The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1933, Page 7

~* DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933 Page Seven == A WORLD! By Joseph Freeman: ‘AT about the mysterious “Circular No. 2” sent out by the Interna- tional Union of Revolutionary Writers? The other day I said I had hot seen a copy of it. Since then I have obtained one—and my worst suspicions have been confirmed. ‘The Modern Monthly cited this circular as saying that i¢ was “for informatory purposes only.” That phrase is intended to convey the im- pression that the circular was a SECRET document, in which it was secretly but officially admitted that “there was ® time when it was con- sidered almost unlawful to speak of the factor of Mterary talent and only in whispers could anything be said about the form of our work.” But Circular No. 2 is NOT a secret document. The authors of the circular announce on its first page that it will be “reproduced with ad- ditions and details in No, 6 of the German edition of our magazine In- ternational Literature, which will be published at the end of December.” Nor is the circular “for informatory purposes ONLY.” What it actually says is this: “Our report is of a PURELY INFORMATORY character. The time has not yet come to express any definite views, whether the theoretical and political results of the Org. Plenum, as they affect lit- erature, can be transferred to the proletarian revolutionary movement in the capitalist countries.” The Circular, then, does NOT undertake to substantiate the stupid -charges of anti-Soviet propagandists; !t is NOT secret. It merely says to the branches of the I.U.R.W. in the capitalist countries: We are send- ing you some INFORMATION, but don’t use this information about So- yiet literature to jump to conclusions about revolutionary literature in your own country. |e our Scribe falsified not only the nature of the circular. What is more important, he falsified its contents, its tone, its purposes. It contains no “official” admission of the kind of death-valley desert he describes. On the contrary, the circular says: “Owing to the considerable success of socialist construction, a power- ful growth of literature and art has been achieved in the last ten years in the USSR.” This “success of socialist construction has resulted in the majority of the intelligentsia, including writers, turning decisively towards the Soviet power.” New elements “have come into literature from factories and collective farms.” As a consequence of all this, “the organizational framework of the existing literary associations has become too narrow, and impedes the proper development of creative art.” "These statements are contained in the report of H. Huppert, delivered at the first plenum of the organization committee of Soviet writers, con- sisting of representatives all groups and all tendencies. The report criti- cises the shortcomings of RAPP. But it does more than that. It gives RAPP credit for certain very valuable services—services utterly ignored by our Scribe when undertook to tell his readers what “official admis- sions” have been made in regard to Soviet literature. Specifically, the report credits RAPP with being partially responsible for bringing over the fellow travellers to the Soviet viewpoint. “Tt would be downright falsification of history,” Circular No. 2 says, “if one were to deny that up to a certain period the RAPP embodied cor- * literature has conquered its leading part, its true hegemony in Soviet literature just because it has tackled numerous subjects, themes and new viewpoints, and even the actual problems of the revolution; and espe- cially of the reconstruction period which had been hitherto inadequately dealt with or not dealt with at all by the vacillating strate of so-called camp followers (fellow travellers).” * (HE circular then goes on to describe certain unhealthy reactions to the dissolution of RAPP and other literary groups. On the one hand, there were recalcitrant RAPP members who put up a passive resistance to the Party decision. On the other hand, there were certain recalcitrant fel- low travellers “who had been in violent opposition to the RAPP prior to the April decision” and who saw in its dissolution “a denial of the entire preceding development phase of proletarian literature, an ultimate re- habilitation of all tendencies alien or hostile to the working class which had-at any time been exposed and made innocuous by the RAPP.” Nevertheless, at the first plenum of the Soviet writers association, everybody who wanted it got the floor and one of these was a minor fellow-traveller named Michael Slonimski, who had “been in violent op- position to the RAPP prior to the April decision.” In a speech from the floor (not in a carefully thought-out report) Slonimski made the rhetorical statement that “there was a time when it was considered almost unlaw~ ful to speak of the factor of literary talent, and only in whispers could anything be said about the form of our work.” ‘These extemporaneous and ill-considered words are lifted without ex- planation by our Scribe from Circular No. 2 and dished out as an “of- ficial” admission of a state of affairs which he would like to see but which did not exist. ° Slonimski was not talking officially. He was talking entirely for him- eli; and he was talking through his hat. The most casual glance at Soviet literary publications for the years 1929-31 will convince the reader that Slonimski was not giving a picture of Soviet literature, but was jump- ing on the corpse of a recently dissolved organization which he hated. * * ANYONE interested in giving an honest report would have done better to have cited the writer Tikhonov, who voiced the general feeling of Soviet writers when he said at the same plenum: “T want to talk about love, about love for these great times of ours, and for our literature which is not yet great, and which does not keep pace with these great times of ours... . We must admit that it is an exceedingly grateful task to live and to create at such a time.” One more important falsification of Circular No. 2 by our Scribe. He asserts that Stalin now claims “all Russian writers are Bolsheviks.” Stalin, of course, never made any such statement; but Circular No. 2 does say specifically: “For the first time in history, the plenum represented to Soviet society a united forum of all the writers of the country. Everything that has hitherto isolated itself in separate organizations and groups, large and small, came together here from all parts of. the Union, to give a truly enthusiastic welcome to the Central Committee's decision, and say: we hold with the Soviet power and with the Party of the Proletariat! ..."” But, the circular adds later, “it would be foolish to assume that this united front signifies the end of the class struggle in Soviet literature, and al- ready full ideological agreement and clarity of all regarding everything.” Such folly may be left to the lurid imagination of anti-Soviet propa-: gandists. Helping the Daily Worker through Michael Gold. Contributions received to the credit of Michael Gold. in his Bocialist: competition with Dr. Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: Unemployed Teachers $1.00 Previous Total ......+6 481.76 Total to Date sevvescnstessaserees $482.6 LISTEN LADY, IF THIS CG APOLOG ISES WiLL YA LoTR GULLTY= Ud ? WELL, ALRIGUT, PROVIDING AK poks It cicely! (| . aL | | | Tecognition. A Boy Hero in A True Story of Nazi Germany the Hitler Teor By ESTHER LOWELL | Nop giidica greece ber gta Dela ai headed, freckle-faced boy. He is @ Young Pioneer of Germany. His father is a metal worker, and an ac- tive Communist. His mother also is & busy Party worker. When Hitler and his Nazi (Na- tional Socialist) Fascists came to power, Fritz’s father and mother had to hide. Secretly they moved to an- other part of the city. Nazi neigh- bors knew them too well in the old place. Soon they would have been pointed out to the Nazi police as Communists and arrested, tortured and maybe taken away to one of the concentration camps. Fritz went around with his mother when she collected Party dues from workers. He heard the comrades tell his mother that a good revolutionist always swallows the list of names he carries, if he—or she—is caught by the Nazis. Frits and his mother pretended they were just visiting for a bit of gossip, if any Nazi looked too hard at them. One day Fritz's father did not come home. Fritz and his mother learned that he had been taken from the fac- tory where he worked by armed Nazis. Later they heard that the father had been beaten in jail and then taken to ® concentration camp. ee ee 4 few weeks afterward, his mother took Fritz out to the town near the camp. They walked out on the road by the concentration camp every | day, hoping to see the class-war pris- oners come out, hoping to see father. After ten days of Goins: Prite and his mother were startled to see a band of prisoners marching down the fitid inside the fence. Armed Nazi guards walked beside them and be- hind them. Suddenly the Nazt guatds shouted to the prisoners and all drew up with a Nazi salute. The guards counted off work gangs and shouted more commands; < ‘Ube Fritz could hardly. keep. from call- ing when he saw his father. But his mother had cautioned him so much not to betray any sign of recognition for fear they would. be arrested and taken away by Nazis, too. Fritz stuffed his handkerchief into his mouth in a hurry and choked the cry into a cough. His mother took @ firmer hold’ of his arm and almost pushed him on rectly and consistently the policy of the Party in literature. Proletarian | down the road. As they passed on, they could see the father’s eyes follow them for an instant and barely wink Then the Nazi guards marched the ~risoners to their work, chopping wood. “Father iooked thin and grey,” Fritz said to his mother when they got back to their little room in the town, “Hush, Fritzie, hush,” his mother answered, brushing tears from her eyes. INE day, after they went back to the city, Fritz came home from School and found no mother at home. At first he was not worried. After > | awhile another Young Pioneer slipped into his house and whispered to Fritz that Nazi police had taken his mother to jafl. He gave Fritz a little slip of paper on which was written a@ list of names and addresses. There were check marks by some... ~ - : “Your mother shoved this into my hand when she heard the Nazis come ing and told me you would know what to do,” the other boy told Fritz. “My mother says you must come over to our house and stay. We have very little to eat, as you know, but we will share it always with our com- rades,” “Thanks, Hans,” answered Fritz as ‘ne followed his friend out. “Fritz wanted to cry, but he knew @ Pioneer must be brave. He knew, too, that although his father and mother had both been taken away by Nazis, he still had friends and comrades. who would take care of him as one of their own. - “I heard just today that there is a@ chance your father may get out of.cam» soon,” Hans’ father told Fritz when the boys came in. ‘Those fool Nazis could find nothing on him and he wouldn't talk. Even the workers in the factory whom the Nazis have fooled would not tell anything about your father. They have been say- ing to the Nazi officers: “Gibt uns brot sonst werden -wir rot!” “Give us bread or we go red!” “Some workers who joined the Nazis already have been taken off to camps for saying that,” Hans’ father added. a) ee Ne night Fritz took the little-slip of paper with the names on it and began going to the houses which had no check marked by them. ~ “T will go alone, Hans,” he said. “We do not want two to get caught. You must carry on {if anything hap- pens to me.” ..The two Young Pioneers put fists up in a quick Red Front salute be- fore Fritz went out. From the workers. whose places he visited, Fritz took. their few cents party dues and then carefully check- ed their names on the lst: After every name of the twenty-five had been checked, he hurried toward the home of a party comrade who would take the money to the center. * All at once from out of a doorway two Nazis rushed at him.” “Halt!” they shouted as Frits started to run. Rough hands seized him on each How WRRE SETTIN’ PRETTY SO WE TAKES GUILTY RAISE YER Riear 4anO-—~. Sittin’ Pretty? THE VOTE— ALL WHO DECLARE THE RED C1UG arm, but not before Frits stuffed his paper slip into his mouth. “Scum!” two drunken voices hissed at him. The two flabby Brown Shirts hustled him along s dark side street. They had not seen him stuff the Paper away or were too dull-witted from drink to think what he was doing. Fritz chewed hard and swal- lowed the paper lump with a gulp. He tried to squirm away from the Nazis. They tightened their grip, until he thought his arms were broken, oe dragged him to a jail. Fritz wondered if it were the same jail where his mother was. He doubled up his fists at the thought. He vowed he would not scream, so that he would not hurt her, if she could by any chance hear him. Inside a cell, the Nazi police jumped at him, trying to terrify him. They searched him and seized the money, dividing it between them- selves. They swung heavy leather straps over his head. “Tell where you werel” they shouted. “Ich werde nicht sagen (I will not Say),” quietly answered Fritz. “Were you at Hans Meinert’s?” the Nazis shouted. “Ich werde nicht sagen,” replied Fritz again. ‘Then the Nazis began hitting him with their fists as they. questioned. They nemed others whom they sus- pected of being Communists. They asked Fritz who were his friends. ‘They asked him every kind of ques- tion, with blows.and insults between. But always. Fritz answered their | questions: “Ich werde nicht sagen.” Finally the boy fainted away and knew nothing more till he found himself lying in a corner of the cell with a man’s coat thrown over him. He fell asleep from exhaustion. In the morning the Nazis turned him out of the jail. Fritz was dazed and started in the wrong direction for the- home of his-comrade Hans. Then he came to’ a-familiar. Nazi billboard and remembered where he was and half turned to go-in the right direction. A block behind him two Brown Shirts walked in the same direction toward -him. a “Maybe “they're following me,” thotght’ Fritz. So he dodged down an alley and began zigzagging through byways that he had learned with his mother.~ It led him a long way from his friends home, in a big loop. When he was sure no. Nazi was following him and none seeing where he was going, he ran into Hans’ home. There was his father! into his arms, sobbing. ‘What happened, Fritzie?” asked father and Hans and Hans’ mother, all in. one: breath, i Fritz couldn't say a thing for a long while. Then he gasped between “Oh, nothing.” “Let him rest,” said Hans’ mother, leading him to the little dark bed- room, pei Later Hans’ mother. called Fritz’s ‘ather.to the door of the room where “Ich werde nicht sagen. Ich werde nicht sagen.” Fritz said it over and over in his sleep. “Ich werde nicht sagen.” When Fritz woke up, no one asked again whet had happened. Father took, Fritz away to an aunt who lived near the mountains. Later mother foined them there, pale, too, from jail. They rested for many days, go- ing for long walks across the fields and hills as they felt stronger. Father found that Fritz could not run and climb as he used to in the summers beforé wher they had come to visit Aunt Freda. “The little boy’s heart Fritz fell WHATS ON Saturday (Manhattan) DANCE and Concert given by the Pocket~ book Workers Rank and File at Workers Center, 50 E. 13th St, Dancing till broad daylight. Tickets abe. MASQUERADE Color Light Dance given by the Cli Grand Youth Club, 380 Grand Bt. DANCE at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St, given by Curtain, Drapery, Bed- spread, and Pillow Workers Ind. Union, Adm. 250. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance given by the Midtown Sec. LL.D. at the Pen and Hammer Club, 114 W. 2ist St. Motion pic- ture, refreshments. Tickets 15c. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance given by the Neighborhood Assembly at 67 %. 10and St. Apt. 12 at 8:30 p.m. Adm, 10c. A VARIETY of Entertainment and Dance given by the Italian Workers Center at 449 W. 39th Bt. at @ pm. Adm. 10c. DANCE given by the Mutualista Obrera Mexicana at 66 E. chestra, Adm. 25¢. PROF. IRVING FISHER of Yale Univer- sity will speak on “The Present Money way Hall, 113 W. 57th St, at 8:30 p.m. DANCE and Entertainment given by the Modern Culture Club at Irving Plaza, Irving PL. and 15th 3t. ‘TURKISH Workers’ Club, 402 W. 40th St. will hold an entertainment and dance, oriental music and refreshments on Satur- day night. There will siso be a report by the delegation which visited the Turkish Consulate Friday morning, Adm. 10 cents. HOUSE Party and Dance arranged by the James Mathews Br. of the L.S.N.R. at |2 E. 134th St. Apt, 9. Adm. 10c. RUSSIAN Night at 1013 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx Dancing, entertainment and refresh- ments. Given by Intwor Youth Club I.W.O. (Bronx) DANCE and Entertainment given by the ¥.C.L., Sec. 5, at Westchester Workers Club, 1548 Westchester Ave. Good time. Good Band. Dancing till early morning. THE F.S.U. Balalaika Orchestra will hold 8 Concert and Dance at the Hollywood Gardens, 893 Prospect Ave. A real Russian Night will be enjoyed by all. JOINT Concert and Dance given by the Workers and Music School of the Cooper- stive Colony at Cooperative Auditorium, 2700 Bronx Park EB. Adm. 15c. “THEATRE OF ACTION” in & full eve- Boston Rd., at 8 p.m. CONCERT and Dance at Ji ers Club, 795 Westchester Union Workers Club). tion of Soviet Union. SOVIET VILLAGE Night at the Prospect Workers Center, 1157 So. Boulevard. cellent program, also dancing. AUTUMN FROLIC given by the Y.C.L., Sec, 15. Troupe of 20 Negro entertainers. Hot Band. Adm. 30c. Place, 2075 Clinton Ave. near 180th St. CONCERT and Entertainment given by the J. Louis Engdahl Workers Club, 3092 Hull Ave. celebrating the recognition of the U.8.8.R. Adm. 20c. DANOE given by the Tremont Progres- sive Club, 862 E Tremont Ave. Good jaze band. (Brooklyn) GALA CONCERT and Dance given by the on Work- (formerly Celebrate Recogni- Celebrate the recognition of the U.S.S.R. BATH BEACH Workers Club celebrates the 8th Anniversary of their Club with a Banquet and Concert at 87 Bay 25th St. at 8:30 p.m. CHOW Mein Dinner, dancing at Ella May Br. nt 4109 13th St., Brooklyn. Adm. 25c. CONCERT and Dance given by Brighton Beach Unemployed Council at International Workers Center, Coney Island and Brighton Beach Aves. Good talent, 9-piece Spanish Band for dancing. Adm. 25c. | THEATRE Entertainments given by Worker | Laboratory players at Scottsboro Br. 1.L.D. 261 Schenectady Ave., Brooklyn. Adm. 15c. BIG Ping Pong Tournament. Dancing and refreshments at Progressive Workers Culture Club, 159 Sumner Av OPENING Concert, Boro Park Workers Club, 4724 18th Ave., Brooklyn. Jaz Band, COSTUME Party and Entertainment at Flatbush Progress. Club, 486 Kings Highway at 8:30 p.m. Adm. 200, Sunday CHILDREN’S Afternoon at Film and Photo League, 116 Lexington Ave. at 28th Bt. at 3 p.m. Film showing, photo exhibition, en- tertainment. Adm, “10c. WHOTURE by Myra Page on ‘Trends in Soviet Literary Life” Reed Club, 430 6th Ave. at & p.m. JOHN ADAMS of the Dally Worker staff “Recent at John ure” at Harlem Prog. Youth Club, 1538 was weakened by that night of Nazi torture. Little by little, Fritz told his father and mother what had happened. Of- ten in his sleep at night the boy cried out: “Ich werde nicht sagen” over and over. But afterwards whenever anyone thoughtlessly asked what had hap- pened to him the night he was in jail, Fritz looked away and said very softly: “Oh, nothing.” TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. M.—Religion in the News—Dr. Stan- High 8: , 8:45—What America Reads—William I. Chenery, Editor of Colliers Magazine 9:00—Jnck "Pearl, Comedian; Goodman h.; Demarco Sisters, Songs; Robert Simmons, Tenor; Leaders Trio ’—Yacht Club Boys;.Vivian Ruth, Songs; ismann Oreh. 10:00—Rolfe Orch.; Men About Town ‘Trio; m7 Man's. Family—-Sketeh, . With Anthony Smythe 11:30—Hollywood -on- the “Air 12:00—Wilson’ Orel; Dori Quartet; ” Mary = Wood; Soprano; Tommy Hartis, Songs; Cynthia, Blues Singer; Ryan and Rob- , Come- lette, Comedy; Senator Fishface dias’ on i WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P. ‘M.—BSports—Ford Frick $—Golf—Bill Brown ‘30—Everett McCooey,: Baritone S—Talk—Harry Hershfield 8:00—Little Symphony Orch., Philip James, Conductor; Carmela Ippolito, Violin ‘00—Robert McGimsey, Whistler ‘18—Bronx Marriage Bureau—Sketch 11:30—tane Orch. 12:09—Robbins Oreh. "Not Yet! WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P, M.—John Herrick, Songs 5—Three Musketeers—Sketch 7:30—Trio Romantique 7:48—Football Scores 7:50—O'Leary’s Irish Minstrels 8:00—The New Deal: What It Is—Wwillard ‘Thorp, Director Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; Dr. Harold G. Morton, President of Brookings Institu- tion 8:30—Caro Lamoureux, Soprano; Ludovie Huot, Tenor; Concert Orch. 9:00—Variety Musicale 10:00-—Bowery Days—Musteal Program 11:00—Barn. Dance 12:00—Childs Orch. 12:80 A, M.—Scotti Orch, WABC—860 Ke ton—Frederic William Wile 1:15—Jeannie Lang, Songs; Paul Small, Tenor; Denny Orch. 7:30—Jane Froman and Oharles Carlile, Sonzs; Berrens Orch. 8:00—Elmer Everett Yees—sketch 8:15—Fray and Braggiottl, Piano Duo 8:30-Simons Orch.; Dorothy Page, Songs 9:00—Philadelphia Orch., Leopold Stokow- ski, Conductor 9:15—Modern Male Chorus 9:30—Band Concert, Edward D'Anna, Con- ductor; Brosdeast of Roar of Niagare rebroadcast From Byrd Expeditior En Route to Antarctic; Music Prom Ne 10:01 York 10:30—News Bulletins 10:45—Leaders in Action—H. V. Kaltenbo: 11:00—Elder Michaux Congregation | 11:30—Gray Orch. 12:00—Lyman Orch. 12:39 A. M.—Amhelm Orch. 1;00-—Russell Orch. 116th St, Rhumba Or-| Crisis” at Young America Institute, Stein-| Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave. | will speak on ‘The 'N.R.A., Success or Pail- | 7:00 . M.—Political Situation in Washing- | 594 Theatre Uni PEACE ON EARTH, ® play in three acts, by George Sklar and Albert Maltz. Staged by Robert B. Sinclair and Michael Blank. by Cleon ‘Throckmorto: produced by the Theatre Union as its i tial offering. At the Civic Repertory ‘Theatre, 105 West Pourteenth Street, Laurie Owens —... Julia Colin Peter Ow Robert Keith Jo Owens_________¥thel Intropidt Walter McCracken. Clyde. Franklin Prof. Frank Anderson___—_Walier Vonnegut Mary Bonner —Allace Carroll Stephen Hamill. John Boruft Bob Peters________Fred_ Herrick Policeman ————________Jack Williams | Dean Walkes Charles Esdele Fred Miller. Victor Kilian | Primo John Brown | remarans Caroline Newcombe Elliot Pisher David Lesan Mara Tattar Fiyon —=__Donsid A. Black Krauss Frank Tweddell Mk John Boruff | Kemmerich Jack Willtams | Fenning — David Kerman Company aul Stein Henry Murdoch_______James_ MacDonald Dr. Carl Kelsey _Jchn Brown President Howard Halliam Bosworth Miss Ellen Bancroft,———Caroline Newcombe John Andrews______....__Alvin Dexter Bishop Parkes_—.__Thomas Coffin Onoke | Marjorie Howsrd______Allace Carroll | Frank Tweddelt | ee Seed, Donald A. Black Charles Thompson The Guard__.__. —Pred Herrick |The Cop_— David Lesan |The Judge __ Charles Esdalo The District Attorney. John Brown Attorney Gordon. ____Prank Tweddell Radio Announcer____John Boruft ‘The Blues Singer_____—___Mara Tartar . . 5 By JOSEPH FREEMAN Natural law, majestic and im- |placable, rules the universe. It gives | one a great sense of security to know ning of plays at Bronx Workers Club, 1810|in advance that the sun will rise in| jthe east and set in the west, that \if winter comes spring cannot be far jbehind, that Mae West will forever | thrill the repressed with idealizations Ex-| of the oldest profession in the world; | ‘and that after a superb play like “Peace on Earth” the bourgeois critics will sit on their well-oiled |haunches and chant in chorus “This is propaganda!” | The Theatre Union’s production opened Wednesday night, at the Civic | Repertory Theatre, before a mixed | audience of evening clothes and fian- |mel shirts who were swept by the | play’s power into prolonged applause. ‘The house was filled not merely with |the intellectual response evoked by | good propaganda, but with the emo- | tional tension aroused by good art. |pay their respects to such reactions. | But they wei jaround which George Sklar and Al- bert Maltz chose to build their drama. | One knows, of course, that real art | | 1s concerned with the eternal triangle ~—which one may, like Mr. Noel Cow- rearrange perversely. It is also | desirable to deal with sentimental memories of middleclass life circa 1906. One may. even, like George | | Sklar and Albert Maltz in a previous) |cicv enlled Merry-Go-Round, attack |corrupt municipal polities, provided | they do it at a time when Tammany | Hall and the Catholic church are pre- | Madisen Ave. Dancing afterwards. IRMA KRAPT will discuss three o ing books “Little thony Adverse,” Young America Institute, U3 W. Sith St. at pm, COMMUNIST Party Forum, George Siskind will speak un “The Soviet Union and the | Communist International” st 2075 Clinton Ave. Auspices Sec. 15, Bronx. “LITERATURE and War.” Lecture by H. Brigzs of the Daily Worker at the Middle ‘onx Workers Club, 3883 3rd Ave., 8:30 p.m. HARLEM Workers School Forum, 200 W. 135th St., Room 214-A, Israel Amter will lecture on “Unemployment id the Negro Masses. Adm. free. Time 3:30 p.m. LECTURE by Dr. Leavitt on the “New and Old World” Engdahl Workers Ctub, 3092 Hull Ave. at 8:30 p.m. ISRAEL AMTER vill of the Communist Party for Unemployment Insurance,” at Bronx Workers Club, 1610 Boston Rd. at 8:30 pm. OPEN FORUM on "“Recomnition of the Soviet Union” by J. at Mt, den Work~ Fry Comer, 208 B 1Tth St. at'S pam. dra, ree, PEMEARSAL of Chorus and Mandolin troups at 1109 45th St near New Utrecht Steinway Hall, at 5 s, Boro Park Workers Musical Group. All playing mandolins or concertinas sre invited. OPEN FORUM at Brighton Workers Cen- ter, Brighton Beach Ave, and Coney Is- land at 3 p.m. Adm. free. Tople “The N. R.A, and the Working Class.’ THE NOVY MIR Club will celebrate the recognition of the U.S.8.R. with e banquet at 2700 Bronx Park E. at 8 p.m. Adm. 15c. DANCE at Coney Island Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th St. at 8 p.m. Muste by double joza_ band. Subscrintion 15¢. REGULAR DANCE and Entertainment at Prog. Workers Culture Club, 159 Sumner Ave., Brooklyn at 8:20 p.m. Al Siegal and his orchestra, Adm, 250, JOHN REED Club School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave. announces-a Workshop Fresco Demon- stration by Alfredo Crim! and Hideo Noda | (instructors of Fresco Also a discussion en " THE FOLLOWERS of ‘Tibbets Brook. Meet at Woodlawn Subway Sta, Jerome Ave. Line, at 10 o'clock shart THE NA’ ‘“ibbetts Brook hike. fare. Leader, Philip Berges. Guests invited. OPEN FORUM on “The Significance of he Recognition of the U.8.8.R." by Samuel Sklar at the Intwor Youth Olub “IW. 1018 E. Tremont Ave. Bronx. Boston, Mass. sure Hall, 1088 Tremont St. 8.E. on Satur- “ay evening, Dec. 2. Popular Orchestra. Dancing from 8 to 12 p.m. Subseription 256. Detroit , ‘W. W. HEITLER, editor of “Anti-Pascist ‘Peace On Earth’: The First Ordinarily, the official critics would | re stumped by the theme! | Evs. $1-$3; Mats.Wed.&Sat.50c-$2.50, plus tax peak on “The Role | id the Struggte | SCOTTSBORO Benet Dance at L'Ouver- | - | Myra Page to Speak - on Soviet Literature on Production at John Reed Club paring the skids for a playboy mayor.|of “Gathe The unpardonable crime is to grap-| Main Strect” w ple with the essential character of | Trends in Soviet 1 capitalist society, particularly on the|John Reed Clu verge of a war which blasts away all|® if m. to orn Myra Page r masks, yells, and falsehoods. In that| Page |case the simple and horrible truth|the Soviet Unic | becomes “propaganda” and re: | on the part of.the official sritic coun- | png y ne |< ceopenenae. eee land where working ct iti reactions “of the critics to| One “rita has sinota |“Peace on Earth” are worth noting.| 97 |They not only reflect bourgeois | yorko. | opinion. They are, in a sense, a; | Part of the play. Just as the hero| —— jof “Peace on Earth,” a cloistered col-| tinuation on a higher technical level lege professor, cannot bring himself|o¢ the movement, now several years | to believe, befdre ‘brute ‘events teach | old, to create a drama dealing with | nine one ir Santas Sheree the be struggle from a revolution- | + 80) ary viewpoint the cloistered critics of the bourgeois} ‘The psoas himself never ‘be. ne ae sed Laci hg <0 be- | comes @ revolutionary. All his bitter } roci-| experiences with the capitalist Dae Ge te play is simply| machine leave him to the moment 3 {of his hanging an ally of the work” Fehan. the critics are only pre-|ing class full of liberal illusions. Tf | tending be skeptical. When the|would have been false, perhaps, to | Times says “Peace on Earth” breaks| have in so short a time converted fad 2, i snd Med saee| oe completely into a Trl y e t er | least he has learned that he Wag where the critic was during the last framed not for murder, but for antl: if Os tee epeleclon decne| aL ene | > | But louder than his voice arraign- | aaermaee me Gah he show the/ ing the injustice of capitalist soclety | en _of cap talism, it/rises the voice of the mass demon-= wo Es anaes 2 the workin | eating outside the jail, demanding rking-| his reli true class, Here we have a story dealing fonn, have Feckd Coenen pe eee erace ae ee | ing the cere sez his freedom with, a slogans against . |@ wartime situation. Beginninz with| ts othe ae Toeaain of ths a cyraadae peer on Laie a work-| script, Unfortunately, the direction of ers who are striking against the ship-| mags ment of munitions, the professor find Somsine ta DOWEL Py they are €Uey: oes Eliarg et scanetaie. a | heaeee Gases! this can be remedied a 2 a4 lay goes on. sity ‘which is controlled by the very|" and it should go on. For whate munitions maker against whom tke) ever the official critics may say, the pte eee Waged. ‘The professor| workers will recognize in “Peace on comes in contact with the strikers:| marth” a powerful story deals |he becomes their ally; and for that|win this men lives con ith the. | reason is framed on @ murder charge, | lives of their intellectual allies. aay ie enor hysteria my faa oy Hilal or the play- and. ie jin ie direction, but = But while the world is seen through | cidental to the major faot that’ bees |the eyes of an intellectual, his de-| o ion by professional a foward the left brings in| p) J S, actors and directors, the ‘two clacses engaced in bitter | which powerful in content and social conflict. in t nique and which theme out of.the is On the one hand, | creditable the world from which Professor Peter| deals with a gre Owens is. breaking — the munitions! contemporary world, manufacturer with his college presi-| It is this which distinguishes the; dent, his bishop, his scientist, his! Theatre Union from all uther pres | Rovelist, his. social worker, his police, | fess: 1 A co-operative ag- his troops, his congress, his press, his! soc theatrical people -with |president of the United States; on| pro , it is seeking to the other hand, the world into which} ire of revolutionary Owens is being drawn, the work vill haye high technical with their trade union, their strik In this sense, it carries their demonstration, their slogans | into an er field some of the aims | against war and capitalism. of the workers’ theatre groups and The thirty scenes of the play, con-| supplements them. structed in the Expressionist style} From the fi performance of reveal the two worlds separately and|“Peace on Earth,” I think we can in direct combat. This alone makes|look forward to a steady growth of “Peace on Earth” 8 landmark in the|the Theatre Union in its chosen American theatre, for it 1s a con-/ direction, AMUSEMENTS 4TH BIG WEEK OF NEW SOVIET FILM. SHOLOM “LAUGHTER ae OM reane | cg were VIET YIDDISH COME DY (ENGLISH TITLES) | “A work of dramatic art__ The actors caught the essentist | spirit of Sholom Aleichem’s rep resentations”—DAILY WORKER. I ACME THEATRE !s5eeae ROBERTA THE TREATRE UNION presents A New Musical Comedy Revie owe... “PEACEONEARTD & new play by George Sklar & Albert Malte { suthors of “MERRY-GO-ROUND” - | Clvic Repertory Theatre, Ith St. & JOE COOK in | FIRST MATINEE SATURDAY.” HOLD YOUR HORSES “2 rces's.'ee A Musical Runaway in 24 Scenes| More primitive than “GOO: Biway & 50th St., Winter Garden 277 °°" ww G re) We Ty ‘Thursday and Saturday st 2:30 Adventure in the Pacific Isles ome CAME 42nd St.|25 to 1 Pat & Bwey|Mon. to Pri} MUSIC THE THEATRE GUILD _presents— EUGENE O'NEILL’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE MM. COHAN St. GUILD == MOLIERE'S COMEDY WITR Music |! The School for Husbands ||| Philharmonic - with Osgood PERKINS—Jone WALKER || Thea. 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