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| CHANGE —_ THE —_| WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD oe of the bourgeois newspapers are beginning a senti- mental campaign to make us feel sorry for multi- millionaire Sam Insull. The old swindler who ran Chicago for so many years has just been hounded out of Greece and now is in the hands of the Turkish police. srought back to America to be tried for his crimes. | The seryile butlers of newspaperdom are writing sob editorials and columnar notes to the effect that this wretched shyster has been per- secuted enough. After all, he has been stripped of everything but a few hundred million dollars, it is said. So they appeal to the generosity of the American people. Give Insull a break! The American newspapers are good at this kind of thing. How often have they wept over the Czar, and the Kaiser, all the royal exiles. They dearly love a title, any title—as hundreds of racketeering ex-Russian princes and dukes have found to their delight. Wealth and royalty in distress always affect the tear-glands of a proper American flunkey. You never hear them say a word about the millions of unemployed American citizens. When miners starve, when taxi drivers go on strike against slavery and hunger, the newspapers refuse to grow sentimental. In fact, they become very stern and prac- tical; m fact, they yell for the cops, when you say miner or steel worker at them They know that millions of proletarian mothers in America today must sit by and watch their children wither away. But the newspapers suppress such gloomy information; where can you read about the daily suffering of the unemployed in an American paper other than the revolutionary press? Yes, you are a revolutionist if you feel worse about the unemployed than about Sam Insull or a chicken-brained Russian princess break- ing her heart in exile on Park Avenue. She Invested Her Savings in Insull’s Bank . . . HERE was a wonderful old Trish mother I once met in Chicago. Her husband had been killed on the job over 25 years before; and she had brought up two children by her own hard work. Her son was a bricklayer and a Communist. For years he had kep her, and helped her save money for her old age. She was very much concerned about her $3,000; it meant a lifetime of savings and work. ‘Then the son was hit by the depression; and with two children to support he grew desperate. But he wouldn't touch the old mother's savings; he knew what it meant to her. A politician friend of the old lady’s had advised her to invest her savings in one of Sam Insull’s flim-flam games. She had trusted in the Insull investment as profoundly as she did in the Catholic Church. Most Chicagoans did. Then Insull’s rotten capitalist skyscraper col- lapsed; the foundations had been built on sand, as usual, And the old Irish mother lost all her money. She saw her boy couldn’t support her; so, after a period of mourning, she went out to hunt for work again. She is almost 70, Sam Insull’s age, and she 12 and 14 hours a day as a servant. Every night she prays that God punish Sam Insull. Her son has tvied gently to persuade her that God and the Church are on the side | ought to know!) Even a few sten- | He is in danger of being | of such people as Insull. The workers alone can defend themselves against the Insulls, and see that real justice is done. But the old lady goes on praying, just the same; and maybe in the skies the Boogey Man heard her, and is now punishing Sam Insull. But I doubt it; Sam stiil has millions left, evidently; he managed to bribe his way through many countries, and he will, doubtless here, too, in America, where money still talks. The Press and the Soviet Ship “Kim” ‘WHILE on the subject of newspapers, how can one account for the different versions the New York papers printed in reporting the arrival of the Soviet ship, “Kim,” in New York harbor? * The Herald Tribune had a lurid account of how the Soviet sailors kicked an American red off the ship, saying, “We are Young Commu- nists and will therefore have nothing to do with you American reds.” The American's fictionists told how the captain bossed the men around, and growled that he was the big cheese, and all this talk that sailors had any rights on a Soviet boat was just a lie. Another paper had a Soviet sailor actually kicking an American Communist down the gang- plank; while still another didn’t mention this at all, but said the Soviet sailors had given the Americans the razzberry over the shiprails, and refused to admit them on board. They lie deliberately, brazenly and stupidly. They are supposed to be impartial fact-reporters; it is their boast. And they lie calmly, some- times even with a touch of clumsy art. They do it on every occasion where capitalism is threatened. They had a daily new lie during the taxi strike, directed against the strikers, of course. People often ask, with so many millions of unemployed, why isn't there more protest? Well, there is protest, but the papers lie about it. And they lie about everything else, and it takes time for the masses to fimd this out, as the taxi men in New York now have. . . . FLASHES and CLOSE-UPS By LENS THER proof that you can’t go on fooling all of the workers all of the time... Samela Kay Park- hurst, of 6220 37th St. N. W., Seattle, Wash. addresses the following broadside to the readers’ page of | Screen Book Magazine: “Why arn’t screen stenograph- ers made to look like the actual thing? (I'm a stenographer and I ogs and secretaries of my acquain- tance who do dress with more style than the general run, don’t look as if they had stepped out of the pages of Vogue. Take Loretta Young, for example, who was 4 stenographer in “Skyscraper,” | “She Had to Say Yes” and “Mid- night Mary.” Her clothes ail sayored of Fifth Avenue and Paris—clothes that would take | weeks to pay for, and all so rich | looking one wouldn’t call them dresses; rather, frocks and gowns. And the “lingerie”’—only one who has priced and yearned for those | delicate wisps of chiffon can know | the cost of lingerie like celluloid | working girls wear!” | | | ire er Movie stars are being flooded with | | letters from distressed and destitute mothers offering their babies for | adoption. . . “Fan Mail” stories you | never here about, of course!.... Pee | A popular “fan” rag reports that | anti-Soviet propaganda had become | | such a habit with Hollywood scenar- | ists, that they had to be “cautioned” recently to keep it out of the scripts for five current productions with | | Russian backgrounds. . . | ein | Sammy Goldwyn’s tagging of| | Anna Sten as the “Passion Flower jof Red Russia” should leave no | doubt in even the most skeptical mind of Sam’s unreserved and final | | recognition of the Soviet Union. . .| | Altho what Goldwyn did to that perfectly normal girl in “Nana” is thought by many to be grounds for | an “incident,” to say the least.... ei etre It has been statistically com- puted that the actual financial cost | of child-bearing to a ranking screen star is over $250,000.... Work- ing-class mothers have no such problem, of course.. . . We know many who had their six| or eight gratis and are raising them | [on almost as little per week.... Oh, aye Wateh for “Film Front,” official organ of the movie section of the Film and Photo League to appear | |at an early date... > wee | Pudovkin's “Mother” has passed| the New York Board of Censors at | last... . A shot of a baby suck- ling at its mother’s breast has been ordered deleted, however... You can now watch the film without be- ing incited to riot... . ees Je Al Smith says he is against cen- Sorship. . . . But then again, Ham Fish is “against” Fascism, eh? . . . Cecil B. DeMille, the famous Hol- lywood director, who is to the |movies something like what Aimee McPherson is to the church, claims | |that “the most complete relaxation on this earth can be found at the ; bottom of the sea... .” If direc- jtors like DeMille adhered a little more to this swell “sea-bottom” no- | tion and followed up theory with practice, there might be some ade- quate relief for a sick tired and disgusted army of movie fans... . Rc Se: gin And what has come of the daily threats of the Nazi Bavarian Films that they would exhibit the film “S. |A.-Mann Brand,” in New York de- spite the growing mass protests against it? Fe tek Edgar Zane, the little engineering wizard of the Film and Photo League, will conduct a class in all phases of sound recording and re- production. . . . The fee is nom- inal and no previous training is re- quired... . Drop in to see him DAILY WORKER, STORMBIRD y ORRICK “Turn loose, fellows, with both incautiousness ef an oncoming revolution of which you should be the stormbirds!”"—ROBERT MINOR in the Daily Worker. Well, friend, what is it to be a poet? This, to be always close to hell, not to know the word price. That's why it means, friend, as they No, we are not dealing now in pleasant abstractions . There is a quick live something corn-eating men fight for when thelr women have there is a stomach of the mind that goes hungry when t by the swine. What is it to be a poet, friend? It is not to be behind steel armor, it is not to be an end but a beginning, it is not a joke on the family. It is a privilege jealously loaned by the race. The question is, friend, in view of all this, if you are loaned poetry, ha’ to say you belong to yourself, to a few, to—— ? But let us leave this argument, look at this, it lies before you. Straight ahead. It is not the path to the moon Straight ahead, something to smash, soon, all the way through, do not some men are nature’s hindrance, Smash with what is you. Unfeeling, unshaken, strong, to be broken, to awaken, rising and falling, | your body is the song. But this is not enough; there is something you are To be put in the common loss? To sing while you sink? Yes, in the incoming tide, in the swell, dip gullwise, drownless or drowned, sing ahead of the storm, human bird, be as naught, be the voice unnamed, | stormbird, be the word of the red rain rending, the hurricane renewing the say, you don’t find all the conditions quite nice. 'W YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 Workers School Opens Spring Term Tonight With 1,500 Students NEW YORK.—The Spring Term of the Workers School, 35 East 12th St., opens tonight with advance registration of 1,500 the highest number ever registered for a Spring Term. A number of |classes have been closed for some time. Registration for classes which are still open is being taken up to the beginning of the first session. JOHNS hands, and with the wild, drunk students, in our time, to be where | FESTIVAL DELEGATES, NOTICE no corn— | NEW YORK—All New York dele-| |gates to the Chicago Theatre Fes- tival, to take place April 13, 14 and he cows are cornered 15, must register without fail to- | night at 7 P. M. at the offices of | the League of Workers Theatres, 42 13th St., New York. E. Stage and Screen Ibert & Sullivan Operetta Pirates of Penzance” Opens | Tonight at Majestic Theatre ve you the face The second of the group of Gil- bert & Sullivan light operas to be | presented by former members of | |the Aborn company will be “The} | Pirates of Penzance” and will open | this evening at the Majestic The-| |atre. William Danforth, Vivian} | Hart, Roy Cropper, Vera Ross and| | Allen Watreous play the leading | roles. | think of persons; “Wife Insurance,” a farce comedy’ by Frederick Jackson, will open on| Thursday night at the Ethel Barry- more Theatre. The players include Kenneth McKenna, Ilka Chase,| | Harvey Stephens, Walter Abel and Helen Huberth, | Vivian Kilian has been added to| | the cast of “Stevedore.” the new| Theatre Union play which opens at the Civic Repertory Theatre on | April 17. | thinking of, Fay he in “Madame Spy” at the Jefferson world! TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke, 00--Horse-Bense Philosophy — Andrew P. M.— Horse - Sense Philosophy— Andrew Kelly 1:18—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio 7:43—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Sebago Lake—Sketch — Lawrence Tibbett, Metropolitan Opera Baritone; Concert Orch. 9:00—Gypsies Orch.; Frank Parker, Tenor 9:30—Ship of Joy, with Captain Hugh Barrett Dobbs 10:00—Eastman Orch.; Lullaby Lady; Gene Arnold | 10:30—Taxation — Senator Robert A. La| Follette of Wisconsin 11:00—John Fogarty, Tenor 11:15—News; Lopes Orch eae WOR—T10 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Spotrs Resume 7:15—Gene and Kathleen Lockhart, Songs 7:30-—Mayerick Jim—Sketeh 8:00—Jones and Hare, Songs 8:30—Sorey Orch. 9:00—Musical Revue 9:30—Success—Harry Balkin 9:45—Alfred Wallenstein’s Sinfonietta 10:15—Current Events 0—Mr. Fix-It—Sketch S—Novelty Musical 00—Moonbeams Trio WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Amos ‘n’ Andy 7:15—Baby Rose Marie, Songs 1:30—George Gershwin, Piano; Concert Or: * ch. 7:45—Marlo Cozzi, Baritone; Lew White Organ 8:00—Denny Orch 8:30—The Current Chapter of the Air Mail Tradegy—Senator Warren R. Aus- tin of Vermont 9:00—Minstrei Show 9:30—Pasternaek Orch. 9:30—Pasternack Orch; Theodore Webb, Baritone 10;00—Siymphony Orch., Walter Damrosh, Conductor 10:45—Ozark Mountaineers sometime. . , . 00—Ramona, Songs :15—News Reports ALASKA LYNCHING- Model 1917 American labor history offers countless instances of bloody per- secution waged against those workers who resisted the World War. Witness the murder of Frank Little and Wesley Everest and the imprisonment of Charles KE. Ruthenberg, Eugene V. Debs, and scores of other working class leaders. Today the Daily Worker publishes the record of another and heretofore little known inci- dent of war-time terror against American workers. This account is published not merely because of its general historical vaiue, but because it offers a demonstration of working class spirit which may be of practical value to the grow- ing ranks of those workers who have pledged themselves to a stubborn fight against the next war, ei erence IANS OLSON was a hardy raw- boned Norwegian deep-sea fish- erman whose vessel put into Ketch- ikan, Alaska, with its halibut catch every two weeks or so during the Winter following America’s entry into the World War. Hungry for recreation after two week’s at sea, the fishermen «vere an easy prey to conniving saloon wolves. So when Hans had a few drinks he went looking for the sheriff to tell him what he thought of the war and of everything else. When the sheriff could muster enough help Hans would land in jail until he sobered up. The police force and its assistants bore ample marks of combat after each en- counter with; Hans. ‘The war was on that Summer, and there had been suspiciously little of the “slacker” hounding which terrorized every nook and cranny of the States. In the Fall, however, the forces of espionage began to flow i» A Coast Guard Cutter pulled into port with a crew supplemented by picked Arkansas farmer boys rarin’ to go at the “furriners ‘n’ slackers.” A horde of Department of Justice blood- hounds filtered in under the famous college full-back, “Fighting Bob” Dickert, freshly appointed Special Federal District Attorney. A veritable reign of terror was instituted. The resistance, while practically unorganized, was con- stant and fierce. Hardly a day passed without its hand-to-hand encounters between outraged work- ers and Dickert’s provocateurs. Every known Wobbly or sympa- thizer was marked for a “visit” and an_arrest_on any or no charge. But “Fighting Bob” was up against a brick wall each time he brought a worker to trial for anti- war activity. The defendant’s red Wobbly card, which Dickert gen- erally offered in evidence, seemed to affect juries in a manner pre- cisely opposite to his expectations, Welcomed to Ketchikan by the noisy handful of hundred per cent- ers, he soon learned that these did not represent the temper of the general citizenry from which his juries wera drawn. These juries time and again registered, by their “not guilty” verdicts, a strange in- difference to his patriotic spiels about strangling “the enemy within our gates,” these foreigners,” “these traitorous reds,” etc, The regularity of these defeats drove “Fighting Bob” to his wits end. His vision of a quick “clean- up” of Ketchikan’s “reds,” and a fat political reward was fading fast. Seen a ‘ le mi made to re-establish “law and order.” Kevin had always been in the town an insignificant vigilante group. This group was openly headed by the main hotel-keeper’s son, Rover Palen. This proud “na- tive son” was an undergrown be- spectacled mean-lipped man whom war hysteria alone could afford the opportunity for a bloated notoriety, Until the advent of the war he dis- tinguished himself entirely by his carousings, in the course of which often encountered some out- raged proletarian fist. In these en- counters he always came off second best. He usually carried an old mark to meet the newest shiner, The war gave him an opportunity to be a he-man. For weeks he had been strutting about the town, mostly “down the line,” as the red light district was called, in the swanky uniform of a military aviation student. He felt that the town did not appre- ciate him and he raged inwardly because he knew he was powerless to change the town’s mind. All of Rover’s rage was now con- centrated upon Hans Olson. Hans, on his last trip in town, was on ® rampage and, Rover, in the full swagger of his bright uniform had essayed to assist the police force of four in subduing the fisherman. Hans had laid hold of Rover's arm in the struggie, nearly tearing it from its socket, and had sent him sprawling, uniform and all, into a mud puddle. Rover was carried to the hospital while Hans got away to his ship. “Fighting Bob” visited Rover boys cutter. In a week Rover was about the town again, his arm in splints and a cock-sure expression on his face. He was exceptionally un- ive. The coast guards- men were the same way. The whole town felt something was brewing. : Since ie j Wont two o'clock one stormy morning, Hans’ vessel, the “Molly R.,” was made fast to the pier loaded to the gunwhales with her catch, Climbing up the dock’s lad- der ahead of the rest came Hans. As his broad shoulders rose above the pier’s edge, a noose was slung about his body and drawn tight by half a dozen men who had appeared suddenly from the shadows. A muf- fled automobile motor roared and started full speed, jerking Hans up the rest of the ladder. Landing him with a thud on the pier, the auto dragged him a full hundred feet over the rough planking of the main street, Rover Palen, who was driving, jumped from the driver's seat and kicked the prostrate Hans. Palen was joined by half a dozen men wearing Navy regulation slick- ers. These menaced. Hans with drawn revolvers, shouting at him, “Will ya fight for your country, you dirty foreigner?” Hans, pain-racked but determined, answered, “Naw, ay voon’t.” “Then let's go, boys,” Rover commanded. The car started up the main street again. Hans’ form lurched and bounced helplessly in its wake. Palen drove so that the body was dragged by violent jerks across the uneven planking which covered the main street. Hans’ flesh was ripped by exposed spike heads in the worn and rotting timbers. After they had dragged him thus for 50 yards they stopped to repeat the question, “Will you fight for your country?” Still Hans answered faintly, “Naw, ay voon’t.” Then, doubling back to the pier’s end, the gang stopped. Raging against Hans’ steadfastness, the diabolical crew lowered his blood- soaked, lacerated body into the icy Alaskan waters and kept him sub- merged for long seconds. When they hauled him up and repeated their fiendishly persistent demand that ne “fight for his country,” Hans still answered weakly, “naw.” Again he was submerged and when he was fauled up for the second 11:20—Anthony i Hatem ot ee The Jefferson Theatre is now : showing “Madame Spy” with Fay WABC—2860 Ke. 1:00 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 ©. Hill 8:30-—Bing Crosby Songs; Grier Orch 9:00—Rosa Ponselle, Metropdlitan Opera, Soprano; Kostelanets Orch. 9:30—Gertrude Niesen, Songs; Rapee Orch.; Ketch with Helen Menken. | 10:00—Wayne Kirig Oreh. 10:30—Dance Oreh.; Edward Nell Jr., Bari- . Poor Rich” with Edna Mae Oliver and Edward Everett Horton. Tues- day and Wednesday the program will include “The Cat and the Fiddle” with Ramon Navarro and Jeanette McDonald and “Six of a Kind” fea- turing Charles Ruggles and Alison Skipworth. The screen program for Thursday and Friday includes Jean Parker and Tom Brown in “Two Alone” and “Midnight” with Sidney Fax and Harry Hull. Red Leadership in ¢ val, Strikes Raised Wages FRESNO, Cal.—Though the increased wage scales which Communist led strikes; brought are still abysmally low, they are nevertheless from 60 to 100 per cent higher than what the workers were getting be- fore the strike. Since a in- evitably produces an argument which might last anyw from a few nutes to a few weeks, dur- ing rich time a crop ruined, farmers have raised wages in a n to the wage scale der Cannery and Agricultural Union soon as they heard a “red agitator” was around. The crop must be | picked and they had no alternative Hence most of the activities by farmers and politicians (which in- cludes the law) is directed now to curbing Communist organizers be- fore they get a start. This in turn has produced an exceedingly large growth of fascist-like committees organized to fight Communist in- roads. [Editor's Note: Because of the ex- tent and growth of fascism in the areas where Communists are mak- ing headway, Spivak is doing a sep- arate series of articles on this. The series will follow this one.] In Tulare County, for instance where last year, after considerable violence, a strike by cotton pickers resulted in a raise of 15 cents a hundred pounds being won, the dis- trict attorney, at this writing, drew up a local ordinance to prohibit two or more automobiles from congre- gating anywhere in the county at the same time. This is to keep workers from attending meetings. Of course the ordinance is obviously | unconstitutional, but by the time it gets to the Supreme Court, what | with all the delays possible, a great many crops will have been picked. “I'm not a radical,” C. E. Dowd, president of the Fresno Labor | Council told me. “But I don’t know what those poor devils would do | without the Communists. They're | the only ones trying to do anything for them.” Since Dowd has been and is an | leader, I think this statement has a |great deal of significance. The A. F. of L. workers themselves are far more vigorous in their expressions jof sympathy. arcoe | VGANIZATIONAL activity | among migratory workers can be . | Before the depression, when labor | Was scarce, the farmers used to im- | port Mexicans chiefly, as well as traced directly to the depression. | open arms by the workers— kers who could not possibly he worse off The Communist -led struggles spread through: the state, carried by the workers themselves. Few read the papers. Many are illiter- ate, especially among the Mexicans But word of mouth news of organ- ation e, better wages, spread like re. They do not know ing about Communism or They know only that organize strikes and charming incident strates the point tho had been arc- San Jose d a group of Mexican m: workers and talked union to them till the sweat dripped from his face. The workers listened apa- thet ists. gitators” Got to be organized,” they finally told him. “That's right.” T'm nery he said hopefuls an organizer from the Can- and Agricultw Workers Union, part of the T.U.U.L _ No,” they said determinediy The organizer argued some more but could not judge them. “You want to be organized, don't you he finally asked desperately. Yes. Sure.” “That's what I'm trying to do.” "No good. No want Agricultura Union. Want organizer from San Jose Union.” They did not know that this or- ganizer had organized the San Jose Union. They did not know that the San Jose.Union was part of the Agricultural Workers Union. They did not know that it was Commu- nist-led. They knew only that the San Jose union had been weil or- ganized, had won an increase and that was what they wanted With those migratory workers with whom I talked there was an actual eagerness to be organized. It |is this very eagerness and the sym- pathy with which it is being viewed |by labor generally, that is giving |this area and the state the red | jitters. 'HE Chamber of Commerce, the | Agricultural Labor Bureau which | acts as a clearance house for work- |ers, bankers, business men, charity 40'S ine Wray and Nils Asther, also “The| exceedingly conservative A. F. of L. | organizations—all of whom I asked for information about conditions among workers, from their own angle, turned suspicious eyes upon me. | “Who are you and what do you | Want it for?” they invariably asked | “Just gathering material about | conditions,” you explain. “We don’t know anything.” ‘When you press them you finally | get the reason: | “How do we know you're a writer? | and Soviet Russia,” second of a series of tone; Lillian Roth, Songs 11:00—Tito Guizar, Tenor WHAT’S ON Monday MOVIE BALL AND ACTION COMMIT- | TEE meeting at 12 East 17th St., 7:20 p. m.| ¥.0.L. UNIT 13, open meeting against war at Burnside Manor, 85 W. Burnside. Speaker, James Lerner, national organizer | Youth section of American League Against War and Fascism. Admission 10 cents. | MASS MEETING for adoption of Unem-| ployment Insurance Bill, 3200 Coney Island | Ave., Brighton Beach, 8:30 p. m., auspices | Women's Council No. 17 and. Brighton | Beach Unemployed Council J. GILBERT of the Taxi Drivers Union will speak on the Taxi Strike and the Press, at regular membership meeting of Press League, 9 p. m., at Unity Theatre Studios, 26 E. 2rd St. BORO PARK BR. American League Against War and Fascism, meeting for new officers and report. 1280 56th St., at 3p. m. “MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN UV. 8. A. lectures by Alfred G. Morris at Browns- ville Br. F. S. U., 120 Glenmore Ave... Bklyn., at 8:30 p. m. Admission 15 cents, MASS MEETING against high cost of | living, at 226 Throop Ave., Bklyn. Promi-| nent speakers, auspices Action Committee | of Williamsburg, 7:30 p, m. Admission free. | OLASS IN POLITICAL Economy, 144 Sec- | ond Ave. cor. 9th St.., American Youth| Federation, . ™. VOLUNTEER ENTERT: wanted immediately for Red Builders affair, April| 21. Communtoate city office, 35 &. 13th “Carmen” To Be Offered Filipinos, Hindus (for rice fields) | Afid suppose you are a writer, what |and other classes of low-paid labor. | sort of stuff are you going to write? The wages paid them seemed satis- | What use will you put the informa- factory and since native white Tonight by Hippodrome Opera Company Americans were very few among |them, no one ever paid much at- | tention to them except the sporadic interest the I.W.W. showed durin: “Carmen” will be presented by | pest ea! id shortly afte . the Jippodrome. Opera. Co.-at. the and shortly after the war days. But : the; when the depression deepened and N. Y. Hippodrome this evening with | native American labor was thrown Castagna, Monroe, Errolle and on th t tion, S Royer. Bamboschek will pudietelavonrat eacieekioe sey ised Other operas of the week include| ‘This condition continued with no “La Traviata,” Tuesday night;/one paying the slightest attention “Forza del Destino,” Wednesday to the migratory workers, despite evening; “Carmen,” Saturday after-|the fact that by this time a great noon and “Cavalleria Rusticana”| proportion was native white. Many and “Pagliacci” on Saturday night. of them had come from the skilled Three debuts will mark the com-|tTades; others were ruined small ing week's performances at the|farmers. The A. F. of L. always Broadway Opera House. Allessan~| kept away from this type of worker dro Granda as Enzio in “Gioconda”| because their wages were so low on Wednesday night; Mario Fior-|that they could not pay dues as a ella, baritone of the San Carlos of meee because they “were not a Naples in the title role of “Rigo- a letto” on Friday night and Sonia}, Then Communist organizers en- Yergin as Traviata on Sunday | tered the area. It seems that the evening. | most fertile fleld for Communist | organizational work is among those yore f | who can see no hope. Here organ- Chalutzim In Second Week | ization was received with compara- at the Acme Theatre tion to?” “All I want is facts,” | them repeatedly. | “How do we know you're not a |Communist and you’ use the facts | to stir up trouble?” ‘Are they of that nature?” | “Of course not,” they explain hastily. “But things are very tick- jlish here. These Communists are | organizing agricultural workers and | that’s spreading to other workers. |There’s been trouble already— | bloodshed, killings. We don't want jto give the Communists any more ammunition.” “Then the facts are of such a na- | ture that they would be good propa- ganda for them?” “Things are ticklish. You don’t know who is a Communist today. And if they continue organizing around here there may be trouble.” They are simply scared and the press is whooping it up—news, edi- | torials—all warn of the rise and menace of Communism here, (To Be Continned) you tell “Chalutzim” (Pioneers of Pales- tine), the first Hebrew talkie pro- AMUSEMENTS duced in Palestine, is being held | over for a second week at the) St. (xtore).. time, he was left lying on the pier unconscious and near death, Hans’ shipmates, kept at bay dur- ing his tortures by the guns of the lynchers, swarmed up the pier. They wrapped him in blankets and carried him to the hospital. The doctor there succeeded in bringing Hans into delirious consciousness in which he shouted, “Ay voon’t fight dirty capitalistic vars, you bastards, Ay voon't go kill fellow vorkers for you parasites.” At break of day Hans Olsen died. SION gripped Ketchikan from end to end in the days that followed the news of Hans’ lynch- ing. Despite the eye-witness ac- counts of Hans’ shipmates, “Fight- ing Bob” Dickeri knew nothing. Neither did the commander of the coest guard vessel, Rover Palen had disappeared. The coast guards- men remained on shipboard. Only “Fighting Bob” dropped into the Northern Bar, the town’s social center, to remark over a glass that Hans had been a “slacker.” Gradually. from a maze of fever- ish rumor the facts behind the lynching began to appear. From “down the line” came a girl's story of Rover's frequent bragging, in the midst of his debauches, that he and “Fighting Bob” were going to “clean UP on every Wobbly slacker in wn.” It became known that the mo- ment the “Molly R's” siren sounded through the stormy bay that night Rover and the sailors nad rushed from a brothel to Rover's garage, from which he phoned “Fighting Bob” that “We're gonna get him tonight.” Confronted with this story at the Northern Bar the same night that it became known, “Fighting Bob's” lips quivered crueily as he let out a crafty, defiant, “Well?” at his questioners, Several men started atcondition up North, Acme Theatre. i The Lowest-Priced ‘PEACE O 12° 5008 SEATS AT 44th ST. THEATRE 350 SEATS AT 44th him spontaneously, but a number | of vigilantes closed in to protect him with hands gripping their sheated revolvers. | High-tensioned days foliowea and| not an arrest of anyone connected Eves. Hit on Broadway! N EARTH"? (2 sso oe St., West of Broadway. Phone LAc 4-7135 8:30 - Mats, Wednesday & Saturday, 2:45 PRICES 50c TO $2.00 with the lynching. Not so much as a gesture by the authorities to| appease the outraged sensibilities | of even those who opposed the con- | victions for which Hans Olson was | martyred. On the night of the sixth day | after “Fighting Bob's” defiant! “Well” at the Northern Bar, six) shots rang out on Ketchikan’s main street. A man fell under a dim arc lamp while another ran down a side street with a smoking re- volved in his rand. A crowd gath- ered around the fallen man. His head lay in a pool of blood. Plainly @ revolver had been emptied flush into the face and forehead at close range. A woman in the crowd stooped over the bleeding corpse, Spat squarely into the ghastly face from which the blood was still trickling and remarked half-systeri- cally, “ ‘Fighting Bob, huh, huh, ‘Lynching Bob’ is the real name. The lousy rat got his at last.” Christiansen, a shipmate, who had seen Hans lynched, surrendered, and a Ketchikan jury found him insane. He was later discharged as cured, (E halibut fishermen of Alaska are mostly Scandinavians. They are a modest lot who don't mix much with the English-speaking workers. Probably because they are too tired when they come ashore after one of their toilsome and hazardous trips to try to learn a new tongue and mix with unfa- miliar workers. | These days of unemployment and agitation and education for soli- darity of the workers, native and foreign, must have changed this “} 8 eee ee GUILD THEATR MARY OF with HELEN HAYES ALVIN THEATRE 52m THE THEATRE GUILD Presents EUGENE O’NEILL’S COMEDY AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN 52nd St., West of Broadway. Bye MAXWELL ANDERSON’S new play PHILIP HELEN MERIVALE MENKEN 8:20 Matinees: Thursday and Saturday, 2:20 SCOTLAND id St., West of Broadway. Evenings 8:20 Matinees: Thursday and Saturday, 2:20 TEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartiett SIM- MONS, Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN, WINTER GARDEN, B’way & 50th. Evs. 8.30 Mats, Monday, Thursday & Saturday 2:30 GLADYS ADRIENNE RAYMOND COOPER ALLEN MASSEY THE SHINING HOUR BOOTH THEATRE, W. 43th St. Rvgs. s:40 MADISON SQ. GARDEN > TWICE DAILY 2&8P.M. i Includin, SUNDA’ s RiNeiME Banu ALL NEW THIS YEAR s BIGGER THAN EVER! 1000 NEW FOREIGN FEATURES Tickets Admitting to Everything (including Seats) $1.10 to $3.50 Incl: Te Children under 12 Half Price Every Af Moon except ve Garden, Mae; TICKETS Agencies Thursday & Saturday 240 NOW | —-RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL— |] 50 St é& 6 Ave—Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M. | tes “WILD CARGO” with FRANK BUCK in PERSON plus a MUSIC HALL EASTER STAGE SHOW Extra! Walt Disney's | “FUNNY LITTLE BUNNIES” | | RKO Jefferson ith St. | Now | Brd Ave. | FAY WRAY and NILS ASTHER in “MADAME SPY” Also “THE POOR RICH” with | 2ND BIG WEEK |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 Edna May Oliver and Edw. Everett Horton

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