The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE |——THE—_| “WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD EAR COMRADE MIKE: It’s some weeks now since the ultra liberal World-Tele- gram published an epic document of reactionary thought, written by that sports writer turned observer and philoso- pher, Westbrook Pegler. ae This typical piece of bourgeois philosophy was a vicious libel of the proletariat and I thought you would make some com- ment on it in your column. Maybe I missed your comment or maybe you missed his column, 4 Mr. Pegler started his piece off with the observation that a lot of demagogic slime has been spewed on the working man for the past few years by the capitalist and liberal press. He says: “The common man has been heavily buttered with sympathy and flattery this last year or so, but just to keep the record straight, some of him are a pretty ornery lot.” Maybe he thinks it’s about time the “common man” got used to the fact that there’s a depression and that he may expect nothing but a heavy buttering of false sympathy, flattery and promises from capi- talist flunkies like himself. He goes on to Say how sad it is that people can't be graded ac- cording to their ability to steal. In his own words: “Some of the common men are no more honest than the fat bankers depicted in the cartoons, and failed in life not from any lack of the larcenous instinct, but merely because they didn’t have the vision or the technique to steal money on a grand scale.” He calls this group who haven’t the vision to steal, a bunch of in- competents and shiftless characters, souses, loafers, boss-haters and fourfiushers, and says it’s too bad sympathy and assistance can't be withheld from them. T’m sure Mr. Pegler didn’t get those bags under his all-observing eyes from staying up nights studying the problems of the working class. If ne gave a little thought to the matter he would hardly come out with the followin; “Unfortunately,” he says, “the good workman who is willing and able to deliver a dollar's worth of work for a dollar, but can’t get a job because there aren't enough jobs, is lumped together with all the unemployed.” Is Mr. Pegler so naive as to think that there actually aren’t enough jobs? Is he so simple that he believes a workman gets a dollar for every dollar’s worth of labor power expended? Doesn't he realize that there is a reascn why bankers and capitalists are fat? Someone should tell him about surplus value, His good workman who is willing to give a dollar’s worth of labor for a dollar must in reality give three or four dollar's worth for his dollar or go on strike and be classe® as a boss- hater by Peglers. He goes on and on in this vein. Christ, if it wasn’t so vicious it would be funny. Mr. Pegler’s contract with the Scripps-Howard bunch probably nets him over a thousand a week. It’s a shame men like that are paid for the kind of stuff they write. Think of all the fascist seeds in this country he and the like of him are fertilizing with their poisonous droppings. We have one good tool, however, with which we can plow under the sprouting fascists and |Our Delegation DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESD } Page Five Pays a Call on the Commissioner By ESTHER FREEMONT ' STOOD in the rain at 50 La- fayette Street, on * Saturday morning waiting for Commissio: of Public Welfare Hodson to see committee. The line of C.W.A workers and applicants, profession- als and laborers, surrounded the | building and the block, waving their | banners and umbrellas. Two hours | passed. We walked up and down | and around the block, waiting for | Hodson to see our delegates. Hod- | son didn’t like the crowd because | he didn’t like the numbers (there | were a thousand of us), so he didn’t | see us. Teachers, architects, engi- | neers, clerical workers, ditch diggers, | park renovators, street, cleaners, marched in line crying their slo-| gans, holding their banners high.| We don’t want to starve!” “We| want work!” “We Demand Relief!” “Continue our projects!” “Stop dis- missa! “Summer work!” “We are hungry “Unemployment = Insur- | ance!” We want a hearing!” Hodson wouldn't see us. Hodson was busy. Hodson was tired. Hodson was deaf. Hodson was amused. Hodson was anything. But we also knew, because he was look- ing out of the window, that he was afraid. We were impatient, wet, hoarse, and determined. A worker got out of the ranks, stood on a Pump and addressed us. The mounted police waited. “And what we are we to do?” the worker asked the lines. “We demand a hearing now,” the answers came. “The committee is going in.” “Break down the doors!” There was a rush for the doors, men and women. Banners and placards were thrown away, We crowded and pressed against the door, the mounted police swinging their clubs right and left, after us. Some of us were thrown down, some beaten, some escaped the clubs, most of us dispersed, only to form new picket lines half way down the side streets, around the corners. We had no weapons; hundreds of us were pushed back and the hundreds came forward again. Some of us Picked the sticks and torn banners and hurled them back at, the police- men who were beating workers who had fallen under the first clubbings, We saw policemen break into the crowds swinging at heads, arms, backs, legs. erat WORKER on crutches rallied great crowds around him. “Stick together, don’t run back!” he shouted. He was dragged from the * clear the air of the stench of Peglers, That’s the Daily Worker. Here's hoping every comrade is conscientiously building and strengthening this tool, Comradely, JOHN DAY. The Rightward Drift IT IS highly interesting that the “liberalistic’” World-Telegram has found it necessary to add this writer to its staff. It is a sign of the times, for the gentleman in question is poles apart from that thild, amorphous, Christ-like, penthouse pagan, Heywood Broun. Mr. Pegler is very hard-boiled at his typewriter, and always man- ages to resist the “sentimental” appeal of the unemployed, the Negroes, the veterans, and other lower-class groups. Himself an employee, he is always on the side of the employer. In crude labor union circles such people are called ‘‘scabs,” and Mr. Pegler without a doubt has the true scab mind. As political events deepen and sharpen, this mind in American journalism will develop into outright Fascism. At present, however, open fascist partisanship might endanger Mr, Pegler’s status in the “liberal” newspaper world, and so with that beautiful adaptation to en- vironment which zoologists since Darwin have observed in the Ameri- can intellectual, Mr. Pegler has not yet dared to praise Hitler and Mussolini. If Huey Long could finally make the grade as America’s dictator (which we altogether doubt, since Fascism is not going to have it so easy here) Huey would find Westbrook and most of the other newspaper boys all ripe to heave the right arm and bellow, “Heil Huey!” Their minds are already cast in the Nazi mold. Proof: it is always easier for them to be fair and tolerant to any manifestation of capitalism, than to any communist experiment. Which leads us to another letter on the same general score: * . . . . In Reference to Music EAR COMRADE GOLD: Your recent column on the fascist tendencies of the critical fra- ternity, as typified by John Mason Brown, was as timely as it was true. More and more the guardians of taste are finding it necessary to openly declare their allegiance either to the forces of progress or the forces of reaction, the proletariat or the bourgeoisie. Theirs is the choice of continuing as the prostitutes of culture, selling their critical souls, or freeing themselves by a new orientation, based on the class struggle as expounded by Marx and Engels ahd fought by the Com- munist Party. Some days ago it was John Mason Brown who testified for the Great God Dollar; the other day it was Olin Downes, music critic of the New York Times, who sang the Hymn of Hate for Communism. I quote from his article: “Perhaps it (public interest in music per se) can be created when some way is found of maintaining an orchestra and paying con- ductors and union wages. while furnishing seats at 25 and 50 cents each to eager purchasers. But just how, unless we go Communist, is this to he done? And if we did go communistic, what would become of the quality of the performances deteriorated through regimentation and mediocre leadership; would the public patronize the per- formances?” ‘ Tt is a pet argument of the “art for art’s sake” critic that Com- munism deprives a man of his dignity—that {t substitutes materialism for idealism. Yet here we find a great believer in the sancity of artistic creation accusing musicians of being crass materialists! | - The hypocrisy of Olin Downes’ fear for the quality of performance if the profit motive is removed is as brazen as John Mason Brown's attack on “Stevedore.” Certainly, Mr. Downes has read in his own paper, which allegedly publishes “all the news that’s fit to print,’”— and lots besides—of the excellence of the operatic and orchestral per- formances in the Soviet Union, where profit no longer is the incentive. Let him ask Albert Coates or Leopold Stokowski for an opinion on this matter. Or better still, let him attend recitals by the Wor%ers Dance League or the Workers Music League to learn how people give of their best when they are not exploited. Then, perhaps, he will not prate of “regimentation and mediocre leadership,” although that is probably expecting too much from a man who extols Debussy because he came from peasant stock and was accepted into genteel society! Comradely, EMMET SAUNDERS. ' WHAT’S ON 131st St. Good orchestra. Cast from : “Stevedore." Proceeds for Section fund. DR. HARRY F. WARD and Dr. James E. Mendenhall speak on “Will War Bring Back Prosperity” at Mass Meeting called by H. F. Ward Br. of American League Against War and Fascism. Methodist Epis- copal Church, Hanson Pl. opposite Long Island R.R. Station, Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m, Wednesday THEATRE and DANCE at Scandinavian Hall, 5111 5th Ave., Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Aucpices: Bay Ridge Br. LL.D. Workers Lab. Theatre in ‘“LaGuardia’s Got the Baloney.”” Speaker, Dr. Markoff. * SWIMMING, Tennis, Baseball, Dancing, Hiking and more at the Daily Worker Dey and Moonlight Excursion, June Sth, to Hock Mountain. Get your tickets now at all Workers Bookshops. Tuesday YOUTH DAY MEETING; auspices Unit 417 ©, P., at Bronze Studio, 227 Lenox Aye., 8 p.m. Charles White will speak on “Significance of Decoration Day.” Eric Bourrough’s Revolutionary Readings. ION on “The Truth of Decora- tien Day” at_membership mesting of Mt. SATURDAY, June 2nd — Anti-war J Nouth Br. F.8.U., 1401 Jerome Ave., Rally and Track and Field Meet. Mex 179th Bt. 8:30 p.m. Dancing to fol- Bedacht, speaker. Movies, side show, Adm, Mass gamcs, dancing till dawn. Ulmer STAINMENT end DANCE given by _ ENTER: Park, Brockiyn. Tickets at all ‘Wnit 423 Section 4 at 418 Lenox Ave, cor. ‘4 i weet clubs and at gate 250. seene into a patrol car. Whistles, riot squads, detectives, ajl armed, sailed into us. We were pushed back always to reappear, forming our ranks on another corner facing 50 Lafayette Street. We heard shots fired. “Someone was shot!” “Two were shot! stomach, One in the leg. Eleven were arrested!” “March to the court! their release!” ‘We marched in lines up the blocks to the court at 101 Center St. We filed irto the court room in a great body and waited. “The prisoners are at, the court on Elizabeth and Worth Streets,” someone announced. We marched through the streets, wet, tired, stubborn, to the court. We couldn't get near it, The whole City Hall district was full of mounted policemen, breaking our ranks every few steps. “Where are the arrested workers?” “Night Court, Ten thirty tonight. Fifty-fourth Street.” ete: Demand (E policemen dotted the streets with their clubs and horses, laughing, joking, waiting, new squads coming every minute. Did they break us up? After several hours of fighting, they beat some, arrested some, wounded some. Maybe they killed some, The streets were finally cleared. One wounded policeman waved to another mopping his head. “Was at 50 Lafayette,” he boasted to a policeman who had come in only at the last of the “fun.” “Good stuff!” Did they break us? We'll see. The headlines of the papers say about us, “300 Reds Riot at City Hall.” Are we the Red Menace, workers falling under the clubs of police- men? Was the worker who shouted. “We wanna die once, not ten times” a ruffian from the Red Gang? What is the Red Menace? What color is hunger? TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Morton Downey, Tenor 1:15-WEAF—-Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—The National Administration and Local Government—G. F. Mil- ton, Editor Chattanooga News; A. B. Hall, Brookings Institution WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Brad Brown and Al Liewel~ lyn, Comedians ‘WOR—Footlight Echoes WABC—Serenaders Orch. 1:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch ‘Wd2—Grace Hayes, Songs WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orch. WOR-—Grofe Orch.: Frank Parker, ‘Tenor; Betty Barthell, Contralto WJZ—Of the Deep End—Sketch WABC—Troopers Orch. 8:15-WABC—Voice of Experience 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orch. WOR-—Minevitch Harmonica Band ‘WJZ—Conrad Thibault, Baritone; Lois Bennett, Soprano WABC—Lyman Orech.; Vivienne Segal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Ben Bernie Orch. WOR—Backstage Musicale WJZ—Alice Mock, Soprano; Guest, Poet; Concert Orch WABC—Maury Paul, Commentator 9:30-WEAF—Ed Wynn, Comedian WOR—Irish Musicale WdIZ—Duchin Orch. WABC—Minneepolis Symphony, gene Ormandy, onductor 9:45-WOR—Mountain Music 10:00-WEAF—Opera. Carmen. With Gladvs Swarthout, Soprano, James Melton, Tenor, and Others WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin bef mread Perkins, Humor, Stokes WABC—Gray Orch.; Stoopnagle and Budd, Comedians; Connie Boswell, Songs 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. FE. Read 10:30-WOR—Johnston Orch.; Dave Vine, Comedian WJZ—From Geneva: The Coming La- bor Conference—S. M. Eastman, Chief of Extra European Section, International Labor OMce WABC—Conflict—Sketch 10:43-WJZ—Oscar Shumsky, Violin WABC—Harlem Serenade Edgar Bu- One in the) Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Heroes In Reverse! wenn | RED BUILDERS ON PARADE By SOPHTE SIMON IORATIO ALGER used to write about the newsboys, They were the cream of American youth. They were all looking to make a mint of money in order to be content and mellow in their old age. Alger eventually went to his reward, as his heroes went into blue- blooded families, and the successes of newsboys became subject to skepti- cal analysis, If Alger lived today he would be a distraught man. I doubt whether he would sing the song of the Red Builders. They sing the “Interna- tional.” Old Horatio’s heroes used to look for millionaires; they look for workers. But Horatio’s heroes used to sell capitalist joy-sheets; they sell the Daily Worker. There are 40 of these mighty Red Builders and they are trying to work the ranks up to a hundred. They have set themselves the goal of selling 10,000 Daily Workers a day. These are heroes of color and grandeur. Boys and girls, they have been out when it was 17 degrees below and a hundred above. They are the revolutionary Mercurys of the workers, They suffer arrest and jail; they face hunger and have holes in their shoes; they make no lucre; and nothing daunts them. Inte Harlem and the lower West and East Sides, into Brownsville, Coney Island and the Bronx, they bring the working-class struggle; and bring the truth about it, . . 'N THE week ending May 5 they sold 12,000 Daily Workers, more than did the mass organizations and the Party units in the district, On Times Square they sell 600 a night. In front of the Public Library, on 42d St., they sell Daily Workers steadily and fruitfully. Twelve hundred a week are sold by the comrade whose station is in front of the Automat on 14th St. They penetrate the railroad stations and even Wali St. Theirs is a company composed of railroad worker and food worker, actress and artist, college student and metal worker and seaman. It Is a hardy company which knows the picket line, It sells the Daily Worker before laundries and factories, before shoos and taxicab garages. One of their number, Comrade Miller, had the honor of being kicked out of a distinguished speaker, Ave. to buy a “Dai American heritage. Dues are 10 cents a month. E Summer Term Announcement of Courses of the Cleveland Workers School is out. Classes will begin on July 2nd and last for tweive weeks to September 22nd. An important new course intro- duced into the curriculum is a Teachers Training Course for Party and Y.C.L. members only, to prepare them to teach courses in the Prin- ciples of Communism. It will sup- ply instruction in the methods of teaching and will deal with funda- mental problems of Communism from the point of view of teaching Communism to workers. Students completing this course will be re- quired to teach fundamental classes in their sections. Another new feature is a series of courses in the daytime for children. There is a course in History and Sci- ence, which will answer such ques- tions as: Where do the earth, the moon, the sun, the stars, man and all the animals and plants really come from? Why do some people say that there is a god and some say there is not? and others. Also a course for children in illustrating and drawing for posters and leaflets, etc., and a course in dramatics for training of children for active par- ticipation in, demonstrations and meetings of workers. Other courses are Principles of Communism, History of the Russian Revolution, Marxian Economics, Pioneer Leaders Training, English and Russian, * Registration will be taken at the school headquarters, 1524 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland. * Class Formed In Oklahoma City A class was formed recently in Principles of Communism in Okla- homa City, Oklahoma. There are twenty-one students attending, with any number ready to come as soon as larger quarters are provided. ae Cah The Brownsville Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., has started a drive for a $390 fund for maintaining the school through the summer and for ex- panding in the fall term, Prires are offered to those who collect the most in each class and grand first and second prizes for those who collect the most in the sezool. age Minneapolis School To Be Organized A director has been assigned definitely for the job of organizing a Workers School in Minneapolis for the fall, The present District Train- ing School will be over by June 2nd. and immediately after that, work meeting in the Amalgamated Temple, at which Jacob Panken was the Aristocratic females have come down to Sixth ” tear it up and spit at it as a menace to our noble They have regular meetings twice a month; and with the increase in their total they visualize.a program.of importance and magnitude. They will have classes in Marxism, and public forums, at which leading com- rades will lecture, They intend to send a delegate to the Soviet Union. To those who can do the necessary a welcome. The Daily Worker is second to no organ of the class struggle. The working class cannot do without it. To be in the Red Builders is, therefore, to be a true hero and servant of the working class. W Lai Doing in the Workers Schools of the U.S. will begin to prepare for an open Workers School. work, the Red Builders extend Boston School Grows More Than 169 P. C. We have a comprehensive report from the Boston Workers School which deserves a whole column for itself as an example of how Bol- shevik determination can overcome all difficulties and obstacles and re- cord real achievement in spite of everything, from indifference and over-looseness to over-rigidity on the part of certain comrades in regard to the school. The Boston School is able to re- port more than a hundred per cent increase in the number of students in Boston alone (350 this year, 150 last year); and the establishment of ‘s in Chelsea, South Eend, Malden, and Quincy, the South End branch being particularly important since it is in the heart of the Negro section. They sold about $200 worth of lit- erature and paid for all they bought, held a successful conference for pop- ularizing the school among the fra- ternal organizations, and a number of affairs. Although they made no money out of these affairs, and al- though they collected only half of the fees during the last terms, yet through donations and through a series of lectures by H. W. L. Dana, they were able to carry through, and now have a small sum towards next year, At a time when the Marine Work- ers Industrial Union was doing some very active work on the waterfront, the School was able to present them with a number of pamphlets, and this created a feeling of solidarity and brought the union closer to the school. The Boston Workers School is be- ginning to be known in that section of the country as a center of Marx- ist-Leninist education, and requests are brought to them for instructors and advice on reading not only by those who are close to the Party, but by outsiders as well. * The average attendance for the first six weeks in the Workers School in New York in the present term is 84.12 per cent. The hizhest attendance was 97.3 per cent and the lowest attendance was 70 per cent. The analysis of the student body shows about 33 per cent industrial workers. More than half the stu- dents are under 25 years old, the two youngest students being 15 years old. About 42 per cent of the students are members of the Com- munist Party and the Young Com- munist League, |\On Recognition) Hi Of the Status of, Political Prisoners| ghligh Described By E of Chicago Fire e- Witness - v = e3 By JOHN WALTERS from their ng shacks (Excuse By EMANUEL EISENBERG CHICAGO. — While me, they said “homes. “\JHEN people are made to se€| rolled high in the . . . that the political prisoner is! yards c off: At. the risk of the telephone ope no criminal at all but a worker who announcers speakers tried to make his fellow-workers|the broadcasting stations s el got one of the conscious of their rights, @ poli- | and restressed the monster dro inteered the tical prisoner will cease to be. Until | 1¢ really became apparent that acini eee then it is absolutely imperative to) were making a smoke screen of t congested the fight for the privileges and the dif-| i.e to hide the real cause of the and ferent treatment to which a pris- | fire that giant fire trap of the ly, to oner sentenced on such @ count 18) stockvards district. The fire traps t the endangered ones and estionably entitled |that the Daily Worker has re-| their few belongings to safety. T speaker is Lawrence Emery, assistant national secretary for the | tee for the Defense of Political Prisoners has invited to the Jam- boree being given at the Renais- sance Ballroom (138th Street and Seventh Avenue) this Friday even- before the wardens the committee's | demands for freedom in writing as many letters as they choose and re- ceiving not only letters but visitors | and all radical literature in unlim- | ited and uncensored quantity. | K an effort to dig up some of the Political reasons for imprison- ment, I got in touch with a few former political prisoners. Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, turned out to be so swamped in activity that his brother William, circulation manager for The New Masses, was interviewed for both. Bill Brow. der told us that the two brothers (and even a third) were all im- ber, 1917 for refusal to register in the Army and released in Septem- ber, 1918. The charge of anti- | peatedly warned against June Issue of “Labo is L of the fact that it is devoted to the | strikes and opposition work in the | of the perspective of an Indepen- going to suggest that the ones | International Labor Defense. He| CER x at cine ie ee was arrested in Imperial Valley in Se ee en eee April, 1930 for atempting to organ-|in& of a warning for all morbid | house the ims of the. firetaps, ize the agricultural workers’ union. | CUriosity seekers “‘to stay out of the| but before I got to t The charge was criminal syndi-| fire area, ce those from the calism and the sentence from three | South Shore district already had to forty-two years. He stayed in| the preference. Lines of motor car: San Quentin’ prison (where Tom| of the fashionables already formed ‘ ‘ Mooney is held) for three years and| barrier inindering ambulance side show was then released with a year's|Service and the escape of t they would parole. The parole was recently up.| dwellers of the poor tenements| open oors after the last show Emery is one of the numerous |——— — ———— |so that the stricken mothers and guests whom the National Commit-| Murray to Speak on | babes might spend the night on the Blue Shirts Tonight teres At the intersection of Halsted and: before and after mid- . a new spick and span, huge NEW YORK.—Sean Mu eran fighter for Irish independence, | * ing, June Ist. This is to raise funds | wij) expose O'Duffy's Fa and imposing, lettered and crested for the campaign toward the Rec-| shirts as British iipert | brewer's truck stood the center of ognition of the Status of Political] anq explain . program fees | ction. Immense flood lights Prisoners. The funds will enable] national Tndependence: ist’ ed upon it. A spectacular flashe. delegations of writers. artists and}ton Hall, 109 F.. 16th St ing of torches blazened for the cap- speakers to visit different jails at 8.30 p. indies AEA cae i t press lackeys. They were make throughout the country and place dramatic advertising capital out fe to the Bronx Irish Workers Cl ure of the suffering fire- 0 dragged themselves up for- k of beer. As several stood sed glasses the photograph- uld catch them in a moment of the last ounce of their strength as though they were drinking to the spirit of chivalry Must Receive Widest Distribution! Unity” Mt NEW YORK.—The June issue of | -abor Unity to be out before June Ist is of special importance in view | A magnanimous gesture on part of the brew house! Then, too, the grand spectacle of the truck in this gaudy and thea- trical atmosphere kept the minds of the massed people from the suf- fering groans and cries of the fire victims all about in the impover- ished first-aid stations. the. three major questions before us the sweeping strike wave: role of | the N. R. A. and A, PF. of L. in| A. F. of L.; the raising concretely | | The fireproof building of Swi plicated in the same arrests. dent Federation of Labor. It should | The first occurred in Flat City, | receive the widest possible dis-| and Co. and of Armour and Ga, Mo. they were imprisoned in Octo- | tribution. Special bundles and single | located in the very Union stock+ copies should be ordered from Labor | yards of Chicago where the fire Unity, 80 E. 11th St., New York City. | raged, survived The Drought. Patriotism is one of the most facile and the one immediately raised into activity during war. The brothers were re-arrested on July 13, 1919, for conspiracy to defeat the draft law, and released from Leavenworth on November 1, 1920. Since draft evasion involved @ maximum of merely two years, the three Browder brothers were convicted under the Oleomargarine Conspiracy Act (believe it or not), which provides a six-year maximum. Good behavior managed to get them out in a year and a half. Re MPS AT TOOHEY, editor of Labor Unity, has been jailed so many times that he can’t keep track of them any more. “As one who has lain around in the filthy cells and counted the days one after another as they went by,” said Toohey, “I know what the Scottsboro boys and Angelo Herndon must be going through.” Harry Raymond, Daily Worker re- porter, was a member of the com- mittee leading the unemployment demonstration on March 6, 1930. He and others, including Bob Minor and William Foster, were charged with unlawful assembly and incit- ing to riot; the sentence was three years. He was released after ten months of rotating from Welfare Island to Riker’s to Hart's. “Now is the time, when restric- tions grow steadily tighter, to fight for the status of the political pris- oner,” said Raymond. “Workers, in- tellectuals and professionals must be drawn into the struggle to force the issue. Every possible opportu- nity is being seized to lock up everyone who attempts demonstra- tion or organization. All ‘these former prisoners, and numerous others who were out of town last week and could not be reached for inclusion in this group of interviews, will be present at the Jamboree on Friday night. Groucho Marx, Bill Robinson, Mara Tartar and the casts of Men in White” and "Stevedore” will be there to entertain. Dance League Contest June 2 To Be Followed By Annual Convention NEW YORK —A competition in which ten dance groups, represent- ing cities scattered throughout the eastern part of the United States, will participate, will take place at the second annual dance festival of the Workers Dance League to be held on Saturday evening, June 2nd, at Town Hall. On the next day, the annual convention of the league, with delegates from all parts of the country attending, will take place at 108 W. 14th St. Organizational and educational problems will be discussed, after which officers for the ensuing year will be elected. The groups which will participate in the fes:ival, include the Amer- ican Revolutionary Dance Group, Harlem Prolets, Nature Friends Dance Group, New Dance Group, New Duncan Dancers, New World Dance Group, Red Dancers, Rebel Dancers, Theatre Collective Dance Group and the Theatre Union Dance Group. Unit of WIR Band Formed in Harlem NEW. YORK.—The Workers In- | ternational Relief and has formed | an auxiliary unit in Harlem. Mu- sicians who play any brass, wood- wind or percussion instruments are urged to come to rehearsals, held on Tuesdays, at 1492 Madison Ave., | at 7:30 p. m., on the third floor. DANA LECTURES IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, Me.—Professor Har- | ry W. L. Dana will give an illus- trated lecture on ‘'The Youth of So- (This column appears every Tues- day. Address all communications to A. Markoff, 35 E, 12th Sto viet Russia, and the Danger of Wer,” tonight, at 8 pm. at the f ) 3 5 e THE STRIKE LEADER AND HIS MOTHER 3 Scene from the new Soviet film, Maxim Gorki’s “Mother,” whict > will haye its first American showing today at the Acme Theatre. The 4 noted Russian producer, Pudovkin, directed the film. t , : _ AMUSEMENTS ——___ ||. THE THEATRE UNION Presents\— iq THE THEATRE GUILD presents—)|| The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Hit 2 JIG SAW | er t ssertatitamcencts || SHOVOROPE ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON 4 4 ETHEL BARRYMORE CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. ’ Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway Eves, 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:45 t Eves. 8:40. Mat. Wed., Thurs, and Say Ne-400-60¢-75e-$1.00 A $1.50. No Tax LAST WEEK—Eugene O'Neill's Comedy || 1 eS: 4 AH, WILDERNESS! THEATRE COLLECTIVE |_ 4 with GEORGE M. COHAN Labor Temple, 14th St. & 2d Ave,. |... t GUILD porcn unt wee ree nize ||| presents the new collective play 5 oe “MARION MODELS, INC.” 1 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play May 31, June 1, June 2; 8:45p.m. 5 “MARY OF SCOTLAND” 30 and 55 cents — GR, 5-9076 |... with HELEN PHILIP HELEN 1 HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN = a — t TEN _Thea., 52d St., W. of Bway MUSIC ALVIN py mat. Wea. Thurs.sat. || ——-- — 14 ~HIPPODROME OPERA} R Pasquale Amato, Director - TONITE 8:31 A TRAVIATA t OBERTA Wednest : NORMA 3 renoteeh*Z,, Musical Comedy. bs Thursday Ev LUCIA Je ME, N ‘0 HARBACK — 25 ¢.350¢-55 nel, NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 424 St. Evzs. 8.10 25e-35¢-55e-83e-99e patea e Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 —HIPPODROME, 6 Av. 443 St. VAn 32-4265 +4 a i - ad i ——— Suppressed for Years By the Authorities! —— 1 Now Passed by Censors—Without Any Fliminations | AMERICAN PREMIERE OF A PAGE IN SOVIET ‘ORY: seas 3 ° °9 * 2 . ia 8 2 ai | “MOTHER” RELEASED HERE AS “1905” Directed by | Featuring NIKOLAT BATALOV ' (ot “Road to Lite”) V, I. PUDOVKIN Ceater of End of St. Petersburg” SEE and HEAR Gorki’s Great Masterpiece! || Now 14th STREET and UNION SQUARE ACME THEATRE June 3rd A 2nd All Star: RON THEATRE WIGHT : THE GROUP IN “DIMITROFF” TRE ARTEF Program: WORKERS LAB. THEATRE PROF. H. W. L, DANA “KYKUNKOR,” THE NATIVE AFRICAN OPERA. Tickets: 25¢, 35¢, 55c, 88, 99c NEW THEATRE, 5 W. 19th St. 5th AVE, THEATRE At Box Office 28th STREET & BROADWAY RR WORKERS BOOKSHOP, 50 E. 13th St. NEW MASSES, 31 FE. 2ith st. Workers Center, 82 Union St j einai istics Aplus