The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WORKER. » NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938 Page Five WHAT WORLD! By Michael Gold A Word on Audiences ESTERDAY I had a few bits of advice for public speakers in our move- “niént. It is a matter that ought to be studied, as every form of propa- garida"and organization should be intensely studied. “And now I want to wind up this advice by expressing myself on the subject of atidiences. “ere Wiust be hundreds of workers’ cultural clubs and similar groups around New York which hold weekly meetings. There is a constant de- mand for speakers that can never be met. At times you get the feeling as if they, were all pursuing you. It is a symptom of our time; there was never so much discussion and debate in America. Everybody is anxious to find out what tomorrow will bring. This, of course, is a forerunner of all great mass-movements in history. - Anyway,-around New York there has come into existence a kind of subway cireuit for speakers, and I have trouped it many times. Last winter I spdke some thirty times in two months, besides trying to do some writitig and make a living. If that isn’t work, I want to be told what is. I’d rather do ten hours of physical labor than make a speech, and that’s the. truth. So I know the New York audiences, And what I want to say is, that most of them are fine, but some of them deserve a kick in the pants, The other night I spoke in one of the boros that surround Manhattan Island. It..was a subway and ferry-ride that took me exactly two and a half hours. I got to the place at 8:30, the time scheduled. hadn’t been opened yet by Comrade Janitor, and I had to wait. The audience began. filing in nonchalantly at nine o'clock. At ten they were still dribbiing-in and out. And they gossipped, and walked around the back‘ of thé réom, and crackled their newspapers, while I was trying to tell them what they had insisted I iravel for two and a half hours to tell -them. They acted as if they were bored. They were sophisticated; they knew everything the speaker would say. It was an audience of “old Bolsheviks,” of comrades.,who'd been through the mill and were sick of speeches. All right, it is understandable that one gets tired of listening to the voice of oratory. I do myself, but why, then, do these red sophisticates go to all the meetings en-masse, and show their superiority by walking around the hall, gossipping, shuffling, reading books, flirting, etc., ete—Is it really a form of sabotage or is it contempt or what? Can’t they stay away? What I know is, there are a few places where I can never be tempted again to speak, though I’m not mentioning any names just now. . The Irish and the Vets y bbe of the most enjoyable evenings I spent recently were at the Irish Workers’ Club and at a meeting of an East Side Post of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League. The Irish workers give you a feeling of warmth and sincerity. Their discussions have a lyric and personal quality; they haven't yet learned to be sophisticated and tired. Their nation has been in a revolutionary state of mind for..centuries, and so all their ideas are very directly related to action and.dite,- At the end-of the discussion period there was a sing-song. Everyone got up andssang; one comrade an old ballad in Gaelic, haunting and beautiful withcits ancient sorrow of a persecuted race, reminding one so much’ of the traditional Hebrew melodies. Another comrade, an Irish lassié, ‘sang'Several amusing things, one of them about ‘her Uncle Da? McCann, aad “egg, who'd disappeared out of the family, and then had turned up “BS @ plump and wealthy congressman; making the laws a Washingten. And an old blind comrade sang ballads gay and sentimental and -nobody ‘apologized for one’s yoice or was self-conscious. Labor songs of Ireland and England were sung, too, of course. There is;nothing amete2moving than the Irish revolutionary balladry. Why don’t Amerivan workers sing? The Wobbies knew how, but we have still to develom a Communist Joe Hill. av ° + Fighters All IPRs erkow: dix-pervicamen's League has now a membership of ove? ‘SHR0G0 amtl’a total of some 230 posts. The vets had hated Hoover, and put all thei# hopes in Roosevelt. Now Smiling Frank has let them dowr more badly than ever did Vinegar-Face Herb. The vets are getting bitter agaih, And the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League is the only organization left fo fight, for their rights, It is an organization with a tremendous future, if rightly handled. ; Herold, Hickerson, who wrote in collaboration with Maxwell Anderson . . S seeretary of the League. He reports great activity. Many posts of:the American Legion in the South and West, are getting sore at their oMe:.s who have sold them out to the capitalist government, And they are coming into the workers’ organization. It is a drift that will yet havo consequences. “For thg veterans are one of the important: political influences in ever: county. They contain a most militant portion of the working class. The; have a deep-%otted sense of injury, most of them; while they wallowec in the mud-and lice of the trenches, and gave up legs, arms, ears auc eyes fer the-magnificent pay of $30 a month, slackers at home were be- coming millionaires. These slackers now run government departments, and-tell the veterans to go to hell. “Many great promises were made the veterans when they were needed | to defend the nation, It is the memory of these promises that rankles in the mind of the hungry, sick, jobless army. It is a big political force, this discontent, basic to any proletatian movement today, for it is a direct link with the youth‘and military life of a country. \ Whatever the big shots may do or say, the masses are heart and soul with the veterans. I must describe the post meeting, however, in tomorrow’s column, * * * Helping Michael Gold to Win Louis seat + -$1.00 Frank Schmidt . $1.00 Dick Crowley. . 1.00 Elizabeth Martin ......,,. 1.00 Alvai Schenck 48 25 Sam Rackson’< 2.00 » 10 Dr. Boris Stashet 2.00 . : . on Friday afternoon. The program on Saturday evening at Carnegie will include the Brahms and Janacek numbers and Glagou- noff’s Violin Concerto in A minor, with Mishel Pigstro as soloist. Pias- tro will again appear on Sunday as soloist in the same concerto. The Sunday program will also include Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor and Haydn's Symphony in G major (B. and H. No, 13). Mischa Levitzki, pianist, will ap- pear at the first artists’ recital of The People's Symphony Concerts on Friday night at Washington Irving High School. The program includes Chopin, Bach, Schubert and Beeth- Arthur Schnabel Soloist With » Philharmonic Tonight Arthur Schnabel, pianist, will be the soloist in.the Beethoven Fourth Concerto in @. major, which the Phil- harmonic-Symphony Orchestra will fer here this evening under the rection of Bruno Walter at Car- egie Hall...Two other numbers, 8: No. 3 in-F major, and: Taras: Bulba,” a rhapsody by Janacek, will:be on the same pro- gram.’ This‘is Janacek’s latest work. ‘The hall | acco;Vanzetti play, “Gods of the Lightning,” is now national or- | |New Haven Workers School in Second Year NEW HAVEN, Conn.— The local Workers School has begun its second year with a larger enrollment than last year. Classes in Fundamentals of Communism, Public Speaking and Trade Unionism are being given every Sunday afternoon, beginning at 2 p.m. at 64 Oak St. Mass Organizations are urged to courses, and sympathetic individual workers are also invited. The agitprop committee of the dis- trict announced that similar schools have been established in Stamford, Bridgeport and New Britain. Hart- ford will begin classes next week. The October “Communist” By R. DOONPING At a time when an important | strike is sweeping the country and when significant victories are being |won by the workers under revolu- | tionary leadership, the appearance of the October issue of the Commu- nist is of special significance. The materials contained in this issue are |so much an integral part of the struggle against the N. R. A, that | they provide an absolutely indispens- jable weapon for the further develop- |ment of the struggle. | As the demagogy or the N. R. A. jis fast breaking down under the | weight of its own contradictions and |the true nature of the “New Deal” | becomes more and more nakedly ex- |posed, the objective conditions for |further growth of the strike move- ment are bound to improve. We are on the brink of facing greater strug- gles than we have ever had, and the | theoretical clarification and guidance | contained in this issue of the Com- munist constitute an important part of the necessary preparations for such a task, The leading article | Browder, the General |the Communist Party, U. S. A, on |the Open Letter and the Struggle | Against the N. R, A. is naturally the | most important. After pointing out that the trade unions under our leadership have led many struggles and “won a high percentage of vic- tories”; that these unions “have mul- tiplied their membership about three times in the last three months, and that the successes in the steel and textile industries are particularly notable,” Comrade Browder proceeds |to examine the factors which made | the achievements possible. They a! “(1) The spontaneous upsurge of the | workers struggles and their radical« jization, which we have begun to ; equip ourselves to organize and di- |rect; through (2) the improvement |in the political line and methods of work of the Party, by applying the directives of the Open Letter; and (3) our correct analysis of the N.R.A. | and the ‘New Deal,’ and the prompt |and fearless tactical application of |the methods of struggle worked out |at the Extraordinary Party Con- | ference,” These factory are analyzed and by Comrade Secretary of | the dangers of deviations are pointed | jout in the clearest and sharpest | fashion. The widest opportunities for the application of the tactics of the united front in the struggle against the N.R.A, as well as the question \{ building the Party and decreasing fluctuation of membership are suc- cinctly but throughly discussed, The article answers many vital questions ; Which frequently confront’ those who are in the front line of the mass struggles or those who are in close jcontact with it. Comrade Browder’s general survey is followed by special articles deal- | Steel mills and in the auto industry by leaders in their respective spheres of activity. Thus the tasks in the most important fields of activities, in the heavy industries, are con- eretely discussed by Comrades Mel- don, Frank and Schmiess. The re- print of the letter from the Org, De- partment of the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist International | (E.C.CI.) on the work in the fac~| tory nuclei is particularly valuable at the present time and should be studied, not merely read through, by every comrad¢g, and applied in the daily shop work. V. J. Jerome's thorough and penet- rating study of opportunism which began publication in serial form in the August issue is concluded in this issue, The articles are scholarly but not scholastic. They have a direct bearing on the struggles of the mo- ment on the question of social fas- cism. They should be read and studied together with Browder's classic Marxist-Leninist analysis of social-fascism, published in pamphlet form under the title: “The Meaning of Social-Fascism,” Vern Smith’s ar- ticle on the “Beginnings of Revolu- tionary Political Action in the U. S. A.” contains valuable material and Interesting suagestive ideas on the social history of the United States, Last, but certainly not least. I must mention Lenin’s address to the The same program will be repeated JIM MARTIN vi WAS TRIAL vg /} AU FIRST. HE Was) WORRIED 37 BEING -ORFENDED Gv oven compositions. — THE WAN TO UBB UATE PRO TEST OF aur TELEGRAMS AND KETTERS To THE ATOR ~ = - = ~ dE SEES THE WORKERS TAKING UP HS FIGHT FOR FREEDOM! rm as SMASH THIS FRAME- WORKERS - SEND Communist Youth made in 1920, send their members to enroll in these | ing with the struggle against the |“New Deal” in the coal fields and| eastern part of Michigan, just above the thumb. Much of the farm- ing is marginal. The soil is sandy. Around Glennie, where I have worked on an alfalfa farm, the farms are clearings hacked out of the thick brush. The farmers here are Bel- come from the large cities. There are also the Scotch and the Irish, children of the old lumberjacks. A few of the settlers come from Iowa. The government has been trying to force the farmers off the land here. It plans to make a state park where the rich will be able to hunt and fish. The farmers are not so militant as those in the Michigan Peninsula or the farmers around Bad Axe, White Cloud, Muskegon. But they too are stirring. Sea A Power Greater Than Electricity ANLY two farmers in the whole vil- lage have electricity. One of these is the Belgian, Louis Samian. And he had to put in a plant of his own because the light and power com- pany is a gun thug. A couple of years ago Louis didn’t know the difference between amperes and volts, Louis got himself books. He dammed the stream. No one helped him with the cement work. It took him a whole year, but he's got power now. The little one and a half horse- gushes out under the willows. nips the white glowering arrowheads. His harnessed power grinds his corn, Ughts barn and house, and runs the radio to which his blind father listens | all day long. It eases the housework for his mother and the sister back from Detroit because her husband is jobless. It seems to help everybody but Louis. ‘ Louis shows me the way tothe ma- chine shop where he likes to spend every bit of his spare time. He rests against the bench. He talks slowly. He is slim. His lips are girlish and he has a nicked hatchet face. Electricity is power, but it can’t make cream sell for 70 cents the way it sold during the war. It can’t help now very much with clearing the brush. Only 50 acres on the whole farm are tillable, The father used to help, but now all he does is sit near the radio and listen like a doc- tor to a heart, They can’t afford to hire a man. The little nephew drives during haying. Louis has to wrestle alone with the 16-inch marpoon fork and the slings. Louis was too young to go to war. If he'd been older, he might have gone, for it wouldn’t have mattered one way or the other then. Not now. Patriotism is a word written out of the book for him now, Still he can remember the good times. In the early days this part of the country was good for peas and beans. There was a pea elevator in town for which the farmers raised what they called coptract peas. The com- Pany supplied them with the seed. But the elevator burned down after a while. Too much competition, any- way, was killing whatever little profit gians, Bulgarians, Serbians who have} power dynamo hums like a ground| bee. Belts slap. The undershot wheel | It} LCONA COUNTY lies in the north-| was in it. Four Michigan Farmers By Ben Field Wool, .and lambs were high. They had 4 big flock of sheep when bears began killing them off. The game laws protected the bears so that the millionaires from the automobile cities could come up north and have sport. The.farmers couldn’t do anything about it but yell till the government ‘decided to pay. At first you got $25’ for a slaughtered ewe, than half of that. Many a farm- er would raise bears now to kill his sheep if he could get that. Louis grins a little. But in the cities it's worse, isn’t-it? People sell- ing dishrags, their furniture in the streets, souplines all ever the country. If you got no property in this county, you get relief. Herein the country you've got property and so you can Starve. Or better, the property's got you. ° So all Louis goes is keep on slaving. Nights rounding up his herd, lost miles off on a sideroad. Haying till the fork slips from his aching hands. | Carting his cows~to be served by) the rich farmer's Angus bull. May) beef will bring in more than milk, So Louis with the hungry burnt face waits and slaves. He waits for a power from the otitside greater than all electricity to give a man his sweaty bread and peace. LAD ae Selle The Boy Came Back “WE live like the Indians,” he says. “There's fishing and berrying.” He shifts his weight to his wooden leg. He leans against the post on which he nailed ‘the big pike head with the teeth like a wolf's. He caught this 30-pounder last winter through the ice. About ten years ago he left the farm. He got a job in Flint as a machinist at punch press and lathe. When herd times come along, he held on by his cracked nails long as he} could. Now he's back on the farm, cornered like hundreds of thousands of other young fellows who had rum away from the barns, the cows, the/ hot dusty fields, | The old man bought this farm 37| years ago. the base along the road. Real wilder- ness. He worked his own and the family’s hide off, clearing it, They broke their goddamned backs and bellies with axe and.saw. But there's something they could not clear. They could not clear off debts. They owe land taxes of $120 from last year which they don’t know how they’! pay back, They owe $100 for seed. They owe—. Just then @ matchbox of an old Ford rattles up to the fence. The creamery man. He’s come with the “good news” the ereamery’s raised its price to 14 cents. He drives off. ‘The wooden leg creaks, A cent up will make them all rich, There was his brother turning the separator so goshdarned slow so more *ream should come out. He warned him not to do it. He wouldn't listen. They don’t listen to you because you didn’t have the guts to stay on and seooted like a waterspider away to the city, Well, his brother had to-stop because the butterfat fell down from 40 to 30 in test. They fattened up a cow for three months. They couldn't get It's laid out in a wedge,| TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Mountaineers Music. T1$—Billy Bachelor—Sketch, 7:30—Lum and Abner, 1:43—The Goldbergs—Sketch. 8:00—Vallee Orch.; soloists. 9:00—Cap. Henry Show Boat Concert rator; Al Jolson Songs. 11:00—Viola Philo,’ soprano. }1:13—Merofft Orch. 11:30—Denny Orch. 12:00—Ralph Kirbery, songs. 32:08 A.M.—Calloway Orch. A 12:30—Dance Orch. * WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Pord Frick. 1:15—Newe—Gabyiel Heatter. 7:30-—Terry and Ted—Sketch. 1:45—Talk—Perey Went 8:00—Demarco Sisters; tenor. Frank Sherry, which is reprinted in this issue, It 4s one of the basic Marxist-Leninist documents on the question of the youth and the cultural revolution. One can do no better than to con- clude this review with a quotation from this address, Lenin says: “Only through a clear under- standing and a definite knowledge of culture created during the entire development of humanity, and only by reworking it is it possible to build a proletarian culture; with- out such an understanding we shall not solve our problems, Prole- tarlan culture is not... an in- vention of same people who cail themselves specialists of proleta- Nan culture. That is rank fool- ‘shness, Proletarian culture must come through the regular develop- ment of those sums of knowledge which humanity has created under 10:00—Whiteman Orch.; Deems Taylor, nar-| the yoke of enpitalist society, feud- “alism and officialdom.” ” 9:15—Little Old New, ¥ork—Harrison Grey Fiske. $:30—Lone Star Rangers o—Jack Arthur, songs; Ohman and Ar- den, piano duo. 9:15—Meeting of Committee of 1,000, Town Hall; speakers, F. H. LaGuardia, Judge Samuel Seabury. and others, 10:00-—Variety Musicale, 10.15—Current Event. Read, Hevlan Bugene The Jolly Russians. \—Weatiner Report, —Moonbeams Trio. 11:30—Ohilds Orch. 12:00—Robbins Orch, . * . WJZ—160 Ke 7:00 P.M.—-Amos 'n" Andy. 7:15—The Three Musketeers—Sketch. 1:30—Men of Daring—Francis Sutton— Sketeh. 9:00-—Capt, Diamond's Adventure: 8:30—Adventures in. Health—Dr. pundooes x i 8:45—Crooning Choir, 9:00—-Death Valley Days—aketch. 30—King Orch. - 00—Canadian Exchange Program. '30—Archer Gibson, organ; mixed chorus, Demarco Trio, songs. 15—-Poet Prince. - 30--Seott! Oroh. 00—Spitainy Oreh, -: 2:30 A.M.—Dance Orch. B 1 1 1 1 e WABC-860 Ke, 1:00 P.M.—Myrt and Maree, 7:135—Just Plain Bill—-Sketch, 7:30—Fray arid Bragiottt, pieno duo. ‘1:45—News—Boake Oarter. 6:00—Elmer Everett Yeas—Sketch. 8:15—Singin’ Sam, -~ Johnson Singevt; Hopkins Orch. 9:00—WJAS Dedication « Prosral 9:30—Dramatic Gutid—Tne Tragedy of a Comic Song. °° 10:00-—Deep River Oreh, 10:30—Phil Rezon, songs. 10:45—Gla, Rice. soprano; Concert Oreh. 0H 1i:15—Nows Bulletins. 11:30—Jones Orch, i 1:4S—Now Is the: Time to Buy-—Kate Sinith, chairmen NRA Neti ial Radic Legion. 12:00—Nielson Oreh,:.* | Slasses. more than $13 ofr it. Now the county agent is coming along with a new Plan. None of these plans ever helps. take care of feeding your cows. You get the right money by shipping them on the rairoads which also own stockyards in Detroit, Railroads are | fighting trucking companies. These companies got a long horn. But if he were to say no to the father, the old man wouldn’t listen again. |_ Haying, his leg gets in the way. | Even many fellows sound as a gold | dollar don’t do anything these days. | Some people feel times will clear up quickly. Hope they're right. Any- way at least he had a farm to come back to even if it's a place where more than a man’s leg can be buried. He leans against the fencepost. | | still good for something. | A Serbian Farmer road turns and slips over the to get out of the sun. S settlement is here. Sarah Milititch, who works as housegirl on the same farm where we're haying, shows Us the way. She sees her Cousin Violet walking ahead. Violet jumps on the | footboard. The girls chatter. September is |near. What about school? They will do anything to get away from | these “backwoods.” Last year Violet | worked for the manager of a 7-000- |acte farm. Got $3.50 for washing |all the clothes, floors, etc., every day |in the week. That was the only | way she could stay in school. This |year they want her for $2. The nerve! Sarah worked in an inn, | was up at four o'clock every morn- ing to clean the place before school. After school, cooking and serving until midnight. The road opens and hits a clear- jing. Beyond the fence a cowbarn |and a low house. Mrs, Milititch, a stout little woman, peeps out in friendly fashion. She leads her vis- bare floors, two or three beds, rough table and a dresser with knobs | | like old eggs. | “Ya,” says Mrs. Milititch, “Lilly, \she cry and cry. She no want to go back to city job, She go back. Walt- | ress job, 17 hours a day and only $4. She turns half apologetically and |bows, “What can do? No money |and so much children.” | Pete’s gone off to try to borrow a | reaper from a neighbor. If he can't jget it, he'll have to cut and bind |by hand. He'd have plowed seven more acres for rye, but didn’t have |the money for seed. Went to the |town, to the bank, to borrow $50. ‘Interest 12 per cent. And they | wouldn't give it to him for more |than two months. | At the door the day is bright as j@ young cock. She goes outside to show us her garden, There the beans she calls bobb, her sunflowers, | corn, cucumbers, potatoes, all with- ered. It’s been so dry. And when it |rains a little the sandy earth zoops it right up. And bugs and flies | everywhere, A dog barks. The Milititeh boys come running up before Pete. | Pete is a husky, cleanshayen man in patched overalls, A real peasant to whom talking is tough meat. He | shakes hands and sits down on a bench against the house. He ran away from the old country during the Balkan War, In Chicago} he got work as a carpenter. A rich countryman in the real estate bus | ness induced him to buy the farm, | Heh, he was fooled, Things are so [bad here he's been thinking of g0-| of, Russia? Yah, I read about Rus- ‘ing back to the city when his cousin, | a tinsmith in Detroit, came out there to look for a small farm, The cousin | told him how it is in the cities, how the firemen turn water onthe, hungry people in front of the Ford shooting. you turn. ... | He goes into the kitchen. Sarah) tells us he’s a devil of a worker, used | to be terribly strong. But he ge double ruptures from overworking. They operated on him twice, but it came out. He can’t rest six mr the way the doctor told him. ¢£ goes around with rains and the thing like a horsecollar around his belly. Pete comes out with a bottle and! Potato gin. He fills glasses, | Co-operatives? Oh, yes, they hed) gne here a number of years 70. | Every farmer paid $10 membership. | The head of the co-operative ran| away with $14,000. Pete shakes his head. Sure, the little farmer and the worker must run together like a he and she dog in the season to save themselves, to) save themselves. .. . He waves the flies off, He raises; his glass.. If only all these flies ware | bess, He drinks to our health. He) considers for a time, He raises his| glass again, To the time when| workers and farmers will take all for | themselves from the earth so rich a| hive that no man from the bsgin- | ning should ever have gone hungry. ee erie | Spread This Revolutionary Talk ENRY SCHMITT is haying with his boys. The oldest drives the horsernke, The twins are cocking | 19:30 AM.—ucas Oyeh, 1:00—Light Orch, * = among the windrows, Schmitt Jabs The LL.D. On the Job! WELL, THATS ABOUT @& ~ by QUIPT | It's about an association that will| He strokes the big pike head, He's | | 2 hill like a sandworm in a hurry} ‘The Serbian | itors to the best room. No wallpaper, | al |factories during the winter, and the |) It's bad, bad everywhere | | EMPIRE Reports of Workers’ Theatre Conference Now Ready NEW YORK.—The reports and | resolutions of the Eastern Regional Conference of the League of Work- tional office at 42 E, 12th St. Mem- bers of all dramatic groups are urged to get copies of this thirty-page re- port. | eee eens |Dance to Celebrate Opening of Harlem School Saturday the recent opening of the Harlem Workers School, a gala concert and dance will be given Saturday even- Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., under the auspices of the School and} | the Friends of the Workers School. | A special program will be featured | | consisting of the Liberator Chorus, | | the New Dance Group, the Theatre| | of the Workers School, and the Lib-| | erator Orchestra of seven pieces, | ers Theatres have been mimeograph- | | ed and can be secured from the na-| NEW YORK.—In celebration of} ing, October 21, at the New Harlem} || Stage and Screen | “The Curtain Rises” To Open Tonight At The Vanderbilt; “Three And One” Oct. 25 “The Curtain Rises,” a romantic | comedy by B. M. Kaye, will have its | Premiere at the Vanderbilt Theatre tonight, with Jean Arthur in the chief role. Others in the cast in- clude Kenneth Harlan, Donald Fos- ter and Millicent H: y. “Three and One,” an adaptation by Lewis Galantiere and John Houseman of a French comedy by Denys Amiel, is announced for next Wednesday evening at the Longacre Theatre. Ruth Shepley, Paul Me- Grath, Lilian Bond, John Eldredge and Katherine Stewart head the cast. The production is playing in Newark this week. Another opening scheduled for next Wednesday night is the Antare- tic play “The World Waits,” by George F. Hummel, coming to the his pitchfork into the ground. He| wipes his big red face with a ragged | {bandanna. He'll let the sun make} | hay alone for a minute to talk poli- | ties. | “In China they're chopping heads | off,” he says quietly. “If we could | do the same with our politicians, | we'd be a whole lot better off. With | the politicians of both big parties, | and I'm taking no sides. We had a} grange around here and it went to] |smash. A farmer's elevator and they | |soaked the farmer more than if aE | was owned private. The farmers got | |to be united. A union built like a |machine with a dog in it to catch| jand hold the farmer straight.” | | Schmitt points to a silo in the dis- | tance. “There you are. Most of) them farmers who built silos is/| j harder on their backsides than the | rest of us now. About $700 to put up, and all the attention you got to pay) | corn, and money for cutting and fill- ing. Hell, and milk two or three lcents a quart best price. The silo farmers are using silos for chicken ;coops now. There’s a fellow to the east turned into a pigpen. Rather expensive pigpen, 30 feet high. Yah, our money crop used to be cream around here. ‘Yah, money crop. That’s a crop in which you bury all| your money. You were lucky to get $15 for a 10-gallon can. Now it's a dollar and a half for five gallons. You know well whose fault that is.” Schmitt pulls a spear of timothy. He pinches the head into seed into his paw. “I worked in the city when I was a boy. ‘The trouble is city people don’t know more about farm- ing than the fifth wheel of a wagon, Even the smart ones often don't {know if a cow comes from teat or | tail. And that’s one thing that’s | got us all balled up—letting the poll- tician feed on both of us, The poli- tician always manages to have but- ter in his bowl while we drive our young ones to work into the hay. We can’t afford a hired man. Even | when the hired man don’h get @ | dollar a day and his keep, It’s about | time we stopped letting ourselves be- ling made monkeys of, I'm thinking. Chain stores, big corporations and |yailroads using those politicians like | their claws to draw things out of the fire for them. There was that politician Congressman who was | fighting the chain stores, The farm- ers thought he was just it and they | clapped him all over while he cocked himself up. Suddenly he gave up jthe fight. They found he owned} | Shares in that chain company.” Schmitt bites on the timothy, He| | spits out bitterly, “It's just about | time we did something. We got to | take a lesson off somebody . There's | China where they're chopping heads sia. Now that’s one country in the | world where there is justice. You ean put me down for this revolu- | tionary talk. Spread it far and wide Norse spreader, There's And I know what I'm talk- {like a fo | Russia. ng? N. 32nd Street, Little Theatre. The cast includes Blaine Cordner, Reed Brown, Jr., Philip Truex, Hans Sundquist and Eric Kalkhurst. “The Family Upstairs,” Harr> Delt’s comedy, will be revived on Monday evening .at the Biltmore Theatre. The play was last seen here in 1925, Jacob Ben-Ami In “The Wan- dering Jew” At Cameo Jacob Ben-Ami, noted star of the Yiddish and English stage, and late- ly with the Civic Repertory Theatre, makes his screen debut in “The Wan- dering Jew,” which comes to the Cameo Theatre this Friday. The film 4s the first of a scheduled series in which Ben-Ami is to be starred. WHAT’S ON ALL THEATRE GROUPS to meet Thursday evening, 8 p.m. in the Workers Center, 50 E. 13th St, to Prepare skits for the election campaign, JOHN REED OLUB School of Art Fall Term starte October 23. Day and evening classes in life drawing, Painting, fresco, sculpture, poster, political cartooning, lth- ography, under Miner, Gellert, Lozowick, Refregier, Dibner and other prominent artists. Office open for registration this week from 2 to 4 p.m. Address, 430 6th Avenue, New York Oity. Thursday “DIALECTIC Materialism and Science’? lecture by David Ramsey at the Pen and Hammer, 114 W. 21st 8t. An open forum will follow the talk. MEMBERS of W.ILR. band to re- Webster Hall, 11th St. and srd Ave. to play for election campaign affair, Bring your instruments. DI om Trade Unionism at Pe! ham Parkway Workers Club, 3179 Wi! Plains Road at 9.30 p.m. Pelham Park- way Station. Friday MAX BEDACET wM spesk on “Youth and the Orisis,” Al Wilson of the John Reed Club will’ give @ chalk talk at Coop Auditorium, 2800 Bronx Park East. EDUCATIONAL the Daily be held at the Workers Center, 35 M 12th @t,, Room 207. Edwin Rolfe, feature editor of the Daily Worker, will’ speak. Adm, 1c. Volunteers JOE BRODSKY will lecture on “Scotts. boro and Leipzig, A Tale of Two Cities,” at the Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thad- ford Ave., Brooklyn, at 8 p.m. by Susan B. Woodruff at Sun. shine Lodge, Set Gate and Maple Ave., Brooklyn, at 8.30 p.m., on “My Trip Thru Soviet Russia.” Dlustrated with slides. Ausplees, F.8.U, Sea Gate Br. DAVID LEVINSON will speak on the “Leipzig Trial and the Reichstag Pire,” at the Willamsburg Mansion, 297 S. Sth St., Brooklyn, at 830 pm, Auspices, Williams- burg Br. P.S.U. Adm. léc. (Detroit, Mich.) REGISTRATION now going on for Work- ers School, 323 Erskine St. at Brush. Night classes in Fundamentals of Communism, Political Economy, History of American Labor Movement, Shop ‘Problems, Negro Problems, Leninism, Problems of Youth Movement, Russian, English and other courses. Philadelphia, Pa. MASS MEETING Against War and Fas- cism will be held on Thursday October 19, at 8 p.m. st Union Hall, 913 Aroh Street. Report of Youth Delegates. Adm. 15c, Aus- pices: Youth Anti-War Committee. DANCE and Exhibition of Proletarian Art by members of the John Reed Club will be given at Srawberry Mension Workers Club On Saturday October 22 at 8 p.m, at 2014 Adm. 250. ___ AMUSE MENTS Every Parent, Every Teacher, Every Beginning ‘Today Guardian, Should See This Picture! |THE RED HEAD” cirorre= A STORY OF ADOLESCENCE * Dialogue im French, Added Attractio ACME THEATR UNI : LATEST SOVIET NEWSREEL Mth STREET & English Subtities |15¢3 ION SQUARE Opening Tomorrow JACOB BEN-AMI “THE in Wandering Jew” Adapted from a story by Jac 42nd St & Biw'y Mon, to Frilpam, h y ®Ko CAMEO 25e ThE THEATRE EUGENE O'NEL AH, WILD) ih MOLIERE'S COMEDY WITH MUSIC ‘RE SC™OOL FOR HUSBANDS |} Adapted in 7! by Arthur Guiterman & L ‘then., 8:30; Mat, Thur.,Sat. MASS RECEPTION for EMIL NYGARD, first Communist Mayor THURSDAY, OOT. 19, at 8:15 p.m. WEBSTER HALL, 119 E. 11th St. Other Speakers GOL CARL WINT! K, Oh Unemployed Connelly of Greater New York RADIO CITY MUSIC HAL SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy” Opens 11:30 A.M. ‘AGGIE APPLEBY Maker of Men’ with Chas, Farrell and Wynne Gibson | and a great “Roxy” stage show — ‘35e to 1 p.m.—d5e to @ (Ex. Ke RKO Jefferson js 5! & | Now GEORGE ARLISS in “VOLTAIBE” with DORIS KENYON also “LIFE IN THE RAW" with GEORGE O'BRIEN snd CLAIRE TREVOR JOE COOK in HOLD YOUR HORSES A Musical Weaseey in bagi * i. & Winter Garden “20 fan sas, Phorsday and Saturday at 2:50. CITY AFFAIRS BEING HELD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE Daily, cWorker OCT, 20th: Film showing of “Little Church Around the Cozner.” Early Amer- ican film concerning Iwhor gles in the ensl fields. At 8 and 10 P.m, at Film and Photo League, ¥. 1th St. Adm. 25¢, Bridge Plaza 78 Club, 988 Rod~ ney St, ‘ooklyn, will show a new Soviet film for members of the and their friends only., You must }: get your passes from the of the elub in advance on § October 20 at 8.15 p.m,