The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1933, Page 7

WORLD! By Michael Gold + AM glad to see that our Doctor has accepted the challenge to a com- petition for funds for the Daily Worker. ‘There has already been some response to the appeal in this column, and I would advise Dr. Luttinger to get busy, or find himself behind in the race. As I have said, I do not expect to win. If anyone is betting on this contest, I would advise him to accept nothing less than three to one on Doctor Luttinger. y This doesn’t mean that the race is over. Not by a long shot. Doctor Luttinger will know he has been in a scrap. And who can tell: poetry _ may come in at the finish line, and beat science by a nose. y . . . Lloyd’s Insurance Naame) though, I am grateful to those comrades who have already i responded. Keeping the Daily Worker alive is-one of the major tasks of the movement today. We are passing through a stormy transition period leading to the most colossal events in the history of the world. At Lloyd’s, you may have noticed, they now offer odds of two to one that a world war will arrive within 18 months. Lloyd’s is the famous insurance agency of London, England, where for a century business men have gone to cover their risks, Lloyd’s will insure you (that is to say, bet with you) on anything—shipwreck, tornado, drought, rain, disease. Violinists insure their fingers; acrobats their muscles} movie actresses their complexion; bootleggers bet on high- jacking; business men on tariffs, or what not. They will quote odds on anything; and Lioyd’s generally wins. When they offer two to one on war in 18 months it is definite they have authoritative information. The Daily Worker is the only daily newspaper in the United States now fighting against war, fascism, race discrimination, and for real trade unions, not the company unionism of Nira. Some Responses ERE ere the first blows struck by readers of this column to Keep the flag of the Daily Worker flying above the storm-clouds. I again give my sincere thanks to all these comrades. ij The Daily Worker is our insurance against the vast injustice done daily to the American workers of hand and brain. We need it; it is our only source of true information in this troubled period. Every day that the Daily Worker lives means that more Americans have learned what schemes and plots are being laid against us by the Big Shots who rule Wall Street and Washington. Writes “Louis”: “I’ve always wanted to write you, and here’s a chance to say it with a doller bill, Lots of luck to the ‘Daily’! Another comrade named Frank Schmidt, of New York, says: “Due to the fact that I have been unemployed for a long period of time, I have not been able to support the Daily Worker as I would like to. But en- closed is a dollar for the only working-class daily, the only paper that tells the truth every day. Long live the ‘Daily’!” Dick Crowley writes: “The other day, according to the New York Times, some Portuguese peasants on seeing a meteoric shower thought the sters were falling. They rushed to the church and the priests or- ganized processions and lit candles. Two hours later the stars stopped . falling, showing the power of religious processions on astronomy. Who church doesn’t take advantage of ignorance? Here's a dollar your thousand.” {ivam Schenck of Brooklyn is a comrade with a real sense of humor. ‘He cncioses a dollar, and says: “Your challenge is magnificent. I am very fond cf Prv-Luttinger, yet"I -would-tike to see what you write on consti~ pation. So I am sending 49 cents for your side of the competition, and 51 cons to the credit of Dr. Luttinger. Long life to the ‘Daily.’” am Rackson of Syracuse, N. Y.: “A few days ago you rightly pointed out so Comrade Pat the role that proletarian literature should and does piay in the class struggle. It rekindles our spirit, and the worker carries on. I have seen the appeal on the first page for weeks, but am ashamed to say your appeal seemed to wake me up for the first time. I hope Ed Newhouse enters this contest, and makes it three-cornered. I am con- tributing to your column, not that I don’t like my spinach. I enclose a 5 $2.check (non-rubber) and here’s hoping the hay fever, diet, baseball, fectball and all other fans start to call and raise so fast you'll have to double the ante.” Dr. Boris Stasheff of the Bronx prefers literature to science, he says, and sends $2 to back up the Daily Worker. And another comrade, J.M. K., sends 25 cev/s from Detroit, with a note saying: “But I also like the health column—our Doctor is O.K.” A Long Way to Go FEW days ago a sum of $31 was acknowledged on this page. It was interesting to note that the girls in a dress shop had got. together * and made a collection. These shop collections are a wonderful means of education, as well as money-raising. Thanks, girls, So the total to date is over $40. Not so bad for little over a week. But it’s still a long way to Tipperary and that $1,000. . . . Humor? ‘THERE have been a few objections that this competition has too frivol- ous an air for so serious an object as saving the Daily Worker. Really, | -some comrades have come to believe that anyone who smiles is deviating. But in the darkest days of the Russian Revolution our great leader Lenin knew how to laugh. You can’t run a mass movement only on horror stories; you must teach the masses hope and courage; and even how to joke in this dark inferno we live in. It is good for the morale, But smile, frown or curse; it’s all the same, so long as you help the Daily Worker! s * * Helping Michael Gold to Win FTG. cecsereeseccnesesvescesssenemeecssereseen sess: (8100 . ° Previous Total . TOTAL TO DATE CELEBRATE WORKERS’ OCTOBER with the United Front Conference for the Celebration of the 16th Anniversary of Russian Revolution Noy. 7th 8 p. m.—Mason Thea., 172 S. Bway. \ Tickets 25 Cents ? Rebel Players — International Chorus — Speakers Young Rebel Poet Issues His First Volume of Verse | By ALAN CALMER WHEN THE SIRENS BLOW AND | OTHER POEMS, by Leonard Spier. | With a Foreword by Jack Conroy. Hagglund, Publisher. 20c, Leonard Spier is one of a number of minor poets who are working and sweating to lay the foundations of a | proletarian poetry in America. In little literary magazines reaching a limited audience and in the workers’ press, they are trying to hammer our little epics of the class struggle, are trying to shape the deeds.of the rev- olutionary movement into poetic material, Although much of their | effort shows the effect of unskilled labor, they are doing some valuable spadework, Spier’s pioneer contributic which have appeared in “Left,” “New Force,” “Rebel Poet,” as well as the “Daily” and “Young Worker”—have just been collected in the fifth Rebel Poet booklet to come out of the Mid- west. They extend from poems with \@ big subject like “China Gone Red” and “Song to Red India” to narra- tives of a single worker like “Com- rade at the Rear.” They include not only songs of “turmoil” but also | “quieter interludes” in the life of a | revolutionary poet. But most of these poems seem to lack the poetic spark and critical discipline found in an outstanding booklet of revolutionary verse like |“We Gather Strength.” Accordingly, | when Spfer tries to soar too high, his verse is usually dragged down by | outworn poetic baggage, is kept from ascending by a shortage of fresh | poetic imagery. On the other hand, | when he contents himself with a |simple depiction of simple things, |the result is very satisfying. “Com- rade at the Rear” is an example of ; what we mean. It is an unadorned | but effective description of a rank and file worker who collects money for the National Hunger March in | the shop during lunch-time. We wish we had the space to quote it here. Occasionally, even in his more am- bitious projects, Spier pens simple yet stirring stanzas—like this one from “China Gone Red”: We rejoice in the old who shall live to behold the glory of China, For the young who shall bend back the darkness and end the sorrows of China. Sometimes a particularly excellent theme helps to elevate his verse, as |in the title poem, “When the Sirens | Blow (A War Poem for Working Women)”: What will you do when the sirens blow, You who have toiled? When the whips of woe ery hurry and go, Will you dare to defy them, dare to say no? The sirens of war shall soon be call- ing Your son to the valleys of filth and slaughter— You who have raised him through Slavery and strife With the tears and the years and the | sweat of your life, What will you do? Often there is a fine idea which is not handled well enough—as in “Book note”: | | Russia is a book of poems (read it, comrades, read it!) 160,000,000 songs to the goodness of man and the goodness of woman! An interesting section of the book- let consists of translations from the Hungarian, including the famous | Poem by Antal Hidas which was written as an answer to the ques- tion, “What would you do if a war was declared against the Soviet Union?” Noted Actors to Attend Theatre Ball, November 4 NEW YORK.—Guests of honor at the Theatre Ball, which the Theatre Union is giving on Nov. 4 at Webster Hall, will include Nancy Carroll, Cis- sie Loftus, Stella Adler, Mary Mor- ris, Mary Blair, Rose McClendon, Lois Davidson, Molly Picon, Jacoh Ben | Ami, Lloyd Nolan, and Victor Killian, | who” will appear in the costumes of | their favorite roles, | Round Table Discussion at Theatre Club Tomorrow NEW YORK.—Prominent theatre people will present their impressions of the “Theatre Night”—held at City College last Sunday—at the Workers’ Laboratory Theaire, 42 E. 12th St., at 8:30 p. m. tomorrow. Paul and Claire Sifton, Nathanael Buchwald, recently returned from the U.S.S.R,, and several members of the oD ‘Theatre will lead the discus- ion, RAISE THEIR QUOTA The Peabody Unit, Peabody, Mass., was supposed to raise $11. It raised $25, and is still collecting for the “Daily.” This is what you can call biffing the capitalist class right square in the face! ae Vala 9 Comrades of all organizations and all you who are collecting for the “Daily!” Don’t hold on the money you collect. Rush it to the “Daily” Cd ae get it. Help us pay imminent is! ECAUSE I believe that the conclu- sions on jazz music published in} Michael Gold's column recently have | not been as clear-cut as possible I} have been permitted to contribute a brief outline on the subject. Jazz is| not widely understood, especially in- sofar as concerns the class relations| on which it is based, | In his column Comrade Gold stat- | ed that tunes like St. Louis Blues were of the “folk-quality” and con- tinued, “But that’s not jazz; that’s the African nation; and if there were @ way to separate African art from American commercialism I'd be glad to say anywhere that I liked Afri- can music, because I greatly do.” There is such a way—it is the way of Marxian analysis. It is important, first of all, to emphasize Dale Cur- ran’s remark (published in the Daily Worker) that “jazz grew out of the Negro reaction to white chauvinism.” This reflects an historically correct analysis: jazz is American and com- Positions such as St. Louis Blues are American and not of “the African nation.” Comrade Gold has only to perceive that African and American folk music represent different bases of production to see that an African label cannot be slapped onto an American product. A Marxian analy- sis begins with an examination of class relations, Jazz has its roots in the oppressive measures of southern plantation owners against the Negro masses. It is specifically a folk music in deriva- tion. The Negro brought his own folk musi¢ from Africa, It was this folk music, modified by English folk songs, hymns, and early American tunes, that gave birth to the Negro spirituals—not the emaciated ver- sions recorded by harmony quartets, but the spirituals as sung in the South, with their African heritage of polyphonous harmonies and complex rhythms. With the passing of the 14th amendment the status of the Negro in the South changes. Instead of @ slave in the eyes of the world, he became an enslaved serf and pro- letarian. (cf. Resolution on the Negro Question in the United States.) What was the music of the serf (share- cropper) and worker? Again, the spirituals. Next the work songs, the first songs in America to have a pro- letarian content, expressing clearly and with profound sincerity the state of oppression of the American Negro. From the beginning the music of the American Negro influenced pop- ular music. “Turkey In the Straw” derives from a piece called “Ol’ Jim Crow.” Both in melody andy rhythm its source is the folk music of the American Negro. It was only in this century, however, simultaneously with the exploitation of spirituals and work songs, that the term jazz came into being. Thus it was as recently as 1910-20 that Negro folk music was welded with popular music and—the blues were born! . 8 8 blues brought with them from American Negro music not only the musically famous “blue” notes, but also the distinctive word-quality of folk music, as a comparison of spirituals and blues will show, Han- dy’s Beale St. Blues exhibits very nicely the transition from spirituals and work songs to blues-and jazz. (Few of those who dance to this tune realize that it is an anti-prohibition song.) Hardly were the blues introduced— by men of diverse racial origins: Handy, Clarence and Spencer Wil- liams, Russel Robinson, Rapollo, Cal- lahan, La Rocca, Biederbecke, etce.— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1938 Class Content of Jazz Music By CHARLES EDWARD SMITH than their spontaneous folk quality | from sweet and popular, both in ter. became designated in the realm of| minology and in fact, is readily ap- jazz by the term hot, This applied| parent. Popular music is wish-ful- | equally to slow blues and to very fast | fillment music, is folk music “from | stomps. It referred not to tempo but! above.” When it seems to give ex- to quality. Applied to a composer,| pression to the working class, as in| singer, instrumentalist or band, it} “My Forgotten Man,” it states the meant that the product turned out| case incorrectly, failing to point out Was an original and sincere expression | the basic class relations involved and as well as being musically competent.| not for a moment hinting that the Hot distinguished the genuine stuff} way out is to be concerted mass ac- | from that which was corny (meaning! tion, the solidarity of the working | phony) or that which was sweet, a/ class in strikes, fimemployed demon- | term which covers the vast field of| strations, ete. No. The bourgeois pop- | popular jazz and which is self-ex- | ular song, the popular song “from | planatory, above’—te., from the class of the Hot is the music having the folk-| oppressors—tries to lull to sleep the | quality Comrade Gold admires. It is| growing class consciousness of the | the kind of jazz played in the dance | masses. There is always the eda | halls of the proletariat (though hot| glint of Nira’s wings, bourgeois prop- | is not always played there, one must| aganda in one form or another, | admit) | mass struggles. | This is not to imply that all popu- | Casino for the edification of debu- tantes. Hot began with the jug and washboard bands of the South, the hot or ad lib chorus corresponding to the extemporizing of Negro folk sing- ers. White men who played hot—in troducing the blues and the ad lib| Pan Alley as a conscious propagand chorus—were chauvinistically termed | ist for the machinery of oppression | “white niggers” and were proud of| would be nonsensical but, consciously | this categorization which classed| or not, the majority of composers and | them with the best folk musicions of | lyricists who write sweet music are | the country, * *% * | in fact adding immeasurably to the 1 Bea hot element in jazz was then | dung-heap of bourgeois propaganda. | a smothering the growing class con. | sciousness of the proletariat. To re-| phenomenon. This phenomenon has | to do with sex as with songs bearing its basis in the class struggle. Hot| on the economic Plight of the masses.| * | ing at a mass meeting on Monday as differentiated from the! brought out to hoodwink the miasees | ing Sweet jazz played in Central Park| and divert them from revolutionary | ‘ | lar songs have the specific aim of| ,, gard the average song writer of Tin} xz nd continues to be an isolated! This is just as true of songs having| “ fazz aims to be genuinely the folk| expression of a people. It has its roots in the denial to the American Negro of “the right of self-determi- nation.” However, it is exclusively} Negro music neither in origin nor in| expression. To assert this would cer-_ tainly be to fall into an extremist error. | The reason why hot is isolated| z. eats Photo Show Postponed * | Until November 15th NEW YORK,—‘“America Today,” the photo exhibit planned by the} Workers Film and Photo League, 220 East 14th St., has been postponed to Noy. 15 to allow time for mounting and hanging an exhibit even more extensive and complete than was at! first expected. | “Photographers all over the coun- try are responding to the League’s| appeal for pictures of America ‘To-| day,” according to S. Greenblatt, chairman of the exhibition commit- tee. “But many more are needed. We need pictures from North, South and West, pictures of industry, of| farming, of unemployment, misery, | stagnation, reforestation camps, child | labor, political speakers, the “New; Deal,” pictures of struggle, strikes, | picket lines, demonstrations, etc. | The scope is limitless. We cannot have too many pictures; we can use Pictures of any size. “We urge photographers to send their prints immediately to the Workers Fil mand Photo League, 220 E. 14th St. where they will be mounted and prepared for exhibi- tion.” . BRONX—SATURDAY SOCIAL at Concourse Progressive Club, 208K. 174th St. Dancing, Entertainment, Sames, prizes. Admission free. RUSSIAN CABARET NIGHT, Entertain- ment snd Dance at Paradise Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden Ave, Admission 35c. Auspices Mt. Eden Br. F.S.U. THIRD ANNUAL HOP given by the Int- Wor Youth Club, 1304 Southern Blvd. Hot iezs band. Entertainment, refreshments. Admission 25 SPAGHETTI PARTY AND DANCE at Tre- mont Progressive Club, 1961 Prospect Aye. Admission free, TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Mountaineers Musie. 7:15—Pootball scores. 7:20—Davis Orch. | 1:30—The Optimistic Mrs. Jones—Sketch, | with George Frame Brown. | 7:45—Jack and Loretta Clemens, songs. | 8:00—Secret Service Spy Story — The Eavesdropper. 8:30—Antobal Orch.; Antonia and Daniel, songs. 9:00—Jack Pearl, comedian; Goodman Orch.; Demarco ‘Trio; Robert Sim-| mons, tenor; Leader Trio. | 9:30-—Yacht Club Boys; Vivian Ruth, | songs; Reisman Orch. | ‘00—Rolfe Orch.; Men About Town Trio; | University Glee Club cf New York. 11:00—One Man’s Pamily—Sketch. 11:30—Hollywood on the Air. 12:00—Wilson Orch.; Doric Quartet; Mary Wood, soprano; Tommy Harris, songs; | Cynthia, blues singer; Ryan and Rob- lette, comedy; Senator Fishface, come- dian; Hillbilly Group, Re OT” wy WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick. 1:15—To be announced. 7:30—Verna Osborne, soprano, 7:45—Inspirational Talk. 8:00—Little Symphony Orch., Philip James, conductor, 00—Seott! Orch, 30—Bronx Marriage Bureau—Sketch. s—The Lowland Singers. 10:00—Helene Dantels, songs. 10:15—Kane and Kanner, songs 10:30-—Organ Recital. 11:00—Weather Report, 11:02—Trinit Orch. 11:30—Holst Orch. 12:00—Robbins Orch. | WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—John Herrick, songs. 1:16—Three Musketeers—Sketch. 7:30—Circus Days—Sketch, 7:45—Pootball Scores, 7:50—Hillbilly Songs, 8:00-—Dance Orch. dian; Shirley How: 28. 8:30—From Montreal, ; Caro La- moureux, soprano; Ludovic Huot, tenor; Concert Orch. 9:00—Stokes Orch.; King’s Jesters; Morin Sisters, songs; Mary Steele, soprano; Edward Davies, baritone. 10:00—Tales of the Titans—Sketch. 10:30—Cuckoo Program, with Ray Khight, Adelina Thompson and Robert Arm- buster Orch, 11:00—Barn Dance. 12:00—Childs Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Scotti Orch, s cee Ray Perkins, come- WABC—860 Ke 7:00 P.M.—Political Situation in Washing- ton—Frederic William Wile. :16—Mildred Bailey, songs; Eton Boys Quartet; Berrens Oreh. 7:30--Jane Froman and Charles Carlile, songs; Berrens Orch. 8:00—Eimer Everett Yes:—Sketch. 8:15—Gertrude Niesen, songs. 8:30—Spitalny Oreh.;’ Ethel Pastor, prano; Nicolint Cosentino, tenor, 9:00—Michaux Congrevation. 9:20—-From Toronto: Symphony Orch., ai- rection A. Chuhnldin, 10:00—Doing Our Part—Judge Irving 1. Lenroot, United States Court of Cus- toms and Patent Appeals, 10:15—~Ann Leaf, organ. 10:30—Rich Oreh.; Vera Ven, songs; Melo- deers Quartet; George ‘Jeseel, come- dian, 11:00—Jones Orch. 11:15—News Bulletin. 50- A dialectical consistency — run: music, Drugged with the poison of popu- Jar music and with the virulent poi- son of the capitalist propaganda ma- chine, prejudices are imposed upon} the masses. In the field of art these | prejudices stand in the way of di- rect and sincere reactions. That which is in reality shallow, cheap and sensational — symphonic jazz, s0- called semi-classical music—is often- times mistaken for the real thing, the more so because it plucks insist- ently at surface emotions, oy eae iT IS essential to acknowledge the impurities brought into hot jazz through popular music. Jazz very sel- dom claims or can claim to equal! the folk music of the African Negro, of the Spanish gypsy, or of the Bali- nese singers. Only in its best mo-| ments, when it is genuine expression, | has it the merit of being folk music, | truly expressing the creative and} emotional depths of the people. The | bourgeois-capitalist world tends to stifle this creativeness. Centuries of class rule have attempted to incul- cate in the masses bourgeois preju-| dices, This is why the revolution must | be fought out on eyery front, cultural as well as economic, At a program given recently by the Harlem section of the Commu- nist Party, Ruth Elzy sang some rent blues. The reaction of many present was that this.was class conscious folk | music. A valid feeling! Isn’t this the | answer to those who inquire, with | some skepticism, if proletarian jazz is really possible? Of course it’s pos- sible. aie aw | DECADE ago jazz was decried as| shallow emotionalism, but at least | certain elements of the proletariat) wete dancing to the hot jazz of King| Oliver, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, the Memphis Five, the Wol-) verines, the Mound City Blue Blow-/| about that Bix Biederbecke, W. c.} Handy, Russel Robinson, Joe Venuti,| Hoagy Carmichael, Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Adrian Rollini, Earl Hines, Rapollo, and others had} something to offer that was far from being shallow emotionalism. College boys who could afford it collected records of hot—as time went on many hot men turned luke-warm try- ing to adapt themselves to the “as written” field (which they called the “as rotten”)—records of the Cotton Pickers (gone sweet by now); Red Nichols, Little Ramblers, Jack Tea- garden, William Morris, Jelly-roll | Morton, Duke Ellington, Louis Arm- | strong, Chicago Rhythm Kings, Dixte | | Stompers (with Fletch He " King Oliver, Miff Mole, Ori; ieland Five, etc., sectors and | musicians frequented the dance halls, jand the lesser known hot spots,| | knowing that hot jazz and hot musi- | cians were usually of proletarian | origin. | Even from this brief paper it is possible to see in outline the history | of jazz music, its origins and its sub- | sequent developments. Emphasis has/| been pia on the importance of | ‘bourgeois propaganda, especially as it assumes the form of folk music| “from above.” A further point needs | emphasis. In the class struggle the means of bourgeois exploitation are not conf: to the economic | but extend to the cultural as well. Bourgeois popular music, sterile in content, at with the r ploiting hot | Take at least some of e it are beginning | rion is er | 12:00—Rapp Orch. 12:20 A.M.—Fior'ta Orch. 1:00—Heymes Orch. Indication of the growing class con- sciousness of the masses, | YouR Son spoiLeDO AVERY MICE SELL ouT oF ASTRIKE THAT WAS ARRANGED BY TAE OFFIcIaLs AaNnD— The Old Illusions Stick AF. oF L, LEADERS. THIS STRIKE ALSO EAXPOSED THE NRA THERE FORE JIM WAS 7» THE ONLY WAY To FREE GIMIsS THROUGE MASS PROTEST, LEGAL HELP AND 4 COMPLETE EXPOS- URE OF THE FRAME-UP, LEYOW RELY ON CHS (NNOCENCE TO FREE aim you cCommr GRAVE FERRO WE AAQVE SEEM ADVISED DirFEREWTLY FoLLowing THAT ADVICK ~ WE ARE = Goo NIG alll through the whole range of popular | - ers, ete, and it began to be noised| 1 Page Seven Barbusse To Be Greeted in Chicago By Workers, Writers, and Educators CHICAGO, Ill—Besides_speak- evening, Oct. 23, in the Chicago at 12:30 he will be present at a luncheon at the World’s Barbusse will be accor i by Coli m, Henri Barbusse, famous| Joseph Freeman, editor of the New rench author of Under Fire, has} Masses, and Professor H. W. L. many other speaking dates sched-| Dana, noted author. uled. Today the John Reed Club] Natiomal Students League Calls will hold a banquet for him at the Meeting Chicago Women’s Club,’72 E. 11th} _Barbusse will also speak Monday St. Tomorrow the P.E.N. Club, an| afternoon at 3 o’clock in Mandel exclusive group of Chicago writers papermen, has invited him on at the Casino Club,.195 re Place. On Monday to lunch Saturday Manhattan CONCERT AND DANCE at New Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave, Celebrat- ning of the Harlem Workers laborate Program. Large Dance ickets 40c. In advance 6c. ‘3 School and Friends of Workers by Trade Union Unity Committee at New Dance . 17th St. Entertainment WORKERS CLUB— special entertainment at h Street at 8:30 P.M, Coat HAMMER will hold dance and ment at 114 West 2ist M&., at dawn AND DANCE at 141 West 132nd PM. Arranged by Unit 422, sion only 15 cents, In- VTERTAINMENT, Refresh- r known stage PSU. at Aye. Ad- up, American Youth Federati . Marks Place. Checking charge 250. CONCERT AND PIANO RECTTAL. Tessa Bloom, international scholarship winner, N.S.L. String Quartet, Program of Ba Beethoven, Ravel, Brahms. National Stu- dent League, 583 Sixth Ave. at 8:30 P.M. Admission 250. DANCE at Washington Heights Workers Center, 501 West 16st St. Good jams band. Admission 20 cents, Brooklyn CONCERT AND DANCE given by Tals- poosa Er. LL.D. at 291 Wycoff St, at 8:30 P.M. Guest speaker, Willlana Burroughs. CONCERT AND DANCE at Bath Beach Workers Ciub, 87 Bay 25th St, at 8:30 P.M. Fine program. CHINESE NIGHT given by Women's Council 33 at 2008 Toth St. Chow Mein, entertainment. “Admission 20c. DANCE given by International Workers Club, 3200 Coney Island Ave., oor. Brighton Beach Ave. Good band, CONCERT AND DANCE given by Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 313 Hinsdale Bt, at 8 P.M. Chorus, Violin Solo, Accordion Solo, play. CONCERT AND BAR given by Womans Council 16, et 1163 Lenox Road. DANCE AND CONCERT given by Youth Builders, 1.W.O. No. 467 at 1009 Winthrop St., at 8:30 P.M. Admission 15 cen's. AN EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT at 4100 43rd Ave., Sunnyside, L. 1, given by Reofske Br. LL.D. for Shoe Strikers Relief Pund, Music, Gemes and Singing, Sunday COMMUNIST ELECTION MEETING. “ts- sues of the Present Election.” Bernard 8. Deutsch, Fusion Party; Milton Solomon, Democratic Party; Nathan Strauss Jr., Re- covery Party; Israel Amter, Communist Party, at American Youth Federation, 20 St. Marks Place, at 8:30 P.M. OPEN FORUM at Fiatblish Progressive Club on "N.R.A. What ft means to the Amer- jean Worker,” at 486 Kings Highway, Bklyn., at 8:30 P.M. ROBERT HAMILTON, foreign editor of Daily Worker will lecture on “Who Burned the Reichstag?” at 1013 E, Tremont Ave. Auspices Bronx Section LL.D. and shule 4. LECTURE by A, Wagenknecht on “Who Burned the Reichstag,” at J. Louls Engdah! Workers C! 092 Hull Ave., at 8:30 P.M. HARLEM WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM will hold lecture by Grace Lamb on “The New xcation in the Soviet Union, 200 W. 14A., at 4 P.M. Admission Hall, the University of Chicago. This meeting, at which many uni- versity students and professors are expected to be present, is being ar- ranged under the auspices of the | National Student League, University | of Chicago branch. Jane Addams to Attend Banquet | The John Reed banquet in honor | of Barbusse on Saturday evening, | promises to be very successful. The | committee in charge of this affair announces that many Chicago no- tables will be present. Jane Addams, internationally known social worker, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and head of | the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, writes that | although illness will prevent her |from attending the mass meeting, | she expects to be present at the | banquet and is anxious to meet M. | Barbusse. Others who have already signi- fied their intention of being pres- ent at the banquet include Prof, Melville J. Herskovitz, professor of anthropology of Northwestern Uni- | versity of Chicago. Professor John T. Frederick of Northwestern, and Llewellyn Jones, well-known Chi- cago literary critic, wil speak on the program which includes Bar- busse. B. K. Gebert, district organizer of the Communist Party, and Her- bert Newton, editor of the Workers Voice, are also scheduled to speak at the banquet. Prominent Negro intellectuals who are expected to be present in- clude Dewey Jones, city editor of the Chicago Defender, a Negro weekly, Edith Sampson, well-known lawyer, Dr. Arthur Falls, and Lil- lian Summers. Barbusse to See Chicago Barbusse will spend Saturday vis- iting places of interest in Chicago and vicinity. The Pen and Hami- mer Club and the Chicago Labor Research Bureau has arranged a tour for him through such places as the stockyards workers’ district, the garbage dumps where thousands of unemployed live, the factory dis- tricts, Negro homes, etc. 191, W.EBL, 6 West ard 8, st 8:90 P.M. Topic “Bmployment and the Way Out,” by Israel Amter. A HOUSE PARTY of herring and pota- toes, interesting program at home of Com- rade Daniels, 2017 83rd St, Brookiyn at 8 PM. by Comrade Lichtenstein st Pelham Pa: way, Workare Cub, 21784 White Plains Rd,, at 8:30 P. CONCRRT and at 201 Schenectady Ave., at 7:30 P.M. Given by Council 21. Admission 20c. WORKERS 2700 Bronx Park East, open for registration on all musical instruments. JOHN REED CLUB School of Art, Pall term starts Oct. 23. Day and evening classes in iife drawing, painting, fresco, sculpture, poster, political cartooning, lith- ography under Minor, Gellert, Lozowick, Refregier, Dibner and other prominent art ists. Office open for registration this week from 2 to 4 P.M, Address 430 Sixth Ave, N.Y.C. COMRADES of the W.LR. Brass Band Play Sunday at 3 P.M. at Rockland Palace, 155th St. and 8th Ave. Every one must be Present at this important election rally. National GARY, IND., October 22nd, Young Com- munist League is giving a masquera Danee at Roum: Jazz Orchestra, fan Hall, 1206 Adams prizes for best costu: Admission 15¢. AMUSEMENTS | A stoxy of ADOLESCENCE. EVERY TEACHER SHOU Tateresting Pol gnant Picturiat_ Study.” “THE RED-HEAD” (‘Poil de Carotte’’) English Titles. i LD SEE THIS PICTURE! ACME | THEATRE | ISTH STREET AND UNION SQUARE 15° Stol P.M. Exe. | 49 sat. sun. & Hol, Midnight Show Sat. —N. Y. Times. JOE COOK in vot | TJOLD YOUR HORSES A Mesiesl Runaway in 24 Scenes Riway & 50th St. Winter Garden “tve. sea, mate Thursdzy and Saturday at 2 | RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy” Opens 11:30 A.M. ‘AGGIE APPLEBY Maker of Men’ with Chas. Farrell Wynne Gibson and a great “oxy” stage show Sat. & Sun.) MOLIERE'S con THE SCHOOL Arther Ga FOR HUSBANDS japted in thyme by an & Lawrence Biway & al DANCE RECITALS Fight Denee Re tals, Noy. Jan, 6, Yangner 0 St. . 10, Edwin § Ruth St. Dents Dorsha Doris, Hurph Elen Findlay Darcer! Charles We! WASHINGTON IRVING H. 8. Irving Place and 16th Sreet i HQ for the series of eight recitals Tonight! Recitals, $2 Union Square (STu. 9-1392). Also on sale at Lord & Taslor’s and Wanamaker's. NEW HARLEM CASINO, 11 Celebrating Opening of Liberator Chorus New Dance Group Theatre of Workers’ School Auspices: Workers’ School and Tickets: 36¢ in advance; 40c¢ at door, 35 East 12th St.; Harlem Workers School, 200 W, 135th St.; Workers’ Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St. | Now in | also “SOLITAIRE MAN” with | wenveRt \- | | MARSHALL & MARY BOLAND JACOB BEN AMI in “The Wandering Jew” Pity PESCAMEOs w'y| 25¢ [OR a ashe Philharmonic - Symphony WALTER, Conductor. Thar: ey 8:85; Friday Aft., 2:30 MOZART-BRUCKNER Program’ Sat. Eve., 8:45; Next Sun, Aft. 3:00 Soloist: ALFRED WALLENSTEIN.. |} ARTHUR JUDSON Mer. (Steinway Piaiio) Tonight! WORKERS SCHOOL CONCERT and DANCE 6th Street and Lenox Avenue Harlem Workers’ School. FEATURES: | 7-Piece Dance Orchestra: | Dancing Till Morning ~~ | Refreshments ‘ Friends of the Workers’ Sehool Now sold at: Workers’ Schoal,