The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 10, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY. MAY 19, 1924 Ht & a cillibaa FESS weir Pape Five on CHANGE aan WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD 'T IS a little late to comment on the recent May Day dem- onstration in New York, and yet there was something historic about that event. Joseph North, in the current New Masses, and Sender Garlin and others, in the Daily Worker, described the day, but there was something lacking from all reports that perhaps no writer can give. It is the spirit of such a mighty demonstration; the physical feel of hundreds of thousands of eager faces, the waving banners, the sun- light that illuminates them, the marching bands playing the Inter- national and Bandiera Rossa, the shouting kids, the talk on the side- walks, the workers who look out of office and factory windows, all of it, a thousand meaningful flashes of a great mass event, a half million human hearts beating faster because there is a new mighty thing springing to life among the gray skyscrapers. A Shakespeare might describe a May Day like this. The working journalist who has to furnish copy for a linotyper within a féw hours after the event knows that he is doing a bad job, and makes the best of it. . ‘ The Biggest May Day Yet ie WAS the biggést May Day there has ever been in New York. Even the busy little venal runts who report such things for capitalist papers were forced to admit this. True, they lopped off over a hun- dred thousand people in their estimates; some said there were 60,000 demonstrators, others said 50 or 70; but even @ blind man would have known there were at least 150,000 in and around Union Square. Oné need not argue such lies any longér. Nobody completely be- lieves the capitalist papers any longer, anyway, and the people who marched in or watched this great event were undoubtedly amazed at the sniggering, crude falsification next day in the capitalist press. There is a common sense that is the most durable thing in the world. Even the million-dollar press cannot pervert it or destroy it permanently. Their May Day lies only add another item in the bal- ances that will finally tip against them and their false, dollar-wor- shipping system. i Almost a Million Sympathizers HAT impressed one, about this parade, was the indubitable fact that within the past year the Communist Party has taken a power- ful hold on the loyalty of great new masses of Americans. My figures may be optimistic afd too partisan, but I could not help feeling at the end of the day, after watching the reaction of those « . . along the sidewalks of the match, that there are at least a million | people in New York who ate sympathetic to the Communist Party. There were close to 200,000 people in and around Union Square for the demonstration. There must have been another 200,000 along the line of march, and most cheered the parade. Cut these figures in half and say that 200,000 people in all par- ticipated or applauded the Communist May Day. Give each one of thes¢ five friends or relatives who are under his or her influence, which is usually the case with anyone active and intelligent enough to be a Communist, and you have a million people. But let us not labor the point. The fact is, this May Day brought out thousands and thousands of new people who had never demon- strated on May Day before. It is a fact beyond any doubt that Gom- munist influence has more than doubled in New York during the past year, * . . A Parade of Youth WHERE were two noteworthy facts about this mass. One was, that it was young; the age of the mass of marchers was under 30, There. were thousands of high school and college students in line; and a parade of 5,000 Pioneer kids. In the ranks of the workers from different unions or marching by factory groups, youth was predomi- nant. The young workers and intellectuals are turning to Communism, In the Socialist parade it is safe to estimate the average age was 40. ‘They marched without spirit or even a smile. A Philistine grayness hung over that parade; many of these marchers were in line only he- cause their trade union bureaucrats had threatened them. with fines and other discriminations if they did not march. They were con-~ scripts, many of them; but the Communist marchers were volunteers, and their spirit was gay, eager, and filled with that collective gene- rosity and daring that is such a wonderful thing to see in action. * New Faces NOTHER feature was the number of new elements that turned out for the Communist May Day. It was @ real cross-section of the working population of New York. There were thousands of Latin- American workers, for instance; last year there were only a few hundred. Big groups of school teachers, architects, engineers and other +echnical men marched with their own banners and floats; there were several hundred writers and artists in line; the white-collar world, for the first time, demonstrated in a mass side by side with the pro- Jetariat. * * . * Wanted, a Proletarian Shakespeare § I HAVE said, it was almost too much to describe. How can one tell about the sailors and marine workers, the solid ranks of the “Heedle trade workers, the thousands of housewives and mothers from “the councils of working class women, the Irish workers in their green uniforms, the young proletarian athletes in their gym suits, the bfoycle “group, the Negro workers, shouting Scottsboro slogans shoulder to shoulder with their white comrades? I repeat, only a proletarian Shakespeare will know how to give us the epic emotion of a day like this in New York. It was no mere cir- cus parade or ballyhoo, but a demonstration of humanity's will to a better life, and in this there were mingled the joy of the future, and the grim courage that is needed in the present. And most of them were young, and half of them hadn't turned out for May Day before; it was their first avowal to the world that they believed in this new thing. And this is what left one with a curious feeling of responsibility; Communism is on its way to being a mass movement in this country; the historic hour has struck when brains, brains, brains and cool or- ‘ganizing courage are more necessary than ever before. Now, more than ever, every bit of energy is needed, for the harvest is waiting for a reaper. The basic task of mass agitation must be put on @ scientific basis, clarified of a great deal of its past muddiness and fumbling. There can be no more amateurism among Communists, for énormous and responsible tasks are being laid upon them by these new American masses waiting for clarity and leadership in the struggle for a better life. “Soviet Russia Today” Has Many New Features SOVIET RUSSIA TODAY, 1934, 190, May, Hutchinson, deals with the old boat docked in New York harbor, with new ideas on hours of labor and working conditions, and the article on Palaces and Power in Bokhara, by Langston Hughes, shows what the rule of the workers means in the Asiatic ports of the Soviet Union. Two features which could have * a Reviewed by HELEN KAY NEW cover, new type, new form, lively make-up, and many well- written and pointed articles, make this May issue of Soviet Russia ‘Today superior to all former issues. From the light feature story of the Kim, Soviet freighter, to the heavier political problem of Soviet trade, those desiring information on Soviet Russia, and wishing to know how they can help the Soviet Union, will find their tasks pointed out. There are a well distributed num- ber of articles dealing with the “\problems of the organization of the Friends of the Soviet Union, whose organ, SRT, is, with general infor- mation on current Soviet events, the most important in the month of May—Spring sowing, and features on Soviet life. The stories by Langston Hughes nd Gertrude Hutchinson are well- ‘written, simple, direct. The story of \ Mim, Soviet freighter, by Miss er nee been made much of in the pages of Soviet Russia Today, however, have been neglected. The story of the heroic rescue of the brave Cheli- uskiners from the ice floe, and that of the departure of the American May first delegation to the Soviet Union, are dealt with in a newsy fashion, whereas they are deserving of feature space, even to the sacri- fice of some of the other stories in the issue. Likewise there should have been better stories on the American Workers = Delezation. which went to the Soviet Union on the pennies of their fellow workers, to return and report on life in the workers’ fatherland. This is swell feature copy. ~ igs een Minute Movie Reviews | By DAVID PLATT | BLACK SHIRTS (Italian) The first of the major Italian | Fascist propaganda films is in New | York awaiting distribution. It is | appropriately titled “Black Shirts” }and unreels “Mussolini's own story of the rise and accomplishments of | | Fascism.” In fact, Mussolini wrote, | | supervised and makes a special ap- pearance at the end of the picture to make sure that he is given due credit for his accomplishments, } | “Black Shirts” was brought over from Italy to help bolster fascist be- ginnings in America, by Vincenzo Melocchi and Luigi Di Giorgio, rep- |resenting Luce, Italian Film Insti- | | tuté, one of Mussolini's chief propa- | |@anda agencies; these two gentle- |Men are now fortified at the Park | Central Hotel impatient to meet all| | potential buyers of the film, Pats | | ticularly representatives of ‘Friends | jot New Germany,” “Silver Shirts” | And “American Fascists, Inc.” | Even @ conservative trade paper |like “Film Daily” dubs “Black | | Shirts” fascist propaganda sympa-| |thetically and dramatically un- |} jfolded. According to their review of the picttire the film which suc- \cessively depicts “the war, fascism |and Mussolini’s forecast of greater |glory for Italy... traces the for-| | tunes of a peasant family from 1912 | through 1932 and is well con- | structed to carry the larger tale of |the development of the fascist) | state.” | Watch for further exposures of this film. COMING OUT PARTY (Fox) Life among the debutantes of | Park Ave. Barly in the picture gen- | erous dad offers daughter $20,000 to | splurge on her coming debut, which | | daughter petulantly spurns, to wit: | | “Why dad, $20,000 will hardly buy | |my trousseau.” Dad: “Well—all ‘right, but mind you, not one cent | more than $50.000." The whole) film runs along in this wild way | aoe Cie IT HAPPENED | ONE NIGHT (Columbia) | A new angle on the rich girl— | poor boy—irate father triangle fea- | turing Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, whose laughable antics on} land off a trans-continental bus | | take pleasant seeing. Clark Gable, | illustrating the various techniques used in hitch-hiking via thumb! | route, is half human in this picture. | |PALOOKA (United Artists) | head, | | The inimitable, nervous, | teeth and eye rattling comic, Jimmy | | Durante, is the whole show in this | |riotous (Gf wearying) comedy of | | boxing life. Won the “American, Spectator” medal for being the best | ballyhooed. picture of the year, ’ GEORGE WHITE | | SCANDALS (Fox) “Dazzling, surprising, amazing. | stupendous, gigantic, unbelievable,” |says. Gregory Ratoff about this {one—but take it from one of the) | movie fans that it was unbelievably, | gigantically, amazingly and surpris- | jingly dull, stupid and a waste. | | Ditto for: “Cat and the Fiddle,” “Stand Up and Cheer,” “Wonder Bar,” “Roman Scandals” and all the | many stupendous musicals ‘‘con- | |ceived in daring and dedicated to| | the box office.” |Siqueiros to Speak At. |The Opening of J.R.C.. Exhibition May 11th NEW YORK.—-An important ex- | hibition will open Friday evening, | May 11, at the headquarters of the | John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave., con- | sisting of sketches for murals to dec- | orate the wall of workingclass or- | ganizations. The work of many | prominent artists will be repre- | sented, in black and white and in| | color. | |. On the opening evening, at 8:30 | p.m., David Alfaro Siqueiros, famous Mexican revolutionary artist, will speak on the technical, esthetic and political problems of revolutionary art. All workers’ organizations which wish to have revolutionary murals on their walls should be represented. pee the opening night. | Satirical Skits At the John Reed Club Ball This Saturday Night NEW YORK.—Bobbie Lewis, one of the leading players of “Men in White,” this year’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, will be feat- ured in a new skit at the John Reed Club Annual Ball to be held on Saturday night, May 12th, at Irving Plaza, Irving Place and East 15th Street. Among the other features are Otto Soglow, famous artist, who has written a special skit for the occasion, featuring “The Little King” of comic strip fame; and Lou Bunin, well-known puppet- teer, who will present his puppets in @ new act. The Ball of the Booboisie is being given this year jointly by the John Reed Club and the J, R. GC. School of Art. Artists and writers of the Club, and those sympathetic to its aims, will at- tend in a body. Among them will be many leading playrights and novelists. The price of admission has been | reduced from $1.00 to 49 cents to meet the demands of many work- ers who could not afford the ori- | ginal price. DEBATE ON N, R. A. NEW YORK—The Fordham Progressive Club is sponsoring @ debate: Resolved, that the N. R. A. is a failure for the American peo- ple, between the Fordham Pro- gressive Club, affirmative, vs. New York University, negative, on Fri- day, May 11, at 8:30 p.m., at New York Universify Auditorium, Uni- Tampa, Florida -:- By Joseph Freeman | By JOSEPH FREEMAN Ls i IOMEZ, a delegate to the state convention of the Communist Party held in Miami, asked me to look him up when I got to Tampa. I found him living above a garage on a tree-lined recently “WE HAD WONDERFUL PICKET LINES” young Gomez said, “to have the union smashed after the magnificent e of 1981 We had wonderful picket linés. The Labor Temple Wak crowded every night and speeches went out through loud speakers to overflow me@tings in the “Tt was tough,” = 5 street. We flew the red flag on the roof of the San- street in Ybor City with his wife and year-old son z a chea y Haya factory. ... The terror is very bad Gomex is 25, works in an office, weats close- : now, but I guéss we made some mistakes in the croppéd hair above a sensitive, serious, intelligent conduct of the strike. We must avoid those errors A Coal Miner Unmasks Labo “THE NAME IS LEWIS—JOHN L.” A History of a Labor Faker. By Tom Myerseough. Printed by the Author, 929 Fifth Avenue, Pitts- burgh, Pa. Price 3 cents, Reviewed by PAT TOOHEY HE appearance of this pan Lewis, face. He reads etsy ne a fine ae in the future. cy etitten by Tom Myerscough John Strachey, Grace Lumpkin, siden the Nat Min sa iP Mrs. Gomer comes into the open kitchen door- | President of the National Mi Granville Hicks. He is continu- 5 Union, meets a long felt need in i way peeling platanos. Plumply smiling through the eet ete ally talking about problems that f the struggle of the flasses, she says: “And the bosses own the cafe- | miners to east off the arise in organizing the workers. He remembers every victory of the Tampa cigarmarkers and év- stricken Tampa makes it neces- sary to conceal his real name. We shake hands with his wife and baby; the baby is also seri- His mothet is worried be- cause everybody at first sight takes him for a girl. We assure her that eventually he will grow hair on his chest, be a working-class leader, a real hombre, and nobody wil! ever mistake his gender. “NOW TAKE THIS N.R.A. BALONEY” Joseph Freeman ous Gomez’ mother. 45, smiles through her glasses, asks us to stay to supper. She walks back and forth between the kitchen and the living room explain- ing the life of Tampa workers. She has worked in cigar factories since she was 13, and her father worked in them before her. She was horn in Tampa, speaks good English, but better Spanish, and alter- nates between the two tongues. “Now take this N.R.A. baloney,” she says. “Cigar workers are supposed to get a minimum wage under the code—$12 a week, They get paid by piece-work but are supposed to get no less than $12, no matter how few cigars they make. But the bosses get around that. They pay you for the cigars you make at a low rate; you average, let’s say, five or six dollars a week. Then they make you sign a paper that you received $12. That’s a lie; but you got to sign the paper or get fired.” . ae GOMEZ waits until his mother goes back to the kitchen and says: After the 1981 strike the bosses and the government bust up the To- bacco Workers Industrial Union; it was a fine union with about 6,000 members, truly revolu- tionary; and they smashed it, They deported the secretary, Jose Ferras, to Cuba. The police raided the union headquarters, grabbed the membership list and confiscated the funds, thousands of dollars contributed penny by penny by the workers. Im- migration officers visited the homes of workers who were not American citizens and threatened them with deportation if they did not drop out of the movement. “I can give you an example of this N.R.A. stuff,” said Mrs. Gomez coming in from the kitchen. “At Berriman Brothers, a cigar factory in Palmetto Beach, on the Hillsboro River, they actually have two lines on pay day; one for workers who made $12 or more at piece rates, and one for workers who made less but must sign papers saying they were paid $12. One worker protested. He said: ‘You are robbing me; I am entitled to $12; the govern- ment says so.’ The foreman says: ‘Yea? What are you going to do about it?’ The worker saya: ‘T am going to call a cop....’ “O. K.,.’ the foreman says, ‘here is your goddam twelve dollars—you are fired.’” Waldman To Expose| | War Propaganda in | Thursda, Lecture on Sunday A ey fae th St., 6 pu NEW YORK.—The continuity; | vorkviile. a between George Creel’'s “Commit-' | {Seymour Waldman, of the Daily | Worker Washington Bureau, when he speaks on “The War Set-Up in Washington,” next Sunday night, ‘Waldman’s talk will be made at | 100th Bt., 8:30 p.m. |May Festival & |. P., 50 E. tions, T.W.0. WHAT’S ON | ER EDAL OSTIRATION Steve Kato vis Br. .. Manhettan Lyceum, 66 &. | 7; Por AnteNowt Parade | 2rade Union Movement and the R, West Side Br. F.8.U., 2642 Broadway, at FINAL | MEETING all Bazaar, 13th St., Room 205, 8 p.m. | All delegates from unions, mass organiza- and LL.D. branches are urgently requested to be present, terias néat the fattories, and the workers got to eat there or get fired. They take your food bill off your pay; you got to eat there whether you like ery mistake. We must not make % or not. Langage Bagless In 1933, young Gomes continues, a new 1 saying. His activity, in terror- Snes E a inion was started, the local independent union—Union Local Independiente de la Industrial del Tobaco, with about 5,000 members. It had a left-wing pro- gram: militant class struggle, solidarity with the workers of the world. But many of the workers had illusions about the N.R.A.; they were taken in by the Roosevelt demagogy. At its own expense the union sent a delegation to see General Johnson in Washington about a code for the tobacco workers. YOUNG, fat, dark, good-looking girl came in; we were introduced to her, a daughter of the Romero family. She corrects Gomez: “The union sent two delegations.” That's right; there were two delegations, and both of them got nothing in Washington. But here in Tampa the police started a vicious terror against, the union, and against the Unemployed Council which we started last year. They were especially vicious against the Council because it drew in many Negroes; for the first time in Tampa many Negroes joined with white workers in one organiza- tion. We never saw so many Negroes in the Labor Temple. When conditions became intolerable, the union began discussing a strike. The police came to union meetings and ordered: there must be no strike; the city of Tampa does not want a strike. But the union voted for a strike despite these warn- ings. The police retaliated with a series of brutal raids on the union and the Unemployed Council. Many white and Negro workers were arrested: one Negro had his ear cut off in the police station; the cops told him this was a sample of what would happen to all Negroes who listened to the Reds, Mrs. Gomez, coming out of the kitehen, said: “And when a boss or foreman likes a woman, she’s got to give in to him. If she don’t, he will fire her, | and all her friends and relatives.” | THE STRIKE MET WITH DIFFICULTIES The strikers demanded union recognition, young Gomez went on, the restoration of the readers abolished in 1931; a 30 per cent wage increase bringing wages back to the 1929 level, with addi- tional increases commensurate with the rising cost of living. . The strike met with a lot of diffi- culties; some of the union leaders were young and inexperienced; they were afraid of exposing the N.R.A. for what it is, the worst form of exploita- tion we have had yet. These leaders played into the hands of the manufacturers, who used the N.R.A. for all it was worth. Rank-and-file commit- tees led by Communists had to issue leaflets criti- cizing these leaders. From the hen door Mrs. Gomez said: “T don't know what they pay in all the factories, but. I know that in the Hav-a-Tampa, owned by that | bloodsucker Woodberry, the average wage is about $6 a week.” (TO BE CONTINUED) Center, 22 W. St., | scription 25¢. CHARLOTTE TODES lectures on 1th 8:30 p.m. Sub- “The ecent Strike Wave.’ Tremont Progressive lub, | 865 E. Tremont Ave., 8:30 p.m Struggle,” 79 E. 10th St., adm. tree, Adm. 25¢ iowa d itpeee delegates 5-Day Nee. Distect | DANCE and ENTERTAINMENT given by | the Social Youth Club, Sat., May 12th, [8 p.m., 108 W. 24th St. Admission free, | Check ‘Room 2c. Music by John Cusano jand his Harmony Kings JUST REOBIVED—New books and pam- of this agent of the co and labor faker extraordin there is any one qualified the rise of Lewis, co ground and expose the stench nding his administtation of ed Mine Workers of América pig and stranglehold upon the coal m ers of America, it is Tom Mye cough, who not only from general knowledge but from knows the matter all too well experience Myerscough was one of the first to experience the power by Lewis, nearly twelve years ago. a time when Lewis was tightly solidating his power and author after recently coming to power, every crooked, corrupt, and thinkable method imaginable, whic is closeiy traced in detail in pamphlet. The pamphlet, which should be the hands of évery coal miner, de- tails the rise of Lewis from a local office-seeker for yer in Panama, | Tl, but always repudiated by the miners of even his own local, ‘on u to his wresting of the International Presidency of the Union without aision by Dp undergoing at any step the necessity |, of being elected by the miners to any position. It exposes the nefar- jious methods by which Lewis climbed to the head, with the personal financial support of Mr. Al. Hi ton, @ fiscal agent of the U. 8. Steel | Corporation, who was Lewis’ patron saint from the cellar to the top.| Upon reaching the top in 1919 Lewis at once commenced his reign jof destruction of the union, sell- out to the employers, and terror’ tion of the rank and file. His role| jin the 1919 national strike, his div-| iding the soft and hard coal miners and destroying the national agree- ment, which meant the miners everywhere in the country struck at one time. This national agreement was won through generations of | sacrifice and struggle by the miners His further splitting the union and the miners’ ranks by deserting the miners in Somerset and Fayette Counties (Pa.), in Maryland, Utah New Mexico and elsewhere, and his refusal to allow the miners of Ala- bama and Kentucky to strike, for which he received (according to Farrington) $100,000, is recounted His final touch, in 1925, when Mellon and Bethlehem Steel abrogated the | Jacksonville Agreement, and his/ complete smashing of the union in the struggle of 1927-8, fulfilled tha. mission ,Hamilton entrusted to Lewis, Tay ae |] BWIS’ methods of perpetuating | hig control and reign, is: briefly | but adequately covered in the pam-| |phlet. Thousands of miners well know these methods of brazenly | stealing elections wholesale; of | stuffing ballot moxes; of changing | election returns by chemicels; of buying votes by booze, boodle and | bribery; of arbitrarily ruling off any | | oppositionist who may be naive | }enough to aspire for office; of| |swindle, robbery and thievery. His| : : | OPEN FORUM Pen & Hammer Club. 114| NORMAN TALLENTIRE lectures on| widespread use of expulsions, not tee on Public Information” dur-| | W. 21st St., 8:80 p.m. John Brants speaks | “Workers and War" at Forum of Br. 80! oniy against individual members ing the World War and the pres-| |°% “Boy Scout Movement in U.S.A."| LW.O., at Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St, and|ONY Again f zt ‘ant War aud Aa i ti | Adm. 130. Qnd Ave, 8:30 pm. Adm. 15c but of entire district organizations él Propaganda apparatus in| MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN (Soviet| LECTURE at German Workers ctub,| (Kansas, Nova Scotia, Tilinois) who Washington will be shown by) | Film) illustrating discoveries of I. Paviow.| ‘The Role of the Child in the Clase may resist his betrayals, his fascist methods, his collaboration with mine bosses to blacklist active min- ers, his entire anti-working class | policy is explained. His packed con- ventions, packed with sluggers and gunmen, who come from non-exist- the |; | Each opposition gr: the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth pease ae si Ave. Tt 4 | Anti-Soviet Campaigns—Lecture by Conrad Yr y +] | ple, . 23rd St., Room 12. artists, professional workers and EMERGENCY MEETING, Ella May Br. students, [LED 4109 18th Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. i members must attend without fail. eae oan ene oe | Beng your friends. Adm. free. i in pos- \CTURE — “Civil War and_Interven- session of a great deal of material] | tion” in History of Russion Revolut! fm connection “with war: plana) | SS‘rn er eee tk He Be. and war propaganda, Waldman’s MEMBERSHIP MEETING, New Youth work in Washington as a corre-! | Club, 647 Wyona St. Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. spondent of the Daily Worker] | Discussion will follow keeps him in constant contact with all government departments, Adm. 15¢. OPEN MEETING, Edith Berkman Br. |1.L.D., at Boro Park Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m, Symposium |-"Fascism Causes War.” | R Burnshaw to Speak in Pridey jj : | MASS MRETING Indianapolis May 13 | “schoois and the Crisis” at Elsmere Hall, 170th Bt, and Morris Ave. Speakers: I. INDIANAPOLIS.— Stanley Burn- fer a Hate N. Phillips. Auspices: \4 rn 2 enter. shaw, poet, critic, and one of the | DEBATZ—Fordham Progressive Club ve pve! the Pesaran ug j New York University: “Resolved that N. R. ‘Recent Trends meri-| A. is a for the Ameri: iB can Literature,” on Sunday evening, | N-¥.U. Auditorium, University Ave, vand May 13, at 8 o'clock at the John 20H St. 8:30 pm. Reed Club, 318 to 322 Columbia Se- | si curities Bldg., 143 E. Ohio St. and Symposium on im “China Express,” and a talk on the | Chinese situation, at Chinese Workers : Hilarious Scene from New Soviet Satire SOVIET CHINA — History of the Six| CHINESE TEA PARTY with showing of | | phlets on most vital subjects at Workers Book Shop, §0 E 13th St., N.Y.O, Pittsburgh, Pa. TWO SOVIET PICTURES, “The Forty- First” and “A Jew at War,” shown \at Carnegie Lecture Hall, Schenley Park, Oakland Friday, May ith. Adm. for U. C. members 20c. Auspices: Unem- ; | Dloyment Councils. Philadelphia, Pa. | SYMPOSTUM — Republican, Democratic | Socialist and Communist candidates wil) | present program for the “Crisis in Educa- tion.” Harry M. Wicks, Communist can- didate for Senate, will sneak. Friday, Mar 11, 8 p.m. Lulu Temple, Broad & Spring auspices Unemployed Thea- | Admission 25¢ | Garden Sts. tres’ Council. |TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Results ‘WOR—Spor' ts Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—amos 'n’_Andy—Sketch WABC—Sylvia Froos, Songs 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy Program; Music WJZ—Helen Jepson, Soprano WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 17:30-WEAF—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio WOR—The Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Sagerquist Orch.; Don Ameche and Sally Ward—Sketch WABC—Serenaders Orch. 7:48-WEAP—The Goldbergs—Sketch WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orch.; Soloists WOR—Little Symphony Orch., Philip Jamas, Conductor ‘Woz—arrival Streamline Train Zephyr in Chicago WARC—Emery Deutsch, Violin B:15-WABC—Easy Acts—Sketch WIE—Grite and Gravy—Sketch 8:30eWABO — Concert Orch.; Alexander Gray, Baritone; Mary Eastman, Soprano; Francis McMillan, Violin 8:43-WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs. B5e; | Jent (“blue-sky”) locals “exonerated” | |for years from dues payment, who | attack, slug, and if necessary, shoot | Any oppositionist delegate, and who | always overwhelm the genuine dele- | gates, assure always a real Hitler- | Reichstag atmosphere !n such “Con- | ventions.” Lewis succeeded in climbing the AMUSE r Betrayer heig’ climb has been the bodies of scores of rdered Left The inion all among t with and of semb- + miner: or embodied published © present in recently mothe t ve of ar industry of eter. un of a Press, The ional union class ying the miner: ream of struggle to over str of now divergent forces one the hrow Lewises, of the ¢ opposit neces 0 ve been embodied in overthrow Lewis should pamphlet. . oe Tk should ge of these pam miner obtain a@ phiets and hand one each to his fellow miners ip in the U. M W. A. should obtain a sufficient number, not only for thei pport it in order to obtain new sup- , Above all, each Party Unit and Section in the mining di should sée that lated One of the most outstanding weaknesses in our struggle ag i the Lewis fakers and coal operator: is the absence of pamphlets and literature for miners on subjects which near to them. There exists such a wealth of material, lessons and experiences of struggles against Lewis, against the bosses, of strike strugeles and gen- eral experience, that by now, after twelve years’ activity, there should exist a library of at least twenty- five top’ for miners... The min struggles and the extremely valu- able and experiences are rarely set to print, except ina news- paper article now and then. It ig widely circu- are our lessons | possible to say that witht such ma} terial made available tovall miners, our task of breaking the strangle- hold of Lewis and his lackeys and of defeating the operators would be manifestly easier. Let us do it, Seottshoro Mothers To Be Entertained By Stevedore Cast NEW YORK.—The Theatre Union and the company of “Stevedore” will entertain Mrs. Mamie Williams, Mrs. Ida Norris, Mrs. Viola Montgomery, | Mrs. Josephine Powell and Mrs. Jane Patterson, the mothers of five of the Scottsboro boys, at the Thursday performance of this anti-lynch play. Ruby Bates and officials of the In- ternational Defense will attend also. A reception will be held on the stage for the guests of honor after the per- formance IRISH WORKERS WANT PIANO NEW YORK.—The Irish Workers’ Club, 107 W. 100th St. needs a@ piano. Any comrade who can contribute one should communicate with the club's secretary, John O'Rourke, MENTS THE THEATRE GUILD | JIG |] _A come@y by DAWN POWELL with |) ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE ‘Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway Evgs. 8:40. Mat. Thur. and Sat. 2:40 presents—j, SJ | EUGENE. O'NEILL's Comets | | AH, WILDERNESS! | | with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD eva St. W. of Bway || js. Thur.&Sat.2.20 || || MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play || “MARY OF SCOTLAND” | with HELEN PHILIP HELEN | MAYES MERIVALE M1 || ALVIN 2d St.. W. of Biway Mats. Thur.&Sat.2.20 D | x MASSE | | | | THE SHINING HOUR | BOOTH THEATRE, W. 45th St, Eves, 8:40) | Matinees: Thursday @ Saturday 210) WALTER HUSTON in Sincinir Lewis’ | DODSWORTH Soviet’s First Musical Comedy Satire! “Soviet film at Acme gq te. Fine Satire’ ie ~ DAILY WORKER. “Taker a thrust at churches, various political organization aristocracy, su MARIONETTE With MOSCOW ART THEATRE CO. MOSCOW & LENINGRAD Ballet Special Musical Score (English Titles) ACME THEATRE tain se Union Sa. § and THE THEATRE UNION Presents — The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Hit sievedore CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 103 W 14 st. Eves, A:45. Mats. Tues. & Gat. 2:45 } “THE KING IS COMPELLED TO SHAVE HIS BARBER”—Scene from “Marionettes,” the first Soviet musical comedy satire, versity Ave. and 180th St, playing at the Acme Theatre, 14th St. and Union Square, New York. ra t 9:00-WEAF—Captain Henry's Show Roat | WOR—Variety Musicale ‘WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch Grégor, Contralto; Quartet | 9:15-WOR—Jeck Arthur, Baritone | 9:30-WOR—Success—Harry Balkin | WdZ—Duchin Orch. | WABO—Waring Orch. 9:45-WOR—The Witch’s Tale—Sketch 10:00-WEAP—Whiteman Orch.; Nikita Bal- ieff in Sketches | WJ2—Canadian Program | WABC—Gray Orch.; Stoopnagle and Budd, Comedians; Connie Boswell, Songs 10:15-WOR. urrent Events—H. E. Read | | 10:30-WOR—Wwarren Orch. | | WJZ-—Studio Concert | WABC—Wheeler Orch.; Doris Lor- tains, Songs | 10:45-WABC—Jas. Thurber, Commentat 11:00-WEAP—Leaders Quart WOR—Weather; Moonbeams Trio ‘WIZ——Cavaliara Male Quartet Now | Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 ‘WABC—Warnow Orch.; Evelyn Mac- __ Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD 30¢-40¢-60e-75e-81.00 & $1.50. Ne Tax | SHUBERT, W. (ith St. Evs. 8:40 Sharp) Rousing Send-Off for Scottsboro Mothers ST. NICHOLAS ARENA Must Be Packed with Thousands Demanding FREEDOM FOR THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS Friday. May Lith St. Nicholas Arena — 8 P.M. Sharp — 69 W. 66th Street Mothers will leave for Washington to demand immediate release of their sons from the President of the United States. LET THEM CARRY YOUR MESSAGE TOO! SPEAKERS: Scottsboro Mothers, Jos, R. Brodsky, Richard B. Moore, John Wexicy, Osmond K, Fraenkel, William L. Patterson Ruby Bates, Samuel Leibowitz, Grace Lumpkin, eto,