The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934 Page Five |Western Theatre | |New Gorki Drama)Revolutionary Poets i || Festival to Toke || LENIN ON CULTURE--By Clara Zetkin ||\In Third Big Week| ” New Mee Yaa Place in Portland. At Artef Theatre NEW YORK—The New Masses | MY first visit to Lenin's family | retary, his most convinced comrade in | and culture in Soviet Russia,” he said, NEW YORK.—In the play “Yegor Lecture Bureau will conduct a read- strengthened the impression I had | thoug] the most experiencedex~j “is good, very good. The MY Fate | y vlitehev,” pat terly hand of |img of revolutionary poetry at the received at the Party conference, and| ponent and agent of his views, as.un-| of this development is understandable Maxim Gorki has painted the pic-| Allied Arts Studio, 152 W. 57th which in frequent conversations with | tiring in gaining friends and ad-j| and useful. We must and shall make ture of the ciass PORTLAND, Oregon.—The West- | ern District of the League of Work- | ers Theatres will hold a theatre! —=THE=— WORLD! By Michael Gold The New Song I sing to rouse you Dreamy sleepers, Snoring like cattle And struggling For breath. Yesterday I sang | Songs of flowers And mountains, Sones of crab grass And maple-tree ‘Tomorrow— Ah, Tomorrow I shall sing songs Leaves. 1 sang songs of sorrow, Of love Of sorrow and death ~ And homes, And a lone mountain cabin And children Where an old mother *°. With toys. Grieves. 1 shall shout: “A new people, Who sing out their Gladness And laugh in Their joys!” —DON WEST. Today IL sing A new song A song of revolution! Hear, O my people, Who wrestle with Death ! A Southern Poet ‘HE above is the first poem published by Don West in any revolutionary paper, and this column is honored by its presence. Don West is a young, Southern mountaineer poet, who has published three small volumes of verse. They are in the mountain dialect, filled with the freshness of morning dew, and the rustle of corn in the scrabbly patches. Robert Burns wrote péasaht poetry lik ethis, out of an over- flowing heart that could feel the-common glories, Such poets delight in health and nature, but their very sensttivity also makes them feel acutely the bitter lot of their brothers. Robert Burns became a revolutionary, and Don West has also travelled the road that leads from poetry to action. He spent years trying to help his mountain people, and found each effort blocked by the money- class, that rules both North and South. Today he is studying Marx and. Lenin, and is organizing Negro and white farmers and workers of Georgia into that solemn union that will surely end all exploitation, slavery and race hatred, and make a world of beauty, such as poets can truthfully hymn, * * = The Great Awakening Ee than we know, the South has been stirred these last few years from its long sleep in feudal-darkness, The Negro masses are in motion, the white workers are growing into consciousness, and there is a whole new generation of young native intellectuals, who see beyond the secttonal prejudices of the Southern bourgeoisie. They know that the South is part of America, part of the world, and part of the class struggle. The other day I mentioned the name of Jane Speed, a young Southern girl, who has done remarkable things in the dangerous task of organi- zation in the South. Living on a few pennies a day, handsome, coura- geous, devoted, she has been the chief organizer of the International Labor Defense in Alabama, that state where terror rules. Don West is another of these fine young Southerners of the old stock, who have thrown themselves into the only movement that can free the masses of the South. One of his recent activities has been to establish, with two other comrades, the Southern Folk Schools and Libraries at Kennesaw, Georgia. ‘This institution does not wait for the farmers and workers to come to it, but travels, instead, amongst them at their labor. It brings them teachers and a circulating library; there are already eleven such libraries. More books, magazines, and papers, are needed; send them if you have any, Also clothes, a mimeograph machine, a printing press, a typewriter, anything. Among the novels théy ask for, that are in great demand, are such books as Myra Page's “Gathering Storm,” Fielding Burke’s “Call |e and Sunday, Feb. 17 and 18. On| festival and conference during In- | ternational Theatre Week. The af- fair will be held for two days, Satur- Saturday a theatre competition will | be held. It will consist of one act | plays, 25 minutes being allotted to }each group for preparation of stage, | Presentation of play, and clearing of | stage. The winning groups will be | | Sent to Chicago to participate in the | National Workers Theatre Festival. On Sunday, Feb. 18, a conference will be held. It will start at 10 8. Mm. and last through the afternoon. The agenda will follow the lines laid out for the national affair during | the Eastern Regional Conference, held Aug. 5 and 6, 1933. ‘Two delegates from each dramatic | group on ‘West Coast have been invited, and one from each writers, tion. | Dramatic groups from Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco have been invited to participate in the com- petition. Due to the lack of prepara- | tion, the Portland and Seattle groups | will be unable to take part. Dele- | gates to the Conference have been | promised however. | WHAT’S ON Friday MIKE GOLD will F lecture on “Trade Unions and the Revolutionary Press” at | the Office Workers Union, 114 W. 14th Bt. | at 8:30 p.m. Dancing will follow lecture, CONCERT and Dance to celebrate in- stallation of John Reed Br. $1¢ LW.O. at the International Workers Center, 2918 W. | 30th st. | CARL BRANDON will speak on “The Role of the Daily Worker in the Class Struggle” at the Vegetarian Workers Club, 220 E. 14th St. LECTURE on “Leninism and Its Relation Working Class” at th 4109-—13th Ave., Brook- it Lawrence will speak. M. J. OLGIN will lecture at the Allerton Workers Club, 2715 White Plains Avenue, Bronx, on “Roosevelt's Policy on the N.R. An” at 8:30 p.m, “MUSIO in Germany," lecture by Prede- rick Chas. Adler, German refugee, conduc- tor, music publisher, Pierro Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St. at 8:15 p.m. Admis- sion '25e, SENDER GARLIN, of the Daily Worker staff, will speak on “Reform or Revolution in American Literature” at the Tremont Progressive Club, E. Tremont Avenue, Bronx, at 6:45 p. SYMPOSIUM on “‘The Menace of War and Fascism" at the Bronx Workers Club, 1610 Boston Rd., at 8:30 p.m. Benj. Goldstein and Ab. Harris, speakers. LISTON M. OAK, editor of Soviet Rus- sia Today, will lecture on “Outlook for 1934 in U.6.A. and the U.S.8.R.” at American Youth Federation, 122 Second Ave. near 8th St. at 8:30 p.m. Adm. 180. LECTURE by Susan H. Woodruff on “My Second Trip Through the Soviet Union.” Lecture with slides at the Midtown Br. FS.U., 168 W, 23rd St. et 8:30 p.m, COMRADE WACHMAN ill lecture at the Prospect Workers Center, 1157 80. Boule- vard, on “Second Five-Year Plan.” NEARING will lecture urs rents Events at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St at 7 p.m. Auspices, Institute for Advanced Education. Adm. 25c, SCOTT NEARING Will lecture on “Funo- tional Economic Area” at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. at 8:30 p.m. Auspices Institute for Advanced Education, im. A KARSTEI will lecture on “Dicta- torship” (Pascist _Dictatorships—Workers’ Dictatorship) at Friends of the Soviet Union, 1071 Bergen St., near Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, Adm. 10¢, unemployed free. Time 8:30 p.m. MOVIES “The Bonus March” and another feature picture at Pelham Parkway Work- ers Center, 2179 White Plains Rd, at 8:30 Pm, Adm, 10c. Proceeds for Unemployed Conference. LECTURE st American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Ave. Brooklyn, on Lenin, Lieb- knecht, Luxemburg. Speakers: Al ‘Steele, Mary Cowen, Marcel Sc! 4 {ULAR Membership meeting of New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave., Brook- lyn, at 8 p.m. OPEN MEETING and Symposium on Fas- cist Activities, Auspices of Allied Profes- Aid Victims of German him since then, has seen deepened. | It is true that Lenin lived in the Kremlin, the former tsarist fortress, and that one had to pass many guards before reaching him—a regulation justified by the counter-revolutionary attempts on the leaders of the revolu- tion which were still being made at that time. Lenin also received visitors, when it Was necessary, in the State apart- ment. But his private dwelling was of the utmost simplicity and unpre- tentiousness. I have been in more than one worker's home furnished ch more richly than that of the “all-powerful Muscovite dictator.” I found Lenin’s wife and sister at sup- per, which I was immediately and heartily asked to share. It was a sim- ple meal, as the hard times de- manded; tea, black bread, butter, something “sweet” for the “guest of honor” and discovered a small jar of preserves. It was well known that the peasants provided “their Ilyitch” with gifts of white flour, bacon, eggs, fruit, ete.; but it was also well known that nothing remained in Lenin's house- hold. Everything found its way to the hospitals and children’s homes; others, that is, than the working Lenin's wife, since the Interna- tional Socialist Women’s Conference at Berne in March, 1915. Her kind face with its warm, friendly eyes, bore ineradicable signs of the malignant disease which was eating her away. But apart from that, she, too, had re- mained the same, the embodiment of sincerity and modesty, of an almost Puritan simplicity. With her hair smoothly combed back and tied in an inartistic knot at the back, in her ill- fitting dress, one could have taken her for a flurried housewife whose only worry is to save time, to gain Russian Empire’—according to bour- geois ideas and phraseology—is un- doubtedly the first in willing forget- fulness of self, in sacrifices for the cause of the toilers and the oppressed. The closest community of ideas and work in life bound her to lenin. Impossible to speak of him, without thinking of her. She was “Lenin's right hand,” his first and best sec- herents for the master of gaius with strength and wisdom, as in carrying on propaganda among the working: up for what has been neglected for centuries. The chaotic ferment, the feverish search for new solutions and Lenin's family held strictly to the| i principle of not living better than the time. The “first lady of the Great| class. Apart fram that she had her} new watchwords, the ‘Hosanna’ for own per" of activity to) certain artistic and spiritual tenden- | which s! devoted herself with her | c: today, the ‘crucify them’ tomor- whole soi the system of popular 1 + all that is unavoidable. “The revolution is liberating all the forees which have been held back, and is driving them up from the depths to the ‘ace. Let us take an ex- ample. Think of the pressure exer- cised on the development of our paint- sculpture and architecture by the fashions and moods of the tsarist {foundly motherly nature jcourt, as well as by the taste, the |Lenin’s dwelling a “home” in the/ fancies of the aristocrats and bour- finest sense of the word, and in this| geoisie. In a society based on private She was lovingly supported by his | property the artist produces goods for | sister, A home not in the sense of|the market, he needs buyers. Our |the German Philistines, but in the| | Spiritual atmosphere with which it was| this most prosaic state of affairs from educatiori and instruction. | It would be ridiculous, insulting. to | Suppose that Comrade Krupskaya was in the Kremlin as “deputy for Lenin.” | |She worked and worried with him, | for him, she had done her whole} life, even when persecution sepa jthe relationships uniting the living | State their protector and patron. |and moving human beings there. Ii|Every artist, and everybody who | Was clear that in those relationships| wishes to, can claim the right to jeverything was determined by sin-| create freely according to his ideal, \cerity, by truth, understanding and| whether it turn out good or not, And | nobility. Although at that time I was| |not well acquainted with Comrade | pe | Krupskaya personally, in her “king- |dom” and under her frien: are I/We must not put our hands in our immediately felt at honic. ‘When! pockets and let chaos ferment as it | Lenin came, and, somewhat later, a| please. We must consciously try tc jlarge cat appeared, gladly welcomed | guide this development, to form and by the family, and sprang on the | determine its results. In that we are shoulder of the “terrorist leader,” still lacking, greatly lacking. It | Anally settling itself comfortably on| seems to me that we too, have our | his lap, I could truly have wept to he | Dr. Karlstadt. We are much too much | at home or with Rosa Luxemburg and | ‘Iconoclasts.’ We must retain the her cat “Mimi,” historic personality | beautiful, take it as an example, hold among her friends. | on to it, even though it is ‘old’ Why | be be +4 turn away from real beauty, and dis- Tument, the chags. “But of course we are Communists. cussing art and questions of educa-| point for further development, just tion and instruction. I expressed my | because it is ‘old’? Why worship the enthusiastic admiration of the titanie| new as the god to be obeyed, just be- cultural work of the Bolsheviks, at the) c: is “the new”? That ts non- | energy and activity of creative forces, | eer nonsense. There is a | which were opening up new chanhels | 1 of conventional art hypoc- for art and education, But I did-not/|risy in it, too, and nr | conceal my impression that there was) art fashions of the West. @ great deal that was uncertain, un-| unconscious! We are good revolution- clear, hesitating and experimental in s, but we feel obliged to point out evidence, and together with the pas-| that we stand at the ‘height of con- slonate desire for a new content, new | temporary culture.’ I have the courage forms, new ways of cultural life there | to show myself a ‘barbarian.’ I can- were many artificial, cultural fashions, not value the works of expressionism, after the western model. Lenin im+j|futurism, cubism, and other isms as |mediately entered with great livelie jthe highest expressions of artistic | Ness into the discussion, | genius, I don't understand them. “The awakening, the activity. of| They give me no pleasure.” {forces which will create a new. art} (Concluded Tomorrow) Below 200 Meters By I. 8. MILMAN Last week the members of the Workers’ Short Wave Radio Club had a few interesting pick-ups on two- tube sets. We got Cuba and Caracas in the early evening. They came in with plenty of volume. We tried to get R V 59-50 meters (Moscow) but met with little success. Com- rade Sobel, Bronx, picked up the Moscow station one afternoon and could hear it quite well. He used & home-made converter, about which he will report soon. 3 Comrade Garfield, Brooklyn, has something interesting to tell. He picked up a code station Sunday morning, and heard the signal for —_—_—— | TUNING IN | 500 Writers Sign Petition; Demand CWA Project Jobs | | | NEW YORK.—Five hundred writ- ers signing a petition for a O.W.A. pro, for writers are being called \to & mass meeting of the Unemployed Writers Association at Irving Plaza, |Monday evening, Jan. 29. Several | WEAF—660 Ke P. M.—Morton Bowo, Tener Billy Bachelor—Sketeh 0—Circus Days—Sketch 7 7:43—The Goldbergs—Sketch see peer ont - saatien Dragouette, | prominent writers have been invited rano; Male Quar 9:00—Lyman Oreh.; Frank Munn, ‘Tenax | Address the meeting. — : 9:30-—Lee is, Songs; Young Orch.;| Suggestions on the project will be Sketch, With Maude Adams |taken up and a committee elected, oa he | Resolutions will be wired to President 11:00—The Lively Arts—John Erskine, |and Mrs. Roosevelt, Harry L. Hopkins Author jand Colonel Delamater. The fight 11:15—Dance Oreb. :30—Denny Orch. for Robert Whitcomb, organizer of the Association will be considered—he was dropped from the rolls of the Board of Education project without notice, and had no chance to be Transferred or to state his case. Bongs .—Weems Orch. 2a WOR--710 Ke P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick wn of Circumstance—Sketch 7 ck Arthur, Songs; Audrey Marsti/*PPTOved are the Authors, Pen and |Hammer, Pen and Brush, P. E. N., sas 9 you have the ferment, the ex-| | apes found us three women dis- | card it for good and all as a starting | | Some of the clubs being asked for] struggie on the historic border-line between two epochs in the history of the Rus- sian Revolution—1917 The play is filled with the intri- cate and distressing struggle around the sickness of the merchant Yegor Bulitchev. This determines dominant tone of the whole play, but this is not a family drama based on the problems of everyday | life; it is not a drama on the “eter- |nal shadows” of Ufe and death. It jis a vivid social drama of the Revo- lution whose main characteristic is jthe fact that the Revolution is shown from the point of view of j bourgeois mentality—from the of view of the bourgeois attitude towards it. If you have not as yet seen this revolution has lifted the pressure of |™#Ster drama, we urge you to see| jit at the Artef Theatre, Heckscher cheese, Later the sister tried to find | filled and which was the result of|the artists. It has made the Soviet |ToUMdation, Fifth Ave. comer of 104th St. Saturday and Sunday evenings at 8:45, Stagwe and Sereen |“No More Ladies” Coming To Booth Theatre Tuesday A. B. Thomas’ comedy, “No More Ladies,” is scheduled for next Tues- day night at the Booth Theatre. The cast is headed by Melvyn Douglas, | Lucile Watson, Rex O'Malley and Ruth Weston. Ruth Gordon has been engaged by | the Theatre Guild for an important |tole in “They Shall Not Die,” the |John Wexley play based on the | Scottsboro ease, which is now in re- hearsal. |. “Whatever Possessed Her,” the | Hardwick Nevin comedy, is an- nounced for next Thursday night at | the Mansfield ‘Theatre with Catherine | Calhoun Doucet in the principal role. Others in the cast include Roland Drew, Constance McKay, Otto Hulett ‘jand Pierre Watkin, | Soviet Dancers To Give Second | Program Saturday The Soviet dancers, Vecheslova and ;Chabukani, stars of the | Theatre, Leningrad, will make their second American appearance tomor- | row night at Carnegie Hall. The pro- | gram follows; “Waltz,” Dulovs; “Mas- | querade,” Drdla; “The Ocean Genie,” | Asafleft; “Goldfish Dance,” Punt; “Pas | de Deux, from the ballet ‘Corsair’,” | Adam; “Melodie,” Gluck; “Serenade,” | Chopin, “Lesginksa,” Dolidze; “Kacue ca,” Dunajevski, and “Pas de Deux, from the ballet ‘Don Quixote’,” Min- cous, “Laughter Through Tears” At Star Theatre Tuesday “Laughter Through Tears,” the Yiddish talkie from the Soviet Union, will open in the Bronx on Tuesday at the Star Theatre, 967 Southern | Boulevard. ‘This will be the first | showing in the Bronx of the Sholom Aleichem film, which is based on his famous story, “Motel Payse Dem Chazens.” The cast includes many well known artists of the Yiddish stage and screen in Soviet Russia, }headed by Kovenberg, Silberman, Cantor and Goritcheva. The film was directed by G. Gritcher and has a music score by Sholom Secunda, ‘The picture was produced in the U.S. |8.R. by Wufku and has English | titles, the} Sunday evening, Jan. 21, at 8:15 Among the poets who will take Part in the affair are: Maxwell Bo- |denhetm, Stanley Burnshaw, Mar- 'tha Millet, Edwin Rolfe, Alfred Fayes, and §. Funaroff. Joshua Kunitz will be chairman, Discussion will follow the readings. Postal Worker Learns Some Things About F.D. | (By a Postal Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Thanks | front page article of Jan. 10 in | erence to the Recovery champ's “op | again—off again—Finnegan” tactics. |. Here's a little fast one that typifies {his much-heratied square-shooting. | Tf he was in earnest about giving us or anybody else a New Deal he wouldn’t acquiesce to Farley's fig | ures (which are practically the same | alibi as the old regime resorted to ~,| in compiling the so-called deficit), | but instead he would can the notori- | ous extortionate contracts which take {all the postal revenue and give ft to | favored railroad linea, favored air |lines and favored steamship lines. | RECOVERY RUBBISH | From F.D's “ifs” and “ands” | “bute” And platitudes anent our | We P. O. birds with empty | Are positively going nuts. | —CLERM \Workers Lab Theatre te |Present Lenin Pageant and | NEW YORK.—In connection with the Lenin Memorial celebration to take place at the St. Nicholas Arena on Saturday, the Workers’ Labora- tory Theatre is presenting a pageant which will dramatize the significance of Lenin in the Amerfcan revolu- tionary movement. The pageant will employ a cast of over fifty. | |Begun to Lecture at Forum of Harlem Workers Schoo NEW YORK. — Isadore the Unemployed Teachers Ass tion will lecture on “A New Deal for Workers Children’ Sunday 21, at 3:30 p. m. sharp, at the Wo: ers School Forum, 200 W. 135th Room 314 A. Admission is free, 1 the public ts invited to participate in the question period and the gen- eral discussion following the lecture Theatre Group Notice ting of fune kers’ theatres groups will be held Sunday at 12 noon sharp at 42 EB. 12th St., for fur- ther preparations of the New York les to the National Fes- i in Chicago. All groups must be represented at this meeting. Baltimore . M. WICKS will speak at Meet- ing at Lehmann's Hall, 800 Block ¥. How ard @. at @ p.m. Chicago ANNUAL BAZAAR of the N.T.W.1.0. on Jan, 26, 27, 26 at Workers Lyceum, Hireeh Blvd. Dancing every night. Cincinnati, Ohio DANCE and Social at Shoemaker Center 1041 Gutter St. on Saturday, Jan, 20 a! 8 p.m. Auspices Workers Club of Cincinnati AMUSE sional Comm, to PP nec: anton | L, Spivak’s “Georgia Nigger,” and Grace Lumpkins’ “To Make My Bread.” | Fascism, at 22¢ W. 4th St. 8:30 p. m.| aig. He deciphered the code, and, bBlges ot ded Black and Blue—Mysteyy| Literary Guild, Poetry Society of Ed, je the Heart,” Gorky's “Mother,” Caldwell’s “Tobacco Road,” John * * * A Mountain Boy NOTHER young Southern mountaiteer and writer, Jesse Stuart, has done a biographical sketch of Don West. I wish I could reprint it here in full, to help some of us in the North understand the great currents moving in the South, Don was born &n Devil's Hollow,’ in Gilmer County, Georgia. It is 20 miles from a railroad, a community of rugged mountaineer farmers, where old Kim Mulkey, Don's diather, had been justice of the peace for over 20 years. The family*home was a log shack, containing a single roem, 16 by 20, with one window without panes. The seasoned logs had been cut by Don's forefathers, Who had lived in the hills for genera- tions. “ace Don began to work) regularly. atwsix—doing his share of the farm chotes, By the time he ‘was fifteén, He was 6 feet 2 inches high, weighed 180. pounds, and had spent 20 months in school, But he was serious and read a great deal at home, At I5-he began riding a mule over the hills to a high school, seven miles‘ewey. Then his father got into some trouble~with moonshiners, and chose to move away from Devil's Hollow with his seven children. x An uncle, Horace Mulkey, a war veteran, got Don into the Berry School, at Rome, Georgia, where the lanky mountain boy did well in his studies. Don was a crack athlete there, and a leading figure. But he left Berry because he had begun to find traces of exploitation. He was a linesman for a while,.then went on to Lincoln Memorial University, in Tennessee. Here he worked his way through, at dish- washing and laundry work, yet made a splendid showing in athletics and study, and was an outstanding leader in the ¥.M.C.A. and other social work. ak And here too, he found Pummbelf-up against the ruling class, For he had suggested some reforms that would help the poorer students, mountain boys like himself, and was immediately expelled. But the : Zé i 7 g 22 s kers: Dahlberg, Charles Brent, ce) Morrell. ‘on Elementary Psychology by & well known professor at Spartacus A. O., 558 Morris Ave. near 140th St. at 8 p.m. Adm, free, LECTURE-RECITAL on War by Sam Pevs- ner, dramatic director of I.W.O, at LW,O. Youth Br, 405, 323 EZ, 18th St. at 8:30 p.m. Adm, free. LECTURE on “War is it a menace or il- luston" by Joe Cohen at Boro Park Workers Club, 4704—18th Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m. GENERAL Membership Meeting of the Daily Worker Volunteers at their head- quarters, 35 E. 12th St., Sth floor, at 8 p.m. 10 WEEKS’ COURSE in Negro history and problems in the United States. Otto Hall, Negro historian, instructor. Auspices: League of Struggle for Negro Rights. Beginning Friday 0:18 pm. Jan. 19% LL.D, headquar- ters, 102-09—34th Ave. i I Em- ployed 10c, unemployed Sc, each claas. Saturday i PGS Sa ENTERTAINMENT German Workers Club, 79 String Orchestra. Donation FILM and Photo League Party Dance and Entertainment and Movies at 116 Lexington Ave., near 28th St. UNUSUAL Concert and Dance of Ford- ham Br, F8.U. at Hospitality Center, 152 ‘W. 57th St, at 8:30 p.m. William Daniel, Original Dancer and others. Adm. 500. Boston “POPS” Concert and Dance for the de- fense and relief of class war prisoners and their families at New International Hall, 42 Wenonah St,, Roxbury, on Friday, Jan, 19 at 8 p.m. Aupsices John Reed Br. LL.D. Subscription 250, SOCIAL and Dance given by Youth Com. of N.T.W. and D.H.W.LU. at 10 Beach St, on Saturday, Jan, 20 at 8 pm. Good Or- chesira-Entertainment, refreshments, Ad- mission 20¢. Newark, N. J. SCOTT NEARING will lecture on “Cap- italist Decline and the Intellectaal”’ on Sun- waiting until the message ended, found the station to be Santiago de Cubs at 86 meters. It was, ap- parently, by_an amateur, member of a Workers’ Defense Corps, who was calling Camaguey for aid. Garfield also picked up South Ame! ica and Moscow at 5 p. m., but only for a few minutes. All this w brought in while using a two-' battery set, made at the club. We intercepted a call from Indo- China to France. They were sov- ing, “Allo! Allo! Marseilles.” us knew French, Below is a list of code stations from the Soviet Union. Marmansk— R W 79; ke 610-kw 10 . . . Petro- zavodsk R W 29 ke 648-kw 10... Kiev R W 9; ke 722-kw 100... Stalino R W 26 ke 776-kw 10... Simferopol R W 73 ke 859-kw 10... Dniepropetrovsk R W 30 ke 913 kw ke 959-kw 1.2 10... Gomel R w 10... Vinnitsa R 15 ke 1095-kw 10... Kharkov R W 20 ko 1185-kw 10, The Fourteenth Street Branch of the Workers’ Short Wave Radio Club will have its next meeting and lec- ture at 220 E. 14th St., in the Work- ers Vegetarian Club, this coming at 2 p.m. in the Griffith Auditorium, Broad St. Ausplees Jack London Club, Adm 25c. Philadelphia ALL WORKERS will gather st the Bazaar the United Workers Organizations of So. Philadelphis on Friday and Saturday, Jan, 26 and 27 at Garrick Hall, 507 5, 8th St, Adm. 25c, both nights; lic. one Friday, Jan. 19th, at 8:30 p. m. The Co-operative Branch of the W. 8. W. R, C. at 2700 Bronx Park East, will be open at 8:30 every eve- ning and will meet in the Radio Room in the basement. All workers interested in short wave activity are invited to attend and to join our club. 8:15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 8:30—Maverick Jim—Sketch |America, John Reed Club, National |Writers Club, and the Fiction Guild. did not understand, since none oi } 9:00—To Be Announced 9:45—Robert McGimsey 10:00—Teddy Bergmen, Comedian; Queen, Kongs; Rondoliers Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Reed 10:30—Milban String ‘Trio 10:45—-Jim and Don, Songs 11:00-—Moonbeams Trio Petitions cerculated by the commit- Pe lors read, “Artists under C.W.A. get $85 a week and their own type of work. Writers, when used, are classed jas clerks or laborers and paid for 11:30—Tel-o1 Orch. | less. We suggest a project to defend 99 Lone Oreh, writers’ work as socially useful and “ orthy of support from public funds,” Some of the writers who signed |the petition are Marguerite Vander- {clock, Edwin Seaver, Edward Dahl- | berg, Maxwell Bodenheim, John Wex- Gaild Laborers Who Need Protection | ley, Seott Nearing, Edwin Rolfe, Leon Now—Jane Adams of Hull House, Chl-|srepian Herald, Robert Whitcomb, | WJZ—T760 Ke Andy oh tash and Perlmutter Male Quartet; Nell Sisters, Songs 0—The Iron ‘Moster—Bennett Chapple, Narrator 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 11:00—Three Scamps, Songs 11:15—Orion and His Doge—Dr. Baker 11:30—Martin Oreh. 00—Lunceford Orch. 12:30 A, M.—Hlkins Oreh. reagan WABC--860 Ke and Lorine Pruette. ‘Matthew Woll Exposed *| in Current New Masses ' Robert fof the New Masses, out today, con- tains among others an article by (“A Happy Birthday to You,” which [tells how and why Matthew Woll, lthird vice-president of the A. F. of {L. undertook the leadership of the {Presidential Birthday Balls to be ‘held throughout the country in {President Roosevelt's honor on Jan- juary 1; an article by Erskine Cald- 0—Travelers Bnserable —-News—Boake Carter 00--Green Orch,; Men About Town Trio —Vivien Ruth, Songs 8:15-—News—Edwin ©. Hill §0-—-March of Time 00--Philadelphia Orch. 9:15—Alexander Woolleott—The Town Crier 9:30—Melodie Strings conse" Handbook for Prisoners,” by Arthur |Kallet, and “Blood on the Lettuce,” by Michael Quin, a story of terror in the California agricultural strike area. Orch, 11;15--Boswell Sisters, Songs 11:30—Jones Orch, 12:00-—Redman Orch. 12:30 A. M,—Belasco Orch. 1:00—Hopkins Orch. Even a Little Child Leads Jim! -Zz==(TM SUNK— THEY ARE ALL Ye PASSING ME — a A THIS GOY AiNT kee os 50 Gooe ~GEAT Ci (VSELF tee and signed by hundreds of writ-| cago 8:00—Walter O'Keefe, Goraedian; Eihet|Everett E. 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