The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1934, Page 9

} * \. Art and Science for the Red DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1984 eS em Pate Mine CHANGE —-—THE—— | WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD HY do we love the Soviet Union? Why are we ready to fight and die for it? Why do we defend it dog- gedly, against the daily slander and confusing lies against it in the capitalist press? Why do we defend it against those more subtle slanderers, the Trotaky-Lovestone-A. F. of L.—Iiars? Because we know what is happening over there. Every day a new proletarian life is being built. The liars may confuse some of 18 temporarily on those necessary diplomatic compromises, maneuvers [Ffhat the Soviet Union must make to preserve its peaceful existence in a world of capitalist welves. But all the time, day by day, behind the newspaper walls that shut us from the truth, a new Socialist world is being built. The masses are being transformed into a new kind of man and woman. They are working, while the liars talk. They are pushing into the future, every day, every hour. And it is something wonderful, the most worth-while thing in the world today. The story never gets old, it is fresh and new every morning, it s us happy, like a dawn in spring. ‘ake this business of militatism. The Soviet Union must have an cfficient army to protect it from the capitalist butchers. If the Union were weak, the capitalists would have eaten it alive ‘3 ago. They would have taken it over like Africa or India, r ioned it among themselves, and made an imperialist colony of it, where the. natives are flogged and starved and worked to death, to make profits for some distant aristocrats. But the Red Army, and the fighting spirit of the Russian work- rs and peasants f seared off the robbers. Everyone knows that the first capitalist nation that attacks the Soviet Union will have a cless war on its hands, in which it may be defeated. Capitalism is based on force; it is a system in which the bully and the armed bandit triumphs; it is really a regime of gangsters. But gangsters think tv before risking their own necks; they want easy money; and the Soviet Union isn’t easy. No, the Red Army is as necessary as a strong and honest trade union to the workers under capitalism. Call it militarism if you wish; force, violence, anything you like. It is necessary. It is the strong protecting barricade behind which the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union build a new life. Soviet * * * The Life of the Red Army Man ECENTLY, in that interesting English paper, the Moscow News, there was an account of the work of the House of the Red Army in Moscow, which is the central organizMg base of this new army's cultural work throughout the Soviet Union. This military “barracks” in the north of Moscow was formerly a boarding school for daughters of the nobility, but was converted to its puesertt more useful purpose in 1928. Think of it; this army “barracks” has its own theatre, its own symphony orchestra, museum, motion picture house, gymnasium, Jounges, restaurant, game rooms, and a library containing 90,000 volumes of the world’s best books, both scientific and literary. The walls are covered with paintings by some of the best Soviet artists, There are classes for Red Army painters, and recently an interesting exhibition was held of paintings by Red Army men from all over the Soviet Union. Soldiers. who love art! Soldiers who play symphony concerts! Soldiers who study to be scientists! Isn’t this revolution? * * Defenders | IN THE month of February, twenty leading Moscow scientists lec- f |" tured for different Red Army groups; also a number of explorers, “literary men and artists. The Red Army lecture bureau sends speak- ers all through the country to the various Red Army houses. The Red Army Concert Bureau, which is also housed in this building, has its own staff of performers, but in addition engages the best musical and theatre talent for the Red Army Houses. Last year, this agency, which has an eight million ruble cultural budget, sent 3,500 concert artists to various parts of the country, including the Soviet Far East. The Red Army Lecture Bureau sent professors of astronomy, biology, architecture, agronomy, medicine and similar subjects throughout the Soviet land. Last year it ar- ranged 2,000 such lectures before Red Army groups outside of Moscow. ) The symphony orchestra gives many concerts of the finest music, * | Beethoven, Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Borodin, Stravinsky, and the } younger composers. It is said to be one of the finest groups in that | Soviet land of music-lovers, and it is made up of active Red Army ) soldiers. { There is also a famous choir of several hundred voices. The Red \Army theatre in Moscow, which was founded less than five years \ago, has an actors’ training school with 80 pupils, and produces plays bhat stand high in the esteem of the Moscow critics. ‘The museum, which is one of so many fascinating ones in Moscow, concentrates on the history of the Civil War against capitalism and the intervention period, when 17 capitalist nations, including Amer- iea, tried to crush the young workers’ republic, Tt is a very popular institution with the workers of Moscow, who come im groups from their factories. And the library, with its 90,000 volumes, one of many innumer- able such libraries in the Soviet land, has 7,000 Red Army readers. Among the activities of the library staff is organization of discussion evenings for regimental literary circles; for you see, many of these Red Army men are intensely interested in literature; in fact, quite a few talented young poets and novelists have recently graduated out of the ranks of this strange and new army. During one month the library ‘sponsored evenings devoted to discussions of Nekrasov, Leo Tolstoi, Mayakovski, the futurist poet, and the novelist Sholokhov. And there is a tourist bureau. Red Army men on vacation can go home to their villages or travel in the Crimea, Caucusus, or other places once occupied, like our own Florida, by the idle rich. Skiing, hiking and mountain-climbing trips are also arranged during the year, as well as trips to museums, art galleries and factories by this Red Army Tourist Bureau. This Is What a Workers’ Revolution Means Bu" one could go on with the catalogue, endlessly. What it sums up to is, that here is a military organization that does not shirk its job of making efficient soldiers who will defend the workers’ re- public against, capitalist invaders, but also does a quite new thing; gives these soldiers a full, gorgeous, creative, human life. It pre- pares them to be cultural leaders in the world outside. And in every’ Red Army house throughout the Soviet Union the same work private profit, but educated, helped, taught, enlightened. This is what we mean by a workers’ revolution; this is why we love the Soviet Union, and will make every sacrifice to defend it from the bloody hand of the capitalist destroyer, from the dollar-worshippers and enemies of a finer human race, goes on, } Yes, it is a land where humanity is no longer exploited for Marguerite Young Speaks on “Press Reporting in Washington” Sunday “Press Reporting at Washington”, The speaker, who prior to coming js the subject of a talk by Margue- to the “Daily” worked for four years rite Young, of the Daily Worker,}as a reporter for the Associated Washington Bureau, at the New/Press in Washington, will discuss School for Social Research to-/her experience in the nation’s capi- morrow evening at 8 o'clock. Robt. tol as a writer for the Communist W. Dunn will be chairman. press, and also described how im- Comrade Young has just returned! portant news is handled by the big from Cleveland where she, together | capitalist news associations. with Harry Gannes and Carl Reeve,| The lecture Sunday night is held staff writers of the Daily Worker,| under the auspices of the Press covered the historic Eighth Conven-| League, an organization formed tion of the Communist Party of the/last Fall for the purpose of assist- United States. % ing the workingclass press, y v | | | | | there ought to places where pro-| | Dr. Hirsch comes through with fly-| | Partisan are not turning down any) | | great short stories and fine poems. | 2 colors. Let us take some of | But the truth is that great short | | stories and fine poems are not writ-| | FineJournalism in An Able Book on the USSR! “Partisan,” J.R.C. MagazineonCoast THE PARTISAN. Revolutionary Journal of Art, Literature and Opinion. Published by the John Reed Clubs of the West at Box 2088, Hollywood, California, Vol, 1, No. 4. March, 1934. Passer ape Reviewed by GRANVILLE HICKS EB striking thing about The Partisan is that it contains so much good journalism. In this is- sue, for example, we find an article on the A. F. of L. policy among the movie men, & summary of recent labor struggles in California, and an account of the theses of the 13th Plenum of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Interna- tional. There is also a short ar- ticle answering 8S. N, Behrman’s de- fense of the movies, a sketch of a milk strike, and a report by a relief worker. On the back page are news letters. Even the cultural depart- ments are, for the most part, jour- nalistic: The effect of the depres- sion on musicians, the C. W. A. Projects for artists, the need for a workers’ theatre. This seems to me a decidedly good thing, and I believe that The Par- tican is pointing the way for other John Reed Club organs, Of course, letarian literature can be printed, and I trust that the editors of The ten every month, whereas good jour- nalism is always possible. Journal- ism, moreover, is extremely good practice for the short story writers and poets. Of course, only certain types of reporting are effective in a monthly publication, but the edi- tors of The Partisan seem to me to have been successful in selecting the | kind of news articles that belong in such a periodical. There is one short story in the issue, “The Rope,” by John McGre- gor. It suffers from over-condensa- tion; the author has tried to cram into it more than any short story can carry. He has a good theme, however, and the characters do at moments come to life. Tillie Lerner has taken the letter of Felipe Ibarro in the New Masses of January 9, and has found in it its essential poetry. The result, called “IT want You Women Up North to Know,” is one of the finest contri- butions to the growing body of} workers’ correspondence in verse. If \it was Mike Gold who originated this idea, he can be thanked for) | discovering one of the richest veins of proletarian literature. The other poem in the issue, “Canticle of Labor,” by Theodora Erwin, is less effective. The weakest section of The Parti- san is that devoted to books, There is an amusing and pointed note by Guy Bruce on the publishers’ habit of putting out one book on the right and then one on the left, but the reviews are weak. The review of Fox's Lenin is rather undiscriminat- ing, and the review of The Native’s Return is merely a news-note. Con- rad Seiler's account of Mussolini's Fascist Manifesto is informative but that js all, Some of the brief para- graphs show more critical ability than the longer reviews. On the whole The Partisan is sat- isfying because it 1s alive. Too often magazines of this sort betray, either in a constant preoccupation with slogans or in sheer pedanticism, a kind of remoteness from the strug- gle. Moreover, it is firmly rooted in its locality; it belongs to Cali- fornia. It seems to me that, though the editors and writers have a good deal to learn, they are taking the right course, and we can expect bet- ter and better things from them. TUNING IN TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Stars of Broadway and Holly- ‘ge Arliss, Ronald Colman, Jack Oakie, Loretta Young, Spencer Tracy, Frederic March and Others from Hollywood; John Beal, Florence Rice, Tess Gardella, Armida and Oth- ers from New York 8:00-—-U. 8. Marine Band 8:45—Should the Government Issue Cur- rency or Bonds? — Representative Wright Patman of Texas 9:00—Voorhees Orch.; Donald Novis, Ten- or; Frances Langford, Contralto; Ar- thur Boran, Impersonations 9:30—Real Life Problems—Sketch; Bea- trice Fairfax, Commentator 10:00—Hayton Orch.; Al Trahan, dian; Saxon Sisters, 10:30—Pan-American Relations — Cordell Hull, Secretary of State; United Ser- vice Orch.; Lyda Rivera, Soprano Mi Come- 12:00—Opera, Aida, With Elisabeth Reth- berg, Soprano; Giovanni Martinelli, ‘Tenor Core WOR—710 Ke. Symphony Orech., Phillip Gordon, Conductor i bats to glue Benefit * WJIZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—John Herrick, Songs '30—Bestor Orch. Orch. ‘00-—Reminiscences of Parks and People —Horace M. Albright, Former Di- rector of National Park Service; Ma- tine Band * WABC—2860 Ke. 7:00 P.M.—Michaux Oongregation '7:30—Serenaders Orch.; Phil Cook, Im- personations 7:45—Jones Orch. 8:00—Rich Orch., Morton Downey, Tenor; ‘Vera Van, Songs; Fats Waller, Song 8:45—The Bard of Erin 9:00-—-Grete Stueckgold, Metropolitan Opera Soprano; Kostelanetz Orch. tig Pia Gulld—Alice in Wonder- lan 10:00—Rebroadeast from Byrd Expedition 10:30—Testimonieal Dinner to Edward A. Hayes, National Commander, Amert- can Legion, Hotel St. George 11:00—Fiorite Orch, | By an American Engineer | INDUSTRALIZED RUSSIA, by | Alcan Hirsch, New York: Chem- | ical Publishing Co, 309 pages. $3. Pua 4 | world, and one of the world’s great- est paint and varnish plants at Yaroslav. The Stalinogorsk syn- thetic ammonia converterers, when producing thirty tons daily were as efficient as those anywhere else in the world; now they are producing 38 tons, Products old Russia never knew are synthetic rubber, (pro- duced nowhere else except recently by du Pont) synthetic ammonia, nitrates, natural and synthetic re- sins, rayons, coke-oven by-products, all pharmaceutical products, ete. In short, they are getting ahead with terrific speed, despite the greatest | Reviewed by A. G. BOSSE | . HIRSCH is a New York en- i gineer who was employed under & technical assistance contract by the Soviet Government for two years as chief consultant to its chemical industry. He had been consultant to various corporations and to the Japanese Government during the year. His book is il- | lustrated with three-score photo- graphs and maps and an extensive | Tt is a comprehensive and very sym- of t 3 pathetic review of economic, poli- technic, international cooperation, | tical, cultural, and travel and living “ances, ete. conditions, I can almost say that jit is the sanest and most under- standing of the scores of books | written on the U. 8, 8. R. by non- Communists. It gives a vast amount of interesting detail on work and | life there, in simple, direct English. A test of a person’s attitude to- ward the Soviet Union is his re- action toward any one of the fol-| Schools and the Crisis, by Rex lowing institutions or phases of| David, International Pamphiets, life: the O. P. G. U., the Red Army,| No. 39. 46 pp., 100. sex, prostitution, divorce, food | * . shortage, bureaucracy, and Soviet position on peace. In everyone of these test cases, and many others,| NewInternational Pamphlet Reveals Education Decay Reviewed by STEWART CARHART TN America, “the crisis of the whole out-worn system of production is inevitably reflected in the nation’s by the terror of its enemies, and) schools.” Developing his case from “without such an organization the! this theme, Rex David draws the Revolution would have failed.” The! whole sordid picture of the collapse | Red Army sets a standard by its| of the educational system, with the “example of discipline, personal/ qrastic cuts in the budgets to pay hygiene and coordinated labor." the interest’ on banker's loans, with them: The G. P. U. was necessitated | But the workers in “leather jackets” At John Reed Forum | ‘ | | LAUREN GILFILLAN, author | of “I went to Pit College,” a novel | | of Pennsylvania coal miners, who | speaks at the John Reed Ciub, 430 Sixth Ave, near Tenth St, | this Sunday evening at 8:30. | Workers’ Organizations to evedore” in Performances NEW YORK.—Although “Steve- dore,” the lynch-expose play by Paul Peters and George Sklar, will| not open officially until April 18,) workers will have a chance to see} this second Theatre Union produc- tion in preview performances be- ginning April 14. Benefits will be given by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights on Saturday, April 14, the Young Worker on April 16 and the Office Workers’ Union on April 17, Smaller theatre parties for the Preview are the real military force, and they |; ave the author a “feeling of ab- | solute impregnability. Even if all the front lines were to crumble one zation, Soviet Russia was indeed felt, that with this kind of organi-| |the children of the workers being) Monday and Tuesday preview will | forced out of the schools and into| be given by the Phi Betta Kappa {unemployment and starvation and|of Brooklyn, the Young Communist | with the teachers under-paid, over-| League and the After Care Depart- | worked and in many cases actually; ment of the Hebrew Orphan Asy- destitute and starving. lum, | Others have presented a similar - “Stevedore” portrays, in a series “gap between physical maturity| these instances, David goes further: aol eae, dependence which talist pretense at “education for the 5 ” | masses” with the Soviet Union western world does not exist.” The) (wh t te th ithor, “Th economic necessity for prostitution! ‘Where, to quote the author, e “has been entirely removed.” The aim of Soviet education is to de- “lack of suggestives or eroticism” | Velop generations of children who was striking. Scientific criminology| Wil build a Communist society”), ‘is further advanced in the Soviet| the author takes up the all-impor- Union than anywhere else in the| tant question of the schools, the world.” Children are “served first bovdasa ng Paar and adequate ilable.” ities. iar ila It was the students who taught een eet the teachers in this field. Chicago | ppata on vie Seiad ceeciee is the best example. There wenny research and the like are exciting/ time that the teachers had been (canned blood for transfusions, dis-| paid for a period of six months, was covery of typhus virus and serum,| immediately after the mass strike poe of a bop ania in pals of thousands of students and esgge | Since pre-war an increase in life) ers, aided by the support of the japed fom ae bi Di a taflg abs National Student League and the | 8 are nov glossed over. Young Communist League. | terrible living conditions at Mag-) ‘The example of the militant Un- nitogorsk last summer (which Ordz-| employed Teachers’ Association in honikidze called a pig-sty) are re-| New York City is an apt model for ferred to, and housing and trans-| teachers to follow. This, with a ps His Seppe taeage a ead strong student-teacher-parent or- A ae t08, aver~! ranization which must be built can. pds Iara te pad ana force more adequate education even he characterizes the U. 8, A. to-| “der "8D! a oes foe atk wks meee tt os He 8. fe % as the | dents, parents and teachers. The Wo strongest advocates of Peace! tacts are conveniently collected and end section on the chemical in-|‘* cam serve Pah bed ‘ pe Sisaiaead et + eryone dustry is the longest chapter in the| M4 Suide for action ’ book. Pre-war Russia was chem-| Should buy and read It. ically backward, despite the fame of | Mendeleyey and Tenteleyev, pro-| ducing only one-twentieth to Sn} thirtieth as much sulphuric acid as | the United States, Great Britain, wy * 29, Germany or France. The war prac:| Will Raise Sparks tically wiped out the industry, the : few, half-ruined plants at work) ‘This book will raise sparks; it producing at 10-15 per cent of ca-|may even start a fire,” Peadar pacity. The Communists had to| O'Donnell, outstanding Irish Repub- raze them and start anew, and they|lican Army leader and author of have begun “from the beginning on| “There Will Be Fighting” and other advanced processes which it has| works, says in his introduction to taken years of experimentation to| Brian O'Neill’s “War for the Land Says Book on Struggles of Trish Proletariat unconquerable.” | pee | picture. But unlike the others who PR Ba ga hae Mere on have presented these statistics and After briefly contrasting this capi-| develop elsewhere, and which through centralized planning are being applied in an effective way without duplication.” The success with which the U. 8. 8. R. is producing the most com- plicated chemicals in some of the largest plants is exemplified by the following facts: They have de- veloped nephelite production in the Arctic, a chemical worked indus- trially nowhere else in the world, getting from it glass and ceramics, leather and textile dyes, fertilizers, ete. Sulphuric acid output in 1932 was four and one-half times of 1913, superphosphate ten times, and soda ash twice. It has at Magnitogorsk Europe’s largest by-proqduct coke plant and the third largest in the I WAS fired from the 0.W.A. along with thousands of others on April 3. I had been working in the public library. We had been told by the chief librarian that hardly anyone would be laid off from projects 123 and 260 about a week before, and for that afternoon, at any rate, he had made us feel good. He told us we were slacking up in our work, probably because we were worrying, and that we had no need to worry about los- ing our jobs. In the library all was going along quite smoothly, like a huge polished wheel, when on Monday morning, ten were laid off—and in the after- noon 25 were laid off, and the next day 100 were laid off. The next day hardly anyone came to work be- cause we had all been fired. I went up to the supervisor and asked him why I had been fired, but the man shrugged his shoulders, grinned foolishly, and said he did not know. ‘The next morning I picketed with others of the Recreation Workers Project in front of 50 Lafayette St.. in which building the city’s Public Welfare Department, of which Mr. Hodson {s the head, is located. There were about 20 of us carrying banners, and we had begun to march up and down the street, when two cops, who had been us to scram. “Keep walking,” they said. We kept walking, but nearing the curb, turned around and came back. The officers thereupon pushed us against the wall, and told us gthat we would cool off in jail. We were locked up in the watching, approached us and told |in Ireland.” released by Interna- tional Publishers. | The value of the “The War for | the Land in Ireland,” O'Donnell be- | eves, lies in its approach: it studies | the separatist movement in Ireland |and its base in the land struggle | from the 18th century to the present | day. | The book discusses agrarian re- volts in the epoch of the United Irishmen of 1798; Whiteboys and Ribbonmen of the era of the tithe wars and the famine of 1848; the crisis in Irish agriculture and the way out. Appendices give informa- tion on land purchase schemes, agricultural wages, live stock and Jand distribution. MY FIRST ARREST beth St. Court,.but we were not perturbed. The matter of picketing had just begun, and just as soon as we had been arrested and were be- ing herded into the patrol wagon, we saw that another picket line had started. We looked around our cell. Bars ranged from floor to ceiling. Sud- denly we were startled. There on the walls, in a firm hand, was the whole of the “International,” and higher up, in larger script, was the phrase: “Hurrah for the Commu- nist Party.” Apparently we were not, the first, political prisoners to have frequented the Elizabeth St. Court. At 2:30 we came up before the judge. The judge scrutinized our faces, Then he looked at our signs which read: “We Want Work, Not the Works.” “Ten Million Americans Can’t Be Wrong,” and his large ju- ae head expressed sympathy it- self. “Come now, be reasonabie,” he said. “You can't get jobs. Where are you going to get the money? The government can’t support you.” He therefore counselled us to Plead guilty, and we could go scott free. But we said we were not guilty, that we had the right to picket, and that we would see our charge of “Disorderly Conduct” through. “Well then ...™ said the judge. “But don’t go around telling stories about me.” Our case was laid off till the coming Tuesday, April 10. ‘The next, day we mass picketed without any arrests. We shall con- tinue to picket 50 Lafayette St. un- til we get our jobs back, of brilliantly dramatic episodes, the | rise of a mutual spirit of under-| standing of their common plight among Negro and white workers during a strike on the docks of New Orleans. | The cast is predominantly Negro jand includes a number of distin- guished artists, such as Georgette | Harvey, well-known singer, who appeared in “Porgy” and “Five Star Final”; Edna Thomas, of “Lulu Belle” and “Run, Lil Children”; Susie Sutton, from the cast of “Green Pastures”; Jack Carter, who played Crown in “Porgy,” and others. | | While “Peace On Earth” con-| tinues uptown, three of its prom- inent actors have joined the “Steve- dore” company. They are Millicent Green, who was the girl strike leader of the first play; Victor Kilian, who was the leader of the longshoremen, and Jack Williams, | who took nine roles in the anti-war play, “Stevedore Cast” At | | Negro Art Evening At | | Theatre Collective | —- | NEW YORK—The Theatre Col-| lective is sponsoring an evening of} | Negro Art at its headquarters, ke |W. 15th St., tonight at 8:30. The} jentire cast. of “Stevedore” will ap-| | pear, including Georgette Harvey, |Leigh Whipper, Richard Huey, as well as Edna Guy, dancer, who will) |give dance interpretations of Negro| | Spirituals and work songs. | | * William L. Patterson, National | Secretary of the I. L. D. will speak. | ‘Discharged CCC Boys | | To Speak At Chicago | | Youth Forum April 16) | CHICAGO —The Youth Forum,! ‘organized by the Young Communist ‘League, held every Monday evening) at 3847 S. State St., announces as the topic for April 16, “Youth Fights | the Roosevelt Jim Crow Military) | Civil Conservation Camps.” Former |0.C.C. boys, discharged for fighting | discrimination and bad food, will | speak, as well as a youth speaker from the American League Against War and Fascism. Silk Sereen Strikers Hold “Victory Party” NEW YORK—The Silk Screen Process Workers League, which re- cently won a strike victory, will hold! a Victory Theatre Party for its| \friends and membership, Sunday, April 15, 8:30 p.m., at the Workers) Laboratory Theatre, 142 E. 12th St.) ‘The program will include Interven- tion, the Soviet play by Lev Slavin, | a skit by the process workers them- selves, and a varied program of solo presentations, to be followed by) dancing. PARTY FOR POTAMKIN CENTER | | NEW YORK—A party will be| held Sunday, April 15, at 8 p.m, at) the United Front Supporters’ Hall, 11 W. 18th St. for the benefit of the) Potamkin Children’s Center. The} National Student League chapter of | the Juilliard School of Music will) present a concert of chamber music, | and a Soviet film will be shown, =| PARCHED EARTH by Arnold B. Armstrong “A revolutionary class novel. It will find a popu- lar and eager audience in the working class. We would recommend it for required reading.” —Daily Worker, “Fired with a brutal hon- esty.” —N. Y¥. News Meemillan $9.50 Leninist Classics Now Ready In New, Revised Edition New translation of two of Lenin’s like all International's editions, ts most famous polemics —Left-Wing Deing tra d from texts ap- proved by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Communism: an Infantile Disorder, and The Proietarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, are being prepared for early publication by International Publishers, only au- thorized publishers of English trans- lations of Lenin in the United States, Institute in Moscow, will appear in the Little Lenin Library and in a cloth edition. | Extant translations of this and other of Lenin’s writings are in- acurate, incomplete and in many cases misleading. The release of International's edition of Imperial- ‘ism particularly revealed glaring errors in former translations. JRC of Philadelphia Opens Art Exhibition The next of a series of the works of Marx and Engels to appear will be Engels Herr Duhring’s Revolution in Science, popularly known as Anti-Duhring, to be published for the first time in full in English Left-Wing Communism, which, PHILADELPHIA.—The First An- nual Exhibition of the Art Group of the Philadelphia John Reed Cub, will open Saturday night, April 14, bes with a discussion on “Social Trends The Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra, | in art," and will continue till May Jacob Schaefer, conductor, is cele-|1, at the club's headquarters, 134 brating its Tenth Anniversary on | South Eighth St Saturday, April 21, at 8:30 p.m., at Forty-four artists, including J. 0. Town Hall, 43d St., east of Broad- | Orozco, George Biddle, Julius Bloch, way. Thomas Benton, George Schreiber, The orchestra of 75 players will| Allan Freelon, Leon Kelly, Benton be assisted by a group of the Frei- | Spruance, as well as other artists heit Singing Society and a full set | {rom this and other cities and the of symphony wind instruments, members of the Art Group, will be It will feature the overture “Eg-|Tepresented by paintings, litho- mont” and the Fifth Symphony by | 8Taphs, drawings and sculpture, Beethoven, “Eine Kleine Nacht- cere rear musik” by Mozart, and “Suite” for CAR WANTED Mandolin Orchestra based on melo- One of the NEW MASSES edit- dies of minority nationalities in the! org is going on a lecture tour of Soviet. Union arranged by Jacob) thirty-six days to the Middle West Schaefer. and return. If anyone has a car emg he could loan the NEW MASSES during that period, will he please get in touch with the office at 31 East 27th Street, New York City, or phone Caledonia 5-3076. Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra Anniversary on 21st SPIVAK SERIES MONDAY John L. Spivak’s Article on Con- ditions in California will appear in Monday's issue. Soviet Russia’s Great Satire on Disarmament! “LETS HAVE PEACE” Also: CHALUTZIM ,(Rioneets th ¢ HABIMA PLAYERS of Palestine) Hebrew Talking Picture of the Workers of Palestine (English Dialogue Titles) ACME THEATRE 14th STREET THEATRE GUILD presents GENE O'NEILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN 2d St. W. of B'way Thur. &Sat.2.20 The Great Anti-War Fit! ‘Peace on Earth’ Thea.,W.ofB' way. Evs. 8:30 44th ST. Mitiinen wea.a sot. 3:48 209, GOOD SEATS AT Be TO $1.00 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN HELEN 73 : emf HAYES ——RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL 30 St a § Ave—Show Place of the Nation Opens 11:30 A. M, Pi ME! Trene “THIS MAN Dunne IS MINE” Constance Cummings—Ralph Bellamy and a Springtime Music Hall oy PAUL PRTERS and GEORGE SKLAR Since Show Thrilling drama of Negro and. white workers on the dooks of New Orleans Opening Wed, Eve., April 18 CIVIC REPERTORY THRA. 105 W 14 Bt, Eves, 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Sat, 2:45 TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE - 80c~450-80¢-750-81.00 as $1.50 For information on benefits and pre- view performances ‘Phone WAT. 9-2451 —Ronefit Preview Perf. Apr. 14-16-17: TEGFELD FOLLIES with FANNIE BRICE Willie & Eugene HOWARD, Bartlett SIM-| MONS, Jane FROMAN, Patricia BOWMAN. | WINTER GARDEN, B'way & 0th. Evs, 8.30 Mats, Monday, Thursday & Saturday 2:30) MADISON SQ. GARDEN pO DS WORTH 2p TWICE DAILY Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, W. 44th St. Evs, 8:46 Sha bday dhol ad |. Matinees Wed. Pri. & 2:30 | Includin, —MusIC— RKO Jefferson 1 8t.® | Now | 3rd Ave. EPMUND LOWE & SHIRLEY GREY in “BOMBAY MAIL” also:—“ONCE TO EVERY WOMAN" with FAY WRAY & RALPH BELLAMY ROBERTA A New Musical Comedy by JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 42d St. Evgs, 8.40 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 SUNDAYS RINGLING Barnum | and 5. BAILEY ALL NEW THIS YEAR 3 BIGGER THAN EVER! 1000 NEW FOREIGN FEATURES Tickets Admisiog to Everything (including eats) BLL1O to 93 Children under 12 Halt Price Booey afew Doon except Saturdaves at Garden, Macy's and Agencies Philharmonic - Symphony AT CARNEGIE HALL TOSCANINI, Conductor This Sunday Afternoon at 2:08 PROGRAM ODE KAPPEL Eve. at 8:45 (Students’) Brahms, Roussel, Wagner, Franck Arthur Judson, Mgr. (Steinway Piano) Tomorrow Afternoon at 3 P.M. LITTLE Thes., 244 W. 44th St. “To the Light” TICKETS Cycle of § Dances) and Her Group Walt Whitman Suite Prices: %he, $1, $1.50, $f, $2.50, Plus Tax and other dances BRONX THEATRES FIRST SHOWING IN THE BRONX! ae 5 DAYS ONLY—Saturday to Wednesday (April 14 te 18) IAT INTERNATIONAL TALKIE! 66 ‘THE GRE. “The Greatest of Anti-War Filme” Been te OS EARTH” Produced in 4 Different Countries — Spoken in 4 Languages, Mainly English with WLADIMIR SOKOLOFF (Moscow Art Theatre) and ERNST BUSOM RKO WESTOHESTER AVENUE EMPIRE THEATRE 4np iswt st, BRONX Marguerite Young Washington Correspondent of the “Daily Worker” will speak on “PRESS REPORTING IN WASHINGTON” Sunday Evening New School April 15th, 8:15 P.M, 66 West 12th St. Chairman—ROBERT DUNN, Labor Research Ass'n. Admission 35 cents Auspices: PRESS LEAGUE An Outstanding Event... DANCE RECITAL croves Workers’ DanceLeague once! GROUPS BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC FRIDAY, APRIL 20 — 8:30 P. M. atso FE ALF, kngaged as Guest Soloist Tickets: 35¢ to 99c—On sale at Box Office, New Masses, Workers’ Book Shop, Labor Defender, LL.D, Benefit of LABOR DEFENDER Sponsored by United Front Supporters