The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1934, Page 5

Cal DALY WORKER, NEW YORK. THURSDAY, APRIT 96, 1934 Police Reporter ---The _ | Sbeaks at Forum ‘Silver Shirt’ Chiet Saw | Mary Van Kleeck Among | Speakers At Meeting of Professional Workers CHANGE a! NEW YORK. — The Inter-Pro- fessional Association for Social Insurance will hold its first open _ Myth of ‘Front Page’ By HARRY KERMIT | upon the lack of news, when a and Heard Many Things meeting on Sunday, April 29th, at myeER since Hildy Johnson caught middle-aged couple entered the By JOHN L. SPIVAK wie May Bc cannot get | 8:15 p. m., at the Engineering Audi- the public eye in “Front Page” a| station house LOS ANGELES, Cal. ari Mico be ee some Roney | torium, 28 W. 30th St.. with @ sym- | eooq deal of tripe has been written) The lieutenant looked up. “Yes?” Willi Th y y their oemalaane? tis" farsi * a posium on “Economic Insecurity gout the police reporter or district he asked. illiam idley Pelley, na a3 Possessions; the farmer = . ‘ q restless; taxes are ruining many ' Ry MICHAEL GOLD al re SS ease man as he is known in the news-| You could see that the man and tional leader of the “Silver | ies: taxes are ruining m Pesce leg h ai paper industry. The police reporter) woman were frightened. Finally the Shirts,” in his pamphlet, To the citizen heavily burdened NE of the chief enemies of labor unions in this country is that mighty | Tsurance: K the Russell | 225 been Plugged by stage, screen] man zimmoned his courage and “Wh , y eg | with taxation he offers a heavenly seine |_Mary Van Kleek of the Russell and radio as a colorful character,| walked up to the desk. “Please, your pt Manners :of Govern-| Tee ee ee eee eee ji7 ROPE Taaned Generel saators, Sage Foundation will be chairman. independent and above the crowd.| honor,” he said to the lieutenant, ment Is the Christ to Set x, se ia: pei Recently, as president, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., made an annual finan- The speakers include Congressman For this classification there is not) “my wife sin’t got where to sleep | nent more taxation Up?” came back to earth and 7 eric: Lundeen of Minnesota, Herbert the slightest basis in fact. The| tonight.” To the property owner who has Bre oe aren Fie ee OF ENON ROR Benjamin, of the National Unem-| truth is he is usually an unimagina-| “What's wrong?” the lieutenant began to see and hear more things| slaved all his life to buy home The corporation reported net earnings of $83,213,675 for the year |ployed Councils, Dorothy Douglas, | tive lackey of the city desk, who| asked. than ever before. One of the first f | F i k economics professor, Philip Loeb, things he did was take a peck into| @Way by the state he offers no more i v net gain of 5,000 per cent in earnings over the »:|has acquired most of the charac-| ‘The man fixed his eyes upon the i wage forahicn ae shy was @ 5,000 fF es jactor, Dr. Reuben S. Young, phy- | teristics of the thick-headed cops|ficor. He explained slowly shared the past and there he saw Atlantis, | foreclosures 3 932. | Sician, Isidore Begun, pga and detectives who are his daily| and his wife had been ejected taai| net echaeiagh Atenas aupseeed. 50 cay ihe laser. who has ais It was earned under the first year of N.R.A., this swollén booty, teacher, Dr. F. E. Williams, psychi- | associates. 8 somewhere in thi t- zardous which is nothing more nor less than a legal steal out of the wages of | the men who really produce the cars. | In this year of such fabulous profit, the wages of each employee went up, too. Yes, indeed, says Mr. Sloan; the great year yielded a atrist, and Jules Korchien, of Fed-| eration of Architects, Engineers, | Chemists and Technicians. | their furnished room that morning. He had worked as a night watch-| man in a factory until several | months ago when the factory closed | down and since then had been out of work. He said he didn’t mind No person—and this includes the professional social worker as well as the organizer of the unemployed —is as close to the misery and pri- vation spawned by the capitalist MARGUERITE YOUNG, of the Daily lantic aeons ago and by goll was the Christ 1ere been ignored an foning state, fun the status of a st man and the beautifully, with no Jews and no glory of being the mainstay Communists and no bankers and no state, taxes. It was grand. the Big Boss, in other words, He tried to| and no taxes and no foreclosures . . Worker Washington Bu- tell what h 1 E 9 | system of ‘ C A at he saw to the college} In Southern California. Lo per working day. | paratively ignorant of the cause and park was no mikes for 8 woman. Convention of the ‘Conmeatt poo etn pyaar ‘C ex Tyious tami Who bad reeited £0 Earnings to the parasites, stockholders and hosses go up 5,000 per | Thursday cdi ae ee Misti scooter or the foe Toni wl wate ton bitte: the Intellectuals” to | doesn’t tell in any of his writings jek dona ee ge ; v ve 4 the Saturday Edi-/ < | ti 5 the: said. e hel morrow it at Trvi t Pe T life 1 cent; and to the men who sweat blood on the conveyor belts, by léess Due . ba yey are a “What «| Police blotter. \tried the city shelter?” Fiala, 15a BL coe crring os vod that I read how he knew it also! surely in the sunshine, to play and than 1 per cent. And this is what they call National Recovery. Mr. Sloan made a very alarmist statement as to trade unions, however. He said the “closed shop” would mean the erection of “the greatest monopoly that must be in| ARE YOU 8 memb Bookshop Circulating Li . er of the Workers | ibrary at 50 E, 13th ecials on sale now Ask any New York police re-) Z porter who has troubled to make| Te man shook his head, the appraisal and he will tell you! ‘The lieutenant reached down into at least 100 persons take or attempt | the desk drawer, opened a small di- |to take their lives in the metro-|Tectory and then wrote something on New York. The other speakers will be Harry Gannes, member of the Editorial Board of the Daily Worker and Joseph North, co- existed in Peru 2500 years before forget their life time of America was discovered but what's the cr: a trifle like that? I’m willing to! was sold for non-pav: Ss 5 -payment of taxes take his word for it that he saw| they felt bitter “a along cate that, too. Pelley who had a private talk with labor. When ‘ash came and their property di Ni - “ ever existed in any country in the world.” St? Also many gistory of the Russisn | politan area each month for rea-|® Slip of paper. He handed the slip sae aia seeded mee bane T could continue indefinitely quot-| God and said “no more taxes.” fe 5 ‘ Revolution,” 261 Schenectady Ave. BrO°K- | sons chiefly economic. And this is| tO the man and gp oe the sfuipeanes Aes Reasiea qe ee ing teary Sees fel ae and) There was a pathetic hope in the , a y arkway n 4 } tl te! ‘or wo- - y vy Speeches an res F 6enou vi- se lost a5 hev di: Yes, the man who leads one of the biggest monopolies of wealth yn, Y. ae eer a0 ms conservative enough an estimate. It| #ddress of the city shelter One New Miaies énk tee John Ps present enough evi-| hearts of these lost souls. They did and exploitation in this country fears the “monopoly” of labor. He's afraid they may squeeze a few dollars out of the unearned millions he | and his fellow-robbers appropriate. What can you do with a bare- faced hypocrite like that? A general strike is the only answer he can be made to understand. * Kansas Editor CHINA—Significance of ths} ent ot May in Chinese Revolutionary | History by J. Hoat, Friends of the Chinese | People, 168 W, 28rd St., Room 12 at 8:30) pan. Adm. 15¢. ca OPEN FORUM and Symposium at and Hammer, 114 W. 2ist St., 8:30 p.m. Symposium on "Stevedore” conducted by Arts Committee. Meeting League of Work- | does not include the alleged “bums” men. They'll take care of your wife.” shipped to the public morgues, the| When the couple had left I went unidentified man or woman found | back to the reporters’ “shack” across dead in some furnished room andj the street, I asked the other re- | the countless persons who merely} porters if they wanted the story. “disappear.” To understand why | They shook their heads. “It happens | very few of these tragedies are ever|every night,” one of the men said.) made public, you must be familiar| Then I called my office. The buffer Reed Club of New York. Music Olympiad This Sunday; May 1 Poem Ia One of Features dence so that even an interne in 8| not want to see thei hospital would sign commitment tivized, either, Papers to the nearest asylum for the! peing strong in national leader of the Silver Shirts | but that would not explain the ap- peal he makes to his following, not all of whom, certainly, are stark, staring, raving lunatics. Let’s have @ few more samples from r farms collec the property sense them, so ther op- posed Communism. And the Great, Pyramid offered them their farms, the glory of statesmen, no taxes, no foreclosures. And since ma of these farmers are deeply religious the and some are nuts anyway, they E. 1%h St. 8:30 p.m.| With the manner in which the re-|man—assistant to the night city edi- & P HER: So don chicas Festival and Confer-| porters work and with their relation | tor—listened while I tried to explain Ages ‘Christ Government” lest the reader | flocked to the Silver Shirt mestingad ‘WING BERT is editor of a country weekly in Hiawatha, Kan- ence; peanarations for in cur- | © the city desk. | the drama of the story. After I had ACES IER Es . hegre peeps poner only This explains the weekly presence é ‘MASS MEBTING Tonight. Avy 2 the “1 - d, he said, “We're tight to- —A of sponsore ed passage ugh even an ‘ i iy prese sas. The farmers are so broke thes¢ days that they pay for their nae Drapery Workers Union, 812 In New York City the “headquar- | finishes e Si ig) ie New ta Tee ee Conte eh Se ee ee erst | Of 1,000 or more. and WY fey al subscriptions in potatoes, walnuts, alfalfa seed, wheat, smoked hams | and barrels of sauerkraut. Recently an old subscriber turned up with a horse, and swapped it, for the paper. The next day another came in with a cow, and got on the subscription lists. We don’t know what this Kansas weekly is like, but the average , 6 pm. Sharp. All invited. | BORCTURE “Women and New Morality is jet Union” by Gertrude Hutchinson a! eat Side Br. F.8.U., 2642 Broadway at 100th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 18¢, Friday FILM and Photo League Movie Ball at Webster Hall, Friday night, Tickets at 12 night. Anyway, I don't see anything exciting in the story. Forget it.” “OXK.,” I said. But I never forgot ters” reporters depend upon the police slips for most of their news sources, The slips are sent down to| them by the telegraph bureau of the | it. Police Department. These slips spell | simple words: death, violence, illness, accident. They read “—th precinct; | unidentified man, no home, ill in Stage and Sereen ® mass song has resulted in the award being made to Aaron Cop- land for his setting of an adapta- tion of Alfred Hayes’ poem “Into the Streets May First.” Many songs from leading Ameri- can composers were submitted, in- quoted 1s enough to send a man| “Shell out” in contributions to keep to an insane asylum!) : PH RONG WORE The Great Pyramid (the Egyptian,| Of course, a lecturer cannot con- in case you didn’t know) told Pelley| tinue indefinitely just passing on that between Jan. 31, 1933 and| Private talks with God; sometimes March 4, 1945 the “change” would | he has to be practical. And God is come about, On the latter date the Somewhat nebulous, anyway so the Jews came in handy as Capt, Case country weekly, with its boiler plate insides, and its shabby editorials |g. 11th &t., Workers Bookshop, 50 B. 13th Sent of = Bt akin to Belles cluding Isadore Freed, Wallingford | nuts would get control of the coun- written for the benefit of the local banker, and its cockroach political ei Cy i Goring "Festival, | vue Hospital. Nothing panne Tbsen’s “Lady From The Sea’ | Biegzer, Mitya Stillman. members fe eee Pi ypc ay cia eS lee talks with God and finagling, and its columns of reports on strawberry church socials and | Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. = wea rd | The slip does not tell why the man Opens At Little May First of the Composers’ Collective of the to report. ‘s apse collects the “coconuts” (money) from other stultification, and its patent medicine ads and the like, ts about Pea apse ae Fatvian hor | was homeless or whether he col- é * Plerre Degeytér Club, and others. |" «mong the outstanding things the | the nuts. as helpful to a bankrupt farmer as a dose of arsenic. ‘SYMPOSIUM, “How Can We Stop War" | lapsed from hunger. And the police! “The Lady From The Sea,” a re-| Copland’s setting of “Into the) «gprs Democracy” offers is “no The best price to pay for one of these propaganda sheets of re- action would be a skunk with active glands. How many of these weéklies raise the farmer to a higher cultural and political level? You can count them on the fingers of your hand. One of the best in the country is that valiant little sheet run by Bruce Crawford, in Norton, Virginia. Here is a sample of what a single brave and intelligent man can do in a community. He has linked his mey Island Workers Club, 2874 W. | Din Bt. Friday, 830 p.m. Representatives | Women’s Peace Society, Marine Workers | Industrial Union, Workers School, ete. Auspices American League Against War and Fescism. Adm. 20c. LE ‘by Milton Howard, Editorial | Staff Daily Worker at Trémont Prog. Club, 466 EB. Tremont Ave, Friday, 8:30. Sub- me Year of Roosevelt and Revo- fect: lutionary Crisis.”” reporter does not bother to inves- vival of the Ibsen play, is announced tigate, | |to open next Tuesday night at the | : Little Theatre. Richard Whorf, Cle- | ‘E reporter has learned that “de-| ment Wilenchick, Margaret English Lakai police stories are rarely! and Rose Keane head the cast. | used by his newspaper. To the city “Py ei | He 14 i | icnic,” by Gretchen Damrosch, editor the familiar “despondent will be presented by A. J. Beckhard | over failure to find employment” has f | long ceased to contain news value, 0" May 2, at the National Theatre. | Streets May First” is to receive its first performance Sunday evening, April 29th, at the Workers’ Music Olympiad, City College Auditorium. 23rd St. and Lexington Ave., and is to be published in the May ist issue of New Masses. j more taxes on the citizen of any | description” and “no more foreclos- ures on property of any nature whatesoever.” 8o far as the farmer is concerned God told Pelley a littié about him, too, and Pelley passes it on (at 50 cents a large booklet and 10 cents ay Author of Novel on Indian Exploitation Guest at Movie Ball NEW YORK. — Robert Gessner, uthor of “Upsurge,” a novel which . . LBERT MALTZ, Co-Author of "Peace ; “4 . “ |Leading players include Joanna ® small pamphlet). : exposes the degradation of the small country town with the wide world currents of history. If there Fee toy on “Btevedore and the Theatre This lack of concern for the Set 508, Percy Waram, Hugh Rennie, ~ | “The farmer is the public sup- American Indian at the hands of were a few thousand editors like Bruce Crawford in this country, ham~ | As a social Foree,” Friday night, 8:30, | Of the Jobless has in turn been com-) U0 | oT 2 her Op oa, | | N I N¢ IN porter of the State in that he takes/the white ruling-class, will be Bieta mya: ceolatan, fastlan nel 18 rHaT cnlied ot ene tacsidre | AY Oacien Treas © | senile ie apt tela the meri | “Tove ota” by. AB ablsti | #4 | from God's storehouse the where-| among the guests at the Motion despair, we would be in favor of swapping horses for subscriptions, The | “"jxck sTAcHBL, Assistant Sey. Trade Oo, A. (dead on arrival) and (gas aariclinty da 'another opening-achea= plaa gt to keep the State in exist-/ Picture Costume Ball of the Film farmer would be benefitted by the deal; now he is being gypped. . . . . will speak for the Brooklyn, Fri- . Unit. Subject: Union Unity League, first time at 1280 56th St. day, 8:30. Auspices B.\ ¢ Trade Unions.’ (suicide by gas) cases occur in other) yled for next Tuesday. The play than working-class neighborhoods | wi}; be housed at the Forrest Thea- the stories are never told. 7:00 P. M.-Baseball Resume WOR-Sports—Foyd Frick : As such he is going to be! and Photo League, at Webster Hall, |Tecognized as a special privileged Pyigay, April 27th, to finance the class that labors for the state ex-| turther production of workers films * . x, “Mole ef the Party in |tre and the cast includes Vivienne WdZ-Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch . “y California’s Next Governor JOSEPH BRODSKY, of the ILD. |” y remember a lessor in news value | Giectn Marion Green, Bram Noesen WABO-Myrt and Marge—Skeich rain oe Foe reer labors tor tie and help the campaign against “The South and Scottsboro at Stuytemuy,| which I myself received about ayear| sna John Parrish. 1:18—WEAF-Gene and Glenn—Sketch . q Nazi films which threaten to be 1 be race for the Democratic nomination for governor of California is getting hotter every day. Reports say that the battle has narrowed Casino, Second Ave. and 9th St., Friday, 8:30, Auspices Forum Br. $00 I.W.O. Adm. ago. It was in the summer of 1913) WOR-Comedy Program; Music War Debts—Rep. Hamilton Fish and esteem. He will be remunerated! pejnaced j 4 | by the Btate, exactly as public ex-| "eet in America. and I was doing a relief trick one | «, ‘ ” 4 ign Trade Agreements and ” i i i \“Count of Monte Cristo WJZ-Foreign Trade Agreeme ecutives are at present...” (page wee i , down between George Creel, former Socialist, and chief liar in the Philadelphia, Penn. August night at Police Headquarters.) oe Be Screened By Reliance| wsywlir ten, Eara, dones: vin 5 of the pamphlet). Ed. Note: In a recent issue the } government propaganda bureau during the war, and now N.R.A. ad- | JOHN REED CLUB of Fhiladelnhi pre. | Aside from the dog bite and minor | 3 | “8WOR-The Lone Ranger—Sketoh “Remember,” Pelley continues,| ‘ate of the Ball was incorrectly 4 : sents “Third Annual Follies Bourgeoises | accident cases nothing had come| Reliance Pictures is planning to| WZ-Sagerquist Orch.; Don Ameche| that what you are here reading is, iven as April 25th. ministrator, and Upton Sinclair, also a former Socialist, and partisan | Mask Ball," Saturday evening, April 28, he tel h bi d Fr Pig S| és | coke | 8 SSSR SES “ @®) of war against the Hun, and famous novelist. at Broad St. Mansion, Broad and Girard gown som e San arent Tinie make a screen version of ne wes Jicect Byung tne or |not any discription of Utopia, s Is he % ing, tertainment, prizes, etc. e reporters ere 1 te Cristo,” based on is '- Serena ders e | th t out’ i *s : gS ATE M. WICKS will speak on The Strike | until their shifts were completed, | GOUnt of Monte Cristo 7:45-WEAF-The Goldberg+—Bketch [ Mioueli one” aay oue: kbs | Spring beatival’ to Tt-is just possible that one of these two “friends of the worker” Alexander Dumas’ famous novel. 8:00-WEAF-Vallee Orchestra; Soloists brain. Tt is no clever socialistic or at the John ort! v 1 : ‘4 ~ =) may be elected. If so, California is in for a merry timé. Upton Sinclair Ret ohh, ae Beth Bt, aunday, April ers | ey oe peocinat | Robert Donat, a young English ac- Waz-Gelte and Gravy. HLIbIMy | communistic system brought for- Aid W orkers School 4s running on a platform in which he promises to énd poverty in Cali- | 29th. desk and started a conversation with | tor, well known abroad, will play cl aioe, Crackernach -enebtess ward for consideration by the citi- am fornia. If he will go to the library and read the history of German Socialism, he will discover that he is deceiving himself. Poverty can never be ended under capitalism. If he will read his own 30 novels and tracts, he will discover the same facts. No reformer ever has made the slightest dent on capitalism. What will happen under a Creel or Sinclair in California is that hunger marches will be broken up brutally by the police and marchers sentenced to long prison terms; there will be lower taxes for bankers ‘and big industrialists; a fiercer persecution of Communists; and an at- es then clubs, Thus do we see it in Bridgeport and Milwaukee, where the Socialist mayors have clubbed the unemployed and the Communists, while fraternizing with visiting Nazi propagandists. Unemployed re- lief.in those towns is at as low a level as one finds in America. Words, CONCERT and DANCE Friday night, April 27th at Garrick Hall, 507-09 N. Biehth St., 8:30 p.m. Ale followed by dancing. Auspices: City | Committee and Jewish Workers Clubs of | Phila. ‘ Detroit, Mich. OLASS in Elementary Photography opens at Workers School, May 8, to run for 12 weeks. Class meets Tuesday 7:30-9:30 p.m. No experience or equipmént required. Re- gister now at 328 Erskine St. Fee $2. Aus- pices Film and Photo League of Detroit. Detroit, Saturday, April 28. Chicago, Ill. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance this Bat- urday night at 3317 Roosevelt, Road on cecasion of final week of Daily Worker the leading role, | Seven Broadway plays, which were recently seen here, will be screened by RKO Radio Pictures. | The plays include “By Your Leave,” | “False Dreams Farewell,” the lieutenant, I was commenting cago Pen and Hammer. Adm. 30. Boston, Mass. LECTURE by J. Dawson on “Commu- nist Position on Negro Question” at Scottsboro Br. ILL.D., 1029 Tremont St.) Boston, Thursday, April 26, 8 p.m, | Gary, Ind. BANQUET and Dance given by all Rus- “Gay | Divorce,” “And Let Who Will Be) Clever,’ “Wednesday's Child,” “A) Coat, A Hat and A Glove,” and} “Sour Grapes.” | 7 p.m. at Washington Hall, 1545 Washing- | ton St. Supper-Dancing-Music. Adm. 0c, Week at the 55th Street Theatre. at door 68¢. - | Brigitte Helm and Jean Gabin are Cleveland, Ohio co-starred in the film, SPRING Dance. Auspices Communist! Greta Garbo's next film for Metro meert Orch.; Lucrezit Bort, Orch.; Alexander Gray, Baritone; Mary Eastman, Soprano 9:00-WEAF-Captain Henry's Show Boat WOR-Variety Musicale WJZ-Death Valley Days—Sketch ‘WABO-Warnow Orch.; Evelyn Mac- Gregor, Contralto; Quartet 9:15-WOR-Jack Arthur, Baritone 9:30-WOR-Success—Harry Balkin ‘WJZ-Duchin Orchestra 10:00-WEAF-Whiteman Orch.; Nikita Ba- lieff in Sketches WJZ-Canadian Program ‘WABO-Gray Orch.; Stoopnagle and Budd, Comedians; Connie Bosweil, zenry. It is a look-forward into the near future clairyoyantly and a con- sultation clairaudiently with those who can see what humanity is work- ing toward from the Higher Van- tage-points of Time and Space. I had heard that Pelley was just another racketeer pulling the legs of the suckers who pay dues mem- berships to his organization. He may be doing all that but I cannot NEW YORK.—For the purpose of raising funds to enable the Work- je School to expand its activities, | the Student Council, in coopera- tion with the Friends of the Work- ers School, is arranging a Spring Festival on Saturday evening, April 27, at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E, | Fourth St. The entertainment will include WORKERS Educational Group will hold) sian Workers Organizations of Gary for| “Adis Les Beaux Jours.” a! WABC-Waring Orch.; Demonstration | conceive of any sane racketeer who|the Unity Theatre, the New Dun- tempt to crush labor unions with kindi dical vi Ave, | ’, i ee , I baht ot Radio Police System y : mS é Me) hh kindness and radical verbiage, and |» Party and Dance at 2645 National Ave.,| penefit Labor Press, Saturday, April 28, French film, is now in its second| 9.45-wor-The Witch's Tals Sketch sets out to make money out of the|©an Dancers, Mara Tartar, and the misery of a people in the depths of Latvian Group Chorus. Buddy depression, conceiving such a mad) Walls and his Brown Buddies will idea as this clairvoyant and clair-| supply the dance music audient stuff unless he himself were 7 7 Drive. Proceeds to the Daily Worker. Also | 1, , Bund ight, 41 20, ab Lithu- « ; ” Songs insane, 6 ” ° [ i words, words—and Creel and Sinclair are experienced slingers of large, | t> Geishrate the release éf Paul ‘Tucker | auten isil, 29 Ee vsth Be, Proceeds part | Wl be “The Painted Vell,” based | s9.15-wom-Gurrent mvents—Merlen ¥. et ee Stevedore’ Symposium glittering, idealistic and windy words that fool the workers for a time, | trom County Jail after 30 days for pick-| for ‘Young Worker and part for National| on & story by W. Somerset Maug- Read May the worst man win! A Call for Help IOMRADES, it is getting tougher every day to write this column with- out your help. We need short poems, sketches and comments to print here, Write about your shops and ships and farms, all the things happening in your corner of proletarian America. Don't make it more than about 500 words, and try to be humorous and ironical. No theses or editorials are wanted—that belongs in another part of this paper. QWhere are all those John Reed Club authors? Communist Exposes Capitalist Parties In Detroit Symposium DETROIT. — Blasting the empty Party, its support of the N.R.A. and | eting against injunction Kimbal Piano strike. April 28, LECTURE by Stanley Burnshaw, Editor ot New Masses and Revolutionary Poet and Critic at Medican and Dental Arts Bidg. Auditorium, 185 N, Wabash Ave, Youth Day Preparations. ham. | Richmond Hill, N. ¥. Ann Harding will be starred in LECTURE by Prof. Nunn of Dana Col-| “The Fountain.” a screen version of lege, Newatk, N. J. on “What Ts Pascism-- | es 1 x 3 Who Is Backing 1” at Civie Hall, 114 and|CDazles Morgan's novel, according Ohicago, Thursday, May 3, at 8 p.m. Sub- Jeet “Culture and Fascism.” Auspices Chi- Liberty Ave, Adm, free, Priday, April 27,/t0 an announcement recetved from 8 p.m, RKO Radio, By PHILIP STERLING NEW YORK.—During the past four years, the collectively conceived ‘WIZ-America Must Choose—Peter 10:30-WOR-Fisher Orchestra Molineaux, Editor, Texas Weekly; Matthew ‘Woll, Vice President American Federation of Labor WABO-Wheeler Orch.; Doris Loraine, Songs 10:48-WARC-Jamea Thurber, Commentator Class Struggle Depicted by John Reed Club Artists at ‘Independent Exhibit’ T the left is pictured the growth and development of the Soviet child in her arms. From this point in the composition and leading back| him merely as an anti-Semitic sadist. | ACK of Pelley’s insanity are some at Pen-Hammer Tonight interesting points: in the first | place there are vast numbers of spir- | - “f |itualists in this country, men and| NEW YORK.—A_ symposium on | women who believe in that sort of|“‘Stevedore,” the Theatre Union's | stuff and the “vision” appeals to| second play, arranged by the Arts | them, and secondly and, more prac- | Committee of the Pen and Ham- | tieal, Pelley makes his appeal to the | mer, will take place tonight at 8:30 | Somewhat unbalanced followers by) at 114 W. 2ist St. A member of the | pointing out things that are self- | Marine Workers’ Industrial Union evident and offering a solution that | will also speak on his reaction to is their heart's desire: starvation is the drama. ‘AMUSEMENTS \stevedore oy PAUL PETERS and GEORGE SKLAR | —2 Great Soviet Features !— AMEINO'S Film Masterpiece “Superior to Famous ‘Road to Life’” N.Y. Times, phrases of the representatives of the three capitalist parties with facts \ and*figures that exposed their true role, A. B, Magil, speaking for the Communist Parity in a symposium | at Redford High School Monday night, presented the Party’s pro- the treachery of the leaders of the German Social- Democratic Party. He drew laughter and applause when he said: “I agree with Mr. Davidow that the Republican and Democratic Parties are two wings of the same Wall Street bird of murals hung by the John Reed Club in the annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists (no jury—no prizes) have become almost as much of a tradition as the shows themselves. In the current show, which will continue at Grand Central Palace, Union, Looming above and behind new, shining factories, are the lead- ers and the embodiments of the new social order in Russia—Stalin, Gorky, Kalinin, Voroshilov and others. But present here as well is Dimitroff as @ symbol of the union between the| working-class of Russia and the! western capitalist countries. | into the center of the picture the One painting in particular reveals Thrilling drama of Negro and white motif of class struggle is repeated in| how impossible it is to use any form smaller scenes and by single figures) of art as a political instrument even to such detail as a worker read-| without a clear understanding of | ing the Daily Worker. social forces. It is a err a Nor does the painting fail to Simeon H. Pickering ent ited “The xpose and satirize the role of cap-| Man Our Civilization Forgot. e i icturi | ‘So is thi italist art by a scene pict: the| The coloring is crude. is the ie enibitiog in The whole thing descends recent municipal art exhibition in| form. | BROKEN workers on the docks of New Orleans CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. ves. 8:45, Mats, Wed. & Sat. 2:45 TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE B00-450-G00-T5e-$1.00 & $1.50, No Tax gar For information on benefits Phone Wat. 9-2451 A Soviet Talkie. English Titles | Soviet News Extraordinary! George Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, acquitted in Leipzig | Trial, arrive in Moscow--Red | Army parades in Red Square , ram as the only way out for the| prey. And it seems to me that the i jj; _At the right of the picture are| Radio City. Barriers labelled Without an effort to the level of Bobcat ele Mae ge. Sma sep : ‘** masses of the people of this coun- | Socialist Party is the tail.” ie a on pee Beal aan aeasts similar figures of the leaders of the “c, c, on R. A.” “P, Ww, ‘A, | the cartoons on the editorial page of Communist Party, etc. |THE THEATRE GUILD presents— ” ‘ : 2 Reed Club plece is not the only) piacards ingeniously labelled “Red| (OY $35 |NIGHT,Apr-29 | VAN STAR , “Wealth under the New Deal,” and/and Derr’s Rebellions, of the Ni merit from any viewpoint, but the| which is symbolized by the figures a i aha Agee Ser het AY | 187 yApr. then proceeded to cite with telling |slavé revolts, of the abolitionist | Jolin Reed Club piece stands out for| cf Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro frankly, propagendistio printing in) Rot,” “Red Hokum,” "Red Apple-| INGLING RARNUM ae BUEEY NA oe ; irony official government statistics | movement, of the war that destroyed | tS strength in concept and execu-| boys behind prison bars. : oe hey paar a gi ah seria sauce,” ete. pas B Week of April 30, “IOLANTHE” to show that the Roosevelt govern- | chattel slavery—the workingclass is “!- On the right side, the capitalist/ others. Several of them, the work) But discounting _ such _idiocies, BROS and SBAILEY qasestic THEA. W. Mth St. eves. 8:30, \ try. ‘Though the great majority of the audience of about 300 had never be- Dealing with certain widespread distortions of Communist aims, present their most ambitious and their most impressive undertaking— @ picturization in tempera of the American revolutionary movement, also done in monochrome—Foster, Browder, Amter, Patterson, Mother of the New York Daily News, or to the grandiose stupidities of Mr.) Hearst's Windsor MacKay. “C. W. A.,” etc., keep the masses from the immaculate steps of Radio City which are being mounted by) ACME THEA. EUGENE O'NEILU's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COBAN & Union Bq. Magil said: “We are accused of Bloor. These loom above factories ‘ In thi is a li fig f —l 10 CITY MUSIC HALL—— || _, Thea., 52d St. W. of B’way . S| sleek bourgeois men and women,| In the center is @ large figure of E he Nati J on Ma sate? tome in' contact, with Communist | Pine, 9Pposed to democracy. What aes Pee vane which are closed, or in front of| while In the foreground of tne Christ. Surrounding him are small | "ouASi% ana ane aig wast | bora Amine a gs literature, they gave the greatest ap- ause to the speaker for the Com- | unist Party. ‘The other speakers were Patrick ‘J. O’Brien, attorney-general of Michigan, for the Democratic Party; Edward N. Barhard, former chair- man of the Wayne County Repub- lican Party; and Larry Davidow, Socialist lawyer. Replying to O’Brien’s speech, in which he depicted Roosevelt as a | fighter against Wall Street and his \ program as aiming toward a “re- { bution of wealth among the people,” Magil said: “I agree that there has been a re-distribution of ment has cut taxes and boosied sub- sidies and profits for the rich, while Increasing taxes and cutting wages for the masses. Magil exposed the anti-working we oppase is only hourgeois demo- cracy, The proletarian dictatorship Means democracy for the great. masses of the people, but a ruthless dictatorship against the handful of exploiters and plunderers. Bourgeois democracy is the reverse—democracy for the rich, a dictatorship over the poor by the rich. “They say we are opposed to American traditions. Well, we do not make a fetish of anything simply because it is old. But the Commu- nist Party does not intend to yield the revolutionary traditions of the American people to any of the par- ties of capitalism. The traditions of the War for Liberation, of Shays’ today the only rightful heir of these traditions.” Magil ended his 20-minute talk by showing concretely what a Soviet government would do in the city of “ss character of the Socialist Detroit, J. Liebling, World-Telegram staff man who specializes in human interest, stories with German dialect. dismisses the painting, which is en- titled simply, “The Class Struggle,” as @ work “featuring Lenin in a sym- pathetic role supported by a cast of capitalist atrocities.” Mr. Liebling’s cynical reaction is representative, no doubt, of others who have visited the Independent's show, but anyoné who looks at the painting for purposes other than a newspaper assignment, cannot dis- miss it with irresponsible wise- crackery. Of the 1,024 cases in the current exhibit, there are many paintings and monochrome drawings of great Earlier John Reéed Club exhibits in the Independent shows limited themselves to less ambitious themes. | The current piece, some ten feet square is divided vertically by the) itself, which workers are engaged in struggle with scabs and policemen. | In the center of these two oppos- | ing systems, hovering over them as | an embodiment of the dialectic force | which will resolve their opposition, | the head of Lenin appears. At the center and lower ieft on the | “Soviet side? of the picture, you see, masses of workers engaged in | struggle against imperialist war. The Position of these groups suggests clearly that their fight is at the same time an act in defense of the Soviet Union. In the van of these messes are writers and artists point- ing to the central crimes of cap- itaiism—a worker in the lower fore- ground lying prone under oppression side, below the scenes of economic collapse and on a level with Tom) Mooney. are scones of lynchings,| strikes, struggles against unemploy-| ment. At the extreme lower right arrangement of the subject matter is the large figure of a proletarian’ There are several paintings dealing | mother holding an undernourished | scene a green-faced cadaverous Panels representing the chief evils, Rockefeller presides of the wreck-| 85 Mr. Pickering sees them, of our age of Rivera’s murals, Next to him Civilization, ach oné of the stands LaGuardia, pudey and glee-| Panels, by the way, is neatly la- ful, waving aloft a painting of aj belied in the best Hearst cartoon beefy nude. \style, And what is Mr. Pickering’s This, roughly, is the painting | conception of our civilization? This and the concept behind it. The| 18, best_ indicated by his labels: execution may have been a pit| Wall Street Wolves, hs hasty but no ona can honestly Murder of Little Children,” ‘Dil- question the capabilty with which| linger and His Gunmen, rh it was done. Credit, and that’s| lines” and “Unemployment had exactly the word to use, for the| Sepaarte panels as though aes, oe actual painting goes largely to| 2° relation to each other.) At f: Hideo Nota, fo:merly an associate | bottom are two panels, one dealing of Diego Rivera in California. Bee eas tices SE Cee hace * ress and the Saat ene Le aPei) Jabelled “! ots” in whic! = Tis noteworthy that the John| tated individuals march about with of individual members of the club,| wander about the Eighteenth An- are good and show understanding of | nual Exhibition of the Independent the problems they attack. Most of| Society of Artists and you'll find them, however. are bad as paintings| among the maze of still life, nudes, and meaningless as propaganda.| and landscapes plenty of evidences with Hitler, but all these picture! think, that even artists are beginning to | MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with BELEN PHILIP BELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN “STAND UP with and CHEER” Warner Raxter & Madge Evans plus an Elaborate MUSIC HALL STAGE SHOW Thes,, 524 St., W. of Bowar Ey 8.20Mats. Thur. @Sat.2.00 GLADYS ADRIENNE, RAYMOND COOPER ALLEN MASSEY THE SHINING HOUR BOOTH THEATRE, W, 45th Si vgs. 8:40 Matinees: Thursday 4 Saturday 240 WALTER HUSTON in Sinclair Lewis’ DODSWORTH tized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, Ww. Aith St. Evs, 8:40. Sharp Matinees Wed., Fri. é& Sat. 2:30 | ®8° Jefferson wi %*| Now | PRESTON FOSTER & WYNNE GIBSON | in “SLEEPERS EAST” ED’ = a St ne | 235 Next SUNDAY | | Se to $2.00. Mats. 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