The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 21, 1934, Page 5

_ gmiission 100.“ Auspices, Y MEMBERSHIP Meeting, CHANGE WORLD! By Michael Gold The Madison Sq. Garden Meeting I which Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, was assaulted | d badly beaten. But I have heard the story from many workers, both Socialist and Communist. | This huge meeting and demonstration was held to express the soli- | arity of American Workers with the proletarians of Vienna who are de- | efending themselves with such desperate heroism against the fascist terror. Thousands of left-wing workers, ncluding many Communist Party | uembers, had decided to participate. What was their motive? It was | »bviously, and perhaps naively (as later developments indicated), an at- | tempt to let, the bourgeois world. know that on this matter of fighting | Fascism, there was to be a united front of the working class. Things did not work out so well, however. The thousands of left- wingers who had come to swell the meeting and to show their solidarity were searched at the doors, like criminals, for “subversive” red literature. | Cops sarched them under the direction of Socialist officials. It is hard to inderstand such # procedure, but perhaps these officials will make an ex- planation to their rank and file. And maybe they will also explain why the red banners of the various union groups were prohibited in the Garden. Free Speech—For Whom? SEEMED to infuriate this Socialist officialdom that thousands of left~ wing workers had come to their mass-meeting. Yet they are always talking of free speech and democracy. What are they afrad of? The curious fact is, that, to the contrary, Communists make every attempt to invite Socialist and conservative workers to their meetings. They do not fear explaining their program to vhoever will listen. Indeed, they more than welcome it. Is the Socialist position so weak that it crumbles at the first contact with the alien world? I repeat, what are the Socialist leaders afraid of? Bureaucrats Show Their Fear R answer, of course, is always ready, and they have already issued a@ statement as to this meeting. They charge the Communist Party with having made a raid on this meeting, to break it up. They have cre- ated the false impression that Communists believe in the tactic of breaking up Socialist meetings. This is an absolute lfe. What is accurate, however, is that thousands of needle trade and food workers, and other left-wing unionists, indignant at the slander by the speakers, booed certain of the trade union machine officials they hated, | who rose to speak at this meeting. | Clarence Hathaway moved to the platform to ask the chairman to | give him only ONE minute in which to appeal to the left-wing workers for an orderly meeting. And then a most nauseating and cowardly mob at- tack was made on him, chairs were broken over his head, Abe Cahan, ; Algernon Lee, aided by 50 huskies (Socialists or what?) treated the 26,000 workers in the Garden to a typical Nazi spectacle. | It is useless to go into details; they have already been printed in the Daily Worker. Hereafter, when these Socialist leaders talk so pathetically of free speech and democracy we can say to them, quite accurately, they are lars. They believe in no such thing. In fact, they fear it; they fear any kind of free speech by rank-and-file workers, to the point of hy- eteria. Their disgusting exhibition on the platform will not soon be for- gotten. United Front! ILARENCE HATHAWAY'S statement the next day was a model of calm and unselfish working-class solidarity. Waving aside all personal re- sentment, he asked the Communist and Socialist workers both, not to permit this outrageous attack on him to endanger the unity of the workers. The united front against Fascism must be built despite all these incidents, | iespite all the hysterical fear and violence of the misleaders, was his plea, . * . . Many Such Experiments are intense days. The epoch of war and revolution is upon us, and it is necessary to take the long view. There will be many painful experiments such as this one toward a united front, and many of them will fail in the same ignoble manner. The Communist workers sincerely believe in the united front. It is ip to the Socialist workers to examine their own party’s approach to his crucial problem. Why, for instance, were Matthew Woll and Mayor LaGuardia so auch more preferable to the Socialist leaders than the presence of the housands of left-wing workers? ‘The record of these men is plain. Ask any taxi driver or hotel worker as to whether LaGuardia is his friend or enemy. The taxi strike was be- stayed by this Mayor. The taxi men were jockeyed and threatened and Gnally forced by him to go back to work without a single wage gain or | che recognition of their union. It was also LaGuardia’s police who beat up Socialist demonstrators before the Austrian Consulate the day previous. | What audacity, what cynicism to invite such a Mayor to a workers’ | meeting. Is it not an approval of. his strike-breaking? | As to Matthew Woll: is he the man to invite to speak at an anti-Nazi | meeting; this chief of all the lying war Propaganda in America against he Soviet Union, this active director of the strike-breaking and Nazi organization, the National Civic Federation? Woll functions, in the American Federation of Labor, like some under- cover man of capitalism; his record has been exposed a hundred times even by such liberals as H, L. Mencken, and it stinks to high heaven of open treachery. ~ And the Socialist leaders invite him to speak at their anti-fascist meeting. It would be like inviting Hamilton Fish. You could get Ham Fish to speak at such a meeting for the same Teasons that Woll would consent; for fascism means chauvinism and war; and an American fas- cist will gladly talk against his Austrian counterpart, if it will give him a following at home. The fascism of every land tries to win the workers; it has not succeededvin: Italy or Germany, but the Socialist leaders of America are evidently determined to put the trick over in these United States. So ask them again and again, are Woll and LaGuardia realiy against fascism or for it? . On Guard, Socialists! i hse THE honest Socialist workers; I woud say: be on guard against the men who can shake hands with the Matthew Wolls, who can invite such poorly-disguised fascists to present their filthy lies to you, deliver you to them like so many packages of bought and paid for goods; while at the same, fearing the left-wing workers like poison. They tell you that Communist tactics bring on fascism and suppres- sion. Study the story of Vienna, where the Socialist leaders offered Doll- fuss their consent to suppress parlament. It is the workers who fought, knowing there was no other way out; and the to you. It is better to know the enemy now, A passive working class wins nothing; but if it is militant and uncom- promising, they will be victors, not martyrs, in the struggle of our time, i WHAT’S ON Progressive Community { Center of Flatbush 4 Wednesday Forms Theatre Grou P o NEW DUNCAN Dance Group Party and ‘Bntertainment, 2 W. 15th a Btudio 507; 8:30 p.m. Bill Gropper, Guest of Honor. Admission 25c. . DANCE TREMONT PROG. Club, 366 E. ‘Tremont Ave., 8:30 p.m. Good band. scoTT , lecture on “Is Peace Possible’ at Cooperative Auditorium, 2700 ‘Bronx Park East; 8:30 p.m. Arranged by Council! 11. Adm. 25¢. NEW YORK.The Progressive Com- munity Center of East Flatbush is a newly-organized group composed of workers, students and intellectuals, amalgamation with other groups it now has a membership of 65. ism torship” “Fasci vs "at Kreutzer Hall, 228 E. 86th 6t., 8 p.m. Ad- le Br. F.8.U. + Workers of ex- general membership meet ing Film and Photo League, 12 . 17th Bt., 8:30 ghrp. All members must be present. Thursday Me FREIHEIT Mandolin Orchestra rehearsal for Town Hall Concert, 106 E. 14th &., 7:45 pan. All members except the con- certinas must come. ENGLISH SPEAKING Br. of LwW.O, ben RUSSIAN TEA and Dance, Jack Londor Club, at “Y” at High and W. Kinney Sts. Good Orchestra, Entertainment , Adm, 30c. Wednesday, Feb, 21, 8:30 p.m. WAS not present at the Madison Sq. Garden meeting last week, at |-- | and says suddenly, “That’s what will DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNTSDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1934 MURDER IN * PETER CONRAD } w= the prisoners saw Fritz Gumpert fall, someone bellowed. | Then it became still again. The troop leader stares straight ahead, | his eyes grow smaller, the beech club in his hand wavers slowly back and forth, back and forth. “Cur!” says softly a young fellow | in the ranks of the prisoners, “you dog, if we ever meet by ourselves. | -” The last words ring out louder, | the boy rubs his lips together, his | neighbor blinks at him uneasily. Over the barbed wire quivers the warm sunny air, the men breathe heavily. From Dresden come.a light wind and little clouds. At the gate a} couple of S. A. (Storm Troopers) peo- ple are standing dumb} | ‘Stand still!” suddeniy roars the! troop leader. For some seconds his | wide mouth remains open. His eyes | grow big again. He walks up and | down, looks once at the ground, then | at the men in the line. But he look’s| straight past the lifeless body in the | Srass. The green grass grows dark | and sucks thick blood like warm rain. | When he again stands still he points with his club to the ground happen to everyone, understand? Our 8. A. is not to be broken up, you Jewish slaves. Now get to work; no- body is to be seen around here any more, Dis . . . miss.” He’s Still Alive While he is talking his mouth is distorted and the lower lip swells up thickly. He remains standing for a while, stares at the boots of the men who are slowly moving away, then | Kicks the lifeless body in the side and hastily beckons to the S. A. people who are lounging at the gate. “He's still alive,” says the student from Dresden, as Fritz Gumpert lifts his right hand and lets it fall again —the hand is trying to wipe the bloody slime from his mouth. “Carry him behind the barracks! Don't chatter so much!” screams the troop leader, so that the scholar gives CAMP HOHENSTEIN | a start. “And look out that nobody goes near him. Damned dung!” They carry the body, from whose hair blood drips, holding it by the shoulders and knees. The student | 30es in front, and behind, the mason | Erwin, who does not want to see the head; it makes him think of the head of the child that he saw that | time after work lying where it had fallen from the window. It looks as if a soldier is being carried by comrades from under the fire of the enemy. ‘The sun grows pale, but on the pa- rade ground it is sultry; the walls of the barracks smell of tar. The body lies on a grey horse blanket. The student goes and has a smoke. Only | the mason remains standing a min- | ute; his eyes are uneasy and warms | Erwin remains lying behind the. | little fir tree. He sees how a special | squad raises Fritz Gumpert, hears him scream, and knows that he is being beaten again. Erwin squints his eyes and sees between the twigs bright steel chains, that swing vio- lently. Then they carry Gumpert away in an auto and everything is still again. A streak of mist smell- | ing of burning gas floats over the Parade ground. The prisoners are still not to be seen. Wearily the student comes, sits down by him and asks, “What's wrong with you, anyway?” “Nothing at all. But one can think @ bit, can’t one?” “Sure you can. Is that getting a little too much for you? You don’t need to say so if you don’t want to.” ‘The prisoners come back. They are singing in smothered tones; their voices are dry: “In the wood a bird is singing, singing like a nightingale.” The first squad on guard opens the gate. The barbed wire quivers around the parade ground. Then it is still again. | After an endless pause Erwin says, “Did you get s real look at the peo- ple? My dear fellow.” | Erwin. | | How They Found Gumpert "THE student is silent. He knows Er- win as an old comrade, who now | is watching men who were once with | him on a building job. And Gumpert | who was frightfully beaten because | he sent c upting let: to S. A.| people. The student t of telling }@ joke, because he is afraid of Er- win’s warm eyes. But then he goes on smoking and lays his hand flat in the grass. The shadows on the pines | grow longer. A tree creaks, the same creaking that had worried the scho- 7 the first night, because it came from the woods “I want to get other work,” says | “And how is it about the Can't be in the 8. A. any| cops? | longer, are afraid that the comrade- | trumpeteer. ship will get too strong eh? Then we naturally can't march against | each other, just think that over. | How glad we were to be ether | again. Don’t stare so stupi And | now they lay Gumpert out cold Bal “Man!” screams the udent, “you're plumb crazy.” ‘Shut your mug! I know it. I know that.” “And why don't you make a row?” Pisa want them to do me in, too, eh?” When it begins to get dark, the earth grows damp. From the win- dows of the barracks falls yellow, dim light. Behind the wire the evening watch goes by. They laugh and do not see their comrades be- hind the fir tree. Then Erwin says softly, “We must go. If the watch| | spit sees that they have a listt, there be a row.” On the way to the barracks the student says, “Don't understand your mood. You bellow at people most of all.” | Erwin stops amd says, “You've no| idea. No idea.” | The next day, as they are lying behind the fir tree during the midday pause, Erwin tells how they have found Gumpert. “I knew it. That's it, you know, man... . His | lips were blue and bitten to pieces | and between them lay his tongue, | bitten to rags. Like a dry lump of blood. At first we thought there was somebody sleeping there. But then . . . Probably a broken back- bone, he lay all crooked. Just im- | agine it, just imagine it! You ought | to have seen his eyes. Well, if things change some days, my dear | fellow. And only with clubs. They | didn’t have one shot to spare. | Don't say anything about it, I tell | you. Then something else would happen. . . | Later, as Erwin is leading the pris- | oners to work, he hears someone in| the line softly sing the song of the} “Shut up!” roars Erwin. | “Close your ugly mug, you pup!” and | then he runs back and looks out over | the men marching in front of him. | They have their fists clenched, their | hard fists. Over twenty S. A. men and riflemen beside the fists. Erwin | nd thinks that he has only aj A magazine pistol with eight Suddenly he does not know who the shots are for. He is aston-/| ished that he can grow so weak, and he swallows continually. P rounds. From “Murder in Camp Hohen- | stein and Other Stories,” a Cross current ofthe Hitler Regime, by | Johannes R. Becher, G. P. Ulrich, | Peter Conrad, A. S. Gles and Hans Scheer. Published by International Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave., New York, N. ¥. 1,500 at 2 Meets Score Destruction of Lenin | Fresco by Rockefeller NEW YORK —A total of 1,500 artists, workers and students at two meetings on Sunday protested the destruction of Diegeo Rivera’s Lenin mural at the Rockefeller Center. The meetings were held in Irving Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Place. More than 500 attended the after- noon meeting, at which a symposium on “Should Art Be National?” was arranged by the John Reed Club, with William Stegel as chairman. Speakers at the afternoon meeting included Walter Pach, Thomas Ben- ton, Ralph Pierson, Adolph Glassgold and Louis Lozowick. At the evening meeting, speakers included Suzanne LaFollette, chair- man; Walter Pach, Ralph Pierson, Lucien Bloch, an asistant to Rivera, and John Sloan, president of the So- ciety of Independent Artists. Jacob Burck spoke for the John Reed Club, endorsing the protest and urging the boycott of Rockefeller Center by artists. He proposed a counter-exhibition to the Municipal Art Show sponsored by Mayor La- Guardia at Rockefeller Center. The following resolution, read by Burck, was vigorously applauded: “The undersigned organizations Join in denouncing the destruction of the mural painting of Diego Rivera as an act of political vandalism. It betrays the hypocrisy of the widely advertised patronage of art by the Rockefellers; it makes clear the subordination of this patronage to class purposes which are hostile to the development of art in America; it exposes the place of the Rocke- feller Center in the culture of our country as commercial, reactionary and philistine. “These organizations propose that the municipal exhibition sponsored by Mayor LaGuardia be removed immediately from Rockefeller Center, that all artists withdraw their works from the galleries in this Center, and that the City of New York provide STAGE AND SCREEN John Wexley’s Scottsboro Play { “They Shall Not Die” Opens | Tonight At Royale | } “They Shall Not Die,” a new play | by John Wexley, author of “The | Last Mile” and “Steel,” will be pre- | sented by the Theatre Guild this | evening at the Royale Theatre as | its fifth production of the season. | The drama deals with the Scotts- | boro case. The cast, which numbers | some eighty actors, is headed by | Helen Wesley, Ruth Gordon, Claude | Rains, Linda Watkins, Thurston Hall, Ben Smith, Hale Norcross, Ralph Theadore, Frank Wlson, Er- skine Sanford and Hugh Rennie. “Annina” is the new title of the | Rudolf Frime operetta which the Shuberts will present with Mme. Jeritza in the leading role. The pro- duction, which is now in rehearsal, will begin its out-of-town tour in| Boston March 5. | “Days Without End,” the Eugene O'Neill play at the Henry Miller Theatre is now in its final week. The drama will close on Saturday after a run of seven weeks. Tom) Powers, Dorothy Hall and James Bell will play important roles in John Howard Lawson’s “The Pure In Heart,” which is scheduled to open here on March 12, permanent public exhibition space for all artists, Artisis who withdraw their works are invited to exhibit them in a special protest show, for which a place has already been of- fered. “These organizations further call upon all arti ts to join in a demon- stration of protest on Tuesday, Fep. 20, at 5 p.m. in Columbus Circle. | “Signed: | “John Reed Club “Unemployed Artists’ Assn. “National Student League “Workers’ School “New Masses,” By JOHN L. SPIVAK CHARLOTTE, N. C. — If there is a sickness in a family in the “Queen County of the South” a special allowance of 50 cents a week is made. “Almost all of them complain that they can’t possibly live on it,” said Miss Bailey. Relief expenditures in the county has mounted steadily until now it is $57,000, about 15 times what it was before the depression. The sum spent in 1928 ($3,600) and the sum spent last year is a clear in- dication of the tremendous increase of want and hunger. The wages mill workers and tenant farmers earned even in the prosperous days were ob- viously sufficient only for a hand-to- sion reached itr jj ‘mes as much, stopped. ‘e federal government stepped in ‘ save the situation and allotted 28,000 for relief work. This, of vourse, includes salaries and C.W.A, There's Sickness in the Beethoven’s 7th Symphony On} Philharmonic Program Arturo Toscanini will offer the | Vivaldi Concerto in A minor on/ Thursday evening and Friday after- noon at Carnegie Hall. Other num- bers include Sibelius’ Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Debussy’s “Iberia” and | Straus’ “Death and Transfigura- tion.” The same program, with the Beethoven Seventh Symphony sub- stituted for the Sibelius, will be| given on Saturday night at the| Students’ concert. | On Sunday afternoon Toscanini | will conduct all three “Leonore” | Overtures of Beethoven, the “Fi- nelio” Overture by Beethoven and Brahms First Symphony. Toscha Seidel, violinist, will give his recital on Thursday afternoon at Town Hall. Detroit I. L. D. Shows. New Scottsboro Film DETROIT.—During the week ot| Feb. 17-24, the International Labor | Defense of Detroit is presenting for the first time a moving picture called “The Scottsboro Trial” and Upton Sinclair's “Jimmie Higgins,” produced in the Soviet Union. The remaining showings will be given on Tuesday at Hungarian Workers Hall, 8419 Vanderbilt at 8 | and 10 p. m.; Wednesday, at Martin Hall, 4959 Martin, at 8 and 10 p. m.; Friday, at Yemans Hall, Hamtramck, | at 8 and 10 p. m.; Saturday, at Fin- | nish Hall, 5969 14th St., between 8- 10 p. m. and 10-12 p. m. WITH “DAILY” TO VICTORY Denvver, Col. Comrades: I just got laid off, but I can’t go ithout the Daily Worker. I en- se $1 to renew my subscription. | ¢ only paper for the working Ww! class which will lead us to victory. T pass it to other workers and they all like it, M. F. | Discussed in Textile Women Workers | ew Book | NEW YORK.—One of the longest sections in the new book, “Women wou work,” by Grace Hutchins (International Publishers, $1) is de- voted to a description of the condi- tions of women in the textile indus- tries, both North and South. | Struggles of women textile workers are also fully discussed in chapters on trade union movement and his- tory of American strikes in which} textile women workers have taken an outstanding part. IF | WERE COMMISSAR —By Gropper | Ex-Mayor John J. O'Brien would | be a dummy in a workers’ coopera- tive department store. | Family--60 Conts a Week expenditures but for pure relief the sum expended was $57,000. The county—or rather the federal government—has been supplying the 6 cents per day per person to ap- proximately 1,000 additional families than were on the list before the C.W.A. stepped in. “We'll Have Our Hands Full” In 1933 there were about 2,000 fam- ‘lies being fed by the government and 1,700 individuals who were put to work. “What will happen when the gov- Econint money stops flowing in?” I asker : Miss Bailey shrugged her shoul- ders. “We'll have our hands full, I guess,” she guessed. Though separated by 800 miles and in two distinct industrial com- “munities, the depression brought to | 10:00—Lopex | 10:00—Piorito Orch farmers for every mill or other in- insisted they be paid for light and dustrial worker. The ratio used to be | water and in fewer cases, for rent. |" three to one, but many were driven|The charity agencies paid, usually back to the land in hopes of eking | $1 a wi out an existence there. Many of the breed earners who are | OW, in the fifth year of the de- at work part or full time still appeal | pression, the county supplies for charity for they are unable to/many mill workers who have a little | earn enough to support their fami-| workable ground around their hovels, | ~ lies, This is especially true among} with seed to grow vegetables. In a| some mill workers. Those, for in-| number of cases farmers who owned | stance, who worked in the Chadwick- | the land which the government was | Hoskins and the Leakvile Woolen {paying them not to till, refused to| Mills just outside of Charlotte used | keep their tenants on it unless they the ranks of beggars for bread the white collar class, here as in the New England industrial center. Among those who appealed for aid to the county, by an ironic fate, was an aged minister who used to preach to mill workers and tenant farmers “blessed be the poor.” In the fullness of his years and filled with deeds well done in telling the poor their reward was in heaven, he retired. His con- sregation and son supported him. Then came the depression: his flock which had remained poor themselves did not have enough to eat. His son ‘ost his job. Today the aged minister has learned just how blessed the “where wealth awaits you” prefers to be known as a center of sunshine and prosperity. Those who are still eating well do not like to talk about the prevalent poverty and hunger. When you ask for sta- tistics, figures. they cannot find them. All they can do is guess “there’s some pretty bad off, but mostly mill work- ers and tenant farmers.” They don't count. Hundreds on Charity List The tenant farmer is the largest numerically of those receiving char- ity from the county. There are four to earn $5 or $6 a week for a 10 or| 12 hour day. This was before the) mill code. Almost everyone of these! workers at some time or other ap-| pealed for charity, according to the Department of Welfare records. Ever after the code went into effect, due | to the stretch-out system, not all of them have gone back to work, with the result that many are still on the charity ist. Even those working full time and getting their $12 a week minimum are in want, for mills work a few months and then shut down. When the yearly average is totalled up the mill worker is still not earning any- where near a living wage. The stretch-out system which makes him do twice as much work for the in- crease in pay that the code gave him, actually serves to cut down the num- ber of persons who might be em- ployed, as well as his own working sime over a long period. This stretch-out is common in this area since the code went into effect. Mills work their employees at a fe- verish pace, manufacture all they need and close their doors, throwing their workers back upon the county or government for support. Tt should be noted, though, that quite a number of mills were gen- erous toward their employees when work stopped. The electricity which mills generate and which is used to light the company-owned shacks where the workers live, was not cut off. The former mill hands could have light by which to see their misery, In some cases, however, mills paid rent. In such cases, too, the | charty organizations usually paid. | In 1933 the mills did more business | than in 1932 yet the requests for | charity in 1933 from mill workers was | reater than in the preceding year. | This can be accounted for only by the stretch-out system. Many of the applicants, the Department of Wel- fare said, are working, but cannot | get enough over a long period of; time, to keep ther familes supplied with food. | “Partial Relief” “Partial relief” this is called— when an employed man is still starv- ing. And “partial relief” is also granted to many tenant farmers for the landowners, in many cases, are themselves poverty stricken and un- able to supply their tenants with enough to live on until the crop fs | qwi oe and harvested, which they used ‘0 do. Since 69 per cent of the popula- tion is white, the whites outnumber the Negro two to one in appeals for aid. When the difference in num- bers is considered, the Department estimated that charity cases are Workers’ Grou ad Page Five ps Present Vital Theatrical E vening Semi-Final District Contest is Held for National Theatre By HAROLD EDGAR SUNDAY night at the New School for Social Research in New York, the semi-final district | contest for the National Theatre Fes- | tival of the League of Workers’ The- atres to be held in Chicago tn April, took place. The auditorium of the school was filled to capacity. The performances Sunday night seemed to be more competent than |at any other similar occasion this | season. In stage-management, in speed, in energy and confidence, the whole evening marked a distinct step forward. What was equally obvious, however, was a lack of good playets, and @ misunderstanding of the kind of material that is best suited to the needs of such events. been impressive and valuable, suf- fered from scenarios and writing that were much too “ambitious” for the form that these plays demand. Nevertheless, the evening did afford one example of the proper use of the medium. This was the crisp and dramatic “Newsboy” of the Workers Laboratory Theatre. The latter piece was by all odds the most completely satisfying perform- ance of the evening. “Newsboy” {s a contrast between the vulgar triviality of most of “the news that’s fit to print” in the yellow press and the tragic realities of our social life. “Marlene Dietrich insures her legs for $500,000,” the newsboy cries, and then in short but telling flashes, we are reminded of unemployment, lynch- ing and the horrors that are the | daily bread of millions of Americans. The agitational point to all this is: TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00—Martha Mears, Songs 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters ‘Trio 1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch :00—Jack Pearl, Comedian; Orch. 8:30—Wayne Orch. 9:00—Troubadours Oroh.; Donald Novis, Tenor 9:30—Fred Allen, Comedian; Grofe Och 00—Hillbilly Music 10:30—Peace-Time Spies—Sketoh 11:00—To Be Announced S—John Fogarty, Tenor :30—Denny Oreh. 4 7 WOR—710 Ke 7:00—Sports—Stan Lomax 1:15—Comedy; Music 7:30—Osborn Orch.; Interview by Radic Harris 8:00—To Be Announced 8:15—Jones and Hare, 8:30—Concert Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor 9:00—Magazine of the Air 9:30—De Marco Gitls; Frank. Sherry, Tenoi oso iebieon Orch. * . 10:15—Current Evonts—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Dorothy Miller, Songs 10:45—Sports—Boake Carter 11:00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Nelson Orch. 12:00—Robbins Orch, . WJZ—760 Ke. 0—Amos ’n’ Andy -—John Herrick, Songs }0—To Be Announced Van Steeden 00—Warden Lewis F. Lawes in 20,000 Years in Sing Sing—Sketen 9:30—John McCormack, Tenor; Daly Orch. Orch.; Jesters ‘Trio; Adele Starr, Songs; Tony Cabooch, Comedian 10:30—Tourist Adventures 11:00—Pickens Sisters, Songs 11:15—Robert Royce, Tenor 11:30—Stein Orch. —Rogers Orch. 12:00—Molina Crch. | 12:30 A.M.—Martin Orch. WABC—860 Ke Songs 7:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00--Green Orch.; Men About Town ‘Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin ©. Hill 8:30—Albert Spalding, Violin; Conrad Thi- bault, Baritone; Voorhees Orch. 9:00—Philadelphia Orch. 9:15—Alexander Wooleott—The Town Cri 9:30—Lombardo Orch.; Burns and All Dick Powell, Songs 10:30-—News Reports telanets Orch.; Evelyn MacGregor, Ito; Evan Evans, Baritone; Mixed 11:30—Little Orch. 12:00—Belasco Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Hall Orci 1:00—Light Orch. Certain per- | |formances that might otherwise have Festival | Workers, learn tt the ree! news—from you paper — The | Daily Worker: it is the voice of y class. This wa own in kind of kaleidoscope | ique wi the figures changing iden B her. were effectiv borrowed from the Joos ballet’s “City Impressions” and from the Siftons’ “193 Each. bit | was striking and convincing because | the essential action or word and alone was presented; the slog | Were added to each picture | period to a sentence. The whole \thing was done with remarkable rhythm, concentration, fervor anc Best, | e * American Youth Olub of Brooklyn put on a playlet called. ‘Boots and Shoes, Amen,” that dealt | with @ strike in a shoe-factory, the betrayal of the A. F. of L. leaders and the successful carrying through Jof the strike by the rank-and-file members, one of whom is killed by the bosses’ hired thugs. This num~- ber was interesting for a certa! straight-forward presentation of us: |ful information like a simply-written strike report. It was acted in the same spirit, except for a tendency to “adorn” the material with super ficial theatricality. The actors should |not have used make-up at all, just as |its author might have avoided an oc- |casional leaning toward conventional | melodramatics. The New Experimental Theatre gave us & satire on the economic con- ference, in which the mask of the Marx brothers was employed to liven | the satire with horse-play. This had | amusing moments, but it was at least five minutes too long and should have been played faster. ie inter- esting feature in this instance was the attempt to turn its idee into the- atrically entertaining form by way | of farce and coloriul high-jinks. The Harlem Progr Club pre- sented a playlet showing the radi- |calization of a white-collarite. This {like all the plot pieces of the eve | ning failed because of its effort to d \too much with the result that its story became threadbare and abs |Some of the actors in this grc however, have unusual abilit The Workers School group }@ sketch demonstrating the need for | unionization amongst office wo. {It was simpler and more convincing |than the Harlem Progressive Club's | Play, but it was not as well a : peared Two children’s groups the Ella May Wiggin up and the Aurora Players. Both did nice w ‘ {particularly the former showed excellent discpline. We are | not sure, however, that the idea |having young children recite sloga is the best way of training then Should not some atiempt made to find material more characteristi a child’s approach and of a child experience? ‘To haye children shoui the exact phrases that are used. by their seniors make the children appear unnatural and their seniors childish. 5 bead tendency to rely indiscrimi- netely on slogans seems to be the pitfall of most of these groups. Near- ly all the playlets are written on a formula, and very few of the groups seem to realize that it is their jobs to bring their own particular imagi- nations to bear on the material The problem of the Workers Theatres is with each performance to reveal anew the truth of their point of view to state their message in some way which shall strike the audience as if it were for the first time with the relevancy of the Communist inter- pretation of events. Unless this is done, the mere repetition of hack neyed illustrations becomes stale and | wearisome and nothing is accom- | plished either theatrically or “ideo- | logically. Nor is it necessary for the |short playlets to encompass every- t¥ing, to present realistically a whole complex of affairs. This was the fault of most of Sunday's playlets which for this reason evoked the | wrong kind of laughter. A simple | point concisely and strikingly stated | Stimulates the audience and con- |vinces it. From this angle, we re- }peat, the “Newsboy” of the W.1.T. is a model to be studied. | The jury which included Flion, Bonn, Rothman, Daniels, Schneider jand Edgar chose “Newsboy” and the | playlet of the American Youth Club jand the New Experimental Theatre jto be presented at the final New | York competition, and recommended | that the Ella May Wiggin children’s group also appear at that event. AMUSEMENTS —-THE THEATRE GUILD _presents— JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE Thea., 45th St., W. of Bway Royale sistiness tnure, “sca Set, EUGENE O'NEILL'’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD Tt; 84 8. W- of Biwsy Evy.8.20Mats, Thur. aSat.2:20 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN BAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALV Thea., 524 St., W. of Bway Ev.8:20.Mats.Thar.&Sat.2:20 ZJEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE O MORE LADIES A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with MELVIN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON MOROSCO Thea., 45th, W. of Bway. Evs. 9:50. Mats, Wed., Thurs. and Sat. at 2:45 Boland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS in about equally divided. The Negro gets a trifle less than the white man from the charity organizations be- cause “he can live on less than a white man.” . “How much food can be bought for $2 a week?” I asked. “T can’t answer that,” miss Bailey said. “We give as much as we can. Most all of them complain that it isn’t enough.” (To Be Continued) “Her Master’s Voice” Plymouth yi."scon, murs Sot DENNIS KING in RICHARDofBORDEAUX A PLAY BY GORDON DAVIOT EMPIRE Thea., B'way, 40 St, Tel. PE. 6-9541 Eves. 8:30; Mats. Wed., Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 LAST 8 DAYS ‘THE “SIMPLE TAILOR? A poor Russian Jewish working girl's ruggle between love and need! Her heart draws! Poverty drives! The rich bosses live 2 good day, while the poor workers are being crushed! A Movie that moves every worket’s heart! Entertaining! Instroctive! Constructive! 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