The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1934, Page 5

} A Genius Explores Communism RETTA PALMER, who is Woman's Page editor of the New York World Telegram, spent an afternoon in Union Square recently to study the subject of Communism. She found out, in a few hours,what it was all about, and returned a complete summary for her sheet. Newspaper folk are as smart ; cone the giants, Marx and Engels, a lifetime of research to outline Communism. Lenin spent another lifetime of a genius amplifying their knowledge. There are libraries containing thousands of books on the sub- : Jao rmies of scholars are busy today rewriting the world’s history in the light of the Marxian theory. It is indeed a brave new dazzling world, which will not be fully explored in our own lifetime. But Gretta saw it all in one flash of vision. Here is her womanly intuition on the subjeet; read it and weep: “Communism, as it exists in America at least,” she pontificates, @ religion. And a very fanatical and ante rene: too.” “is Listen, Gretta ISTEN, Gretta, do you know what the word religion means? It means ( any belief in the reality of other-worldliness, the supernatural. But Communism is the scientific method of creating a rational and beauti- ful human society on this planet earth. (The fact that millions of workers in the world today beKeve with all | their hearts and minds*in Communism, and are ready to fight and die for it doesn’t mean it’s’& religion, either. I only means that the masses of the world have been so oppressed and exploited by this horrible capitalist system of yours that they are desperate. They want Communism, and they want it quick, and they want it bad. But this isn’t religion, any more than that Lenin was a priest, or William Z. Foster is a rabbi. (Would you call the Big Steel Strike that Foster led in 1919 a re- gious ceremony? But many steel workers shed their blood in that cause! (As to austerity and fanaticism, this is something that can’t be dis- cussed with superficial newspaper ladies. Anybody who believes in any- thing very hard, and is even willing to sacréfice a dollar or a job to it, Jet’s say, must seem like a fanatic to a satisfied brain-filunkey of capitalism.) She Wants the Amenities for All Br let us pass to the next emanation of this great Sc> owned brain: “The present Communist program does not offer the pleasing hope of granting everyone the amenities of life which only the fortunate now enjoy. If it did, and offered a reasonable plan for achieving this end, we should probably be chanting the Internationale from the skyscrapers.” (But as it happens, Lady Gretta, Communism is simply that eco- nomic program which sets for its purpose the distribution of the ameni- ties of life to all, instead of to a few parasites like your bosses. When the second Five-Year Plan. is completed in the Soviet Union, for instance, every worker there will)receive the equivalent of what is about $5,000 a year in this country. (But this is not going to convince you, Gretta, or make you sing the Internationale from the skyscrapers. For Scripps-Howard would fire you if you sang that song, and you know it, and you need a job badly, don’t you?) ps Howard * * And Plover and Vintage Wines! N the crank, Professor, and let us examine the next view in this norama of a trained seal’s mind: “But Communism does not promise that the working man shall have } tail coats and vintage wines and morocco-bound limfted editions, that he ) shall dine off plover served to him on finely chased old Sheffield. Far ) from offering these delights to every one, it simply denies them to us all.” (Wow! Whoops! With a hey-nonny-nonny and a hot-cha-cha! (So that's what you want out of life? So, Gretta, you can’t be satis- fied without plover on old Sheffield plate, and vintage wines! Well, Well! (There are some 5,000 jobless newspaper men and women in New York, who would be satisfied with three square meals a day and the room rent. But you must have plover. (Really, what a low kind of butler’s mind is yours. You have none of these things; you are a hard-working newspaper wage slave who may be licked out on the street tomorrow to join the unemployed. But you sob over the luxuries of your boss, as if you were sharing in them. This is the sign of the true fiunkey; you identify yourself with the master’s interests without any visible reward. (Well, Gretta, enjoy your vintage wines and plover and morocco lim- | ited editions; we won’t take them away from you.) > * * * The Softer Things of Life NDALE, cabron. Allons, enfants, Proceed, professor, and elucidate the next little point: “Your true Communist scoffs at the softer things of life. He jeers at loyalties and sympathies for anything except the abstraction of social justice. You do not see happy faces among the men and women of Union Sq.; you see ferocious, threatening ones. And happiness, as Oscar Wilde once salid, is nature’s stamp of approval. They are not happy because they are wedded to a religion of hatred and negation.” (Well, Gretta, there are 17 million unemployed in America. Kids die of hunger every day, mothers hang themselves, unhappy parents fil] the nut houses and jails. (You can’t believe this, probably, dining off your plover and drinking your vintage wines. But we assure you it’s the truth. (May you lose your job, Lady, and walk the streets hungry some day, and remember this taunt you flung at the unhappy poor of America. May you also learn to spit at the softer things of bourgeois life, knowing they are paid for with the blood and death of the workers. And may you also be forced to pray for nothing but this “abstraction of social justice” you jeer at now.) : . Thank You Very Much! ND the lovely, fat, soft lady concludes: “Perhaps the industrial program of the Communisis is a sound one, We wouldn’t know. But it appears fo be a party which outlaws every dictate of good manners and civilized living with the sole excuse of eco- nomic righteousness. And we're not taking any of that, thank you very much.” (Oh, no, not at all, thank YOU! Pardon me! I am so pleased to make your acquaintance! Will you please pass the butter? How lovely the moon is tonight. Shall we sit this dance out? Will you help me with my wraps? What would you care to have first—a sparkling Burgundy or ‘he Chablis? I am so sorry if I stepped on your foot. (But the southern slave owners had the finest of manners. You would have picked theirs as against the manners of John Brown. It is all very clear, Lady. You unquestionably are a female butler, and place the trivi- alities on a higher plane than the great life-and-death issues. May you have your reward from the masters. Strike your boss for a raise, Miss Palmer. Try and get it, do!) JIM MARTIN * . LADIES (ND GENTLE MEN~ HERE 17% eee Ex al . zs »4ILY WORKER. NFW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26.1984 rage Five * 7 * ‘ | === A SKETCH---By An American Sailor . N a $i ane See acne = WHAT'S O | A Seaman Wanders Onto |2 wall on » mahogany stand is ajNicolai, “We never smoke in our s0-| quiet comfort is like nothing I've } | o * ~y 2 . bronze bust of Lenin. A red flag|cial room. We go out on deck.” | seen on other shops. In our ship | A Soviet Ship and Sees | with hammer and sickle hangs from| “Why cure” It seems fine some-|" you could flad it setter than the . = the base of the bust. Oppsite Lenin’s|how that they feel that w: about) up in the passenger quarters, more | ;opay A Thing or Two eee against the other wall is a piano.|the room. On our ship we richly decorated and all. But not | A Pat —— j Some men sit around reading, playing | desire to take pains with our fo'c'sle,| im the fo'c’sle. Golng down from | , DE SCHWARTE will speak qu “Meal tn | Canter, 360 B. fist ot T sailors are scattered around the | checkers, Astounded with this great|our mess-room. For they are not| the passenger quarters to the crew's 103 ‘Thatfora Ave., Brooklyn. | the deck, some leaning against the | comfortable room in an ordinary |ou They belong to the “company”, quarters is like going from the ship’s rail, others talking in groups. The bunch feels prettty glum tonight. | freight ship, I stop in the door and look around. The young fellow, my ich were necessary to us but being our own. Our clothes, | Last night Douney, one of the young | guide speaks to one of the men read-!our shoes, our working clothes, our |sailors, came back drunk and walked | ing. The man looks towards me, gets | bunk off the end of the pier. termaster at the gang heard the} splash. Douney came up once and then went down for good. He was a young fellow. He and I were ordin-| The quar- | ary seamen together on the Leviathan| you ship. Is it alright to look|grudge them their tasks, our bosses.|and encouragement called out. back in ’29. The police are dragging} around?” I answered and inquired That is their job. People have to! different all this is fro the harbor for him. | “Surely, I'll show you around.” have jobs. Our job is to work. That's | The yeoman, whom we are all) | waiting for, comes up and muster us| lin, calling out the names. He calls| jout Douney’s name. The way the| gang reacts is like cold air biting a jbad nerve in a tooth. A kid looks up; |hopefully, looks around at the faces | of the men, thinking that Douney’s| |drowning was a hoax. Pat Kilbright | looks as if he is going to cry. Pat! |and Douney had sailed together for | @ couple of years. They were working and drinking buddies. | After muster the crowd breaks up. | |Some fellows, with a few marks still jon them, beat it ashore for a few) |beers. I am broke and then I don't| \feel like going to some noisy place | | tonight. | | “THE FO'C’SLE IS A MESS” Down in the fo’c’sle it is quiet, Pat up, walks over. Sp “Do you wish English with?” he asked politely. “Yes, I am off the American shi I'm a sailor. ip. I Just walked aboard He is a young fellow too, like the | what they pay us for. But there is! no relationship of the amount of hard work we do to the miserable wages ng |and poor food we get in return. So t we have to under press- ’s the job of our bosses, Otherwise we have as long as it first young fellow who had offer me a cigarette and guided me below. “This is our Red Corner.” He sw his arm around the room. “It is our recreation and social room.” “Pretty fine,” I said. “A big corner though.” “Yes. What's your name, comrade? Mine’s Nicolai. “Mine's Joe,” I answered. someone to speak |we on we do wha ure. fro on our necks. Th s work. ff the ship sank hing personal: , we do take pride in, keep clean, but outside of what| feet play a criss-cross on the car-! ly keep clean and take care of the ship’s gear under constant press- u m above, the mate, the captain,|men sitting around started a soft] We don’'t|clap-clap with their hands, cheers, | But here hing new, something splen- The discipline springing spon-| s “Good. And this is Fayda,” nodding | taneously from below, from the group to the first guide. very healthy. Both men look | of Sailors themselves. light colored khaki shirt and trousers. | when they ask me that way. | _ “How is discipline of board?” I ask shoes, From newspaper reports back | Nicolai, He pauses a minu Fine looking cloth. Good leather in the States I had expected Russian | what you mean, discipline. 5 to have some shoddy clothes and rot-| something different on here ten rag shoes, if not barefooted. A CONVERSATION Some men enter the room. sit down. Uniform their They | are ours. I_ wanted to They have on a very | shout no, I won't smoke here, Never know it is than what you are used to. Here these | things, the ship, the tools, the gear,| dancing. We know it and handle j CrENKANT eoture wt tbe | dance at the Vegetarian W. | Jack BUI wat Joins ae tbe | sain Wh. Proceed for 1 THE SOOTTSEORO Br. I Prospect Workers Center, 1157 8. Boulevs: | Bronx, on “Can workers get justice in cs; italist’ courts?" | MAX BEDACHT will lecture on “Social | tre Night and Dance st Insurance” at the LW.O. Center, 1973 | ter, 1818 Fitkin Ave, Br : : . Ausplees LW.O, | Program. Bransbe rea aa |" PROLO Workers Club, 33—3rd ANTI-WAR Conference. Auspices of Wi Sth St. will hold Dance and Bn Mamsburg Prov. Anti-War Comm. st 275 / Hob jams band. 8: on, . Visitors are in. | gents 250, 7 lc el | DANCE and Enterta! SCOTT NEARING will lecture on Current | Blechman Strikers at Office W Events at Irving Plazs, Irving Place and | Hall, 114 W. i¢th St. 8:30 15th Bt., 7 p.m. Auspices, Institute for Ad- assured vanced Education. Adm. 350. ‘Trial by Prejudice. SCOTT NEARING will lecture on ‘‘Cen-| aspects of Scottsbor tralism and Socialism” at Irving Plasa,| Irving High School Irving Place and 15th St., 8:30 p.m. Ad-| Joseph Brodsky, 6s mission 500. Auspices, Institute for Ad- | Baldwin and Osmond vanced Education. sion 28c. Auspices, PARTY given by Unemployed Teachers As-| | RED CABARET Ni Palace into its dungeons. se 8 YOUNG fellow gets up and starts! dancing. A Russian dance. His| | Peted deck, whole body in rhythm| with the music, From all the chairs] How our ship, the} big American passenger ship. We) work so hard, so long at night, we come down into our miserable quar-| ters so tired that there is a short dis- | agreeable period of weary silence, or arguing, in the fo'c’sle then we all| re sociation at 33 E. 20th St., 9 p.m. Robert | ture Club, 2345 turn in our bunks worn out. It 18|Reimnarts, from Theatre Gulld play “School | ava Tent U. Dencing, o hard for a man on our ship. And| for Husbands” will entertain. Adm. 18e. | galore. the men try to compensate. They| Grive desperately ashore for pleasure. They get drunk. Drunk as they pos- | can. Trying to feel happy, to} forget the ship. Douney did that.| | They all do it. Douney’s problem is! solved. It is all over for him. But| we, the rest of us, are still here. Don’t | this big social room, four watches, |mean anything to us. That these | Russian—Soviet they call themselves | |—sailors own their ship. The music |stopped, the young fellow stopped The men cheered and LENIN MEMORIAL Meeting at Savoy| CONCERT and Dance given by Tremont Mansion, 6322—20th Ave., Brooklyn, 8 p.m. | Prog. Club, 866 B. Tremont Ave., 8:45 p.m Chas. Alexander, speaker. Concert, drama | Paul Glass, violin; Jacqulin Alpern, soprano, group and chorus. Auspices, Units 7 and 10 | Piano recital; Chalk teik, and o of the C.P. and the ¥.C.L, Adm. 15c. TRISH READING CIRCLE, “IS IT POSSIBLE to hay revolution | Dr. Oskley Johnson on “T! without war’? lecture by Amier at Bast N. | Proletarian Literature” and land St., Brook- | Poetry” by ley Burnshaw. | Peadar O'Nuanain, 3860 Rochambeau Ave. , Music, Butertain- | N-¥.C. Adm. 250, Proceeds for Unemployed in | Conference. New Haven, Conn, THE WORKERS SCHOOL of New Haven will hold @ dance and (rumen en | Saturday at the John Reed Club, 64 Oak St | Interesting program. Adm. 15¢, Boston, Mass. ment and dancing; Blane and others harp. Pierre Degeyter Admission 25c. SYMPOSIUM on “Is Roosevelt Introducing Socialism” at the American Youth Pedera- tion, 323 B. 13th St., near Second Ave. at 8:30 p.m. Speakers, Prof. Willard Atkins, | chairman; Harry Gannes, from the Daily 5 lub, 5 B 19th St. \Jaughed. | Kilbright is laying on his face in hi healthy | things like they are ours. bunk sobbing. I sit down on the|faces, their neat, clean, strong clothes. jbench by my bunk. Fo’c’sle is in a! “Where did you learn English?” If anyone should not feel this way about these I| things first we reproach him. |mess. Every free moment since we|ask Nicolai. | still doesn’t care we get angry with | docked five days ago, the men have} “In school. Then I studied aboard | him. If necessary we fire him. Ths} dashed in and dashed out of the | ship.” | ship's committee fires him. We all |fo'c’sle fast as they could on their) “Does Russia have passenger | elect the s | way ashore, Dirt and mess has been | ships?” I asked, again surprised. I| WHO GIVES ORDERS? accumulating. Disgusted with the|qidn’t know before whether she had| “Can the captain give orders | Place I go out on deck. Men loat/or not, but vaguely I thought she| the ship's committee?” I ask, ;around the decks sitting on bitts, on|hadn’t any passenger ships. | “The captain is navigating officer. jthe deck, talking, resting. “Certainly. Five big ships we've | In matters of seamanship and navi- Just walking I go down the gang-| built. And we don’t use the word| gation he gives orders. But the ship's |way onto the dock. Looking at our/Russia much anymore. Now it is the | committee conducts th ship's routine 's committee!” to ship from the pier, I think, it is a big | Soviet Union.” | and work,” ship alright. But we sure catch hell | “What's your wages?” I ask Nicolal.| “Does anyone play the piano?” I |on it, a workhouse. “A hundred roubles @ month. About | ask, |, 1 walk along the dock. Nice walk-/|fifty dollars. For a sailor.” | “Yes,” Nicolai called in Russian. ing. Nice to have a flat stretch of| “How many watches?” } A squat dark little man smiles and | ground under your feet and stretching} “Two watches. A six hour day.” | nodding to me goes over and sits on {ahead of you. “The companies are trying to|the piano stool. Easily the music * . . force a two watch system on us in|comes. I think it is Russian. I don’t HIPS are tied up all along the dock. English ship, a German ship. You can tell by their names, printed in| big white letters on their bows, Dor- |setshire, Lubec. Astern of the Ger-| man ship is a big freight ship. It has |@ funny name “DeKabrist” printed the States, a twelve hour day,” I ruefully tell. | know then whether I like it. I like The other sailors hearing English | this music the little man plays very spoken had gathered around us. One | much. fellow offer me a cigarette. Thank- Men have been drifting into the ing him I start to light up. Several) room all the time. Soft comfortable sailors together speak in Russian to| chairs line the tables and are me. know. I listen to music and only “I'm going back to the ship,” I tell Worker, and @ representative of League of | hs cnidipelh tr penppirfieed goed gad If he} | Nicolai. “Stay longer if you like,” he Says. | | “No, I'd better be going,” Industrial Democracy. Adm. 1c. | LECTURE by Isidore Begun, expelled from N. ¥. School system, on “Education in | America” at Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E.| They walk me to the gangway, Ni-| Tremont Ave. at 8:45 p.m. | colat and Fadys, Fadya offers me a| RABEL BEN. GOLDSTEIN will lecture on | box of cigarettes. Thanking him I/ at Pelham Parkway Workers Center, 2179 | take one. We shake hands and I go| white Plains Rd., 8:30 p.m. | down the gangway. NATIONAL Btudent League Studio Party | | save for i at 230 Wooster St., near Washington 8q. eee for an occasional lght| ct 9 pam, till dawn. Dancing, entertains along the pier. I walk slowly trying | ment, eats, Adm. 2c. |to gather the impressions of tonight,| CONCERT of Chamber Music given by the| the Soviet ship, the men, their lives, | Pretheit Mandolin Orchestra at the Interna- | how good it all was tional Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island | | eo ere Ave. cor Brighton Beach Ave. Adm. 26c. | oa Sponsored by Brighton Beach Br, 139 I.W.O. | Meee! I sat down on the bench by| “Is the family being built or — in my bunk. Pat Kilibright lay on|America—in the Soviet Union,” lecture by his face asleep, He must have eried| pus, “iunsy at Altred Levy Br. LLD. at | himself to sleep. A lone bulb is burn-} LECTURE on Unemployment Insurance by ing in the big fo’c'sle. Thirty-six | Comrade Partin at the Jerome Workers Club, | bunks. God damn, Thirty-six men | 1309 College Ave. near 169th Bt., Bronx, at | herded like beasts into a pen, Iron} Pectligon | * LECTURE by Lucien Zokaroff on “Con-| bunks lining the steel walls. structure the bunks made, Rigid | temporary Soviet Literature” at the New Like our| Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave., be-| lives. Circumscribed in small hard | |lines binding us in. We're supposed tween Ave. T and VU. | L.W.O. Br. 521 will hold regular meeting | and "Lenin Memorial Night” at 11 W. Mt. | to be humans, men. Yet here we are in this pen.! To run the ship, paint Hit, clean it, work it, is our job, And| Eden Ave. at 8:30 p.m. All welcome. JULIET STUART POYNTZ will lecture on “The Lives of the Workers in the Soviet | | will present @ series of short sketches at the affair which the LL.D. will give on Saturday at 68 Hawthorn 6t., Chelsea, Newark THE ILD. has arranged s mase meet~ ing and movie on Sunday evening at 8 p.m at Workers Center, §04—44th St., Union City, Ruby Bates will be the main speaker Sem Strong, district org. ILD. will also speak. “Road to Life” will be the film feature, Jersey City ‘The fim “Potemkin” will be shown at Labor Lyceum, 94 Belmont Ave, # p.m Prominent speaker. Baltimore FAREWELL PARTY arranged by Sec CP. for Mrs. Berger on Friday, Jan. 26 1039 B. Baltimore St. at Ww: en's, OF Lyceum. Good program and juet. sympathizers invited. Philadelphia ALL WORKERS will gather at the United worker of 8:30 p.m.\et Labor Inst Speakers: John Wesley jin English, Above the English let- ters are strange letters, Russian I |think, A Russian ship?’ First time \I've seen one though I’ve heard fel- lows who have been aboard Russian ships say they are fine for the crew. I walk up the gangway., The ship looks pretty dirty. About like an American freight ship, a little more paint wouldn’t have hurt her. A group of men are standing around the forward deck house leaning | seattered out the very large room. “Please don’t they’ ask?” pleads The healthy, contented men, TUNING the IN Union” at the Boro Park Workers Club, 18th Ave.. cor. 47th St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. LECTURE at the Vegetarian Workers Club | on “The Eyes of the Workers" by a well | known authority on this subject at 220 B. | 14th St. OPEN FORUM on Current Events. Speaker Tom Johnson, at German Workers Club, 72 B. 10th St 8 p.m. Adm. free. SPARTACUS A.C,, 658 Morris Ave. Bronx, lecture on “Literature and the Class Strug- | gle” by Leonard Spelr, OPENING NIGHT at Convention of the Friends of the Soviet Union Greet dele~ gates. Hear speakers. Convention Hall, Stage and Screen New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave.) | ‘ . oa) ” | Says Hell on Earth, | Adm. 250 See exhibition of Soviet progress, ie y Ki il’ | showing for 3 days. | New Kind of War Film WORKERS DANCE LEAGUE teachers and leaders course to begin Friday, February 2. | Register at Workers Dance League office, 80 ot Lester, Joshua Kun: |that is our lives. Alright. Weill see. fo. Time, 8:30, { I'll take some of the fellows aboard 'the Soviet ship tomorrow night. We'll | talk about it. If I told them what I'd} {Seen tonight they wouldn’t believe it.| |It is too good. I take off my pants |and shirt and climb into my bunk. Dm. st 9014 N. 39nd St. enfink on “Tuberculosis a: Auspices, Workers Club of Strawber ston, Wilkes Barre. Pa. ‘THES WORKERS CENTRE will give # Sauer Kraut Supper for the tencfi’ of the Wor! ers Center at 335 S. Market St. on 5: Jan, 96, at 7:20 p.m. Pittsburgh “TRE RISTORY and the Fighting tions of the Negro People of the lecture by Ben Careathers at the mental Baptist Church, 2240 Wylié Ave. on | Sunday, Jan, 28 at 2:30 p.m. Adm. free. In both @ couple of stairways and into an immense room. Soft shaded lights illumine the room. Two long wide Muriel “Wilson, Soprt 9:30—Maude Adams it Rosem: Young Orch Week days on 50 meters from 4 to 5 pm. ES.T. tic Sketch— | 10:00—First against the rail. Walking over I ask By I. MILMAN t Bachelor--Sketeh them if anyone speaks English, Em-} ‘THe Workers’ Short Wave Radio; 7'30—Circu: Day—Sketch barrassed they stare at me. A young] Club) announces a new program for| jon encca eee, Suetch Dragonette, fellow offers me a cigarette and/the jast part of January for the | prano; Male Quartet t grinning motions me after him. Down} RV59 on 50 meters. 9:00—Lyman Orch.; Prank Munn, Tenor technique and subject- atter, Victor Trivas has fashioned a new sort of anti-war film. He has made a motion picture which in con- Chicago AMNUAL BAZAAR of the N.T.W.LU. on Jan. 26, 27, 28 at Workers Lycoum, :2783 Hirseh Bivd. Dencing every night, |B. lith St. Room 632; every day from| 6 to 8:30 pm. CLASS in Russian for beginners starts | next week. Brownsville Workers School, 1955 | tables, covered with green felt stand in the center of the room. Against Clubs at the J. R. Club Symposium on Sunday Groups from numerous workers’ clubs throughout Greater New York are expected to attend the sympo- sium on literature arranged by the John Reed Club for this Sunday eve- ning at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. “Bourgeois and Proletarian Types in World Literature” is the subject of. the symposium, in which three outstanding writers and critics will participate: John Chamberlain, lit- erary critic; Edward Dahlberg, noy- elist and co-editor of Partisan Re- view, and Kenneth Burke, whose book “Counterstatement” has aroused a storm of critical comment. Joshua Kunitz, co-editor of the New Masses, will be chairman. NEW YORK.—Two radios, a six- volume set of Lenin’s works and a six-months’ subscription to the Daily Worker, will go to lucky winners at the Costume Ball and Concert cele- bration of the fourth anniversary of the International Workers Order, this Saturday, 8 p.m., at the 69th Regi- ment Armory, Lexington Ave. and 25th St. Before the prize awards there will be @ concert by the I.W.O. Symphony Orchestra directed by I. Korenman, the playing of the ether-wave instru- nt, a mass pageant by youth and children which will unfold the history of the I.W.O. in its four years of growth. The evening will conclude with dancing until dawn to the fast rhythms of Sundays on 25 meters from 5 to 6 am. and 10 to ll am, EST. For the last few weeks the Moscow 10: jz eet eign station reception in the U. S. That is due directly to the reports sent in to the RV59 by listeners in the U. S. informing them of the de- fects in broadcast so that they cor- rected them accordingly. The first to report the reception | of the RV59 for the last week is Comrade Schiling of the Bronx. On Friday, Jan. 19, he listened to RV59 on 50 meters from 4 to 5 pm. ES.T. It was @ lecture on Manchukuo in English, followed by the news of the day in the Far East. The station came in with plenty of volume end a little fading. He also received a veri- fication from RV59 on his reception in December, by mail. Comrade Garfield of Brooklyn and Comrade Samash of Manhattan reporicd the same reception. The above-mentioned comrade: reported interference with the Scvi broadcast by a Cuban station, CO. which had not been heard p 12 9; 10 10 ° to 6 am. He also received Australia. | He had been listening to a seven- | tube set with a converter. eee father ANNOUNCEMENT We ask all interested in short wave radio to join a branch of our club in his neighborhood. If there is no branch in the vicinity, join the radio section of the nearest Workers’ Club | where we are sending our technical advisers to help build short wave radio sets to listen in to the U.S.S.R. as well as the Test of the world. NOTICE OF MEETING | 8: A new section of the Short-Wave | Radio Club will be organized in Ben-! 9: Sonhurst tonight at 9. The meeting Will be held in the home of Starkoff, | ete 9: | 10:00—The Tron lighter—Sketch (0—Pedro Via Orch. :18—Stern Orch. station: has occupied the first place | 11:30—Scotti Orch. Groups from Workers’ _| in the short wave radio news of for- ee ape Seeery Boose 30—Sosnick Orch. WOR—71i0 Ke Announced Arthur, Baritone Robyn, Tenor; 30—Variety Musicale (00—Tedady Queen, Bergman, Songs; Rondo! 30—Milban String 45 Don, Songs ng Trio WJZ—760 Ke 11:00—The Lively Arts—John Erskine ives Black and Blue y Jones and Ernie Hare, rs Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Bugene Fi Mys Songs Marie Gerard, Sopr: 8:45—The Old Neighborhood—sketch 9:15—De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor | ,Comedian; Betty! the ideas advanced. It is sufficient | q|t© report that “Hell on Earth” treats | of a tremendously vital subject, and | * * The first out-of-town report on short | ™ g, the Federal 2 Radios, 6 Lenin Books Wave reception came from a fan at) er; v. Wagner of New You Daily Worker Sub, Prizes |Soth Bellington, Wash. He re-| 8:00—waitcr O'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel F “ ‘ ported good reception of the Far | _Shutta, Songs; Bestor Orch. at IWO Birthday Jubilee | Zastern_ station RVI5 at Khaba-| $:20—Deveerous Paradise —Sieicn rovsk. The time was from midnight | 9:00—Leah Ray, Songs; Harris Orch ig: 9:30—Phil Baker, Comedian; Shield Orch Male Quartet; Neil Sisters, Songs Narrator 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 00-—Three Scamps, Songs iyrt and Marge ni Bill—Sketch Vivien Ruth, Songs 15—News—Edwin ©. Hill 30—March of Time 00—-Philedelphia Orch. ‘Master—Bennett Chapple, | 11:15—The North Star—Dr. Robert H. Baker 11:30—Rogers Orch. 12:30 A. M.—Elkins Orch. * 8 WABC---860 Ke 15—Alexander Woollco:t--The Town Crier; Dorothy Parker 30-—Melodic Strings 10:00—Olsen and Johnson, Comedians; Sos- 30 Bay 25th St. Brooklyn, Apt. D-3.| "ick Oren, TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS | | 11:1:CSoswen sisters, songs PHIL YOUNG, Poggio the Inbora- Fe to—Redmas OFch, tory Immediately. Very important. Herb. WEAF—660 Ke M.—Belaseo Orch % 'S ALETTER ADDRESSED To THE MAYORS OF TINTON AND PUNK- TON FROM THE WORKERS THESE Twe cities — OF Hizzoner Gets the Wrong Letter 7:00 P, M.—Morton Bowe, Tenor L: A. M- 00—Hopkins Orch. WE DEMAND THAT THE FRAME-UP CHARGES AGAINST co a 1s THIs2 W HAT TAmes eons THEY C HANGEC LETTERS ON Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn, Register now, Saturday HUGE Costume Ball and Concert—4th An- | niversary Celebration International Workers | Order et 69th Armory, Lexington Ave. and 25th St. Two Brass Bands for dancing. Ether wave instrument, prizes. é GALA AFFAIR for delegates to First Ni fonal Convention F.S.U, Vernon Andrade orchestra. Dancing from 9 to 2 and hear Tony Kraber and Bobbit from “Men in White.” Adm. 50c, { ception and execution is international. It has been titled “Hell on Earth,”| end it opens at the Acme Theatre, in nion Square, this Saturday. Trivas has not made a war picture showing victories or defeats. He has} not made a horror film for thrill] eekers. He has made a film for work- ers showing that the Frenchman, the | German, the Jew, the Negro and the! Englishman are fundamentally on the | same side of a battle rather than} puppets fighting for this or that fatherland. In this brief notice written at a | pre-view of the film, it is impossible to go into all the details of the art of | | “Hell on Earth,” or to dwell more on| Detroit, Mich. LECTURE and Dance. Rev. Bollens will speak on “Menace of Pascism” on Satitr~ day, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. at 108 West Han- cock. Dancing and Entertainment wil fol- low lecture. Refreshments, Adm. 100, Aus- pices Tom Mooney Br. LL.D. Cleveiand, Ohio AFFAIR given by Branch 1 and 2 Orem ployed Councils on Saturday at 8 ipm. st 7010 Wado Park for the benefit of dtlegater going to Washington Convention. AMUSEMENTS | THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TALKIE! Beginning Tomorrow (Saturday) “HELL on EARTH” with Wladimir Sokoloff (of the Moscow Art The.) Ernst Busch (now in exile) Louis Douglas, Negro Int'l Vaudeville Star LAST |“ENEMIES OF PROGRESS” and “MEN AND DAY | JOBS” — Two Soviet Talkies T ti ACME THEATRE |or contune| UNION SQUARE “The Greatest of Anti. War Films” —HENRI BARBUSSE Produced in four different countries—spoken in four languages, mainly English. Directed by Victor Trivas (now in exile). treats it with genius and courage. | Marx Bros. In “Duck Soup” At Jefferson Saturday | “Duck Soup,” the latest film pro- | duced by the Four Marx Brothers, | will be shown at the Jefferson The-| | atre beginning Saturday. The same program will have “Flaming Gold,” | with Bill Boyd in the principal role. | Wednesday the Jefferson screen pro- | ; Sram will include “Tillie and Gus,” | with W. C. Fields\and Alison Skip- worth, and “Big Time Or Bust,” with | Regis Toomey and Gloria Shea in the | | featured roles. | | : hn Reed Club || Skucene O'NEILL: COMEDE . : | | Phila. John Reed Club | Ait WILDERNESS! | Symposium Tonight Sith GEORGE Mf. COHAN | ATRE GUILD presents—,| THE ANTI-WAR PLAY —_ 3rd Big. Month “PEACE ON FARTH” ote | CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. 1ith 8. &:6th Ay, se GUILD rrstineternee esac ceey || WA. 9-7450. Eves. 8:45. 30°? 7? 82. FHILADELPHIA—The John Reed |} 5 soi es ww emp ee x Club of Philadelphia has arranged a | a | ¥ literary symposium, "The Waiters || MARY OF SCOTLAND || @JUDITH ANDERSON:. and the Crisis,” tonight at Labor | with HELEN pauir meen || COME OF AGE 5; Institute, 810 Locust St., at 8:30 p.m. HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN |] Crewexce DANE & RICHARD ADDENEDEE, Men About Town Trio—| Speakers will be John Wexley, Al- it, W. of B'way | MAXINE ELLIOTT’S Thea., 39th, E, of iv \bert Mordell, Joshua Kunitz, Hal .Thar.&Sat.2:20 | Eves. 8:50, $3.30 to 55c, Mats. Wed. 4 Sat. Borland, Samuel Grafton, and Elliot | Lester. | | EUGENE 0’ Play DAYS WITHOUT END | FILM SHOWING Tomorrow | Henry Miller’s 7,{4 $¢ “Anti-Imperialism” is the subject | Evenings 8:40, Mat. Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 |of the film showing and lecture un- | |der the auspices of the Film and 77 JEGEELD FOLLIES ‘Ropert A Photo League and the New Masse: | s with FANNIE BRICE A New Musical Comedy by at the New School for Social Re- Willie & E HOWARD, Everett MAR-| JEROME KERN & OTTO search tomorrow night. This show- | SHALL. Jean SARGENT, Pairicln BOWMA! AMSTERDAM, ing is part of a senies on “The His- | WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th. Evs. 8. tory of the Soviet Film.” Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 |p RKO ith St & | | Jefferson ib S*. & | Now | JOAN BLONDELL & GUY KIBBEE fo. “HAVANA WIDOWS” added feature:—“SMOKY” with VICTOR JORY & IRENE BENTLEY _ By QUIRT|§| seRGEI AND MARIE RADAMSKY ——and the — U. Balalaika Orchestra in @ program of Theatre in Leningrad VECHESLOVA re —-AND— % CHABUKANI ORCHESTRA HALL Woodward and Parsons “fj Sun., Jan. 28, 8:30 pam. | Tickets 50c., T5c., $1., $1.50 F. S. Soviet Songs ROBERT MINOR, Speaker SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd 8:30 P, M— NEW SCHOOL 66 West 12th Street, N. ¥. ©. Tickets 50c. and "5c. at the Daily Worker Office or at Section 2, 56 West 25th Street _ Tickets at John Reed Club,.. 108 W. Hancock, Schuman’s Book Store, 127 W. ee ‘Adams: