The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 2, 1934, Page 7

CHANGE ———THE—- “WORLD! MICHAEL GOLD |) "THERE were so many outright lies and distortions in Max Eastman’s recent book defaming the Soviet writers (‘Artists in Uniform”) that even the series of articles by Joseph Freeman some time ago could not answer all of them. One would need to write a book in answer, but I am sure the intellectuals who praised Eastman’s book would scarcely bother to read this new one. In fact, Eastman served his purpose so aptly that he was embraced almost with tears of gratitude. Many things had been said against the Soviet Union by the usual professional anti-Sovieteers. They had attacked the form of govern- ment, mentioned the famine, the “dictatorship of Stalin,” the G.P.U., and so forth. But still it was obyious that a great culture was being born in \{ the Soviet Union—its moving pictures, its novels, its new schools and » colleges and laboratories, etc., all this could not be denied. But Max Eastman rushed into the cultural trenches and supple- mented the work of Ralph Easley, will Durant, and the rest, with a “documented” study. How pleased everyone seemed in the plute press; how pathetically eager to believe his every syllable. A Vicious, Lying and Silly Book 'T IS a vicious book, a lying book, and it is also a silly book. Eastman blames everything bad that has happened in the world of Soviet literature on Stalin: yes, the thesis is as stupid and simple as all that. Yessenin, the poet, killed himself because of Stalin; so did Maya- kovsky and Polonsky and others; and it is about as accurate as if one blamed Hart Crane's suicide in America upon President Hoover. Stalin has broad shoulders, and he is carrying the leadership of the biggest and most tremendous construction job in the world today. He can take a lot of blame and laugh at it, but it is really a joke to blame all the literary schools of Russia on him—the futurists, the ac- meists, the constructivists and the realists—peasant poetry and fac- tory poetry, Mayerhold's stage theories versus those of Stanislavsky’s, etc., etc. The fact of the matter is: Soviet literature is a vital and mighty force that has responded in a vigorous way to the Revolution. It split into many formal schools; it had its own bitter literary quarrels, de- bates and enmities; it even swung too far to the left, into a kind of infantile leftism, which the Communist Party finally had to correct. In fact, the only time Stalin intervened directly in the literary bat- tles in the Soviet Union was when he annoynced that the time had come to build a broad united front among the writers. And what were these battles? They were only the same ones that go on in every John Reed Club in America, or in the revolutionary art circles of every other land. They were battles for revolutionary clarity, purpose and passion in art, a break with the bourgeois past, an at- tempt at self-purification. Someone always gets hurt in a fight, but these literary battles of the Soviet writers have cleared up many things. They have been neces- sary. In proletarian art groups in this country, we have seen the same kind of debate (on a smaller scale, of course). . e * . Enemies of Communism 'HE people who really hate, yes, hate the Soviet Union and wish it destroyed, are often ashamed to come out nakedly for war on the Soviets. To preserve the liberal pose, they need an intellectual mask, and Max Eastman furnishes them camouflage. He has done this before, of course. It has become his career. In the Daily Worker for Aug. 8, 1925, I found the following char- acterization of Eastman, in reference to an earlier anti-Soviet book he had written: “We have seen on what a rotten foundation Eastman is trying to erect his building. “He exploits single incidents of the Party discussion in order to blacken our Party and to undermine all confidence by perverting the meaning of facts and distorting every proposition. “I should think, however, that any serious and reflective reader need not even take the trouble to verify Eastman’s references and ‘documents’ (which moreover would not be accessible to everybody) but find it sufficient to say to himself this: “Tf the derogatory characteristics given by Eastman to the lead- ing personnel of our Party had been true, how could this Party have gene through the long years of underground struggle, have made the greatest revolution in the world, have been able to lead millions, and to assist in the formation of revolutionary parties in other countries?” “No honest worker will ever believe the sort of picture drawn by Eastman. “It contains its own refutation. It is immaterial what were East- man’s intentions, His book can only render service to the worst ene- mies of Communism and revolution. “Tt therefore objectively constitutes a weapon of counter-reyolu- tion.” . * . . Nev who do you think wrote this withering attack on Eastman? It was none other than Leon Trotzky, who has since degenerated into a kind of Max Eastman himself, and writes books and articles that “contain their own refutation,” and “that can only render service to the worst enemies of Communism and revolution.” 'HE bourgeois intellectuals often mourn publicly for Trotaky; he is another handy camouflage behind which to fight one’s anti-Soviet war. Max Eastman had gathered into a book supposed to present Trotz- kyism” all the white guard lies he could find. And in the same reply, Trotzky, still somewhat careful politically, refuted the slanders of his own champion. “Lenin left a famous political will, which Stalin suppressed,” said Eastman. ; “As for the famous will, Lenin never left one, and the very nature of his relations with the Party as well as the nature of the Party it- self, made such a ‘will’ absolutely impossible.” Thus said Trotzky in 1925. “Eastman makes it appear as if the Red Army, through the change in its leadership, had broken up and lost its effectiveness, etc.,” Trot- zky continues. “It is a mystery how and whence Eastman derived this notion. Its absurdity is quite patent. At any rate, we should not recom- mend imperialist governments to. base their schemes on Fastman’s Tevelations. “Eastman, by the way, does not seem to notice that by characteriz- ing the Red Army thus he supports the thoroughly rotten Menshevik legend about Bonapartism and Practorianism—since it is clear that any army, apt to be broken up on account of a personal change in leadership, would not be a Communist or proletarian, but precisely a Bonapartist and Praetorian army.” And the still-uneastmanized Trotzky, who now accepts Eastman as his own, then told this Eastman that his little book contained so many “fallacious and mendacious assertions, from which we need se- lect only a few of the more important” for rebuttal. And this is the authority on Soviet literature, Max Eastman. Now on the verge of a possible war against the Soviets he has fired his an- nual gun of lies, distortions, sneers and slanders. It is his career. He has had no time in ten years to say a word about Alahama or New York capitalism; he has been too busy “improving” the Soviets. Can such a man, if he has the least shred of honesty, fail to under- stand what a despicable role he is playing? Certainly not! WORKERS and INTELLECTUALS Support the first American Symphony of Revelutionary Musicians The PIERRE DEGEYTER ORCHESTRA presents » SYMPHONY CONCERT and FROLIC Program to include works of: Mozart, Greig, Bruckner, Cowell, ete. SUNDAY, JUNE 3rd IRVING PLAZA 8:30 P, — Subscription 35 cents — Irving Pl. and 15th St. |New Masses Announces , $750 Prize for Best | Proletarian Novel | NEW YORK.—The New Masses in | conjunction with The John Day | Company, publishers, announce a prize of $750 for the best novel on | an American proletarian theme sub- | mitted before April 1, 1935. | The judges of the contest are | Granville Hicks, literary editor of the New Masses; William F. Dunne, ‘journalist; Alan Calmer, national | secretary of the John Reed Clubs of the United States; Richard J. Walsh, president of The John Day | Company; and Critchell Rimington, | vice-president and associate editor !of The John Day Company. Any nove! dealing with any sec- tion of the American working cla may be submitted in the contest. The one definite requirement is that novels entered in the contest be | not only written from the point of | View of the proletariat, but be ac- tually concerned with the prole-| tariat. The term proletariat is de-| fined, for te purposes of the con- test, in its broadest sense, to in- elude, for example, the poorer far- mers, the unemployed, and even the lower fringes of the petty bour-| geoisie as well as industrial workers. The characters, however, need not all be drawn from the working class 80 long as the book is primarily concerned with working class life in America. Manuscripts must be received at the New Masses office, 31 East 27th Street, New York, before April 1, 1935 to be eligible for the $750 prize. The prize money will be in addition to royalties accruing to the author from The John Day Company which will publish the book. All manu-| scripts submitted must be signed with a pseudonym; accompanying each manuscript there must be a sealed envelope with the pseudonym | on the outside and the author's real | name and address inside. | In making the announcement of} the contest in the current New Masses, it was stated that “the judges in making their decision will try to consider all relevant factors. They will consider the author's pur- pose and the extent to which he DAILY W By ERSKINE CALDWELL (Continued from Page 1) the overhead bridge or subway his way to his street car, i mediately spotted by a serv and finds his job gone forever If he is lucky enough to be able to walk the chalk line to his street car, he must then board it and go to his garden and spend several hours planting, weeding, and cul- tivating. For he has been forced to sign up for one of Ford's twenty thousand gardens, and has paid fifty cents for the privilege. How- ever, if he goes home and stretches ous on the floor for two hours in order to regain enough strength to eat supper after eight hours of hounding, speed-up, and no lunch- hour rest period, he still runs the risk of losing his job. Because the servicemen may have been to in- spect his garden and found a few weeds in it. Weeds in a forced la- bor garden is one of the thousand deadly and unpardonable Ford sins Ford's desire to be known as the father of all and sundry was the Prompter of one of his many famous orders. Investigators from the serv- ice department were sent out to gather complete information re- garding the attitude of the worker towards the great father. The report turned in stated that the father of them all was known to the work- | ers as “the big boss,” “the chief,” “the pusher,” “slavedriver, Mister Ford,” and other less quotable titles. | Ford's action was immediate. The order was given that henceforth he was to be referred to by all workers, both on and off company property, as The Old Man. He had been assured by his council that the term was both affectionate and | respectful. The stool-pigeons were notified by the service department to report for the blacklist any worker who failed to use the new fatherly ad- dress of affection and respect when referring to Mr. Ford personally. Soon afterward the new regulation | died a swift death when the reports has realized that purpose. They) will ask themselves whether char-| acters are representative and whether they are convincing. They | will measure the significance of the theme by their understanding of the present situation and temper of | the American proletariat, and they | will also consider each novel in terms of the author's conception and aim. “It is to be hoped that the con- test will attract workers as well as! professional novelists.” | began coming in that the workers in abiding by the letter of the law, had evaded the spirit of it by add- ing a few syllables of their own Ford was being called Old Man Son- ofabitch. These are the workers once en~- vied throughout the world. News- papers through their news columns and many by editorials, helped spread the misinformation, alway supplied by his publicity depart ment, that Ford workers are the |highest paid and enjoy the most | ideal working conditions in the | automobile industry. It was recently Workers Dance League | are throughout the country, Competition to Open. and in news columns sw and not . in paid advertisements, that Ford’s At Town Hall Tonight! towest daily wage was five dolla |No mention was made of the fact that, in order to cover the raise in pay, Ford had instituted a new speed-up on the conveyor and as- sembly lines, had increased the hourly production schedule, and had laid off enough men in every de- partment to more than save himeelf money on the new wage scale But even then the workers who retained their jobs were not ‘the highest paid in the indust The Ford worker, as a matter of fact, receives the lowest wages, Ford pays a worker on the final assembly line $5. In the same department at the Hudson plant a worker doing the same operation receives $6.80, and in the Plymouth plant $7 per day. In addition to this fact, the Ford worker is the victim of the most inhuman system of extracting labor known in any industry. The speed- up system—of which Ford is the proud papa—drives men _ insane. Others are so wrecked physically that they can never work again. After having invented the speed- up-—which was laterintroduced into cotton mills as the stretch-out— Ford is still the leader. No other motor car manufacturer in America dares drive men as Ford does, He is proud of his man-killing system, and his engineers are jconstantly improving it to such an extent that, at the present rate of increase in speed, workers will soon be forced | NEW YORK.—Ten workers’ dance groups, representing many different | cities, will compete at Town Hall tenight for prizes to be awarded for the best dance compositions. Those who have been invited to act as judges are Fe Alf, JohnBovingdon, | Nadya Chilkovsky, and Sophia Delza, all of whom are well-known dancers, as well as Emanuel Kisen- berg, dance critic of the World-Tel- | egram; Harold Elion, National Sec- retary of the League of Workers’ Theatres; Mike Gold, Daily Worker Columnist, and Rose Wortis, of the | Trade Union Unity League. On the day following the festival, | ; delegates of the different W.D.L.| groups will convene at 108 W. 14th | St. to discuss the activities of the/| past year, to lay down plans for fu- | ture activity, and to elect officers for the ensuing year. TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Bassbell Resume WOR—Sports Resume WIZ-—Flying—Captain At Williams WABC—Belaseo Orchestra 1:18-WEAF—Homespun—Dr. William H, Foulkes WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield WJZ—Pickens Sisters, Songs 1:30-WEAF—Himber. Orchestra; De Marco fisters, Songs; Eddie Peabody, Ban. rn wore mit Orange American Legion| tO run in order to keep up with sand their labor. Once there was a time WJZ—Bestor Orchestra ’ 0 s still WABO_— Betty Bertnell, when the workers could stand Melodeers Quartet ‘m|and perform their labor; today they ay Le vey sa ey — must actually hop, skip and Het 200-WE, eddy Bergman, Comedian; | while performing it; tomorrow the Baritone: stern Oreheatra | workers face the likelihood of being Bak re RC ttl Talk forced to rtin while rater ae ‘WJZ—Span: Musicale and tightening nuts, A bed-ridden ERE Hare Brien ee eek™y: | wreck of a man, a victim of Ford -WOR—All Star Trio speed-up, muttered, “May God rest WJZ—Bavarian Band Henry Ford's soul for his hop-skip- 4:30-WEAF—Flovd Gibbons, and-jump.” Hunter; Music 4 3 WOR—Warren Orchestra For the workers who remain at Van tare Cappel — their jobs today at River beaten enners, Goprano; Walter Preston, | there is no time to flex a kink out WahG chet rate Banes of a contracted muscle; no timegto -WEAF—Voorhees Orchestra; straighten up your back; no time to get a drink of water; hurry, hurry, hurry; no time to draw a handker~ chief to wipe your nose—wipe it,on your sleeve or let it run. Some days you will have thirteen minutes in which to eat your lunch and catch your breath and get to the toilets. Take your choice between losing your job and being constipated. The servicemen are holding a stop- watch on you. If you say to the man next to you that it’s hot today, the man may be a stool and report you to the blacklist for complaining about working conditions, and the next morning you will find yourself Contralto; Headline Donald Novis, Tenor; Frances Langford, Contralto; Joe Cook, Comedian WOR—Freddy Farber and Edith Handman, Songs WdZ—Jamboree—Musical Variety WABC—Grtee Stueckgold, Soprano; Kostelanetz Orchestra '-WOR—Dance Orchestra -WEAF—Real Life Problems—Sketch Beatrice Fairfax, Commentator WOR—Freddy Farber and Edith Handman, Songs WJZ—Duchin Orchestra WABC—Himber Orchestra; Joey Nash, Tenor }-WOR—BStudio Music -WEAF—Hayton Orchestra; Saxon Sisters, Songs; Male Quartet WOR—Della Baker, Soprano; Wil- lam Hargrave, Baritone Wd2Z—Tim Ryan's Place—Sketch If you have seen the play you will want to read it—If you have net seen it you | MUST read it §Stevedore \ THE THEATRE UNION PRODUCTION by PAUL PETERS and GEORGE SKLAR is now available in hock form exactly as pro- duced and in a thrilling photographie jacket $1.50 at All Bookstores, or from the Publishers, Covicr Friene. inc., 386 Fourth Ave., New York j dents were carried out for burial. Detroit: Kingdom of Henry ae FORD VICTIMS—Joe York, 23, District Organizer of the Young Communist League; George Russell, 16, Ford worker, Coleman Lenny, 20, Ford worker, and Joe Deblasio, “Daily Worker” Agent, were murdered on March 7, 1932, when the police of Henry I poured machine gun bullets inte a crowd of 5,000 workers demonstrating at Ford’s Dear- Tradition | THE UNPOSSESSED, by Tess Sle- singer. Simon and Schuster; New York, $2.59. Reviewed by | JOSEPH FREEMAN bbs bourgeois literary given considerabie at inordinate praise to |'Tess Slesinger's first | Unpossessed.” One of the r |this is that the novel p |deals with the so-called |tuals. It is in the post-y |tion of futility. Its char for the most part ine ers, frustrated self-decoit |they differ from their literary p’ decessors in that they talk not o of sex and drink, but also of “Marx- ism.” That makes the narr How silty t right uv to the minute. But it n Shisen ‘bleat that | be realized at the that t poetry is “for forgetting what's” Jare no real Communists in wrong with the world and getting book, nor are any of the characters | 71) tanoled belie lerioal ‘ate seen with Communist eves. We have | ; , perteait’ oF |here a series of connected. though but an sone | not integrated, sketches about spe- paranoiacs who |cially picked types of unsuccessful boucebela ane? | liberal literati. | Intellectuals may be divided into The Unpossessed,” a Novel in the Post-War of Futility that Commu- those who funetion and those who y SHUG stpieueaa ae scat |are frustrated. You cannot iump peiceti |into the same group Joris Karl . . : |Huysmans decadent aristocrat. des HE basic weakness of the book | Esseintes, or Marcel Proust’s deca- which has many technical vir- | dent bourgeois Swann, with the dicated in the author's jOrous, if reactionary, lawyers, en- letter to the publishers printed on | sinee! doctors, and editors who|the bookjacket rf Ts | @re part of the ruling French bour- | read and from w! of them |Seoisie. You cannot identify Prince idea in my. | Mishkin with Premier Mulyukov; or describing the characterless Rudin with the | anywhere counter-revolutionary Savinkoy; or itieth cen- | Hemingway's “lost generation” with |tury.”. Take John Strachey and the intellectuals who today do er- | walter Lippman, two intellectuals |rands for. the N.R.A. machine. | There are important differences be- tween an ineffectual Oblomov and an energetic, dangerous Ramzin. on opposite sides of the barricades, or Stephen Spender and Sol Funa- roff, two on the same side. They have vital differences due not only " These characters are three di-|to differences in personality, back=- born plant for work or relief. Twenty-three other workers were seri- | mensional: Tess Slesinzer has | ground viewpoint: but due also ta’ ously wounded, and hundreds injured. drawn hers in two. Not because she! the fact that, although all four [ESSE See! ERIS OR eeeae Sea ————|has drawn caricatures. Daumier | write in English, there is no such | ‘ did his in three dimensions. What | place as “anywhere.” This meta- | Standing in Miller Road with four) recognition of workers’ richts are s) me ~ ra | whostoal 7 . " ; |or five or six thousand other unem-|the Auto Workers Union and the |sre,,bes r@wn are comic strips. | physical notion leads the auth ployed workers and wondering how | Mechanics Educational Society of | jin the world you got there so| America, The A. W. U. already has! quick | several hundred members at Ford's, | The Ford kingdom embraces not/@nd this has been accomplished | only River Rouge and Dearborn, but| Without aid from the American the city of Detroit as well. Job-|Federation of Labor. The MES.A.| selling agents comb the metropol-|has accomplished nothing under its | itan area extracting $40 in exchange | Present leadership, and will never | for the promise of a job at Ford’s,| accomplish anything for the worker | loyed by them,|in the automobile industry until its |} |the hiring office will actual | A. F. of L. influence has been re- | |duce a job for you at For | moved. for some reason or other, it lasts} Ford has many good reasons of | only two or three weeks, and it all| his own for not allowing workers at | has to be done over again, if you| River Rouge to organize. Not even| |company unions, which other auto- | Professor Bruno Leonard, the cen- tral character of the novel. is a Hemingway hero with a Jewish ac- cent. His drunkenness, his wise- eracks in which he is at. once the | lectuals—the illusion that “intellecs gag-artist and the stooge, have|tuals are a class by themselves.” nothing in common with the pseu Intellectuals are not a separate do-Marxists on the fringe of the|class. They are auxiliary troops of revolutionary movement, These|the various contending social may, within a very limited sphere |groups. They are an integral part and in a very small way, be harm-|of the social class into which they ful; but they are not inactive. The |are born or with which, under pres= author's difficulties in visualizing|sure of events or voluntarily, they her characters from the inside are| affiliate. Arthur Brisbane and Karl frequently apparent. We see ges-|Radek, T. S. Eliot and Michael tures rather than characters; we|Gold, Noel Coward and Paul Peters, | to one of the commonest e: |tant among the intellectuals about | themselves, and among other classes of the population about the inte’ have $40, The $40 turnover is prof- hear the voice of mimicry rather | Flovd Gibbons and Jack Spivaky en- jitable to everyone concerned, save |mobile manufacturers tolerate, are| than of reality; the voice not of the|Samuel Untermyer and Josevh. |the worker, Real estate agents have | Permissible. In the Kingdom of | artist, but of the impersonator. We | Brodsky, Franklin Roosevelt and ~-- }@ method of their own. If you will| Henry 1. the right of labor to bar-|never get below the surface of the! Earl Browder. are all intellectuals:... |agree to buy a house in Dearborn|gain collectively has never heen | | from one of them, you will get with | taken seriously. Ford laughed when | jthe down payment the promise of | Other manufacturers signed the N ver Rouge, But somehow! R. A. code. His sole reason for not | turns out to be in the| signing it was the provision which} er's favor. At the end of two|Would have forced unions into] or three weeks you are fired, you| River Rouge. There is no power| |find yourself unable to keep up| Yet strong enough to force him to| the payments on your home, and|#llow workers to organize for their | | own benefit He is the power unto | himself. }you are back where you started from, after everybody, including 4 Jeither Ford or his hiring depart-| Isn't he King Henry 1? ment, has taken a cut from your bara Sr Te a id savings. On Michigan Avenue there} Pienie and Athletie are automobile dealers who will sell) you a Ford car, brand new, right! Meet of Associated off the assembly line, for only $50} down payment. You can take the| Workers Clubs Today receipt to Ford’s hiring office and| akbadind the flimsy slip of paper works more| NEW YORK. — The Associated | magic than you thought was in| workers Clubs will hold an athletic a whole book of tricks. Strangely | feld day and picnic today at Ulmer enough, when you have paid for} park Brooklyn. The athletic events the car in full, you stand a stave | will start at 1 p. m., to be followed | change of losing your job at Ford's./in the evening with a varied pro- workers at the plant disturbed his peace of mind, He found ke could not work very well when so many | bodies of workers killed by acci- pavilion, Bacon! New ‘Theatre ight Offers All-Star Program on Sunday! And so Ford built, not at River Rouge, not in Dearborn, but in De- troit, the Henry Ford hospital.| There the injured worker, instead of receiving met | ment from the company that em- ployed him, is forced to pay seven dollars and a half a day. He is not permitted to be taken to other city hospitals, where the charge is four- fifty a day. Ford pays his workers five dollars a day for their labor, and charges them seven-fifty a day Theatre Night takes place tonight at the Fifth Ave, Theatre, 28th St. and Broadway, at 8:30 p.m., with an All-Star program. The Workers Laboratory Theatre will show “Hol- lywood Goes Red ur Comrade Munn,” and “Help, Police.” Mem- bers of the staff of “Men in White” will present “Dimitroff"; the Artet | for their injuries, players, “A New Play,” and Asadata | The only workers’ organizations|Dafora Horton will perform in the that make an attempt to demand native African opera “Kykunkor.” TONIGHT 10 Groups in Socialist Competition at | WORKERS’ DANCE LEAGUE | DANCE FESTIVAL | TOWN HAEL. West 43rd Street, New York City | TICKETS ON “SALE at : | ' 4 i \ | i Workers Dance League, 80 East 11th Street Workers Book Shop, 50 East 13th Street. theatre collective Labor Temple Theatre 242 East 14th Sireet and Second Avenue “MARION MODELS, Inc.” | | Performance A collective play by O. Shapiro. J. E. Bonn, J. Shapiro On the Struggle of a New York Needle Trade Shop Only 3 Performances this season: May 31; Reserved Seats t June 1; June 2 Tickets en 5S 12th St., Box Shop, $0 E. 13th ‘St., W.L-T. 42 E. | 9-1 P.M, 30 and 50 Cents Sine pas sae zn oe vvowtert ser FIFTH AVE, THEATRE 1 Workers Bs. $9 B. i%h St. Th ox Office, people. | but to say that they form one class 3 = apart from the rest of society is to IRONY is more biting, humor |say that the soldiers in two oppos- warmer, satire more penetrating, |ing armies are really in the sam analysis more instructive where the | SToup because they are all soldier author hes a definite feeling about | That is a piece of abstraction which his characters. Detachment which | leads to mischief. In this case the springs from an anxiety to avoid |) mistakes at any cost estranges the |The novel is not about Marxtst in- author from his own characters. | tellectuals “in general.” It is a nar- Jeffrey's don Juanism appears to|?ative-study of one small section of. Missis Flinders as the mere mono-|the intelligentsia, rather unimporz, logue of an actor “relying on a pa-|tant in the U. 8. A. where the tient memory”; Bruno Leonard, the |™ass of professional people, from center of the little group of serious | engineers to authors, are an active;~ vacillators, a man with presumably loftier interests, also talks “like a play too often played before.” Peo- ple seem unreal to us, like actors on a stage, or puppets in a Punch and Judy show, when we do not like them, hence do not understand them. Now note this significant paradox: in a novel dealing with intellectuals the only character who chiefly, for the present, on the side - |of the bourgeoisie. The novel is a”. | study in social impotence without - any real explanation of that. impo- \tence. We cannot expect such arr jexplanation from the successful | business man in the book. How | much more interesting and real and.. illuminating this novel would have. Pen cura an’ natece | sat seems real, adequately realized, | been had there been, among all the _ Se uae ona og no Teas | gram consisting of. s mass charus, | Sostively athrastive besike ihe iec| phony "Markiste”’ che geaume ur emp! i & showing of the Soviet film “The! hotent drivelers, is the successtul | Communist, we advise them to do s¢ |Patriots” and newsreels, the Work-| business man, whose son Ie a SI ERE or! Ford has discontinued the emer-|ers Laboratory Theatre in’ a new|«Marxist” anda pansy: and the| ‘The Dally Worker, America’s.only. gency hospital at the River Rouge| side-show, and Artists Union mem-| most abstract, unreal, one-dimen-| Workingclass daily newspaper, fishts Plant, and in its place has substi-| bers who will do portraits and cari-|sional characters are the Black | for the interests of the working tuted several first-aid’ kits and’ aicatures. At 7 p.m, Max Bedacht,|Sheep, the Communist students | class. Read the Dally Worker. Buy few nurses to explain how to use| National Secretary of the I. W. O.| Possibly the author has standards | it at the newsstands. Three cents a them in case of accident. The con-| will speak. The Program will con-| by which she judges her characters? copy. stant sight of so many injured|clude with dancing in an open air| ‘ : AMUSEMENTS | “Stirring Drama « . Story of the Struggle of the Russian Workers Under Czaris DAILY WOR: MAXIM GORKI’S “Mother”? "'s",,,77"" Directed by PUDOVKIN—with BATALOV (of “Road to Life’) ACME THEATRE, 14th Street and Union Square ——THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JIG SAW A comefy by DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE —— THE THEATRE UNION Presents — -- The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Hit purposeful, practical, energetic lot,-- schief has confused the author... Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 st.| Evgs. 8:40, Mat. Wed., Thurs, and Set Eves, 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Sat, 2:48 |} 80¢-400-60e-75e-81.00 & $1.50. No Tax Last Week-EU ILL'S Comedy AH, WILDERNESS! Ro BERTA with GEORGE M. COHAN A New Musical Comedy by GUILD , Tht3: 824 St. W. of Bway . 7 UTLEY gy.3.20 Mat. Wed.Thurs.sat, || JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK | NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 42d St. Evgs. 8.44 MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.30 “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with HELEN PHILIP HELEN |] 50th St. & 6th Ave.—Show Place of the } HAYES MERIVALE MENKEN |) Nation—Opens 11:30 A, M. he? y Thea.. 52d St.. W. of Biway % Pear \ ALVIN gry: Marcarer SULLAVAN in Mats.Thurs.&Sat,2.20 | || “Little Man, What Now?” From the Novel by HANS FALLADA On the 5! —FIESTA MEXICANA Tell your friends and shopmates about the Daily Worker. read your copy. Let them | | June Srd... Another NSW THEATRE NIGHT | (Stars of Broadway, Harlem and 14th Street) 3 NEW PLAYS by Workers Lab. Theatre @ DIMITROFF by Group Theatre Members ie ARTEF Scene from “Yezor Bulitchey” EULA GRAY, “Songs” Extra. @ H.W. L. DANA, Chairman “KYKUNKOR” or “THE WITCH WOMAN” | ASADATA DAJORA’S NATIVE AFRICAN DANCE OPERA 1 H Reserve Tickets at:2ac, 35¢, 55c, 83, 99c, Inc. 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