The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1933, Page 5

WORLD! By Michael Gold Another Soviet Worker Writes HE letter of Anna Smirnova, Moscow factory worker, which I printed here,-last Friday, has proved so popular among the readers of this today. “We Are Not Monks” ELLO, dear Comrades! 5 ers. questions that are of interest to them. column that I am presenting another similar letter from @ Soviet worker This one is written by the lock-smith Semakoff. Both Smirnova and Semakoff have won my regard not only because of their joyful and revealing letters, but because they have enabled a harrféd columnist with @ bad cold to catch up with a good deal of neglected reading. Well, here is Semakoff’s letter. Read it, and if there are any questions et you have about life in the U.S.S.R., write to him. My comrades in labor quite often receive letters from American work- In’these letters from our foreign comrades we are asked to answer In one letter from a comrade from wy Chicago he asks whether it is true that we are not allowed to dance in B 3 the U.S.S.R. I wish to answer this question: You ask in your ietter if we dance or not. We are not monks, dear ie friend, who live cloistered behind monastery walls. In the old days under 2 the ‘TsqF and in the time of capitalism we were oppressed and kept back; to do a jig. lived in Russia then. And, you-ask if we dance! its, they were). detachment, and harmonica kom district an attack. We waited. were only young boys. panic. ~ many, I saw tachment. play not keep their feet still. sad about—they are strong! Wel do not onl to work building our Wor! willimely: “Sharikopodshepnik” Factory Mescow Ostapovskoye Chausee No. 1 Automatic-Lathe Section Semakoft Obed Br6oks .. M. on ote years-J have worked 24 years. Ours: Was a large family, and we lived crowded together under conditions that it would be difficult to imagine—so bad were they. In my child- hood: I-did not know what it was to sleep in a bed. We children either slept on the floor, or on wooden boards. Now I live with my wife, (who is also a worker), and my little son in a new building, in a new apartment with a great many windows. come home every evening to a clean, light, cosy place. to wash my hands when my little son pulls me by the sleeve and says: “Take your harmonica, Papa, and play,—and Mama and I will dance.” looking a little like wet chickens. Tt was true that there was only a handful of us to the enemy’s that things were not going well. And that I had to do something about it, being as I was the leader, the commissar of the de- now Wwe are the masters of our own fate, and whichever way we decide to go that way we are ploughing ahead, We are building our own fate here in the U.S.S.R. In just one year we built our factory “Sharikopodshepnik.” ¢ We are living after quite a new fashion, friends. Our fashion of danc- ing is Rew, as ate the songs we sing. Look. at our young people. ‘There! one stops his work for & moment I must tell you, dear comrades, that my life up to the time of the Revolution was not to be envied. It is well known how the working class I am now 37 years of age, and of those thirty-seven My father before me was also a worker. I T hardly have time * D RING the Civil War on the front I fought against the White soldiers In 1919 I had to take part in the suppression of the Kulak uprising in the province of Ufimskaya, always carried a gun with me, and besides my gun I always hed my harmonica with me. I would like to tell you a story of my We were once stationed out in the country in the Minzclins- We knew that not far away was located a stronghold of the Kulaks ind the White bandits. We received the information that the Whites were making ready for It was a dark night. I noticed how sad they had become, all of them I was in charge of a In my detachment there And suddenly they became seized with I took out my harmonica, went over to the-boys, and made ready to . And then I broke into a cheery dance tune. The boys could And one by one they began to dance. And thus we passed the whole night dancing. And when the morning broke we fell upen the White bandits and drove them back! HAVE always believed that a cheerful man is & strong man,—and strong like in the work that he must do. And our young have nothing to be During an evening at a club house they will dence dnd whirl so much as to arouse everyone’s astonishment. We dance everywhere: of an evening at our club, during the dinner interyal, when we all go for a walk together in the boulevard, on the skat- ing rinks in winter time, and sometimes we even try to dance on skates. And am the summer when we go to the Rest Homes we dance so much that our-feet become weary and sore. our work too, dear comrades, and that is the truth of it! give our strength to our work, but our soul as well. in the building of Socialism, for in building Socialism we are a future for ourselves. And we love also to sing and to dance. And if you wish to know how we live, and work, and study, and govern -Peasants’ Government, don’t be lazy,—just write, and we will nswer all your questions. A lock-smith im the Automatic-Lathe Section. We We love SEMAKOFF. Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold in his Socialist competition with Dr. Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Burek and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: Helen Luke, Jacob A. Keller ...... Sam Wiss Party rin) port, Iowa) - 6.60 + 310.77 +++ $342.12 wilh production, “Roberta,” » Harbach, 2 ie & Was? Wailing For You” » . Opens At Booth Tonight; “Roberta” Premiere Sat. “L Wes Waiting For You,” which was scheduled for last Friday night, | have its delayed opening this _ evening at the Booth Theatre. This is a comedy from the French by Jacques Natanson, adapted by Mel- ville Baker. The cast is headed by Anders, Veray Allen, Helen ~ Bretaigne Windust and Max Gorden will bring his new ® musical comedy. by Jerome “Kern and Otto to the New Amsterdam “seg “Theatre on Saturday night. The com-at the Empire Theatre. |edy was adapted from Alice Duer Miller's novel, “Gowns by Roberta.” The large cast is headed by Lyda Roberti, Bob Hope, Fay Templeton, | Tamara, George Murphy and Sydney Greenstreet. WEN em Theatre Guild to Present Plays For Children The Theatre Guild is sponsoring a series of entertainments for children, Robert Reinhart’s “Children’s Thea- social matinees on December 26, 27 and 29. Reinhart is at present aj pearing as the magician in Moliere’s tricals,” which will be presented for comedy “The School For Husbands” DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933 IT HAPPENS EVERY DAY FLASHES and CLOSE-UPS By LENS Dorothy Wieck, soon to appear in| “Cradle Song,” is a Nazi and a vig- orous defender of Hitlerism. Her husband, Baron van der Decker, ar- rived in Hollywood a few days ago and is under the wing of Paramount Studios of which Emanuel Cohen is head, Van der Decker is an editor on one of the more important Ger- man film papers and high in the propaganda department of Goebbels. It appears that it is next to impos- sible to even approach the Nazi rat for an interview and we hereby ven- ture the opinion that Mr. Cohen, the Jewish capitalist, is deliberately hid- ing and protecting him! Class solid- arity, Mr. Cohen? What is Van Der Decker doing at Paramount? Why the secrecy? There’s something be- neath all this we'd like to know, Mr. Cohen. And here's a little promise, Para- mount. We'll expose your marriage to Hitlerism and your support of his agents in this country until Van Der Decker and Dorothy Wieck are driven out of Hollywood. And maybe you're wondering how “Cradle Song” will be received? | An anti-Hitler film made in Bel- gium has been lying around in New York for three months without find- ing @ single bidder. 6 ae Bravo, G. W. Pabst!... The di- rector of “Westfront” and Kamerad- schaft” has turned down the first story submitted to him by Warners ...An idiotic yarn for Ruth Chatter- ton...Round One: Pabst carries it on points so far...Round Two: Will he weaken, will he weaken? aN en Interesting comment on bourgeois film critics in “Variety”: The great majority of misjudg- ments appear in ratings of pic- tures as fair when they were out- right bad in box-office experience. There do not seem to be any more hard-to-piease critics, and the com- plaisant attitude toward screen quality was particularly untimely during the summer just passed. The moral of this being: Don’t be- lieve the (capitalist) papers! ete 8 “Spring,” the film directed by Kaufman which will open the series of Soviet film showings at the New School for Social Research on Nov. 18, under the auspices of New Masses and the Film and Photo League, con- tains some of the most remarkable anti-religious sequences ever filmed .-Kaufman is one of the foremost artists of the documentary school of the cinema in the Soviet Union and “Spring,” which has never been shown in this country before, is his outstanding work.... . | Children are keeping away from the movies in such impressive num~- | bers these days that movie houses in large cities have withdrawn their special children’s rates...And little children shall lead us...The exhib- \itors say they're satisfied, inasmuch las kids create noise and disurbances \in the movies which tend to “scare he elders away”... -Ratier ere pes. adarer's If Ruth Chatter(box)ton still re- tains her rep as a great actress after her bit in “Female,” this particular department will fold up for good or go in for gardening or potato racing or bridge or somethin’. ..I’'ll print the names of all my readers who fail to see it, on my honor roll...Lemme know.... Max Baer owes the Associated Oil Co. of Los Angeles $35 for gas and oil...If you’ve seen the guy in “The Prizefighter and the Lady” you'll | realize that the boy’s honest, though .-He’s returned a million times that much oil to movie audiences to square himself, I guess.... «8 Diego Rivera has endorsed Coc- teau’s film, “The Blood of a Poet” | and we'll be looking for his name on Ex-Lax and Feenamint ads, hence- |forth...“The Blood of a Poet” rep- resents the ultimate in the intellec- tual and artistic decadence, of a sec- tion of the French bourgeois intel- | ligentsia...Cocteau is an avowed dope fiend and “The Blood of a Poet” |should have been entitled “The Nightmare of a Dope Eater in the Final Stages of Cerebral Disintegra- tion”...One of the cultural puspools of a dying world... The Film and Photo League of New York is growing by leaps and bounds, literally...The Photo Sec- tion has doubled its membership in the last month...Its exhibition, opening Wednesday, breathes with the fire of workers’ struggles and makes the pink-ribbon photographic leries look like the last stage of per- nicious anemia...The Film Section now has 50 students in its school, all of whom have signified their inten- tion to remain in the organization as active members upon the comple- tion of the course...Production on an important film starts in a few weeks ... Soviet film showings on the 18th of the New School for Social Re- search...“And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet,” says Tom Brandon, secretary. $1 FROM HARLEM ORGANIZER HARLEM, N. Y.—The Harlem Or- ganizer, appearing for the first time, celebrates its entry into the revolu- tionary struggle by contributing $1 to the Daily Worker $40,000 Drive. salon displays of the bourgeois gal- | * Short Stories from the Experiences of a Home Relief Bureau Investigator as told to HELEN KAY The following series of short stories are actual experiences of differ- ent Home Relief Bureau Investigators in New York City. They are tiny bits of sordid reality showing the degradation, the povérfy, the horror and misery of life among the unemployed workers, They show the bankruptcy of charity, the falseness of metropolitan relief, and the need to strengthen the iat for Snemployment Insurance, Giordano Bruno, Born Into Darkness. I was given application card number—. ‘The card was already two weeks old when it was put into my hands. It was taken out of a huge file of other cards, Only the words “Very urgent—woman pregnant” made it different from the hundreds of other file cards listing cases of needy unemployed. I came into the bleak home. It was already dark. I asked the man to turn on the electricity. He laughed bitterly, “Tt’s cut off.” The room was small. The fur- niture was poor, The woman had just returned from the hospital. She had given birth to a son. She already had three other children. ‘Their application for relief had been filed two weeks ago. By the time an investigator had been sent the child had been brought into the world, The woman was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance at the last minute. When her husband came to take her out, he had only fifteen cents. The three of them, the sick wife, the newborn babe, and the man, had to ride on the crowded subway, from the hospital to their home. When they got home, the lights had been turned off. Their son was greeted with darkness. “When my undesired guest was born I named him after the great scientist Giordano. Bruno, who brought so mych light into the world, because’ Mmy-son was born into darkness,”,’.the man’s eyes | blazed with anger,.as he spoke. He lit a kerosene lamp. The sputtering light.gave the drab room an eerie feeling:- He raised the ® picture of a young American Army officer which hung on the wall. “Look,” he said, “that was I in country when 'T.fought as a ser- geant in the battlefields of France. But I’m no gd at all, now. desirable citizen left to starve with my wife and four children. Well, Ill show them yet, I'll show them!” The woman moaned as she lay in the bed. Her face was drawn and pallid. “Please, give me some water,” | | she asked. He did. I saw the man gnte again. I was instructed to tell him that since he had not lived int NeW York over two years, he was ‘not’ entitled to the rellef issued by the Home Relief Buro, *Giordano “Bino, a scientist of the 17th century Renaissance period, persecuted and finally burned at the “stake by the Cath- olie Church for, ‘his revolutionary scientfic research. * to (Tomorrow: “The Old Woman iishead Lived in a } Box") Fifty Children to Take Part in Operetta by Harry A. Potamkin, ‘Strike Me Red’ NEW YORK.—Fifty children from Brooklyn, Harlem, Bronx and Queens will participate in the Potamkin operetta, “Strike Me Red,” at City College Auditorium, 23rd St. and Lexington Ave., Saturday evening, Noy. 24, to commemorate the late Harry Alan Potamkin, internationally known movie critic and author for! children. Hiram Motherwell, editor of Stage Magazine; Joseph Freeman, editor of | New Masses; Wilton Barrett, chair- man of the National Board of Re- view; and others will be on the pro- gram, which includes the presenta- tion of a bust of Potamkin sculpted by Adolf Wolff, who is now exhibiting at the Delphic Gallery. ‘This operetta, in five acts and eleven Scenes, is a good example of Potam- kin’s work, showing how he could turn the hard, stringent life of the children of poor working people, with realistic background from the East Side, into artistic entertainment and with great skill he forged a children’s musical production into a social in-| strument. Music to the libretto, by Gertrude Rady, charmingly melodizes the Pot- amkin script. The child actors, both Negro and white, will sing in two) parts, alto and soprano, directed by | Will Lee of the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre. designed by artisis of the John Reed Club, which, with the Young Pioneers Stage settings are being | of America, is sponsoring this mem- orial evening. Potamkin belonged to both. After this ‘performance several others will be givén for children and Memorial Childrén’s Theater which Noy. 25 is the start. for ‘Potamkin Film School Opens in N.Y. Tonight NEW YORK —The Harry Alan Potamkin Film “School will open this | evening, 8:30 o’éléck, at the head- | quartets of thé Film and Photo| League, 116 Lextigton Ave, Regis- tration will be pon ee until 8 p.m. NOTE: THERE ISA MINIMUM CHARGE OF 25¢ FOR 3 LINES FOR AN INSERTION IN THE “\WHAT’S~ON” COLUMN. NOTICES | MUST BE IN THE OFFICE BY 11 A. M. OF THE PREVIOUS DAY, Monday | MEMBERSHIP MEETING, 33 East 20th st | Anti-Imperialist League, Down Town Branch. | Speaker on Cubs from-Mella Club. nist Sir WIR BAND URGENTLY NEEDS BASS PLAYER. We can’ fitaitsh instrument. Other pinyers invited. Rehearsals Monday, 7:45 P. m. Preparing. far. concert, Dec. "15-29, St. Marks Pl, TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Roxanne Wallace, Songs; South- ernatres 5—Billy Bachelor—Sketeh ; Young Orch, 9:00—Gypsies Orch.; Frank Parker, Tenor 9:30—Ship cf Joy, With Captain Hugh Forrett Dobbs {ampden, Katherine Cornell, Otis ~ Sinner, George M. Cohan 12:00—To Be Announced WIS A. Casts and Choruses of Champagne, Sec and Hold Your Horses Se ties WOR—710 Ke %:00 P, M.—Sports—Ford Frick 15—News—Gabriel Heatter ‘Harry Hershfield 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama :15—Billy Jones and Erne Hare, Songs 30—Morros Mus'cale '20—Variety Musicale 45—The Witch's ‘vale 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Alfred Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta; ‘Heger, Soprano 11:00—Weather Report 11:02—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Robbins Orch. 12:00—Lane Orch. M.—The Theatre Presente—Caste | WJZ—760 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Amos’*n*” Andy EI —Baby Rowe Marie otash an utver—Sketch, 7:43—Three Jenece ee is 8:00—Morin Sisters; Songs; King’s Jesters; Stokes Orch. 8:30—Paullst Choristers 8:45—Red Davis—tketch 9:00—Minstrel Show 9:30—Pasternack 10:00—Dance Orch. Betty Barthel Grantland 10:30—Shura Cherkessky, Piano 10:45—Planned Recovery—Postmaster Gen- eral James.a.Fatley 11:00—Leaders Trio 11:15—Concert Orék 12:15 A, M.—Bestor rok. 12:30—Waring Orch. * + Melody Singers ‘ary McCoy, Soprano; ;. Songs; Sports— 7:00 P. M.—Myrt-“itid Marge 7:13—Just Plain Bill—Sketeh -Bongs 8:15—News—Bdwin @,, Hill 8:30—Bing Crosby, Songs; Hayton Orch. 9:00—Dance Orch, 9:15—Harry Richman, Songs; Lopez Orch. | 9:30—Gertrude Niesen,..Songs; Lulu Me- Connell, Cometienne; Jones Orch. 10:00——Wayne King” Orch. 10r30—News Bulletins 10:45—Evan Bvans,Baritone; Concert Orch. | 11:15—Boswell Sisters, Songs 11:30—Gray Orch. 12:00—Belaseo Orch. 12:30 A. M.—Lyman. Orch, 1:00—Hopkins Orch, flame and directed my attention to | 1918, I was pretty good for thelr | I'm | a tramp. A poor man and an un- | plans are being laid for a Potamkin| |Silk Woven Portrait | of Lenin Offered as Prize in Fund Drive NEW YORK.—The organization | |contributing the - largest amount from this date on to the credit of Michael Gold, Daily Worker literary columnist, in the ,000 Drive, will] jreceive a silk portrait of Lenin, black and white, which was woven in the Rosa Luxemburg silk mill in Moscow, U. 8S. S. R. | This prize is offered by Jeannette | |D. Pearl, of Rockaway Park, who | writes that she wants Michael Gold jto win in the Socialist competition , with Dr. Luttings Edward New- | house, Jacob Burck, Hien Luke and |Del to raise 1,000 through their }column for the Daily Worker. | Now, what prizes will the friends of the other revolutionary compe- | |titors offer to help their champions beat Michael Gold? | THE NEW FILM By FRANCOIS ANTICO “LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS,” | first American showing of the Am-| kino production of Sholom Alei-/ cheim’s story, “Motel Payse Dem) Chazen’s,” played by the Moscow Art Theatre Co, At the Acme| Theatre, | Cre ae | “Laughter Through Tears” marks a | | definite and considerable stride for- | Pe of the Soviet film art. There | is an expertness, a brilliance and| | sureness of treatment about the di- rection of this picture that signalizes | a fast-growing and broadening grasp | of this powerful artistic medium, The contrast between this latest produc- | tion and such early work as “Three | Thieves” (recently and unfortunately | | dug up after a seven-year burial) is) |@ convincing demonstration of the| startling gains made in the past few years. This production is further distinc- | tive for three elements which have been the frequent subjects of critical | |paragraphs by American reviewe:s. The Russians, it seems, would never create “successful” pictures until | they learned three physiological les-! | sons, namely: 1, Love is the heart| of a picture. 2, Humor is the bea of a picture. And 3. Propaganda is| the disease of a picture. “Laughter Through Tears” offers, in the first | regard, a tender, touching portrayal | of the difficulties of love. True, there is no Hollywood “hot stuff” | here. But the love affair, by VERT | reason of its pathetic hopelessness, | inevitably involves our solicitude for | | the lovers. And we are drawn closer | to them by the poingnant humor of| the situation. We laugh at the char-| | acters, not mec! y, but with affec- | tionate regard, h a swift Tecog- | nition of the universal humor latent | in human beings. This humor, a} near-relative of brotherliness, is the} seal that binds the picture into a! | firm whole. | As for propaganda, this picture| was unquestionably conceived, and| | executed, as a work of dramatic art, | as a medium for the expression of a) cultural force. If there was any| other emphasis, we failed to find it.} | This is no more unusual in a Soviet | | picture than, for instance, the pres- | ent povularity of Shakespeare’s plays | in the Soviet theatres. “Why, it's Sholom Aleichem’s!” ex- claimed a member of the audience | | when asked his opinion of the pie- | | ture, implying, of course, that this| |fact alone marked it indisputably | | good. But the fact still remains that | the Moscow Art Theatre actors | caught the essential spirit of Sholom Aleichem’s _representations. The | borderline between farce and humor is so thin, especially when a picture| is concerned with characters such as} | this picture deals with, that it is an | accomplishment of consummate art to preserve the kindly human shapes without caricaturization. The pic-! ture is steened in the atmosvhere of a small Russian town, but far more | sonar is the inimitable manner yhich the characters are inter-/| faring bv the Moscow artists. Their nortravals glow warmly and cheer- | fully, kindled by Aleichem’s spark, | | Stage and Screen “Intolerance” To Be Revived | At 55th Street Playhouse D. W. Griffith’s “Intolerance,” will | be presented at the 55th Street Play- house tomorrow night, as the first of a series of famous silent motion pic- ture revivals. Griffith personally has contributed the print of “Intolerance,” | and is supervising a new musical | score for the picture. “Intolerance” made motion picture history. It is claimed that Lenin | secured a number of prints of the/ film and showed them throught Rus- sia. Russian directors as Eisenstein, | Pudevkin and Dovshenko have stated | that “Intolerance” and other D. W. Griffith productions have had a great influence on the ideas and technique of the new Russian cinema. Colleen Moore, Bessie Love, Lillian Gish, Tully Marshall, George Fawcett, M Marsh and Constance Talmadge play important roles. CIvtY WORKERS HELP “DAILY” NEW YORK.—A number of em- ployees of the President of the Boro of Manhattan secretly contribute |$1.50 for the Daily Worker $40,000 ‘ Drive. ‘by QUIRT |up against the collar. Page Five ——————— SEE YOU IN CHICAGO! By (ORMAN is the only Negro farmer who came from the North as a delegate to the first farm conference in Washington. He d ed a fig ing speech before tt rmers t set them hammering with their hands and drumming with their feet. His quickness at Plastercrs’ Hall, when one of the Negro croppers from| | Alabama fainted dead away in tell- ing of the terror, helped save meeting. farmers who gave up their warm the cabin to the Negro croppers and slept | in a cabin where the breath froze on | your moustache. Ali through the first conference with its long hours and exciting work he had his shoulders I can still} remember him sitting on the edge of his chair or flitting about in his | thin coat, his spats, and his clean | | black derby. At the important Michigan state | conference, held in August in Grand Rapids, Forman is again a delegate. | He is as neat as a pin. He is fretting to get back to work in his village. ‘The village is about 150 miles from Grand Rapids, Population about 350. The farming is mostly truck and poultry. There are two “large” farms. One 60 acres, the other 80. The rest of the farms average five acres. You | can rent land for $2 an acre. There are 80 small Negro farmers. They pick cherries for half a cent a pound and so average 70 or 80 cents a day. Road work’s been cut down to $1.80 | for 9 and 10 hours, Used to be $2.25. Forman gives us all these figures }as we stand in the little pit the \ horseshoe throwers had made at the picnic grounds a few miles away from Grand Rapids. “We get some of this work once in four months. Then we ; Work in sub-zero weather not fit for ducks, digging up stumps frozen one foot in the ground. Crops for the |Past few years ain't been no man’s| comfort in our village. Cabbage a cent @ pound, navy beans from 50 to 75 cents a hundred pound hand- picked. Eggs 8 to 12 cents a dozen, and cream’s hung around 22 cents.” Has there been any discrimination in handing out relief? Forman’s lower lip thrusts out. “There's been a lot of this catpaw- ing between white and black. And| my people’s gotten the hard end. | First, in the handing out of relief. The flour’s like gluco, We don’t get & speck of lard. And no wood. We} got to go scratched round for chips | when it's a cold snap. The road com- | missioner wanted to hatil wood for | | us, but the supervisor and the super- | intendent, they jingle themselves in- | | to @ team, and they hawed back to our demands No. with an axe. myself. So I went uptown I cut down a tree for } Woereee we do get we got to contend for hard. The relief | commission moved into the superin- | tendent’s home to keep us from} coming round. They stopped fiour. They gave it only to our old and | those with children. But the white folks still got what flour was coming them. They'd pussy it around and go down by the blind side of the railroad so no one would see.” He emphasizes his story with a peck of his pared nail. “I'm kind of poison to the relief. The colored folks look to me for strength. I sent them back again and again with demands. So when one of our women asked for a piece of cloth, they turned her down flat. No, they had none. ‘They BEN FIELD It was he and two white | paper, thi see. The that later t us nothing r of our His show If oul r and more down to the hi three weeks, around and | doctor is a but p. He gave me two cc pills and me with ex- cruciating pains, I went to the super- intendent. I told him about the | poor flour, I said I was tied up | tighter than Nick’s hatband. ‘You go eat rhubarb’, he said. I wouldn't go until I got some satisfaction. His | wife, she wanted to slap me, She said she would send a Kentucky mob | after me. I said the first fifty of that Kentucky mob belongs to me, The rest they can have. They slam- med the door in my face, I got so dizzy I fell down. Two men had to carry me home.” | . | [JE LOOKS down at his small strong hands. “Our organization that sent me to Washington Conference last year was going pretty good. But we put up as leader a man who is interested in making it a masonic lodge. He wants to take 5 cents every dollar a fellow gets from road work for the organization. He wants to work with the Democrats. I kept clawing at his rascality before the people. So far he don’t give a damn, But we'll get him out. Clyde Smith (eader of the Michigan farmers in their fight against evictions and fore- closures) is going to help. What has | skinned other skunks will skin the | mason-lover.” “Has the town heard about the Scottsboro boys?” I ask. “Doggone they have, We call them our boys, If our boys burn, they burn us. Social equality, that’s our big card. That'll help smash chain and fetters. If you give our people that they'll follow you to the end of |all acres. Why, we had a meetin’ | with many of our people there. And | when the organizer explained how there wou'd be no difference in creed | and color in the end, glory, there was a crippled Negro woman went up like powder. She wept in joy. And then | We sang: ‘Soon We'll Understand It Better By and By Forman is still a deacon. He's a | member of the Baptist Church. One |of his great ambitions is to go to Soviet Russia to bring back the red seed for his people. “I preached to 50 deacons once. I faced them pleasanter than I did when the ; American Legion and the business thugs rotten-egged and stoned us on our way to this conference at Copa- | mish, ut w we're after is the true fellowship of man, taking no thought for cloth. If there is a pos- sibility of heaven here, why should ji go pray for something I can go fight for. By organization. Under the wing where the farmers are be- ginning to flock, black and white. This is the great gospel, the good news and glad tidings.” ee | Nessa! is going to be one of the speakers at the conference. He squats at the foot of the table on which the farmers stand as they swing their fists calling for unity be« tween all exp'oited toilers, calling for Preparations for the next great na- tional farm conference. Forman» Margaret Sullavan—John Boles and a colorful “Roxy” stage show 350 to 1 p.m.—8be to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) RKO Greater Show Season ——— TEN MINUTE ALIBI A Now Melodrama “Is herewith recommended in the highest terms.” —Sun. ETHEL BARRYMORE THEA, W. 47th me LITVINOFF SPEAK | Also “Aninkehak”—Hell on Earth First time in § years held over by popular request Embassy Newsreel Theatre 46th STREET and BROADWAY | Plymouth also “STAGE MOTHER” with ALICE BRADY and FRANCHOT. TONE | | NOW PLAYING! SERGEL EISENSTEIN’? | “THUNDER OVER MEXICO” aiso: FIRST AMERICAN SHOWING “EISENSTEIN IN MEXICO” ™, 5th Street Playhouse 250002 Just East of ith Ave, 2 Con,12:30-19 Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS = “Her Master’s Voice Thea., W. 45th St. Evs. 8.6 Mats. 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