The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE ——-THE ‘WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN NE Sunday morning, last April, I got off the train in ’ Atlanta, Georgia. I had come from Decatur, Ala., where, a few days previously, Heywood Patterson had been sen- tenced to die in the electric chair by the “fair-minded” Judge James H. Horton. In the Fulton Towers Prison-in Atlanta was another Negro youth, convicted on an old pre-War Civil law passed t6 prevent slave insurrections, He faces an 18-20 year term om the Georgia chain gang. He is Angelo Herndon: His “crime” consisted in leading in the fight for relief for the unemployed of Atlanta, Knowing how cool prison wardens are to representatives of the workers’ press, I first went to the home of Ben Davis, Jr., the courage- ous Negro lawyer, who with his partner, John Geer, had defended Angelo Herndon and were carrying on the fight for his release. It was Davis and Geer who first cut out the path followed in the Scottsboro fight. For it was they who boldly and for the first time in the deep South put forward the demand of the International Labor Defense for Negroes on the jury, bringing to the fore at the same time the whole issue of Negro oppression and thie violation of the rights “guaranteed” the Negro masses by the Constitution of the United States. * . Inside the Prison. Ww SPENT about 40 minutes with Herndon, a 20-year old boy, who started life as a coal miner at the age of 13. Although kept in whet’ was virtually a death cell for almost six months, Herndon’s spirit breathed fire and enthusiasm for our movement. Whenever’ I have i ~ 1" I have always gone away inspired by the ae nee soe by these workers—isolated as they are from the physical currents of the class struggle. Herndon asked about the Scottsboro case, the tactios of the de- fense, the reactions of the workers outside. He asked about Tom Mooney, about the progress of the unemployed movement. He pleaded for books to read (he is given no work in prison), and when I left he eagerly took the magazines and newspapers which were sticking out of my pockets. “You may do what you will to Angelo Herndon,” the Negro organizer had thundered before a white ruling-class judge and jury, during his trial in Atlanta, “You may indict him. You may put him in jail. But there will come other thousands of Angelo Herndons. If you really want to do something about the case, you must go out and indict the whole social system, But this you will not do, for your role is to defend the system under which the toiling masses are robbed and oppressed.” Comrades! ‘We must free Angelo Herndon. Think of it—18 years on a chain gang! He has already spent nearly two years in this Atlanta dungeon. Do’ you know how long 18 years is? Those of you who have paced up and down impatiently waiting for a subway or a street-car that was two minutes late in: arriving—DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG 18 YEARS IS? A Letter from Angelo Herndon ‘There-iS=no doubt that an active, militant campaign for the release of Angelo Herndon has NOT been carried on. I am more con- vineed of this after reading this letter from Herndon: Fulton Tower, Atlanta, Go. What's Doing In Workers’ Schools of U.S. From Philadelphia comes a short) short story with a sad ending. It seems that in Philadelphia there can | be no Workers School because they have no money and they. have no| forees.. So they broke up the Work- ers School, and that was the end of that. * . . No money! Was there ever a | Workers School with money? The | Workers School of Brownsville had no money either, so they ran a | banquet for which they mobilized all the mass organizations in their territory through the fractions, and raised a nice little sum to start with. Everybody who sold five tickets for this banquet got a course free. They recruited a committee of 100 to raise $100. They distributed sheets of five and ten cent stamps to be sold for the benefit of the Workers School of Brownsvifie. And then they had . * . & population of nearly two million! What about the comrades in the John Reed Club? What about the comrades in the Pen and Hammer? Do not depend on Party members alone. One comrade in charge of the work in the school is enough. That is all that the Boston Work- ers School has. The rest of the people who work in the school can be people from maseé organizations, sympathizers, people who are in- terested in education in general. If you look for them, you will surely find them, and they will be only too glad to give their time and their energy to build a Workers School in Philadelphia, We hope to receive a longer story from Philadelphia very shortly, and we expect a happy ending. Local Labor Research Bureau informed that they have established a local Labor Research Bureau to provide timely material for speakers in the approaching open-air speak- ing season, and they invite all or- ganizations in their territory to avail themselves of the facilities of this bureau. * ee It seems that they have seven books now in the Marxist-Leninist library in the Cleveland Workers School. And so they are encour- aged to ask for other things too. They want card files, chairs, lamps, letter files for mimeographed bul- it, and librarians. woe Well we can tell them where to body. These form a Library Com- | mittee, which takes upon itself the responsibility of having some one on duty every evening. If possible, the chairman of the committee should be a part of the regular school administration, and he can be there in the daytime too. If not, money, | No forces! This from a city with | Speaking of Brownsville, we are | letins, a book-case with a lock on | get their librarians: the student| DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1934 Voroshilov and Other Leaders Of the Proletarian Red Army The Daily Worker begins today the publications of a biagraphical Series on leaders of the Soviet Red-Army. Today we publish high- points in the life of Clementi Voroshiiov, the popular Soviet Com- missar of the Red Army and Navy. On suceceding days we will pub- lish accounts of the lives of Gen. Budenny, Gen. Vassily Bluecher, and Others——EDITOR’S NOTE. @— — CLEMENTI VOROSHILOV was born in 1681 the son of a railway worker.. In his youth he was a | Shepherd, farm laborer. and miner. He began to go to public school | when he was twelve years old. In | 1896 he began to work as a factory worker in various steel plants. In} 1899 he led the first strike and was arrested on that account. In 1903 he joined the Social-Democratic Party. In 1905 he participated in the strike movements during the revolution, was again arrested but released under the pressure of demonstrating masses. “In 1906 he participated in the Fourth, and in 1907 in the Fifth Party Congress of | |the Russian Social - Democratic} Labor Party. At the Fifth Party| Congress he became acquainted with | Lenin. VOROSHILOV From 1908 to the beginning of | tionary Military Council since the the war Voroshilov worked in vari-|end of 1919. He took an outstand- ous places on instructions from the|ing part in building up the Red Party, was arrested, exiled, escaped,|Cavalry. After the Civil War, Voro- was again arrested and again sent|shilov was successively commander away. During the Civil War he|of the North Caucasian and the was successively commander cf the} Moscow Military Districts. He has Fifth Ukrainian, the Tenth and the| been Peoples’ Commissar for the | Fourteenth Armies. His defense of| Army and Navy and chairman of Tzaritsin against the Whites, where| the Supreme Revolutionary Mili- |he closely collaborated wth Stalin,| tary Council since 1925. is famous. Voroshilov has been a} ~ i iy |member of the Supreme Revolu- Tomorrow: Vassily Bleacher. What Is the Intellectual’ Role in Workers’ Fight? | Karl Browder, Mary van Kleeck, Granville Hick Participate in Symposium | By MORRIS PITMAN | movement, declared that this |only mean support’ of the Comr: NEW YORK. — A crowd which) : overflowed Irving Plaza Hall, with| Rist Party, oH the record of ae levery inch of standing space filled,| Patty as @ real leader of struggles, |listened with intent interest to a|With @ leadership soundly based in |discussion of “the place of the in-|‘heory, and effective in practice. | py y, id, |tellectual in the workers’ struggle”| “The Communist Party,” he said, on Sunday night. Speakers were | “is the only heir of the American Mary Van Kleeck, of the Rus- | Tevolutionary tradition.” The at- } 4 SH ia nash egret Os at Van| toward the revolutionary movement Rensslaer College, and Earl Brow- | he expressed in the words of an der, general secretary of the Com-| Italian Communist who said to him: munist Party, Sunday night. |“The intellectual must raise him- ‘The meeting was held under the | self to the level of the proletariat.” auspices of the ‘New Masses’ and | This statement he interpreted when the John Reed Club. he declared that only through ac- It was a crowd which represented | tive participation in the struggle many walks of life, and many poli-| with the working class can the in- tical tendencies. It was a serious crowd, of teachers, social worke’ scientific workers, office worke: wage workers, writers, artists. Their! Why are the intellectuals inter- intent attitude, and the many ques-| ested in the question of their place tions which the speakers were stil!| in company with the working class? answering at midnight, testified! asked Earl Browder, and answered that fhtellectuals in America aré| that it is because they are already seriously thinking of the revolution-| beginning to realize that the cap- ca of the cause to which he gives his allegiance. Granville | titude the intellectual should hold | Listen, I Am A Communist By DON WEST a) I am a Communist A Red A Bolshevik! Do you, toilers of the South, Know me. Do you understand? lieve the lies | sts say And print about me? You farmers, i understand me. Do you see That I am you That.I, the Communist. Am. you--? Iam. Don West, too, | The poet, The working man. But.the poet Is a.cry for justice The Communist is the tempered sou) Of ‘a hundred million toilers Marching to victory A new world A working man’s world! ... I am the son Of my grandfather | His blood pounds thru My veins, and cries out For justice! j I am the poet | Who sings to the south And she responds | With sobs of misery! .. . | I'm not foreign | No body | With calloused hands Is foreign to us— I’m Don West | Raised on a Georgia farm— The son of my mother And a Communist. . .. | That means I want bread | And _ homes | And clothes And love | And beauty For all your hollow-eyed babies I want songs on the lips And joy in the eyes | Of your anxious mothers | Who scrub | And hoe | And weave in a factory. | You toil-hardened men and women | Whose backs are twisted | Making profits for capitalists, | I am building a new world— Yet not I, | But you— WE! For we are the Communists, | We are the toilers,... Did you ever hear of the | SOVIET UNION, Where our comrades Have laid their burdens down And dismissed the loafers, | The Capitalists? ... | They are calling us | To rise To organize, To be free... | | And do you hear me? ... ee Page Pive You Gits the Seed and The Cotton Is Mine” | By JOHN L. SPIVAK | BROOKHAVEN, Miss.—I wandered along a Lincoln }County road this morning. Several Negroes were burn- ing the stubble of last yez growths, “tres they called it preparatory to plowing for the nev crop. I got to talk with them and asked whether they by the go d benefitted nment contracts for re- g. w from previous experience that the Negro’s innermost feelings whit agree with him no matter what they really think. T hey have tear n o't to expose their thoughts too openly. They frequently oxpress their feelings in song and when, in answer to my | question o ne Negro laughed | and asked if he | could sing me a JOHN L. SPIVAK song, I urged |him to go ahead. It was a song about a white man talking to his Negro cropper after he had signed ;@ contract with the government }and two lines tell the whole story: “Accordin’ to the contract I has signed, You gits the seed an’ the cot- ton is mine.” “Are things any better now that | the government is spending money |down here?” | “Sho’. But we ain't gettin’ none |of it,” one of them laughed. The others joined in. | “What do you get?” “Nothin’. Ain’t never got nothin’.’ “Did you ever get anyth “Sho. Us tenant farm | Bet advances. | | | | sed to Now we got to go to | the Red Cross. Cap'n says he can't | afford to feed us. He says we ought |to be satisfied we got a place to | Sleep.” |. “Looks like you're worse off than before the depression, doesn’t it?” | He agreed, by nodding his head. “Only. now he done brought his whole family!” one of the group jadded in cheerful agreement. To summarize what has happened in this typical county of the deep |South's cotton area since the de- |pression “brought his. whole | family”: | 1. Five out of every six persons | are living off government charity. | 2. About 4 out of every 5 residents in this county were literally starv- ing when government aid came. | 3. Government projects, like C. W. tellectual learn the political realities| Have taken what was always theirs| 4p. w. A., farm-loans, etc., have | still left the overwhelming majority |of farmers penniless and dependent | upon charity. | 4, Local politics played a great part in distribution of government jobs, with the result that only a | few got them and feel. somewhat contented but the overwhelming Dear Comrade: Since’ getting out of solitary confinement I have been very ill. In fact I have been so weak until I could hardly pick up a book; and all of this comes aS a direct result of my continued imprisonment, to say nothing. of the tedious and excruciating days that I have been sub- jected to for 22 months. I am suffering from constant violent pains in the stomach and incessant vomiting caused by intolerable prison food. Through this sickness I am gradually losing the sight of both eyes. the chairman can be a volunteer. EGS SAN Any comrades who can supply any of the other things should get in touch with the school. The address is 1524 Prospect Ave. A New School in St. Louis Here is news of a new school just Hicks spoke of the attitude of the intellectual to the Communist Party; and Earl Browder spoke of the attitude of the Communist Party working class, and particularly to- toward the potential allies of the) | The Communist Party, as a seri-| | ous, responsible revolutionary party | | preparing to take power, is looking | |for its potential allies, because it| |needs every bit of support it can} |get. In this search, it is the first ‘ | I'm speaking, | i |ary movement, and what attitude | italist class, which leaves them to| I, the ra |aeutse ies aeenne sere they must adopt to it. hi ;| Starve by hundreds of thousands, | Don West l5 8. Bette escrunent “aid. started brat As Caurs eectoal ints adopt | 28S not much use for them any) Communist, coming in here there was open talk attitude the intellectu E more. | Bolshevik, lot * —like | toward the working class; Granville) ye Party and ‘the Intellectual alt jof “having a revolution—like them | Bahisheviks: this talk has quieted down, but is still prevalent. | 6) The Red Cross and F.E.R. are now distributing direct relief to two out ‘of every five families in the |county. The Red Cross has no more Working man, Southern toiler .. . You will hear me And you'll believe, Because I am you, You are me, My being placed in the death house, where water and excrement dribbies all the time, is certainly enough to wreck my health completely; which the slave masters are very anxious to do. Possibly there is a certain.amount of underestimation of the political essence of this point; not that I say everything isn’t being done that can be done. But I do, however, say that that point as well as my whole case is not get- ting enough publicity. For instance take Roosevelt's Health Resor at Warm Springs: certainly this could be made a real issue. On the one hand say, that the agents and representatives of the capitalists have all kinds of luxurious equipment for their health, and on the other hand, the work- ing class fighters must lay behind filthy, grim and dismal walls of stinking capitalist hell holes, where their health is in imminent danger of being wrecked as well as the possibility of their lives being cast into the depths of capitalist infamy. 4 Thus I am convinced that this can be made a national issue as well as a local one. Meanwhile, it is also imperative that a fight be lauriched to force the lynch courts to record a speedy decision in my case, set me free and thus dispose of the case. -You must realize that I’ve been in here for a long time now, and as long as we let the case lag on, so much the better for the capitalists and their framers, of me. Keep them on a merry-go-round where they will be forced to keep their feet to the fire, and we can surely look for much more speedier action, with the resultant of some achievements that we might not have seriously anticipated. My best regard to all, established way down South in St. Lonis, Missouri, at 1243 N. Garrison of active fighters in the trade unions in factories, they inform us. They have classes in Principles of Com- munism, Political Economy, Strike Strategy, Colonial and Negro Prob- lems, Party Organization, English and Russian, Monday, Tuesday, and ‘Wednesday evenings at 7:30 p. m. And as a result of the St. Louis Workers School they have noted a decided increase in the sale of the Daily Worker and other revolution- ary literature down there. eae How many students have you, comrades? Let us hear more about you, Clie cha | The Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union in Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, has opened a class in Trade Union Strategy and Tactics at 755 South Main St., J. Miller, Organizer of the local, instructing, and they are calling for donations of pamph- Jets or books on the Trade Union movement. Hw about consulting the Ave., with students composed mainly | e intelectuals. | 5 bie van Kleeck, head of the in-| Party in the history of the working dustrial research department of the Class to work out seriously and con- | Russell Sage Foundation, who re- cretely its relations to the oppressed signed from the N. R. A. in protest nationalities, the farmers, the in- at its strike-breaking role, described | tellectuals. how her own experience convinced) “We do not approach the intel- her that every position but that of | lectuals as one homogeneous group,” putting the working class struggle he said. “We know that the ma-~ | Fascism. |feet of those who destroyed them, ha rinciple of possession ver-/ the fascist bands.” Pa fh Penal of creative work.” | For that very reason, the Party And in that struggle, she asked,| Welcomes the best representatives of 'The| Or will come over to the reyolu- tiomary working class. “Those to Jj whom the integrity of their work. whether scientific or artistic, is of first importance, must break with intellectual worker belong?” necessary aim of such a struggle, she declared, must be the creation of a classless pose 2a ss wee intellectual workers attemp but | capitalism,” he said. “And others the principle of creative work into) come from a political conviction operation without putting the work-| that tnere is no hope for the cap- ing class in the vanguard of the| italist system, and that the only struggle, they will fail.” , |force capable of creating a new Possession and State Power | system is the working class.” They will fail, she said, because; “The “Semi-skilled” Intellectuals the power of possession is the power Some who come are not equipped to control production, and from that/| to say, he said, instancing Theodore power comes the power to control Dreiser, who revealed himself un- first tends inevitably to slip into| jority of them will crawl to the} The issue, she declared, is that|and offer their services to mobilize | “q@here does the allegiance of the|the intellectuals, who have come| newly established Los Angeles I am your comrade, (Signed) * : Wil You Remain Silent? : Support i e I. L. D. in its fight for Angelo Herndon! Help in- tensify the campaign for his release! Free him before his health is completely -shattered! And in the meantime, let him know that he has friends on the outside. Write to him and send him books. He craves for books on Marxian economics, on history and on “literature. Books sent by an individual ~ how ~>r, be accepted. * ‘the prison warden wh: is, of c-urse, none too eager to make Hern- don’s life agreeable in prison. Books must be sent him through the regular pub" “ers. Letters, however, can be sent him direct as fol- lows: Angelo Herndon, Fulton Towers Prison, Atlanta, Georgia. TOMORROW: “Who Said Farmers Were ‘Conservative’?” ANGELO HERNDON. Heywood Patterson, From Death Cel Thanks Wexley for Scottsboro Play Heywood Patterson, one of the nine. Scottsboro boys, has sent the following letter of appreciation to John Wexley, upon learning of “They Shall Not Die,” Wexley’s play based on the Scottsboro framesup. cchilterson, who is now in a death Ale., sent the letter to Wexley thru Joseph R. Brodsky, chief counsel of Labor Defense. in trying to write a greater friend Workers School? The address is 224 S. Spring St. Room 418,” ‘Miscellaneous * Term last week. Chicago Workers School, 2822 S. Michigan Ave., began their Spring Term yesterday. They write in that the building they are now housed in used to be a rich man’s mansion. 10TH JUBILEE Concert of the Freiheit Gesange Farein, Friday, March 16, at 8:30 pm Academy of Music, Broad and Tocust Oratorio ‘Trwéi Brieder,” Sym- phony Orchestra and soloists. Tickets at i the government—and such a ggy- ernment is not a democracy, but an instrument of possession, a govern- ment which will defend capitalism when that is needed, a government which will suppress the class strug- gle under the guise of “represent- ing the whole, and calling for unity in the interests of the whole na- tion.” From there it goes on to dis- courage strikes, and to develop in- struments which will actually pre- vent strikes. “You will recognize this in a more 4 highly developed form in Italy and Nazi Germany,” she said. She told of her visits to Austria and Germany, when the Social- Democrats were still in power, and of her conviction that the program of the Socialist parties would not Solve the problems of the workers, workers into the background. Similarly, she declared, the real issue in the Madison Square Gar- den meeting on Austria, was the issue of whether or not there should be a clear-cut discussion of the real questions confronting the Austrian working class. Nationalism vs. Internationalism Referring to those who would like to make the American workers’ struggle a purely national struggle, she declared her conviction that it cannot succeed cut off from the his- toric, world-wide international struggle of the workers against the Possessors, for the building of a society in which classes no longer exist. Granville Hicks, one of tha best- known who have come out in support. of because it put the struggle of the! of the American intellectuals | able to penetrate to the decisive | questions of class relationship and | political Policy, could find no con- | sistent “role for himself in the movement, A difficult, though subordinate; problem of the Party, in its rela- tions with intellectuals, is set by what has been called the “semi- skilled intellectual,” he said—those who do net think concretely. and clearly, who.cannot take a firm stand, who are looking for a con- | venient resting place where they |can salve their “revolutionary con- science.” It is thse, he declared, who are appealed by such grouplets as the Trotskyists, and the “American Workers Party,” whose main plat- form. is criticism of the serious, business-like revolutionary _ party, | the Communist Party. | To the objection of such people |that the Communist Party, as a part of the Communist Interna- tional, and receiving directives from Moscow, cannot. become ‘a real American party, he declared that those who undertake the greatest task which humanity has ever set itself, the task of building a new society, must learn from those who have already done it, and done it successfully. “If one is not interested in di- rectives from Moscow that only means that he is not interested in building socialism at all,” he de- clared, And to those who honestly wish to play their part in the revolu- tionary movement, he declared, “the Communist Party places no obliga- tion on its collaborators except thi obligation to stand fast, and | work energetically toward our com- Poptilar prices from members of chorus. [the revolutionary working class mon goal.” - (Kennesaw. Ga.) | TUNING IN WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Mary Small, Songs 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Green Bros. Orch.; Arlene Jack- son, Songs 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Relsman Orch.; Phil Duey, Baritone 8:30—Wayne King Orch. 9:00—Bernie Orch 9:30—Ed Wynn, Comedian 10:00—Cruise of the Seth Parker—Drama- tic Sketch 10:30—Beauty—Mme. Sylvia 10:45—The Republic's Recovery—Senator ‘Tom Connally of Texas 11:00—Madriguera Orch. 11:15—News; Jesters Trio 11:30—Harris Orch. 12:00-—Vallee Orch. WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Sports Resume 7:15—Comedy: Music | 7:30—FPootlight Echoes 8:00-—-Grofe Oreh.; Prank Parker, Tenor 8:30-—Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Band 9:00—Morros Musicale 9:30—To Be Announced 10°00—Teddy. Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen, Songs; Rondoliers Quarter 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—To Be Announced 10:45—Sports—Boake Carter 11:00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Lane Orch 12:00—Bide Dudley WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Amos’'n’ Andy 7:15—foclal Problems in New. York City: —William Hodson, Commissioner of Welfare; Loula D. Lasker, Rditor, Survey; Langdon Post, Tene- ment ‘House’ Commissioner 7:45—Grace and Eddie Albert, Songs 8:00—The Pluperfect_ Crime—Sketch 8:30—Adventures in Health—Dr. Herman Bundesen 8:45—Bavarian Band 9:00—Alice Mock, Soprano; Edgar Guest, Post; Concert Orch, 9:30—Duchin Oren, 10:00—Gale Page, Songs; Stokes Orch Ray -Perkins; Speaker, Frank Buck, Big-Game Hunter 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 10:40—Hillbilly Heart Throba 11:00—Three -Scamps, Songs 11:15—News Reports 11:20—Anthony “Frome, Tenor 11:30—Harris Orch. 12:00-—Masters “Orch. WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Mirt and Marge 1:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30—Serenaders Orch. 1:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Littla Oren. 8:15—Studio Music 8:30—Voice of Experience 8:45—Oalifornia Melodies 9:00—Philadelphia Orch. 9:15—Ruth Etting, Songs 9:30—Minneapolis Symphony Oreh., Eu- gene Ormendy, Conductor 10:00—Gray Orch.; Stoopnagie and Budd, Comedians; Connie Boswell, Songs 10:30—Harlem ‘Serenade 11:00—Charies Carlile, Tenor 11:15—News; Nelson Oro. 1145—Light Orch, 12:00—Sosnick Orch fiour nor clothes and the FER is ape | cutting down on its portions of ‘eater! relief. 7) One out of every five farmers Who owned his own land lost it |for non-payment of taxes, some- times as low as $20. 8) Most FER. and Red Cross aid is going to croppers becaus they have been hit harder than the small independent farmer. 9) Few ecroppers are getting an’ sort of allowance from the land- }owner. Those who do, get from |$9 to $21 for the whole season be- tween March and August. 10) Fewer Negroes in proportion to their population appeal for federal aid than whites because (a) they know whites are on the preferred t and (b) the lendowner, abways manages to get them something le he lets the white cropper ap- Peal to the government 11) F.E.R. and other government and local officials “hate to think of what will happen if federal retief tops” especially with the temper of the people as shown last year. 12) Those who have not gotten C.W.A. money resent not being on the payr ith the result that fer two opposite reasons there is a strong feeling of niment against the Roosevelt government 13) Few Negroes been put to work on C.W.A. projects because the Negro does not vote and there is a distinct tendency to give jobs rs and thus strengthen the ave 14) The county lend agent making contracts with farmers to curtail production upon government in- structions ignores the almost half of all farm workers here who are share croppers. 15) Only 20 per cent of the farma in this county are worked on a cropper basis but about half of the farm labor consists of croppers. 16) Less than one out of every 25 farm. owners in this courty is w Negro. 17) The production credit asso- ciation operating here as through the whole South as a government agency to aid the farmer is obviously functioning only for the benefit of the large landowner and the cor- Poration-owned plantations. 18) The rate of interest this asso- ciation charges the small farmer who tries to borrow from it makes. it prohibitive. 19) The small landowner conse- quently feels very bitter convineed again that.the government is simply run “for the rich.” 20) There is a distinct tendeney to approve increased taxation of the rich “so as to take away money from them and give it to. the poor. who have none.” 21) This view of large taxes for the rich is wide spreed even among the wealthy in this area 22) There is a complete lack of faith in. the hom of the political office local state or national “The mil- lionaires tell them what to do” is the generally expressed sentiment 23) They feel that Roosevelt though, is “for them”; if he fails in trying to better their conditions they will tend to blame the million- | aires, not his schemes. This is the final installment of John L. Spivak’s account of his | visit to Brookhaven, Mississippi, in his series on “Life In America.” In tomorrow's Dally Worker will appear the first imstaliment of | Spivak’s series on New Orieans, Louisiana. (To be continued) March Issue of ‘Sovie. Russia Today” Contains Many Lively . Features Among the contributors’ to the March issue of Soviet Russia To- day, just out, are Susan H. Wood- |ruff, Alice Withrow Field, Myra Page and N. Krupskaya. The special feature of this issue is | “Women and Children in the Soviet Union.” ‘In addition, an article by M. I. Kalinin deals with the results of the recent 17th Party Congress and its significance for the USS.R. and the world proletariat. Corliss Lamont, in a review of Sherwood Eddy’s book, “What Gan We Learn From Soviet Russia,” shows what liberals seem incapable of learning. | There. are letters from Soviet. | women workers which are intimate and interesting pictures of how they live under the socialist state. | Soviet News Briefs deals with the latest developments in various fields | under the Second Five-Year Plan, This issue contains 58 photos taken recently in Soviet Russia, and seven drawings and cartoons. Tuesday | MEMBERSHIP Meeting Youth Br. Tw. 0. 72 at 388 Sutter Ave. cor. Stone | Brooklyn, 8 p.m. Special organizational ‘ meeting. AMUSE THE THEATRE “GUILD Presents EUGENE O'NEILL'S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN MENTS Send St., West of Broadway, Evenings 8:20 Assistant | Y OF GUILD THEATRE HELEN MAR ee BALES ALVIN THEATRE MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play PHILIP HELEN MERIVALE MENKEN Sand St., West of Broadway. Evenings 8:30 JOHN WEXLEY’S NEW PLAY THEY SHALL NOT DIE ROYALE THEATRE #8 su Matinees Thusday and Saturday 2:20 SCOTLAND Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:29 of Bway. Eves, 8:20 and Sat. 2:20 Matinees TI Theatre Union's Stirring Play | LAST WEE! THE ANTI-WAR HIT! PEACE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thes.. 14thSt.24thave WA, 9-7450. Eves. 8.45. 0° to$450.NO Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2.30, 1 ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by . JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 424 St. Evgs. 8.40 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 TAX | | RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— | 50 St & 6 Ave—Show Plece of the Nation | Opens 11:20 A. M. KATHARINE HEPBURT .in“ SPITFIRE” Second MUSIC HALL REVUE on stage RKO Jefferson Mth. & | Now | EDDIE CANTOR in “ROMAN SCANDALS” also:—“THE WOMEN IN BIS LIFA” with OTTO KRUGER & UNA MERKEL ASITIS Palestine TODAY! THE NATIVES, JEW AND ARAB Sing; Dance; Demonstrate; Work in “The Dream Of My People” with Cantor Rosenblatt deer, | LOT in SODOM? Feature | Featurette Extraordinary ACME THEATRE ‘"5.! O MORE LADIES A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with MELVIN DOUGLAS, LUCILE WATSON MOROSCO Thea., 45th, W. of B'way. Evs: ‘$:50. Mats, Wed., Thurs. and Sat. at 2:45 | TEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE | Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- | MONS. Jans FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, Biway & Sth. Evs, 8.30, Matinees Thursday and Saturéey $30