The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 18, 1934, Page 5

petareeceves oe a a | | | CHANGE a7. ee WORLD! _ By MICHAEL GOLD CHICAGO worker sends in a picture of a calf that was printed in the “Herald Examiner” in the helieve-it-or- not series, which is conducted by that master of non- essentials and trivialities, Mr. Robert Ripley. A word as to Mr. Ripley before we ‘get around to his calf. Many people follow his series; and it is perhaps worth-while to warn them that they are ruining their minds by doing so, as surely as they might ruin their stomachs by taking Peruna or any other patent medicine. Mr. Ripley is a typical product of American capitalist journalism. This journalism has no other motive except to make money for its millionaire owners, by any methods. It does not exist to enlighten and Jead its readers to a better life, as does the Soviet press in Russia. Education of the masses demands sincerity, intelligence, and self- sacrifice on the part of the teacher. But these papers exist for profiteering, and since it is easier to beat and degrade a child than to educate him, they feed their naive readers the most spectacular and poisonous trash. It is done deliberately by cynical intellectuals who have been de- graded themselves (like Arthur Brisbane, for example, once a fine in- tellectual) in the venal task of degrading others. The mind of the human race is a young mind, bewildered, groping, still to be formed. We are only at the beginning of a true civiliza- tion. In terms of percentages, it might be calculated that only a thousandth part of the human mind is as yet ready to live in a com- pletely Communist world. The other 999-1000ths still bear the mark of the beast and of this beastly system called capitalism. It is not the enlightened portion of this mind that the capitalist press tries to foster, to encourage. It frankly and boldly appeals to the darker and baser regions. It plays on every superstition, age-old fear, servility and ignor- ance. It is shrewd enough to know, fer example, that it Is easier to draw people to a hoochie-koochie show than to a lecture on astronomy. So it gives them the hoochie-koochie in its pages. It knows that to fight race prejudice is a more difficult and un- popular job than to breed hatred of Negroes and other races. So in no capitalist paper will you find a bold and truthful word spoken in defense of the Negroes. The capitalist press in general, ranging from the extreme right to the extreme “left,” preaches wage slavery, race prejudice, war chauvi- nism, servility to the upper class, and the like, every day in the week. Tt does this in a thousand clever ways, for these perverts have de- veloped a technique of education that would be worthy of a Don Juan or a Harry K. Thaw. They coat their reactionary and degrading poison with a beautiful frosting of sugared manure arranged in the most enticing patterns. But it is poison just the same, and for a century it has kept the American masses in the shameful dreams of a cocaine fiend. . * . . Feeding the Masses on Garbage R.. RIPLEY is a minor cog in this great poison-machine, but he is typical enough to be interesting. He has exploited that normal intellectual curiosity as to the work- ing of Nature, which is the basis of the whole structure of modern science. Instead of guiding this healthy mass craving for scientific truths into any constructive channels, Mr. Ripley feeds this baby on scraps of garbage. ‘There are certain laws that operate in the physical world, and the miracle of science consists in discovering these laws and working nd building with them, generation after generation. But the world Mr. Ripley presents is one of accident, where the most foolish, and meaningless, and startling things occur. These acci- dents have no relation to each other, and are not meant to be under- stood, but to be marvelled at. Nature is a kind of tent show, where we bumpkins perform the role of gaping at her freaks for the price of one thin dime, ten cents. Life is just a small-town country fair, and Mr. Ripley is its brazen and mendacious barker. You come through the Ripley series, and have seen everything and understood nothing. It is dope, and it prevents the mind from “thinking. Anyone who has read the simplest primer on biology or physics will find more marvels in a page than in all of Mr. Ripley’s long line of eee: horses and ane prea accidents. A Child of the Nazis 10 COME back to the calf. It seems, according to the learned Rip, that in a town of Holstein, Germany, a calf was recently born which had the swastika cross marked in white on its forehead. In other words, the cows and their bulls have gone Nazi. Or, as Comrade 4. W. H. of Chicago suggests, “is it possible that Hitler, Goering or Goobbels could have exerted any influence on the mother of that calf—either: mentally, physically, or what? Perhaps you or our friend Dr. Luttinger can enilghten me.” Ripley has been caught with his pants down on many of his “mar- vels.” He had one about the Soviet Union some time ago which was Just one of those silly inventions of an uneducated newspaper racket- eer. Some of the Daily Worker readers caught him up on that one, and wrote to him, but of course, part of the racket is to ignore the “boobs” who catch you short-changing them. Maybe tt is true this time, however. Maybe a calf has been born with the Nazi cross on its forehead. Comrade Chicago, it is possible. There are probably a few white markings of the familiar star variety which some enthusiastic Nazi has converted into a sign from the heavens. Nazis are good at this kind of thing. Haven't they built up a -geience of the Aryan race on as weighty a foundation? It is a Nazi calf. And it is made of gold. It is a golden calf, moulded by the bankers and industrial rulers of Germany, and the people must worship ed Leglen calf % die under the axe, In Defense of Sakae PEAKING of the Nazis, 8. E., a reader in the Bronx, has this to say: “There is one thing in your column to which I wish to object, and that is your practice of referring to the Nazis as snakes. “As an amateur biologist and naturalist I have found that snakes are the most friendly and amiable of animals. They are also the cleanest. Of course, there are some dangerous varieties, but this is true of all the species. Please oblige me by calling the Nazis by a more suitable name—germs, for example, since there are some mighty dia- bolic varieties of them.” i ‘This sounds like a joke, and yet it has a basis of truth to it. T used to go snake-hunting in the mountaihs.around Mexico City with @ collector for the Museum of Natural History. He was also a snake-lover, and had an affection for that form of life that most people have for dogs. He always had dozens of them in the room where he slept. He fondled them and talked to them, and they knew him and responded like pets. Paul has gone into some kind of commercial venture since, and has many responsibilities. I met him recently, and he said, with tears in his eyes, “Business is hell. How I wish I could get back to my snakes!” Comrade S. E., I assure you I did not mean to slander that beau- tiful, shy citizen of nature, the snake, when I compared him to a Nazi. It was one of those conventional slips of the tongue everyone falls into in an effort to save time. No, it would be impossible for any snake to invent the cruelties the Nazis have practiced, or to carry on for a year such a program of careful cruelty. ‘The snake kills to defend itself, but the Nazi kills and tortures for pleasure. And snakes don’t lie like Nazis; or claim that they are the champions on earth of a Snake-God. But the Nazis have made one of their kind out of Jesus, and out of even that old Jewish grandfather, Jehovah himself. How any honest _@make would hiss at such foulness! ‘fusing, if not actually dist A Criticism of the|| | Article on Haiti by \Langston Hughes. By 5. JUSTE ZAMOR The article on Haiti written by | Langston Hughes and published in the Daily Worker on May 7, makes |me realize the importance of clari- | | fication on the situation of the Hai- |tian workers in relation to their oppressors. Hughes made a num- ber of statements which con- ns. For example, he says: work which keeps Haiti alive, which pays for its occupation and enriches the foreign merchants is done by Ne- groes without shoes.” Does Hughes wish to imply that those workers who are working for the electric companies, railroad companies. ice companies, etc., and for the Hai- tian-American factory in Port-au- Prince, although badly exploited by these foreign capitalists, are also barefoot? This is not true. In Haiti this type of work, badly paid though it is, is considered the aristocracy of labor, and the people usually found working in these jobs are middie class people. These people wear shoes. Despite the extent of the shoe | industry in the Island, why is it that 65 per cent of the people are still walking barefoot? And who is responsible for such conditions? Hughes directs his criticism against the mulattoes alone. But are the Negro politicians in Haiti any bet- ter than the mulattoes? Almost all the friends of the Haitian toilers fail to understand this inter-rela- tion between the Negro and mu- latto politicians of Haiti. Most of the writers who have written about Haiti show a tendency to generalize on the question of mulattoes and blacks. What is the situation in Haiti? There, we find besides the classes, a caste system, which cre- ates division among the mulattoes, division among the blacks, and sometimes, the alliance of the rich mullatoes on the top, and poor mu- lattoes and blacks from below. When speaking about the exploi- tation of the Haitian masses by the foreign merchants, Hughes says: “Thete are no important factories in the country and the very few which exist are in the hands of those who are not native.” To say that is absolutely incorrect. It means that the Haitians themselves are not exploiting the working masses in the industrial field. How about the cigarette factories, where there are hundreds of young girls working for two dollars a week as wages? How about the numerous distilleries? How about the hat fac- tories in Port-au-Prince? All these are factories exclusively controlled by Haitians. We must not over- look the ruthless exploitation of the Haitian toilers by the foreign capi- talistse, but it is not to any extent greater than that of the Haitian ruling class. This is precisely the basic cause for the stagnation in the development. of the Island. The Haitian bourgeoisie, in order to per- petuate its parasitical way of liv- ing, hampers all forms of agricul- tural and industrial development in the country. After leaving school, both mulattoes and blacks, in order to become a part of the Haitian bourgeoisie, take'a big leap and plunge into the disastrous politics of the country. Any statement or article which tends to expose only the treacher- ous policy of the Haitian mulatto Politicians against the masses, while glossing over the fact that the Hai- tian Negro politicians play an iden- ties role, is thoroughly mislead- ing. In spite of the division which ex- ists in Haiti between the miulattoes and Negroes, the poor mulattoes get no mercy from the exploitation of the foreign merchants and the Haitian ruling class. When writing about the exploitation of the Hai- tian masses; one must never forget the part played by the Haitian Ne- gro bourgeoisie. For the mulatto rulers and the Negro rulers have formed a United Front from the top in order to crush down still further the living standards of both the mulatto and Negro worker. In closing, I should like to say that there is some good revolution- ary material in Haiti today among intellectual and middle class mulat- Mass Organizations And Individuals Help C. P. Festival-Bazaar NEW YORK.—Workers, intellect- uals and students are united in sup- Porting the Five-Day May Festival and Bazaar which the Communist Party is holding at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth St., from May 23 through the 27th. Party Sections are in the minority as far as the set-up of the booths is concerned. Most of these are be- ing taken over by unions, mass or- ganizations (particularly the I. L. D. and I. W. 0.), clubs and other groups. The Artists’ Union, conscious of the help given them by the Com- munist Party in their recent strug- gles with the local authorities, are actively participating. Many indi- viduals not connected with organ- izations have offered. their serv- ices, or are sending in contributions, notably Bishop Brown and his wife. On every day and evening during this festival there will be splendid programs of speakers and enter- , bargains in all kinds of hrigeng le sg At ee and a cool ut dec- as gegen uci excellent sold at prices workers can afford to pay. Garlin Lectures on Press Tonight; Toohey Will Be Chairman NEW YORK —Pat Toohey, for many years active in the National Miners’ Union and now editor of Labor Unity, will act as chairman at the lecture given tonight by Sender Garlin of the Daily Worker Sonic “Do You Believe What You DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1954 Who Are These Reds? By PAT WORKERS—who have been thrown factories to starve—who had thi HENRY out of the mills, mines, offices and eir wages cut in order to maintain their exploiters in luxury—WHO STRIKE. FARMERS—who are robbed by the low prices paid for their produce by the packers, millers and food monopolies on one hand, and the bankers with high interest rates and high prices for supplies and equipment on the other—who strive to retain their land won from the wilderness—-WHO FIGHT. MOTHERS—who see their ragged children slowly starving—who have to swallow the insults of charit the scanty relief doled out by ity investigators in order to secure the “miracle man’"—who have the courage to inform the kiddies of the true causes of it all—WHO GET ON THE PICKET LINE. TECHNICIANS—who have produce: d and managed the most efficient industries in the world and are then thrown on the scrap heap like a worn out machine by a handful of stock jugglers, the so- called captains of industry—who realize their interests are with the workers—WHO JOIN THE STRUGGLE. INTELLECTUALS—who keep posted on current world events and note the collapse of capitalism all Fascism, the preparations for over the world, the rising tide of the impending war and the pro- gress of the new economy in the Soviet Union—who lecture and debate—WHO HELP ENLIGHTEN THE MASSES. STUDENTS—who see the bread li finishing their education secure ine staring them in the face upon by family sacrifices or hard work —who believe that the guarantee of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” gargled by ORGANIZE. means just that the president of and not just a lot of words to be the college at ceremonies—WHO WHAT’ 2. ON Friday _ 5-DAY MAY Festival and Bazaar. Final meeting, all delegates, Friday, May 18, 8:30 p.m. Room 203, 50 %. 18th St. All Red Honor Rolls, greetings and ads must be in at this meeting. TREMONT PROG. CLUB, 866 EF. Tre- mont Ave. Lecture by John Philips, on “Imperialist Struggles in China and the Significance of the Chinese Soviets in These Struggles.” ILLUSTRATED Lecture by Sender Gar-| lin, “Do You Believe What You Read?— Behind the Headlines from 1886 to 1984.” John Reed Club, 430-6th Ave.. 8 p.m. AUs- pices, Press League. Adm. 25¢. JOE COHEN speaks on "Youth and War” at Br. Y-5 LW.O. at 223 E. 10th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 100. CONCERT, Pierre Degeyter Club, 8:30 p. m. at 5 E. 19th St, Adm. 25c. (Antheil Program postponed). ISRAEL AMTER lectures on “‘Unemploy- | ment Insurance—American Workers Need | It—Russians Do Not—Why?” Auspices: Williamsburg Br. F.S.U., Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Willoughby ‘Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Adm. free. RABBI GOLDSTEIN speaks on “Fas- cism” at East New York Workers Olub, 608 Cleveland St. cor. Blake Ave., Brook- lyn, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15¢. SYMPOSIUM at Prospect Workers Cen- ter, 1157 So. Boulevard, Bronx, on ‘‘Litera- ture Leading to Proletarian Revolution.” Writers, Artists, Poets of the John Reed Club will participate. RUBY BATES speaks at the Convale: cent Home, 3573 Eastern Blvd., Bron: Pelham Bay Sub. Station. Auspices, George Dimitroff Br. LL.D. Adm. 15c. V. I. JEROME lecture on “Present Con- ditions Today and the American Workers Party” at Harlem Prog, Youth Club, 1538 Madison Ave. at 104th St., 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission 10c. Unemployed free. NATIONAL Alumni Ass'n announces an Open Meeting and Symposium, “What Are the Prospects for the College Graduate.” Prominent speakers. Muhlenberg Br. Lib- rary, 209 W. 23rd St., 7:30 p.m. “THE TRIANGLE in the Far East.” Lec- ture by a Chinese and a Japanese com- rade at German Workers Club, 79 East 10th St. Adm. free. ED SMITH lectures on “The Meaning of National Youth Day’ at Mosholu Prog. Club, 3230 Bainbridge Ave., near Reser- yoir Oval, Bronx, 8:30 p.m ENTERTAINMENT at Swedish Hall, 2061 Lexington Ave. Speaker: MacKawain, As- sistant Nat. Sec'y L.6.N.R. on “Unity Be- tween Negro and White.” Recitation, Music. Hat check 15c. Unit 420 O.P. DR. ALICE CHASE speaks on ‘Health and Sex Hygiene in the Soviet Union” at F.8.0. Clubrooms, 576 Hemlock St, near Pitkin Ave. 8:30 p.m. Adm. 10c. OHARLES ALEXANDER speaks on “‘Na- tional Minorities and Fascism” at Wil- Mamsburg Workers Club, 43 Manhattan Ave, 8:30 p.m. AL SUGERMAN speaks on ‘National 6 Birth and Its Present Sig- Boro Park Workers Club, id 47th St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. SCHWARTZ lectures on cialized Medicine” at Elsmere Hall, 170th St. and Morris Ave. Auspices: Modern ‘Thought Center. Adm. 15c. Discussion will follow. AMY 8. JENNINGS speaks on ‘Russia Old and New’ illustrated with moving pictures. Cheerful Cafeteria, 713 Brighton Beach Ave, Auspices: Ocean Side Br. F.S. U., 8:30 p.m, SYMPOSIUM. “The American Student Movement.” Speakers: Joe Starobin, N. 8.L., Jos Lash of T.L.D., and John Lang of National Student Federation of America at NAL, 114 W. léth Bt., 8 p.m. Aus- pices: ©.C.N.Y. Chapter Seturday SOVIET TALKIE “Diary of a Revolu- N.B.L. Adm. 15¢. tionist’? at Boston Rd.. Theatre, Boston Rd, and Stebbings Ave. at 11:30 p.m Auspices: Communist Party, Sec, 18. Ad- mission 25¢, PARTY and Dance at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor. 170th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. free Hat check 10¢. Bre F.8.U. DANCE and Entertainment given by In-| dependent Smoking Pipe Makers Union of | America at Premier Palace, 505 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Contribution 49¢. ENTERTAINMENT and Dance at Tre- mont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave. Program: L. Lapkin, dancer; Felix Grov- man, baritone, violinist and many others. Dancing till dawn. CONCERT and Dance given by Unem- ployed Council of Coney Island at Work- ers Center, 2874 W. 27th St. Excellent Pro- gram. Dancing till morning. Proceeds for Defense Fund. MAY JAMBOREE, Entertainment Dance at 114 W. 14th St. gram. Negro Jazz Band Worker Chorus, Sub, 30c. JOHN BOVINGDON, revolutionary poet- dancer will take part in Ooncert and Dance given by Unit 404 C.P. at Harlem Prog. Club, 1538 Madison Ave. near 104th | St. Negro Jazz Band, Dramatics, Enter- tainment. Adm. 25c. Proceeds for $2,500 Drive of Harlem Sect. C.P. and | Excellent Pro- | Auspices: Daily | den High School, East 59th St. and Tilden | Ave., Brooklyn. Auspices: So-Cul Club and Youth Builder I.w.O. Y-67 "ICOR" Concert at Town Hall, 43rd St, Rose Buska, Soprano; Dorsha a Dancers in a new Ballet, “Menace.” pene 123 Ww. Sunday FILM and Photo League presents first Workers Newsreel Repertory Theatre, Sun- day, contintious from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. 2 EB. 17th St. Feature attraction, y Day 1934." Subscription 15¢ EXCURSION will be held by Prospect Workers Center on Sunday, May 27, to Hook Mountain. Tickets 75 at pier; 81 on sale at City Club Comm., 799 Broad- , | Way, and at our Center, 1157 So. Blvd. Boston, Mass. GEORGE WISHNACK, Business Manager of the Daily Worker, Conference arranged by District Daily Worker Comm. for Saturday, May 19, at 3 p.m. at 113 Dudley St. All sympathetic mass organizations are requested to send delegates. M.W.LU. local is holding a dance, “A Night in the Fo'c'sle” on Friday, May 18, a Repertory Hall, Huntington Ave. Adm. 5 c LECTURE by Israel Prage on ‘The Mo- tion Picture, A Marxist Interpretation.” Workers School of Boston, 919 Washing- ton St. Priday, May 18, 8 p.m. Philadelphia BANQUET and Concert for Daily Worker Saturday, May 9, 8:30 p.m. at 1208 Tasker St. Spaghetti Dinner. Nelli Brown's Or- chestra. Award of Red Banner to best worker in circulation drive, Adm. 25c. Auspices D.W. Comm. Sect. 1 ©.P. THE PHILADELPHIA Workers Bookshop, 46 N. th St., Ind floor, announces its 20 per cent discount sale beginning Friday, May 18 to June 2. Cleveland, Ohio SENDER GARLIN will speak on “Do You Believe What You Read?” at the Workers School Hall, 1524 Prospect Ave, & p.m. Sunday, May 20. Auspices: John Reed Chub. BASKET BALL Game and Dance at Til] Yas made of the address 8:20 p.m. Toscha Seidel, Violinist; | will speak at the} 8:00- | Burck Reviews Rivera In Tomorrow's Issue Jacob Burck, staff cartoonist | of the Daily Worker. reviews | “Portrait of America,” by Diego Rivera, on this page tomorrow. The review contains a pungent analysis of the evolution of Rivera and his apologetics for opportunism in art and revolu- tion. TUNING I Below 200 Meters by the Short-Wave | Radio Club of America the During last week rather poor experienced a ph reception was fifty 22] an usual, we tuni band to listen to 1d hear a man 0 | derstand the language, At 6:47 a w was talking and at 7 p.m. we could hear the strains of the International. Through- out this time our old enemy the code sta- tion was breaking up the wave, Since the air conditions were so favorable for short wave, we kept fishing on rent meters until eight o'clock. The results of | the two hours are as follows RV59 on 50 meters from 6 to 7 p.m. Signal R6 to R7. France on 25 meters 7:05. — Signal Spain, on 32 meter band. ~ Signal strength Ro. Germany.—Signal strength RT. Caracas, Colombia, Cuba, and a few | more South American stations which did not announce their colors.—Signal R9. | We also picked up the schooner Seth Parker, which is on an expedition in Sou or Central American seas. They were cal ing W3XL of Boundbrook, N. J. We | Picked them up on about a sixty-seven | meter band. Their code letter is KNRA, their signal strength R9. |. Comrade Starkof of Brooklyn reports to the club that he picked up the Moscow |station RKR on 19 meter band Sunday | |morning, between 10 and 12, Eastern | | Standard Time. We ask all comrades who |tion on Sunday mornings as Comrade Starkoff reported an R9 signal on that | station | We received a letter from the Moscow | | station RVS9 that in response to our re- | quest they will begin to announce the call letters of their stations and the meter bands. They also expressed their thanks | | to us for sending in regularly every month criticism and quality of reception of their, | station in this coun: They promised | | to find out for us where the code station a that interferes with Moscow station RV59 on a 80 meter band. | In last week's radio news, there was| jan article in one of the papers that iis | Soviet Government is building a bro: | casting station of 1,200,000 watts, nich | | will be the most powerful station in the world. WLW, the radio station in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, which has 500,000 watts, | has been considered the biggest station in | the world. | In last week's notice of the Bronx branch |of the S.W.R.C. of America, no mention This is the Mt. Eden Workers’ Center, 288 E. 174th | St.. open every evening. All those inter- | ested ar welcome. 7:00 P. M.~WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n' Andy—Sketch WABC—Nick Lucas, Songs 7:18-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketeh | WOR—Front-Page Drama | WJZ—The World Court—Dr. Manley 0. Hudson, Harvard Law School WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Trappers Music WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WJZ—George Gershwin, Piano WABO—Armbruster Orch.; Jinmy Kemper, Songs 1:43-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—True Stories of the Sea WiZ—Sketch, Max Baer, Boxer WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator WOR—Jones and Hare, Songs WJZ—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian Ethel Shutta, Songs; WABC—Padenteau Orchestra; Van Emburgh, Baritone 8:15-WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch blin, Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet WJZ—Maple City Four WABC—Court of Human Relations 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Orchestra; Frank Munn, Tenor; Muriel Wilson, 80- prano WOR—Osborne Orchestra ‘WJZ—Harris Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs 9:15-WABC—Little Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Variety Musicale; WOR—Dance Orchestra Pat, Comedians WJZ—Phil Baker, Comedian WABC—Jack Whiting, Jeannie Lang, Songs; Denny Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Sketch: The Stranger WOR—Dorothy Miller, Songs WJZ—Stories That Should Be Told— | Fulton Oursler, Author ‘WABO—Variety Musicale 10:18-WOR—Ourrent Events—H. B. Read Pie and STAGE AND SCREEN May Day Celebration Film Now Showing at Acme Thea. On the same program with the new Soviet talkie, “Marionettes,” now in its third week, the Acme Theatre is presenting pictures of the May Day Celebration in New York. This is the first time the film is shown in this city. The chief features at the Trans Lux Theatre this week include “Me and My Pal,” with Laurel and Hardy; “The Four Mile Death Dive,” with John Tranum, parachute jumper; “Cuba,” a travel film and a Popeye cartoon. The Newsreels include pictures of Soviet Russia’s athletes in a spectacular snow car- nival in Leningrad. Frank Moulan In “Mikado” At Majestic Next Monday Frank Moulan, who has been ab- sent from the Gilbert and Sullivan revivals at the Majestic Theatre, will join the company next Monday night in “The Mikado,” which the group will bring back for a third showing this season, Mr. Moulan will again play his old role of Ko- Ko. This week the players are presenting a double bill: “Pinafore” and “Trial by Jury.” “Moor Born,” Dan Totheroh’s play about the Bronte sisters, cele- brated its fiftieth performance at the Playhouse yesterday afternoon. “Mary of Scotland,” the Maxwell Anderson play at the Alvin Theatre, will give two special matinee perfor- mances, on May 22 and May 30. “Murder At The Vanities” Opens Saturday At Rivoli “Murder at the Vanities,” Earl Carroll's musical comedy, based on his stage play, will have its pre- miere at the Rivoli Theatre on Sat- urday, replacing “Sorrell and Son,” } which was booked to follow the Car- roll film, “He Was Her Man,” a new War- ner Bros. film, opened yesterday at the Strand Theatre. James Oagney and Joan Blondell are co-starred. “Beyond Bengal,” & new film produced by Showmen’s Pictures, had its first New York showing last night at the Gaiety Theatre. “The Black Cat,” screened from the story by Edgar Allan Poe, will be presented at the Roxy Theatre on Friday. Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi are featured in the cast. “Romance in Budapest,” the Hun- garian screen operetta by Aladar Laszlo and Sandor Farago, will con- tinue for a second week at the Fifty- fifth Street Playhouse. Geza von Bolvary, director of “The Theft of Mona Lisa,” staged the production, J.R.C. Writers to Speak In Symposium Tonight NEW YORK.—A symposium on “Literature in Service of the Revo- lution” will be held tonight, at 8:30 p.m., at the Prospect Workers Cen- ter, 1157 Southern Blvd. The speak- ers, all John Reed Club writers, in- clude Alfred Hayes, Fanya Foss, Philip Rahv, Nathan Adler, and Ben Field. Jerome to Speak on Social Fascism in Sunnyside Tonight NEW YORK.—V. J. Jerome, Com- munist writer and lecturer, will de- liver the second part of his expose of Social Fascism, tonight, at the Park Cabin, 49th St. and 39th Ave., Sunnyside, L. I. WJZ—Mario Cozai, Baritone; Lucille Manners, Soprano 10:30-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian; Bes- tor Orch.; Frank Parker, Tenor WOR—Walter Ahrens, Baritone; Marie Gerard, Soprano WJZ—Emilio de Gogorza, Baritone WABC—Conflict—Dramatic Sketch 10:45-WABC—Edith Murray, Songs 11:00-WEAF—George R. Holmes, Washington Bureau I, N. WOR—Weather; Moonbeams Trio WdZ—Three Scamps Trio WABC—The Republican Reaction— Senator D. O. Hastings of Delaware Chiet 8. Interesting Articles In May “China Today” NEW YORK —The anniversary May issue of “China Today” con- tains a number of interesting fea- tures, including a May Day poem by Yin Fu, Chinese revolutionary poet, an editorial on Japan's latest maneuver in its new “Hands Off China” policy, an article on the in Chinese Revolutionary history, another article giving the latest de- tails on Japan's activity in North China accompanied by a map, and articles on the National Question, the Student Movement, the first anniversary of the Friends of the Chinese People. “China Today” costs 19 cents a copy, 75 cents for @ year’s subscription, which may be obtained from the Friends of the Chinese People, 168 W. 23d &t., New York City. Outlook for College Graduates Is Topic of Symposium Tonight NEW YORK.—‘“What are the Prospects for the College Gradu- ate?” is the topic of a symposium and open meeting to be held to- night at 7:30 p.m., at the Muhlen- berg Branch Library, 209 W. 23d St., under the auspices of the Na- tional Alumni Association. The speakers will be Kyle Crichton, edi- tor of “Colliers”; Dr. Samuel Soifer; Jules Korchein, of the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, and Isidore Begun. of the Unemployed Teachers Associa- ion. WEAF—Bourdon Orchestra; Jessica | Dragonette, Soprano; Revelers Quartet Dolan Oreh. | Rerold | 8:30-WOR—Novelty Orchestra; Slim Tim- | 8:45-WJZ—Baseball Comment—Babe Ruth | significance of the month of May | — Page Fire “Robber Barons” Shows How Rulers of Industry Grabbed Up the U. S. A. |THE ROBBER BARONS, by Mat-| cific Raliroad was accom| thew Josephson. New York; Har- court, Brace & Co, $3. : s due to eae Et the fact that the roads were built Reviewed by not for operation but for spec- PHILIP STERLING ulation. The more money wasted ae ad Hggernpt the more the promotors of the T° tell the story of American| enterprise were able to pocket. capitalism from the Civil War|One cannot help thinking that | to the beginning of the present cen-| in the si | Union, such en- tury in terms of its leading trepreneiirs as. Crdckers Himlinke is no mean task and ton, Hill and the others, instead | Josephson does it ably and w aE) eadeata sew aae : jusually clear perception of the in-| 8nq highly nonored ind atiterplay of social and economic] ta. 4 * s pd te th ime, w n | hatever per abilities they | Josephson has perceived his * el co Paes ae Jations and has remained wi | them to great advantage. Neither |@ romantic apologist nor an agres: saboteurs |sive muckraker, he has confined | YE more thing is to Josephson’s | himself to selecting significant ma-| credit. While his theme give: terial from existing sources and|him a few direct opportunities to | presenting it in its proper historical | Perspective. | Speaking in his foreword of the |Robber Barons Astor, Vanderbilt,| } Cooke, Fisk and the others, Joseph- |son | “These men more or less know- |ingly played the leading roles in an |age of industrial revolution. Even | their quarrels, intrigues and misad-| ventures (too often treated as merely diverting or picturesque), are | part of the mechanism of our his- | tory.” But Josephson has no illu- | sions. He is not overawed by the | Personal grandeur and the economic |Power of the Robber Barons. For,| he says: | Josephson’s book, it has this basic | “To organize and exploit the re- | merit—it is written with a thorough | Sources of a nation upon a gigantic | consciousness of the inherent con- | Scale, to regiment its farmers and | tradictions within which the lives dwell on the subject at length, he is aware that 1 the fabulous enter- prises and the unb tunes of the Robber very directly on the backs contemporary working class. does not hesitate to point out the oceasion arises, that the western pioneers, the struggling farmers, and the oppressed city workers of the eastern industrial | areas, were, during this period of the accumulation of tremendous wealth receiving only a minute fractional share of its benefits Whatever else may be said of of the He when far- ‘Auspices: Mt. Eden Youth | have short-wave sets to try for that sta- | workers into harmonious corps of|of the Robber Barons moved. He | producers, and to do this only in| also knows that these contradictions the name of an uncontrolled ap-|are approaching a point at which petite for private profit—here surely | they can be resolved only by the is the great inherent contradiction | action of the masses on whose backs whence so much disaster, outrage | the RApien Barons rode to power. | and misery has flowed.” We Fs | In pursuing the respective and jrelated histories of the Robber | Barons, Josephson reveals clearly | that the development of America’s | industrial civilization was purely | incidental to the colossal grabbing | | | contests. | Peters, Overgaard, Ford in ‘*Stevedore”’ Symposium Tonight NEW YORK.—How a vital work- Bie | ers’ theatre can be of service to the | THE book is full of significantly | revolutionary movement will be dis- emphasized information and) cussed tonight at a symposium on j astute comment on the cultural | “Stevedore” at the Labor Temple, |and moral forces which glorified | | 14th St. and Second Ave. individual rapacity as a natural| Speakers include Paul Peters, co- |concomitant of the early ore | author of “Stevedore”; Michael | geois virtues of thrift, orderliness | lankfort, director of the pla | and sobriety. | tonat Ford, member of the Na- z tional Bureau of the T U. U. Li; | It becomes apparent, from read-| andrew Overgaard, head of the |ing the book, for instance, that | Trade Union Unity Council, and | the long list of graft scandals | others, | from Teapot Dome to Senator | aT K a | Dhayer andl Power ‘Trust, is. not | ics erucagn ie teteraanne wl due merely to the degeneration | a ys yi of latter-day democratic institu- |! Negro and Russian cones. | tions, but that direct bribery and | | corruption have always been part | Bestiaa 10, Mestiie Is | of American capitalism's domestic | | Postponed to May 28th sens ‘i method... | Josepison® pays articular at-| ee tention to the development of the| NEW YORK—The Party?and Y. | railroads and -here-he makes ob-|C. L. membership meeting’ sched- | vious the planlessness with which | uled for Monday, May 21,-Has been | all capitalism, particularly the | postponed to Monday, May 28, at & American brand, has developed. He| p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 4126 | pointed out, for example, that the | 58th St., Woodside, Long Island. ORG. DEPT., SEC. 10. | construction of the Central Pa- AMUSEMENTS. Last 4 Days on —-THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JIG SAW “A Pine Soviet Batire. .. The plot |] _A comety by DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON has a meaning which {es vital to the lives i} ETHEL BARRYMORE Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway of every worker.” < Evgs. 8:40. Mat. Thur. sane Sat. 2:40 ay S venison’ GENE O°NEILL's Comedy “The film is a brilliant, AH. WILDERNESS! very amusing politico-satir- teal Soviet picture. It pre- sents something new in film plays.” —MORNING FREIHEIT i with GEORGE M. CORAN d St. W. of Biway Thur.&Sat.2.20 MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play || “MARY OF SCOTLAND’ with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN with MOSCOW ART THEATRE COMPANY | 47 777 Thea. 584 St., W. of Bway and MOSCOW & LENINGRAD Ballet VIN gy.8.20 Mat.Thor.Sat.aTuen Special Musical Score (English Titles) EXTRA! EXTRA! Special Added Attraction May Day Celebration in New York ACME THEATRE STAB CAST ” & “Trial By Jury? “THE MIKADO” Next_ Week | MAJESTIO THEA, W. 4th St. | S0e to $2.00. Mat: | GILBERT & SULLIVAN This Week. “Pina! ergs. 8:30, . Wed a Sat, 50e to $1.50 Film and Photo League Presents FIRST WORKERS NEWS- REEL REPERTORY i THEATRE Including MAY DAY, 1934 SUNDAY, MAY 20th | Continuous from 2 to 11 P. M. at 12 FE. 17th St Subscription 15¢. | 14th st. 8 Union 8q. | | WALTER HUSTON in Sinclair Lewis’ DODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, W. 44th St. Eva, 8:40 Sharp | Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 — THE THEATRE UNION Present The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Hit 1 | stevedore Rorrrrs CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St Eves. 8:45. ‘Me-40e- A New Musical Comedy by | JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK | NEW AMSTERDAM, W, 42d St. Eves. 8.40 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 READ? ILLUSTRATED LECTURE by SENDER GARLIN Staff Writer of Daily Worker Mats. Tues. -60e-The-$1.00 & § D BEHIND the HEADLINES from 1886 to 1934 TONIGHT at & Sat. 3:45) , No Tax You Believe What You John Reed Club 8:15. pam. 430-6th Avenue Admission Auspices 25 Cents PRESS LEAGUE NEW THEATRE NEGA NEW THEATRE MAGAZINE Presents the Season’s Outstanding Revolutionary Plays THEATRE COLLECTIVE — ARTEF—Stars | of “STEVEDORE,” “MEN IN WHITE,” | S bar og by Y | WORKER'S LAB, THEATRE—THE R.P.A., | | GEORGE SKLAR — MARA TARTAR CIVIC REPERTORY Admission 25¢ - 35¢ - 55¢ - 75¢ & 6th AVE. | May 20th, 1934 |