The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1934, Page 7

enna CHANGE ——THE-— WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD HE Communist Party Convention in Cleveland meets in one of the most important hours of world history. America is on the brink of great changes, and the Party is destined to play an enormous role in the coming struggles. The decisions of this convention will have an immediate effect on the history of our time. The Communist Party has a membership of some 25,000 with affiliated organizations in sympathy with its program including about half a million workers. This is not enough. The ground is ready for a mass party number- ing millions. It will be the task of this convention to examine every flaw in the Party mechanism that prevents it from freely and naturally Teaching the great American masses. Scrape off all the barnacles of the past, comrades of the conven- tion! Tighten every nut and bolt, oil the springs! Pump new youthful blood to the heart of this great Party! The American working class has lost many of its post-war preju- dices against Communism. It has followed all the capitalist messiahs, and seen them stripped of their masquerade. It has seen its own leaders succumb to the N.R.A., and then has seen this same N.R.A. revealed in its true colors as a Wall Street device for putting up prices, cutting wages and installing company unionism, besides hastening the prepa- rations for war. The American working man has touched bottom. The capitalist, Utopian dream in which he lived has. been shattered by reality; gone are the house, the car, and the installment-plan prosperity with which the masters had dazzled him. The Workers Are Ready E HAS nothing to lose, any more. On the breadlines and relief bureau lines, on the C.W.A. jobs and other such places, the talk that now goes on has a new note. Roosevelt must make good soon, or he will hear from the millions of forgotten men to whom he promised s0 much. They will not starve quietly, and are ready for militant DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934 The World of the Theatre By MELVIN P. LEVY | IN EVERTHING that John Howard Lawson has written—from the time he brought one of the earliest Plays about workers to the Ameri- can stage with his “Processional,” until the other evening when the Group Theatre first presented “Gentlewoman” at the Cort—he has reiterated his left position and made it very clear where his sym- Pathies and convictions lay. It is| partly for this reason that he is| one of the most Broadway-critic- | ill-treated of all playwrights. He is | in the peculiar position of being | recognized by them as one of the | country’s outstanding playwrights | on the.basis of plays which, when | they were produced, have been, treated with scorn, contempt and bitterness. But that is not the | whole story. If John Howard Law- son makes his convictions clear, he too frequently does not succeed in stating them with equal clarity. He | lays himself wide to the attacks | of his enemies without at the | same time forcing, by clarity and | simplicity, the support of his na- tural allies. | “Gentlewoman” is a case in point. The play is important. It is al- most essential to have seen it to) understand the force of the left-/ ward movement among intellectual | revolutionary sympathizers, and the problems, personal and external, | which that movement creates. It is | also important, howver, to add| that the play cannot be seen merely | as an intellectual exercise or an ob- ject of historical importance. It has | @ power of its own. A large part of | it is stated clearly and unescapably. | Much of the writing is distinguished | by the peculiarly fluid and contem- porary poetic quality which is Law- | son’s own contribution to the litera- | You know? I'm happy My days recruited in th Soviet Ode to Life By ALEXANDER BEZYMENSKI Page Seven that I live e ranks of struggle And love, anger, pain and laughter Like my brothers of the Kémsomol I love. All things are dear to me, Deeds and men Days and years, The timid walk, the li Of my fields and factories. All life— Our life is planned Hence, Looking it straight in the eyes I do not find such things That I would call a “tri fle.” O man, things, sentiments and years Encountering you I always feel My friends, my enemies, happiness, misfortune! The rapture of our strength and fortune. You know? The power Lies on our shores! of powers At times I slip, sometimes I weaken, And yet, not only do I I also do, I know I can. dare— Queer fellows tell me not to boast, But they are blind, They do not understand I, saying, T Am only one “of them,” @ worker's poet! “Of them,” who are in the factories and Party. ‘The clock of hearts ticks in my brain But I tick in the hearts of workers! And if I say “we can” It means “I also can” And if I can, It means we can! That’s why My laughter is loud, | by Detroit “Free Press” Rejects New Masses Ad on Auto Workers’ Fight NEW YORK—Advertising copy for the New Masses, America’s only revolutionary weekly magazine, is = Z Tyee “not acceptable” to the Detroit Free By JOHN L. IVAK Press, published in the heart of the ‘i . American automobile industry. TULSA, Okla. — American That was the terse announcement | Federation of Labor officials with which the management of the ‘ Free Press returned an ad offered | #Nd organizers have been and the New Masses to announce/are still using appeals to pa- publication in the current issue of AES i ? the story: “N.R.A.: The Crooked triotism and of accusations Referee; Round by Round Story of dee to keep the very restless the Auto Workers’ Fight,” written | Forres here and in the ofl fi by Maurice Sugar and based on stenographic records The leader of the flag waving ts The Free Press took no chance of | one Wildcat Williams, college man having the workers learn through | lawyer, chemist, gunman and A. F. its columns that the N.R.A., through | of L. organizer in 22 counties for the the Detroit Compliance Board, the | Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Washington administration and| Workers of America. It was Wildcat other bodies, gave the run-around to | Williams who, unknown even now the workers who went on strike in| to oil workers, “organized” hundreds Detroit, Flint and Pontiac late last | of unemployed men and women a year, as set forth in the New Masses , little over a year ago, when they story. threatened to seize warehouses con- ‘The Statler Hotel management in | taining food supplies, in order “to Detroit likewise decided to do what | keep them down” as he expressed it it could to prevent the story from/to me. He was asked to do this by being read in the automobile city. | “leading Tulsa citizens” who put an It banned the New Masses from sale | unlimited fund at his disposal when on its news-stand. rebellion threatened to break out. However, the New Masses made Wildcat did not name the leading special arrangements to circulate | citizens when he told me about it. the curren issue among the auto! He did however, say that he drew workers in Detroit, and the latter | about $4.000 during that period and have been avidly reading the record | which was never accounted for. “I of their betrayal by the employers | didn't get paid for that,” he said and the “New Deal” N.R.A. “Whenever I needed money I just “Wildcat” Williams, the Slayer of Red Dragons He laughed. “When I fir of shots over their heads like t they usually scatter and th the argument. I’ve kept reds and unemployed down way. It’s been lots of fun.” In the course of several conversa- tions with Wildcat I came to the conclusion that anyone for a “unpatriotic. When he m I asked him for ioned Communists, names of some for I wanted to talk to them. Both he and Judge Warren gave me the same names and w! I talked to these dreadful “reds” I found patri- otic Democrats who belived that the New Deal was supposed to bring oil workers a living wage and f the A. F, of L. union. After having talked with him, seen him twirl his pistol around a fore- finger in true “bad man” style and fire a couple of shots over my head, it is my judicious opinion that one of these days Wildcat will fire a shot over the head of the wrong man Then the A. F. of L. will need a new organizer, MOST oil workers live in company houses, usually wooden frame buildings of the “knock-down” type TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke. asked for it, and it always came as the workers call them; that is, through.” buildings imported ready to set. up. When Wildcat was “organizing”, Most of them are comfortable and | the unemployed who were demand-| weather proof, though there is a | ing food he was not an A. F. of L.| dreary sameness about them. Almost | epresentative. But it is significant, | all of them are single story buildings I think, that just about that period | of about five rooms, except the bunk | he and Judge G. Ed. Warren, presi-| houses for single men, which are dent of the Oklahoma State Federa-| usually two story buildings with tion of Labor became fast friends.| long rows of cots. They resemble Since the unemployed were kept | army barracks. These long, gray, n- My earthly yoke is light | 3 eas «s itt 1 « ” ee ss 7:00 P. M.—Martha Mears, Songs | from seizing warehauses “and going| inviting bunk houses “sleep” any leadership. No other organized group in America is ready with this honest, disciplined, far-seeing leadership except the Communist Party. * * . * Tt is typical of this period that a race for leadership of the hun- gry, unorganized masses is going on. As in every such crisis, the capitalists have thrown up from their depths the usual swarm of loud, cheap, lying demagogues—the Father Coughlins of Wall Street, the Milo Renos of the farm belt, all the undercover men who breed like flies in garbage in a time like the present. Father Coughlin and his ilk are the forerunners of fascism. ‘They utter the same loud promises as Hitler and Mussolini, that they mean to reform capitalism; but they really have no other program than to save capitalism from its own blunders. ‘They merely use a new and desperate strategy in their defense of private property and Wall Street civilization. No promises of reform from the top are worth the paper they are written on. Great social changes are only made by the people who must have them made, or perish. The engineers of Stuart Chase, the idealistic young men of Wall Street, whom Archibald MacLeish once implored to assume the leadership of a new America, the Brain Trust liberals and generals and big industrialists who are putting over the N.R.A.; none of these ruling class groups can be expected to change the system. . . . . There Is Only One Answer Er ONE were coming with an open mind for the first time to the so- cial problem in America, and saw this basic truth clearly, what mechanism for bringing a fundamental change in the system of the production and ownership of wealth would he suggest? It would obviously be the organizations of a fighting political party that would rally the oppressed masses for an attack on the system of private property. And such a party has existed for 15 years. It is the Communist Party; a tried, experienced, militant organization that has struck roots in every section of the country, and has the beginnings of a real mass following. This Party, being made up of human beings working under enor- mous dangers and difficulties, has made serious mistakes. But they have been mistakes in practice; not mistakes in fundamental principle. It is this that holds our loyalty and devotion to the Communist Party, @nd deepens our conviction that this is the only Party that can lead the American masses into a free and just society. Every move of this Party has been fought and slandered; but how basically correct it has always been, how wrong the slanderers! This is the Party that paid with its blood to bring trade unionism and the struggle for Negro rights into the deep South—a job no other group had ever attempted. This is the Party that foresaw the present crisis ® year before it, began, despite the Stuart Chases and Jay Lovestones, who preached the myth of the “golden age,” permanent capitalist Prosperity. This is the Party that opened the fight for the veterans, which led to the famous Bonus March; this is the Party that first began to organize the auto workers, the steel workers, and other unorganized labor groups; that first raised the cry against company unionism, when ture of our times. | cae a | Because I do not feel for all “(ENTLEWOMAN" is a play about | Because I live and feel capitalism in this period, decay- | ing inwardly and attacked from | with all! (Translated by Leon Dennen.) without. Its heroic figures are its | Insulls and Kruegers and the sui- cide of Ballantine, whose newly | made widow is the gentlewoman of the play. Their positions and i tunes, which seem as solid as their splendid houses, are really being ballanced precariously while riv: jog the trickster’s elbow. Occasio: Festival to Meet Tonite NEW YORK.—A meeting of all groups that participated in the n= aoe ee for the i , | Nationa eatre Festival of the dey aire Ee ee oe Leaue of Workers Theatres, will be The people have no future. Even | held tonight at 9, at 42 Hast 12th their present, when it is relaxed and | Street. An analysis of the work “cultural,” expresses itself as aj of the groups will be given by the yearning for the past. Siatvarriine LUO “ + eEeEICC0leoooeoommm PITS: SOE ROR ee Ga ons | HOURLY Ol by events: feta posible nights making paper and_ silk |‘ Wonder, when he leaves for the models of their craft; and his wife, | frm strike, what purpose he could when contact with reality grew |S@tve in it. He leaves the stage as pressing, yearned hysterically to re- he enters it, a Bohemian. However, turn to her old house, musty and| ‘he fault is not entirely his. The filled with the ghosts of the past. | WTiting and the author's concept of These people’s bodies are sleek and the part indicate a need for closer well-cared for. Everything else c about them is sick. They “have |°! Working class leaders. workers shot to defend their stocks | AMONG the other. actors, and bonds and then pay a psycho- analyst $50 to tell them not to wor- ty about it.” This part of “Gentlewoman” is Morris Carnovsky succeeds in making of his psychoanalyst, Dr. Golden, a | beautiful blank sheet on which are written the troubles of his patients, real and emotionally and intellec- | a phonograph record which gives tually convincing. It is even full of | them back their own words, spoken hope, because we constantly hear |Jullingly in the accent of their de- through it, the reverberations of an| sires. Stella Adler, blind and tor- advancing working class—Dniepro- |tured as Gwyn Ballantine, reveals stroy, the Soviet Union, strikes on | not only the high moments in which the waterfront and among the Iowa | she appears on the stage, but makes farmers. | clear the forces of inheritance, edu- The play is weakest when it por- | cation and desire, which have gone trays the advance directly. This is|into the making of the woman she done through the medium of Rudy portrays, I should like space in Flannagan, who falls in love with|which to write of Russell Collins’ Gwyn Ballantine; who is on the Playing of Havens. “fringe” of the. Communist move- Special notice should be given ment when we first see him and is| Mordecai Gorelick’s settings and, on his way to agitate and picket in particularly, the use of which the the Iowa farm strike when the final | Group Theatre has made of them. curtain falis. |The huge library which has stood The weakness here is in large part | for 50 years is a rebuke and an ex- that of Lloyd Nolan, who plays the posure of the p€ople who occupy it part. He is the son of a miner, | during the first act. And when we brought up “in the school of muscle | see it finally, dusty and deserted, it and sweat.” But nothing in his! makes its own comment on a. so- manner or his approach to life in- ciety which has nothing better to Gicates that. Nor does he succeed do with these solid walls and this in making us believe that he pos- | splendid space than to house a sesses latent powers of leadership, | gambling club. this menace seemed no larger than a man’s hand; this Party has con- sistently fought the racketeers in the A. F. of L., with whom liberals and Socialists were always so ready to make a “united front,” even to the point of defending them against honest, but “Communist” trade unionists. And this is the Party that recognized the true face of the N.R.A. in the first honeymoon days when every liberal, Socialist and A. F. of L. labor faker was singing lush hymns of praise to the newest of the false capitalist messiahs. The record is there, clear and gteat as the Roékies on a sunlit day. Nobody can slander these things away; and nobody will find it possible to water down the Communist platform and build a new party thereon, as some of the enemy are now proposing. . . . We Have Just Begun to Fight heed best and most fearless working class elements of America, Negro and white, now form the living core of the Communist Party. It is by their character and courage that they have made their record in America. They have paid in blood and personal sacrifice for their Party, and millions of workers instinctively trust them. They are re- sponsible, disciplined, and loyal; and they have just begun to fight, A fringe of slanderers, of “left-wing” grouplets and factions, buzz like bloodthirsty flies around the great horse while he is ploughing up the rocky soil. They can confuse and irritate him at times, but they cannot stop him, He has a great job to do, and he will do it till he drops in his tracks. Nobody else can take his place. The Com- munist Parties of the world are destined to write the proletarian his- tory of our time. Thus has it been written. Long live the Communist Party of the U.S.A.! Long live its many brave and wonderful rank-and-filers, the men and women cheerfully and gladly giving their all in a thousand obscure Places! Long live the courageous and honest men who lead this Party! Competitors in Theatre| 1,500 N. Y. Wo | study of workers and, Laie cticdaal| rkers 'Witness Premiere of Revolutionary Drama | NEW YORK. — Fifteen hundred people packed the Fifth Ave. 'The- jatre last Saturday night to witness |the premiere of revolutionary |drama presented by the Workers |Laboratory Theatre. When the eee Michael Gold, announced |at intermission time that a delega- | tion of striking taxi drivers headed by Joseph Gilbert, organizer of the militant Taxi Drivers Union, would come upon the stage, an ovation be- gan which did not cease for several minutes. Gilbert made a plea for support in the strike of the drivers, which was answered by a substan- | tial collection. Due to the lack of co-operation of |the management of the Fifth Ave. Theatre with the technical staff of the W.L.T., the show was late in | starting, and when at midnight, the management attempted to extort an jovertime fee, it was announced |from the stage that “Newsboy,” the | final number, would not be put on. |The crowd stood up and shouted, |"We want ‘Newsboy’! We want | ‘Newsboy’!” until the management, realizing its mistake in alienating | the large crowd, executed an about- face and withdrew its demand for an overtime fee. This occurrence is only one of many instances of at- tempted extortion and sabotage by bourgeois theatre owners all over the country, as the files of the League of Workers Theatres will prove, and should be combatted by mass audience protest wherever | such conditions are found. | UNITED FRONT SUPPORTERS AID TAXI STRIKERS At the spring dance of the Uni- ted Front Supporters held last Saturday night, $26.80 was raised for the striking taxi drivers and protesting C. W. A. workers. The | money was distributed equally ‘between the two groups, iy 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch | haywire,” to use another of Wildcat’s 7:30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Jack Pearl, Comedian; Van Steeden Orch. 9:00—Hayton Orch.; Fred Allen, Come- 8:30—Wayne King Orch. dian; Theodore Webb, Baritone; Nor- man Terris, Songs 10:00—Hillbilly Music 10:30--The Ghost of Hermitage Castle Sketch 11:00—Ferdinando Orch. 11:15—News; Dance Orch. 11:30—Rubinoff Orch. 12:00—Masters Orch. WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Sports Resume 7:1$—Harry Hershfield 7:30—Jack Arthur, Baritone ‘7:48—Btories of the Sea 8:00—Josef Ranald, Hand Analyst 4:185—The Old Theatre 8:30—Concert Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor 9:00—Italics—Direction H. Stokes Lott Jr, 9:30—Success—Harry Balkin 9:45—Robison Orch. 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Studio Musicale 11:00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Dance Music * Jesters * . WIJZ—760 Ke. 7:00—Amos 'n' Andy 7:15—John Herrick, Songs 7:30—Ramona, Songs 7:45—Hollywood—Irene Rich Sketch 8:30—Dangerous Paradise 4:45—To Be Announced 9:00—Raymond Knight's Cuckoos; Mary McCoy, Soprano; Armbruster Orch 9:30—John Charles Thomas, Baritone: Daly Orch, 10:00—Lopez Orch.; Male Trio; E4 Sulll- val 10:30—Tourist Adventures 11:00—Pickens Sisters, Songs 11:15—Gerry Temple, Tenor 11:30—Stein Orch. 11:45—News; Pollock Orch. 12:00—Rolfe Orch. . WABC—2860 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Myrt and Marge 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30—Armbruster Orch.; Jimmy Kemper, Songs 1:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00-—Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, Soprano 8:15—News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30—Albert Spalding, Violin; Conrad Thibault, Baritone; Voorhees Orch 9:00—They Grind Exceedingly Small— Sketch 9:30—Lombardo Orch.; Burns and Allen, Comedy 10:00—Fiorito Oreh.; Dick Powell, Songs 10:30—Rich Orch.; Sylvia Froos, Songs 11:00—Nick Lucas, Songs 11:15—News; Little Orch. 11:45—Messner Orch. 12:00-—Hopkins Orch. A Lawyer With No Illusions About Legalism By PHILIP STERLING Take it from Leo Gallagher, al = lawyer who has no illusions about legalism that the Reichstag frame- | up trial, the Scottsboro case, the, imprisonment of the Rueggs, and | the frame-up planned against | Ernst Thaelmann have many fea- tures in common. | It’s no news that capitalist jus-| tice is the same the world over) when it’s directed at militant lead-| ers and organizers of the working-| class, but when you've seen it twice in one year the way Leo Gallagher | ~ has, you don’t forget it. Gallagher, who was expelled from Germany, where he came to aid in the defense of Torgler, Dimi- troff, Popoff and Taneff, was more recently involved in defending a working-class leader against a simi- Jar frame-up much closer to home. Upon Gallagher rested largely the political responsibility for the court- room defense of A. E. Smith, general secretary of the Canadian Labor De- fense League against a charge otf Sedition under the infamous Section | 98 of the Canadian code. Section 98 | is in every respect like the criminal! Forward, comrades of the convention, to a better Party and a better world! STAGE AND SCREEN “Races,” Anti-Nazi Play, Opens Monday at Ethel Barrymore Theatre “Races,” by Ferdinand Bruckner, deal- ing with present-day conditions in Nazi Germany, will be presented by the Thea- tre Guild next Monday night at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre as its sixth and final production of the season. The play was translated by Ruth Langner and the cast is headed by Mady Christians, Earle Lari- more, Stanley Ridges, Harvey Stephens and Clarence Derwent. “The House of Remsen,” by Nicholas Soussanin, William J. Perlman and Marie Baumer is announced for next Monday night at the Henry Miller Theatre. James Kirkwood, Francesca Bruning, Albert Van Dekker, Edgar Sthehli av4 Virginia Curley are in the cast, Gilbert and Sullivan Season Starts Monday at Majestic “The Mikado,” the first of a series of Gilbert and Sullivan revivals, will open on Monday, April 2, at the Majestic Theatre with most of the members of the Milton Aborn group seen here last season. Lead- ing players include William Danforth, Vivian Hart, Hizi Koyke, Roy Cropper, Herbert Watrous and Vera Ross. Each operetta will run one week. ‘The Pirates of Penzance” will be the second produc- tion. Millicent Green will have an important role in the new Theatre Union produc- tion of “Stevedore,” which will open at the Civic Repertory Theatre on April 17. syndicalism laws in various states on this side of the border, only far more vicious. Smith’s arrest and acquittal, marks a victory in the two-year struggle of Canadian working-class organi- zations to compel an official inves- tigation into the attempted murder of Tim Buck, Canadian Communist in his prison cell at Kingston; but Gallagher tempers his enthusiasm over the victory he helped win by Serious, emphatic comments on the need for mass pressure every time a class war prisoner enters a court- room anywhere in the world. The background of A. E. Smith’s arrest is found in the suppression of the Communist Party of Canada by the Canadian Government several years ago. Following this Fascist measure, Tim Buck and seven other Commu- nists were senten¢ to long jail terms and they are now incarcerated in the prison, at Kingston, Canada. LEO GALLAGHER In November, 1932, someone shot into Tim Buck's cell from the out- side of the building in an effort to kill There followed a wave of mass indignation which is still growing, and the Canadian Labor Defense League took the lead in a mass effort to compel the Dominion gov- ernment to force an investigation. For two years the Canadian govern- ment has evaded its moral respon- sibility and has refused to act despite the fact that more than 500,000 Canadian workers have signed petitions demanding such an investigation. On January 19, of the current year, the Proressive Arts Club of Toronto presented a play entitled “Eight Men Speak” which drama- tized the attempted murder of Tim Buck, A. E, Smith, secretary of the Canadian Labor Defense League spoke at the performance. The play was immediately suppressed and Smith was arrested under Sec- tion 98. The trial of Smith, which lasted from March 5 to March 8, was, ac- cording to Gallagher, as obvious and as vicious a frame-up as anything that ever happened to the four Com- munists at Leipzig to the Rueggs at Nanking, or to the Scottsboro boys at Decatur, even though the Toronto trial-was on a much more polite and genteel level. ‘The entire case of the prosecution against Smith consisted of three police officers two of whom said that they had taken down Smith's speech verbatim, each working without knowledge of the other’s presence in the hall. On cross examination these two admitted, however, that’ they had compared notes immediately after the meet- ing. Both agreed that Smith’s speech lasted half an hour. In court an exact transcript of this speech, 450 words, was read in some three | minutes. The police testified that Smith had said he knew that Governor- General Bennett had _ personally given orders for Tim Buck’s assas- sination. Smith said no such thing, it was proved in court, He had merely made the statement that “the fear of the Government to investigate the shooting placed a moral responsibility for the crime on the Government.” The defense, with the aid of Gal- lJagher, who acted as advisor to former Solicitor-General MacMur- ray and Attorney Brown, called Tim Buck to the stand, but the court permitted Buck to make only the following testimony: “I was shot at.” Anything else Buck might have had to say in the matter was ruled as being of no importance to the case. The victory of Smith's acquittal wasn’t an easy one, according to Gallagher. It involved exactly the same kind of mass organization and pressure as was employed in the two-year campaign to force an investigation of the Buck shooting. The case, Gallagher thinks, holds important lessons for workers all over the world as well as for those in Canada. To begin with, the Canadian immigration authorities employed every pretext they could find to keep Gallagher from Toronto. When they finally permitted him to enter, it was on condition that he wouldn't take part in the case. Since there was no provision in this order against his sitting in the courtroom and conversing with the defense attorneys, he was able to act as advisor. The denial of foreign counsel to Smith reminded Gallagher of the Nazi government's tactics in the Reichstag trial. Smith thinks that with Ernst Thaelmann facing a new frame-up in the Nazi courts, workers must begin to realize the importance of fighting for the right of any political prisoner anywhere in the world to choose his own counsel. When Gallagher was admitted to Canada, the government three conditions: No compensation, no meetings, and agreement not to advocate forcible overthrow of the Canadian Government. As a result, Gallagher had to leave Canada and re-enter in order to speak at two mass meetings celebrating Smith’s acquittal. In Toronto he spoke to 3,500 workers in Massey Hall and to an overflow meeting of 1,000. In Montreal, where the Dominion Government's repressive hand weighs down with particular heaviness, there was a jarge mass meeting for the first time in several years, attended by 4,000. Gallagher's comments on the need for international mass pres- sure in defense of Thaelmann and the new victims of Austrian fas- cism are not mere armchair obser- vations. He is touring the country now uncer the auspices of the In- made ternational Labor Defense. | expressions, by being put to work at | odd jobs raising food, chopping wood, which was exchanged for foodstuffs, etc. Judge Warren is be- | ing run for mayor here on the Dem- ocratic ticket and Wildcat wWil- | liams was appointed international | representative for the oil workers | union by the A. F. of L | ‘Though oil workers do not know at whose request Wildcat suddenly became a “defender” of the unem- ployed and now an organizer for their union, the workers feel that they are not getting any advantages | by being members of the A. F. of L. | union. Dissatisfied factions who rise | at meetings demanding an explana- | tion of the union’s inactivity are | hushed either by a patriotic appeal to be patient or accused of being “reds” and threatened with a gun that Wildcat usually places on the| table in front of him when a meet-| ing starts, | Wildcat is really his name. One fourth Cherokee Indian, he had been educated in a government In- dian school, went to East Texas Col- lege for a year, studied law through @ correspondence course and passed | the bar examinations, was abroad in the war and returned to work in re- fineries from the lowest job to super- |intendent. Since his return from | France, he has developed and nur- | tured the reputation of being an Oklahoma “bad man.” He carries a Smith and Wesson 38 and upon the | slightest provocation, or no provoca- tion, pulls it out:and shoots a couple of bullets through the nearest wall or ceiling. | ded oil union headquarters here at 409 East Second Street is very} thoroughly perforated, both ceiling | plays. | “Did you ever shoot anybody?” I} asked. | “No. I had a couple of shooting affairs with some reds but no one got hurt. But I've been in 78 pistol whippings.” {A pistol whipping occurs when | a man has the draw on another one and heats him over the head with the muzzle of the gun. The attacked man dare not reach for his own gun} if he has one because then. he'll be “shot in self-defense”). “Then why shoot holes through perfectly good lumber?” I asked. “It’s like this. These unemployed or a bunch of reds hollering about the union come in here all hot and | bothered. I listen to them and when | I've heard enough I pull my gun—| like this—” Out came his gun and two bullets whizzed over my head and passed on | through the wall. When the detona- tion had died down, I said: “You must have an expensive | munitions bill.” where from 150 to 1,000 men, de- pending upon the needs of the com- pany. (To Be Continued) woR third week of up. Regis Wednesday WORKERS SCHOO! week of registration up. Register now, 35 E. York HARLEM WORKERS SCHOOL PFogistre RS SCHOOL Spring Term, stration ses art 35 E. 12th Bt Spring Term. Classes are 12th &t., tion for Spring Term now open. 200 W. 125th St. Room 212 B BROWNSVILLE WORKERS SCHOOL Registration now open. 1855 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn. Classes filling rapidly, register now. OPEN FORUM on “Historical Material- ism.” Speaker Paul Miller. Tom Moon Br. LL. D., 323 E. 13th St., 8:15 P: m. Admission free. Discussion. “THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL Prison- ers in America,” lecture by D. C. Morgan at Walter Rojek Br. I. L. D., 82 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, 8 P. M. LEAGUE OF WORKERS THEAT! general membership meeting of gi that participated in N.Y. Competi 42 E. 12th 8t.. 9 P. M. Judges’ repo artistic work of groups. M. PERKIN speaks on “The Paris Com mune” at open meeting of Sacco-Vanzetti Br. I. L. D., 792 E. Tremont Ave.," 8:30 P. M. Admission free. JUNE CROLL, speaks on “War end Fas- cism,” at West Side Workers Forum, 284 Columbus Ave., at 104th St. 8:30 P, M Questions and discussion. Admission 1% unemployed free. GERTRUDE HUTCHINSON, speaks on ‘New Morals in a New World,” at Brook lyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Willoughby Ave Brooklyn, 8:30 P. M. Admission 15¢ Auspices Williamsburg Br. F. 8. U. I. L. D. CHORUS meets at Boro Park Cultural Center, 562 13th Ave., Brooklyn 8:30 P. M. FILM SECTION, Film and Photo League meets at 12 E. 17th St., 8:30 P. M. sharp. All present. SECOND FORUM at Sunnyside Br.°1. L. D., at Monroe Court, 4313 47th &t., near Foster Ave. Sunnyside L. I. Speaker Winifred Chappell. on “War and Fascism. Admission i5¢, 8:30 P. M. LECTURE by Jack Martell at Georg! Dimitroff Br. I. L. D,, at 2018 Continental Ave., Bronx, 8:30 P. M. Thursday JUSTINE WISE TULIN speaks on “Social Insurance in the Soviet Union,” at We Bide Branch F. 8. U., 2642 Broadway at 100th St., 8:30 P. M. Admission 150. Indianapolis, Ind. JOHN A. MASEK, lectures on Forces in Photography and the Cin¢ at the John Reed Club, 318 Columbia Sec- urities Bidg. corner Delaware and Ohio Sts. on Friday, March 30, 8 P. M. Newark, N. J. “REVOLUTIONARY Literature in Amer ica,” lecture by Eugene A. Schachner on Wednesday, March 28, 8 P. M., at Jack London Club, 230 Court St. Youngstown, 0. BRANCH 2457 Lodge Sloga will hold ther next membership meeting April ist, at 1416 E. Plorida Ave., 9 o'clock, Sunday morning. All members are urged to at~ tend on time. | AMUSE MENTS 2 Soviet Productions!. Last 3 Days ANNA STEN: “The Girl With the Band Box” iso: “TGDENBU” Story of Mongolian Tribes in Siberia *** Daily News (English Titles) ACME THEATRE 1dth STREET and UNION SQUARE —! HALL—. BER Cano Pisce ot tne Nation Opens 11:30 A. M. |“Bottoms Up” SPENCER JOHN “PAT” TRACY BOLES PATERSON And a great Music Hall Stage Show eae Jefferson 1 §.® | Now | OROTHEA WIECK & ALICE BRADY in “Miss Fane’s Baby Is Stolen” also:—“YOU CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING” with MAE ROBSON & JEAN PARKER WALTER HUSTON in Sinclair Lewis’ DODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, W. 44th St. vs, 8:40 Sharp Matinees Wednesday and Saturday, 2:30 JEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE & Bhgene HOWARD, Bartlett &IM- jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. | WINTER GARDEN, B'w: SOth. Eye. 8.5 * Matinees Thursday a1 witli MON: THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE ROYALE ™*, 43 8, way. Eves, 8:20. Mats, Thursday and Saturday, EUGENE O'NEILL's Comedy ~ AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN Thea., 52d St. W. of MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALV Thea., 52d St., W. of B’way MADISON SQ. GARDEN » Twice Daily 2 & 8 P.M. YY including SUNDAYS riday wisetMar.oO Riveune pari circ ALL NEW THIS { BIGGER THAN EVER! 1000 NEW FOREIGN FEATURES Tickets Admitting to Brocrthing (including Seats) $1.10 to I Tax Children under 13 Malt pee Rae Ae Saturday gaye rem Gaetbels eat GLADYS ADRIENNE RAYMOND COOPER ALLEN MASSEY THE SHINING HOUR ROOTH THEATRE. W. 45th St. Evgs. 8:40 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:40