The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 17, 1934, Page 7

| BAILY WORKER, N CHANGE | | as | EW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1934 Lenin and His Party By A. G. BOSSE Page Sever The Theatre of Action | By PETER MARTIN T one-thirty the theatre headquar- [start intensive work on the sec ters was deserted except for the | half. At the end of today’s rehea industrious girl at the typewriter in| we should be prepared to give t the office. I wanted to find out when | entire play a preview tomorrow. the daily rehearsals began; the/|don't say that we'll do th but | Theatre of Action, section of the | this stage we should be prepared |Workers' Laboratory Theatre, was|it I know it’s a large order but working on @ Scottsboro play, and*| must attain this goal if we are |Samuel Putnam ‘to. Talk | at Reed Club Tonight| NEW YORK. — Samuel Putnam, | jediter of The New Review and The | ded Eur in Caravan, will’ speak | RENIN, A BIOGRAPHY, .by Ralph/| Be — <9 aT Fox, Harcourt, Brace & Co. $2.00. |“From Dada to Revolution,” tomor- | arts widely known as one of the leading| ® British ‘Communist, who based writers, poets and critics of the post- | it upon a study of Russian materials. | War era In American literature. For|such as Lenin’s work. IF | WERE COMMISSAR the circles. During 14 months in prison he studied, wrote and smuggled out} strike leaflets, articles, a famous May | Day manifesto, etc. He was sentenced | to a three-year term, in Siberia, to be | followed soon by Krupskaya, who | had worked with him in the work- ers’ circles. THE —— WORLD! | By Michael Gold | | The United Front NE saw the beginnings of a united front in the demonstration the other day in New York against the Austrian consulate. There were supposed to be two demonstrations; a Communist one at four o'clock, and that of the Socialists, at five. But when the first straggling column began marching before the Public Library and the skyscrapper at 42nd St. and Fifth Ave., its red banners. revealed the fact that groups of Young Socialists were in the van, side by side with the Young Communists. T'was thrilling to see this sight, probably the first of its kind in America. This is the real united front, one that transcends political affilfations in the immediate struggle against fascism, when the i a number of years he. was the editor | of The New Review,’ a leading ex- | patriate magazine in Paris, around which many modern and decadent schools in Hterature grouped them~ selves. TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS memoirs, etc. He knows the lanzuag and was for a time a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It-1s a solid piece of research, | and atthe same time a well-written Story; miuch factual material about Lenin and the movement is to be found here for the first time tn English. The result is an. intimate Dicture of Lenin, the man, and a Closely-knit account: of ‘conditions in Rugsia and amone the Socialist exiles in Siberia and abroad. Upon his release he went to Geneva and London to issue Iskra (Spark) despite great difficulties with Plekha n In London the Lenins lived as Mr. and Mrs. Richter, German citizens. There Troteky came, soon to become Lenin’s politics] enemy until the October revolution. The years to 1905 were ones of bitter struggle against Martov, Trotzky Plekhanov, and COC. against him. With the 1905 revolution Lenin was back in Russia. While the armed up- even the Russian etc. With the bulk of| the Russian exiles, the Second In- | | ternational, having on many occasions seen the resourceful performances of this group I was curious to watch it re- hearse one of its most important pro- |ductions. “They shou'd be here now,” |was the reply to my question. “Re- jhearsals usually begin at one, but jtoday they're all down at City Hall | demonstrating on behalf of the un- emvloved actors.” Walking out to the meeting room, \the Wallboard News met my eye; it is issued bimonthly and carries com- plete feports of every phase of the [theatre's work. Along the opposite | wall was the callboard carrying the give a perfect performance on | 17th, Let’s go comrades.” | Quietly they stepped up»to the stage and stood at the wings. F noted | the absolute absence of horseplay, the |} deep concentration of each actor as he prepared to play his role. The: | waited for the next word from the | director. “All right, Lights out, stage man | ager.” | The theatre was dark: the actors took their places. “Curtain.” The stage lights went up. A colored preacher sat talking to his little Sun~- / gs RETR do: school inspector. Viadimir was 4/ rising was progress ww, he |Program of activities for the cur-| day School. He spoke of God and the | class is in danger, and unites to fight the common porns se TE WEAF—600 Ke. normal, lively, athletic boy, with none rar Ak Scola pra nat | |rent week—rehearsals of the three! Bible to the incredulous children Communist and Socialist workers are fighting ‘TMS P, M—Religion in the’ News—pr.| Of the morbidities of the Dostoiev-|in Finland to prepare the insurree- | production units, the times for the feeding the doctrine of submission to brave, desperate stand the Vienna proletariat is making against the Stanley Rich skian intellectuals; intensely fond of | tion, Here Stalin met him for the| Ee classes in volce, acting, stagecraft, | injustice in favor of the heaven to | Nazi monster. ares Derek skating, ski-ing. hunting, chess and first time, and recorded his imores- | ToPPer | playwriting, social basis of the the-| come, Bach question of fact put for- In Germany many Socialist workers are filtering into the erote | 8:00—A Repunlican iooks st tne row Dea |EAtin. Thoush his elder brother was| sions thus, “T was carried away by| ,CHARLES A. LINDBERGH would |stre, dramatic dance and dramatio| Ward with childish directness was ] ranks of th 4 und Communist Party. The process is going on ~-Genstor Devid A. Reed of Pennsyivania|® student of Marx and a Populist! the indefinable power of logic, which, be a special delivery boy, chorus, and the scheduled bookings.| answered with # blundering mani | tanks of the undergrot : #:20—Boston Symphony Oreh.. Serge Kous-| (revolutionary terrorist of the Peo-| at first a little drily, but for all that é: See eee | Then by way of the library I passed | festation of faith in the Bible by the | all over the world. As the enormous events of our time march to their | -svitexy. Conde — ee ple's Will Party), Vladimir 1s por-| deeply, grinned the audience, gradu : a jinto the theatre proper, a large room | preacher, | revolutionary goal, thousands of new masses learn overnight the lesson | ‘* Ore: About ‘Town: ‘Trio; CORRECTION i of history; there is no other way out for the oppressed masses today, but a struggle for power. Either labor must rule the world, or all civiliza~- studied Marx. Here Fox is unclear, for re- ally electrified tt, then took it hope- lessly prisoner.” NEW YORK.—The final perform- ance of “Strike Me Red” will be given |filled with long benches, with the| Stage at the far end, over which \streamed a long red banner reading: “And we all go to heaven om « train?” “That's right.” . The Theatre Is 2 Weanon. “A choo-choo train?® tion is to be destroyed. The issue is as simple as that. What is not so y follywood on the Air rest of Lenin's life abroad. the at City Coll Auditorium, 23rd Bt. cl ~ ts re marks he quotes by Viadimir ond he “ iv ege Auditorium, 23rd 84) This theatre is mostly used as 8! ‘mpatis right—a choo-cheo train” simple, is the task of arousing the workers, waking them out of their gy ont Ag Ri engeny |S Fig nea can a the | ate pic . en She bes of : fen | and Lexington Ave., Sunday evening,|rehearsal hall and for the monthly We aes itustons. rf : : Moblette, Comedy; Riiteilly Group age of 17 Lenin had begun to think! iatter trom the Copenhagen Con-| Feb. 25, instead of this Sunday as| ‘Studio previews"; the great majority Ughts went out and came up A Peculiar Sanctity Of lis Own Public Library at 42nd St. to anyone who grew up, in New York, has a peculiar sanctity of its own. How often have we. spent the long hours of youth in its great stuffy reading room. How often sat on its outdoor terrace, watching the pigeons and the traffic. Over this terrace are carved the most solemn inscriptions; 8 dedication of this massive building to science, art, civilization. Many hundreds of eager boys and girls have got the only education | they had in this building. There are always groups of radical kibbitzers on the, steps, outdoor debating societies. It is one of the finest Nbraries in the world, really, with books on every conceivable subject, and with very little red tape to annoy the student. { Not only the radicals use this sacred temple of learning. You find queer old men poring over the cabbala and the Rosicrucian bunkum; high school kids doing their homework; economists buried under moun- tains of dry statistics, which they try to convert into tips on the stock market; politicians preparing their speeches, novel-fiends and poetry. fiends; many poems have been written here, many a cheap pulp. detec- tice story; many a New Republic editorial, a dirty joke for Whizz Bang, ®r a cept for Minsky’s burlesque shows. Eyc.yune connected with any of the arts or sciences, or anyone fond of reading and study, is very respectful and grateful to this great WOR—T10 Ke. 7:00 F. M.—Sports—Poré: Frick 7:18—Talk—Harry Hershfield 7;30-—Little Symphony Orch., Philip James, Conductor; Pauline Ruviusky, Pisno 8:30—News—Gabriel Heatter :48—The Jazs Judge—Sketch 00-—Robbins Orch. :30—Bronx Marriage Bureau—Sketch 9:45—Lane Orch. 10:15—John Kelvin, Tenor 10:30—Organ Recital 00—Weather Report ‘01—Tremaine Orch. *1:30—Coleman Orch. 12:00—Berger Orch, : WJZ—T60 Ke: ‘00 F. M.—John Herrick, Songe T15—Don Quixote—Sketch | 7:30—Kyte Orch. 8:00-—The First American Portrait—sketch 8:20—Cavallers Quartet 30-—Canadisn Concert 10:00-—Nine Koshetz, Soprano; String Quartet 10:30—Bsrn Dance 11:30--Whiteman Oreh. 12:00—Denny Orch. | ebout the movement. (Upon his| brother's execution, Lenin said. “No, we shall not go along that road.”) He was admitted to Kazan Unt- versity with difficulty, ironically enough upon the splendid recom- mendation of his headmaster, F. Kerensky, whose son he was to drive accused of “imooliteness” and talk- ing with suspect students in the smoking room. Fox leaves us with the impression that Lenin was still not interested in the revolutionary move- ment, yet auotes him as characteriz- ing the system as rotten and needing to be smashed. A . ENIN was exiled to the sticks, where he began to study Marx’s Capital and other socialist writings (Oct. 1888). At the same time he con- tinued to study law, taking his exams two and @ half years later and get~- ting his divloma. After a brief career as a lawyer among the peasantry, gress in 1910 to 1919) are described vividiv. An interesting reference to the United States is his inability to have published here in 1915 a trars- ‘ston of “Socialism and War,” writ- ten for the Zimmerwald Conference and issued in Russian, Prench and German, He returned to Russia in Aoril 1917, sveaking to a demonstra~ tion of his beloved workers for on'v the second time (the first was in 1907), Thereafter he was never sep- arated from them, except for short pertods in hiding during 1917. Lenin’s personal disregard for con~ ser to himself, which caused P's death later, nearly resulted in his murder in July, again the folowing month, as he escaned to Fin’and | Across a burning neat bog, and many times after October. His relations with Stalin are re- ferred to often, and those with Trot- skv as well. We are shown that some of the latter's greatest achievements, Brest-Litovsk and the organization of the Red Army, were minuses rather announced Thursday. The capitalist class plots our des- truction through imperialist war, Fight these plots by gaining new readers for our Daily Worker, our powerful weapon in the struggle jof the theatre's performances are {given at workers’ clubs, at workers’ {social functions, at strike headquar- ters, at factory gates and on picket lines. It is a mobile theatre, going out to its audience, playing if necessary without technical equioment and from the bare floor or sidewalk. On jone historic occasion it presented @ program from the bumper of an automobile, ‘The noise of laughter and stamping feet group from the demonstration. Re- turning to the meeting room I found jeverybody huddled around the radi- ator, still holding thetr signs and banners, “What’s up?” “Calling the C.W.A. bluff of work for all unemployed actors,” was the answer. “Whew! It’s cold! They tried |to freeze us out but we got our dele- |gation in, all right!” “All ready for rehearsal!” called Saxe, the director of Scottsbero. “Come on, no stalling.” “Have a heart, we're cold!” for a Soviet America, Protests Vandalism announced the return of the! again on a scene in a box car the nine boys were played with a sympathy and restraint worthy of high rating according to strict profes- sional standards; considering the limited facilities as compared with the commercialized bourgeois stage, | this was an impressive feat, an in- sviring evidence of the tremendous Clarity and drive of the revolutionary theatre. Then came the street scene, a shrewd revelation of the economic basis of race prejudice, which led to the first of the trial scenes. At this point the director called for lights. “Okay so far, comrades, But you'll | have to tighten up to keen the pete and emotion you're building. T:n minute rest period, and then we’ swing into the second half.” I walked over to Saxe. “Well? said. “You seem to be buildine a revolutionary theatre, you and y comrades. Good work.” His face twisted up into a wari “Yeah? You ought to come he ; “Hey, wait a minute!” | grin, a lib: elas? ’s onl; i hs hi: 12:30 A. M.—Stern Oreh. Tosi Most cases but learning rural| than pluses, needing Lenin's inter- y es jgrin. "Yeah? | You qught to com bs rary, is probably New York’s only institution that has this wide Senate Sahel leeations he went to 2, ake vention to rectify the errors of this “Let’s have a smoke first! around often an tae othe: Like the Movie “Potemkin” ND what I am trying to lead up to, in this tribute, is the shock many of us had, when at the anti-Dollfuss demonstration, a squad of mounted police, swinging their clubs like madmen, spurred their horses up the steps of this sacred temple. The demonstration had been broken WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 F. M.—Michaux Congregation ‘7:80—Serenaders Oreh.; Phil Cook, personations 7:45—Jones Orch. B:00-—45 Minutes in Hollywood 8:45—Serappy Lambert and Billy Rilipot, Songs 00—Philadeiphia Studio Orch. Im- (1892), and became a professional yevoluticnary, organizing workers’ study circles and combatting Poou- lism. His first work, “Who the Friends’of the People Are and How ‘They Fight Against Social Democ- racy,” was written at the age of 24. (It was based upon essays written individualiss and causing many a heartache. Fox closes with a splendid epitaph: “For the first time in his- tory a man at his death was mourned in every country of the world,’ Aside from an inadvisable com-~- varison with Linco!n (p. 309), and such slips as this: “The few months “Nothing doing,” Saxe said, “we've jgot a lot of work, This has to be the best show we've ever produced. Stage | manager!’* In a few minutes the stage was set and the cast filed into the theatre. “Mind if T watch?” I asked Saxe. “Sit down,” he said. | | | | Station NRA, Excuse me a minute.” He walked to where another visitor was sitting, an unassuming girl wear- ing silver-rimmed glasses. ¥ took an- other look and strolled over to hear what she had to say. “Congratulations, I think it's true run 1$—Alexander Woolleott—The Town Orter| two years earlier for study circles in|°f Kerensky’s government had| xaiph Pearson, noted punter and | “HOW'S it coming?” ond Reid coe wok sours, Saree i sf 0 circles 7 A “Can't ” t up, oe Bob Minor had up the steps and started to make an an. :30—Palge Orch.; Key Thompson, Son8;/ samara while vd peda brought the country to ruin and] art critic, withdrew several piece ‘Can't tell yet. rf | tremeny ously —— nouncement. Many of the demonstrators had followed him. The Cos- Male Trio; Black Rhapsody Choir a leader of the move-| famine . . .” (p. 253); an irritating| age from the projected Rockefeller | | e speaker was Rul -Sacks charged up the steps, and then drove the people before them. It |19:00—Rebroadcast from Byrd Expedition; | He became the ove: Th Bates. was like the movie Potemkin. right here in New York, on the steps of our dignified, sacred Public Library. Music from New York 10: ment, actually organizing the first Socialist Party, issuing its first paper, reiteration of Lenin’s likeness to a peasant and his wearing a shabby | City art exhibit in protest against EB cast had taken seats. “All right, the vandalism of the owners, who comrades,” the director said. Con- Scottsboro will be among the fea- writing ite first theoreti coat (the latter fact is mentioned | had completely dest~oyed the large |versation ceased; all eyes were focus-| tures at City College Auditoriumy Many workers Were hurt by the, Cossacks, but they fought back, | inseceerte tree et phe ie bs oh Ral WORKS. | throm or four Hues): nde lisie| mars ie’ whl c eistne ee (cae ts speaker. “Today we run| 29rd St and Lexington Ave. tonight: at at was really damaged forever was the fake liberalism of our |1200—Gray oreh After & trip abroad to Plekhanov | moralizing here and there, the book| Lenin was the central figure. He |through the entire first half without | under the auspices or. This was one of the first demonstrations in his tenure. vill be many others. He has appointed a military man to head police, and there is a military atmosphere in the police department. And the fascist storm troopers of New York captured the public \torary! A great victory. Several doors of the library were damaged in the battle, the pigeons were frightened, a few heads were cracked. But the marchers reformed their ranks, and with flying banners took up the demonstration again. It lasted. for another hour. . 2 . Another sight I shall never forget at this demonstration was that of a veteran Socialist I have known for years. He was carrying a big and Axelrod, he returned and was Soon arrested due to a provocateur in is as fine an account of Lenin as the writer has read. will speak at the John Reed Club a break and if it’s satisfactory we Symposism tomorrow, International Relief. Pick - Up Only for the Businessmen NRA Has: Meant Small or the ol4 pioneers who hacked a world out of a wilderness. Yet, what- ever energy and vigor their ancestors had seems to be gone now. Whether they have no clothes to wear, and then talk of this liberty.” “sweet land of It is difficult in this section to dif- | AMUSEMENTS in | | | | to Starve, But White | “THE SIMPLE TAILOR” A SOVIET PRODUCTION~ A poor Rusilan Jewish working girl's struggle between love and need! Her heart ] iese: t v osses: day, while ved bainer, and was to lead the Socialist march. But the cops grabbed ie was sapped from hele bodies by | ferentiate between, Charlotte as ety; Workers Aequiescent Sane Fe Oe, ee eee eae oe him, broke the fi him meg: ears of back-breaking as tenant |vroper and lecklen! as the _ ‘3 HEAR’ ENTERTAINING! a ond it thetr Roracuieseine fol eee or ee aes ‘With his series om Brockton, | farmers or in the mills or other in- peices it is in. City ne county in A’ MOWE TREAT MOVE, MERE WoRmene J * . It vas the first experience of this kind he had ever had, for there curious look of bewildered rage on his face. They released him, ae | today begins a new series dustries or whether there is an in- of inferiority deeply rooted the mind of everyone is interwoven. What affects one affects the other hosiery and textile mills just outside | the city limits used to draw most of} cm the neichboring farms. | “*3 labo: Negroes Determined | INSTRUCTIVE! CONSTRUCTIVE! ENGLISH TITLES | in them, I do not know. and on 2 wider scale, conditions in - " 4 ||| Speciat “ 99 EXTRAORDINARY and he picked up his banner, and ran over into the Communist ranks, | lina, the “Queen City of the South.” | ‘They ‘stand for more than even | this city and county are similar to prebeees pip let taal pray oe LOT | FEATURETTE T do not tell this anecdote as a piece of obvious symbolism, but it is a | TBis series, pee the one | the long oppressed Negro. They will| those found in the whele Piedmont | -armers, year in and year out only sah’ Geet little flesh of what a be Happening all over the SEN these days. o seas) thane which * gptrak is poe Ms a gc ives ag orga ee stretches from Virginia to get Fare t - ips Keel * the | A ¢€ M E T H E A T R E & UNION &Q. F writing on his present tour of the |watch their children grow thin, sec| The Charlotte industrial area | 2@S00: left the land to work in the|I| © Ue UT ; There yo C1 ic ! mills and other industries here. The | 7 MUSIC HALL—))} BKO Jeffer, Wath St.) Now 1s No Contradiction eee FOr iter tn ween | them stay away from school because | which enibraces some 20 cotton, | Mulls and other industries here. | The) — RADIO. CHEE MUSIC BALL—||| =" Jetareon ay ase | pk of the things that puzzles many an honest Socialist, is the ap- parent contradiction that Communists call for a united front, while at the same time attacking the policy of the Socialist International for the past 15 years. There is ro contradiction here, however. A united front doesn't rea Sy each member of it give up its deepest convictions and theore- tical line. The line of Communism has been vindicated all these years. It was the Communists who first attacked the Versailles treaty, and in Germany, for instance, refused to submit to it. The Socialists did, and it was this, really, that lost Germany to Hitlerism, The Communists first pointed out that in the Post-war world, the old parliamentarism was outworn. It seemed to work in the period of capitalist stability, but when capitalism was desperate, it could win the workers nothing. The Socialist leaders called this anti-parliamentarism all the foul names one could think of, “gangsters and anarchists,” But their whole line has broken down, and the Barricades in Vienna prove it, With their backs against the last wall, the Socialist workers have come to see that not the mere Winning of seats and officers in a bourgeois state is the road to Socialism, but a day-by-day struggle for cless dictatorship. Kither the workers Tule, and ihere the Fascists rule, and there {s more brutal repression, ployment and martial law. No other alternatives exist in the political worl Z the Soclalist leaders have not be anys Bae yet acknowledged the bitter lesson. of This is no maneuver—it is necessary. Ts can understand, brave workers like those in Vienna, who have at last seen that opportunism is dead, the class struggle is not won in Parliament, there is only one enemy, and whoever compromises with him is a traitor. : ae Workers Film League Artists and Critics at the to Give Last Program | John Reed Symposium to at New School Today| Hit Mural Destruction NEW YORK.—The Workers Film| | NEW YORK. — “ and Photo League and the New| National?” this is tha dit ers east hae preset ae pi iactate ee arranged by the John gram series of film show-|Reed Club i e ieee iF eer: lub at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irvin: Film” tonight at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m./afternoon at 3 o'clock, And it is something all worke: ’ ; TOSCANINI. Conductor esis . c x later He. wakes up and becomes|is not a swanky writer. One can-|employers lest workers be restless, ‘This After 5 at ue ee ae ait ool Re-| The meeting will also protest the an active member pity ship com-|not fudge style from that standpoint. |Here employers simply pay no at- | wae 42 east 127H st. pag henay 7 prograias will be: Acature/destruction of the Diego Rivera mittee. It is the conyiction and truth about | tention to the workers and the work-|] ROSA _TENTONI—SIGRID ONEGIN sereetanaiens af War.” . zr Lagieae enn mural by the Rockefeller Cen-| whatever fs. They are getting crumbs Slim, the delegate for the Marine | questions of life and the class strug-|ers themselves do not raise their PAUL ALTHOUSE—EZIO PINZA The film will be supplemented by a short lecture. Tickets are availaole at the Workers Bookshop, New A number of leading artists and art critics will -participate in the symposium, including Thomas Bén- respects all the juices of life. But | allowance for food, are used to lower | Masses office, 31 B/ 27th St. end the|ton, Walter Pach, Louis Lozowitk,|about this area. Not one out of every. returns from its long voyage to Den-|the novel, nevertheless, is the best | whet little Wages some of them can A natant Pera EE pepediwcrrte: SF, Prorkers Film and Photo League, 12)Ralph, Pearson, and. Adolph Glass-|hundred 1s a foreigner. ‘They ate| ark, Finland nad the Sree Union. | oreture and the ee tne neta | ant et (sintzway Piano) | PR ev! Seong EB. 17th St... : gold of the Whitney Museum. ‘jalmost all native whites, descendants’ There is hell popping all the time |of life aboard a modern. freighter. (Continued Tomerrew) and labelled the Communists as | poisoning the minds of the workers they led. | is Socialism, or | hunger, unem- ean ee By JOHN L. SPIVAK CHARLOTTE, N. C.— This is the “Queen City of the South” as it is fond of adver- tising itself, “the land where Wealth awaits you.” There may have been wealth here ‘efore the depression, but only for a few. For the many there was always 1. hand-to-mouth existence and since the depression 2 gaunt, harrowing poverty that makes a New Encland industrial city seem as though it were in the heights of prosperity. Half the work- ng population in his city and Mecklenburg | County, where it 8 located, are ving ona pitl- s ~~ Charlotte’s 83,000 . " Charlotte’s 82, John, L. Spivak residents, some 25,000. are workers. Twelve thousand of these are. still unemployed even though the N. R. A. and C. W. A. placed almcst 4,000 men and women on more or less temporary jobs. Many of those who do work-are not earn- - | Conrad, Dana ‘and London have told . | the stery of the windjammer era. dj} the “modern seaman, the one who *S.S. Utah” Is the First True Picture of Life of Sailors Aboard a Modern Freighter 7, §. UTAH, By Mike Pell. interna- tional Publishers, 15 cents. . . Revicwed by HARRY RAYMOND Mike Pell’s book, “S. 8. Utah,” is 3 story of a job—a tough job on a Yelly-robbing steam freighter. It is written by the sailor who had the ‘ob and he therefore knows what he ‘s talking ubout. There haye been many stories written about the life of seamen. Excellent literature has been pro- duced by men who sailed before the mast’ on windjammers, Melville, But too little has been written about toils and battles for an existance on the metenn steam freithters. — Pell’s book, ¥ think, is the first serious at- tempt io give @ picture of the Ife, the clas. struggle of seamen aboard American” ships. Hav.¢. sailed for many: years on these ships; I recognize many of the characters. Bullcrap Johnson, dele- gate for the “International Seamen’s Place, this Sunday] - ‘pe enough to live on and add to/| Union, is.well known to every Amer- :* thousands being s1 ‘by |ican sailor. Although his name is orivate charities and federal aid. |slightly chanzed.in the. book, he Where, in a city like Brockton, | seems to be the same delegate I met worker and manufacturer, business|a few years azo in Boston—his hand man and banker walked about in a| always out. for. graft, always de- daze, here there is an optimistic com- Reds.” olacency. Business feels cheerful be-| And then the “professor,” the pause things have picked up some 20|'schcol boy, who goes to sea for ro- to 30 per cent in different fields du mance and to see the world. Such chiefly to the C. W. A. money flow-l fellows as the “professor” are gener- ‘ng in here. ‘ally great pests aboard shins. Pell’s Among the workers the same com- | “profi “go back to their own country. of bread and they seem satisfied | vorke-: Industrial Union, once “until things get better.” . aboard the ship, proceeds to line the mescentants of Old Pioneers |men up for the. inevitable strike That 1s one of the puzzling things | which takes Place after the “Utah” * on this ship. At one point the men refuse to twn to on Sunday with- out extra pay. The captain clears his throat and say: ‘Men, Myr. Calder, the Chief mate, tells me you have refused to turn to because it is Sundw. Now some of you men have been with me long enough to know that I never turn the deck gang to on Sunday unless I have to. Now what's holding you back, men—or who?” “There's no use of all these ques- tions.” said Slim. “The crew has decided—” “Another word out of you,” the captain’s words were steel, “and Til put you in irons, you g-o-d d-a-m-n R-e-d!” But the crew was behind Slim, even the “professor” gave the captain en argument, and sailors won their ‘| overt*me. Pell writes a good deal in the straightforwa:d language of the fo'cas'le. The sailors’ vernacular even runs through his exposition. The aches and pains of the seaman cManca reserkont shivs, his love af- fairs, his illusions, his’ struggle for wages — all this and more is well presented in “S. 5. Utah,” the first novel of one of the newest Amer- ‘can revolutionary writers. Many critics, both proletarian and bourgeois, have complained about Pell’s style, stating that the char- acters in the book were not real liv- ‘ng seamen, but 'wire-pulled puppets. I think thet these critics are to a treat extent incorrect. True, Pell gle that the author places into his work that interests us. Some of Pell’s characters do lack in many advertise and still does, that “there| is an unlimited supply of farm Jabor| to draw from. labor willing to work| on an oven shop basis, and with no} un-American ideals.” } “Back to the Land” Fails Since the depression, about one out | of every four industrial workers who|——______—. came from the farm has drifted back} -wHE THEATRE GUILD presents— so the land. But that, too, failed) BUGENE O'NEILL's Cameos jthem, for the land-owners were be-| AB, WILDERNESS! ing paid by the government not to} . nlant so much or to plough under|] GUILD estas *: W-3t River vhat was planted. The returning in- } ‘ustrial worker as well as the tenant | ‘farmer who had stuck by the soil, | vad no work, no advances in food- | stuffs or clothes against his crop and/| “re, too, was thrown upon the county's charity along with his city brother. Mats, Thor. @Sat. For decades these 100 per cent a Americans had been brow-beaten by | EOCENE ORES A See ND ‘andlords, cheated, starved and given | DAYS WITHOUT EAM Pe as little as If they did not} i aoe) tke the lan ‘ved on they | Henry Miller’s 7'rnresevay could move apparently the Opens 11:30 A. M. JANET GAYNOR Lionel BARRYMORE “CAROLINA*® And a Great MUSIC HALL STAGE SHOW MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN | ALVIN 2; 24,5," Bry they and | psychology of the man fated to be walked upon’ has seeped into his | O MORE LADIES A New Comedy by A. H. Thomes with MELVIN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON MOROSCO Thea., 45th, W. of Bway. Evs. 8:50. Matinees Mon,, Wed. and Sat. at 9:45. ROBERTA A _New Musical Comedy by JEROME KERN & OTTO RARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W, 42d St. Eves. $1 to 83 Plus tax, Mats.Wed.&Sat.,50c to 32. tax oed. Children grow up knowing nothing else except cbedience to what is given them. And its effects are scen now. The Chamber of Commerce's claim that “there are no un-American ideals” in these native whites, from the Chamber's standpoint, means no organized demands for improved working and living conditions and in this resnect the Chamber seems to be absoiutely right. Negroes More Conscious There is a greater independence Theatre Union's Stirring Play LAST WEEKS THE ANTI-WAR HIT! Evenings 8:40, Mat, Thurs. & Sat, 2:40 8) and objection to the conditions they are living under among the Negroes who make up 29 per cent of the total population. The whites are perfectly! willing in the main to take, with a hang-dog air, whatever is thrown] them. Whet muttering there is, is in a very low undertone. There is an air of fear about them that per- haps even the little they are getting) will be denied them. Bad as conditions are in a New England industrial city there seemed | to be a greater fear by officials and] voices in protest even when the C. W. A., and the charity organizations ‘et rive them their pathetic weekly PEACE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. Lith &. & 6th Av. ‘WA. 9-7450. Evgs. 8:4! or Sales 50 NO Pats. Wed. & Sat , 2:30. TAX Arrange Theatre Parties for your organiaa- tion by telephoning Watkins 9-2481 MUSIC Philharmonic - Symphony AT CARNEGIE BALL JAMES CAGNEY & MAE CLARE | in “LADY KILLER” | site:—"SENSATION HUNTERS! with | ARLINE JUDGE & PRESTON FOSTER Brosdw'y || 5th AVE. THEATRE 22¢r7 Last Times Today—9:30 a.m. to 11 p.i Soviet Triumph! Realistic Soviet Film ANNASS TEN | Beginning Tomorrow (Sunday) Emil Zola’s “NANA” ZJEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlcth SIM- MONS. Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th. Eys, 8.30 Matinecs Thursday and Saturday 2:30 Film & Photo League and the New Masses present final showing History of the Soviet Film THE JEW “Jew at War” Saturday, Feb. 17th 7 P.M. and 9:30 P. M. NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH 66 WEST 12th STREET Tickets at WORKERS BOOKSHOP 50 East 13th St. % JAPAN NIGHT SAT., FEB. 177TH Michael Gold, speaker Revolutionary Play, by Jap- anese Workers Group Dance with Good Music Refreshments