The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 1, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934 Page Five CHANGE ——THE— ‘WORLD! a By SENDER GARLIN “T UCY PARSONS? She was never much of a friend of mine.” It was Emma Goldman, well-publicized anarch- ist and professional slanderer of the Soviet Union, speaking to reporters in a recent interview. She was seated in a room on the eighth floor of the Hotel Astor in New York City. Outside, striking hotel workers were picketing, but that didn't seem to make much difference to the lady who lays claim to being one of the bearers of the tradition of the eight-hour day struggle in the United States. “You're looking forward to meeting all your friefds again, aren't you, Miss Goldman?” one of the woman reporters asked. “Of course, I am,” Emma Goldman answered. “I have very good luck with all my friends,” she added proudly. “All your friends?” the reporter for the Daily Worker queried. “Oh, certainly,” the grand dame replied, a trace of suspiciousness in her eye. “Well,” the Daily Worker reporter observed, “I was in Chicago several weeks ago and talked with Lucy Parsons. And she told me she broke off a long friendship with you because you wrote articles in the capitalist press attacking the Soviet Union.” “Oh, Lucy Parsons? She was never much of a friend of mine,” Emma Goldman replied irritably Some of the newspaper folks looked a little puzzled and would have liked some illumination, especially since the name Parsons seemed unfamiliar to them. But Emma Goldman chose to shift the con- versation to her home in the South of France. * * . Albert Parsons and May Day | anes PARSONS, now nearly 90, is the widow of Albert Richards Parsons, one of the Haymarket martyrs. And Parsons’ name is indissolubly linked with International May Day, for he was one of the leaders in the struggle for the eight-hour day in Chicago in the *80's and before. Railroad, mine and factory strikes convulsed the United States in 1885 and 1886, and its political culmination was in the great strikes of May 1, 1886, to enforce the demand of labor for the eight-hour day. It was on May 3, 1886, that a protest meeting was called in Hay- + market Square, Chicago, to protest against the killing of six strikers at the McCormick plant by Pinkerton agents. Speeches were made by August Spies, one of the editors of the “Arbeiter-Zeitung”; Albert Parsons, editor of the “Alarm,” and Samuel Fielden. The story has often been told . Just as the meeting was about to adjourn, and after Mayor Carter Harrison had left, satisfied that the assemblage was an “orderly” one, someone threw a bomb which killed seven and wounded fifty. There is no doubt that the hurling of the bomb was either an individual act of self-defense (as Vern Smith suggests in his excellent pamphlet, “The Frame-Up System”), or was the work of a provocateur paid by the corporations to create violence. 3 Many workers were arrested in a general police dragnet; consult the files of the Chicago newspapers of the time and you will find the general formula for framing up workers contained in its venomous spewings against the militant leaders of the Chicago labor movement. Seven of the so-called anarchists were tried for “murder and con- spiracy”: Spies, Fielden, Schwab, Neebe, Lingg, Fischer and Engel. Parsons, who had not been seized by the police, walked into court the first day of the trial and took his place among the defendants. * * . Everything Was Smooth (O trouble in picking a jury. Henry L. Ryce, the bailiff, simply strolled over to the Chicago police stations and brought the hangers-on over to fill the jury box, With the aid of the capitalist press the jurors quickly arrived at a verdict. In fact, most of the prospective jurors admitted, even before they were seated, that they wanted to hang the defendants, Judge Gary (related not by blood but by class interest to the late Gary of the Steel Trust), made the issue very simple. He told the jury: “The conviction has not gone on the ground that they have actually any participation in the particular act which caused the death of Policeman Degan (one of the seven killed), but the con- viction proceeds upon the ground that they had generally by speech and print, advised large classes of people, not particular individuals, but large classes, to commit murder, and had left the commission, the time and place and when, to the individual will or whim or cap- rice, or whatever it may be, of each individual man who listened to their advice, and that in consequence of that advice, somebody not known did throw the bomb. Now, if this is not a correct principle of law, then the defendants, of course, are entitled to a new trial.” In such an atmosphere the verdict could easily be predicted. Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg were condemned to death. All but Lingg died on the scaffold of the Cook County Jail in Chicago on the chill morning of November 11, 1887, Linge had either been driven to suicide or murdered in his cell. Lucy Parsons told me that she is con- vinced that this 22-year old German immigrant carpenter was done to death in his cell by the police, . * . . “Patriots,” Please Notice! popeone, who was born in Montgomery, Ala., in 1848, the year of the appearance of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. “My ancestry,” writes Parsons in his little-known “Autobiography,” “goes back to the earliest settlers of this country, the first Parsons fam- ily landing on the shoes of Narragansett Bay from England in 1632. The Parsons family and their descendants have taken an active and use- ful part in the social, religious, political and revolutionary movements in America, One of the Tompkinses, on my mother's side, was with Gen. George Washington at the battles of Brandywine, Monmouth, and Valley Forge. Maj.-Gen. Samuel Parsons, of Massachusetts, my direct . ancestor. was an officer in the Revolution of 1776, and Capt. Parsons was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. There are over 90,000 des- cendants from the original Parsons family in the United States.” The historic thread of revolutionary struggle, from Haymarket to the Communist demonstration on Union Square today, is continuous and unbroken. It did not begin, it seems, with the founding of the American Workers’ Party—and unhappily for the capitalist patriots—is as native to the United States as banks, stock exchanges, lynchings and police terror. . . . . Letters from America in 1886 .RSONS was bern in Montgomery, Ala. in 1848, the year of ary correspondence. From Pittsburgh he writes: “Since writing my last report in the Alarm I have spent ten days among the wage-slaves of Pennsylvania. . . In Allegheny City, a place of great wealth, and in Pittsburgh and elsewhere the gaunt faces of misery, hunger and woe meet on every hand. Pennsylvania is the richest State in the American Union, and Pittsburgh and the region around about is its center. Here are mines, mills, and factories of America, and of course, the class distinction of wage-slaves and capi- talistic masters, of proletariat and bourgeoisie, the most clearly visible and well-defined. “The men at the Edgar Thompson steel works at Braddock, a Pittsburgh suburb, had to strike against 12 hours exhausting labor. What then? Over 100 men, armed with 14-repeating Winchester rifles and about 40 deputy sheriffs armed to the teeth, were employed by the company to preserve “law and order.” These, with the aid of the Very-Rey. Father Hickey, of that place, induced the “ungrateful” wage- Slaves to return to their slavery. “The flood-gates of poverty have been turned loose, Hard times; no work and poor pay, describes the situation, and to maintain their legal right to control the natural rights of others the property-holding class are strengthening the police, increasing the army, recruiting the militia, building new jails, work-houses, poor-houses, and enlarging the Ppenitentiaries. Entrenched behind ‘organic law,’ church and State, sustained by bayonets, maintain the supremacy of our capitalistic law and order’ regime. : “Of course, the wage-slaves, the proletarians, are not indifferent to the conditions that surround them, They have massed their forces in labor organizations. .. .” Parsons wrote the above lines on February 4, 1886. And in the words of this great martyr of May Day we hear the challenge to Amer- ican capitalism which today finds its full, powerful voice in the hattle- cry of the Communist Party of the U. fighting for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Soviet America! In “Stevedore” EDNA THOMAS, who plays the part of Ruby in the Theatre Union’s new play, “Stevedore,” at the Civic Repertory Theatre, New York. Hunters By DON WEST All men are hunters, Pursuing a quarry. AndTalso.. . I have been a great hunter, Even as I have been a lover. I have sought Love And beauty And joy... I've found something—— Once I shot a rabbit And found something there—— Something in its Death cries And pleading eyes—— Sorrow Love Fear And hate... I never killed another, But I'm still a seeker Restless and wary I've sought beauty In a morning fog Sleeping on the bosom Of a sluggish Southern river, In the mists of a rainbow Climbing up From plowed dirt After a summer's rain, And in the silence Of mountain stillness Before a storm. .. . I found something, Something that made me a@ greater hunter... I have also sought love,, And found it In a tenement house, A lonely cabin. T’ve found Love And joy And sorrow And fear Leaning on The bowed shoulders Of a working mether... Still I'm seeking Something just beyond My finger tips. Once TI almost clutched it, Almost got down Deeper in living Where desire wanders, Yesterday I found dreams In a ditch-digger’s mind And poetry On the lips Of acook... I have looked again And found music Rising from the throats Of toilers In the fields And factories... . I heard music And the rhythmic throb Of forty million toilers’ feet Beating the earth In unison—— And I thought: It’s like the pregnant feel Of a highland evening Before a storm Finds the mountains. . . , WHAT'S ON Wednesday JOE WANG lectures on ‘Soviet China” at Wilkins Hall, 1330 Wilkins Ave. 8:30 p.m. Auspices of East Bronx ‘Br. F.8.U. ‘By BEN FIELD I. N OLD Mennonite with a black hat and chinwhiskers like a fox- tail walks in and sits down on the edge of the chair. These are the farmers so difficult to organize. Lew waits till he’s settled. “Now where is the Shaeffer who is sup- posed to represent you farmers at the code hearings? Has he reported back to you? No. He's hob- nobbing with the dealers, saying he does so so he can get at their weak- nesses. Do you find any real dirt farmers hobnobbing? No, we go out. to fight them. Were the dealers and your leaders interested in get- checkoff which they force even non-members of the Interstate to 5 man, and yet Wallace has appointed him milk commissioner over our protests.” Lew flings his fist open into pronged fingers. “Here is the New Deal for you. Clyde King, the Come with a storm Up with the sickle Comrades, into the Bells, hurl out of y: Into the Streets May First! |Fred Ellis--“An Into the streets May First! | Into the roaring Square! | ve Shake the midtown towers! Shatter the downtown air! | of banner, Come with an earthquake tread, our belfries, Red flag, leap out your red! Out of the shops and factories, and hammer, Comrades, these are our tools, A song and a banner! Roll song, from the sea of our hearts, Banner, leap and be free; Song and banner together, Down with the bourgeoisie! | Sweep the hig tity, march forward, The day is a barricade; We hurl the bright bomb of the sun, The moon like a hand grenade. Pour forth like a second flood! Thunder the alps of the air! Subways are roaring our millions— Square! ALFRED HAYES (From May 1 Issue of New Masses) STAGE AND SCREEN “As The Earth Turns,” At The Palace Theatre “As The Earth Turns,” based on | Gladys Hasty Carroll's novel of New |England, with Jean Muir and Don- |ald Woods, is now showing at the |Palace Theatre. The stage show is headed by Grace Hayes and Ross and Edwards. Following the run of “Stand Up And Cheer,” which is now in its second week, the Radio City Music Hall will present “Twentieth Cen- tury,” in which John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Roseoe, Karns and Walter Connolly play the leading roles. The new screen program at the Trans-Lux Theatre includes Clark and McCullough in their new com- edy, “A Bedlam of Beards”; “Film~- ing the Fashions’; “Keeps Rainin’ All The Time,” with Gertrude Niesen and the Newsreels. The Roxy is now showing “Journal of.a Crime,” a new Warner Bros, picture with Ruth Chatterton and Adolphe Menjou in the leading roles, Beginning Friday, May 4, the Roxy will present “No Greater Glory.” Workers’ Theatre Group to Join in May 1 Parade Today ‘The New York section of the League of Workers Theatres, and all affiliated groups, will march to- day in the May Day parade under the banner of the L. O. W. T. The groups are to meet at 42 E. 12th St., at 9 a. m. Every group is expected to prepare an attractive banner or placard, and to wear the emblems of the group. It is sug- gested that each group wear as unified a costume as possible. Under the leadership of the Work- ers Laboratory Theatre a mega- phone brigade in conjunction with. the Theatre of the Workers School will participate. The Shock Troupe of the W. L. T. is preparing a float in conjunction with the Food Work- ers Industrial Union, and the Thea- tre Collective prepares a series of masked figures representing the leading political forces. The members of the League of Workers Theatres are urged not only to mobilize their full member- ship, but to bring along as many of their friends and followers as they can rally for the occasion. the farmer pay even that when the farm he paid $6,000 for is worth $3,000 now, These are bankers’ orders to save them the mortgages and have the government back it up with your money and the work- er's money. And again eviction is left to the discretion of judges who are the mitts and balls of bankers and insurance companies. So that leaves us farmers in our old boots, tromping around one corner ater another corner, looking for pros- perity, and going around it so often it’s no corner any longer. Putting Allebach of the Interstate and King of the government together like peas in the same pod. And we go to split the pod and shake them apart...” The Mennonites sit passively on benches and chairs, Not a grin, no clapping of hands. One of the overworked farm women leans back with a face that looks like heaped guts. “So we're in the hole the farmer was who had a cow and a calf. Took cow and calf and tethered them together in the lot. Calf sucked and sucked on the cow and grew fat. The cow, tied to her small circle, grew leaner day by day. In time the calf was so fat couldn't walk, the cow so lean she couldn't walk. How was the farmer to get out of this mess?” The farmers don't answer. down mortgages to 4% per cent and reduce principal to 70 per cent, Can | down Farm Financing Act, cut Dimitrof’, Popoff and Taneff In New Soviet Newsreel On the same program with the new Soviet talkie, “Broken Shoes,” in which most of the actors are children from one to thirteen, the Acme Theatre is presenting the latest Soviet Newsreel which just arrived from Moscow. ‘ High points of the film present closeup scenes of George Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, the Bulgarian prisoners acquitted in the Leipzig trial in connection with the Reich- stag building fire, The pictures show the three new citizens of the Soviet Union in Moscow, also writing greetings to the Russian people. Other items on the film include; Dimitroff's meeting with Prokofev, hero of the first stratosphere flight; the Red Army Parades in Red Square in honor of the 17th Con- gress of the Communist Party of the Soviet, Union; Naval Training at the Frunze Military Institute and other news of timely improtance, TUNING IN 1:00-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Morton Downey, Tenor 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Suburban Troubles—Arnold Frye, Attorney; W. R. Darby, State Auditor, New Jersey; E. F. Dun- stan, Banker WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Eddie and Ralph, Comedians WOR—Footlight Echoes WABC—Serenaders Orchestra | 1:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WJZ—Cavaliers Quartet WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestra WOR—Grofe Orch.; Frank Parker, Tenor; Betty Barthell, Contralto WJZ—Everyone Dies Once—Sketch WABC—Little Orchestra 8:15-WABC—Voice of Experience 4:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—Minevitch Harmonica Band WJZ—Conrad Thibault, Lois Bennett, Baritone: Soprano: Honey Dean, Songs; Salter Orchestra WABC—Lyman Orchestra 9:00-WEAF—Ben Bernie Orchestra WOR—Backstage Musicale WiJZ—Alice Mock, Soprano; Edgar Guest, Poet; Concert Orchestra WABC—Maury Paul, Commentator 9:15-WABC—Ruth Etting, Songs 9:30-WEAF—Ed Wynn, Comedian WOR—Success—Harry Balkin WJZ—Duchin Orchestra WABC—Minneapolis Symphnoy 9:45-WOR—To Be Announced 10:00-WEAF—Operetta, Blossom Time; Gladys Swarthout, Soprano; Frank Lew waits. I yell, jabbing up my pencil. “Wean the galf.” * “That's it,} says Lew. “Wean it, wean Allebgch, Wallace, the rest.” McIntyre, Actor WOR--Eddy Brown, Violin Meet Lew Bentzley, Fighting Farmer 'O HE goes on, the man whom Lem Harris considers one of the most militant and ad- vanced of the 120,000 farmers or- ganized under the Farmers Na- tional Committee for Action. “We drove into Allentown with 280 quarts of milk. Distributed it free. In 20 minutes it was all gone. Crowds of children were ready to! smack each other over the head for the milk. Yet Wallace says there’s a milk surplus, And Al- lebach cries to us we should go into the agreement because the code'll give us a better price. What of it? Tt’s like the two highway- men. One takes it all. And the other takes it all but 10 cents. What, should we thank that highwayman for leaving us 10 cents? What shall we do? Put real dirt farmers in charge of our organization. Have re-elections every year, not every three years. Cut salaries of officers so they don’t get $6,000 or $8,000 and circulate in another class and think in terms of that class. If we could only capture the Inter- state. ‘Just think of it: we've got to capture our own organization. As for the small dealers, don’t worry about them. Did you ever hear of cat and mouse playing together?” One old farmer with his fingers over his belly like an old rail fence nods thoughtfully. “This is a war,” hammers Lew with his long lean arm. “In a war you don’t pat the other fellow on the back or go eat with him. No, Excellent Artist In Our Midst” P. KONYAKHIN | (Abridgd translation from “Soviet- | skoye Iskusstvo”) | THERE is an excellent artist in our | | midst. His name is Fred Ellis. | With respect to the scope of his | themes and the depth of his pene- | tration, no less than his revolu- {tionary ardor, BEE |this arti scarcely has an equal, | Hillis gives ex- pression to the§ essentially in- ternational® character of the § class struggle. He is before all things, the artist of the masses of mankind, of those that | sufferer, perish, fight, win through It is not individuals. but great masses of people that figure most frequently in his drawings. We see these masses in motion like the in- numerable black waves of some im- | Fred Eflis mense expanse of ocean, | Ellis depicts the struggle between classes as vast and ominous. The struggle proceeds in a |darkness illuminated by lightning flashes, amidst the crash of the fall- ing buildings of the old word. He succeeds in conveying to us the im- mensity of the struggle and of the masses that wage it, and he does so on a scrap of paper no bigger than a child’s palm. In drawings like “Against Hunger, War, Poverty and Unemployment,” “The League of Nations As It Is, and “For Soviet China,” he shows us the millions. Drawings Inspire Hate Never before have we seen draw- ing, inspiring so much hatred of the |sufferings of the masses. There is {very little of the incidental in the | work of Ellis. Almost oblivious of | particulars, he presents us with gen- eral monumental images. Ellis reveals to us the very essence of capitalism, fascism and class struggle. The essential is disen- cumbered from the insignificant, is shown against the back-ground that serves to disclose the scale of the subject depicted. In representing fascism, Ellis shows up a vast expanse of land drenched in blood, Here and there half-flooded rocks protrude. They bear the inscriptions “Failure of the Economic Conference,” “Trade De- pression.” A fascist, up to the knee in blood, strides over the ex- panse, a blood-stained axe in one hand, and a black banner, sagging from the blood it has been drenched in, in the other. Attuned to the Fantastic Ellis is frequently attuned to the fantastic. Then, men rise high above the buildings of large cities and hold the globe like a ball in their hands. His drawings frequently depict verit- able battles between dark and light. Death, in the form of some fan- tastic monster, consorts with living men. This quality of fantasy that Fllis at times betrays does not re- move him from the common life, rather does it help him to present a truthful picture of that life. All that is normal in the drawings of other artists is frequently less true than the most “unreal” of Ellis’ car- toons. The frail figure of a woman smashed by a fascist swastika is also an “unreal” figure. But, what other artist has made the horrors of the fascist dictatorship more real to the workers than Ellis has through this image? Too frequently the cartoons of other artists give us the impression of gay show-booths, where funny puppets impersonate the class enemy. Ellis in his cartoons por- trays the world stage with the pro- letariat grappling with the monster capitalism. Both kinds of perform- ance are needed, but the strength of Ellis is that his art mobilizes us for action, WZ—Gale Page, Songs: Ray Perk- ins, Humor; Stokes Ofchestra WABC—Gray Orchestra; Stoopnagle and Budd, Comedians; Connie Bos- well, Songs 10:15-WOR—Current Events 10:30-WOR—Johnston Orchestra WJZ—National Women's Press Spelling Bee Club WABO—Chrysler Male Choir 10:45-WABC—Harlem Serenade 11:00-WEAP—Leaders Quartet WOR--Moonbeams Trio WJZ—Loper Orchestra farms, the very beds your children sleep in. If you get together, noth- ing can stop you. That's what we are doing in Bucks County. That's what the farmers are doing out west. If this is a national crisis, why should the farmers and work- ers bear the brunt of it? Why not all share proportionately? Any- body who wants to clamp the brake down on the long pull back, let’s throw him out. Put in a farmer who'll stay on your side. If you've got an organization, get into it and work. If the leaders are no good, yank them out. Too long we've had other people farming the farm- ers. Fight on the platform of united action, Some people talk and don't do anything and like the dead man get up from the grave and go out and point to the living and say they're dead. No, we're the living and we got to fight to stay so.” Lew gets through and sits down. Not a clap out of any of the farm- ers. The hat is passed around and the collection for expenses is good. The meeting is over. And then the Mennonites show they have been touched. They come slowly around Lew. One fills an applica- tion for membership in the U. F. P. A. Others sign protests against Clyde King. Lew answers questions carefully, patiently, his face fur- rowed with fatigue. And so the U. F. P. A. fires its opening shell in new territory under the leader- ship of a man who comes from you attend to your business which is fighting him tooth and nail. If you stand on line, you'll lose the Schuykill County where the work- ers in an earlier era picked the soabs off the hills with their guns. |—one contemporary | each one will get equal d Paving Way By JOHN L. SPIVAK LOS ANGELES, Cal met a retired Nebraskal farmer in the lobby of the|} Stowell Hotel here. He had al kindly face, a rather bulbous, | blue-veined nose, false hands gnarled by years of s with the soil. We talked for a few minutes] about the difference between Neb- raska and Souther California weather and then switched to the} depression and its caus “Well, what do you think solution to all this?” I a He had been standing ing to me. At this question pushed over a chair and sat down, touching my knee with a f hand. | “I know exactly the solution,” said definitely. “Make the go ment of the United States a ¢ corporation and issue common stock | share to each man, woman) and child in the count is the “Isn't that the scheme?” I asked “Yes, sir, that’s the Silver Shirt | scheme,” he beamed, “I'm a mem-} ber of this God-given— | “What I don't unde: nd about all this, is the claim your national leader, Pelley, makes of having talked with God—” “Why, there’s nothing puzzling about that,” he explained earnestly. | “Pelley went to heaven and talked | with God for a full seven minutes. | | He tells. about it in his books.” | “And is it true that this system of government Pelley wants to en- force, the ‘Christ. Government,’ as | he calls it, existed in Atlantis} 300,000 years ago and that every-| body's suppressing information | about it?” | “Well,” the farmer began, “when —(he mentioned a Greek sounding name which I did not get) flew over to America, it was about 12,000 ago.” “In an airplane?” “Yes, sir! Why, they had better airplanes then they have now. It made 400 miles an hour.” “Did they use Sinclair oil?” T couldn't resist asking. “No, I don’t suppose so. I really don’t know what they used. But it may have been Sinclair oil that) Sinclair produced in some other in- | carnation.” | “and Atlantis—” “I think you're wrong about the system existing 300,000 years ago because Atlantis sunk 850,000 years ago. I saw it sink.” I got up. “Excuse me,” I said, “I must make a telephone call.’ | | I did not see him again. But I} had had a nice little talk with a Silver Shirt member, one of the members who actually believes in the Silver Shirts instead of using it as a racket. Until you got to talk- ing with him, you never would have suspected that this nice old gent was stark, staring, raving mad. And he's loose—and there are thousands of them throughout the country. ee Va pa! summarize the growth of fas- cism in California since the ad- vance made by Communist organi- zational activities: 1) With the growth of Communist organization activities came the rapid development of isolated fas- cist groups in the form of vigilante cominittees. 2) These vigilantes, though men- acing labor in their own areas, were scattered among the various Cali- fornia valleys and consequently weak from the standpoint of a pow- erful fascist body. 3) In the Imperial Valley, four separate fascist groups combined into an Anti-Communist Association with an initial membership of 3,000. 4) Other valleys are tending to merge their scattered county vigi- lantes in similar associations. 5) It is obviously only a question of time before the various indepen- dent Valley Associations will merge, thus bringing into being the first armed, powerful fascist body in the country which will be a real menace to labor activities. 6) At present they are chiefly concerned with anti-Communist tivities. The Jewish question has Officials In California for Fascists not to any appreciable extent, e fascist bodies i, nae the work of s ‘al body dertake 8) The legal authoritie: to pave the way cannot, at this time, une ace fanciata for tack organizers or meeting they would be condoned because they | were “upholding the law 9) The employ that one of t munists w erab worke thetic e: the utter red propi it with a v 10) Ne with anti-red editori The radio ; stantly ng forth ne munis " and Communist ac- and fancied fornia Communist and scattered: \ These are the Friend the Crusader Wh own as the “Ame ion-wide prop |ganda organization of that name, the aim of which is to popularize the Hitler government. It’s coast branch is rather weak here 13) The Crusader Wh’ here is a branch of the body national headquarters Chatt, nooga, Tenn. This organization is weaker even than the iends of New Germany. 14) The Silver Shirts here were formerly a branch of the national organization with headquarters in Asheville, N. C. Recently, control of the California branch was cap- soldier of fortune who ng it as a racket to get It still considers itself a money branch of the national organization though if maintains its own control over the state 15) This racketeering organization has between 500 and 600 members in the entire numerically. state and is weak The only thing of im portance about it is the trend it shows towards fascism and the propaganda it spreads at its weekly meetings. 16) These weekly meetings are well attended, about 1,000 persons being present. 17) Anti-Jew and anti-Communist literature, usually purchased in lot quantities from the national head- quarters, is widely sold at these | meetings 18) This literature, the work of the national leader, Pelley, is quite o) of a deranged mind 19) Pelley claims that the system | of government his fascist body pro- poses to enforce was given him in a vision and that voices told him details about it. This followed a visit he made to God during which he had a friendly heart-to-heart talk for seven minutes with him 20) Pelley also claims that the system he proposes existed 300,000 years ago in Atlantis, that legendary land supposed to have sunk in the Atlantic aeons ago; and that college professors, international bankers, Jews and Communists are suppress- ing the fact. 21) And there are nuts who be- lieve him. William Dudley usly the product (THE END) Bedacht re Lecture On Union Problems A course arranged especially for trade union functionaries and ac- tive members on how to fight against Fascism and Social Fas- cism will be given by Max Bedacht on three consecutive Saturdays, be- ginning Saturday, May 5, at 3:30 pm. The three lectures have been arranged by the educational depart- ment of the Trade Union Unity Council and will be held at the Workers’ School. All workers are invited to attend, AMUSE MENTS AMKINO’S Film Masterpiece “guperior_to Famous ‘Road to Life” eS —N. ¥. Times. BROKEN SHOES ‘The Workers’ Children Join in The Struggle Against the Nazis Produced in U.S.5.R. English Titles ACME THEATR TWO GREAT SOVIET SOVIET NEWS EXTRAORDINARY! George Dimitroff, Popoff and Taneff, acquitted in Leipzig Trial, arrive in Moscow—-RED ARMY Parades in Red Square in honor of the 17th Congress of the Communist Party, ete. 4th STREET Pmt aq._| \—— The THEATRE UNION Presents — | stevedore 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. ves. 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:45 TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE 3Oe-45e-60e-T5e-$1.00 & $1.50. No Tax par For information on benefits Phone Wat, 9-2451 THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JIGSAW A comedy by DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE Broadway 2:30 of and Sat. 47th Street, W. ‘Thur. Theatre, Eves. 8:30. Mat EUGENE O'NEILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE a. COHAN ‘4 GUILD rcnsetactharasat MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play Opens 11:30 A. M—2nd Big Week “STAND UP with and CHEER” Warner Baxter & Madge Evans plus an Elaborate | MUSIC HALL STAGE SHOW RKO Jefferson \ith St | 3rd Ave. } JIMMY DURANTE & LUPE VELEZ in “PALOOKA” also:—"LAZY with JEAN PARKER & ROBERT YOUNG || “MARY OF SCOTLAND” GILBERT& SULLIVAN EXst_ ‘wih HELEN PHILIP HELEN All This Week “IOLANTHE” — | MAYES MERIVALE, MENKEN MAIESTIC THEA, Woanh st. eves. 3:30.|| ALVIN es. s. Thur.&Sat.2.20 50¢ to $2.00. Mats. Wed & Sat, S0c to $1.50 Le ee a eh ey Ro BERTA A New Musical Comedy by JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 42d St. Eves. 3.46 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 WALTER HUSTON in Sinclair Lewis’ DODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, W. 4tth St. Eys, 8:40 Sharp atiness Wednesday turday 2:30 nd Down tools May Ist! Show your will for the overthrow of capital for a Soviet United States! ism, ras ae