The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 3, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, YEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1934 aad Page Five CHANGE THE | WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN [ARCHERS in the gigantic May Day parade in New York carried a monstrous-looking figure wearing a top hat. From its mouth hung a yellow tongue. It was labeled “The Press.” Capitalist newspaper reports on the greatest May Day demonstration ever held in the United States thoroughly justify this description. Mind you, this demonstration of working-class solidarity could not be laughed aside by the capitalist press. Too many thousands participated in the May Day demonstration, and too many thousands witnessed this great outpouring into the streets of New York. The metropolitan press, consequently, could not treat the May Day demonstration in the same manner as it handled some of the Hunger Marches to Washington, for example. On one occasion the Herald Tribune, for instance, carried headlines saying: HUNGER MARCHERS LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON AFTER GOOD BREAK- FAST. Also, WOMEN IN FUR COATS LEAVE FOR HUNGER MARCH, The peculiar “technique” of the New York capitalist press was a little more subtle and insidious. While detailed reports were pub- lished in most of the papers, with fewer flagrant distortions of the main features of the demonstrations than on previous occasions, the boss press sought to nullify the dignity and power of this gigantic working-class demonstration by sly ridicule of “minor” aspects. . * * All About Irving Feldman M the Herald Tribune: “The next youngest Red participant was Irving Feldman, four and a half, who was approached by reporters seeking his views on the Third Internationale. But his mother intervened: ‘Irving,’ she commanded sternly. ‘Don’t talk to the capitalist press’.” A slightly different version in the stodgy New York Times: “One of the youngest Red marchers in the downtown parade was Irving Feldman, aged 4%. His views on communism could not be ob- tained by reporters because as soon as a group surrounded him his mother would shout: ‘Irving, don’t talk to the capitalist press’.” This seemed to the capitalist press to be a major point in the May Day demonstration, for the battery of reporters for the “liberal” New York Post brought the news to the city desk that: “The youngest was Irving Feldstein (sic!) four and a half, whose mother constantly cautioned him not to talk to ‘the capitalist press’.” And don’t miss the cute little anti-semitic touch in concentrating | all the attention on “little Irving Feldman.” The Herald Tribune didn’t dare say that it was in favor of the execution of the Scottsboro boys, so it did its bit with the following slimy paragraph: “Ruby Bates, accuser of ‘the Scottsboro boys,’ sat on the platform with the five Negro mothers. One of them went to sleep but woke up when The Internationale was sung.” The Internationale’ is precisely that song which is awakening millions of workers, Negro and white, throughout the entire world! A slight variation in the New York Times account: “The Negro women carried bouquets of dafodils and roses and were enjoying their moment.” Incidentally, this kept the Times desk so busy that it published @ photograph of the nurses’ contingent in the Communist parade over a caption stating that they were part of the Socialist march. * * . . “Extra! They Didn’t Wear Hats!” EGARDING Ruby Bates, The New York Post, wrote: “With the five mothers was Ruby Bates, who changed her testi- mony in an attempt to save the lives of the accused Negroes.” Quite subtle, isn’t it? But anyone reading this paragraph casually would undoubtedly get the impression that Ruby Bates deliberately perjured herself, not at the instigation of the Alabasia prasecution in the first trial, but lied at the second trial “in an attempt to save the lives of the accused Negroes.” The May Day demonstration was a powerful, serious demonstra- tion against hunger, fascism and war. Hundreds of thousands left the shops to join in the demand for bread. But to the Herald Tribune it seemed important to point out that: “The antipathy of radicals to hats and caps was demonstrated also. Save where headgear was called for as a part of the uniform, the men and boys for the most part went bareheaded, but only the bolder radicals went without overcoats.” The Evening Post in its late edition on May Day printed more than a column of type over the headline, PINK LEMONADE, LOLLI- POPS FEED RED ARMY ON PARADE. This, incidentally, is the paper which enjoys the valuable services of Edward Levinson, former assistant editor of the Socialist “New Leader,” and Ludwig Lore, a renegade. * ’ . The Reds Even Ate Ice Cream peng. one of the figures in the May Day parade, the Post writer said that “the dragon was supposed to represent Capitalism and other dreadful things.” “The Communists alternated between shouting for world revolution and shouting for more pink lemonade. . . Even revolutionary throats grow husky, and peddlers dispensing bourgeois refreshments could not meet, all the demands for more. . . Itinerant ice cream merchants, too, did a rushing business, and some prospective destroyers of our civiliza- tion were spotted sucking lollipops. . . Mingled with the strains of the Internationale were constant cries of ‘Buy chocolate bars, comrades.’ ‘Buy lemonade, comrades.’ ‘Buy lollipops, comrades,’ and the comrades did. . - The capitalist press was having a swell time, however, even though Irving wouldn’t talk to them, As a matter of fact, the capital- ist press threatened to steal the show at times. News reel photographers and a few reporters pranced along right at the head of the line, call- ing everybody ‘Comrade’.” The Evening Post writer saved a real “hot one” for his punch line, “The cheering was well organized on the more usual slogans,” he wrote, “but one girl cheer leader used ‘assurance’ instead of ‘insurance’ ‘in exhorting her comrades to demand unemployment insurance.” ® x * This particular “technique” was duplicated in every newspaper in the city. Modern journalism showed a special wrinkle, however, in the “report” published in the Socialist Jewish Daily Forward, which an- nounced that: “The May 1 demonstration was celebrated by the working class movement in New York with a tremendous demonstration at Madison Square Garden. The Communists held their demonstration at Union Square separately. According to their advance shrieks, everyone éx- pected that they would attract God knows how many people. It turned out, however, that the Socialist parade was much bigger than that of the Communists, although for many people it was not con- venient to get to Madison Square.” This, gentlemen of the Forward. is simply whistling in the dark. For the Wall Street Herald Tribune, who hates a Com- munist demonstration almost as much as you de, reluctantly admite that “to the surprise of many observers, Communist paraders outnumbered the Socialists by almost two to one.” . . * “A Fine Parade,” Said the Commissioner j \sgrolieebendes to the press, Police Commissioner O'Ryan was “almost exhuberant in his approval of the marchers.” “It's @ fine pa- rade,” he said. “Everybody's having a good time. . . . It’s a beautiful day, and everything’s fine.” O’Ryan spoke on May 1, 1984. And just to show you how interesting is history, Captain Kilitea, in charge of “300 stalwarts” at the Union Square demonstration on May 1, 1886, told a reporter for the New York Tribune: “They are all good, orderly fellows, and we are having a good, sociable time together.” Moral: Fifty years seems to have made little difference in the technique of both the yellow press and the cops, But, whereas, only 20,000 workers came to Union Square in 1886 to demand the eight- hour day, ten times that number came to the square this May Day. Yes, the press of the capitalist class cannot face squarely and realistically a rising movement of the working class. The thousands of marchers threw fear Into their hearts, and all they conld do was to sneer cynically, Piscator, Famous 'Director, Finishes Film in the USSR NEW YORK.—Erwin Piscator, the famous German theatre director and founder of the revolutionary theatre in Germany,. has just com- pleted the film on which he has spent the last two years in the film studios of the Soviet Union. The new film, “The Revolt of the Fishermen,” based on a celebrated novel of the same name by Anna Seghers, German revolutionary nov- elist, depicts the difficult and con- tradictory role of the middle classes and the peasantry in the period of world crisis. Commenting on the film, Piscator said: “I shall continue to make films in the Soviet Union. The tre- mendous possibilities for produc- tion over there, gives a film di- rector extraordinary stimulation. I shall now begin a film dealing with topics of the day, and since fascism is vitally important for every thinking person, my next film will be an anti-Fascist film. I may also, however, take up a problem of the future, that is, im- perialist war, not from the stand- point of a pacifist, however, but from that of a dialectician, for whom the concept of fascism and imperialist war are inseparable. Hence, this film will also be an anti-Fascist film.” Piseator added: “Much as T like work in Western Europe, I have been spoiled by working in the So- viet Union. This country of workers and peasants gives the artist such opportunity for work as are impos- sible in the old social order.” Daily Worker Dance Group Affiliated With NEW YORK.—The Daily Worker Dance Group, directed by Carol Beals, announces affiliation with the Workers Dance League. The dance group meets every Monday night at 8 p. m. in the headquarters of the Daily Worker Volunteers, 35 East 12th St. Beginners are given instruction in | the history of the dance, and prac- tice in modern American technic, leading to performance with the group Lenin’s Articles On C.1. in New Pamphlet Several of Lenin's most famous writings—such as “The Significance of the Third International” and “The Third International and its Place in History”—are included in Lenin's “The Foundations of the Communist International,” a 10-cent pamphlet due off the press of In- ternational Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave., this week. STUDY COURSE IN COMMUNISM A study course in Political Edu- cation, covering the rinciples of Communism in a series of 15-cent pamphlets, is being prepared by In- ternational Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave. Charts and line-drawings illus- trate the text. The first three num- bers to be issued will be entitled: 1—Two Worlds, 2—Communism, the Ultimate Aim, 3—The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. A CAPITALIST WEAPON New York, N. Y. Dear Comrade Editor: The counter-revolutionary nature of Trotskyism is best brought out when the prostitutes of the cap- italist press treat their readers with pseudo-left Trotskyite criticism of the Soviet government and of Com- rade Stalin. Simeon Strunsky is well-known to class-conscious workers for his excellent ability to confuse and dis- tort every issue which he presents in his daily column in the New York Times. He has from day to day attacked the Comintern (in public fashion, of course, but still an attack), one day employing the familiar arguments of White Guard- ists, another day enlisting the fa- vorite phrases of Socialist leaders in their ideological attacks on the revolutionary movement. It is not surprising, then, that under the protective wing of the conservative “Times,” Strunsky should today repeat the worn-out Trotskyist assertions that the Third International has abandoned World revolution and that Trotsky’s plans for a “Fourth International” are “calculated to give pain at Moscow.” What is more coy tard proof of the Teal character of the “ ‘left’ op- positi than the willingness of capitalist organs to employ their attacks on the Communist move- ment in an attempt at befuddling the minds of militant workers who do not yet clearly understand this set-up? Fraternally yours, Thursday COMRADE WEISS will speak on his Personal Interview with Tom Mooney at 180 W. 23rd St., 7 P. M. Auspices: Fifth Ave LL.D. MEETING of delegates to Festival and Bazaar, Communist Party at 50 E. 13th St. Room 205, 8 P. M. THEODORE BAYER speaks on "The Revolution of 1917 end the Struggle for Power” at Midtown Br. P.8.U., 11 W. 16th St., 8:30 P.M. OPEN FORUM Pen & Hammer Club, 114 - 8:20 P. M. Lecture on “Boy Scout Movement in U.S.A.” by John Brant. THE CHINESE PEOPLE IN AMERICA— their life and struggles. Lecture by Wan Shih at Friends of the Chinese People, 168 ‘W. 23rd St. Room 12., 8:30 P. M. Admis- sion 15 cente. SCIENCE AND WAR, lecture by David Brown at Y.O.L. of Flatbush, 2345 Coney Island Ave., 8:30. p.m. STANT Membership Meeting Steve Eatoris Br. LID. a7 Manhattan Lyceum, : p.m. EDITH BERKMAN Bi. LL.D. open meet- ing. Mey Bod speaks on “The I.L.D. in the Class Struggle.” Boro Park Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave., Brooklyn, #20 p.m. MEMBERSHIP Meeting New Youth Club at now headquarters, 647 Wyona Street. Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Friday FRIENDS of the Workers School mect at 8:30 p.m., Room 304, 35 E. 12th St., to discussion problems relating to exten- tion of the work of the Workers School. 2 in the Class Struggle,” Iee- ture at German Workers Club, 79 E. 10th @., Bonm. Adm. free, Workers Dance League) i One of the many figures carried by work the May Day parade in New York. A dragon de- picting Fascism, One of the most brilliant of the Fascism, Depicted in Giant May Day Parade ers in figures =:tirizing th | ~ ° | Capi By JACK HARDY e the “New Deal,” was carried by the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre contingent, By PHILIP STERLING ha FEB. 23, 1932.—Those five women didn’t take their beatings in vain. A new order came through from borough office today saying that all delegations must be given hearings when they ask it. But that’s no tribute to the fair-mindedness of borough supervisor Molly Ryan. It is, however, an indication that she knows the Unemployed Councils have plenty of backing in this neighborhood. MAR. 5, 1932—I made my first investigation today. Mrs. Portman handed me a slip this morning and said, “Visit t family at once. It's an emergency.” I looked at the slip. It bore the notation—“Manuel and Loli Lugo, 875 L—— Ave. Loli Lugo, what a euphonious name. It might belong to a movie actr or to a comedy star decked in feathers and spangles. When I got to the apartment, mitted me and led the way to a living room. She moved with short, painful, shuffling steps. She can't weigh more than 80 pounds. She's been out of the L—— Hospital ma- ternity ward a week. As I looked at her face I was reminded of the jheads which South Seas head-hunt- ers preserved by shrivelling them down to half their normal size. She and Manuel are Puerto Ri- cans. Until five months ago he was a low-paid garage mechanic. They had no money saved up when he was fired. She went through most of her pregnancy in a half-starved condition. As a result, her baby weighs only five pounds—about six ounces less than he weighed at birth. The apartment she’s living in isn’t her own. It belongs to two other Puerto Rican families. Mrs. L—, the woman of one of the two families sharing the apartment, spent her confinement in the bed next to Mrs. Lugo’s. When she heard that Loli had no place to go when she was discharged, she of- fered to take her home. That was six weeks ago. Now Mrs. L—— and her husband can no longer carty the burden they assumed ‘so will- ingly. Mrs. L—— came in while I was asking my routine questions and told me: “T have to give her baby half of my baby’s milk every day. That's no good because my baby needs the whole bottle.” I stepped to the crib, which stood in one corner of the room and looked at Loli Lugo’s baby. I was horrified as I made the inevitable compari- son with Billy at the same age. TI concluded my investigation and as- sured Loli Lugo that I would re- turn with a food ticket in a few hours. I did, too. But can Loli ever weigh more than 80 pounds on a Home Relief Bureau diet? And can her puny son fight through to nor- mal health on what the Bureau provides? I hate to set the answer down on paper. MAR. 11, 1932—There seems to be no way and no willingness on the part of the bureau to forestall evictions. The only time a family gets its rent paid is when the furni- ture is on the curb, Evictions have become so common all over the city that nobody in the Home Relief Bureaus seems to give them a thought. From a window in our office, I saw the furniture of an_ evicted family being carried to the side- walk today. Half an hour later there was an Unemployed Council delegation in the office, demanding payment of rent for a new apart- ment for the family. Mrs. Portman demurred. “The family isn’t regis- tered—they'll have to wait for an investigation. Why didn’t they reg- ister before, etc.?” The committee wouldn't take no for an answer. Mrs. Portman had to give in fi- nally. She ordered a voucher writ- ten, “And food, too,” the commit- tee spokesman said. ‘Food, too,” Mrs. Portman echoed. I went back to the window to see what was happening to the furni- ture. I looked out just in time to see the last piece being carried back into the house. The crowd which had collected before the delegation came to the office hadn't bothered waiting for Mrs. Portman to make up her mind. NOV. 16, 1932.—I’ve been trans- ferred to a bureau in the Negro section of Harlem. I see so much misery in a single day that my mind can’t retain details. There remains only a general crushing impression of hunger, disease, degradation, dirt, oppression. Here are a few of the high spots of a month’s work that rise to the surface at random. Charles and Lily Skinner, living in one small furnished room with a three-week-old baby, They cook, eat sleep and live there. Nobody seems to have any furniture in Har- Jem. It was all lost long ago. either Mrs. Lugo, answering my knock, ad- | in evictions or because it was sold stick by stick to provide the price of a pound of black-eyed peas. Margaret Hughes living in two rooms with her daughter and her mother. The first time I came there she was lying on an overstuffed sofa. She seemed about 80, but I found by consulting her case his- tory in the office that she was 41 years old and that she was dying of cancer. This week I visited the fam- ily again. My case history entry on the visit reads: “Visited family to deliver food | ticket, No. ghter, Helen, informed inv gator that mother, Margaret, died in Metropolitan MOLE “From a window in our office I saw the furniture committee... .” Hospital, Welfare Island after be- ing admitted on 11-11-32." A jobless Negro family in Harlem might as well live in the most un- civilized backwoods so far as medi- cal attention is concerned. No one dares to go to a doctor here unless they have money. Henry Evans, for instance, has a rupture. He got it lifting ash barrels for the janitor of a house down the street, to earn 25 cents for a half day’s work. He got no compensation from the landlord save $2 to buy a truss. He spent the money for food. A friendly drug- store owner sent him to Harlem Hospital. They advised a surgical operation. He refused. “Might as well die in peace right here at home,” he explained to me. Home —he’s been living with his wife and two babies in one furnished base- ment room after another all sum- mer. When I got the case he was being evicted for the fourth time in six months. Everyone here seems frightened to death of setting foot in Harlem Hospital. Walter Battle complained to me of asthma. I told him to go to Harlem Hospital. “Won't ketch me goin’ to that butchering pen,” he smiled, “They don’t do nothin’ for you except when you has to be cut up. Tf it’s somethin’ they can't cut out, they just look at you and tell you to go on home.” Battle died about two weeks ago. Notes From the Diary of a Relief Investigator in New York City Everybody here has at least one ailment to tell me about. Asthma, gastric ulcers and kidney trouble seem the most common. Many of them have T.B. and don't know it. The Home Relief Bureau, of course, isn’t interested. When I ask advice on dealing with chronic illness in families, the case supervisors tell me, “Send them to Harlem Hospi- tal.” They know they’re mocking me when they say that, too. The misery of the living quarters is appalling. Always overcrowded, half the apartments I enter now are like the Black Hole of Cal- cutta. Thousands of habitable apartments, however, are empty, I know because I visit about 25 apart- ment buildings every day. In the basement of 157 W. 133d St., I found about a dozen people living in little rooms crudely parti- tioned with odd pieces of beaver board, wood, tin, and heavy card- board torn from grocery boxes. In the front of the basement a man, woman and 14-month-old child are | living in one little cubby-hole. The bed occupies about four-fifths of the room. A foot away from the bed is a little ofl stove for cooking and heating. Utensils and dishes are kept under the bed on the ver- min infested concrete fioor. Stumbling over boards and ex- posed pipes running along the floor, I found Ruth Richards living with her four-year-old son in another beaver-board cubicle. No heat, light, or ventilation. There is. 4 toilet in the uttermost recesses of the basement and a tap for cold water. These conveniences are shared by all the inhabitants of the | basement alike. JAN. 4, 1933.—Today is the first anniversary of my involuntary ca- reer as a public relief worker. In- formally we are still called investi- gators, but the traditional glibnéss of social work terminology has al- ready dignified us with the vaguer, more’ general term. I say involuntary, but I went to work for the Home Relief Bureau willingly enough, if by willingness is meant the desire to work which grows into a blinding obsession thru @ year of nerve-wrecking, belly- shrinking unemployment. Thumbing over the entries in this notebook I find that they have grown fewer and less frequent, and for good cause. What is there to record which I have not already re- corded? That the number of jobless is increasing? That they are still being ruthlessly hurled from their homes by the marshal’s men? Shall I record the fact that hunger, dis- ease, privation, insanity, have not diminished among New York’s mil- lion unemployed workers? To what end? The whole world knows it, and far more important, New York's worker, jobless and employed, black and white, alike know it, too. And knowing, they are not accepting it as irrevocable fate. They are fight- ing. They, who come into the bu- reaus helpless, hungry, beaten in- dividuals and are discovering anew each day that there is pride and power for them as collective mas- ters of their collective fate. Elmer Rice Planning To Stage Three New Plays Elmer Rice, author of “We The People,” which was seen here early this season, and whose production of “Counsellor-At-Law” is now play- ing in London, is planning a group of three new plays of his author- ship. These plays are “Judgement Day,” a melodrama with a European setting; “Between Two Worlds,” a drama in which all the action takes place on an oean liner, and “Not For Children,” a satiric comedy. “Rig Hearted Herbert,” the Kerr- Richardon comedy in which J. ©, Nugent is starred, is now in its final two weeks at the Biltmore Theatre. Extra matinees of “Mary of Scot- land” will be given on May 15, 22 and 30, The Maxwell Anderson drama is announced to close on June 2. “Ah, Wilderness,” at the Guild Theatre, will give a special matinee on May 30. John Barrymore In “20th Century” At Radio City John Barrymore is starred in “20th Century,” a new Columbia picture which opens today at the Radio City Music Hall. The film is based on the stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArtiur. Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karns are in the sup- porting cast. The same program will also include Walt Disney's new Silly Symphony cartoon, “The Big Bad Wolf.” “No Greater Glory,” a new Co- STAGE AND SCREEN lumbia film, adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel by Jo Swerling, will pee at the Roxy Theatre on Fri- lay. “Catherine The Great.” with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Eliza- beth Bergner is now showing at Loew's State. Joe Penner heads the stage program. Edward G. Robinson's new picture for First National, based on the stage play “The Dark Tower,” will be released shortly under the title of “The Man With Two Paces,” “Mr. Pickwick,” based on Charles Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers.” will be screened by Gaumont, the English Producing company. John Barrymore will play the leading role in “Wednesday's Child,” & screen version of Leonard Atlas’s play recently seen on Broadway, which RKO Pictures is lanning release. 4 iy FORM SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE NEW YORK—The Progressive Community Center of East Flat- bush, Brooklyn, has formed a Sym- phonic Ensemble, open to advanced students of all instruments, good amateur players, as well as profes- sionals. A group wil be formed to co-operate with the Pierre Degeyter Club in the study and composition of revolutionary music, and courses of instruction will be given in all musical instruments. Rehearsals of the ensemble are held every Sun- day at 11 a.m, at the headquarters of the Center, 553 E. 93rd St, Buck Miller is chairman of the Music Section, OM time to time there have ap- peared in the United States vari- lous and sundry “studies” of Amer- \ican education. Hitherto these have jalways been. either muckraking in |nature, such as upton Sinclair's | Goose Step and Goslings, or limping and anaemic diatribes hurled by hypocritical liberal professors and “progressive educators” against this or that shortcoming of method or | content. But in the recent pam- | phlet, Schools and the Chisis by Rex | David’, no time is wasted either in |groans or tears, and for the first time in America the educational system is subjected to the penetrat- |ing searchlight of Marxian analysis |and criticism. | In a simple, lucid and convincing manner, David reveals the basic in- terrelationship between the eco- jnomic order of society and the \ideological superstructure, of which \the educational system is a funda- |mental and integral cog. It is no {mere accident that bankers and | businessmen not only hold the purse | strings which control educational | budgets, but also ‘direct and con- | trol what shall be taught” so that “No public school in the United States dares to teach the truth about the struggle between workers and employers.” The schools have as their major objective the making of “good Americans,” for which purpose liberal doses of religion,| glorification of war, direct militar- ization of the youth through R. O. T. C. units and the idealization of standards of unthinking obedience are all made to play their respec- tive roles. Teachers who do not conform to these tenets are fired) without ado. Protesting students) are attacked by police and frequent- ly beaten and jailed. The pamphlet} is replete with specific examples of all these phenomena. | It was, of course, inevitable that the economic crisis should have! carried the educational system in its wake. Not, as Rex David amply | demonstrates by facts and figures,) that the working class child ever, | did enjoy the much-vaunted “equal- |ity of educational opportunity” even in the best of times. But since the) crash the collapse of the apparatus} has become more catastrophic and dramatic. We have all been vaguely! aware that things were going wrong, but at that one starts at the realization of such facts as that 2,000 rural schools did not open in 1933; that 20,000 schools were closed | by April 1, 1934; that 2,280,000 chil-| dren of school age are not in school at all. | Like the children, the teachers} have been having a steady barrage! hurled against them by those who now control educational destinies. | 200,000 are jobless. Those who re- main at work are having their wages cut steadily, their classes in- creased in size, their assignments |continually increased. Payless pay- days have already cost teachers over $40,000,000 in unpaid’ salaries—sal- jaries that averagedsinder. $1,000 in 1933-34. pate \\A Searching Analysis of talist Schools VALUABLE section of David's let demonstrates th which the increased exploita- tion and discrimination of tt gro race finds in the educatior system. Where Negroes majority of the population, for $100 spent on the education of each white child, only $25 has been paid out for the education of each N child.” And the duration of school year in Ni is a fourth to two. white schools. teachers averaged only only hirds that of the Salaries of Negro $388 in 1930, All of this at a time when the leisure class is spending $2.61 for luxuries against every dollar spent on schools. And when the total military appropriations for 1933-34 are over a billion dollars. The slo- gan rr din the pamphlet, “Schools Instead of Battleships,” takes on & meaning of stark reality when pre- sented against this kind of back- ground Thus in kaleidoscopic fashion David lays bare every factor of the educational breakdown. He con- trasts this with the Soviet Union where, paralleling the gigantic eco- nomic advances, education is going forward as though in seven-league boots. Illiteracy has been reduced from 70 per cent in 1913 to less than 10 per cent in 1933. From 1927 to 1932 the number of children in kin- dergartens and pre-schools in- creased 14 times. More than 26,- 000,000 children are regularly going to school in 1934. Over 80 per cent of those enrolled in the higher schools receive allowances which make it economically possible for them to continue at their studies. In 1932, when retrenchment was in full blast in this country, teachers’ salaries in the Soviet Union were increased 33 per cent. In contrast to unemployment here, there is a shortage of trained teachers in the only land where the workers and peasants rule. David's pamphlet presents a care- fully considered practical program for the defense of the schools which, it is convincingly shown, must be fought for through methods of mass action. And the hampering, defeat- ist tactics of the American Federa- tion of Teachers, affiliated with the A. F. of L., as well as other organ- izations which pretend to fight, are very thoroughly exposed. Yet in the light of this, teachers are merely advised by David to “form classroom teachers’ organizations” without be- ing directed to the already existing Classroom Teachers Group who should be in a position to offer aid and guidance. Without this definite suggestion as to affiliation, teachers | will undoubtedly be left dangling in mid-air and may put the pamphlet | away with a feeling of insufficiency. A national organization of teachers jon the lines of the Classroom |Teachers Group should have been proposed in the pamphlet. But all in all, Rex David has done ‘an excellent job. Tt hoped that this first seriowS“AtAlysis of | American education will. receive Schools and the~erisis, by Rex| widespread study by parents, teach- David, with collaboration by Labor ers and all others vitally concerned Research Assn., International Pam-j| with the defense of the’ nation’s phiets No. 39. 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Arm) Band | Among the masses of the people, we Communists are but drops in the ocean, and we can- not rule unless we give accurate expression to the folk conscious- | ness. Otherwise the Communist | Party will not be able to lead the proletariat, the proletariat will not be able to lead the masses, | and the whole machine will fall | to pleces.—Lenin at the Eleventh | Party Congress, AMUSE MENTS THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JIGSAW A comedy by DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE ‘Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway Eves. 8:30. Mat. Thur. and Sat. 2:30 EUGENE O'NEILL's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M, COHAN ‘Thea. 524 St. W. of BY GUILD fy.8.20'Mats.Thur-asat. MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN 52d St., W. of Biway &Sat. ——RAD) |ALL—— oy RADIO, CHEE acer tne tation . Opens 11:30 A. M. JOHN BARRYMORE in “20th Century” with CAROLE LOMBARD plus an Elaborate MUSIC HALL STAGE SHOW FERENC MOLNAR’S Mighty Human Document “No Greater Glory” Starts Tomorrow 7th Ave. at 50th Street ROXY 25 Cents to 2 P. M. GILBERT & SULLIVAN S38 All This Week —__._____“1OLANTHE"’ Week of May 7 “PIRATES OF PENZANCE” MAJESTIC THEA., W. 44th St. eves. 8:30. 50c to $200. Mats. Wed & Sat. 50 to 81.50 The Daily Worker gives you the truth about the Soviet Union, the truth about working-class strikes i 2 Great Soviet Features!— Last 2 Days “Superior to Famous ‘Road to Life’ ™ —N. ¥. Times. BROKEN A Soviet Talkie. | English Titles Soviet News Extraordinary! George Dimitroff, Popoff ana Taneff, acquitted in Leipzig Trial, arrive in Moscow--Red Army parades in Red Square in honor of 17th Congress of Communist Party, ete. | ACME THEA. “> & Union 6a, Presents — Dramatic Bit RE UD The Season's Outstanding stevedore CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. Bves. 8:45, Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:45 Bhe-40e-GNe-75e-81.00 & $1.50. No Tax MUSIC HIPPODROME OPERA Pasquale Amato, Director TONITE, 8:15....LA TRAVIATA | Fri. Eye, __SAMSON and DALILA Sat. Aft. BARBER OF SEVILLE [7 25e-B5e-55e-83e-99e inl =| ax. |-HIPPODROME, 6 Av.&43 St. VAn 3-4! WALTER HUSTON in Sinclair Lewis’ DODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, W. 4ith St. Evs, 8:40 Sharp Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 ADRIENNE RAYMOND ALLEN MASSEY “GUADYS COOPER THE SHINING HOUR BOOTH THEATRE, W, 43th St. Evgs. 8:40 Matinees; Thursday & Saturday >