The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1933, Page 5

Little Magazines . més set a - 61 rey _iiNCeA HR semehtsCesss suse asssnssoe ef OWE SE CAL AD ——_ A WORLD! By Michael Gold The Fight Is Still On ! ontributions pour in for the Daily Worker, but they are not enough. ‘The' drive must be intensified. This is no ballyhoo or alarmism. It is the plain trith. A certain amount 1s needed several times a year to liquidate the most important debts and enable the paper to maintain its credit. ‘This amount has been not quite half-raised. Where ave all the John Reed Clubs? Am I wrong in believing they halve done little up to date? Where are all the theatre and culture groups? One of their chief objects each year should be to raise a certain sum for the, Daily Worker. The newspaper is of the most vital importance to the Workers’ cultural movement. IS a good thing to see many of these little regional magazines springing up, “in which literary experimentation may go on. Here is one of the wavs in which new proletarian writers and editors are created. Formerly . pnly the bourgeois writers started these magazines. Their contents con- sisted of self-pitying adolescent poetry and sketches of the melancholy life of young literary Americans, Today the little magazines have more ‘vigor,and the writers have their teeth in something real—the Revolution. * s8ub, comrades, without the movement and without the Daily Worker thése Yittie magazines of young proletarian art would not have been. This js the matrix of us all. It is more important to support the Daily Worker than to keep any other literary venture afloat. Let us keep that in mind. ‘The Daily Worker is a necessity. If it lives, everything else will follow, including a strong proletarian literature. But, comrades, without the movement and without the Daily Worker these little magazines of young proletarian art would not have been. This is te ‘tmatrix of us all. It is more important to support the Daily Worker - than tO keep any other literary venture afloat. Let us keep that in mind. ‘The-Daily Worker is a necessity. If it lives, everything eise will follow, in- cluding a strong proletarian literature. And not ‘only money contributions are demanded of the young writers, but a living creative interest, Why isn’t this office flooded with stories and poems and sketches? What if some of them may not be printed? How * tan “fhe quality of the Daily Worker be improved if the good writers ~ won f. write for it? Is it a form of snobbery, or what? Sap wn ee Me OME of the letters that come In with money contributions make one feel. proud of a newspaper which wins such loyalty. Workers unem- ployed .for months give their last dollar. It makes one ashamed of one’s own meager efforts. Starving miners get together and chip in their last “tobaieco-money for the Daily Worker. Farmers, who haven't seen a dollar fof years contribute. Families on charity relief have something to give. Thisis no exaggeration, but the truth. The workers know what the paper éans to them, Tt is a pity the intellectuals are not yet as conscious. ‘ew Letters ‘D. WEEKS, however, is one of the active intellectuals. He sent $10 onée, and recently another $6, and he wants a good word said for Clarte, the French Workers’ Club, which meets at 304 W. 58th St. This is an interesting group, as I can testify after having seen them greet Barbusse, ~“Thet* functions are always worth attending, J. Levy sends 30 cents and says: “As one of the declassed students beitig thrown these days on the capitalist dump-heap of over-production, I have found the ‘Worker’ a real source of inspiration and guidance, I am doing all in my power to bring the revolutionary movement, slandered and disterted as it is by the capitalist press, to the attention of all my friends, papticularly thé students, This is an important stratum in any future move- mént, and must not be lost to the fascists.” “A white-collar worker from Duquesne, Pa., sends $2 and writes: “The steel milis in our town are almost closed down. There aren't even rumors as to when they will run again. But I want to help your drive.” A young worker writes: “Here’s 57 cents, I’m broke. But I can miss a tew meals for the ‘Daily’.” Two printers send in a $6 bill. Part of it was contributed by another printer who'd been let out by the Curtis Publishing Company after 20. years of Service. He had four children, and for many months was un- employed. When he began working, the two red printers showed him the yorker one gay, He asked to get it every day. This was a year ago. kk, while at work, he slipped something into my overall pocket, ig me to send it to the ‘Worker.’ That was all, but it’s easy to see it is now his own paper.” “And believe it or not, one of Washington’s leading correspondents for the-bourgeois press sent us $2, saying the “paper is getting swell.” Is this conscience money or is it the involuntary tribute of a craftsman? Thanks Jush.dpe same. These Young Upstarts NE of the surprising things in this socialist competition between the feature departments of the “Daily” has been the way the muggs, ath- letes and marble-shooters of labor sports have been rallying.to New- hows4, He really didn’t get.a fair start, having entered two weeks late. But it's just as well. For he might have beaten the good Doctor and my- self, As Brisbane-would say, it is something to think about. The youth is ereeping up_on“us; Comrade Doctor. If Jacob Burck begins spurting, too, T-ant going to be forced to pull a few surprises in this race. I ama little shocked by Doctor Luttinger’s showing. Some of his patients, obviously, are ungrateful. I have been in his waiting room and seen the crowds, If each patient contributed the usual clinical fee of 25 cents he would have reached his thousand by now, I am sure. Poets seem to be more emotional. They pin dollar bills to their poems, and eyen when I have to send back the poetry, they don’t feel bad. They undttstand it is only a friendly criticism by a comrade, and that, anyway, as Walt Whitman said, “the song is to the singer.” They write another poem and send another dollar. But Dr. Luttinger’s patients recover and forget him and the Daily Worker. Save Your Daily Worker! Rid us all pitch in and give this Daily Worker a big push forward. None of us knows-what this winter is to bring. It looks like one of the black- est and most dangerous winters in American history. For the working-class and farmers embattled with the hydra-headed bluebird of fascism, the Daily Worker is becoming the sole guide and champion. More and more people begin to know how important it is to have at least one newspaper that isn’t controlled by Wall Street. And the exposure of the Nazi underground organization in America— wasn’t that job_begun by our “Worker”? And the'naming of the lynchers in that horrible affair in Maryland—has ever an American newspaper Gared*to print the real names of lynchers? .Comrades, I feel that many of you don’t understand what a historic part the Daily Worker is playing in the battles of today. You are too close to really see, In all earnestness, wake up, and save your right arm—your ONLY weapon against lynching, Nazi fascism and the restruction of hon- ect trade untomism—your Daily Worker. Workers, farmers, veterans, Ne- groes and immigrant workers, proletarian women and children, this is your. paper—you own it—it speaks for you alone—rally to your newspaper! fglping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. $200 _M, Herlin 2.00 Rosago .. +++ 410 Previous Total ..... Reed Club, Newark ‘AY, 'TO DATE .. ‘ob TOT. DAILY WORKER. |Speakers’ Bureau of John Reed Club Will Serve Organizations NEW YORK.—The John Reed Club has organized a Speakers Bu- reau designated to serve the need of workers’ clubs and mass organiza- tions for Marxist lectures on art, lit- erature, the theatre, the cinema, and other cultural subjects. Leading revolutionary writers, critics, and artists have indicated their willing- ness to participate in the work of the Bureau. are Joshua Kunitz, Sender Garlin, Milton Howard, Edwin Rolfe, Oakley Johnson, Robert Hamilton, Wallace Phelps, Philip Rahv, Harold Edgar, H. E. Briggs, Conrad Komorowski, Jacob Burck, Phil Bard, William Siegel, Alfred Hayes, and Nathan Adler. The Bureau is open daily from 3 to 6 p.m. All communications should be addressed to the Speakers Bureau, John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave, MUSIC | Philharmonic ‘Orchestra to Revive Strauss’ “Macbeth” On Thursday evening and Friday afternoon at Carnegie Hall, Bruno Walter will revive Richard Strauss’ tone poem, “Macbeth.” Other num- bers on the program include Moz- art’s Symphony in C major (“Jupi- ter”) and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, The “Pathetic” will be played in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the compos- er’s death. Next Sunday the Philharmonic will present an all-Tchaikovsky program including “Francesca da Rimini,” the letter scene from the opera “Eu- gen Onegin” and Symphony No, 5 in E minor. Grete Stueckgold, soprano, will be the soloist. Felix Salmond, cellist, will appear at the People’s Symphony concert on Saturday night at the Washington Irving High School, presenting a pro- gram of Beethoven, Cesar Franck, Faure and Granados. E were strung along the life line, cynically watching the new batch of boots coming aboard. Green from | the farms, mines, and factories. More | suckers. Top lined them up and called the roll: “Williams, —Paretti, Kane——” “Yes, sir.” We laughed. This boot was extra green. “Kane!” “Yes, sir.” “Cut that sir out. The only ones you ‘sir’ in this man’s outfit wear bars on their shoulders.” “Yes, sir.” “Yes what!” “Yes—yes—why yes.” Top was sore, He turned around to us. “All right——When these men go below I want you all to go with them, find them a locker and show ’em how Schiesman, to fix it up.” I singled Kane out. There was an air of helpk about him that didn’t seem to fit with his giant frame. Nor could I fathom the empty look on a face possessed of such earth-like strength. I found a locker. “Come on, Kane, grab your sea bag. Here, dump it on the deck. Put your civies on the left, shirts on the right.” right.” We worked silently. “What did you do before you joined?” “What d’'ya mean?” “Work—what kind of work?” “Oh! Farmin’ mostly.” “What the hell made you join?” He was silent for a while. at his hands. “Well, it got toiigh back home, I wasn’t much good around. What with four younger brothers, an’ they do a man’s job, an’ three sisters, an’ any- way I always had a hankerin’ to see this blamed old world. I got a picture of my ma and pa and the rest of us kinds. Want to se it?” KE fished around, His answer to my question had a hideous monotony that I'd heard too often. Invariably it was the same. Well, things got too tough—and immediately the same fu- tile attempt to hide behind a veil of romance. I always had a hankerin’ to see the world—— We saw a world. A real world— Norfolk with its diseased prostitutes —Pershing Sq., Boston Common, Rit- tenhouse Sq., traditional hunting ground for queers—malaria in Nica- ragua—brawls with limeys in Shang- hai—Tin Can Alley in Honolulu—— Kane had found the picture. I looked it over, In front of a worn. broken shack stood a family group. A tattered wisn of a woman next to a bent old man, surrounded by eight of the huneriest looking kids I ever saw, Kane must have seen some- thing on mv face. “Ma and Pa look kind of heckled. but thev’re good people.” I didn’t sev anything. Shin's rovtine went along as usual. Gunnery drills, abandon shin drills, quarters, insnections, Ianding forces, —Arils. drills, drills—— One day. right after mall call was sounded, Kane came over to me. | Among those on the speakers’ list ‘How John Webb, 15 Years Old Travelled to LOWELL, Kansas.—John Webb’ things are tough at home. So John, who was laundryman on a Bermuda train—but outside, not in. He says | s Mooney Council of Action Scores Boycott of Film NEW YORK.—The National Tom Mooney Council of Action has is- sued a stinging indictment of motion picture houses in the west for their failure to show the sensational film, “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney,” thus flouting the hundreds of trade unions which have asked that the | picture be shown, | “There has been a boycott of the) Mooney film in many sections of the | country, especially in the west, ac- | cording to reports made to us by the | distributors,” the council statement said. “The distributors explain that there is a bankers’ boycott on the film be- cause it bares the frameup against Tom Mooney so effectively. We have answered that there are a lot more union workers than bankers and that the theatres which prefer bankers to workers will find themselves with only bankers as patrons. We know by the letters that pour into our office that the labor movement of the country is aroused and wants to see the film, has made a sensation in the east, where it has been shown to some two million people. It is a short pic- ture, two reels, but tells its gripping story so graphically that it leaves an audience gasping. In the sense that it records pictorially the facts of this world-famous case, it is prop- aganda; but it is stranger, more dra- matic and more appealing than 90 NEW YORK, WED! SDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1933 ‘see America” Rehearsal on Saturday | NEW YORK.—The first rehearsal but} Of the Proietarian Symphony Or- oe Sol vother | chestra organized by the Youth So 15 years old, sef/dAt to join his brother | tio" or the International Workers’ ship out of New York. He travelled by | Grder will be held on Saturday “I usualiy ride the passenger trains. | 11, at 3 p.m, at the Harlem Cen’ 's father is a lead miner here, ter © After the train startsto pull out from | of the I. W. O., 415 ox Ave., COr-| hand. , the station, I hop on the first car|ner W. 13ist St. chestra iS) pete is on the load jafter the engine. Then I hide behind| under the direction of Irving R.| single needle of the ha | the blinds between the car and the|Korenman, well-known pianist and ¥ 7 ela Ge Jengine where they're hooked to-| music director Vxcanen how wcae gether.” That isthe way the present) All workers and students are in-|iho hay into + | generation “sees America first.” | vited to join the orchestra. All those|o1q. One of ele | desirous of joining the Symphony Orchestra should bring their instru- ments and music stands. Non-mem- bers of the International Work Order, youth and adult musiciai His luck was not so good on this | | trip and he had to ride the freight | trains. Betwen, Galesburg, TIL, and | Cleveland, he found a freight “loaded | with kids. There must have been thirty or forty..-Some of them looked lonesome and hungry. They came | from all over—California, Alabama, Georgia, all-over.” These are our children, this is their heritage. Rid ing the rods with the tough guys} rehearsal. |\Proletarian Symphony | 2/Orchestra Plans First! are all requested to attend the first | ¢ “The Strange Case of Tom Mooney’ | fornia in order to turn arcund and go back to New York—to fill time. When John’. Webb arrived, his| brother had lost his job. As a capi- talist paper puts it: “Unless his | brother can get a job to support him, | | authorities of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | Said he would be held for Juvenile Court as a runaway (!) and returned to Lowell.” And that, of course, will solve John’s problem. So simple. | | o wc. | | ar per cent of thefeatures on the screen. | “Hundreds ‘of “local unions have | asked their lotat theatres to show the | film and noW We are writing them| suggesting tat if their ‘asking’| didn’t get restits, they demand that | the film be shown. Organized labor | boycott.” The Tom Mooney National Coun- cil’s address is-Box 166, Station D, New York City. will smash this anti-Tom Mooney | ° Murxian History of Art,” by Louis Lozowick | at 480 Sixth Avenue, at, 8:15 P.M. Admis- | sion 35¢ | REHEARSAL OF DAILY WORKER | t CHORUS at 35 E, 12th St. Sth floor, at 8 P.M. All invited. MPORTANT MEMBERSHIP MEETING of D. Clara Zetkin Branch: at Labor Tem- 43 E. Sith Bt., at 8:30 P.M. CLARTE—FRENCH WORKERS CLUB will hold le in French at 304 W 88th St., at 8:30 P.M. ALL RED FRONT BANNER MEMBERS report at General Headquarters, 95 Avenue B, at 6 P.M, for the Banquet Engagement ih Newark. Thursday ENTERTAINMENT AND DANCE given by the Domestic Workers Union at Estonian Workers Home, 29 West 115th St. at 8:30 P.M. Good music, ref Admission 25e at door; 15¢ in advance. SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP ‘MEETING of Pilm Photo League, 116 Lexington Ave., at 8:30 P.M. All members urged to attend this important session. LOS ANGELES: Workers Pilm and Photo League will present an evening of Worker Films on Sunday, Nov. 12th, at 8 P.M., a auth Los Angeles Street OPENING OF LABOR UNITY HALL on November 10th will be celebrated with En- tertainment and Danee. 2H PORT CHESTER, N. ¥.: Celebration of | 16th Anniversary at Finnish Workers Club, 42 North Water Street, on Nov. 11th. PEACE TIME SOLDIER By BEN STEIN “Read this,” and handed me a letter. Dear Joe: Things ain’t so good back here. Ma’s pretty sick. We had a pretty good harvest but pa can’t get for what it cost him to grow it. He’s so blamed mad he ser he’d rather burn it than sell it for what he can git, for it. Our livestock’s about gone, except for a couple a stray chicks. Reckon we'll have to kill the dogs soon for somethin’ to eat. Pop’s got the interest to pay soon, If you got some money you'd betier send it quick. Your loving sister, NAN. I gave back the letter. He looked at me appeallingly. “Tl tell you, Kane, you see the top and tell him you want mess duty. With $5 a month extra for mess duty, you can send $15 a month to your le. “Fifteen a month? What the hell good will that do ’em. Ma needin’ a doctor, pa’s interest fallin’ due,— damn it!” * fE walked away. Next day he was mess striking. I watched him closely these days. For about a week he got a letter every day. He'd hide in «@ corner, read {t and, when through, tear it to bits. With every letter there was a marked increase in surliness, His temper became ugly. He was bound to bust loose. It hap- pened on a Wednesday morning. On Wednesdays and Saturdays we got beans for breakfest, and sooner or later beans became nauseating. Somebody always growls on these | particular breakfast days. We were eating guietly when a commotion started at thé’table behind me. Sud- denly I heard. “You sonofagun, if you don’t eat those beans, I'll. ram ’em down your throat!” | It was Kane:He’d grabbed Wilson | by the neck and ‘had shoved his face | into a dish of beans. Kane's face was crazy mad. Sergeant Kidd came over. “Break it up), Kane. Where the hell do you think you're at?” I was afraid Kane would slough ‘Kidd. But he-conttolled himself. Ev- erything settled down. I hung around until everybody had gone and sat down beside’ Kane, “What's the ‘Score?” “Score! There ain't no score. Whenever I see those bastards turn- ing up their noses at the chow they get and think of my people havin’ nothin’, I get so mad I could kill ’em.” “It isn’t theirfawlt, Kane, that your people go hungry.” “No damn it, I know it ain’t, but} one of these days I'll find out whose | fault it is and let me tell you, some one will pay for it.” ‘That evening. ¥ was standing by for colors. I saw Kane go ashore and happened to Catch his eye as the lib- erty boat pulled away. He waved, Next morning, Kane hadn't appeared. Liberty was up at 7:30. Three days went by. Top ‘called me into the of- fice and told me to put Kane’s clothes in his-sea bag and store it down below. I put everything away TUNING IN | TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 00 P. M.—Roxanne Wallace, Songs; Southernaires Olsen Orch. Lyman Orch. Marion He Loadours Orch.; 9:30->| Duey, Baritone; Reisman Orch. 10:00--<-.a Cob’ Pipe Club 10:30“ > President and Our People Under RA—Senator J, Hamilton Lewis of Illinois 11:00—Dance Music. * WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 15—~News~-Gabriel Heatter 8 Black and Blue—Mystery Drama 15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 30—Main Street—Sketch 00—Jack Arthur, Baritone; Ohman and Arden, Piano 15—Studio Concert 10:00—De Marco Sisters; Frank Sherry, ‘Tent or 10:15—Surrent Events—Harlan Eugene Rend 10:30—Market and Halsey Street Playhouse 11:30—Dance Orch. WIZ—760 Ke P. M.—Amos ’n’ Andy s—John Herrick, Songs 0—Potash and Perlmutter S—Hollywood-—Irene Rich 0—Crime Clues 30—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch 45—Red Davis—-Sketch | 9:00—Warden Lewis. E. Lawes in 20,000 Years in Sing, Sing—Sketch 9:30—John McCormack, Tenor; Daly Oreh, 10:00—Pedro Via’ Orch. 10:30—Ruth Lyon, Soprano; Edward Davies, Baritone « 11:00—Macy and Smalle, Songs; Wirges h. Oreh. 11:15—The Poet Prince 11:30—Dance Music, WABC—S860 Ke 7:00 P, M,—Myrt and Marge 7:15—Just Plaly;Bill--Sketch 7:20—Travelers Ensemble 7:45—News—Bouke ‘Carter 8:00—-Green OrehstMen About Town Trio 8:15—News—EdwithC. Hill 8:30—Albert Spe}ging, - Violin: Conrad Thibault, Baritone; Voorhess Orch. 9:00—Irvin 8. @dbb, Stories; Orch. ai 9:15—Dance Orgh.. 9:30—Lombardo Oreh.; Burns and Allen, Goodman Comedy. 10:00-—-Weving Oreh Moran and Mack, Comedians 5,’ | 10:30—Alexander. Woolleott—Town Crier } 10:45—Warnow O¥tt.; Gertrude Niesen, Song Clubmen Quartet A Story but his picture. I kept that, COUPLE of months went by. We pulled into Norfolk to enter dry- dock. We were more or less happy. What with leave coming up, no damned drills, betier food and on the whole, a pleasanter life. I was doing an 8 to 12 gangway watch one morning when a police car pulled up. A cop got out. “Is this the U.SS. » Sentry?” “Yeah.” He turned around and shouted, “OK., Bill.” Another eon ent holding on to a ragged individual. As they got close to come avu gasped. It was Kane. His clothes were shot to hell, and he looked as if he walked by me, he gave me a sickly and Ricky had the brig watch. utes, will you, Rick?” “Oke, but make it snappy.” I went in. He was sad looking. We shook hands. There was a heavy si- lence, All we could hear was Rick pacing up and down. I finally broke the ice, “How do you feel, Kane?” “O.K., I guess.” fow's things back home.” don’t know.” “You dont know? Didn’t you see your folks at all.” “No. When I went over the hill I | was afraid the cops would be after |me if I went home. I wrote my sis- ter where I was at, and sure enough she told me to stay away. They'd been lookin’ for me.” “But have you been all this time, Kane?” “No—nothin’—unless you call goin’ hungry nothin’, bein’ cold nothin’— ridin’ the rods from town to town lookin’ for a stinl job, hidin’ in every lousy hole in creation for fear o’ being pinched, avoidin’ people, ex- cept my kind and eye’in the likes of me suspicious-like. I'll get a @ 1 and they'll send me up for 18 m: $. Well, let ‘em. I'll at least eat and sleep. And when I get out——” It didn’t take long. He was given @ general court-martial and read off before the crew. He got 18 months at Portsmouth. An armed guard took him away one day and that was the last I ever saw of him. In due time I was discharged from the Marine Corps. What little money I had didn’t last long. Sixth Ave. saw my face cften. doing nothing anita teat NNE day I walked over to the li- brary. I was tired of tramping in search of work. I stopped to listen to a group arguing heatedly. Talk— alk—I walked away and sat down on a stone bench, Near me was a newspaper. I nicked it up. Strikes— miners stop all work—Farmers in Middle West batile cepuiies—Three killed, ™many wounded. I read further- hadn’t eaten for a month. As he smile. As soon as I was relieved, I ate my chow and went to see him. | Luckily the master of arms was out | “Let me speak to Kane a few min- | t on strike—Needle workers | By BEN HE mule team is in the field; loading with a hayloader. 1 ther team is on the b: ed men are in the up the ladder to loor. Two I climb if I can give a out for the summer carries his ing the wor rai Ss an old roc of corn or a Par Ss ton at the first farmers’ ¢ He grabbed Garner waved his milk buttonhole and k before his eyes. when they should be in school; learn- | Wednesday ‘Look at my mili jing to bum a-meal with an expert! jonN REED SCHOOL OF ART -Secona of | DTinging the politician from Texas whine in their-voices; going to Cali-|» series of illustrated lectures on “A face to face with the farm problem. | “And how's your milk check now?” | Pete cusses. He gets down from | the wagon and wipes the sweat and | hayseed off his face. The milk check | is less than half what he used to get. | And feed’s shot up again. That jmeans he’s actually getting about | one fourth on his milk, Gluten that | was 95 cents is now $1.45, cake feed jumped to $2.10, and $1 bran went up 45 cents. The milking machine clatters down in the cowstable. The exhaust starts drumming. It’s his husky apple-faced wife tending to the ma- chines and stripping all alone. |_ Pete picks at his soaked shirt. “We | hire men only for hay and oats. You | can’t afford the rest of the time.” He goes into the stables to attend to his | chores. COUPLE of days later, there is a picnic on Rube’s farm given by the Red Hill local of the United | ‘Farmers Protective Association of Pennsylvania, The farmers call such picnics “summer festivals of struggle to know each other better | and fight together better.” These are | the times when the farmers straight- | en up from leaning over their knife ba seythes. This coming to- Page Five CONFERENCE FARMERS FIELD in h one down, iron point first. Tue xecutive committec listens intently: In the West the lightning cracking like a great flag. ° GOT a good chance to talk Pete's wife when I was sent to him to arrange for a meeting in the red barn near Hilltown. And I find out that it isn’t with a forked stick that you've got to handle her. ‘ She offers me a schnapps, Its rye which Pete himself made. She squats on a stool in the corner of the kitchen. She had worked for years in a Philadelphia cigar factory, making her $50 a week, and sinking every cent into the farm. She had a 62- acre farm in Hilltown. Sold it for this. And now after all the years, she may have to move off the farm. They can’t meet their expenses. The farm she was offered $25,000 for just a couple of years ago. And here are the milk checks. Oné for 14,013 pounds of milk at 66 cents a hundred pounds. Net amouzit 392.49. And here's another with about 20 per cent off for cartage. And here’s a letter from a milk com- pany “telling us to go to to the devil | because we know they ain’t testing our milk right and we're organizing the farmers,” Pete mutters, “Three dealers in three months. So . . .” To comfort himself he lights his pipe. Even that gether whets them up like a rifle. | Pete is there at the stand where beer, soda pop, hot dogs and ham- burgers are being sold. Firing away from a truck at the crowd is a big at the Washington conference. The chairman of the Red Hill local sells tickets for the refreshments. Pete buys some for himself and me. | “Hah,” he says, “Niezney and me was two of the bidders in the Haensel | ale. ww the court says | The sheriff's | $1.18 penny The chairman says, “I ain’t took my money back.” The two farmers grin’at each other, “What do they owe you, Pete?” “Two bits for five cows, a heifer, and a bull, But I don’t take the money ‘back.”” We ask him about his wife. “No, she wouldn’t come. She got too much work. She must hang round Stage and Screen Musical Version of Negro Play, “Porgy” to be Pre- | sented by Guild The Theatre Guild, according to | an announcement sent out yesterday, will present a musical version of “Porgy,” the Negro play by Duboss | an@ Dorothy Heywarfl, which the | Guild presented here in October, | 1927. George Gershwin will provide the score, Dubose Heyward the lib- retto and Ira Gershwin and Hay- ward the lyrics. “Porgy” had a run here of almost five hundred per- formances and more than three hun- dred on tour. No date has been set | as yet for the production. Lynn Starling's comedy, “The First Apple,” in which Conrad Nagle and Irene Purcell are starred, will open in New Haven on Noy. 10 and will before coming to New York. “Growing Pains,” a new comedy by Aurenia Rouveral, is now in rehear- sal. The cast is headed by Junior Durkin, Edith King, Jean Rouverol, Johnny Downs and Joan Wheéler, Pola Negri plays the leading role in “A Trip to Pressburg,” a new play by Leo Peruiz, which opened in Fittsburgh on Monday. Following its run in Washington and Boston, the attraction will come to New York. John McManus will be musical director of the new “Ziegfeld Fol- lies,” which will be presented on Broadway the-latter part of this month, Maurice ‘Shcwartz’s dramatization | of Lion Feuchtwanger’s “Josephus” | will be the second offering of the| Yiddish Art Theatre at their play- house on Second Ave, “The Wise M of Chelm” is now playing from lay to Sunday and “Yoshe Kalb,” last season's success, is given during the week, Suddeniy the print seemed to fly at me. Among those killed were: Joseph W. Kane, farm strike leade: —— I pui the paner down, Kane's words rank in my ea: “One of these | 11:15—News;’ Mukig 14:30 A. M.—Dance Osoh, \ whose fault it is, and let me tell you, some one will pay for it.” -~- AND THEN You TOOK THE GUN FROM TAMES MARTIN ? Trained Seais of the Law Ze WIS COAT POCKET Od TUE RIGET HAND aor DE- JUST LIKE Idart, SEE! | ~ by. QUIRT ev TREAT “NO QUESTIONS your. aowor! ays I'll find out | t || Celebrate the 16th Anni- versary of the Russian Revolution by showing Sovict Films 16 MM. FILMS CAN BE SHOWN IN ° ANY CLUB, HALL OR HOME | Mrs. Bohemian farmer who had also been | play in Philadelphia for two weeks| is no comfort. “Look the matches. | They was 12 boxes for ten cents. Now |ten for ten cents.” | All the bitterness streams out as Pete continues talking. The ganization is weak, “If you got an organization, fight, do something. Here ev 's got his nose stuck into a hole. He won't come out be- cause this is the busy season. And some is talking about the leaders and telling them to go to hell.” S she pitches into the weaknesses of the farmers, you can see the need for special work among the farm women, a special study circle to explain to them the tactics of struggle in the countryside, to draw them with roves of iron that soon become the very cords of the body in the fierce fight that will give them their farms, peace, and bread. I urge Mrs. Pete to speak at the meeting. She gives all sorts of ex- cuses. The night of the meeting at the red barn she gets up and she does | Speak, telling the 100 farmers pre- | sent her. views. She shows her milk | envelopes. She tells the story of how Kel = ipscuntinbes to bribe Pete to leave the orga ion. He mised him $4.50 a hundred if he lett the organization and helped other farm- ers leave it. “What is our answer going to be? What are we going to do? Thete’s | only one -thing.” Her strong voice Bund the whole barn. “We got to strike.” Pete stands near the barn window streaming with rain. His face is cocked and covered with a grin. He enjoys heartily the fierce wingthrusts of that “old cluck of mine.” And now Pete can do even better: work than for the first conference, He has brought more farmers into. the organization than any one else. “It'll soon be over, the harvest. We'll get our oats and corn in. I'll go out. organizing. We vot to get farmers.in our ring, in a bullring.” | Now Pete knows, and so do the other farmers, that his heart and fist | can be matched by his wife's, by their farmwomen’s, And learning this | more effectively with each day, their strength grows mightier. And that is another reason that the farmers conference this year in Chicago will strike a more powerful blow at the very belt and under the noses of the greatest grain and meat robbers in the world. 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