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hours’ ride ‘ftom, Moscow. by an THE STORY SO FAR: The crew by what they witnessed during a brief stop at the Soviet port of Lenin- grad, organize and strike against working on a Sunday, their day off. Led by Slim, a member of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, the ship is being slawly organized, with more and more members of the crew joining’ the union. "You read how Pitts, after joining the M. W. L. U. at Leningrad, circulated a resolution for the defense of the Soviet Union, and how Bobby attended the world read how the men protested against paste for Sunday @fnner, marching manding better food. Then they go about organizing a ship's committee. Now read on: INSTALLM 'HE ship's: committee. withdrew at once to the. steward’s fo'castle. It was late and the stewards had a heavy day before them; it was neces- sary to be brief. Slim was- unanimously elected as secretary. He called for a discussion of the various complaints in the dif- ferent departments. Bobby reported about the.,disatisfaction over the wage cut..Shorty asked the second assistant if he were sure about the deckgang being fired, The second assistant answered that, he had this information from the,Chief. He was | supposed to inform Slim, on the quiet, but hearing Lag’s remark, he couldn’t restrain himself. He warned against Lag. Fritz supported’ Haskell’s state- ment. He had spoken with Sparks, Who wouldn‘t say anythihg definite, but hinted that there would be some- thing doing in New York. | Slim summed up. It was clear that | the deck gang would he. fired. It was | further npssible that 9,,charge of | mutiny would be brought against scme of them. The ship’s group had | been prepared to calla strike in Copenhagen and had written the Interclub there to be prepared. This plan was spoiled by the change in the ship's course. Upon learning of this, the ship's group had given the steward Nielson a letter to the Co- Penhagen comrades, in which they were asked to write New York by air mail. The Marine Workers In- dustrial Union and Unemployed Council was to hold-itself in readi- ness when the UTAH arrived, to set | up strike pickets, and warn the ship- | Y ping offices and longshoremen, in | case of strike. Bill Haskell-whistled’ thru his teeth. | ‘The ship’s group had ‘all ‘that planned ovt already? .. These God damned. .. The Filipino listened to every- thing with wide open’ mouth. Slim took a piece of paper out of his pocket end read in a low voice: Demands of the Créw of the SS, UTAH 1. No discharging, ‘either of deck or black gang. No logging or other victimization. % 2, Withdrawal of ‘wage cut, and Payment of old tariff for present voyage, both for officers and crew of Engine Department, 3. Right of Ship's’ Committee to control grub and safety apparatus. 4. One free day in port to be given | Heve we'll get the crew to back them.” of the S. S. Utah, deeply impressed congress of the I, S. H. You also the serving of hash and tapioca together to the kitchen and de- | ENT 38 | 5. Hight hour day for the Stewards’ | Department. Colonial workers to re- ceive same wages and treatment as others. 6. Improvements in the conditions of the toilets and fo’castles. 7. The ship’s crew to do no dis-| charging or loading of cargo, nor| cleaning of holds. 8. No transport of munitions or war materials against the Soviet Union. 9. Freedom of assemblage and right to strike for ship’s crew. Aboli- tion of Naval Reserves in the mer- chant marine. * ee LIM looked up. “I think that covers | most of the points. If we win these, that will do for a first fight.” Shorty looked skeptical. Bill Has- kell also shook his head. s “Pretty strong tobacco there!” \ “I don’t know,” answered Slim: “These demands cover the worst complaints on board here. I’ve thought them carefully over, and be- “Yes, Slim,” Eddie was excited and couldn’t conceal it, “yes, everything you have there, that’s what we| want!” Slim waited for further discussion. Fritz remained neutral. The Filipino didn’t understand it all, but would probably be in favor when it would be explained. Bobby had gone into the toilet for a minute, but when he came back he took one look at the demands and expressed his agree- ment. Shorty looked at him. “You know what that means, don’t you?” “Yes! Strike on the whole damn wagon!” “They'll drive us all to hell off!” “We'll stay on board as pickets. We won't let no strikebreakers on.” “They'll drive us. off with bay- onets!” insisted Shorty. “They'll get me off here only in a coffin!” insisted Bobbie. The second assistant interrupted the dispute. “Well, let’s come to a decision. I’ve got to get some sleep.” Slim asked if there was any further discussion. None. Had someone con- crete objections to the demands as formulated? None. Slim suggested that the ship’s committee accept these demands temporarily, and put it before the crew the following eve- ning for their final decision. This Proposal was accepted and the ship's committee scattered. for each Sunday spent at sea. (Continued Tomorrow) Picture of a Soviet Industrial Town Fifteen Years After the Revolution By BEN FIELD BOVIET MAIN STREET, by Myra Page. 108 pages. International Publishers, 15 cents. eo ae IN “Soviet Main Street” we get a picture of life in a Russian in- dustrial town fifteen. years after the Revolution by an American journalist who is ¢lose to the workers. This town is Red Podolsk. Myra Page. interviews the sec- retary of the Young Communist League. She spends four hours with two of the oldest workers of the great sewing machine factory. She gets their stories: of the great strikes in 1918 and 1915 and how finally the. manager of the fac- tory was driven out and the whole city taken-over by the workers. She lives»in.-the Youth Commune of Red Podolsk the better to reach the very heart of Soviet life. She describes.a~factory election, and spans Red. Podolsk:from one end te th: other to show-us the new life wmerging in a typical Soviet town. Wiat a tremendGus difference between this town. before the Re- volution and-as we.see it now. How startling the coritrast between American Main Streetand Soviet Main Street; Not the»Main Street ef Sinclair Lewis apd his middle class men and women, hoppled like hensste~be brought to the slaughter“ house, -but the Main Street that struggling American workers and farmers know too well. Red Pedolsk Podolsk is less than two L In the flays of the Czar, Singer had his sewing machine factory there. In 1914 the output of individual ma- chines was, 409,000, The total number of workers was 4,490. The working day was 10,,and 11 hours, and the average wage. per month was 35 to 45 rubles. In 1931 in the Podolsk factory there, were 11,000 workers. The average. working day is seven hours..c Wages range from 76 rubles per;,.month for unskilled labor to 286 rubles for skilled labor and 350 rubles for engineers and technicians. The output was-648,945 individual sew- ing machine, 2,465 industrial ma- chines, and 30,000,000 needles. Whereas in the old days Singer hired 30,000 salesmen to sell his ‘machines in Russia, now there isn’t a single one. And there is a shortage of machines! . In the meantime, in the Am- erican town, Elizabeth, N. J., there is a Singer plant where the work- ers are losing the little they ever had, For the last three years the workers have been. laid off. In 1931 as many as 200 were laid off every week until only about 3,000 were left. They are getting only about two or three days’ work a week. Spéed-up has increased. One wage-cut has been followed “Red true of the Singer plants in Bridge- port and South Bend. Such are the contrasts between capitalist towns and Soviet towns. Not only is there this astounding change in the material things but also’a revolutionary change in the cultural life of the masses. An American actress back from a fly- ing trip to Russia a short time ago lamented that all Russia does is to produce actors and tractors. Even if that were so, it would be a re- markable achievement, one greater than any capitalist country has been to show. The machine, to free the worker from drudgery. Then the chance to develop all aspects of his personality. | In the United States about 100,000 teachers are walking the streets. In Red Podolsk there is a shortage. Teachers have been given an increase of 30 per cent in wages and have been put in the same class as workers. In New York City students are expelled from college for having “ideas.” In Red Podolsk the students run the schools. In many American towns there are many sex tragedies, In Podolsk there has not been a single new case of syphilis within the last year and a half. When Singer controlled the town there were only thirty hospital beds and one doctor in the whole city. To- day there are 80 doctors, 284 beds, clinics and dispensaries in every factory. All treatments are free. A complete system of social in- surance covering old age, illness and unemployment has been intro- duced. And there is the town paper, which really prints news fit to print, the judges of which are 11,000 work- ers and not a rich poisonous Ochs, like the one of the New York Times. ‘This paper has 1,100 worker corre- spondents. It has everything from Sports items to articles by Stalin, The editor is a former sailor who is DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1933 JIM MARTIN YOU TOLD THE TRUTH GUESS WE GAVE you A ROOSEVELT NEW DEAL WHEN . WE THINK YOURE OK ANNO WANT YOU TO WORK WITH US. WHAT I DONA UNDERSTAND | WHY A SOCIALIST } peRsowaALLY AND SENT YOU HERE - vA SEE, 1M A SOCI More Monkey Business OUR STRIKE IS WITHOUT LEADER SHIP NOw. HAVE You ANY IDEA OF WHAT WE CAN So? S CHIEF BROWN you T GUESS HE THOUGHT ME TOO GREEN To KNOow ausr SLECT HE GUES BETTER SED WRONG, EH’ LT TAINk SHOULD TIO I FLASH ——— AND ES CLOSE-UPS By LENS Thunder Over The Rialto At eight o'clock, a half hour be- fore the opening, the Rialto Theatre at 42nd St. and Broadway looked like the scene of a strike or an impend- ing demonstration with cops lining the block almost shoulder to shoul- der. Mare se The Rialto is the only house on Broadway displaying the name of a movie director in huge letters on the marquis. But that is only an attempt to cash in on the name of a great Soviet director. Inside Upton Sinclair gets up on the stage and presents Eisensetin as a hopeless dreamer whose main contribution to the mak- ing of the film was the wasting of time and celluloid. “We are not living under Commyn- ism... . I promised the Mexican For- eign Minister, whom I met in Los Angeles, that the film will not create the impression that the Mexican people are either unhappy or mis- treated.” Yes, from Sinclair's own mouth! Ns ‘4 ‘ Upton Sinclair walked out of the Rialto arm in arm with Madame Richard Boleslavsky, ultra-reaction- ary Tzarist emigre whose husband produced “Rasputin and the Em- press” in Hollywood. * After the premiere screening a svectator shouted to Sinclair's face: “For shame, Upton Sinclair! The Mexican masses today are bleeding under the heel of a ruthless Wall- Street-controlled tyranny and you dare present a film that tells us of Mexico's ‘rebirth! For shame!” Not a word from Sinclair. The indignant intruder is forcibly ejected from the theatre by a dick. ne A detective in every other row. Nervous ushers. Mayer, the manager, gnaws his nails in fear of a “Red uprising.” Photographers scanning the audience, fingers on their flash guns. . . Walter Winchell had announced that day that people entering the Rialto would be closely inspected and all packages taken at the door. s * 8 The hissing and booing that greeted the shameful epilogue of “Thunder” was the answer to the “cutters,” “sponsors” and “presenters” whom Sinclair had eulogized earlier in the evening. * * . Commenting on the godawful mu- sical score by Hugo Riesenfeld, a spec- tator, sald the film ought to be re- titled, “La Paloma Over Mexico.” Se tis The film actually bored everybody to tears and even a beefy cop on guard inside the theatre expressed the candid opinion that “It stinks!” oe. Leaflets signed by the Workers’ Film and Photo League and the Anti-Imperialist League were distrib- * | uted and met with the full approval of those who had but time to notice the first line: “ “Thunder Over Mexico’ LIES!” “Right you are!” booms some- one who is handed a leaflet, and the cops close in and shunt the gathering crowd off the sidewalk. The following morning, Richard Watts, of the Herald Tribune will come out with a bitingly sarcastic review of “Thunder Over Mexico” hailing Eisenstein and attacking Sin- clair and his version of the film. Bravo, Waits! MUSIC The Philharmonic Orchestra Heifetz, American violinist; Ravel, French composer and Rubinstein, Polish pianist, have been invited to Moscow for the coming season of the Philharmonic Orchestra by Gomets, the All-Union Music and Vaudeville being rewarded for his good work by being sent to the highest university in Russia—the Institute of Red Pro- fessors. While these remarkable strides for- ward are being made by Soviet Rus- sia, capitalism is like a lunatic run- ning wild with sawed-off shotguns in every pocket. One moment de- stroying cotton and wheat while mil- lions starve and the other advocat- ing a return to the use of the horse. The next moment allowing a south- ern banker to produce a five-lock boll which yields 30 per cent more cotton, And then talking of harness- ing the sea and splitting the mole- cule to release all these fists of pow- er. All for bankers, business mag- nates, plantation owners. But in Russia Communism has, by freeing the worker from capitalism, released a greater power than all the seas and all the molecules—the work- ing people. In the words of Romain Rolland, staunch defender of Soviet Russia, it has freed “the very sub- stance of living action—the working people.” And Soviet Main Street in by another. Workers are getting 80 cents an .hour.. Pay -envelopes is is also ame $6 $8, and $10. . its small way attempts to show the results of this real new freedom. a Se Society, which is planning the largest number of musical programs ever given by the organization. The Philharmonic Orchestra, which has been ‘increased to 120 instru- ments, has invited some of the fore- most foreign conductors to lead the orchestra, beginning October 1. Finkelberg, of Berlin; Sherchen, from Warsaw; Metropoulos, of Athens; Mediner, of Paris and Coates, of London, are some of the noted mu- sicians who will appear as guest conductors. Coates has directed be- fore in Moscow and proved very popular—especially so in his direc- tion of opera. Gomets is planning no less than 565 programs—ineluding chamber concerts and programs for workers’ clubs—from the opening of the season to January 1. Other artists who will sing for Gomets this year are Radamski, Sob- inov, Barcova, Zeretelli and a Reddell. Among the dramatic artists are Kachalov, Kaminka, Ilinskia and Smirnov-Sokolckia, who will present dramatic offerings. It is the con- tant effort of Gomets to raise popu- lar amusements to the highest cul- tural level, Mexican Movie Evokes | THE NEW FILM | Workers School Begins Fall Thunder Over Sinclair site? satis Workers’ Press Protest Against Hollywood | Version of Eise “Is ‘Thunder Over Mexico’ an innocuous historical film drama with- out political implications or does it cot pression of the Mexican workers and peasants today under the rule of American imperialism?” Representatives of local workingclass organizations hurled a gruelling Upton @- barrage of questions at Sinclair on the stage of the Rialto Theatre in Times Square yesterday morning in an effort to elicit a clear answer to this central question about which the “Thunder Over Mexico” controversy has revolved ever since Sergei Eisenstein, its director, left the | country. | ‘The occasion of the questioning was | @ meeting announced by Sinclair at | the premiere showing at which he offered to answer all questions con- cerning the film. In response to questions, Sinclair declared that the agreement of all parties concerned in the production had been to produce a non-political | film, a travelogue, and offered as evidence the fact that every page of the scenario written by Eisenstein, bore the approval of the Mexican government. “Eisenstein could not have pro- duced a revolutionary film in Mexico.” “Sinclair declared. “The scenario gave no evidence of such intention. If, Eisenstein’s intention, however, was to fool the Mexican government, it was not our intention. We gave our word of honor to make a non- political film, and we have kept our word.” “Would it not be correct to call the film as it is being shown, a political film in the sense that it is a deliberate misstatement of pre- | sent day conditions in Mexico and @ conscious glorification of the pre- sent Mexican regime?” a questioner asked. Sinclair replied by citing the Mexi- can government censorship exercised over the film and insisted that the film would have been even more re- actionary. had he used all of Eisen- stein’s material, He denied that Eisenstein had intended to satirize the present-day rulers of Mexico. Shouts of contradiction arose and Sinclair, nettled, halted long enough to remind his audience that he was as good a Socialist as any one of his questioners. “I have spoken from soap-boxes for thirty years,” he cried “and you young radicals here cannot rattle me by heckling and interrup- tions.” At this point, the veteran pub- licist’s aspiration to the Democratic | nomination for Governor of Califor- | nia came into question. “Is there not,” shouted an uniden- tified questioner, “the same relation- | ship between the “Brass Check” and | “Thunder Over Mexico” as there is between your record of 30 years Soci- alist soap-boxing and your willing- | ness to run for office on the Demo- cratic ticket?” Sinclair's reply was lost in a clatter of applause for the | questioner. Several minutes later an impatient questioner shouted another reference to Sinclair's intention of running on the Democratic ticket, and Sinclair, with ill-concealed anger turned to him and shouted, “If I am elected governor of California I will know | how to deal with persons like you.” Recovering, he added, “I will’ give you Socialism and put you to work so that you will have no time for idle heckling.” Yesterday’s stormy question session | marked the climax of three days’, protests against the showing of the film by local workingclass organiza- Term with Literature Drive ¢ By SIDNEY BLOOMFIELD. |munist Manifesto,” 800 pamphlets | At the Rialto Theatre | The sponsors of “Thunder Over Mexico” have the colossal impudence to state that this emasculated “cow- boy-and-Indian” thriller which con- | | cludes with an open glorification of | the present reactionary regime of| México, is the work of Sergei Eisen- stein, famous Soviet director of “Ten |Days that Shook the World” and | “Potemkin.” | Eisenstein, they say, shot every} single foot of the film; the shots have | been put together exactly in accord- jance with his scenario, which was/ | approved by the Mexican Government | and the result is what you see—| |“Thunder Over Mexico” directed by | Sergei Eisenstein, photographed by | | Edouard Tisse. It is true that every single foot of | this film, which even in this terribly | mangled and disorganized movie is) | perhaps the most beautiful photo-| graphy ever seen on the screen, was | photographed by Tisse, Tisse’s ma-| thematically exact camera eye has superbly caught the loveliness and grandeur of some of Mexico's land- | scape and architecture. Not even the |most reactionary film could completely {ruin the remarkable photographic * * | studies of these vast, fields of sient | maguey or of unbroken perpectives 0: Piemoore, lee | land, hills, clouds, sky, sun, ruins of An estimate of the extent of the Mayan temples, noble profiles of strike wave, the like of whic has| Mexican peons, fiestas, bullfights, etc. | not been seen in the United States | And if this were all that “Thunder since 1922, is the leading feature of | Over Mexico” had to say—a series of the October issue of “Labor Unity.”| photographs of the past and present This painstaking compilation of | history of Mexico—there would prob- strikes in all industries makes the| ably have been less need for the dem- month's number invaluable as a|onstrations that have taken place at handbook of facts for workers.|the Rialto Theatre since the film Strikes in every. industry are re-| nstein’s Work msciously hide the suffering and op- LABOR UNITY, Trade Union Unity League. Pub- organ of the lished monthly. cents, October. Five * |opened last Friday night, although | corded. The value. oi this material even as a travelogue the film would | would have been enhanced if along| have to be condemned for its mis- with the enumeration. of the strikes | representations of modern Mexico. there had been included some inter-| But the sponsors of “Thunder Over pretation of the material. In an editorial. comment, strike figures are summarized. The Trade Union Unity League. estimates. the| number of workers,.involved to be in| the neighborhood .of 750,000, with | 150,000 led by the T.U,U.L.. Here | again one looks for an analysis of the causes which found the T.U.U.L. unprepared when’ the strike move- ment started its upward curve and) why it is still unable to recruit wider | Sections of the workers to its ranks. Increasing Use of Injunctions Further strike discussion is con- tained in Andrew Overgaard’s article on the many recent strikes in New| York City, in which he points out the increasing use of injunctions against the workers and urges the need for placing greater emphasis on the role of the state during strikes, In his article on“‘What the A. F.| of L. Drive Means,’. L, Toth tells of the importance of the coming rank and file A.-F; of L. conference to be held in Washington Oct. 2, when the corrupt A,.F. of L. machine holds its annual,.convention. The article points out that the main ob- Jectives of the conierence will be. Current Struggles Reported A fair share of “Labor Unity's” 28 pages (it is now only_5 cents a copy) is devoted to reports of current strug- gles of the unemployed against cuts in relief. Other features are a short story by N. Honig, Labor Unity’s” editor, roviews-of recent books from the Sovie: Union and articles dealing with the Paterson silk strike, the sit- uation in Cuba andthe effect of the NRA code on the cotton textile workers, The present issue~lacks discussion Heifetz, Rovel and Rubinstein | To Appear In Moscow With | Three internationally known artists, tions under the leadership of the|by active trade unionists on their Workers Film and Photo League and | experiences in strike struggles which the Anti-Imperialist League of Amer- | could provide guidance in the appli- cation of our strike strategy. TP ic a. Sey WJZ—760 Ke TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS |U. 8. Mexico” offer it to us as a solemn testament to the growth and rise of the Mexican peasantry Riga century- old mage to complete power over their deetelae as a free people, and they falsely terminate the film with several hundred feet of celluloid showing the workers and peasants of modern Mexico—the New Mexico which has arisen out of the ashes of centuries of exploitation and revolt— in full control of the land and factories. 5 This complete reversal of Eisenstein’s origina! conception, which was to convey satirically the complete bank- ruptcy of the Calles-Rodriguez-Wall St. regime, was deliberately carried out by the promoters of the film to show that Mexico has become “civil- jzed” since the days of Porfirio Diaz and other dictators, and that peon and wage slavery is no more—all of which we know are lies and more lies! As a matter of fact Kisenstein shot several thousand feet of Mexi- co's bourgeoisie in action and had high government and church officials uknown to themselves posing for him in all kinds of ridiculous postures. | But the promoters of the film used the most innocuous portions of the footage to glorify the Calles regime. Had they been really sereened under Eisenstein’s direction these scenes would have exposed Mexican official- dom fcr what it is—a tyrannical, bureaucratic reactionary government of the bourgeoisie. It is true that Hisenstein’s original scenario was prepared by him so as to get by the Mexican Government, otherwise he would never have been allowed to shoot a single foot of film. Nevertheless between the ljnes of the scenario are vast evidence of Eisenstein’s profound sociological understanding of the past and pres- ent history of Mexico and it was his intention to create a film that would have accomplished for Mexico what re wonld have accomplished for the had he been allowed to make “American Tragedy or “Sutters Gold.” There is no doubt that Eisen- stein would haye made a revolu- tionary epic out of the 234.000 feet of vital material shot, certainly any- thing but the inane, lifeless and re- actionary ‘piece of tripe now playing. But in the present version, Eisen- stein’s revolutionary conception has | degen-rsted into a typical Hollywood | western action movie. A girl is at- tacked and the pon, in trying to avenge her, becomes involved in a bat- tle during which the daughter of the landowner is killed. Shortly after- wards he and his friends are cap- tured, given the sadistic punishment of the horses, and subsequently trampled to death, One of the peons who managed to escan2 then stirs up a revolt among the peasants qgainst the landowners. Although Eisenstzin shot scveral thousand feet cf the actuel reyolt, in “Thunder Over Mexico” there is nothing but the title—‘REVOLT'—a few whisps of smoke signifying nothing—more subtitles sxpiplnins how the peons threw off the yoke of tyranny, and then—cut to the New Mexico of to- day, falsely showing the revolutionary workers and peasants controlling the reigns of goyernment—under the Calles regime. With the exception of the photo- graphy of Tisse there is neither | thunder nor Mexico in “Thunder | Over Mexico.” There is on the other hand deliberate distortion of the frets of the lives of worke:s and peons in Mexico and a glorification of the reectionary regime which ex. coronaire 7:00 P.M.—Amos 'n’ ‘Andy WEAF—660 Ke. 7:15—Gaving by Planning—-Ailred Bettman, ee ae i President National. Conference on ai Sie Hcg aineers Music | City Planning; George MecAneny,| Pore ly Bachelor, sketch | Controller, New° York City; Flavel :30—Lum and Abner Shurtlefi, ' Secretary American City 7:43—The Goldbergs, sketch | Planning Inertite- 1:43—Julia Sanderson ynd Frank Crumit,) 7.45 og Chat—Don Carney songs 8:00—Death on the Vive-Yard Line, sketch | 8:30—Danch Orch. 30. salth—} Her 00—Bernie Orch.; Frances White, songs) "S?-Aiventues In Health—Dr, Herman) ear Bond; Bddle East and) g:4§—j.olliekers Quartet ph Dumke, Comedians; Relio in Aviation—Frank M. Hawkes, Aviator |" 0?~Aliee Mock, soprano; Edgar Guest, 10:00-—Lives at Stake—Betty Zane, sketch | 9:39 Famous Ccmpose:s—Beethoven; Lit- 10:30—Beauty Talk | tau Oreh. 10:45—Reception to Brazilian Physicians, 14:99 Pedro Via Orch.’ tincgiee oe. 10:30—Miniature Theatre=Mcot the ‘fissus 100—Siern Orch. 11:00—~Pauline Alpert, piano; Larry Adler, 11:15—Merof! Och, harmon'es 11'30—Tulkie Time, Sketch 11:15—-Poet Prince . 32:00—Davis Orch. 11:30—Helst Orch, 12:80 A.M.—Hollywood on the Air | 12:60-—Danes Ore. ARR dao he | 12:30 A.M.—Pisher Orch, WOR—710 Ke. | RE am ace 7000 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick ‘ O—% H %:15—The Purdy Broth etch, WABC—860 Ke. 7'30—Howard Marsh, Katherine| 7:00 T.M.—Myrt and Marge soprano | 715—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:45—News—Gabriel Heatter 7:30—Mills Brothers, Songs ht ngs 1:45—News—Boake ter 8:00-—Boswell Siste lin: Symphony Orch. | 8:18—Singin’ San 00—Gordon Graham, bevitone, Ohman| 8:30—Voice of Experience - and Arden, piano duc | 845—Kate Smith, Songs, 5—Grenadiers "ev. | 9:00—California Melodies '30—Footlight menor | 9:30—-Nino Martini, ‘efor 10:00—Organ Recital | 10:00-—-Legend of Americe~-Sketch 10:15—Current Events—itsrten Evpene Read | 10:30-—Belasco Oreh.; Sper —Te “rising; | 10:30—To Be Announced Barbara Maurei, Songs 11:00—Time; Weother 10:45—-Symphony Orch. 11:02—Moonbdeams Trio 11:15-—News Bulletin = “+> 11:30—Colem: an Oreh, y oor cre 11:30-—Preeman Orch, :00-—-Gi re? 42:00—Gerun Orch. ploits and supresses them. DAVID PLATT. “The most important thing for us all, both Russian comrades and foreign comrades, after five years of the Russian revolution,” sai Lenin, in his address to the dele-| gates assembled at the Fourth World Congress of the Communist International in 1922, “is to learn. . . every moment we have free from military activities, from war, we must devote to study.” In this spirit the Workers School carried through a literature drive | during the last school year. Tak-| ing into consfderation that no mat- | ter what our students were study- ing, or how much occupied they may be, a little time must be spared for special study, with the coming of the 50th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, the Work- ers School started the drive in all classes to popularize Marxist-Len- inist literature. Sold 12,104 Books | In less than two full terms, from | January 9 to June 30, 1933, the} | school sold 12,104 books, pamphlets, | ete, If we include the 2,000 pam-| phlets sold at the Sunday night | Forums conducted by the school, | the total number pieces of litera-| ture is 14,104. This does not in-| elude periodicals, books and pam-| phlets given in the regular class assignments. It does not include |quantities of books, pamphlets and extracts that were mimeographed and sold in the classes. Every week during the school | term a special piece of literature or combination of seyeral was sold in every classroom by the instruc- tors. The “Communist,” monthly theoretical organ of the Communist Party, was read for the first time by many new students who were given a chance to buy it at a re- duced price. We placed into the hands of students rare literature that was no longer available, as well as literature the importance of which was not known to many. Began Study of Theory Some idea may be had when we go over the record showing, for }example, that the Workers School sold 1,060 copies of the “Commu- nist,” 1,000 copies of “The Marxist Study Course” pamphlets, 800 “Wage Labor and Capital,” by Marx, 800 copies of “The Com- |the coming period is to study. containing two important speeches by Karl Marx, and hundreds of pieces of literature by Lenin, En- gels, Stalin, ete. This literautre drive induced hun- dreds of our students to study revolutionary ‘heory as they never did before. Many came to tell us how appreciative they were of the opportunity they had to read literature that was new to them. It is such encouragement as we received from the students and the satisfaction that comes from helping the many who come to the Workers School for revolu- tionary education that we have de- cided to make this literature cam- paign a regular part of our school activity this year. Lenin stressed the value of study. In the same speech he reiterated “that the most important thing in We are learning in a general sense, You must learn in a special sense, in order to achieve the organiza- tion, the structure, the method and content of revolutionary work. If that is achieved, I am convinced that the prospects for the world |revolution will be not only good— they will be excellent.” WHAT'S ON Tuesday HARLEM Wi SCHOOL, last week of Registration, 200 W. 135th 8t., Room 2128. in “History of the American Working Glass,” led by M. Honig, editor ot Labor Uni hattan Youth every Tuesday at Man- il¢ Ludlow 8. Ad- mission free to Tiving in| lower Het Cie WEDNESDAY RB of the Belaisika Orchestra of the F.S.U. under direction of Mark Sali- yanoff at Chernishevsky Club, 122 Second Ave. Beginners and advanced players a5 well as singers will be enrolled. If play another instrument or want to learn to play you can enroll now. Chicago, lil. HANDS OFF CUBA MEETING at Temple Hall, Marshfield and Van Buren St. Wed- MPAREWELL BANQUEY for John William- son on Saturday, September 30, at Peaple's Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave., at & p.m. Hartford, Conn, CELEBRATION of the ©. P. ith Anni- versary on Priday, Sept. 29, at 8 p. Lyric Hall, 585 Park » Admission AMUSE MENTS THIS PICTURE IS DEDICATED TO HARRY ALLEN POTAMKIN AMKINO’S PREMIERE—The SUPREME SOVIET TALKING EPIC HE PATRIOTS” A GORKI CONCEPTION (ENGLISH TITLES) sop Also; “MOSCOW ATHLETES OUT OF TOWN FOR THE Da ily, ao Perry CEA Denver OCT. 2nd: Film Showing of "1905," at Eagles’ Hall, 1030 15th St, at 8 P. M. Admission 15¢. s) SEPT. 26: Milwaukee Pim showing of “1905, at Liberty ‘Hall, 8th and Walnut Streets, at 7:30 p.m. Admission 15c in advance; 20¢ at the door. ACME THEATRE ON PARADE. sth Street and Union Square RADIO CITY MUSIC SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy” Opens 11:30 A.M, LILLIAN HARVEY in “My Weakness” and a great “Roxy” stage show 85e to 1 p.m.—b5e to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) RKO Greater Show Season ——— | | Now | X° Jefferson 348 St. & | LORETTA YOUNG and LYLE TALBOT in E HAD TO SAY YES’ § with also “THE BIG BRAIN” E. STONE and FAY WBAY MUSIC , ‘NEW YORK HIPPODROME Chicago Opera Co. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR -CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA. and PAGLIACCT ‘Thursday (with De Muro). TROVATORE Secure Seats Early, Avoid Disappointment 25e-85c-55e-83c-$1.1 | ‘SH ‘Tonight. ‘Wednesday. PARTY ANNIVERSARY BANQUET given by SECTION GOOD FOOD 2, Communist Party ENTERTAINMENT At WORKERS CENTER, 50 E, 13th St. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, at 7 p.m. Speakers: EARL BROWDER, National Secretary, C. KRUMBEINN, District Organizer, ing Comrade ARONBERG, Section ; CHARLES Cc. P.-—-Oceasion for Welcom~ Organizer. “Admission 35 cents. Program: Featuring JUANITA LEWIS and MC KINLEY SCHEY in Revolutionary Songs and Recitations. “The Daily Worker in WEDN EAST SIDE WORKERS’ the N. LECTURE BY SOHN ADAMS of the Daily Worker Staff DAY, SEPT. 27th PROCEEDS FOR THE DATLY WORKER the Struggle Against R.A.” CLUB, 145 E. Broadway ‘