The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE — THE —_ WORLD! [sm By Michael Gold Remarkable Leaders of Vienna | ike BAUER, intellectual head of the Austrian Socialist Party, and Julius Deutsch, commander of the Republican Defense Corps, have escaped from the Vienna battlefield and are now in Czechoslovakia. A reporter from the New York Times was able to secure an interview with them which appeared in that paper last Sunday. It is a remarkable interview, which ought to be studied by every Socialist, particularly, for it throws a strange, clear light on the temper these leaders. 1e post-war history of the Austrian Social Democracy ds well known, yeginning in 1919-29, with its alliance with the bourgeoisie to suppress the proletarian revolution in blood and brutality. This revolution, if the Social Democrats had not betrayed it in Austria, Hungary and Germany, would have averted all this fascist horror that now afflicts Europe. But one need not go into that at this time. Let us merely judge these eaders from their recent statement, made at a crucial moment like this. Chey Try to Help Dollfuss “INCE the date of the Hitler triumph in Germany,” says Bauer, Be to an agreement party has made the very greatest efforts to come with the Dollfuss government, because we knew what the end would be otherwise. Either the Nazis were bound to triumph in Austria bo some such terrible bloodshed as has now happened was bound to come: It must be remembered that the Austrian Soctalists were almost a majority party in the country, besides having leadership of the working class. But these leaders had no confidence in their own class. They chose, as they did in Germany, to put their strength behind a bourgeois leader who would “protect” them from Fascism. They were following their fa- miliar tactic of choosing “the lesser of two political evils.” And they sought to come to terms with Dollfuss, to make an alliance with this openly-avowed Austrian Fascist against the German Nazis. Otto Bauer describes the different vain attempts. Dollfuss ignored | and despised them, evidently, but they persisted. The Socialist leaders approached the clerical leaders of the Christian Socialist Party, to which Dolifuss belonged. “A group of religious Socialists got together with a group of Catholic Democrats and tried to induce the church to intervene. This also failed. . . It was the fault of the Bishop of Linz and the Papal Nuncio, Mgr. Sibylla, who both pushed the government to Fascist extremes, saying, Now is the moment to destroy socialism forever.’ ” ” . . Socialists Consent to Abolition of Parliament ND then Otto Bauer makes this surprising confession: A “We offered to make the greatest concessions that s democratic and socialistic party had ever made, We let Dollfuss know that if he would only pass a bill through Parliament we would accept a measure author- izing the government to govern by decree without Partiament for two years.” But Dolifuss refused this amazing Socialist offer to consent to the abolition of Parliament and the establishment of a fascist state. Hitler made the same answer to many of the German Socialist leaders when they came to him with requests that they be allowed to continue thefr state jobs under his regime. ‘B says Bauer, “the dissatisfaction and agitation of the workers against the conservative policy of our party committee grew as the gov- ernment provocations increased. The workers said the government was making itself more powerful militarily, was wearing down our spirit, and was choosing its own time to attack us. Excitement rose to a fever pitch during the last weeks.” Ts this not plain as a pikestaff? The workers began to revolt against the leaders who had made all these shameful concessions to Dollfuss, de- spite the fact that he was weaker than the Socialist movement. The So- cialist leaders had permitted their movement to be frittered away by com- promise. And little Dollfuss got stronger, with their help, and the workers, who knew they must pay the price, became alarmed at last; woke up from the drugged sleep of bourgeois socialism. “Last Sunday night in Vienna a comrade coming from Ling warned me that the workers of Linz were highly indignant and alarmed over the Heimwehr action and had declared that if any further action were taken to deprive them of their arms they would defend themselves for the sake of the Republic, ... I was alarmed to hear of this spirit, and sent them urgent messages to keep cool. If we in Vienna could submit patiently to an arms search in party headquarters they must try to do the same. Ap- perently the message came too late.” This, too, is a plain confession that Bauer did not lead the revolt, but twied to stop it. It was the workers themselves, knowing that the end had come at last in this long campaign of concessions, compromise and betrayal, who struck. There was nothing else to do. They were doomed, anyway. And a planned revolt might have won the day, even this late stage. No, it was not Otto Bauer and the Socialist leaders who must be given the hero’s laurels for the Vienna uprising. He wanted to end it after it began. “There is another question that Major Fey (the Vice-Chancellor) will have to answer one day. During the disorders in 1927 the Socialist Mayor Seits and many others, at the risk of their own lives, went into the crowds and calmed the excited workmen. All these leaders were in prison on Monday. Why didn’t Fey release them at any time during the fighting and give them a chance to bring it to an end?” What kind of mind is speaking here? Bauer still serves the fascist wate even at such a moment. . . Death, Rather Than No Private Property ARR a Dee Pe eer, Comnnnes, cs Wee. sBtott, of Tis Be: cialist revolt against a bourgeois state, praises his proletarian soldiers in the following curious terms: “Characteristic of the discipline of the splendid men of my Republican Defense corps is the fact that in the whole four days and nights of fight- ing there was not a single case of plundering. My men had virtually nothing to eat, and were ill-clad and badly shod. They were suffering ter- ribly from hunger and cold. Nevertheless, as I have said, not a single citizen was robbed nor a shop touched. And sud® Men the fascists dare to call ‘revolutionary rabble’.” In other words, the workers were fighting for their lives. They were killing their bourgeois enemy, and being killed. They were outlaws with a hangman's noose waiting for them if they lost. But they would not enter a department store and take the food and clothing they needed so bitterly. ‘Their Socialist commander had forbidden them to violate the sacred law of private property! In a civil war between socialism and capitalism! Fascists murder workers, they violate and confiscate the property of Jews and labor unions. But socialist leaders respect the private property of their enemies. What philistinism! What incredible folly! What a leadership for the working class! Isn't it obvious that such leaders can lead nowhere but to defeat? They do not believe in socialism; they apologize for such re- yelts as the one in Vienna, forced upon them by the indignant workers; they would be more than glad if permitted by the fascists to co-operate with them in some manner that would save their faces. Let their Socialist comrades in other countries explain this inter- view. The facts on this Vienna revolt are slowly coming out, and when the full story is told, it will not cover most of the leaders with glory, but with contempt. It is only the workers who bear all, who suffer all, and who finally will dare all. “Driving Axle,”” New —_ | beyond. the Soviet Novel, Is Out ee Bee ne The drive for Socialist construction | or ‘ frontier, plan sabotage. i “Driving Axle” will be obtainable at| it” system is , teow | sed though notYOBN L. SPIVAK New] tuite as bad as in the mills. This DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1934 rr’s. SGLD! A Short Story By JOHN GREGORY OOMIS looked over the manuscript | in silence while Horace Spencer anxiously waited for his verdict. To | the author he was like an immense j | Budda-a Budda with the mouth of @ carp. | Slowly the bald head shook from | | Side to side. “Spencer, I’m afraid your | articles are not suited to our pub-} lication.” | | It was a death sentence. Feebly the| author replied, “But I have spent six} months touring the Soviet Union. I have given a true picture of condi-| tions there. Surely the American pub- | | lic is interested?” 2 i | A curious, quizzical smile passed | | over the loose lips of the editor of the | Friday Pillar. As you know, ours is a! | weekly magazine with an immense | circulation. True enough, we need a} series of articles on the Soviet. The} public craves them.” He paused and | looked shrewdly at the author. Loomis | | knew that Spencer had had a degree | | Of success as a lecturer and writer on/| sex topics. Now, he thought, the poor} | innocent is venturing into unfamiliar | | fields. | Continuing, Loomis leaned across the mahogany desk and tapped a gold pencil for emphasis. “But, we also} have the best advertisers in the coun- try. And they bring in the money. We, er, owe them certain obligations. Do I make myself clear?” ee 1 caiatcoaveege Spencer tried to understand. A conceited little man without much imagination, he loved luxury, women, and fine clothes. All cost much money. And money de-| pended on this editor. | With a sinking heart he saw van- ishing the worshipping audiences of well clad men and women, mostly | women. And he knew that if Loomis took his articles lecture bookings would come pouring in. If he did not, well, Horace Spencer might have to go to work. The prospect frightened him. Vivid pictures passed in his mind jas the editor waited. Of that vast | country across the sea, where millions | of workers and farmers were success- | fully forging a wondrous future. He | had tried to put some of the enthus- iasm for what he had seen into his articles. Also, he saw his platinum blonde mistress—she who wanted a fur coat. And somehow, irrelevantly, he thought of a bedraggled young girl, a prostitute, who had accosted him timidly that morning. 1 ee | ND strangely, that last thought connected up with Loomis. It seemed to give him a vague idea of what the man was driving at. The idea grew clearer. Spencer swallowed hard. “Er, there | are other things I might put into my articles. Ah, I might revise my con- | clusions.” He looked up questioningly. Loomis smiled and nodded vigor- ously. “No doubt you saw starvation and famine over there, and observed a lot of failures in the program of | industrialization?” | “Ah, I have heard stories.” The dose | was a little strong, even for Horace | Spencer. “Not enough!” replied Loomis, | shaking his head vigorously. “Now frankly, We want a series of articles that will discourage our readers from | trying to duplicate the Russian ex- | periment. The articles must give first hand pictures. The pay will be very good.” Strangely, the picture of the prosti- tute came again into Spencer’s mind. Loomis’ words rang, “The pay will be very good!” Ah! He smiled brightly and said, “I'll rewrite my manuscript and revise my conclusions. I under- stand now.” “Fine!” Loomis said, a trifle con- temptuously, as he shook the soft hand offered him. He added, “Let me have the first article next week. Five ‘Thousand words. I have no doubt but what it will be acceptable. Good-bye.” By JOHN L. SPIVAK CHALOTTE, N. C.—Wages have increased for most of the industrial workers here and doubled for the mill workers, but “it don’t mean a thing,” to use their expression, for em- Pioyers get just twice as much work out of them to make up for the increased wage scale mills began it and other employers followed their lead with a “stretch- out” which leaves the worker limp and exhausted at the end of the day. “We got our wages raised all right —from $6 a week to the $12 a week minimum,” mill workers invariably say with a note of helplessness, “but the mills ain't; = ; losin’ nothin’ by : it. We just have to do twice 2° much work— This is for the workers in the 20}. ling-up on work ‘ubl make t the To James W. Ford Will black man fight? Well, during Civil War, Northern bosses Got desperate, put arms in black man’s hand. Loosed him, with music and cheers, upon the Southern bosses ¥ort Harrison, A. D. 1864 Behind stout walls the masters jeer “Look! Niggers comin’! They got swell uniforms, They got popguns With somethin’ shinin’ on the end But it’s only a cheese-knife. Let ‘em have it— The approach, causeway ten feet wide Plowed by grapeshot and marksmen’s rifles Three hundred yards to go, And the colunm advances. Men black as midnight, bronze men, Straight men, and men twisted by blows Wealed from the bullwhip, gashed by leg-irons Proudly they grasp their weapons. Along narrow causeway, Five hundred forty-three lie dead And column, like on parade, keeping perlect siep Jaws forward, shoulders squared, Advances. Inside of four minutes Black warriors storm the works, | Meet “masters” face to face, breast to breast Break heads, break limbs of “masters” with rifie butts | Blow them throygh with bullets, Spit their bellies on expert bayonets. Black heroes! | Under a flag of stripes. No star of glory shines for them! U8, | A. D. 1984. | Over the whole God damned country Against ten thousand forts RED FLAG High in his stout black hand. O “masters,” North and South, IF | WERE COMMISSAR That Visit to a Nazi Concentration Camp By G. P. ULRICH | 1O took any interest in Oranien- | they are pursuing an act | burg two months ago? The little|sheer brainlessness pienic resort, lying close to Berlin, glueing of par ~ prison” © was at most moderately well known| the profession of st ing! relie? for its vegetarian settlement and the | cards. | equipment for practising defence, It is a little depress at the be- | against gas attacks. ginning of exercise, t only for the first half-hour. P ming i looked on with favor. The e usted, temporarily a goal for the press of | wretchedly nourished body: anngt — the world. Reporters made notes: |@ure military drill for hours on end. model arrangements—in comparison | There Js & hail of curses, @ rain of with other prisons not bad—no ijl-| blows. treatment. The food is all too scanty. In the After such fleeting impressions tt|™orning brown soup with greas; will be well to investigate a little | S@ndwiches. At noon brown soup wit more thoroughly. Let us go then | Potatoes and peas, beans, etc. In the past the young 8. A. (Storm Troop-|€vening greasy sandwiches with ers) people who, equipped with police | brown soup. How many of the pris- cloaks, rubber clubs, revolvers ‘and | oners can stand that long? | rifles, are guarding the old aban- | The intellectual nourishment is just doned factory, and let us not stop|as scanty, but more highly seasoned long in the office, in which some of| Aside from the daily reading of the the adherents of the new system | Volkisetie Beobachter (a Fascist daily have made themselves thoroughly | paper), there are address and “lec- comfortable. |tures for enlightenment.” For ex- From the office we go over a|@mple, the troop leader calls the With the opening of the concen- tration camp the little town became —By Gropper | Ab. Caban, editor of the yellow | “Forward,” would be compelled to : “ | sel copies of the Dally Worker | nicht of stairs, whose decay ia with | @TOUup together and snarls, “People dealing with exposures of the \f es, te i trese! difficulty concealed by the most|last night another barn was burned Pee leeaere i? of the Socialist | sinful neatness, into a great factory | to the ground at Birkenwerder. Thai . | yard, over which years ago trucks| is the best proof that we are acting rolled with goods, but which in re-|in the interest of the whole people | cent weeks has seen nothing but | by shutting you up here, to make hu- | Police wagons of the flying-squads, | man beings of you again. Your com- Suggested by Henry Finke, New York, who gets the original. with TUNING IN “Character Education in the So- viet Union,” will be discussed by Paul Kaminsky, book commentator, over WARD today at 3:15 p. m. S. A. and thoroughly flayed | prisoners. Here we come to the first | young men, who are expiating their | guilt in not being National-Socialists | by an imprisonment to which they }can see no end. Here they are “to be again educated to become useful | members of human society,” “first really to learn to work.” The work is assigned to them by three 8. A. people, two of whom came are | called for by N. R. A. codes. The | asked. Whether you stand and fight, whether you run and hide Game’s up. Glory for black man! Freedom for all men! —George Jarrboe. | WHAT’S ON ATTENTION, On and after March I the rates for ads in the “What's On” column will be week days from Monday to Thursday a5¢ for 3 lines. Friday and Saturday 50e for 3 lines. ee oe Announcements for the “What's On” Column be in our office by 11 A.M. of the previous day. There is a mini- mam charge of 250 for each notice. . . . Thursday PLAYLET, sequel to Peace on Eerth, “And| Good Will Towards Man.” Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th St., 8:30 p.m. Dancing afterwards to Ted Fagins Orchestra. Aus- Dices, International Seamen’s Club. RALLY Against War and Fascism. Alfred Runge, speaker. Cruger Manor, 3200 Cruger Ave. cor. Burke, 8 p.m. Prominent speakers. Adm. free. | MAX BEDACHT speaks on “What Is Hap- pening in Germany,” Labor Temple, 342 Z. Séth St., 8 p.m. Adm. 10. Auspices, York- ville GP. and ¥.0.L. Proceeds for Ger- man OP, EDITH BERKMAN Br. LL.D., Educational meeting, T. Wang speaks on “Situation in China.” Borough Park Workers Club, 4704— 18th Ave., 8:30 p.m. REHEARSAL Fretheit Mandolin Orchestra, Town Hall Concert, 106 EB. ith St. 7:45 p.m. All members except the concertinas must come. | PARTY given by Midtown Br. ¥.S.U., 168, W. 23rd 8t. Dancing, Entertainment, Fe- freshments. Speaker, Liston Oak. ‘Adm. 25c, Benefit “Soviet Russia Today.” MEMBERA Potamkin Film School please | note there will be no meeting tonight. All{ Present Monday. | Friday | DEBATE between Max Bedacht and Prof. Herman Gray on “Unemployment Insur- | ance.” Paradise Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden | Ave., cor. Jerome, 8:45 p.m, Adm. 10c. Aus- | pices, Br. 521 T.w.0. VICTORY Dance given by Unemployed Teachers Association, Webster Manor, 125 E uth 8. 9 pm. JERAEL AMTER speaks on “The Unem-| ployment Situation and Its Outlook.” Red Spark A. C.. 64 Second Ave. (near 4th St.) | 8:30 p.m CARL E®DSKY speaks on “Bourgeoisie Democracy vs Social Revolution,” Brightou Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Avenue, 8:30 p.m. Auspices, Unit 6 C.P. SYMPOSIUM on Proletarian Literature. ‘Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave., John Reed Club Offers Traveling Scottsboro Exhibition for Clubs NEW YORK.—The first exhibition of the work of students of the John Reed Club School of Art is being held this week, Feb. 19 to 26—at the John Reed Club Gallery, 430 Sixth Avenue. There is representative work from all classes, done during | the term which is just closing. The | exhibition is extremely significant, | and completely justifies the existence of such a school in the revolution-| ary movement. It should be of | special interest to all artists and art | students who are faced with the! problem of how to relate their work to the social struggles which are taking place about them. | In connection with the exhibition and the closing of the Fall term | there will be an entertainment and | dance on Saturday night, Feb. 24, | at the John Reed Club. There will be musical entertainment and speak- ers, and prominent artists will do Portrait sketches. 8:45 p.m. Speakers: Alfred Hayes, Helen Kappel, Arthur Pense, Philip Rahy, Edwin Rolfe, Sol Funcroff. “IMPERIALISM,” Open Forum at Ger- man Workers Club, 79 B. 10th St. at & p.m. Speaker: E. P. Greene of Pen and Hammer. Adm. free. LECTURE “‘New Morals in A New World” by well known journalist:-Boro Park Work- ers Club, 18th Ave. and 47th St., 8:30 p.m Adm. 15. Unemployed 10c. JOE GILBERT, one of the Comm. of 13, speaks on “The Recent Taxi Strike and the Role of the T.U.U.C." American Youth Federation, 323 HE. 13th &t., 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission 10c, . | HARRY RAYMOND speaks on “The War | Danger.” Astoria Open Forum, 25-20 As- toria Ave. (Crescent ‘Theatre Blds.). Ad- mission free. Passaic, N. J. BIG ANTI-FASCIST Msgs Meeting, Bau-| rman # 189 Dayton Ave. Auspices Anti- Fascist League, Passaic. | Boston, Mass. | t 1029 Tremont St. on Saturday, ! | Feb. | 9:00—Variety Musicale direct from school to the office of the unemployed relief. This is the | first “job” that they have seen from the inside. TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P, M.—American Economic Defense— Representative A, P. Lamneck of Ohio 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Vallee Orch.; Soloists 9:00—Captain Henry Show Boat Concert 10:00—Whiteman Orch.; Al Jolson, Songs 11:00—Viola Philo, Soprano 11:15—Norman Cordon, Bass 11:30—From Buenos Aires; Variety Program | 12:00—Lunceford Orch. 12:30 A. M.—Martin Orch. WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Sports—Stan Lomax 7:1S—Comedy; Music 7:30—Lone Ranger—Sketch 8:00—Little Symphony Orch. ; Philip James, Conductor; John Corigiano, Vielin | ae we iE work—we will call it that— is for both guards and guarded | about the most brainless that you can imagine. Three young workers are driving six of their former com- rades of the unemployed office to yank blades of grass rapidly out of the ground, The six are crawling | | around in completely tattered clothes, | pinching out from between the | stones the sprouting spring grass digging out the roots, cleaning the | sand from all traces and pressing it | nice and neat back into the cracks | in the paving. There is no tool. Also the grass, even if it were left to grow | | peacefully, would bother nobody. 9:30—De Marco Girls; Prank Sherry, Bytes : Tenor; Behind the factory oullding a lot W018 Gurrent Bvente“iarlan ugene Rena) OF Water is being squirted, “A dozeit| 10:30—The Jolly Russians men are busy cleaning off the old) 10:45—Sports—Boake Carter | box, It will be reckoned as their | Be ar -neaian: Uc | personal fault if it does not shine 11:30—Colt Oreb. } 12:00—Berger play | like a marble palace. Every splinter | 9:15—Dramatized News 0) P. M.—Amos 'n’ Andy 7:15—Don Quixote—Sketch 7:30—Carlos Gardel, Baritone; Orch, 8:00—Cape Diamond ‘Lights—Skttch 8:30—Adventures in Health—Dr. Herman | away with it, even if the wall goes Concert | to the devil. Here also one is im- | pressed with the beastly brainlessness of & work that is not work, but merely busyness, just so that the point of “Useful work” can stand on Dundesen 8:45—Sizzlers Trio 9:00—Death Valley Days | the daily plan. 10:00—Gunedlan "Program Tt gets much worse where the 10:30—Selence and Inventions Make More| Nearby wood is being rooted out. The. Jobs—Dr. Karl Compton, Dr, R. A. Milli-| trees are already gone. The oc- kan, W. D. Coolidge cupants of the camp, under heavy 1 laren Division Washington Day | supervision, are proceeding with bare | 11:30-—Madriguera Orch. | fingers to dig out the giant blocks of 12:00—Olsen Orch. | roots. 8. A. men drive on workers 12:80 A.’ M.-—-Dance Orch, who might be their grandfathers. , Neth | “Old sow,” ‘red swine,” “dirty bug- WABC—860 Ke. ";—the expressions are taken 7:00 P, M-—Myrt and Marge { S—Just Plain Bill—Sketch | is the vocabulary of the imperial} :30—Serenaders Orch. 4 0 | . Only they are more frequent | and even more vulgar. | The sand of the Mark is fine as} dune sand. It keeps trickling back. It runs through the ruined fingers of s—-News—Boake Carter 0—-Studio Orch. 1$—News—Edwin ©. Hiil tone; Mary Eastman, Soprano $:00-—Philedeipria. reria,| the men. ‘The figures of those going | Conductor | sick mount up. The drive goes on.| 9:15—Howard Marsh, Fast-| The abuse goes on endlessly. | 9:30-—-Waring The roots are dug out. Now the| 10:00—-Gray Orch.; Stoopnagle and Budd,| favored ones may arm themselves | 10:30—-News Reports | with an axe—just think of it—and thop up the hunks. But they watch} sharply after the axes. | Other prisoners must peel po-! | tatoes. Brown men watch over them, } and with as much earnestness as if | the unfavorable balance of trade; Comedians; Connie Boswell, Son ‘Con ans, Baritone; 11:30—Jones Orch. | 12:00—Nelson Orch. 12:80 A. M.—Davis Oroh. 1:00—Pancho Orch. | could be set right by hair-thin po- | Wages in South Higher,“ But It Don’t Mean a Titra” pe cecente ew 2 iT the fact that here approxmately) between them and the manufacturer is all too clear. There is a labor rep- resentative here, Albert Jackson, a labor leader affiliated with the Cha: - lotte Central Labor Union, which in turn is affiliated with the A. F. of L. He sits in on the Compliance Board to represent labor's interests, and it was from him that I first heard the bland announcement of the “stretch- out” system the mills started. “What are you doing about it?” I “There ain't much that can be done,” he said apologetically. Despite this wide-spread and other abuses, such as the now established use of the C.W.A. to supply cheap jabor in competition with union la- bor, workers take an Ic view optimist of things as they are here and of the | ing- future. “Things is much better here than they were a year ago,” they say. ‘Then we had nothing. Now at least several thousand have jobs through the N.R.A. and the C.W.A., some of them, we hope, permanently. (It is interesting to note the com- mon use of the word “we” when a worker discusses conditions of work- ers here. Though the vast majority of them are unemployed, they are about to be included in the ‘obs that are being made.) Ree ere, cee of Shem Jobe: and calls up a bricklayer or a painter | cnd asks what he wants for the jot We say we want 50 cents an hour nd the man laughs at us. “ ‘Hell,’ he says, ‘I can get a man crom the C.W.A. who'll do the job for 30 cents a day,’ and he not only can, ‘ut does. If a worker don’t take the | job—and they call on a worker who's on the charity list—the C.WA. ju: cuts him off the $2 a week relief | money he gets for his family and he’s left to starve. The Family Service and the Salvation Army (the two chief charity organizations here) do the-same. A man’s got to take one of these jobs at whatever the boss wants to pay or he can just starve to death.” Mill workers—those who are work- SAY? “In the old days before the N.R.A. we used to get $6 a week for a 10 or 12 hour day. Today the minimum wage is $12 a week for an eight-hour day. You'd think that the N.R.A. has done us a lot of good but it ain’t. It don’t cost the mill no more to run now than it did before the code was signed because of the stretech-out. In- stead of tending to one frame we have to tend to two. Whatever kind of work we did it's Just, double now.” stretch-out system has natur- iy kept many of the mill workers from returning to their jobs when the mills opened recently. On the other hand, the provision for only two shifts has managed to supply work to mill workers who, because of the stretch-out, would not have found rades out there will come to it too, Then this epidemic of fire bugs will finally stop.” The number of cases of burning | barns is less than in the last twenty years. But the troop leader is quite serious about his “enlightenment.” | When this part of the day's duty is | over, the prisoners go into what here |are called the bedrooms. A few cen- timetres of rotten straw lie on the cold cement floor. Even in the eve- ning, when the prisoners are shut into the recently-aired rooms, it stinks as if a herd of beasis from the pri maeval forest had spent the night here. It is impossible to describe the air that results from the presence here of fifty or more people, wh unwashed clothes and sweaty bor exude their fumes here. And yet the hour that follows is the only one in which the resident of the concen- tration camp has some freedom. Ther he is allowed, when he has enjoy the Volkische Beobachter, io gos*ij for a short time, and and has ev a few minutes unwatched. ‘Till he falls asleep. 6 ee TY to thirty-five thousand people live in “German” concen tration camps. People whose poli education surpasses that of the guards several hundred per cen Gradually the laboriously cullivated enmity of the Browns against i “beasts” which they are watchin . . | of wood, every grain of sand must be | rumbles away, Little conversalio: WJZ—760 Ke. |removed. On the wall a Soviet star| begin. Little privileges become. cus- ‘ |has remained from former years;|tomary. In spite of that, there. i still plenty of whistling of clubs and sticks, In such a life, cut off from true reports about the realities of Hitlerism, it is not a simple matter to hold your head high. And yet the “School of Humanity and Labor” for such prisoners as do not leave, it prematurely as invalids or corpses, is a school of higher training for the officials of that army which some day in the not-too-distant future will really bring in humanity and work. ee From “Murder in Camp Hohen- stein and Other Stories,” = Cross current of the 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. ¥. V. J. Jerome Speaks On Austria at John Reed |Club Sunday Evening NEW YORK.—V. J. Jerome, Com-~- munist writer and critic, will speak on “The Armed Revolt of the Aus-~ trian Workers” at the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave, this Stinday evening at 8:30. Socialist workers, intellectuals and students are especially invited to this meeting where a through discussion will take place on the background of — 11,500 innocent people are atoning fcr| the Austrain struggle, the attitude of sins they never committed, but that,|the Socialist leaders and the United |che formerly yusiness man and minor executive, in | he years before the depression man- ‘ged to save enough for down-pay- nents on homes. Many of them were umost paid for or completely paid ‘or when the depression came, and/ 2 great many of these have now lost heir homes, either for non-payment af mortgages or for taxes. The per- zentage of those who los; homes here since the depression is greatest among the upper middle class and well-to-do. Very few workers lost homes because rever owned any. Here, as in the New England in- dustrial center, there has been a Tremendous number of doubling-up by families, relatives and friends in efforts to meet the average rental of $15 to $20 a month or to keep themselves from being evicted. In some extreme cases as in one place here on E. 4th St., flve families, to- talling 19 persons, are living in a “ix_room house. The unskilled worker in this city cwerages $12 to $15 a week—when he S working, and 75 per cent or threr cut of every four workers in thi community, are unskilled. This un “killed labor never worked steadil: over any long period of time an’ ost most of this unsteady work since She depression. Since the depressio ‘t would be @ very conservative esti ‘nate to say that an unskilled worke: ‘vas kept’ busy for six months durin’ he year. But even if that length o° work were granted he would sti’ Average, over the annual period rbout $7.50 a week. they | crawling on the ground like animals or sitting like slaves under the whip, Front policies of the Communist Party. AMUSE MENTS | JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE WR i ‘Thea., 45th St., W. of Bway | OVALE Matinees Thurs. and Bat. EUGENE O'NEIUL’s COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHA‘ GUILD 208,248. Wot Ev.3.20Mats. Thur. 20 MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN BAYES MERIVALE MENKEN | ALVIN bier 52d St., W. of B’way Mats. Thur.&Sat.2:20 ZXEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Villje & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- MONS, Jane FEOMAN, Patricia BO’ WINTER GARDEN, B'way and 50th. & Matinees Thursday and Saturday O MORE LADIES + A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with MELYIN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON TOROSCO Thea., 45th, W. of Bway. Evs. 4:50, Mats. Wed., Thurs. and Sat, at 2:45 Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS in “Her Master’s Voice” |, THE THEATRE GUILD _presents—|) LAST 2 DAYS |“SIMPLE TAILOR” |] A poor Russian Jewish working girl's || struggle between love and need! Her heart draws! Poverty drives! The rich bosses ve = good day, while the poor workers ere being erashed! that moves every worker's heart! Entertaining! Instractive! | Construetive: (English titles) — A SOVIET PRODUCTION — Byecial Added Attraction “LOT IN SODOM” Featurette Extraordinary ACME THEATRE#& S32 RADIO CITY MUSIC BALL—, 50 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation ‘Opens 11:30 A. M, CLARK GABLE and | CLAUDETTE COLBERT in “It Happened One Night” And a great MUSIC HALL STAGE SHOW Bose shechenkdemnrsarti 8 [ 8%° Jefferson Mim 5 & | Now | “Eskimo — Wife Traders”. also:—BRUCE CABOT & MARY BRIAN in “Shadows of Sing Sing” 4 ASE IE imcreased wage called for all. In the days before the| In all this, it must be remembered Thes., W. sth St. Eve. 6.40 Broadway 4 cher novel in “Driving Axle” by tno|“Nana” Now At The Fifth| ‘¢ minimum in the codes, is, code busy mills used to run two 12-| nly those who worked ‘are ooana. | PYMOUEM iis'itony tourna ean PTH Ave. Theatre seh tenet other novel in “Driving Axle, ye ‘A Hehe curse, prohibited, “but it don’t mean | charity hour shifts. They are now allowed | °red. The overwhelming proportior Today Until Seturteg-9 4 ae Soviet writer, V. Tyenkov, to be pul venue thing to have it ead.” Nu- only two eight-hour ones did not work at all and had to live |, Theatre Union's Stirring Play ‘The Sensation of the Cinema! Ushed shortly by International. | Emil Zola’s original masterpie: | -rous complaints made the exhausting on charity, but those who did worl | “AST WEERS THE ANTI-WAR HIT!) ZOLA'S ORIGINAL NV 4 NW 4 The story is built around a loco-| “Nana” which has been transferred t the local Compliance Board, but were unable to earn enough to live MASTERPIECE motive plant which revolutionizes|the screen, is proving one of the mor ve, as in New England, complaints on for the living costs, at a mini- EACE ON EARTH peasant life in the gloomy forest area] successful features at the Fifth Ave.| -¢ ignored. ‘S or painters, for mum, averaged about $13 a week DENNIS KING in of the Urals. Tyenkoy shows. the|Theatre, Broadway and 28th St. T ‘LR.A. enforcement and C.W.A. en- 5 have a union, but when you include gas, light, water |CIVIC REPERTORY Thes,. 14th 8. & 6th Ay, RICHARDofBORDEAUX- stubborn but victorious fight for so-| film which is being shown daily frc- cements are handled by loca] of-|there’s no work for most of them. rent and an occasional stitch of |v, “ase, rss B45. Beye to $y 90 NO cialism in and outside of the factory, |9:30 a.m, to 11 pm. has been attract als—eite-r business men or poli- clothes, 48 Seer TSB, bart Kher ven't worked for two A PLAY BY GORDON DAVIOT _ done ) fF Arrange Theatre Parties for your orgentsa-| EMPIRE Thes., Bway, 40 St. Tel. PE. fon by telephoning WAtkina 2-2664 where class enemies, with allies even |ing crowds daily ‘Ryes, 8:90; Mats. Wed. Thurs, d-%> 9:4 ud y edi cians, and the hook-up and relations (To Be Continued i ai a em