The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1934, Page 7

CHANGE -THE-— WORLD! By Michael Gold { } { FROM “THE PLAYGROUND OF THE WORLD” <Jeged to wait up on them. for the help: * epg, He is fined 50 cents. ‘return. hear from us shortly.” ° tion of the union, HORSE HAS A DAY OFF.” " RADIO POISON ¥ fl’ Soviet Union. ; ; “Our lot is hard,‘yes indeed. But the poor Negroes tyranny really means. A colored man hasn’t a chance in this country. ‘The dishwashers are colored chaps who know How to work the elec- trical washers. They go to work at 7 inthe morning and it is often 10:30 when they are through. Now when we have a midnight supper, you can imagine the time they get.home after working from early in the morning. So they asked for a little more money and this is what they got: ‘You lousy black swine—let me hear you make another yelp about more pay in this kitchen and I'll have you both arrested for ‘creating confusion and noise in this hotel kitchen.’ Naturally that scared the poor devils, for they know the little chance of a square deal for a colored man in this country—but the next morning they failed to “EVE. A HORSE ...” comrade waiter who sent the above letter also enclosed a mimeo- graphed leaflet of the Resort Hotel Workers Union, calling for a gen- eral strike. They ask for a nine-hour day and a six-day week, with no charge for room and board, an $11 a week minimum wage, and recogni- “Miami Beach, Florida. “(REETINGS from the ‘Playground of the World.’ That is what the | ime that an avowed fascist leader capitalistic papers call Miami. But from a worker's viewpoint— |‘n this countzy, such as Dennis, has let me correct that wrong impression. “With dozens of other northern fellows—many of them good com~- rades—I am employed at the very exclusive and expensive ‘X’ Hotel at Miamj Beach, A supposed to be high-grade Kosher place. To work there is simply hell. Every time an order has ta be brought to « table it means climbing up and down 19 steps each way, The guests treat us with disdain and rottenness. They have been led to believe that the ! average waiter is simply a down-and-outer, who ought to feel privi- “Our steward really should be the leader of a chain gang. He has all the qualifications. He makes life as miserable for us as is possible— always threatening to discharge the waiters, witaout any notice. In Florida, owing to the terrible existing laws, it is possible to pick up “almost anybody for vagrancy and in this state that means the chain “ gang—and the chain gang means torture, so the fellows swallow his “\4nsults, simply because they are 1,500 miles from home and desperately ‘need the tips. I say tips, because while they get $20 a month—there is ~s-kick-back of $20 for room and board. Now here is a typical breakfast A stinking cereal. A cup of left over coffee. A ried out piece of bread. “A smali breakfast for the guest is as follows: “Waiter, bring me @ jarge glass of orange juice; a baked apple with heavy; sweet cream; oat meal with cream; French toast with honey; a vouple of medium- boiled eggs; hot milk; hot coffee—and please see if you can’t find.some cookies.” But woe betide any waiter caught eating an orange or an know what “The waiters in the north woke up—they are not asleep down here —simply biding their time in every big hotel here in Miami. You will “President Roosevelt has emphatically stated that every American » working man is entitled to a living wage,” says the appeal. And it also contains this remarkable slogan, the keynote of the demands: “EVEN A Can you beat that combination of slogans? ° > * . [AVE you ever listened in to Edwin C. Hill at 8:16 on WABCO? Another one of these polite poisoners.: He has a suave.voice, and he never toses a ‘chance’to ‘use if against Soviet Russia. His authorities usually are | such bolony philosophers as Will Durant. He wants the U. 8. workers * pte get behind the Japanese imperialists in their proposed war on the “I urge every Daily Worker reader to send protests against this war bropagandist to Columbia, Broadcasting Corporation. We can get him removed if enough of us show our contempt.—X.Y.Z.” * ° ° ° NSWER: I haven't listened in on this particular specimen of the radio propagandist. But the air is certainly humming these days with | war ballyhoo. “Defense” week. Defend what? ; ° * . THE MASQUE OF ANARCHY “Comradely, . “Two Pioneers,” f Answer: Shelley was one of the great poets of that revolution which overthrew the feudal system and established capitalism. In its first years many people thought this revolution would free the world. Shelley thought it would help the working masses, and his poem expresses these feelings. Today we know that Shelley’s hopes were betrayed, and that the workers are still in chains. Today the young proletarian Shelleys call for a work- ing-class revolution, Yet Shelley is well worth reading, if you-can re- member his historic background. Keep it up, Pioneers! Read Ronert Burns, too; he is my favorite poet of that revolutionary century, © ° ° . ° FROM A GREEK WORKER “PEADING the letter from “a Greek worker’’ in your column of Jan. 27, I want to say this: No real Greek worker will take such accusa- tions seriously. Why didn’t this ‘worker, if he had any real’ charges to bring, say something about it at the meetings of the Spartacus Club? Surely he must be a member, if he is a Greek and a worker! Other- “wise he oe be m:member of that racketeering club of the ‘ “National Herald”, that Greek daily which fights against the Working class, that organized the infamous Local 70 to break the strike of ie far workers in 1926, world.—J. T., a Greek Worker. * . REFERRING TO THE SAME “No, a real revolutionary worke: does not write such a letter as this, Our newspaper, Empros, our Spartacus Club, and all our other Greek working class groups will unite with the Jewish, Negro, and the rest of the revolutionary Japanese, Turks, workers to bujld s better and brighter . . “{T WAS unfortunate that in that answer to the letter signed ‘A Greek Worker? you didn’t make it clearer that many of the srall Greek restaurant Keepers are often supporters of the working class movement. I know several who are very sympathetic. “Also you say something about the German bourgeoisie being patho- logical because of the war and inflation. Far from it. Theirs js a very sane, cruel and desperate striving to hold power by any means: lies, in- “sane statements, provocations—any tool that comes to hand, “One effective way to combat failure to solve the economic cris: ties isn’t enough. Some of them undoubtedly worker can’t be convinced by our simple say-so. ‘18, does it work? Does it better my condition? If ott. And he'll say to hell with Hitler if we show to the workers over there. “Kenosha, Wis. the fascists is to expose their complete Is in their lands. To say they are luna- are; but the American What counts with him it doesn’t, to hell with him what has happened "D. G. Johnson.” _ |. Photography Course by Newark Film-Foto Group ra COULD HAVE SOLD MORE was @ n, Saturday, Jan. 13, wher we Fen! ies, sold all of them pe We and could have el g i F u i DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1934 Hathaway to | Debate With | U. S. 1 Fascist NEW YORK.—One of the most im- portant debates of the year will take place Sunday, Merch 4, at 3 p.m. at Mecca Auditorium, 130 West 56th St., when Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Lawrence Dennis, editor of The Awakener, elesh in a debate on “Communism or Fascism?” So far as is known, this is the first accepted a challenge from a leading Communist to defend his position he- fore @ public gathering in a debate. Dennis openly @ fascist at a recent meeting of the Foreign Policy Association at which John Strachey, British author, and now a correspondent for the weekly New Masses, was a speaker. The forthcoming debate, arranged by the Press League and the New er will undoubtedly draw a large Admission to Mecca’ Auditorium, which seats several thousand persons, is $1.10, 83c and 55c, tax included. Tickets may be obtained in advance at the New Masses office, 31 East 27th St. Harpo Marx to Appear at Harlem Affair for Benefit of Scottshoro proclaimed himself | The By PETER INE day at the Workers’ Interna-/ tional Relief office in New York the talk turned to revolutionary art- ists. “After all,” said one is vory difficult and almost impossible to be at the same time a good revolu- tionary, and a gocd revolutionary ar ist, The energy demanded of a got revolutionary leaves no time for art, istic development, and vice ve ‘We all nodded our heads in agree- ment, but Comrade F. spok: up: “Look at Nigob! You forgot Niqcb.” “That's right,” said another com- rade. | I decided to meet Nigcb. I had a) hazy memory of having heard .Nigob/! play some years back at Aeclian Hall.) Program, the circumstances, | everything about the event was ob-| seured—but this very seme worker-| artist-revolutionary had been darling of the bourgeoisie! Nigob met me at the door. I saw a man cf medium height, with features j clear and well formed, with gray eyes| peering from under the fine gtay hair, @ few locks of which fell over his} forehead. He shook my hand and} bowed a bit, and smiled. I was im- mediately impressed with the unc sumjng air of his simple gesture. It was cold outside; without a word he began to prepare tea. As he busied himself about the stove he spcke, first in fragments, and then in easy sentences. Studied Under Puchalsky Nigob is fn his middle forties. His NEW YORK.—Harpo Marx, Buck and Bubbles, Helen Morgan and Bes- sie Smith head a ‘list of entertainers who will appear for the. benefit of the Scottsboro Defense Fund on Fri- day, Feb. 16. The occasion is a black-and-white ball to be given in Harlem at the Savoy ballroom, 140th St. and Lenox Ave., under the aus- pices of the National Committee for the Defense. of Political Prisoners. Heywood Broun will be master of ceremonies. Among the sponsors for the ball are W. C, Handy, Marc Con- nelly, Dorothy Parker, Sidney How- ard, Elmer Rice, Ruth Hale, Countee Cullen and Art Young. New Weekly European Press Service on the Scottsboro Case NEW YORK.—a weekly Scottsboro press service, sent to more than 70 countries, has been inauagurated by the International Red Aid, parent or- ganization of the International La- bor Defense of the U.S.A. from Moscow, the LL.D. announced today. The press service, containing news of the latest events in the case it- self, as well as of protest actions throughout the world, will be sent to all sections of the International Red Aid, -and to all fraternal organiza- tions, in the more than 70 countries where LL.D,’s exist, in the language of the country. It will be used in the press of the LL.D. sections, and in the newspapers which can be reached by these organizations, as a means of intensi’ying the world-wide protest campaign for-the freedom of ‘She Scottsboro boys, 4. Arrested in Boston In Protest on Barring of Negroes from Jobs: BOSTON, Feb. 5. — Alice Barron, Charles ~ Padlo, Sousa, white workers, and Arthur Johnson. Negro worker,, were arrested here Monday night af a demonstration and pleket |line in front of South End chain R MIKE: We happened to come across the poem by Shelley en- | titled ‘The Mask of Anarchy.’ Would you please review this noem for us. stores protesting job discrimination against Negroes, The protest action was organized by the League of Struggle for Rights. Hundreds of white td Ree qro workers pledged militant support to the fight against job discrimination. TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. - Tis “sketch, BIN Batehaloe 7:30—Trappers Orchestra 1:4$—The —— Relsman’s Oreh.; Phil Duey, 8:30—Serenade: Wayne; King's Orchest 9:00—Ben Bernie's Orch.; Max Baer, eo 9:30—Ed Wynn, Fire Chief, band 10: of the Seth Parker; Phillips ters 11:90—Paul Whiteman Orch WOR—710 Ke. 1:00 P, M.—Ford Frick, sports U:15—Hollywood sre 0—Marverick Jim dramas ts ne. lo Vanities; Grofe’s Orch.; Prank S:a0—Borreh Minneviteh’s Harmonica Ras- al 11:30—Bddie Lane's Orchestra “a ROR De WJZ—160 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Amos 'n’ Andy ‘T18—"Sound Local Finance,” Louis 1 musical training began in his native Russia when he’ was fourte*n under Pucha'sky, mentor of Drucker, Viaimir Horowitz, and Theresa Karinio. Pu- chalsky, he said, undertook to train| him without cost, that is, without seeking patronage for him, and in- vited him to live at his house. Later Nigob went to Mikhailowsky in War- saw. ; “But that was a long time azo,” he} smiled, ds if in deprecation. When ‘we. were seated at his desk, I said, “Am I mistaken in thinking} I heard you play st Aeolian Hall! about ten yeats ago?” “No. I also gave concerts at Town Hall and the Metropolitan Opera House.” “Let me ask you a question,” Com- rade F. who was also present, inter- jected. “When did you first come into the movement anyway?” Comrade Nigcb replied soberly, “I think I felt myself a part of it from the first: day of the Revolution, but| my. upbringing and my background kept me. out of it until several years later. Tam sorry that I have come to} the moyement so late. I realize that had it been earlier I would be today @ much better artist.” Comrade F. smiled at me. “It is hard to say in a few words. But when I came to the movement I gave up the piano to do organization work in Harlem. I drove a truck. for the Workers’ International ‘Relief, I particivated in the daily struzgles for relief, in the Hung:r Marches. in the demonstrations. All this had a deep effect; I began to feel the power and beauty of the masses and I began to exoress this feeling.in my. playing.” ~What.de you, play?”. |... 1+ Emphasizes’ Folk Musie “Well, there are many types of ex- EUGENE NIGOB:A Portrait the} J | MARTIN EUGENE NIGOB isting music a revolutionary artist can play. Generally speaking, there is folk music and music of a fo!l:-bacis, a3 in Moussourgsky, which is simple and vital; then there is the strengih cf) Bach and the tremendous energy of Beéthoven, These composers seem to be the best of the old order and I have'No hesitation in using them to- ward the building of the new. Music must be “used as a weapon to strengshen the revolutionary front, and it must be the opposite of pes- simism and sentimentalism. Here, I will show you.” He strode to the piano and played Several bars of a lilting song which terminated in a minor key “dying fall.” “That is what we do not want,” said Nigob. “Listen to it now.” Re- playing the tune, he transposed the end to the major in determined har- monic blocking. “You see, we have no hesitation in changing even the notes!” “What are you going to play at the concert on the 17th?” Comrade F. asked him “IT have not selected the full pro- gram,” Nigob said, turning from the keyboard. “But one selection will be the Beethoven Waldenstein sonata; I shall try to include modern Soviet music and music by Scott, the Negro compeser.” “Participation. in working class struggles has transformed my attitude and my artisti * approach. In the old days. I needed ‘atmosphere’ to per- form; now I don’t let them turn down the lights, I want to see all the faces, | and draw from them my inspiration.” 1 Tota enthusiasm for his music asa weanon of proletarian culture is not dissipated in talk. Since his entry into the movement, he hes taken advantage of every available opportunity. to play for organized working class groups. He will play again at the City College Auditorium, 23rd St. and Lexington Ave., for the Workers: Internations) Relief and ‘the Workers Laboratory Theater on Feb. 17 at 8:30 p.m, “100 Years . hy ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN TEN, by A. A. HELLER, Published by the Friends of the Soviet Union. 72 pages, Ten cents, Mk | Reviewed by J. K. pad rapid progress of the Soviet Unicn is unparalleled in the history of the world. This phenomenal ad- vance of the Soviet workers and far- mers has resulted in the rise of the USS.R..from a backward, semi-foudal country to a leading industrial and cultural nation in sixteen years. Here, in this” aptly-titled. 72-page namph'et, we have a succinct descrip- tion of the many phases of Soviet progress. Written by A. A. Heller, of the editorial steff of Soviet Rucsia ‘Today, who has spent years in the Soviet Union, the pamphlet is a mine of information, : How is it possible ats time when Ten » Tells Of Great Advance in USSR in the rest of the world factories are ‘dle, millions unemployed, farmers impoverished, the Soviet Union builds new industrial giants such es Mag- nitogorsk, Dnieprostroy? There is no Unemployment in the Soviet Union; farms have bsen collectivized; there ts Social Insurance for the whole not exist. Why? How? “Ons Himdred Years in Ten” sup- dlies the answer. The pamphlet dis- cusses Feod, Clothing, Education, So- cial Incurance, Pisnned Economy, Na- tional Minorities, Collectivization, and “ber phases of life in the Soviet Union. should be given wide’ distribution. It is indispensible es a-convenient guide to the how and why of Soviet pro- Sress. Copies tan be erdered from the Friends of the Soviet Union, 80 East llth St., New York. SOCIALISTS LAUD “AID TO 3 FARMERS” ‘ Baltimore. On Jan, 8 Mr. , chairman of the Socialist Party, addressed a tass.meeting here’ in Baltimore at Workmen’s Circle Hall. It seems that the best they could scrape to-— gether was 150 persons by acttial count. Only one Negro was prescnt. And they sure g2ve him plenty room, @ whole row in fect. z His talk of about three-quarters of an hour..was entitled “What Is. the/ New Deal?” \ Most. of the time was taken up showing how- the farmers are setting all the breaks from the NR. A. His attack on the N. R. A. at times was so mild-that. even a member of. the Socialist Party said to me that anv good 100 rer cent Re- publican could have said just whet the good “comrade” had related. in his speech. Implying that there was still hone he sait: “We are dissatisfied with what we got so far.” Nothing was mentioned about the shooting of pickets at the government's orders, 8:15—Alexander Woelleott 8:20—George Jessel, Elon Boys, diiidced ley er a Gray's Orchestra; 1 fa Roosevelt moving to the left! nor the declaring of strikes illegal by the N. R. A. Board. He did say that there was @ possibility that the N. R. A. may prove a move to the ritht or @ move to the left. Imagine In reference to the farm program, he said: “Farmers are setting paid in two. ways, either bv better prices for his crors or paid for dizcing his crops under, or killing off his cattle. ‘The cotton farmer is well paid and the farmer does not cve. . . . They pay the stock ra‘sers well for destroy- ing catt!e—$200,000.000 for destroy- | ing cattle”. And even went as far as to mote figures that the farmer was getting paid for plowing cotton under in ons acre, while he made! another produce more cotton than it did the year before. I mention this because in the way Tuesday CHORUS of the, Tremont Prog. Club meets | membe*s ure asited to come. | MEMBERSHIP MEETING of all Knitgoods | 1oth Sf. & Irving Place. Comrade Kolkin, | “manager, will report. NEW BRITAIN, Conn. Film showing of “The End of St. Petersbura,” at Workers Center, 53 Church St., at 7:30 P, M., Tues- day. . Admission 20c. PHILADELPHIA: Party membership meet- ing, Wednesday, February 7, at 8 P. M., at 510 Fairmouth Ave. Every member must be present. Scottsboro Appeal on Cover of Australian ‘Labor Defender’ Issue NEW YORK—“Save the Scotts- boro Boys!” is the slogan across the over of the December issue of the Austrelian “Labor Defender,” organ of the LL.D. of that country, conies of which have just been received here, A photograph of a Negro boy is *he cover picture. The Australian “Labor Defender” carries an enpeel for rection on be- Nalf of the Scottsboro boys, also, as the leading article in the iscue. It calls for the flooding of the Ameri- can consulate at 7 Wynard St., Syd- wey, Australia, with protest resolu- tions to be passed by working class organizations. the share cropper or that the tenant farmer were not getting the benefits of these dollars, but are actually be- ing exploited worse than ever, he only incited the city workers present to_envy and hate the farmer. He called for action, but I am still this was said, not-mentioning thet working populstion; ra€ial hatreds do! This highly informative pamphiet | The World of the Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR COMMUNISTS ON BROADWAY Before 1928 Communist characters ere almost exc.usively restricted to what the theatrical trade-papers called “foreigm propaganda fiims.” Since then the lower middle-class has taken a terrib.e beating, and the con- trast between the frignt and desp. of cap.talist countries with the hope, vigor and actual accomplishment revolutionary Russia has become so striking that not oniy workers but mtellecvuals and pvofessional people nave come to .ook at the followers of Marx and Lenin with an interest that vanges from respectful curiosity to acceptance and participation. It is natural, therefore, to see this general movement express itself finally in the oourgeois theatre. Now it begins to seem as if no Broadway playwright feels his work is‘really up-to-date un- nist. When one looks back at some of the p.ays in which Communists have jbeen set before Broadway audiences, one is struck with the fact that the Communist of each play is no worse than the p.ay itself. In other words, the ciue to the nature of each play their qualities and limitations—may be found in the playwright’s treat- ment of his Communist, ‘The reason for this is that the Communist must stand in the author's mind for an entirely new social iacvo., 16. @ owned of behavior and an attitude of mind for which he has no set formula of judgment, no artistic tradition to fol- iow. The playwright is thus put on his own, he is piaced face to face with a phenomenon that demands a genuineiy original response. And so we may read in his solution of the |probiem, how sharp his observation, how wide his information, how keen his social sense, how profound his philosophy. Let us examine a number of test cases, One of the first serious pre- sentations of a Communis} on Broad- way was in Bolitho’s “Overture.” Bo.itho was # journalist working in Germany during the first outbreaks of rebeuion after the war. Being a Sensitive man, he couid not but iake the crisis in Germany with real thoughtfuiness, but bemg a soft- minced liberal his heart was drawn to the plight of people of similar char- acter whose expectant, courage was {miserably crushed, in “Overture” was drawn as a rather callous, calculating creature, “philo- |Sophicai” with the detachment of an jadding machine. Tais picture, though it attempied to be objective, was ut- teriy faise since it gave no idea of why the Communist iacked sympathy for the sufiering of his liberal com- jrade; it did not indicate what the |ward, out & conception of the Communist’s uitimate aim isto induigé in ‘melo- dramatic nonsense, play, earnest and aware in certain respects, was finally as fragmentary ‘and hopeless as the futile insurrec- tion of its liberal hero. In Eimer Rice's | Law,” the: Commu eee to point olft the’ successful lawyer's movaliy shaky foundations, The Com- munist accused the counsellor of be- ing a shyster whose fortune was built on dishonest maneuvers in the reg- ular middle-class tradition, . The counsellor defends’ himséif heatédly. In the excitement of their argument one lost track of both the’ accusation and the defense—the scene blew up in fireworks. What remained was a feeling of pity for the sincere Com- munisi—he had been brutally beaten by the police—a complacent condone- ment for the lawyer. This was pri cisely the fauit of the whole p. It brought’ up interesting material, and converted it simply into box-of- jfice; a tear, a laugh, a thrill, a (thought, a sigh, and the whole busi- ness in the end remained merely a Star vehicle. (None of the real issues were faced at all.) In S. N. Behrman’s “Biography,” the young “radical” is outspoken, rude, and generally opposed to con- yent.onal society. This is really a {picture of the old-fashioned “parior Red,” but the author takes him al-~ most at his own word, contrasting thim as a “fanatic” with the heroine who is an aesthete. But such radi- calism is simply an adolescent trait without mature thought or social un- derstanding, and to take him to rep- resent the revolutionary as a type is to be a Broadway intellectual play- boy not yet grown up to a world where the word “evolution” has a concrete That is why this comedy as a whole had no real substance, unseor-ab- | Meaning. | WHAT'S O land was only drawing-room froth, More interesting is the case of George O'Neii’s “American Dream.” Here the author practically cries out at 886K. Tremont Ave., at 8:30 P.M. all|his conviction that bourgeois society is corrupt through and through, and Workers cf Industriel Union at Irving Plaza, |the only sane percon is the Commu- nist who is shown as amiable, con- fident, poised. But the Communist here is not revealed in action—all we see him do is to return $5,000 to-a millionaire of liberal views who of- fered it to the Communist .Party— with the result that we can hardly be sure his sympathetic qualities are simp:y personal or the product of Wis Communist point of view. In other words, as a Communist, he is vaguely drawn, The play as a whole suffers Hkewise from being descriptive rather than dramatic, full of effusive lyric expression without fundamental con- flict. The author’s approach is ideal- Hence forall its vehemence it fails to conyince, and hardly seems relevant. This season’s Communists appeal es funny men! In “Let ‘Em Eat Cake,” the Communist is shown as someone Who is against everything— “the upper classes as well as the masses”—and because of this broad- ness of attack everything related to “revolution” in the show fails to come off even as a bourgeois joke. caricature is too general to have a point: One feels that the authors do not know their subject even from @ comic standpoint, This is less true of “She Loves Me Not.” But if the Communist is farcically treated in the latter play, so is everyone and everything else, and nothing here can be taken seriously, Perhaps this is the final comment to be made: That on Broadway today the only com- pletely consistent show is a farce in thing tricky and wnree- ~ ‘The Communist ; istic, his play lacks a material basis. ! } | jess it includes at least one Conmars- | Communist himself was striving to-| ‘to show a Communist with-| And so Bolitho’s | ‘The | N IF I WERE COMMISSAR ~By wu. per Sidney Hiliman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers in America would get the first job as | back-seratoher in a Turkish bath. (Don’t forget Gropper competi- tion: send in suggestions for “If I Were Commissar,”) ‘LIKES PAMPHLET. ON COMMUNISM BY OLGIN Cleveland, Ohio. I am impelled by an enthusiasm to write the highest praise for Olgin’s new pamphiet, “Why Communism.” Now, at last, I have the simplest, clearest and shortest answer to the American worker who asks. me, “What is this Communism, any- how?” Now, at last, I can give him this small pamphlet to read, feeling sure it’s not over his head. Now I have the shortest definition for Com- munism ever. On page 22 Olgin writes: “Planned economy on the basis of common ownership without any class division is called Communism.” Can any- thing be simpler or clearer. No more groping or lengthy explanations. This little book includes everything for the newcomer. I hope you will popularize it through your columns. Comrades, friends and sympathizers are “wild” about it. The praise is unanimous. Can this possibly be made into a five- cent pamphlet. I think the inereased sales would make up for the differ- ence. Personally, I'd like to give away about 50 of them. W.E.L, THE NEW SPORT AND PLAY, Official Organ of the Labor. Sports Union of America. Jan.- Feb. Issue. 16 pages. Five cents, geen eaeatt Reviewed by JERRY ARNOLD b Kaa magazine, published by the nation-wide organization of work- ers’ sports clubs, has come to be an indispensable mainstay for. the labor sports movement in this country... To a worker athlete or one interested in workers’ athletics it is a breath of clean fresh air dispelling the putrid atmosphere of the bourgeois sport magazines and new: pers with their hypocritical _ profecsionalism, their graft and fayoriti vaclal -discriminat:en. Packed with news and pictures of workers’ sports activities in the United States and throuthout the world, in the gym and in the pool— the New Sport and Play represents a live, wide-awake illuminating mag- oazine—a magazine that provides an adequate answer to the sport-loving youth of America. Here is news of the Sixth National Convention of the Labor Sports Union, held jast month in New York; of the government-controlled Amateur Athletio Union and its fake play at boycotting the 1936 Olympics in Berlin; of socce-, basketball, swim- ming, ping-pong and track meets and tournaments held throughout the country; of the World Sverteskiade, the international workers’ nthletic m, their class and | Page ic, —=== “Man ’s Castle’ Is Phoney Film ‘onUnemployed | Reviewed by HYMAN BARUFKIN HE opening sce Castle” (Colum: an imposing-lockin: Girl looki pale, twitching The man not’ jis the trouble. St jand tells him that she | for two days, having been v for over a year, He takes her to @ hotel, orders {meal for her, calls over the manager | to tell him that neither the girl nor jhe have any money to for meal, and starts to suests a spiel about memployed who si | spare the guests, the manager | | two go. | The hero offers to take his heroine home, when she tells him that she has none, that she has no sleep. Nor can she work his scheme of going to a hotel | night and be kicked out in the morn ling for non-payment of rent because | she has no satchel or anything, with | Which to fool her way into a hotel And as he cannot help ker because he is also unemployed, his fancy clothes belonging to a store for which he car- ries advertising signs, he takes her to tw are Shanty Town, where he tries to pu | her up in a shack belonging to an | elderly man who constantly reads the | Bible. (Through this character the director very skilfully smuggles ifite the picture a load of religious prop- aganda). | We see them t living in a shack | together, she be! the happtest girl in the world—or she would be if she only had a good kerosene cooking | osove. He surprises her one day With such a stove and her happiness be- | comes so complete that she exclaims: “Isn't this heaven!” And when they have to run away because he tried to rob a safe when }she told him she was expecting a | baby, we hear her say—on the freight train—“it was so peaceful, so beauti- ful here.” * + @ | This is one of te most countless | »xamples of how the motion pieture~ ike the schools, the press and the | chureh—are used for boss propaganda |'This is done so skilfully that mil- | Mons of workers seeing these pictu: do not even stop to think that hungry workers would go to a hotel and get a meal they wo not away with a spiel but would get thei: heads cracked by police clubs and be | thrown in jail; that “making a liv- ing” by occasionally earning two dol- |lars a day, a worker couldn't buy | stove, even on installment; that no | store keeper would sell anything on jinstallment to unemvloyed living in {Shanty Town; that Shanty Town is no “heaven” for anybody; and finally when a pregnant woman has fo run away from this “heaven,” steal a ride on a freight-train that it is not hu~ | manly possible for her to feel that | life was “peaceful and beautiful.” | Adamie Says “Russia Is Most Solid State” Louis Adamic’s “The Native’s Re- turn,” the story of his year in Yu; slavia, 19 years after his arrival in America as en immigrant bay of 14 just published by Harper é& Brothers, He writes: “By getting to know Yugoslavia I came to know Europe better than if I had studied any other country on the unhappy old conti- nent. Also, I came to understand the Russian Revolution. ... ” He says that he believes that the new Russia is teday the most coli state tm the old world, “frmly hooked to the future; the one hope of multitudes ow her borders,” His year in Europe made him be- lieve that another war is inevitable He says: “A new European war ap- nears certain; if not this sprinz, then in 1935 or 1936. The contradictions of the system under which the world functions make that inevitable.” meet which will take place in Mos cow next August, In no other publication could in- formation of this sort be found. New Sport ond Play exists for the workers —for Negro and white, native and foreign born. It is published by the organization of athletes and sports~ men, of the working class. How many “Suvport the German ' Revolution” stamps have you sold? AMUSE MENTS —~THE THEATRE GUILD _ presents— EUGENE O'NEILL’: COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. 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