The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 29, 1933, Page 5

DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 29, 1933 Pages Five Workers School | Branches to Open in Steel Region | CHICAGO, — Pull preparations are on the way for the opening of the two | | branch schools in the steel region. | The South Chicago School will open In Anti-War Drama First Weekly New Masses to Appear On Stands Today From Moscow to Siberia On the © Border of Asia A Word on Workers’ Correspondence IRKERS’ correstondence is one of the most important departments of a’ working class newspaper. It should have the serious attention and cooperation of every class conscious reader. What is. w 's’ correspondence? It is not merely letters of comment from readers; every capitalist newspaper contains such letters. The newspaper profiteers wish to flatten their audience, and try to make theni feel they have a ‘éice in things and a voice in the newspaper, which is just another 6f‘the Democratic lies. These letters are a circulation builder, the profiteers know; and this is the only*reason they print such letters. But a working class paper like the Daily Worker goes far beyond that. It doesn’t print ‘only the freak letters and crank explosions and half-digested’ éditorials of d mob of heterogeneous readers. No, in the workers’ correspondence one finds letters from workers that expose specifically: the wrongs of proletarian life. Light is thrown on the datk places of capitalist America. Bullying foremen and N.R.A. chisellers, both governmental and commercial, and job conditions, are described and flayed. Organization methods of fighting these conditions are discussed. No newspaper can maintain a staff of reporters who could cover all this territory, for thé letters come from every little mining town, every lumber camp in the western mountains, ev where life is a slow degrading torture place for Negro and white prole- tarians. Our Only Basis 'THOUT a wide group of worker-correspondents who constantly send in reports of actual conditions, a working class newspaper has no real basis. It cannot be written and edited, as are capitalist papers, by professional New York reporters and editors. It must have its roots in the workets’ life. It must give the workers the first place. It must pe their organ for exposure and organization or it is nothing but a form of bureaucracy. And every Worker ought to feel it is his duty to be such a correspondent: It is not enough to read the Daily Worker; or even give it donations, or criticize its weakness. No, fellow-workers, you are neglecting the ‘Dafly’ when you do not write for it.» You are robbing it of its most valuable feature—the news f proletarian America, that news which no capitalist paper will print. Don’t think it a trivial task. Often such. correspondence can teach workers how to win better conditions, by strike or protest. This cor- respondence ‘helped build the Soviet Union, where there is an army of some four millions of such correspondents. They are a living menace to every bureaucrat and sabotager. q There have been many cases where worker-correspondents were killed by enraged “Kulaks or sabotaging engineers whose treachery they had ™ first shown’ up: It is @ heroic role to play, often. And it is of such vital ; importance to the working class revolution that one cannot say too po. often: Workers, get a pencil or pen in your fists, and expose the rats and exploiters in your own life before the eyes of the other workers. cs Poetry and Fiction ‘48; 7 RECEIVE.constantly letters from workers who want to learn how to write poetry or stories, ‘There is w great deal of talent and aspiration * and even génius in the working class which {is crushed every day by this * monster of’ a money-system. Not only the body, but the mind of the worker is if, chains, and these aspirations to write are really part of the great struggle for the emancipation of our class. ¥ ‘However,’ out of the hundreds who'strive to learn the technique of such writing, I have found that there are never more than a hand- ful who. try to grapple with the problem in any systematic way. They make the same mistake, many of them; they lose themselves in dreams of great projects, and neglect to build up from a solid basis of immediate detail...They want to write big things, epic poems and five-act-Gramas, but will-not go through an apprenticeship in the smaller forms. f used i0 teach a class for proleterian writers at the Workers’ School, and I would say to those who wanted to begin their education in litera~ ture by writing a 600 page novel: “Go alead and try it if you wish; but you will lose your time and effort, and only discourage yourself. It would be better if you got some of the humility and discipline of a serious student, however. Start from the only place where one can start, from the beginning. Learn the multiplication tables before you attempt the logarithms of bridge-build- ing. In other words, let us see whether you can write a short and ef~ fective little sketch describing some scene in your own factory or flop- house.” And some of these students would be offended and think I was patronizing them. They had a real scorn for such petty chores. But @very good writer I know began with this kind of apprenticeship. It wes the task Flaubert set to Guy de Maupassant when the younger man came to the old irritable master and begged him for instruction. False Snobbery CAN’T. believe that any person who sets himseit up ior a proletarian writer and looks down on the sketch form as being too trivial for him can ever develop very far. He hasn't, to begin with, the true revolutionary spirit, which knows that every small action that builds the working class revolution is of great importance. Handing out leaf- lets, soapboxing, selling the Daily Worker, picketing, or making a new member for the Party are all as historically important as the barricades, You can’t skip or boj¢éh the foundations when you are building a ‘skyscraper or @ working ‘class world. And the sketch is the basis of proletarian literature, and workers’ correspondence is the first step toward the sketch. In our literature, as was pointed out at the Kharkov congress, there are two tasks; to create a bourgeois revolutionary literature among the fellow-travellers in America, the work of Dos Passos, Erskine Cald- well, Waldo Frank, Jolin Li. Spivak, for example; and second, to develop a proleterian literature out of the mines, fields and factories, It seems to be there is only one way of creating a proletarian literature. It is by first--building up a strong workers’ correspondence. A Some of them will soon be writing sketches, and eventually write novels. ‘That's the way proleterian literature developed in the Soviet Union and ‘Thete can be no better way than this strong, realistic school. © young worker who won't go through this school will never be seh of a writer, I believe, He may learn, if he persists long enough, to write cheap detective and cowboy stories for the pulp magazines, Se oe ‘will sever become the real thing. I myself learned to write in this kind of school, and T must confess _, it makes me sore when ‘and looks down on my some young worker gets a swelled esthetic head alma mater. jat 3064 E. 92nd St. on Jan. 8. | school in Gary will open on Jan. 17, | The at 1545 Washington St. A special appeal has been made to native American workers. Hundreds of announcements and leafiets have |been issued, especially to the steel mills, to acquaint the workers with ; the school. The Executive Committees lof both schools have the prospects |of quite a large enrollment of steel workers. The following subjects will be } y southern hellhole | '14 Political Economy | taught: Elementary Economics, Trade | Union—Strike Strategy, Principles of Communist Organization, English for Workers, History of American Labor Movement, Lectures and study groups to accomodate workers on night or other irregular shifts. The South Chicago School will op-| erate Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday night from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. and the Gary School on Wed- nesday and Thursday and Friday nights, from 8 to 10 p.m. All work- ers’ organizations, steel workers, an readers of the revolutionary press are urged to attend and help the school. | There will be a big grand opening | concert and dance for the South Chi- cago School on Saturday, Jan. 6, at| 9133 Baltimore St. Classes in Workers’ ‘School Winter Term | | | |Loan Capital and Credit, NEW YORK.—The number of Po- litical Economy classes in the Work- ers School has been increased from 12 to 14 for the Winter term, registra- tion for which is now going on at 35 E. 12th St., third floor, in order to take care of the increased demand for the course since its division into ieee parts, A, B and C. The course in Political Economy | ie for its aim the study of the| economic teachings of Karl Marx and} Priedrich Engels and continued by! Lenin. The study of this basic ele- ment of Marxism-Leninism is essen- tial for every member of the prole- tarian revolutionary movement and for every student of Marxism-Lenin- | ism. It reveals the character of social | relations existing in society. Without) understanding the character of social | | relations, it is imposible to make a} ‘correct study of Marxism-Leninism. It ; embraces the study of the basic laws jand contradictions of the economi | system of capitalism, and the role of the working class in the struggle against the capitalist system. Political Economy A takes up the theory of value, capital, and surplus) value, Political Economy B takes up the theory of wages, process of capitalist accumulation, general law of capital- ist accumulation, profit and price of production under capitalism, mer- chant profit. Political Economy C deals with Banking | Capital, Interest, Ground Rent, Marx- ian Theory of Crisis, General Crisis of Capitalism. |Meetings To Plan for |at which time one English- speaking | 'Theatre Group Choice ito Theatre Festival NEW, YORK—The National Fes- | tival of the Workers Theatres és to | be held in Chicago on April 15, 1934. The New York Section, the largest jin the country, is making prepara- | tions to send its representative groups. In order to determine which group to send, the Section Committee has | decided upon a series of competitions | to be carried on among the foreign | ‘and English-speaking groups. The final series of competitions will be held on February 25, 1934, land one foreign-speaking group will | |be chosen to represent the New York | meter band to get ready for the RV59 COMRADES ~ nv suasect TOMIGUT 13 THE DAILY WORKER ANO How TO Section in Chicago. Since there is very little time in is very necessary that a delegate from each group attend the committee meeting of the New York Section at at the League of Workers Theatres office at 42 E, 12th St. tomorrow at 3 pm, Those unable to attend this | meeting must be present at the meet~ | ing to be held on Thursday, Jan. 4, at the same place at 8 p.m. Hicks, Cowley, and Freeman to Speak at Symposium Tonight; NEW YORK. — Granville Hicks, author of “The Great Tradition,” Malcolm Cowley, editor of “The New Republic,” and Joseph Freeman, editor of “New Masses” will par- ticipate in a symposium on “The American Literary Scene,” tonight at 8 o'clock, at, the Webster Manor, 125 E. 11th St. Michael Gold, author and column- ist for the “Daily Worker” will be chairman. ‘The meeting {s under the auspices of the National Student League. The speakers at the symposium will cover the various phases of American literature, dealing with the Mberal and “revisionist” viewpoints ned with the revolutionary interpre- ation, ONE war Butt A BUILD IT INTO A WHICH Cam LEAD US IN OUR EVERY PAY STRUGGLES- On the Platform! at the Civic Repertory Theatre. Robert Keyh, as he appeais in Earth,” the Theatre Union play by George Sklar and Albér, Maltz NEW YORK.—The first |the New Masses as a week ees By WALT CARMON ts | tior a iterature—it was a monthly PART VL of the city. We have talked to men on the new E climb up the steep ladders to|and women. We have attended contain John the top of blast ce No. 4/|meetings, h on f America,” | of 1 Pp named | pr on h the Bittsh econ- in in Stalinsk, ‘West Siberia, : worked until left last week 1 to England It Is being completed now and it too will help to pour pig iron to fulfill the plan of a million and a quarter ities lifted out of “ppt nate year for this plant. {of humanity and n into upr pate te The top of it is a dizzy height. You}men and women of a day, Thi en, editor of ook down and you feel a sickish have jumped over centu kt errgacte stomach The comradely, firm hand of, the ages only " the top re- |Party guide rep of fi ¥ r % cai | ee long climb, the |the Siberian B. Matthews, of the Fellowship cacti ere at tion, represented by you now Hes a pee recent split in the Gered ago this was a bare fort, as out of od r contributing writers hunters came through, | the Com-~ are Granville red for gold on the |rade Hitarov, is el Gold f the Tom River which winds | young man. Adolph D ing, Ash te Scott N the Y Louis Lozo- F. Dunne, William filliam Gropper and | Asaf And Sulamiih Messe Messerer, Noted Soviet Dancers, Coming |Here For Tour In January Asaf and Sulamith Messerer, bril- liant and talented ballet stars of the Moscow Opera, have received per- mission from the Soviet Government |to visit America. Their tour, which opens next month, has been arranged by the Columbia Concerts Corporation {for a limited period of four we: | The dancers have made for them- selves a world-wide reputation as the outstanding Soviet artists by their work in “The Red . Quixote.” These two jlambo,” “The Flame of Par | aderka” and several new Russian bal- jlets will form their rep: | America. Professor Asafiev, | musical critic and composer of tt ballet “The Flame of Paris,” has recently received the title of “Honored | Artist” for his work. inent “Flying Down To Rio” Now in Second Week At Radio City The new Dolores Del Rio starrir | film * “Flying Down To Rio,” will co | tinue for a ond week at the | City Music Hall. music score by liyries by Edward Eli Kahn. Gene Raymond, R Ginger Rogers and Fred Asta in the supporting cast. The Radio sta ge | show, headed by Leo Delibes’ ballet,” NEW YORK.—The Workers Short | Wave Radio Club reports for the next | week by Comrade Irving S. Millman. As announced in last wesk’s article. | the Moscow Station RNE made an Dee. 25, I tried on a Scott but could not succeed. Even Germany and Eng- land came in very badly on the 26 meter band. That weather conditions, Tuning to about 23 to 20 meters I picked up England sending a religious Africa program to Cape Town, For the last few months Eng been broadcasting religious prog on Sunday mornings and other holi- days to their colonies, That was never |done before. The radio is the mod- jem missionary that the capitalii jcountries are using. At about 4:40 p. m. of the same day I took a chance on the 49-50); | Moscow Station. Germany and Eng- Nand came in with plenty of volume. | which to complete all the work, it}At 5 p. m. my dials were on the | |50 meter band. At about 5:15 a steady wave came in and a man’s voice in language unknown to me clearly an- nounced Madyar, Madyar, which T understood to be the Hungarian hour ;on RV59 Moscow. I listened to that hour from 5:15 to-6:00 during which ; time the station announced four have done because of our requests; previously they had only announced | * “Hello Moscow” only once in two ( hours.) It was a real relief to listen to the announcement of the station as I did not understand the language | and the announcer helped me to keep in my position to the last minute. International, vorts of receptions so that our write~ uy, which is published in the Daily | Worker every Friday, will be more! colorful. Write to Irving 8. Millman, 446 Claremont Pkway, Bronx, head- quarters of the club, TONIGHT’S F WEAF—660 Ke ie 7 ‘M.=-Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Tae Bay Bachelor—Sketch 7:30—Circus Days—Sketch IS TO(MPROVE THE COMIC STRIP = wiTH STORIES Round a is ur STAGE AND SCREEN in| > s| the S appointment with WJZ for 8 a. m../11: indicated bad | times hello, hello Moscow. (This they | At 6:02 station signed off with the/ The Workers Short Wave Club urges | all workers and comrades who have, short wave sets to write us their re-| PROGRAMS | | | “Coppelia,’ with Maria ,Gambarelli, will remain for another,week. The RATCRDRE. on: screen program also includes the| BER to 2 A. M., at the | Walt Disney Silly Symphony, | Bro) AD FOR PROGRAM |“The Night Before Christmas.” ln o Mary Pickford and Douglas Fai banks in “The Taming cf thé Shrew,” is now showing at the Fitth Avenue | |Playhouse. Mary Hall, forms teading | 8 woman with V r Hi pden is ap-| pearing in person at the’ Playhouse | by this we The Four Soup” is no Theatre, by Bill Robi and his revue, The Albee Theatre, ginning today will pr | Friday WwW. Marx Brothers: ip.“ 5 Chib will have lec ‘Ter 4704 18th Larry Cohen, of n Brodklyn, be- nt “Ann Har-! Right to ‘abelle | Pas old discussion le M. F. Foi seth St, at 9 ton Holme gram of World eng uacers, AAACHALLS, and udarniks at linsk, West Siberia, a deal Winker: when the thermometer dropped to culture and propaganda, ts a tall with the r the vu Union at the |52 degreees below zero, the wolves ever smiling, friendly comrade, Six release of s in the| W Fifth St., at| howled on the steppe. Today 180,000|feet of man and two broad shoulde: 8 | Soviet gements were si people live here. There bef us| Vlasov, editor of the daily “Boish: made t lies a Socialist city. Lit mud huts,| Steel”, is quiet spoken, keen eyed, e toy houses below us, look up at ;block upon block of new apartment ouses. Here’s a new hospital where! Aare receive free medical treat- ‘s ment. There a new white school A ee eyectan Graves on “Ih- where 1,110 children of steel workers ressive Club, 866 E. Tremont ave, are made into Soviet citizens. There | a new theatre, new stadium for ectre, | Health and culture. Back of us a! nble Con. |HeW park |heart of Asiatic Siberia an industrial , Mozart, unveiling mural| Wherever we turn, right up to the | Steel giant shall be born to become a 'p Evergood. Harry Martell, speaker.|edge of the mountains building is | Pittsburgh Siberia in the best: So- sie LITERARY SCENE,” going on, On every street, every |cialist sense. Without notice. With- 1 there are new plants, out exploitation of man. pI Webster jnew homes and new streets. Down the man as well as industry in his uh’, at 8 pom "Tekets the main boulevard a street car track Service, The Party which led Soviet G HARLEM BR. F. 8. U., Lecture is being laid. Service begins Feb-| workers through revolution, today of Russian Revolu- |ruary, 1934. New lines will be laid|leads the steel workers of the New = to reach the outlying sections to | Kuznetsk steel plant, 75 the kolkhozes which are managed by | When the new blast furnace was and feed the steeel workers. jopened, the workers requested that j the steel plant be named after Stalin. birth on the| The name also means steel. ‘Like the have spent | Will of the workers marching towards have seen | Socialism. Young Vyetohin, Komsomol! secretary, | vibrates youth and energy. Here's & handful of tried Bolsheviks, Lead- jers of men. The Party membership overflows into every grooove of human activity here like the golden metal that flows |from the blast furnace, The Party has willed fhat in the w Jewish writers, bin . outh Center, 105 Thatford Ave., Brook | Warner Bros. teetane tobe pete inj;% Russia. ves on | 7:45—The Goldbergs | 8:00—Concer e Le nll speak at the Bridge A aza Workers Club, 285 Rodney St., Brook- i r world “How Do Workers Live’ in the | HERE is a néw byhegu das jet Union.” border of Asia. We EN FORUM on ‘What the N. R. A. and three weeks here. We Denny Orch 0—Ralph Kirberry, Song: A, M,—Weems Orch. :30—Sosnick Orch. . Se a ace eae hag sing every corner of the mill, all sections| (The End.) W OR—T710. XK. or Sats te mate AMUSEMENTS Arthur, Songs “rickets Friday night last ICAN PREMIE IRAGES99 TFEDOR OZEP’S De PARIS “Brilliant Performances—in the manner oe EISENSTEIN or PUDOVKIN.”—Herald-Tribune, ‘¥rench Tatsie—English Titles) ACME THEATRE nes and Ernie Hire, Songs 30 p. 14TH STREET | Added 1G7H Anniversary Cele- bration im Moscow MUSIC HALL— Show Place of the Natien oxy” Opens 11:38 a.m, DOLORES DEX EIO- FRED ASTAIRE tn ction 1310 Bergen Refreshments. M. COHAN WIZ—760 Ké aincin GUILD, { W. of Brway [1 || ce PING T ‘ , . M,—Amos 'n’ Andy 20 Mats.tburs.asat.2.20 1|1|"F LYING DOWN TO RIO” m Hood— % —s 0 \s ifpat 44, 5:31, 8:18, 10:27 (24 week) Potash and Per! "The WITH MUSIC & “Roxy's” Supreme CHRISTMAS SHOW 7:45—Morton Bow ch - e Sch for Husbands 8:00—wWaiter O'R with Osfood PERKINS Jane warner ||| REO Jefferson i St. # [Nee nee given by City Cen- Shutta, Songs; Bestor Or di Thi Bway & 40 8 FeO rar th Elbe Sketch nwt (0. and BX] EMPIRE oMats.Wed.. Thur. &8at, “—p ee Rinht a MYRNA ie hy el ‘ay and | riz ba Lady*” 9:00—Leah Roy Orch. 31 Admission in MAXWELL A ON’S New Play e : pi and t = also:—"SWEETHEART OF SIGMA ORY" 9:30—-Phil Baker, jWith BUSTER CRABBE & MARY CARLISLE ence | eld ees Male Quartet; N Madison, i. MARY OF SCOTLAND 10:00—The Iron Master—Benaétt™:Ohapple | 2 ments of an km- with HELEN PHILIP HE iB ia head ence , 18th and XN HAYES MERIVALE ME! | ROBERT! I A | 11:00-—Thres Beamps, Songs of Soviet Russia, | 7 ‘Thea. W. of B’ | A New Musical Comedy |1a5—Stors of the "Winter-- ce 2ie; children toc, on Sat, Dee.|{ ALLV Ey. s.Thar.&8a 120. p.m. Detroit, Mich. CLUB will present a Rulon Baker | 11:30 —Callaway Orch. oh | M.—Elkins Orch... NEW AMSTERDAM Theatre, West étn@ @% Print THE ANTI-WAR PLAY Evs. $1-$3; Mats. Mon., Wed., Som. recst « muse! PEACE ON EARTH n New Year's Eve, at the by the authors of “MERRY-GO-ROUND” Room, Woodward at Putnam. KYLE CRICHTON says:—‘Daring, | cing will follow. Traly Dramatie, Important.” | Philadelphia, Pa. [ore Rapartory Theatre, 10th St. & th Ave. JOHN REE! d The 8-Page Club “4 SONOE mings 8:45; Mats. Wed. & 5: lt oe CONCERT, where Comrade Bedacht will . y oe Pipe dt Neate Od Ag. A Mas PRICES: We to $1.80. No tax 8:00—Green Orel yee tow paca Theat ie pa es | " 2 Trio; " Vivien Ruth, Songs Toledo, O. : i Fs | 8:15—News—Edwin ©. Hill aa CONCERT and Dance given by Workers | BOOKS... Etchings; The Symposi:um of the Year Sais rdueational League, on Sat., Dec. 30, at | Color Prints by Masters m, PRICES TO FIT POCKETS || “THE AMERICAN | 8:30—March of Time OF WORKER-READERS | 9:00—Philadelphia Orch. 8 p. at Patria Hall, Admiston 15¢. corner Moore and 15—Alexander Woolcott—The Town Orier | Lost ea ea wreexartoxat sox |i] LITERARY SCENE” nick Orch. Fi oi opening ot Mow aechion. Hendqusctace, at wage apr nese GRAMVOLS HICKS, ‘Acther “The Great Tradition’ MALCOLM COWLEY, Faditer “New Republic JOSEPH FREEMAN, Editor “New. Masses” MICHAEL GOLD, Chairman Friday, Dec. 29th, at 8 P.M. Webster Manor, 125 E. 11 St. Admission 250, at door 308 jookshop. |10:30—News Reports Larrabee and Wisconsin, given by Section |] 27 W. 8th St. - STuyvesant 9-0381 j0: 145—Gladys Rice, Soprano;’ Cofcert Orch. \¢ Cleveland, QO. 11:15—Boswell Sisters, Songsysc+ : DAILY WORKER, Party will be held at | 11:80—Jones Orch. | 12:00—tittle Oren. Workers Center, 756 E, 105th St., at 9 p. m., Ba Dec. 30, tes A, M.—Busse Oreh. 1:00—Redman Orch. DAILY WORKER VOLUNTEERS FORUM Presents ISRAEL AMTER National Secretary of the Unemployed Council Lecture on “Unemployment Insurance And How It Can Be Won” Sunday, Dec. 31st at 3 P.M. At Their Club Rooms 38 E. 12th Street, Fifth Floor ADMISSION 150 Workers Bool 13th Street Auspioes: Nationa! Student League f pont 00 (vt FOLKS— S50 YX INVITE Youto SEAD 1AOUR STORIES” ityro THE TIM MARTIN STRIP WHERE YouR VICTORLES AND DEFEATS Witt BE sHown IN Po CTURES-. GRAND OPENING INTERNATIONAL ‘WORKERS’ CLUB Of South Brooklyn Concert -- Dance DEC, 3ist AT 6 P, M., 723 5th Ave., Cor, 23rd 8.t / “My Experience With The Scottsboro Trials” : Lecture by | JOSEPH BRODSKY FRIDAY, DEC. 29th at 8 P. M. DEBS AUDITORIUM, 7 E. 15th St, Anuspices: N. Y, Dist. 1. L. D. Building ~ we moh we ve oy z - \ ; }