The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 16, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE | ‘WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD JN THIS column recently appeared a letter from George Cronyn, author of the novel, “Fool of Venus,” in which letter friend George, who has had a background of mili- tant struggle in the revolutionary farmers and workers movement, revealed the sad fact that he had gone mys- tic, passive and bourgeois-esthetic. George Cronyn being what he is, a talented and virile person, and a man honest to the core, it was necessary to answer him. His etter was not merely a personal expression, but the voice of a large section of the intellectuals. The events of the depression have shaken any of them out of this viewpoint, but it is still a powerful negative force that holds many of the best of them in bondage. George has written an answer to my answer, which I am print- ing here. I am more than glad to see that he recognized there was not a shred of personal feeling in my perhaps sharp answer to him, We cannot afford to be personal or over-sensitive in these discus- sions. They are not academic debates any longer, but matters of Hfe and death. These are days in which all of us must speak and think frankly and responsibly. Our own private fate, and the fate of the world, flepends on the growth of a mature revolutionary consciousness in the world, one that is above factionalism, malice and that infantile pettiness and sabotage one finds organized, for instance, into the lead- ership of such a group as the “American Workers’ Party.” But here is George Cronyn’s second letter in full: ¥f Jack Reed Were Alive EAR Mike: “Editorially in The Daily Worker you have said a number of things to which I must take exception—not because my feelings are hurt to be called a renegade and counter-revolutionary (or words to that effect)—but because I believe that you misunderstand my position. “For one thing, you have assumed that the publication of The Fool of Venus, having brought me in a “little bunch of jack,” has reduced me to bourgeois psychology and a trust in things-as-they-are that amounts to mysticism. Nothing could be further from the truth. ‘The jack, such as it is, assures me of little more than six months of leisure to recuperate from several years of carrying on two jobs simultaneously—that of earning a living and that of writing at my own sweet will, of anything that pleased me, whether it brought in monetary returns or not. In the latter category my book belongs. “Now you, together with all your able associates and literati of Communism, believe that such hours stolen from the severe pressure of survival, should be devoted to—and wholly devoted to prose or poetry exemplifying the evils of the capitalistic system or glorifying the heroes of the new order. With that idea I am entirely at vari- ance. I have been, so as long as I can remember—even when I carried & monkey wrench as personal defence against certain cohorts of the monied powers, or when I spoke from platforms of the old I. W. W. “I do not deny that poetry or literature in general or art may not well and even perfectly serve the needs of the proleterian cause. But they do so only when the imagination of the creator is vastly stimu- lated by the subject in hand, and when the imagination is not so stimulated, the result is poor stuff, whether it be proleterian or capi- talistic. And if it is poor stuff, it is not worth a damn except as propaganda, and straight propaganda will be better. “In your mention of my book you have named it “hothouse poetry.” Perhaps it was. That period was a long time ago. But Peire Vidal, the Fool of Venus, sang in defence of the heretics of Provence at a time when being a heretic was a little more dangerous than being a Communist in Germany today. You may say that being a heretic has no meaning under economic determinism. I say, in return, that defiance of any existing predatory order is just as important in the twelfth century as in the twentieth. One cannot defy capitalism under medievalism. But one can have guts. If you ask why I should have chosen Peire Vidal, a troubadour of the twelfth century, as the protagonist of a book, I answer that I saw in him a sort of Jack Reed of the crusades. I don’t mean the John Reed as deified by the John Reed Clubs, I mean the Jack Reed I knew—poet, rebel, individualist, fighter, and not infrequently the Big Damn Fool. Jack Reed writing poetry of the sea (not propa- ganda); Jack Reed smashing cops in strikes; Jack Reed striding down the floor at the Third International, shaking his fist at Lenin (and being quietly steamrollered)—and Jack Reed laughing in his grave at the spectacle of his post-mortem sanctification at the foot of the Kremlin. “If you ask me, I believe that if Jack were alive today, he would constitute the most active and dangerous minority party in Soviet Russia. Because, if capitalism needs to fear Communism, Commu- nism will need to fear individualism. And over and above all, Jack Reed was an individualist. “One thing more. You have linked my name with that of Hitler. Frankly, I don’t see the connection. Hitler is not a mystic, nor am I. And there the simularity ends. That poisonous peanut dictator, with his absurd racial and nat{onalistic complexes, is no more than the dunghill cook of a decaying order. The offshot of the late war- and-treaties garbage. Why compare a dangerous madman with a harmless lunatic? And I am just lunatic enough to feel strongly that whatever is created should be created for its own sake, to justify itself on its own grounds, and not to produce social results. If social results follow as a byproduct, so much the better. The main thing ts vitality. GEORGE CRONYN.” * . A Categorical Answer E isn’t much space to reply to this letter in full. So I will answer with a few categorical dogmas: 1, We are all heartily in favor of six months of leisure for George Cronyn. Every person needs some time off, occassionally, from the daily struggle, in which he can reflect, grow, study, examine him- self and the world. What we ask of George is, however, that he take a little time off in these six months, and read a few of Lenin's works. 2. Hitler’s brutal capitalism masks itself in a mystic ideology of Yace and “intuitive” dogmas, It is avowedly irrational and anti- rational. The Soviet philosphers, however, continue and deepen the rational-materialist tradition that is the foundation of science. Cronyn’s first letter was a denial, on mystic grounds, of any scientific attempts towards a revolutionary change in life. He expressed the familiar bourgeois esthete’s concept of a static world, in which there can never be any real or fundamental change. I never suggested for a moment that Cronyn is even remotely a Hitlerite; he would naturally be an enemy of that form of tyranny. But today, when all philosphies are finding themselves translated into deeds, it is highly dangerous not to examine the philosphic basis of fascism, and to completely cleanse one’s mind of anything that helps fascism. 3. Cronyn says, in effect, that Communist art should be good art, or it isn't good propaganda. George, this is being said a thou- fand times by our hapidly growing band of Marxist literary critics. \ And as a matter of fact, the first crude days are over, and Commu- \ nist art in America today, is, very often, good art. 4, I disagree with you on Jack Reed. There were many renegades his own lifetime who hated Soviet Russia as much as do the Max mans, Will Durants, Abe Cahans, and the like, in the present. ey hated and slandered Jack Reed then, too. But Jack Reed never avered from the first in his passionately reasoned loyalty to the Soviet revolution, You say he would be in an active and dangerous minority there today. Because he was an artist and individual, you ‘say, Well, George, this is merely sentimental nonsense. Jack Reed had long passed beyond the Bohemian rebel stage. He wasn’t “agin” verything. He was greatly “FOR” something—he was for the work- Pata, and for .a Soviet world. Jack Reed, alive today. would be standing with Maxim Gorky, who is also an artist and individual. Why do you think Communism crushes the individual artist? The experience of myself, and of hundreds of others I know, is that Com- munism, rightly understood, deepens and disciplines and matures every slight talent one may possess. And with this T must close, May you enjoy your vacation, George. @nd if you haven't the address of the Workers’ Bookshop, it is 50 F. 13th st. and you can get a fine variety of books and pamphlets on all these matters. Yead up before this. Good luck. Tl bet a red apple you haven't had time to i | performing | Creative Workers DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 156, 1934 VF pause SETA | The World of |What’s Doing in the Wor kers the Theatre “The Milky Way” Reviewed by WILLIAM FUCHS “The Milky Way.” at the Cort Theatre, is of the Saturday Evening Pest speci It is what is known }as a “gag” comedy. One character |remarks upon something or other and a wise-crack is. always forth- |coming as an answer. As | eracks go, some of themt are good in this thing and some wouldn't even | be laughed at by an idiot. One of them is particularly vulgar and na- turally it was rewarded with the heartiest applause by the strictly “Broadway” audience which was | present when this pundit was. The story opens with a middle- weight champion who is knocked out in a street, brawl by his own trainer and who suffers by the con- | sequent publicity, which credits a | Sissified milk-wagon driver with| the ceremony. This milk-wagon driver is a scientific ducker; and when he ducks on a/ later occasion the champ and his manager are knocked out, again by the trainer. The publicity is again | heart-breaking. So the plot un- winds itself. The play, however, | does not take itself seriously. | Hugh O'Connell is the milk-| wagon driver and Leo Donnelly is his manager. The acting serves its | purpose. The play is obviously in- | tended for the movies. It’s a lot better, nevertheless, than many of its kind on Broadway now. Will Demand Federal Help at Mass Meeting NEW YORK. — Actors, painters. musicians. writers, dancers and singers will unite in a mass demon- stration demanding Federal crea- tive work at the City College Audi- ‘torium at 8 p. m., Friday, May 18. | Programs are being formulated | by several well known artists. These will be compared at the meeting and the best points used for a plat- form. After that, the meeting will be turned into a public forum. Secretary Hopkins of the F. E. R. A. will be notified. All artists jare requested to attend. | Theatre Group Will Show Revolutionary Plays Sunday Evening | NEW YORK. — At the National Festival of the Worker's Theatres held in Chicago last month, the hundreds of worker's theatres rep- resented there agreed to give bene- fit performances for their official organ, New Theatre Magazine, dur- jing the week of May 20-May 27, |the proceeds to be used to improve | New Theatre and widen its in- fluence throughout America. On Sunday evening, May 20, a number of N. Y. Theatre groups are giving a benefit performance entitled “New Theatre Night” at the Civic Repertory Theatre, W. 14 St. and Sixth Ave. Six new revo- lutionary plays will be given. The gmup represented include The Theatre Collective, The Worker's |Laboratory Theatre, The Unity Theatre and The R. P. A. Players. Mara Tartar will sing revolution- ary songs. George Sklar, co-author of “Stevedore” and “Peace on Earth,” will be Master of Cere- monies. All worker’s organizations de- sirous of buying blocks of seats will be given a special rate. Tickets which are priced from 25 cents to 75 cents, are now on sale at Civic Repertory Box office, Worker's Book store, and New Theatre, 5 E. 19 St. Joseph Brodsky To Speak in Chicago CHICAGO.—Joseph Brodsky, De- fense Attorney for the Scottsboro Boys and National Recording Sec- retary of the International Work- ers Order, will appear at the Ash- land Auditorium on Sunday, May 20, the day of the celebration of the Fourth Anniversary of this workers’ fraternal order. In addi- tion to other well known speakers, there will be a colorful concert of national songs and dances with all the language sections of the Order participating. The Youth Section will present a mass pageant and the Junior Section will take part in a mass chorus. TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Basebell Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Friek WdJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy—Sketch ‘WABC—Vera Van, Songs 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Dance Music WJZ—Speeding Wheels of Prosperity —Harry Tipper WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Lillian Bucknam, Soprano WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WIZ—Yvette Rugal, Soprano WABO—Armbruster Orchestra 1:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—True Stories of the Sea— Sketch WIZ—Sketch—-Max Baer, Boxer WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian WJZ—-Man from the Morgue—Sketch ARCS as Orchestra TABC—-Easy A je Range! WdJZ—Maple City Four WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone ‘8:43-WJZ—Baseball ae Ruth a: Jogo gai ag Wiecner ‘Knight's Cuckoos WABC—Nino Martini, Tenor; Koste- lanetz Orchestra TOR—Succes ry Balkin Romance and Old Brandy, with Reland Young ee Orch,; Burns and 10: inwmaratiliy Music ez Orchestra; Male Trio; aoe ‘Williams, Songs WAEC—Drematic Sketch 10:18-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Other Americas—Edward ‘Tomlinson WOR—Robinson Orchestra ‘WJ%—Denny Orchestra; Harry Rich- man, Songs WABO"-Albert Spalding, Violin: Con- rad Thibault, Baritone; Joan Field, Ir School theatre at the C hee 'HE Harlem Workers i benefit evedore party sale a fice, 200 West 135th St Telephon Audubon proceeds will go towar pansion fund of the Harlan Worl ers’ School PHILADELPHIA is organizing a class to prepare teachers for the Workers School they expect to establish in the fall. They have set themselves a quota of three to four hundred students for the first term. Detroit School Opens Spring Term The Spring Term of the Detroit Workers School. 323 Erskine Si jopened last week and will continue until July 15. This is the third term of the school’s existence. The curriculum includes Principles of Communism by A. Goetz and C. |Mischeff: Trade Unionism and | Sirike Strategy by A. B, Magill: Marxism-Leninism by Max Salz- man; History and Struggles of the Negro People by William Brown: Principles of Communist Organiza- tion by Earl Renox; Current Events by William Weinstone and others; Flementary Photography by J. Hou- dyma and Jack Auringer; Russian Language by Leo Pren: Short Wave |Radio; English, and Workers’ The- | atre. oi The composition of the student body of the CHICAGO Workers | School is 99 per cent proletarian. i ie ace Minneanolis District School Needs Funds The full-time four-weeks District Training School in Minneapolis is now in its second week. We have an urgent appeal for funds and food for the students to be sent to the School Ruro, 1229 Logan Ave., No, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bc era In preparation for a one-month District Training School, the Young Communist League in NEW YORK is calling a confer- ence of all mass organizations on Saturday, May 19th, at 2:30 P. M., at the Workers Center, 50 Fast 13th St. John Little, District Or- ranizer, will be the main speaker. They uree all organizations of less than 200 members to send one delezate each to this conference and larger organizations to send two delegates each, Py * The analysis of the student body of the Los Angeles Workers School in the first term of its existence shows that the majority of the stu- dents are proletarian—67.1 per cent; the next largest section of the stu- dent body is the office workers—12 per cent. 83.8 per cent of the students are American-born. 52 per cent of the students are Party members. The most successful classes are the classes in Principles of Communism, Party Organization, Agit-Prop, Po- litical Evonomy, and the classes for developing leaders for the children’s work and for the women’s work. The Los Angeles School has es- tablished a branch class in Party Organization in Santa Monica. A forum is conducted every Sun- day night at the school head- quarters, 230 South Spring St., Los Angeles. The next lecture will be By ARNOLD "S not an easy thing delivering babies in the dark, or even with a feeble candle spluttering by the beside, or a kerosene lamp burning weakly on the chair. The days of grace for paying the gas and light bill were gone long past. Sam Nolan yas used to reading old papers by the window until the sun went down. Revolution in Austria. Dog-show poodles wear gold brace- lets. Such were the things he read while he wondered if the baby would be coming in the dark. A Negro feels conspicuous in a Spacious waiting recom at the gas and light office. Sam Nolan felt conspicuous anyhow with the click- ing of the typewriters, the secre- taries walking in and out, and the heavy carpet hardly giving him a place to put his feet down com- fortably. But they had shunted him from clerk to clerk and now he waited in fright to see Mr. Davis who was managing director. They all said he should see Mr. Davis because he was interested in the human side of things. Of course not, they told him. a baby can't be born in the dark. But you've got a month yet so don’t worry. It isn’t such a bad world after all. And then he went into the of- fice. Mr. Davis offered him a cigar- ette. Damn fine man, Davis. No race prejudices about him. Of course you understand my position in this thing. Nolan. It’s an odd request to ask for light when your bill is five months due. I know you only want light while the baby is born. but I think you ought to see the charities first. They handle those things, you know. Tell them I sent you. You can use my name, Nolan. ete . T THE charities they smiled. Well, if Mr. Davis sent you T think we can fix you up with a job. That way you'll be earning it yourself. It’s not a bad job. You'll be cutting weeds in the park. We're cutting weeds with C. W. A. funds. They cut weeds in the winter in the park. It’s the kind of thing to give a man morale and put him on his feet this cutting weeds through the snow. But Sam Nolan froze his hands because they didn’t furnish gloves. Then they sent him to the clinic. ‘Well, where’s your money? If you can’t pay a quarter you've got to see Miss Bowen. Charity patients go through that door. Here, don't 17-year-old Violinist Ferdinand }11:00-WEAF—] lo Orchestra WOR—Weather; Moonbeams Trio i WJZ—Pickens Sisters, Songs Tuces, Songs forget. your card. Next, please. The next day with frozen hands he cut the weeds. They didn't re- Sen ee ne trea toh Se ) i chools of the U.S held Mz M Matilda Robbins will ‘The Workers and the N on Suni = | 20th, at 8 P | speek on | R. A.” | 'Methods of Teaching at the! | Workers’ Schools | | By A. MARKOFF There has been practically no dis- cussion in our~press regarding the} emploved in the teaching | |nt the Workers’ Schools, Yet, it is| |@ very important problem which | must be solved in a satisfactory | manner if we are to make our work | fruitful | There are two questions we must answer in connection with this| problem: 1. How much ground should we | attempt to cover in a given period | of time? he correct orientation on this question is especially im- portant; here we have erred very much in all our schools, in the eve- jning courses as well as in the full- time training schools. One general rule must be ob- served, not to tax the students too much. The average human mind can absorb only a small amount of knowledge in a given unit of time. Even when we deal with the student type, those who do not work shops and factories, those who are accustomed to study, have had their minds trained, ete., even there the sorb is limited. The limit is still up and super exploitation the factories. shops and mills. The worker-student is fatigued before he comes into the class. Our aim therefore, must be to concentrate on one or two major points in the subject matter. We try to clear up these. points dealing with them from every possible side, linking it un with the concrete con- ditions and problems the students are faced with. It is useless to try to cram into the minds of the stu- dents a lot of material, for most of our efforts go wasted. The pro- verbial teacher described by Charles Dickens stands in the class ready to “pour imperial gallons of wisdom and facts” into the heads of his pupils. Our instructors are there not to pour wisdom, but to make sure that certain important ques- tions are cleared up so that the student coming out of the class feels that he understands the points discussed, that he will be able to transmit it to other workers in his own language, that he will be able to apply the knowledge gained to the problems facing him in his practical daily struggles. In this respect we should always remember what Comrade Lenin used to say: “Better little, but better.” The teacher, therefore, in plan- ning his lesson should develop ques- tions around two and sometimes even ene major point in the hour or hour and a half at his disposal. Whether there is a general outline on the subject or not the instructor must plan his lesson carefully. The second question, What should be the methods of presentation of the subject in the class and how can the students be best involved in the discussion of the subject, Will be discussed later. We again call on the comrades engaged in this work to contribute articles for this column. We do not want to monopolize the space. Send your articles to A. Markoff. 35 FE. 12th St., Room 301, New York (This column appears every Tues- day.) in DARK ARRIVAL SUNDGAARD @as office after the first pay day. I'm. sorry, but you owe for five months. You'll have to pay that before we can turn on your meter. Well, that’s enough for one month. Now please don't argue, there are others waiting, Don’t hold up the line. The lights were still out and it was very dark when the baby came. The doctor came and the student nurse came. Where's the light? Don't this switch work? What, no light? How about the lamp? All out of kerosene? Get an extension and hook it up from the hall. Let the landlord pay for the light. Sam broke into the cellar and got a long extension. He screwed it into the hall socket and brought the lamp to the bedside. The doctor and the student nurse were bend- ing over Sam’s wife. Get some warm water. There ain't no gas, either. Sam held the light while his wife writhed in labor. The landlord came walking down the hall and saw the cord in the socket. For crists sake, what the hell’s goin’ on here. He ripped the cord loose and the light went out over the bed. The doctor shouted. that goddam light on. It was a few minutes before the plug was in the socket and the light shone over the bed. The doctor went to Sam. He looked at him and then returned to his satchel. The kid’s dead, he said, from strangulation. Sam held the light. Mr. Davis was right. A baby can’t be born in the dark, he ad- mitted. A guy's gotta have light. A guy's gotta have light. Cibulski To Sing at Festival and Bazaar NEW YORK. — Mass entertain- ment will be the basis of the pro- gram of the Festival and Bazaar of the New York District of the Communist Party, taking place at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. from May 23 through May 27. The only exception to the group features will be the appearance, on the open- ing night, of the well-known singer, Andre Cibulski. This fine artist, who has sung in opera in Italy and has made many concert appearances in this country, also sings revolutionary songs which he receives direct from Moscow and Leningrad, Quick. Hey, leave in| amount of theory that they can ab- | greater when our students are work- | ers who come to the school after| a day of hard work, with the speed- | | L. M. Leonidoff | Noted and brilliant Soviet actor,| Merited Artist of the Republic, who| plays the role of the munition king| in “Marionettes.” the new Soviet| ie now playing at the Acme | Theat re. Conference Called by Y.C.L. Secretariat To Plan Full-Time School NEW YORK.—With the wave of | strikes and mass actions taking |place today, coupled with the rapid growth of the Y, C. L., the N. Y. |Secretariat has come to the con-| clusion that the Section and Dis- trict Week-End Schools are in-| adequate and has decided, for the first time, upon the organization of | a Pull Time School. This school | will run for four weeks and will| consist of twenty-five students. The | cost is estimated at about $500. | The District is calling all work-j| ers organizations to cooperate in raising this sum. For this purpose, and to enable them to Decticipate in sending members of their or- |i ganizations to the school, a con- | ference has been called for Satur- | day, May 19, at 2:30 p. m., at the | Workers Center, 50 E. 13 St. John| Little, District Organizer of the Y. C. L,, will be the main speaker. Alt | organizations are urged to elect delegates immediately. | Individuals or organizations who} can contribute funds for the school | should send their contributions in at once to the District Office of the Ems: E, 12 St | Chicago LW.0. Will Celebrate Its Fourth Anniversary May 20 (Daily Work Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO.—The fourth Anniver- | sary of the International Workers| Order will be celebrated at Peoples| Auditorium, Sunday, May 20th. A| colorful international program of songs, music and dancing will be a feature of the affair. Songs “of Hungary and Italy, dancing of Russia and the Ukraine, as well as programs by Scandina- vian, Slovak, Roumanian, Polish, | Croatian, Bohemian, Jewish, Greek, | and German workers will be pre-| sented. This affair will not only be a merry celebration, but also al great influence towards building up| a feeling of internationalism and solidarity. Youth and children’s groups promise lively, interesting features. Doors open at 6 p.m. The I.W.O. requests all branches | to see that their Anniversary Com- | mittees and functionaries attend the meeting May 15th, 8 p.m., at Peoples Auditorium. | steel Unite in Yesterday Paul Peters described his five years in industry and the experience which went into the making of “Stevedore,” now piay- ing at the Civic Repertory Thea- tre in New York. Today Peters continues the story of labor bat- tles in which Negro and white workers joined hands in struggle. m. By SENDER GARLIN 1933, Peters ri Negro and v IN January, ate: eral thousand workers in Fairfield. marched together to the and forced the town voke an ordinance banning and white meetings. Follow the foundation of a non-Ji union was laid. Peters asserts that the “drawing of black and white into the same organization has been especially successful among the unemployed jin the South. Mixed dem i |for relief e been held in such cities as Chattanooga, Birmingham New Orleans, and Atlanta, In mingham a demonstration of groes and whites was ledgby gelo Herndon, 20-year-old An- Negro, who is facing a term of 18-20 years on a Georgia chain gang.” And he calls attention to the present bitter struggle of Negro and white miners in Alabama to show the growing unity of black and white. Peters points to the heroic fight of the members of the Sharecfop- pers Union to prove the authenticity | of the last act in “Stevedore.” He recounts that “when Negroes at- tempted to protect their mules against seizure by the sheriff near |Camp Hill, Ala., they were set upon by a posse and shot down, and Cliff | James, leader of the sharecroppers, | later died from gunshot wounds. As in ‘Stevedore,’ they shot back in self-defense. A man-hunt then followed and the entire Negro com- munity was terrorized. The most significant development in this in- cident, however, was the action of the white share-croppers in the neighborhood who hid the fleeing Negroes from the sheriff's posses.” The chief sources from which he and George Sklar drew material for “Stevedore,” Peters reveals, | were the so-called “race-riots” in East St. Louis and Chicago in 1919. |The match that kindled the East . Louis killings,” he asserts, “was st such an event as is dramatized the first scene of ‘Stevedore.’” ers, who was a student at the University of Chicago at the time, witnessed the. eer “riots.” ETERS has ao visited the Soviet Union, but he is tremene | dously interested in the Soviet the- | atre, ‘T haye read the ‘Armored! Fine Boviet Satire. . . ‘The plot 5 has a meaning which | 1s vital to the. lives of every worker.” —Daily Worker ‘The film is a brilliant very amusing politico-satir- ical Soviet picture. It pre- sents something new in film plays. —MORNING FREIBEIT (MARIONETTES With MOSCOW ART THEATBE COMPANT | and MOSCOW & LENINGRAD Ballet | Special Musical Score (English Titles) ACME THEATRE (airce Union Bq. WHAT’S ON Wednesday DEBATE—Resolved that the League of Nations, World Court and Diplomatic Pro- cedure Cannot Avert War. Speakers: Clark says it can. Clarence M. Eichelberger Town Hall, Hathaway says it cannot. 113 W. 48rd St. Adm. 50¢. SOVIET MOVIE “Road to Life” will be shown at Washington Heights Workers Center, 4046 Broadway, cor. 170th Street, Room 2, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 20¢. OPEN FORUM “The Stgike Wave in the U, 8. and Why No Strikes in Soviet Rus- sla?” Mt, Eden Br. F.8.U., 1401 Jerome| Ave., cor. 170th Sts 8:30 p.m. Adm. free. GENERAL Membership Meeting Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St., 8:30 p.m. MASS PROTEST Meeting of four work- ers’ arrested at Home Relief Bureau at I. W.O. Center, 1873-43rd St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Speakers: N. Stevens, Dist. Sec'y IL. D, and others. Auspices; Ella May Br, LL.D. Adm. free, LECTURE on “War or Peace and the Peace Policy of the U.8.S.R.” by Alfred Morris, Prospect Mansion, 722 Prospect Ave., 8:30 p.m. Auspices Lower Bronx Br. F.S.U. A MOCK TRIAL arranged by David Schriftman. Dancing and refreshments. Adm. free. Auspices, Tom Mooney Br, LL. D., 323 EB. 13th St. Thursday OPEN FORUM at Pen & Hammer, 114 W. 2ist St. at 8:30 p.m. “Philosophy in Fascsim” by Jack Librome. Adm. 25c 8. SKLAROFF speaks on “The Jew in Germany and the Jew in the Soviet Union,” 1330 Wilkins Ave. near Freeman Br. F. St. Sta.. 8:30 p.m. Auspices: East Bronx UNEMPLOYED WORKERS Pack Court Room Magistrates Court, Flatbush and Snyder Ave. Brooklyn, 9 a.m., to pro- test arrest of four unemployed workers at home relief bureau. Ella May Br. LL.D. WESLEY Everest Br. LL.D. open meet- ing at 97 Henry St,, Brooklyn. Joseph Tauber, speaker. SOVIET CHINA, Strike Strugzles in China, lecture by John Phillips at Friends of the Chinese People, 168 W, 23rd 8t., Room 12. Adm. 15¢. MEETING of Arrangement Committee for Daily Worker Excursion at 38 E. 12th St. 5th floor, 8 p.m. All who wish to volunteer on this committee should be present. TALLENTIRE SPEAKS THURSDAY NEW YORK.+-Norman Tallentire, secre- tary of the American League Against War and Fascism, will speak at a mass meet- ing called by the Brighton Beach Parents, ‘Teachers, Students Conimittee on the sub- ject of “Schools vs. Battleships,” on Thursday, 8:30 p.m., at P.S. 225. Ocean View Ave. and Ripple SI 8 Brooklyn, 5-DAY MAY Festival and Bazaar. Final meeting, all delegates, Friday, May 18, 8:30 p.m. Room 203, 60 E. 13th St. All Red Honor Rolls, greetings and ads must be in at this meeting. Boston, Mass. GEORGE WISHNACK, Business Manager of the Daily Worker, will speak at the Conference pesos he District Daily b becbca May 19, at 3 p.m. at 113 ‘pusiey ‘a athetic mass organizations are requested to send delegates, } IHITLER’S| | REIGN of TERROR] SENSATIONAL FILMS Photogtaphed BY CORNELIUS VANDERBILT JR. SMUGGLED OUT OF GERMANY COLUMBIA | ube AT 47th ST. n.10:30 p.m.-28e-400 | —— THE THEATRE UNION Presents — The Season's Outstanding Dramatic it | stevedore. CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 195 W 11 St. Eves. 8:45, es Tse. oe Bat. 2:45 Ne -406-60 GILBERT & SULLIVAN This Week _'Pinafore” Next Week “THE MIKADO” MAJESTIC THEA. 44th $e to $2.00. Mats. Wed & 5: STAR | CAST | & “Trial By Jury” | | | 50¢ to $1.50) MUSIC HIPPODROME OPERA Pasquale Amato, Director TONIGHT 8:30. .CARMEN Thurs, Bye: A GIOCONDA Pri, —.-.LA_ TRAVIATA EY 250-350-5 5e-83e-99e inet — |-HIPPODROME, 6 Av.&43 St. VAn 3-421 | | | | i 66 —| by Theatre theatre ball dance tonight Wednesday SAVOY LENOX AVE. 140th and 1st St. ADMISSION 75 CENTS “When Neg ro, White Str uggle” In reply Peters counters that “the sheer struggle for bread, the struggle for the simple essentials of life, is always ‘naive.’” As for being melodramatic: “A class- struggle play must necessarily be meiodramatic. You can't have a strike without clubbings and shootings by the bosses’ police.” praise) of the bourgeoi Critics Learn a Lesson tude to the The- mn’s previous play, “Peace * the reaction of the crit- s been mo: d old mass * Peters says fons are suppor and the critics simpls 1ange their tune. The Theatre Union differs from all previous wo. theatres in many respects, Peters asserted. “Tt differs from the most recent ven- ture, the New Playwrights’ Theatre, in that the latter was not spe cally interested in a workers’ audi- ence; its prices were not geared to a workers’ audience, and it did not seek the support of workers through their unions and mass or- ganizations.” Like other working class organ- izations, the Theatre Union is by no means free of fi 1 troubles In spite of the fac 125,000 persons saw “Peace Earth” (12,000 unemployed saw free), the play never paid pi tion costs. Running expenses “Stevedore” amounts to $3 week, although there is the Broadway pyramided o and executives of the theatre get less than the actors, with some of at more than or it duc- | the former working for nothing The next production of the The- atre Union will probably be a sa- tirical_ musical show to be called “The Fourteenth Street Revue.” For one thing, it will reveal—per- \haps to the chagrin of some. whe shall be nameless—that, humor, too can serve as a class weapon MENTS. HEATRE GTI presents— JIG -S.AW. A comefy by DAWN POWELL —THE Ti with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE Ww. Thur, Theatre, 47th Strest, Evgs. 8:40. Mat of Broadway and Sat. 2:40 EUGENE 0} AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M. COHAN GUILD pthta;y324 §t. W. of Bin v8.20 Mats.Thur.&Sat. MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN TIN _Thea.. 524 St., W. of B’ ALVIN Fv.8.20 Mat.Tues.Thar.&Sat —_—_——— GLADYS ADRIENNE RAYMOND COOPER MASSEY THE SHINING HOUR BOOTH THEATRE, W. 45th St. Matinees: Thursday & Evgs, 8:4¢ Saturday 2:40 INDAY, MAY 20 3° New Theatre Night A Full Program of New REVOLUTIONARY. PLAYS Auspices: New Theatre Magazine 1, THE THEATRE COLLECTIVE “Scene of Marion Models 2-3 MEMBERS OF R.P.A Kreymborg's “America, in America’; Geddes “Blum-The Undertaker” 4. THE ARTEF “kK New Play” 5. WORKERS LABOR. THEATRE in “Prize Winning Play 6. STARS OF “MEN IN WHITE” “Stevedor Peace on Earth” in Satires, Skits and Songs GEORGE SKLAR, Chairman Admission 25¢, 35c, 55c, 75¢ CIVIC REPERTORY 4TH STREET THEATRE Siem ave |" In sending ir new subs to the ~ “Daily” please write the name - and address of the new sub- scriber clearly. Collective and Vanguard From 9 to Morning 2 hands Harlem's Hottest Jaze Bands program BILL TARTER, acts from COTTON CLUB RE- VIEW, SHOCK TROUPE, LABORATORY THEATRE, THEATRE COLLECTIVE and many others. LEIGH WHIPPER, ROBINSON, ETTA MOTON, MARA WORKERS VANGUARD Master of Ceremonies D You Believe What You BEHIND the HEADLINES from 1886 to 1934 Friday Eve. May 18th, 8:15 P. M. Admission 25 Cents READ? ILLUSTRATED LECTURE by SENDER GARLIN Staff Writer of Daily Worker John Reed Club 430-6th Avenue Auspices PRESS LEAGUE at