The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1934, Page 5

< ~ il DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEPNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1934 Page Five CHANGE THE WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD WHE Socialists made a great to-do over the Madison *% Square Garden meeting. Thete they used an attempt by Communist workers to set up a united front against fascism as a means of further splitting the united front. Great victory. They have just won another such victory—they helped La Guardia-and General Motors raise the “red scare” against the taxi drivers. They are actively directing the move on the part of Mr. Samuel Smith, head of the Bronx Taxi Union local, to split the union. Let us now hear how the Socialists and their intellectual fel- lowers can alibi these crimes. Here was a strike against company unionism breaking out almost spontaneously. The taxi men could not submit to the slave yoke placed on them. They wanted their own honest rank-and-file union. There were some Socialists among them, a few Communists, but in the main, they were typical American workers, faithfully voting Democrat and Republican at the elections. However, the only support in terms that county in food for their wives and children, in picketing and arousing public sympathy, came from that portion of the New York workingclass which is influenced by the Communist Party. What did the Socialists do to help the taximen? Nothing. The liberals? Nothing. The capitalist press lied about them, and La- Guardia’s brain trust ordered the police clubs into action against them. At the crucial moment of the strike, when victory or defeat was near, and the last push over the top, the Socialists entered the strike. By one means or another, they poisoned the minds of the Bronx taxi drivers against their fellow-workers in Manhattan. The capitalist newspapers and General Motors seized upon this gleefully, and next day all the papers spread full reports. It was just what they needed. Nothing else could breake the. morale of the strikers but this Socialist plot did. The strikers are split! The strikers are throwing out their Communist leaders! The strikers don’t want to strike any more, or “be used by Communists for political ends.” No, the strikers want a company union. And sure enough, the Socialist: leaders helped them get it. Yes, you N. R. A. Socialists Leaders, you “united fronters,” you have a great, deal to explain to the New York workers. Are we to understand, after this, that even a company union is preferable to. you than an honest, union, if Communists happen to be present? And if there is a battle against fascists, and Communists happen to lead the battle, may we assume you will side with the fascists? Don't fool yourselves with these Pyrhhic victories, however. You can seek to betray a strike, and think you have beaten the Communists, but thousands of taxi drivers know better. Hach time you gain another such victory, you also gain the hatred and contempt of thousands of honest rank-and-file workers (including Socialist workers), whose morality is simpler than yours—a scab is a scab, whatever noble motives he may have. United front! Why do these Socialist leaders find it so thankful and easy to unite with LaGuardia, but not with militant workers? ‘They are the same in every land, and the day is coming when the proletarian world will vomit out this poison in its system which has kept it so long in sickness and slavery. * * * ‘ A German Socialist Leader wee we are the subject, let us take note of a news item that appeared in the press last Sunday. It seems that Karl Severing, one of the chief leaders of German Socialism, has just written a pamphlet which he calls, “My Road to Hitler.” This. Seyering was one of the bulwarks of German Socialism. He was Prussian Minister of the Interior after the revolution of 1918, and also Chief of Police in Berlin. He was one of the iron-men, “the little Red Napoleon,” his deluded followers called him, who slaughtered hundreds of workingclass Sparta- cists who attempted to win a few workingclass rights in this so-called “Socialist” revolution. The Socialists of the world, including Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit, agreed with this policy. They said the time was not ripe for a workers’ state, as in Russia, but that Germany must go through a period of bourgeois democracy, a united front with the industrialists and liberals. .The dispatch from Germany says: “Taken at its face value, this pamphlet would seem to reveal more than anything published thus far the real reason for Herr Hitler’s success. In it the Socialist Herr Severing virtually proclaims himself as a secret ally of the Nazis from the start. He emphasizes that his espousal of Hitlerism is ‘no going over’ to the Nazis, because in the depths of his soul he has always ‘had sympathy with Hitlerism.’ “‘No one can reproach me with lack of national self-esteem,’ he writes. ‘I began my official work in 1919 with a war against the Left radical elements among the German people. I continued this war until 1920, and during the suppression of the uprising in central Germany nothing was undertaken against the elements of the Right’.” Think of it! This Socialist now brazenly confessed what Com- munists had said right along—his war was against the Left workers, that was his “official” job in the capitalist system. He helped kill _ Liebknecht, Luxemburg, and thousands of German workers, in the name of Socialism, and helped pave the way for Hitler. Could anything be plainer? And is the role of Socialists in other Jands any different? Their war is always against the Left—against the workers—you never hear of the American Socialists, for instance, fighting bosses or Roosevelt or A. F. of L. racketeers one-hundredth part as bitterly as they fight Communists. Why is this, Socialist workers? * * x Something for Socialist Workers to Think About a ans over these words of a traitor, you Socialist workers. This is the man who was one of three or four outstanding leaders of the German Socialist Party until Hitler's seizure of power. As such, he rubbed shoulders with the Socialist leaders of the world, and his policies were accepted by them. And all the while, as he confesses, he not only fought the Left, but had s deep sympathy for the Nazis. ‘When Communists attack such leaders, are they right or wrong? Socialist workers, you are fighting for your daily bread. Your unions will be crushed by the fascists, and every liberty taken from you. Fascism is growing in America, and the Communists are its bitterest foes. As to your own leaders, examine them. Study their words and deeds carefully. Don’t let this fog of hatred they have thrown around Communism affect your viewpoint. Judge for yourselves—study your leaders and their policies, and see whether they are not following the path of Severing. As solemnly as one knows how to say it; you are soldiers fighting for your lives, and your generals are to be deeply suspected of being in collusion with the enemy. On guard! Watch your leaders; compare their records with that of Severing! WHAT'S .ON PROTEST for the Defense of Wednesday the ‘Scottsboro, Boye and Aseinst Pie ‘WORKERS Traps at the American Youth Olub, 407 SCHOOL SPRING TERM— Last week of registration, 85 E. 12th St. Classes are filled ae WEEK REGISTRATION for Spring Term Srownaville Workers. Behool, way Ave, 8 oa m. Prominent Speak- ers. Admission free. Auspices; a League of Feruaele for Negro Ri ALFRED G. MORRIS, | 1855 Pitkin Ave. ° There Police Prisons and HARLEM WO! SCHOOL, 200 W./ Soviet Russia” Mt. Eden Br. F. 8, U., 135th St. 214 A. Register for| 1401 Jerome Ave. at 170th St. Spring Term. 10 cents, 8:30 p. m. SPECIALS IN BOOKS and pamphlets) UNITY THEA’ Presents for | the this week. Workers Book Shop, 50 E.| benefit of New Theatre 18th St, N. ¥. C. dramatic reading of “John Henry, Bad CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES to Five| Nigger.” Reader Jerry Werlin. 24 2. Day May Festival and Bazaar, Commu- nist Party District 2 at 50 E. 13th St. Room 205, 7:30 p. m. All organizations are requested to send delegates. TRISH WORKERS OLUB Br. N2, 594 Bt. 23rd St. 9 p.m. Pu ag 25 cents. SPECIAL of ‘MEETING Followers Nature at headquarters, “a E. 17th 6t., 8:30 p. m, Very important. Open Forum by Sunnyside Br. I. L. D, at Monroe Anns Ave., Bronx (basement) Open| Court, 4314—47th St. Speaker: Milton Forum led by Martin Moriarty on ‘James} Howard on “One Year of * Connolly and Easter Week” Admission| Admission 18 cents. 8:80 p. m, "50 Thursda SOVIET CHINA—National Minorities in ww Kuomintang and Soviet China—lecture by) OLARTE, 304 West S8th St. Movie John Philli Friends of the Chinese at showing of “Onin and Artem” and Charlie . 23rd St., 8:30 p. m. ae Ohaplin comedy. Two showings, at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Coatroom 20 cents. OPEN FORUM—'"Recent strike wave in N.Y. ©." a report ‘by the Strike Survey Committee. Pen and Hammer, 114 West 21st St. 8:30 p. m. ‘UL MILLER speaks on ‘Value, Piles a Sch he ee Mooney Br. I. L. D, » 8:15 p. m, Admission free—disc1 scURsiOR @ and ‘Admission | enriched by the slaughter of millions Play on Chicago Stock | Yards Wins First Plaee In Chicago Competition j | (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) | CHICAGO.—"The Hog House,” a | play of the Chicago Stock Yards, | presented by the Chicago Workers | Laboratory Theatre, won first place in the Midwest Theatre Festival) Competitions for the National Fes- tival held here recently. “Blue Eagle.” given by the Albany | Park Jewish Workers Club, won the foreign language section competi- tions. Eight theatre groups participated in the competition for the right to represent Chicago in the National competitions to be held here April 13, 14 and 15. Written by a member of the Lab. Theatre, and based directly on the lives and conditions of Stock Yards workers, the “Hog House” was the outstanding play. It deals with a strike situation in the Yards, and the cast of Negro and white work- ers, many of whom are Yards work- ers brought the story out ably. To get the proper background for the play, the author, Alice Evans, spent much time interviewing Yard's workers. Even the sets of the play were designed by a worker from the plant. “Blue Eagle” is a story of strike struggles under the N. R. A. The Morris Winchevskt Club was a close runner up. The Chicago Blue Blouses won second place in the English group. Ann Howe, Organizer Secretary of the League of Workers Theatres who came to Chicago to guide the final preparations for the National Festival, gave a survey on the prep- arations in other cities and states. Groups are coming to Chicago from New York, New Jersey, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, Moline, Los Angeles, and other cities. Already, 20 del- egates from various Canadian groups are announced, and a group of the Progressive Art’s Club of Toronto, will participate as guest performers. ‘The League of Workers Theatres is appealing to all Chicago comrades to cooperate in housing the del- egates. Send notices to: L. O. W. T. c-o Breinin, 615 Oakwood Bivd., Chicago, Tl. April “Soviet Russia Today” Contains Vivid Articles and Photos The April issue of “Soviet Russia Today” contains a number of im- portant and interesting articles, among them one on “Medical Edu- cation in the Soviet Union,” writ- ten by Lewellyn F. Barker, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, John Hop- kins Medical School. Dr. Barker speaks of the “enormous progress in the prevention of deaths from childbirth as well as in the care and prevention of disease among children in the Soviet Union.” Isi- dore Rosenfeld, Assistant Professor of Architecture in N, Y. University, writes about the design for the Pal- ace of Soviets, and Ashley Pettis describes the rapid expansion of musical activity contemplated un- der the Second Five-Year Plan. Dr. Reuben 8. Young, Myra Page, Alice Withrow Field, Charles Recht, and others contribute articles, stories and book reviews. In addi- tion, there are 50 vivid photographs of Soviet life. Modern Negro Dance Group Will Join in Dance League Recital NEW YORK.—The Modern Ne- gro Dance Group, composed of members of the former Hemsley Winfield New Negro Art Dance} Group, will giye its initial per- formance at the Brooklyn Academy | of Musie on Friday, April 20, at a Workers’ Dance League recital for; the benefit of the Labor Defender, under the auspices of the United Front Supporters. MONG the thousands of workers and soldiers who on February 26-28 (March 12 new style) 1917 hurled the century-old monarchy of the Romanoys on the rubbish heap of history, there was an American Finn, Werner Lehtimaki, a man who at that time could hardly speak any Russian but ly risked his life for those whom he justly considered his class brothers. . Lehtimaki, who is a specialist on car repair work and now acts as con- sultant to the Leningrad branch of Giproavtrans (Planning Institute re Auto Repair Plants), first came Petersburg from the United Btates in 1915 on the invitation of a British automobile firm which had a branch office in the capital of Russia. While in America, Lehtimaki told how he had been active in various organizations and had been a mem- ber of the Socialist Party. How- ever, poor knowledge of Russian and being a foreigner prevented him from taking part in political activi- ties here. “But ignorant as I was of Russian and conditions, I soon realized what tsarism and capitalism meant for this country. “Casual visits to working class dis- tricts which contrasted so terribly with the fashionable center of the of Russians, and the cold-blooded murder of women and children by this told me-on which “trouble in the The Red Flag Flies On| A Ship in N. Y. Harbor | By SAM ROSS EDITOR'S NOTE: The following feature story is, among other things, an effective refutation of the lying yarns in the New York capitalist press particularly the Times and the Herald Tribune, The Times reporter wrote that when a delegation, composed of seamen from the Marine Workers’ Industrial Union came to the boat, the Soviet sailors “shouted back that they were members of the Young Communist League of the Soviet Union and did not want to have anything to do with the American ‘Reds’.” The Herald Tribune carried a subhead in their story saying “Our Communists Disliked.” Just turn to page 1 of this issue of the Daily Worker and see the photograph taken by the “Daily” staff photographer showing the captain and members of the crew of the Soviet ship “Kim” with members of the revolutionary Marine Workers Industrial Union. * NEW YORK.—When “Kim,” the first Soviet ship to arrive in the United States, anchored Monday morning in New York harbor, a del- egation of sailors and longshore- men came to greet the ship, and its crew of thirty-seven. The American marine workers walked through the ship, examin- ing the sleeping quarters, the din- ing room, the engine room. “Some day,” one of them said, “we, too, will have ships like this to work on.” The Soviet crew, who escorted the marine workers around the ship, proudly spoke of the fact that “Kim” was built with Soviet ma- chinery and materials coming out of Soviet factories, built with an eye not only for cargo facilities but also for the comfort of the men who would sail her. “Treated Like Human Beings” The contrast between the treat- ment of the Russian seamen and the American seamen caused one of the delegates to remark that these men Were “treated like human be- ings,” not like beasts, After ob- serving the spotlessly clean rooms, with tables, books, lights, where only two men shared separate beds in each compartment built in the center of the ship where it is most comfortable, the marine pointed out the contrast with conditions on boats of capitalist countries, where the Seamen are crowded fifteen to a room, shoved back aft. 4 In the dining room, where the crew eat three square meals a day, slogans were spread across the walls: “Fulfill as Bolsheviks the resolution of the 17th Congress of the Communist Party”! Wall papers and pictures hung on the walls. One man was introduced as one of the best. shock brigaders in the Soviet, Union. Another was introduced as the writer of an article on the wall paper. Adjourning the dining room was a@ reading room with a number of books, easy chairs and a radio, where the seamen come to relax after their work. A slogan read: “Forward to the World Rev- olution!” Although the Soviet sea- men could say very little in English besides “Please,” they made won- derfully courteous escorts to the American marine delegates, point- ing out every thing of interest on the ship, including shower-rooms jand washrooms, another luxury un- known to American seamen. In sharp contrast to the enthu- siastic and warm interest of the marine workers, was the attitude of the capitalist reporters and photographers. Universal newsreel men, after taking many pictures, wanted to make a sound picture of the crew singing a Russian song. One of the newspapermen yelled, “Sing the Volga Boatmen!” An- other suggested laughingly, “Sing Dark Eyes!” But the captain po- litely said, “No,” and the crew climbed down from the ladder to go about their work, When they took pictures of the women stewardesses on board, the Daily Mirror photographer saw that maybe here was the real’ sex angle. He began to enquire what these women were doing here. He tried his best to dig up some kind of dirt * * for sensationalism; but he wasn’t rsuecessful. The crew just looked at them, shrugged their shoulders and walked about asking them with the word, “please.” as to whether they want to see this or maybe that. Dissatisfied, the picture snatch- jers and yellow journalists took one Or two more pictures and left. The crew went about showing the marine delegation what it was like working on a Soviet ship. TUN NG IN| TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke, 100 P, M.—Martha Mears, Songs 7:18—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 30—Shirley Howard Songs: 45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Jeck Pearl, Comedian; Van Steeden Orch. 8:30—Wayne King Orch 9:00—Hayton Orch.; Fred Allen, dian; Theodore Webb, Baritone 10:00—Hillbilly Muse 10:30—Ghost Stories—Skecth 11:00—Ferdinando Orch 11:15—News; Dance Orch. 11:30—-Rubinoff Orch. 12:00—Masters Orch. 12:30 A. M.—Lucas Orch. eae ae WOR—710 Ke, 7:00 P. M.—Sports Resume 1:18—Harry Hershfield 7:30—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano Duo 7:48—Stories of the’ Sea 8:00—Josef Ronald, Hand Analyst 8:15—To Be Announced 8:30—Concert Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor 9:00—Italics—H. Stokes Lott Jt. 9:30—Success—Harry Balkin 9:45—Robison Orch. 10:18—Ourrent Events— Jesters Trio Come. Harlan Eugene Garfield Swift, Read 10:30—Dorothy Miller; Si Dance Music . WJZ—760 Ke. 00 P, M.—Amos 'n’ Andy 15—John Herrick, Songs 7:30—Ramona, Songs 7:45—Hollywood—Irene Rich 8:00—Cadavier's Conviction—Sketch 8:30-—Dangerous Paradise 8:45—Oarlos Gardel, Songs 9:00—Raymond Knight's Cuckoos; Mary McCoy, Soprano; Armbruster Orch. Jack Arthur, Baritone; Sparklers Trio 9:30—John Charles Thomas, Baritone; Daly Orch, 10:00—Lopes Orch.; van 10:30—Tourist. Adventures 11:00—Pickens Bisters, Songs 11:15—Reinhold Schmidt, Baritone 11:30—Stein Orch. 11:45—News; Pollack Oroh. 12:00—Rolfe Orch 12:80 A, M.—Stern Orch. WABC—860_ Ke. 7:00 P, M.—Myrt_and Mi 7:15—Just Plain Bill—S' 7:30—Armbruster Orch.; Songs 7:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Men About Town Trio; Ruth, Songs 8:15—News—Edwin ©. Hill 8:30—Albert Spalding, Violin; Cnorad Thibault, Baritone; Voorhees Orch 9:00—Grete Stueckgold, Metropolitan Opera Soprano; Kostelanets Orch, 9:30-—Lombardo Orch.; Burns and Allen, Comedy. 10:00—Fiorito Orch.; Dick Powell, Gongs 10:30—The Republican Reaction — Repre- sentative C. L. Beedy of Maine 10:45—Columbians Orch. 11:00—Nick Lucas, Songs 11:15—News; Little Orch. 11:45—Messner Orch. 12:00—Hopkins Orch. 19:30 A. M.—Hall Orch. 1:00—Light Orch, Male Trio; Bd Sulli- h Jimmy Kemper, Vivien Masses’ ‘Real Advance! By appear EDWIN ROLFF the The nee of current (April 3) issue of the New Masces without doubt an event for cele- y other |revolutionary moveme appearing as a weekly; ni tributions have marked alm issue, and some new channel of growth has been penetrated each! week. American been The current issue is the first 48- Page quarterly issue, cont ig, in} addition to the rey r contents of} jthe magazine, a 12-page first se of a “In New Kentucky, Samuel Ornitz, and an pas | book-feature section. The play by Ornitz is the t wel have seen in print which attempts tury-old traditions of the Kentucky} | hill-folk with the newer and re-| vitalized tradition that these are forging in industrial s today. This play is a direct of Ornitz’s visit to the striking Ken- | Its first act dramatizes the awaken- | starving and underpaid miners in Coal Creek. The few scenes of the play's first act move} grippingly and all too swiftly for the reader, who feels somehow be- trayed when he has to discard the play after the exciting first act. It. is the “continued next month” feel- ing one gets, which is a good indi-| cation of the merit of “In New | Kentuc! What impresses one most in the rest of this first quarterly New Masses, is the enlarged book sup- plement, in which appear such ex- celiently written and provocative essays as D. S, Mirsky’s “Joyce and Trish Literature,” Joshua Kunitz’s “The Many-Sided Epic of the So- viets,” Earl Browder’s “Notes on a Review” and the first part of Gran- ville Hicks’ “Revolution and the Novel.” Other reviews in the book sup- plement, while not unusual in qual- ity, add to the cumulative value of the New Masses, These reviews—| Robert Simmons’ “Kingdom of the | Blind,” Louis M. Hacker’s “Rebels and Robbers,” Oakley Johnson’s “Al Five-Inch Shelf of Booklets,” Gene- | vieve Taggard 's “Poet Among| Imagists” and Ben Field’s “Farmers and Fakers’—attain the New Mass- es’ ever improving standard for comprehensiveness of discussion and working class clarity of approach, There are two outstanding con- tributions to this issue. The first is Michael Gold's scorching bit of invective, “A Night in the Million Dollar Slums.” It is a review of the current Ziegfeld Follies, written only as Michael Gold could write it, with all the biting sarcasm and burning contempt of one who has traced first-hand the gutter origin of this “lavish” bourgeois spectacle, and who sees in it, behind the per- fumed bevy of beauties who clut- ter the stage, the culmination of all that is degenerate and coarse and vulgar in capitalism and capitalist culture. Let us hope that other aspects of present-day society stir] him as strongly to this kind of} writing. It is sorely needed. The other piece which needs com- ment is Joseph North’s “Tax{ Strike.” Here, despite—or possibly because of—the author’s well-in- tegrated artistic approach to his re- portage, he permits himself to as- sume several unconscious attitudes which damage the purpose of the piece in the eyes of those whom it should attract most. I refer to the taxi drivers. The faults of this piece are, briefly, that it implies a certain separation between the working class of New York as a whole and the taxi drivers as a group in it, by at- tributing solely to them the slum- derivation, the illiterate and ‘semi- gangster speech which, as a mat- ter of fact, does not at all mark “Approaching the automobile I soon discovered that there was nothing seriously wrong with’ it, fixed the motor and was allowed to assume the duties of driver, my pre- decessor having been killed in a previous skirmish, “Such was the beginning of the two days and one night that I spent in the car without closing my eyes even for a moment. Our car was supposed to patrol Kamen- noostrovski, Liteini and sections of the Nevski on the lookout for am- bushes of police who had machine guns installed in the upper stories of buildings commanding strategic- ally important crossings. “On approaching the corner of Ka- mennoostrovski and Bolshoi (in the Petrograd District), where some of the tallest buildings of this city are located, for the first time in my life I heard the characteristic whine of bullets. Police had converted these buildings into vertible fortresses. “At first, T felt an unpleasant sen- sation down the spine, especially when several bullets struck the side of our car and killed one of our soldiers. But IT soon got used to it and did my best to drive the car in such a way as to place it in positions from which the roofs of the buildings were accessible to the fire of our machine-guns. “Then to my surprise, my passen- gers’ left the car and under the fire of enemy guns crossed the square together with other workers and soldiers and disappeared in one of the buildings. “A few minutes later they re- turned after having exterminated the police in a short fierce hand-to- hand fight. “Similar scenes were repeated in the course of the following night and day, interrupted only by visits to restaurants, where we hastily ate some food, and to fuel bases where we confiscated enough gasoline for our needs. People left our car— wounded or dead—and were re- Placed by new revolutionaries ready This American Fought in Petrograd in “17 to sacrifice their lives for the cause “Everywhere I saw the enthusiasm and utter contempt for death with which workers, soldiers and even women stormed the strongholds of the police. “All over the pavements and side- walks corpses were lying. On the Nevski we discovered a heap of dead revolutionaries mutilated by the police, Further down the same street we found a number of dead Cossacks, men and horses lying pell- mell, “There was no question of ‘fair play’ as far as the police were con- cerned, < “On the roof of a building com- manding the important crossing of Liteini and Nevski we noticed a bricklayer. Surprised to see a worker peacefully laying bricks amid a shower of bullets, we sent a few men to find out who this jester was. The bricklayer proved to be a shrewd policeman installing ma- chine guns, and our discovery thus saved many a revolutionary’s life. “Another achievement of our car was the seizure, after a long fight, of the strategically important Hotel Astoria, whose foreign residents now hardly suspect anything of its mili- tant antecedents. “During the two days and one night that I spent in the driver's cabin,” Lehtimaki continued, “I hardly exchanged two words with my fellows. But by the end of the second day, when the combat was nearing its end, they noticed that I was almost fainting from exhaustion and lack of sleep and sent me home. “With great effort I finally reached my house and the last thing I remember of those memor- able days is the startled look of the director of my firm when he heard that I had spent all this time fight- ing the police.” The 60 hours Lehtimaki spent in the car had a great bearing on his personal fate. end of 1917 found him a Red Guard in his native country, Finland. A year later, he was com- mander of the Tammerfors section of the Red Front, desperately fight- ing against the advancing Germans and Whites, breaking through the enemy lines with 1,000 of his soldiers when further fighting became im- possible, and safely reaching Soviet Russia. He was then sent to carry on un- derground work in Murmansk, at that time occupied by British inter- ventionists. He succeeded in win- ning over the Finnish Legion there to the cause of Communism but was} detected by spies and escaped a second time to Red Petrograd. Here he studied in a Red Army aviation school and from 1919 to 1921 fought as an aviator against Yudenich and other Whites. Raises Qualifications Demobilized in 1923, he returned to the United States to raise his qualifications and after seven years he came back to the Soviet Union a highly-skilled specialist, eager to place, his knowledge at the disposal of the first country of socialism, Last April after two years in Kare- lia, he came to Leningrad. “Visiting the sites of our Febru- ary battles,” Lehtimaki concluded, “showed me that we have not fought in vain. I found Nevski more beautiful than ever. But on the sidewalks I saw not idle officers and fat merchants and their dames but workers who before the Revolution seldom dared even to cross this street. “Near the crossing of Kamennoos- troyski and Bolshoi where for the first time I faced death, a splendid House of Culture is rising. “Noblemen’s mansions on the is- lands still stand but they house udarniks on vacation and the is- lands as a whole have been con- verted into a huge Park of Culture and Rest that has no ‘equal in the world.” Broken Homes in Tulsa- Quarterly Is Same Story Everywhere JOHN L. SPIVAK By to ¥ could do. TULSA, Ok la.—It was the d go down to the same story in this “weal + ee 50 or 75 homes city per capita in the wo that I heard everywhere else Homes broken up. Families disin- tegrating. the { the market in }and children so knows how many are actually unemp! more the 1 pression in desperate effo now listed as workers no one Pee es and families together than| been put to work even by the 1G W.A. Which means onl; there most probably ployment now, excl mo! t Cc Ww jto link in dramatic form the cen-| A. workers, than there ever has heen | bloodshed. during the depression “How about union labor? “This is a. strong union Some of our nicest. people are Amer- One of them, fhe president of for Mayor. And Wildcat Williams. a character. He actually kept this trouble during the past few years— single handed, too. Kept the Reds from getting control when the city got, very restless. They march on the City Hall, about seizing food stores. talked | too.” “In view of what conditions were here just before federal relief came, what do you think will happen when C.W.A. liquidation is ended?” Border shook his head “There'll be hell popping, that’s all. I don’t believe Wildcat could hold them back.” “How did he hold them back?” “You'd better ask him,” grinned. I did. “Things got so bad here last year,” said Wildcat. out their guns, respectable, | fine citizens. the better class of people. had homes and they were losing them—losing them fast for nonpay-| ment of taxes. They started by he town. | -| the judges hi result| ican Federation of Labor leaders, | t@ the | food tucky coal fields several years ago.! State Federation of Labor is running | Were organizing to do it—and arm- ing to class consciousness of the| You really ought to meet him. Hes | of us kindling | town from breaking out into serious | hours judge: what it and they put the cases back far as possible on the calendar and sort of let knew on the calendar there'd f Some of them—the rad- were talking about defending r homes by force! “When we got the home owners ted down a bit the unemployed about seizing warehouses for got to the point where they g then 6. No one except those were trying to keep them ever know how many ted this area from an The leading citi- called me in and sal and told me, I did. I had to shoot a lot of bullets in the down arm in a fund at m: put wanted to| me to keep them tr | got “my | instance. | for potatoes, and the potatoes for | modities “They started ieecine| and kept them from going haywi good, | 1 finally had to call the scrip pl You see, they were | off because the storekeepers in town Yes, sir.| air and get into a few pistol whip- This is a union town, and patriotic, | Pings, but I kept them down alright. ssued scrip that was accepted 'ywhere in town for goods. I unemployed men and put them to work chopping wood, for We'd exchange the wood evi Oes, etc. It was e scrip was backed up by com- we kept stored in this building. I issued $14,000 worth of paper money and called in every barter. But | dollar but $13 and I’m ready to pay that any time it’s presented. “This kept them busy, fed them i hell, saying I was in- th their sales, So I cut (To Be Continued) “STAGE AND SCREEN Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Opens At Madison Square Garden| The big cireus—Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey combined show—opened on Friday night at Madison Square Garden for a limited engagement of three weeks. The circus this year has many new features and many new acts not seen-here before...Many of. the old favorites are back again, in- cluding Clyde Beatty with his forty their cannon-ball act—this year two of them are fired through the air instead of one; Con Colleano and his wire act; the India Durbar of Delhi, 1934 edition, and many others, Among. the new acts the thousands of cabbies now slay- ing at underpaid jobs in New York. North, I believe, should have pointed | out the things which the cabbies have in common with other op- pressed city workers (which by far outnumber the differences) instead of isolating them from the broader! masses of which they are part. This marred for me as well as for others, undoubtedly, an otherwise excellent piece, Lest we neglect the artists, let it be known that Del, Bard, Burck, Gellert, Gropper, Siegel, Refregier, as well as a half-dozen relatively new pen and brush wielders, con- tinue their excellent and often taken-for-granted drawings and il- lustrations in this issue. Despite difficulties and obstacles, | the New Masses is surely becoming} one of America’s most distinguished and brilliant revolutionary publica- tions. Readers of the Daily Worker| are strongly urged to become ac- quainted with this first weekly journal of revolutionary literature and reportage ever to be successfully launched in the United Btates, imported tigers and lions; the Zacchinis and} the Wallendas; | from the continent and from South America are the Otari fliers; Mile Gillette, aerial artist acclaimed in Europe as one of the greatest in her field; the Merkels and their human fiy act; the Christians and Loyal- Repenski's, bareback riders; the Spurgats; the Willos and Torrence and Dolores. The big show also has a surprise act this year—the Great Hugo. And of course the clowns—some 150 in number, thou- sands. of» elephants, horses, wild animals, ete. And the special floor given over to the freaks. Nathan Milstein Soloist With Philharmonio Saturday Hans Lange will conduet the Philharmonic Orchestra this eve- ning at Carnegie Hall. The program includes the Overture “Preciosa” of Weber; First Rhapsody by Debussy, with Simeon Bellison, clarinet as | soloist; Sinfonietta, opus 17, Bere- zowsky and Symphony No. 3 in © major, Sibelius. This program will be repeated on Friday afternoon. Nathan Milstein will be the solo~ ist on Saturday evening and Sun- day afternoon playing the Tchai- kovsky Violin Concerto in D major, The Saturday program will also in- clude the Weber Overture “Preciose” and The Sibelius Third Symphony. The Sunday concert will have an all-Russian program including the Glinka Overture to “Rouslane and Ludmilla” and the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony. UNITED FRONT SUPPORTERS HAVE NEW HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK.—The United Front Supporters, an organization of white collar and professional workers, an- nounce their removal to a new headquarters at 11 W. 18th St. AMUSEMENTS AMERICAN PREMIERE —— CHALUTZIM (Pioneers of Palestine) with the Habima Players Hebrew Talking Picture of the Workers in Palestine (English Dialogue Titles) This Picture Will Not Be Shown In Any Other New York Theatre This Season ACME THEATRE 14th STREET and UNION SQUARE ~—-RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—— 50 St & 6 Ave—Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M. raANe “WILD CARGO” with FRANK BUCK in PERSON plus a MUSIC HALL FASTER STAGE sHOW Extra! Walt Disney's “PUNNY LITTLE BUNNIES" RKO Jefferson 1h St.4 | Now 3rd Ave. LIONEL BARRYMORE & MAE CLARKE in “This Side of Heaven” also:—THE BIG SHAKEDOWN" with CHARLES FARRELL & BETTE DAVIS, -—NOW ON BROADWAY: The great Anti-War Hit! ‘Peace on Earth’ Thea. 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