The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1934, Page 5

NATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1934 Page Five The Influence of the IN THOSE DAYS. . | CHANGE | IF 1 WERE COMMISSAR} By Karl Radek. E is no reason why aay of us| should feel any constraint when | Crisis on dezhda Konstantinoyna spoke. She aa. =a ORLD! By Michael Gold They Done Her Wrong JEANETTE PEARL of Long Isiand feels that somebody has misled her badiy. The novely “Call Home reviewed very favorably in the New Jeanette recommendéd the novel, th But only last week, she writes, made her feel “as if I could tear hurled out of the window.” This is the novel written around ti in Gastonia, N. C., SOme few Years back. The author is Olive Tilford Datgan, a native ofthat state, Who used the pen-name of “Fielding Burke,” but now hes put her own hame on later editions. This too seems to infuriate Comrade Pearl. ) the Heart,” by Fielding Burke; was Masses sometime in 1932. Comrade erefore, to her friends. , did she read the book herself. Tt it into a thousand fragments to be strike of the textile workers “That my reaction is not baseless,” she says, “is borne out by the fact that the author, Dargan, is now permitting her real name to appear on the thifd edition. The book is so sAfe, ité increasing circulation so assuring to the prestige and security of the author, that her literary name need no longer be Withheld from the public. She has made good with her publishers and the book’s virtue is 60 effectively polluting the stream of labor Nterature that the author ean openly flaunt Comrade Pearl is amazed that her name.” ® * such a Book “should have been her- aided in the columns of the New Masses.” The book is artistically written, but that is all the more reason to fear its effect, she says. It was V. J. Jerome who wrote the review that offends her so much, and since he is @ well-known Marxist theorist, maybe this is a further multiplication @ the damage done: What Got the Pearl Goat IS the ending of the novel that has stirred up Comrade Pearl's usually placid goat. Skili and beauty as the heroine. Th thé novel, a mountain woman is pictured with great She is lured with many promises by the mill owners, as were 90 many thousands like her, and comes to work if the mills. The strike takes place, and she is a a heroic participant. At the end, however, she decides to go back to the mountains. ‘This, of course, is the weakest of évasions of a solution for the prob- Jems of the Southern worker. Supposing they all did go back to their ancesival hill farms? , The farmers who never left are just as hungry 88 their brothers in the mill towns, the frying pan into the fire. atid going back is like hopping from It is this mystic defeatism, this feeling that the workers ean never win their battle, and that it is better to save oneself by any means, that so often destroys the author who honestly attempts to write labor fiction. A the la.. oct, the dct that resolves every revolutionary ploysxtight and * NYBODY can write the first two acts of a revolutionary play. It is the conflicts, that has baffled almost novelist in this country. For you can’t truthfully say in your last act or last chapter, that there has been a victorious Communist revolution in this country. It would be 4 lie tf you did, yet many of our comrades like Jeanette Pearl almost demand that aw author falsify in this manner. + * ® ° HE Gastonia strike was not lost of course; it was réally a great victory. It was the first great resounding signal of the class struggle in the South; the Bunker Hill of the social revolution down there. Bunker Hill looked like a defeat for the Americans, too; but the Revolution of 1776 was won, anyway. In this sense, Olive Tilford Dargan inight have, if she had had the historie Marxian outlook, given a vic- torfous ending to her-fine novel. Bui she succumbed to that “ereeping empiricism” which cannot-rise above ihe immediate fact, or co-ordinate the facts into a historic picture that includes the past and future. vir was her fault, I believe; and not that she sent her mountain Woniean back to the hills, and showed the strike as ending in a defeat. We will haye to record many such labor movement before the war is partial defeats and tragedies in the won. And authors, for a long time, will find {t difficult to rise above empiricism, and revolutionary readerc like Comri of betrayal Jetnstte, will shrick A Defense of Calitmunism [if to the class struggle by this same hysterically (that is, some of them) 18 really unworthy of you, Comrade, to be so blind to the revolutionary import of this fine end powerful novel. te Tt was written by a Southern woman whose eyes were first opened Gastonia strike. She threw herself into it hear: and sout-on the side of the strikers; and in her novel, you will read as fine a statement and South as has ever been written in Olive Tilford, Dargan didn’t know how to end her novel. our revolutionary authors still find defense of the Communists in the any play or novel. Most of this the toughest of problems. We don't want to be cefentist; yet we don't want to falsify and do a lot of artificial hurrahing. It's true only a thorough grounding in Marxism can help “Tathors attain the mature viewpoint that will solve this difficulty. But they won't be helped by critics like Jeanette Peerl who don't even understand what the problem pathy for the fresh minds who are VE TILFORD DARGAN will write other novels, and they will prob- | 0 ably show her own attempts to is all about; who have no real sym- drawn to Communism. ° . find a solution. If our critics can’t help, they ought ‘not:eondemm. ‘The problem of writing revolutionary fiction is something so complicated, tangled as it is with all the psycho- jogical and social threads of a mind, that it takes something other than a dull meat-axe like.Comrade Pearl ratus function. ’'s attack to make this delicate appa- T's about time some of us understood that the Diesel engine and the revolutionary novel have their own special problems to be studied. Our literature is growing, but it grows despite years of such blind destrue- tive an as Marxian atteelts as this typical one of Comtade Pearl's. TAGE AND SCREEN _ “Nana” In Second Week -At Radio City Music Hail “Nang,” based on Emile Zolm's novel, with Anna Sten in the lead- ing role, will remain for a second week at the Radio City Music Hail. This is Miss Sten’s first. American= made film. ‘The large playhouse i¢‘also holasvig | “over its first Music Hail Stage Revue. ‘Leading artists who také ‘part in the ‘show include Buck and ‘Bubbles, Vera Brodsky, Harold Triggs, Miller Bros., Gine. De Quincey and Lewis, Ev. Duerler, Jack Arthur and Jan pone The Palace Theatre beginning to- day will show “As es sary Go,” with Warner Baxter and Helen Vinsch. The vaudeville bill is headed by Willie, West and McGinty. Eddie Cantor in Nis new film “Roman Scandals” a week's it at State today. Gary and Carl Freed and his “House On 56th Street” at the Jefferson Saturday ‘The screen program at the Jeifer- son beginning Saturday, will inch ay ’ “House on 56th Street” with Francis, Ricardo Cortez and Gene Raymond and “Horse Play” with Slim Summerville, Andy Devine and Leila Hyams. Starting Wednesday, the program will include “Back Stage Mystery,” with Dorothy Mackaill and Paul Cavanagh and “Sensation Hun- ters” with Arline Judge and Preston Foster. Hulda Lashanska Soloist at Schelling Concert Saturday Hulda Lashanska, Soprano, will be | the soloist at the Philharmonic con- cert for Children and ae People on ss turday morning at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Ernest Schelling. The program: Schubert's “Unfinished” Symphony; Tanz Suite, Frankenstein; Perpetuum Mobile and “An Artist's Life,” Johann Strauss; Polka and Fugue from “Schwanda,” Weinberger and a group of Songs by Schumann, ‘ashington Saturday night. The Beethoven Association will give » their next concern on Monday eve- | ning at Town Hall. Myra Hess, pianist: Lotte Lehmann, soprano; Mishel Piastro, violinist and Felix Salmond, ‘cellist’ will be the participating a describing simply what we remember of the day of Iyich’s death and the days that followed. But it is very difficult to recall. Whenever I at- tempt to bring back to my mind that 2ist of January, 1924, I see before me @ snow-covered meadow, dotted with the dark figures of moving people. It is necessary for many of us to recall the day Ilyich died, For the sake of the history of liberated mankind we must revive, out of the millions of impressions left in the minds of hun- dreds of thousands of people, the emotions we experienced when our teacher left our midst. Tt was 6 o'clock in the evening. A bell rang. A voice shaken With tears. “Viadimir Ilyich has just away. There will be & meeting of the Central Committee at 9.” I cannot re- Member whether it was Comrade Glyasser or Comradé Fotieva who I only know it must have been some intimate friend. ‘Then came a cali from the Bolshoi Theater whete the Congress of So- viets was in progress. The telephone rang again. I disconnected it. What Was there to say? ‘We assembled in the meeting hall of the Council of Peoples Commis- Sars awaiting Stalin and other mem- bers of the Polit-Bureau Who had fone to Gorki. I cannot recall @ sin- gle face, Not a word was éXchanged. Every one avoided glancing at the place where Lenin had sat for so many years, as Chairman of the meet- ings of the Central Committee and Council of Peoples Commissars. All heads were lowered. Lenin's Last Hours Members of the Polit-Bureau ar- rived. They described to us Ilyich’s last hours. Decisions relating to fu- neral arrangements were adopted. After the meeting the whole Central Committee took the train to Gorki. The railway carriage was datk and gloomy. No one spoke. Silent also were the peasants who met us at the stations with conveyances. Thus we went to bid farewell to llyich. His face expressed eternal calm which communicated itself to us. All I can remember of that scene is some one’s voice speaking of Na- dezhda Konstantinovna, speaking as to a child: “See how brave she is.” I can see the figure of Stalin bending over Lenin’s body, embracing his ceacher’s head. Somebody led us through the vil- lage to a big house. I recall vividly the pungent scent of pines. I lay down, without undressing, on some | | | | | | | ¥. I. LENIN one’s bed. Darkness . . the stillness of the night came the sound of a woman Weeping, as peas- ants weep. And this weeping fell on our hearts like rain falls upon parched earth. We carried the body of Ilyich to the Gorki Station over snow-covered fields amid a crowd of peasanis. All that I can fecali of this procession were the absolutely white ears of the Red Army men from the Cheka Regi: ment, 80 white I thought that they must have been frozen. The Arrival in Moscow ‘We arrived in Moscow. him through an unending mass of people all the way to the Hall of Col- umns. Then we departed for the fac- tories, returning later to the Hail of Columns. We were swept along by a | mass of millions of workers who sup- | ported us by the very depth of their sorrow, their solidarity and « sort of unspoken challenge: close ranks! And as we edged our way through the dense crowd gathered around the House of the Trade Unions, we un- derstood what Lenin meant by class- hegemony. The mass that bore down upon the House of Trade Unions was not a purely proletarian mass. was a mass of poor, of simple people and of the intelligentsia. In the cof- fin lay the remains of the man who had risen to lead the people. Ge he ASSEMBLED in the Comintern. People tried to speak in many different languages, wept. On the 24th, the Congress of So- viets resumed its sessions. I can re- call only a few isolated incidents. . and from } We bore | It; poke in that soft quiet voice of hers with that restraint which expressed the whole forte of a life given over to the Revolution. It was not a per- son Speaking at the bier of a loved | one, but a Party comratie who had been so fortunate to be on inti- mate terms with the teacher and as- sist_ him in his work. But when she said: “Viadimir Ilyich deeply loved | the people.” the Hall with its 2,000 people moaned like a field of rye under @ gust of wind the people | wept unashamed. And it seemed to me as if Nadezhda Konstantinovna laid her tired head on the bosom of the working class. The Speech of Stalin Stalin appeared. He spoke in his j calm, mewhat husky voice. The simple is that fell on his hearers | Were a to the emotions which | flooded the hearts of the milifons, full of the strength of their will to | continue the cause of Lenin. I had | never heard such @ speech tn my life | and will never hear anything like it again. His wotds were like stone Slabs wrought by history and in- | Seribed with the teachings of the de- parted leader. I remember the end. It was difi- cult to breathe in this Hall electri- | | fied with emotion and flooded with | the sound of Chopin’s funeral march. Suddenly the band burst into the thunderous notes of Wagner's “Death of Siegfried,” a paean to faith in | life intermingled with the fanfare of | battle. Then came the “Interna- tionale.” It was as if & window had en flung open and a gust of fresh, frost-laden air had burst in. The delegates sang lustily, without tears. | They seemed to realize for the first | time that it Was only Lenin’s life that had ended, but his spitit lived snd would continue to lead them forward. Caoas ‘HAT night we went to the Red Square. The workers were begin- ning to build Lenin’s final resting place. The frost was terrific. The flames from huge bonfires cast lurid | reflections over the Square. I could not help feeling that in these flames |the great materialist was being fused with the nature he loved so well. And when the coffin rested on the shoulders of his colleagues, when it moved forward followed by millions marching in perfect formation, when the Red Army marched militantiy past, and cannons thundered on the Kremlin walls there was but one thought: Lenin left a NEW ORDER behind him, « 2 Classes at Workers’ Music League Tomorrow NEW YORK—Two classes in mu- sic are being held under the auspices of the Workers Music League at its heatiquarters, 5 E. 19th St., every Saturday afternoon. Both of these classes are especially recommended to members of workers’ choruses, al- though the course should be of in- terest and valle to everyone. The class in note-reading and sight-singing, with Rudolph and Popper as instructors, begins tomor- row at 3 p.m. sharp. This class ts for beginners who want to learn how to read and write musical notation. The class in voice culture, with Giovanni Camiajani as instructor, meets every Saturday afternoon from 4:30 p.m. to 6 pm. A small fee is charged. Registra- tion is now open. IMPESSIONS OF A LECTURE ON GERMANY san Diego, Calif. In a lecture at the Lincoln School auditorium on Jan 15th sponsored by the local soctalist groups, Rudolph Rocker, author, philosophical an- archist and refuzee from present Germany, declared, “Behind Adolph Hitler's fascist dictatorship stands the power of the munition makers not only of his own country, but those of Great Britain, France and Belgium.” (Why the American mu- nition makers, capitalists and indus- irialists were not included was not clear), | The speaker gave o very fair analy- _ ‘esowe ond condition that Jed to fascism in Germany. His vivid portrayal of capitalist Ger- inany’s last stand, in the use of every barbarous means to force an ‘advanced nation back into the con- | ditions of the dark ages, was very convincing. His detailed description of the makeup of Hitler's cabinet of sadist torturers, morons, one Jewish | capitalist, plain lunatics, some af- flicted with syphilis of the brain, was very interesting and probably new to many present. Rocker described Hitler as being “weak but willing tool” thrust into power by the big landlords and in- dustrialists to do their dirty work, in @ desperate effort to forestall com- munism, and not the “iron man” his press agents would have us believe. And stated, “When Hitler realizes he can no longer retain power, he will plunge Europe into war.” The speaker, however, was not so conyincing when attempting to show the more direct reason for Hitler's rise to power when he stated in an- swer to questions,—'‘the Socialists and Communists are equally to blame for not uniting.” Being an anarchist, one would not expect him to agree with the Communist ideas, but to be honest. He knows or should know, and recent history proves, that the Com- munist Party of Germany, on many occasions, tried to form a united frent against fascism, on the only way out—revolutionary overthrow of the German bourgeoisie ruling class— but all their efforts were by the social-fascist and trade union misleaders, reformers, who favored “gradual socialism” and were op- posed to “force and violence” only against the canital'st class. These fakers and traitors have been found out and their former followers are uniting in an anti-fascist move- ment led by the Communist Party iturally no one expected this “intellectual sentimentalist” to be- lieve in the “dictatorship of the pro- letariat or other dictatorships,” but he is misteading when he makes no distinction between \ the workers’ kind as in the Soviet Union and the WHAT Tonight L. LOZOVICK LECTURE “‘Proletarian vs. Capitalist Art,” at Brownsville Youth Cen- ter, 105 Thatford Ave., at 8:30 P. M. LOUIS HYMAN LECTURE “Fascitation of the A. F. of L.,” in Jewish. Boro Park Workers Club, 18th Ave. and 47th St., Brooklyn, 8:30 P. M. EUGENE BLONDEL LECTURE “What the C.W.A. is Doing for the Worker,’ Mosholu Progressive Club, 2230 Bainbridge Ave. near 207th St., 8:45 P. M. Crisis and the Soviet Union,” Prospect Workers Center, 1157 Southern Boulev 8:30 P.M. for “Morning Freiheit. LECTURE on “Imperiallsm,” at the Ger- man Workers Olub, 1501 3rd Ave.; between 84th and a5th Sts... OPEN FORUM on “Tho Constitution of the U. Sr Al" at German Workers Club, 79 E. 10th Bt.- Speaker: Salter, of “Pen and Hammer.” Admission free. ELIAS SHULMAN LECTURE “The Yiddish Literary Critics in the Soviet Union.” Yid- dish Culture Beclety, 149 Second Ave, Ad- mission 15¢. Washington, D. C., at Polish Workers Club, 29 St. Marks Pi. Entertainment and re- freshments, LECTURE BY COMRADE BAUM on “World Crisis and the Soviet Union,” at Mapleton Workers Club, 2006 70th St., ‘Brooklyn, Ad- mission 15. | Proceeds for’ “Morning Frei- heit."* PROP, ALFONS GOLDSCKMIDT, formerly dean of the Schoo! of Economics, Leipzig University, speaks on ‘Can Hitler Last?” Also Walter Orloff. Auspices American Youth Club, Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sack- man Bt., 8:20 P, M. "ROAD TO LIFE,” Soviet Charlie Chaplin comedy at flim and Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 P.M. MICHAEL GOLD, lecture on “Culture and Fascism,” at Tremont Progressive Club, 866 Admission Subscription 15¢. E. Tremont Ave., at 8:45 P. M. for member 200; non-members ROBERT MINOR, LaGuardia’s Promises,” Red Spark Hall, 64 Sccond Ave. near Fourth St., 8: MARY VAN KLEEK, pro: recently resigned from N. ' speaks on “N.R.A. and & Planning,” at irving Plaga, Irving Pl. and 18th St. Aus- pices Technical Bureau, F, 8. U. Admission Me., 8:15 P.M. MAX BEDAOBT lectures ‘The Situation in Gesmany Today,” at I. W ©, Open Forum, 25-20 Astoria Ave., Astoria, 1. I. JULIET §. POYNTZ, lecture on “New life In the Soviet Union and the Second Five-Year Plan,” Premier Palace, 505 Sutter Aye., Broo! 30 P.M, Auspices Eastern Parkway Cc. BRANCH 221, J. W. O., regular meeting and } © by Dr. Zuckerman at Paradise Mano: tt. Eden Ave., 8:30 P. M. SYM st is Happening in France." pe. Sam Telden, Martin Chancey, Murray Mannes. American Youtn Federation, E. 13th St, NYC. Ad- mission 10c. PARTY AND DANCE given by Independent Smoking Pipe Makers Union of America, 820 i y. %:30 P.M, 4-plece band. Con- tribution 25¢, ‘'. WANG LECTURE “China and the Far East in its Relation to the Soviet Union,” at Internationel Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave. 8 P. M. Bill Haywood Br. LL.D. LAWRENCE WOODS, lecture on “Writer ‘Turns Left,” at the Progressive Community Center, 652 E. 95th St. near Avenue B, Brooklyn. HARRY MARTELL, lecture on “Proletarian Music, the Music of the Normal Genius,” at Pierre Degeyter Ciub, 5 E, 19th St., 8:15 P.M. Admission 25c. LECTURE on “Sex Edi by Drs. Sarah Levine and Louis Ferber of the San- ser Birth Control League, at Social Youth Culture Clb, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn, 8:30 P.M. Admission 0c. LECTURS in Bnglish by Winifred Chapel! on “War Dongers,” at Olarte, 304 W. 88th St. Ad n free, 8:30 P, M. OPEN “UUM, “The Present International Situation,’ at Fordham Progressive Club. 308 E. Fordham Road, 8:30 P.M. Admission ree. LECTURE “ihe Menace of Fascism,” at Progreasive Workers Culture Club, 159 Sum- ner Ave., Brooklyn, at 8:30 P, M. Admis- sion 15c. LECTURE, David “Red” Drummoord on ‘The Marine Worker and the Next Wat,” at New Culture Ciub, 2345 Coney Island Ave., U. & T., 8:30 P.M. Admission free. SLIDE LECTURE on Soviet Unton Today. et Mt. Eden Workers Center, 238 E. 174(h St., 8:30 P. M. Admission free. Lecturer, Sam Glescner. a Seal ETS GY Seat eR ETT eS SBE TENG Wall Street kind that prevails in ,other countrics, unter the guise of democracy, At least, he might have explained that proletarian dictator- ship represents the great majority and {s working class democracy, as opposed to minority or canitalist dic- tatorships. ‘The former leads to so- cialism and freedom, the latter leads to the dark ages and slavery. Fascism Personal or military type of Mus- solini, Hitler, Poland, etc. or the must not long survive, —H. H. EARL BROWDER LECTURE “The World| % REPORT OF Polish Workers Delegation to| ™ *s: ON Saturday DANCE, CONCERT MENT at the Red Spark A. C. Holl, 64 Second Ave. near 4th St. Subscription 26c. MUSICALE CONCERT, A. Cibulsky, Soviet singer, P. Glass, violinist, and Max Bedacht master of ceremontes, at Brighton Workers Genter, 3200 Coney Island Ave. Auspices Br, 615 LW.O. Celebreting thelr Second Anniversary. Admission 28¢. GSONCERT AND DANCE at Tremont Pro- gressive Club, 366 E. Tremont Ave. Excen- tional surprise program. Dafeing till daw DANCE given by ¥.C.L. and 1.W.0. Youth Br. and Washingt 4046 Brosdwey_near..70th St 18e. | Good band. Admiszion VODVIL NITE, wrestling exhibition, danc- ing, dramatic and musical program arranged by supporters of the “Young Worker,” at Finnish Hall, 764 40th st., Brooklyn, at & P.M. Admission 20¢ in advance; 25c at door. COMMEMORATION of Bile Mey Wiggins: Songs and Poetry by Margaret Larkin, Speaker: N. Tallentire, LL.D. Chorus and dancing, at 4109 13th Ave, Brooklyn, 8:30 - M. DANCE given by C.O.N.Y. { Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th Si gram of Theatre of Workers School. tions, balalaika and guitar duets. HOUSEWARMING PARTY at Brotpayil Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Ave., Brookiyn. Eugene Nigob, piano end movie will be shown. Admission 20c, 8:30 P. M. SMASH GANGSTERISM CONCERT AND DANCE at Social Youth Culture y Broadway, Brooklyn, 8:30 P.M. sky ard Allen Taub, dance. ‘THE ROAD TO LIFE," film showing for the benefit of the Harlem Workers School, at the Y.M.C.A.,, 160 E, 135th £°,, at @ P.M, Admission 25¢, EARL BROWDER lecture on “Lenin Imperialist War,” at Harlem Workers School, 200 W. 195th St. at 8 P.M. Admission fr FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE Housewe ing Party et new headquarters, 12 5. | Mot dencing, photes, novelties, en jtertainment, refreshments. Admission bc. WORKERS SCHOOL, Dance and Enter: tainment, at 35 E. turing Bovin, ‘- ers School, Band, Refreshments, ete. Admission 16¢: member of “Friends of Work- ers School,” 10¢. | DANCE AND RECITAL, New Dance Group, soloists, and social dencing, led by Rhythy Kings, at Coney Island Workers Club, 2374 | W. 27th St. Coney Island. Auspices Coney | Island Dance Group. s NOTICE Dune to the District Training School affair, which takes ptace Feb. 10th, in the ers Center, 50 E. 13th St., the affair nit ID Section 1 will be postponed. @ who bought tickets from the Unit be admitted to the Distriet Training ool affair. { | 8. Kansas City, Mo. CONCERT and Eni W. 0. Jewish Childres A., Linwood Blyd. and Wayne, i, at 8 P.M. mission 25c. Gary, Ind. SCOTTSBORO Cabaret Party and Dance, Soturday, Feb. 8, at 8 P. M, featuring Clark and his 12 melody makers. Refresh-/| Admission 25¢ at docr; 20¢ in ad- . Auspices: Haywood Patterson Br. ji L D. i ney | Chicago, Til. | ENTERTAINMENT and Dance given by L. .N, R, Satur Feb, 10, at 7:30 P. M. 1306 S, Race A’ Interesting prog Refreshments. Admission 10¢ in advance at door, Boston, Mass. HOUSE PARTY at Yaffe's, 110 Glenway St., Dorchester, Mass., on Friday, Feb. 9th. Good entertainment, refreshments, Ausplces American Workers Chorus, Pittsburgh, Pa. “HOW NEGROES ARE TREATED IN THE SOVIET UNION” by I. Hawkins, on Sunday, Feb. 1ith, at 2:30 Pr t the Monumental Baptist Church, 2240 Wylie Ave. Cleveland, Ohio DANCE AND PARTY given at Scandina- yian Workers Center, 7010 Wade Park, on Sat., Feb. 10th, at 6 P, M. Philadelphia, Pa. SECOND Annual Bazaar of the United Workers Organization and C. P. of West Philadelphia will take place on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 24 end 25, at 1137 N. 41st St. Good program arranged. FOURTH ANNUAL BAZAAR and Dance given by United Workers Organizations of North Philadelphia at 995 N. 5th St. Ad- mission 15¢ on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. lith and 18th. ‘TEA PARTY AND ENTERTAINMENT given by C. P. Unit 1301 on Saturdev, Feb. 10th, at 1331 N. Franklin St. Sper: M. L. t AND ENTERTAIN- on Heights Workers Center, | © —By ARTRUR BRISBANE wouald be a barker. If he can howl the way he does in one littls Ising column, just imagine what he could do in a three-ring cirens, ee oi Keep up the suggestions for “If I Were Commissar.” Bill will be beck from Washinzten soon and will tet his eagle eye give the once- over to the ideas that have been coming in, TUNING IN BELOW 200 METERS By I. MILMAN Last week's reception of the Mostow sta- ton RV 59 on 50 meters was w great success in compariscn with the receptica of the previous two weeks. We listened fn to the station five days in successton, as follows: two times in English: 1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIALIST SOCIETY; 2) THE ACHIEVEMENTS ON THE VOLGA. Once in French, once in German and once iu Italian; Patty. The Cuban station COC cn 50.2 meters still interferes. ‘The yest of the European stations come in with plenty of volume Carrying religious and war propn- ganda, We are continuing our experiment with indoor aerials. ‘This time it wes @ diamond shaped directional aerial, which was about 7 inches of copper tubing, one-quarter inch in diameter, We had surprising results, ‘The above described werial was mounted on a block of wood. By turning the aerial in Gifferent directions the stations weakened and disappeered at times. To make that serial att as directional, one end must be connected to the aerial post of the set, the other to the ground post. In last week's write-up about the size of ini for the 2-tube set, there was 6 ph The aerial should not t How to find from 4 to 6 p.m. E.S.T. Bvery short wave fan ean eastiy get the Canadian station VE 9 GW on the 49 meter band, then comes London, then Germany and two code sth- In between the two code stations the tion 18 located. Do not expect to recognize the station by the Russian language, eg the brosdoasts are made by students cf foreign langu They taik in ot languages but here ts ho rookiyn, calis ite first meeting h of the W.8.W. Radio Cli Sunday, Feb. lth, at 5 P.M. All work- with or without radio experience are A representative of the Central Executive Branch of the W.S.W.R.C. will be present ° * TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. erg asked to join the branch. Da: revel oldbergs—Sketeh * : Jessica Dragoneite, Artte—Jobn Songe 8:00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama © Be dev $:00—Varie! 10:00—Tedd nounced 10:15—Curre: e a 0—Miiban String Tr! To Be Announced 11:00—Weather Report 11:02—Moonteams Trio 11:30—Nelson Orel 12:00-—Lane Oren, WIZ—760 Ke. 00 P.M. Am2s8 'n' And bin Hood—Skete O—Potash and Perlmutvor—skeret Protection of Childhood Through the NRA Codes—Donald Richberg, General Counsel, NRA $:00—Waltet O'Keefe, Comedian; Shutte, Songs; Bestor Orch 8:30-—Dangerous Paradise—Sketch 8:45—Red Davis—Sketch ‘ Songs; , Comedian: Shield Orch.; Male Quertet; Neil Sieters, Songs 10:0°—The Iron |“ Master—Bennett Chapple, Narrator 10:30—Merio Cosri Ethel Harris Orch. Baritone | 1t:00—Three Scamps, Songs i1:15—Our Neighbor Procyon—Dr. Ronert H. Baker 11:30—Martin Orch. 7:00—Luneeford Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Blkins Oren. WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Myrt and Marge 5—Just Plain Bill—-Siketeh 0—-Travelers Enserable 7:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio— Vivien Ruth, Songs $:15—News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30—March of Time 9:00—Philadelphia Orch. $:15—-Alexander Woollcott—The Town Crier 9:30—Melodic Strings 10;00—-Olsen and Johnson, Comedians; Sos- niek Oreh. 10:30—News Reports 14—Mary - Bastaias, Soprano; Concert Orel 11:15—Boswell Sisters, Songs “1:30—Jones Orch. 12:00—Redman Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Belasco Oreh, 1:00—Hopkins Orch. Olgin on “Butlding the Revolutionary Press.” Detroit. Mich. BIG Concert and Dance on Saturday eve- ‘ag, Feb. 10, by the Auto Workers Union and Auto Workers News, at Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St. near McGraw. Elaborate pro- gram. Admission 150. The capitalist class plots our des- truction through imperialist war. Fight these plots by gaining new readefs for our Daily Worker, our powerful weapon in the struggle for = Seviet America, about the 17th Congress of the Communist | ale Workers Youth Club, at 512] Broadway Emphasis in the Bourgeois Theatre Clearly Toward Reaction, Says By HAROLD EDGAR, ‘HE Communist prediction that with the sharpening of the capitalist crisis, intellectuals Would show def inite tendenciés either toward @ tevo- lutionary or @ reactionary position 18 being amply borne out by recent theatrical developments. Even Broad- way, traditionaily immune to sodial currents, beats witness to the irex- orable logic of the social-economic situation. Naturally on Broadway the | emphasis is toWard reaction. While | plays life the Siftons’ “11931—,” Rice's '“We, the Pedple” and some of the forthcoming work of John HowWatd Lawson, Melvin Levy and John Dos | Passos prove thkt an awakening | tevolutionary consciousness may be | anticipated among certain sections of the middle-class intelligentsia, the burden of Broadway production is given over to plays devoteti to pleas | for the past and apologies for escape. The unusual | Plays this season i& the less conscious |form of this reactionary trend. Not that a costume play must necessarily | be reactionary: the interpretation of the past in the light of present révo- | lutionary understanding 18 one 6f the | most interesting and fertile methods j available to the artist. But Broadway {costume plays aré not of this kind: |they generally aspire toward the | Slossy picture post-card version of jthe past. Thus the “School for Hus- | bands” instead of being the psyeho- |logical farce-comedy of Moliert’s original is transformed into a Little Theatre decoration, “Champaigne | See” becomes a futile pseudo-satire |without style or fun, “The Pursuit | of Happiness” is @ bit of Greenwich | Village naughtiness for old maids, end eveh the tore serious “Mary of Scotland” is an eleborate evasion. To finish the picture, Alardyce Nicoll, the English scholar who now heads jthe Yale School of the Theatre, writes in the New York Times that the new drama is turing away for realism, but he neither attempts to explain this phenorfienon nor does he point out that the reaction against “realism” on Broadway is at the samo time an abandonment of reality. 2 Se cb drift away from reality (after all, many Soviet plays @re hon- realistic but they are always close to life and the immediate problems of | the day) is just a8 clearly discernible in such ‘“fealistic” comedies as O'Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness.” The whole method of the latter play— Forums in Baltimore, Philadelphia Sunday; iA, Markoff in Boston Workers School opens regular open forum series this Sunday, Feb. 11 at the International Book Shop, 509 N. Eutau St. Subject: “How the Unem- "| ployed Seamen of Baltimore Won More. Relief.” Speaker: A. Becher, “| organizer of the’Marine Workers In- | dustrial Union, | * . AMTER IN PHILA. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Workers | School forum this Sunday at 2 pm, instead of 8 p.m., at 911 Girard Ave. Speaker: I. Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Councils of the USA. . j MARKOFF IN BOSTON Tn commemoration of the tenth | anniversary of the death of Lenin, | the Workers School of Boston has at~ ranged a lecture on “The Historie | Role of Lehinism.” A Markoff, di+ |reetor of the Central Workers School at New York City, is the speaker. The lecture will e place at the | school headquarters, 919 Washington | 8t., Boston, Sunday, Feb. 1ith, 8 o'clock, | | ——- HE L o— rr EARTH with WLADIMIR SOKOLOFF (sfoscow a: |} ABBEY | LATEST SOVIET NEWSREEL s@%sator tropanamty, ACME THEATRE USN SESFEE AES | 0 ee "atid Uh@re Will bé stoke numbet of costume | Sehices | BALTIMORE, Md. — Baltimore AMUSE: Be and Capitalism.” “Daily” Critic | ive one the itpri | was simpler, more ch 1 and jer y saner than the present This lis done #y giving the audieriée not {@ portrait of the past a8 it was sensed jand lived by the author when the | “past” Was present for him, but by writing about the ideals and hopes of the “old days” without any of th jimpulses and passions Out of which |those ideals and hopes” spréitig. The [result consequently 18 a sentimental |¢hromo without life. But it pleases |the harrassed bourgeeisie to indulge themselves in suth mémories “because it relieves them of thé need of facing he facts of today, This is the psy- chology of the old mah who wants to live out his remaining “tithe on earth with a& little disturbancé as possible And now, one step further along the path of reaction, coms the Gath- lic plays, O'Neill's vs Without End” aff Philip Barty’s “The Joy- ous Season.” The fact that these Dilaywrights rather than-two wh- knowns should have beguh this pro- cession backwatd is signfidart. Just because they are earnést peddle and sincere they were amongst the first to feel obliged to choose. ‘But their choice is thé negative one towards “mother chufch”—back to the begini- ning and the protective womb! What is more sifnfficant still, however, Is that for men such.as Q’Neili and Barry this chain cannot be made without the atrophy of thelr creative Capacities, a Tallin off of their early strength. O'Neill was never a “thinker” but he hed passion’ ahd a sense of teeming life; his growth urged him to question hig ‘environ- ment, to probe beneath the surfaces of our superficially placid rural life and all our taken-for-grahted indus- trial activity. Bafty’s gifts” were never much mote than slight: his Plays always had ih therm the quality of sweetbreads fot frail inteHectuals of the semi-Bostonian tyne but they had a wit and a sensitivity~of the finzer-tids which made him wivare of & little more than mafy of: his fels Yow playwrights. But mowW that ther have suftendered their positive -seek- ing sides everything which distin= suished them has disappeared. In the days of Catholicism’s. ma- turity, leading philosophers. and artists came out of. the Church” (Thomas Aquinas, Dante); but fr this country when am attist:attempts* to relate his own problems aint-living impulses to the Churth; ‘he: finds | himself in a complete vacuunij The’ Church as @ creative force has never existed in this country¢eitainly not rite the Civil War—and artists who | want to. find sustenance. in it are |either foreed to behave dike foreigt tourists in ancient places: (Thornton Wilder) or revert to a fatth’so'sim= ple that it is silly; like O'Neill whose: jPeligion as voiced In “Days: Without’ ’ End” is that of the most ignorany | parish priest, or like Barry\in “The Joyous Season” Whose Catholicism, ic ® vague, Slgary, timid’ acquiescence jto anything’ mama says!” Thére is | very little fm either of thésé “plays to indicate that their authors onée were promising. Their reactionary faith has laid them low. ee ee ‘HIS, however, is not yet the final | * stage of reaction though it leads jto it. The final stage is the point at which the artist comes ovpedirectiy«, and unequivocally in.defensé of the” existing society as ae lew ors €- AS i of} the O'Netlis der emerging from |the working class. and Barrys who write these naive re- | ligious plays were to tealizé that this jis the course they will have to follow jin the future, would they flinch or | would they face it? If they could an- swer the question, they would know @ little more of what ‘they ‘are falk- about today. NATIONAL TALBIE? THR DAILY WORKER SAYS: ‘Fine Anti-War Pieture It Shoold Seen by Eteryone Opposed to War ERNST BUSCH (now In exile) 23 | [y—-THE THEATRE GUILD _ presents—1) EUGENE O'NEILL's COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. 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