The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 16, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE THE WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN T LEAST one reader of the Daily Worker didn’t like my column on the farmers in Wednesday’s issue. For I find Bruce Bliven, editor of The New Republic, writing to me that: ae “Reading the Daily Worker, as I do every day with in- terest and astonishment, I notice some unfriendly remarks by yourself regarding my articles on the farm situation in the Middle West, published in The New Republic of Novem- ber 22 and November 29, 1933. “What I wrote, or didn't write, is of no importance in comparison with the desperate economic plight in which millions of farrcrs find themselves today; but just for the sake of my record, I should like to say that your summary of my articles is absolutely incorrect and is not justified by the text, which I can only surmise you have not read. You say that I ‘returned with the report that things were rather agreeable out in the farm country...’ * . * “] Think Every Fair-Minded Person Must Admit” “YOUR article in the Datly Worker implies that everything in my articles was based upon an investigation of the attitudes of several hundred farmers toward Roosevelt, the N.R.A. and the various govern- ment subsidy plans, made by The Des Moines Register and Tribune. ‘They were not, and I never said or suggested that they were. My dis- ‘cussion was ten and two-thirds columns long, and I devoted one and a half columns to summarizing the results of the Register and Tribune investigation. . . . So far as I know, no radical group has ever tried to make a similar investigation. “J said in my articles that distributing several hundred million dollars of government in the Middle West would allay farmer discontent for the present. I think every fair-minded person must now admit “hat this has happened. Obviously, if conditions don’t improve, active discontent, farm strikes, ete., will return.” * * . What Is The Central Issue? . BLIVEN, what is the central issue between us? Is it a question as to the extent and effectiveness of your investigations in the ‘West, or the lack of similar investigations on our part? It seems to me that the real issue is the Daily Worker's position on the Roosevelt program for the farmers, as against the New Republic’s position— as revealed in your articles. Your central point is “that distributing several hundred million dollars of government money in the Middle ‘West would allay farmer discontent for the present. I think every fair-minded person must now admit that this has happened.” " Now it is true that Roosevelt has poured about $80,000,000 into the farm belt of the Middle Wes; and South—cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, etc. The implication of your position is that these grants by the Roosevelt government have actually worked an improvement in the conditions of the majority of toiling farmers with a resultant decline of discontent. “Generally speaking,” you say, “the farmers’ “position today is somewhat better than it was a year ago, but not enough better to end his discontent.” You then go on to say that “there is no doubt that many thousands of farmers of the Middle West are in an angry mood, or more accu- rately, in a mood of angry despair.” In these two sentences you give us in a nutshell the key to your class bias in reporting the farm conditions in the United States today. For you do not tell us—and this is the key to the Roosevelt farm program—that the farmer whose “position is today somewhat better than a year ago,” is the rich farmer, the landlord, labor-employing farmer, the strata which correspondents in America to what is known in the Soviet Union as the “kulak” strata of the agrarian population. . * . . Who Are The Beneficiaries? ‘OU must be aware, Mr. Bliven, that the Roosevelt subsidies have been granted to those who can afford to reduce their acreage It has been granted to the landlord, plantation owners whose “surplus” produce has no longer a place in a capitalist world market glutted with excess supplies. It is obvious, and all recent government studies bear me out on this point, that the small farmer (who, by the way, makes. up the majority of the farm population) and the 2,000,000 agricultural laborers (whose existence apparently escaped you despite your intensive researches) have not been in a position to receive any of the generous bounties flowing from the government treasury through the politically-controlled offices of the A.A.A. For the small farmer to reduce acreage is to commit economic suicide. It is to sign himself voluntarily into pauperism. What the small farmer needs is not reduced acreage, but the loosening of the grip of the greedy bankers and kulak sharks. And the Roosevelt government—whose program you do not attack—by its price-raising, acreage-reducing program, is choking off whatever market is still left to the small farmer, driving him still deeper into bankruptey and pauperism. . * * say that you “can only surmise” that I have not read your articles in their entirety. As a matter of fact, I not only read your own articles, but the article by Miss Josephine Herbst on the Second National Farmers Conference in Chicago, in the first issue of the weekly New Masses, which the “New Republic” rejected after i had been solicited. What is more, I also read and studied the revealing exchange of letters between you and Miss Herbst which ac- companied Miss Herbst’s article, and which eloquently exposed the pretenses to objectivity of liberal journalism. ‘<<< In your letter you write that you read the Daily Worker “every --tleay with interest and astonishment.” We are glad to learn that you read the paper with interest; as for your “astonishment”—is it perhaps “@ue to the fact that the Daily Worker takes a clear-cut class position “on all questions, in contrast to the liberal, petty-bourgeois position ‘of the New Republic? Mr. Biiven, you say that I am “not justified” in saying that you “returned with the report that things were rather agreeable out in the farm country.” Tt is true that you reported many “distressing” facts, but characteristic of liberal journalism, your conclusions—explicit and implicit—as well as the pervasive atmosphere of your articles conveyed a spirit of extreme optimism. My view, incidentally, is com- pletely substantiated in the last paragraph of your letter. . * . * Will You Answer Some Questions? | bilan dln: Gt teased apt tes snes as it affects not only the rich fatmers but the vast majority of small farmers, strangled by mortgage burdens to finance capital? Have you investigated precisely how many small farmers have had their mort- gage burdens lifted by the loans of the Farm Land Banks of the Roosevelt, government? . * * * Haye you heard, for example, of the 200,000 tenant and share- 9,000,000. Negroes on the plantations in the South? If you have read the Daily Worker with the same interest and thoroughness with which you boast, you would no doubt have been “astonished” by the Workers Correspondence whieh has appeared in it, describing how the Roosevelt acreage reduction program has become The Activities Purpese of the City Clu bs By J. LANDY (Seeretary of City Club Council) iE of the most important prob- lems that has been troubling the | Bnglish speaking club movement in New York has finally been settled. Shall the clubs be organized on a “class struggle” basis, or shall they mask their class-consciousness to “attract American boys or girls?” The second annual conference of the City Club Council held recently | settled this question of policy. Clubs must, the conference pointed out, be definitely established on the principle of class struggle. Sinee the very inception of the city club movement this question of policy had been bone of contention | between opposing viewpoints in the clubs. 3 “Our clubs are attracting Ameri- can boys and girls who in most in- stances have never before belonged to any working class organization,” argued those members who opposed the class struggle policy. “Young white-collar workers and students are less class-conscious than shop workers; they have been educated jto fear the Reds. We must keep the class struggle aspect of the club in the id, The members must be ‘educated’ in study groups and cultural activities and then in- troduced to the class struggle. Of course, the Daily Worker cannot be officially endorsed by the club be- cause it would scare prospective members.” Upholders of this viewpoint fur- ther pointed to the 100 per cent membership turnover after two years of club work, that there were as yet only about 26 clubs in the city with a membership of 1,700. But the conference answered this argument to the satisfaction of the vast majority of the membership. It | was pointed out that these argu- ments merely proved the need for an open class struggle face on the part of the clubs. Our clubs will grow only in direct proportion to the number of working class activi- ties they will conduct in their neighborhoods. Members leave the club because they become tired with only debates, dances. They will welcome the Daily Worker as the link between their neighborhood struggles and those of the entire working class. * * MAJOR weakness of the club movement is the almost com- plete absence of shop workers and Negroes in our clubs. Certainly there is no conscious white chau- vinism. But none of the clubs made @ special effort to attract Negroes even though some of them are ac- tually located in Negro neighbor- hoods. Only one club, the West Side Workers Club, has a large per- centage of shop workers. One of our most backward fronts, unemployed work, seems to have advanced* somewhat following the National Unemployed Convention in Washington to which we sent six delegates. In Williamsburg two Tammany ciubs sent delegates to an unemployed conference inaugu- rated by us, and one of them even invited the Progressive Culture Club to send an anti-war speaker. (Concluded Tomorrow) Copland in Recital at Degeyter Club Tonight NEW YORK. — Aaron Copland, composer-pianist, will appear in a recital of original compositions at the Pierre Club, 5 E. 19th St., tonight at 8:15. Assisting artists will be Lilla Kalman, violinist; Syl- via Sapiro, pianist; David Freed, ‘cellist, and John Kirkpatrick, | pianist. Artef Production of Gorky Play Is Seen by 18,000 Workers NEW YORK.—More than 18,000 workers have alteady seen Maxim Gorky’s drama, “Yegor Bulitchey” produced by the Artef, the only Jewish workers’ art theatre in the United States. The play is pre- sented week-ends at the Heckscher Foundation Theatre, 104th St. and Fifth Ave. Workers are urged to make reservations by calling in person at 8 E. 18th St., or phoning the office of ee Artef, Tompkins Square 6-518t. | lectures and | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1934 and Leaders of the Proletarian Red Army of the U.S.S.R. Iv. Michael Tuchaischevski was born in 1893. He was a former officer in the Czarist army before the Rus- sian Revolution. He was taken prisoner during the war. After his release, he joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918. During the same year he worked in the military department of the Executive Com- mittee of the Soviets. The following year Tuchats- chevski took over the command of the First and Fifth Armies on the Eastern Front against the counter- revolutionary Kolehak. In 1920 he commanded the western front against Poland, and 1921 he led the | Seventh Army in liquidating the up- | rising in Kronstadt. | In the autumn of 1922 Tutchats- chevski became the head of the Military Academy, and in 1924 was appointed Chief of the General Staff. From 1925 on, he commanded |the Western Military District and | from 1928 of the Leningrad Military | School. Se am fae i meeyeee fey A Tutchatschevski is a member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council. At the present time he is Chief of ' Armaments. "The New Var Competitions | For the Theatre Festival | By HAROLD EDGAR pe final New York competition for the National Theatres to be held in Chicago brought forth the Workers Laboratory Theatre their well-known piece “Newsboy” ing groups and the Ukrainian Dra- ma Circle in a piece entitled, “Oh Yeah?”, as the winner for the for- eign language groups. The judges at this competition were John Bonn, Nathaniel Buchwald, Harry Hlion, Harold Edgar, V. I. Jerome, A. Tarnowsky. John Wexley acted as chairman. performed on this occasion as it TUNING IN BELOW 200 METERS Last week we were successful in pulling in the Moscow short wave station RV-59 with plenty of volume and, of course, plehty of static. The stgtion was received twice on March 11 and 13, between 4 and 6 p.m. Reception is improving Iately, so we hope to get reports from more cuc- cessful comrades. Comrade Semash reports that he re- ceived the following stations: HJIABB of Barranquiig, Colombia; OP-5, La Paz, Bolivia; and YV3BO, Caracas, Venemuela (ell from South America). oe ‘The second executive meeting of the clubs was held Monday, March 12, at tho Vogetarian Workers Club, 220 E. 14th St., iepresented: Bronx Club, Coop. Branch, 14th St. and Sheepshead Bay branches. There were also present the following sections from workers’ clubs: Hinsdale, Downtown, and Boro Park, In all, there were present 17 delegates. Tm his opening speech Comrade Bayda- rian, cheirman, outlined the line which the clubs should follow. After repor:s from all the delegates, the constitution was read, discussed and adopted. After a lengthy diNusston it was decided to change the name of the club from Workers Short Wave Radio Club to Short Wave Radio Clubs of America, Lecture in 14th St. Branch At the next meeting of the idth St. branch of the Short Wave Radio Club of America, which will be held today at 8:30 p.m. at 220 E. 14th St., Comrade Johnson of the Marine Workers Industrial Union will lecture on “The Strikes of the Manine Workers.” All are invited, * * * TONIGHT'’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke, 7.00 P.M.—Morton Bowe, Tenor 7:18—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Trappers Music 7:45—The Goldbergs—sketch 8:00—Concert Orch.; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quartet 9:00—Lyman Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor; Muriel Wilson, Soprano 9:30—Variety Musicale; Pic and Pat, Co- medians 10:00—First Nighter—Sketoh 10:30—Stoess Orch. 11:00—The Lively Arts—John Erskine, Au- thor 11:15—News; Danee Orch. 11:30—Lopez Orch. 12:00—Zollo Orch. . * . WOR—710 Ke. 7:18 P.M.—Front-Page Dramas 7:30—Sizzlers Trio :45—Club Car Special 8:00—Selvin Orch.; Jones and Here, Songs 8:30—Musical Revue 9:00-—Stories of the Sen Unemployed Writers Urges Registration Next Monday Morning NEW YORK —Pending action by the federal authorities on the pro- jects and demands for relief put forward by the organization, the Unemployed Writers’ Association is urging all jobless writers to parti- cipate in a mass registration next Monday morning, March 19 at 9 O'cleok at 124 E. 26th St. To raise funds for its organiza- tional activities the Unemployed Greenwich House, 29 Barrow St., near Sheridan Square, for this Saturday night, March 17th, “GENTLEWOMAN ” OPEN- ING MARCH 22nd Gentlewoman Opening March 22 barn On Thursday evening, March 28, the a monstrous weapon more intense oppression of the Negro shareeroppers of the * « . * * The Daily Worker and The New Republic Republic and the Daily Worker is that the Daily Worker gives the truth of the situation because it is aware of the irreconciliable class struggle which exists not only in the factories but on the countryside BANQUET TONIGHT as well, whereas the New Republic aims to conceal and distort the Section 15 of the Communist Party will stacks of the N.R.A. on the tolling farm population. “Your pretense | hail 8 convention banquet tonight in to impartiality is therefore deceitful; our insistence upon what you | Bronx. Mass organisations have been ine ber struggle ‘ . 9:15—Book Play 9:30—Variety Musicale 10:00—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen, Songs; Rendolfers Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Rread 10:30—Jack Arthur, Baritone 10:45—Sports—Boake Carter 11:00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Nelson. Oreh. 12:00—Bvern Orch. * WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Amos 'n' Andy 7:15—Stradivarius Quartet 7:30—George Gershwin, Piano; Orch. 1:45—Gus Van, Songs; Arlene Jackson, So: ngs 8:00-—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel Concert etch: 9:00—Leah Ray, Songs; Harr! 9:30—Phil Baker, ‘Mears. Songs; Belasco Orch. 10;00—Felix Salmond, ‘Cello; Violet Kem- bi r, Readings; Victor Wittgen- stein, Piano 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Lucile Man- 11:00—Three Scamps, Songs 11:18—News Reports 11:20—Anthony Frome, Tenor 11:30—To Be Announced 12:00—Kvale Orch. = Ws WABC—-860 Ke. eee Orch.; Jimmy Kemper, gs '7.45—News—Brake Carter ape Tsp Orch.; Men About Town io 8:15—News—Edwin ©. Hill Time 9:30—Jack Whiting, Songs; Jeanie Leng, Songs; Denny Orch. 10:00—Olser, and Johnson, Comedians; Sosnick Oreh. 10:30—Mary Eastman, Soprano; Concert Orch. 11;00—Oherles Carlile, Tenor 11:15—News; Jones Orch, 11:48—Busse Orch. 12:00—Belasca Orch, in} as the winner of the English speak- | “Newsboy” was not quite as well | New York City. The following clubs were | was at the semi-final competition: It lacked the speed and the tense pulsation that it needs for com- plete effectiveness. But the very |miliar with it to study its elements }more. clearly. taking characteristic moments everyday drama—most jof them | fairly banal when baldly’ presented {on a purely factual level—and by |throwing them into lightning co: |sense of an illuminating vision, a |Mmessage communicated with an in- jescapable emotional conviction as of a truth revealed in a flash of in- spiration. The content of the piece | citing and thrilling in its rightness. though what it says is after all | quite simple and the details which are used for saying it are ordinary. That is why this piece—a thing to who are engaged in the task of evolving short dramatic forms for the revolutionary platform. is that they either confine them- selves to a recitation of the most elementary slogans or, when they are more ambitious, develop into routine skits making a very thread- vincing when one reads them in a Daily Worker or New Masses re- | port. What in life would be a very |moving incident becomes in such |presentation a | Slightly stagey retelling of a thrice- | told tate. Realisni as such demands | | thoroughness, and thoroughness of |this Kind is almost impossible to | | achieve in any but the longer forms. eee * Upees is the problem then: to be |44 brief and simple, but to achieve |at the same time theatrical novelty |and interest. To be true, but to be }pungent and unexpected even the use of the most usual mate- rials. “Boots, Shoes, Amen!”, the contribution of the American Youth Club, shows real promise and ability, but nevertheless is incom- pletely successful because its per. fectly valid story presented in a foreshortened “realistic” form does | fessor Schmaltzhausen |Presented by the New Expermental | Theatre, which is an attempt to | show the anarchy of capitalist eco- |nomics in an amusingly vaudeville- esque way, fails because it is no wittily written, not imaginatively |staged. much too long, and a little slovenly rehearsed, ‘The Ukrainian group was chosen |to represent the foreign language contingent, despite the very funny farcical satire on the Jewish Daily Forward presented by the Coney Is- land Workers Club. This was fiu- ently and idiomatically written with a certain authentic savor unusual in agit-prop sketches, and was and natural energy. But the latter piece compared with the Ukrainian, was much too local in its interest, too special in its content. The Ukrainians oyercame the language barrier, made the social ideology of their number thoroughly clear, and their simple but easy acting lent the work a degree of racy charm. Their make-ups, too, were better than average, and except for a negligent treatment of the final chorus of workers displayed an almost pro- fessional competence. * . | Nine competent than profes- Sionals, more attractive than the most glorified showgirls, were the Young Pioneers in scenes from Harry Alan Potamkin’s “Strike Me Red.” These pieces in themselves point to the right way in the han- dling of children’s material in revo- lutionary education and in the rev- olutionary theatre. The children are not required to imitate grown- ups but are encouraged to use their own directness, enthusiasm and clarity. Rarely anywhere have we seen such zest of performance, such true rhythm, such sponta- neous unity, such unselfconscious adjustment to stage and audience. And the variety of types—Negro boys and girls, Italians, Jews, Irish —all of them with fresh responses, joyous discipline, delighted inter- play and complete sense of belong- ing together offered not only the highest point of the evening's plea- sure, but a thrilling symbol of the future of the revolutionary prole- tarian movement. We say this with no feeling of making a “permissible exaggera- tion,” but the fact of the matter is all the workers’ theatres have much to learn from these children of the Young Pioneers of America. The applause and the cheers of the au- dience were the abandoned kind one never hears on Broadway and which make the workers theatre when its efforts “click” a truly com- Plete theatre, acted with considerable freedom | Slowing up of the performance per- | mitted those of us who were fa-| This piece exceis by) of | trast with one another creating the | | becomes not only creditable, but ex- | slight | be sure—should be used | A for purposes of instruction by those | ‘Phe pitfall in most of these pieces | half - convincing | in| Artists Union to Open Its First Exhibition in New York This Sunday “So They H For What They Can Get” NEW YORK.—The newly-formed Artists’ Union (formerly the Unem- ployed Artists’ Association) will open its first exhibition in its new By JOHN L. SPIVAK Pare Five ave to Work of the country,” he said. "This ime he talked as though Re hed leasned headquarters, 11 W. 18th St. this ‘ : eet, “hee x Oe Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock) NEW ORLEANS.—During See y. mee Among those represented will be gaia .. te t of ia fortunes throngh in- the several hundred artists who| the course of my talk with coitance tal iacead Geek, Foe have Paagscatge & in cage er Mr. William Donnele, editor! jjeve in the profit system byt I battles for jobs and against lay-offs ae hink ought to be curbed and wage-cuts in connection with of the Federationist, organ of Sink. peer eer clang eae tees artists’ jobs under the C. W. A The newest battle to be under- taken by the Artists Union will be for permanent public exhibition space for all artists, to be financed by the municipal government the Louisiana State Federa- tion of Labor, I had tained the answers to most of questions I put to see how much this editor of la- already ascer- the All workers are urged to Laprte bor’s official publication really knew this exhibition and to support the! (¢ Conditions in his own city. I first Artists’ Union ever formed. asked questions about relief work jobs, simply did charity, government wage scales—he know. The only; thing he had a fairly compre- hensive idea of union not WHAT’S ON Friday | was the ‘building SPRING TERM Workers School. Regis-|trades because tration open, 35 E. 12th St., New Yor he used to build houses and make a living collect- ing rent. Since the depression non-emp loy ment or employ- ment at wages below living iiiaam . Costs, “msde tt Jon L. SPIVAK impossible for him to get his rents so he lost his properties. This worried him more Harlem International Br. F.8.U., 87 West |than anything else. However, some 128th Bt., 8:50 p.m. First of a series of of the facts he gave me were ac- lectures. | Speaker, Neshino. ; aarters | curate. of Film tnd Photo eases iE. ith Bt., “The full force of the depression.” 8:30 p.m. Auspices, National Students| he said, was not felt here until two years ago when the whole banking system here collapsed, taking with it the Homestead Banks. These when they failed, brought about a loss of 30 per cent of the privately owned homes in the city. Before this there had been between 35,000 and 40,000 privately owned homes.” “How did these people feel when Register now before the rush. RACE HUTCHINSON, lecture on “New Is in a New World” at Tremont Prog , 866 EB, Tremont Ave. 8:45 p.m JEROME es on “The Revolt of the Austrian Workers lowers of Nature, 12 E. 17th St., Dancing aft Armed at Pol- 8:30 p.m. W. 115th St. Concert he benefit of the Harlem American and American Music. Adm. 20¢ LECTURE on Japanese Imperialism Fighting for the Darker Races’? at the | League. CONCERT Copland Si of original works by Aaron Soloists: Lilla Kalman, Sylv ira, David Freed, John Krikpatrick an ston Coplan. Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St., 8:15 p.m. Adm. 25¢. ATTENTION I.W.O. Members. The LW. ©. Symphony Orchestra reheersals Friday and Tuesday nights at Harlem Center, 415 Lenox Ave. 7 p.m “PROGRESS OF WOMEN in the Soviet Unoin” illustrated lecture with slides bY/the banking system collapsed— Suzanne Woodruff at Mt. Eden Workers |“) ; - Center, 288 FE. 174th St., 8:30 p.m. Ques-| When they lost their homes and were thrown upon charity?” “They condemned the Homestead tions. Discussion. Adm. free. THIRD ANNUAL Celebration of Women's Council 28, Concert and Dance at the A headquarters of Geseng Farein, 2700; Banks. They lost confidence in the Barker Ave. Bronx, Good Jazz Band. | capitalistic system under which this Admission 196. ONE YEAR of Hitler Dictatorship. Open wm at German Workers’ Club, 79 B St., Qnd floor, Speaker: A. Harris, | 2NC free. e | Organization through legitimate NE’ INGLISH Bronx Br. 807 meets|trade unions—craft organizations [1st and 8rd Friday at 2075 Clinton Ave. | working through the A. F. of L.” | For information write to A. Sipskin, 2141} king é ‘ | Mapes Ave. | ALPRED RUNGE lectures on “Latest Developments in Cuba” at Mosholu Pros.| WW «: : Club, 3220 Bainbridge Ave. cor. Reservoir| Son left with me is that he | Oval, 8:45 p.m. has not the faintest idea of how | COMRADE MARTEL lectures on “paris | even strong craft unions could pos- Commune and the Russian Revolution” | sibly alter the capitalist system. He at the Prospect Workers Center, 1157 50. | was simply repeating parrot-like Bouleverd. ‘, LECTURE “Bourgeoisie Democracy vs|Phrases about craft organization, country is run.” “What's the solution then—theit's and yours?” 'E DISCUSED this. The impres- 8:30 p.m. Adm. i0e. | hopelessness. In the course of our | CARL REEVE lectures on “Unemploy-/ conversation I brought him back ment and War” at Social Youth Culture | Club, 275 Broadway. 8:30 pm. Adm, ide,|t0 the membership of the Central SADIE VAN VEEN speaks on “The His-| Trades and finally he said confi- torical Role of the Women” at the Prog. | dentially: Community Center, $53 E. 93rd St “Tl tell you what figure Demp- HARRY GANNES lectures on ‘The War ‘ ioe Glouds in the Far East’ at the Prospect | ©Y Will give you. Park Br. F.S.U., 1071 Berger St., near) number at 40,000, but I think it’s Nostrand Ave., 8:45 p.m. Adm. 15. | Somewhere around 15,000.” OAK, editor Soviet Russia LISTON M. y, lectures on “With 15,000 members the Cen- |tral Trades cannot afford an office or a telephone?” “Well, not all of the members are paying dues. You see, so many of | them have not worked for so long ter, 105 Thatford Ave |a time that they simply cannot pay MAX BEDACHT speaks on “The Aus-| when they fell six trian Situation” at 148-29 Liberty Ave.|months in arrears they were auto- Jamaica; 830 p.m, Auspices, LW.O. Br.| matically dropped but now we have box extended the arrears to a year and ASTORIA FORUM lecture on “Social In- | 3 surance” by Babuschkin at 25-20 Astoria| When they still cannot pay we ac- Revolt in Ai Fascism and the Second Fivi ‘Year "at American Youth Club, 407 Rock- Ave away | COMRADE ZOLOTAROFF, of the Arteff troupe, will speak on “The Role of the Theatre” at the Brownsville Youth Cen- But I was curious He'll place the | Boulevard (Crescent Theatre Building) 8.30 | p.m. Adm. free. Saturday ENTERTAINMENT and Dance, at Ger-| not altogether escape the curse of | man workers’ Club, 79 BE. 10th St., 2nd| triteness. On the other hand, “Pro- | fr. First Steps In,” | p, lass Bend. Contribution 15c. | GALA PROLETARIAN Revel at Dunbar| alace E 2389 Seventh Ave. near 138th St. | Jazz Johnson's Orchestra; Hortons Afri- jcans’ Dancers, Unity Theatre, Italian | Worker Chorus, David Koilseritta, Mara Tartar. Auspices, Friends of the Harlem | Workers School. Adm. 49c. i} MAEQUE of all nations, at Office Work- | ers Union, 114 W. 14th &t., 5-Piece Jazz! Band, entertainment, refreshments, Prizes for most original costumes. | 35¢. | FIRST SHOWING of the Revolutionary Murals drawn by Phil Bard at the club- | rooms of the Dally Worker Volunteers, 33 E. 12th St., Sth floor. Louis Lozowick will | speak. Followed by dancing to Negro Jazz Band. Adm. 15c. GALA DANCE Unemployed Writers As- | sociation. Greenwich House, 27 Barrow Bt. Sheridan Square. Novelty entertainment by member of Theatre Union. Red Hot Jazz Band, 8 p.m. Subscription 35c. SPORT CARNIVAL and Dance at Tre- mont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave. Wrestling, boxing exhibition and ping- pong finals. Good jazz band, 9 p.m. GRAND OPENING Boro Park Cultural Center, 5602 13th Ave. Concert and dance, Entertainment, Negro Jazz Band. Revue Artists, 8 p.m. Adm. 290, VICTORY BALL given by the Workers Subscription | | of the Grand Metal Products 8.M.W.1.U. at the Cli-Grand Yo St., 8 pan. Music by Texans. Subscription 35¢ Boston, Mass, SPECIAL attention to all mass organi- zations and Trade Unions in Greater Bos-| ton, Be sure that your organtzation has its representative at the first Greater Boston Daily Worker Conference to be) March 16, at 8 p.m. Dudley | 5 louse, 113 Dudley 8t., Roxbury. | HOUSE PARTY Friday, March 16, at 8| P.m. at home of Lee Kaplan, 52 Brunswick | St. Roxbury. Adm, 10c. Auspices, Amer- jean Workers Chorus. | Philadelphia | MARINE Workers Industrial Union Dance and Entertainment, Friday, March 16 at 312 South Second St. Adm. 6c. 10th JUBILEE Concert of the Freihelt Gesangs Farein, Friday, March 16, at 8:30) p.m. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Sreets. Oratorio “Tzwei Brieder.” Tickets can be obtained from all members of the Chorus. | Newark, N. J. MASQUERADE BALL and Concert given) by Jewish Workers Club of Newark at Jewish Neighborhood House, 21 Seren- teenth Ave, Prizes for best masks. Popular Orchestra, Adm. 30c. Saturday, March 17, at 8 p.m. Detroit, Mich, | LECTURE “Tasks of the American Workers in the Next War” by J. Brown) at Finnish Hall, 5969—i4th St., Sunday, | March 18, 3 p.m. Adm. 5c. Auspices C.P. Sect. 5. aa Cincinnati, Ohio COMMEMORATE Paris Commune Anni- versary at Richelieu Hall, 8 p.m. on Sun- day, March 18. Speaker: Bob Gunkel. Chicago, Ill, BIG Y.C.L. DANCE Sunday, March 18, at 2218 W. Madison St. SPARTACUS CLUB Br. 739 I. W.O. ts holding a Charter Dance Sunday, March 18, 8 p.m. at 4652 N. Kedsie Ave. Adm. 35c. Music by Lou Brownie and his or- chestra. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance Saturday, | March 17, at 548 Wiscongin St., 8 p.m.) Club, 380 Grand Rich and his arranged by North Bide Organigational | Comm. for Unemployment and Sociel In- surance, cept a note for their dues.” “Then most of your membership is non-paying. You're just carrying dead-heads along to swell the num- ber of members?” “I wouldn't call them dead-heads. They are members in good standing who have given notes for their dues.” “How many have given notes?” He smiled and shrugged his shoul- ders. “About half. Maybe more.” “Then actually what the Central Trades claims, allowing for due ex- | aggeration, is something like 7,000 paying members?” “That’s about right.” “How many of the workers who | are working full time are earning a living wage?” “Searcely any.” “What, as a labor leader, do you sides organizing into craft unions?” “We must redistribute the wealth large, thet would tend to make the employer pay a larger wage.” He co’ not explain how a large income tax would achieve this. “What's the union wage scale for carpenters, plasterers, bricklayers?” I asked. ‘Seventy-five cents an hour,” he said glibly. These were the figures the gov- nment report had for the scale of m labor in New Orleans for rhich is generally the country y are actually getting seventy-five cents an hour?” “Very few. But that’s the umion scale.” I know. What I want to know ts how many are actually getting the rate you and the government gtyes?” “Scarcely any,” he said finally ‘You see, they can't get it because of conditions, So they have to work for whatever they can get.” “What did the plasterer’s or the bricklayer’s or the carpenter’s unions do about it? “Nothing. It wasn’t practicable for the unions to do anything about it, Things were in a bad way and if a man couldn't get 75 cents an hour then the union let him get what he could.” “Then the union was useless?” “I wouldn't say that. That was the union seale but they coutdn't get it, see?” “Then it isn’t the union scale if they work for what they can get?” “Sure it’s the union scale. But they couldn't get it so they got less.” “T see.” (To he continued) Stage and Sereen “Rubicon,” Soviet Film, At | Acme Theatre Tomorrow Rubicon” or “The Strike-Breaker,” a Soviet film produced by Belogoskino in |the U.8.8.R, will be presented at the |Acme Theetre beginning this Saturday. “Rubicon” or “The Strike-Breaker,”” an intensely interesting and engrossing | story of Bill Parker, a British seaman |who is a stoker in an English boat, and | who has travelled all over the world and | has tasted every form of life in his call- |ing. Bill has known little else beside the vile conditions in the steaming hold, the cramped dirty forecastle and the rotten food on board the British boat. On shore bare dramatic narration of stories | Revolution” at Hinsdale Workers Youth|craft unions, in a subdued sort of | Bill knew little else beside the flop houses, that are more graphic and con- | “lub, 572 Sutter Ave the waterfront saloon and the creatur |who prey on the sailor. Bill even be- |comes a strike-breaker when his fellow | Workers rebel against the low wages and rotten food. | By chance, Bill gets # berth on a Soviet steamer. Here he finds life so different 80 changed, that he can't understand the change at first Tt js. around this idea thet the story develops | graphic pleture of life of today in the Soviet Merchant Marine. The picture also presents an intimate view of conditions jin_a Soviet lumber camp. | _ The cast includes mostly sailors of the | Soviet Merchant Marine and workers in a lumber camp im nortBern Ri The | film, which ts now rei in synch: | nized form by Amkino, ha: | A. Mewskt and was directed by Viadimir | Weichtak. A. Sandiov and A. Russinov | Play the leading roles. | George White’s “Scandals” On Music Halil Screen Tt gives a George White's “Scandals,” a musical film screened from the comedy of the | same name, is now showing at the Radio | City Music Hall. Rudy Vallee, Jimmy | Durante nd Alice Faye are featured in the production. The stage show this week has “Repeal the Blues.” by Johnny Green and James Dryenforth, staged for the first time, with | Alice Dawn singing the leading role. Other musical numbers include “Hispa with | Pauline Koner; Henrietta Schumann, | Pianist, who plays Listt’s “Hungarian Pantasy” and ‘Wedgewood,’ with Evelyn Duerler and Hilda Eckler. Paul Muni In “Hi, Nelite” At | The Jefferson "Hi, Nellie,” with Paul Muni and Glenda Farrell will be shown on the Jefferson screen beginning Saturday. “Gallant | Lady" with Ann Harding and Glive Brook | is on the same program. we | think is the solution to all this, be- | nesday the Jefferson will present “Tong | Lost Father" with John Barrymore and | Helen Chandler, and “Search for Beauty’ | with Larry Crabbe and Ids Lupino. AMUSEMENTS eaSeil Into FE. very Port!—Starting Tomorrow! AMKINO Presents "RUBICON” ‘The STRIKEBREAKER’ A SOVIET PICTURE Produced by BELOGOSKINO In the U.5.S.R. NOW SYNCHRONIZED — ENGLISH TITLES LAST DAY ACME THEATRE | PALESTINE* 14th Union Square 8 It Is Today — “The Dream of My People” with Canter Rosenblatt Street and MIDNITE SHOW ‘SATURDAY THE THEATRE GUILD presente—) RADIO CITY MUSIC JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE ROYALE Mats, ILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. CORAN GUILD Thea., 524 St. W. of B’way Ev.8.20Mats, Thur.&Sat.2,30 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Pley “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN AL HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN Thes., S24 St., W. of B'way Ev.8,20Mats.Thur.&Sat.2.20 O MORE LADIES A New Comedy by A. H. Thomas with MELVIN DOUGLAS, LUCILE WATSON MOROSCO Thes., , W. of Biway. Evs 8:50, Mats, Wed., Thurs, and Sat, at 2:45 ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by JEROME KARN & OTTO BABBACK NE ITERDAM, W. 424 St. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 ‘Evgs. 8.90 50 St & 6 Ave—Bhow Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M. RUDY 4 ALICE JIMMY VALEE FAYE DURANTE George White Scandals And a great Music Hall Stage Show | EKO Jefferson 1h 5.4 | Now | Richard BALTHELMESS, Ann DVORAK in “MASSACRE” Also “ENLIGHTEN THY DAUGHTER” with HERBERT RAWLINSON Theatre Union's Stirring Play LAST WEEK! THE ANTI-WAR HIT! |PEACE ON EARTH CIVIC REPERTORY Thea., 14thSt.a@thAve WA. 9-7450, Evgs, 8.45, 30° to be bay NO Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2.20. ‘TAX | 7 TEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Witt 101 & Eugene HOWABD, Bartlett SIM- Mi Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, Bray & 50th. Eva. 8.96 Matinees Tharsday and Saturday 2:30 ) i