The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1934, Page 7

CHANGE = WORLD! By Michael Gold — I RECEIVE many letters from young students’ and workers who ask what books one ought to read to gain a knowledge of Communism. Without a doubt, we are in the midst of @ great wave of interest in this subject, It is plain to every thoughtful person that capitalism is a failure, but the way out is still surrounded by darkness, confusion and capitalist demagogy. The other day I gave 4 brief notice to the newly-formed Workers’ School in Cleveland, where 350 students have already registered to study the technique of the proletarian way out of capitalism. But there are lozens of other schools, and I wish I could list them all; the school in Chicago, for instance, and the new important one in the heart of the steel empire, Gary, Ind.; the successful school in Harlem, New York City; the school on the Pacific Coast, in New England and the South. (This page will soon begin to carry news of all important activities of workers’ schools throughout the country.—Editor.) IT would recommend to any worker desirous of studying Communism and the trade union movement that he register for 2 course at one of these schools, or if that is impossible, take a correspondence course from the New York school at 50 East 13th St. The school will also send you # list of books that can be read for serious and systematic study. . ° * . 1 Suggest These— r= the others, I will make an amateur recommendation of a few books that I believe might serve as an easy introduction to the whole field. That important work, “The Communist Manifesto,” by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, is still one of the best summaries of scientific socialism by its intellectual fathers. It is as fresh as though written to- day, with it great opening leit-motif, "A spectre is haunting the rulers of Europe, and its name is Communism,” to the grand crashing chord of the finale, those historic words that have been the signal for half a cen- tury of struggle, “Workers of the world, unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains, you have a world to gain!” ‘The Communist Manifesto is published in pamphlet form and sells for 10 cents. Read it; give it te your friends; mail one or two every week to workers whom you think it would enlighten. It is a master- pieco of logic, written with true proletarian art and passion. * * * * ~ MBOISSAYE OLGIN has recently written a little pamphlet on Commu- nism, directed especially at American workers, that is a skillful job of elucidation. We need more pamphlets of this kind, x written, as this one is, not in the vulgar journalese that patronizes a working class reader, but in strong, direct, everyday speech. Lenin wrote in a plain and rugged style that any worker can understand. He took the most difficult ehilczophi¢ and economic ideas and straightened ou heir snarls in his powerful mind. His words burn with the passion and sensitivity of a proletarian revo- jutionary: love of the workers, hate of the oppressors, But what marks the works of Lenin is his inescapable logic. Ij moves from one point to the next with the beauty of mathematics. It is not dead logie of the liberal bookmen, but the logic of life with all its apparent paradoxes. Lenin wrete cut of the background of the Russian Revolu- tion, and many of his references may be obscure tO American workers who have not studied that movement previously. Yet it is a great experience to discover Lenin. I know that his book, “The State and Revolution,” which is an account of the various steps by which the workers take power, and was written on the verge of the Revolution, influenced my oWn raind as much as any book I know. I was still groping in the irrational fogs of the anarchist credo when I read this book, and it straightencd me out, and 3 shall always have a special gratitude for it. All of Lenin’s books may be gotten jn pamphlet form through the International Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave., New York City. Jeseph Stalin writes with a scber, plain honesty that expresses the constsuctive and workman’s power latent in the character of that great ard modest leader. His pamphlet, “The Foundations of Leninism;’ ‘is also weli th the beginner's serious study, ° e * M. J. OLGIN \ Seme Books Cost Money f ergthins are altogether too expensive it this country. Most workers can- not buy books when they need bread so badiy. Yet every worker ought to niake some sacrifice to buy a few good solid books each year. One does not have to read many books or own a large library to become educated. A few of the right books, like Karl Marz’s “Capital,” are classics that belong in every home. They can be gone back to again and again over a period of years, so that the whole grand thesis of Communism finally saturates one’s mind with health, and all the false and glittering logic of the opportunists and demagogues is resisted like poison. A brilliant young British intellectual has recently published two fine books that make a good introduction to Communism. One is named, “The Coming Struggle for Power,” the other, “The Menace of Fascism.” John Strachey is a virtuoso of clear and sparkling English. It is an esthetic pleasure to read him, and a source of clarity as well. * * . * | gage fiction is certainly worth reading for the student of Communism. In the bourgeois world, fiction is regarded much in the game way as patriotic businessmen look at prostitutes; they are solely tor amusement, the sport of an idle hour, But proletarian fiction is a teacher of the masses. It teaches the lesson of Communism by other means than those used by the political scientists. Its material is the story of the daily life we know; the people and events struggling in this capitalist world. Its logic is that of the emotions; its truths are demonstrated by the fate of living people, One of the best introductions to the Soviet life that I know, is the novel by Valentin Kataey, published recently in America under the name of “Time, Forward!” (Farrar and Rinehart, publishers, New York City.) ‘This novel is simply the story of a construction gang working on one of the new enormous industrial projects in the Soviet Union. They are workers; and the fire, the enthusiasm and courage with which they go at their job because it is a socialist job will tell whole volumes to any American worker who knows what working conditions are like over here. This, too, is one of the new Soviet novels that aren't over-tragic, but breathe gay, youthful confldence and romance. The Soviet writers are beginning to reflect that victorious atmosphere that now pervades Soviet life, One of the classic proletarian novels is Martin Anderson Nexo's “Pelle the Conqueror.” It is written about a Danish worker, but is so true and beautiful that it reflects working-class life anywhere. * * * ® Hastily Yours— Yate are Just a few suggestions, made in the same spirit in which one would write them in a hurried letter 2» a young worker or student asking for guidance. I hope nobody is going to give me a lecture on superficiality, naming all the hundreds of books necessary to study Com- munism. I know I have been inadequate, yet it is still a fact that there are too few books or pamphlets written on the Communism for the American worker in a style that will appeal to him and can be readily understood. Chicago, Tl. With a great flare of trumpets, and shyly screaming of his great big heart, Bernarr McFadden has opened “penny” restaurants to help the un- employed. gy aot the class tronizing the sestaurant the “unemployed.” Ninety-five per cent were lower mid- Je class, clerks and salesmen from. it stores. I Yes. He had a job wi for Ber- narr McFadden, the Seats benefactor of the unemployed, He worked four ne tem) took some black bread, a glass of somato juice, some milk labelled cream, and a gluey bowl of bran imeared with molasses, The check his dinner. They used to get 10 centr an hour under the old manager. JOEN GREGORY. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, By C. 8. 6 es “International Collection of Revolutionary Songs,” the first ume of its kind, was issued recently by the International Music Bureau of the International Workers Theatrical Union in Moscow under the editor- ship of W. Ramm. It contains 1° pages of introduction (in three lan- guages — English, German and Rus- sian) and 70 pages of music and text, the latter also in three languages. It is published by the Moscow State Musical Publishing Office. Copies can be obtained at the Workers Book Store and at the Workers Music) | League, 5 E. 19th St., New York City, for 25 cents each. In this review 1| shall speak of the Introduction and, in a future issue, of the thirteen songs it contains. ‘The introduction “From the Inter- national Music Bureau” is a remark- able document of a little over 3,000 words. It should be read by every- one who is interested in the cultural aspects of the class struggle. The essential points of its content should be thoroughly familiar to all class- conscious workers, for it deals with the subject of music as @ weapon in the revolutionary movement, “Té is not necessary,” begins this introduction, “to reiterate the well known fact that music as well as song has always played « big role in the class struggle. It is more to the point to observe the concrete diffl- culties facing the proletariat in making full use of them” owing to the small number of its intellectuais and musicians, and to the fact that “in a number of countries the ad- vanced part of the working class still underestimates the significance of mass work upon the revolutionary music front.” Songs That Aided Reaction When one realizes that the Ger- | man Workers Singing Societies en- | rolled 280,000 members in 1929, that | millions of workers heard them sing ‘and that they sang to @ very large extent bourgeois music with bourgeois and even religious words, one under- stands why “these organizations were ‘considered (by Social-Democrats and , Fascists) a means of carrying out and | penetrating their influence upon the |masses of the working class,” | “Through these societies the bour- | geoisie united the masses around its | parties,” understanding “in a very subtle manner how to apply the slogans of ‘true art’, ‘aesthetics’, ‘pure The International Collection | Of Revolutionary Songs rke! bringing up the millions of wo a lavery in the spirit of chauvinism and and at the same time inflami: hatred against the revolution revolutionaries.” . ihe PROLETARIAT,” it s learning from its finding out how to win the For this purpose it necds its o' musical literature, its creations, which should bring masses in the spirit of the c! gle and organize them for the struge of socialism.” ts| hamper the use of our songs b; For thi the ft fi nes even for the Fascists mgs with their words, | beca al contradictions will ie | arise between the music and the text, |} which will ruthisssly destroy the ar- tistic features of the son: NUARY 31, 1934 In Soviet lo a) | of C.W.A., elected a de! National Convention Against Unem-| Robert Whitcomb, Fanya Foss, Leo: ployment in Washinzion Feb. 3, and| Dennen, Alfred Hayes, Leon 8. Her- approved 4 provram calling for wages| ald, Edward Dahlberg; and the (~7 or relief for all wor! Page Seven imeries!’ |300 Jobless Writers Lay Plans for C. W. A. Fight gate to the} recognition | RK—“No more jobs—only | are being forced to organize, for Th s the burden | first time, to fight the de of the message brought tere| government which « of the message bro t to 300 writers starve or to compete with la of the Une a ters Associa- | in the scramble for laboring jobs. tion in @ mass meeting in Irving! ,. 4 sIberg, Plaza Monday n y L. B, Sharp, |. erase Deniners; , eat who was rep IW.A Partisan Review, eG n Delamater, New York head of o.w.A.| Scion on the Proposals brought up, Sharp is in charge of new projects. | Sf Gommonsetise, for Binaham’s “ex The writers elected committees to | Of Commonsense, for Birigham's “ex- outline @ project for writers, voted to| Soctity between editors and weit attend in a body the Feb. § demon-| Jost aN stration aga‘nst the ntinuation | “** Committees elected are: Executive pro- ject committee, composed of Milton In one of the first issues of “Pravda” (number 5, in 1917) we | read of the importance attached to the singing of revolutionary songs in the trenches, The singing of the-| “International” was held to be as | important as the raising of the Red | Flag, for many of the German soldiers knew the song and it meant to them what it did to the soldiers of the Soviets, And important as mass songs are} in imperialist war, still more vital] are they in throwing off the yoke of} the oppressor at home. “Organizing} its musical mass work, the proletariat | is obliged to know this fic'd of wor in the opposite camp. The bourge is throwing tremendous energies into| the song field. Chauvinistic, nation-| ‘istic, religious, sentimental and at} the same time coarse, brutal soldier | songs in circulations of millions are now being spread in the capitalist countries through radio, cabaret, etc.” “It is interesting to note OMRADE ‘oss the sea! We hail this keen reasoning and its daring imagination. We want you to know that without any knowledge of your brilliant pronouncement from which! the above quotations have been made, | |a small group of composers organized | | as the Composers’ Collective of the| Pierre Degeyter Club in New York! has been working since February 1932) upon this very basis. We have be-/ lieved that it is technically practic-| able to develop song—and even in-| strumental music— of the character! you define. It is true that the great German workers’ choruses were! drugged with bourgeois ideology through the very musi¢ they sang, in spite of the revolutionary words that} often were set to it. Even in mest of our present songs the musical ideology conflicts with the political. There must be a revolution in # very systera of music if it is to fur- ther, and not betray, the revolution | in the system of socicty. We cannot, of course, 5' style. Music is a mass production, But we can pcint the way ‘o the con- crete realization of a new style by the ma: Even in mus ica the masses show, now vaguely, now more clearly, that the evolution of a proletarian music distinctly dif- | ply invent a new mustieal | the ‘International, ‘Comintern,’ let’s ‘Red Wedding,’ the ‘Iron R serve’ by Shekhter and others, but with counter-revoiutionary texts.” | titer Ak MUST he recognized, says the In-| ternational Bureau in bricf, that) the proletariat cannot, under capital- ism, fully forge the tremendous and/ genuine cultural growth it is eventu-| ally destined to achieve. Fully teal- izing that the music it has now ifs infinitely better than the Fascist ef- forts, it must realize too that this} music is “still not on a very high) level. And even if it were on such a} level, it is imperative to strive per- sistentiy for still higher artistic song) is taking place. We shall keep our ear always attuned to the voice of) the masses. But we shall not fail to} develop a a strong theoretical) grounding by which we may help that} great voice to discover itself, and to| grow and to throw off the gags and} mufflers that have choked it up to} productions.” | this time. | Hamper Fascist Efforts | . . * i Then follows the most significant} passage -—a passage that should be graved on the heart of every worker musician:—"The next very important’ In a second article to be pub- lished tomorrow the author of the above will discuss specific songs \ the “International Collection beauty of art’ and others in carrying out its everyday propaganda work in point to be given consideration is to make it impossible, or at least, to’ Revolutionary Songs’—Ed. No‘e. The workers Dance League. an- nounces a “Leaders’ and Teachers’ Course,” which begins this -Friday; Feb, 2, at 5:30 and ends Sunday, April 8. The course, to be given at the New Dance Group, 22 W. 17th St., will be given during week-ends, Some of the instructors include: Sophia Delza, Dr. Ginsberg, John Bovington, Francesca Boaz, Edna Ocho, Estelle Parness, Miriam Ble- cher, Lil Liandre, Riva Hoffman, Laya Kessner, Sylvia Manning, Gene Martel, Sophia Maslow and Anna Sokalow. The course includes: I. Theoretic Training in the Dance, (a) Develop- ment of the dance as an art form; five. lectures on the history of the dance covering (1) primitive; (2) ritual, (3) national, (4) ballet, (5) modern. (b) Pedagogy: methods of approach for teachers in the dance; (c) Accompaniment to the dance: (1) the instruments used in the dance; (3) improvised piano accom- WHAT’S ON Wednesday COURSE in English Literature from the Historical Materialist Viewpoint by M. Vetch, Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Workers School, 35 EB. 12th St. Register now. CLARENCE HATHAWAY will lecture on “Roosevelt's Finaticial Policy” at the Work- ers Center, 35 E. 12th St., 2nd floor, 7:30 pan. Auspices, New York District ¥.C.L. for the benefit of the Y.CL. Training Scitool. Adm. 15c. PROF. SCOTT NEARING will lecture on “Is The Way Out Fascism or Comm' 563 at Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 572 Sut- ter Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m. SCOTTSBORO Anti-Lynch Mass Meeting under auspices of West End Sec. LL.D, at Oriental Palace, 815 New Utrecht Ave. cor, 85th St. at 8 p.m. Thibodeaux, Ruby Bates, Alexander will be speakers. Negro musical entertainers SACCO-VANZETTI Br. LL.D. meets at 792 B, Tremont Ave. Discussion to follow bust ness. LECTURE and Discussion at Scottsboro T LD. Br. at 261 Schenectady Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 p.m. Joseph Tauber, speaker on “What's Next in the Scottsboro Case.” Ad- mission free FORUM at the Tom Mooney Br. 7. LD. at 323 E th 6t. at 8:15 p.m. Paul ‘Miller will speak on “The C.W.A. and the Unemployed.” Questions and discussion. Ad- mission free. LENIN MEMORIAL Meeting at the East Side Workers Club, 165 E. Broadway, at & p.m, Auspices, Units 18 and 19, Sec. 1. WORKERS Reed Club , 430 Sixth Ave, This is the final lecture tn a series on “A Marxian ftis- tory of Art.” REHEARSAL Daily Worker Chorus at $5 E. *2th St. Sth floor, at 8 p.m. bers must be present, Cleveland, Ohio 60th BIRTHDAY of ft. O. Ford, Banquet on hein Ag 4 at 6 p.m. at Oak Pythian Temple, E. 105th St. Interesting pro- gram ararnged, Hammond, Ind SOVIET FILM showing of “War Against the Centuries” on Friday, Feb, 2 at 8 p.m. at Trinity Hall, Howard and Ames St, Ad- mission in advance 15¢, at door 2c, Philadelphia, Pa. ELIMINATION MEET in Wrestiing, Work- ors Cultural and Sports Club vs Down Town All mem- Workers Dance League Opens Week-End Courses Feb. 2nd \Evening of Proletarian, |Dramatie Skits, Musie And Dance On Feb. 17) | NEW YORK.—An outstanding cve- | ig of prole' culture will be | paniment for class: work; (3) music | a Feb, 17, by the | created expressly for dance compo- | ented Satur Sition—piano; (4) use of set music| 's International Relief, 4 world | for the dance; (5) percussion to ac-| wide organization for the relief of | company Class work; (6) percussion | revolutionary workers, providing food | created for dance composition; (7) ,and clothing for strikers, The W.LR. use of the voice in the dance (song, |is also very active in organizing cu chant, chorus, etc.); (8) poems for| tural groups among the dance; (9) self-accompaniment | ail its branches. in the dance; (10) physical asvects of | croups will the dance, covering problems of mus- | cf Feb. 17. cular development, fatigue, body | building, ete, II. Practical Training in the Dance —fundamenials in the following schools: (1) Ballet, (2) Duncan, (3) Dalcroze, (4) Humphrey, (5) Gra- ham, (6) Wigman. (b) Practice Teaching; (c) Problems in dance di- rection. III. Problems in form and content: (a) Social forces in art; (b) Research in social forces in the dance, The Red Dancers will present a The fee for the entire course is $5.|Special program of Proletarian | Registration hours between 6 and 8 |“ Film and Foto Lesque will present @ new experimental flim. Dm. at 80 E. 1ith St. The W.IR. Band vill complete the | program with special concert selec- | these | perform on the evening | The Workers Laboratory Theatre | of Action wiil present an hour and | a half of new one-act plays, dra- matic skits and dramatic poems. Eugene Nigob,— well-known pianist who has been carrying on relicf work for the W.LR., will appear in a plano recital, An outstanding event of the evening will be a concertina presen- tation by Gregori Mati eh, one of the nost concertina virtuosos in America. The affair will be held in the City College Auditorium, 23d St. and Lex ston Ave. Tickets can be pur sed at the W.LR., 870 Broadway, 's Laboratory Theatre, 42 BE. h St., or the Workers Book Shop, 50 E. 13th St. Admission 25, 35 and 50 cents. Stage and Screen | | Helen Westley To Have Im- portant Role In John Wexley’s Scottsboro Play ferent from the old bourzodis music) ig 1B de of 7 {Board of Censors of Portland, Ore. jond opens at the Taylor Street | re this week. It ad “There | cen a heavy explo! m cam- —By Gropper | Mellon Would Be # Skunk! d. | Andy Sheph Civil Liberties Union in Protest on Hiilerite Film | Following the Dally Worker's ex- | sure On Jan. 25 of Hitlerite efforts} ute Nazi propaganda films| © United States, the American | Civil Liberties Union has sent a pro- |test to Bevarian Film Distributors, | |489 Fifth Ave., against the proposed | tion of “S. A. Mann Brand,” * film s rated with venon against Communists, Jews and militant work- | The protest is made in a letter) ed by Roger Baldwin, who on be-' alf of his organization recently of- fered to defend the right of the i United German-Amer- to hold a Nazi festival the 169th Regiment Armory. The letter in full, reads: } d that you are pro- bute in the United | a film entitled “S. A. Mann- | nd,” which is alleged to be pro- paganda in behalf of the policies of the present government of Germany | i and Communists, thus | litical and race projuclice. While this organization is opposed to governmental censorship of the} ies or calling upon the author- | nt an expression of any } however, obnoxious ts to you avzainst the show'ng & film. Good sense and a de-} cent Tegard for the publ opinion | of community like this should result | m not to show it. It will| ble strife and possibly | We would appre- knowing your attitude.” | In the meantime “Billboard” an- nounces in its current issue that} “S, A. Mann-Brand” has nassed the Jer. nign ahead of the film seesption it rece ¥ | Send your protect to tha] Bavarian Film Distributors, 489! Fifth A’ New York City. Mass sure will stop ail showings of iT | Carbondale, Ml. Dear Editor: | This is a strange request! I have been reading your paper for some time, and have been able to do so; through the kindness and genorosity | of F. M, H. of this city. Mr. H. is an} old man and for the years of service} he gave a hy shipping corporation, he has been thrown unon the cap-/ istic scrap-head of Old Workers. | now lives fot his Daily Worker | and dreams for the dawn of a work- ing men’s world. The few pennies} he earns by odd jobs buys his scanty | supply of food and his text-book used in spreading the light; namely, your} paper. | , Through the great sincerity of this | }man to the cause of Communism, I} have become a sympathizer. | If you Will send me the Daily} Worker while I am in the stogy en: virons of South Illinois Teach College, I faithfuly promise to it into hands of people it will shock, to the real‘zation of life beyond the crossroads of their tiny Illinois town. re are courses in this college in P . Gentlemen, it is a! ation to offer such a} | ent, pointing out that writers at last | of the writers’ profession by the gov-| Nestier, Harold Rosenberg, Charles and im ediate action by| Ferlin, Mary Carolyn Davies, H. I. nment, “under C.W.A. or| Hayes, Fred Miller, Parker Tyler, under X,¥.Z.” Stoyan Christowe, Lashos Egri, Mar- + sf | gery Mansfield, T. J. McGiven, Val- ‘T only know what I read in the! Gntine Erskine and Samuel Putnam, papers,” Sharp said, “like Will Rogers. | I personally am helpless.” | the chairman of the meeting. Other 2 | members were elected whose names Leon Herald, poet, hurled a ques-| cannot be given because they work tion back—‘Will you go to Washing-| on ©.W.A. projects now, i tee?” ton with our committee? Signers to the petitions of the as- Nudged by the elbow of Fanya Foss,| sociation include Theodore Dreiser, pretty member of the executive com-| Corliss Lamont, F. P, Adams, John tmaittee, Sharp said, “Yes, I will go to| Sloan, Josephine Herbst, Scott Near- Washington, even if I have to hike! ing, Edwin Seaver, Jack Conroy. there.” But he left early. |Granville Hicks, Stanley Burshaw, Robert Whitcomb, preliminary or-|®"¢ Maxwell Bodenhetm. ganizer of the association, reported] A second mass meeting is being on the program, and the treatment | called for all writers at Greenwich of writers by the government at pres- | House Feb. 10, Saturday night, when committees will report back. , for jobless seamen, the elimination | of the ¥.M.C.A. racketeers from the ‘ relief organization and the establish- 0 | lems of the class struggle in a lively, | i | | | 140 Broad St., New York. a Se Reviewed By HARRY RAYMOND NE of the best trade union papers that has come to our attention during the recent period is the offi- cial organ of the Marine Workers) Industrial Union, the “Marine Work- ers’ Voice.” The February issue, which lies be- fore us, is an excellent example of militant trade union journalism, if we excuse a few typographical errors. Keeping close to the life of the seamen and longshoremen, this paper deals with the most burning prob- | concrete and interesting manner. The editor, Hays Jones, permits no talking through the hat; in the “Voice” there is no abstract theoriz- ing carrying one beyond the stars; the paper correctly reflects the life and problems of the men who work on the ships and docks, and what's ore, it is a guide to action. The ‘oice” is full of organizational ideas. Outstanding among the articles ap- pearing in this issue of the paper is an analysis of the recent strike led by the M.W.LU. on the S.S, Mun-j beaver, which was only one of over) 20 led by the union on the Munson Line. Facing a bull-bucking skipper, who read the mutiny act, and a group of hostile officers and slippery A. F. of L. officials, the ship’s crew, under the able leadership of the ship com- mittee, led the strike to victory, which included the payment of back wages and recognition of the seamen’s com- mittee. | Paper Shows Growth The growth of the union among longshoremen, noted in the “Voice,” | can be seen in various sections of} the country, especially at Hampton} Roads, where the M.W.I.U, has or- ganized five docks and has set up al port organization committee which 1s} linked up with the rank and file dockers in the A. F. of L. union, the} International Longshoremen’s Asso-} ciation, In unemployed work the M.W.LU. shows increased activity. The paper reports an important victory scored | ment of & committee of seamen to supervise the relief, The paper not only reports these actions, but explains the strategy and tactics used and draws lessons for future work. “Voice” Leads Wage Fights In the fightagainst the scheme of the Roosevelt regime to slash down the wages of marine workers through | the vicious code system, the Marine Workers Voice stands alone as the onlly seamen’s and longshoremen’s paper leading the struggle for higher wages, In the organization of the struggic against fascism and war the union has shown progress, The “Voice” reports that the longshoremen of Varicouver have refused to work fas- cist ships, ‘There is an excellent article on the back page by Hays Jones, the editor who recently returned from a visit tc the Soviet Union, telling of the re- markable conditions enjoyed by sai ors on Soviet ships, Every worker should rea@ this sue of the “Voice” regardiess fro: which industry he comes, for the paper is full of important organiza- tional material. The lessons of the seamen’s and longshoremen’s strikes | Should be studied by every trade union worker, Writing on the question of labor Journalism, Lenin gave the following advise: “Less high falutin talk! nearer to life!” I think that the seamen who are editing the Marine Workers Voice not only understand Lenin’s advice, but are putting it into practice. Incidentally, the paper has ons great shortcoming, an oversized mast~ head. This is obviously the mani~ festation of an inferiority complex, which developed in the ranks of the union during the early days when the M.W.LU. was chiefly a propa- ganda organization. But now, that the union has emerged as a leader of mass strikes, the complex no doubt has disappeared, and we expect like~ Wise to soon see the old topheavy masthead replaced by ® more nea’ and dignified one, Get PUTTING THE DAILIES IN THE MAIL BOXES MEADVILLE, Pa.—Lately ft have been taking my old Daily Workers, after I read them, and wait until I get about a dozen copies and at night drop them into mail boxes on the outskirts of town. I have made four such excursions. I have no local to back me up, so I worked in the dark, after night. I thought it might combat capitalist propaganda and might be the means of your getting an order for the Dally Worker once in a while. This piece I am sending you was in yesterday's Meadville | Town Hall on Feb. 6. ‘Workers Club on Wednesday night. Ex- tra novelty program. Workers Cultural and Sports Club, 2014 MN. Sand St, \ i Helen Westley, who last appeared! here in “Biography,” has returned | from Holywood to act in “They Shall! not Die.” John Wexley’s play of the Sottsboro case which the Theatre Guild will present on February 19 as| its fifth production of the season. Ruth Gordon, Claude Rains and Linda Watkins have been previously announed for important roles, Philip Moeller is directing the production. “Come of Age,” the play by Clex ence Dane and Richard Addinsel! | which was announced to close last Saturday, will instead continue at the) Maxine Ellicott Theatre. Judith An- derson is featured in the cast. Marthe Krueger, Viennese dancer, will make her American debut at “Henretta, the Eighth,” a new dra- ma, by Rocher Macpherson, will be »resented hore in February by George #H,Srennan. Beethoven’s “Pastoral” On Toscanini Program Thur. The Philharmonic Symphony Orch- estra, under the direction of Arturo i, will present Beethoven's | Symphony No. 6, in F niajor (“Pas-| toral”) and Symphony No. 7, in A ‘thajor on Thursday evening and Fri-| day afternoon at Carnegie Ha’l. { On Saturday evening and Sunday, afternoon, Tosexnini will conduct | Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, in B-flat | major (“Romantic”); the Adagio; | Andante quasi Allegretto, from “The Creatures of Prometheus,” by Bee- thoven: Variations on a theme by Haydn, Brchms and Passacaglia and Fugue in G Minor by Bach. Harriet Cohen, pianist, will present an all-Eng‘ish program at her only recital of the season on Thursday night at Town Hall. Frieda Hempel will give her first song recital in several sezsons on| Sunday afternoon at Town Hall. ZINDOREST GUESTS AD “DAILY” | NEW YORE.—To help the Daily Worker install its new press, guests at Zindorest Park tock up a collec- tion recently. Twelve dollars wes he’ one-sided pic-| in Baltimore when the Waterfront | Tribune-Republican. What can they trialist “harassed” by| Unemployed Council, through milf-| fine me if they catch me putting the ture of the Indu: some measure with the introduction of your paper into such a class— through a very good friend of mine. raised and forwarded to the “Daily.” TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 3:00 P. M.—Martha Meers, Songs 7:15—~Billy Bachelor—Sketch \—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio e Goldbergs—Sketch ck Pearl, Comedian; Van Steeden | | Florence Des- Orch. 8:30--Wayne King Orch. 9:00-—Troubadours Orch.; mond, Impersonator 9:30-—Pred Allen, Comedian; Grote Orch, 10:00—Hilibilly Music 10:30—-Harcld L. Ickes, Secretary of the In- terior, Speaking et Dinner of Associa- toin of General Contractors of America, | Hotel Willard, Washington, D. ©. 11:00—Coleman Orch, | é—Antheny Frome, Tenor | —Denny Orch. 0-—Sosnick, Orch. Bisa WOR—710 Ke P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick ie Comedy; Mi :30—Osborn 8:09—Detectives Bil Drama :15-——Dilly Jones and Ernie Haer, Songs :30-—Deseription of Opening of Play —A Hat, a Coat and a Glove 8:45-—Redfern Hollinshead 0—-Magazine of the Air 0—Dorothy Miller end Garfield swift, Songs; Shackley Orch. }0—De Marco Girls; Frank Sherry, Tenor 5—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 0—Gypsy Prince S—-Pauline Alpert Piano d—Moonbeams Trio 0—Nelson Orch. 00—Bide Dudley—Talk A. M—Robbins Oren ‘Talk—Radie Harris lack and Blue—Mystery {u iB I am only a student, and live on about $4 per week, WJZ—760 Ke 7:00 P. M—Amos ‘n’ Andy 1§—John Herrick, Songs ‘30—Potash and Perlmutter 5—Hellywood—Irene Rich Find Me a Corpse angerous Paradise—Sketch e 8 8:45—Red Davis~Sketch 9:00-—Warden Lewis E. Lawes in 20,000! Years in Sing Sing—Sketch | 9:90—John McCormack, Tenor; Daly Orch. 10:20—Lopes Orch.; Jesters ‘Trio; ‘Adele | Starr, Songs; Tony Cabooch, Comedian | 10:30—Egon Petri, Piano i 11;00—Pickens Sisters, Songs j 15-—Robert Royce, Tenor 20—Stein Orch. 11:45—Rogers Orch, 12:00—Molina Orch. 12:30 A, M.—Madriguers Orch, . 8 « WABC-—-860 Ke. 100 P. M.—Myrt and Marge 15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 30—Travelers Ensemble '45—News—Boake Carter .; Men About Town Trio; | Ruth, Son7s | 115—-News—idwin ©, Hill | 8:30—Albert Spalding, Violin; Conrad Thi- | | ALVIN |labor unions. T hove to help this in| tant action, won three meals a day! papers into the mail boxes? AMUSEMENTS {HE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TALKIE! “HELL on EARTH?” with Wladimir Sokoloff (Moscow Art Theatre), Ernst Busch (now in exile) Louls Douglas, Negro International Vaudeville Star also:—LATEST SOVIET NEWSREEL See and hear:—TROYANOVSKY, RADEK, ete. ACME THEATRE 14th STREET and -UNION SQUARE ——THE THEATRE GUILD ts i nis tiring EUGENE O'NEDL's COMEDY Reyoeunbe pase bien! AH. WILDERNESS! ‘THE ANTI-WAR HIT Srd Big Month vis teance 298% wee | PEACE ON EAR’ GUILD 245. *. CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. lith 8. & 6th Av. a ‘way MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play | WA 9-7450. Eva: Ey.8.20Mats, Thur. &Sat.2:20 MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN Thea., G2d St. W. of Biway Ey.8:20.Mats. Thur, &Sat.2:20 EUGENE 0'NFILY’S New Pla; DAYS WITHOUT END “The Greatest of Anti- War Films” —HENRI BARBUSSE Produced in four different coun~ irles—spoken in four languages, mainly English, Directed by Victor Tri 30. Arrange Theatre Parties for your organiza~ tion by telephoning Watkins 9-2451 7\EGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Everett MAR- SHALL, Jean SARGENT, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th. Evs, 8.30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 fTlopig Thea» 43rd St. bait, Baritone; Voorhees Orel, Henry Miller’s savas 9:00—Philadelphia Orch, 21 be be 2st neste a asi z “s x Dust, comeaink Evenings $:40, Mat, Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 finny on A pests era Van, Conttalto; Renard Orch. ME ‘gad aut uwie Ree cared Neo MORE LADIES OLEMENCE DANE & cs y ADDINSELI. Shlegurier ie Tay, A New Comedy by A.B, Thomas with | MAXINE ELLIOTI’S Thea., 39th, E. of Bway 1:30--News Reporta MELVYN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON | Eves. 8:50, $3.30 to Sc, Mats. Wed. a Sat. 10448 oe ch.; Byelyn MacGregor, | BOOTH Thea,, 43th, W. of Bway. Bys, 8:50, | ————————__1_* Gontralto; Evan Evans, Baritone; Mixed | Chorus H 1L15—Negro Quintet { 11:30—Little Orch. 29—Gray Orch. i 32:30 A. M.—Hail Orch. | 1:00—Light Orch. ‘Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2: Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS i> “Her Master’s Voice” \in “TILLIE and GUS” ‘Thea,, W. 45th St. Evs, 8.40 TIwE BUST” Pigmiouth snc came wat van wie nbGia TOOMEY a GLORIA ORRA RKO Mth oe Et Jefferson \ St. & | Now | ‘W. ©. FIELDS & ALISON SKIPWORTR