The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 10, 1934, Page 9

CHANGE WORLD! By Michael Gold _ 4 Daily Scene in Germany SQUAD of Nazi Brown Shirts called at a Berlin prison last week A with an order for the delivery of four workers whom they were to convey to Potsdam. The Brown Shirts were the typical mercenaries the new regime has enlisted: men with hard, dissolute faces, cold, animal eyes, and the swagger of killers who like their job; people below humanity, but use- ful to capitalism. America is full of them, too; they make up the strike-breaking armies; they are deputy sheriffs, professional lynchers, kidnappers, prison wardens, gunmen and racketeers. The plentiful flower and fruit, these are, of a predatory society; and in a time of Fascism, the chief bulwark of the state. oe a nai They took away the four workers, who were Comm John Scheer, Erich Steinfurth, Rudolf Schwartz and Eugen Schoenhaar. The gunmen were to conduct them to Potsdam, ostensibly to be examined in preparation for the coming trial of Ernest Thaelmann, the Hamburg longshoreman who is chief leader of the German Communist Party. En route, their big limousine stopped in the snow-laden depths of » forest. The gangsters pushed the manacled prisoners out into the mow and told them to run, The Communists, their faces pale, knew immediately what was transpiring. They threw back their shoulders, and faced the killers. “Run!” sneered the Brown Shirts, “run, you swine, we are giving you a chance for your lives!” They did not run, but solemnly sang the Internationale. And the gunmen cursed and giibbered, and shot them down. They shot them and spat at them and kicked the limp bodies. ‘They then gulped slugs of the whisky they had taken along. They boasted heroically and drunkenly, slapped each other on the back. They had done their job. They had earned a bonus tor this day's bloody work. Hitler and Goering would be pleased; might even give them a raise in pay or a medal. HIS, a daily occurence in bleeding Germany, was reported in the Daily T Worker last week. Four more German workers had been murdered by the Brown Shirts while “trying to escape.” One reads these brutal documents and grits one’s teeth, mourning the death of one’s working class kinsmen, yet hardening like steel to the feeling that the great day of proletarian justice must be hastened at all cost. Kugene Schoenhaar, a Friend READ this account, and my heart skipped a beat when I name of Eugen Schocnhaar. It was more than the name of a brave fellow-worker to me; it was the name of a dear friend. saw the * . BOUT four years ago Eugen Sehoenhaar spent a year in this country as the representative of the German Section of the International Labo: Defense. He was here to co-ordinate the work of this organiza- tion; to guarantee that such cases as Scottsboro, for instance, would not become merely an “American affair,” as some of these new Muste patriots would perhaps have it, but a cause with which to rouse the workers: of the world. ‘The capitalist rulers of the world are nationalists; they are plunging the world into new wars of sectional hate. But the interests of the workers are international; and whoever departs from this fundamental truth, is sure to end in treachery to the workers. Words That Are Not Spoken 'UGEN was on @ most important mission; and he did some splendid erganizational work in his ‘own quiet manner. Sut he had little money to live on; despite all this talk of “Moscow gold.’ In fact he had no room rent; and he and his wife came to live ati my, home. Yor several months I saw them at breakfast every morning; and sometimes, when Eugen had an evening free, we would eat our suppers and talk and enjoy each other’s companionship. There is so much hypocrisy and lying sentimental camouflage in the capitalist world that Communists do not often mention the words friendship, affection, love. ‘The words have been so cheapened by all the lynching parsons and double crossing politicians and profiteers of capitalism that perhaps it is better to wait until there is a really fair and just socialist world before one repeats these words, too. But Eugen Schoenhaar, an active and disciplined leader of the Com- munist movement was one of the finest human beings I have ever met. Let me say it though it may count only a fraction in the heavy scales of Nazi crime. He was one of those rare friends whose presence makes you happy. His work came first; he averaged 16 and 18 hours a day. ‘He had no feeling of self or egotism in this work; the movement was his Ufe, and what hurt Communism, hurt him, as keenly as a body- weund. ite came from a family of Berlin workers; his father, his brothers and himself had worked in the German steel mills. But he was this new type of humanity in the world, the proletarian intellectual, and he had hammered out a thorough education for himself. I enjoyed his calm, rational, far-sighted approach to world problems. 1 enjoyed, too, the surprising sensitivity this steel worker had for poetry, the theatre, all the arts. He had taught himself English and French, and had read the best modern fiction and poetry in three languages. He could recite more poetry than I, presumably a professional writer, could ever have re- membered. And he knew hundreds of songs and played the guitar. T got hold of an accordion and taught him many of the American revolutionary songs. We had many a midnight eoncert at home, with accerdion, guitat ‘and wine, eal deyeioped a great fondness for the American worker. He tray- eled through the middle-west, and visited many of the steel and mining towns, end came back full of enthusiasm. “The American worker has an unspoiled revolutionary spirit.” “He is like some young bewildered genius, waiting to tind his true direction.” Eugen often said he would like to come back and live in America for a few years to learn this country. He made me promise him we would take a long trip across the continent, and see it all from a work- ers’ point of view. But now they have murdered him, and he will never meke this trip. A Proletarian Anedocte He WAS fond of telling stories about his proletarian family. His brother had been reported missing in the world war. But he came back one day, minus a leg. The mother began to weep, but Eugen’s brother picked up his old accordian and began to play and sing. “Cheer up, mother, I'm alive, and there's many a good fight lett in me yet,” he roared, trying to keep the tears from his own eyes. And soun the mother laughed, too, she could not resist his lusty spirit. That was Bugen’s spirit, too; he was a cheerful, brave, generous fighter, a man good to the core. Sut now the Brown Shirt assassins have murdered him, as they are trying to kill all that ts best in their land, . . | SAW Eugen again three years ago, in the Karl Liebknecht house, headquarters of the party, He was, I believe, on the central com- mittee, and involved in much serious activity, But he had time to smile and telk over the happy evenings we had spent together in New York, and jo plan for his cross-country box-car tour of proletarian America, a ° * Remember and Help Our German Comrades! THERE will be a mass protest meeting in New Yori tomorrow evening at the Bronx Coliseum to demonstrate the deep feeling of solidarity of the American workers for their oppressed brothers in Germany. The proceeds will go to support the underground work that will eventually conquer this brown plague in Germany. I will be there, to remember my dear friend and comrade Eugen Schoenhaar, and all the other brave spirits who are risking life and happiness that the world may not sink into the depths of capitalist de- cadence, murder and war, The Nazis have assassinated Eugen Schoenhaar; but all their black- Jeeks and bullets cannot helt the sunrise of a Communist world With His Eye on Slight “Objects” | Collected Poems 1921-1931—By Wil- | liam Carlos Williams. Objectivist | | Press, New York City, $2.00. | SoS Reviewed by MILTON HOWARD oe is @ poet with a high| reputation among a group of in-| tellectuals, who have played an im-/| |portant part in the development of | American literature in the historic} decades after 1910. And in a sense the | reputation is deserved. For Williams | possesses a good sense for the flavor of language, for the tough fibre of American speech. I do not know any | one writing in America who can beat) him in conveying in a concentrated poetic way some of the flesh and blood of living language. And yet for all that, Williams, to me, still remains essentially a promise of achievement, rather than of full achievement in literature. And this is significant, for Williams hes been | writing for many years, and he is now} over 50 years of age. The root of his failure to achieve final form, a wholly succesful, sus- tained result in his writing, is due, I believe (within the limitations of his talent, of course), to the restric- tive effect of the literary principle to which he seems to subscribe, the prin- ciple of “objectivism,” the principle, as nearly as I can determine, which sees in the creation of “poetic ob- jects,” the highest virtue of poetry. A poetic “object” is the creation in words of a “thing,” the recreation, so to speak of that object in terms of words. Williams’ poetry is essentially the poetry of the eye. He strives to give us in & few words, whittled clean, a moment of sight, a thing clearly and unforgettably seen, Strives to give us the “object” itself without any of the old-style “poetic” emotion that was supposed to go with poetry in the days of many of the gushing Victorian poets. But in rushing away from the false “poetic” emotion of the sentimental writers, Williams has gone too far away from the wellspring of poetry— profoundly felt emotion about signifi- cant things, I give @ brief quotation: “On hot days } the sewing machine whirlin: in the next room in the kitchen and men at the bar talking of strike and cash.” Be a | fete is a picture, a glimpse, and nothing more. Williams had failed to fecundate his quick observation with any emotion that alone could quicken it into poetry, Now, Williams gives the “object.” But in doing so he has doomed him- self thus far to giving us only isolated, | disparate daubs of what remains, only sharp observation, and little more, ‘Today a poet cannot create signi- ficantly merely by fixing his attention on an “object,’ particularly if the objects are insignificant. It is’ Wil+ liams’ great virtue that his writing ts always fresh, intellingent. He has not yet developed into a writer dependent | upon mannerism. And this is praise for a man who has been experiment- ing with writing for some time. But unless he can enrich his poetry with something more than sharp sight and fresh langauge, he will continue to write poetry that will give only a sense of promise, not achievernent. TUNING IN) TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF —660 Ke. 7430 P. M.—Circus Days—Sketch 7:45—Mountaineers Music 8:00—Stephen C, Foster Memorial Program, | Orchestra direction Cliff Marshall; Pitts- burghers Quartet; Mixed Chorus; Etta G. Cuningham, Soprano; Mab! Wing, Con- tralto; Dramatic Sketch | 8:20—Canadian Exchange Program | §:00-—To Be Announced 2:30—-National Defense—-the Army and Its Mission—Harry Woodring, Assistant Sec. retary of War, Speaking at National Sojonrners Club Dinner, Washington, D.C (Seo special articles in today’s fasue of the Daily Worker, exposing war prepara- tions by the It government.) 10:00-—Roffe Orch; Men About Town Trio; Robert L. Ripley 11:00—One Man's Famlly—Sketch 11:30—Hollywood on the Air : .; Etta Moten, songs; ; Tommy Harris, Songs; Ryan and blette, Comedy; Senator Pishface, Co- median; Hillbilly Group | WOR—710 Ke, 2:00 FP. M.—Sport—Ford Frick 3:18—Harry Hershfleld—Talk ‘7:30—Little Symphony Orch.; Philip James, Conductor; Drane Sisters, Violin Duo 8:30--Morros “Musicale 9:00—Dance Orch. 9:30—Bronx Marrlage Bureau—Sketch 9:45—Robert McGimsey, Whistler 10:00—Lee Leonard Songs 10:15—Piano Duo 10:30—Organ Recital 12:06 Robbins Orch, ha . WJZ—T760 Ke. 1:00 P, M.—Jobn Herrick, Songs 7:15—Robin Hood—Sketch 7:30—Duehin and Public Works— Director of Research, of Economic Research; Levering ‘Tyson, Director National Ad- visory Council on Radio in Education Symphony Oreh.; Arnold Schoenberg, Conductor 10:15—The Master Singers 0:30—Kyto 11:00—Barn Danco 12:00—Waiteman Oren. 12:80 A. M.—Scott! Orch. WABC—860 Ke. (See “Wall Street's Capitol,” by Bey- mour Waldman, in today’s issue of the Daily Worker). 7:00 P. M.—Political Situation in Washing- tou—W, P. Wile ‘7:15—Belasco Orch. ‘7:30—Serenaders Orch.; Phil Cook, Imper- sonations os 8:15—Michaux Congregation 8:45—Serappy Lambert and Billy Hulipot, sstoopnatl 0 Renard Orch.: Vere Van, Songs 9:40—Band Concert, Edward D'Ann, Oon- ductor °0:00—Rebroadcast from Byrd Expedition en aad to Antarctic; Musie from New Beat, Drums of the World By JOSEPH FREEMAN Drums of the world, beat! beat a loud call for war against this madness! Blue for a billion years, the sky having seen at the world’s dawn man crawl up from slime, still beholds the terror, indolence, stupor, robbery. blood and lies from age to age; bones of butchered men cracking in the tie! diplomacy’s crooked smile, the oppression of peoples, cries of the poor in all times and lands the hatred of parents and children (boys and girls twisted at life’s gates by the poison of unconfessed jealousy and revenge) the struggle of nations, classes, factions, individuals; hands that come empty into the world and leave empty. Beat, drums of the world! let the workers storm from the factories, the peasants from the farms: Sweep the earth clean of this nightmare, build new cities, a new world, ringing with the clear voices of new men! rstition, | Fourth Number of Magazine “Fignt” Continues Attack on War and Fascism' And there is also the article by | Granville Hicks analyzing recent American war literature, and the one | by Kenneth Fearing on the wood |pulp war propaganda. | ° ° And a page on organization work Reviewed by GEORGE LEWIS poe the CUE bea League Agdinst ism.’ | “8r and Fascism. “ ed ea hes mast genial A swell magazine. And we forgot une be oy Sore. to mention some fine pictures, and} fog ur por} ie ihe excellent |2 74P of the United States show- | FIGHT Against War and Fas- | cism. February, 1934. Published by the American League Against War and Fascism, 112 E. 19th St. Price 10 cents. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16..1984 Grover Whalen would be a Street Cleaner, picture him at the end of a May Day Parade, What Workers Are Reading-- The folowing books are reported a “best-sellers” by work- ops in New York and * by Ralph Fox. “Young Manhood of Studs Loni- gan,” by James T, Farrell. “From Broadway to Moscow,” by Marjorie Smith, ioe where the Ww “The Disinherited,” by Jack red beeeanre: pee cS e war machinery aa) Conboy. Its articles are short and full of |” an ‘in 16 large sine pages. And ali| “Red Medicine,” by Newsholme are! clearly em by w. s,|10r five cents. | &Kingsbury, “Wages an fer,” hy W.. 8, ‘ : is | “Das Kapital,” Hugo Gellert’s Richards, proces convincingly with} Only one or two jarring notes edme lithograph illustrations, figures that anybody can read that both in the recent world war and in the American Civil War the REAL wages of the working class as a whole were cut. “The Rise of a Fascist,” by Anita Brenner is an article everyone should read about Gil Robles., the “Work- -|ers’ Enemy Number One” in Spain, “Fascism in the U. 8. A,” by Joseph Gregg, gives the latest in- formation about the spread of Hit- lerite propaganda, and the Silver Shirts, the K. K. K., and other mur- |, derous fascist gangs here. Concrete facts that sound a serious warning. “Peace Commissions,” by Irving Adler tells you clearly what the Lytton report on Manchuria and China means. It is @ remarkable thing that a magazine of so few pages should contain so much information. WHAT Announcements for the “What's On” Column must be in our office by 11 A.M. There fs a mini- of tho previous day. mum charge of 25c for each notice, Saturday up to mar all this pure enthusfasrt. | The editorial on the first page, | “War Is Near,” ends with the sen- tence, “Fascist Japan must not get) the support, the money, the life of one American worker.” Is this the final slogan for the Americah people | in an editorial addressed to them on the war danger? The awkward Phrase, “The life of one Amétican worker,” is particularly dangerous and ambiguous. It is with “stith “esses that the New Leader and j twisted sentences of ‘Norman | S feed jingo poison into’ the | br: eof workers, | Those who sincerely fight against war here must make thei main center of attack the machinations of American imperialism. Most of the | Magazine is devoted to this purpose. The lest part of the editorial onthe front page tends to do much ¢6 blunt the aim of the magazine. ment and refreshments. Admission” tne. * | ALTERATION PAINTERS UNION, Bronx Local, at Hollywood Gardens, 396 Four of the beoks have already been reviewed in the Daily Worker, and “Lenin” by Ralph Fox and “Capital” In Pictures by Gellert will be reviewed soon. Wexley, Maltz, Oak at John Reed Club Symposium Tomorrow NEW YORK.—John Wéxley, author ot “The Last Mile”, and the new Theatre Guild play based on the Scottsboro case, “They Shall Not Die,” Albert Maltz, co-author of “Peace on| Earth,” and Liston Oak, editor of “Soviet Russia Today,” and-one of the directors of the ‘Theatre Union, ‘ill speak in a symposium on “Recent Trends in the American Theatre,” Sunday night, at 8:30 p. m., at the John Reeg Club, 430 Sixth Ave. John Wexley and Albert Malta. will cover the playwright’s point of view! at this meeting, while Liston Oak will \ ‘oe WERE COMMISSAR| How the Mellon Family Bu. | America’s Biggest Fortune |New International Pamphlet Gives History of th Colossal Crimes Against U. 5. Workers So HOW MELLON GOT RICH, by Harvey ©’Connor. International Pamphlet No. 36. International Publishers, 381 Fourth Are, New York. Price 5 cents. Selig Re! Reviewed By EDWIN BROLFE 77HIS pamphlet, » condensation of the complete and much more de-| s” by the same | tailed “Mellon’s Mil le excellent thor, is one of t id dramatic of cent Interna- jonal pamphlets. {It tells the story jot the Mellon | family’s wealth in a@ manner both simple and com- plete, so that the reader feels he zan place his fin- | zer on the core of nesning which | he pamphlet re- | veals. It traces jthe fortune (“The Pittsburgh titans of finance capital are directly inter- asted in corpora- tions with assets of $10,500,000,000") fi its beginnings with Judge as Mellon, “who laid the foun- dation of the family fortune in Pitts- burgh as a corporation lawyer and ; money lender.” When Andrew Melion was born, the fortune was already on a solid jbasis. It remained for our ex-Sec- retary of State to continue the same |skinflint, sly and grafting game roc his father had begun, extend- ing operations to a national and in- ternational scale, “Count off the major enterprises of Mellon and you will include most jof the basic industries,” says O’Con- nor, Mellon controls vast mine hold- |ings, steel companies, coke, vast util- jities, has @ monopoly in aluminum, and is among the most powerful of the modern financial and industrial {giants who reap profits in millions {from war. “War,” the author says, | “has been the Mellons’ best ally. The |peace time stride of their fortune then quickens into the double march. ne most Harvey O'Connor |The Mexican war started Pittsburgh } joff, and with it old Judge Mellon, {chiefly through his transactions in |veal estate, laid the foundations for! The Civil War placed } | his fortune. jhim in the millionaire class. The |Spanish-American War, with its fat jcontracts for guns and ammunitions, {made his son Andrew s peer of Wall |Street bankers and the lord of Pitts- burgh, the seat of war industries.” The story of Melion’s deal with |Frick against Andrew Carnegie, his ventures in Texas and South Amer- }ican ofl fields with the aid of the | Hoover administration, his profits in explosives, his machinations as Sec- Tetary of the Treasury to exempt the |wealth of the land (including his own) from taxation, his brutality against the workers employed in his "AMUSEMENTS | Industrie: Jand briefly + | The J | discuss lor and states that | preme expression of p: itive capitalism « Tt jand all capitalist w | deeper in misery became | “Mellon did not cr which he today cont: E only to gain control over we: he might intercept the profi he used these profits to gain jcontrol—the process being jendless. But the source |wealth and these profits. rem |always—the exploitation of tr |Sources of the country and the of the masses. | “It is against this system of |talism—mass exploitation for | vidual gain—that the workers Tt is capitalism that produce jlon, just as it produced the » edness of workers’ lives, the } of our civilization and- the ar | half-starved unemployed, | “Capitalism yesterday produce | great fortunes, today prodife Mellons and Rockefellers ax gans, and tomorrow another s |der capitalism all wealth | |concentrated. It is for a ner of society, granting no. place ploiters, as in the Soviet Unio, we fight. The workers, creators | this wealth, will then. have its us . jee is a great need for ot books and pamphlets of this books which dramatize the functioning of present: cap in terms of its indiyidupl ities, books which e: 7 acter and ruthlessness. Of th, | who have gained contro! of th, lives of the masses of farmers in all capitalist gives us an opportunity | System as it functions—noi or generally, but very dire story of the Mellon fortune %, ture hatred in the liearts oy |who read it, a hatred ch, guided into revolutionary and ( | ized channels, will do miich to ¢ jand intensify the | workers for the oy Compinsky Trio in Concert T: NEW YORK. — -The Trio, well-known artists, v in @ program of chamb |morow at 8 p. m. at the |for Social Research, 66 junder the auspices of League. Appearing on thy gram will be Dr. GChagles music lecturer at the: Wew . who will speak on “Basie Princip. for Musical Criticism in the Prole., tarian Press.” The proceeds of this concert will a to the Daily Worker and other rey- olutionary publications. Prospect Ave., near Prospect Ave. subway station. Tom Wilson and his Tomeats “band, Excellent program and refreshments. GATHERING - INSTALLATION, Speak about the organizational and production side of the theatre. A dis- ; cussion will follow, t THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL TALKIE! HELL ON THE DAILY WORKER SAYS: | “Fine Anti-War Pleture ...... I Should Isaao Meyers Br. L.S.N. +» 886 Forest Ave. DANCE, CONCERT AND ZENTERTAIN- efreshments, dane: MENT at the Red Spark A. C. Hall, 64 Bronx. Entertainmen’ ing. Second Ave., near 4th St. Subscription 5c. MUSICALE CONCERT, A. Cibuisky, Soviet singer, P. Gloss, violinist, and Max Bedacht, master of ceremonies, at Brighton Workers Auspices Br. 615 I.W.O. Celebrating their Second Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave. Anniversary. Admission 25c. CONCERT AND DANCE at Tremont Pro- Excep- gressive Club, 868 E. Tremont Ave. tional surprise program. DANCE given by ¥. Dancing till dawn. 4046 Broadway near 70th St. 1Se. Good band, Hall, 764 40th 8t,, Brookly: P.M, Admission 200 in advance; 25 at door, COMMEMORATION of Ella May Wiggins; Songs and Poetry by Margaret Larkin. Speaker, N. Tallentire, LL.D, Chorus snd dancing. at 4109 13th Ave, Brooklyn, 3:30} P.M. DANCE given by C.C.N.Y. Chapter N.S.L, at Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St. Pro- gram of Theatre of Workers School. Recits tions, delalaika and guitar duets. Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Ave., Brookiyn Bugene Nigob, piano and movie will be shown. Admission 20¢, 8:30 P. M. SMASH GANGSTERISM CONCERT AND DANCE at Social Youth Culture Club, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn, 8:30 P. M, Speakers: Carl Brodsky ard Allen Taub, Entertain- ment and dance, “THE ROAD TO LIFE,” film showing for the benefit of the Harlem Workers School, at the ¥.M.C.A., 180 E, 130th 5t., at 8 P.M. Admission 250. EARL BROWDER lecture on “Lenin and Imperialist War,” at Harlem Workers School, 200 W. 135th St., at 8 P.M, Admission free. FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE Housewarm- ing Party at new headquarters, 12 E. 17th St. Movies, dancing, photos, novelties, en- tertainment, refreshments. Admission ‘25c. WORKERS SCHOOL, Dance and Enter- tainment, at 35 E. i2th St., drd floor, Featuring Bovington, Theatre of the Work- ers School, Jazz Band, Refreshments, etc, Admission member of “Priends of Work- era School,” 10c, DANCE AND RECITAL, New Dance Group, soloists, and social dancing, led by Rhythm Kings, at Coney Island Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th St., Coney Island. Auspices Coney Island Dance Group, * eee. | NOTICE — Due to the District Training School affair, which takes place Fi Workers Center, 50 E. 18th St. of Unit 1D Section 1 will be postpo Those who bought tickets from the Unit will be admitted to the District Training School affair. (O PARTY at City Club Councti, 31 .L, and L.W.0, Youth Br, and Washington Heights Workers Center, Admission VODVIL NITE, wrestling exhibition, danc- ing, dramatic and musical program arranged by supporters of the “Young Worker,” at | 207t a HOUSE PARTY given by Imperial Valley Br. LL.D., 2401 Davidson Ave., near Ford- ham Rd. Station. Admission: article, for “LD. Bazaar. Entertainment and zefresh-| ments. | HOUSE PARTY given by ¥.C.L. Unit 6 at 1627 Pulton Ave. Apt. 5E, Bronx. | SOCIAL given by ¥.C.L. Unit 11, Section’5| at 1006 Longfellow Ave. basement. Ad- mission 10c, CONCERT AND DANCE, Prospect. Workers.| Center, 1157 Southern Boulevard. -Outstand- ing program, OPENING CELEBRATION, Mosholu Pro- | gressive Club, 3230 Bainbridge Ave.. near 207th St. Bronx, Excellent classical con- Admission 25¢. “THE ROAD TO LIFE” Soviet Film show- ing at Wilkins Hall, 1330 Wilkins Ave., suspices ¥..U., followed by dancing, re- focrhmen OUSE PARTY for the benefit of the Euet ¢ Branch, L.S.N.R., 1852 Bergen’ 8f., Apt, Brooklyn. Entertainment, refreshments. RTY given by American” Lougue Ver and Fascism at 183 Hooper 8t., | Phone Stagg 2-8490. Soviet sound cartoon and other attractions. é) LOUISE THOMPSON, lecture on “National Minorities in the Soviet Union," at New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave.,. bet, Ave, U and Ave. T. Admission 10c. 8:30 P.M. CONEY ISLAND WORKERS CLUB, 2874 W. 27th St., presents 2 group of Russian Gramatic actors from Novy Mir well-knewn play “The Eastern Light,” by M. .Triger. Admission 25¢; members 20c. SONCERT AND DANCE at Boro Park Workers Club, 18th Ave. end 47th Bt. John Bovington on “New Soviet Life’ in sound and motion, 1641 Clay Ave., » Rear Claremont Pkwy Sta. Admission DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT —Italian | music, balloon game. Lower West Side Work-| ers Club, 108 Bleecker St., near Greene St 8:39 P.M. Subscription 10. ENGLISH LITERATURE from Historical Materialist Viewpoint, class at Workers School, 25 ¥. 12th St., 3rd floor at’3 P, af. M. Vetch, instructor, Sunday CHARLES ALEXANDER lectures on, “Pred- erick Douglas and Abraham Lincoin,” at Harlem Workers School Forum, 200. W. 135ti St., room 214A at 3:20 P. M. Admission free. EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE Film and Photo League meets at 12 E. 11th St., 3:30 SYMPOSIUM, ‘The Role of the Theatre in the Social Struggle,” Unity Theatre, 24- 26 East 28rd St., 8 P. M. Speakers: Herbert | Biberman, Joshua Kunitz, Paul Sifton, Wil- and Herbert Biberman, director, will participate in a sympo- sium on “The Role of the Theaire in Michael Gold Speaks at Performance of Anti- War Play Tonight NEW YORK. — “The Mikado’s Headache” a one-act anti-war play based on a traditional semi-religious form of Japanese drama will be pre- sented tonight at the Workers’ Labor- atory Theatre, 42 E. 12th St., by the Japanese Workers Club. The play was written by K. Nishino, Japanese sulptor. Michael Gold will speak, following the performance, on Japanese rev-| olutionary literature, Symposium on Role of the Theatre Tomorrow NEW YORK. — Joshua Kunitz, an editor of New Masses, Paul Sifion, playwright, William Zorach, sculptor, theatrical the Sozial Struggle” to be held to- morrow evening at 8 o'clock at the Unity Theatre, 24-26 E. 23rd St. Gary Workers School Draws Big Enrollment GARY, Ind.—Almost one hundred | steel workers are now in the Gary Workers School, which opened Jan- uary 17th. Even though classes have begun, new students have been reg- istering all week to participate in the five classes offered, Classes are held in: History of the American Labor Movement (instruc- tor, Eugene Bechtold); Trade Union- Ism and Strike Strategy (instructor, John Lawson); Principles of Com- munism (instructor, Lydia Oken); Principles: of Communist Orgahiza- tion (instructor, Dave Mates); and English (Advanced—instructor, Al- = 20th St, ee singe bee tye mernond Sa Admission 40c, refreshments] bert M. Block); and English (Ele- an a ciubs and club ms ers | Served. " are urged to attend in a body. Admission) STUDIO PARTY, Medical Br. W.LR,, at| mentary, instructor, Marguerite 150, 36 Union Square East, 16th St. and Union| Glaser), TRE COLLECTIVE, house warming | Square. Refreshments, music, dering. At a Se party at 82 West 15th St. Unique program, | mission 250, . M. a= r t bed la iealha ey : rt af Bronx THEIR EYES OPENED! INAUGURATION CELEBRATION of the Italian Workers Unity Center st 358 West 44th St., corner 9th Ave. W.L.T. perfor- mance; music and dancing, Contribution BARN DANCE and Bazaar Shower given y Fifth Avenue Tailors and Dressmakers International Labor Defense, 130 W. 23rd 3t. top floor, Admission 10c. DANCE-' ‘WALTZ CONTEST at Cli-Grand Youth Club, 380 Grand St, HOUSEWARMING PARTY and Entertain- ment, Steve Katovis Br. LL.D, 15 E. 3rd St., near 3rd Ave. 8:30 P. M. ‘TROPICAL NIGHT at the Venezuelon Workers Center, 1664 Madison Ave., top floor, Sponsored by the Harlem ¥.0.L. ‘Unit 8, Music by the Caribbean Serenaders, Admission 36c; to ¥.C.. members 25c; La- dies free. PARTY AND FROLIC, Jim Connelly Br. LLD., 603 E. 136th St., Bronx. Entertain- 0-—News Bulletins Pi pence ia feces Vv. Kaltenborn jardo Orc! '30—Florito Orch. MEMBERS ‘R. Band repo Coliseum (177th St.), for Anti-Fascist Rally. Bring stands, VILLAGE FORUM, 224 W, 4th St, (facing Sheridan Sq.), Sender Garlin lectures on “The Writer Turns Lett.” 2:30 P, M,- Aus- pices Ella Reeve Bloor and Rose Pastor Stokes Br. TL.D. Admission 8c. °> WORKERS SCHOOL FORUM. By Leon Berner, age 8 (From the February New Pioneer) A teacher in a German school asked the children to tell som about their pets. A little girl got up EARTH ADDED | |} Fearcre | ACME iss UN THEATRE Be See, by Ei Opposed to War and Cajjtalism.” With) WLADIMIR SOKOLOFF- (Moscow ArtTheatre), ERNST BUSOH: (aow: in’ exile) LATEST SOVIET NEWSREEL = ‘Troyenovsky, and Others RD BIG) WEEK bassador Radek, bh STREET AND 3 —THe THEATRE GUILD _presente— { EUGENE O'NEILL's COMEDY | AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE. M. CONAN || GUILD evita thur-esat | MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND | vith HELEN PHILIP HELEN | HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN r Thea., 52d St., W. ALVIN priests Toure | EUGENE O'NEILL'S New Play | DAYS WITHOUT END | Henry Miller’s Bs, 2¢ |] Evenings 8:40, Mat. Thurs. & Sat. 2:40 | Reseseeee ene Sahtechtathe \NO MORE LADIES New York Smartest Comedy with MELVYN DOUGLAS—LUCILE WATSON | “A DEFINITE BI Herold Tribune BOOTH Thes., 45th, W. of Bway. Evs. 8:50. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday et 2:45. |ZJECFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE | Willje & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- MONS, Jane FROHMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. | WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th, Evs, 3.30 | : Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:36 Roeerta A New Musical Comeay by | JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 42d St. Evxs. Plus Wed, &Sat.,50e t ‘TSVELY LAST WEEK ' ONTE CARLO BALLET RUSSE COMPANY OF 150 ST. JAMES Thes., 44th W. of Broadway Every eve. inc. Sun., 8:30; mats. Tom. & Bat. Eves. $1 to $3—mats. $1 to $2.50 (plus tax) SECOND EDITION THE ROAD By GEORGE MARLEN A Communist Novel Against Fascism ~ - ~ $1.50 REDSTAR PRESS P. O. Box 67, Sta. D, New York 1 Fetes TON SQUARE RADIO CITY MUSIC 50 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation Opens 10:00 A. Mf. , ANNA STEN in “NANA? Based are eae Novel “THE 18ST MUSIC HALL REVUE” BKO Jefferson 14th &t. & | Wo ee “House on 56th Street” Also: HO) ” SUM SUMMMEEVIIUE tnd Lena jue Ave. Theatre Lest Time Today—9:38 A.M. to Amkino’s Greatest Soviet Film “VILLAGE OF SIN” 3 ANNA STEN te TRLLOW PARR ; Theatre Union's Stirring Play | THE ANTI-WAR BIT ard Big PEACE ON BAR | CIVIC REPERTORY Thea, 1ith 8, | WA. 09-7450, Evgs. 8:45, epgye to $- Mats. Wed. & Sat, 290, BOE Arrange Thestre Parties fot your tion by telephoning Wi 23th Bi & MAXINE ELLIOTI’S ‘Thea.,. Evel $3.30 to 56¢;~) —calied off en account of Mass meeting for benefit of the German Communist Party at the Bronx Coliseum. Earl Browder, main speaker. ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION in Freneh led by H. Eagnon at Clarte, 304 W. path. St. at 3 P. M. Subject: St, Simon. as CLASS IN HISTORY of Negro Strugeles, West Side Workers Club, 210 W. 68th St., 3.P.M. Comrade teacher, at the American and said that her cat had twelve kit- tens, and that eleven were Nazis and one was a Communist. The teacher, who was @ Nazi herself, was very pleased. So the next week when the principal came in, the teacher told the little girl to repeat the story. ‘The little girl stood up and said, “Last week our cat gave birth to twelve kittens. Eleven are Commu- nists and one is a Nazi.” The teacher angrily asked, “Didn't you say last week that eleven were on Sunday, February lth, at 8PM, st NEW. SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH - 66 West 12th Street, New York City — MR. CHARLES SEEGER. __ will speak on “Basic Principles for Musical Criticism in. the Proletarian Press? ©... Admission Te tei 7 DANCE SOCIAL Youth Federation, 323 E. 13th St. near 3nd Ave. Novel entertainment; punch with « Kick. Admisston 10¢, . GERTRUDE HUTCHINSON, stef writer of the Moscow Daily News, lectures on She New Morality in the New. World." ‘wovowers of Nature, . +» 8:90 P.M, Ad~ mission 150. nea Nazis and one was a Communist?” ALFRED RUNGE lectures on “Cubs,” at] “Yes, teacher,” answered the little ~~" “| girl, “but then they were blind. Now they can see.”