The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1934 iia Page Five CHANGE ——THE | WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD HE bricks thrown against scabs and murderous Guards- men in Toledo and Minneapolis were votes of protest cast by the American workers against the N. R. A. These strikes are not mere disputes over wages. They are, whether the participants know it or not, serious poli- tical demonstrations. For over a year the liberals led by President Roosevelt have been promising the American people a new kind of capitalist Utopia. But today the Blue Eagle bird, blessed in its first skyrocket flights by all the Norman Thomases and Upton Sinclairs of the land, is settling back to earth. The workers, dazzled at first, are now beginning to perceive the black plumage of this semi-fascist crow. The capitalist liberals spoke in grandiose terms of a new era of trade unionism, minimum wages, abolition of child labor, mass housing, public works and social insurance—all the program of meliorism under capitalism that every revisionist of Marxism from Eduard Bernstein to Ramsay Macdonald and Norman Thomas has advocated, and has never yet delivered, because it cannot be done under the profit system. But the ballyhoo is over, and proletarian bookkeepers, checking up on the actual deeds, and not words, of this American brand of Austrian Socialism, have felt. themselves betrayed. Real wages have gone down, unemployment, under all the C. W. A. masks, is not decreasing, and the American trade union movement is in graver danger of annihilation than it has been since its birth. Think of it, fellow workers; it took a pacifist liberal, Professor Woodrow Wilson, to plunge this country into the bloodiest, most sense less, and most sordidly commercial war in its history. All civil liberties were ruthlessly destroyed by this liberal, and his cabinet of liberals and Socialists, men like George Creel and Newton D. Baker. It was In- finitely more dangerous to be a war resister in America than in the Kaiser's Germany. Today it is a liberal “friend of labor,” who numbers in his retinue an army of opportunistic liberals and Socialists, who has made it pos- sible for the great corporations to begin a national drive for the com- plete extinction of trade unionism. Under Roosevelt’s N.R.A., the fascist company union receive all the protection of the law that no legitimate trade union ever received. The barons of industry have set up a powerful technique of organized scab- bing that could, unless crushed at once, eventually break every honest trade union in the land. What could not happen under the reactioary Republicans, Coolidge, Harding and even the unspeakable Hoover, has happened in one short year under Upton Sinclair's capitalist messiah. But the workers are waking up; the wave of strikes has only begun. The next step, undoubtedly, of the Washington liberals, will be to rush through the Wagner law. This law goes the whole hog. Masked under the usual liberal phrases, this Wagner b#) will actually PROHIBIT all strikes. The fortunes of labor will be in the hands of their bosses, and of liberals, men like Morris Ernst in New York, who “settled” the taxt strike by cleverly selling out the workers’ union, * * * . THE RISING BAROMETER *PHE desperation with which the unarmed workers in Toledo and Min- neapolis fought against the bombs, bayonets, clubs, and tear-gas of the capitalist state machine, shows how deeply the lesson has sunk home. They fought in the spirit of those heroic Austrian workers in their barricaded homes against the Fascists. There have been desperately fought strikes in America before, but never anything like this. ‘The temper of these betrayed, outraged men and women is an important political fact, a barometer showing that a starm is coming nearer. Without a doubt, 99 out of every 100 of these strikers voted for President Roosevelt, and carried the Blue Fagle sticker on the wind- shields of their cars. They are still the victims of capitalist demagogues, and can be taken in by fair words. But in the struggle for life every demagogue is sooner or later stripped of his lies, All the lyric liberal poems that come out of Wash- ington daily can no longer hide the brutal truth from the workers that where deeds are concerned, the guns are always turned against workers, and not against capitalists. It is the honest trade unions that suffer under the codes, and not the steel trust or the automobile monarchs. The N.R.A. has turned tail on every major issue when attacked by the powerful bankers and industrialists. THE GOOD OLD LIBERALS . . OW could it be otherwise? The N.R.A. is a makeshift scheme to pull capitalism off the deathbed and enable it to walk again, It is the opportunistic liberals and Socialists who ballyhooed it joyfully as & step toward Socialism. They did the same thing during the late war. To prosecute the unholy war President Wilson had to set up some kind of temporary order in the chaotic, inefficient and destructive world of anarchic capitalism. Hitler and Mussolini are trying to do the same; it is the one impossible job of our century. But liberal-Socialists like Charles W. Wood, Stuart Chase, George Soule and others told us in many books and pamphlets that Wilson’s war mobilization of industry was a step to Socialism. They could say the same of Hitler's program. They are saying it now of the N.R.A. It is the peculiar eareer of such intellectuals in a transition time to be the “liberal” and Joyal advisers of a Czar who will not abdicate, and to try to save him from his own stupidities. Yes, the Czar had exactly such liberals around him, and he listened to them about as much as the Steel Trust listens to Stuart Chase. Tt is to President Roosevelt's credit, however, that he has no such beatific illusions as his “left-wing” followers. He has said it again and again, and he has meant it, even though the liberals would not. let us hear him: The N.R.A. is NOT designed to usher in socialism, nor to especially help the workers of America. It is meant to preserve capitalism. It objects are the same as that pursued by Hoover and the trusts. Its only claim is that of a clearer capitalist class-conscious- ness than that of the reactionaries. It is a new and perhaps desperate technique for a new and desperate time. . Hugh Johnson, Roosevelt, Richberg, all the leaders have ham- mered this home again and again. The N.R.A. wants to preserve capitalism, heal it of its grievous wounds. This is their general line, and since honest trade unionism must inevitably get in the way of such a program, since profit and wages are mortal enemies under capitalism, the N.R.A. has inevitably come to the crossroads, where it must, like every such program, fight labor. is And the workers have wiped the “liberalistic” gum from their eyes, and are fighting for their very lives, as in Toledo, WHAT’S ON Wednesday ee ALL MEMBERS cf Tom Mooney Br. Lb. D. mobilize at 323 E. 18th &t. to take part in National Youth Day Demonstra- tion, 12:30 p.m. Theatre Collective To Portray Struggles of Needle Trades Workers NEW YORK.— ‘Marion Models, OPEN FORUM on ‘The Wagner Bill and Fascism” at Tom Mooney Br. LL.D., 323 % 13th St., 8:15 p.m. Speaker: A. L. peter, Adm. free, discussion. SPRING ‘AL given by Yorkville Br. F.GU., 241 E. 84th St., Labor Temple. Reels N. ¥. May Day Parade, Unusual Entertainment. SPECIAL Emergency membership meet- Ing Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St., $ p.m. All members must be present for final instructions on S. A. Mann-Brand Demonstration. DISCUSSION on “The N.R.A. Speaks with Bullets; Why No Strikes in Soviet Russia?” 1401 Jerome Ave., cor. 170th St., 3:30 p.m. Adm. free, Auspices: Mt. Eden Br. F.S.U, PARTY and Recital, 108 W. 14th St. Dancing and refreshments. Auspices: New Duncan Dance Group. THEATRE and DANCE at Scandinavian Rall, 6111 5th Ave., Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Auspices: Bay Ridge Br, ILD. Workers Lab. tre in “LaGuardia the Baloney.” Speaker, Dr. Markoff. Thursday SOVIET CHINA —.The Famous 1925-27 - Hong Kong-Canten-Strike, lecture by. C. Young at Friends fo the Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd St. Room 12, 8:30 p.m, Adm. é Inc.” a@ play depicting the struggle of the Needle Trades workers, based on real events. in a New York dress shop, written collectively by Olga Shapiro, John E. Bonn and Jack Shapiro, will be presented by the Theatre Collective for three per- formances, opening on Thursday evening, May 31, -at the Labor Temple Theatre, 241 E. 14th St. near Second Avenue. The production was directed by Dorothy Yokel. OPEN FORUM, Dr. A. Gilman of Inter- Professional Association for Unemploy- ment Insurance speaks at & Hammer, 4 W. 2st St., 8:30 p.m. * eae SATURDAY, June 2nd — Anti-War Rally and Track and Field Meet. Max Bedacht, speaker. Movies, side show, mass games, dancing till dawn. Ulmer Park, Brooklyn. Tickets at all workers clubs and at Gate 8c. SWIMMING, Tennis, Baseball. Dancing, Hiking and more at the Daily Worker Dey 2nd Moonlight Excursion, June 9th, to Hoek Mountain. Get your tickets now at all Workers Bookshops ¢) |For the first time in a year and a ha | we heard the station announced RV59. Up Farewell Meeting For| Siqueiros To Be Held) At J. R. C. on Thursday | NEW YORK.—David Alfaro Si- queiros, outstanding Mexican prole- tarian artist, will speak on “The}| Road the American Artist Should! Follow,” at a farewell meeting to be| held at the John Reed Club, 430/ Sixth Avenue, Thursday, May 31, at 8:30 p.m. TUNING IN| BELOW 200 METERS By the Short-Waye Radio Club of America ‘The best day of last week's reception, RV59, was Satur: May 17, from 6:30 to 7 pm. The station came in with local volume. It was a Spanish hour. At 7 o'clock the “International” was played.) till now their call had been, “Hello, Hello, Moscow calling.” The same day at 8:20 | p.m., tuning In on 27 to 38 meter band, we heard a Russian program. The ‘ma- turka” was played followed by an old Ri sian song, “Nakinuy Plashch.” We w sure that we had located a new Soviet sta- | tion, but we were disappointed when we | found out that it was London giving a| Russian hour. We also heard the other | European stations, the South American stations coming in under a heavy cover. This signifies that hot weather is coming. Comrade Cohen of the Bronx Club fin- ished his T-tube short-wave set last week. His report for the week 1s as follows Call Letters Location Meteers 13R0 = Rome, Italy DJD__—-_Zeesen, Germany VEQJR Winnipeg, Canada FXA Paris, France GSD ___ Daventry, England W3XAL Boundbrook, New Jersey 3B SséDaventry, England 5 VES6W Bowmanville, Ont., Canada 49.22 VEQHX Halifax, Nova Scotia 49.10 DJC —_Zeesen, Germany 49.85 Coc Havana, Cuba 49.92 YV3BC Caracas, Venezuela, 80. Am. 48.7 , Colombia 46.50 Q 30.43 VK2ME Sydney, Australia 31.28 W2XF Schenectady, N. Y. 31.45 W8XK Saxonburg, Pa. 48.86 W8XA1 Cincinnati, Ohio 49.50 WOXF Doveners Grove, Ill. 49.18 W2XE Wayne, N. J. 49.02 W1XAL Boston, Mass. 49.68 W3XAL Boundbrook, N. J. 49.18 WSXAU Newton Sq. 31.28 W2XAF Schenectady, N. Y. 31.48 Comrade Bagdan of the same branch ceived a letter from the Bermuda Trade Development Board, telling him that he was one of the first hundred to receiver their special program of St. George's Day and as a prize the government sent him a picture of the celebration and a copy of an illustrated album of Bermuda | The Downtown Short-Wave Radio Club | | has recently moved to new headquarters at | 132 E. 23d St., Room 3. Lectures are held | each Thursday at 9::00 p.m. Code prac jtice and set building classes are held Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. All Interested in any activity. may attend. 1:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy—Siketch WABO—Vera Van, Songs 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Dance Music WJZ—Result of Poll on Roosevelt Policies; Sport's High Spots WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—The Stratosphere Flight —| Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover, Asst. Chief of Army Air Corps WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WJZ—Jewels of Enchantment— Sketch, with Irene Rich WABC—Armbruster Orch. 1:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—True Stories of the Sea— Sketch ‘WJZ——Sketch—Max Baer, Boxer WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator | 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian WOR—Dance Orch: WJZ--Off the Deep End—Sketch WABC—Rich Orch. 8:15-WABO—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orch. WOR—Lone Ranger—Sketch WIZ—Maple City Pour WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone 8:45-WJZ-—Baseball Comment—-Babe Ruth 9:00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian WOR—Italics—H. Stokes Lott Jr. WJZ—Ray Knight's Cuckoos WABC—Nino Martini, Tenor; Koste- lanetz, Orch. 9:30-WOR—To Be Announced ‘WJZ—Bketch: The Professor's Lave, with Paul Lukas, Actor ‘WABC—Lombardo Orch,; Burns and Allen, Comedy 9:45-WOR—Dramatized News 10:00-WEAF—Hillbilly Music ‘WdZ—Lopez Orch.; Talk—Ed Sullivan WABC—Rebroadeast Byrd Expedition 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E, Read 1 HEN the Blue Eagle came to Mueller’s Antique Shop all the employees gathered round and stared at the window-card with happy but startled eyes, “Under the NR.A..” said the boss good-hu- moredly, “everybody is going to benefit, except the boss. There's socialism for you!” The two man- agers giggled and Miss Dattwyler, the bookkeeper, took a few steps forward and a few steps backward and named it the Blue Eagle Dance. The first one to benefit from the New Order was Roger, the errand boy. He had started with the firm in 1929 at fifteen per week and he was very satisfactory so the boss let him run the mimeograph ma- chine and wrap packages and sun- dry other tasks so as to train him for the antique business, and in 1931 the boss cut his salary to eleven per week, business was very bad. Then along came the N.R.A. and put big ideas into the kid’s head and big words into his mouth such as Minimum Wage Scale, the kid actually had the nerve to ask for a raise in salary. The boss was amazed to discover that this young man’s interest in his work was hardly proportionate to his impu- dence, and he fired him, and in Washington, D. C., the Secretary of Labor issued statistics to the effect that there had been a sudden 2 per cent increase in employment, 3. Mr. Lewis was manager of the old painting department, he had been with the firm eight years and wore a vandyke and discussed aesthetics and spiritualism over tea with the richer spinsters; he was an indispensible man. Every time the boss went off on vacation, Lewis, according to rough esti- mates, earned several thousand dol- lars extra by disposing of antiques through a gang of aesthetes in Bal- timore, business was very good. But when the Blue Eagle came to the shop the boss had the indelicacy to claim that Lewis wasn’t co-op- erating under the N.R.A., he was drawing a disproportionate salary and would have to take a 20 per cent cut so as to set an example of equity for the other employees. Lewis was.so angry he went into a Blue Eagle Dance and | Contrast In| Harlem Bs MAXWELL BODENHEIM —————- 1932 The Negro taxi-cab Driver pulled up at the curb On Seventh Avenue. The hour was midnight Stinking, howling, Sneaking, fake-laughing With all the dirty tinsels, venoms, aches, and murders Known to Harlem, brought to Harlem By the black-white bosses. : Fingering his few Nickles, dimes, The Negroes’ damp Face had cramps. A cop strode out From the poisoned shadows. The bite of voice. “Get out of here You dirty shine!” ‘The Negro hesitated. The white cop jerked Him from the cab, Beat him on face Once, twice, three Times—the Negro staggered, glared, Took the wheel, drove off with bloody 1934. The crowd on Seventh Avenue, All muscles tight, Stood in a silence Like a growl Waiting for release. The Negro speaker on the platform Tore his chains off, tore the clothes From sores of over-lords. “Scottsboro boys! Break down their wall:! Defeat the lynchers, black and white!” Suddenly, police-squads charged. The crowd fought back, Clubs and fists. The Negro reeled, Blood spurting through his broken teeth White men caught him, Shielded him, Struck the white attacker down. Come on, white men, come on, black! Our enemies are visible— Their hirelings slash the workers of the world In every color-line! mouth. STAGE AND SCREEN “The Key,” Story Of Irish, Johnny Weismuller and Maureen Revolution, Opens At Strand| O'Sullivan is now showing at the Jefferson Theatre. ‘Melody in | Spring,” with Lanny Ross and Mary Boland is on the same pro- gram. “The Key,” a new Warner Bros. picture, dealing with the Irish Revo- lution, opened at the Strand Thea- tre last night. “The Key,” which is| laid in Dublin in 1920, is screened| “Sorrell and Son,” a screen ver- ‘SA-MannBrand’ Reformist Author Can Vicious Nazi Film ‘\Opensin NewY ork By SAMUEL BRODY "THE strong wind which for some | 2 time has been blowing westward| |from the cesspools | Nazi propaganda yards in Berlin has brought with it to New York| another sickening stench in the form| of a film, this time: “S. A. ee Brand.” | “8. A.-Mann Brand” is a composite | jof a thosand strains and under-| tones that we have for some time | been observing in the films of our) }own “democratic” Hollywood. The of Goebbel’s| Offer No Way Out For Negro Professionals |THE NEGRO PROFESSIONAL MAN AND THE COMMUNITY.' With Special Emphasis on the differentiation: ng the Jews, and the bitter exploitations of the Jews ish toilers by both the Jewish and Physician and Lawyer. By Caster Goodwin Woodson. Published by | "0-Jewish bankers and employers, the Association for the Study of * = ° Negro Life and History, Ine. in » period ka is increasingly ‘© masses even ith fascist lynch Reviewed by | | | | jin |murderer Turrow who is presented | “Heroes For Sale” differ in| the arch-fiend and reformist and bourgeois nationalist approach to the problems of the Negro professionals. Unlike many to the German masses in “Brand”| Nesro professionals, who have be- as the Bolshevik leader? Is the|COme radicalized under the hammer killing of Nemescek by the Red| lows of the crisis, he shows scant Shirts in Columbia's “No Greater | Concern for the misery of the toiling Glory” a far cry from the murder] ™2sses, except in so far as this! of the child-Nazi by the Com-| Misery affects the careers of the munists in Hitler's “S. AMann|Professonals. He offers the familiar Brand”? (In “Brand” the sequence | teactionary utopian programs of the in which the Storm Trooper Brand| Negro bourgeoisie for an illusor carries the dead child through the| Way out” through “race loyalty essence from streets in his arms corresponds so|Jim-crow economy or racial aut- closely to the part in “No Greater| @tchy. Ironically, he is forced to Glory” in which mother Nemeseck|@4mit that the very class that carries her son who has died in a|Preaches “race loyalty” does not battle to defend a vacant lot against| Practice it, as shown in his claim) the Red Shirts, that both might|that members of the various pro-| have been done by the same di-| fessions do not patronize each other, | rector!) ie | but divert their business to white} * * * | professionals. | «@ A.-MANN BRAND” differs from| Dr. Woodson cites the Jews as an} / the effect that the average | example of how racial autarchy can} Hollywood propaganda film is likely| be successfully achieved. “Tae Ne-| to exert on a working-class audience| 8Toes as a whole,” he writes, “have | in that the gap created by the| not been driven together by persecu- hysterical, class rage of its makers|tion as in the case of people like| and the realities which they are| the Jews.” The significance of this} trying to cover up in the film are| Statement lies in the constant use beyond conceivable bridging. Re-|by the Negro reformists of the suc-| member that this film was produced| cessful Jewish bankers as “proof” | in a country where millions of work-| that achievements in the financial} ers under the leadership of the Com-| and commercial field “will solve the| munist Party have long ago deter-|Tace question.” Necessarily such a} mined that the proletarian social confused argument ignores the class | revolution is the only way out of) ——— __ | unemployment, hunger, war. To these workers life itself has already shown that fascism aggra-| vates unemployment and hunger, | and intensiifes the danger of war a thousandfold. To them a film like they will invariably repent in the end and vote for Hitler! That’s| what happens to Brand's father who| earlier in the film is pictured as a} disgruntled Social-Democrat. The| |Hollywood film, in the process of | CYRIL BRIGGS apnea eh fascization, is traveling towards the| mR. WOODSON's book is a cry in down of final formula of a film like “Brand.”|) the wilderness from a Negro ake aa The characterization of workers’ | oper strata, affected in their f the few cultural op- leaders as depraved gangster ty) s pocket books by the impoverish- 1 the in “Washington Merry-Go-Round”! ment of the Negro toilers under the consequent nar closely parallels the portrayal of| devastating effects of the past four Negro Communists and trade union leaders! vears of the capitalist crisis, which| professio’ and in “Brand” as degenerate human/jas borne harder upon the Negro| other reform solution for dregs who drink, shoot down chil-| masses than on any other section within the dren and get orders and money) of the toiling population. lism from Moscow. Does the depraved, z Set i ages half-mad version of a Communist| Dt. Woodson makes a typically ose Negro pro= t been core rupted by perialist enemies of the Negro people, lies in active, sincere support of the ri agra rian and national revolutionary struggles of the Negro masses in the Black Belt” of the South, and the joint struggles of Negro and white workers throughout the country against their common oppressors. This is realized by those Negro pro= fessionals and intellectuals in the “Vanguard Club,” and in the in- ‘easing number accepting the lead- ership of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in the national olutionary struggle for “Equality, Land and Freedom.” reve Mass Demonstration Tonight in Yorkville To Protest Nazi Film NEW YORK. — The Film and Photo League and the Anti- Nazi Federation of Greater New York will lead a mass demon- stration tonight at 7:30 in front of the Yorkville Theatre, 96th St. & Third Av>. to protest showing of the vicious Nazi anti- workingclass film “S, A. Mann- Brand” now being presented at this theatre. The Young Communist League and German Workers Clubs will also participate in the demon- stration. All workers within the vicinity of Yorkville especially from the play of the same name by R. Gore-Browne and J. L. Hardy, produced in London last year. “Born To Be Bad,” with Loretta Young and Cary Grant featured, wlil open today at the Rivoli Thea- tre. New short subjects at the Trans- Lux Theatre ths week include “Pic- ture Palace’ with Hal Lenoy and Dawn O'Day; “Kennel Kings,” a | Grantland Rice picture of dogs; and @ new Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Camping Out.” The Newsreels show the attack of the police on the truck-drivers’ mass meetings in Minneapolis. ‘Tarzan and His Mate,” with 10:30-WEAF—Other Americas Edward Tomlinson WOR—Robison Orch WJZ—Denny's Orch,; Harry Rich- man, Songs WABC—Albert Spalding, Violin; Con- tad Thibault, Baritone CHELSEA JACK LONDON CLUB CHELSEA, Mass.—The Jack Lon- don Club announces the suspension of its activities until October 1st. “Damn! result Lewis began disposing of an~ tiques even before the boss went away on vacation, and to ‘show how indispensible he was he started coming to work a whole fifteen minutes late, which set a very bad example for the other employees. The boss was furious. “Suppose Roosevelt heard of a thing like this!” he choked, and he was so mortified he couldn't say another word. 4, That week the boss fired Smith, the salesman, business was very bad. “You're not being fair under the N.R.A.,” shouted Smith. “Tl report you.” The boss laughed at. him. “Aw, go on, what do you know about the N.R.A.? I'm giving you a good reference, ain’t I?” 5 Mr. Dubresny had been with the firm ten years and by dint of hard work and overtime and scrupulous honesty had worked himself up to manager of the antique chair de- partment. When he made a per- sonal call on the telephone he al- ways put five cents on Miss Datt- wyer’s desk and when he used a stamp for a personal letter he al- ways paid in full. He believed it pays to be honest. After seven years with the firm he lost patience waiting for the boss to increase his salary and he threatened to quit. “All right, T'll give you a dollar and a half raise.” said the boss. “I don’t want to see you without a job,” and he remarked’on the lack of in- terest. even among the old and faithful employees. Dubresny voted for Roosevelt and when the Blue Eagle came to the shop the boss cut his salary a dollar and a half. ‘That afternoon Dubresny used a three-cent stamp without paying for it. “The hell with honesty,” he grumbled. “After this I'm looking out for my own interests!” 6. Came hard times with the N.R.A. and the boss gaye a further general cut of 15 per cent, following the ex- ample of the more exclusive firms who could not as conveniently fur- lough their employees as could the Federal government. Now what could you expect from the trivial employees but grouchy faces, but. did anyborly ever see such lack of interest on the part of the old and sion of Warwick Deepin’s novel is the new film at the Mayfair. H. B. Warner plays the leading role. Iturbi To Direct First Three Weeks At Stadium Jose Iturbi, noted Spanish con- ductor, will direct weeks of orchestra concerts at the| Stadium this summer. The eight week season, which begins on June 26 and ends on August 20, with the Philharmonic-Symphony or- chestra, will also have Eugene Or- mandy and Willem Van Hoogs- traten as conductors, The pro- gram this season includes a series of operas every Friday and Sat- urday night under the direction of Alexander Smallens. The first opera announced will be “Samson and Deljla.” Important orchestral evenings planned include Beeth- oven's Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis and Bloch’s Sacred Ser- The Blue Eagle Dance vice. I'm a manager!” As a faithful heads of departments? On the following morning Mr. Lewis, with his vandyke ruffled, came in a whole twenty minutes late, and Mr. Dubresny in reckoning his ex- pense account was caught short- changing the firm eighteen cents. It was postively incomprehensible. Only Miss Dattwyler kept up a cheerful face and sang the praises of the Blue Eagle, she was the only employee who knew that the firm had earned a net $43,102 for the first six months. “Now take Miss Dattwyler,” said the boss to his wife. “She certainly can keen a secret! I'll buy her a box of choc- olates for Christmas.” 7. A man came into the shop and asked for a job, he was down and out under the N.R.A. The boss let him deliver packages all week and then gave him a hand-out of two dollars. The man took the two dol- lars and said thank you. Now here was a man with the right spirit! The boss thereupon hired him as janitor on a permanent basis for eight dollars a week—“We Do Our Part”—and fired the old janitor who was getting twenty-five a week, it was about time anyhow the old janitor took things easy for a change, he had had a very strenu- ous life. “Now don’t worry,” con- soled Miss Dattwyler when she said goodbye to the old faithful janitor. 8, Mr. Nicolls handled the firm's correspondence, he could write a wonderful sales letter or he would have been fired long ago, because he was very irreconciliable, he was the only one who refused to smile to the boss and say good-morning and good-night. The boss some- times believed he was a Communist. Several months after the Blue Eagle came to the shop and business be- came real bad, the boss figured there was no use paying twenty per week to a shipping clerk as long as Nicolls had so much spare time on his hands, so he fired, the shipping clerk and gave Nicolls an oppor- tunity to broaden his knowledge of the antique business. And as long as Nicolls spent part of the day in the basement there was no use keeping a stock clerk there, too, so the boss fired the stock clerk, and shouted down to Nicolls, “As long as you're down there you might as well bring me up the Chinese vase.” the: first three | By Joseph Vogel | “Brand” is insult added to injury.| ‘They will never accept Turrow, the} degenerate “Soviet agent” as a true} picture of one of their heroic lead- jers, the Thaelmanns and Torglers, who are tortured in dark medieval | | pits for organizing and leading them| |to a better world. They will refuse| to believe that every Communist is a fiend and cutthroat, because they | have learned the truth in the cau | dron of.their own bitter. experiences in the class-struggle. In many other ways “Brand”| represents a revealing compendium of classic Nazi demagogy. The Nazi landlord fraternizes with his impoverished Nazi tenant who can therefore get away without paying | }her rent. Economic classes don’t exist. One is either a Nazi or a Marxist, If your boss is not a Nazi you can expect to be fired for being a faithful Storm Trooper. In “Brand” the boss fires the Nazi worker at the instigation of the leader of the Reds! If there are any half-decent, unperverted individuals among the Communists and Social-Democrats, | | | But, darn it, Nicolls still refused to smile and say good-morning and good-night. That man was cer- tainly an unappreciative fool! One day Nicolls, trying to be correspond- | ent, shipping and stock clerk at the same time, shouted, “I’m doing three men’s work under the N.R.A. and I am looking forward to an- other decrease in salary.” At the end of the week, after a conference with Miss Dattwyler, the boss fired Nicolls for contaminating the mo- rale of the establishment. 9. Miss Dattwyler had been with the firm from the day it opened, four- teen years ago, she was faithful right from the start, working until all hours of the night, cashiering, bookkeeping, salesladying, even sweeping the store and taking the boss’s wife’s Airedale out for calls of nature during lunch hour. After five years of fidelity Miss Dattwy- ler began to ponder on the higher aspects of life and sometimes when | the boss wasn’t looking she cried a bit, because after all she was get- ting on in years and the job kept her so busy she had no time to satisfy her spiritual yearning. But there is always a God to look for- ward to, she felt proud to grow with the firm, she took personal pride in the little store which developed into a large establishment, she con- tributed her bit by watching every penny and keeping her eyes on the employees. and her salary grew from eighteen dollars a week to twenty-two, not counting a few cuts. When she became thirty-five years old she experienced a change in life so to say, her whole heart became wrapped up with the wel- fare of the firm and she enjoyed her few spare moments oiling and wiping her typewriter until it shone like a jewel. When one of the tri- vial employees made an error she grew red in the face and spent hours discussing the problem with the boss—little mistakes became her passion in life and at night when she sat alone in her room she be- came terribly excited thinking about all these mistakes, and once she burst into tears when a trivial em- ployee said the job was lousy. But nevertheless there was always one reason or another to be hayyp. When the Blue Eagle came to the shop Miss Dattwyler took a few steps forward and a few stens back- Dance, | A revolutionary classic like the film ward and named it the Blue sent Communist girl is last seen with | head bowed in repentence as the celebrating Nazis parade by, headed | by the Nazi Brand whom she loves. | “S. A.-Mann Brand” has passed} the New York State Board of Cen-| sors. What clearer evidence can one ask of the close sympathy andj cooperation existing between Hit- ler's American agents and local | capitaliss government authorities? are urged to be present at this demonstration against “S. A. Mann-Brand,” which has heen characterized by those who have seen it, as one of the most dan- gerous attacks on the working- class ever seen on the screen, Only effective mass demonstra- tions will drive the picture off the sereen, Members of the Film and Photo League must report at the League headquarters tonight at 6 p.m. sharp for’ final instruc- tions. All others meet at the Yorkville Theatre, 7:30 sharp, version of Gorki’s “Mother” requires several years to reach a New York! screen due to the most tyrannical) Federal and local censorship sabo- tage, yet this piece of Brown pesti- lence from Hitler's propaganda|}. ministry is allowed to make an) almost immediate appearance! Remarkable Program ORKERS! Intellectuals! we Arranged for Second . have succeeded in keeping this| film from the main thoroughfares | of New York: where it first threat-| ened to open! We have succeeded | “New Theatre” Night NEW YORK. — A second New fascist poison into an obscure little| under the auspices of New Theatre, Yorkville dump! The distributors of | for Sunday, June 3, 8°30 p. m., at “§. A.-Mann Brand” have cut out|the Fifth Ave. Theatre, 28th St. and most of the anti-Jewish propaganda| Broadway. The All Star program contained in the original version for | includes threa sketches by the fear of mass anger on the part of | Workers Laboratory Theatre, “Dimi- the Jewish population of New York! |troff,”. by members of “Men in Bring this fight to a successful con-| White” company, ‘A New Play,” by clusion! The crushing might of| the Artef players, and “Kykunor,” | working-class anger must drive) native African opera, with Asadata “S. A.-Mann Brand” from the| Horton. Harry W. L. Dana will aot screens of New York! as chairman. MAXIM GORKI’S ‘“Mother”’ BSEASED BEES B Directed by PUDOVKIN---with BATALOV. (of ‘Road to Life”) SEE and HEAR GORKI'S Great Masterpiece ACME THEATRE, 14th Street and Union Square THEATRE UNION Presents — son's Outstanding Dramatic Hit THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JIG SAW A come@y by DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway Evgs. 8:40. Mat, Wed., Thurs. and Sat, LAST WEEK—Eugene O'Neill's Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! with GEORGE M, COHAN TIT ‘Thea., 52d St. W. of Bway GUILD Ev.8.20 Mat. Wed.Thurs.Sat. CIVIC REPERTORY THEA, 105 W 1d St. Eves. 8:45. Mats. Wed, & Sat. 2:45 8Ne-400-600-75e-$1.00 & $1.50, No Tax THEATRE COLLECTIVE Labor Temple, 14th St. & 2d Ave. presents the new collective play “MARION MODELS, INC.” May 31, June 1, June 2; 8:45p.m. 30 and 55 cents — GR. 5-9076 MAXWELL ANDERSON’S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN PTNY _Thea.. 52d St., W. of Bw: ALVIN gy.n:o0 Mat, Wed. Thurs.8 ~ MUSIC —HIPPODROME OPERA Pasquale Amato, Director DODSWORTH TONIGHT 8:30 ........NORMA Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD Thurs. Eve. LUCTA ANDREA CHENTER 3€-55¢-83¢e-99e inl — SHUBERT, W. 41th St. 8:40 Sharp || Pr Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2:30 WALTER HUSTON in Sinclair Lewis’ Era, remind you that you're coming to the ‘Air Cooled RENAISSANCE 138th St. & 7th Ave. Mara Tartar and Other Broadway Stars . WILL SEE YOU THERE! HARLEM, FRIDAY EVENING JUNE FIRST All former political prisoners will be given passes on application at: Nat'l Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners 156 Fifth Avenue (20th St.), Room 534, Chelsea 2-9593 GROUCHO ———— General Admission (incl. tax): 75c. stevedorc eee JUNE 1° JAMBOREE — GROUCHO MARX—BILL ROBINSON : Tickets on sale at Committee Office and Workers Bookshop: ~ Box seats: $1.10 in driving this piece of malodorous| Theatre Night has been arranged - _HIPPODROME, 6 Ay.&43 St. VAn 3-4266— | 1g] .