The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 23, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1934 Page Five writes A. C. M., Paper. for better treatment of the poor CHANGE | —-THE — | WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN 4 MONG a number of letters that came in response to the expose of conditions in Morrisania Hospital in New York, which appeared in Wednesday’s column, two contain criticism of my own comment. “It is because I have read your column with so much pleasure,” “that I regret very much your reply to the letter _describing conditions in Morrisania Hospital, printed in Wednesday's “Tt is true that the nurses in the hospitals are exploited and that they should be organized against that expleitation. But I think to excuse their conduct on such grounds is wrong. It seems to me that the course to be followed should be a firm and determined fight patients. This should come first. Especially better treatment of the colored poor patients. “It is true that overwork has a part in the heartless attitude of the nurses. But there is also the attitude which has been fostered in them, of contempt for the poor, and race hatred. To fight this attitude by mass pressure for the unfortunate patients, upon those responsible for conditions in the only make the lot of the patients easier, it will bring forcibly to the | A program of about 20 minutes, hospital, the authorities will not minds of the nurses and other employes the working-class point of view, which does not condone such crimes, no matter under what excuse. This contact with the proletarian attitude should be the first stepping-stone to a unity with the poor patients against the exploiters, and that feeling would be reinforced by active work by the poor patients and ex-patients for better conditions for the nurses. “But it seems to me that a fight should be made on this issue of the treatment of the poor, and especially poor colored patients, in these institutions.” But I Didn’t “Excuse” K - A. ©. M, is wrong when he implies that I “excused” the conduct |im with good receptions on of the nurses. I agree absolutely that “the course to be followed should be a firm and determined fight for better treatment of the poor patients.” But it should be clear to A. C. M. that one of the most effective ways of winning better treatment for the poor patients ~.4s precisely by helping to organize the nurses and other hospital workers into fighting unions, It is obvious that in this drive for * organization the chief responsibility for the hospital evils must be laid at the door of the city administration. Moreover, I believe that the following letter from a hospital worker answers effectively the points made by A. C. M. First-Hand Testimony “I am employed in a City Hospital. I would like to answer Ann Rivington’s letter as it should be answered. “Remember that the 54 hour week is only the minimum. The great majority of nurses work a 72 hour week. This work is not confined to regular hours, but split into morning and evening hours. The night shift is also twelve hours. This should give a clear illus- tration of how much time a nurse has for recreation and rest. Things were bad before, but since the depression the number of nurses has been reduced by nearly 50 per cent, while the number of patients . . . ‘hem are prejudiced against Negroes. But, comrade, can you name a single category of workers that has not within its ranks such back- ward elements? Moreover, many of these prejudices that do exist are the direct result of the efforts of the hospital authorities to further split the workers. “If a nurse does not answer the call of a patient immediately, or seems to be cranky towards a patient, it is because she is physically exhausted. I have just finished a day’s work. For one and a half hours I was the only nurse on duty for 28 children, some of whom were “seriously sick. A child with a temperature of 104 had to lie neglected, because it was not possible for me to give him the relief he needed. Do you therefore blame me for neglecting the child? This is a typical example of ‘neglect’ by the nurse. Mrs. Rivington would, no doubt blame me for the lack of care this child received. “I hope that if you print letters attacking some group of workers, »-in the future, you will take the opportunity to point out that exist- ing evils are not the result of workers seeking ‘perverted pleasure’ but are inherent in the capitalist system itself. —A Member of the Hospital Workers League. Robert Minor Writes on Gellert’s “Capital” in Tomorrow’s ‘Daily’ -J™= Robert Minor discussing Hugo ‘Mthographs.” outstanding feature on this page tomorrow will be an article by Gellert’s “Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’ in Jn his article, entitled “Karl Marx on the Lithographer’s Stone,” Mimor says.that “in this, of all times it is necessary to turn all the asts loose He so many furies to téar the guts of capitalism.” Geilert’s book has created a storm of discussion. Read what Robert Minor has to‘say about this significant and unique book in tomorrow's Daity Worker! TUNING IN BELOW 200 METERS By I. MILLMAN With the spring season the short wave) receptions are being disturbed, due to the change of the season. Those who are find-| ing their receptions disturbed, should not | think that their sets are out of order. For | the Inst week, not only Moscow stations) were bad, but even the London stations, at times, disappeared from their given | wave lengths. Our advice to short wave| listeners is to be patient, and not to call | for any serviceman for their short wave| receivers. The trouble is in the air, and| not in the sets. Very interesting programs are coming | the South | and Central American stations, on the 49- 50-51 meter Bands, between 7 to 10 p.m., every day in the week. | Below is the program of the RV-59, an| all English broadcast for the last week ot} March (Eastern Standard Time) | March 23, Fridey—Review of tht Week Discussion; 4-6p.m. | March 24, Saturday—Talk, An Old Bol- shevik's Reminiscences, 10-11 p.m March 25, Sunday—Talk, Workers in the Chemical Industry, 6-7 p.m.; The Soviet Educational System, 10-11 a.m.; by En- gineer Erie Godfrey: In a Soviet Telephone Factory, 4-6 p.m. March 26, Monday—Talk by Robert Further News from the Factory per,” 4-8 p.m. March 28, Wednesday—Talk: How Social | Insurance Is Paid in the U.8.8.R.. 4-6 p.m. | March 30, Prids Review of the Week; | | | | | Discussion; 4-6 p.m. Those listening in on their short wave sets are requested to try and get veri- fication from every”station listened to. We are expecting to have a contest of verifi- | cation, some time in August, when the! | anniversary of the club will be celebrated. is sumM- cient to send away for a verification U. 8. stations, amateur stations in code or voice, or any other form of reception, will be accepted NOTES: The next meeting of the City Central Executive will be held Monday, March 26, 7:30 p.m., at the Vegetarian Workers Club, 220 B. 14th 8t. All orga- nizers and secretaries are urged to attend All comrades capable of teaching the Morse Code are urged to join our club. Send in your names and addresses, so that we can notify you of our branch meetings in your neighborhood. TONIGHT’S. PROGRAM WEAF_660 Ke. 7:00—Morton Bowe, Tenor 7:18—Billy Betchelor—Sketeh 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 Mutscale; Pic and Pat, Co- medians 10:00-—-First Nighter—Sketch 0—Stoess Orch. | 10:45—Future in Relief and Unemployment —Olarence A, Dykstra, City Manager of Cleveland 11:00—Rolfe Orch. :15—News Reports 0—The Lively Arts—John Erskine 30—Lopez Orch. 12:00—Zollo Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Kemp Orch. WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Sports Resume 7:30—Sizzlers Trio 7:15—Front Page Dramas :45—Storles of the Sea 8:00—Selvin Orch.; Jones Songs 8:30—Musical Revue 9:00—Osborne Orch.; and = Hare, Interview by Radie 10:15 — Current Events—Harlan Eugene| Read 10:30—Jack Arthur, Songs 00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Dance Music WJZ—760 Ke. 7:18—Stradivarius Quartet 7:00 P.M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy 7:30—George Gershwin, Piano; Concert Orch. vitae ‘Van, Songs; Arlene Jackson, 8:00 Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Shutta, Songs; Bestor Orch. 8:30—Dangerous Paradise 8:45—Red_ Davis—Sketch 9:00—Leah Ray, Songs; Harris Orch. 9:30——Phil Baker, Comedian; Martha ‘Mears, Songs; Belasco Orc! 10:00—Felix xSalmond, 'Cello; Violet Kem- ble-Coover, Readings; Victor Wittgen- stein, Piano 10:30—Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Lucille Man- ners, Soprano 00—Three Scamps, Songs 1s—News Reports 20—Anthony Frome, Tenor 0—To Be Announced 12:00—Gentry Oreh. 12:30 A.M.—Black Orch. WABC—860 Ke. 00 P.M.—Myrt and Marge 5—Just Plain Bill—Sketch ‘Ethel :30—Armbruster Orch.; Jimmie Kem- per, Songs 1:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Songs 5—News—Edwin C. Hill 30—March of Time 00—Philadelpphia Orch. 9:15—Ruth Etting, Songs 9:30—Jack Whiting, Songs; Jeanie Lang, Songs; Denny Orch. 10:00—Olsen and Johnson, Comedians; Sosnick Orch. 10:30-—Mary Eastman, Soprano; Orch. 0—Edith Murrayy, Songs 15—News; Jones Orch. 11:45—Busse Orch. 12:00—Belasco Orch. 12:30 A.M.—Robbins Orch. 1:00—Pancho Orch. Concert 1 The Shock Troupe of the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre (above) will go to Chicago as the Eastern entrant in the national competitions of the National Theatre Festival, Leaving at the end of the month, night stands and reaching Chicago on April to be held on April 18th to 15th, they will go on tour, playing one- Lith or 12th. In the nature of a send-off and to raise funds for the trip, the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre is giving a Premiere of Revolutionary Drama, con- sisting of the best of its repertory, St. and Broadway on this Saturday Plays to be given are “La “Intervention,” “Newsboy” W.L.T, Dancers, and others. Guardia’: (winning at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, 28th evening, March 24th. Among the s Got the Boloney,” “The Miser,” play in the competitions), the Tickets are available at 25, 35, 50, and 75 cents and may he obtained at the Workers’ Bookshop, 59 E. ratory Theatre, 42 FE. 12th St, Michael Gold, revolutionary man. 13th St., and at the Workers’ Labo- writer and critic, will act as chair- March Issue of Labor Defender Shows More I mprovement Reviewed by CYRIL BRIGGS | and apply the lessons of these 5. | Struggles to the situation of the March issue of the Labor De- | american working-class today. This fender, now on the newsstands, | is also largely true of “China To- shows continued technical attrac- | tiveness in make-up as well as marked improvement in the politi- cal contents of articles. Some of these still suffer, however, from an absence of social background of the struggles dealt with, a lop-sidedness in stressing terroristic attacks on the workers while dealing inade- | quately with working-class resist- ance, counter-attacks and victories. “Lessons from Austria,” by Wil- | liam L. Patterson; “Smash Injunc- tions,” by Michael Pierce, “Vive La | Commune,” by Sasha Small; “The Fight Against Fascism,” by Leo Gallagher, are particularly worth reading. These articles not only picture the social background of the struggles dealt with, but bring out the heroic resistance of the workers | ritory. | out the effects (war danger) of thi da ’ by John Phillips, although the article is marred by an all too-sim- | ple and unconvincing explanation of the hig! complicated situation in the struggle of the imperia rivals for Chinese markets and ter- Too, the article in pointing struggle on the American workers ignores the utilization of starvation wages in China to force down the wages of workers in the imperialist countries, Also worthy are Louis Colman’s review of Hugo Gellert’s pictorial presentation of | Karl Marx’s “Capital,” “In the Beautiful West Indies,” by A. Go-| mez, and the special departments | | Saturday such as “Young Defenders Corner” and “Voices from Prison.” Cover of the March “Labor Defender’ of special mention | New Masses Ball A, F, of L. Leaders Curb y) Tonight to Mark ‘Arrival of Spring NEW YORK.—That outstanding y event of the first part of the year—the annual Spring Frolic of the New Masses will be id to- night at Webster Halli, 119 Hast llth Street | It is going to be a specially note- worthy affair, being the first ball to be given by the magazine since it became America’s first revolu- tionary weekly publication The active editors and many of | the contrbiutors, writers and artists. are going to be present at the frolic. Vernon Andrade’s band will fur- nish dance music until dawn. Tickets are $1 in advance, $150| |at the door. They may be obtained ny time before the ball at the §, 31 East 27th Street; Bookshop, 50 East 13th Vashington Square Book- Street; shop, 27 West 8th Street; East 11th Street Hall, 119 | Friday | Brooklyn, | | Nostrand WORKERS SCHOOL SPRING TERM, 35 St., New York. Second week of fon. Register now before it is too Shops are now 50 per cent Discount Gray, Harold , Norman Ti Auspices of Ella May Branch Van Veen. LL.D. at LW.O. Center, 1373 43rd Street, 8:30 p.m ANTI-FASCIST and Scottsboro Meeting | called by Scottsboro Br. LL.D. at Temple Club, 991 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Speakers; Rabbi Goldstein, J. W. Wise, and Joseph Tauber, chairman. LECTURE “‘one Year of Hitler and What Next” at Tremont Prog. Club, 866 &. mont Ave. 8:45 p.m UNITY THEATRE of “Death of Jehoval St, 9 p.m. Adm. 2c. NEW MASSES Spring Frolic, Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. Dancing till 3 a.m. MAXIMO MONZONO speaks on the Struggles of the Filipino Workers at Harlem International Br. F.8.U.. 87 W. 128th St., 8:30 p.m. Admission free. JOSEPH ARCH lectures on “The Sec- ond Five-Year Plan” at Prospect Park Branch F.8.U., 1071 Bergen Street, Adm. ‘5c RSON lectures on “Syphili- at the Vegeta- 14th St. Ad- a preview 2% E. 28rd DR. ANDE zation Under Capitalism" rian Workers Club, 220 E. mission 10. PROF. CHARLES SEEGER speaks on “Music and Class Struggle” at 385 Jay St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Auspices Brook- lyn College N.S.L. ASTORIA OPEN FORUM, D. A. Mor- gan speaks on “The Constitution and the Case of Emile Gardos” at 25-20 As- toria Boulevard (Crescent Thea. Buiid- ing) 8:30 p.m. Admission free. REGISTRATION now open ville Workers School, 1855 Register now. Browns- Pitkin Ave. THIRD ANNIVERSARY Dance American EUGENE NIGOB, piano recital. Aus- | pices of Dry Goods Workers Union at 114! lw. 14th st. | will follow, | 25¢. MOVIE “Cain and Artem.” Dancing and refreshments at Boro Park Cultural Cen- | ter, 5602 13th Ave., rookiyn, 8:30 p.m. Admission 26c. Philadelphia FIRST Annual Ball given by Dance and Entertainment Refreshments. Subscription Workers j Cultural and Sports Club of Strawberry | Nature Friends, Mansicn on FP: y, March 23, at Savoy Featuring North Broad 8t. tor and his orchestra EMORATE the Paris Commune, March 23, 8 p.m. Main Speaker Joseph Brodsky, Program. John Reed Club, Famous North Carolina Singers. Ambassador Hall, 1710 N. Broad | Street. | | | ters Hall, Boston, Mass. MONSTER Annual LL.D. Ball on Fri- day, March 23, at Repertory Hall, Hun- tington Ave. near Mass, Ave. Adm. 25c. CONVENTION Banquet given by New England District Communist Party on Suni March 25, at International Hell 42 Wenonha St., Roxbury. Jack Stachel and N. Sparks, main speakers. Musical Program. Eubscription 36¢. Chicago, Ill. SECOND ANNUAL Calumet District Con- cert and Dance on Sunday, March 25, at Coration Hall, 9620 Commercial Aye., So. Chicago. Program starts at 2:30 p. m. | Dancing until 2 a.m. Supper served. Cuban Orchestre Adm. 25¢ in advance; 35¢ at doer. Auspices, Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union. Cincinnati, Ohio LECTURE on “Literary Fascism” by A K. Landy on March 2 at 8 p.m. Odd Fellows Temple, Room 315. Auspices Pen| and Hemmer. PATERSON.—Concert and Dance, bene- Empros, Saturday, March 24, Carpen- 54 Van Houten 8t., 7:30 p.m WORCESTER. cert and Dance. Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union, Local 125, Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m., Endicott Hal! Performance of “Strike” by John Reed Dramatic Club of Boston, fit American Workers Chorus, Olympic Orch. | Why Our Activities Were Not Successful in Our Concentration Point Buro of “Pennsylvania Mine Nucleus Examines Own Experiences By the Buro of Mine Nucleus No —, West Brownsville, Pa. Reading the Discussion Column in the “Daily” in preparations for the Eighth Party Convention, our unit decided to send into the “Daily” its experiences. We believe, that by doing this, we are helping the Party to crystallize a better un- derstanding in the units. section and district committees, what are our tasks in the carrying out of the Open Letter and the 13th Plenum of the E.C.C.1., of winning the ma- jority of the working class for the program of revolutionary struggles. Our Unit was assigned to con- centrate in. ... mine, It is a key mine in a very important min- ing center, We had 13 members in the unit, of whom only one worked in the mine, and two others be- Jong to the local of the U.M.W.A. ‘We worked out quotas, program, etc. However, when we came to check up on our work recently, we found that we failed to recruit a single member into the Party. We cut the bundle of the “Daily” from five to three; there was no oppo- sition in the local; there was no organized unemployed movement. As a matter of fact Unit did not meet for nearly months! This does not mean that our com- rades did not work. They worked hard. They went into the patch, they talked to the miners, yet, there were no results! After discussion, we || agreed that the main reason for the lack of improvement in our work in the point of concentration, was that we did not build our fraction in the local of the U.M.W.A. That we did not work out a program with the fraction! That our comrades who belonged to the U.M.W.A. did not make the local their base of opera- tion! As a matter of fact, they did not attend their local meetings. This at a period when there were con- tinuous streams of grievances raised, and local meetings were attended by 300 to 400 miners, While we visited individual miners, and talked to them about an op- position, we also raised defeatist arguments. In order to “convince” them that Lewis was an agent of the coal operators and that Roose- velt was helping the coal operators and Lewis, we used arguments which actually convinced them that the fight against the Lewis ma- chine was impossible. We also had @ sneaking idea that the N. M. U. would stage a “comeback.” We were glad that the miners agreed with us. But we failed to see that this method was not developing op- position, but on the contrary pre- venting formation of any opposition. Secondly, we failed to see that we only spoke, not to the masses of miners in the U.M.W.A., but to a small group of ex-N.M.U. members. Certainly, had we had a fraction, and a functioning unit, to check up on our work. this situation would have been discovered and changed. With the help of the new section organizer, who was sent over two months after the previous organizer left, we started to change our whole approach. We re-organized our Unit. We dropped three useless “members,” and two others were put on probation. An Unemployed Council was organized, with all our unemployed brought into the U. Through the U. C. we sent a dele- gation to the local, and got endorse- ment of the U. C. Washington Con- vention, and also a leading local comrade was accepted unanimously into the U.M.W.A. We organized our comrades in the U.M.W.A. into a fraction, adopted a program of de- mands, listed a group of 16 miners, assigned comrades to visit them, win them for our demands and C.| and decided to present our program | Pre-Convention Discussion | } younger elements, and some of them! are asking for Communist literature. All this was just the preliminary step to our work. We can’t say that| we have been fully successful in overcoming the old looseness in the) work. For example, after we agreed | at the following local meeting of| the U.M.W.A. and mobilized the non-Party elements, all our comrades | failed to go to the meeting! But. instead of having this impermissible | failure remain a “secret.” the Unit) Buro has taken it up, and the com- tades responsible for their failure} to carry out decisions will be given! ne eas to explain it to the} un bring them to a meeting The meet- ing was not successful. Only a few showed up. But, instead of cursing and condemning these workers, we went to check up on the reasons why they failed to come. We found that the place of meeting was known for years as a radical center, it could be easily watched, and so the work- ers would not come, We immediately changed our tactics and divided the work of the leading comrades, and instead of calling the workers to one meeting we established three groups, of from five to eight in a group. We have now three groups that are beginning to function and two others in process of formation. We attracted to these groups some We agreed to recruit so many new members into the Party from amongst the employed, and assigned comrades to visit these elements. There was no check up. Three months after the decision, when we checked up, we found that the reason no one joined was because we did not ask them. That doesn’t mean we did not discuss the Party with these prospects. We did. We told them what the Party is doing, etc. They agreed, but we never asked them point blank to join. We changed this, and immediately the following were the results: Two wanted more time to “think it over,” the others promised to join as soon as they get a pay, so they will have the initiation and book money. While in the past we had to cut the bundle of “Dailies” from five to three copies a day, through a proper organization of the work. we got five subs for the every-day “Daily,” two for the Saturday's “Daily,” and in the near future we will have at Jeast eight other subs for the Sat- urday’s “Daily.” We also got orders for two Italian, two Hungarian and also S. S. papers. The main weakness of our frac- tion is that the unemployed com- rades are of the opinion that they cannot fight for the every-day de- mands of the employed. This is due to the fact that the Lewis ma- chine, knowing that many of the unemployed are the blacklisted. fighting elements, they consciously try to divide the men into employed and unemployed. We must fight against this division, and the best method to use is to speak on the conditions of the employed, to pre- sent grievances of the employed, to pledge support to the struggles af the employed, Not in any mechan- ical way, but linking this up with the conditions and demands of the unemployed. We also should be able to expose the leading “organ- izers” of the Lewis machine, who were bootleggers, store keepers, in- surance agents for periods, when they were off the payrolls and could not be considered as “employed” when they were again sent into the ranks and appointed organizers. To sum up, we learned in this period that in order to concentrate Wwe must fulfil certain prerequisites: T Necessity of 1 Working | Out Sharp and Clear Program Stressed Namely, our units, as weak as they are, must meet, check up on the work of each member; organize work of each member; change the methods, when we find thet the old methods could not be applied. Our fractions must make their program applicable to the every-day needs of miners and mobilize wide masses of the miners to support us; regard- less how strong the machine may be. This mobilization shall not be one-sided, through personal and in- dividual contacts, but must be given at the local meetings where the masses are. Our comrades must be- come the leaders in their locals and have a solution for every problem of the working class. Finally, dis- cipline—which we demand of or- dinary workers—must be applied to ourselves first. ‘While we agree in our Unit that our work, since the Open Letter, has not been work of which we should be proud, nevertheless we are of the opinion that with the changed situation in our Unit, with the help of the section and district committee, out Unit will, in the near future, become a real Commu- nist Unit, leader of the masses in our mine. and shall win the ma- jority of the workers in our mine far a revolutionary struggle against the bosses. their government, and their agents in our ranks, Lewis and the local Lewis machine Webster | entire and Sadie} Union Spirit i By JOHN L. SPIVAK TULSA, Okla. — The oil fields here are going through an organizational rennaisance following years of abuses by the petroleum industry, but the strong union spirit now appar- ent everywhere is being ti jcurbed by the American Federa' of Labor This area, more than any I have visited so far, has strong union sym- pathies and an eager desire to or- ganize not only in the oil industry. but in almost every craft in Tulsa | and the state. Where, in other} areas, I found union labor utterly crushed and despondent, here there | is an electric spirit among the work- ers for unionization, a spirit which is being kept in check by one Wild- |cat Williams, a gunman appointed by the A. F. of L. as international ion organizer for the Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of | America The appointment was | meade after he had successfully kept the unemployed from seizing ware- houses containing food. Wildcat | Williams is being directed in a good | |deal of his work by Judge G. Ed | Warren, president of the State Fed- | | eration of Labor and, at the mo- ment, candidate for Mayor of |Tulsa on the Democratic ticket, | partly as a reward for “keeping the | | unemployed down,” as Wildcat ex- | pressed it. | The desire to organize developed | because of the stupidity of the oil | companies. When the N.R.A. was/| tendering the country with assur- | in Oil Fields line where I’ve been, whieh had been affiliated with the A. F. of L., had either rebelled or disintegrated almost aH crafts of Tulsa are orga- oil workers are ail- themselves into the e A. F. of L. But already great dissatisfaction is becoming noticeable local unions because not one of the craft unions has done anything for the workers except collect dues and tell them to be pe- tient, “the government would take care of them.” In some unions a spirit of hope- lessness is perceptibly developing which promises eventual disintegra- tion. In locals like the food work- ers there is not enough aggressive- ness or leadership to oppose A. F. of L. tactics and inactivity, but among the oil workers there is a developing storm of protest, and re- sentment which is causing Wildeat Williams quite a littie concern, It is apparent to me, judging from the areas I visited. that A. F. of L. leadership of workers is not accomplishing anything for them The A. F. of L. seems to be actually co-operating with the employer to keep the workers from demanding the end of abuses and improvement of conditions. The only function however, he city nized and the most throwing arms of t | the A. F. of L. serves, as near as I have been able to ascertain, is to keep the workers who are onega- nized from asking too much. There had been a strong union in the oi! fields long before the depres- sion. Around the war days the area | was pretty well organized. But the | Organization gradually disintegrated jances that collective bargaining | | due to two factors: One, the wages near | would be guaranteed, the petroleum | industry workers were thoroughly disorganized and not even thinking | | of organization. They were too glad to get a little work, even at wages | below living costs, But the oil com- | panies, fearful that some one might come in and organize them, tried to | steal a march by starting company | | unions. The result was that the oi] fleld and refinery workers, realizing what company unions were, called | meetings of thetr own and orga- nized themselves. As soon as a lo-| cal was organized it appealed to the A. F. of L. for a charter. | The A. F. of L., which had no organizers in the field at all and so far as I was able to learn has none now except Wildcat, simply charter the locals that the men themselves organize, collect dues and tell them to be patient! | In Brockton, the only other sec- | tion I visited which had a strong junion, the A. F. of L, leaders had | Paid at the period were high with the result that workers had no ip- centive to organize; and two, A. F. of L. organizers were simply indtf- ferent to keeping the men in line. Membership dropped rapidly un- | til, when the 1929 crash came, there | were fewer than 1,000 members in the whole Oklahoma oil area, and most of these were not paying dues, (To Be Continued) New Groups Join Midwest Theatre Festival Sunday CHICAGO.—A Greek Worker: Theatre and a newly-organized Dram Group of Ukrainian young people, English-speaking, have joined the Midwest District of the League of Workers Theatres, and will par- ticipate in the festival Sunday, t ' hs Harris | Youth Federation, 144 Second Ave. near|Countenanced and aided in the re-| March 25, at the Peoples Audito- has greatly increased. Therefore, due to the speed-up, if a nurse were 0—Book Play Louk (ee. BaD, pak, BubaeriOOn abe. duction of wages until the men re-| rium, 2457 W. Ciel p Seti a Lid ipa chtincaettorbe mmr manatee Nah oes da co hedging ae paki Miia eather a | CONCERT and Dance Tremont Prog.! belied blindly and were organized| Chicago Youth Club, another new P rano 6 5 #1] would get no attention at all. 10:00—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty ped gatas Theul Gites, Katka’ Nomen | into another union which now con- | group, composed of English-speak- “Nurses are workers, working for a living. Undoubtedly, some of Queen, Songs; Rondoliers Quartet | Seu Band. trols labor in the shoe industry in | ing Finnish young people, will pre- that city. The A. F. of L. had failed | Sent two scenes from “The Old and the shoe workers completely. | the New,” ‘the Soviet play from | In Charlotte the A. F. of L. Cen- | which the famous movie was made. tral Trades had been wrecked and| Some of the other groups on the | was impotent. In New Orleans the A. F. of L.| unions had disintegrated completely | | since the depression and what few were left of the membership were being given the run-around by a} small-time politician. | Organized labor, all along the afternoon program will be the Blue Blouses. Pioneer Dram Groun, Workers Laboratory Theatre, etc. In sending in new subs to the “Daily” please write the name and address of the new sub- scriber clearly. Anna Sten in “The | Girl With) “B With The Band Box” At The Acme Saturday Beginning this Saturday, the jAcme| Theatre will present two Soviet produe- jtions, “The Girl With The Band Box,”| in which Anna Sten plays the principal |role, and “Igdenbu,” a picture of life in {the little known district of Siberia. | The Anna Sten picture "The Girl With | The Band Box,” is a story of life in a | Moscow suburb. Miss Sten play the role| of Natasha, a milliner, The picture was| directed by the Soviet producer B. Bar- | nett, who directed “The Patriots,” which was shown here a short time ago. “Igdenbu,” directed by Amo Bek-Naza- | Bek-Nazarov. tells the story of the native Mongolian tribes and their struggle for existence in Siberie on the banks of the river Amur. It shows not only their nomad life but their hunting of the wild animals, especially the Stberian tigers | Both pictures were made in the Soviet | Union and ate now shown for the first | rov from a scenario by 8. G. Vitkin and} STAGE AND SCREEN “Rottonx Up” and “Russ- landia” At Radio City Music Hall "Bottoms Up,” a new Fox film, a com- edy with music by Buddy De Sylva and David Butler, is now showing at the Radio City Music Hall. Spencer Tracy, John Boles and Pat Patterson head the cast The same program has a new Walt Dis- ney Silly Symphony, “The Grasshopper and the Ants." The stage show includes “My Guiding Ster,” with Evelyn Duerler, Joseph Mac- auley and Mario and Floria; “‘Russlandia,” with Arturo de Filippi and Miss Duerler, and “The Water Lily,” « ballet with Nina Whitney. | “Nana” At Jefferson Theatre \ Saturday “Nana” with Anna Sten, Phillips Holmes and Lionel Atwill will be shown at the Jefferson Theatre beginning Saturday. “Devil Tiger” with Marion Burns will be jon the same program. Tuesday to Wednes- | day the program will include ‘Miss Fane's | Baby Is Stolen” with Dorothea Wieck and Alice Brady's, and “You Can't Buy Every- time in synchronized form. The pictures have English titles. thing” with Mae Robson, Jean Parker and Lewis Stone. AMUSE MENTS STARTING TOMORROW! “IGDENBU” * * © (3 Stars) DAILY NEWS. LAST pay 2 SOVIET PRODUCTIONS! ANNA STEN in “THE GIRL WITH THE BAND BOX” Directed by R. BARNETT—Producer of “THE PATRIOTS” STORY OF MONGOLIAN NOMAD TRIBES ON BANKS OF SIBERIAN RIVER AMUR ENGLISH TITLES. NOW SYNCHRONIZED “Rubicon” or ‘The Strikebreaker”’ ACME THEATRE A SOVIET PICTURE Midnite Show Saturday sth Street and Union Square | ——THE THEATRE GUILD presents—, JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE ROYALE Tt 48h W. ot EUGENE O'NEILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GU Thea., 52d 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 Thea., 52d St., W. of B'way Ev.8.20Mats,Thur.&Sat.2.20 Workers’ Laboratory Theatre Premiere of Revolutionary Drama MIKE GOLD, chairman Saturday, March 24th, 8:30 P.M. 5th'Ave. Thea, 2? & & Bt Tick’s 2e35eb0e75¢ Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St, and W.LT., 42 E. 12th St. | — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—. it & 6 Ave—Show Place of the Natton Opens 11:30 A. M. “Bottoms Up” SPENCER JOHN “PAT” TRACY BOLES PATERSON And a great Music Hall Stage Show RKO Jefferson 4 St. & | Now | 8rd Ave. | JOEL McCREA & GINGER ROGERS in ‘CHANGE AT HEAVEN’ Added feature:—“FOG” with MARY BRIAN & DONALD COOK IEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM- MONS, Jane FROMAN, Patrician BOWMAN. WINTER GARDE! bie & 50th, Bys, 8.30 day 2: ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 424 St. Eves. = Matinees Wednesday and Saturday &:50