The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 19, 1934, Page 7

CHANGE —_— THE —— WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD WAS glad to see that letter from an indignant Irish worker in the Party Life column of this paper last week. He accused the Communist Party organizer of Providence, R. L. of rank indifference to the importance of Sean Murray’s speaking tour in this country. Sean Murray one of the leaders of the newly- formed Comraunist Party of Ireiand. He is a valiant figure, a pro- leterian hero who has fought with arms for twenty years against British imperialism. He was a commander in the Irish Republican Army, active against the fascist Black and Tans, and has worked against a white terror comparable only to that of the Nazis. In him are combined the best characteristics of a true Bolshevik. Not only is Comrade Murray a fearless and disciplined man of action, but he is 2 Marxist theoretician as well, sound, scholarly and logical. The Irish worker, in this country, plays a part in the industria] life far out of proportion to his numbers. He is a keyeman in many basic industries, and it.is his vote that supports the ee political machiné of many of the major cities. Ireland, too, is a small nation, yet it has played a aa in world history out of all proportion to its size. For centuries it has been the spearhead of the attack on im- perialism. Too few of our comrades understand that to know Irish history is to know the history of Cuba, Nicaragua, India, China, Africa, and every other land that has to suffer the burden of capital- ist imperialism. Treland is the classic example of the deadly economic cost of im- perialism to a subject people. “It has literally been depopulated under British rule; in the middle ages it sustained something like eight million people; today it contains only three million. It is the classic land “of this foreign exploitation; but it is also the classic land of resistance. Ireland has never been conquered by England. In every géneration, for many centuries, there has been @ revolt, and when the murderous British Empire finally cracks in the coming day of proletarian doom, Ireland will again be in the vanguard, aé she was during the World War. So Sean Murray's trip hére has an historic importance. He is the messenger of the new révolt that is gathering in Irish history for the first time—the only revolt that can finally crush British im- périalism—the revolution of the workers and peasants of Ireland. The reactionary tendencies of the Irish worker in America are due. to the fact that he is an Irish nationalist, and hitherto Irish nationalism has been used by the middle-class for its own ends. The Irish worker needs to be shown that Ireland will never -be freed by the middle-class, but by the workers. Many of the leaders in the Irish Republican army who have fought for this freedom, are now coming under the influence of the Communist Party.’ The Irish fascists are also growing, with the help and sympathy of British imperialism. There is a new line-up of forces going on, based on Marxist lines. It is a new phase of Irish history that will have a world effect, and Sean Murray is its first ambassador to this country, bringing the news to the Irish masses here. How could anyone overlook the importance of such a visitor to our shores? . * . Lenin and James Connolly OW many of our comrades know that Lenin respected only two Marxists writing in English: one, the American Daniel de Leon, the other, the Irish Marxist, James Connolley. De Leon; of course, wandered off-into personal ideosyncrasies and secterian.bynaths. for which Lenin had the sharpest condemnation. Jim Connolley, however, helped Lenin clarify in his own mind thet working noliey toward a country onpressed by imterialism which has now resulted in the whole Communist line regarding imperialism. Many Marxists at the time actually. could not understand and even condemned Jim Connolley-for leading the Irish revolt of Easter Week durinz the first years of the world war. They alleged that it was not a Socialist revolt, but a nationalist one. Jim’ Connolly, however,.with his own life-blocd testified to the Communist truth of our time: the.only path to freedom for aworkers in a nationally-oppressed land is in a unity of the socialist and anti-imperialist revolutions. And this is the doctrine now written into the platform of the Communist International. The Socialists had always ignored and i even repudiated these anti-imperialist revolts. It was fo: this reason | they condemned James Connolly... But Lenin wrote his burning epitaph and studied his example. It was Lenin who joyfully hailed the Easter Week revolt as the first crack in the apparently solid front of war-patriotism. To his prophetic eye Easter Week was the forerunner of a people’s revolu- tion against the world imperialist war, a brief, crushed, but valiant Pro.uise that the Soviet would come. . * The New Irish Revolution | Ny years, after James Connolly was killed, there seemed to be a break in the proletarian and Marxist tradition of which he and Jim Larkin had been the pioneers. The years were devoted to military and political struggle against Englend, and the best blood of young Ireland was drained off into this ruthless conflict. -But the middle class won its victory, in the form of an. Irish “Free State; and de Valera won his victory, in his sham battle against this Free State; and for some years now, the young Irish revolu- tionists have had some breathing space in which to reflect. The result has been an Irish Communist Party, which is rapidly gathering to itself the best and most militant elements in the agrarian and proletarian movement, and from among. the fighters in the Irish Republican Army. - And, significantly, a group of Marxist theorists and historians has arisen teday, the first to appear since the murder of James Connolly. __ Recently, the International Publishers of N. Y. have brought out the book of oné of these younger revolutionaries, “The War for the Land in Ireland,” by Brian O'Neill. | It is a study that demonstrates how the nationalist Irish strug- gle has always been basically a si é by. the peasants for land. The book reviews all of Trish history, and. if read-in connection with Connolly’s classic, “Labour in Irish History, ” will give any prole- tafian student a keonér insight irito what this Irish business is about than all the Tammany Hall orations by bellowing dollar-pstriots of “Trish freedom. The introduction to this book is by the talented young novelist, Peader O'Donnell. He is the author of “There Will Be Fighting,” published recently in America, and a veteran officer of the Irish Republican Army. As in ell lands, the best flower of the Irish youth is movint to Communism. : A Banauet For Sean Murray @O, COMRADES, let us overcome the chauvinistic indifference many of us have toward the Irish question. I tsmember, some six years ago in England, finding to my. amaze- ment ‘a nectlier and supericr attitude on the part of some Com- munists toward the Irish workers. It was a reflection of the upper- class British feeling, since the Lords and Ladies look upon the Trish worker much as our southerners do at Negroes. Tt is criminal for a Communist to feel that way. Ireland’s destiny is linked up with the struggles of the American worker in the most immediate way. To ignore this is to betray ourselves. Let the bour- geois lice snigger and sneer at the name, Irish. But we, Who know the martyrdom of the Irish people and the courage of their resist- ance to imperialism, know that Chauncey Olcott, Cardinal Hayes, or Tainmany Hall aré not the true spokesmen of the Irish masses. It is men like Sean Murray who truly represent Ireland. He is speaking in many cities before he leaves, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, etc. On May 30, he will be given a farewell banquet in Irving Plaza, New York, at which Earl Browder and other leaders will. sneak. ‘Thousands of New York workers. will undoubtedly be present, to “signify their undying solidarity with the Irish workers and peasants. It ought to be a gréat and historic night and fhis Irishman promises to be there. * DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, Miners’ St Fight for Their Elementary Rights By SENDER GARLIN E the New York capitalist Press continues its conspiracy | Of silencé on the strike of the 8,000 ore miners near Birmingham, Ala-/| }bama, the Southern newspapers are filled with violent incitements| | against the strikers and militant organizers. “REAL FIGHT ON REDS OR- DERED” announces the Birmin- gham News of May 10. TOLD TO MAKE RAIDS AND/ | ARREST COMMUNISTS.” “POLICE | rike by AY 19, 1934 Page Seven Southern Press Seeks to Break li New York, stated the Birming- ham organizers were making good | headway in forming children’s} | groups in the Negro schools. . | This obviously refers to the “acti-| | vities of the Young Pioneers, the | organization of workers’ children jin the U. S. Aghast at this development, Chief | s Hollums said, “We cannot allow this | thing to continue. I have ordered that Communism be wiped out be- fore it gets a better foothold here.| Literature will be seized and all Communist suspects jailed.” | Significantly enough, the same| N issue of the Birmingham News| which announced “REDS LINKED| | Negro, White Workers) restea—s. Gj The letter, addressed from place to place to meet any situation that may arise.’ 'HE southern newspapers are ap- | parently not limiting their pro-| paganda against the to their “news” columns, have been appearing almost ever: day on the strike. The tone varies: | “appeals” | of are made to the “more realistic’ the strike leaders. On May 10, for example the Bir-| |mingham Age-Herald jlong editorial enti Need” published a} . tled “The Hour’s about | organized | situation. i. ‘WITH VIOLENCE,” also des- BIRMINGHAN WE DNE SDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 9, 1934 PRICE: THREE CENTS RMI, BELL Gwen | OPRY SINCE PREDIOTIO} Frankly announcing itself has a house-organ of the Tennesee Coal and Iron Company and the police department, the Birmingham News reports that: “Birmingham police Thursday were instructed to redouble their offensive against Communism with orders from Chief Hollums to raid leaders in jail ‘on any charge we can make stick.’ “The chief declared, ‘We intend to make life so miserable for these people they'll seek new fields of operation.’ “Hollums who declared war on Communism in orders to his men Wednesday morning, said the de- partment is ‘morally certain’ the so-called Red organization is directly responsible for most of the Jefferson county's industrial un- rest, and said he has told his men ‘harass the life out of these peo- ple” The previous day the Birmin- gham News had blossomed forth with a five-column headline, “REDS LINKED WITH VIO- LENCE,” from which a drop-head announced “ARRESTED MINERS BARE COMMAND TO SHUOT FOR RIGHTS. Self defense be- ing at least theoretically justified even in the capitalist courts of the land, it is difficult to understand wherein it was criminal to “shoot for rights.” The paper announced that “the order to wipe out Communism within the city rang through the Police Department as Chief Hol- jums issued a declaration of war against agitators and propaganda | spreaders. Two detectives were |ordered to devote full time to in- | vestigation of ‘Red’ activities and every member of the department was ordered to jail every Commu- nist suspect.” ig thie 1 hee BIRMINGHAM NEWS—said to be an enterprising newspaper —also made public the sensational discovery that “investigation showed one of those arrested (a Negro miner—S, G.) has been keeping in direct communication with groups in_Russia.” Police seem to have been reading the reports of the Daily Werker, for the News ennounces that: “Police are of the opinion Bir- mingham has been selected as a central concentration point for Communist activities because of the city’s industrial nature.” The above, with all the air of a great discovery of a dastardly crime, is printed in bold face type. The astute police chief, Hollums, has uncovered other sinister plots according to the Birmingham News, for the paper goes on to say that: “Chief Hollums pointed out also that efforts are being made to or- ganize school children. This evi- dence was disclosed, he said, in a letter discovered in the apartment raid [where six workers were ar- their suspected haunts and put the) STRIKE MOVES NEAR CLIMAX; REDS LINKED WITH VIOLENCE ARRESTED MINERS BARE COMMAND 10 SHOOT FOR RIGHTS, | Police, Sheriff's Office And) Grand Jury Will Open | War On Radicals e OUTBREAK BELIEVED WORK OF AGITATORS | Letters Reveal Negro School: Children Organized By Communists Here cribed in detail the violent activi- ties of the Alabama National Guard. “GUARDSMEN TAKE COM- MAND IN ORE MINING DIS- TRICT,” was one of the headlines in large type, while lower down in | small type were the words, “Smelter | Workers Officers Say Pickets in Disturbances Were Unarmed.” ‘While national guardsmen patch, “took command of the Red Mountain ore mining sections, where guerrilla warfare Tuesday night resulted in the killing of two Negroes and the wounding of not less than eight other persons, events in the strike of approximately 8,000 ore miners moved rapidly to a climax. . .” Describing the “guerrilla war- fare,” the News reporter wrote in- genuously that “due to the dark- ness no aim could be taken, the Officers said, and firing began in the.general direction of the mob.” we ATER on, however, the reporter— having forgotten this statement |—writes that “it was in this battle that the two Negroes were killed. Both were found dead a short distance from the scene of the bat- tle. Deputies said one was shot through the temple and the other through the heart, both apparently by pistol or rifle fire.” In other words, “one shot through the temple and the other through the heart” in spite of the fact that “due to the darkness no aim could be taken”! The News reports that “none of the deputies were injured in the clash.” And for the good reason that the armored car used by the deputies “is built upon a railroad motor car, and has walls of 5/16 inch steel.” According to Brig. Gen. John C. Persons the national guard is “fairly able” to handle the situa- tion in the strike area. Persons, commander of the 62nd Infantry Brigade, is in’command of all the troops now on duty. Gen. Persons let it be known in the Southern press that the guard is equipped with rifles, antomat> rifles, gas guns, gas grenades and achine guns, and “has adequate! transportation for moving quickly * FORMER GUARD MAJOR AMONG WOUNDED IN armed to the teeth,” said the dis-| sa: (UARDSWEN TAKE -COMMARD I OE MINING DST Injunetion Granted Republic Employes Restraining AM Interference AMBUSCADE ATTACK SOLICITOR BAILES MOVES | FOR PROBE OF OUTBREAKS ‘Smelter Workers Officers Say Pickets In Disturbances Were Unarmed strikers, officials of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union had sent a sharp protest to various state and federal officials charging that “deputy sheriffs, without provoca- tion, turned loose murderous machine gun fire on unarmed, de- fenseless pickets near the Red Ore Mines of the Tennessee Company.” The Age-Herald quotes this mes- we and declares that “labor statesmanship in such a crisis calls for different tactics. It calls for a candid facing of the facts. A large number of men are out on strike. They know little or nothing about union discipline. They are readily gulled by agitators, and their very) idleness makes easy for them to go to extremes. ... aspect of the matter which should not be overlooked. The wholesale unionizing which has taken place im recent months has included Negro as well as white miners. . . As things have worked out Negroes have been conspicuous in demon- strations and other activities. What the arming of people who nurse their own racial grievances could lead to must be left to the imagina- tion. This is another reason for a balanced and creative policy on the part of union leaders.” | But just what are canny editors of the Age-Herald after? Get this: “Palpably, the most strenuous ef- forts by union officials is to get everybody back to work.” The 8,000 ore miners in Alabama —nearly 75 per cent of whom are Negroes are fighting against a wage scale which the Labor Board has tried to impose upon them, as weil as for union recognition. They ential—legalized by the N. R. A. and personally approved by Presi- dent Roosevelt. They are fighting for the right to strike, picket, as- semble and organize—for the ele- mentary rights of the working class. The sole purpose of the Red Scare being whipped up by the Southern capitalist press is to shift the issue and to break the strike. The valiant way in which the Nezro and white miners are fight- ing shoulder to shoujder on the Alabama picket lines is the best indication that the southern bosses will not succeed. TUNING IN The Italian Workers Chorus will sing over WNYC on Sunday at 5:30 p. m. 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resum: Wsz—Fiving-Captain Al Williams WABC—Jones Orchestra 7:15-WEAF—Religion in the News—Dr. Stanley High WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield 7:15-WJZ—Piokens Sisters, Songs 7:30-WEAF—Himber Orchestra; De Marco Sisters, Songs; Eddie ‘Peabody, Banjo WOR—East Orange American Legion Band an ‘WdZ—Bestor Orchestra WABC—Serenaders Orchestra; Paul Keast, Baritone; Thelma Goodwin, Soprano 7:45-WABC—Looking at Life—Roy Helton 00-WEAF—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen, Contralto; Bill Smith, Baritone; Stern Orchestra WOR--City Government Talk WJZ—Art and the Public—Talk WABC—Rich Orch.; Morton Downey, Tenor; Mary Eastman, Seprano :15-WOR—All Star Trio WJZ—Bavarian Band ‘WEAF—Floyd Gibbons, Headline Hunter; Music WOR—Werren Orchestra ‘W3Z—Canadian Concert 8:45-WABC—Fats Waller, Songs 9:00-WEAF—Voorhees Orchestra; Donaid Novis, Tener; Frances Langford, Gontralto; Joe Cook, Comedian WOR—Newark Civic Symphony Or- chestre, Philip Gordon, Conductor WdZ—Jamboree—Musical Variety Newsreel Theatre to Show Vivid Pictures Of Workers’ Struggles NEW YORK. — The New York May Day parade seen from an air- plane will be one of the thrilling pictures to be shown at the first performance of the Workers News- reel Theatre on Sunday, con‘inuous from 2 p. m. until 11 p. m, at the co and Photo League, 12 E. 17 Many “shots” which have never been seen before will be shown, such as scenes of the recent taxi strike, a picture of Clarence Hatha- way outside Madison Square Garden after having been assaulted, and the united front demonstration out- Side the Austrian Consulate. Graphic pictures of the Scotts- boro trial, including courtroom scenes, striking middle-western farmers, the Ambridge massacre, the Soviet freighter Kim, are among the newsreels which will be pre- sen‘ed, with music and dialogue ac- companiments. Admission is 15 cents, and the proceeds will go to the Communist Party. Calmer Speaks at JRC Forum Sunday Night NEW YORK. —Alan Calmer, Na- tional Secretary of the John Reed WABC—Greta Stueckgold, Soprano; Kostelaneta Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Real Life Problems—Sketch; Beatrice Fairfax, Commentator ‘WoZ—Duchin Orchestra WA! mmber Orchestra 9:45-WABC—Fray and Braggiotti, Piano 10:00- ewe Orch.; Saxon Sisters, ngs WOR tuto Music WJZ—Tim Ryan's Place—Sketch War cena Byrd Expedi- 10:5; 30-WHAF—A Better Army for War Against Crime—Jusiin Chairman Criminal Lew E:cotion, American Bar Association; Dean Clubs of the U. S., will speak on “Early Traditions in American Lit- erature” at the John Reed Club Forum, 430 Sixth Ave., on Sunday night at 8:30. * RUSSIAN BALL TONIGHT NEW YORK.—Three Russian or- ganizations. the Maxim Gorky Union, the Independent House- wreckers’ Union, and the Russian Branch of the F. S. U., have united ate Duke University Law School in Recital Webern Dance in sponsoring a concert and ball to be held tonight at 8 p..m. at Man- hattan Lyceum, 66 E, 4 St. Political Prisoners’ Club to be Formed by National Committee NEW YORK.—A conference to discuss the formation of a Political Prisoners’ Club will be held on Monday, May 21, at 5 p. m., at the office of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, 156 Fifth Ave., Room 534. All former political prisoners are invited to at- tend. SESE cacti REN se FILM EXCURSION PHILADELPHIA.—The Film and Photo League has arranged a camera excursion to take place Sunday, May 20, at 2 p.m. Par- ticipants are asked to bring cameras or kodaks with them, The group will meet at the John Reed Club, 136 S. 8th St. The excursion will end up at the John Reed Club in time to attend the Fourth Red There is another) are fighting against a wage differ-| The Growth of| | Workers’ Theatres Red Scare 99 During the Crisis By BEN BLAKE URING tk revolu‘ionary tablished vital force i | today When theatre Jaunc! atre is a weapon in the gle,” the number of matic groups perfo tionary plays country could be cour fingers of one first town pérfo form, and th tionary m y ganization, and class pow er to the Negro and white workers of Amer- ica, most of whom had n inside a regular theatre in AS THE workers theatre, lusty and | z and tinued to | grow, a t ¢ num- | ber of craftsmen in crisis- | smitten bourgeois . attracted by the creative vigor ar spiration of what th recognized was to be the new theatre of the future, sought to aid in the ad of this theatre. At the same t the new working class audience gan to demand better productions, and the leaders of the workers the- atre (organized as the League of ere Theatres of the U. S. A.) in- Seay of rite bs) out serious efforts to master the elements of stage tec could be no further gr tre training classes estab- lished. Radizalized professional thea- tre workers were welcomed and en- were listed as teachers. The “agitprop | theatre” became the “theatre of ac- | tion,” broadening the scope and| quality of its work. | This whole later phase of develop- ment has taken place within the past two years. But the relation- ship between the workers theatre and the radicalized craftsmen in the bourgeois theatre has not been limited to training. For in this very | same period, another very impor‘-| ant development hes taken place— the growth of a number of revolu- tionary “stationary theatre: fessional and semi-professional, pro- | ducing mainly full-length plays | along the traditional more or less elaborate lines of the present-day theatre, performing on standard | stages, and involving large num-} bers of people from the bourgeois} commercial and little “art” thea- tres. These artists and intellectuals have felt themselves stifled, crea~- tively and economically, in the bourgeois theatre, EVOLUTIONARY stationary the- atres producing in English ak ready include the Rebel Players of Los Angeles, the New Theatre of Hollywood, the Workers Theatre of Chicago, the Theatre Collective and the Unity Theatre of New York, | and, of course, the Theatre Union, | whose successful production of “Peace on Earth” and “Stevedore” on an all-professional basis has es- | tablished it as the leading revolu- tionary stationary theatre in the United States. Aroynd the magazine “New The- atre,” the official organ of the League of Workers Theatres, a group of contributing editors has been crystallized which includes not only some of the best artists in the revolutionary movement, but also some of the best creative forces that have grown up in the bourgeois theatre. Sidney Howard, Mordecai Gorelik, Lee Strasberg, Alfred Kreymborg, Virgil Geddes, and Hallie Flanagan are among them, as are Mike Gold, Joseph Freeman, Michael Blankfor', Paul Peters, Paul and Claire Sifton, John Howard Lawson, and a host of others. PERFORMANCE SUNDAY For the first time, all the revolu- tionary stationary theatres in New} York will be represented, either by entire acting companies or by in- dividual performers, on a single program, at the “New Theatre Night” being held under the. aus- pices of New Theatre magazine on Sunday night, May 20, at the Civic Repertory Theatre. ICOR to Hold Concert At Town Hall Tonight NEW YORK —The Icor Associa- tion for Jewish Colonization in the Soviet Union will hold its annual Grand Concert tonight at 3:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 113 W. 43 St, New York City. Among the renowned artists who will participate in the splendid program are Toscha Seidel, violinist, Rose Buska, soprano, and Dorsha and her dancers. Workers are urged to attend this gala con- cert to. express their solidarity the Jewish pioncers who are build- Literature Night of@ the Writers’ |ing Biro Bidjan as a Jewicu Social- Group, at 8:30 p. m. jist Soviet Republic, Last 3 Days — Don't Miss Seeing This Sovict ‘Satir “A Fine Soviet Satire... The plot has a meaning which f is vital to the lives of every worker.”"—DAILY WORKER. “A lett hook to the jew of established religion! An upper- cut to the jaw. DAILY NEWS. “A brilliant Soviet film.” Enacted by the MOSCOW ART THEATRE PLAYERS and the MOSCOW & LENINGRAD BALLET. Speciz! Musical Score (English Titles) SPECIAL ADDER FEATURE 14th §' ACME THEATRE MAY DAY CELEBRATION Qihcusands of Werkers Turn Gut in New York City UNION —HERALD-TRIBUNS. MARIONETTES MIDNITE SHOW TONITE STREET and SQUARE | Rivera | fruits of the earth A Portr ait of Diego Rivera—The Story of a Bird Ina AMER PORTRAIT OF ICA Diego Rivera. With an Exple tory Text by Bertram D. Wo New York: Covici-Fricde. Reviewed by JACOB BURCK is ike culture of the proletariat which in its h: : Diego BR (Self-por lass turned y his cell on Montmarte where he was imp! tude he painted a wor trait of his liberator—a seri mural panels showing the power and strength of the workers. Un- fortunately, the portrait was com- Missioned and paid scoundrel whose to flatter and model the When this tr became e ident, | ‘s felle ts packed their tools and refused to be p: it, except Ri How explain this in his cluc “Portrait of America’? He the answer by maintaining plet nee on this point. Significant also is his seeming | absent-mindedness about the Mi can Revolutionary Syndicate of Painters, of which Rivera was a part, and which was responsible for his transition from a cafe- aesthete to a working-class artist. With similar innocence he omits j all reference to political qui | and makes it appear that is journ in the states was solely casual result of a chance vis an old crony, a sculptor, a Ralph Stackpoole of San Fran who got him his first job in the U. 8. to decorate the San Francisco| Stock Exchange. With the same s‘<ill with which} he arranges. his panels, Rivera can} at the drop of a hat, compose an alibi to justify any opportunistic act. Note with what consummate gives com- |} skill does he manage to squeeze his | camel-like bulk through the eye of | @ needle: “The painter's intention, of! course,” writes Rivera, “must not lie outside the function of the place} in which his painting has its bei else his work will be lack’ both objective and subjective cor-| rectness and truth. In this mural in a luncheon club, I painted the which enrich and nourish because of the pro- ductive Jabor of workers and farm- ers. I painted no mortgage-hold- ing bankers, or industrial overlords. or parasitic exploiters—only the modern workers and discoverers, as well as the pioneers brave adventurous guides of the prairie schooners which brought the blood thirsty hordes across the lands defended by the free Indians, there to become despoiling adven-j turers, persecutors of Mexicans populators of the land of gold; all those barbarous settlers and entre- preneurs who were as necessary as the fatal crimes they committed in the process of transforming this new land by industrialization into something that would, as Marx foretold ina brilliant prophecy, convert the Atlantic Ocean into an island sea, and make the Pacific the new ocean of world commerce. “} was reproached by many peo- ple for not having included a por- trait of Tom Meoney in the Lun- cheen Club mural, and there might |be some justification for their cri- | ticism if one did not also take into account the PLACE [emphasis and those} Gold Frame in which I was suddenly ainted :the of the y for the le. But he vicious Ford em— he flower of capitalis m. Just a picture of men at work, in a setting of beautiful machinery No wonder Edsel Ford was well pleased with the job, despite the eater ions of the local Rotarians 5 ‘In “fact it was all that was , Rivera’s lish interpreter of his American S, in the best Rivera beauty of machinery and so forth, Regarding the Ror feller Mural | in Radio City, vious to any revolutiona: lee p g, that the Communist | Pa: vas not shown as the leader jot t Instead, the Amer- | painted by Rivera had emblance to the rene- tone who claims to be the only existent imate heir to | Lenintem in America Rivera moved ver to the Love- | stone School te he painted | Lenin again. Ev: ly his usual ,; Shrewdness told him that he could | not with very good grace present Lenin to the Socialist Party, for his | negotiations with the Rand School, es announced in the New York Times, seemingly through. Wolfe's contribution to the book is not much more than that of a }museum guide who leads you from |picture to picture explaining why | Rivera paints Benjamin Frankl portrait larger than that of V | ington, etc. Wolfe ends his hi y on the curious note of Communist | unity whereby he would have the | Communist Party merge with all the counter-revolutionary forces, from Tro’ y down or up, depending on the progression. None of Rivera’s paintings in the U. have the power and pictorial unity of his Mexican work which he did when he was part of the class struggle. lis post-revolution- ary paintings are jig-saw puzzles of isolated scenes arbitrarily drawn together by purely artistic tricks of composition, and in this. sense as compositions are not much more than Sunday supplement rotogra- vure layouts compared to his com- pelling paintings of the Mexican ; Revoluti He will never relin- quish revolutionary subject- matter even though he has long ceased being a revolutionary, and is now back again at work for the Mexican Government which was the hangman of many of his former comrades. He realizes that while the bourgeoisie can build for | him a luxurious ultra-modernistic studio surrounded with a live cac- tus fence, it cannot provide him with the living material for great works of art. Did not the revolu- tion pick him out of the gutter of Bohemia and make of hima painter of first rank? 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