The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1934, Page 7

nani £ Pi { CHANGE ——THE-— WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN HEN Bruce Bliven, one of the editors of the liberal “New Republic,” went out to Iowa several months ago to make a survey of the farm situation, he returned with .the report that things were rather. agreeable out in the farm country in spite of the militant picket lines, over- turned milk trucks and bloody eneounters with the hired thugs of the big milk distributors. That Bliven arrived .at such calm and serene con- clusions is not surprising when you get an insight into the “investigating” methods which he pursued. Seated comfortably in the airy and sun-lit offices of the Des Moines (Ia.) Register and Tribune, Mr. Bliven drew his stubby fingers over the articles prepared by several staff members of the paper who had gone out among “representative farmers” and gotten a “cross-sec- ion” farm opinion.* eee ge device of avoiding such storm centers as Le Mars (where a hapless judge at a foreclosure sale had a rope thrown around his neck), and steering clear of the Farmers’ Committees of Action and “the United Farmers League, the dauntless newspapermen arrived at the kind of conclusions which the editors cele * * \doubtedly bring some bitter struggles among the farm- proarnia ts in Tas put in Wisconsin, Minnesote, North Dakota and other states. Since the Second National Conference, held in Chi- cago in November, the 700 cee have = been idle. * ; ER, the following exchange of telegrams between the militant farmers in North Dakota and William Langer, the governor of that page hundreds of poverty-stricken farmers and workers of McHenry County,” said the telegram of the McHenry County Farmers’ Commit- tee for Action, “are demanding immediate adequate cash relief. We are entitled to a decent American standard of living and intend to see to it that we get it. Millions and billions of dollars are being spent on the Army and Navy, much of which comes from the Public Works program. Millions go to the banks and corporations from the R. F. C. Tf these large amounts can be given to relieve the bankers and to build more machinery of war for the destruction of humanity, surely we should get a large enough amount in McHenry County, so that we can live as we are entitled to, instead of living in dire poverty as we are now doing, even though we almost worked our fingers to the bone. To do this we likely will need $45,000 to $50,000 a month te start with, and e at that. TP Sigveecend immediate action on your part so that there is plenty of R. F. C. funds readily available. We demand that the relief be given in CASH and be administered by committees of rank and file farmers and workers who are elected by mass meetings of those needing relief. ‘We hold you personally responsible for seeing to it that this is done. ‘We demand your immediate answer. “ (Signed) Orvin Olson, chairman.” * * * - “That was a pretty long wire,” I suggested to Ash Ingerson, one of the leaders of the United Farmers League in North Dakota, when he showed me the wire out in Chicago, “Who paid for it?” I asked. “Why, the governor did, the old—, because we sent the damn thing C. O. D.!” * . * HIS sizzling. wire brought a two-page excessively courteous and _4 characteristically evasive letter. from Governor Langer’s. secretary, who suggested that while he “sympathized” with the farmers “very much,” he “would respectfully suggest that, instead of addressing your requests to the Governor of the State, you address them to the President of the United States and to Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, as administrator, and to the Congress of the United States.” The Governor's secretary concluded his letter with the assertion that “Ido not believe that the President would comply with your demands under the lew making this appropriation for the relief of the unem- ployed.” . . . N ANOTHER. occasion the farmers of Eddy County were holding a MY mass meeting in Cheyenne, N. D. So they sent off a hot wire to Governor Langer, “C. O. D.,” of course, which declared that: “Many hundreds of destitute and impoverished farmers here in Eddy County are demanding immediate cash relief. ‘There has been three years of drought and depression in this county, and not one dollar of relief. Hundreds of families have not sufficient food and clothing, and children cannot go to school. Poverty and misery is rampant in this countryside. In the face of this situation, the county commissioners of this county, who are heartless, selfish, tight-fisted Kulak farmers, who work for the bosses and the bankers, have failed to take any action whatsoever to get relief funds to alleviate this terrible condition. People here suspect that these Commissioners have been influenced to take the course they have because of your so-called economical policy of administering relief. fi “We notice by the report of the Emergency Relief Commission that they sent out recently, that there is only about $100,000 in the fund now. That might be a sufficient amount to take care of three or four counties in this section for a few months. “We demand thet you get more R. F. C. relief funds immediately. Wire answer immediatety, before five o’clock, for mass reef meeting here tonight. “ «(Signed) Aslak Haugo, for N. D. Farmers’ Committee for Action.” . * * . ‘The governor replied at once, although his demagogic message ar- rived too late to be read at the mass meeting. The Governor’s tele- gram said: ? “YOU MAY BE SURE OF ONE THING AND THAT IS THAT AS LONG AS I AM GOVERNOR, UNTIL WE GET A GOOD CROP AND GOOD PRICES, POOR PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT AND ENOUGH TO WEAR AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE MEDICAL AND DENTAL INSPECTION STOP IF YOU FELLOWS WOULD SEND A COMMITTEE HERE INSTEAD OF HAVING SO MANY MASS MEETINGS AND WRITING SO MUCH STUFF IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND FIND OUT THAT YOU REALLY HAVE A GOV- ERNOR DOWN HERE WHO IS TAKING CARE OF YOU YOU WOULD SAVE YOURSELVES A LOT OF TROUBLE AND ANNOY- ANCE STOP I AM MIGHTY SORRY THAT I CANNOT BE UP THERE TO MEET WITH YOU FELLOWS AND I WISH THAT YOU WOULD GIVE THEM ALL MY GREETINGS AND REGARDS STOP YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO READ THIS TELEGRAM TO THE MASS MEETING. - . “(Signed) WILLIAM LANGER, GOVERNOR.” * * * * OV. LANGER’S bombastic demagogy only made the militant North ™ Dakota farmers clench their fists tighter. And latest reports from that part of the country indicate that the farmers are girding for the kind of battle that will shake the very life out of the little lawyer who runs North Dakota in thé interests of the bankers, railroads and rich farmers. * * _* | Seance are ser antag Sa gece eabbvaiyiget th nara aroused anger of the farmers. It is reported that a chaplain in one of the Western Legislatures opened the day’s session with a prayer in which he called upon the Lord to view the poverty and destitution of the unemployed. He urged said Lord to “pray for the souls” of Legislators and beseeched him “to move the Legislators thing about this distressing situation.” * Well, the only thing that happened was was hauled up before the Speaker’s bar and brought charges—apparently for lobbying with the Lord! This story was told to me by Bob Dunn, director of Research Association—and I have never known any figures to lie! g DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934 ‘Theatre Groups|Leaders of the Proletarian Red | Ceveland Workers Prepare National Drama Festival | groups affiliated with the League of Workers Theatres have been taking | part im the sectional competitions |to determine entrants in the na- |tional competition to be held in Chicago on April 13, 14, and 15th. All groups should send reports to the L.O.W.T., 42 E. 12th St., New York City.) Hee ee CANADA—Reports indicate the theatre. Groups have toured the provinces; the case of the ban on the play, Eight Men Speak, based on the attempt of prison guards to murder Tim Buck, imprisoned sec- retary of the Canadian Communist Party, has aroused international protest. The Toronto Progressive Art Club, which wrote and produced Eight Men Speak, will send a group to the National Festival in Chicago as guest performers, as will also the Workers Theatre of Winnipeg. All Canadian groups are sending dele- gates. + NEW JERSEY—At the district competitions held on March 7th in Newark, the Jack London Dram- group of Newark was outstanding with its mass recitation, Scottsboro, and will go to Chicago as the New Jersey entrant. Special honorable mention was given to the John Reed Dramgroup of Newark, a new- ly-formed organization, for its sat- irleal play, The New Deal. OHIO—The section itions will be held in Cleveland at the end of this month, when one group will be picked to go to Chicago. There will be delegates from all groups. A non-affiliated Negro group. will also go to Chicago as guest per- formers. Other middlewest workers’ theatres sending performers and delegates to the Festival are those in Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Superior, Gary, Moline, Davenport, and Rock Island. rae? eas CHICAGO—Eleven workers the- atres will compete in the Chicago district competitions to take place on March 24th, beginning at 2:30. Eight organizations are already affiliated with the L.O.W.T.; the Chicago section is in the forefront of workers theatres in this country. The Workers Theatre has done a production of Fortune Heights and is planning to do Peace On Earth; the Ukrainian Dramatic Club has produced a number of difficult operettas using large orchestra set- ups, dramatic dance, and dramatic chorus; the Finnish Workers The- atre has done fine agitprop work and at present is engaged in pro- ducing a four-act play dealing with the fight of the Detroit auto work- ers; and the Workers Laboratory Theatre, in addition to its program of production and preparation for |the Festival, has inaugurated its second three-months semester in in its Training School. 4 children’s group has already been formed, and plays with white and Negro casts have been Produced. eee Other Theatre Festival notes will appear on this page tomor- Tow. TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P, M.—Martha Mears, Songs 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch :30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio ‘7:48—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Jack Pealr, Comedian; Van Steeden Orch. 8:30—Wayne King Orch. 9:00—Troubadours Orch.; kins, Actress 9:30—Fred Allen, Comedian 10:00—Hilibilly Music 10:30—Attorney General Homer 8. Cum- mings Speaking at Silver Anniversary Dinner of New York County Lawyers Association, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Miriam Hop- ne ie WOR—T10 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Sports Resume 1:18—Harry Hershfield 7:30—To Be Announced 7:45—Stories of the See 8:00—The Old Theatre 8:15—To Be Announced 8:30—Concert Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor 9:00—Dramatized Fiction 9:30—To Be Announced oe Events — Harlan Eugene 10:30—Studio Music 10:45—Sports—Boake Carter 11:00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Dance Orch. Se a WJZ—760 Ke. Tenor; Daily Orch. 10:00—Lopexz Orch.; Male Trio; Ed Sulli- van; Belle Baker, Contralt ‘Tenor 7:00 P. M.—Myrt and Marge 7:16—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30—Armbruster Orch.; Jimmy Kemper, %:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—-Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs : pu C, Hill "Thibault, Baritone; Voorhees Orch. 9: S:iS—Alexander Woolleott — The Town ier 9:30—Lombardo Orch.; Burns and Alien; Comedy 10:00—Florito Orch.; Dick Powell, Songs 10:30—Evelyn MacGregor, Contralto; Evan Evans, Baritone; Concert Oreh. 11:00—Edith Murray, Songs 11:18—News; Little Oreh. 11:45—Messner Orch. 12:00—Hopkins Orch. 12:80 A. M.—Hall Orch, 1:00—Light Orchg building of a strong revolutionary | | Army of the U.S.S.R. | au (From coast to coast, theatre! assay Biwecher was born in 1989, | |a son of a worker. He was arrested in 1910 for the first time on account jof leading a strike. i | the World | War and severely wounded. After he again became a worker in Sor- |movo and Kazan. In 1916 he joined | member of the Revolutionary Com- | mittee in Samara. In September, Union to receive the Order of the Red Banner on account of his out- the Eastern Front against Kolchak. From 1921 to 1922 he was Com- War of the Far Eastern Peoples Re- public. After the Civil War at | 1924 at the special disposition of the Supreme Military Council. In 1928 of the special Far Eastern Army. | At the present time he holds the | | | BLUECHER same post and is a member of the Supreme Revolutionary Military Council. f Non-com: |sioned officer during | his release from service in the army the Bolshevik Party. In 1917 a 1918, he was the first in the Sovi standing revolutionary activity on mander-in-Chief and Minister of various commanding posts. Since | Bluecher was appointed Commander | sae By (PEAKING in the discussion at the § 17th Party Congress of the Com- munist Party of Soviet Union, on the report of Kaganovich on organi- zational questions, Panferov (au- thor of “Brusski’—a novel of life in collective farms) spoke of the tremendous assistance rendered by Stalin to Soviet literature. Stalin and Kaganovich frequently met writers, discussed literature with them and gave them useful direc- tives. “Let the writer learn from life. If he reflects in a highly artistic form the truth of life, he will not fail to arrive at Marxism.” The di- rectives of Stalin and the liquida- |tion of Proletarian Writers) united the Soviet writers and raised young talents from among the masses. Soviet proletarian literature has be- come an indisputable fact. The Theme of Joy We have here achievements, con- tinued Panferov. But we also have difficulties, difficulties in mastering the themes. The thing is that any theme taken from our life is a world theme. Let us take the theme of Joy, and permit me to illustrate it by one example. I have known a cer- tain peasant, a typical representa- tive of the village for nearly 15 years. I met him for the first time in the trenches. He was a red- haired and silent man and always shot from the trenches gritting his teeth, and it was only when some- one began to grumble owing to some disorder that he broke out and ex- claimed horsely: over to the other side of the trench- es and we will send a bullet through you” and became silent once more. And in periods of rest in the woods, he was walking about mut- tering something to himself. I be- came interested and went up and asked him: “What are you conjuring here, Uncle Matvey?” “Well, the grass is green here.” “Yes, the grass is green here, why not lie down and rest?” “Lie down and rest! It is all very well for you to do nothing else but sleep, but when I see green grass, I begin to want to plow.” Woe he ke here I understood that Uncle Matvey was fighting against the his own land freely. the NEP. He cut into the land as its full master... . He was not seen much in the village. Bare- footed and without a hat, he was spending his days and nights on the fields. He bought a red-brick house from @ speculator, got a pair of horses, some cows, sheer and pigs. Not de- string to spend a ruble unnecessar- ily, he mercilessly exploited his family. Visiting me on one occa- sion and having previously had some drink, he began to complain that there is discord everywhere and people do not want to live in com- mon, He dried up and became thin. He no longer slept on a bed, he slept sitting in order not to miss anything, and once, after having taken @ drink, said choking: “I will peg out soon.” And he was really fading away but dragged on, rejoicing with his own joy, the joy of a petty pro- prietor. Now if one were to describe the life of Matvey and leave it at that, absolutely nothing would be added to literature, since dozens and hun- dreds of authors have written of the joy of a petty proprietor. Some have condemned this joy, others adopted a liberal attitude towards it and others again have treated it with fear. Then the collective farm wave arose. First one son and then an- other joined the collective farm. And later Matvey, having sold his cattle with the exception of one horse, joined the collective farm himself. In 1932 I looked him up in the collective farm and asked him how he was on, "I live well, to tell the truth, one should keep in pace with Soviet power,” he at first said pleasantly, and then, shuddering and making a wry face, he burst out: “and if you do keep in pace with it, you get a poke in the ribs.” “What's that?” “You have taken away the joy from everything.” “What is that?” Pointing to a horse which at one time belonged to him, he exclaimed: “See here, the same horse but there is no joy in it.” ena * IN THE Spring of 1933, we took him to the opening of the Chel- yabinsk tractor plant. Automobiles, tramways, buses were running in the new city and many people were walking about. Coming out of the auto, and proceeding to the vlant, A " | tion of the RAPP (Russian Associa- | “You don’t like it here, then go/ LITERATURE and LIFE PANFEROV Matvey contemptuously pushed | everyone about, as if to say that | you are all damned good-for-noth- | ings, while I am the salt of the | earth. But as soon as we passed | | the gates of the plant, all of us,/ |with the exception of Matvey, |halted. He hastily began to wipe | his boots. | Before us opened up a view of a} |splendid plant, everything spick | {and span and flooded with sun-| light, Clean blocks of factories} surrounded with garden plots. All} this evoked a feeling of wonder in} us, @ feeling of infinite joy and} | desire to work in this plant. | it seemed to Matvey that he sud- |denly stepped out of a dirty street into a clean chamber, and he be- gan to wipe his boots. But all at once he pulled up and noisily rub- bing his heels on the asphalt pave- ment, directed his s' together with ours to the assembly shop. At the moment of our arrival in |the assembly shop, the caterpillar tractor, the “Stalinetz”—was leay- | ing the conveyor. It passed along | the rails on small wheels. In front | | Al layers, which it had to put on. | huge crowd gathered near the trac- tor and intently watched how this powerful turtle began moving on the caterpillars. involuntarily burst out amidst the general silence. And that night, when the chair- man of the Ural Executive Com- | mittee, opening the festival meeting began his speech with the words: “Let the whole world know that we are today opening the Chelyabinsk giant,” Matvey, unable to contain himself, shouted at the top of his voice from a distant corner: “Yes, let the whole world know!” And at that moment he acquired a new sense of joy, just as the tractor put on new caterpillars. In the autumn of that year, I} again saw him in the collective | farm, He was working at a machine and working strenuously. I went up to him and asked: ¢ | School Opens New Term This Thursday CLEVELAND, —T he Workers School of Cleveland hes just completed a highly successful first term and will start its sec- ond term this Thursday, March 15. Registration is now being taken for the Spring Term. Three hun- dred and fifty students registered for the first term and a quota of 500 has been set for the sec- ond. term. Every shop unit is urged to raise at least $1.50 to send at least one of its members Mass organizations, Party and League units are asked to send workers to the school, particularly com- rades active in shops or other mass. work, William Browder Talks at Jack London Club on Marx’: TeachingsT onite NEWARK, N. J.—The Jack Lon- Club will mark the 51st anniver- of the death of Karl Marx with @ lecture by William Browder of the New Masses on The Teachings of Karl Marx. The lecture will take Place at the club’s headquarters, 230} Court Street, on Wednesday evening, March 14, at 8 p, m. Half of the pro- ceeds going to the New Masses, Dimitroff Life Story Is New Masses Feature A life story of the hero of the German Reichstag fire frame-up trial, George Dimitroff, sharply etched against the background of the growth of revolution in Bul- of the New Masses, out today. It was written by George Severny, who is now at work on the first biog- raphy of Dimitroff, to be published in English. A full-page portrait of Dimitroff by Esther Kriger accom- panies the article. John L, Spivak, now on a tour of America for the Daily Worker and the New Masses, contributes a powerful sketch, “Wildcat Will- iams,” from Tulsa, Oklahoma. It forms a remarkable story of the of the tractor lay caterpillars in | fight on the growingly militant oil| 3009 when New Ori field workers by hirelings of the employing groups. “Talking Treachery Away,” by Joshua Kunitz, is an exhaustive, house’s book relating to the latter's One-Half of 4 Yage Seven New Orleans Population on Charity By JOHN L. SPIVAK NEW ORLEANS, La—I see by the local papers here that “things are picking up; business increasing and unemployment decreasing.” I do not know on what they base their statements for Government representatives don't know. | The Association for Commerce does not know. City officials do not know. Union labor officials do not know. What they do know seems to point to conditions getting steadily worse. All the work-. ers know is that from half to three fourths of them are out of work, or work- ing part time; about half of e total popu- is who | work are stead ly getting cuts in wages so that ff | their income is" |much below the | cost. of living. | The only gains registered here are | slight increases in retail business | brought by government work-relief | money which is now dwindling since | C.W.A. workers are being fired, and those few who were put to work when the N.R.A. started. This latter | gain, however, is more than set off | by the general reduction in wages ‘And |@aria, appears in the current issue|and salaries of other employees | where N.R.A. workers were taken jon. The reason generally given is | that reductions were necessary “to | balance the overhead.” Actually, the N.R.A. sérved as an excuse to re- duce wages all around. | Business has failed to show much of an upgrade trend here. This city is not essentially industrial. It is |mostly a white collar community with clerks, stenographers, minor | business executives comprising the |largest single class of workers. | Longshoremen, who once numbered leans was the second largest port in the Country, have dwindled to less than 4,000, and these live precariously by earn- ing a few dollars occasionally load- the rails and, jumping up, put on | penetrating review of Allan Monk- | ing or unloading ships. | New Orleans was famous for its “He put on his boots!” Matvey | trial for espionage and sabotage in| Wharves and docks but today it| ganized but due to the depresaian dnd the playing of small-time po- lities by labor leaders, unions which had the support of the public, have disintegrated. Today, the Central Trades and Labor Council, the body representing organized labor, does not get in enough dues to afford an office or a telephone. The Central Trades is nothing more than a name he & name and a president who is playing local politics so that he can become a constable and get some sort of regular salary! With union labor disorganized and demoralized and scarcely any organized objections to the speed- ups and wage cuts, wages dropped to a scale which is way below mini- mum living costs, The unskilled worker, which includes most Ne- groes (26 per cent of the total popu- lation) is utterly destitute. Wher- ever possible Negroes have been fired and whites given their jobs. The result is that the Negroe’s Plight here in proportion to his Population, is much greater than even in the farming area ‘Fhe Negro, with only 26 per eent of the population gets 60 per cent of the total charity distribution in the city—which gives one an idea of the extent of poverty among them. Next to the Negro, the white col- lar class numbers the greatest of those driven to charity. More clerks, | Stenographers, etc., are on the char- ity list in proportion to their popu- lation, than in any area I have been in so far. These facts, however, will be con- | Sidered in detail in the succeeding | articles. The outstanding thing is that the city and the vast majority are simply unaware of the full ex- tent of disintegration. Residents are | told that things are picking up and they accept it hopefully, most of them waiting patiently for their turn to come for a littie improve- ment. They know that conditions are exceedingly bad, that workers by the tens of thousands have no Jobs, storekeepers and small as well as large business men have and are cutting wages, and that those who do work can scarcely make ends meet. Home life, here as in Brockton and Charlotte, has disintegrated, | When homes were broken to “double | up” and:save on rentals; wives and children have been thrown into an already flooded labor market in despairing efforts to keep family and home together until now al- most every other person out of the 460,000 inhabitants is listed as a worker. So far as government relief is concerned it seems to have failed Soviet Russia in the well-known |Tanks fourth as an American port | Utterly here in making a dent in the “Metropolitan-Vickers’ year. case” Stage and Screen Soviet Film “Rubicon” or “The Strike Breaker” Opens At Acme Theatre Saturday Beginning this Suturday, the Acme Thea- tre will present s new Soviet film, “Rubi- con” or “The Strike Breaker.” This is the Americon premiere of this picture produced in the U. 8. 8: R. by Soyuzkino and is released here by Amkino. The picture deals with the life of the whiteguards for the right to plow) I also saw him in the period of | and then turning to me said with | a smile: “My heart is in the right | place now.” | Now to write a work describing | how the many millions of peas-| |ants have got their heart in the! right place, how they found a new! socialist joy for which they will fight with all their resources and all their energy. To do this means to write a work which has never yet been written in history. This theme can only be mastered \if you proceed along the path in- dicated by Comrade Stalin. If you | are able to feel life with your own | hands. | Herein is the sense of our recon- struction—in the mastery of the depths of our themes: I am one of the happy people, Comrades, for I have seen the coun- | { try, | I have seen with what invincible} energy the Bolsheviks of the Urals) {have shaken up and reconstructed} | the old and grey Urals, the Urals of | tears, torture and prison-bars, I have seen with what invincible energy the Bolsheviks of Siberia built a new metallurgical plant. I have seen how the Moscow Bol- Sheviks have erected the Stalin Che- mical Combinat on a waste. I have seen with what invincible energy the Bolsheviks of the Ukraine have put a cement-concrete halter around the neck of the boisterous! Dnieper, compelling it to serve the! Socialist fatherland. | I have seen, Comrades, how the| Bolsheviks of the Black Earth Prov- ince, the Volga District and North Caucasus drove out the wooden plows from the. fields and replaced them with tens of thousands of| tractors and combines and thereby | | emancipated the peasantry from the toils of village idiocy and turned them into workers of a socialist! society. I see and know, Comrades, with What mighty and tireless energy, with what skill and daring our Party has reconstructed the poor, down- trodden, backward Russia into an advanced country of industry. And it is with such force, with such energy and with such skill and daring that we writers must create a new Soviet proletarian literature. And we will create it! (Applause). Second Issue of “Dynamo,” Journal of Revolutionary Poetry, Appears April 15 The second issue of Dynamo, the journal cf revolutionary poetty, will appear April 15. It contains poems by ©. Day Lewis, radical Britis Poet; William Pillin, Muriel Ru- keyser, Hector Rella, Edwin Rolfe, and an essay, “Robinson Jeff@ge: and Hart Crane: A Study in cial Irony,” by Morris U. Schappes. “Well, with all your heart, Uncle | sailor in the merchant marine, his strug- te Matvey?” 8 “With all my heart?” He looked | at the machine for a long time, | tations and the hardships ot | y life of the sailor and his workers. It is the story of a typical worker on an Ftiglish boat which covers every port. It deals with life on board as well as life on shore. “Rubicon” or “The Strike Breaker,” pre- sents a graphic picture of the hardship of the common seaman and his struggle against the slave! low wages of the shipowners. Here are the tropical ports of call with-its low life and its boisterous di nd saloons where the sailors gather and are fleeced of their The film also presents a new phase ot life on a Soviet ship where sailors are finds an atmosphere that is 80 different treated like human beings. Here the sailor that the seaman begins to see reason. It is around this idea that the story dwells The film alu shows life of the workers in the lumber camps of the Soviet Union. The film has a scenario by A. Mewskt and wes directed by Viadmir Weinchtak. Leading players in the cast include G. Samilov and A, Russmoy. |"Petrouchka” On Philhar-| monic Orchestra Program Thursday On Thursday evening, Fridey afternoon and Cundey afternoon, Toscanini will con- duet the Philharmonic Orchestra at Car- negie Hall in the first New York perform- ance of Molinati’s arrangement of Vivaldi’s Concerto in A major, Haydn's Sympho: in D major (“With the Horn Signal” Roger-Dueesse’s symphonic poem bande,” excerpts from “Petrouchk: Stravinsky and Wagner's Overture to “The Flying Dutchman.” The “Sarabande” will be given with a selected chorus from the Schola Cantorum. Mary Lewis, soprano, will give her recital next Sunday afternoon at Town Hall. WHAT’S ON SPRING TERM WORKERS SCHOOL— Registration is open. York, Register now before the r ANTHONY BIMBA, speaks on American Civil War and Its Lessons, Coney Island: Workers Club, 2874 W St, Admission free: FILM SECTION OF FILM and Photo League meets at 12 E. 17th St. All members present. i E. P. GREEN, lectures on “Imperialism, at Washington Heights Workers Center, 4046 Broadway near 17ist St., 8 p. m. NATIONAL CONVENTION Against Un- employment, report by J. Stone et open | meeting of Sacco Vanzetti Br. I. L. D., 792 E. Tremont Ave., Bronx. 8:30 p.m. Also rport on latest developments in the Scotts- bora ease. SCOTTSBORO PROTEST MEETING at Walter Rojek Br. I, L. D., 82 Graham Ave. Brooklyn, 8 p. m. Speakers: Ruby Bates and Harold Alexander. Admission tree. LECTURE “Soviet Health Service — tts significance to the American worker and doctor” by Dr. Louis L. Schwartz, will- iamsburg Br. F. 8. U., Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Willoughby Ave. 8:30 p, m. Admission. 15c. OPEN FORUM “The Situation in In land,” Speaker “William -Donlan, at West Side Workers Center, 984 Columbus Ave. near 104th St, 8:30 p. m, DAILY WORKER CHORUS rehearsal at 35 E. 12th St., fifth floor. 8p. m. Prepar- ing for Music Olympiad women, voices needed. Newark, N. J. WILLIAM BROWDER, business mi ager New Masses, lectures on “The Teaching of | Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM-_ Karl Marx," et Jack London Club, 230 Court St. Wednesday, March Ith at & p.m, Admission 15c. 2 35.E. 12th St., New| 8:30 p. m.| |and sheds for storing cargoes, are now virtually silent, grave yards. Longshoremen, nine out of every ten of whom are Negroes, sit around (those who have not been able to get C.W.A. jobs) waiting hopelessly |for a call to. work a day or two once a week or once in two weeks. And when they do work they can- not earn enough to support them- |selves and their families and con- | Sequently, have to appeal for char- | ity. Many dock-workers have found | it actually a disadvantage to get oc- casional work loading or unload- | ing ships for even if they sweat at | the killing labor for two days they get ony $5.60 at the maximum wage scale. This wage has to do them for the week or two they have to wait until another ship is loaded or unloaded. Many do not earn even this much and when they appeal for government relief it is refused on the ground that they have jobs! | Hence, a large number of longshore- jmen have simply stopped going to of the masters and the | the docks, prefering the certainty | jot @ little charity relief to the un- | certainty of occasional underpaid | work. | By putting together those facts and figures which are available. in- complete as they are and talking with government relief business men, white collar, skilled jand unskilled workers, it was pos- |sible to arrive at approximate figures showing what happened here since the depression. hea | ed out of every four persons out of the total population of 460,000 is absolutely destitute. This class depends upon charity for every piece of bread it eats. The charity these destitute persons get has de- creased considerably in the last two years and is still decreasing. These are the ones who get direct relief. To these must be added that countless number which is working part time or full time only occa- sionally and thus earning something once in a while and those who are living off relatives and friends who still have a few dollars or a job. Organized labor here, since the depression, has been completely shattered. Once this city was an |American Fetleration of Labor stronghold. Most crafts were or- officials, | last |@nd the miles of concrete docks,|Wemployment situation. With all | the millions the government poured jinto New Orleans and Mississippi, less than 3 per cent of the unem- Ployed registered for government jobs have been given work: and many of those who have been given work were placed on temporary jobs, which might be from a day to a couple of weeks. The political situation here is | only a minor factor in the lives and | activities of city residents. Huey Long is not a factor in New Orleans conditions except insofar as his state controlled dock board keeps a few ships away by high docking charges. His strongest hold is on the farmer. The increasing depths of the depression is actually Tally- ing an increasing number of per- sons to his demagogic appeals for “share the wealth—spread the work.” With every newspaper ex- cept his own weekly, bitterly op- posing him, he nevertheless doubled his city following at the last Mayor- alty election. |__I think this is significant because the election of the Long opposition candidate for Mayor has been hail- ed far and wide as a sign that Long |is finished. The fact is that Long | never carried New Orleans, and at jthe last election instead of meeting | with a “crushing defeat” as the jcountry hailed it, he really doubled |the number of voters for his can- | didate. |. Whatever may be said of Long, his appeals to curb millionaires and spread the work is finding sym- pathetic ears. I believe that if he Were not such an absurd mounte- bank, his appeals would have ral- lied the whole state and city to his banner, for there is a strong re- sentiment here against the rich in general and wide-spread approval |for high taxation of incomes. The feeling in the city, however, does not compare with the intensity found in the Mississippi farming area. One of the very curious things about this undercurrent of resent- ment and rebellion in this city is that it is scarcely noticeable among the unskilled workers who are liv- ing on charity yet quite pronounced among the white collar workers who are destitute as well as those with some sort of jobs. (To Be Continued) AMUSE MENTS THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JOHN WEXLEY'S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE |] ROYALE 7s, 43th st... w. of Broadway. Eves, 8:20, Mats, Thursday and Saturday, 2:20 EUGENE O'NEILL’s Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD Thea., 524 St. W. of Bway Ey.8.20Mats. Thur. &Sat.2.30 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN ‘Thes., 52d St., W. of B’way Ey.8.209 ur. &Sat.2.20 “Her Master’s Voice” Roland YOUNG and Laura Hope CREWS in Thea., W. 45th St, Evs, 8.40 Plymouth yrsis’'Mon., Thurs. & Sai. O MORE LADIES | MELVIN DOUGLAS, | MOROSCO Thea., | 9:50. Mats, We | PIEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE LUCILE Thurs, and Sat, at 2:45 MONS, Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN, wi GARDEN, B'way & 50th. Evs. 8.30 {| Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with | WATSON | 45th, W. of Bway, Evs. | RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 508taé Rea aU SIC the Nation M. Opens 11:30 A. KATHARINE HEPBURN in“ SPITFIRE” Second MUSIC HALL REVUE on stage BKO Jefferson a att | Now rd Ave, | Richard BALTHELMESS, Ann DVORAK A in | MASSACRE” © “ENLIGHTEN THY DAUGHTER” with HERBERT RAWLINSON —LAST 3 DAYS— Palestine ti TODAY! || THE NATIVES, JEW AND ARAB Sing; Dance; Demonstrate; Work | in “The Dream Of My People” with Cantor Rosenbi att Added Feature “LOT in SODOM* ACME THEATRE (hn se Union 8q. Theatre Union's Stirring Play LAST WEEK! THE ANTI-WAR IAT! PEACE ON EARTH | CIVIC REPERTORY Thea., 14thSt.&6thaAve | WA. 9-7450, Bugs, 8.45. 30° to$4 50 NO * | Mets. Wed. & Sat. 2.30,