The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 4, 1933, Page 5

OT the minor fellow-traveller Michael Slonimski, but the Communist . M. Gronski, now:-'editor of Novy Mir, may be said to have repre- sented “official” opinion at the writers’ plenum. He did not mince words about RAPP’s mistakes.. Neither did he confuse the policies of RAPP with the policies of the Party. His speech is included in the “mysterious” Circular No. 2. “Our plenary seésion,” Gronski said, “is the first of the organization which represents the whole mass of Soviet writers. Through the estab- lishment. of such an organization, broad masses of the old intelligentsia, grown up under conditions of bourgeois culture, by the turn which they have accomplished, associate themselves with the Soviet power and the socialist. revolution. , It goes without saying that this was not accom- plished all.at once. It was rather prepared by the whole preceding de~ velopment‘of the proletarian revolution. “That ‘the Bolsheviks are right, the old intelligentsia have realized im face of facts as the crisis of world economy, the successful carrying through of the Five-Year Plan, the splendid development of collectivias- tion and the impetus. given to cultural development in our country. And as soon as the intellectuals had become convinced of this, not separate sections of them, but the whole mass, turned towards the Soviet power. “As you know, writers are not separated by a Chinese wall from the rest of the intelligentsia. They are one of the most progressive and so- cially active detachments of the intelligentsia, The turn which I have just mentioned, has also taken place among writers. The old writers, the old masters of literature, have turned toward the Soviet power and the socialist revolution, a fact, which is so obvious that hardly anyone will dare dispute it now. * * * most serious error of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP) -consisted in not drawing at the right moment inferences trom the altered conditions, and in being converted from an organization which. furthered the development of Soviet literature, into an organiza- . tion which impeded this development, That is why the Party dissolved this association. : “Some comradés haye given a wrong interpretation to this decision. They believed that the dissolution of the RAPP was tantamount to the refuation of the whole past of this organization. These comrades have forgotten that the RAPP has been the leader of the great movement of the workers and peasants who streamed into our literature. “The RAPP peopie have been guilty of mistakes. They should be criticized for these mistakes, but criticized as class comrades. The former followers of the RAPP begin themselves to criticise their own mistakes. Welland good. We must make It possible to remedy their mistakes and put up a fight in concert with us for Soviet literature.” iy * * * IN specifying some of RAPP’s errors, Gronski said: “RAPP’S criticism has been. frequently..cliquey and intolerant. No sooner had a writer misplaced a comma, then he was already represented as a class enemy and almost expelled: from literature. It used to be a common saying: “We shall throw you out of literature’ We do not waste many words with a real class enemy, we are ruthless toward a class enemy, but it is just for this reason that’ one must be rather careful with the term ‘class enemy.’ 5 “Criticism must be “thorough. The old writers who associate them- selves with us have to overcome inner contradictions. Criticism must help them to follow our path. Criticism must be comradely; it must assist the writer in his difficult work, it has to treat the artist with forbear- ance. It-is also up.te.us to build up patiently a new Bolshevik critique. “The class struggle in the country goes on. In some fields, at certain periods, it will even-sharpen. The class struggle makes itself also felt in literature: “Though ruthless against the real class enemy, we must guide the writers throughtour criticism, and help them get nearer to us, to identify themselves with the working class. The pre-requisites for a truly beneficial treatment ‘af ‘creative problems exist already. “The comrades from: RAPP demanded of the author to write accord- ing to the method -of-dialectic materialism. But the comrades of RAPP have not been able:to give a simple and unambiguous answer to the ques- tion: What does i an to write according to the method of dialectic materialism. Our literary people will seriously study Marx, Engels, Lenin and We want our writers to know Marxism-Leninism thoroughly, --to be well-Versed in history, economics and philosophy, and to make the method. 6f .dialectic materialism their own. But we cannot possibly de- * * Wwe speak now of Socialist realism, of realism which helps us to give # true account to the masses of socialist construction, and the progres- sive movement towards a non-class society. Our answer to the ques- tion how one should write according to the method of socialist realism, is: WRITE THE TRUTH! But by recommending the method of socialist realism, we do not..by. any means reject revolutionary romanticism, the romanticism which“equips people for the struggle for our future.... We are for socialist revolutionary romanticism, for romanticism which makes clear to us the way8-of development, which helps us to describe the alm of development, to open to the masses a vista of great possibilities. “By creating the best conditions for the development and full bloom of Soviet literature, rich in genre and methods, and uniform as to its aims, we explain that the time is past when declarations and literary feuds were a substitute for works of art. According to artistic literary works, and not according to declarations, shall we judge the work of the authors,” * * 4 fers speech—and it must be remembered that it is a speech at the founding of an_organization, and not a literary essay—gives a some- what different picture from our Scribe’s bloodcurdling “inquisition.” But is high time that we had something more than artists, speeches, reports, circulars. The greatest boon to the revolutionary writers in this country would be ezhistory of Soviet literature in the past 16 years by an American scholar like-Joshua Kunitz, let us say. Through suclf aghistory: your young writers could acquaint them- selves With hasic. problems, with mistakes, with achievements; and, if they guardithemseh inst the error of mechanically transferring ideas from thé “WS.s.R. U.S.A., they could learn much that is necessary, fundamental, * * ™ \ indispensable for a healthy development of their own move- Ton. ASSES ES Re ly Worker through Michael Gold. iputions tecélved to the credit of Michael Gold in his Sociatist’ - competition with Dr.Luttinger, Edward Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Helping the Dail ~~ Burek ‘and ‘Del to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: S. Levitt +$1.00 1.00 Monday ALL, MEMBERS OF VALLEY Br. Tl. Di miss meeting at Mt, Eden Workers Center, 286 E.. 174th St. Bronx. ‘Topic—High of Living, 8:30 p. m. ROBERT W. DUNN ON Pan-American Conference at Montevideo, #t the Greenwich vi Br, of Anti-Im| + League. Lec- ‘vure .at 15 Mineita bt... Admission 5c, SE ARSALS at 35 E. 12th 8t., Daily Worker Chorus. Every member must ‘attend. Fifth floor. 8 pom. HEY. FELLA- way AINT THE STREET CARS RUNNING? BREEN WAITIN’ Aw HouRm ons TRY WALKING, THOSE GUYS GRE ON STRIKE (N PROTEST AGAINST THE MARTIN FRAME-YP — §. Levin ...... Previous Total . » ON Elizabeth, N. J. LECTURE BY JULES CARSHEM, associate editor of “Soviet Russia Today” who will speak on Soviet Recognition and what it means. At 408 Court St., Elizabeth, N. J. Tuesday DEPARTMENT STORE WORKERS—Open meeting at Christ Church, 344 W. 36th 8t., all departments store workers and white collar workers invited. 6:30 p. m. sharp. Auspices Office Workers Union, 799 Broadway. Gone g— OUT ON MARTIN = AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FLASHES and CLOSE-UPS By LENS Although he may deny it if you ask him, the fact is that Michael Gold unemployment in New York. The ribbon is being made for the Un- employed Councils and the Film and @ cameraman to “shoot” for Mike. . « » The scenario, written by Com- rade Gold, deals with the lot of an unemployed family on New York's East Side and is entitled, “Death of & Worker's Child.” * e Princess (!) Kropotkin in @ recent issue of “Wholewheat” B. McFadden’s Liberty: hearing Anthony Abbott tell what happened in Hollywood to Upton Sinclair, Engaged to write a screen drama, paid in advance, Upton conldn’t think up a good ending, Racked his brains—no reswit. Then he slipped and fell downstairs, like Humpty Dumpiy, on his head. Upton picked himself up, orying, ‘At last I've got it! The right ending for his story. Some- how the fall had jolted it Into his mind.” P, S.—Sinclair edited Kisenstein’s film after the above accident. So come home, Upton. All is forgotten. Signed: Your uncle Lens. The Quincess Princess further re- ports that Mr. Sinclair, who granted her a long interview, “digs his garden for exercise and is a passionate”— (Guess what!)—‘Mickey Mouse fan!” aE ae “British Are Shocked by Film of Lynching”—“American Reel Show- ing Death of Hart Kidnapers Brings Rebuke From London Times.”—A.P. Dispatch. The recent newsreels of British imperialism’s most humane handling of the Arabian uprisings in Palestine (tear gas, machine guns and clubs!) far from “sacrifice all decency to sensationalism in presenting news on the screen” (the Times's complaint against the Hart lynching reel). We suggest a sort of newsreel correspondence course exchange be- the reels on the Indian massacres and we'll send you our swell Am~ bridge slaughter, Bull.” .. . “Here's @ newsreel showing how we handle hungry marchers in London, Sam, let's have- a couple of lyncliings (legal or otherwise will do) in ex- change.” .. . * 8 ‘The elimination by Paramount executives of a lynching scene in a film recently finished on the grounds that it constituted a slur on the fair name of California and that “such a thing could never happen in civi- lized California,” only to witness a double lynching two days after the elimination, is eloquent proof that Hollywood spreads capitalist propa~- ganda by what it hides as well as by | what it shows! Will Marshall Neil- an’s forthcoming “Chloe: The Ro- mance of the Southland,” have any- thing to say about that stiper-inferno for the Negro? Vidor’s “Hallelujah!” didn’t. . . . The fair name of the State of Alabama.” . .. The “fair name of the State of Massachusetts.” .». The “fair name of the State of California.” . . . Hollywood works for Governor Rolph, for Judge Calla- han, for Judge (gone-but-not-forgot- ten) Thayer and all the judges and governors, who jail, electrocute and lynch for the master class... « * Talk about Soviet recognition! We found the following in s recent Hollywood Spectator: “Metro, in engaging Baer, Car- nera and Dempsey, recognized the wisdom of the Russian cinema school. The Russians do not use actors, They use farmers to play farmers, peasants to play peasants. And when a farmer gives a great performance, he is sent back to his farm and does not appear in another picture. The Russians reason soundly that nothing in 4 cinematic creation must be greater than the creation itself. They laugh at our star system. And they should laugh at it, It is ridiculous.” . “Little Women’ makes mo appeal to the intellect and it will be a tre- mendous success,” in the opinion of a well-known Hollywood crific. ... Irony? Idiocy? Profundity? ... Fig- ure it out and Iemme know the an- -A famous Hollywood producer ran out of a preview showing of “Little Women” before it was half run and telegraphed his company’s head of- fice in New York to find Louisa M. Alcott and put her contract imme-| ;: diately, no matter what salary she demanded. . . And so an epidemic of mother-and-daughter pictures is pre- dicted. . . . Maybe the more famous movie-palaces will hand. out free handkerchiefs in their lobbies (Bet -| Variety's “Exploitation” editor’ steals that one!).... . ° . Winfield Sheehan, Fox executive, will fire anyone caught reading “Sin- clair Presents Fox” on the lot... . In that book Sheehan is exposed as @ grafter implicated in a famous ‘New York political murder and saved only by the intervention of William Fox's millions. will soon direct @ film dealing with |» Photo League has already assigned |: tween Sam and Bull... . “Send us) ECEMBER 4, 1933 The Russian workers have built at Moscow are reported sensational The Soviets Build a New Train a new marvel train which develops tremendous speed with safety because it travels, not on rails, but on ball bearings. I¢ looks more like a caterpillar than a train, but first trials lly successful. Stage and Screen “Tobacco Road” Opens night at Masque Theatre; “All Good Americans” Due Tuesday “Tobacco Road,” a new play by Jack. Kirkland, based on the novel by Er- skine Caldwell, will open this evening at the Masque Theatre. The cast is headed by Henry Hull and includes Margaret Wycherly, Maude Odell, Pa- tricia Quinn and Sam Boyd, Hope Williams returns to Broadway on Tuesday nigh in “All Good Ameri- cans,” ® new comedy by Laura and S. J. Perlman, opening at Henry Mil- ler’s Theatre. This is the final week of the Joe Cook show at the Winter Garden. play in Newark and then begin a road tour in Philadelphia. “The First Apple,” the new comedy by Lynn Starling will not open here this week, but will continue in Boston for another week or two, coming here around Dec. 25, at the Booth Theatre. Sholom Aleichem Film and “Soviets Sing and Dance” At Acme Theatre Sholom Aleichem’s picture, “Laugh- ter Through Tears,” screened in the Soviet Union, will con- tinue for a fourth week at the Acme Theatre. This is the first time a So- viet production has been held over for such a long-period. The picture has attracted -wide attention from the public and press. Thousands of chil- dren have also been attending, usually coming in groups with their teachers. This week the Acme will present as and Dance,” a new film just received from Moscow. Highpoints of the pic- ture include Ukrainian workers play- ing the Ukrainian native instrument, the bandura; the “Dance. of the French Revolution”; dance from the ballet. “Don: Quixote” by Asa and Sulamith Messrer and ~ Caucasian workers ensemble playing native in- struments and singing folk songs. Litvinoff Bids Farewell to United States on Embassy Screen Maxim Litvinoff, Peoples Commis- sar for Foreign Affairs of the U. 8S. S. R,, appears this week at the Em- bassy News Reel Theatre as he was photographed while bidding farewell to the people of the United States. He feels, he said, as though he is parting with a friend, who has been found after being lost for many years. ‘There are numerous other news To-| Next week the musical comedy will) an added feature, “The Soviets Sing | New Masses Will 1,500 Workers View Soviet Film Showings In Far Western Towns SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 39.—More) shan 1,500 workers in Washington) and Oregon towns have viewed So- + films shown by Mac Harris, | The Marx-Lenin Exhibit Political Knowledge By S. ROBERT \| subscribers for the Daily Worker. Daily Worker representative, in con-| JN his work, “What is to be Done”, nection with securing funds and new|4 where Lenin tears to pieces the | theories of those opportunists wr In Bremerton, Wash., a naval base, | wished to keep the workers struggles | many marine workers attended a/confined to “pure and simple” trade for Workers Russia a So Each j| viet film showing, many of them film showing and eagerly bought copies of the Daily Worker. This is movement. In Aberdeen and Hoquiam, Wash., about 800 workers attended the So-| making contact with the revolution- | ary movement for the first time. Here, too, the Daily Worker was bought eagerly. Despite refusal by authorities in| Salem, Oregon, to allow. the film| showing in the school auditorium, | many workers attended the showing in another hall at short notice. Everywhere in these two states, the workers responded to their best abili- ties when called upon to help the| Daily Worker. | \Present Program of Soviet Music An unusual program of represen- tative new Soviet music, to be heard for the first time in New York, has been arranged for Dec. 10, at 8:30 Dp. m., at the Great Hall of the Col- | lege of the City of New York, 139th | St. and Convent Ave. Members of the Philadelphia Sym- phony Orchestra, Ashley Pettis, noted pianist, and the chorus of 200 voices of the Freiheit Gezang Farein, conducted by Jacob Schaefer, will participate in the event. Featured at this concert will be string quartets by Miaskowsky and Gliere, a sonata by Vitacek and a group of new Soviet songs. The affair is part of a wide pro- gram of literary, sical events initiated by the New Masses,.31 E. 27th St., which will resume publication as a weekly ma- gazine about Jan. 1, Pettis as musical editor. On this program of new Soviet |compositions, are important, recent compositions by two of the older |composers, Miaskowsky and Gliere; |as well as new works by young men a jof great talent. Miaskowsky and |Gliere were distinguished composers before the revolution, who have re- which was| mained in ‘Russia to assist in the| come tomorrow’s leaders of the revo- |musical development of a physical and musical world far removed from |their early training and environment, | Miaskowsky has been called the dean of Russian present-day composers, and has written works in all forms incluling twelve symphonies. Gliere nensely “The Red Poppy.” & young man of tw His musical influences have is chifly known for his in t, |heen entirely those of present-day | Russia, which in no:wise neglects the heritage of the-past in musical edu- cation, as well as in the concert halls and opera houses: - Davidenko is a composer of a sig- nificant opera, “1919,” as well as many of the mass songs so popular in Russia today. The opening “chorale” by Popoff is | chosen as the “key-note” of the pro- gram, because--it reflects the his- torical background of Russia in the opening measures, the terrific strug- gle of the revolutionary period in the middle section, and finally the opening, tragic subject repeated, but transformed by a new spirit into a mood of determination and hope, items on the screen of the Embassy this week, among them an interview | with the President. of Poland, and a military review of the Polish army at Warsaw airfield. TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P. M—Shirley Howard, Songs Jester ‘Tric 0. | 7:15—Billy Bachelor—sketoh 7:30—Lum and Abner | 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketeh | 8:00—Dramatio Sketch 8:30—Richard Crooks, Metropolitan Opera sportation—Harvey 8. Firestone Jr. 9:50—Ship of Joy, With Captain Hugh Bar- Dobbs man Orch.; Lullaby Lady; Gene nold, Narrator 10:30--The Singer of Songs—Sketch |.11:00—Viewing the American Scene—John irskine 11:15—Jesters Trio 11:30—Meroff_ Orch. 00—Olsen Orch. 1%:30 A. M.—Sosnick Orch. WOR—710 Ke P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 15—-News—Gabriel Heatter :30—Terry and Ted—Sketch :45—John Kelvin, Tenor 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama 8:15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare—Songs 8:30-——Morros Musicale 9:00—Variety Musicale 9:30—Threp Rascals, Songs 9:45—The Witch's Tale 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read “0:30—Alfred Wallenstain’s Sinfonietta; Hor- tensa Monath, Piano 1:00-Weather Report *:02—Moenbeams Trio 11:30-—whtteman Orch, 12:00-—-Lene Orch. General Strike! TAOUSAADS OF DOLLARS UST ‘C@uUSE OY WORKERS Waki ME OVERTHIS cCasE~ Damn THA cask—~ ir O10NT TURW OUT t Concert Orch.; Story of Tran- | 9:00—Gypsies Orch.; Frank Parker, Tenor | | WIJZ—760 Ke | 3:00 P, M.—-Amos“'n’ “Andy 7:15—Baby Rose Marie, Songs 7:30—Potash and Perimutter—Sketch | 7:45—Frances Alda, Soprano | 8:00—Morin Sisters, Songs; King’s Jesters; | Stokes Orch.; Chiff Soubier | 8:30—Father Finn's Choral Music 8:45—Red Davis—Sketch 9:00—Minstrel Show 9:30—Patternack Orch; John L, Fogarty, ‘Tenor 10:00—Marcel Rodrigo, Baritone; Littau Orch. 10:30—Henri Deering, Plano 10:45—Planned Recovery—Seeretary of Navy Claude A. Swanson 11:00—Leaders Trio 11:15—~Anthony Fronie, ‘Tenor 11:30—Hahn Orch. 12:00—Sosnick Orch. 12:30 A, M.—King Orch, WABC—860 Ke | 2:00 P, M.—Myrt end. Marge ‘7:15—Just Plain Bill--Sketch 7:30—Travelers Ensemble ‘1:45—News—Boake, Carter 8:00—-Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin 0. Hill 8:30—Bing Crosby, Songs; Hayton Orch. 9:00—Philadelphia Orch., Leopold Stokow- ski, Conductor 9:15—Alexander Woollcott—The Town Crier 9:30—Gertrude Nissen, Songs; Lulu Mc- | Connell, Comedienne; Jones Orch, 10:00—Wayne King Orch. 10:30—News Bulletin 10:45—Boswell Sisters, Songs 11:30—Gray Orch. 12:00—Belasco Orch. 23 tic and mu-| with Ashley | ,| Simply and clearly written, for carry- | | | | | | NEW PIONEER published | monthiy by the New Pioncer lishing Co. 50 E. 13th St, New | York City. December issue. 5 cents. | | THE WORKER'S CHILD—official | organ of the Central Pioneer Buro, Box 23, Station D, New York City. | November-December issue, 5 cents. | By ROBERT KENT The Pioneer movement draws work- jers’ children into the ranks of the; revolutionary working class. | The “Worker's Child” and the “New| |Pioneer” are two powerful arms of |this movement. They are our means |for making the child of today the} |class-conscious young worker of to-| morrow; they are the forces that build the children of today to be- {lutionary workers. As such they cc- jeupy a major position among our | working class publications. ‘The “Worker's Child” resumes pub- \lication after a forced cessation of |six months. It is a most needed manual for Pioneer troop leaders, for king class parents, for class-con- us teachers, for any adult in- | terested in working with children. It is the theoretical guide, yet very ing on revolutionary work among our | young comrades. This new first issue ‘does not contain quite enough con- crete lessons from actual struggle, but even so it is a publication that commands attention and interest. The December New Pioneer con- |tains humor, satire and revolutionary force. The front cover shows a stout, ermine coated lady handing a Christ- mas piece of candy to a raggedly dressed boy. The boy leads a dem- onstration of children, and carries a placard, “We Want Clothes.” Does the boy drop the placard to grab the piece of candy? Please buy the Pioneer and see for yourself. His answering gesture is delightful! The contents of this issue mark a high level even for the Pioneer, which is invariably of a high quality. “Santa’s Toy Shop,” is a true ac- count of how a Pioneer girl blasted a | teacher’s Christmas propaganda in a school class. So effective was this rT girls work that Nathan Hur- , author of this story, became a Pioneer, and he tells why. “Journal of a German Pioneer,” by Ben Blake. erins the reader with an account of | the courage of two German children | |in carrying on underground revolu- | tionary activities amtdst Hitler-terror. | | “How Leftary Got His Lunch,” shows} \how the Pioneers, their parents and) | the Unemnloved Councils of Brooklyn | |forced school authorities to rescind} jan order withdrawing free lunches} |from a starving working class boy, | |The cavitalist press carried a rose- | tinted version of this event; Genia} Siegel gives a direct interview with the hoy’s jobless father, and it is a mighty good job. Vivian Dahl, in “Don’t Cry Over Snilt Mitk.” gives another actual ac- count of how two farmers’ children outwitted National Guardsmen dur- ing a recent strike of their farmer- parents. The catching satirical Christmas scene from Harry Alan Potamkin’s overetta, “Strike Me Red,” in front of the R. H. Mercy Depart- ment Store, appears in this issue of the Pioneer. There is @ brief but sparkling sketch of Hitler on a visit) in Ger- many’s schools, He asks the children to what parties they belong. One answers, “The Communist Party.” Hitler asks why. “Because in my house everybody is a Communist,” says the child. “What a reason! What would you be if all your family were murderers and robbers?” asks Hitler. “A Nazi, sir,” answers the worker's boy. But to get the full humor of this sketch and of the other stories and drawings in this issue, don’t de- pend on this review. Take out a nickel, beg one, get it any old way, by QUIRT unionism-economism. Lenin has a part in which an imaginary worker a new territory for the revolutionary | says “We are not children to be fed|to the period deal on ‘sops' of economic politics alone. We want to know everything every- body else knows, we want to learn all the details of all the aspects of polit~ | ical life and to take part actively in every political event. The intellectual must talk less on what we already know and tell us more about what we do not know and what we can| never learn from our factory ‘eco- nomic’ experience. That is, you must ive us political knowledge.” This was no fictitious worker made simply out of Lenin’s imagination but represented the profound knowledge Lenin had of the workers desires and thoughts. Recently an event took place In New York which confirmed for the thousandth time, that the worker once class conscious is hungry for more than bread, “Pure and simple” talk on wage cuts, unemployment, | factory conditions, economic strug- | gles does not satisfy him, he becomes | fed up on this narrow sphere, He craves and needs broader, deeper | knowledge. | And so when the Workers School | announced an exhibition on Mai n | in conjunction with a lecture on the! History of Marxism by Harry Wicks| (now touring the country with the exhibit), it became interesting to see whether just a handful of intellec-| tuals who sometimes feel that they | are the only ones endowed with in- | terest in the “higher things’ would come to this exhibit or there were such workers as Lenin described. | From the time the exhibit opened | at 3 pm. until late in the night crowds of workers spent hours ex-| amining the exhibit. And at the lec- | ture one of the largest crowds pres- | ent at any lecture this year filled | every chair in the hall with many standing, The exhibit consists of 20 panels Starting with the period when Marx | wrote the Communist Manifesto, pro- ceeding through the stormy days of the Parls Commune, then to formation of the International Wo: ingmen’s Association, the first ir national of workers, the publication of Marx's works, “Capital,” and so on to the death of Marx. But Marxism lived. Engels was still alive, and, after him, Lenin. The Pe- riod of Lenin: the 1905 Revolution, the February Revolution, the Octo. ber Revolution. Then the brilliant | and have @ good time reading the December Pioneer. Then get another nickel. borrow it, and buy “The Work- er’s Chi'd,” | You won't be sorry. The “New Pioneer” is conducting a drive for $3,000, without which) amount it cannot continue in exist-| ence. Those who read this splendid | children’s revolutionary magazine will not hesitate to help save it by rush- ing an immediate contribution to the New Pioneer, 50 E. 13th St., New York City, To the workers who have not yet read the Pioneer, the reviewer suggests that you buy the December issue, and if after reading it you do| Not Fimv the Pinn--~ <---"4 he saved | with all our enerey from its financial danger, he will stop writing reviews. And to show that he means what he says, he starts the ball a rolling, though he is gray-haired and broke, with 8 contribution of 25 cents. Helping our young and valiant com- |tatorship of t | Marx's days painted in quo’ | photostatic copies of famou }cal documents written by copies of the Rheinische Zeitung. paper edited by Marx, wt y banned, and Marx banished. fr |Germany. Pictures of the Chartist | battles of 1839 in England and Er- |nest Jones, Chartist leader. | ‘The famous date, 1848. The date of the first French revolution, the | date of the writing of a document |which was bound to have the most profound effect on the course of |! ;man history—the Communist Mai |festo, All this vividly told in pie- tures attractively arranged on the neat red bordered panels. The collection of quotations alons S was worth the epitomized from dozens of wor! visit. Each quotation some historical truth. Fi “It is not the conscior that determines their existence, but on the contrary, their social exisi- ence determines their consciousness.” “What men, these Communards.” was the comment among the visitors as they looked on the pictures of the leaders of the Paris Commune. Daring, courageous, intelligent faces and the scenes ir h they. took part in Paris, 1871. The streets bar- Yicaded, workers with guns, bloody fighting gside the pictures, rx's interpretations and the les- sons he drew for the working-class to guide them in the future. “It was the st revolution in which the working was acknowledged as the only tiative,” and rds of Marx from which ing class had the most to hich the opportunists, t alist Parties, try ore or distort. The wrote Marx, was form in which of the work- is, the. Dic- e clas then the y the w learn an And so in Marxist his- the epoch of Imperialism from the panels of docu- ments, the books, the quotations pictures of action, Paris Comn 1905, 1917, the guide-posts, spring from all this like from an archit plan—a new panel: The First Five- Year Plan. . . . Dnieperstroy, Kuznei- stroy Magnetogorsk, giant symbols of the profound vision of Marx, En- gels, Lenin, Stalin. From 1848 the Communist Mani- testo, to 1933 and the Soviet Union, moving towards a classless society. The interest on the faces of the workers as they stopped at panel efter panel, the slow, careful chew- ing of the quotations, the blood quickened by the historical pictures— all was testimonial to Lenin’s words that “The worker wants to know everything everybody else knows.” Colorfully setting off the panels and summing up their meaning to the revolutionary working class today were red pennants of the Work: School, edging the shelves on which the panels stood with the words: aAO trade. the New Pioneer: | Robert. Kent . $.25 AMUSE “Training for the Class Struggle.” THE THEATRE 52: GUILD THEATRE MOLIERE with OSGOOD PERKIN: MARY OF with HELEN HAYES EUGENE O'NEILL'S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN Matinees COMEDY WITH MUSIC THE SCHOOL rorHLSBANDS EMPIRE THEATRE watincos Yaurnday & Saterday Sao ie MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play MERIVALE MENKEN GUILD Presents ind Bt., West of Broadway. Evenings $36 Thursday and Saturday 9:20 S and JUNE WALKER Evenings 8:40 roadway and 40th Street. 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