The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1933, Page 5

EVERETT RH AO MIR. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1933 WORLD! By Michael Gold = Anna. Smirnova, a Moscow factory worker, wrote a letter to American workers in the Daily Worker last July. The interest which the American workers feel in conditions in the Soviet Union is reflected in the questions with: whigh they, swamped Anna Smirnova in reply to her letter. Their eagerness to check up on statements they hear about the workers in the Soviet. Union shows that they want the true facts. Anna Smirnova answers the -most representative of these questions as follows in her second letter: Smirnoyva’s Letter I kaye received so many answers to my letter printed in the Daily Worker of July the twelfth that I haven’t the physical strength to answer all these letters. I am answering all of them through the medium of the Daily Worker, by replying to the most important questions that appear most frequently in the different letters: (1) Is it true that people in the U.S.S.K., who refuse to join the é kolhoz, are sent to the far North? I categorically declare that this is an untrue statement. Becoming a memberof a kolhoz organization depends entirely upon the free will of the individual. At the present time you will find a great many people in the country: who have their own farms and who pursue their individual farm- ing of the land in much the same fashion as always. It is true, that we are unmercifully driving from our ranks and from our enterprises all those “wreckers” and counter-revolutionary forces in our midst, where they apply for entrance into our sovhozes and kolhozes,—those forces that are using all their intelligence and physical strength to hold us back and to establish a capitalist society among us. (2) Are those people who believe in God and a religion spied upon and kept track of? No-» It is true that we are fighting with all our strength against the reactionary, conservative element in Rx ‘gion. But we do not forbid People’s believing in a religion. We know .hat to be a wrong method of fighting. What we do is to try to teach them,—to try to reach their level of understanding through their culture, and thus to make the situation clearer. to them. To take the place of the church we have given the workers. the theater, the moving picture show, museums, exhibitions of various sorts, gardens, skating rinks, skis, club houses, etc. To take the place of the Bible and the priests, books concerning the class struggle by Lenin-and Stalin. There are quite a few churches left in the USS.R. _ It is true that with each year the number grows less. The churches are thenisétvés closing their doors from lack of funds with which to continue their Services. The fact at present is that the believers who frequent the churches must themselves provide for their upkeep. And little by little through their contacts with this new culture of ours they are being won over to the cause of the workers’ struggle to establish a Socialist Society, and they find little place or time in their lives to think of a religion. (3) Can a worker change his place of work if it does not please him? Sinice the question of work for everybody has not been entirely dis- posed’ of, and since we do not have the number of qualified workers that we arg in. need of, a worker changing his place of work is not encouraged. * ‘As if is,well known production itself suffers from the shifting around of worknten, and from the fumblings of too many new hands at the work. A worker. who is in the habit of changing his profession too often will concentrate on no profession in particular, and he will not give the proper amount of time to his studies. And at present we are giving a great deal of aftention tothe education of the workers. A worker who is studying as he flits from place to place has no time or thought to give to the work of production, and his interests of course are foreign to the interests of the collective. It is clear that the honest workmen hold these flying work- ers in no little contempt. In our times, the time of a heroic struggle to establish a Socialist Society, we only need those in our ranks who under- Stand“that their own personal interests must be closely allied to the in- terests of tne whole working class of our country. In this sense it will be understood why a worker is not encouraged to change his place of work ~often,--But of course no one is held to any work against his will. f (4 Must a worker be a Commanist in order to buy in one of the |co- operatives? (stores). What you ask me astonishes me a little . Every worker in the Hi U.S.S.R., be he a Party member or not, has the right to buy his products in one of the cooperative stores. : - (3) things? Every worker in the U.S.S.R., from the age of eighteen years on, has the right to be heard. Every member of a trade union has the right to speakat its meetings. Must one be a Communist in order to vote and have any say in (6) Tt is true that because of the lack of paper in the U.S.S.R., Party members are having their Party tickets tattooed on their arms? I was asked this question by an American worker, Joseph R. Protake, from Stokana, who was told this tale by a local priest who was lecturing around: concerning conditions in the U.S.S.R. When I read his letter to a-group of comrades at our factory, this question of his brought forth loud guffaws of laughter. No, dear comrades, we do not tattoo Party tickets @y. the arms of Party members. I am even writing you this letter on papét<and not on human flesh. It is true that at present we have a shortage of paper. The fact of the case is, that in the past we bought most of our paper abroad, and we had to pay a good deal of money for it. Now-we have our own paper factories, but since the demand for paper has grown in our country along with the growth of our cultural life, “the supplies of paper our factories are able to turn out does not meet with the demaid of the people. We are trying to be very economical in our use of paper—not to be thoughtlessly wasteful of it. But, the numbers of our'newspapers, and books, and text-books, are growing each year. And we'co net reeret the paver employed in this way. (7) How are you provided with food? And, do you ever go hungry? I get my food in this manner: At the factory there is a buffet and a restaurant, When I come to work in the morning I am given breakfast: Tea“or Coffee, sandwiches or a hot breakfast, as I wish. I pay from 30 to.40 Kopeks. (15¢ to 20c—Ed.) for this. . .. Before I go to work in the morning I drink tea at home and eat some bread and butter. During the day I have dinner at the factory. Besides a meat dinner, the rest- aurant,serves a, Vegetarian meal for those who do not care for meat, or who,-because of the condition of their health cannot eat meat. For my- self, Ilove Ukranian “borsht” very much (a red beet, and meat soup), and far #.second course either meat paddies or ham with potatoes. For dessert; usually take compot (stewed fruit), and have my choice of that or kissel (cranberry or milk Jello), or fresh fruits in season. For a two-course dinner I pay 60 kopeks, and for a three-course dinner I pay from 75 to 80 kopeks. In the evening at home, I also prepare something else to-eat, and if I am feeling rather lazy I just drink tea and bread and’ bitfer again. In my cooperative store I receive bread (two pounds every day), potatoes, butter, greens, vegetables, meat, fruit, sugar, candy, biscuits, etc. During the rest day, I don’t go to the theatre or to a con- cert, put.stay home to receive my comrades. We all go out into the kitehen and prepare supper, and we sing and dance and altogether pass the time in quite # merry fashion, {8) May anyone who wishes study music in your country? Of course they may. In fact they are taught for nothing. Only lazy peoplé- are not given attention. In our musical schools and conseryc.- tories, a5 in other of our educational depariments, both the higher and the middle groups, first place in enrollment is given to the workers and mbers of the kolhozes. Those who study in the daytime and are therefore. unable to work for their living receive a monthly allowance fromthe government, And ‘ith this I bring my letter to a close. “We i¢ me. dear comrades! ‘With comradely greetings, ANNA SMIRNOV". Moscow, Ershoff Per., No. 8, Apt. 13 Helping the Daily Worker through Michaet Gold. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold in his Socialist ~, competition with Dr, Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob . Burek and Del-to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: | § ; E Dr. Maurice Goldberg ......$ 5.00 , E. W. Theinert, Tucson, Ariz. $1.00 i “.F. EB. Shaw .,+.:+ fed | Previous total .....cs.ee0+++ 208.42 1.00 | Total to date .. «$301.67 The World of the Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR The Theatre of Action A program of skits and mass reci- tations was presented on Saturday evening at the New School for So- cial Research by various theatres of action. Theatres of action are non- professional groups of workers who use simple theatrical forms for pur- poses of agitation and propaganda at meetings, rallies, demonstrations in and out of doors. Only two of the six numbers on Saturday’s program were completely enjoyable. These were “The House of Cards,” a semi-Chaure-Souris vaude- ville number, spoofing the Nazi ten- dencies of the N.R.A., and “Who's Got the Bologney,” something of an intimate circus tomfoolery with song, dance and dialogue showing the friendly-enemy relationship of the four bourgeois candidates for mayor: OBrien, La Guardia, McKee and Solomon. Both these numbers are products of the Workers Laboratory Theatre. They are to be congratu- lated on the zest and verve of their performances, particularly in the election number which on Saturday was distinctly the “hit” of the eve- ning. ‘The other numbers suffered either from faulty presentation or from in- appropriateness of form. For exam- ple, take the “Hail Hitler?” skit, which was scheduled for performance by the German theatre of action, Prolet-Buhne, but which was done by the Workers’ School Theatre Group. This skit is good because it dramatizes in a simple but graphic way the contradictions of the Hitler platform which attempts to flatter at j one and the same time the big capi- talist, the poor middle-man, and the | worker. The conciseness of this skit sharpens its point, and its unpreten- tious situation (an argument in a restaurant between three people rep- resenting these three strata of so- ciety) makes it convincing. Only it must be acted more steadily and less childishly than was the case on Sat- urday night if it is to have the de- sired effect. ‘The same applies to the mass reci- tation of the Workers School The- atre of the Ballad of the Nine Negro Boys of Scottsboro, Alabama. This is | also excellent for its narrative sim- plicity and directness, and the form of mass recitation which employs dif- ferent groups of voices for heighten- | ing or intensification is very effec- tive when properly used. When such | @ group as the Prolet-Buhne gives this ballad one sees how a proper technique of mass recitation can ac- tually add to the content of the words: the crescendoes and the whis- | pering are not mere devices to hold the audience's attention but may be used to give emotional color and sig- nificance to what is said at each mo- ment. Saturday night's recitation was mediocre in execution. The Brownsville and East New York section of the City Worker's Clubs presented what amounted to a one-act play in Yiddish. Some of the actors gave likeable performances but the piece itself was a poor ve- hicle for a Theatre of Action. The reason for this is a wrong kind of ambitiousness of content and a wrong form, This playlet attempts to show an old sailor converted to the Com- munist cause so that he joins his comrades in refusing to ship a cargo of machine guns which they believe will be used against the Soviet Union. In a short vaudeville skit or a mass recitation the simplest slogan elo- quently or colorfully stated carries weight, but in a play with a more involved story and a background that needs explanation, the mind begins to question the authenticity of the incident unless every character is properly motivated, every turn of the plot is realistically justified. If the play fails in this, its propaganda val- ue is undermined. The spectator in the theatre is impressed by a convic- tion forcefully uttered, but it resists an argument poorly thought out and badly built up, The Theatre of Ac- tion derives its methods from the idea of “direct action” in the theatre, and should leave the creation of atmos- phere, character portrayal and all the more complex aspects and elements of the “dramatic” form to the sta- tionary theatres, such as the Theatre | Collective, Artef and others. This brings us to a definition of aims. It is often said that the The- atre of Action has a very limited val- ue since it appeals to workers who are already class-conscious. But the importance of a theatre does not lie only in the new recruits it makes for the revolutionary movement, but also in the strength and encouragement ft gives to those who are already fight- ing for it. It is doubtful whether any sketch, however clever, could make a confirmed Tammanyite yote for Bob Minor, but such a piece as “Who's Got the Bologney,” presented by the W. L. T., does stimulate a sense of joy, of youthful vigor, or fresh en- thusiasm, of confidence and the an- ticipation of final victory among those who are already sympathetic to our cause. And the presence of such feeling amongst us not only in- creases the spiritual health neces- sary in our struggle but must be a token to any outsider with a rem- nant of good sense that here amongst the Communist voters there must be the roots of a growing life, for such enthusiasm and genuine pleasure are never seen in the noisiest and most claborate bourgeois political mani- festations. If the Theatre of Action will make their work satisfactory to “heir own well-wishers it mey also ttract elements now alien to it. Scene from the new Soviet Yiddish talkic, “Laughter Through Tears,” which will have its first American showing at the Acme Theatre this Saturday, The film was screened from a story by Sholom Aleichem. Rocks and Stones A¥e Better A Carolina Tobacco Farmer Speaks By BEN FIELD drought has hit the fields and coyered the crops with rust. To- bacco plants screw up through the red and yellow sand, meet the sun, and wilt back toward the earth. In many places the North Carolina soil looks like ash. On. a roadside field a man and boy are harvesting tobacco, They jerk up and down the rows. They put them down flat in a box on a stone- | boat drawn by an old mule. The farmer stops to look at us. His overalls are patched. He is barefoot-| ward, We gotto do things the wa ed. His unshaven face seems to be covered with pinhair. He scrapes the sweat off with his fingers. “It’s hot, and gettin’ hotter and hotter.” Another farmer trudges over the | sible. baked field towards us, He has a pair | Roos2vi of old shoes in his hands. gaunt. on his face. spattered hound dog with a swollen lower lip. The barefooted farmer’s name ts| Johnson, shoes on. wear shoes here. No, that ain’t the whole truth. But we don’t wear any- thing being proud of.” . He sits down to put his IE shoes are without laces, broken, and gape up at him with tornout tongues. “I got my farm beyond the trees. I ain’t had no time to go back for these shoes. We're s0 poor out here we can’t hire a man for a few weeks’ picking. We got to help ea other. Auctions hanging over this! town of Cameron like buzzards round a sick hog. They're selling farmers out for a dollar an acre.” The other farmer, Hopkins, leads the mule away dragging the stone- boat. The mule’s ears hang like rags. As we wait for the stoneboat to come back, I talk about conditions of to- bacco farmers up North, “In Wisconsin tobacco reached the lowest price in the history of tobacco growing in the state. And in Con- necticut farmers can’t sell their to- bacco for 6 cents a pound. But the tobarco trusts like the American To- bacco Co,, Reynolds, Liggett and My- ers, are still making clear profits of $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 a year. During the war I worked on a tobacco farm near Somers in the Connecticut Valley. The farmers were making 70 cents and more on a pound of to- bacco. Now some of the farmers I knew are off their farms. One is try- ing to find work as a plumber in the city, another has a job in a gas sta~ tion, Some of the others are starving.” . HHNSON says, “It’s a hard row of stumps we got. My farm ain't worth one-quarter what I paid for it. I ajn’t so bad off like other farmers. Managed to keep out of debt so far “We're so bad off we can’t | by hard scratching but the farm’ll| never be mine no more. Farmers in this part of Carolina never suffered so much. ,..” He stands off and points to the to- j bacco. “I seen worse stuff. This will cure in five or six days. It don’t pay us here to chop-tobacco the way it used to pay you in Connecticut. You raise a better.grade. Less time and for this is 8 cents. It costs us at least 20 cents to grow this. In the good days a box full. on the stoneboat would bring in about $50. Even some | jmoney involved. for us. All we'll get | | |Workers Theatre| A New Volume of Outstandin ‘Groups Will Meet Page Five g tories by Erskine Caldwell “We Are The Living” Shows Marked Advance | Over Author’s Previous Novels and Stories | b in Detroit Nov. 12 ference of will be he! By ALAN CALMER WE ABE ; Caldwell, The Viking Press. THE LIVING, by Erskine groups $2. Worke languag two dele every elect this confrence:.’ ifts aré “also dis- | The con the story of the district secret farmer in with which the ountains, in matic Group is affilia The Medicine Man,” which sounds ference will ff of a burlesque show, of organizing C and in several others. One story, “The groups in Detroit, and will discuss hi Caldwell’s the mid-western conference to he icking satire with so- held in Chicago on November 18 implications. The manner in and 19. Future plans for the Na- which of the rich farmers begin to act like | the leaves off the plants as they walk | worms was in their brains. The poor rmers are sure frying in hell.” Hopkins comes up with the stone- | boat. |“ tell Hopkins the South is bac they do them uy North. Organize the farmer. The North’s got to teach us. You fellows from up North. But Hop- | kins thinks Hoover was all respon- He’s heart and liver it. I sey 4t-can’t be all one He is}man’s fault. StHi=Hoover done lots There is a sickly expression | of things to worsen conditions.” He looks like a fly-be-| | ERE’S a cat grindjng on the road. The warehouse man. Hopkins nods. He'll bring his tobacco down | this evening. Johnson lookS"after the dust raised by the car. “Warehouse. We had a co-operative ‘round here. Man from | Richmond come ‘down. That bled us, The farmers were so bad off they had to steal tobacco from their own pack- ing house to keep from starving. But in Kentucky they stole a march on | us. There the land is better and they use less fertilizer, But they hed a fight at an auction and they beat ,» I remember reading jabout it. They. threw rotten apples at | him.” | “They should a-used ston: | Johnson. “They're harder. j you can make vir of rotten apples. The; says least out At and cider should a-used stones. Rocks and stones are better.” iT |being done by m: about the farmers’ JOT down Johiison’s address in my note book. I tell him about the work conferen: | shakes hands and says he'll be | a: migh lad to hear from the North. Then ho | turns down between the rows, picking |the dv leaves behind the mule | with the sagging ears. And some titiié later, back in the writes: “I have just reccived your let- ter and was glatt to’ hear from uu I recjved a letter’ from your office and think it is the'-very thing for farmer. I have:been talking it around here and the farmers seems to be in for it and I think that jt will not be any trouble to get them in line as they are at the Place where they see somthings hast to be done. I will be glad to do everything in my Power to push it through. I have decided not to try to farm next year. Things is so upset that a man‘don’t know what to do. I think I can find something to make exspences.at..I have not mad? anything at all in the past 3 years. Now if I can be-any help let me know. “Yours Very Truly “L, 8. Johnson=Cameron, N, C.” TUNING IN. TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P, M.—Roxanne Wallace, Songs: Southernaires Quartet 7:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch 7:30—Circus Days—Sketch 1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Concert Orch.; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Cavaliers Quartet Alien, Comedian; Grofa Orch. e Viley’s Songs; Young Orch. t Nighter Drama m and Abner avis Oreh. many Orch, —Aalph Kirbery, Songs 22:0 A, M.—Weems ‘Orch. | * WOR—710 Ke 9:00 P, M,—Sports—Ford Frick 1:16—My Life of Crime—Sketch 7:30—Terry eX) Ted—Sketch “7:45-Golf—Bill Brown 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery ama $:15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 8:30—Dramatized News 8;45—willy Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard, Soprano 9:00-+Variety Musicale 10:00—Bluober Bergman—Sketch 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Estelle Letbling’s Musik Shoppe 11:00—Weather Report 11:02—Monbeains Trio 11:30—Nelson Orch, 12:00—Daneo Orch, WIJZ—760 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Amos 'n’ Andy ‘U:18—Three Musketeers—Sketch } | 10:45—450th Birthday Anniversary of 7:30—Potash_ and-Perimutter—Sketch 7:45—Talk—Irene Weleh 8:00—Waiter O'Keet Comedian; Ethel Shutta, Sofi Bestor Orch. 8:30—Dangerous: ' Paradise—Sketch 8:45—Red Davis—Sketch 9:00—Leah Rey, Songs; Harris Orch 9:30—Phil Baker, Comedian; Shield Orch.; Male Quartet; Neil Sisters, Songs 10:00—Concert Band 10:30—Jan Smeteriin, Pieno 10:45—Headline Hunter—Ployd Gibbons 11.00—Berrie Brothers 11:15—Stars of the Autumn—Professor R. H. Baker,-Harvard Observatory 11:30—Childs Orch,” 12:00—Calloway _Oreh: Ps . WABC—860 Ke 00 -P. M.—Myrt-and Marge 15—Just Plain “Bill--Sketch 71:30—Travelérs Engembie ‘7:45—News—Bonkg, Carter 8:00—Green Ore’:; Men About Town Trio; Vivian Ruth, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin "On Hill 8:30—Mareh_of Time 9:00—Irvin S. Cobb, Stories; Goodman 1 Orch. 9:15—Tommy McLaughlin, Baritone; Kostelancty~ 9:30—All-American Football Show, with Christy WalsH;' Speaker, Rip Miller, Navy Coach-:~ 10:00--Olsen and..Johnson, Comedians; Sosnick Orch, 10:30—Alexander Woolleott, Town Crier tin Luther—Dr. Hans Luther, G man Ambassador to United States 11;00—Symphonic" Sttings 11:15—News; Jones’ Orch. 12:00—Gray Orch. IM MARTIN LooK est! dow's my case THE DEFENSE WiLL Carr IT'S WITWESSES—, QNO THEY'LL PLEASE HURRY ASK THEM BELERY TAING You Caw THINK OF — AND with | city T get a letter from Johnson, He | ~ the | The Counter-Trial Begins Everyone of them is rooted firmly in American soil, everyone of them tional Festival of all groups affi with the L. O. W, T. will also be considered. ed he posse could do plenty of damage to’ sacred bourgeois customs in this country, Fewer Sex Themes knows the life of the American/ on ae! masses at first hand, and everyone of them possesses a healthy and ro- Dancer to Perform at} bust attitude toward the social prob-| anoiner ere ee ied woe lems of sate oe Not only is it im-| is indicated in this book by his se« | portant that these writers of the first | ject ey pre- Jrank are travelling in the direction | <cvom of fewer sex themes. His New School Tonight joccupation with this subject fuined NEW YORK.—John Bovingdon,/of the revolutionary proletariat, but | 8 to poet and dancer who recently re-/ it is even more significant that this | is rekenae ene a SGodt aes turned ao ie pei PS we social direction is the only one which | tle’ Acre.” give dramatic interpretations tonight | offers them the opportunity for in- | t Cald= at the New School for Social Re~|tellectual and creative growth today. eta devcioprect na" goa search, 66 W. 12th St. His original} At the same time, this leftward | craftsman. The stories in “We Ate the humber, composed especially for the| path. 1s not a polished boulevard |Tiving” are far superior from #'teche International Zebor Defense, de-| along which these authors may skim | nical point of view to his first cole | Scribes the farewell of a deportee as/ straight to their destination. It is lection, “American Earth.” In “We he boards ship for a fascist country, | little more than a pioneer trail, wind- Are the iving,” Caldwell displays his In addition to this, the Interna-| ing through forests and across moun-| mastery of the brief story—the only | tional String Ensemble, as well as| ‘ains, skirting quicksands and preci-| form of fiction which he has hane | other artists, will perform, and Oak-|Pices, and surrounded by an infi-| g up to the present time, ley Johnson, expelled university pro-| Rate number of known and unknown | w quick strokes he presentg fessor will lecture, dangers. a complete picture. His method of Path to Proletarian Literature | adapting his narrative manner to the It takes guts to venture along this | mcod of his story also Tepresents one pas Nor leads to proletarian lit-|of his noteworthy achievements, Exe sa jerature. American authors whose | amples like “We Are Looking at Y Stage and Screen | background and outlook have been | Agnes,” “After-Image” and “ countay |more or less unconsciously bourgeois | Full of Swedes,” exhibit these abilie Se a in character, cannot complete this | ties Three Films Now Featured'hozardous journey over night. It| The stories in “We Are the Living” at Philkino, Philadelphia | ‘kes a long time before these au- | | thors became accustomed to the new | | Surroundings along the way, before cople who are untouched by the | Spark of revolution. Most of them are Three feaiures are now showing at the Philkino, “The 4lst,” first|!2¢y know them as intimately as/isolated individuals in backward run Soviet film showing the heroic | ‘heir earlier envircnment. | tural communities. These are the rugele in the desert of Kera-Kun | Caldwell himself has pointed this| people tha dwell knows best. He them as revolution- to protest, until: they ionary themselves. Yet jof a lone Red Guard detachment to| Ut in a.review which appeared in | car break through the hostile barriers of | ‘Re New Masses, “At our present behiaag govelo pagan rave. “4 | stage,” he said, “we fnd that we can yateel and sand; and the romance of | only begin where our previous ex- Mariutka—the only girl in the com-| {top Sun gre, Gur Previo pany; a return by request of the| prone? Gumped us. We were dump Amkino masterpiece, “Alone,” which | ound and here wel ix ae tells the beautiful story of @ young | Ty Aud here we lie, Our first school-teacher who is sent to a de- | doen, and bewildend: te ne solate part in Siberia; and the Film HM TAMAK ERA Tee cheek toe jand Photo League's news-reel ogm- ine Out heads and looking ahead into [pilation of “The Scottsboro abe.” | Tee cottected in “We Are | the Living” show that Caldwe}] has | c ht 9 1 does not see in the the beacon which ention upon. basic jain in the dark ep which will iiumi~ c would Like to write about |not gone far in his movement to the are already revolution- jleft. But this must be said: he i should draw close to moving in that direction. of the fighting ele- Has Left Hardboiled School the working class in this To begin with, Caldwell se: the industrial centers have broken away from the ence of the hardboiled manner, tainted some of his earlier work. hardboiled mood, which found eat belt, where class bat~ ng up every day. ory in “We Are the. Living* hat Caldwell is travelling in | West African Dancers, | D¢sinning in Hemingway and also in| the right direction. “Rachel” is @ U. Balalaika Orchestra, | the American newspaver, is a direct | moving story of the city poor who dm. 50c. at Webster Hall, | reflection of the period of decadent |feed upon garbage (although the alism of the story seems a bit stretched). And in another sketch, at 8:30 p.m, Auspices F.9.U capitalism in which it arose. Its de- | t New schoo | Vice of cutting off action from feel- | Lecture Pre h, 66 W. 12th St. at 8:30/ ing, of draining all emotion out of alentitled “Slow Death”—which ap- 1 fohnson will lecture. Adm. | narrative, of presenting all events in | peared in the New Masses and which hae pone istrict International La-|_ eoldblooded manner, of beating allj is not included in this volume— LECTURE on lerism After 10 Months | incidents down to a common level— | Caldwell seems to be striding forward Max Bedacht, member of | In Power mittee Communist Party, at| is conspicuously ebsent in “We Are the Ce along the leftward path. East Side Workers Club, 165 E, Broadway, | Fos = SS at 8:30 p.m. | A WALTER ORLOFF, expelled American speek on “My | 1,” and Rabbi oot = n “What 1s Fascism" | 407 Rockaway iyn «on “Election OPENING TOMORROW (Saturday) AMERICAN PREMIERE OF NEW YIDDISH PICTURE eer er ct FROM SOVIET RUSSIA! New York” at First Picture of the Yiddish Mark Twain 6th Bt. Cc t at ouncil of | Sholom Aleichem’s “LAUGHTER “> THROUGH TEARS” with MOSCOW ART THEATRE PLAYERS SPECIAL PREMIERE SHOWING TONITE at 10:30 tat |“THE RED HEAD” Dar > i221 Greater Adm. 15c. Please note it has been changed. | » PROSPECT Workers Center, 1187 So. a\ Boulevard, is holding a lecture by Comrade f M. Olgin on “The American Youth and | the Workers Movement,” at 8:30 p.m. } on “The N.R.A. and the Fivo- | at Workers Center, 87 Bay 25th | Auspices Council 10 h. | “THE HOLLYWOOD. Para: of current Hollywood filn ¢ American Youth Federation, Place (#th St., bet. 2nd and Adm, 10. ‘The History Ma: ) at 8:30 p.m. From the great Novel : “POIL DE CAROTTE” — ACME THEATRE at Tremont’ Progr Prospect Ave. at 8:30 p.m. Saturday | DANCE and En Youth Federation With STREET and UNION SQUARE ‘arks Place. Negro | Dance Con- | || 8X0 Jefferson 1 S. ® | Now | | BING CROSBY and LILYAN TASHMAN in | ess will be held at! ‘TOO MUCH HARMONY’ im. 25¢. Good time | | Also: “BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD” with ALICE BRADY & FRANK MORGAN RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy” Opens 11:30 A.M “ONLY YESTERDAY” Margaret Sullavan—John Boles and s colorful “Roxy” stage show 350 to 1 p.m.—Bie to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) ——— KKO Greater Show Season ——— ing their third disp their headquarters. in_ store. rs will Rold a Victory Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St, | W PLAYING: RGEI EISENSTEIN’S “THUNDER OVER MEXICO” | she: FIRST AMERICAN SHOWING | | lin Solo, sion 40c. TEN MINUTE ALIBI A New Melodrama “Is herewith recommended: ta the highest terms.” —Sut BARRYMORE THEA., W. 47th St, Eves., 8.40, Mats, Tues., Wed, Sat; 2:40 WING GROUP Of Local 22. will| celebrate 16 years of the Russian’ Revo- | | lution with a Grand Ball at Irving Plaza, | Clarence Hathaway will speak. Adm. 33¢. LEFT “EISENSTEIN IN MEXICO” 55 Street Playhouse 25° tt 2 p.m, | Just East of ith Ave, OCon.12:30-12 | -—-THR THEATRE GUILD _ presents-— ETHEL EUGENE O’NETLL's COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! HOUSEWARMING Party, Entertainment, | Refreshments, Dancing et new headquarters | of Film and’ Photo League, 116 Lexington Ave. near 28th St. Special attraction, Pre- | view of ional Photo Exhibition, —Ad- | | mission 25 with GEORGE M. COHAN TREMONT - Workers Club, presents _the | ‘Then. 52d St., W. of Bway MICHAE Guild String Quartet, Quirt, the Aida Girl GUIL Ev.8.20Mats, Thurs. &Sat.2.20 CH L GOLD. te at a Concert at 2075 Clinton Ave. _ ot aibkts will lecture on Admission with this ad 25¢, | MOLIERE’S COMEDY WITH “The Modern Ameri || The School for Husbands |) Literature” 2 Delegates to Bal | PRED June WALKER | timore n Against Lynching at 27 - jon Ldsitomen TH ap Thes., Bway & 40 St.Ey. | on ‘ |W. 1usth St, Admission aoc. Auspices In-|1 KIM PYRE, stoviatsThers.&Sat.2.40 ||| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, § P. M. Bosion -— ——-- — _________ | } at Internat’l Workers’ Order Center ee On Saturday the Dally Worker has | 1878 43rd Street, Brooklyn | Ae eee eee ohn ocd crab of fas | 8 pages. Increase your bundle order |} Auspices: Boro Park Branch. 31 1.W.0. | Boylston Street, Saturday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.{ for Saturday! | |. I5e, Proceeds for Daily Worker m, Adm, 25c, —_—— CHIEF OF POLICE BRow«! REQEMBER, I'm GERE To BACK You up / are still chiefly character sketches of — ere 5 ee ee me a oe wee ' ‘