The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 30, 1934, Page 5

Cn ae eR DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY. MARCH 30, 19 Page Five CHANGE oe, eo WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD MAXICAB DRIVERS.—At 4 Laboratory Theatre, a delegation of about 25 of the | a function of the Workers’ taxi strikers appeared to make a collection appeal for funds to aid their strike. leaders, was the spokesman. Joseph Gilbert, one of their He is tall, pale, serious, with the tense earnestness of an honest and thoughtful man fighting in @ great cause. The taxi workers were grouped about him on the stage, while the | audience of 1500 rose and cheered them for many minutes. The demonstration moved these strikers’ emotions. I saw the strong, weather-beaten faces of some of them turn pale with feeling. They have been in the trenches, fighting a formidable enemy. The General Motors has lined up its millions o! f dollars to force a company union on them. The Mayor of New York has been playing all the shabby tricks such a politician knows, pretending to be a liberal friend, while knifing them treacherously at every turn. The newspapers have run true to form, and have lied and ed: litorialized against them. The police clubs have rapped their skulls, and taught them the bitter lesson that when the issue is money against men, the capitalist police always may be counted on to defend the power of money. And now these soldiers out of the trenches of the class struggle stood before an audience of workers, and were cheered. It was the first time, I am sure, that some of them had felt this warmth, this loyalty, of working-class solidarity. through a flash of revelation, and In a moment such as this, mén often go are affected for life. ‘We may be sure, that after this strike, thousands of taxi drivers will be found among the best friends of the militant working class in ‘New York. It is that way in Paris, are revolutionists. The other third a few years ago) of members of a where two-thirds of the taxi drivers was made up (when I was in Paris sort of scab company union. They were mostly Russian ex-dukes and counts, parasites, who had been forced at last to work for a living, class hatred of the workers. but who still retained their upper- Both of my brothers were taxi drivers in New York for years, and I have known something of workers lead. In the last year or the hard and thankless life these two they have been starving ori the job. Their first strike was betrayed by liberals like Morris Ernst, but now nobody can fool them. They have found honest rank and file leaders, and are determined to win the right to a real union. Sophisticated magazines like the “New Yorker” run smart little anecdotes from time to time, the young college punk, male or fem: point of which is that some rich ale, talks to a taxi driver, and is amazed to find that the man has ideas on things, and even uses long words correctly. These giddy flappers, who write the New Yorker, ought to visit one of the strike meetings of the taxi drivers. They would discover what might amaze them flunkeys, but serious rebels against lice in raccoon coats. The best of proletarian luck to even more; that taxi drivers aren't the system that breeds jolly young you, Taxi Drivers! You are putting up a wonderful fight; you are now the leaders of the New York working class in the struggle against the slavery and flunkeyism of the fake company union! They can never beat you, whatever happens. You have learned your great lesson: solidarity, and the bosses know you now and will always fear you. Only through this fear do they ever make concessions; don’t forget that. * * * YOUNG PROLETARIAN POET OF MEXICO.—It has always seemed a dangerous crime to me to see how little attention the American intellectuals of the left pay to Latin-America. Here is the theatre where imperialism stages one bloody treachery after another; here is the scene where Yankee capitalism is building itself the armory from which weapons will come to be turned against our own workers. What happens down there is of supreme importance to every American who is fighting capitalism. Their fate is our own; their pense. Except when an open revolt There are a few American writers, enemy is our enemy; the exploiters who kill off the banana workers of Costa Rica and the miners of Mexico enrich themselves at our e- against American dollarism breaks out, such as the recent one in Cuba, we fail to be deeply interested. , like Carleton Beals, who have de- voted themselves to a life interest in Latin-America. But his super- ficiality and vacillation are typical of the attitude of the liberal group, and make him an unreliable interpreter. How many novels a year are translated into English out of the rich mine of Latin American literature? Very few; in some publishing seasons, none. None. How many of the literature, comparable to our own. on the situation that the poems poets and dramatists do we know? In Mexico, recently, there has been a wave of young proletarian Several splendid youyg revolution- ary playwrights have appeared, and « gala of poets. It is a commentary of Carlos Guitierrez’ Cruz, German List Azurbide, Maria Luisa Vera and Jose Munoz Cota, to name some of the best known, have appeared frequently in translation in the pages, of the Soviet magazines, Not one of the writers is known to us in the United States, however. Is this n ot a scandal? Langston Hughes made a start at this necessary work a few years ago, when he translated some of revolutionary, Regino Pedroso. the powerful poems of the Cuban I have just received from Jalapa, Mexico, a pamphlet of verse by ® young Mexican worker, Leafar Agetro. He writes passionate mani- festos, this son of the downtfodden peon; his themes are the social volcano that is ready to explode, the thousands of prostitute girls who swarm his land of poverty, the farmers, the miners, the beggars and disease. He tells of the lies of future. “There will be justice,” he the present, and the hope of the says, in a poem on patriotism, “only when the national hymns in every part of the world become fused in the International; when the people of the earth are one people; when the classes are one class; when there is no high or low; no bosses and workers; when the tyrants are liquidated, and when the humblest heart will not faint in the misery, sadness and hunger of our life.” I would recommend to some of our young Jotin Reed Club writers that they study Spanish at once, bonds with our comrades of Latin America. and establish strong and intimate It is one of the most necessary tasks of our revolutionary culture that I can think of at the moment, STAGE AND SCREEN “Moor Born” Comin, To The Playhouse Next Tuesday “Moor Born,” a play dealing with the life of the Bronte sisters by Dan Tothe- roh, will have its premiere on Tuesday, April 3, at the Playhouse. The cast in- cludes Helen Gahagan, Frances Starr, Edith Barrett, Glen Anders and Beverly Sitgreaves. “Furnished Rooms,” by Ragnhilde Bru- land, is scheduled to open on April 5. The . Players include Vicki Cummings, Walter MW tks, will be assisted by a picked group of Fret- heit Singing Society singers, conducted br Scheefer. Other numbers on the program include Beethoven's Overture to GoGethe’s drama, “Egmont”; Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and Mozart's “Eine Kleine Nachtmusic.” Aruturo Toscanini will conduct 27 mu- siclans of the Philharmonic Orchestra at the extra concert of the Beethoven Asso- ciation next Monday night at Town Hall. The program includes Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, Beethoven's Septer and an early Mozart Symphony in A. Frank Buck And His “Wild .|Cargo” At Radio City M. H. Frank Buck, noted adventurer who brings back thrilling film records of his trips to the jungle to capture wild beasts, is appearing in preson this week at the Radio City Music Hall during the showing of his latest film, “Wild Cargo.” ‘The stage show, directed by Leon Leoni- doff, includes “Baster Chimes” with Ed- wina Eustis, mezzo-soprano of the Phil- adelphia Opera; “The Guards on Parade,” designed by Russell Market, and “Punny Little Bunnies,”” “Chalutzim,” With Habima ; Players, At Acme Saturday “Chalutzim” of the first Hebrew talkie produced in Pales- tine, will have tts American premiere on Saturday, at the Acme Theatre. ‘The Habima Players, noted company of Hebrew Players, appear as the Chalutzim. ‘The picture presents the human side of of Palestine by the Chalut- zim. The film also shows the sport meet- ing of the Maccabi organization in Pales- tine; the Lewantine Fair in Tel-Aviv; The Palestine Chronicle and the holiday festi- vities, including the Carnival (Purim) and Lag-Beomer. Ue Scenes of the Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany are shown leaving Warsaw, Lemberg and other cities for Palestine. The picture hsa Engle dialoguee titles, | Trachtenberg’s “History |of May Day” Available |in New, Revised Edition | | A popular contribution to what | is expected to be a record-breaking | |May First celebration this year is) a revised edition of Alexander | | Trachtenberg’s “History of May | Day.” The pamphlet traces the growth | |of labor’s most famous celebration | from its birth in the eight-hour day | Movement in the United States to the gigantic demonstrations of to- | day, which rally the workers for | struggle against capitalism all over the world. “The History of May Day” costs five cents at Workers’ Bookshops or from the publishers, 381 Fourth Ave. WHAT’S ON Friday WORKERS SCHOOL, Spring Term. Third week of registration. Classes are filling up. Register now, 35 E. 12th 8t., New York. ‘WORKERS BOOK SHOP, 50 E. 13th St., 20 to 50 per cent sale ends this Saturdey Take advantage now! MURRAY BLYNN lectures on “Religion and the Working Class” at Tremont Prog. Club, 866 B. Tremont Ave., 8:45 p.m. SENDER GARLIN, of the Daily Worker Staff, speaks on “The Press—In the U. S.A. and U.S.8.R." at the Prospect Park Branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union, 1071 Bergen 8t., near Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, Friday, at 8:30 ANTI-RELIGIOUS Meeting arranged by Eila May Br. LL-D., Women's Council 18 and Unemployed Council at 4109 13th Ave., Brooklyn. Good speakers and, en- tertainment. Adm. 10¢. WORKERS Laboratory Theatre Night at Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 572 Sutter jrooklyn, 9 p.m. Showing such plays Guardia’s Got the Baloney,” “The Miser,” etc. GENERAL FRACTION Meeting of the Office Workers Union at the Workers Center, 35 EB. 12th St. Room 204, 7 p.m. All Party and League comrades must at- tend. SCOTTSBORO Trial at the Prospect Workers Club, 1157 So. Boulevard. Speak- ers: Ruby Bates, Carol Weis King, Schwartzback. ED SMITH speaks on “The Fight Against Fascism” at Workers Center of Astoria, 25-20 Astoria Boulevard, 8 p.m. DANCE and Entertainment at Office Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St., 8 p.m. B. Washington's Harlem Jazz Band. Proceeds N. Y. County Unemployment Council. A. HARRIS speaks on “How Unemploy- ment Affects the Youth” the 1.W.0, Youth Br. 21, Mt. Eden Workers Center, 268 E. 174th St. Adm. free. Discussion and_ questions. “RELIGION in the Soviet Union” lec- ture by Samuel Sklaroff at Boro Park Workers Club, 18th Ave. and 47th St., at % pm. “THE ROLE of the Church in History” lecture by F. Gard at German Workers’ Club, 79 E. 10th St. Admission free. GERTRUDE HUTCHINSON speaks on “Sex and Morals in the Old World and New” at Workers Cultural Club, 159 Sum- ner Ave,, Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15¢. Unemployed 10c. LECTURE and Entertainment at Bay Ridge Br. LLD., 5111—Sth Ave., Brook- lyn, 8 p.m. ‘UNITY Theatre, 24 E. 29rd St. presents & program of Revolutionary Plays “‘Oredo” “Death of Jehovah” and “Broadway 1933.” Adm. 38¢. MARX MERBOUM speaks on “The Role of the Courts in the Class Struggle” at Brownsville Youth Center, 105 Thatford Ave., 8:30 p.m. 8. BURNS speaks on “Social and Un- employment Insurance’ and the Interna- tional Workers Order at the Canarsie Youth Club, 1182 B. 93nd St. corner Plat- land Ave. Auspices Canarsie Br. 527 I.W.O. Adm. free. DR. B. LIBER will speak in English on “Sexual Sterilization” at Olarte, 304 W. 58th St., 8:30 p.m. Admission free, MASS MEETING at the Social Youth Culture Club, 275 Broadway, Brooklyn, for the Taxicab strikers. Admission free. LECTURE “Wagner as a Revolutionist”’ by George Maynard at Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St., 8:20 p.m. Saturday DANCE and Entertainment, Jazz John- sows Orchestra Brooklyn Labor Ly- iby Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 = Auspices Williamsburgh CONCERT and Dance at the Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E, Tremont Ave., 8:45 p.m. Laura Lipkin and partner, dancers. Ohar- acter sketches. Pianist and others. Nomad Jazz Band. DANCE and Entertainment given by Section 2 ¥.0.L. at Nature Friends, 12 E. 1ith St, 8 pm. Benefit District Y.C.L. Training School. CONCERT and Dance at Webster Hall, 125 E. llth St. Three Orchestras: Prole- tarian Theatre; Revolutionary Dancers. Dancing till dawn. Arranged by German Workers Club Downtown; 25 per cent Proceeds to Victims of German Pascism, Detroit, Mich. CONCERT and Dance given by West Side Section at Martin Hall, on Saturday, March 31. Lecture on Wagner at Degeyter Club Friday NEW YORK.—George Maynard, formerly chief of musical research of the National Broadcasting Co., will lecture on “Wagner—the Reyo- lutionist.” on Friday, 8:30 p. m., at the Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 B. 19th | Street. The Chicago Tribune Sheds A Few “Depression” Tears By KARYL KENET CHIPMAN — IVES of unemployed workers, looking at their hungry and ragged children, will be interested to know that it’s the upper 10 per. cent that’s really suffering most in this depression. Sure. That’s what one of Chi- cago’s “new poor” says, in the Chicago Tribune of recent date She ought to know, poor thing, she's having such a hard time! And, of course, you can always be- | lieve what you read in the truthful jand unbiased Chi. Trib. | This pitiful pauper is Mrs. Au- gustus (Rachel) Eddy. With Mrs. Walter (Marguerite) Wolf, another poor working woman, she’s running & dress shop at 68 East Walton Place, Chicago. no mistake about that. According frankly that they have become busi- money”! day’s work in the sweatshop, com- Workers School Exams In Three Subjects To Be Given This Saturday NEW YORK—Examinations in Principles of Communism, Political Economy A and B, and History of the American Labor Movement will be given this Saturday, March 3ist, at 2:30 p.m., at the Workers School, 35 East 12th Street, for those stu- dents who are registered for the two-year curriculum. These examinations were insti- tuted for the purpose of training cadres in the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, trade unions, and mass organizations by equipping the students with a rounded-out education in the theory of Marxism-Leninism. After com- pletion of the two years of study, the student will receive a certificate from the Workers School, Meeting Called to Plan for New York Children’s Center NEW YORK.—Mass _ organiza- tions are invited to send delegates to a meeting at the District Pio- neer Office, Room 509, 35 East 12th Street, this Friday, March 30, 8 Pp. m., to complete plans for the formation of a Children’s Center in the downtown section of New York. Teachers for this center, to be called the Potamkin Chil- dren’s Center, have already been drawn from the John Reed Club, Workers’ Music League, League, Labor Sports Union, Work- ers Laboratory Theatre, and many other workers’ organizations. Cleveland LOWT Holds Second Annual Festival CLEVELAND, Ohio.—The League of Workers Theatres of Cleveland will hold their second big Annual Festival this Saturday, March 31, At this festival they will also cele- brate their first anniversary. There are six groups performing, five of which are in the contest. They are: Swedish group, Hunga- tian, Finnish, 1LW.O. Youth of E. 105th, John Reed Club. A special performance this evening will be given by the Robeson Players, an excellent group of young Negro actors. Charles Welsh, one of Cleveland’s of Negro spirituals. The contest is being held on the new stage that has been built by the John Reed Club at the Workers School. The winning team will go to Chicago to compete in the na- tional festival, April 13-15. A num- ber of delegates from the groups will also attend the national confer- ence, Old Chain Gang Law Revived in Tulare TULARE, Cal., March 29.—A 46- year old law was re-vived here last week to punish persons found guilty of offenses and unable to pay fines. Judge Cross an- nounced that those unable to pay | fines would be put to work on the ' streets and in the parks, They're having a| tough time of it, comrades; make | her, comrades; but there's worse to| cramped for space. | ness women because they need the} Dance | outstanding artists, will sing a group | rade dressmaker, you want to be | especially sorry for Mrs. Eddy. She's right on the edge of eviction, seems; and you know what eviction means. She told her sad story to the Trib’s girl reporter like this “Of course, we aren't exactly | out on the street,’ Mrs. Eddy laugh- }ed, ‘but we do need the money. |I have cut down on living expenses |I've gotten right down to bedrock. I've rented my house and moved to an apartment. I have gotten rid | of all my servants except one maid, and she has to take care of my 5: | year-old boy. He’s in kindergarter at the Latin school (that’s one of |Chicago’s most exclusive schools, | |comrades). My 14-year-old boy is |at boarding school in the East | Now you know how bad it is with | come. Mrs. Eddy assured the Trib} |It wasn’t fun, it was work. | “It would be fine to become a home body and all that again, but | |sending my children to private |school. Of course, I do think boys | should have some education in pub- | |lie schools. But you. can’t send| |your children to the Chicago pub- lic schools—that’s just out of the question. “I was brought up in what might |be called luxury, I suppose,” she | went on. “I've never worked, ex- | |cept working on hospital boards, | jand other charitable things. It | jisn’t easy to work now. It’s much | | harder than I thought it would be.” Here poor Mrs. Eddy sighed. “You know,” she confided to the reporter, “the persons who have | the upper 10 per cent. But there’s no use going around with a long face and wearing your troubles on your sleeve, and I don't. After all, we have to be good sports, don’t | | we?” | Are those tears of pity for this Poor woman rolling down your cheeks, comrade women? But wait }~—Save a handkerchief (maybe you | still have one left from before you | went on relief) for her poor, poor | partner. Mrs. Wolf, you must know, is active in Republican politics. Her | husband is one of Chicago's lead- ing lawyers, not unemployed. He'd be busy clipping coupons if he wasn't occupied getting crooked capitalists out of messes. Mrs. Wolf works full time in the Shop, the paper says. Early every morning her chauffeur drives her in from Winnetka (the city’s most ex- clusive suburb) in the limousine, and in the afternoon he picks her up and takes her home again. That's right, feel sorry for this hard-working woman. You want to remember that when you walk }home from work to save carfare, your feet feeling like they're fall- ing off after a long day behind| @ counter. “Tm not in business temporarily. I mean to go right on,” says this brave woman, who really loves this business, she says, be- cause clothes have always inter- ested her—she’d always bought hers in Paris. “I'm thinking of the future. Most of us are hard pressed financially.| And it’s really very much harder for} people who've been used to every- thing to do without. Of course I still have investments, but even my bank stocks aren't paying very much dividends, most of them.” She's reaching the end of her rope, comrades. Listen to this: “I have leased the apartment I | own at 209 Lake Shore Drive. The | persons who took it could have got- ten others cheaper, but liked my old | French furniture. We're living in| my country place in Winnetka.” | Didn't I tell you it's a sad, sad| story? But hold on—get the han-| | kerchiefs ready — here comes th saddest part of all. | “And I've cut down even there. | Always before I've had four gar- deners to take care of the grounds. Now I have only two.” There now, comrades, women; now} you know what real distress is. | When you look at your children, | | shivering in the cold house, pale| and thin and weak because they're slowly starving “on relief,” unable to go even to those common public schools because they haven't a de- cent pair of shoes—don't forget, comrades, that pain in your hearts isn’t really suffering. You don't know what real suf- fering is. If you want to know, ask the “upper tenth.” suffered most in this depression are | ; Six Groups Will Join in Dramatic Festival of City Club Council NEW YORK. - The Council, the Central Execu' mittee the English w ers’ Ciubs of Grea Club e Com- speakir New York, has arranged its matic f al. It will its headquarters, 11 W Bth § this Saturday night, March 31 Six groups will participate in the | festival, Club, Progressive Workers’ Harlem Progressive Yo New Culture Club, American Y: Federation, and the West Side Workers Club. These “theatres of ction” have been writing and pro- ducing their own original plays. | Included on the program will be a demonstration of a new type of col- | lapsible stage that folds into an of- | fice partition. Such a stage is of great aid to workers’ organizations | including American Cu Tickets at 25 cents can be bought | to the Chi. Trib. they “declared |that she wasn’t doing this for fun.| at workers’ Bookshop, City Club | Council, and League of Workers’ | Theatres, 42 E. 12th St. Ten per cent of the proceeds will go to the After you get through with your |it would mean I'd have to give up | Communist Party of Germany. TUNING IN BELOW 200 METERS With the arrival of ‘ing, the 50 meter/| band became very wei during the day, but it comes in stronger at night the past week, the Moscow Bta-| 59 came in strong enough to dif-| the Ianguages being used. The| came in on March 21 40 minutes| later than usual and during this period | & woman was sending messages in the| Russian language. Inasmuch as the sta-/| tion broadcasts between the hours of 4| and 6 o'clock the program becomes intel-| ligible only around 5 o'clock. This bears | out our contention that the Xter in the| evening the programs are stro\Xer then in the daytime. We located the French station but their signals are very weak and unsteady | South American cations came in better than ever. | We listened to WIXAL send a program to the 8.8. George Washington. | ‘This is a list of the Soviet stations and| their wavelengths, which can be heard on| the American continent. Try to tune them | in and record their “place” on the dial) for future reference. | RUSSIAN SHORT-WAVE BROADCASTING STATIONS | 15 Kw., Khabarovak | 20 Kw., Leningrad 20 Kw., Moscow 15 Kw., Khabarovsk | 10 Kw., Khabarovsk 20 Kw., Khabarovsk | 20 Kw., Leningrad 20 Kw., Moscow RNE—24.45 M.; 20 Kw., Moscow RRF—20.14 M.; 20 Kw., Leningrad RNE—20.000 M.; 20 Kw., Moscow 0.2 M.; 10 Kw., Khabarovsk -50.00 M.; 20 Kw., Moscow 5.00 M.; 20 Kw., Moscow RTM—16.32 M.; RIM —19.67 M.; RKK—24.45 M. RTM—25.38 M.; RBM—32.47 M.; RFM—172.00 M RRF—16.66 M.; RPK—20,76 M.; M—Meters; Kw.—Kilowatts, . . On April 30, beginning at 1:30 p.m., the} May First celebrations of the “Bolshoi” Theatre in Moscow will be broadcast from Station RV-59 on 50 meters (the time ts| New York time) | Beginning at 1 a.m. (N, Y. time), May 1, the celebrations and parades will be broadcast direct from the Red Square through Station RNE on 25 meters, 50 better check up on your sets right away. | NOTICE A meeting of all the technical advisers and code instructors of all clubs and branches will be held on Sunday, April 1 at 5 pm the home of Comrade| Bloomenfield, 7 W. 24th &t., New York| City. Please come early. | | TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke. 00 P. M.—Morton Bowe, Tenor 15—Billy Batghelor—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 y Musicale; Pic Comedians 10:00-—First Nighter—Sketch 10:30—Stoess Orch. 00—The Lively Author 11:15—News. Reports 11:20—Gould and Shefter, Piano Duo 11:30—The Crucifixion, Canteta 12:30 A, M.—Jules Lande, Violin . WOR —710 Ke. 1:00 P. M.—Sports Resume 5—Pront-Page Drama 30—Sizzlers Trio 45—Stories of the Sea 8:00—Selvin Orch.; Jones and Hare, Songs 8:30—Musical Revu 9:00—Osborn Orch.; Harris 9:30-—Book Play 9:45—Will Robyn, Tenor; Marie Gerard, Soprano 10:00—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen; Songs Rondoliers Quartet 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Jack Arthur, and Pat, Arts—John Erskine, Interview by Radie Baritone By VERA SAUNDERS B iacanregla sac the Party as a whole there is an underestima- tion of the necessity and importance of children’s work, and of the pos- sibilities afforded the Party of spreading out to large masses of workers on issues affecting the chil- dren. The misery and want of the workers means the increased misery of their children, and it is possible to make the undernourishment, the insufficiency of clothing, etc., of the children of the unemployed, the lever with which hitherto inactive working masses can be set into mo- tion for struggle against their misery, The fifth year of the crisis has left, a particularly deep and devas- tating mark upon the children of the working class, Official figures give 41 per cent of the children in the country as undernourished. ‘What free food and clothing has been given to the children of the most destitute is gradually being cut off. The teachers in the public schools whose “voluntary” contribu- tions comprised the free food fund, are, since their wage cuts, unable to make these “contributions” and are fighting against them. Neither the city nor the state has appropriated any special funds for the feeding -and clothing of needy children. The parents are beginning to see the “New Deal” when chil- dren are refused requests for old clothes in the schools, and when no new applications for free food are cS For a Mass Proletarian Children’s ‘Movement ers in the public schools are begin- ning to see the “New Deal” when the retrenchment plan is put through, calling for removal of teachers, wage cuts and increased classes. eS parents see the slow starva- tion, the relentless crippling of their children, and they will fight | for their children’s welfare. Yet, we | have not seen on the part of our Party, or any of the mass organiza- tions, a real effort to organize a struggle, and bring it to a stage where the parents will know that. the city must provide for their chil- dren, The unemployment insurance bill could most concretely be ap- plied here. Why this almost complete insen- sibility to issues which are so vital to the working class? Because the rooted in their territories to realize the vitality of local issues in the neighborhoods, and to organize the sentiment around these issues. For instance, there has been very little political reaction from the Party to the whole wave of tenement fires in New York, While Mayor LaGuardia is waxing more demagogic than ever making gestures of moving two or three families out, threatening the any longer considered. The teach- landlords, etc—new fires flare up Pre-Convention Discussion Party units are not sufficiently) throughout the city, workers’ fami- lies and their children are burnt to} death—the toll to date being 48. Here is an excellent opportunity to expose LaGuardia, especially in those territories where he received a heavy vote, yet in the best in- stances the Party has restricted its activities to delegations visiting the landlords, or the picketing of a house. The sentiment of workers living in the slum areas is running very high. Why can’t the Party or- ganize a real MASS campaign, with MASS pressure to force the city ad- ministration to act quickly? The children’s demonstration to City Hall after the first fire was good, but surely this is not sufficient. It is this day to day mass work which will root our Party in the territories, and establish us as the political leaders in the neighbor- hoods. f Roath are something over 4,000 children organized in the lan- guage schools and various Pioneer troops in New York. This is a very small number for New York City. Every mass organization should se- viously undertake the task of creat- ing a children’s section. Get the children of your members and other children. Tt is the task of the work- ers’ ormanizations te sive their chi]- jfurnish a reaction to this poison, dren a working class education. The Pioneer Council will furnish the material and guidance, but if we are to win the working class child to our side in the fight for a Soviet power, it cannot be too soon to start work- ing with them. The public schools are carrying through a systematic) campaign of fascization, trying to instill jingoism and anti-working ideology into the minds of our chil- dren. We must be able not only to but to cultivate a deep proletarian pride and instinct in our children. The basis of the program which we issue to the children, is work in the schools. Already we have some very encouraging results. The chil- dren are bringing up concrete cases of discrimination, starvation, over- crowding, intimidation, anti-Semi- tism, and other things. And strug- gles have been started around these issues. A number of troops have troop papers, devoted mainly to school struggles, and calling upon the children in the neighborhood to join them. However, these issues are not issues for children alone to fight on. These issues must become the issues jointly of the children with the Party and mass organizations. If the two-fold character of chil- dren’s work is recognized and fol- lowed, we will have not only a mass movement of parenis demanding that the city or state feed and clothe their children, but we will have a broad proletarian children's movement—we will be laying a sound foundation fer our future work. Oil Workers Resent Compan y By JOHN L. SPIVAK TULSA, Okla oil code was signed there have been ance boards. different compli- The composed entirely of corpora- tion lawyers ar pany board. Their indif complaints roused a wa ment that not even V liams was able to con three first was ly a com- when workers came to hi and bothered” as he put it. A change had to be made to pacify them and a@ new board was picked. The sec- ond one was packed by Chamber of Commerce shining lights and they too proved indifferent to com plaints. Protests became so loud and insistent that they threatened A. F. of L. control, so the second board was discarded and a third picked with two A. F. of L. offi- cials on it “to represent labor.” As- suming that these “labor repre- sentatives” actually tried to repre- sent labor, they could still be out- voted, for there were three others {on the board who were not espe- | cially friendly to the workers, but there is no evidence that I was able to find that these labor representa- | tives were really workers, The only effect representing the the N.R.A. had 10:45—To Be Announced 11:00—Moonbeams Trio 11:30—Dance 3 WJZ—760 Ke, Code Board here, ‘in words of the Secreta amber of Com- merce. ng “a ger reduces tion in wages for everybody.” is I am beginning to suspect that going on al) for in every area I visited so far same thing has occurred Nanned economy’ the new deal instead of help- same proces over the United und ing the worker served only to de- crease his income. The only ald that I can see that workers may get event out of the NRA. is te be told that they are not getting fired for joining a union. But— workers who j unions can (and have been) fired for “inefficiency and other reasons. In the economic life of Tulsa the same process of speed-up and wage cuts is going on even though most crafts are organized. The unions exist and collect dues, but as my waitress in the hotel dining room said Sure we're all organized The whole town is. But what good does it do? We don't get anything out of the union. All we do is pay dues and a lot of us are getting tired of it.” In many cases here workers have been discharged and others rehired. at the minimum wage scale—a con- dition I found everywhere I’ve been so far. Whenever pos- sible the employer, especially the small one, has been driven to all | Sorts of schemes to violate N.R.A, and code agreements. In some cases “self-preservation” is given as the |Teason. If a restaurant owner, for | instance, added extra help to get the blue eagle and did not cut the wages of his other employees, and simply advances his prices to meet. the increased overhead and in- | creased wholesale prices, he loses 7:00 P. M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy | his customers because of the in-. 7:15—St pat Quartet concert | creased price. The second restaurant, 7:30_George Gershwin, Plano; Concert | man to keep prices down, cuts his 7:45—Gus Van, Songs; Arlene Jackson,| Wages all around. The first one Songs either has to cut, too, or go out of 8:00—Walter O'Keefe. Comedian; Ethel | bysiness so all of them cut, In Shutta, Songs: Bestor Orch. s e Y Sas 8:30—Dangerous Paradise | those stores where the profit was 8:45—Carlos Gardel, Songs sufficiently large so as not to neces- ote ey eet Seoeh manele Orch ; sitate reducing wages, the propri- 9:30—Cantata, even st Words of . " “ Onri ‘cre Hill, Baritone: Chicago|CtOr Cut anyway, using “increased. Choir 10:00—Felix Salmond, Cello; Violet Kem- ble-Cooper, Readings; Victor Wittzen-| stein, Piano | 10:30—Thirty Pieces of Silver—Sketch 11:00—Mario Cozzi, Baritone | 11:15—News Reports 11:20—Lucille Manners, Songs 11:30—To Be Announced | 12:00—Gentry Orch 12:30 A. M.—Black Oreh. WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P, M.—Myrt_and Marge 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30—Armbruster Orch.; Jimmy Kemper Songs 7:45—News—Boake Carter | 8:00—Men About Town Trio; Vivien Ruth, | Songs 8:15—News—Edwin C. Hill 8:30—Merch of Time 9:00—Fray and Braggiotti, Piano Duo 9:15—Ruth Btting, Songs 9:30—Jack Whiting, Songs; Jeannie Lang, | | Songs; Denny Oreh 10:00-—Olsen and Johnson, Sosnick Orch 10:30-—Mary Eastman, Orch. 11:00—Edith Murray, Songs 11:15—News; Jones Orch 11:45—Busse Oreh. 12:00—Belasco Orch. 12:30 A .M.—Robbins Oreh 1:00—Pancho Orch. Comedians Soprano; Concert | overhead” and “increased wholesale | prices” as an excuse. Here, in a number of cases where | the N.R.A. code specifies that ex- ecutives drawing $35 a week or over | shall not be limited to hours, em- | ployers simply raised the salaries | of those getting $30 or $32.50 a week | to $35 and then worked them longer hours than even before the N.R.A | provision. They “promoted” them | to increased hours out of all pro- portion to the slight increase in salaries they got. | _ Even American Federation of Labor official here, who are strong for the N.R.A., admit that wages | for the overwhelming majority of workers are not equal to the cost of living, which has risen greatly | since the “new deal.” There are no Ni s in the | Petroleum industry. “They diplo- matically can’t stand it,” either in | the fields or in the refineries, to | use Wildcat Williams’ expression. | The Negro here is completely ig- or by the A, F. of L. (To Be Continued.) MENTS ,;— Becinninc Tomorrow — AMERICAN PREMIERE CHALUTZIM (Pioneers of Palestine) with the Habima Players Hebrew Talking Picture of the Workers in Palestine (English Dialogue Titles) | Last | ANNA STEN in “GIRL OF THE | Dey | BAND BOX” and “IGDENEU” ; ACME THEATRE { 14th STREET and UNION SQUARE MADIGON SQ. GARDEN “OPENING TONIGHT 1000 NEW FOREIGN FEAT! ‘Tickets Admitting to Everything (in- cluding Seats) $1.10 to $3.50, Inc, Tax Chiléren under 12 Half Price Every Afternoon Except Saturdays. TICKETS at Garden and usual agencies Are you doing your share in the Daily Worker sub drive? Every reader getting only one new sub- seriber will put the drive over the top! THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JOHN WEXLEY’S New Play THEY SHALL NOT DIE ROYALE 2, o* %. W. st Broadway. Eves. 8:20. Mats. Thursday and Saturday, 2:26 EUGENE O'NEILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILDev ac tats.taorasatsey MAXWELL ANDERSON'’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN ALVIN Thea. St., W. of Bway Fy.8.20Mats. Thur. &Sat.2.20 —! TO CL SIC 50 St & § Ave—Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M. FRANK BUCK’S “Wild Cargo” with FRANK BUCK in Person And a great Music Hall Stage @how |" Charlie Ruggles & Verree Teasdale “GOODBYE LOVE” m yd IEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett 8IM-_ MONE, Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. WINTER GARDEN, B’way & 50th. Evs. 8.30 Matinees Thursday and Saturday 2:30 ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by | JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK | NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 424 St. Evgs. 8.40 | Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 First of the German W Soviet Talkie ‘orkers Amkino presents—American Premiere! BROKEN SHOES” Communists in Their Struggle Against Nazis! Workers’ Children Attacking Strike-Breakers! Uprising Reaction! — A Soviet Talkie With English Titles —