The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1933, Page 5

WHAT WORLD! By Michael Gold Chicago, City of Blood HE streets of Chicago are familiar with blood. The gangsters have staged their civil wars on every, boulevard. They have quarreled over Chicago as over a luscious bone. Nothing can stop this while <capitalism lasts. If Fascism and Nira clean up the situation it will be by putting the gangsters into uniform, as did Hitler and Mussolini, and turning them loose on the workers. All gangeters are religious. and patriotic, of course. Bourgeois Chicagoans like to show visitors the famous sites where some well-known gangster met his fate, the machine-gun bullets still im- bedded in nearby walls. They ave-proud of their gangsters in Chi, the way some New Yorkers are proud of simmy Walker and Al Smith. Horatio Aiger has prepared the-American mind’to admire any kind of mion2y-suceess. Is there a businessman who doesn’t wish he had the nerve to go out and make money”as easily as Al Carcoy 1 the big shots? * * The Packinghouses T= winds of Chicago are familiar-with blood. From those death-fac- tortes, the packinghouses, therecis: wafted day and night a putrid ex- the smell of millions of shéep. and pigs weltering in gore. Last summer I waiked through Packinghouse City. There was a great sling noise on this hot day/-I thought it came from some factory filled with the mov3ment of machinery and squeak of many. conveyor- bel. But it was the ccntinuous @vath-shriek of thousands of ne having thei? threats cut—a fearful cry. in one of these dark infernal. chambers big wide-horned cattle moved down a civte, and as they passed by,-a giant executioner felled each steer with a ‘sledge-hammer. Tne blow-was accttrate and powerful, andthe stee: cellorsed in a scramble of Jegs*and horns, Ard on another conveyor liné, (Sheep hung from their heels, baaing and head Naaiecd throats cut, One escaped and ran about the dark haletion, Spacts ‘slo: ping in a ficod. ofsgore. The trembling lamb died with- r struggtc. The packers pride themselves on the sanitation, and hav But nothing can hide that deathly smell that hans over everyching, and nothing can refine the raw bloody murder 1é5 to be done. d later to some killers: inthe killing room. They didn’t like the work, nov did they hate it.. They,-were used to it—it w fob. “There ‘ jobs in free America.at.which free Americ dear ones alive. f Tiie Mexicans se ‘HIND the packinghouses one fitrds the quarter of the Mezt.car They were. brought here by thé-tHousands by the biood-bosses, during tho beom time. They were brought-in to further divide the workers on the race question, to undercut the wages. Now the bessts don't need théni: So they are being herded like cattle, shirred in great ragged hungry gangs back to their own country. there any more miserable ’s slum in the world than this Mexican novter? The muddy shacks have never been painted or repaired, they are hot better than those found in the shantytowns of the unemployed. Light and gas have long been distonnected in many of these hovels. ‘The stree's are-stinking cesspools, where—little black-eyed Mexican boys and + . 2xico is no heaven for its workers; I know. I can remember the fieac, the lice, the typhoid of that 1 remantic country. But this is worse. How pale and enervated they look, these Mexican workers. They are the bravoct fighters.in the world, realif@n. But Chicago seems to have taken the spirit out of them. The blood has been squeezed out of their veins to mek: Chicago prosperous. * a . _ South Sice Negro ‘of Chicago will eet prove the leader of his people. He is a fearless giant, he doesn’t run cabarets for white slummers. He makes steel;-he is a killer in the killingerponis. He has been hammered in a hard school and is a proletaire. Stes The white masters cf Chicago fiat him. The race riots are still a living memory, and the Chicago Négro defended himself valiantly in those riots. He takes nothing lying down. The South Side has a higher percentage of unemployment than any section of white workers, And inv‘all the parks there are forums where Communism is discussed. In many*ehurches and halls meetings are held nightly. Organization is the magie*word. The unemployed councils see that nobody is evicted. The cops have turned their°mathine guns on these workers of the - South Side. But they have fought*back. Their blood also has stained the streets of bloody ae Steel Mill and Prairie 'TEEL mills girdle this city, st8éI'fowns where unrest mutters today. Beyond them leagues of prairie land, and thousands of farmers waking up from their long American dream. to find chains on their hands and feet. Farm revolt! Farmers matching on.their enemy, the banker and entrepreneur! Something unknown since 1776. And the blood of farmers, too, is smelled on the heavy winds that sweep through Chicago. ‘Yes, it is the city of drama. It is a city of great class conflicts, the city where-the Haymarket martyrs were hanged, and the workers’ red May Day. was born. 42), ~ All the railroads make this their central point. This is the capital of every proletarian struggle in America. Workers walk down La Salle street in overalls, and look at the proud buildings, and swear, some day worker's. blood will not flow in Chicago streets. Literature and Art : ND this is the city whose bourgeoisie is said to be the most “esthetic” in in America. It has a Greenwich:Village like New York—not as big, per- haps, but certainly more arty. There are many art galleries, where old ‘maids exhibit their flower paintings... And Miss Harriet Monroe has been running a little poetry magazine there for years. She is a kindly soul, and can’t stand much harshness in her literature. Floyd Dell and Harry Hansén also come from that city of blood and melodrama. They too favor the Gelicacies of literature, and can never rove unkind. _ Carl’ Sandburg came t. to hearing a few beats of the rugged proletarian heart of Chicago, that.city destined to be the capital of a viet America. There were othérs, Ben Hecht, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Maxwell Bodenheim. But the job still waits to be done. And here is the finest thing you can say for the necessity of proletarian literature—only this school of writers will be hard and clear enough to really grapple with the blood-stained truth about Chicago. EVIDENTLY FIGURE YoOucA DANGER IN THIS STRIKE AAD MEAN TO GET You OYT OF THE WAYS» EWS PAPER PELASHES AND CLOSE-UPS By LENS Comrade Henri Barbusse walked out in the middle of “Ann Vickers” in| Radio City Music Hall a few nights | ago. + Commented on the false splendor of the theatre and the artistic bankruptcy of the films it was built to present. . . . Comrade Barbusse is a keen student of the cinema and has written a great deal on the subject. . . , He has helped to popularize Soviet films in France. ... A famous movie critic once com- mented on Barbusse’s literary style, which is at times as close as literature can come to being like that of a | movie scenario. . . . Several passages in “Under Fire,” for instance... . * The report that over 1,000,000 words of hews copy come out of Hollywood every week thrills me almost as much as the recent report in the Vossiche Zeitung to the effect that the Nazis assembled at their Nuremberg bac- chanalia consumed 1,000,000 pounds of boloney, PEA ce The censors in Pennsylvania don’t like “Wild Boys of The Road” and are holding it up. . . . Harpo Marx leaves for Moscow in a few days to appear with Moscow Art Theatre (why with Moscow Art Theatre?). . “The Emperor Jones” is a subtle dose of white chauvinism, and there's plenty of kicking by Negro newspapers. . . . Negro projectionists in the South are refusing to run the thing. . Sig- fried Arno, one of Germ: best film comedians has committed suicide in Spain as a result of his exile by Hitler . . . The next guy that asks me how I liked “Threé Little Pigs” will land in the nearest infirmary, no kidding. . . . The movie industry is getting ($$??) statements from an army of professors contradicting For- man’s conclusions in “Our Movie~ Made Children” to the effect that Hollywood films poison and pervert your children’s minds. . . . "The Spirit of 1933,” a fotrcoming film, will star Roosevelt and the members of his Cabinet. . . . Unless F. D. does a song and jig with “Sillypus” Farley in this one, I'll stay away... . ports of German films have declined by 13,500,000 year in one year... . Heil Hitler! * T hereby invite “Phil M.\Daly,” con- ductor of a column called “Along The Rialto” in The Film Daily, to debate the question of propaganda in the movies. . . . “Resolved: That Holly- ‘wood Is a Source of Capitalist Propa- ganda.” . . . If Mr. “Daly” will kindly accept to debate on the negative side of this resolution, I'l give him an opportunity to publicly enlarge on his stinking piece of demagogy and slan- der against the Workers Film and Foto League and the Anti-Imperialist League in a recent issue of his sheet. . . I'll be expecting an early accept- ance, . .. Wis gigs Among the many milestones on the road to the height of poker-faced hypocrisy. . . .. “Above all conflicts between our groups, we consider first the interests of the public which we | serve,”—Will Hays. . . . The current |number of The National Board of Review Magazine contains an appre- ciation of the work of Harty Alan Potamkin by Wilton Barrett. The Workers Film and Foto League receives a handsome write-up in the current American Photography are * * Lilli Singer, New York: How you come to the conclusion that “Thunder Over Mexico” still remains “an out- standing piece of work” is something you fail to make clear in your letter. “Outstanding” in what sense? As a supremely incompetent work of art with a reactionary content it may, of course, be said to be outstanding. Or perhaps you mean “notorious.” In that case I agree. And why all the clamor for a statement from Eisen- stein? Remember that he has not yet seen “Thunder,” which would make it very difficult to issue a satisfactory and complete statement. Moreover, do you think that a statement from Eisenstein would in any way affect the campaign we are carrying on/ against the finished product presented | py Sinclair? Or do you doubt the fact that “Thunder” is not Eisenstein’s work? So far as I know, the Messrs. Sinclair and Lesser are the only two souls extant who still think (or tell us they do, at least) that the film is the work of the same man who gave us “Potemkin.” MUSIC “Barber of Seville” To Be Presented By Chicago Opera “Barber Of Seville,” will be pre- sented by the Chicago Opera Com- pany at the Hippodrome this evening with Ruisi, Haeseler, Chapman, Bar- sotto and Frigerio. Other operas of the week are: “La Forza Del Destino,” on Tuesday; “Mme. Butterfly,” Wed- nesday; “Carmen,” Thursday after- noon; “La Boheme,” Thursday evening; “Sainson and Delilah,” Fri- day; “Martha,” Saturday afternoon; “La Favorita,” Saturday evening; “Lohengrin,” Sunday afternoon and “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagli- acci” on Sunday night, Bo pe: adhe grccy Mitch the circulation must be doubled. De’ ee share by yetting new sub- No WELL, I want YOU T REGO Tus ONE | Plivier’s DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933 Brilliant Historical Novel Portrays Soci of the German n Revolution “The “Kaiser -* Goes, Is Vivid Story of the Armistice Remain,” alist Betrayal Days of November, 1918 By ROBERT, HAMILTON THE KAISER GOES, THE GENER- ALS REMAIN, By Theodore Plivier. Translated from the German by A. W. Wheen. 368 pp. MacMillan 1933. $2.00. . . This novel, written by a proleta- rian novelist who has had to flee for his life from Nazi Germany, deals with the fateful events of no more than twenty-four days—from Oct. 16 to the downfall of imperial Hohenzol- lern rule in Germany on Nov. 9, 1918. As Plivier himself puts if in his postscript: “The happenings in Ger- many during the autumn of 1918, though historically so instructive, are unknown to most people, or, at best, the memory of that time has been buried beneath a steady accumula- tion of false, ounts.” The Kaiser's generals and imperial ministers, such as Ludendorff and Prince Max, and Social Democrats like Schiedemann and Noske, have, it is true, written mountains of me- moirs, all dealing with those few days when the German Empire tottered and the Republic was proclaimed. But all these memoirs have been merely special pleading seeking to extenuate or justify personal actions before the bar of history. Plivier, who has deliberately cast this history in the form of a novel, although (quoting him again) “all the events described, all the persons in- troduced are drawn to the life and their words reproduced verbatim,” has collected here for the first time between the covers of one volume the myriad entangled. happenings of the end of the war in Germany. The use of the novel form enables him to give extremely plastic descrip- tions of the tenement. districts in North Berlin, alternating with cam- era close-ups of the negotiations be- tween Ebert and Prince Max in the Imperial Chancellery, to draw a bril- liant pen-picture of the courtiers surrounding Wilhelm II at Army Headquarters, to show the growth of revolutionary ferment in the muni- tions plants of Berlin and the sudden revolutionary outburst in the battle fleet at Kiel. Much of what Plivier pictures has been said before—but it lies buried in the files of the Ledebour trial, yel- lowing newspapers, and most impor- tant of all, the famous Magdeburg libel suit brought against a Nation- alist paper in 1925 by the then Reichs president Fritz Bbert, Social, Demo- erat by the grace of God. But never before has all this con- stellation of circumstances, have all these facts, been arranged side by side—and allowed to speak for them- selves. And what an eloquent language they speak! Here, in 1918, you see how the con- servative German Socialists laid the foundations upon which Hitler and the Nazi party built their power. Here you see Ebert and Scheidemann striving to save the imperial throne for the Hohenzollerns in the face of the popular uprising, yielding to the masses’ pressure by declaring a dem- ocratic republic only to retain control and prevent the revolution “from get- ting out of hand.” You see the Socialist Noske go to Kiel at the request of the Imperial Cabinet to put down the sailors’ re- volt by putting himself at the head of it. You see the embryo Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils, with Lieb- knecht storming for the Social Rev- olution and Scheidemann pulling wires to strangle the newly-born workers’ power while still in its cradle, And you realize, Plivier's book, how trained Bojsh they needed a Lenin to guide the strategy of those days when Revo- lution and Socialist betrayal were battling for mastery. Better than volumes theoretically proving the need for a revolutionary party is Plivier's stirring recital of events as they happened during those days. Today, with Germany in the grip of Nazi fascism, the revolutionary days of 1918 read like a legend, like dim and distant history: But they are less than 15 years behind us, and what the Socialist leaders, did/then— breaking the back of the proletarian revolution with the aid of the Kaiser’s Generals and ministers—they con- tinued to do until Hitler came to} power. i There is a straight line from Ebert calling up Imperial Army Headquar- ters and making a deal with the gen- erals to put down the rebelling work- ers with machine gun fire, to Zoer- giebel using armored cars and ma- chine guns against demonstrating workers on May Day, 1929, described so magnificently in Neukrantz’s “Barricades in Berlin.” Socialist chiefs of police protecting Nazi Brown Shirts in their armed attacks on Communists only followed in the foatsteps of Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske organizing officers’ volunteer corps to shoot down revolutionary workers in 1918 and in January and March, 1919. More Effective Than Dry. Analyses Plivier will probably do more to elucidate fot workers the role of the .erman Social Democrats in paving the way for Hitler than tons of polit- ical analysis. For the events, the facts, are put so simply, the narrative is so gripping and therefore so telling, that even workers with Socialist sympa- thies will find their faces reddening with indignation. And besides all its political impli- cations, Plivier’s novel ig a beautifully written book—his fine craftsmanship and terse, realist style make this one of the very best historical noyels to appear in years. It is the kind of book that you can’t lay-~down once you have started it—the kind of book you want to Pass slong: to all your friends. Plivier, a member of the Bund prole- tarisch-revolutionaerer Schriftsteller, has had to flee from Germany, es- caping with extreme difficulty. <A Nazi storm troop entered and ran- \sacked his home, stealing. whatever they didn’t destroy. He reached the frontier on foot with nothing except the clothes on his back, and the manuscript of his half-written next novel in his pack, WHAT'S ON onday WORKERS ESPERANTISTS meet at 350 E. 8ist St. Hungarian’ Workers Home, Room 5. New class for beginners is be- ing formed. All interested in the interna- tional language Esperanto should join this class. PIERRE DEGEYTER CLUB, 55 W. 19th St. Membership meeting. - Discussion of Open Letter by H. Martel. ser 3 er J (Boston, Mass.) SOVIET UNION NIGHT. Speakers recent- ly returned from the Soviet Union. 15e. Auspices, John Reed Club, 825 Boylston St. . * . 4 Bayonne, N. J. I.L.D. MEETING at 26 E. 2ist St. For membership drive. All workers and unem- ployed == cbeerwdeos ha attend. TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P. M—Charlie Leland, Oomedian; Male Quartet ‘7:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch R er ch, Parker, Tenor With Captain Hugh 10:00—Eastman Orch; Lullaby Lady; Gene Arnold, Narra 1o0:30—sues, Tange, Violin; Morton Bowe, i: oo Beottl Orch, 11:15—Jesters ee 11:30—Denny Orch. 12:00—Fisher Orch. 12:30 A. M—Meroft Orch. | WwoR—710 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Ford Prick—Sporte Ka ena Hershfield 7:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch 7:45—News—Gabriel Heatter 4:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama, 8:15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs '30—Morros Musicale 00-—Musical Revue ‘30—Dedication Bayonne Police Radio Station 9:45—The Witch's Tale 10:00—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read gay hr Rohe net Sinfonietta; 1ano 11:30—Robb! 12:00—Holst Lies in This Paper! SAY! THis 1s OK- Just ast AAPPENED - WO LIES! AWD THEY CALLIT A FRAME-UP, <A i aston WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy :15—Baby Rose Marie T30—Gelden oreh.; Mary McCoy, Soprano; | Betty Barthell, Songs; Sports Talk — Grantland Rice 8;00—String Symphony, Black 8:30—Potash and Perlmutter—Sketch 8:45—Red Davis—Sketch 9:00—Minstrel Show 9:30—Pasternack Orch.; Melody Singers 10:00—Sanford Orch.; Edward Nell, Bari- tone; Lucille Manners, Soprano; Stone and Smolen, Piano 11:00—Leaders Trio 11:15—Poet Prince 11:30~Hahn Orch. ‘ 12:00—Bestot Orch. 12:80 A, M.—Gerson Orch, ™ Direction ~ Frank * WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Myrt and Marge 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch ‘1:30—Travelers 8:00—Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; Harriet Lee, Contralto 8:15—News—Edwin ©. Hill 8:30—Kostelanets Orch. kret Orch. 9:15—Kate Smith, Songs ~ 9:30—Gertrude Miesen, Son, Connell, Comedienne; Jor 10:00—To Be Announced 10:30—NRA Speaker 10:45—Symphony Orch. 11:15—News Bulletin 11:30—Lopez Ofch. 12:00—Belasco Orch. 12:80 A. M.—Rapp 1:00-Henderson Orch. the Generals| when’ you read | much the Ger-| man workers and soldiers needed a | evik Party, how much | {And so to the workers he was no |only one children’s publication in the | Others in the |language lacks the simplicity andj} |good; don’t miss reading it. .| With school now starting, ‘from the | 9:00—Agnes Moorehead, Comedienne; Shil- {touched upon but not in the broad |\“An Undesirable Lady” To- night at National; “Pursuit of Ae Dain s” at Avon Battista. Rowland Stebbin: Vv tis f the s NEW PIONEER, published monthly | [00 O te Se by New Ph ublishine Co.,| Happiness,” s oS NeW ew ness : Papier. 004! can Revolution. ts Editorial Office, 35 E. 12th St., New York. Five cents per copy. | Isabelie Loudor | Lawrence Lange miere this evenin, By ROBERT KENT atre. The prince “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Balwart;- young Aas Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, | Conklin, Dennie Humpty Dumpty stuck up for the) 42d Charles Wal hehe; “Her Man Of Wax,” Lenore Ulric, will be Lee Shubert on Wed | the Shubert Thi rical comedy The above poem, written by a gir rl Walter Has aged 13, could find publication in] the German pres great loss. United States. It and other poems rigan, Moroni by youngsters, also delightful in their fresh quality, appear in the “New | Pioneer,” October issue. i This . revolutionary magazine ful- fills the important task of reaching ; the children, giving those who are) ate already class-conscious a chance to} head i increase their knowledge of the class~ | Gaans struggle through stories, and attract= | > Ak E ing to the revolutionary movement | Ja youngsters who might otherwise read the patriotic stupifying juvenile pub- | lications of the SEE ee ify the boy scouts, an eit 2 fat it is sweet to die for capitalism. | | At The Phitkino The “New Pioneer” also gives a| PHILADELP! chance to the working class children | Program of the to express and develop themselves, so | Saturday, Oct. 7, that when they grow up they will join the Philadelphia the growing army of proletarian the best Russia e “Ivan.” TS. : write! “Ivan” is an ithentic ro ‘There are several serious short-| pnieprostroi, written and direc comings in the current issue of the/ alexander Dovshenko; and actu “New Pioneer.” “Our 13th Int t sent| 0% the River Dnieper at the s tional Children’s Week” is that sort! the great dam. of slogany stuff that we are trying|. It is the film Eisenstein < so hard to get away from even when! woud was v writing for grown-ups. Moreover, in|. vivid story the same article “13th International | jt. peopl Children’s Week” is continuously ab- somes absorbed in breviated to I. C. W. To a child,! is transformed f and even to an adult, this is deadly.’ greamy peasant to a How can he be made enthusiast and builder for the about “I. C. W.?” “Children’s Weel country in the world. yes. Towards the end of the issue Ra: ” “Ivan,” Film-Story “of Dnie- prostroi Dam, Now Showing ino presents of one of films, de sound Page Five A Notorious Hack Visits the U.S.S.R. to Find Noah’s Ark By GEORC LEWIS. KAPOOT, by Carveth Wells. Robert M. McBride & Co., New York. Net $2.50. to point out the Sov- nook, Any to the reader a ‘littl rat looking for ano bite. Carveth Wells pretenc " ” This ‘ ed across the Soviet Union, he tells Noah’s Ark on Mount Ara< he found it, at least a of it, in a church at the e mountain Carveth Wells pretends he was a friend of the Soviet Union before he sited it. Yet before he set foot on the soil of the workers’ fatherland, he dy had noticed lumber being ex= rad harbor, and the forced labor! hs chosen here and weight can be nee of this seif- and her small to Moscow was un- : never occurred to him Tr) to stop the train until d been decapitated, and hild’s arms torn off. g the torso, head, arm child, and bundling ro) ‘the baggage car, the train d explorer visits an Armenian : ‘We are looking for Can you give us any news of it?" “Without showing the slightest sign of surprise, the old man replied, ‘You have come to the wrong place! I am | the custodian of the coat of Jesus!’” And here is how this explorer ex- Y | plores: “In order to find out exactly what Jesus wore at his crucifixion I con ulted the Bible. when I opened the Bible I | found that my thumb was pointing toa word written in italics. It was e word ‘coat’! The discovery gave fe an uncanny feeling, as if some brigader” | unseen power were anxious that I ‘st Socialist | | should find a backing for the legend of the Coat of Jesus.” appears a greeting to “Comrade Pio- neers of the Soviet Union.” The language of this appeal is even worse than of the previo mentioned article. ly One sentence contains about 80 words, and is by no means simply ; written. | ALAN CALMER The current number of “Argosy”| (Sept. 23), one of the most popular | of the woodpulp magazines, features | a short novel dealing with Roosevelt’s | forced labor camps. It is entitled “Wooden Soldiers,” and is written by Frank Richardson Pierce, who-speci- alizes in stories dealing with the The first story, “Julio Fights, Too,” suffers from similar weakness, The freshness which stories for children | must have. For example, “dank” | (why not damp); “intricacies” (“dif- | ficulties” is the word a child would | 3 “established | 0 urea experience”; | lumber camps of the Nor “avidly”; “dispirited”; “segregated”; is a glamo: tale of ho re= “viyaciously”;—the poor child read- | forestrs n army comes through.’ ing this story would soon get dizzy Anyone who is skeptical of the pres-| looking at the dictionary. The writer | ©” gets nd has splendid material in the story} 7 eg la ach ar hake, peoienie and it was a shame to spoil it. ees ie weno By far the greater portion of the | Soldiers,’ which are appearing more magazine, however, is written so that} and more frequently in numerous both adults and children can enjoy magazines reaching millions of work- reading it. ‘Stick to the Boys,” by|ers and petty-bourgeois elements in Phil Wolfe; “Scab Coal,” by Martha| this country. Campion; “Comrade Ruthenberg,” a The hero, down and out on the Seattle waterfront, which lands him in the C.C.C. site of the tefores beautiful, romanti and adventur- thorough and smooth-reading biog-| raphy of one of “the leaders of the Communist Party when it was or-| ganized, are all good. “Science and Nature for Johnny Rebel,” by Bert | hy song Grant, explaining the balloon flights | OUS Spot (ask somebody who's been ‘ jin one). Among those who j into the stratosphere, is deliciously | 511: Matterson, formerly woods, boss The absence of a story on school, | sea seer ke pp ot tee crew of “wooden soldier is to prevent forest fi the hero and his two buddies, a coy Puncher and a _ Boi (just a slight aestheti bolize the “equalit youth, rich and poor from E West). .He begins by beating them up, then drives them like. slaves (at a dollar per) until, they... became strikes a bargain | ‘The current issue is difficult to explain, | althugh in “Scab Coal,” this is| sense necessary, | The drawings, especially the front | cover, and most of the material in| the October issue continue to make| the “New Pioneer” a magazine which’ every- worker ought to give to his/ Pi aS Gaughan, And, as far as| crackerjack loggers, e reviewer is concerned, though he a One guy in the reforestration camp has gray hair, he enjoys reading 1t,| starts a forest fire. Later, investiga- too. tion proves him to be a “red” joined the C.C.C. in order to destroy t ence of vicious capitalist propaganda | | abl | plunges into the flames . . The New Deal in + Petular Fiction Our hero takes up the challenge. He: . Will the. others follow? “The buddy spirit present in the Army units should, he believed, be apparent in the C.C.C.” Hooray, the “reforestration army comes through,” saves the | timber and proves the “soundness” of Mr. Roosevelt's noble experiment: “Statistics were already justifying: the plan in the shape of rehabili<o tated youth. Now there was no op- | portunity to prove the soundness of. | the investment to those who saw? only dollar values” (advt.). Our gang decides to “log” the plot - of land which they have won. But the lumber capitalist immediately begins scheming to get the valuab] timber back by hook or crook (what! can a capitalist be a villain?). De= te his dirty work,’in which he is assisted by Bull Matterson, the | boys come through, beating up the | measure tion camp is a} Two Courses in Strike | the umber baron’s property (a little | idea borrowed from Hitler){ «-The lumber ‘Mmagnate: offers ‘a valuable | strip of timber as a reward to any- one- who wil] stop the forest fire. Strategy at Chicago Workers School baron’s thugs, including Bujl, whose is taken single-handed by our rejuvenated hero, The boys are aided by the whole C.C.C. who come marching to their aid: “ ‘Looks like the C.C.C. gang from the camp is marching to war, Fresh answered” (“marching to war”). But the whole thing was just an- + other noble experiment. The lumber baron wanted to find the “finest crew in the Northwest” ;to work for him, and sent Bull jnto the refores- tration army to get the right men. He got ’em. They shake on it, and sign up to work for the lumber baron. Boys, he tells them, “good times are ahead.” Thus did the C.C.C. bring happiness, strength, and courage to American youth, thus did it give them “a clear trail ahead.” This is just a sample of the mush. that makes up the brain food dished out to the American masses by capi- talist “culture.” Help improve the Daily Worker, . |Send in your suggestions and crit cism! Let us know what the work: in your shop think about the “Daily, . CHICAGO.—The Chicago Workers School, 2822 S. Michigan Ave., offers two courses in strike strategy this AMUSEMENTS = semester. Mouday evening, from 8:40 to 19 p.m., a class is taught by Joe Weber, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League and leader of. many) strikes recently conducted in Chicago. By special request from many sources, the school executive board decided to | offer another class for Friday eve- ning, from 7:30 to 8:40 p.m. This class will be taught by C. Shaw, one of the leaders and founders of the. 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