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WHAT WORLD! By Edwin Rolfe (Batting for*Michael Gold) \ "PRE poetry of the revolutionary movement in the United States is still ~ & its adolescence. The best of. our poets continue to subordinate their technique to their revolutionary fervor or their emotion to their technique. In many cases, they,,maintain, consciously or unconscious! a rigid isolation of themselves .24 human beings from their writings. These practices are harmful; in any case, the result is decidedly not revolutionary poetry. van What most of our poets fail, to understand is that revolutionary poetry can be created only when they have achieved a perfect fusion of themselves—as individuals—with their ideas as part of the powerful and genuine ideology of an entire’ ‘class. One cannot sit down and say. iT am going to write a revolutionary poem.” This is an artificial approach, and it will be apparent in the finished poem, which may contain all the correct slogans, all the per- fectly-phrased correct ideas* on™’the subject, and yet remain lifeless, stilted, false. It will be neithét genuine nor effective as revolutionary writing. Good poetry arises out of. a , deeper thing than the mere desire or determination to write. It is the-expression and synthesis of one’s ex- perience and one’s world-view.~ When one’s experience is perfectly blended with—and consquently part ofthis world-view; when, in other werds one’s revolutionary ideology is pérfectly integrated—then and only then can revolutionary poetry of a high. order be composed. Revolutionary poetry may come easily to the poet who has grown up and lived all his life in a‘imilitant workers’ atmosphere, who has himself participated in the struggles of his fellow-workers. It is more difficult for poets whose origins ‘and pursuits have in the main been far removed from direct, contact withthe class struggle. The latter poets, must throw their lots with the working-class by | participating actively in its struggles or, if this is not possible, they must | write with complete honesty as allies and sympathizers of the workers. They must strive, as ‘far as possible, to identify themselves with the | revolutionary class with whose cause they have cast their lot. Horace Gregory : JORACE GREGORY appears” Pcie such a poet, one whose sincerity and honest devotion to thé*@atse of the working class cannot be doubted. These qualities are évident in his poems. Gregory has progressed far simce the publication of his first book of poems, “Chelsea Rooming Housd,” in 1930. Then as always aware of the life about him, he could‘‘write such moving poems as “Time and {sidore Lefkowitz,” which ends “But it is not good-4e feel old, time is too heavy;°" it gets a man “' tired, tired when he thinks how ‘time wears him down and girls, milk-£63, “white, vanish with glorious smiling millionaires in silver limousines. 1. " His second volume of poem: ed earlier this year, is significantly titled “No Retreat” (Harcourt, Brace, $2). The poems included in it are far from revolutionary. The-book is composed largely of elegies— “Homage to an Ancestor,” “Emerson: Last Days at Concord,” “Salvos for Randolph Bourne,” “Praisetg-John Skelton,” etc. But among these wreaths on'the graves of his intellectual forbears. in which he acknowledges his indebtedness to them both as man and as writer, there are other posing: “which, as certainly and clearly as a compass show us the direction 3 “ip which he is moving. The opening poem of the volume, “New York,, Cassandra,” which appeared in “The Left in 1931, begins: t 533: “Cassandra, the world’s fire; the harvesi’s sour: from Salem into China,-an old sailor's song sung to the yellow sea that pours oceans of grain over -ygp fire anc flood; it will be hard to sleep;* ‘Then follow the elegies and thé Tour “Poems to My Daughter,” gems of lytical clarity which might wal instill a respect for modern poetry the minds of those comrades who continue to insist that real poetry to be written about a half-eentury ago. * sean * osc “Valediction to My Contemporaries” “NO RETREAT” is fittingly brotight to its climax and close with the | “Valediction to my Contemporaries. ” In.it Gregory speaks to his generation, the generation which; was shocked out of its academic haze | of security by the events of 1914-1919, the generation which after the | wer, returned “to empty halls. The closing lines of this poem, in which the poet clears the deck, so to speak, for further advance jm his revolutionary direction, are worth quoting: “The course of empire westward to Cathay rides in the east: the circle breaks in fire: these charred remains ‘of what we were expire (O incandescent speed!) the hands, lips, eyes anonymous. Rise atque’ Vale, rise: another generation shall. disown these years in darkness.each to four winds blown (the deeds are obsolete-as Helen’s war) . Good-by, Il Penseroso of our spring, forgive our ashes and wlestroy the urn: unwind the clock, empty the seasons down rivers of memory i return! 1 Gp xeaders will ask: “In sneak are ‘ hinss poems revolutionary?” They are not. Gregory does claim that for them. The signifi- cance of these poems lies in sonesty with which the poet, an in- tellectual who openly supports- fommunist Party and the struggles of the American workers, is grappling with his problems, both as a poet and as a man whe clearly observes the period through which mankind is now passing. Gregory could riét ‘honestly suppress in his writing physical and intellectual experiénéés which have brought him to his present state of development. gould not arbitrarily rule out of his work a genuine and important part.of his life. Therefore, instead of trying’ 1 Write revolutionary poetry that would at best be skilled but cold versé,-he set himself to the task of evaluating and digesting his former experience, assimilating that part which he ught genuine and necessary for his future development as a poet id rejecting whatever he found to be false, I think he has succeeded. ‘in oing this, and that we may expect future work from his pen -willsbe the clearer, tlie more direct and class-cons¢ious, now that he has openly examined his past and selected a definite stand out of the jumbled V ingredients of his social and literary heritage. ‘1 | mark was | dacht | the business of reviewing his half- | century life and revolutionary ac- | tivity, | 1902. Max Bedacht, Thirty Years in the Revolutionary Labor Movement, Celebrates 50th Birthday Today Born in - Munich 1883, Went to Work at 13 By PHILIP STERLING IFTY years is hardly a ripe old age = even when it’s been lived during the final growth and the beginning | of the decline of capitalism. When 30 | of those 50 years, however, have been devoted to the cause of the revolu- | tionary labor movement on two con+ something to look | tinents, they’! back on. That’s why Max Bedacht’s 50th birthday, today, is something of an occasion. Bedacht might not have known about the birthday if he hadn’t been reminded. And being reminded about it he wanted to know just why any- one should be interested. When it was explained to him that, after all, as xecutive secretary of the Interna- mal Work mittee member of the Communist Party of America, etc. the tens of sands of workers in the Ameri- can revolutionary movement had a right to some interest in him and that his passing of the half-century good time to review his ord, he unbent. Small, jovial, typically Germanic r | and smiling across a broad expanse of | de sk in the International Workers Order offices at 80 Fifth Ave. Be- relented and launched into Of his first 20 years Bedacht re~ members little because he doesn’t think it important. All summed up, it amounts to this, he was born Oct. 13, 1883, in Munich, the Bavarian city which has since earned world-wide shame as Hitler’s original stronghold. At 13 he had completed his grammar school training and had become a barber’s apprentice. He chose this trade because it was easy to get an apprenticeship, At 16 he was a full-fledged journey- man and after working for a year in Bavaria, the intolerable conditions | ployment drove him to Switzer- | land where he had heard things were | better. The barber-shop was more of @ social center then than now and at his work Bedacht came into contact with the exploited embroidery work- érs in the villages about St. Gallen. They were enslaved to contractors in the same way that coal miners and sharecroppers here are enslaved to mine operators and plantation own- ers. Their conditions and his own, which were little less oppressive in Switzerland than they had been in Germany, aroused Bedacht to a desire for intellectual clarity and political activity. There existed in Switzerland a Na- tional Barbers Union, but in the towns of Gosseau and Herisau, where | Bedacht worked, there was no local organization. He established one al- most single-handed. That was in A year later he was a member of the Swiss Socialist Party. There followed years of activity in the union, thousands of hours of yo- racious reading between customers, In 1907, Bedacht was elected pres- ident of the National Barbers Union and editor of the union’s newspaper. The same year he took part in his first strike which the barbers de- clared in sympathy with the striking chocolate workers on the banks of Lake Geneva, Bedacht might have remained in Switzerland permanently but for a lawsuit brought against him by the owners of a building which he had rented for a cooperative barbershop about to be opened by the union. In settlement of the barbers’ strike, how- | ever, the Socialist leaders of the union promised the employers to abandon this plan and Bedacht was sued for breach of contract. The union mem- bers offered to pay the money for him, but rather than permit this he fled to the United States. Bedacht smiled as he related the incident, “I thought then,” he ex- plained, “that I was doing something heroic. I realized later, that I was merely running away. I guess I just wanted a good excuse of a change of scenery.” The first thing Bedacht did when he got to New York was to write a letter to the Journeymen Barbers International Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. He wrote in German, outlining his eight years of activity in the Swiss union and his eagerness to contribute his energies to the cause of organizing America’s barbers. In reply, he re- ceived a letter which informed him that the International office of the Journeymen Barbers Union did not handle German correspondence. Somewhat discouraged, Bedacht got a job in Ossining, New York, and worked there for two and a half years, confining his activities to So- cialiss Party. meetings. . From -1910 to 1912 he worked in Manhattan, a barber during the day, and a Ger- man Socialist agitator at night. Slowly but thoroughly adapting himself to his new environment, Be- Macht acquired, in the first four years of his American residence, a reputa- tion for his revolutionary energy and devotion, When the German Detroit “Herold” needed a Socialist editor, Bedacht was invited to take the post. He and his newly acquired wife set out at once. Bedacht’s stay in Detroit was un-|° in? ers Order, Central Com- | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1933 Page Five eventful save for the fact that he undertook for the first time the edi-| torship of an English language rasta, paper, the “Emancipator.” Then another editorship beckoned on the German “Vorwaerts” in San Francisco. Bedacht responded. Cali- | fornia in those days was a Socia! Party stronghold, but the Socialist | Party of California was in turn a | stronghold for what Bedacht terms | “every corrupt element in the labor [er eee ane a ee MAX BEDACHT i cisco. From the defense of Mooney it was a short jump to intense agitation against America’s entry in the World War. “You know,” Bedacht grinned as he recalled the Frisco days. “That was funny. We had a Socialist Party but it was no use to us in anti- War | activity. Those Socialists who wanted to fight against the war were com- Peled to work outside of their own! Drawn from life by Morris J, Kallem | movement.” Stitt Wilson, Job Harri- man, Gaylord Wilshire and Cameron King were leading Socialist figures. Wilshire and Harriman were wealthy and King was intrenched in the city government as a@ civil service ap- pointee. Together this group were a cross section of the middle-class ele- ments which controlled the Socialist movement. Between this group and the left wing, consisting of trade unionists and other working class ele- ments, there was constant warfare. First, in 1912 there was the ques- tion of direct action, Later there were local issues, and in 1916, there was open and violent division over the ar- rest of Tom Mooney in the Prepared- ness Parade frame-up, Mooney was about to be expelled for his left wing tendencies at the time, After he was arrested, Lillian Bishop Simes, local secretary, and the right wing leadership urged the San Francisco Socialist locals to disown Mooney. “Even if he's innocent, which is doubtful,” declared Lillian Simes, “we ought to take no part in his de- fense. It will endanger our organ- ization.” Bedacht and the left wingers fought this betrayal by organiz- ing a defense committee and in this connection Bedacht met Robert Minor when the latter came to San Fran- organization with whatever other groups they could find, radical stu- dents, Irish nationalists, Anarchists.” | Bedacht himself had become known to Frisco during 1915 and 1916 as a bitter enemy of imperialist war and he found himself in demand for lec- tures before pacifist and radical or- ganizations. As a result, Bedacht frequently found himself without a job when he reported for work on mornings fol- lowing his public appearance as an anti-war agitator. In 1919 the conflicts within the Socialist Party had reached a climax and with it Max Bedacht’s reyolu- tionary activity reached a turning point. He traveled from San Pran- cisco to Chicago on a speaking tour for the German Socialist Federation, with a delegate’s mandate to attend the Socialist Party convention in Chicago. He was refused a seat, as were all other left wing delegates. These delegates then held their own conference, which resulted in the formation of the Communist Party. On his return to California he was arrested for criminal syndicalism to- gether with Anita Whitney and oth- ers, but was extradited to Chicago on a charge of conspiracy to over- throw the government, Bedacht never served, however, be- TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Charlie Leland, comedian; Male Quartet. 7:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch. 7:30—Trappers Music. 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Concert Orch; Jessica Dragonette, soprano; Cavaliers Quartet; Grantland Rice—Football Talk, 9:00—Fred Allen, comedian; Grofe Orch. 9:30-—Lee Wiley, songs; Young Orch. 10:00—First Nighter Drama. 10:30—Lum and Abner. 11:00—Davis Orch. 11:30—Pisher Orch. 12:00—Ralph Kirbery, songs. 12:05 A.M.—Sosnick Orch. 12:30—Molina Orch, ra WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick. 7:15—The Unforgivable Sin—Sketch 7:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch, 7:45—News—Gabriel Heatter. 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama. 8:15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, songs. 8:30—Dramatized News. 8:45—Willy Robyn, tenor; Marie Gerard, soprano. 9:00—Variety Musicale, 9:55—Organ Recital. 10;15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read. 10:30—Estelle Liebling’s Musik Shoppe. 11:00—Weather Report. 11:02—Moonbeams Trio. 11:30—Denny Orch. 12:00—Nelson Orch. * WJZ—760 Ke. ‘Amos ‘n’ Andy. ‘ ure Ieland—Bketch, | 12:30 A.M.—Lowe Orch. Ore 7:30—Benno Rabinoff, violin. 7:45—Talk--Irene Rich, 8:00—Walter O'Keefe, comedian; Shutte, songs; Bestor Orch. Potash and Perlmutter, Red Davis—Sketch, Leah Ray, songs; Harris Orch, 9:30—Phil Baker, comedian; Shield Orch.; Male Quartet; Neil Sisters, songs. 10:00—Women’s Conference on Current Problems—President Roosevelt speaking from the White House. 10:30—Mario Cozzi, baritone; Concert Orch.i 10:45—Headline Hunter—Floyd Gibbons. 11:00—Jesters Trio, 11:15—Beyond the Milky Way—Professor R. H. Baker, Harvard Observatory. 11:30—Childs ‘Oren. 12:00—Calloway Orch. ethel 8.3 WABC—860 Ke 7:00 °P, M.—Myrt and Marge. 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketeh. :30—Travelers Ensemble. 1:45—News—Boalte Carter, 8:00—Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; Harriet Lee, contralto. 8:15—News—Edwin C, Hill. 8:30-—March of Time, 9:00—Irvin 8. Cobb, stories; Goodman Orch.; Football—I ‘ke Davis. 9:15—Tommy McLaughlin, baritone; Kos- telanetz Orch, 9:30—All-American Footbal! Show, with Christy Walsh; speaker, Dan McGugin, Vanderbilt coach, 10:00—-Olsen and Johnson, comedians; Sos- nick Orch. 10:30—Alexander Woollcott, ‘Town Crier. 10:45—Symphony Orch. 12:15—News Bulletin: 11:30—Jones Oreh. 12:00—Rapp Orch, 12:30 A.M.—Belasco Orch. ~ 1:00—Henderson Orch, | agitation and propaganda. | Saturday I Now Is Head of IWO and Member of C. C. of Communist Party cause of a legal technicality. Since that time, 1920, Bedacht’s record has been one of constant and unremitting activity in responsible positions in} the Communist Party. For several] years he was national director of In_ 1923 and 1924 he was a member of the American delegation to the World Congress of the Communist Inter- national, where he acted as a trans- lator for Lenin at many sessions. Since July, 1923, he had been execu- tive secretary of the International Workers Order, a position which is filled by election in the national ex- ecutive committee of the Sreenine tion. Bedacht, for all his sober theoreti- | cal writing on current questions and| his unrelenting energy in organiza- tional work, is not the impersonal, | cold-blooded zealot who is held by muddled liberal observers to be the prototype of revolutionary leaders. When he does find a few moments free from work, his chief concerns are his untulfilled ambitions of his youth to be a printer and a gymnast, and his family. He has three chil- dren. Elsie, the eldest, works in the| National Office of the Communist Party. “Edith and Ethel are looking for jobs,” he will tell you with the wistful expression which has become common to the parents of adolescents since the depression. Max, the young- est is still in school, “But all of them are active in the Young Communist League,” he will tell you. And he smiles, because that’s something to be really proud of even though you have 30 years of revolutionary activity to your own credit, eos Comrade Bedacht’s activity in the Communist Party of the United States will be dealt with in a future article, to appear on this page. WHAT’S ON ONE HUNDRED YOLUNTEER WAIT- RESSES wanted for the “Vote Commu- October 18, at which Emil nist Mayor of Cro for final instruetio: uniforms this Friday, at 8 Workers Center, 50 E. 13th or phons Comnicnist Election Committee, ‘ay, Room 626, Gramerey 5-8780. . # 2 Friday PROPESSOR A. GOLDSHMIDT, recently exiled from Germany, will lecture on “The German Student Under Hitler.” National Student League, 583 6th Ave. Adm. 15c. “WHO BURNED THE REICHSTAG’’? Lecture by Robert Hamilton at American Youth Federation, 20 St, Marks Place. SYMPOSIUM on the Election Campaign. Mother Bloor, guest speaker. Robert Minor, representing the Communist Party. The Demoeratic, Pusion and Socialist Labor Par- ties will be represented. Premier Palace, Pitkin Ave, Brooklyn. Auspices, American Youth Cluband Student Forum. OLARENCE HATHAWAY will lecture on the “N.R.A.” at the Prospect Workers Cen- ter, 1187 So, Boulevard, Bronz. by Busan B. radio speaker for the Foreign on “My Second Visit to at Labor Temple, 14th St. ILLUSTRATED Lecture Woodruff, Affairs Forum . Auspices, Downtown Br. F. 8.U. Adm. 165c. LECTURE on “Cuban Revolution” by John Reames, at Concourse Progressive Club, 288 ‘74th St., Bronx, at 8.30 p.m. PRIVATE FILM, showing of new Soviet Movie at Esthonian Workers Home, 27 W. 15th St. Ausplces, Workers Film and Photo League, Admission by membership eard only. MEMBERSHIP Meeting of Flatbush Pro- gressive Club, formerly Platbush Workers Club, at 486 Kings Highway, at 8.30 p.m. MEMBERSHIP Meeting of Steve Kato- vis Br. LL.D, at 95 Avenue B. TRACTOR School Membership Meeting at 238 E. 10th St. Comrade Ganchuk will report, MANHATTAN Section Membership meet- ing of Shoe and Leather Workers, at 77 sth Ave. eee . DANCE arranged by the Young Commu- nist League, District 2, at 35 EB. 12th St. Slides. Adm. 26c. With throwaway 20c. DANCE and Entertainment at Con*s- 0} Club, 1961 Prospect Ave. Excellent proc 1. | CLARTE, French Workers Club, has} moved to more spacious and pleasant new clubrocms. Weekly dance will be held at 304 W. St. near &th Ave. CONCERT and Dance given by Br. 132, LW.O. st Prospect Workers Center, 1157] ~ So. Boulevard, Bronx. Tickets 28¢ in ad- vance, door. VICTORY Dance Celebration given by Shoe Repair Dept. of S8.L.W.I.U. at Irving Plaza, 16th St. and Irving Pisce. DANCE and Entertaniment given by Ne- tional Students League at 583 6th Avenue. Red Dancers, ‘Refreshments, Adm. 20c. fatten asp (Detroit, Mich.) BANQUET and Book Shower to celebrate | opening of Detroit s ‘Bchool, Satur- day, Oct. 14 a6 T p.m. at 323 Erskine St. Admission 2c or book of equal yale PHIL RAYMOND, Sceretery Auto Work-| ers Union, spoaks on ‘The Strike Wave st the N.R.A.” at Workers x: Forum, Sunday, at 3 p.m? at Finnish Hall 5089 14th Ores (Philadelphia, Pa.) CONCERT and Banevet arranged by Sec. tion 1 fer benefit. of Philedelphia water- | front on Oct, US at Minh, 1038 Locust St. fun. 8 p.m. at the Greek Gecd music, lots of * . Newark, N. J. DAILY WORKER Conference will, be| held Gunday, Oct. 18 at 1 p.m, 7 Cherie | ton St. All organizations are invited to send a delegate. iM MARTIN ~~ } 1.L.0. DEFEND ~ ING ME AND I GUESS TWEED! AT FROM THE WELL.WHY Done You WANT To USE THE TLD? Something Hard to ) Understand Tcay'y- TM a SOCIALIST ANO OUR MATION AL EXECUTIVE BOARD wouLn EK- PELL ME IF T USED THE TL way? because _THBY ARE TiEO UP WITH Com- MUNISTS THATS WHAT. OUR LEAD- THAT BUT 1 ACCEPT HEL PT Dow's KNOW A@BoUT | A Communist vET THEIR HELP 1S WELCOME TO ME SEEMS’ FUNNY THAT AWORKER CAN'T A WORKING-CLASS THROWN Cut on (GIS EWR FOR IT Nov DEMONSTRAY P FROM by QUIPT Loo! Ste THAT aes. ‘FREE y, 3% MARTIN’ SAY, THIS JS For you! 11s Group Theatre to Be on “Theatre Night” Program Sunday NEW YORK.—The Group Theatre will present a revolutionary interpre- tation of Shakespeare at “A Theatre Night” sponsored by the Theatre Collective Sunday, Oct. 15, at 8:30 m., in the City College Auditorium, 23d St. and Lexington Ave. Alexander Kirkland, from the cast of “Men In White,” the Group The- ater’s current success, will partici- pate in a scene from “Thi ming of the Shrew.” They will also give the “Grave Digging Scene” and “To Be or Not to Be” from “Hamlet.” Mr. Kirkland will be assisted by other members of the Group Theatet Act- ing Company. y Winfield, noted Negro dancer, will also contribute to the program with a group of three dances with his own specially trained ballet group. Sender Garlin, of the Daily Worker, will act as chairman of the evening. Stage and | “Move On, Sister” Coming To! Playhouse Oct. 23; Moliere Comedy Here Monday A, H. Woods has changed the title of Daniel N. Rubin's comedy from “Virtue on Horseback” to “Move on, Sister,” and is planning to open the| play at the Playhouse on October 23 The production will continue its try- out period next week, playing at Philadelphia, Fay Bainter is starred. The Theatre Guild’s second pro- duction of the season, Molier's com- edy “The School for Husbands,” ad- apted in rhyme by Arthur Guiterman and Lawrence Langner, will open on Monday night at the Empire Thea- tre. Edmond Rickett has composed @ special musieal score for the play, which has June Walker, Osgood Perkins and Michael Bartlett in the cast. “Keeper of the Keys,” a melodrama by Valentine Davies, based on Earl Derr Biggers’s story of the same name, will set for next Wednesday night at the Fulton Theatre, The cast is headed by William Harrigan, Dwight Frey, Robertta Beatty, Ro- maine Callender and Ruth Easton. “Ten Minute Alibi,” a mystery play from London by Anthony Armstrong, will be presented by Crosby Gaige and Lee Shubert at the Bijou Theatre next Thursday night with Bramwell Fletcher, John Williams, 8. Herbert Braggiotti and Ernest Cossart as the leading players, Jed Harris will bring his new pro- duction, “The Green Bay Tree,” a play by Mordaunt Shairp, to the Booth Theatre on Friday, Oct. 20. James Dale, Laurence Olivier, O. P. Heggie and Jill Esmond head the cast, “Let ‘Em Eat Cake,” a sequel to “Of Thee I sing,” is announced by Sam H. Harris for Saturday, Oct. 21, at the Imperial Theatre. George 8S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind wrote the book and George and Ira Gersh- win furnished the score and lyrics. William Gaxton, Victor Moore, Lois Moran and Philip Loeb head the large cast. Michael Gold Gets First Contribution to ‘Daily’ Fund Drive NEW YORK.—A $5 contribution to the Daiiy Worker drive for $40,000 was received here yesterday from an anonymous worker who signs himself “A Friend.” This friend wants the $5 recorded to the credit of Mike Gold in his so- elalist competition with Edward Newhouse and Dr. Luttinger. NewPamphlet Rips Haloed Mask from Face of Fusion By DAN DAVIS WHAT IS FUSION, by James Casey. Published by the Communist Flec~ tion Campaign Committee: 1 cent, Not only is the penny pi “What Is Fusion?” an exce of material for speakers, " little booklet by the Daily Worker's special writer on city politics, James Casey, is also one of the most read- able that can be handed to a worker. We cannot help quoting the clear introduction which is found in the first two paragraphs of the pamph- let: “The money-lords of Wall Street are preparing, if necessary, to dis- guise their rule over New York City under a new political label. “The Tammany machine, long a faithful servant of the bankers, has gained for itself a reputation more loathsome than any it has borne since its founding. So the bankers and industrialists have slapped to- gether a Fusion ticket. |They are | offering to the millions of voters a choice between an administration | of exposed grafters and a gang of | Wall Street tools whose varied anti- working class activities have not yet been publicly revealed.” Casey traces the history of Fusion | from its pre-natal stage in the capi- | talist leaders’ “Citizens’ Committee | of One Thousand” to the present day of Fusion Manager Chadbourne and | Mayoralty Candidate LaGuardia. Names, figures and facts are mei tioned in a manner which proves con- clusively that the arms of Morgan and Mellon are around the shoulder of their champion LaGuardia. Rocke- feller also has not neglected the Fu- sion camp. “To build their war chest,” says Casey, “the City Fusion Party lead. | ers have the assistance of a financier who has raised more money in po- litical campaigns than probably any living man in America. This man is Colonel Henry R. Winthrop. He is a director of the Chase National Bank, a Rockefeller institution.” LaGuardia’s record of fighting against pay rises for workers, his bat- tle for a war program, his Socialist and Tammany affiliations nail him as the clever opportunist, servant of finance capital and dangerous enemy of the working class. This pamphlet should be spread among the masses of New York. Hay- ing read it, a worker will think twice* before voting for Fusion and will find assistance im making his deci- sion in the last few pages of the Pamphlet which contain the Com- munist Party ‘am, The pam » a8 depicted by a splendid cartoon on the front cover, rips the haloed mask off Fusion. mphlet t, Moscow Philharmonic Orches- tra To Give Series of Concerts At Plants, Factory Clubs The Moscow Philharmonic Orches- tra, one of the finest musical organi- zations in the Soviet Union and con- sidered in Europe and America as one of the major orchestras, is plan- ning to give a large number of sym-. phony concerts in plants and in fac« tory clubs. According to the Mos- cow report, the Philharmonic Orches- tra has made arrangements with thirteen of the largest Moscow fac- tories to appear this season. Among the factories are the Sickle and Hammer steel works, Kauchuk (rubber) plant, Krasni Proletari ma- chine building works, and others. At these concerts, the Philharmonic Or- chestra is to present many new com- positions. The workers will hear Tehaikoyski’s “Hamlet” overture; Bizet’s one-act opera “Djamileh,’ with Davidova, Koslovski-Kromshen- | ko and other singers of the Bolshoi Opera Theatre in the principal roles; Myaskovski’s “Fourth Symphony”; Berlioz’s “Fantastic Symphony” and Goedike’s “Organ Concerts.” AMUSEMENTS “4 Stars, AN THE PASSION OF With Narrative Dialogue in Added | SOVIET Attraction ACME THEATRE 7 Masterpiece In Sound”—Dally Ne JOAN of ARC, YOUTH DEMONSTRATION IN LENINGRAD Sound ith STREET & UNION SQUARE RKO Jefferson 11h St. & | Now WARNER BAXTER and MYRNA LOY and “THIS DAY AND AGE” with CHARLES BICKFORD and JUDITH ALLEN The Biggest Event of the Year at the American YOUTH CLUB 408 ROCKAWAY AVENUE BROOKLYN LITTLE GUILD QUARTET A Program of Chamber Music TRE STRING M.-NEGRO QUARTET AND STRING TRIO String Presentation. Negro Spirituals. 1.—DAvID JUILLIARD IV.—LITHUANIAN AIDA GIRLS SEXTETTE A Program of Dramatized Songs. AMERICAN YOUTH CLUB ART SECTIO! Art Program, Saturday, October 14 8:15 P. M. SHARP Admission with this ad 25 cents. Regular Admission, 85 cents. Note:—Due to the length of theprogram we will stort on time, Be prompt. in “PENTHOUSE”! | —RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL- SHOW PLACE of ee NATION Direction “Roxy” pens 11:30 A.M. ‘The PRIVATE LIFE of HENRY the 8th” with Charles Laughton and a great cas and a great “Roxy” stage show S50 to 1 p.m.—bSie to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) RKO Greater Show Season —— ~ ENE O’NEILL's NEW PLAY AH, WILDERNESS GUIL Sind St., W. of Bway { Mat, Thur, Sat. 2:20 Ev. JOE CGOK in |F{OLD YOUR HORSES A Musical Runaway in 24 Scenes ‘4 Mith St. | Winter Garden "y" for" Eys, 8:59, Mats. | Phursday and Saturday et 2:30. THEATRE COLLECTIVE Section of Workers Laboratory Theatre. of WLR. | Presecte: | ‘The Group Theatre | Theatre Collective Hemsley Winfield | THE THEATRE GUILD presents guar! | {— at the CITY COLLEGE AUDITORIUM 28rd Street and Lexington Avenue Sunday, October 15 A a0 P.M. Heip improve the | send in your suggestions and criticism! | Let us know what the workers in your Shop think about the “Daily.* , “The National | at the PROSPECT FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13th CLARENCE HATHAWAY 1157 SOUTHERN BOULEVARD, BRONK, at 8:30 PROCEEDS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Editor-in-Chief of the” DAILY WORKER will lecture on Recovery Act” WORKERS’ CENTER Toe meee mcm en)