 cents a day at the most. The cracked wheat, flour and other things are given gratis by the government. The bread which is moldly most of the time, is collected round the different: bakeries practically free for the cart- ing awa: I was glad to see those men had the good sense to sit down and study the | beautiful homes round about then I only hope they did some serio thinking along the right lines while sitting there. In the same article our Christian friend, Dr. Bickham, who is head of the work department, and had his attention called to this, said the men in the shelters were loafers, that they were not good workers, and anyway most of them were mentally deficient. This from a parasite who never did a useful day’s work in his life! To me, the mentally deficient in that gang were the two that kept on working. Last winter father Bick- ham was asked the question in an open forum of where the $3.75 went to that was taken from the men. He could not give a straightforward an-| swer, but mumbled something about paying for their meals, which caused a big laugh, as the audience knew | perfectly well it went to line the pockets of these leeches of society, | aL! ti MUSIC _NEW YORK HIPPODROME_ Chicago Opera Co. ‘Tonight vane TANNHAUSER Tuesday _ RiGO! Wednesday —_ LA BOH! Thursday LA FORZA DEI, Friday TAN Saturday Mat, | Saturday Eve. | Sunda; MME. BUTTERFLY LA- GIOCONDA LA TRAVIATA | | Sie 830 $1.10 ———— Be BS |lighten the | example, PTT / COON *@ASSY. TIME WE Took A GAND IN THIS. Todays’ ‘Film “Beauty for Sale at Capitol the Same Old Stor y, of “Misunderstood” Husbands “Beauty For Sale,” wy ard novel “Beauty,” by Faith Baldwin, presented at the Capitol Theatre, a Metro-Gold- Boleslavsk with the following cast: Alice Brady, Madge Evans, Philip Kruger. i = ig Holmes, Una Merkel and Otto Once more Hollywood, not having anything to say, went to its filesand Jooked through their film patterns. They came to the section called Prostitution. But the Hays “Code | of Et says: “The sanctity of the | institution of marriage and the home be upheld. Pictures shall not fer that low forms of sex relation- the accepted or common Like everything else about industry this code is a sham, re are always convenient alleys in which to hide. Instead of deal- ing with prostitution (openly) the ship are thing.” the | Studios fall back on that American phenomenon known as Gold Digging: high class prostitution. |Each season the major studios en- masses with this form of entertainment. Last season, for Radio Pictures produced this pattern under the title “The Greeks Had a Word for Them” while Columbia Pictures did its share with “Three Wise Girls’—and so on, The quota is large, Holly~ wood must produce its 600-700 fea- ture films a year. “Beauty. For Sale” might - have been a picture exposing the beauty parlor racket. But it prefers the easier road—and what the producer though would be the more enter- taining: a sentimental story -about gold digging sufficiently moralized by a marriage ceremony in the last |teel. This film is like all the gthers. There are always three of four girls. One is hardboiled, another is a moron (the comedy relief) and the: third is the “virtuous” L-A-D-Y.~ Then there is always the idle rich (good looking) young man sowing his wild oats and throwing his money away on “girl friends.” Although in the present film there is a slight variation—he is already married to “a woman who doesn’t understand him.” Then, quite accidentally and innocently, of course, he meets the “virtuous” one. It is love at first sight. And everything is eventually hunky dory for all concerned. The only pleasant thing about this pic- ture is Alice Brady’s pleasant inter- pretation as the wife of our misun- |derstood husband. (She leaves him |in the end for another man so that he can marry the “virtuous” one.) | This is not the last picture of its kind. Universal is following suit with “Ladies Must Love”; soon to be released. + IRVING poser: Amusements — | RKO Jefferson man ee JAMES CAGNEY and MADGE EVANS in “MAYOR OF HELL” and “ARIZONA 10 BROADWAY” ‘with JAMES DUNN and JOAN BENNETT Clown George Produced by Ukraine Film in A BEAUTIFUL Coming this Thurs, OPERETTA OF . TODAY, TOMORROW & WEDNESDAY ONLY and “NIGHTS IN BUENOS AIRES” “THE PATRIOTS” A Daring Revo- lutionary Drama of the Clyil War USSR, TH STREET AND UNION SQUARE 15° fae gat tan. SPAIN New Soviet Talkie 19; Film showing of p.m, Film showing of “ Admission 1 ees Film showing of Yemans Street, at * PHILAD All organizations Minor will speak. * Film showing of “ Film showing of “ 3133 So. Halstead * 20c at the door. Street, at 7:30 p.m. * CHICAGO * GARY, Film showing of “1905”, at Roumanian Hall, * MILWAUKEE Film showing of “1905”, at Liberty Hall, 8th and Wal- nut Streets, at 7:30 p. m. DETROIT “1905”, based on Gorki’s novel “Mother”, at Martin Hall, 4959 Martin Street, at 7:30 5 cents. "1905", at Finnish Hall, Admission 15 cents, “1905”, at Yemans Hall, 3014 7:30 p.m. Admission 15 cents. * ELPHIA a 5969-14th 22: Daily Worker Activist Meeting to discuss Plans to Build Daily Worker; Slovak Hall, 510 Fairmond Ave. are to send delegates, Robert 1905”, at Peoples’ Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Avenue. “1905”, St. at Lithuanian Auditorium, * IND. Admission 15¢ in advanee;