The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 23, 1933, Page 5

By Joseph Freeman—— WAS discussing yesterday a scurrilous piece in the Modern Monthly i which attacked Voices of October and its three authors as apologists for an alleged “literary inquisition” conducted by Stalin. ‘The Scribe who wrote that libel on the personal integrity of Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lozowick and myself, is particularly incensed because our book was ‘published in 1980, at the very height of the Literary In- quisition.” “That book,” exclaims this ‘apparently mathematical Scribe, “ap- peared at the exact mathematical center of the time now officially con- ceded to be one in which the political inquisition was so rabid that loyal revolutionists dared not even discuss whether a work of art possesed talent or not, or so much as mention the question of form above a whisper!” The bold face is the mathematical Scribe’s. To my knowledge there has been official admission that the as- ‘sociation of proletarian writers known as Rapp exceeded its functions 2.t0 the extent where it became an obstacle to the development of Soviet literature. That is why Rapp was dissolved by the Communist Party. Our Scribe’s reference to an alleged official admission of a “political inquisition” is based on a circular which he claims was “recently sent out from Moscow” by the International Union of Revolutionary Writers. He .@ltes this alleged circular as saying: “There was a time when it was considered almost unlawful to speak of the factor of literary talent, and only in whispers could anything be said about the form of our work.” The reader will note that this citation from an alleged I. U. R. W. ‘elroular says nothing about a “political inquisition.” That phrase was ‘invented by our Scribe. I have never seen the alleged I. U. R. W. circular. If it actually “exists, I should like to know who wrote it, and what period of Soviet iterary history he was describing. Above all I should like to know what literary circles he had in mind when he described taboos against discussions of talent and form. For while that may have been true of certain RAPP cliques, it was far from true for Soviet literature as a whole, as we shall see in a few days. “er''» We do not consider individual comrades in the I. U. R. W. infallible, “‘@lthough our Scribe asserts we do. Furthermore, we know the difference between reporting and rhetoric, no matter where that rhetoric may ap- If the citation from the I.U.R.W. bulletin is genuine, we can only say that the attempt of an overzealous comrade to lean over backward in --Penitence for RAPP’s excesses in no way exhausts the available facts about .) the Soviet literary scene of 1930-31. We shall consider some of those facts later. Here I will only say that sntimerous articles on questions of talent and form did appear in the -Soviet press during the height of RAPP's influence. I am leaving a discussion of Soviet literature at “the exact mathe- matical center” of the alleged “literary inquisition” for another column, | ~ For the moment we are concerned with our Scribe’s charges about Voices | of October. The chasm between his assertions and the actual facts is | so wide that it is worth discussing both the charges and the facts, if only for the light they may shed on certain literary questions. * . . “ To do so it is necessary to give a brief history of Voices of October. | That is not so easy in this space. I would have to recreate the period } of 1926-27. To thcse readers who have not an excellent historic memory and to young people who have grown up in the past five or six years it would appear incredible. : We are living today in a period when there is tremendous interest "ftv the Soviet Union. Scores of books and hundreds of articles describe Soviet life for us. The press, both capitalist and Communist, is full of accounts by men and women who have visited the U. 8S. 8. R. We are accustomed to see Soviet films, and to read Soviet novels in trans- lation. 1 This has been the case since the crisis of capitalism and the suc- css of the Five Year Plan broke down the intellectual boycott which Yor five years operated against the U. 8S. S. R. in this country. ‘ . . * . # collosal. This was particularly true im regard to arts and letters. | Those of us who were writers or artists were able to learn about poli- | tical and economic life in the U. 3. 8. R. from the Communist press | and from liberal publications which appeared in English. But for those of us who did not read Russian it was extremely difficult to find out 7 “Anat was happening in Soviet art and literature. ;, We needed this information for two reasons: in order to understand the role which literature and art played in the first workers’ republic, and to learn what we could about the role which literature and art igould play in the revolutionary movement of capitalist countries before the proletariat seized power. Our contemporaries in the American literary world, rooted in the middles classes, had learned from the Imagists in London, the Futurists in, Milan, the Expressionists in Berlin and the Dadaists in Paris. We who had identified ourselves with the struggles of the working class cowanted to learn from the revolutionary writers in Moscow. Such lessons were especially important for us in the United States where the literary fringe of the revolutionary movement was to a large extent Communist in its political sympathies, but petit-bourgeois in literature. This split between politics and poetry was embodied in and sym- bolized by certain of the leaders of the post-war literary radicals. Some of these men have since become professional anti-Communists, and as we combat them. But whatever may be thought of them today, ‘we owe it not merely to them, but to ourselves to remember the very ‘Useful role they played in the early stages of the left-wing literary move- ment. Many of us, myself included, owe them a debt of gratitude for certain aspects of their work during and after the war, when, in the pages of the Liberator, they defended with great brilliance the course of the October Revolution and the policies of its leaders. They were pioneers and teachers and we have not forgotten it. At the same time, - we do not permit their former services to the movement to obscure 4 Le edi LAL eet ld oo Mile Mocs Mead cette "| BRUT in 1926 the ignorance about the U. 8. S. R. in this country was UR need for clarifying the ‘scitite between literature and revolution was so acute, that in 1922, as associate editor of the Liberator, I asked Floyd Dell who to this day has remained sympathetic to the % 8. 8. R., to write a series of articles which we published under the ~ title Literature and the Machine Age. Later I asked Alexander Chramoff, _a Red Army veteran and a former director in the Soviet theatre, but then editor of the Novy Mir in New York, to write a series of articles for _ the Liberator, describing Soviet art and literature. These, I believe, --«were the first articles of their kind in this country. But they did not solve our problems, None of us seemed to be able ». to resolve what appeared to be the irreconcilable contradictions between ~ poetry and politics, between art and revolution. And this inability led to-an extremely sectarian attitude toward art, both among Communist Party leaders and among writers and artists sympathetic to the Party. “At the beginning of a movement, very rigid distinctions must be drawn in order that its adherents may clearly define their position both . to themselves and to the world, But once that position is defined sharply, beyond possible confusion, there is the danger that rigidity of doctrine * may turn into a sectarianism which hampers the movement. The move- ment then becomes ingrown. It cannot influence the world outside it. "=" Such an unhealthy sectarianism in regard to arts and letters pre- ‘Wailed in our movement in 1926, Most of us were guilty of it here; and 2a he Soviet Union questions of art and literature were by no means ‘unaffected by it, as far as we could gather from our reading, When I arrived in Moscow in the summer of 1926, I found numer- © -ous schools and groups and cliques in the literary world, representing » various literary traditions, various class conflicts. But to my great re- “lief, I also found an attitude toward arts and letters much more profound “ind much more understanding than the one I had left behind me in “vottr American movement. sw ,Tomorrow I shall describe the literary censorship which interfered with getting out the kind - book I Niceteg! ald Soviet arts and letters. A 4 NUMBER of readers hate sent & letters shoe the column on Detroit, on Edwin Roife’s poem, and other matters. Some of these will be answered when the series on Soviet literature will end. That should be - oi about two weeks. * Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Eugene and Lloyd Saletan and Sonia Cuaneta ......... OO Previous Total ....+0.s+0++.495.27 Total to Date anee The World of the Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR Controversies The outbreak of controversy shortly j after this department had been in- itiated in the Daily Worker — we |refer, of course, to our polomic with Nathaniel Buchwald lest week — is a sign of life, of cultural vitality and interest. In nearly all such con- |troversies many extraneous con- |siderations are apt to enter as con- fusing elements. Yet even with these disadvantages, such controversies are more creative than none at all. And lit is one of the symptoms of the al- most complete inanition of the Broadway theatre that controversies of this kind hardly ever occur. The reason for this absence of con- troversy on Broadway is not far to seek. Business knows lawsuits, com- petition, various brands of sabotage, but controversy in the theoretic sense hes no practical value for it. And the theatre of Broadway, despite all its sincere and talented crafts- men, is primarily a business. To alyze the elements of a popular s in a way that might be in- ‘oted a’ derogatory is to damage its commercial chances, to point out the new reactionary tendencies of a playwright O'Neill, or to sug- gest that an actress like Katherine Cornell has something to learn about her art, is to lack respect for honored institutions; to debate the program of a new theatre is to interfere with its possible success. The reviewers will frown on a cur- of an influential writer or manager, however, they tend to express them- selves very mildly) but very rarely indeed will a freelance article be per- mitted to appear on the candied falseness of a play like “Green Pas- tures” or on the cheap magazine- fiction quality of a play like “Grand Hotel.” Let the reviewers “raaz” a play like E. E, Cummings’ “Him” (a play meriting severe criticism, but still far more significant than shows like “Animal Kingdom”) and no ar- ticle or letter will be published in che same pages to show that the re- viewers have missed the point. Let the reviewers agree that Jed Harris is an exeraordinary man of the the- atre, and you will see no word com- menting on the paltry standards by which such judgments are passed. After all, “Green Pastures,” “Grand Hotel,” and “Animal Kingdom” were money-makers, which Cummings’ “Him” only drew a small audience cf intellectuals down in Greenwich Village. To question these values would be to fly in the face of all American business tactics. On Oct, 8th, the New York Times published an unusually long artiole li by Elmer Rice, purporting to be a Plan for a Theatre of the People. This article was compact with good intentions, high hopes, liberal dreams and a whole tissue of theatrical srrors. Its intrinsic vagueness was attested by its failure to compare and contrast the new project with the attempts of already existing or- genizations moving in the same gen- eral direction. But we do not mean to. discuss. Mr. Rice’s article here, only to point out that nart of its vagueness was due to Mr. Rice’s fear of criticizing anybody else—for then he might himself be criticized—and that this article controversial in es- sence, met with no response either from the public or from any of the reviewers throughout the town. The value of controversy is not that it provides occasion for s fight, but the opposition of opinions forces upon each side the obligations of greater definiteness, clarity, firmness. In short, from a policy of intelligent argument a concrete, healthy point of view may be arrived at. The Rus- sian Theatre has always thrived on continuous and massive controver- sies, And from the controversies of the early years of the theatre in the Soviet Union, the synthesis of a clear and balanced program of ac- tivity may be read in all accounts of the recent Soviet theatre. ‘The latest number of The Inter- national Theatre (Organ of the In- ternational Union of Revolutionary Theatres) gives evidence of this syn- thesis, The magazine itself has im- proved greatly since its first appear- ance, and now it may be said without exaggeration that it not only is the finest publication devoted to the revolutionary theatre, but one of the best theatre magazines of any kind. Its leading articles, such as Lunar- charsky’s paper on “Problems of Style in Socialist Art,” are meaty and important—the only articles this kind to be read anywhere in ‘oe Reports of The Jewish Theatre in the U. 8. S. B., the Moscow tig sn Youth Theatre, are all extremely instruc- tive and should be studied by every one engaged in the building of revo- lutionary theatre groups in this country, PEN & HAMMER SPEAKER ON STATION WARD TODAY NEW YORK.—Lawrence A. Wood, of the Pen and Hammer Club, guest speaker today of Paul Kaminsky, book critic, over Station WARD at 1:45 p.m,, will discuss “The Dialec- tical Method and Granville Hicks.” WORKERS’ NEW YORK.—The Workers’ Short Wave Club will meet tonight at 8:30 at 740 Prospect Ave., basement, ‘Sronx. 1M MARTIN J1M CONTINUES TO AST THE TURN—~— rent show (when it is the product} NOVEMBER 1933 of Fai arm By BE FARM WOMAN HICAGO (People’s Auditorium) — “T'll never quit working until he's |free and home,” says Mrs. Lena Rose, | wife of John Rose, jailed oo ces qd for his activities in Michigan. L Rose has Negro and Indian ‘blood in her. John is a brawny white giant “I heard the clock every time it struck,” she says, “when they had him in the jailhouse.” She jerks her head determinedly with the neat green hat on it. “I've been with John in organizing for this far conference. You saw me at tt Michigan State Conference. This conference is even greater than w! wo Michigan farmers expected it to JEWISH FARMER Lazarus Stein, Jewish elected by the Connecticut Valley farmers. Former plasterer, has been a farmhand in the Alberta wheat- fields. About 11 years ago Stein was dies’ Garment Workers’ Union, A. F. of L., with four other raincoat~ makers, for being revolutionary. At the present time Stein runs a small poultry farm in the Connecticut Val- ley. “When I get back from this conference, I'll go round to the dif- ferent locals to report. I'll get into me. I'll organize.” THE YANKS ARE COMING |; Young Joe Chase, son of Fred B. Chase, militant Yankee farmer who died recently, is carrying on in his father’s place. Joe is a husky lad with a sunburned face, He squats before the table where we're ham- mering away at the typewriters. The Chase Farm in New Hampshire is 240 acres, making about 300 gallons) of maple sugar. They have a few pigs and cows. What interests Joe More than even farming is going into committees of action for mass struggles. 1,400 farmer shack home. We've cot some influence among them. In De- cember we'll have far more. mont there is a young farmer, Yankee Jad, who is sure going to make a fine contact. In New Hamp- shire the son of the selectman in a village near us is here and the con- ference has sure put something into his hands.” IOWA looks like a blacksmith. Every hat | pig delezate thrown out of the International La- | ° places where they don’t even want} out and getting the Yankee farmers | ! “The milk code is going} to take away the market of about In Ver- | Thumbnail Sketches Del ‘egates Y FIELD = 18,000 farmhands, The h landlords in. only 40 cents a hun- The union 1 picking. can pick undred d by th pound, rs who W The b and big aT ooze and or- € gs, Three pi ¢ down after the police exploded tear gas bombs in the first | i the pick- 15 cents | of he big landlords 1o an increase cotton because the in their pick { the conference e getting the small | union. And we're | the blocks to the} put the blocks to} them with a slam ALABAMA CROPPERS of them eager to r question: ut the situa-| No, they didn’t have much} trouble getting out of Alabama. In| Indiana they tried to stop them. The authorities in the county have| using any force on the pers belonging to the union in regards to plowing under cotton. |The landlords and “These are smart Dy: | don’t try to feed any y of the poison syrup of this part of the A.A.A. on| ch “smart niggers.” Such respect | jis the white bo: | quiring for or: | The cropper the table sa with his elbow: But there’s a neigh- | bor. He plowed up eight acres of| | cotton, The landlord and him was to get $88. He he’d plow it up, if the landlord would ve him a receipt for his half. This| receint was to pay for his debt he owed this here Jandlord. The land-} lord promised, the receipt. The second cropper says: “Plant- ers Gin Co, made another cropper not in our union plow under three acres. They promised him a present of clothing, too. |got paid for. The Gin Oo. evicted| him off his farm.” B. had | Hecksher Foundation, Fifth Ave. und | | ju | | on} id to the landlord but never gave him} | He never got it.| oF 26¢ FOR 3 LINES FOR 4 The bale he plowed under he never | IN THE “WHAT'S ON” CO? After last year’s conference ‘* croppers came back with a program| |to fight evictions. They won some H knuckle on his big fist is like a| of them. In one case the union de- hammerhead. Locked up near Den-|™anded the landlord take only the nison as a result of his activities in| Mules and give the widow farm- SHORT WAVE CLUB] ’) the milk strike. The Vigilantes, four of them, got him in the cell and split | his head open. They had a doctor waiting outside. The lawyers in the bar association refused to take up his case after he was freed, Now the grand jury 's “investicating” the recent terror. Will the grand jury 40 something? This Iowa farmer hesitates and says, “Maybe.” ‘That answer shows how he stands On the third day he comes over to the Daily Worker writer. He says: “Listen, I’d ike to sell the naner out my way. I'll distribute it free to “hem.” He takes out a dollar bill and gives his name. CALIFORNIA AGRICUL- TURAL WORKER stories the farmers tell is like stone when a sharp weapon is being sharpened against it. A member of the California Canners and Agricul- tural Workers’ Union tells of the recent strike of the cotton pickers. He is a delegate chosen by the more on the first day of the conference. | fire shooting from a great grind-| woman a note for the rest of her farm pronerty. They massed in the | farmyard to enforce their demands. The sheriff came back with the note. One of their main steps after this | conference be to get white crop- | pers organi This they are al- |veady making some headway on. One of the white farmers, formerly used | by the sheriff and rich landlords in the attack at Camp Hill, when one | now in open sympathy with the Ne- ®ro cronpers, He has even helped to distribute calls of action to other white farmers and has asked to join the union. Screen Notes picture, is the new film now playing at the Strand Theatre. Joan Blon- Lyle Talbot head the cast. | The Rialto Theatre will this evening “Master of Men” with Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Berton| Churchill and Walter Connolly. TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Mountaineers Musice 7:15—Billy Bachelor—Sketch 7:30—Lum and Abner ‘1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Vallee Orch.; Soloists 9:00—Captain Henry Show Boat Concert 10: og Wnitean Orch.; Deems Taylor, Nar- Hy .00."Viole Philo, Soprano 1:15—Meroft Orch. 11:30—Madriguera Orch. 12:00—Ralph Krbery, Songs 12:05 A.M.—Calloway Orch. 12:30-—Denny a . WoR—T10 ies, 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Ford Frick 7:15—News—Gabriel Heatter 1:30—Terry and Ted—Sketch 7:45—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo; John Kelvin, Tenor :00—De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor Hi ‘15—Little Old New’ York—Harrisen Grey Fiske 3 Star Rangers 9:00—To Be Announced '30—Organ Music; Stanley Meehan, ‘Tenor ercy Waxman—Talk er 1 eed PH baie ch. WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Amos 'n’ Andy 7:18—The Three Musketeers—Sketch 7:30—Cyrena Van Gordon, Contralto 1:45—Gallicchio Orch. Diamond's Adventures — nh 8:30—Adventures im Health—Dr, Bundesen 45—Revelers Quartet 00-—Death Valley Days—Sketch 9:30—Wayne King Orch. 10:00—Canadian Exchange Progr: 10:30—Archer Gibson, Organ; ‘Mixed Chor 11:00—Three Scamps, Songe iy 11:15—Anthony Frome, Tenor 11:30—Scottt Orch. 12:00—Kerr Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Dance Orch, | x6 WABC—2860 Ke. Herman * 7:00 P.M.—Myrt and Marge 1:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch ‘7:30—Jeannie Lang and Paul Small, Songs; Denny Orch, 8:15—Singin’ Sam 8:30—Shilkret Orch; Alexander Gray, Songs; William Lyon Phelps, Narrator S:00—Dedication of WJSV Studios, Wash- ington, Speakers, EO, Sykes, Ghatrraan,’ Bederal, feriio eae Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia 9:30—Lay Down the Law—Sketeh 10:00—To Be Announced a pale Bulletins 5—Concert Orch.; Gladys Ricee, Soprano ils—Phit Regan, Tenor be 11:30—Jones ‘Orch, 12:00—Nelson Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Lyman Orch, 1:00—Light Orch, of the Negro croppers was killed, is| dell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbe and| present, “Havana Widows,” a First National |Workers Urged to See | Last FewPerformances| lof “The Third Parade” 2 Third Paras ker and Pa of the n made by x of The Frethe! The next two schet for Saturd: and Sunda; evenings, Nov. 25 d 26, at th 104th St. Workers are urged not to miss this Play. Mass Organizations to Attend Previews of “Peace on Earth” NEW YORK.—'Peace on Earth,”| the anti-war play which the Theatre Union will present at the Civic Re-| pertory Theatre on 14th Thanksgiving Eve. is having dress rehearsals before its ope! The final two on Monday, Nov. a few more the revolu- | ird Parade,’ rmed ev evening fo ~| sidewalks, streets, al Street on 1 live or Page Five Working-Class Women in U.S. and in the Soviet Union By ANNA Millions of forgotten women cities of New York, cession of young, 0! o— egro, white, to spend t' ne daily papers The lot of the women wit To top it off the go its official sanction for for women in the indu: jot oe Ni R, A.—not to n nt gave ages al codes m making |meag rough |aeoees of by the women. All this is not the faul of the women nor the men. fault of | the |the rich — the millio V jour government and |What do they care die—that the have no jobs, fle at work. Its the profits our women or and Tuesday, Nov. 28, will be benefit| Coun —-- ‘money, money’ and more | performances. Organizations taking|money for them: jewels and cars blocks of seats for these previews ‘ for their clude the International Labor fense, the International Workers Or- der, the Marine Workers Industrial | Union, the Friends of the Soviet Union, rehearsals are private. The large cast and elaborate stag- ing of “Peace on Earth” have made this unusual number of dress re- hearsals advisable, according Charles R. Walker, an officer of the Theatre Union, The aim of the Theatre Union is to present working class plays in | competent professional productions. Ten members of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League have been added to the cast this week. They play parts in the mass scenes. All speak-| | ing parts are taken by the cast of 28 professional actors and actresses. WHAT'S ON NOTE: THERE IS A MINI MUST BE IN THE OFFICE | THE PREVIOUS DAY. . PARR) ~ |expensive furs and 1 and Labor Unity. Other dress| to} wives and chil . |In the Workers’ Country, of the Free The sixteen years of Soviet rule \greatly improved the conditions of the workers and peasants in Russia. In Czarist times the conditions of the workers and especially the women | were worse than in the United States at this time. Now a great change has | taken place. the Land |group of rich bankers, mill owners, {government officials lived on the workers. more starvation, no more low wages and killing speed-up. |progress made by the women in the | Soviet Union, The backward, illite- rate, downtroden woman of sixteen jyears ago is now a free and equal being, sharing and sacrificing together | with the men the responsibility of ' mie: nly looking for work, . Gone are the days when the small | No more unemployment, no | The whole world is amazed at the | DAMC ssly wander about the streets im the all over the U. S. A. An endiess pro- unemployed women wearily trod the bowing to get a meal and this was pos- ble because e Commun Party nder the leadership of Comrades enin and Stalin boldiy and unhe- itatingly brought forward the women all fields of work and politics. Freeing women from household drudgeries, meant setting up numer- our dining rooms, children’s homes, providing maternity insurance, wiping out illiteracy and generally advanc- ing the culture among women, All is has been accomplished in every city, town and village of the USSR. Women’s labor in the Soviet Union unlike that of capitalist countries, is not cheap labor. Equal pay for equal work is a living reality. Wages have increased betwen twenty-eight per mt to forty per cent in the last three year The Soviet insurance system cares for the women during the time of sickness, special maternity insurance provides for eight weeks full wages before and after childbirth with the b on her return, The also free medical indilstay and ,| care, @ lump sum for the layette and additional money for the feeding of the child for nine months after its birth, Women who work do not have te | cook, wash and scrub and worry about their children. In the villages alone over fifteen million children are cared for in pre-school institutions, Many more millions are cared for in the cities in nurseries, creches, chil- dren’s homes. When the day’s work is over the women together with the men enjoy their meal in the factory or com- mune restaurant. The women are then free to go to school, club or | theatre, and by so-doing are given them an opportunity to develop im culture as well as industry. The advancement of women is part of the program of the Communist | Party to improve the conditions of the most oppresed section of the working class. Today the Soviet Union stands as a beacon light to the workers of the | world showing the way out of capital- ist miseries, of crisis and war, point- ing the way to a new social order SOCIALISM. AMUSE MENTS ——— ew ND BIG WEEK OF “ iaule” given bev. Bigs; Wu eros aeeaes THROUGH mist who helped to prepare the Second Five- || i" Year Plan, at Wiikins Hall, 1330 Wilkins| |A ig E I Cc H E M’ TEARS Ave, Bronx, SOVIET YIDDISH COMEDY (ENGLISH TITLES) GERTRUDE HUTCHINSON, recently re-| turned from the Soviet Union, will lecture | on “Recognition, What It Means to tho| Workers of the U.S.A.” at Paradise Manor, 11 West Mount Eden Ave. at 8:30 p.m. Adm. 10c. Auspices, Mt. Eden Br. F.8.U. ETING of ‘Unemployed Furniture ers at 812 Broadway at 10 a.m. FRANK PALMER will lecture on ‘‘Capital- ist Censorship and the Way Out” at 8:30 | pm. at Pen and Hammer, 114 W. 2ist St. Open forum discussion. MEMBERSHIP meeting of Hospital Work-| ers League, 33 E, 20th St., 1 flight up. MYRA PAGE, recently returned from the Soviet Union, will lecture at 2642 Broadway (near 100th St.) at 8:30 p.m. Adm, 10¢, Un- mployed free, Ausp. West Side Br. F.8.U. MEETING Edith Berkman Br. LL.D. at 2 0th St. Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Discus- ion on new development on Scottsboro case. Friday LECTURE “What is Proletarian Music’ by Henry Cowell. Also report on International oletarian Music at the Pierre De; * lecture by Peter Starr at Tre- p.m. i CHANCEY, globe trotter and just returned ‘from @ four months will talk on “Recent Developments in Soviet Russia and Germany” at the American Youth Federation, 20 St. Marks Place, at | 8:30 p.m. Adm. 10c. Chicago AUTUMN Festival, Concert, Dancing, Refreshments on Saturday, Nov. 26 at Im- perlal Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Auspices C.P. See. 4. Haverhill, Mass. DR. MISRIAM 8. UDIN will speak on “The Hygiene of Women” at Eagles Hall, 139 Merrimac Street. Questions will be answered. Auspices Women's Cultural Club. Adm. free, Philadelphia FIRST ANNUAL BALL of the Packing House Workers Local on Friday, Nov. 24, at Turgemeinde Hall, Broad St. and Colum- bia Ave. Good music. Adm. 40c. Ward. 10c. Chicago Autumn Festival Saturday, November 25th 8 P. M. at Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted St. Concert Dancing Refreshments Auspices: Communist Party, Section 4 Admission 25e. Detroit Celebration of the Recognition of the Soviet Union by the United States Saturday, Noy. 25, at 8 p. m. MASONIC TEMPLE Second Boulevard and Temple St. Speaker: LISTON M. OAK Editor, Soviet Russia Today RICH MUSICAL PROGRAM Auspices, Friends of Soviet Union Detroit Local Prosresstve Club, 862 E. Tremont Ave. | p thru the Soviet Union, Germany, etc.| | “Aa work of dramatic art. The actors caught the essential spitit of Sholom Aleichem’s representations”—DAILY WORKER ACME THEATRE NEW SOVIET FILA 1th STREET and UNION SQUARE -RADIO CITY MUSIC SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy” Opens 10:00 AM. KATHARINE HEPBURN in “LITTLE WOMEN” Joan Bennett Paul Lukes Frances Dee and an unusual “Roxy” stage show 400 to 1 p.m.—G0c to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) RKO Greater Show Season i | | | 8X0 Jefferson 1th peed « | Now LESLIE HOWARD & MARGARET ‘LinpsaY in “CAPTURED” also: “LADIES MUST LOVE” with JUNE KNIGHT & NEIL HAMILTON JOE COOK in OLD YOUR HORSES, A Musical Runaway in 24 Scenes | Bway & 50th St. Winter Garden 2" yo wats | Thursday and Saturday at 2: “HALL- | |p—-THE THEATRE GUILD _ presents— EUGENE O’NEILL’s COMEDY AH, WIL DERNESS! with GEOR MOLIERE’S COMEDY WITH MUSIC The School for Husbands with Osgood PERKINS—June WALKEE Thes., Biway & 40 St..5v. 8.40Mats. Thurs. &Sat.2. EMPIRE The Next GALA EVENT OF THE DAILY WORKER Saturday, December 30 Save This Date! and Young Pion “STRIKE 1. FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA in new international melodies from Soviet Union, arranged and directed by I. Shaffer. SYLVIA BAGLEY, Soprano Singer, in opera solos, 2 Opera Tickets in advance 10 cents less at 12th Street and at the Workers’ renee Reed Club ——PRESENT—— An Operetta in 3 Acts and 12 Scenes 50 Children, Negro and White In Honor of the Memory of Harry Alan Potamkin Presentation of Portrait Bust of Potamkin CITY COLLEGE AUDITORIUM, 28rd St. and Lexington Ave. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, at 8 P. M. TICKETS: 35¢; ADMISSION 50 cents and 75 cents. — eers of America ME RED” 50c and $1.00 THIRD ANNUAL JUBILEE of the Jewish Communist Monthly “DER HAMMER” Sunday Afternoon, November 26th, at 1:30 P. M. at CITY COLLEGE AUDITORIUM ‘'Twenty-Third Street and Lexington Avenue, New York PROGRAM. 3. JOSEPH HABERGRITZ, graduate violinist In solos from Keetsler others. Ruth Picker at the piane, | 4. ARTEF in new mass play “Revolt” from L. Feinberg. | “GENDEL” from the Artef in some- thing new, All Seats Reserved the Morning Freiheit Office, 35 Bast Book Shop, 50 East 13th Street. MYSTERIOUS FIRES BREAK CUT ALONG TELE PHONE LINE ~ YES,YES, Man! WortTsaT? A CYCLONE ou Say? AINT NEVER SEEN NUTHIN’ LiKE Tf AND THE GOUERWOR GILES AWAY GETS A U & WORKER'S TEAR. ING MY COURT hoes TROOP H em