The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1934 Page Five WORLD! By Michael Gold Leon Bium Writes from Prison | Sepsend his cell in Great Meadows Prison, in Comstock, N. Y., Leon Blum, framed-up laundry striker writes: * CHANGE | | Box 51, Comstock, N. ¥, Dear Comrade (Mike) Gold: Thank you for your kind inquiry after my well being. I shall be none the worse, I hope, for the punishment they are inflicting on me. Prison has an insidious way of stamping its mark on a person even when it is little noticeable on the surface, but of that I am no judge, later years will show. I have been saved from the brutalizing and degenerating effects of prison, because I hitched my wagon to a star. My ties to the work~- ing class and preoccupation with its problems have sustained and absorbed me, My jailors, however, have succeeded in frustrating every attempt at serious and systematic study. T realize of course, that I had no right to jump on you for that line in your poem, because it was insignificant in relation to the scheme of the poem. But I could not let pass an opportunity to illustrate the necessity to revise our ideas of prison and prison population. I appreciate your discussions about the work of the Committee for Political Prisoners. It will do much to crystallize our ideas and help to work out methods, but now that is being attended to, I see the need to go a step further and investigate the whole prison system and of- ficial ring of bureaucrats. The very work of the committee will show this, and I urge you to help prepare and establish this work. In the fight for the politicals we will have to attack and expose the reactionaries and bigots who stand in our way. And how else can we do it, without undermining their prestige and exposing the feudal prison baronies, which are islands of slavery amidst capitalism, where Simon Legree still reigns supreme? To the public they appear as imperturbable, strictly just, paternally- benevolent, guardians. The clever ones have even developed a technique to coin human kindness that still flowers in some hearts, and at the same time, divert the attention of some critical and dissatisfied citizens, In reality they hide a most cynical, arrogant tight nest of politicians as you will find anywhere in this great land of ours, They are the more odious, because, like lice that fester in sores, they feed on human misery, Amidst the misery, waste, and destruction caused among millions by unemployment, it may seem facetious to cry out against the human weste and degeneracy of a smaller number in prison, but there is a difference, as between a wild game hunter and a skulking maniac sadist, who goes hunting caged animals in the zoo. t do not want, at present, to go into a lengthy discussion about pathology and its relation to crime. I want to leave this for research to the group of students and interested workers which you should get started by your influence. Evidently you still hark back to your early expericnce which went into the making of “Jews Without Money.” It is funny, but prisoners too are so impressed and cowed by the superior manner of the battery of psychiatrists marshalled to meet them at Sing Sing, that they accept the pathology twaddle. My own study leads me to believe that the whole subject has been stood on its head, that there is very little pathology involved, and that pathology need not lead to crime. * * * QPcusex we ascribe crime, as we do all institutions, to economic causes and influences, but we have done very little until now to show in detail how 1 works, nor did we concretize in any manner our objection to official policies. After all, criminology is a part of the Social sciences, and we cannot leave it for after the revolution as if it were a problem in higher mathematics. With a school for workers’ tusi¢, & proletarian institute of photo-play, a union of workers’ theatres as & part of a wide-branched movement—why Not a committee to study the problems of crime and pénology as part of our activities? We used to think that more activity means less forces for more important work, but it is clear now that throwing our Search-light on another field of work means gathering new forces. And there is another angle to this problem. There are the bewildered families of these unfortunates who are given cutting derogatory slanders and crazy pseudo-scientific theories instead of sympathy and a simple explanation, Aico it is well known that these elements are utilized by the very officials and politicians, who degraded them and forced them into the Position of outcast, as fascist tools Criminals have been using fascist methods all the time. By activity in this field we can neutralize sdme rank and filers, who will otherwise turn against us. Forgive me for writing so much, I hope T shall have contributed something to the education of a poet. T liked your poem immensely. Comradely, TUNING IN| TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke, 7:00 P, M.—Mary Small, Songs 15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch ‘Trappers Music seres—Sketch ; Phil Duey, Baritone Orch, 9:00—Philadelphia Studio Orch. 9:15—RuthEtting,Songs; Green Orch. Songs; Elton Boys Quartet 10:00—Gray Orth.; Stoopnagle and Comedians; Connie Boswell, 10:30—News Bulletins 10:45—Harlem Serenade 11:15—Charles Carlile, Yenor 11:30—Neison Orch. 12:00—Lopez Orch. 12:30 A, M.—Pancho Orch. Sozgs 1:00—Light Orch. Want Help to Aid LRA on Daily Worker Index Frequent requests or references to material appearing in the “Daily” made it necessary for the editors of the paper to request that the Pen and Hammer organ- ization, in cooperation with the Labor Research Association, as- sume the job‘ of indexing the Daily Worker. A number of vol- unteers from the Pen and Ham- mer have been at work on this task for several months, and have covered periods running from June 1982 to February 1933, and the latter months of 1933. Additional help is now neces- sary to complete the year 1933, so that the index for this year may be mimeographed and sent to libraries and others who have kept files of the paper. Any perecn willing to help with this job should apply to Sonya Roberts, Labor Research Association, Room 634, 80 E. 11th Street, New York City. \—#d Wynn, Comedian; Voorhees Orch, —C ie of the Seth Parker—Drame- e ch 10:30—Beauty—Mme Sylvia 10:45—Prhert films. Tenor; Séars Orch. 11:09—Talk—J._B. Kennedy 11:18—Jesters Trio * 'M.—Denny Oreh WOR—710 Ke. — perts—Stan Lomax ; Music Maverick Jim—Sketch --Grefe Orch.; Frank Parker, ‘Tenor jorrsh Minevitch, Harmonica Band Morros Musicale 9:30—Footlight Echoes 10:09-—Teddv Bereman. Comedian; Betty rs Quartet lan Eugene Read Rondoli¢ 10:30-—-Eddy Brown, Violin 10:45—-Sports—Boake Carter 11:00—Moonbeams ‘Trio 11:30—Lane Orch, 1%:00—Bide Dudley 12:07 A. M.—-Robbins Orch WJZ—760 Ke. ‘M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy ‘New York City Blazes the Trail —~ Mayor LaGuardia: George H. Hallett Jr., Secretary, Citizen's Union of New York sous Van, Songs; Arlene Jackson, jongs ENDICOTT IN SUB DRIVE 8:39—Ariventures in Health—Dr. Herman Bundesen $:45—Bavarian Band 9:0%—Alice Mock, Soprano; Edger Guest, Poet; Koestner Orch. 9:30—Dvchin Orch, 10:0%—Hilibilly Heart ‘Throbs — Blue-Eyed Ellen 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 10:48—To Be Announced quota. POTTSVILLE, PA, ACTIVE WABC—860 Ke. | —Nyrt and Marge t 5—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 0—Serenaders ‘Oreh. 4 NEW SUBS FROM ASHBY 7:45—News-—Boake Carter 8:00—Little Orch. &:18—News—Edwin © Hill 8:30—Voice of Experience 843—Pray and Braggiotti, Piano Duo tion drive but to pass it, ~—~==>= | Weakest. courses in the school are 9:30—George Jessel, Comedian; Vera Van, Budd, , ENDICOTT, N. Y.—Four new subs 8:0—Tady With Coffin—Sketch were obtained here for the Daily Worker in the early stages of the circulation drive. More will come. ‘We expect to go over the top on our POTTSVILLE, Pa.—Workers here | and this, are eager to read our Daly Worker | undesirable and cetrimental step to as shown by N |S,, of this city, who ‘had no difficulty in getting four new {sibs two of them for a half year ASHBY, Mass——We are enclosing money for four new subs to our | National Training School. Daily Worker. We are trying our |best in Ashby to not only fill our quota jn the Daily Worker circula- ‘What’s Doing ‘in the Workers Schools of U. S. Minneapolis To Train Local Leaders MINNEAPOLIS is preparing a} | full-time four-week Party school beginning April 22nd, to train about thirty workers and farmers for loca! | leadership. The students will be! | chosen from among miners, metal | workers, packing-house workers, dock | workers, railroad workers, and farm- | ers who have taken an active part in| | Tecent struggles. The comrades have | figured out that it will take $12 to| care for one student for the four| weeks, and this money is to be raised | by the section which sends the student. Funds for the school are | being taken care of by N. Bernick, | 425 Kasota Building, Minneapolis, | Minnesota. We would like to hear} what the reSponse 1s. And how about a Workers School for non-Party as well as Party} workers? ! | | | LOS ANGELES is laying plans for | an open Workers School for Party| and non-Party workers, With its population of a million and a quar- | ter, composed of agricultural work- ers, cannery workers, fishermen and left-ward turning artists, intellec- tuals and petty-bourgeoisie, there is| every reason to expect a rapid growth and widespread popularity for such @ school, pe ees 200 Students in Steel Branches | CHICAGO, although they sufferay a drop in registration last term, are up and doing again. They have opened another branch of the Work- ers School in the steel region and report 20 students for the two steel branches. Chicago has been partic- ularly fortunate in being able to secure active trade union leaders to teach and in the main branch in Chicago they were successful in or- ganizing courses directly with the organization and trade union prob- Jems in specific industries. The Chicago Workers School is winding up its winter term with an entertainment and dance on Feb. 24, at 8 p. m. at the school headquarters, »| 2822 S. Michigan Avenue. Fifty per cent of the proceeds of this affair will go to the German Communist Party, and fifty per cent will go toward the preparations for the spring term. At this affair they are going to award scholarships to the best students in each class. Courses in Fascism and the New Deal | They are introducing two new courses in the spring term of the Workers School in CLEVELAND, a course in the Economics and Politics of Fascism, to be taught by J. Wil- liamson, District Orgamizer of the Communist Party; and the Econo- mics and Politics of the New Deal, to be taught by A. Landy, Director of the Workers School, The spring term of the Cleveland | Workers School will begin March 4th. Registration began February 12th at the school headquarters, 1524 Pros- pect Avenue. This shows that the comrades in Cleveland realize the importance of preparation and or- ganization in advance and are giving themselyes plenty ef time for reach-| ing all the organizations, units, and} individuals before the term begins, and giving them time to register. | THE BOSTON WORKERS | SCHOOL also has the District Or- | ganizer, Comrade N. Sparks, teaching in the school, and other comrades | from the District Committee. But | Some of the courses have suffered from irregular attendance or poor | Preparation by the teachers. The j the courses in Organization and Trade Unionism. ‘The forums conducted by the school have been weak and because of lack of funds they were discontinued. But the forums should be a source of income, not an expense. The failure of the forums in Boston was due to | Poor organization and preparation, and it was demonstrated last Sun- | day that when they really make an effort to popularize the forum it can be a great success. A Markoff, Di- rector of the Central Workers School in New York, came to speak there, and more people came than the hall could seat. However, the Boston school is preparing for the spring term, and judging from the response thus far, the registration will be | quite successful, THE NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL now being conducted by the Central Committee of the Commu- nist Party, has not been given much publicity. The school is now in its seventh week, and it is making splen- did progress. Thirty-six members of the Party selected by the districts throughout the country are attending full time, The organization and carrying through of a National Training School is a great achieve- ment for the Party, but the success- ful carrying through of such a project. is accompanied by difficul- ties, the greatest difficulty of all be- ing the funds needed for such a project. It takes $300 a week to run the school. The Workers’ School in New York carried on a campaign in its classes to raise a quota of $250, and almost doubled that quota. Other organizations throughout the country raised about $1,200, but this money has been all used up, and at To the Vienna Comrades _ || Your blood is drenching the streets of Vienna In a deluge of courage Unknown to those who train Artillery against your simple rifles Those who shell your tenements, Blow yeur wives, your children, into sh But cannot tear one atom From the surging of your hearts. Mariahilfer Strasse, Once the scene of dripping wine And slinking prostitutes—the guzzling Of your masters and their victims Changes to the barricades Of your rage, and Hotel Grand, Where strutting tourists dined With your double-faced leaders, Shows nothing now but cringing eyes Peering through chinks in the window-shutters The perfume-shops near Stefansplatz— Where women dressed in furs Bought imported odors To dull the stink of their conscience- Tg filled now with the cleaner smell Of your bodies pressing ever forward. The sidewalks of Karntnerring— Where your masters lazed at evening. Ogled women, wiped the cream Of your squeezed lves from their lips- Bristle now with broken chairs And tables, tokens of their downfall Listen, through thousands of miles, The marching of our feet On the grey streets of New York { Travels to you, gains your stride | Never to be separated ™ all the eternal rhythms of the earth! Maxwell Bodenheim “This Day and Age” Is Movie Which Puts Seal of Approval on Lynching Reviewed by ANN BURLAK 3 Great Historic Epoch”; “A Mas- | terpiece surpassing’ the Sign of the Cross, the Birth of a Nation and other great pictures produced by Cecil de Mille, as only he can pro- duce them.” Thus was his newest creation, “This Day and Age” her- alded upon the American movie- going public, Actually the picture 1s a’ mobili- zation film for more lynchings as the only way to cope with “crime.” Of course a Negro worker does not need to be guilty of a crime to be a lynch victim; it is enough that some white lyncher accuse him of some crime. This picture portrays the city of- ficials developing patriotism among high school students by appointing certain students as public officers for a period—chief of police, pros- ecuting attorney, etc. It depicts cor- Tupt local politicians who free known Gangsters because of political pull. The high school boys in good old patriotic . style, whistling “Yankee Doodle,” organize a large mob of students and administer justice by taking the gangster to an old for- saken brick yard and hanging him with a rope until he confesses that it was he who killed a certain tailor. the gangster, police arrive simulta- neously and capture the criminals. The boys are highly praised for their effective method in dealing with criminals, The picture ends with the boys marching through the streets en masse carrying their victim chained to a log pole, on the way to the jail house, where the court will finish their lynch orgy. All this mob spirit is played up with the greatest | amount of flag raising, singing of | patriotic airs, and other forms of} expressing patriotism. Just such “pa- | triotic” expressions accompany lyneh | orgies of innocent Negro workers. | Workers and workers’ organiza- tions should arouse the greate amount of mass protest and agita- tion against such pictures, whenever they are shown in the theaters in| your neighborhood. Organize pro- | tests of white and Negro workers around the theaters whenever this| lynch picture is shown. Demand that your local theater cancel the | showing. | Every new subscriber you get for the Daily Worker means winning another worker to the revolution- ary struggle against exploitation, His men arrive on the scene to save bs war and fascism. For an Unemployed Mill Worker” — ~— : By JOHN L. SPIVAK CHARLOTTE, N. C.—Six cents a day is enough for food for a mill worker who can- not get work, This is what the “Queen City of the South” gives its citizens in charity; this is what’ Mecklenburg county gives, and this is the maxi-)| mum, not the minimum, The amount a city or a county spends on charity is usually ‘an ex: area, especially with regard to work. Business may pick up but if charity expenditures increase at the same time it means that the improvement is not general, but a lotte, in Mecklen-]4 burg County, the whole wide Piedmont area. So far as thi: city itself is con- cerned, those whe death quietly in] 1 those shacks they call homes, for the John L. Spivak city itself is not contributing one cent towards relief of those workers whose lives were given to building this “land where wealth awaitsyou” as it is fond of advertising itself,” Whatever charity ts given is col- lected and distributed by private agencies, the Family Service and the Salvation Army, and, since 1933, by the C.W.A. The wealthier residents who contribute to the charity funds dé not lose much, for some get it back indirectly. When a contributor to the charity funds wants his house painied or a little carpenter work done he naturally goes to the skilled worker in that line and the skilled worker, usually a union man, asks forty or fifty cents an hour. “Why should I pay that price when I can get a man from the C.W.A. or the Family Service or the Salvation Army for fifty cents a day?” the present the school is in such a seri- ous situation that unless money comes in immediately, the students will not have any food, and the school will have to be terminated, of course, would be a very We therefore must make a very urgent appeal to ail sympathizers, mass organizations, clubs aud indi- viduals, to immediately send in what- ever funds they can gather for the ce (Send all reports for this column to A, Markoff, Room 301, East 12th St, New York.) prospective employer asks. And there is no answer for there are plenty of painters and carpenters and unskilled men as well who are dependent upon the charity organi- zations for their few cents a day food allowance. These organizations be- Ueve in “helping the man maintain | This his self-respect by giving him work instead of charity whenever possible.” So those who would have to pay $3 or $4 for a day’s work ask the charity organizations to supply them with skilled and unskilled labor which is done. The effect has been to reduce the wage scale for those who might get a little occasional work, about as far as it can ¢ cellent indication of conditions in the | | JF the worker refuses to work at his which calls for forty or fifty cents an hands, convinced that the man does not really want work and that con- sequently he is “unworthy of receiv- ing further aid.’ The unemployed | and starving worker is thus given his choice by the charity organizations lof reducing the general wage levels or not getting even the six cents a day allowance for food. The government C.W.A. “charity relief list” is being used the same way iu the city, and the Depariment of Public Welfare which takes care of Mecklenburg county other than those in the city proper (mostly mill hands and tenant farmers), follows the same procedure. In the city’s charity expenditures jare found the new type which was formerly self-supporting—ihe steno- grapher, clerk, school teacher and minor business executive. The “white collar” class, as it is termed. But the proportion of those in this class ap- pealing for ald is smaller than in the New England industrial center, prob- ably because there are fewer in pro- portion to the total number of work- “TS, The tremendous growth of actual want since the depression is seen by the number of families aided and the rising sums charity organizations ex- trade for fifty cents a day, a trade | hour, the charity officials raise their | pended. The Family Service itself Department IF 1 VW" °® COMMISSAR | } t —By Gropper | VD MAKE ROOSEVELT eat the type of speeches he has handed out for the workers to swallow. } oes Suggested by F. Dagen, New | York, whe gets the original draw- | ing. t Refused Pension, Widow With 3 Children Get $2} Relief in New Haven! By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVE Conn.—Although I am a widow with three children, I am refused a widow's pension be- cause my former husband was born in Senegal, Africa. For a while, the Relief Department sent me $2 weekly; but that has been stopred until they “investigate.” The New Haven relief authorities show no interest in the condition of the workerg—there are hundreds of ¢ases similar to mine. I have not been able to secure a job in four years, not even a part time job. And the little $2 weekly food check went to an N. R. A. store, which eharges much more than other| stores. CHORUS of 1 ont Prog. Club meets at 866 Tremont Ave.. 8:30 p.m. All members| are urged to attend. | ALFRED LEVY Br. 1L.D. special membe: ship meeting, 333 Sheffield Ave., Broo! 8:16 p.m. Election of officers. All mem- bers urged to attend. MASS MEBTING on | | “Phe Revoll Bllsmere wear College Ave, Bronx, at 8:30 p.m aker, Tom Lewis. Adm. 10c. Auspices Mt Bden Branch FSU MASS 261 meets | Pros} Pingpon: 8 ta @ p.m checkers, ¢ FILM SHOWING “The Road German Workers Club, 1501-3: m. Admission 10c;Nesr ath St Ave., 6 P. to Life” Food this year the number of families Family Service had on their list} reached 3,978. Fifty thousand dollars were spent, or more than three times ; the sum expended before the depres- i sion. Henee this charity organiza- | ; tion alone, only two years afler the | depression, was caring for one out | of every five persons in Charlotte. | In 1932 the expenditures rose to | | $67,000. | Tn 1933, with N. R. A. and C. W. A.| projects placing several thousand | | persons to work, expenditures never-| theless increased, for more worke: | were becoming destitute than’ the} | government co jobs for. | | give Salvation Army figures [ean simply be to double the num- ber of individuals depending. upon | charity for their mite of bread. In Charlotte today, with almost 4,000 jobs made by C, W. A. and N. . A. half of the population is still subsisting on charity. | |, That this Southern industrial city is not an solated case is admitted by charity officials and shown by char- ity expenditures for Mecklenburg | County. These expenditures offer an} example of what has happened in the | jrural districts in the area “where | wealth awaits you.” haga . |""HE Mecklenburg County | ment of Welfare is in the Health | building behind the Depart-. | STAGE AND SCREEN _ | cast is head- | Dorsey, Delegation Thru Front Door, Consul Exits Thru the Rear National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners Protests Terror in Austria was Doetor J. L consul could no’ “Why not?" Otto looked at the room. He wa beside a protec man hauer.: chief: consul: “in The consul is in or i 2 States for the Dollfuss tell you whhabat Ma, Police Lioutenant . John ik: next whek.. wham: he third district, was already } ay lobby, surrounded by cons and re-{ Corliss Lamont sat ‘the deiega~- porters. tion would wait. Otto “There. they--eome.”. the lieutenant | door openi said, and. formed. his cops. into a|end in a m solid. line across. the entry-wa man came out. |seph Schoener of the Alls Was stretched between -the™ re! bassy at Washington. “Doctor sentatives of the fascist mass buteh- | Schoener,” he added. ers of the Austrian workers and “any! “Doktor Fisehierhater ett see you,” unpleasantness.” he said. “He has left the office. “Where you goin’?” Quinn said. “Not in conferenéé?” Bemnacne told bt No. He has left the dftce. arm of “liberal” Mayor LaGua: Defense of Political Prisoners, the . i oaks es John ‘Ri lub. . j 5, mer sai¢ The ques-~ nla: (That was a preity | tion had come suddenly and he an- |swered it without thinking. Every ously: proud of it.) | body laughed. The reporters rushed “Thousands of intellectuals, writ-|2cToss the room to. get the name of ers, artists, and teachers, all over the |‘ questioner world, standing with us in the work-| Doctor Schoener said that he ers’ fight against terror and oppres-| receive the protest and transm sion.” | to the embassy and the Austrian for. Lieutenant Quinn wanted to know | eign office. if all that was in writing. He wasn’t | s . * sure that Herr Doktor Fischerhauer | (NE delegate after another ’ spoke. would want to receive that kind of Someone described the -plight of delegation. Herr Doktor has his sen- | the minority races under fascist Aus- sibilities... The lieutenant thought the |trian rule, and Doctot Schoener delegation had better go-home... But | went white. He fingered his neoktie the .delegation wouldn’t go, so the dd ran a hand down the creases of ‘ieutenant affered a compromise. If | his expensive pants, gathered at the his cops would. promise to keep the|waist in four fashionable tucks. committee downstairs, he would trot | That seemed to strengthen him. up tothe 3ist floor and see what the; The protest was delivered, The eonsul's will in the matter was. delegates turned to go. The door The cops promised and the liew-| opened from the outside and a cop tenant went. He came back in half| sprang to it. an hour, The committee could go} “Another delegation,” ip. | A dick looked out. “Have manners,” Quinn said. “Do! said. like me.” | Otto sank back against the + rg | wall. He knew, how, fascism fights IN THE office there was @ round-}the workingclass -—- with terror and faced, frightened man. He said he | murder. shrewd question. The cop was obvi- “Workers,” he “When In Rome” Coming Fo 49th Street Thursday Howard and Altonell The j@pera will be conducted by Alexander | Smaliens, associate conductor of the | Philadelphia ©; “When in Rome,” a satirical play by Austin J. Major, will open on Thursday evening at the Forty-ninth Street Theatre. Kenneth Diagneay | and Alney Alba head the cast, | The San Carlo Opera Gompany. | under the direction of Fortune Gallo }will open for a limited engagement on Thursday afternoon with Hum- | perdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” The opera will be sung in English and will be followed by a@ special. ballet with Lydia Arlova and lucien | San Carlo Opera Season Opens Thursday at Casino “Brain Sweat,” a new comedy by John Charles Byownell;'is announced for Broadway opening the week of March 5. The all - Negro ed by Rose Prideaux. “Mme. Butterfly,” .will be McGilen d on presented on Thursday _ evening; ‘and™ §=Bilty ‘Rigoletto,” Friday evening; “Aida, Higgins. ; Saturday afternoon and “Ia Gio- e. Bae sos conda" on Saturday night. for ae fs LTR i “Roberta,” Freeman, Kunitz and the bree eae )| Cakner on Secretariat the Nett Ay || of J. R. Clubs of U. S. atre,~ Wilks be: 7% given=-On ys Sunday eve- \, NN ning, March Ruth Gorden Vernal 4 3 NEW YORK.—The-executive board _/ \of the John Reed Clubs of the United States has just gelected a national secretariat consisting of Joseph Preeman, Joshua Kunitz, and Alan } Calmer, « get Rae In connection with the forthoom- ‘Lot in Sodom” On Program), First Congress of Soviet Writers, vith “Simple Tailor’ at Acme} the national office has sent a report with “Staple Palle! jof the activities of the soy Reed : ab aes Clubs since its three regional con- On the same program with “The | Put oe to ia goresasta’ of the Simple Tailor,” the Soviet film noW/Tytcrnational Union of Reyolution- cuyrent at the Acme Theatre, is @|ary Writers. This report will be pub~ al film feature, “Lot in Sodom,”|lished in International Literature a picture produced by an independent | and read at the Writers’ Congréss. group. “The Simple Tailor,” which! 41 communications relating to: tha was produced in the U. 8. S. R. by | national activities of this organiza~ Wufku, will continue at the Acme) tion should be addressed to Alan until: Friday, inclusive. Calmer, in care of John Reed. Cinb, TEST em 430 Sixth Ave. N. Y. CG. “4 Saints In 3 Acts” With All-| Negro Cast, Opens Tonight The Gertrude ‘Virgil Opera, “4 Saints in $ Acts,” will have its. premiere- this evening~ at- the Firty-fourth Siry-t Theatre. The en- ‘tagenient is for cwd weeks only. The all-Negro cast includes Edward Mat- i, M4 thews, noted: Negro: concert artist, | _ SCOTT NEARING, lecture on (Ts Peace ; | Bassible” at Cooperative Auditorium, 2700 Beatrice Robinson-Wayne,- Abner} pronx Park Bast; $:30 p.m, “Arranged: by Bertha Fitzhugh Baker, Council 11. Adm. 5c, B AMUSE 4, for the benefit, of the Stage Relief Fund, | Wednesday NEW DUNCAN Dance Group Party and 15th Bt., Studio 507; Guest of Honor. a| Shon | Entertainment, 2 W. | 8:30 p.m. Bill ‘Gropper, Admission 25¢. DANCE TREMONT PROG. Club, 866 E. ‘Tremont Ave., 8:30 p.m. Good band. one of the two chief charity organi-| beautiful city hall which hides this | zations here, in 1928 spent $13,000 for | dirty old structure. The steps lead- | pure relief, that is, food, clothing and ing to the Welfare Department were | rent. This was less than an average expenditure because these were during “good times.” The year after the crash (1930) appeals for bread were made by, 2,226 families, In most estimates an American family is considered as consisting of five persons. That is what the Family Service considers an average American family. But if we take the even more conservative estimate of four to a family we find that immediately after the depression some 9,000 persons were without the slightest notion of where their next meal was coming from unless it came from charity, Family Service alone was thus taking care of one out of every nine residents in this city (82,000 popula- tion), In this year Family Service spent $27,000, or a little over twice what it spent the preceding year. Most of these cases were mill work- ers, unskilled laborers in various in- dustries and businesses and Negroes. class—and 75 per cent, or three out of every four workers in Char- lotte, are unskilled—had never earned enough to save anything and felt the pinch of hunger the moment they lost their Jobs, such as they were. By the following year (1931) the small savings class felt the depres- sion. More than 1,700 new families found themselves utterly destitut: ‘and had to appeal for charity. In dirty; the department's offices were | MENTS THE. THEATRE GUILD presents-— Opening Wednesday night at #10 JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play dirty; its walls were dirty. Over the | whole place was an atmosphere of | | seediness. | ‘The Superintendent, Wade H./ Williams, who was appointed last! October, is apparently a political ap- | | pointee who does not worry much} about his department, for after three } months in office he did not know | what was going on. He referred everything to a Miss Mildred Bailey, who had been in the office for some time, and it was from Miss Bailey that I finallv mano¢ed to get the few figures and facts they have around the office, The Department of Welfare has not had any annual reports of in- comes and exvenditures printed for years. Expenditures, cases and rec- ords float about in the various of- fices, and when one asks a simple question like ‘How many cases haye you given relief to during the past year?” they have to telephone to two or three people to find out. One thing, however, was definite: Mecklenburg County, like the city THEY SHALL NOT DIE Royall statsies ‘rnuts. ‘ova ase EUGENE O'NEIEL's COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. OR AN GUILD Siienus MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP. HELEN HAYES MERIVALE ME! ALVIN Zhe, 224 5t.. ©: Ey.8:20.Mats. Thai ZXEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willje & Eugene. HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- MONS, Jane ROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B'way and S0th. Es. 8.30 Matinees- Thursday and Saturday 2:30 Theatre Union’s Stirring Play LAST WEEKS CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. Mth 8, & 6th Av. WA. 9-7450. Mats. Wed. & Sat. TAX charity organizations, supplies its starving citizens with a maximum of $2 a week for a family of five. That is about 29 cents a day per family, or ‘a little less than six cents per person per day, (To Be Continued) Atrange Theatre Parties for your orgeniza- tion by telephoning WAtKins 9-2451 No MORE LADIES MELVIN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON MOROSCO. 45th, W. of Bway. 8:50, Mats. THE ANTI-WAR HIT! ON EARTH | A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with ‘Es. | NEW AM! ed., Thurs, an@ Sat st 2:45! Plus tax, Matiness “SIMPLE TAILOR” A poor Russian Jewish working girl's }} struggle between love and need! Her \] heart draws! Poverty drives! ‘The rich |} be: ii good day, while the workers are being crushed! ci A Movie that moves every oworker's heart! Entertaining! Instractive! Constructive! (English titles) — & SOVIET PRODUCTION — Special Added Attraction “LOT TIN sOnOM"~ Featurette Extraordinary ACME THEATREMicss RADIO OIFY MUSIC HALL. || 50 St. & 6 Ave—Show Place of the Nation | } Opens 11:30 A, pe) | JANET GAYNOR | Lionel BARRYMORE “CAROLINA” sitow | And y | asic HALL eraGe RKO Jefferson ™% S-* 1} Now | JAMES CAGNEY @ MAE CLARK. in “LADY: KILLER” also:—“SENSATION | HUNTERS” with ARLINE. JUDGE. .& PRESTON. ROSTER Roperta’ Wed, Thora & rue? Seas