The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1934, Page 7

J z= | CHANGE ——THE — ORLD! By Michael Gold No More Bohemians b ha” are more than 30 John Reed Clubs in America, made up of groups of young workers in the seven arts who reject fascist-capitalism, and dedicate themselves to the building of a new and better proletarian world. Many of these clubs publish their own revolutionary art journals. ‘Ten years ago the young writers and artists of America nursed their poverty and dreams in the attics of Bohemianism. They were not revo- lutionaries. Their little magazines aped the “Yellow Book” of Oscar Wilde or the “Little Review” of Margaret Anderson. They weré all furious art-for-art’s-sakers, who looked down on earth-crawling authors with a passion for social change. I will never forget the haughty young pansy poet who once wrote an essay on Art in which he heroically announced, “T spit on the proletariat!” Today this pansy Napoleon eats his meals at a dinner club which serves free meals to ancient victims of the depression. He, too, is deeply con- cerned with social problems, but is probably a secret adorer of pansy Hitler. Another more rugged poet, addicted to gin and barroom fighting, once stood up in a restaurant and denounced me as a “press agent for the proletariat.” I told him briefly he was a “literary pimp,” and finished my ham and eggs. Today thispoet, a man of real talent, has gone through an amazing transformation of character, and is writing sincere red poetry. ‘There are hundreds of cases like his; it is the story of our time. It is not easy to shake off the fatal curse of that stale bourgeois Bo- hemian‘sm in which we were nurtured. The old “Masses,” of which Max Zastman and Floyd Dell were editors, was the brilliant pioneer of all volutionary art in this country. Even it, too, was touched by the poi- soned vapors of Bohemianism. If you go back through the old files you will be startled by the plush poetry that the languid Max Eastman wrote and was partial to, or the superficial sex-revolt of Floyd Dell (they used to proudly call it “free love”), all of it is incongruous, esthetically or politically, as a pink necktie on a locomotive. Double Entry Bookkeeping 'HERE was a peculiar dogma at the time that an artist or writer ought to keep himself “pure,” that is, proudly ignorant of science, and poli- ties, and the state of the world. He was a kind of priest of art, and even the social-minded artists were somewhat affected by this foolish idea. Max Eastmen’s theory then, as it still is today, was that poetry is a species of higher “enjoyment,” removed from the class struggle and all of the daily life of humanity. With one side of your bin you were a So- ist or I.W.W. sympathizer, but with the other and better lobe, you wrote individualistic poetry, full of self-pity and self-coddling and deli- cate quiverings of the ego, most of it, of course, the bookish regurgitation of your readings in Keats, Oscar Wilde or Baudelaire. Jack Reed and an Esthete REMEMBER an anecdote that illustrates the unreal atmosphere in whic.: these “artists” lived. John Reed, who hed gone through a few apprentice years of his youth in the barrooms and studios of Greenwich Village, had finally shaken off most of that superficial rubbish, He had made his first trip to Russia, had been a spectator at the ten days that shook the world, the Bolshevik revolution, and had come back to America to write his epic book. I was a reporter then on the New York Socialist Daily, “The Call,” and went with his wife, Louise Bryant, to meet Jack at the boat. Jack Reed had been appointed the first Bolshevik Consul to America, an ap- pointment later withdrawn, but this, and other things, had gotten him into the usual difficulties with Washington. Dudley Field Malone, at that time not the embittered. réactionary he is today, was waiting at the Brevoort Hotel in the village, to consult with Jack on various legal aspects of his case. As we entered that old hotel, then a resort of the artists and writers, a beautiful girl saw Jack and greeted him. She was a young actress in the Provincetown theatre. This is what she said to Jack, in her sleepy, exquisite voloe (it was 3 in the afternoon and she was eating her breakfast): “Where have been, Jack? It seems to me I haven't seen you around, lately. (He had been gone for over six months, and his memorable reports had appeared regularly in the Masses and other journals.) “I've been to Russia,” Jack answered, rather coldly, bored by this first reminder of the America he had been glad to forget. “Russia?” she pondered, toying with her coffee cup. “What's going ‘on there?” "A revolution!” Jack said, trying hard to be polite. “A revolution?” murmured the beautiful hop-head. “Was % inter- esting?” Jack snorted impatiently and left without any further explanations. She was an artist and intellectual. She read poetry and afted in art-plays. She was a village loafer, and had love affairs, and talked By candlelight, and spent her days in petty trivial dreams, while outside the greatest event in history split the planet on which she lived. She was typical of most of that generation. The poison generated in those Bo- hemian studios is what finally destroyed such writers as Eugene ONeill, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman, and other lost leaders. To take yourself and your writing away from the life of the masses is to commit suicide. A writer out of contact with the workers actually forgets what it is that motivates the actions of the human race. His writing thins out or turns inward, like a withered plant. You can’t grow an oak tree on a dung heap or in a hothouse. Bohemianism, as has been pointed out by various Marxist critics, was a special form of revolt by declassed intellectuals against capitalism, but it was too futile and irrational a revolt to be ef- fective. It was a retreat, rather than a bold attack. It was a negation, not the affirmation of a new world. And it came to nothing. . ° . No Studio Flowers Tm youns artists and writers in the John Reed Clubs of today are very fortunate to have escaped this wasteful school of Bohemianism. Their little pioneering magazines reflect the fact that their generation is breed- ing a new kind of artist; one who is close to the workers and thelr strug- gle, and is a participant rather than an observer. Life is earnest and absorbing. They have no time to be morbid. A great heroic art and litera- ture must of necessity come out of this new atmosphére. It will be an art of the masses, and for the masses—an art of noon and the stormy street, not a pale, wax studio flower. - College News Active Fighter for Students IF I WERE COMMISSAR Censorship and the watchful eyes | of college administrations prevent school papers from reflecting the changing tides of student opinion on the campuses today, The College! News, New York organ of the National Student League is unaffected by this. In its four pages it holds up a mirror to the student struggles for academic freedom, for economic de- mands and to the campaign for stu- dent unity in these fights, unaffected by the hostile attitude of school ad- ministrations and the blue pencil of | taculuty “advisors.” The leading story in this week's issue is the account of the joint mem- bership meeting of the National Stu- dent League and the Student League for Industrial Democracy held last Friday. Despite the opposition of the leaders of the S.L.I.D,—Meikeljohn, Gomberg and others—the membership voted to carry on a campaign of united action during Anti-War week, April 6-13 to culminate in a one-hour protest strike in all colleges on the 18th. Short, concise editorials sum up the present situation of the students who are facing further retrenchment, are confronted with the rising wave of fascism and war and are slowly moy- ing toward unity of action and or- ganization. 80. JACOB PANKEN, Socialist leader, and rider of scab taxis, would be driven out on a rail. | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934 ATTENTION! | On aad after March 1 the rates for | ads in the “What's On” column will be woek days from Monday to Thursday ae for 3 Unes. Frida: a Bs rT : xe jaturday Ste | £ | Friday } DEBATE between Max Bedacht and Prof. Herman Gray on “Unemployment Insur- ance.” Paradise Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden pices, Br. $21 LW.0. | VICTORY Dance given by Unemployed | Teachers Association, Webster Manor, 125 E lith st, 9 pm. ISRAEL AMTER speaks on “The Unem- ployment Situation and Its Outlook.” Red Spark A. 4 Second Ave, (near 4th Bt.) 8:30 p.m. CARL BRODSKY speaks on “Bourgeoisie Democracy vs Social Revolution,” Brighton Workers Center, 3200 Coney Island Avenue, 8:30 p.m. Auspices, Unit 6 CP. SYMPOSIUM on Proletarian Literature. ‘Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave., 8:45 p.m. Speakers: Alfred Hayes, Helen Kappel, Arthur Pense, Philip Rahy, Edwin Rolfe, Sol Puncroft. “IMPERIALISM,” Open Forum at Ger- man Workers Club, 79 E. 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. Unemployed 10c. HILBERT, one of the Comm. of 13, speaks on “The Recent Taxi Strike and the Role of the T.U.U.C.” American Youth Federation, 328 E. 13th St., 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission 10c. HARRY RAYMOND speaks on “The War Danger.” Astoria Open Forum, 25-20 As- tora Ave. (Crescent Theatre Bldg.). Ad- mission free. BRENDON, lecture on “The Negro People,” im English; Clarte, 304 W. 58th St., 8:30 p.m. Admission free. ROBERT MINOR, lecture “The Struggle Against Fascism and the Struggle for So- cislism,” Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 572 Sutter, Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. DANCE, ‘Entertainment and Refreshments. Crispus Attucks Br. L.S.N.R. 884 Columbus Ave., near 103rd St., 8 p.m. Adm. 15¢, FRED BIEDENKAPP, speaks on “The White Collar Worker ‘as a force in the ‘Trade Union Movement,” 114 W. 14th 8t., 8 p.m. Representative of B. 8. & A. U, in- vited. ‘VAN-VORT, speaks on ‘Seeking a Career Today,” Prog. Community Center, 653 %. 9th St., Brooklyn. JUNE CROLL, lecture on “‘Are Present Events Leading to War?” Harlem Prog. | Youth Center, 1588 Madison Ave. near 104th 8t., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 10c, ROY HARRIS, lecture on “Music and La- bor”—tollowed by discussion. Pierre Degey- ter Club, 5 E. 19th St., 8:15 p.m. ‘M. VETCH, lectures on “Propaganda and Literature,” German Workers Club, 1501— 3rd Ave., between ath and “85th 8ts. SYMPOSIUM “Civil War in Austria,” Prospect Workers Center, 1157 So. Boule~ | vard. Speakers: Anna E. Gray, Alfred Klein, Charles Alexander. HERBERT BENJAMIN, speaks on “‘So- |clal and Unemployment Insurance,” Labor Temple, 14th St. and 2nd Ave. 9:30 p.m. Auspices, Downtown Br. P.8.U. Saturday DANCE and Entertainment, W. 58th St. Contributions 25¢. SPAGHETTI Party, Entertainment, and Dance. German Workers Club, 79 E. 10th St., &nd floor. Contribution 25. JOHN REED CLUB SCHOOL OP ART — Party and Dance. Portrait sketches by prominent artists. Student exhibition; 430 Sixth Ave. Subscription 25c. ANNIVERSARY DANCE, Concert and Ban- quet. Youth Builders Br. 467 T.W.O. 1999 Winthrop St. near E. 92nd St. 8:30 p.m. Subscription 36¢. INSTALLATION—-Dance and Frolic, Harry Simms Youth Br. LW.O., 4046 Broadway, cor, 170th St., 8:30 p.m. Music by Ruthe |emic Syncopaters Refreshments and enter- | tainment. | DEER PARTY and Dance, Red Spark A.C., 64 Second Ave. near 4th St., 8:30 p.m. Good jazz band. CONCERT and Dance, Club, 66 E. Tremont Ave., mont Chorus, E, Nigob, Dancing till dawn. VICTORY Dance given by Laundry Work- ers Industrial Union at Dunbar Palace, 2887 Seventh Ave. Hot music by Noel Marsh and his Dixiana Syncopaters. Adm. 50¢. GALA PARTY given by Unit 12 Y.C.L., Sect. 15; 808 Adee Ave. Apt. 5M. Grand time assured. SOCIAL GET-TOGETHER, program, punch and music. West Side Br. F.8.U., 2642 Broadway, at 100th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 6c. GALA Installation Banquet, netertainment of Alteration Painters Union, 1472 Boston Road, Bronx. Children Balalaika Orchestra, Shafran and others. Boston, Mass. ‘ate at 1029 Tremont St. on Saturday, "Cleveland, Ohio SOVIET FILM showing “Flames on the Volga” on Sat., Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m., Pros« pect Auditorium, 2612 Prospect Ave. Dancing and good music. Adm, 25c, in advance; 35c at door. Auspices, Joint Council of In- dustrial Unions. Pittsburgh CONCERT and Dance, Feb. 2%, 7:30 p.m. at 805 James St. NS., Ike Hawkins, spesker. Chicago, Ill. GRAND Concert and Dance, Peoples Au- ditorium, Sunday, Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m. Aus- Pices, Three Russian Branches LL.D. Tickets 25¢ in advance; 35c at door. Philadelphia, Pa. SECOND Annual Bazasr of the United Mra Org. and ©.P. of West Phila. on and Sunday, Feb. 24 and 25 N. 4st Bt. ee AFFAIR at Workers Cultural and Sports Pee] ae Strawberry Mansion, 2014 N. 32nd ret. LIBRARY Affair, Friday, Feb. 23, Prominent speaker, club chorus, Dra. CHARTER Affair, Sat. 24, 8 p.m. Spaghetti with Nellies Band. DANCE Sunday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m. music, novelty program. Lackawanna, N.Y. TEA PARTY at 138 Steelowana, Sunday, Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. for benefit of Red Press. Auspices, Br. 722 LW.O, , Los Angeles, Cal. ANNUAL Freiheit Masquerade Ball, at Shrine Auditorium, Sat. evening, March 3. Clarte, 304 ‘Tremont Prog. 8:45 P.M. Tre- Dram Group. 8 p.m. Studio, Italian Good WHAT’S ON | Ave., cor. Jerome, 8:45 p.m. Adm. 10c, Aus-| *hroughout the world where the IT DEPENDS ON WHO HOLDS THE GU An Analysis of Editorial Reactions to the Austrian Uprising “The freedom of the press capitalists rule, is the freedom to buy up the papers, the freedom to buy writers, to buy and manufacture public opinion in the interests of the capitalists.”—Lenin. | | gases unemployed workers were shot | down in cold blood in the Ford Hunger March of March 7, 1932, bu' capitalist press headlines announced | that Harry A. Bennett, head of Ford's private stool pigeon crew was struck in the head with a stone and knocked unconscious, According to the capitalist pr editorial credo, when workers beaten or murdered in the class strug: gle, they simply pay the penalty for their folly; when the hired thugs of the bosses are bruised, it is an occa-| sion for lamentation against “vio-| lence.” The New York capitalist press last | week, for example, displayed great| solicitude and sympathy for one of La Guardia’s cops who left his club at home, but showed little concern, | naturally, for Clarence Hathaway who was set upon and murderously slugged by Socialist leaders and their strong- arm squads. : While the Vienna workers—their wives and children were waging an | | heroic battle for the very right to | live, the editorial writers of the | leading capitalist papers in the United States were “deploring their “needless violence.” Not only was the New York press extremely slow in commenting edi- torially on the fascist butchery of the workers and their families, but in almost every instance their edi- torials contained an implicit defense of the'“law and order” of the fas- cists. : ‘Viennese waltzes was the leitmotif of of the “liberal” New York World- Telegram whose editorial on Feb, 15 was headed “Bittersweet Vienna.” This editorial appeared in the same editions which announced that “the Socialist rebellion against the govern- ment of Chancellor Dollfuss col- lapsed in the capital today,” and after hundreds had been slain in the valiant fighting by the Socialist | workers. Mourns Monarchy “The lovely capital of the Haps- | burgs,” said the World-Telegram edi- | torial, “was left to die of economic) starvation after the war, but even in| decline it retained an exquisite au- | tumnal charm. “The city which had known Marcus Aurelius, Richard Coer de Which had been an unsurpassed | world capital for music and medi- cine, which was the symbol for gay romance, still clung to life.” The World-Telegram is wistful about the old days of the monarchy. | “Vienna was not the same. And it could not be without bright uniforms to adorn its palaces, without gold to support its frivolities, without some hard practical reason~'to exist in’ a of conseque! | lic evils after them for years to come | which Lion, Napoleon and Francis Joseph, li | murder By SENDER GARLIN is almost imipossible at “8 ‘distance. Which party or faction’ began the bloody work and led up; to .a train which will. draw pub- initely known.” bune reacted promptly situation— and in way./In its ue of February 13, one day. after he fighting commenced in. Austria, he Herald-Tribune —.under the heading of “Violence ‘in...Vienna,” opened on an urbane, loity note: “It is perhaps premature ‘to-apply the term ‘revolution’ to the-latest ‘po- | litical upheaval in Austrie. - From somewhat conflicting dispatches it appears that the. fightingr-was’ be- | tween Socialists and a combination of government police and;the Heim- wehr. This is not the first:time. that these groups have clashed openly.” Suave, even-tempered, oh so! objec- tive! jobody Knows” The New York , 100, had a cholarly” editorial. And like the Herald-Tribune was primarily con- cerned over the question®:as to whether fascism in Austria—a fore- gone conclusion to them—would be on the Italian or the German fashion. Despite elaborate cable service it carried from Vienna, the 1 announced simply that “nc Vienr utside seems fully is taking _ place. know The Sun may have pretended not to know; but the workers through- out the world certainly knew—as witnessed by the wave of solidarjty strikes in Czechoslovakiay-and the at tremendous demonstrations —_ in scores of countries, inoluding » the United States. , The editorial ends~on 4 iy “whimsical” note, after the fashion of Christopher Morley.’ “This“is one of those family fights,”\“assert the i y, “in which’ there is always 9 temptation for outsiders to interfere; if one yields the: shindy The “Mirror,” owned b; ling patriot and humai liam Randolph Hear: concern over‘ the wanten~slaught of the Austrian workers-by the Doll- fuss government, until. “¢hé"“Jewish angle” gave it an opportiiiiity"to ex- | ploit this issue in a city. wheré more than 25 per cent of the,.population are Jews. “Judaism Faces New.Menace in Dolifuss Fascisti Rule/**the ~Mirror declared on Sunday, Feb...18. “Dolifuss, the am: "Hictator of harrassed . Austria the \editorial read, “is making scapegoats*of Jews. . . If he persists in suchs# policy it will mean the end of.Austria.” Where the indignation against the of hundreds of cworkers— their wives and children—many of them Jews, incidentally? *** . The Journal of Commerce, in its issue of Feb. 14, observed. that..“the situation in Austria has, now, reached such a critical stage, as5,,.to,,.over- shadow all else in the European, po- litical .arena,” * Page Seven | building which was government's howitzers was considered the best planned b Karl Marx Court: it represented the | most intelligent city planning: mbol of a ne’ . And it wa wrote on Austria on the 14 and 17th in his column True to his newspaper Brisbane’s reaction—fir nd fore- n interest” in the provides big,and unr ant news. Hundreds are shot, the| government of the energetic little anti-Communist and anti-Hitler dic- tator, Herr Dollfuss, fighting say-| |agely against the Austrian Socialist | workman's party. ifuss hitherto has been fighting the Ger- political and. next territorial absorp- tion by Germany. “Now cialist the fight is at home. workmen, entrenched in the ‘Karl Marx’ rtment house, in Vi- enna, # huge, four-million-dolla structure, big apartment hous2 iz Europe, are using. machin 1 |hand grenades and gas trian troops.” ‘’s a Swell Yarn” | Brisbane tells the no oh casually, always the cap- unper- turbed: “Late news. tells of. Austrian can- non battering down the big apar house, housing. 2,000 me omen and children, killing many of them.” | No indignation | tions, Brisbane gives his 0. K. to fas- | cism. “Bloody violence in Austria,” he writes, “shows what might have happened in Italy Mussolini had not taken charge with his Black- | shirts and his castor oil, sup- pressing all differences of opinion, No ruffied emo- and in Germany if Hitler had not | seized power, crushing not only conflicting political opinions and all radicalism, , The next ane repo: that “fighting continues in Austria | Spreading to small villages” and then | hastened on to announce that: “John D. Rockefeller, whose illness |has worried his family for some months, has recovered and is on the way to his winter home, accompanied y his son “Those who understand the. wor that Mr, Rockefeller has done for in- dustry, science, health and knowledge | will be glad to learn of his covery, The Socialist workers of Austria with guns in their hands tered the Bolshevik road against fascism, Fear heroic’. and inspiring de ditions,” | | So-| | Serve as an example to the workers of the United States in their own fight against nascent fascism here— this was the dominatin: editorials of the Ameri press “The civilization and justice of | the bourgeois order,” wrote Karl | Marx in discussing the Paris Com- | mune, “comes out in its lurid light | | The workers were certain to-lose— | of that the Journal of Commerce ‘had | no doubt, and, of course; litéle: re- | gret. “The Social-Demoorats,” . the | editorial continued, “harassed by the | activities of the Heimwehr, are fight- | ing with their backs to the wall to} maintain the position which their | party achieved during the. post-war | period, but their cause appears to be | well nigh hopeless since all the forces of the government and of the Heim- | world of stern realities. Yet the ghosts haunted Vienna, lending fra- grance to its lilac bushes and impart- ing leisure to its coffee houses. Freud and Schnitzler remained. The peo- ple’s habits of gentleness and ur-| banity were fixed indelibly. The mood was bittersweet.” Two days previously—on Tuesday —the World-Telegram had lamented that “if ever civil war was needless, that in Austria is the most futile.” § & Fascism, it declared, “is the road to|Wehr are organized against them. destruction.” Fascism, it feared, “is| Easily reconciled to what appears | the road to revolution and war.” to be the inevitable, the Journal of factor in the| an capitalist whenever the slayes and drudges in that order rise against their mas- ters. Then this civilization and jus- tice stand forth as undisguised sav- agery and lawless revenge.” The New York Times, powerful ad- ministration organ, did shed a few dry tears. In an editorial on “The Austrian Crisis” ori Feb. 15, the Times asserted that “no one cart be so callous as not to be shocked by the news from Vienna. Turning | heavy guns loose on great apart- ment houses is something new and terrible in what amounts to a civil war.” 3 How Good Is Your Memory? Publisher Ochs, do you recall, sir, } | the lurid yarns you published in your | Paper way in 1917-18-19, and even later about the Bolshevik | “atrocities’? Do you recwll that | famous little collection of Times “atrocity” stories” on Russia, called “Liberty and the News,” compiled by Walter Lippmann, obscurantist-ex- traordinary of the New York Herald- Tribune, and companion on Medi- terranean cruises of Thomas W. La- mont of J. P. Morgan and Co.? Where is your righteous indigna- tion, New York Times editors? “Turning heavy guns loose on great apartment houses is something new and terrible,” declares the Times. Commerce blandly declares that with the Socialists eliminated, “the chief question will be the form_of Fascism which will prevail in Austria, the German or Italian. Either brand, of course, wotild suit the Journal of Commerce! The “Urbane” Prostitutes The World-Telegram’s.’*‘Wwhitnsical” columnist, Heywood Broun, Said a Austria. “I do not see how anybody can fail to regret the dead and. the What is more, Broun assured’ his ad- mirers—while the Austrian workers were clutching their guns—“fevoiu- tions are not won at the’ bafticades, will tell you.” The epochal struggle of the Aus- trian workers gave Gilbert _Seldes, the Broun counterpart on Hearst's New York Evening Journal, an op- portunity for a “philosoplhic'*. para- graph. 2 “There is a special irony,” Seldes wrote in his syndicated column, “in “Yes, exact fixing of responsibility the actual warfare in- Vienna; the BY JOHN L. SPIVAK CHARLOTTE, N. C.—There is little difference, in propor- tion to the population, between the number of Negroes and whites not working. Though 5 per cent of all industry and busi- ness here are under codes it has left little effect. If there is no work a code does not help. Of Negroes, who are working, about one out of every four, or 25 ver cent, are women. They work in homes, hotels| laundries, etc. Pay of Charlotte Negroes as as a white man. Dey ain’ no dif- frunce in de sizes of de bellies. Ne- groes got big bellies and little bellies— Jes’ like white folks. An’ when we cain’ fill °em we’s hongry an’ when we’s hongry we's hongry!” Cae Sethe YEAR ago three-fourths of all the mills in this area were closed. Now all of them virtually are working day and night in the two shifts allowed them. Very young children are not in eviderc2—at least not in the sev- eral mills I visitéd. There may be some under 16, but if so they got in by presenting sworn statements from their parents that they were of work- ing age. The mills are not particu- larly anxious to hire children now, chiefly because they can get able- bodied men and women to work for the minimum wage and secondly be- cause of the wide condemnation child labor has called forth. The cotton, woolen and hosiery mills here are scattered throughout 1c" a frequently JOHN L. SPIVAK “Te costs a Negro as much to eat the city. Most of them are on the cutskirts. They are solidly built red brick buildings, long and spacious. Inside the mill there is a constant Yoar as the belts turn endlessly. The air is slightly dusty, little white flecks flutter in the sunlight streaming in through the closed windows. The vanes are dusty, covered with a thin, hazy film like soiled snow. The floor is splotched with oil, flakes of cot- ton. The women walk back and forth before the frames, moving rapidly from one side to the other. Tending a long framé of spindles at the far end of the room in oné of the mills I visited was a-bright-eyed youngster, solemnly intéht upon her T alked alongside. “How're things?” I asked “All right,” she said swiftly. Her eyes followed the turning spindles. I had to speak loudly beca of the roar of the belts. “Better since the NRA “Yeah.” “How much do you make?” “Twelve-fifty.” ‘How many hotirs?” ‘Eight. We used to work twelve.” “Less hours and more-.pay,. eh? N.R.A. do that?” 9% “Yeah. But.we got doubled uv.” “What's that?” sand “Doubled up. Stretched gut., We got to do twice as much work. as we used to, got to work faster,-too. So it’s all the same as before, -We-get exactly what we got befoxe.!: “How much was that ®#+s7- “Six dollars a week. NOw we work twice as much s0 we» get‘$12. No difference.” “But you got four hours: extra a day, haven’t you?” Be DE ia “Yeah. But what good's that. I’m too tired to go out .whem-I get through.” FouST The foreman appeared“in-the dis- tance. She became quiet, her. eyes intent upon the endlessiy revolving spindles. * (To Be Continued). TAY, word or two about the struggle in| injured,” Broun observed** casually. And, he added, ‘“They have fallen to such small’ purpose.” |} no matter what the revoltitionaries | work. She was too busy to talk and! f Stripped bare in this lurid light is| |TUNING IN By I. MILLMAN The first to report of a Sunday reception {rom Moscow on the 25-meter band was fomrade P. Meyer of Brooklyn, member of the Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, which recently orgs @ section of the kers Short Wa dio Club, located at 572 Sutter Ave., E He reports t im on the 25-meter band and hea | ternationale being played. | broadcasts every Sun stat y, between 10 and door aerials. As soon as weather condi-| tions permit we will begin experiments with different outdoor aerials, | The following are newly organized! branches of the Workers Short Wave Radio| Club in and outside of New York: A branch 3640 E. 135th St., Cleveland, Ohio. The Downtawn Workers Club at 11 Clinton 8t.| New York City. The Borough'Workers Club, | 4704 18th Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. All work-| ers are called upon -to joln the branch in their neighboriood. | | ‘The Morse code is taught in every b: | of the club. h and are on the air, ate’requested to come to the first meeting of an amateur section| of the Workers Short Wave Radio .Club, which will be held Thursday, March 1, 1934, at the Middle Bronx Workers Club. e of the Workers Short be given by the 14th] St. branch, Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Offico|| Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St. ‘There |be a drawing for a radio set. All work: are invited to help make: this dance a| sucess. | TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS | WEAF 660 Ke. | 7:00 P.M.—Morton Bowe, Tenor 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 1:30—To Be Announced | 1:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch | 8:00—Concert Orch,; Jessica Dragonette, | Sopranc; Male Quartet | 9:00—Lyman Orch.;’ Frank Munn, Tenor;| ‘Muriel’ Wilson, Soprano | 9:30—Maude Adams in Dramatic Sketch—| Peter Pan 10:00—First Nighter—Sketch | 10:30—Stoess Orch. } | 11:00—The Lively Arts—John Erskine, au-| thor 11:15—Martin_. Orch. 11:30—Scottt_ Orch, 12:00—Van Steeden Orch 12:30 4.M.—Kemp Orch WOR—710 Ke 7:00 P.M.—Sports—Stan Lomax 7:18—The Fatal Party—Sketch 0—Sizzlers Trio 7:45—Dramatic Sketch 8:00—To Be Announced 8:15—Jones and Hare, Songs 8:30--Willy Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gevard,| Soprano | 8:45—The Old the “free” press of the United States! | i in Cleveland, Ohio; the address is, J. Galant, | All comrades who are licensed amateurs, | “They Shall Not Die” Dramatizes Scottsboro ectness of all Not | selec sO | that one is both s r ts type | authenticity of the almost entirely omits | by their import. The charai come not only credible, bul that there is no yal” here in the o word: It is thei ttern of events kes living | gives them form of them. Play is Forceful The author does not strain | plausibility; he does not trouble |show that he is “impartial for to and “fair.” He tells his story—or lets tell itseli—and we see that It is impossible to sit be- narrative and scepticaily “melodrama”: it is too ut- | te Straightforward, it is equally difficult to sniff the air and whisper | “propaganda”; it is too forcefully | factual. “They Shall Not Die” is dramatic reporting of the best type. This does not mean that it is flaw- less. The “love-story” of Lucy Wells Ruby Bates), though dramatice ful, is fairly feeble, and much of fi act is sketchy and uncon- vincing, The first weakness is inci- seem to it is true. |fore this murmur dental; the second vital. Wexley dramatic subtleties it still manages | Knows and tells us in the course of |to convey a sense of substantial real- | the play that the victimization of the | Negro boys falsely accused of rape is |mo horrible accident or miscarriage | of justice, but an outgrowth of that jeconomic fear on the part of the southern ruling class in the face of its vast population of Negro worke: | But precisely this connection, though ity. Most of our social dramas either tend to lose themselves somewhat in the playwright'’s personal reac- |tions to his subject that the audi- nee’s emotions always bear a little mere on the playwright than on his jtheme, or they blurt out the facts jof the case so bluntly that they give | inevitably implied all through th |the impression of a crude distortion. | trial scene and directly stated |Wexley’s play falls into neither of |Other places, is very lamely and these categories. His play is docu- mentary: he has taken all the out- vaguely contrived in the beginning of the play. Wexley's knowledge is only conceptual, that is, something | he realizes with his head, jhe does not yet see clea | works itself out in terms of ev a |day lfe, and is therefore unable to I. ymposium on Friday | give it a truly concrete and interect- ing dramatic embodiment. | Work at Tremont Club | NEW YORK.—Five members of ataaarhe 1 (eet a < the John Reed Club will read and a ee hoa ap aan |discuss their own writings at a sym-|,,,.cults., though of another kind |posium of the Tremont Progressive | Most of them relate to the differ ie m i ny | between the spirit of the play lub, 866 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx, | the mind of the producers, but jtonight. Speakers include Alfred} ,_ nf 0 x and Hayes, Helen Kopel. Arthur Pense,|{5,% sublect 80 complex and impor- Sol Funaroff, Edwin Rolfe and Phil pe Pie Rahy. P| other article. The other shortc ri i ing of “They Shall] Not Die s its peelings pane of the Scottsboro | Sanencel A large art of the The- case and with a few transparent rulld and tt ; minor changes has set them before | 27 Guild subscribers and the so called “general public” which makes He | up Broadway “houses,” are simply Betty | Miscast in relation to this play "| will not act as an audience should at Harlan Eugene Read| such an event. They try as hard as possible not to be “taken in”: their | whole idea of “art” is something | that “moves” you without disturbing | you, something that permits you to shed a consoling tear and which one “raves” about and forgets after one | has seen the next big hit. If they take sides, if they should forget too | completely that what they are sce- Child Labor Amendment—¥or- | ing on the stage is truly an image of James A, Reed of Missouri| life and involves a responsibility on jUs in excellent organized scene; Bergman. median ; Rondoliers Quartet Event udio Program jorts—Boake Carter Moonbeams Trio 11:80—Nelson. Oreh, 1200—Lane Orch WJZ—760 Ke | 7:00 P.M 1:15—Don Qu 1:30—George Orch. they Gershwin, Piano; Concert ee Oe Comadfan; Ethel their part, their “artistic” pleasure Fotis SAtaMicaadteish might be spoiled. They do not want ‘Di to be involved: they prefer to sit con- | templatively in their seats and regard Martha Mears, | the spectacle solely as 4 “show.” Such | an attitude, of course, has practically | Nothing to do with art—it is closer aritone; Lucille Man-| to the dead-letter office of the post | office and the dust of forgotten mu- i | seums—and it can kill even so stir- y Man ® Kine—Senator Huey p.| Ting a play as this. Long of Lo 8 | 12:00--Rogers Orch. | However, this is a weakness that 12:30 A.M.—Madriguera Orch. can be remedied. Readers of the x “y - | Daily Worker can become part of WABC—860 Ke the audience for “They Shall Not 7:00 P.M.—t i | Die,” remake it, revitalize it and | transform it into the thrilling theatre Kemper, it essentially is. By a different kind jof echo, and a new kind of answer About Town Trio, they can add to and complete the | play’s significance. They can teach |the Theatre Gutld’s usual audience pin Otek. |and the dramatic reporters that the Jeanie Lang,| World of the theatre is not bounded 7 by Eugene O'Neill on the north and and Johnson, Comedians; S0s-| by romantic masquerades on the s |south. ‘They can teach them that 1s—Sketch 9:00—Leah Songs; Harris Orch. 9:30-—Phil Baker, Comed! Songs; Belasco ; Violet Kem- 7:15—Just Plain Bill 7:30—armbruster Oreh.; Songs Jimmy 9:00—Philadelphia Orch. 9:15—Ruth Ettin Reports | a.m, Eastman, Soprano; Concert| the world of the theatre is not a Arrangements have been made so that the) world of make-believe but part of Moscow station be watched every day in| 11:15—Roswell Sisters, Songs the whole thunderous, passionate, | fhe week. Reports on results will be pub-|11:30—Jones Orch | struggling world in which eestasies nhac | 12:00—Belasco Orch. : ss We are still experimenting with the yer-| 12:30 A.M.—Hepkins Orch. over George M. Cohan and Helen tical and diamond shaped directional in-| 1:00—1 9 Orch, | Hayes play a very tiny role indeed. AMUSEMENTS —THE THEATRE GUILD _presents— JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE Royale vat {8 SW: ot Bway LAST DAY The corti S TMP LE EUGENE O'NEILL’s COMEDY TAILOR 99 AH, WILDERNESS! | A Soviet Production (®glish Titles) Matinees Thurs. and Sat, with GEORGE M. COHAN rT Thes., 524 St., W. of B’way GUIL. Ey.8,20Mats.Thur.&Sat.2:20 || ; See “LOT IN SODOM” MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play |!| Attraction Featurette Extraordina MARY OF SCOTLAND with HELEN PHILIP HELEN < DEO a eee, 5 BAYES MERIVAIE MENKEN OF ALVIN prgstent sats || PALESTINE sopar The NATIVES, Jew & Arab SING; DANCE; DEMONSTRATE; WORK Hear Cantor JOSEPH ROSENBLATT DENNIS KING in RICHARDofBORDEAUX A PLAY BY GORDON DAVIOT EMPIRE Thea., Bway, 40 St. Tel, PE. 6-9541| Eves. 8:20; Mats. Wed., Thurs. & Sat. 2:30 No MORE LADIES A New. Comedy by A. H. Thomas with | MELVIN DOUGLAS LUCILE WATSON MOROSCO Thea., 45th, W. of Bway. Evs. ts; _Wod:, Thurs, and'Bat, sti 24511 ‘50 mt 6 0 Ave.-Shew Place of thoretien Theatre Union's Stirring Play | Opens 11:30 A. M. LAST WEEKS TRE ANTI-WAR HIT! | CLARK GABLE and PE ACE ON E ARTH CLAUDETTE COLBERT in “ toht?” CIVIC REPERTORY Thea,. 14th 8. & 6th Av. It Happetied One Night in “The Dream of My People” ACME THEATRE#ti: ss RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—— WA. 9.7450. Evgs. 8:45. 9 ye to 63.80 NO | AN oe Mats, Wed. & Sat. 0. TAX RKO M40) it. | 4 Arrange Theatre Pa: your organtea- |[ Jefferson Perf * | Now | tion by teleph ‘Atkins 9-2451 | r “Eskimo — Wife Traders” also:—BRUCE CABOT & MARY BRIAN in “Shadows of Sing Sing” ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by | JEROME KERN & OTTO BARRACK | NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 42 St. Evgs. $1 to 8% +! Plus tax, Matinees Wed., Thurs. & Sat. ZJEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE | Willje & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM? MONS. Janc FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B’way and 50th, Evs, 8.30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 ‘