The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1934, Page 5

CH } ‘ 4 AY \ ANGE THE WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD The Press “Reports” An Anti-War Meeting Dear Mike:— i On April 6, about 6,000 men and women swarmed into St. Arena in support of a rally against war and fascism held by York Committee of the American League against War and Nicholas the New Fascism. The hall was jammed. The leading speaker on the program was Dr. Harry Ward, National-Chairman of the American League Against War and Fascism, and other prominent speakers. Various organizations were there in force. Spéeches were made on the most vital issues that confront civilization today. ‘hunderingly passed. Next morning I buy me a copy of the New York Times to read what the capitalist press had to say about the affair. “All the News That's Fit fo Print.” Not°a line. Not a word. But what's this? Here's a few paragraphs about the speech made by the Rev. Norman Thomas and the Right Reverend Holmes at Commusity Church against war. I started to read, then had to give up. The capitalist press les, distorts and misrepresents on many occa- sioris. But it is not the factual lies that are so important. Even when the “Times” is telling the truth factually, it is criminally distorting the truth, not by virtue of what it says but by virtue of what it refrains from saying. When the “Times” announces the latest “catch” of our fisherman-President on the front page and buries a truthful account of a strike of factory workers in page 10, the “Times” is lying. When it gives four columns to the extradition proceedings against Insull and one-twenty-seventh of a column about the Communist Party Conven- tion at Cleveland, it is lying. And when it devotes reams of space, in- cluding photos, to Army Day parades and speeches and not an inch to a 6,000 crowd rally addressed by Dr. Ward, it is lying. “All the News That's Fit to Print,” eh? Preparations for mass mur- der: fit to print. Protest against mass murder, by the working class: not fit to print. You see, it hardly paid the “Times” to be considerate of the feelings of the thousands who crowded St. Nicholas Arena. The “Times” kriew- that 60 per cent of the audience was unemployed. A poor market for the merchants and brokers wf advertise in the “Times.” Most of the workers could hardly afford the 2 cents to buy the sheet, let alone the new models displayed in the automobile adver- tisements. This wall of silence they try to build around revolutionary events, is what does the real damage. But papers like the Daily Worker are not only breaking through these walls. They are also, by the awakening effect they have on the workers, by the mass demand for truth they are arousing in the workers, forcing the capitalist press to pay more attention to truth and less to bunk. PHILIP POLLACK. Fi Important resolutions were drafted and * * P. S--Have just learned I was wrong about the “Times,” Mike, It seems they did report the rally after all. The concluding sentence of the short notice about the Rev. Thomas’ speech against war (which I could not finish for gastronomic reasons) reported that there Ras also been a rally of 6,000 at St. Nicholas Arena. That’s all. PLP, . + . Music By White Guardists Dear Comrade Gold: In'my capacity as music editor of a “respectable” bourgeois news- paper, I attended the concert of the Prince Obelensky Chanters at Town Hall the other night. There I had an excellent opportunity to witness the decadence and cultural bankruptcy of the White Guard residents of New York—an instance of their decadence and cultural bankruptcy. the world over. Imagine, if you will,.a program of music purporting to be repre- sentative of the spirit and temper of the Russian people with only a single folk-song—and that one uncharacteristic! Where were the songs of an oppressed peasantry straining at the yoke* of their masters? Where were the songs of an aroused proletariat heaving its shoulders under the iron heel. of despotic capitalism? Where were the songs of revolutionary workers braving prison, Sibéria or death in their struggle for freedom? Instead of music welling from the soil of Russia, we were treated to effusions like the “Cherubim Song,” by Michael Fiviesky, con- ductor of the Chanters; “Salvation Is Created,” by Tchesnokoff; “For- ever Worthy Is Thy Lamb,” by Tschaikowsky, and several ofher re- ligious and operatic pieces. The reason for the choice of these numbers lies in their texts. Thus, Fiviesky’s song, which opened the concert, begins with the words: “Like a choir of holy angels solemnly gathering through the air, Far from our hearts on this blessed day do we drive each earthly cite A050 The remnants of Russian tyranny compare themselves to “holy an- gels”; they haye no earthly care, they sing, the while they hatch plots to destroy the First. Workers’.Republic and bathe the Soviet Union in blood. And. in. Tchesnokoff's -“Preserve, Oh Lord,” these erstwhile butchers call themselves “God's people”! The concert concluded with the Coronation Chorus from Mous- sorgsky’s “Boris Godounoff.” The program note made no mention of the revolutionary aspect of this great opera. It distorted the com- poser’s intent with the comment: “The people glorify the new Czar Boris at his coronation.” A typical case of intellectual prostitution! The performance calls for no extended comment. The cfforus, ob- viously recruited on the basis of social prestige rather than vocal ability, sang like members of a dying clan. Little spirit and less quality marked their efforts. How different the dynamism of the average workers’ chorus is in its effect! The difference between the quick and the dead, the truth and falsehood. Prince Obelensky, billed as a basso-cantante, rendered several solos. From the swollen hulk of his body he drew tones which even the social« climbing critics of the metropolitan dailies found distressing, although they were polite and tactful in their reviews. Between numbers, the Prince contributed several hearty belches to the evening’s entertainment. The most interesting factor at the concert was the audience. Few tickets were paid for; almost all present were admitted on passes. Still dreaming of the time when they ruled their corner of the earth, and still hoping to recover their lost power, these pretenders put on their best clothes to play at being aristocrats. Often, these best clothes consisted of an obviously rented or borrowed tuxedo or evening gown. Many royal necks, more deserving of hemp, wore rhinestones; the dia- monds that formerly encircled them helped to pay for the armies of Denikin and Kolchak. Lips flabby with lust or thin with cruelty, kissed hands bathed in workers’ blood, and seeking just such another bath. The spectacle was disgusting to the conscious observer. One fact about the audience was significant—perhaps heartening. Few youthful people were present. Singers and listeners alike were well on in years. Members of a dying caste. Consciously dying, and therefore more anxious to seem alive. But the futility of their cause must be patent even to them, and their sons and daughters, brought face to face with reality, even more certainly must recognize the in- evitable triumph of the proletariat. The old order gives way to the new. Forward to the World Revolution! I am writing this letter to you because it was quite impossible for me to review the concert dispassionately, and my paper is too “democratic” and “liberal” to allow “propagandistic” criticism. So, as I need my job, I shirked writing a review entirely, and the same reason causes me to use a pseudonym in communicating with you. I include revolutionary greetings from several other class-con- scious newspaper men. EMMET SAUNDERS. . . “They Shall Not Die!” : Dear Comrade Gold: I want to express my appreciation of some of the fine write-ups in your column, particularly for your timely appeal for the play “They Shall Not Die.” I was invited by friends to see this, but declined, as I did not care to give support to an organization like the Theatre Guild, But your argument conviced me that I could also help the class vic- tims, like the Scottsboro Boys by going, and you are right. So I went on my own hook, and landed down in the front rows among the stuffed shirts and frozen mugs. But the applause from. up in the balconies was heartening, particularly at mention of the I.L.D. and mass action. If only prices were within reach of the masses, how well this Play would clear up illusions of fair trials and justice. Even we farmers have learned different—fighting sheriff's sales, and so on. ‘4 Comradely, red * —L. A. True Art Belongs 9 QQ) Witness Chicag Dancer Says _ Performances;Two-Day in Labor Defender Conference Maps Plans to All, German | NEW YORK.—“They are denying | internationalism in Germany. How} does this affect culture and art? | Art in its greatest fulfillment is in- ternational, is human,” Fe Alf, Ger- man dancer, declared in an inter- view yesterday. She will be guest soloist at the Workers Dance League Recital at the Brooklyn Academy of Music| Friday evening. | She has been in this country only | for a few years. Most of her family is still in Germany, feeling at first hand the brutality of Hitler fascism. “Certainly there are national char- acteristics in art, but national tradi- | tions should be utilized as a means of breaking through such boun- daries.” When asked what she thought of the Workers Dance Groups in the United States, she said: “I think they have achieved good work from the point of view of organization and ally I think it very significant that the Negro group has joined the League and will participate in Fri- day’s program. “But the groups must develop from mere dance groups into mass dance groups, in order to give real expres- sion to the struggles of the masses, and to show that cooperation in mass is the strongest weapon that the masses have. “Although the work of the groups in the League is still lacking in per- fection they stand distinctly opposed to the dance groups of the bourgeois world which have nothing to offer but the self-expression of the group leader or the soloist.” WHAT’S ON Thursday CORLISS LAMONT lectures on “Under- standing Soviet Russia” at De Witt Clin- ton High School, Mosholu Parkway Sub- way Station, 8:30 p.m. Auspices, Bronx Boro Branches F.8.U. Adm. 2c. Balalaika Orchestra. OPEN FORUM Pen & Hammer Club, 114 W. 2ist St., 8:30 p.m. Lecture on “Housing and Jobs" by Leonard Gross of Economics Comm. Adm. 16¢. SENDER GARLIN, of the Daily Worker Staff, will speak on “The Meaning of May Day’ at Premier Palace, Sutter Avenue and Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, tonight, at 8% o'clock. Pictures of conditions under N.R.A. following lecture, Auspices Browns- ville section of ¥.C.L. PARTY in honor of 12th issue of Wall Paper at Tom Mooney Br. ILD, 323 B. 13th St., 8:15 p.m. Entertainment, Refresh- ments. Adm. free. EDITH BERKMAN Br. LL.D. meets at Borough Park Cultural Club, 1280 56th St, Brooklyn. Joint membership meet~ ing of all West End Branches, 8:30 p.m. VIET CHINA. The Imperialist Race in Sinkiang Province and its Relation to Soviet China. Lecture by John Phillips at Priends of the Chinese People, 168 W. 28rd St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 150. SUNNYSIDE Branch LL.D. Lecture by Joseph Tauber on "The Role of the In- | ternational Labor Defense in the Class | Struggle,” Monroe Court, 4313 47th 8t., 8:30 p.m. Adm, 150, Friday GALA American Youth Club Anniversary Celebration presenting the biggest concert ever seen at Premier Palace, Sutter Ave. and Hinsdale St. ALBERT MALTZ, co-author of “Peace on Earth” lectures on ‘The Role of the Theatre in the Revolutionary Movement.” ‘Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave., 8:30 p.m. MAX BEDACHT, General Secretary of 1.W.O. speaks on the Negro Question and Youth Work in Harlem at « general mem- bership of the Youth Sect. of I.W.O. at 122 Second Ave., 3rd floor, 8 p.m. All members of I.W.O. invited. Boston 12th Anniversary Entertainment and Dance given by Y.C.L. at 113 Dudley St., Roxbury. Adm. 35¢c. Good time for all. Friday, April 20, 8 p.m, Banquet, Entertainment For Workers School in Cleveland on Saturday CLEVELAND, The Workers School will give a Spring Banquet on Saturday, April 21, at 8 p. m., in the auditorium of the School, to greet the workers that have been sent to attend a full-time District Training School. Following the Banquet will be an exceptional all-Negro program con- sisting of a play, instrumental and vocal music, and pianologues, By W. L. “Daily Worker! Daily Worker! Read about the big coal strike in tomorrow's Daily Worker!” Bill Lewis, Red Builder, blew first on one hand and then on the other as he shifted his papers. New York was in the grip of its first cold snap of the season. Lewis had no gloves. The lights of Stuart’s Cafeteria, situated on a strategic corner in Greenwich Village glared brightly as he continued hawking his papers. Occasionally one would stop and buy one, making sure it was the following day’s paper. In New York the workers’ daily, like the capitalist press, was on the streets by nine o'clock. “Daily Worker! Daily Work—!” “Hey you—Ya gotta license to sell it Bill looked up to a husky well-fed limb of the law glaring at him. “It's a well known fact, officer, that no license is needed to sell papers on the street,” stated Lewis. “Oh yeah, who told you that?” judge dis- for selling week arrested arrested for peddling papers with- out a license, had been freed by the court. “Yeah, well that don’t mean a damn thing to me,” growled t he the spirit of cooperation. Incident- | DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, THURSDA O Ukrainian Dramatic Groups Win Second Place With Play on Foreign-Born Workers (Daily Worker Midwest Buzean) CHICAGO.—The Shock oratory Theatre of New York Theatre Festival held by the here Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Turner Hall. | Ukrainian Dramatic eee of New York, won second | place, with the Los Angeles Blue Blouses and the Workers Dra- matic Club of Gary, Ind., tied for third. More than 2,900 attended the festival. | based on the poem by V. J. Jerome, was presented by the New York Laboratory Theatre with the same fervor tempo and perfect artistry |that thrilled thousands in New |¥ork and made the Shock Troop | the choice of the nine judges. The ‘performance equalled that of any | Professional group. The electrified | audience all but forgot to breathe. While the New York group is far |in advance with both political con- |tent and presentation, the other | groups from throughout the country showed the healthy growth of a workers’ theatre movement in the United States. The plays of all showed the wide experimental experiences being learned. Players, delegates and au- diences felt the wealth of material brought in by the festival. Ukrainian Group Secured The Ukranian Dramatic Group won second place with an agit prop Play depicting the capitalist coils wound ‘round an emigrant worker to keep him from the ranks of the revolutionary section of the Amer- ican working class. Roosevelt was portrayed as the Hindoo mystic that sought to hyp- notize the rising masses into docil- ity through the mediums of the N. R. A, Johnson, the Socialists | and Bill Green in the skit presented by the Los Angeles Blue Blouses. A court scene frame-up of a steel striker, written by an International | Labor Defense Attorney from an| actual experience, was presented by the Gary group. The players were | workers who had themselves met the terror of the steel city’s police and courts. The audience was placed in the position of workers packing the courtroom and despite the rapping of the court gavel, laughed uproariously at the smash- ing exposure of the frame-up by the I. L. D. attorney and the ner- vousness of the state prosecutor. J. R. ©. Groups Represented The John Reed Dramatic Group of Detroit, after but three weeks preparation, presented a perfect | agit prop sketch called “Troops are | Marching.” “Grave Yard,” a combi- nation of symbolism and realism showing Morgan, Roosevelt and Norman Thomas rising from graves of capitalist decay, and being driven back by united Negro and white workers and farmers, was presented by the Tri Cities (Moline, Daven- port, Rock Island) Group. The Albany Park Jewish Speak- ing Group of Chicago presented “The Blue Eagle.” Kreymborg’s| “America, America” was used with effective shadow effects by the Workers Little Theatre of Cleve- land while the Chicago Workers Laboratory Theatre forced a wage increase through rank and file or- ganization of stock-yards workers in “Hog House.” A two-day conference was held by the League of Workers Theatres with delegates present from the cities competing in the Festival and from Toronto, Windsor, Montreal, Canada; Boston, Newark, Indian- apolis, Louisville, Ky., Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Tennesee, Moline, Ill, and other parts of the country. The festival was opened by A. Bonn, member of the Presidium of Red Builder don't lemme have to tell you again. This is your last night on this cor- ner. Let that be final. If I see ya around here tomorrow night, I'm gonna run ya in. Now don’t say I didn’t warn ya.” “O. K., officer, thanks for the warning. I'll be right here as usual tomorrow night,” replied Lewis. Bill Lewis had been in the work- ing class movement long enough to know that the police had no busi- ness _to interfere with his selling the Daily Worker. If he had been. selling the capitalist papers he knew he wouldn't be bothered. It was only because he was selling the Daily Worker which exposes the police terror and the rotten cap- italist system for which the police are watchdogs, that they bothered him, It always happened when- ever anyone tried to build up a new corner. Well, if the police wanted to make an issue of it, Lewis was willing and ready to go the limit if necessary to once more establish the right to sell the “Worker” of this particular corner, The next day Lewis went to an I. L. D. lawyer to find out just exactly where he stood. Explaining the situation to the lawyer he was. told what he had been fairly sure of, that Chapter 23 Article 13 Sec- tion 149 R of the Code of Ordin- ances speciifed that no license or permit of any kind was needed to Sell papers on the street. In order to check up on any reg- ulation the Police Department might have, the lawyer called up Police Headquarters. The head operator at Headquarters told the lawyer that no regulations existed govern- ing the selling of newspapers by cop. “You'll have to get off of this corner. You've been told before, now any adult, that anyone could sell all the papers he wanted, anywhere, } Group, ® Troop of the Workers’ Lab- won first place in the National League of Workers’ Theatres The jthe International Union of Work- | ers Theatres. He told of the work- | ers theatres growth throughout the world Another speaker was Anne Howe. | National Organizer of the League, | who earned the name of “human “News Boy,” a dynamic sketch | dynamo” by her tireless efforts to- | which he is treated in prison. Inci- | wards carrying out the arrangements | for the festival, the housing and transportation of the delegates. |Comrade Howe, who is barely five | feet in height, was recently slugged | |into unconsciousness by hoodiums | when she dashed to the defense of | a Negro worker after leaving a pre- | festival meeting. | A guest performance was given | |last Wednesday night at Lincoln | Center by the Shock Troop of New | York and the Los Angeles Blue | Blouses, under the auspizes of the Chicago John Reed Club. Two Thousand at Festival More than two thousand people | attended the festival. Added at-| tractions were workers’ choruses of | the South-Side Unemployed Coun- cil and I. L. D. A group of Young Pioneers of the Bulgarian Workers Club almost stole the show from} their elders. Additional details of the festival | will be carried in an early issue of the Dally Worker. | TUNING IN WEAF—660 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Baseball Resume 7:15—Billy Batchelor—Sketch 7:30—Shirley Howard, Songs; Jesters Trio | 7:45—The Goldbergs—Sketch 8:00—Vallee Orch.; Soloists | 9:096—Captain Henry Show Boat Concert 9:00-—Whiteman Orch. 11:00—Kathryn Newman, Songs Pooh east WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P, M.—Sports Resume 7:18—Comedy; Music | 7:30—Lane Orch. | 8:00—Little Symphony Orch.; Philip James, Conductor; Mildred Dilling, Harp 9:00—Wariety Music 9:15—Dramatized News 9:30—Success—Harry Balkin 9:45—-Catholic Charities Dinner, Hotel Biltmore; Speakers, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Former Governor Alfred E. Smith and others 10:45—Dance Orch. 11:00—Moonbeams Trio * WJZ—760 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Amos 'n’ Andy 7:15—Lopez Orch. 7:30—Sagerquist Orch.; Don Ameche and Sally Ward in Dramatic Sketch 8:00—Grits and Gravy—Hillbilly Sketch 8:30-—Jack and Loretta Clemens, Songs 8:45—Robert Simmons, Tenor; Sears Orch. 9:00—Death Valley Days 9:30—Duchin Orch. 10:00—Canadian Program 10:30—A U. 8. Trade Policy—C. ©. Davis, Director, AAA; Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York 11:00—Cavaliers Quartet 11:15—News Reports se WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Myrt and Marge 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30—Serenaders Orch. 7:45—-News—Boake Carter 8:00—Raffles—Sketch 8:30—Concert Orch.; Alexander Gray, Baritone: Mary Eastman, Soprano 9:00—Evelyn MacGregor, Contralto; Melodeers Quartet; Warnow Orch. 10:00—-Gray Orch.; Stoopnagle and Budd, Comedians; Confie Boswell, Songs 10:45—To Be Announced 11:00—A 12-Point Program for Crime Prevention—Attorney General Homer 8. Cummings 11:15—News; Jones Orch, as long as he was not blocking the sidewalk or any entrance to a building. Armed with this information and assurance, Lewis went back to his corner that night. Before going back he spread the word among the workers in the neighborhood and told them to come around that night to back him up if necessary in his fight to sell the Daily Worker. “Daily Worker! Daily Worker! Read the latest news about the coal strike. Tomorrow's Daily Worker!” It was after midnight, nearly time for the cop to come around. Lewis was ready. Many workers had gathered around inside and outside of Stuart's. Almost the entire MI. L. D. branch had come down from their meeting. Other groups from the National Students League and the John Reed Club were sitting in the restaurant waiting for some- thing to start. The air was getting tense. For some unknown reason Lewis started trembling. He couldn't decide whether it was from the cold or a sort of nervous reaction. He was determined to see things through, come what may. He didn’t have long to wait. Out of the cor- ner of his eye he saw the cop walk- ing down the street swinging his club. Pretending not to see him Lewis started hawking his papers again. “Daily Worker! Daily—” “Hey you! I thought I told you to get out of here.” “Officer, I—” “Don’t argue with me now, get outta here.” Giving Lewis a shove he pushed him off the sidewalk and Into the gutter. Standing his ground, Lewis stepped back on the this issue of the Laber De- |fender is the emphasis, in al- | most every article, on the fight | istic methods on a national scale, 10:30-—Wheeler Orch.; Doris Loraine, Songs | A True Story PRIL 19, 1934 Scottsboro, Nazis, Herndon Featured LABOR DEFENDER. Monthly pic- | torial of the International Labor Defense, April, 1934, Price 10 cents, Reviewed by GRANVILLE HICKS. J HAVE just read the current issue | of the Labor Defender from} cover to cover.. Three articles par- ticularly stick in my mind: Angelo| Herndon’s story, Joseph Brodsky’s| descriptions of some highlights of | the Scottsboro case, and Anna Schultz’s brief account of Eugene Schoenhaar, who was slain by the Nazis. The first installment of Angelo| Herndon’s autobiography only care ries his story down to 1931, but al- ready it is a story of bitter labor, | of hunger, of the most perilous kind! of organizing work, and of education | in the class struggle. There is also in this issue a letter from Herndon, describing the rotten brutality with dentally, such stories as Herndon’s show how far ever the best proletar- | jan novels are from realizing the| epic potentialities of the revolu-| tionary struggle. | Brodsky'’s article is sharp and vivid, and Anna Schultz gives a re- vealing glimpse of anti-war activity in the midst of war. Then there | is William Patterson’s biting ex- posure of the Non-Partison Labor Defense [a Trotzkyite outfit— Editor]. And there are the pictures, | especially the pictures of the strug- | gles of the Austrian workers. | Oother contributions are good, but not quite so good. Reports on local struggles are less detailed and less dramatic than they should be. After all, we count on the Labor Defender both to keep us in- formed and to rouse us if our de- termination lags, It is difficult, I know, to get vivid reporting, but it is very important. One thing I particularly like in against Fascism. The way to pre- vent Fascism is to resist every effort to terrorize workers, whether the effort is “legal” or illegal. Fascism is the organization of such terror- and it must be fought now in all its local manifestations. The Labor Defender plays a major role in this fight. § | John H. Lawson On | ‘Fellow Travelers’ At John Reed Club Sun. NEW YORK.—John Howard Law- son, author of “Processional,” “Suc- |cess Story,” “Gentlewoman,” ahd | other plays, will speak on “The Fel- | low-Travelers and Marxian Criti- cism” at the John Reed Club Forum, 430 Sixth Ave., next Sunday evening, | April 22, at 8:30. | Unusual interest is attached to! this forum in view of Michael Gold's ‘recent incisive analysis of Lawson's | | work, and Lawson’s spirited rejoin- | jder in the latest issue of the New| | Masses. | John Wexley, author of the rev- | olutionary pley of the | boys, “They Shall Not Di as chairman. |Garlin Speaks On “The | |Meaning of May Day”) |In Brooklyn Tonight. NEW YORK. — Sender Garlin, feature editor of the Daily Worker, will speak on “The Meaning of May Day” at Premier Palace, Sutter Ave. jand Hinsdale St., Brooklyn, tonight | at 8 o'clock. | Following the talk Garlin will | show slides portraying conditions in the U. S. under the N. R. A. The meeting, which is held in one of the largest halls in the Brownsville section, is arranged by |the Brownsville section of the | Young Communist League. Sadie Berg, section organizer of the Y. C. L,, will act as chairman, | “Daily Worker; Daily Worker!” | Lewis hollered afitomatically. “Goddam you!” shrieked the now thoroughly enraged cop. “You son of a bitch, if you don’t get out of here, Tl smash your brains in.” With this the cop started punching and pushing Lewis around. “Boo-0-0-0!” “Cossack!” “Leave him alone!” “Down with the Tammany tiugs!” The workers were springing into action. “Gimme a Daily—” “Me too—” | “I want one too—" | Incensed by the actions of the cop, sympathizers who had already) bought papers bought a second copy to show their solidarity with Lewis. “Stay right here, comrade—” “Don’t let him chase you away—" ane his number and we'll report him,” Such were the comments from the crowd which by this time had grown to a considerable size. Baffled and defeated the cop turned his attention from Lewis to the crowd that had assembled and and buying papers until they were all sold out. Gradually the crowd melted away and the corner re- turned to normal once more. The next day the Greenwich Vil- lage branch of the International Labor Defense sent a vigorous letter of protest to the Police Commis- sioner condemning the action of police officer No, 5798, and demand- ing the right to sell the Daily! Worker in front of Stuart’s Cafe- teria. No answer was ever received sidewalk, Daily Worker at the old stand. es | time Page Five W.L.T. Shock Troop Wins the First Place in Theatre Festival How the Press Whips Up “Anti-Red” Frenzy By JOHN L. SPIVAK LOS ANGELES, Cal.—An intensive publicity campaign urging the formation of fas- cist bodies to combat Commu- nist activities in California is in full blast here The bosses here realized that the absence of an intensive -red campaign was partly responsible for the Communist successes and now they are trying to make up for The anti-red campaigr which works smoothly with the or ganization of fascist bodies, started at first in the small newspapers in areas affected by T.U.U.L. strikes, and as strike after strike was won by the Agricultural Workers Union, the newspapers became franti The Los Angeles “Times. a reactionary paper, led the publi- city onslaught on a state-wide scale. The Hearst newspapers, which had always assumed a “liberal” attitude on the coast, when confronted with actual Communist advances, forgot |all about the Yellow Peril, and fell in line with editorials and distorted news writing about the “Red Peril.” Small local dailies, semi-weeklies and weeklies in counties where the T.U.U.L. was active naturally started whooping it up about the Reds. It almost looked as though they had just discovered there were Commu- nists on the coast and the whoop- ing frequently carried hints of ap- proval if anyone got rough with the Reds. Today, not only are the newspapers filled almost every day with news, real and fancied, of Communist activities, but the radio has been utilized, too. I was riding in a car in San Fran- cisco. When I turned on the radio. I heard: “The authorities are taking pre- cautions against Communist —” In Fresno, while eating in a rest- aurant, the radio blared forth: “Communist organizers have de- scended upon the San Joaquin Val- ley—” In Los Angeles, in the lobby of my hotel, at one o'clock in the morning: “Fortunately the meeting which | the Communists organized did not! the Precautions taken by the police With my morning “Times” screams: “Valley Forms Organization to Oust Reds.” In another paper I read: “Blows Dealt Reds in Valley.” | I turn to the “Times” editorial | page and I find the leading editor- | ial: “Repelling the Reds.” Califor- | nia, especially southern. California, is red-conscious. ‘Thé anti-red ac- tivities which had been neglected are now in full swing. The Hearst papers play on the front page under two column heads the Easley “ex- poses.” No one has ever cared about the 100,000 migratory workers in Califor- nia. Disorganized, poverty-stricken, helpless, they had wandered from| crop to crop, living on what the coffee the and that was all. | Children Star In Soviet e making read s take them —or perhaps The workers get that the Communists whereas the A. F, ns of salt es more torial quote one Times ut the | ts that the use of bad way to he Communists, ays the editorial “Formation of the Imperial Val- ley ~Communist Association to repel and combat the Red invasion is, in view of the Communist threat that not a car of cantaloupe allowed to be shipped this season, very nely. The inroads of Com- munist tators among the Mex- ican laborers are believed to h been checkmated by act of t Mexican Consul; but full precau- tions should nevertheless be taken to guard against agitation and agi- tators.” (Note: In several instances the Mexican Consul in the area affected by a strike or a prospective strike, organized Mexican workers in a Mexican |'These unions usually got raises in the wage scale, moment the harvest was but over disintegrated—with the co-operation the ib. lof the consul, The function of the consul was to keep the Mexican migratory workers from joining the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Union—J. L. 8.) (To be Continued.) Stage and Screen Film “Broken Shoes” Nazi Germany is the locale for |result in the expected riot due to| Broken Shoes,” the new Soviet film which opens this Saturday at the Acme Theatre. Following closely the recent fighting in Austria, France and Spain. this film gives a stirring picture of the social forces behind those movements, stressing” for the first time the role played by~ children. “Broken Shoes” might be called a children’s picture as the cast is composed mostly of children from. eight to fourteen years old. But it is more than that. It is a human document showing how the struggles of their fathers affect the children and how through the children these struggles have been carried inside the school rooms, out on the play- grounds and on the streets. It is a timely epic of children in politically- torn Europe. Margarita Barskaya directed “Broken Shoes,” her first film. But ‘ottsboro | fruit and vegetable growers threw her skill and experience as director will act | their way—enough to keep alive,|of the famous Moscow Children’s Under Commu-| Theatre with which she was asso- nist leadership they were demand- | ciated for many years, is revealed in ing wage increases—and getting} the smooth and natural perform- them—and the whole Machinery of | ance of the children players in the state and the sources of com- | munication was thrown into the| this film. The same program includes the fight against these Reds who were| latest Soviet News which include organizing the starving migratory close-up pictures of Georg Dimitroff, workers, | Popoff and Tanev, the Bulgarian * . . prisoners acquitted in Leipzig, in AY “discoveries” L this publicity, the news dis- Moscow and other important events, in New York, which are played as Patches, Easley’s though the Reds were about to| seize everything from a one-horse| Opera And Concert At Stadium This Summer Opera will be an important fea- ture of the Stadium Concerts this tried to break it up. All this time| THs Week sheets Segal totes IN workers kept coming up to Lewis| New weer |’ (jgRIAL BY JURY” | 500 to $2.00. Mats. Wed & Sat. 50c to $1.50 | i) s aM 5 —but—Bill Lewis js still selling the| ""aetinces wes? St town street cleaning department to the White House at any minute, the editorials, the activities of the law officers and the vigilantes—all this is grist to the formation of fascist groups. “Silver Shirts” are trying summer, according to an announce- | ment sent out by the management. | Five evenings will be devoted to the | usual orchestra concerts and two Jevenings each week will be given over to operas. AMUSE )— The THEATRE UNION Presents — stevedor< oy PAUL PETERS and GEORGE SKLAR Thrilling drama of Negro and white workers on the docks of New Orleans CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. Sves. 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:45 TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE 30e-A5e-GNe-Te-$1.00 & $1.50. 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