The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE THE WORLD! By Michael Gold Can Anybody Answer This? E Species appeared in the New York Sunday News recently, under the bove title, the buffie-headed little editorial which follows: “We quote a Chicago Tribune Press Service dispatch from Montreal, dated Jan. 18: “Prof. W. F. Tait, head of he Department of Psychology, McGill University, contributed a new angle to the present controversy in two continents over the merits of sterilization. “*TIf you wish/ he said, ‘to cure the ills of society by sterilization, you should start with the over-intelligent. The worst crimes, the most widespread blights, are not caused by subnormal or mental defec- tives, but by intelligent people. Child labor, sweatshops, religious, po- litical and racial persecution, stock manipulation, bank delinquencies, graft at the expense of the country, intrigues and highgrade murder, war and its horrors—are not caused by morons, but by the intellegent.’ “There must be an answer to this. But we can’t think just now what the answer is.” * Ask Any Pioneer 1O THEY don't know the answer, these hired men who do the capi- talists’ thinking. I, for one, don’t believe them. I am sure the gentleman who wrote this editorial is hiding something, He knows the answer but won't tell. It would be too dangerous (to capitalism). In every sphere of thought today “truth is revolutionary.” The truthful answer to the contradic- tion stated above leads one smack into Communism. Ask any 10-year-old member of that group of fighting young reds known as the Pioneers. He will tell you that the way the issue has been stated is misleading. It is not “intelligence” that makes child labor pos- sible, and creates racial persecution, stock manipulation, bank failures, gtaft and all the other familiar products of capitalism. The Professor may have meant to be ironical in blaming “intelligence” for these things, but in doing so he was playing into the hands of the fascist ideologues Whd are attacking all modern thought, and who want to lead the human race back into the Dark Ages of theology, race hatred, irrationalism. . . * * Reoray intelligence is all that can save mankind out of the present horror. Capitalism contains so many evil paradoxes that it fears any real scientific examination of itself, and hence bases its thinking on mys- tie concepts—abstractions like patriotism, religion, hierarchy, and the myths of race. It is sclence and intelligence that is guiding the Working Class of the world, and that has built the Soviet Union. God and capitalism have brought unemployment, war and untold mceries to the hundreds of millions of working people all over the world. But proletarian solidarity and the scientific socialism of Marx and Venin are building a free and happy society for the working class in the Soviet Mion and throughout the world. No, Professor, don’t blame intelligence for the horrors of capitalism. It religion and the money-greed that are to blame, and the workings t a decrepit and dangerous system of production. It is the capitalist ‘s that is to blame; and this is not an intelligent class. It has a sort f predatory energy, such as one finds in cornered rats, or jackals sniffing some far-off prey, But it is not even intelligent enough to save itself from the suicide of another World War. 1 eee made many great promises to the workers and the bankrupt lower middle class before he took power. With the typical demagogic cynicism of all fascists, he orated like a rebel against capitalism, promis- ing to nationalize the banks and to restore the land to the farmers, to cefend the wages of the workers and end unemployment. After a year of power, what has he accomplished? Predatory capi- ‘alism is more entrenched in the government than ever in Germany. bails Thyssen, the Henry Ford of that land, is a member of Hitler's net and rules industry with an iron hand. The trade unions, from the mest yellow A. F, of L. and Socialist types to the extreme left, have been outlawed. .Despite all this, the hero!c German Communist Party ues its illegal work in the face of the murderous Hitler terror, ‘The ‘small peasants are still being wiped out by the banks; it is the big Iand-owning Junkers whom Hitler is helping, not the working farmer. employment, by Hitler’s own figures, has increased by more than half a million singe the fascists seized power, But the Brown Pervert has made good on some of his program—the brutal portions ofit; He has managed to outlaw the middle class and poorer Jews, driving them out of the professions and trades, strip them of citizenship, beat them, humiliate them, torture and murder them. Ge has begun to destroy all that great renaissance of modern thought that had made Germany the fascinating leader of young Europe up to the time of his regime, All modern nurseries and schools, for which Ger- many was noted, have been suppressed; the best scientific men, the great authors and artists, are either dead, in jail, or in exile. And the Brown Pervert has ushered in the practice of sterilization. _ Taking an idea’ that had been advocated by a minority of eugentcists, the idea that all hopeless imbeciles and the criminal insane should not be permitted to breed, he has made this one of his crusades, The idea was never quite satisfactory to scientists, for there is no sharp borderline jn mental pathology. Without a doubt, there are many people in Americah asylums who are quite normal, and are the victims of some kind of legal frame-up. Under Hitler's administration, the sterilization idea carried out on _pseudo-scientific lines. It is a political weapon, and is being used against liberals, Jews, Socialists and Communists, an added piece of medieval torture originating in the diseased brains which rule the German people. Yes, sterilizadfon, ‘Jew-murder and the temporary enslavement of the working class are Hitler's chief victories. But unemployment is increas- ing and hunger stalks the land. All his social program has proved a failure and lie, amd as Stalin said recently, Hitler will try to solve his crisis by plunging Germany into a new world war. Sterilization! There is something fitting in this idea which has be- come so important to the Nazi mind. For it is not only the militant workers to whom'this cruel thing is being done; it is the whole of German civilization. Hitler is trying to sterilize all the free intelligence and beauty of the German masses. “He-is trying to create a nation of spiritual eunuchs. But he will fail; as Torquemada and the Inquisition failed in their at- tempt to halt the’ bitth of modern science; as Czar Nicholas failed when he tried to destroy the Russian masses; as the southern slave-owners are failing in their desire to keep the Negro nation in chains. Nothing can save capitalism any longer, not even a Hitler, # ports of receptions, if any of the out of order, report to your S.W.A, ot ‘The following branches sre holding their membership meetings tonight. ‘The 14th &t. branch meets at the Vegetarian Club, 220 E. iéth St., 8:30 p.m. ‘The Bensonhurst Branch Com. Starkoff, ‘TUNING IN| BELOW 200 METERS TONIGHT’S. PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Morton Bower, Tenor 7:18—Rilly Bachelor—sketch . }0—Cirer Us 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Concert Orch.; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quartet 9:00—Lyman Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor; Muriel Wilson, Soprano beets Adams in Dramatic Sketch; usi 10:00—One Man Menagerie—sketch 10—Stoess Orch. —The Lively Arts—John Erskine, Author s—Stern Orch. 00-—Weems Orch. ‘30 A. M.—Sosnick Orch ‘teh SRC WOR—710 Ke 3:00 P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 7:15—¥ront Page Dramas 7:30—Jack Arthur, Baritone 7:45—Talk—Harry Hershfield 8:00—Detectives Black and Biwe—2ystery Drama €:15—Biliy Jones and Ernie Hare, Songs 9:30—Willy Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gererd, Soprano 8:45—The Old Neighborhood—-Sketch By 1. During last week, nota single report has seen received from’ our members ‘bout the Moscow station. The .extreme change of weather in the last few days probably ex- ‘olains the failure in reception. On Monday, due to heavy wind, it was Re. snpossible to’ use any ide aerial, nenibering a notice in the short wave radio news that @ brass rod ‘suspended vertically can be used as an indoor aerial for short wave, T took @ 50-inch Bfass rod 3-16 in diameter attached two: insulators on the tnds and suspended it vertically from the veiling to the floor. A of wire four tet long. attached to ‘the bottom of the rod, served as the leading. First came in nracas, Venezuela, on 48,79 Meters. A few words to’ the les that are using the 2 tube 8.W..sets, built in our club: ‘The aerial should not be less than 50 feet. Long 14 enameled copper wire is advisable. ‘The lead m should be gt tess than two foet from the butlding,” ‘The ground wire should be connected to'the cold water pipe ond as short as possible, When, and what neters to tune: From 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on meter band for RNE, 3 _P.m. to 10 p.m. 1 48, 49, 50 meter bands for ail American, | ‘anadian, RV69 Moscow: (bet. 4 and 5 p.m.) | ind ell European stations. © Notice: All the comrades that possess| 9:00-~Al and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo ha, two tubs S.W. built in the clubs,| 9:30—Variety Musicale are’ requested to thetr weekly re-' 9:15—De Marco Girls; Prank Sherry, teur| is not even being | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, The World of | the Theatre | By HAROLD EDGAR | TAMIRIS Tamirie is a dancer in need of | radicalization. This might be saiq of| | all artists who have not yet assoziated | themselves in some direct way with | the proletarian revolutionary move- ment, but it is especially true that| radicalization in our direction would} be of immediate value to Tamiris and to our cultural front. This observa- | tion is based on the evidence of her | own work at her latest recital in the | Booth Theatre. Tamiris’ dance, more than any | other American dancer's, has a vigor, a sturdiness and an enthusiasm that derive from popular sources. One feels | in her a lyricism of big city streets, of modern life not in the studio sense but in the sense of actual contact | with everyday things—shops, bus- rides, parks, department stores, cor- ner flirtations, Coney Island, hitch- hikes, There is nothing sickly in her work, nothing pretty-pretty. There is animal spirits, there is hope and youth, and there is little vulgarity or cheapness. Yet all these qualities so much closer to workers than to the arty audidnce of Broadway dance recitals, lack a focus. The forms Tamiris chooses to express herself in are largely foreign to her. They are abstract and cold. (Even when they are supposedly based on Whitman poems.) In relation to what Tamiris is, and to what we sense in her hand- some, energetic body, her subjects seem pretentious and forced. They seem borrowed. | If Tamiris would give herself con- crete subjects (spegific dramatic themes) s* ong definite working class lines with a clear revolutionary ideology, her forms would become much her own, her art would become organic and her capacity for hard work, her ambitiousness, her beauty would take on meaning, would count | for something. Tamiris’ gifts should not be wasted in the frigid realms of modern “neo-classic” dancing but should be put at the service of people whose lives are rooted in the most inescapable realities of our day, peo- ple whose lives are a constant struz- gle, people in whose hands lies the destiny of the world—workers! These people—their hopes, fears, defeats and triumphs—can enrich her and complete her, and she in turn can bring joy to them, a healthy pleasure | for which they would be truly grate- ful as onlv workers “an be. Her body, now beating itself a little futilely against the vacuum of 57th Street art, could become a symbol of work- ers’ splendor and workers’ whole- someness, | Stage and Screen | | | “Broomsticks, Amen!” Coming To Little Theatre Feb. 9 Elmer Greenfelder’s new play, “Broomsticks, Amen,” which deals with the folk ways of the Pennsyl- vania Dutch, will open at the Little Theatre on Friday night, Feb. 9, ac- cording to an announcement received yesterday. William Von Schoeller, | Vivtor Kilian, Margaret Mullen, and | Seymour and Jean Adair head the cast. “False Dreams, Farewell,” now playing at the Little, may be moved to @ larger house. G Zola’s “Nana” with Anna Sten At Radio City Music Hall ; Anna Sten makes her first appear- | ance in an American film, in “Nana,” at the Radio City Music Hall today. This is a picturization of Emil Zola’s novel adapted to the screen by Wil- lard Mack and Harry Wagstaff Gribble and directed by Dorothy Arz- | ner. Miss Sten, who received her principal training on the Soviet stage and screen, will be recalled for her | exceptional work on the Soviet pro- | duction, “The Yellow Ticket,” di- rected by Feodor Ossip, which was first shown in America some years back. The supporting cast includes Lionel Atwill, Richard Bennett, Mae | Clarke and Phillips Holmes, Satie ens “Going Hollywood” At The Jefferson Theatre Tomorrow “Going Hollywood,” with Marion Davies and Bing Crosby will be pre- sented on the Jefferson Theatre &.7en beginning tomorrow and con- tint. until Tuesday, The same pro- gram will include Lionel Barrymore, | Alice Brady and Conway Tearle in “Should Ladies Behave.” Wednesday the screen features will include, “Cross Country Cruise,” with Lew Ayres and June Knight, and “Fury of the Jungle,” with Donald Cook and Peggy Shannon, 10:00—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen, Songs; Rondoliers Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Milban String Trio 10:45—Jim and Don, Songs 11:00—Moonbeams ‘Trio | 11:30—Nelson Orch, | fa Wotane “Orch. | * . WJZ—760 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy | 7:15—Robin Hood—Sketeh 7:30--Potash and Perlmutter 7:45—To Be Announced 8:00—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; thei Shutta, Songs; Bestor Orch. 8:30—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch &:45—Red Davis—Sketch 9:00—Leah Ray, Songs; Harrls Orch. 9:30—Phil Baker, Comedian; Shield Orch.; Male Quartet; Neil Sisters, Songs 10:00—The Iron Master-—Bennett Chapple, Narrator 10—Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Wucille Man- ners, Soprano 11:00—Three_Scamps, 11:15—Can You See ‘H. Buker 10: Songs Canopus?—Dr. Robert :80 A, M.—To Be Announced (eae TaN WABC—860 Ke 7:00 P. M.—Myrt_end Marge 3-—Just Plain Billi—Sketea 45—News—Boake Carter 00—Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs nin 8:15—News—Edwin ©. 8 of Time :00-—Philadelphia Studio Orch. 9:15-—Alexander Woollcott—The Town Crier 9:30—Melodic Strings 10:00—Olsen and Johnson, Comedians; Sos- nick Orch. 10:30—News Reports So: Starting | “ By ROB. ROBBINS “Uncle” Grundy—Joe R. Grundy— Gives his slaves a rest on Sunday; | He gives them buildings, perks and | trees, “Everything” but a wage increase! OME years ago this writer reviewed @ play calle rocessio! by John Howard L: Intended to be a serious telling of the story of workers in the mine region fest Virginia the locale, I vaguely recall, | the whole thing stcuck me as a hor-| tible burlesque. What seemed in- credible in it, also, was the appear- ance of the owner of the mine w ing @ high hat—and actually liv in the mine tuwn That's possible, I’m convinced now —with the exception of the high-hat part of it. tion of “absentee-ownership” about the town of Bristol, Pa. It’s Grundy all the way, and “Uncle Joe,” the “lobby-gow” has his estate in the town where he “work: The massive brick shimney of his whitewashed cotton mill bears the infamous six letters, ostentatiously, the six letters that actually spell out terror, sweatshop, industrial oli- garchy, built upon the blood, sweat and muscle of the mill workers slaving in his mill for It’s a bitter, a hard name, exactly ploiter who bears it. You feel its this Uprer Delaware River town, | beautiful on its river side, with old bery, etc. and inhabited by com- Grundy’s side, around his mill and “wordly goods.” are the hovels in which “live” the mill workers, stag- nant creeks, and all the other evidences of the miserable existence | of the cruelly exvloited mill workers. | Grundy “reated a pork for them a} few steps from his mill, the grass of | which is carefully manicured and} the trees skilfully pruned. There’s not a bench in sight—and I saw no children playing around. Are they terror-stricken, afraid that Grundy} might fire their parents if they hap-| pened to raise hell in his nice pavk?| Or maybe they. can’t come out to! play because they’ve no shoes or clothes. Say, that5s possible, because “Uncle Joe” doesn’t take care of his mill} workers like he does “their” park. Because the highest wage any of them get is $14 per week. That is, they're supposed to make that much when they put in a full week, but who does in Grundy’s mill? Not many. And they work as many as 60 hours per week for that $14. The working conditions are said to be the worst possible, typically Grundy ones. The workers are terrorized; they won't talk about the Grundy mill. However, at one of those vhoney investigetions inspired by his political rival, the “liberal” Pin- shot some of Grundy’s ex-mill work- ers, (and I say ex-mill workers ad- visedly, because Grundy won't let the slavery existing in the mill of “Uncle” Joe Grundy. He denied it in newsvaner interviews—and that was the last heard of the “investiga- tion.” Ce Saas FRUNDY is the epitome of all in an accident in Grundy’s mill. Grundy contended if was the work- Things Are Changing--- Even in “Grundyville” Nothing of the sugzes-| years: | G-R-U-N-D-Y. | like the personality of the arch-ex-| sinister influence all about you in| Colonial mansions, expensive shrub- | placent middle-class doctors, lawyers, | dentists—and bankers and brokers} who commute to Philadelphia. On| them wotk Yor him again) told of| that’ y ‘cl. bitter and sadistic. Here's “ cxamvle of the Grundy technique: a mill worker lost a leq| 1934 er's fault and him in Thousands o! were spent Gru his “effront the part of one of his sla’ rather than give to the wi money spent on lawyers. worker lost out in every court, but by sheer, ident, pcause some to pay off grudge in a final court of t was reversed and the suit. Grundy made out the check. And then fired everyone in his mill related to this iy gave to the town the new He insisted that it be nt 1 his mill, not pertic- ularly fer the convenience of his workers, but that feeling of in- creasing his feudal estate obtained in this case. The only post office. | therefore, is located some miles from | the main streets of Bristol. I couldn’t determine whether Grundy was responsible for the pine board stuck in the lawn of the post office— } and containing the names of the sixteen who were murdered in the last war to make the world safe for —By Gropper the Grundys. Most of the names were of Italian and Polish origin:|Gen. Hugh L. Johnson formerly workers in Grundy’s mill, | Would Be a Taxidermist no doubt. | No one in Bristol could tell me} ——- oO he 7 yville. | Soviet Songs | Popular Here his. He even oversees the relief that is dole out to the extent of a couple of dollars worth of groceries a nee | A woman retary of his is directly in charge of the local relief agency. He owns the only newspaper in town, | The Courier, and a Mr. Ratcliffe, whom Grundy has endowed with his} Just as the United States govern- own genius for exploitation and| ment 1 been forced to recognize driving harq bargains, is secretary) the achievements of Soviet Russia | of the “corporation” that prints it.) on the economic front, so also have Surprisingly, because one would ex-|the American music critics heen | Maser definite Grundy poner it is &/ compelled hig agli es ~ | yoical innocuous small-town sheet.| progress of the workers’ eas- | Even the church bells on the Sun-| ants’ republic on the cultural—par- | day I was there seemed to be vealing | ticularly the musical—front. : | out the name of Grundy, although; ‘The measuring-rod for judging ena he hasn’t given to Bristol any church | public acclamation of So music | bufldings; Jeeend has it that Grundy] here js Sergei Radamsky who, with is an “agnosti>”! his wife, Marie, has just returned | Another legend has it that he em-|from a tour of seven large cities in| ploys a “red” professor to keep him/the East and Middle West. Every- | posted on developments, economic| where they went—Cleveland, Chica- | and political, and to concoct grand! go, yg prices Lesage Shain schemes to “help his workers’—but/| ton, Pittsburgh—the two singers of | he always operates in the opposite| Soviet songs were greeted with un- direction, of course. | bounded enthusiasm by both the au- tered * | dience, and only slightly less. appreci- | "WHAT'S the way things stand in the | tion by the music erities. oe | * Year of our Lord 1934 in Bristol, sen oy Sth et Spelled fen Bue to say that they literally | the critics. Six years ago Radamsky pene ee ite Ae Tey are | cave up singing the arias, the bom- changing—slowly enough by com-|2@V@ Up singing ihe en y | bastic, superficial, Baroque Itelian parison with other small industrial operas, the “holy” oratorios and| towns perhaps, but fast enough to| jiooy cone, ns A | give outside observers a feeling of church songs, and devoted himself ',, mainly to the simple, sincere prole- Boge peat Saas, CHRREYE taiay songs of revolutionary Russia. ; ; |For six years he lost all connection when things begin to change in | ~ith the bourgeois music circles and By JEROME ARNOLD place like Bristol, Pa. or any other} visiteg the USSR. every year. When Grundyville, things are, indeed,/he ‘returned here he travelled changing, | | through the large cities on a tour of | Soviet working class «: And, conversely, th [sie critics lost all rest in him. | Heretofore they hed heaped great | plaudits upon the tenor. They had | NEW YORK.—‘Defeatism and the| glowed in rapture at his rendition | Proletarian Short Story” will be the|of the superfi old operas. Now he subject of the talk to be given by} was lost. He hod become “contami- Alexander Gregory, literary editor of|nated with the stigma of Bolshe- “Debate,” for the first time con-| vism.” ducted by the left-wing literary ma-| “But I stuck to my guns!” Radam- | eazine, “Blast” on Sunday, Feb. 4th.! sky told me. “It was pretty hard at | 8.30 p. m., at 33 East 20th St. Virgil | first but now—here, look at these.” Geddes, dramatist and contributor to| He ovened several folders and took the “New Masses,” will speak on the| out hatches of clippings from news- | relation between proletarian fiction| papers throughout the country. and the revolutionary stage. | “Soviet songs have come into their gs. “Blast” Forum Series bourgeois mu- Will Start on Sunday WHAT Friday STUDIO PARTY, Poet Danes Recitel, Rus- sian Singer, at 28 E. 14th St. at 8 p.m. Auspices, Unit 9 Sec. 2. Benefit National Convention Against Unemployment and the at 8:30 p.m. Wm. Partin speaks on ‘“Un- LECTURE at American Youth Federation, Birth Control Be Legalized?” Speakers: Mrs. the American Birth Control League. tions and discussion. . MARIE HAUBERSTAD, lecture on “War and Fascism” at Women's Council No. 19, 93 Avenue B. Adm. 10c, MEETING of Artef Club, 133 Second Ave. at 8:30 pm. Wm. Partin, speak on “Un- employment Insurance.” BAZAAR given by East Side Workers Club, 165 E. Broadway, for the benefit of Morning Fretheit. Tonight—Concert and Dance; Sat- Cabrret night. Refreshments, en- t, bargains galore, ISBURG, lecture “The Physician in tie United States and in the Soviet Union” at 29 St. Marks Place, at 8:30 p.m. ¢, Br. 405 LW.O, Youth Br, Admis- Ques- “Soviet Russia Today” at Red Spark A.C. CONCERT and Bazaar to welcome Sam Gonshak at Charlotte St, Center, 147 Char- lotte St., Bronx. Adm. 25c. PROSPECT Workers Center, 1157 So. Bou- levard, Bronx, lecture by Dr. Solon 8. Bern- stein on “Scientific Sex Knowledge vs Char- latanry.”” FORDHAM Prog. Club, $05 E. Fordham Rd, Bronx, lecture by ‘Abraham Dramow on “Mass Defense ys Legal Defense” 8:30 Pm. Adm. Ie. MOSHULU Prog. Club, 3230 Bainridze Ave. lecture by Abe Harris on “Growing Fascism in the U.S.A.” 8: on “The at Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. ‘Tremont Ave. at 8:45 p.m. MT. EDEN Workers Center, 288 E. 174th St, Open Forum. Sam Goldberg lecture on “Fram "ps." Adm. free; 8:30 p.m. ? DAY BAZAAR, Friday, Saturday a ‘ay, arranged by Shule 16 I.W.O. Br. 18) L.W.0. and Womens Council 30 at Interesting program every day. tieket IFc. JAMES ALLEN, Yecture “What Ys The Future of the Nero People” at American Youth Club, 407 Rockaway Ave., 8:30 p.m. WM. L, PATTERSON lecture on ‘Why Unemployment” under the auspices of the Powel and Sutter Assembly, 1813 Pitkin Ave. Brooklyn. Adm. 10c, MAX BEDACHT lecture on “Fascism tn Germany and U. 8.” at IwW.O. Br, 487, 1009 Winthrop 3, Brooklyn; 8:30 p.m. COMRADE BAILIN speaks on Theory and Practice” at Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave, Lecture in Jewish. BORO PARK Workers Club, membership meeting; 18th Ave. and 47th St., 8:30 p.m. OPEN FORUM in Astoria, every Friday night at 25-20 Astoria Blvd. at 8:30 p.m. Prominent lecturer on topics of the day. Admission free. Auspices, I.W.O, Center and School of Astoria. MASS MEETING on Terror of Filipino | “Marxist | Workers in P. I. on Sunday nt 2:30 p.m.| |at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St. cS jown,” he said. | es Bae , Ss RUE enough. Pittsburgh, Wash- ington, Baltimore, music critics rete ere |hafled with delight the concerts of | Soviet songs given by Radamsky and darity Br. I,W.O. 691 at 415 Lenox Ave. Ad-| his wife, mission free. | spirits, | tinguishes | eress. te Page Five If Bill Gropper Lunacharski’s Great Gift as ere Commissar Writer Cited by Bukharin By N. BUKHARIN away from the proletarian etland, in France, Anato] th Lunacharski, “the § ador to Spa probably be referred e I saw magnificent pacities of man still kept up hi i were two {which for hi charski out Bolshevism battle then jestingly referred to held nacharski jested and laughec ear sae Wee Wain that pecu- LUNACHARSKI | aPTER that, however, Lunacharsk! laugh which fitt — 1 with |*% adopted a firm position. Through- home take beh os |out the Revolution, on all the fronts Anatole Vasilievich was one of the | ges — _ Education most gifted men whom the labor | [00 i oom nee ae at ee movement of our country has | ‘285 0 sensaggsinee a Ce brought to the fore. Hi as indeed | Munist League) and in circles of au- He a man of | thors and artists, in ali his mul na 7 farious activities, he was a Part; ve the iron charac- ter, the will-power and perseverance necessary for a true leader of mil- 1 did not possess the theoretical pirit and dis- the ndity, the orthodox sistible dialectic logic which the true genius of ian R: tion. With a m which more than ence exhibited fluctuations, Luna- charski never pretended to such a role and his poli! tains a series of truly grave errors. Nevertheless, this fighter of our Par- ty passed through his entire life as one of the noblest knights of the proletarian Revolution and his name will unquestionably enter history as that of a fiery, courageous fichter and enthusiastic builder of socialist culture. A Generation of Outstanding Revolutionists Lunacharski belonged to a genera- ‘ion which produced a large num- ber of outstanding figures in the revolutionary lebor movement, Al- most as a boy he began his under- ground work, sat in prison, was sent into exile and lived for many years abroad as an emigrant, In short he passed through a wide schooling in politics and life. He worked among men of such caliber a: Lenin and Plekhanoy. More than once he held most responsible Party posts in the early stages of the de- velopment of Bolshevism. His splendid militant speeches (his nseudonym was “Voinov,” meaning “warrior”) directed against the Mensheviks, were an excellent com- viement to the crushing blows of Lenin’s iron logic. Voinov was the reporter on the question of an armed uprising at the Third Congress. He was one of the strong protagonists of Bolshevism at the Stockholm Con- Voinov-Lunacharski was a brilliant publicist and litterateur of militant Bolshevism. But every time that he moved beyond the sphere of influence of Vladimir Il- yich he slipped and sometimes fell very far. A disciple of Avenarius in philoso- phy, he passed through a number of intermediate stages. Under the strong influence of A. Bogdanov, he moved from his “Principles of Posi- tivist Esthetics” to his two-volume work “Religion and Socialism,” in which Marx's scientific Communism was interpreted as a peculiar sort of religion. This tribute to the old idols |was immediately stopped short by Lenin. Theoretical mistakes were closely followed by political ones. “God building” and “Forwardism” He did | 1 biography con- | poet and writer, one of the m loyal and disciplined of fighters. He | fully atoned for his mistakes anc | blunders. Lunacharski was uni iy loved | apacialiy by youth. adimir yich forgave him much for he was | “devilishly talented.” In the long rar his “devilish talent” stood the Revo- lutien in good stead. “Fascinating,” “Lovable” | As @ man, Lunacharski was ex- racrdinarily fascinating and lovable. ; He was indeed a “Hellene,” if Heine's | terminology may be used. He was | full of the “heathen craving for life.” | Socialism he interpreted as the un- | olding of all the possibilities lati in man, a system making possible rich and integrated life, with steadi growing demands, with the stea {growing powers of organized | manity. |. In Lunacharski, one sees the pic- ture of a hopelessly sick man glory- jing over new victoi on the tech- nical and cultural f. His no! mind and fiery heart responded when {he saw thousands upon thousands of | new | banner throughout He took a veh |tles against the devi the from the Party line. Anatole Vasilievich has pass jaway. His Will be deeply felt all the builders of and fighters fo: Communism. His image will remein j@mong us all as that of a bold and | daring fighter, full of strength ing for life and battling for a t tiful life. His was a deep mind a ® warm heart. He leaves behind the memory of a poet and scientist, a many-sided personality, much like the bold heroes of the Renaissance As a Party fighter and builder of clalist education, his name will long be recalled as that of a profound internationalist and ardent lover of toiling humanity. Proletarian culture has lost a re- markable leader. But proletariar culture lives on. |Soviet Song Program to Be Heard in Bosion BOSTON. — Sergei and Marie Radamsky, recently returned from 4 concert tour of the Soviet factories and cultural centers will offer a Program of Soviet workers’ songs tonight at Jordan Hall, 294 Huntine- ton Avenue. They will be assisted by Ramon Gonzales. { _AMUSE MENTS = IME GREAT INTERNATIONAL TALKIE! 33 E. 13th Bt. at 8:30 p.m. Subject: “Shall | F. Robertson Jones, Honorary President of | Mall, 64 Second Ave., near 4th St., 8:30 p.m. | Dancing and refreshments, Combination; 10:45—Mary Eastman, Orch, Speakers irom I.L.D., Patterson, Civil Liber- ties Union, prominent Japanese and Filipino 11:15-—-Boswell Sisters, Songs OPEN FORUM: “Lynching in U. 8. A.” Speaker: Tayior, German Workers Club, 79 E. loth St., 8 p.m. Adm, free, Saturday DANCE an Entertainment, Clarte, 304 W. 58th St. at £:30 p.m. Contribution 5c. |_ DANCE and Entertainment, Office Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St. at 8:30 p.m. Subscrip- tion 2c, BALLOON Dance, Tremont Prog. Club, 866 |B. Tremont Ave. at 8:45 pin, Good Jazz band. Dancing till dawn, PARTY given by Y.C.L. Unit 7 Sec. 5 at | 894 Home St. Entertainment, refreshments. Adm. 10c, MOVIES and Dance given by Greek Br. LL.D, “N. Spandydakis” at Spartacus Club, 269 W. 25th St. at 8 p.m. Soviet film “Road to Life” will be shown, Adm. 25¢. MONSTER Concert and Banquet, 25th {s- sue Wall Magazine at Harlem Prog. Youth Club, 1538 Madison Ave. Morris Taft, hon- orary chairman, 4-course dinner; Fretheit Mandolin Group, Dram Group, singers, reci- tation, chalk talk, ete. Adm. 350; SIXTH ANNUAL Banquet and Concert of Women’s Council 16 at 1163 Lenox Road, Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. GRAND CONCERT given by Shoe Workers of Coney Island and Brighton at Coney Is- land Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th St., near Mermaid Ave. Subscription 25c. Cleveland, Ohio 60th BIRTHDAY of I. O, Ford, Banquet {on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 5 p.m. at Oak Pythian Temple, 70€ E. 105th St, Interesting pro- gram arranged. Chicago STOCKYARDS Workers Masque Ball, ¢! by the Packing House Workers | Union, Saturday, Feb. 3 at 322 E. 43rd St. | Georgia Crooners Famous Orchestra. Ad- j mission 20c. Philadelphia, Pa. LENIN-LIEBKNECHT-LUXEMBURG Me- j Merial Meeting Saturday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. lat Ke ton Lahor Lyceum, 2916-24 | Second Adm. 250. P. Hellmann, main speaker. Choruses, Dram. Sec., Concert | Orchestra. Benefit “Der Arbeiter” and “Daily Worker." Auspices: Ant!-Fascist United Workers Org. and C.P. of West Phil- adelphia cn Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 24 and 25 at 1137 N. 41st St. Good" pr arranged. Many valuable things for Pittsburgh, Pa. HILL BRANCH L.S.N.R. Open Forum on nday, Fed. 4, at 2:30 p.m. Jack Hardy eture on “When the Nezro People Ruled the South. tion Period. Monumental Baptist Church, 2240 Wylle Ave. Newark MASQUERADE BALL and Dance given by Freiheit Gesings Farein on Saturday, Fed. 3 at Y.M.H. Club, 514 Clinton Ave. Adm, 35c. Boston, Mass. MARINE DANCE and Entertainment at Paradise Gardens, 2 Central Sq., Cambridge, on Saturday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. Auspices, Marine Workers Ind. Union. Lackawanna, N.Y. MASS MEETING called by the Buffalo Ex- ecutive Comm. I.W.O., L.W.O. City Central Comm, of Lackawanna; English Br. 722; Ukrainian Sec. Br. 764, and Russian Mutuel 11:30—Jones Orch. akers. Auspices, Pilipino Antl-Imperial- 12:00—Redman_ Orch, i Teague and TLD. ® 19:30 A. M.—Belasco Orch. LOUISE THOMPSON will speak on “Lenin 1:00—Dance Orch, and the Working Clay © m me" -* Set, Aid Society on Sunday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. m Friendship House, 627 Ridge Road, ‘The History cf the Reconstruc- | 58:30 p.m. | | i | “Radamsky scored his greatest | |cky sang, where there was a Freiheit | | appear in’ a program of Soviet | Degeyter Club Offers with those fascinating | songs of the Soviet, those chants of the workers. The Belkin “Donia the Komsomol’ was a bratura workers’ song sung in virile manner ., . the | | Yiddish “Har Worker,’ a song of | sreat lilt,” thus said the Pittsburzh | Post-Gazette after their concert in | that city. “The group of songs of Soviet Rus- sia sung by Mr. Radamsky had de- cidedly new themes. The music by |the modern Soviet composers Belkin, | | Kortchmariev and Beilly, was full of | |character, although not of great | originality,” said the Washington | Evening Star. | Soviet Songs Simpie, Sincere | “That, ‘lack of originality’ com- | ment is due to the inherent quality | | of the new Soviet music itself, which | no bourgeois music critic can fully | appreciate,” Radamsky declared. “The |music written for the masses of workers and peasants is direct, tell- ing it's story with tonal grace and | Sincerity. That, in my mind, is what nroletar': ic should be. No frilis, . It is direct, un- | | adorned speech, rendered with genu- | ine simplicity.” | The “Red Army” song by Volpe, a} young Bolshevik, a member of the Russian Communist Party for eight | years, received the greatest accla- | mation both for its message that “there stands the Red Army, guard- ng the land, the riches and the pow- |er of the workers and peasants,” and |Sor its dramatic, vigorous marching | rhythm. In every city that Radam- | | successes Gesangs Verein, the music and words were transcribed to be sung by these workers’ cho: uses. eae . | Sergie and Maric Radamsky will | songs tomorrow night at the New School for Social Research, 66 W. itth Street, Robert Minor will speak, Song Program Tonight NEW YORK.—Charles Seeger and Al E. Swift will present a program of new songs written by left- wing composers at the Pierre Degey- ter Club, 5 E. 19th St., at 8.15 to- night. The program is a substitute for the scheduled concert of the rs’ Collective which will be presented at a later date. Produced in 4 different countries—spoken in 4 languages, mainly English, with Wladimir Sokoloff (of the Moscow Art Thea.) and “HELL on EARTH” seiste'ss Sic" HENRY BARBUSSE says:—‘The Greatest of anti-war films Also:—Latest Soviet Newsreel See and hear—TRONAYOVSKY, KARL RADEK and others ACME THEATR ith STREET AND UNION SQUARE =| —THE THEATRE GUILD KUGENE O'NEMLL': comeor | RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— AH, WILDERNESS! 50 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation ith GEORGE M. COHAN Opens 11:30 A, M. L Te AN oe aye MaKe - MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play Based on Zoli’s Famous Novel MARY OF SCOTLAND e pret ae eke SS a vite ELEN race etn || THE 1ST MUSIC HALL REVUE’ S$ MERIVALE MENKEN ||) nKo Tath St. & | ALVIN 7% 224 St. W. of B'way | Jefferson ve iy,” | Now | cs | W. ©. FIELDS & ALISON SKIPWORTH EUGENE O'NETLIS New Play Ev. Mats. 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JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK MAXINE ELLIOTT’S Thea., 30th, E. of Bway | NEW AMSTERDAM. 2 St. Eves. $1 to $8 Eves, 8:50, $5.30 to 55c, Mats. Wed. é& Sat. | Plus tax, Mats.Wed.&Sat.,50c to $2.30, plus tas AMERICAN PREMIERE FORUM CALEND FOR FEBRUARY SERGEI AND MARIE RADAMSKY in a program of Friday, Feb. 16, 8:30 p.m. HAYES JONES “An American Marine Worker Examines Working Conditions in Soviet Russia” Friday, Feb. 23, 8:30 p.m. JULIET STUART POYNTZ “What is the Outlook for World Peace?” ADMISSION 15¢ Soviet Songs | ROBERT MINOR, Speaker SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd —8:00 P. M— NEW SCHOOL 66 West 12th Street, N. ¥. C. and 7Sc. at the Tickets 50c. Daily Worker Office at Section 2, 56 West 25th St. and at New School, 66 West 12th St, | | Friends of the Soviet Union PROSPECT PRK. BRANCH 1071 Bergen St. (near Nostrand Ave.) ‘Brooklyn p