The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 26, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, Page Five Charity,” The Worker Said Angrily BY JOHN L. SPIVAK CHARLOTTE, N. C— ughout my conversati workers here and a jnumber of others with w alked outside mil | Meyerhold’s Sixtieth | Birthday Celebrated Thruout Soviet Union Vienna, February 13-16 By BEN MADDOW | @ shires et “.,. the workers of Linz were highly indignant .. . | MOSCOW.—The Soviet Union has| I was alarmed to hear of this spirit.” just celebrated the 60th birthday of} " i |the great artist of the people, Meyer-| ~OTTO BAUER. hold. Meyerheld is one of the most important and gifted representatives | of the revolutionary art of the Soviet} |theatre. His name is closely bound) oes By Sender Garlin jup with a great epoch in the history | (Batting for Michael Gold) By the pre-revolutionary and the So- — They shrugged their shoulders. “Oh, it helps, sometiz A union is no good if there’s no work.” In all are about 4,000 union nin C About 5 per the total colored. 1 CHANGE | Against the black horsemien of the millionaires the workmen of Eur woke their corroded guns. Spain: the red flag like an early flo’ Paris the hired bullets stunned on barri Tn Steyr, Vienna, Linz with rifles locked the: housebreakers of fascism; homes into tr the christian Dollfuss cursed with gas and steel viet theatres. His activities have been| of paramount influence in the so-| cialist reorganization of the theatre. IN Toronto this morning begins the trial of A. E. Smith, secretary of |Meyerhold combatted political neu-| the Canadian Labor Defense League, who is faced with the usual charge eee a Hoe gp stigen treme Hen : % atre, h 2 os 2 ject | [ eieiamean rem oiled oie of “sedition.” Leo Gallagher, fiery, gray-haired 1.L.D. lawyer from Los An- | otter for theatrical art adapted to| Class brothers! hebben tad A si a ee aid eles was due in court this morning to aid in Smith's defense. But as We (he call of the hour. He placed the! blood to yours in union; with “Down Dolifuss } vent to press last night word arrived that the Canadian authorities had | theatre in the service of the proleta-| obstucted traffic and the rant shops; varred him at the border. rian revolution. During the 30 years oe and up the citadel of learning giant cops ‘ of his activities as theatre manager sm: anti-fascist head Bight leaders of the Canadian Communist Party are already serving |ytovernold has maintained a resolute | Ce ee sds ong prison terms, and the bosses there apparently think they can solve jstruggle against the traditions and) sees oe whee sil ened 2 x he economic crisis by jailing all militant working class fighters. rigidity of the theatre, and for new) o mi ef * e ae Gallagher has just returned from Germany. He got off the boat in |forms of theatrical art and produc- we stood the charges of O'Ryan’s army York last Thursday and two days later was on his way to Toronto. tion. Meyerhold has educated a| three times; three times reformed eae aback eh Germany to defend Georgi Dimitroff and the whole generation of new actors. The) and triumphed hoarsely in the iron cold i anniversary of his birthday is a fes-| other framed Communist defendants in the Reichstag fire trial. Although | tiv) for the whole Soviet these, | Not Just a Lawyer rong here, even with urances that. collective approved ous that beyond the own troubles they were at sea; and 0 far as their own troubles were con~ ar] were swamped. They ud women who were entering iy at they were starving a beneficient government 25 pouring money into the city | which was giving some of them 6 | little food even though it was redue- | ing the price of-laber. juting 2 little wor! jend charity. The; ‘ he had a written retainer from Dimitroff as well as from Dimitroff’s mother and sister, Gallagher was not permitted to participate in the de~ iense. Describes Arrest T is more, because he joined in a protest to the cowt against the brutal mistreatment of the defendants while in the jail (they had been shackled for five months), Gallagher was ordered deported from Germany as “an enemy of the state.” He described to me how he was suddenly awakened at 7 o'clock one norning and taken to the headquarters of the Berlin Secret Police, where for four hours he was grilled on various matters. After further question- ng, Gallagher, who pfeviously had been barred from attending the latter part of the Reichstag trial, was told that there were no charges against him, Instead of being released, however, he was handed over to the Berlin Polizei-Praesidium, where he was told without any questions or explana- ion, that he must leave Nazi Germany bead ae days. ° * 1 Met Him in California courtroom REMEMBER the day I first met Leo Gallagher. It was in tne in Long Beach, California, in the spring of 1932. Lieutenant “Red’ in countries It wil Hynes of the notorious Red Squad of Los Angeles had raided a lecture hall zy are dealt with in an where Sam Darcy, district organizer of the Communist Party, was giving a talk on the crisis, More than 100 workers were arrested, and about 45 were facing trial at the time on the charge of “attempting to commit | mass |Article on Coughlin | | by Marguerite Young Is New Masses Feature NEW YORK. — “Heaven’s Blue) Eagle of the New Deal,” Charles Edward Coughlin, and his role as @ “money expert” and supporter and |Prop of the Fascist-headed Commit- |tee for the Nation, are revealingly analyzed in a powerful article on Coughlin written by Marguerite | Young in the current issue of the} New Masses. Coughlin’s circus - like ballyhoo! methods, his “business organization,” {his service through his radio and | other activities to the capitalist, ruling powers are graphically set forth in this sharp word-etching of the “Radio Priest.” Nazi activities in numerous Euro- article by Albert Allen on “Nazi Plague Spots of Europe.” Stanley Burnshaw writes of the successful pressure campaign which we forced magnificent quiet. Socialists! Workmen! formed frozen and invincible Friday we struck. On the gears of the metal shops 3 P.M. The needle ceased The dicks were mobilized. Our march displeased the nephews in America of Blum and Bauer. Nervous and sleek the socialist chairman had the dear privilege and pleasure to invite LaGuardia who punctured the taxi strike and Woll the supersalesman of reaction, } champion of treacheries; the fat scabs { whom workers hooted in discourteous anger. Whose the provocation? | The anti-fascist front that Wednesday bitterly between the lions cannot on Friday under the crack of chairs split in confusion. Our house it is, and flag and the first matter of our barricade, The Revolutionary Presa In Sing Sing | | link in evolution. | 15th Street, announces the form: | Craw |seemed There were eight workers in, the | group when I asked this. During. the | other part ef our conversation most |of the answers had been supplied by two or three of them, with the others | nodding their heads in agreement. | ‘No, sir!” they all exclaimed ex- citedly. “War ain't never helped | nothin’. Maybe things might pick up & bit for a while but it would be ] much worse after the war ended. Ali Es i | war does is destroy—destroys every-~ N L. SPIVAK | thing, including our best blodd and JOHN Ie SPIVAN | carr beat ‘peofile.. Bb, ait “TRAE ain't Announces Formation | no answer to no problem—killin’ off is how 100 per cent) my sons and your sons and raising Wt maaee Of Training Studio mericans, whose ancestors settled | nett with everything. No, sir,’ that NEW YORK. Theatre Col. |2%4 multivated this land, a. pass j sin't no answer.” s lective with headquarters at 62 West| Worked all their lives to build this! rie genuine hatred ait f€it of Jou] Sate, Bro RENE $0 wih Bast Sicien, | War in their hearts was the. only of a studio for the development of |2"4 take charity which i alone = | 288 of extreme pession that T found actors, directors, scene designers and|° Keep one man alive let alone @ | 1 this ‘representative group.” And playwrights for the professional rev-| “Hole family. they had this feeling in common with olutionary theatre. A special stu Then, for the first time, they Te-| the Secretary of the Chamber of will be devoted to the training of led with a touch of spirit. ,| Commerce, who, booster and profes- smbers of Theatre of Action groups.) “We don’t like charity,” ome seid| sional optimist that he is, fooked The director of the Theatre Col-\2ngvily. “We don't want charity.) achast when I asked him the same lective. Studio will be Virginia Far-|That’s why we work for nothing now. } question. The faculty of the studio will) When a man necded @ worker and) “Partner, war never has done any de Morris Garnovsky, Cheryl|:he worker asked for fifty c 20| good,” he said feelingly. “I’ve got d, Lewis Leverett, John man ed the tion | children and I don’t want ‘to see —By Gropper JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER would be put in the Museum of Natural History to illustrate the missing |‘izown and hope for th best. They seeme: ed to re-§ eincharity i a Suggested by C. Sparks, who gets the original. to the Theatre Collective a 5 | Bonn and others to be announced. Y 1d supply 2 worker ' them blown to hell because of an in- criminal syndicalism” as well as “unlawful assemblage,” both heinous |forced the admission to Sing Sing ipa delegation of nine, including {der if they were permitted to see] John E. Bonn, mer: of the Presi-|“or fifty cents a day.” | dustziel mess we're in or because of crimes in sunny California. I was covering the trial. of labor publications, including the| “ierre Loving, Henry Hart, writers; | them. dium of- the In Gallagher, an I. L. D. attorney, and at the time a professor in the law school of Southwestern University in Los Angeles (he was later dis- by ‘Warden Lawes. missed) was reading to the judge and jury from Lenin’s “State and Revo- |New Masses and the Labor Defen- \der,, arbitrarily barred heretofore “War on the Railway Unions,” by Taxweil Hyde, architect; Alfred H. lirsch, Allan Taub and two othe: mmembers of the National Commit- ‘se for the Defense of Political €o incitement and inflammability| were more or less the basis of the| cen: hip? Again no defin: swer. At this point the W: read | national Union of| His words rolled forth angrily in | foreign trade er investments——” in} steady stream. His eyes flashed and} He talked on in the same? vein. the others modded their heads in|When he was selling Charlotte and reement. jindustry he could t-Ik until you got Revolu' eatres will be charge of a studio for collective pro- duction methods. 5 e n d + | “They're using charity organiza-| the jitters with his incessant, parrot- . meant by “criminal Prisoners; Stanley Burnshaw, an | to us from a letter which stated that ies . . a 5 7 suppl he: r and like spit werything was jake, every- tution” to show just what the California capitalists of he trial James Steele, summarizes the editor of the “New Masses,” and | the International Publishers Study Siqueiros incorrectly pssaelgeoby, = ob pay lex sii bear Sous rosey; things were eka syndicalism.” The judge must have gotten interested, for when the trial |present ferment among railroad jasha Small, editor of the “Labo | Courses could not be permitted into down our wages. They gave workers | ; ertesiting was over “State and Revolution” was missing from the table where the |workers which is fast coming to a “exhibits” had been piled up; there was a strong suspicion in political circles that the judge had swiped the book. : Sam Darcy, the Party organizer, later took the witness stand, and for nearly a week he conducted a sort of a seminar on Marxism-Leninism. |torship of the proletariat. “Where did we leave off, Mr. Darcy?” the judge would ask the youthful | crisis. An advance chapter from a forthcoming book on Lenin by R. Palme Dutt presents a brief expo- ‘sition of Lenin’s view on the dicta- Other features of the current is- efender,” called on Warden Le 2, Lawes at Sing Sing on Feb. 15 ‘o protest the barring of the “Labor Defender” and other working class ~ublications. The following teils of their experience,—Editor's Noite, another prison because they were| tbversive and tended te make en mies of the government out of the inmates of that prison. And pictures were particularly su | gestive. “Everybody can understand Announced as Speaker |wno are placed by charity organiza- | up—but when it got down tohome > \tions $1.50 a month im ¢ash and the |}to himself and his children: there st in scrip tickets to get food and; Could be no doubting the deep: and it was anmounced that David Siqu- tell them where to spend it, in what | honest objections he had to warias a eiros, noted Mexicon mural painter, | store, _ |Mmeans of bringing the country. back ould be one of the speakers at the | qe], we don't want charity. We | ©, Prosperity. sympc.igm of the Film and Photo | It’s a God damn shame.|, “If that's the only way we can get Thru an error in Saturday’s paper me ‘ va york. | . «9 | pictures,” said the Warden. At this| Leacue on Sa = fi Pte as it ypibe rom | back to prosperity then let's give the energetic Communist organizer, following a luncheon recess, Daroy would {que of the New Masses include an} By SASHA SMALL j point Father McCaffery couldn't| sue on Saturday evening. Mec ne enndeay it Bites 2° | country back to the Indians,” he ex. turn over the leaves of “Wage, Labor and Capital” and say, “I was ex- editorial revealing the betrayal of }stand it any more and blustered:| \o if hoa daees Prsissar proces ‘them. | U#imed excitedly. “Let it go to hell, f surplus value and of capitalist accumulation.” ‘Then {the workers’ cause by Dr. Otto] Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing| “I don't know what all the shoot. saps Sonata baat adnceme ais ;| if thet’s the only way—” plaining the nature of surplus by Bauer, Austrian Social - Democratic| 3ing has the reputation of being the | in’s about. I let Lenin the pro- ING Ten salking Grom eavienee. TENE |" es aa ie ons saat e Darcy would proceed to explain patiently @ specific problem raised PY joader vital book reviews and care most liberal of prison wardens in this | souncea it, Leon ol aba nants 4 G IN ane families iheré that have beet.Pay- | shor and the Cha ice com oe Marx, himself giving familiar illustrations on just how capitalists acquire | toons" by Jacob Burek, Wilinn sa tla i eset psa a " ” fiing taxes dor 150 years to the state | oy ae surplus value in Southern California, for example. And even as Darcy was speaking, one could see, anchored in the Long Beach harbor, warships of the Atlantic Fleet which a few weeks previously had been ordered to the Pacific Coast as a result of developments in the Far East. jours and others. —— Stage and Screen country, And doesn’t he know it! He announced it to us in the first sen- tences he spoke and his cringing as- uistants, the Reverend Fathers Mec- Oaffery, Peterson Katz and Dr. Baker eminded him of it in every sen- figured you'd have to be up to a cer- tain grade of intelligence to under- stand him.” + 8.6 | PINALLY, when the Warden, press- }* ed hard for the autority which spokesman had in common. (To Be Continued) and now can’t get work here. They} bring wo: in from other states | vyhen there’s a job to be Gone because hey can get them cheaper than even jus. TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS | Workers Music Leagues Because at least one or two of the jury held out for conviction—for | biped oe Sie Miecation Ge pelts steers Fight eben gi “Billy” Betchelor “shel PPL pp perce? 5 acces j Arrange Demonstrations a ction— : i , Or- | ship, began looking into books of) 7:30—Sniriey ngs; Jesters Txiolon whole jol as ani tc i ¢ oy veasons quite familiar when the district attorney’s office goes into a ra |: Ragged an. Tonite :\7724 by the National Committee | ue, ret” yes nto. oaks of s * Txiolon the whole job. "That's because we Against, War and Fascism the trial resulted in a “hung” jury. The defendants were never re-' Ae pens Tonite ;| oy the Defense of Political Prenaee,| but several of the foreign-born workers were later deported as a result of | Sidney Howard’s Play “Yel- was the barring from Sing Sing of working class publications, particu- | (whch he couldn’, find because it) isn’t there), the conversation was} wanted a union scale for bricslaying, | etropolitan Opera! 7arpenter , work—-and they brought | NEW YORK.—The first Interna- men in from. outside, from other | tional Music Demonstration ‘inst \ a ihe ‘federal government. | : sined over to the mental and spir- | _ EAS Sa i'n - wit ge | Bon: emonstr aga: he activities of t! i go ‘ # \low Jack” Thursday at Beck|'sry en tae legend pee oe itual guardians. “Dr. Baker, the psy| ain Hugh Bar| 2 pe sole We tried ga on it = erry eter! Sten, oo rie Shel coe | jan e International Labor De-| -niatrist, was di ether he poi abate EAU na | " » i “Those Terrible Reds” \“Ragged Army” etc. — Head 10 pt.—|‘ense, and the New Masses. We went Peay pe ect — oe e Be one oo-—Rest awn Orch.; Lullaby Lady; e the general public it te ‘news- | under the auspices of the Interna- “Ragged Army,” by Beulah Marie|up to find out why they had been re he faci “DED” HYNES, the Red Squad chief, whose office was in the Chamber of Commerce building in Los Angeles, was certainly a brilliant witness against the defense. “What are some of the things these people are agin?” the district attorney asked him caressingly. “Well, for one thing, they’re against god” (which, of course, had nothing to do with the charges). The judge, who incidentally, was a little annoyed by the entire pro- veedings because the Red Squad of Los Angeles had muscled in on the legitimate slugging activities of the Long Beach police and other local authorities, looked a little puzzled. “Look here, Mr. Hynes, one of these defendants testified yesterday that he didn’t believe in God, How can they be agin something they don’t believe in?” The district, attorney was relentless, however, “What are some of the things these defendants do believe in, Lieut. Hynes?” ;Dix and Betram Millhauser, a story of a New England family, will have its delayed opening this evening at the Selwyn Theatre. Lloyd Nolan, Lee Baker, Thomas Chalmers, Irby Mar- shall, Johnny Downs and Emily Lowry head the cast. “When In Rome,” by Austin J. Ma- jor, a satirical play dealing with an- cient Rome, will open on ‘Tuesday (evening at the Forty-ninth Strect |Theatre. The cast is headed by Ken- neth Daigneau and Louise Latimer. “Yellow Jack,” a new play by Sid- ney Howard, will have its premiere on Thursday night at the Martin Beck Theatre. The play is based on a chan-| ter in Paul de Kruif’s book “Microbe: Hunters.” The large cast includes ‘arred. to demand that they be ad- mitted and to announce to Warden Lawes that this was part of a na- donal campaign being launched by the LL.D. for the recognition of the status of political prisoners in this country, as well as the securing for them those special privileges due to rolitical prisoners. ‘The warden was expecting us at 2 am, After the male members of the delegation were searched by armed guards we were ushered into the spa~ cious, sunny office of the warden, You van see all parts of the prison from sts high windows—even the thick wall with the armed guards on top of it, There’s a marvelously soft rug on the floor and the walls are coy- oners—men in jail because of certain principles and convictions they had —did not require a different attitude and treatment than other prisoners | The doctor immediately echoed War- | cen Lawes by stating thet there were All the men behind those high wails} were there for offer against the| penal law and th: ore they were & rot political prisoner: | Suppose he did heve political pris- oners. ed. But he didn’t have, he plead- “Is Tom Mooney a political pris. | 6?” he asked: The doctor's! in thought. “Tom! Mooney?” he repeaied, the tone of! wing clearly that he} no political prisoners in Sing Sing.| “apers won't publish | tional Music Bureau during February He talked on angrily, emphasizing t he himself had been unable to) vet a jeb, The others felt the same | way . They constantly reverted to heir own particular t 10:30-—N.R.A Future Richberg, General Co 11:08 i and early March in all countries which have Workers Music Leagues affiliated with the International Music Bureau. Professional, amate' | bourgeois and worker-musiicans «will participate on a united front. basis, in this demonstration, which..will be held in the United States, England France, Germany, China, Japan, the U.S. S. R. as well as other countries The Workers Music League of New York, which is the U.S. Section of the International Music Bureau, wil! | hold its international music. demon- stration on Sunday evening, March 4, at the Civic Repertory Theatre. Composers, chorus conductors, work- | ers choruses and well ‘known...mu- Siciams will speak and :perform-new 11:16—Weer 11:39-—Liue Ore Orch. 7:06 P, Olsa Albini Baritone Sopranc haven't got the numbers. People ‘aid to belong to a union- 10:1 10: cred with autographed pictures of W Meh. ; American and Soviet proletarian Hynes replied quick as flash, victory blazing in his eyes: [Mathering Wilson, John Milter, Vervhocly from President ‘Roosevelt th olly bows to the warden's poet . {| songs and compositions. Tickets “Why, they believe in community kitchens.” eoarey Rem: Barton MacLane, Rob-linq al Smith to a prize fighter or ‘S vorker in 2| JL—~T60 K : 12nd Zarieer tntotadisas Gay sas o> iy, they Rede y i 7% ert Keith, Whitford Kane and George wo, flyer thee be Rik Ls tact WIJZ—T160 Ke. «> Ehen what have you got # union | tained at the Workers Music League, ; Nas. Chairs were arranged in a wide| shop. And the boss was detezmined| 20! ¥, M-—Amos 'n’ andy ee J ee ¥ Aided Mooney Earle Larrimore, who played in| emi-circle arcund the warden’s desk. fa OME time later, in the midst of his campaign for Judge of the Municipal Court on a United Workers’ ticket, Gallagher left for San Francisco to d the fight for a new trial for Tom Mooney. Gallagher ran against Thurmond Clarke, whose ire he had frequentiy aroused by his militant defense of the “Mooney Runners” who had staged D PRay eae a. | pe’, Mathers looked ef each. other AH Ww I L D> N that ieniring andl abectactlad rua st the Tas Angelos Olvanplos batons moe | “Linda om Mhureday | ating wer gee usr ia | eee eee eee | cian canes, Ganiaes ’ ERNESS! | than 100,000 spectators. Although Gallagher was in San Francisco in he tk Sing Yes, of course, there was | core. “I suprose you'll want them to 3 f 2 with GEORGEIM. COHAN ° connection with the Mooney trial during the entire period of the cam- rei pc vegan gee censorship. Who was the censo-?] et special privileges because they're : Hi Deering, Plano paign, he polled 69,273 yotes, The “trial” came off, but the California bosses, aided by the sniveling and apologetic tactics of Frank P, Walsh, who was ostensibly one of Mooney’s counsel, succeeded in smothering any attempt on Mooney’s part to expose the whole hideous frame-up against him, and hustled him back gk this evening with Fleischer and Lor- . rahi "0 fi sea us oe with HELEN PHILIP ‘REUEN - his cell in San Quentin prison. th sorship, all of which broug! P. M.—Myrt and Marge H Ei MERIV ALE és Gallagher mate si attack on California irame-up “justice” and wee ; tt pit = ser gat eee T was the basis for censorship? no sutinfactory. esponee. "Wwe had i ve dat! ay Bil_sreleh Hecipers| AYES MERI MENKEN 3 F: wit rona an mson;| Wo Agai, S - | brought with us six daily New Y. 7:30—Armbruster ; y | ‘4 Tv TRE 4 St. West of Broadway. Evenings #380 t n thre i om (1 * ‘ gain we were treated to a ram- | vrcught us six ly y. he judge even ti eatened to hold ae in contempt of court, Traviata,” Thursday evening with] ying, description of the problems | 2ewspapers, all of which earried pi Boeke Carter | ALVI HEATRE Matinees Thursiay snd Sateréay A Fighting Lawyer Gee is the kind of battling lawyer who has not been immune from physics’ attacks from the “Red Squad.” He once appeared before the City Council in Los Angeles with several hundred workers to protest a raid on the Hollywood John Reed Club headquarters—when a large number of valuable murals were wantonly destroyed—and he was set upon by six members of Hynes’ squad and severely beaten. On another occasion he had come to the Los Angeles County Grand Jury to denounce the police for co-operating in the tarring and feathering of Ed. Lacey, a worker, after he had taken part in a discussion at an open forum in Leng Beach, “If we had some tar and feathers, we'd give you a dose of it right here,” shouted Hutton, the foreman of the Grand Jury, a leader in the (By a Worker Correspondent) WARREN, R, I—"Cold as hell, isn’t iv?” Sure is!,” said Hiram. Hiram has @ hut on the water front and makes a living digging clams, fiishing, ete, “What have you been doing, trying to get clams this cold morning?” “Yes, but I’m nearly frozen stiff.” 1 said He invites me into his littie hut. rhere is a hot fire in a little stove. Before it sis Hiram’s boy, Frank, He i ‘ind these camoufiages and will de- s reading @ book. “Hello Frank!”| “Oh, how I'd like to see that great) iave been brilliant and invisive, ‘fe priests in the New Macses (spe-| rand recognition for political pris. land, Me. THEATRES, “Hello Jack.” Why aren't you injemancipator of the Russian people,” 4 ely yours, cifically mentioned Warder | -ners as such for these victims of the TOM Pi Ss pdoo RST is having <—_ is : school today?” “Oh,” says his father, | he replies. SOSHUA KUNITZ, |Lawes) might incite them 19 mur- L Sto~ son cee—, \whist party, 82 Union St., Tuesday, Feb. 27. a SER SEN eat alae so I let him quit.” “What are you reading Frank?” He! hands me the book. I gasp with as- tonishment! The book is Lenin’s Ma- terialism and Empiric-Criticism. The boy looks at me. “Ever read that book Jack?” “I tried to read it,| “Yes, it surely is stiff reading,” says the boy. “Wasn’t Lenin a profound! and powerful thinker, Jack? Tell me. Jack: did you see Lenin’s body when! you ‘were in Moscow?” “Yes, I did- Frankie.” “Days Without End,” which closed on: |Saturday, will have an important role lin ‘Races,” the anti-Hitler play which |the Theatre Guild will produre. ounix” at a special matinee on Thurs- day afternoon with a east headed by Mme. Pons, Swarthout and Messrs, Crooks and De Luca. Oother operas of the week are: “Die Meistersin-er,” Bori and Jasel; “Siegfried,” Friday afternoon with Leider and Melehior; “Lucia,” Saturday afterncon with |Pens and Martini and “Faust” on Saturday night with Fleischer and Crooks. Fay Ferguson, pianist, will give her recital tomorrow night at Town Hall, Helen Oelheim, contralto, will ap- pear in recital at Town Hall on “Wed- nesday evening. Joshua Kunitz Praises’ Friday’s Feature Page Editor of Daily Worker, in 2 long time, It was informative as well as highly. readable. I liked espe cally Mike Gcld’s column “No More Bohemians” and Harold Edgar's ex- Metropolitan Opera To Revive] "st At one end of the room were seated the “spiritual” and mental guardians of the inmates of Sing Sing. A Cath- dlic priest, a Protestant chaplain, a Jewish rabbi and a sleepy psychia- Well, the buck was passed from the New York State Board of Education to the Commissioner of Prisons, ‘to Father McCaffery to the Warden and back to the rules of correction without a definite answer, * , * facing the keepers of such a large institution; 2,500 prisoners of so many types, ages, grades of intelli- gence, “I am the father of these men,” Warden Lawes told us, and shen pleadingly, “Men in prison must ‘ase some of their rights.” i Books 9 the prison library? There 's a list, you see, provided by the State Boo:d of Education. When you ‘want to bvy books for the library you submit your budget and the titles to this board. Who made up this list 1nd how old is it? Much ramblin: conversation brought out the fac thet the list was originally made up by the National Denfense Committee ‘ry day? They don’t appear on the ist so Father McCaffery reads them What is the basis for his censorship? The Father, who is a very fat youn~ aan, turned very red and said a gooc cellent review of John Wexley's Scottsboro play, “They Shall Not Die,” which I consider the best review in ony New York paper, Sender Garlin’s article on Austria was a very fine analysis of the cap- italist press reaction to the situation. Permit me to say that the Daily Worker is improving all along the line. ‘The editorials on Austria particularly “any words that meant nothing. Magazine; and ner‘odicals do not appear on this list. Who and what letermines whether or not the pris- ‘ners may receive them? Agair nany words and much eyasior sprinkled with case studies of pris- cners who are of such low mentality “nd hich tencion that a picture lik- Adolph Dehn’s caricatures of Catho- © Keep the union out. This struggle developed on beth sides and finally) in an open fight the worker shot. the| boss. Is that man a political pris- omer?” ) “Certainly!” political prisoners?’ “Of course we do.” The rest of the interview was oceu- sed with a cross fire ef questions cond answers about pictures and what. nictures would be permitted to pass) “ures of New York's finest slugging workers in front of the Austrian Em- bassy during the demonstration last Wednesday. Since the objection to che Labor Defender had been “ex- aggerated pictures of police brutality” uld the warden bar these papers? ‘But the Labor Defender is no longer barred,” answered the warden. It will still, howeyer, be censored 2§ will all other publications that en- ter Sing Sing. And the prisoners who receive them will not be permitted to pags them around. “Everybedy can understand pictures.” 5 ‘ons will yisit other prisons through- “ut the country where there are po- itical prisoners. The working class i- lot such a stickler for definitions a: s the Iberal Warden Lawes, We ‘mow that Weinstein and Soderber> ‘n Sing Sing, the Scottsboro boys ir \labama, Tom Mooney and McNa- mara in San Quentin, Ray Becker in Walla Walla and hundreds of other: we political prisoners. Workers arc rot fooled by flulky charges! Dis- urbing the peace, rape, dynamiting ‘locking traffic. Workers can see be- 0 ENDED the interview with war-|~ i Plano; Concert Orch 1:§5—Kraeuter Quartet 8:00—Morin Songs; King's Jesters; THE THEATRE GUITD Presents EUGENE O'NEILL'S COMEDY Concer: B2nd St., West of Broadway. Evenings ” GUILD THEATRE iiss meee eT ees . MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play | MARY OF SCOTL ineers ma, Songs ny Prome, Tenor Harris Orch, 12:00—Polleck Orch, WABC—860 Ke. we AND 8:00-—-Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; || Vivien Rath, Songs 8:15—News—Bi in C. Hill i 8:30—Bing Crosby, Songs; Arnheim Orcu.; Mills Brothers, Songs F 9:00--Philadelphig Studio Orch. $:16—Charies Gerlile, Tenor { ' 45th St, tasGertnade Rela, Songs; Jones omni ROYALE THEATRE sa%. Emfie -Boreo, Comedian; Dramatic! ic Gketch, with. Besil Sidney @nd Mary} os ees ‘ZIEGFELD FOLLIES 10:00—Wayne King Orch. 10:30—Connie Gates, Songs: | with FANNIE BRICE Songs |Willje & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett stM- 11:00—The Child. Labor Amendment—Senator mone. Teno PBROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. Arthur Capper of Kansas; Senator Ed-) wINTER GARDEN, B'way end 50th. Evs, £36 ward P. Costigan of Colorado | Matinees yy and Saturday 2:20 11:15-—Newa Reports Roland YOUNG and Laura HOPE CREWS in 40HN WEXLEY’S NEW PLAY THEY SHALL NOT DIEc_ ¥. of “Thurs. . Eves, 20 50 St 8 Ave.—Show Face of tp pens 11:30 A.M.” CLARK GABLE and’ Eton Boys, CLAUDETTE COLBERT in a er Master's Voice” | 4 > ems mone mea See, a a areas aap gg OO oe oe ok on oe (gh ee ae ee) weeiy’s ON | Plymouth ";,"5s0stin's sat | ° Jefferson 1 8. * | Now STUDYING LENIN ie Speen uct on. ea tearnin’|FEGaY Was, I believe, one of the best 200ks that come out every week, ev-|~recedent of victory other delega- | pans) <CONVE! Nr TON CIE Added Feature:—“BELOVED” JOUN BOLES & GLORIA STU: 11:30-—Davis Oreh. 00—Belasca. Orch. CHARLOTTE TODES on “NRA.” at La- - OF yor Temple, 14th St. at Ind Ave. Room 32,| TODAY 3:30 p.n, Ausplees, Neckwear Workers So- efal Chub. The NATIVES DRAMATIC GROUP rebearsal at Ameri- Tio aad Ak Youth Federation, 9 p.m., 923 E. 18th’ aaah Sing; Dance; Demonstrate; Work HEAR CANTOR ROSENBLATT in “THE DREAM OF MY PEOPLE” SPECIAL ADDED FEATURE “LOT IN SODOM ALTERATION PAINTERS Union of Browns- ville have reopened headquarters at 1440 East New York Ave., Brooklyn. FIRST OF SERIES of six lectures on “His- tory of the Soviet Union, its background, ‘eval tion and <cetalist construetion,” by: ‘Theodore Bayer, 947 Willoughby Ave,, Brook- lyn, 8:30 Auspices Williamsburgh «Ive class struggle, ot PD, branch ¥.8.U. Admission free. Featurette Extraordinary