The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1934, Page 5

| CHANGE THE WORLD! By Michael Gold For Rights of Political Prisoners | National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 156 Fifth | bare New York, has recently begun # campaign for the recognition of the status of political and labor prisoners as such. Even in the worst days of the Czar, the revolutionists managed to force the authorities to grant them‘ this status. This meant that many of them were able to get the books aft reading matter they wanted, could write letters, and have their friends ‘outside bring them food. It is a fight that should be made in this “civilized and democratic” country, too. Our class-war prisoners have different needs than the usual jail population. It is a form of added cruelty to deprive them of all intellectual contacts. , The National Committee that is making this fight began # with a visit to Samuel Weinstein in Sing Sing. He is serving two years there on a framed-up charge of assault, His real crime, of course, was that he was leader of a strike of the furnitute workers. There is another frame~ up warrant waiting for him in the warden’s office when he gets out. If convicted again it may mean a sentence for him of 20 years to life. This Weinstein case has often been referred to as “New York’s Mooney case.” % will certainly be that if we cannot save Weinstefh from this further torture and frame-up. * * Visitors to Sam Weinstein DELEGATION of eight, including Winfred Chappell of the Methodist Federation for Social Service, Allen Taub of the International Labor | Defense, four New York school teachers, an Alabama theological student and Evelyn Schloss, a research worker, called on Weinstein last week, | bringing him the books he wanted ‘so much, also some food and money for cigarettes. ° i According to one of the visitors, Weinstein had not lost his working- class morale, but asked many eager questions about the trade unions, the developments in the Scottsboro tase, the N.R.A. and the Soviet Union. He talked about the prison life, the’ food, the work, the lonely hours when he is locked in his cell at night. °~ “The food is nothing extra here, but if we have any money, we are allowed to buy things at the commissary and do our own cooking. The International Labor Defense helps as much as it can, and believe me, I appreciate it. “There are some rich bankers in here now, and they are well taken care of. They have what.amounts to a prison suite, and have other pris- oners cooking and working for them. Oh, weil, prisons are part of the ca list system, I guess, and reficct the outside world. “My chief kick is that I can’t get the reading matter I want. The censor is the Catholic chaplain and he seems to be pretty narrow in his thinking. Everything addressed:to me is gone over and blue pen- cilled as if it were war time, or oftem'it isn’t delivered. “Here’s a funny angle; the books of Lenin, Marx, Plekhanoy and similar theoretical works are allowed through with the idea that they won't Interest the other prisoners and are therefore harmless, But such papers and magazines as show theday by day struggle in America are barred. This mea No Daily ‘Worker, no New Masses, no Labor De- fender, no Labor Unity. The officials hate the pictures in these maga- vines the most, They don’t want the prisoners to see pictures of police attacking workers on the picket lines.” * 3 i | When a Hero Is Not a Hero 7s asked Sam to talk about his case, and he had a few words gent comment? Ee “When I enlisted in the U. S, Army the day war was declared I was I wes a hero. When I became:a member of the American Legion, cemocratic ticket, joined-the Masons, that was fine, too. hen in June, 1932, I to stood in the picket line with the Furni- ‘5 Industrial Union, that..was different. { men scab had been fatally: injured in the Bronx. Her husband, | “But ture Wor “A another scab, had been, injured. T was taken off the picket line in Brook- | lyn and aceused of the crime. Disinterested witnesses, like shop-keepers in the neighborhood of the Brooklyn strike, testified that they had seen me on the picket linejet the time of the alleged assault. But that didn’t matter. After all I wag leading a strike! I was grilled for 24 hours. ‘Tell us who did this or you'll take the rap,’ Detective Solomon told me. I laughed, I'd heard about the frame-up of Tom Mooney but I never thought it could happen to me. I was mistaken. I'm sentenced for two years with more hanging over my“head when this sentence has been served, “The first two weeks in here wree the worst—solitarity confinement. in the old block cells. This is some punishment for a fellow who's been active all his life. It's better now’ 'I.L.D. and union members come to see me and I work in the prison clothing factory making caps and pants. | Letters help a lot, especially if they have news about the activities of the comrades outside. I try to answer them but my letters don’t always get by the censor. For instance, the last one came back because I used the word ‘Solidarity.’ It was underlined-and the censor nad writtén over it: | ‘publicity stuf’.” 2 . fie? . te the great word, Sohdarity, medzis only “publicity stuff” to a prison censor! And these are the people who rule the daily lives and thoughts of scores of brave men and women.who fought unseMishly for a better world and now are in jail. Without,a doubt, we must win some intellec- tual freedom for our working class comrades in jail. It is necessary now more than ever, when we are on the verge of another wave of strikes and anti-war demonstrations. U. S. WORKE® PELLS OF U.S.S.R, EXPERIENCES. MBS, |PROLETARIAN NOVEL OF THE SEA JUST PUBLISHED TK YELLS “S, S. Utah,” a novel about the sea, has just been is- ued by International Publishers, ers of it were published serially in ie Daily Worker recently. The author is an American sea- man, a working A.B. His novel is a character study of the seamen on an ‘American boat bound for the Soviet Union. His seamen are real, express- | ing their views and emotions natur- ally, reacting in their own way to problems of their daily work and! ‘world events. Continual controver- Sies rage aboard the freighter, be- ‘tween the men and the officers and “among the men themselves. The So- | Viet Union helps to clarify the issues of the class struggle. _°S. S. Utah (214 pp., clothbound, 75 ‘cents) may be obtained at bookshops or through Workers’ Library Publish- § WEINBERG, an American c ist, who contributed to the building of Socialism, tells of his exes periences in a new pamphlet, Am American Worker in 2 Moscow Fac- just tory, Publis) issued by International author not only describes ‘the prediems of the factory where-he tound cinployment and became a shock-worker, but he also tells of, the conditions of the workers, their, life and their cultural activities. This, is the first pamphlet on the Soviet. Union written by an American work- er who found his home there. The pamphlet (72 pp. illustrated, § cents) may be obtained at workers” bookshops or in quantities from Workers Library Publishers, Box 148, + | Theatre. The cast includes Elena | Everton, jconduct at Carnegie Hall this Thurs- | Symphonies and the “Adagio; |music for “The Creatures of Prome- PILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 193 Of Gorky Praised| By Furriers Union The growing practical importance of cultural weapons in the class | struggle is reflected by a resolution adopted by the Pur Trade Board of the Needle Trades Industrial Union | calling on workers to support and visit the productions of the Artef. | The resolution mentions particularly | “Yegor Bulitchev,” by Maxim Gorky, which is the current production of, the group on view at the Heckscher | Theater, Fifth Ave. and 104th St., every Saturday and Sunday eye-| The resolution declares: “The Fur Trade Board of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union recognizes the importance of Artef (Jewish Workers Theater Al- liance) to the entire working class movement. The stage has always been a propaganda weapon for the Tuling class. The bourgeoisie use the theater to spread illusions concern- {ng the justice of the present social system, “The problems of major impor- tance to the working class are never portrayed on the bourgeois stage. Love and subservience to the present social system of exploitation for profit are the chief messages preached from the bourgeois stage. ‘The truth about the life of the work- | ing masses is consistently concealed in the bourgeots theater. “A working class theater to serve the needs of the masses, to help them organize and fight for better living conditions is a crying need. Plays to reflect the life of the work- | the working class movement. | “The Artef, in eight years of ex-| istence has succeeded in forming a group of able players dr from the ranks of the working class. The | plays presented by the Artef reflect | the class struggle under capitalism and the achievements of the victo- | rious proletariat in the Soviet | Union. The fruitful artistic activity of Artef is an example of the crea- tive capacities of the working class. | “The Fur Trade Board calls on all furrters and all other members of the | Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union to support Artef and to at- tend its productions.” Stage and Screen “Races,” Dealing with Hitler) Regime, To Be Presented By Theatre Guild In March “Races,” a play by Ferdinand Bruckner dealing with present-day conditions in Germany, will be pre-} sented by the Theatre Guild as its sixth and final production of the eur- rent season. The play goes in re- hearsal in February anq will be shown in March. “Richard of Bordeaux,” by Gordon Daviot, is announced for the Empire | Dennis King in the principal role. The play will have its try-out in Boston beginning Jan. 29. The premiere of “Theodora, the Queen,” the Jo Milward and J. Kerby Hawkes play, will take place next Wednesday evening at the Forrest Miramova, Minor Watson, Lina Abar- | banell, Horace Braham and Paul All-Beethoven Concert Pro- gram By Philharmonic Thurs. The third program of the Bee- thoven Cycle, which Tosvanini will day evening and Friday afterncon,! will include the Fourth anq Fifth} An- dante quasi Allegretto” from the theus.” | Saturday evening and Sunday after- noon Toscanini will present Bruck- ner’s Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major (“Romantic”); the Prelude to “Tris- tan and Isolde,” Wagner; “Chiari di| Luna,” Tommasini, and Ravel's “Daphnis and Chloe,” Suite No. 2. | The Budapest String Quartet will present a program of Haydn, Ravel and Schubert this Friday evening at the Washington Irving High School, | under the auspices of the People’s Symphony Concerts. Dr. Kurt Hetzel will conduct the New York Orchestra Friday evening at Carnegie Hall. The program: “Le Carnaval qu Parnasse,” Mondonville; Symphony in D minor, Franck; Tone Poem, “Don John,” Op. 20, Strauss, and Wagner's Prelude to “Meister- singer.” Popularity, Buchwald By NATHANIEL BUCHWALD |AVING been a’ from the U. S. ay ment. It has been rapid and in the Tight direction. The two programs|tive theatre by no means includes recently presented, the first under | obliteration of the individual lead- | ers) the auspices of the Theatre Club of the Workers Laboratory Theatre at City College and the second of the New York Section of the League of Workers Theatres at the New School for Social Research, reveal a remark- able growth in artistic maturity of one of the pioneer groups in field, the Theatre of Action of the Workers Laboratory Theatre. The Theatre of Action’s presenta tion of excerpts from World's F: New York City, were received en- thusiastically by surprisingly large audiences on each occasion. lively sale of librettos of the el tion skit in the lobby of the N School was a tribute to its and producers. The Wo: tory Theatre was acclaim severest critic of any theatre, {ers afe necessary for the growth of | audience. |thing does ¢istinguish’ the Socialist Mee rt oe oles aka | Party Polit tans from their bour- |; ie eevee) ocelot 2 | Beois colleagues, it is their lingo, ihe thich he vith ENTERTAINING [ailiia. the! weeon meta | phs, which he has with- | rales ig ease “Who's BO the | coun from: the York Public | The secret of thi cess is not |Daloney?” is fetching in itself, the|°t°' : far to_seek. The tory Theatre has gnized knack of presenting its plays in the vernacular and of making them en- tertaining first of all. It has aban- doned the slogan-ridden script in favor of swift and racy colloquial- isms, and the barren “agitprop” cliche’s give way to native theatrical idiom. Of political content the group sacrificed nothing, its skits being as clear-cut in their revolutionary. ide- ology and as unmistakable in their propagandist intent as an “apit- prop” play ever was. The plays also possess the virtue of timeliness and the technical ad- vantage of mobility. Both World's Fair and Who's Got the Baloney? | (the name of the election ) can be given on any platform with or without the benefit of an equipped stage. But the effectiveness of the propaganda contained in these two pieces is greatly enhanced by the use of satire and broad comedy and by the employment of clever and striking stage devices. Both the com- edy and the staging have in them | something of the native brand of popular theatre, the wise-crack, the doggerel rhyme, the current rage in slangy expression and the knock- about farce and horse play. These “Jowbrow” ingredients are framed in show-bocth..with its loquaciqus “har- Artef Production| Workers’ Theatre Movement Grows in Direction of More urveys Recent Presentations of Workers’ Laboratory Theatre z “| deal of for more than a year, the writer|this series of s can the more readily notice the prog-| name Tess of the workers’ theatre move-|®@nd why this affectation of with- | the | ct and its rollicking show dealing with | % the municipal election campaign in | The | Party the | O'Brien, LaGuardia and McKes. This | 26, 2 the |is not good ers Labora-| image employed the | political \"Theatre, ope on Feb. 14 with | Such familiar and racy forms ag the | | VISITED IN PRISON A sserts Critic the} JN the World’s Fair the N.R.A. and its ex! come in di mentioned in the program? | holding the names of the directing personnel? The idea of the collec- knows his politics, and t the N.R.A. are-wel! o aptly simed. The |demagogic trickery of the NRA | propaganda is cleverly brought out | in the skit called The House. of | | Cards, and the crazy logic of capi- | |talism which considers good crops & | misfortune finds fitting expressic: |the very Nl skit of the Four | fessor clearly Samuel Weinstein, class-war pris- er, about whom Michael Gold rites in his column today. The New York City election s th theo © of the va_| EXhibition of Books, rious bourgeois parties and their “ba- Sosllsg Pictures at Convention The treatment of the Socialist | of F.S.U. in New York candidate, Solomon, leaves | jmuch to be desired. He is too much | |like the rest of them, and his line |the Soviet Union jof “baloney” does not even in words | the three r from the political hokum of | An exhibition of the progress of will be held during fon of the Friends ion convention, Jan. in New York “socialism,” for if any- ‘ ry for this occasion. to symbolize the | !D"*79 a big, red sau- “baloney; ‘on will be shown, and a section will be devoted to Russian posters, handicraft work, foods, nufactured goods, he Soviet Union, Russia, and books on being given large display. |sage being passed from one candidate | jto the other until it reaches the balk- |ing workers’ candidate, | | HE tenden ganized agitprop the direction of live, Jand truly entertaining revo theatre, is characterist sia ar y have ~ publishing hous to the exhibi- workers’ theatre moyement tn its | ‘tion committee. Present phase. The success of the | — $$$ $ | Workers Laboratory Theatre, wit} | serve as a model and an encourage- | Jaceb Burck, Victor in Fund Competition {ment to those groups which are de- | termined to make the overdue step in the same direction. |17 LANGUAGE GROUPS TO| BE AT 1.W.0. BALL NEW “YORK. — Jacob Burck, staff cartoo: of the Daily Worker, is the official inner of the Socialist competition that was started by Michael Gold during the $40,000 Daily Worker cam- paign, contributions from readers nt through Bureck reaching a otal of $617.69. 2W YORK —When the Interna-! | tional is played at the Costume Ball |and° Concert celebrating the Fourth| Anniversary of rational || Workers’ Order, this Saturda; 27, it will be a truly internation: gathering of workers, second, | isti nguage g 1 Gold ker and its fake wonders of the| Seventeen distinct language grow rab Doesaane world, the tnpretentious “harmony” | Will be represented by hundreds of} ! butions quartet of. the inferior vaudeville | foreign-born workers trom the 17|} thro ounted to brand, the line chorus, and the | language sections of the I. W. 0. || $407.50 elen Luke, “small-time” vocal solo with all its|Some of the countries represented | mannerism and absurdity. Shamelessly borrowing its tunes cither from the rich store of popu- | Finland and ot lar airs of the Farmer Grey varie or from the inexhaustible treasur of the Gilbert-Sullivan repertory. ged to make their lines fit both the rhythmic pattern of the music and the political message of the day. The result is altogether delightful as en- tertainment and very agitation and propaganda, TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.—Problems of the District At- tor Willlam C. Dodge, District At- torney, New York County 5—~Billy Bachelor—Skeich 0—Shirley Howard, Songs; 45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Jack Pearl, Comedian; Orch. 8:30—Weyne King Orch. O—Treisb Orch.; J. Harold Murray, Jesters Trio Van Steeden len, Comedian; Grofe Orch. iy Music Mail and Ocean Mail Subsid: 11:00—E 11:1 s Orch. Anthony Frome, Tenor LL.D, Seeks Speakers For Scottsboro Drive NEW YORK.—The Internation- al Labor Defense has issued a call for speakers to address Negro and white club to mobilize all organ- vations for a mass demonstration demanding the retrial and release of the innocent Scottsboro hoys. Speakers will communicate with LL.D. at 326 Village Ave. at 126th St, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Fight for jobs or relief—elect delegates to.the National Conyen- 11:30—Denny Orch. 12:00—Harris Orch. 22:30 A. M.—Sosnick Orch. WOR—710 Ke % P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 7:15—Comedy; Music 7:30—Osborne Orch.; Radie Har 8:00—Detectives Black and Blu: Drama 8:15—Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 8:30—String Orch.; William Hargrave, Bari-| tone 8:45—Redfern Hollinshead 9:00—Magazine of the Air 9:30—Dorothy Miller and Garfield Swift, Songs; Shaekley Orch. 10:00—De Marco Girls; Frank Si 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Prince 45—Pouline Alpert, Pieno ‘Tenor Read tion Against Unemployment in Station D, New York. JIM MARTIN FZ » “hers, Box 148, Sta. D, New York. git Neale o te ae i TT Washington, Feb. 3. beams Trio eison Orch, 12:00—Dance Orch. | the librettists of both shows man-/} effective as | concert | 8:00—Green Ore! | 8:13—News—Eawin C. | 8:30—Albert Spalding, 169.26. will be Germany, Poland, Ukrainia, | a ne | Russia, Czechoslaval: 1 mania, Turk hers. Dozens of work jers will come dressed in the native! costumes worn to celebrations % their native land, giving the ball vivid picture of working- nd of some par- y or even province. 1d at the 5 . and |darity and unity, which overcomes igton Ave. Admission to both national boundaries. |the concert program and ball is 35 cents. ‘When the dancing begins after aj pr m there will be. the ef a unique vorlsty =k | i WHAT'S ON spectacle st 53th 1 Wd2--760 Ke Se, Cneeapeys is aly Workers Club, a1 Bongs snc | 7:30—Potash and Perlmutte: y : Hollywood—Irene Rich eomat ning—Sketch Paradize—Sketeh page ae Gea i AND, Sth floor, at 8 p.m. It is|~ ‘arden Lewis E. Lawes in 20,000 urgent for every cne to be present REGULAR monthly social at the York- | ville Br. F.S. 4th St. at 8 p.m. Years in Sing Sing—Sketch 9:30—John McCormack, T 10:00-—Lopez Oreh.; Soviet movie Starr, Songs; * refreshments, entertainment. Ad- | 10:30—Alexander [mmission Abe. bassador to United States, Spea’sing at!” Cr Agsea stilt open in Political Eeonomy Testimoniel Diones, Hotel Astor or Journalism and Public Speaking at 00—Pickens Sisters, Songs School, 200 W. 185th St. Robert Royce, Tenor | 11:30—Stein ©: by the H Work- 12:30 A. M.—To Be Announced Sige yea WABC—860 Ke P. M.—Myrt and Marge st Plain Bill—Sketch 0—Travelers Ensemble 45--News—Boake Carter meeting at 7:43 p.m ; 5th floor. Carl Reev torial Sta of the Daily Worker, ussion on Unemployment us Phases of the of Vivien Ruth, Songs Hill Violin: Voorhees Orch, 9:00—Philadetphia. ‘Orch. | 9:15 — Btoopnagle and Budd, ‘Vera Van, Contrelto; Renard Orch. ALFRED RU 3 spenk on the Cuban Conrad Thi-| situation at ne Edith Berkman Br. LLD., 4704—18th Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission i0c. Unemployed free. Cleveland, Ohio n Labor Club “Iskra”™ will ron Sunday, Jan. 25, starting bault, Baritone; Comedians; 9:30—Lombardo Oreh.; Burns and Allen, Comedy 10:00-—Waring Orch. with an act of the Paris Com- Be a de eg adele egor,|mune and other musical numbers. Dancing “ Goniralto; Evan Evans, 3. Mized |Degins at 8 pm, Grdina Hall, 6021 St. Chorus | Clair Ave, 11:15—Negro Quintet “hie 11:30-—Little Orch. ’ Chicago ANNUAL BAZAAR of the N.T.W.LU. on} 12:00-—-Gray Orch. ft gen. 26, 27, 28 at Workers Lyceum, 2733 12:39 A, M.—Hall Orch 1:00—Light Orch. iHirsch Blvd. Dancing every night. They Go to See Hizzoner ALRIGHT FELLA ~ YOU Wow THE RACE So TLL TAKE YATo THE MAYOR: BUT, GET FUN NY, ANO TLL Tuc yA- | By QUIRT muy d | woman. sage, does not add to the clarity of | ; the skit. In order to give a literal| industrial photographs. H. W. L. illustration of the workers’ refusal; Dana and Julian Bryan are lending j“to take the baloney,” the librettist |the exhibit their Soviet puppets. | jand the directors have resorted to an| Movie stills of films made by the jsltogether illogical device of the sau+ norijies in the Soviet been loaned from the vari- | | patterns, each with short at 8:30 p.m. Con- Worker | se? Indus-| @ FRG teers, 96 . at Labor Temple, 243 E. | ‘Cain and | and the German | Work- | Moth st. | at 35 E.} the | wil | In- A DEPO Page Five RTEE WRITES Todar Antonoff Writes of Meeting Dimitroff’s Sister at Big London Protest Meet Last November, Todor Antonoff, militant Detroit auto worker, left for the Soviet Union, after the In- ternational Labor Defense, through a mass fight, won voluntary de- parture for him. The Department of Labor had tried for months to | deport him to fascist Bulgaria, where certain death awaited him. In these letters, written to the national office of the International Labor Defense, he tells of a giant protest meeting in London, where Lee Gallagher, LL.D. attorney, and ‘lene Dimitrovna, sisted of George vimitroff, spoke, and where he too spoke, bringing the greetings of the American workers, and their pledge » | of solidarity, | He tells of his passage on a So- | viet ship, to Leningrad, of the dis- cussion of the Scottsboro case, and of the situation of the American workers, with the Soviet sailors. In a final letter, written from Moscow, Dec. 3, he tells of hearing the news of the third conviction of | Heywood Patierson, and of the ef- | fect it produced there. | Dimitroyna in London NDON.—After wandering all day d looking at the beautiful that I had no money to buy, I Went to Kingsway Hall. The crowd | was still ver small but soon the hall | Was filled up and the speakers took their places on the platform. One of the comrades noticed me sitting at | the front and ed me to come up to the platf In the meantime |he whispered something to a young As soon as I reached the | platform, the chairman introduced me to the young woman. “Comrade,” he said, “this is An- tonoff, and this is Dimitrovna, sister | Of Comrade Dimitroff.” | “Revolutionary greetings from the American workers and farmers,” 1 told her. thanked me. “You are from America, Comrade |Antonoff. Tell me how the American workers are fighting against German ascism and to |from the guillotine | Her face and eyes were on fire. |The chairman opened the meeting, so we had to stop talking The first speaker was Leo Gallagher from America. Everybody rose to | greet the veteran American attorney. | He exposed before the 3,000 London workers present the fascist methods of justice. Once more he declared to the world that Hitler and his party are guilty of the Rechstag fire, and not the accused Communists, | Two more speakers, an Italian comrade cand a Bulgarian attorney, |Detcheff, spoke, and then Dimitrovna. | It is absolutely impossible to describe |the spirit and the enthusiasm of the |London workers when they greeted |Comrade Dimitrovna. She spoke in ian and concluded her speech in n with the following words: “Workers of London and workers She squeezed my hand hard and} our comrades | alan OS of the world, I appeal te you to close your ranks and unite in the | fight against fascism. Unite and | save the lives of my brother and his three comrades. Unite for world Communism.” A storm of applause | and singing of the International by | everybody in the hall. Then the | resolution of protest and Comrade | Campbell of the Party spoke. I was the last speaker. As soon a: |the chairman introduced mie, ai everybody rose and sang the Ini jtional. My first words were drowned in the storm of applause. I. wa: never so inspired in my life. Ney in my life did I speak with such yigor and determination. | | On « Soviet Ship IN Tuesday morning I woke up very early ant ed for an hour. on the streets of London. At -10 a.m |the ship agent came with a taxi and we went to the pier. Here she is {standing with the Red Flag. flying |hercically. I passed the gang plank |Here I am standing on the Soviet | ship Sthirsk under the Red Flag. The | blood moves faster in my veins. One of the sailors who spoke En- |@lish practically well, asked “us to tep inside and asked us for the jticket. Another one showed ws the cabin and helped me carry niy. hag- | gage into it. For two hours 1 stood jon the deck and watched the workers ‘inish landing the different. cargoes. j At one o'clock the captain steps on the top deck and asks the Comrade | Engineer if he is ready. | “Yes, Comrade Captain, we are ready. Let's go,” he says, and. we jare off the shore through thick fog. We are pulling out slowly but surely | toward the open sea. All Americans | except one or two and most are young | People. Tour Negroes are on board. The sailors are very friendly, par- ticularly to the Negro workers. ‘They ask questions about «Scotts- boro, about the Maryland lynehings, how the Negro workers were treated on the Berengaria and so om The Negro workers feel free. explain everything in detail. We are permitted everywhere or the ship—in the captain's cabin, the engine room—in the sailor’s ciub. ere is Lenin’s corner, with Lenin's picture, the picture of the Scottsboro boys, photographs of London: On the opposite side photograph of construction in the Soviet Union. | We are so occupied that we almost jmiss our dinn: | Four o'clock They are served tea and jsalami, cake, Everybody enjoys the lunch. After lunch everybody is out on deck, in the sailors’ cabins, in the club, dn the Lenin corner. The sailors apologize for not hay- ing more American literature, The ship sails on, The sea is rough but nobody cares. We are in a different world heading for the land of the Soviets. (More letters from Antonoff will appear on this page tomorrow.) Club Symposium Su | “Bourgeois and Proletarian Types in World Literature” is the subject | of @ symposium to be held under the |auspices of the John Reed Club at |Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Ir- |ving Place on Sunday, Jan. 28, at |8 p.m. | Those who will take part in the symposium are John Chamberlain, Chamberlain, Dahlberg and Burke at John Reed nday, at Irving Plaza author of “Farewell to Reform’; Ed- | ward Dahlberg, author of: “Bottom Dogs” and “From Flushing to: Cal- | Vary,” and Kenneth Burke, author of “Counter-Statement” and- “Toward a Better Life.” Joshua Kunitz will be chairman. Admission 1s 35. cents. Tickets will be available at the door. 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Evs. 8.30 Matinees Thursday Saturday 2:20 | THE ANTI-WAR PLAY — acd Big Month PEACE ON EARTH WILLIAM LYON PHELPS says: | S& thrilling and exeiting play.’” CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. 1th 8. & 6th Ar, | WA. 9-7450. Bye: ¢ to $4.0 NO Mats. Wed. & Sai : 30 tax JUDITH ANDERSON.. Come oF AGES | CLEMENCE DANE & RICHARD ADDINSELL MAXINE ELLIOTY’S Thea., 39th, E. of Bway | Eves. 8:50, $3.30 to S5¢, Mats, Wed. & Sat. || 8° Jefferson Mm st. & | Now | in 3rd Ave. | JOAN BLONDELL & GUY KIBBEE “HAVANA WIDOWS” added feature:—“SMOKY" with VICTOR JORY & IRENE BENTLEY Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS in “Her Master’s Voice” Plymouth "oir. "twurs, a site 240 PHILADELPHIA, PA. At 8:15 P.M. Freiheit Gesangs TENTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION | Friday, February 2nd, Girard Manor Hall 911 GIRARD AVENUE : — Program — CLARENCE HATHAWAY—Editor Daily Worker—Speaker Bella Dorfman—Artef, John Reed Club . Farein, Oratorio rs Cars Say Comrade! How About Climbing Mount Beacon? REAL WINTER SPORTS AT- NITGEDAIGET BEACON, N. ¥. 2700 BRONX PARK EAST - EStabrook 8- Jeave 10:30 A.M. Daily, from Reduced week-end fare oe) _~