The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE =—THe=— WORLD! By Michael Gold That Queer Blue Buzzard HE N.R.A. which is saving America and so forth is a mighty busy bird with thousands of press agents down at Washington telling what he DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1934 Song of Chinese || Soviets | By LESLIE AMMODT Our mighty sea of workers’ peasant strength Is crumbling feudal power. Our force is | Like the pull of vast sea tides. Tremendous China, turning Soviet, Uniting its peoples, red star of hope, Bright star blazing, in blood of worker peasant, j | China’s millions, are fanning the | wind s and thinks and does and doesn't—and here is one of the releases the saviours of this country have sent out, to tell us about the Blue Eagle, It seems that while 16,000,000 unemployed are wondering where in hell a job is coming. from, the Girl Scouts of Riverside, Rhode Island, are running an NRA. circus, and .it is cute as hell, and what it 1s for, no- »ody knows. But the ‘revolutionary’ National Recovery Administration, that au- gust body at Washington, had the time to send out the following state- nent to thousands of ‘editors of American newspapers (it is marked Re- lease No. 2779) Y. R, A, Cireus “Right this way Ladees and Gents for the greatest show on Earth! | 1 “But let a letter received today by National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, tell the story. The letter is from Riverside, R, I, and reads as follows: ‘Dear General ‘Johnson: “Riverside is’an N.R.A.-minded suburb of Providence. I am an ex-newspaper woman. (That's that.) Could you take time off from codes and refractory industries to hear about the Gook? “<The kis a pessimistic animal in the coming Riverside Girl Seout circus. The rimgmsie> (who looks a bit like your chief) has a terrible time with:him. Finally he and a surgeon named Doctor John- on performs an ration on him and removes his innards, hammers, toy autos, textiles ‘ete., each with its code attached. The Gook feels Besices the Gook there is to be a Siberian elephant (life-sized) and a Barrington zebra who looks and acts like a donkey. (This show is non-partisan.) Here is also a Block Island ostrich who is miracu- y changed into a Blue Eagle and stops hiding his head in the “All in all it's going to be quite a show. The date is February 9. We're inviting certain people to contribute 25 cents and be listed on the program as Boosters. If you would do us the honor to be a Booster— nev “Yours very truly, “LUCIA H. WHEELER, “Chairman Circus Committee.’ ” ° ° Congratulations, Gals! ELL, gals of the Rhode Island Girl Scouts, you certainly are famous nd important, by now. Every day hundreds of letters pour into the immense offices of Gen- eral Hugh Johnson, telling of how the Blue Buzzard is tearing at the guts of coal miners, or furriers, or the unemployed. Delegations of workers try to bust into General Johnson’s presence, but he's busy. ‘There are easily millions of workers in America today who are anx- ious to know from the Washington officials why the N.R.A. is NOT help- ing them. But no answer comes from the mazble tombs; the only mes- sage is that “Mr. Government is in conference.” For these are tremendous times, and the officials are busy men. General Hugh 8. Johnson, of West Point and Wall Street, is a lot busier than he was during the late war, when he drew up the “codes” that drafted half a million American boys into a war they didn’t like or want. He's busy; they're all busy, too, busy to listen to workers; but how human and delightful and whimsical they are when a group of Girl Scouts appears on the scene with this cute idea of a circus. Goody, goody, Gen. Johnson! { is this that ALMOST, but not quite, converts us to the N.R.A. ‘The government at: Washington is just brimming over with the human touch. It will drop everything, even the demands of the unemployed, when a goofy little .cheeild lifts its baby voice and lisps the glorious news of a “thirkus.” 4 Christian Science Government NGHORE: at Washington seems to know any more where the N.R.A, is leading to. They are still-making cheery speeches to each other, and practicing Christian Science. It is the old muddling through game once again of all liberalism, Its rea) concern is to preserve the profits of the big bankers and industrials, of course, but it also needs a mass following, and so it practices this low demagogy, of the circus kind. The Roman emperors placated their lumpen-proletariat with bread and circuses, and every tinpot Caesar since has adopted this formula as his own. ‘Today, however, it is no longer the question of feeding a few hun- dred thousand citizens with the spoils of conquests, as did Rome. The capitalist world is bankrupt and though the would-be saviours of capi- talism can supply the circuses, they haven’t yet discovered how it is pos- sible to give the masses bread. 0 Tt can’t last. Like an old rotted oak, capitalism still stands and waves mighty limbs, but it will not survive the next great revolutionary storm. Pierre Degeyter Club Announces Two. Classes’ in..Music by Noted Teachers NEW YORK.—The Pierre Degeyter Club announces two-courses in music of interest both to music lovers as well as musicians. One class is in music appreciation, with Carl Sands as instructor, Sands is a former professor of music at the Juilliard School of Music and at present a member of the com- posers’ collective and research group of the Pierre Degeyter Club, This class will make a general survey of musical history and: will familiarize students with the great musical mas- terpieces through performances, anal- ys's and discussions. . The unique feature of this class will be the treatment of the subject from the standpoint of historical material- The second course is in practical theory. L, E, Swift, composer of the Scottsboro Song and other revolution- ary compositions, who is a member of ‘he composers’ collective, will be the instructor, This course is open to those who wish to acquire a working knowledge of the materials of musical composition (melody writing, har- mony, counterpoint and form). Ap- plicants for this class must possess adequate musical background. The music appreciation class meets on Tuesday evenings at 8:15 p.m. Tuition is 15 cents per session. The theory class meets Tuesday evenings at 7 pm. Classes will commence in February, at the Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 East 19th St., New York. : ism, This class has no pre-requisites. TONIGHT’S ,PROGRAMS Vallee Orch.; 00—Captain Henry Show Boat Concert \0-—-Whiteman Orch.; Deems Taylor 13:30—Denny Orch. * WOR—710Ke. Prick ‘Willy Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard, ‘Soprano hos 3:30—-Dramatized News id Lee Reiser, Piano Duo; John Breuer, Xylophone; Walter Baritone; Crusaders Quartet; ioccbaartn Orch, ; : WIZ—T60:Ke. 7.00 P. M.—Amos 'n’ Andy salt’ re TUNING IN 1:18—Robin Hood—Sketeh 0—I Orch. 8:00—Captein Diamond's Adventures ~ 8.30—Adventures in Health—Dr. Herman ‘Bunresen 12:00—Olsen Orch. 18:30 A, M.—Dance Orch. tae oabemen Conners LaGuardia's Promises,” Red Spark Hall, 64 ; Second Ave. near Fourt St., 8:30 P.M. ‘S—Archer Gibeon, Organ; Instrumental | SO0¢ AVS Meer ne Se ecoereiek To sweep clean the countries of | the world. The February Issue of \“Soviet Russia Today” | Tells of U.S.S.R. Gains | Reviewed By JULES KARSTEIN IMPORTANT and interesting in- formation about the Second Five- Year Plan, the results in 1933, and} the tasks for 1934, appears in the February issue of “Soviet Russia To- day,” just out. | Is the Second Five-Year Plan suc- ceeding? What is being accomplished under this plan and to what extent does it affect the Soviet workers and farmers? The recent meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the | USSR. and the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet | outlined in detail the aims and} achievements of this second plan. There are excerpts from the historic speeches from Stalin and Molotov, | and the program adopted by the So- | viet workers and farmers in their advance toward a classless society. | Reading the account of what is be- | ing accomplished in the Soviet Union, | the striking contrast with conditions | in the rest of the world is inescap- | able. You cannot pick up a national weekly or daily newspaper without | being confronted with the advice | | “rom some well known (and well fed) | | “dietary expert” on how to live on stx | cents per meal per person. Impover- | ished farmers are told to “plouzh un- der” their crops. Production must be curtained. | But here are some of the points in the program adopted by the Soviet Union: Increase of the production of in- dustry 21 per cent higher than in 1933, for heavy industry, 23 per cent; for the increase of articles of mass consumption by 17.8 per cent; in- crease of grain crops; increase of co- cial insurance funds to 4,960,000,000 rubles. ($2,480,000,000). Among other interesting articles | and features in the February issue are letters from Soviet workers de- scribing the conditions under which they work and live; “The Red Army is @ Workers’ and Farmers’ Army,” by Conrad Scarlatt; an article by Jack Gerashty, machinist, member of the A. F. of L. on his recent visit to the Soviet Union as a member of 8 workers’ delegation, and a letter to Stalin from the children of Novaya bone where Stalin was an exile in Of unusual interest is the report of the recently concluded National’ Convention of the Friends of the So- viet Union, The resolution and de- cisions reached at this congress by representatives from 30 states and various trade unions, political parties, mass, fraternal and farm organiza- tions, show the deep-rooted and wide- spread sympathy for the Soviet Union, The February issue of “Soviet Rus- sia Today,” has 30 excellent photos . of Soviet life, ON | WOMEN'S MEETING right after work at 181 W. 28th St., 3rd floor. To ratify delega- tion to Washington. IL, D, BAZAAR delegates meet at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 B. Fourth St., at 7:30 delegates greetings, DAILY WORKER Volunteers Discussion “roup meets at 8 P. M., 35 E. 13th St., Sth floor. Harry Gannes will lead discussion on “Imperialism.” I. BEGUN, lecture on “The Downfall of the N. ¥, School System,” at Intwor Youth Club, Br. 401 LW. O., 1018 E. Tremont Ave,, :30'P. M. JOHN BOVINGTON, returned from Soviet Russia in Poetry-Dance Recital. Paradise Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden Ave., Bro! P.M, Auspices Mt. Eden Br. U. Admission 10¢. HARRY WICKS speaks on “The Soviet Communist Congress and the role of the Communist Party U. 8. A.," in the Audito- rium of the Cooperative Colony, 2730 Bronx Park East., 8:30 P, M. Admission free. COMRADE BRUCE, Assist. Dist. Secy. 1. “. D., lecture on “What Next in the Scotts- oro Case,” at Alfred Levy Br. I. L. D., 333 ShefMeld Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 P. M, FREIHEIT MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA re- ‘earsal, 106 E. idth St. 7:45 P. M. Study rogram for Tenth Anniversary Concert. “INJUNCTION MENACE IN THE TRADE INION MOVEMENT,” discussion lead by Jack Friendman at Ella May Br. I. L. D., -109 13th Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 P. M. DISCUSSION on the Food Workers and Taxi Drivers General Strikes and the role ct the L L. D. in these strikes. Fifth Ave., Tailors and Dressmakers Br. of I. &. D., 10 W 23rd St, 7 P, M. Friday PROF. ALFONS GOLDSCHMIDT, formerly ef the School of Economies Leipzig » speaks on “Can Hitler Last?” 1so Walter Orloff. Auspices American Youth on Labor Lyceum, 219 Sack- man St., 8:30 P, M. and ‘promint recently. es eo ae Labor Board, speak on “N Planning,” Irving, : Pl. and 15th St. “Aus- pices Technical Bureau, F. 8. U. Admission 25c., 8:15 P. M. MAX BEDACHT lectures ‘The Situation in Today,” at I. W. O. “Partisan Review,” New John Reed Club Organ, Hailed As Achievement 64-Page Issue Contains Short Stories, Poems and Important Revolutionary Criticism By ISIDOR SCHNEIDER ¥ NOW the cultural front of the revolutionary movement has come to @ stage where it can confidently face bourgeois culture, It need no longer depend upon wavering sym Tt has its own writers firm in underst ig and conv’ 11 not be taken in, like Dreiser and Anderson, sy, or hold back from genuine partici- pation like Edmund Wilson until a full-dress labor party comes along, There is still excitement among Communists and those close to the Party when a successful writer like Thomas Boyd, author of “Through the Wheat” and other historical novels, writes a story for FT@ht, and asks for proletarian themes. Such helping hands cannot be rejected, nor should the help they offer be underestimated, But more exciting for us, and more important, is the accession of new writers who have their be- ginnings as proletarian writers and co. r future as proletarian writers. It is they who are building a p: ture. PROLETARIAN CULTURE NOW ADULT The exciting thing is that proletarian culture is now adult; it has passed its childhood’ of revolutionary “baby talk.” It is the only new thing in contemporary culture; for bourgeois literature has no new writers. The age of literary revolution is dead. The rebels are absorbed into the revolutionary movement and do not spend themselves stagin: orary fireworks for the bourgeoisie. As in other elements of bourgeois society, literature is retrograde. The popular books presenting the bou: viewpoint are romantic re- constructions of the past like “Anthony Adverse,” or outrgiht degeneracies like the Donald Henderson Clarke type of sex novel, Almost everything new that is adventurous, and honest and passionate in contemporary lit- erature is flowing into the proletarian fields. The first issue of Partisan Review* offers an immediate’ demonstration of that fact, piling up the evidence offered in the weekly New Masses, | Dynamo, and other new, proletarian magazines. It contains two sketches | by Grace Lumpkin written with dramatic simplicity. One describes a re- vival deliberately promoted by the politicians and bankers of a commu- nity to divert attention from scandals and unrest. The life of the com- munity is willingly surrendered to a charlatan, and a society girl under- | goes a conversion that is In effect a form of prostitution, for the purpose of brewing an especially potent dose of the “opium of the People.” The second sketch deals with the course of justice and a peculiar blind alley it takes when the case of a crippled girl comes to it. Alfred Hayes is taking a place among the outstanding contemporary poets. His poem, “In a Coffee Pot,” is ringing in its indignation, Invol- untarily the reader's fist clenches as he reads it. PRAISES SHORT STORIES James T. Farrell, whose fine short story was one of the features of the first issue of Dynamo, contributes a piece from his forthcoming novel, “The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan.” Farrell is writing about an abso- lutely untouched field of American life, the frustrated lives of the sons of the workers who are pushed into gangsterdom. Here, at the bottom, js the analogue to the degeneracy of the upper classes, and the decay of capitalist society completes its feste-ing circle. Ben Field, a writer whose work I will eagerly watch for from now on, builds a story upon the labor of shepherds that will cure any illusions city people may have that the speed-up and other features of the depres- sion have not reached the pastures out West. Arthur Pense, who writes the biography of a shop built up by a generation of workers and stock- Jobbed to death by a generation of bosses, is another new writer whose advent is to be greeted with excitement. Edwin Rolfe’s poem and Joseph Freeman’s group of poems, are fur- ther proof of the maturity proletarian Poetry has arrived at. The essay, “The Anatomy of Liberalism,” a critique of Henry Haz- litt’s Anatomy of Criticism, shows keen judgment, but is rather too pe- dantic in its manner. The other reviews are written more freely, but follow the method of the reviewing in liberal journals. The reviewing in the Parisan Review, should be, I think, true to its name; it should pick out of books the issues that interest us, as partisans, and hammer at them even if certain virtues like balance and serenity have to be sacrificed. CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION The appearance of Partisan Review is a cause for celebration in the revolutionary movement. Some time ago the new magazines came from the bourgeoisie; rich dilletantes were their angels. These vigorous new magazines of the revolutionary movement have no angels, They are sup- ported by the most, active, intelligent reading public a writer can now reach—the awakened workers. They show where the future of culture lies, the one area of growth and health in a world of decay. ° . ° . “PARTISAN REVIEW, Editors: Nathan Adler, Edward Dahlberg, Joseph Freeman, Sender Garlin, Alfred Hayes, Milton Howard, Joshua Ku- nitz, Leonard E. Mims, Wailace Phelps, Philip Rahy, Edwin Kolfe. Published by the John Reed Club of New York, 430 Sixth Ave., New York. 20 cents a copy; $1 for six issnes. A BI-MONTHLY OF REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE Two-colored cover of first isue of “Partisan Review,” new bi-monthly literary organ of the John Reed Club of New York. Kansas City, Mo. CONCERT and Entertainment, benefit I W. O. Jewish Children School, at Y. M. H./ A., Linwood Blvd. and Wayne, Sunday, Feb. ll, at 8 P. M. Admission 35c. Gary, Ind. SCOTTSBORO Cabaret Party and Dance, Saturday, Feb. 3, at 8 P. kh featuring For Scottsboro By LEONARD SPIER Tonight we march up Boston Road And hold bright flame against the Germany Forum, WABC—860 Ke. 28-20 Astoria Ave., Astoria, L. T. i OPEN FORUM on “The Constitution of the; 200 F. M.—Myrt and Marge United Stat ; Salter of Pen &! 7:15—Just Plain Hammer, 8:30 P. M. Admission free. Sea~ :30—Serenaders Orch. men Workers Club, 79 E. 10th St. 7:45—News—Boake Bi M 8:00—Edith Murray, Songs oston, Mass. :15—News—Edwin C. Hill HELP Build the Union Dance, Thurs., Feb. SSgongs; William Lyon Phelps, Narrater’'| Ave. Given bv Eetie Dycotwe for the bene: | i Narrator ve. iven by Eas! \ouse for 1e~ : Studio Orch. ‘t of the Workers Industrial pee Po Siar A ‘Union. 10:00—Gray Orch.; Irene Taylor, Songs; Workers. Or, Ned *hiledel 10:30—News Reports 10:45—Warnow Orch.; Connie Gates, Songs; Clubmen 11:15—From Montevideo: Pan-American Conference—Edward on and Sunday. Feb. 24 ant 1. Program arranced. » Mich. BIG Concert and Dance on Saturday eve- 1%, Feb. 10, by the Auto Workers Union and Auto Workers News, at Finnish Hall, 989 14th Bt. near McGraw. El@borate pro- stam, Admission 15¢ Admission 106 each day. Uberty Hall, Eighth and W, Walnuts Sts., . Rofresiie ments. Admission 23¢ at door; 20c in ad- vance. a Auspices: Haywood Patterson Br. Chicago, Ill. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance given by b. N. R., Saturday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 P. M., 1806 A Race Ave. Interesting program. refreshments Admiston 10¢ in cdvance; 18¢ joor Milwaukee, Wisc. LL D. and T, U. U. Joint Bazaar in 3o all the world may see our pledge, ‘The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die! Five thousand to a man we march, With banners red held high; Trumpeting out for the world to hear, ‘The Sccttsboro Boys shall not die! Scottsboro! Scottsboro! ‘They heard our challenging cry. Though they ride us down, they'll a Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 10 and 11, heer us yet, All kinds ef bargain. Program every night. The Scottsboro Boys shall not diet | | | | } | —By Gropper | Henry Ford would be a sandwich man. Although you micht say that | there won't be such jobs for anyone | after the Revolution. Yesterday 23 suggestions for “If | P I Were Commissar” came in the | were good, and just as soon as Bill Gropper gets back from ths Un- employed Convention in Washing- ton the suggestions will be turned ever to him. Watch this spot for the names of the winners! Send more ideas to: Feature Editor, Daily Worker, 35 E. 12th St. New York, | | mail. What's more, most of them | ‘Two Mow Classes at John Reed Art School | NEW YORK.—In response to ni merous requests the John Reed Club} {School of Art has added two new classes to the regular program of | Classes which it has been conducting. An eyening sculpture class, which | started last night will meet three times a k—on Tuesday and Fri-| day evenings from 7 to 10 p.m, and | Saturday afternoon from 1:30 toe 4/ | D.m. at 430 Sixth Ave. The instructor will be Girolomo Piccoli. } The lithograph class, which also | opened this week, is under the in- jstruction of Louis Lozowick and | Jacob Friedland. Lozowick will teach | | the special lithograph technique and | Comzade Friedland will give instruc- j tion in the actual lithograph print- jing, The class will meet “Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from 7 to 10 Pm. Further information regarding these classes may be obtained from M. Pearse, secretary, John Reed Club School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave, New | York City. The office is open daily } except Sunday from 1:20 to 4:30 pm., | and Monday, Tuesday,.Thursday and | | Friday evenings, from 7-to 9 p.m. | Students may register by the month for all classes at any time. John Wexley’s Play | On Scottsboro To Be NEW YORK- } Published Soon' | hey Shall Not | | Die,” by John We: , based on the | Scettsboro frame-up, which is sched- uled to open at the Guild Theatre| jon Feb. 26, will appear soon in book | j form, it was announced yesterday by Alfred A. Knopf, publishers. Wexley, a member of the John | | Reed Club of New York, is also the | author of “The Last Mile,” a play | | describing prison life, and “Steel.” | Bes - | “Daily” Volunteers 1 | Announce Free Course | In Public Speaking NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker! Volunteers announce a class in public! speaking, to begin this Sunday, Feb.! 11, at 1 p.m., af their c'ubrooms, 35 East 12th St., fifth floor. The instruc- tor is Murray Berk, and there will be | no tuition charge. District Training School to Celebrate | NEW YORK.—The District Train- ing School term which has just ended | will celebrate its successful comple- | ton this Saturdav, Feb, 10, at the Workers’ Center, 35 E. 12th St. | Talented students will take part in | tha onterts‘nment with their songs, | | Sketches, dances and chalk talks. | George Siskind. Director of Asitstion and Propaganda of the New York District, will eddress the gathering. Admission will bs 25 cents. | | THE “DAILY WORKF™"AND THE) “DAILY MISSOULIAN” | |_ STEVENSVILLE, Mont—The Daily |Worker is a good newspaper, it can.t| {be beat, It’s the on'y newspaper that |tells the truth. I've been comparing | jthe “Daily Worker” with the “Daily/ Missoulian.” The “Daily Missoulian” ; lis printed in Missoula, Mont. There, is a world of difference in the two jpavers. The “Dai'y Missoulian” sure | jhas duped up the peopie’s minds jabout Roosevelt's New Deal, and lots | of other lies, It has the people in) the locality believing it most of the/ time. The radio has the same effect; on the mind. | The families that are on the relief roll, get ten do‘lars a month. There (are a few hundred family men work- jing on the C.W.A. jobs. There are Many married men that can’t get the! C.W.A. jobs, Single men can’t get) [this C.W.A, work and there are few, ‘single men who get relief. It's sure; hard for a man to got a job in this} Hfarm locality. The farmers are hav- | ling a hard time to make ends meet.! ; You can’t blame the farmer for not} being able to pay wages, It’s the | so much misery for the farmers and | the working class. | The only remedy for this crisis is | the revoluticnary way out, and a So- viet America, L. | This morning, when George E. Powers, a prom- jinent figure | city j cluding Ferrarri, Relief Is Sign of Insanity” Police Aim to Discredit Powers, Militant Leader, by “Psychiatric Examination” By SENDER GARLIN While the Nazi government in Ger- | many seeks to sterilize workers be- | The case was calied to cause of their political views, “liberal” LaGuar. dia administration % in New York City hopes to dispose of ; militants by having them adjudged in- sane. the in the New York mili- tant labor move- ment, comes before Judge Freschi in General Sessicns to be sentenced to prison on a framed charge of “unlawful as- semblage,” he will carry in his ocket instructions to appear before medical officials for an “ex- amination” at the Psychiatric Clinic attached to the court. George Powers which asks use the elevator on side of the build- nief probs t of General Sessions. Powers was convicte@ on the lesser charge, “unlaw‘ul essemblage” in or- der to make it easier to railroad him on the more serious charge after he has served his pre: sentence. Powers, who has been arrested and beaten up by police more times than {| he can remember, was last week con-| victed of a charge of “unlawful as- semblage” following his arrest, on April 22, 1932, when he was one of the leaders of a united front demonstra. tion for relief to the New York C! Hall. Powers describes the scene “It was during Jimmy Walker's re- ime. We were met by a big mobiliza- tion of police—at least £7) r-unted and afoot, in charge of Chief Deputy Inspector David J. MacAuliffe. The workers were walking around the City Hall in double columns, two abreast, but the police would not permit any gathering of workers. A delegation led by myself appreached the police lines at the Park Row entrance of City Hall, with the intention of pre-| senting certain demands to the mayor and the Board of Estimate. “These demands called for the re- opening of the Home Relief Bureaus which were then being closed up; for cash relief; against Negroes and Porto Rican and Italian workers; for the conversion of the $196,000,000 interest fund for the bankers into unemployed relief; and for the immediate resumption of the $231,000,0000 building program.” There were between 10,000 and 15,- 000 unemployed workers in this united front demonstration, Powers recalled. “The. police,” he said, “barred the entrance of City Halland instedd launched a vicious attack upon us. “It was one of the bloodiest attacks upon workers that I have ever seen. A large number were badly hurt. “Workers, who had been beaten up on the street were dragged into the basement of City Hall and again mercilessly slugged. “t saw women lying on the floor in City Hall in pools of bleod. One incident: a cop mopping up the | basement swung a blood-soaked mop in the face of one of the work- ers and said: “Here’s your relief, you son-of-s- bitch.” A large number of demonstrators were arrested that day, but only five or six were held by the police—in- @ “longshoreman, and Jones, a seaman, both members of the Marine Workers’ Industrial | Union, Gramatkus, a Greek worker, served 30 days on an assault charge. Powers’ first trial took place on April 25, 1932, before Magistrate Capshaw, who sent the case to the erand jury which, §q turn, indicted Powers and ordered him tried in ’| secretary), and other off against discrimination | jtional Labor Defens ers’ release was obte | bail. orney, Pr ed on than a dozen | Zach time | witnesses— }ers who fou time in court and cac! trict attorney asked for and see a delay. In the meantime muiny fense witnesses had moved could not be located by the’ d This, of was the moti hind the pros "s ‘cont! motions for delay Powers’ case finally came to before Judge Fresechi and a jur | Gener Ssions on Jan, 18 af year, @ short time after.Mayor Guardia took office. t he faced charges of ri g. inciting to riot and assault on the police- ugh Powers himself had been severely beaten by the cops during the City Hall demonstration, | One of the principal | against Powers was | MacAuliffe, who ers times in witnesses Chief Inspector stified that Pow- ttacked several policem H that the reason -} the | Was not in. Befo: | over, MacAuliffe for the defense subpoenaed George Bernard, steno her ‘in “the magis- rate’s court where Powers was firs’ Bernard read| the. testimo: three da: | stration he had participated conference in the City Hall Aldermanic President Joseph J. Kee, Judge McAndrews, (the Mayors At this conference, MacAuliffe | had testified, it was decided that the delegation of the-unemple: | would not be permitted to ter | City Hall because the Mayor “could | not be bothered with that type of People.” | Before he gave the case to tt | of smal) business men, the jud: livered @ vicious charge lasti MONDLY U68 THE ELEVATOR OW THE WHITE SESENT SIDE QF) THE BUTLDING The “Psychiatric Order” than three hours, in which he used every conceivable trick to prejudice the minds of the already-prejudiced jury. Realizing tha evidence, the , On the basis of the judge introduced ‘another. charge-- unlawful assembly—which was not even part of the indictment, which, the judge declared, was implication of the indictment,” Members of the jury, including the foreman, later frankly admitted to ‘friends that Powers Was convicted | because he was a Communist, oe oe Workers are urged to fill the court when Powers is sentenced this morning at 10 o'clock in Part 9% of General Sesions, Lafayette and Franklin Sts., near Canal St, Take LR.T. or BMT, and get off at Canal St. | NOTICE! NEW YORK COMRADES: The YOUNG WORKER is‘in eres need of assistance In- tonnection | with its DRIVE for 25,000 readers, | $1,000 sustaining fund and -weekly publication. Issuing its new 12-page paper has added much Work, also. Volunteers for office work during any time of the day, therefore, will be very much appreciated. Come to the System that we're under that causes | WINTER GEEDEN, Elway 6 | Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS my General Sessions. Following a bitter| Young Worker office, Workers’ Cen- fight by Joseph Tauber, Interna- ' ter, 35 E. 12th St., ninth floor. AMUSEMENTS THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL TALKIE! «9, Mt Should H Ez L L ON THE DAILY WORKER SAYS: “Fine Anti-War Pictare , .. . Be Seen by Everyone Opposed te War E A R it H and Capitalism.” ; with WLADIMIR SOKOLOFF (Moscow ArtPheatre), ERNST BUSCH! (now tn’ exile) Feature | LATEST SOVIET NEWSREEL S='ssader: treyanovaky, ACME THEATRE tniox squane | Dweer WEEK RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—- 50 St & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30. A.M. ANNA STEN in (NSW Based on Zols’s Famous Nove! were 193 seat ee IST MUSIC HALL REYUE”* BKO Mth St. & | Jefferson ae Now | LEW AYRES and JUNE KNIGHT in ; “Cross Country Cruise’ also: “FURY OF THE JUNGLE". with DONALD COOK and PEGGY SHANNON POSITIVELY LAST WEEK MONTE CARD BALLET RUSSE COMPANY OF 150 SY. JAMES Thea., 4ith St, W. of Bresdway Every eve. ine. Sun mats. 5 Ba Evgs. $1 to $o—mais, {1 {9 $2. Theatre Union's Stirring Play THE ANTI-WAR HIT Sr@ Big Month POE OF AC wes PEACE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thea.. ith S & Cth Ay. Eves. 8:50, $3.30 to S5c, Mets. Wed. & Sat. | WA. 9-7450. Bvgs, 8:45, Mats, Wed. & Sat, 2:30. 0° sey . Tx ZJEGFELD FOLLIES Arranze Theatre Partfes for’ your organita- tion by telephoning WAtkins @-2451 with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eurene HOWARD, TOMORROW AT 8:35 2. Mi———— MONS, Jane FROHMAN, P; Mary Van Kleek (Prominent Ke7nomist, Recently Resigned from N. R, A. Labor Advisery, Board) SPEAKS. ON, ‘NRA and Soviet Planning” —-THE TREATRE GUILD KUGENE O'NEELL's COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD ysdinet tio asets3 MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND }} with HELEN PHILIP HELEN |! HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN || 52d Bt, W. of B Hl ALVIN 332: EUGENE O'NEILL'S New Play DAYS WITHOUT END Henry Miller’s ™*;,‘*4 Evenings $:40, Mat. Thurs. & No MORE LADIES New York Smartest Comedy with MELVYN DOUGL4S—LUCILE WATSON “A DEFINITE HIT.”—Herald Tribune BOOTH Thea, 45th, W. of Bway. Bys, 8:50, Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2:45, ~ JUDITH ANDERSON, OME OF ACE wy CLEMENCE DANE & RICHARD ADDINSELL Rartlett SIM- Matinees Thursday and “Her Master’s Voice” Plymouth "3, "78 $c Sat|| IRVING PLAZA Rvipatee Auspices Re ee FS. 0.)