The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE | —THE—_| Ta WORLD! L__ By MICHAEL GOLD 1O CONTINUE the discussion on Comrade Swift’s letter yesterday regarding the necessity for more revolution- ary songs in America: One of his suggestions is worthy of particular atten- tion. It is that every mass organization affiliated with the revolutionary movement take steps to create its own songs. For instance, why shouldn't the International Labor Defense have some inspiring song that could be sung at all its meetings, along with the more general songs of the movement? This song, if skillfully written, could accomplish two objects. It would arouse that emotion of solidarity, class loyalty, and courage, which is the red beating heart of a mass movement. The song should also, in poetic terms, be a summary of the objects of this organization. It should have verses about the heroes of Amer- ican labor now in prison, and the chorus might affirm the determina- tion of the workers in the I.L.D. never to desert their comrades, but to fight without end until the jail doors were forced open. I can visualize other verses that would summarize the famous frame-ups in American labor history—Sacco and Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, Scottsboro, Herndon, and others. If presented, not mechanically, but by a poet of quality, what an impressive and deeply moving thing such a song could be. Any mem- ber of the LL.D. who learned to sing it would have engraved deep through all the layers of his consciousness this phase of the class struggle. It could do what a hundred speeches might not do—the human mind is a combination of the rational and the emotional, and to neglect the latter is to forget what human beings are like. The Influence of Walt Whitman IOMRADE SWIFT complains of the fact that so few of our revolu- tionary writers have written texts that can be set to music. This is a peculiarly American condition, since most of our poets write in free verse, whereas in Germany, the U.S.S.R. and other lands, almost every poet uses rhyme and the regular measures. Free verse, for various historic reasons, has been associated in American literature with the idea of revolt against capitalism. There may be an ethnographic reason for this, as some theo- rists claim. Free verse and irregular rhythms, they say, are closest to the primitive literature of this continent—the poetry of the red Indian. There is such a gap, however, between the people of Chicago in 1984 and the Indians who occupied that site in 1734 that such a theory verges on the mystic, I believe. The prairies and the climate would not be enough to shape the poetry of a region. After all, there are thousands of miles of Ukrainian steppes which look and feel like the Midwest prairies. But the Ukrai- nian poets sing in rhyme. ‘However one may account for it, free verse is still the favored tech- nique of the young revolutionary poet in America. When I was growing up and commencing to try my hand at such poetry, I found myself most strongly influenced by Walt Whitman, Arturo Giovanitti, and Carl Sandburg. No, it wasn’t the Indians who started this tradition. Perhaps it was Walt Whitman, with his Jeffersonian anarchism. The free, care- less, loose and often unorganized patterns of free verse reflect the spirit of laissez faire. It was a grand spirit at its revolutionary height, and nurtured genius and revolt. Today, like bourgeois democracy, it seems to have run thin and dry. T. S. Eliot on the Barricades ‘REE verse has become, in the main, the preserve of poets like T. S. Eliot. They have sharpened and pruned the old abandon, let out the running blood. It is democracy gone sterile, and wandering in a waste land, and finally going after the mirage of theology and Fas- cism, as has T. S. Eliot. This man has been a consummate artist (now he is only another minor Hitler, squeaking out his reactionary rage). He has been some- how the strongest influence on the younger generation of revolutionary poets. It isa matter of real wonder to me to see how many try to adapt his sterile, hopeless literary mood to the uses of proletarian literature. I don’t believe it can or should be done, but it is a weight that bur- dens many of the younger men. They haven't yet escaped the class- room and the “drawing room”; they are intellectuals, in the worse sense of the word, writing not for the masses, but for the narrow circles of the over-educated. That’s why they can’t write texts for popular songs. T. S. Eliot could and would never have done such a thing, and neither can they, for they are his spiritual heirs. But Walt Whitman and Carl Sand- burg could have done it, had there been a movement making this de- mand on them. MAxy of them think it is easy to write a good text for a mass song. But it is really more difficult than to do the rather unorganized and intellectually self-centered thing many of them are producing. A popular song must be epigrammatic. It must have vitality. It must be heroic, but not in the conventional and mechanical Style into which a bad writer falls so easily. The words must be singable; two-syllable words that work every day, and not words that live only in libraries. The song must be flesh and blood of the movement; hence its author must have been the same. It cannot be a personal lyric; that is to say, the quirk or special vision of an isolated individualist; it must have the breadth of feel- ing one finds in Walt Whitman AND the Indian poetry. It cannot be written by a snob who thinks he can toss off such things with his left hand, while his right goes on fashioning the T. S. Eliot thing. It needs one’s best; and few of us have cared enough to give it this, And of course, it takes a certain kind of talent; all the wishing to do it will not help. In fact, it often needs genius. Meet SEAN MURRAY Before He Sails Back to Ireland! We'll Swap Stories. Sing. Chuckle over our paper around the campfire. Saturday's Program? Jane Dudley in an epic dance. Miriam Blecker in Agitprop and Elise in her inimitable Jazz. SWIM! DANCE! TENNIS! ALL SPORTS AT CAMP NITGEDAIGET Beacon-on-the Hudson, N, Y. ALL PROFITS THIS MONTH GO TO COMMUNIST PARTY! $14 a Week. Cars leave 2700 Bronx Park East Daily at 10:30 A. M. 7 P. M,, Saturday 3 P. M. EStabrook 8-1400. Also Friday, ig On the Beautiful Boat “Claremont: Spend the Day at Hook Mountain Return by Moonlight, Saturday, June 9th Dancing — Entertainment — Baseball — Tennis — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JU By my. ETROIT, the sometime fourth city of America, is a one-track city. It eats, sleeps and breathes automobiles. For that reason it holds a high]; ctiv labor. Unless a of fitting into Y the specialized groove laid out by the manufac- turer, his chances of finding gain- ful employment next to nothing. But Detroit, after selecting the it in Detroit are workers condescends to hire, ; does not stop at that. It rejects, throws out, and submerges those members of the worker’s family it does not wish to be held re- sponsible for. The mothers, the Z children, and a ‘ the wives are not iuaine Caldwell even the neces- Sary impedimenta of the worker; these persons are the trimmings, the shavings, the waste of auto- mobile production. But the manufacturer has not shut them completely from his vision. He has discovered that in the production of light work he can profitably employ girls be- tween the ages of 16 and 20 at half the wage men receive for the same type of work. For the hun- dreds of girls employed, there are thousands unemployed, and it is this threat of being replaced that binds a girl to small pay, un- healthy working conditions, and submission to the suggestions of foremen and bosses. If a girl pro- tests, she has only to look outside the plant window and see hun- dreds waiting and eager to take her place. 7-$8 PER WEEK _ Wages paid girls throughout the city, no matter how highly skilled, no matter how productive, will always be found to be half or less than the scale paid male workers. If a girl receives 25 cents an hour doing press work stamping on small fittings, investigation shows that men working beside her re- ceive at least twice the pay. Seven and eight dollar a week wages paid to girls in many cases must support an entire family. In working-class Detroit families to- day there are always unemployed fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters. The absence of sick ben- fits drives girls to stay at their jobs when hospital care is needed, because if they remain away on account of sickness one day or six, when they return to the plant, the possibility that they have been replaced is usually a certainty. aa eee i had case of a girl employed at an automobile products plant is typical of many. She was sup- porting a family of four, and the loss of even one day’s pay would have been disastrous. During the 30-minute lunch-hour period she gave birth to a baby in the wash-room, and returned to her machine two hours before faint- ing. When she was being carried out of the plant on a stretcher, the foreman forced her to remain long enough to punch her card on the time ciock. The working conditions in all plants where girls are employed are in keeping with the rate of pay. Some plants, notably Hud- son’s, require girls to eat their lunches in the toilet rooms. And even though conditions are be- coming worse, there is no attempt being made, save by the Auto Workers Union to better them. Girls who retain their jobs do so with all the odds against them. A day’s absence because of sick- ness is seized upon by the fore- men as an excuse to fire them if they have ever complained against the speed-up and working conditions. And if a girl refuses to accept her bosses’ advances, her job is not worth 5 cents from that moment on. ALLEYS FOR “HOMES” Outside the automobile plants, the Detroit working-class girl has an even harder life to live. The few sweat-shops absorb only a small percentage of the unem- Ployed; the stores offer little to the masses; there still remain thousands who are forced from their homes with the necessity of making a living. The streets, the parks, and the alleys are their homes day and night. The one-product city that is Pointed to with pride by the swivel-chair industrialists has never, neither in boom times nor in depression years, afforded em- ployment to more than one of its each four inhabitants. The father of the working-class family Perhaps found employment at one time or another; the mother, the son, and the daughter are the by-products whose numbers and economic values have never been tabulated in census charts under the proper heading. Detroit finds itself today with tens of thousands of young men who have no jobs, and no prospect. of one under the hit-and-miss system of industry. These boys and young men are too old to be returned to schook even if there Were room for them; and they are not old enough yet to be enrolled in the Over Forty-Five Club, It was because of these boys wal the streets that Detroit, the first city in America to do so, insti- tuted the police scout car. Today the cars, containing two heavily armed police, cruise the city in papi isle eyes on the unemployed and inactive yo men that Detroit does not TLGe what to do with. * +o ie Be Detroit has a constructive Policy toward its thousands of sirls between the ages of 16 and 25 who are without homes and jobs. Detroit again was not caught napping. It was the first city to place police scout cars on Swimming, Ete. Auspices: DISTRICT DAILY WORKER ‘Boat leaves Pier “A” Battery Park at 1 P.M. Tickets in advanes $1, at Pier $1.25, ‘Tickets ay le at all Workers Bookshops, the streets to dog the heels of hoys whose fathers had moved to the center of the automobile in- dustry from every state in the union to work at high wages considered to be j ERSKINE CALDWELL VE 5, 1934 ace, recent strike. MASS PICKETING—Wives of auto workers took a leading part in the picketing before the Briggs auto plant in Detroit during ‘a so now the daughters are being taken care of by means of the city’s moronic foresight. The city of Detroit, with the customary graft, is in the red light business. Girls, for a fee in the proper hands, may ask for and receive a@ very insignificant-looking per- mit that entitles them to become public prostitutes, semi-profes- sional if they are on the streets, professional if they have an ad- dress. By encouraging prostitu- tion, the city welfare department finds that it can reduce its relief rolls; the city health department is very glad to co-operate—for a fee. No wonder Detroit is proud of the fact that it can say #t has only 28,000 families on its relief Tolls. Unlike the State of Michigan, which limits the number of retail liquor stores in Detroit to 3,000, the city of Detroit places no limit on the number of prostitutes it permits. As a result, from Grosse Pointe to Dearborn, the city is flooded with 'teen-age girls ring- ing door-bells just as any house- to-house sales campaign manager would have them do. CRISIS HITS DETROIT The bursting of Detroit’s bub- ble did not occur over-night, even though the sight of scores of never completed office buildings and apartment houses stand like tombstones in the city’s skyline. From 1929 to 1932 the bubble shriveled; the wholesale bank failures early in 1933 put the fin- ishing, explosive touch to Detroit's balloon-like growth. Workers were dispossessed by thousands; the thousands of persons made homeless were worker's families. This accounts for the numbers of girls between the ages of nine and fifteen who are homeless now. Some of them have found their parents; but most of them will move into the city’s department of prostitution. Any night they can be seen in downtown Detroit, slipping in and out of beer par- lors, hovering in the shadows of allays, and whispering together in the all-night movie houses on Woodward Ave. The few pennies they are able to earn are tossed at them on the floors of beer joints, crap rooms, and vacant buildings. Most of them are too young to be prosti- tutes with a health department permit yet, but in the empty houses and dark apartment build- ings they are taught to circum- vent their age for pennies, nickles and dimes. In back-room beer joints they strip off their clothes, go through a few childish mo- tions of dance routine, and reap a fistful of copper money from the floor. In the crap rooms their busking takes the form of any type of entertainment called for. Hundreds of these homeless girls snatch a few hours’ sleep in the 10 or 12 all-night movie theatres. Here, for 15 cents they can doze off until daylight, and then make their toilet in the washrooms. From then un- til after midnight, the city is their parent, their education, their food. A broken-up home in Detroit is more than merely a scattered family. Once torn apart in the one-product town, there is little likelihood of the family’s ever | seeing one another again. The uncertainty of work in the auto- mobile plants drives fathers to another city, to another state even, in search of a job. The mother may become a domestic, if she can find such a position. The sons and daughters drift like chips on lake Huron. These are the working-class families that left their homes in Tennessee, in Texas, in Kansas, to answer want ads for automobile workers in Detroit. The wages were high, the hours were short; don’t be a sucker and remain-a hillbilly all your life—On to Detroit! Now that the capitalistic bub- ble has burst, the debris covers all Wayne County, Michigan Only a blind man could fail to see it. nh ae TITNDER the banner of NRA. € automobile manufacturers of Detroit are making millions of dollars. Their eyes, as their spokesman, Henry Ford, says in every co-operating newspaper in the land, are upon the future. Ford even breaks down and al- lows himself to be quoted: “The automobile industry never looked better than it does today. The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.” The depression, in terms of dollars and cents, is undoubtedly over as far as Ford himself is concerned. But the depression, in terms of human lives, has just begun. If Ford can forget the depression, his conscience will not bother him. He can forget that he wrecked a city of two million workers in order to make a profit of two billion dollars. The name of its founder, Henry Ford, has been inscribed on the cornerstone of The School of Whoredom. 4 Hite report of the Chicago Work- ers School shows a steady in- crease in the percentage of prole- tarian students from 50 per cent in the Fall of 1932 to 75 per cent in the Spring of that year. The Sum- mer school of 1933 was conducted on an industrial basis and the com- position was 100 per cent proleta- rian — metal, building, needle, etc. Young workers predominated in every term. While the school was able to get some students from the mass or- ganizations, such as the Interna- tional Workers Order and the In- ternational Labor Defense, the rela- tion between the school and the mass organizations is still its great- est weakness, with the Trade Union Unity League still showing the smallest number of students in the school. The American Federation of Labor Opposition, however, for the first time responded to the call of the School and sent quite a num- ber of members in the past term. aa yy Library Established One of the greatest achievements of the school is the establishment of a library, which is only six months old and yet has been able to gather sufficient books and perio- dicals to enable all students to use the library for studying. Also, the students making reports have been able to borrow books over a week’s time. The establishment of success- ful branches in the steel regions has been reported in this column before. For the next year the Chicago Workers Schools plans to move its main branch to the North Side and expand its branches and work in general. A conference is being called to discuss this question with represen- tatives of all mass organizations on Sunday, June 24, at 11 a.m, at 209 W. North Avenue. Outstanding among the proposals that will be made by the Executive Committee is the plan to turn the central branch of the Chicago schools into a school to train in- structors and furnish material. eae) Course to Stress Election Campaign Registration for the Summer Term of the Cleveland Workers School is now being taken at the school head- when times were boaming, And quarters, 1524 Prospect Avenue, i What's Doing in the Workers Schools of the U. S. A feature of the summer term will be a course in Principles of Commu- nism specially adjusted to meet the needs of those who are active in the Election Campaign, so that they will be able to carry on more effective and convincing agitation among the workers, and with the rising tide of Strikes throughout the state and county, will be more able to assume the leadership in the developing class struggles. Many inquiries have already been received about the courses intro- duced for children to be given dur- ing the daytime, and it is expected that a large ‘number of proletarian parents will take advantage of the school to give their children a real working class viewpoint. The classes for children include History and Science, Drawing and TIllustrating, and Dramatics. Although the Summer Term will not include several subjects given during the winter, the basic courses in Principles of Communism, Marx- ian Economics, and Teachers’ Train- ing are listed. Besides, two new courses in Russian History and Pioneer Leaders’ Training have been added, Lenin’s ‘Foundation of C, J.” in Pamphlet NEW YOR. — Discontent in world socialist parties gives an especial significance to V. I. Lenin's “The Foundation of the Communist International.” In this 47 page pamphlet is concentrated the wisdom of Lenin, trenchantly ex- pressed in its most profound. sphere —the questions of the working class revolutionary party and the funda- mentals of the proletarian dictator- democracy. Proletarian dictatorship is the rock before which the “left” social- ist stumbles and this vital base of Communist theory is analyzed by Lenin in his theses and reports on bourgeois democracy and the dic- tatorship of the proletariat, de- livered at the opening of the first congress of the Communist Interna- tional in 1919. The booklet (price 10 cents) can be obtained from the publishers at 381 Fourth Ave., or from workers’ bookshops and Workers’ Library ship and the sham of bourgeois, MacaulayCo Go on Strike Protest Firing and De- mand End of Petty Abuses NEW YORK.—Eleven employees of the Macaulay Co., 381 Fourth Ave., walked out this morning in the first strike in t | ing ind tates They struck following a series of abuses by the company officers Which culminated with the dis- charge last Friday of Miss Dorothy Rimmer, a member of the book | Keeping staff who had been active in organizing the workers of the Macauley office. The office struggle came to a head two weeks ago, when the employees Presented the following list of de- mands to the company offices: | 1. All abuse and tyranny on the | part of the employers must stop. 2. Employees must be permitted | the use of sufficient electric light. | 3. The installation of electric fans in warm weather. 4. Employees absent because of | illness for a period up to ten days | should receive full pay 3 5. No discharge without either | two weeks’ notice or one week’s| | salary. | 6. Workers employed by i company for a year or longer should | receive two weeks’ vacation. | When these demands were pre-| sented, the workers stated that un- | less they were granted they would | | walk out. Under this pressure, the | company agreed to all except the} two-week vacation demand. | Last week the company dis-| charged Miss Rimmer. Immediately | the workers, meeting together, de- | cided that this dismissal was an act | | of retaliation agai: the entire of- | fice staff, and particularly against | Miss Rimmer, whose activities in| the office had been instrumental in | organizing the workers. They asked | her reinstatement, and when it was | | refused they went out on strike.| | The entire action is being led by the Book Section of the Office | Workers’ Union. | Telegrams to the company ask-| ing for the granting of the workers’ | demands and the cessation of the office abuses have been sent to the | Macauley Co. by a number of out- | standing writers, including Robert | M. Coates, author of “The Outlaw | Years” and other books; Grace| Lumpkin, author of “To Make My Bread”; Matthew Josephson, whose | most recent volume is “The Robber | Barons”; Horace Gregory, poet and} critic; Henry Hart, John L. Spivak, Josephine Herbst and John Herr- mann, Pamphlets, Periodicals | To Be Reviewed Soon| THE WAY OUT—A Program for | American Labor. Containing the Manifesto and the Main Resolu- tions of the Eighth Convention of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. with an introduction by M.| J. Olgin. Price 10c. Published by | Workers “ibrary Publishers. P. O.| Box 148, Station D, New York Ci ’:| CUMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL—| Vol. XI, No. 6, March 20, 1934. | Contents: The Popularization and | Realization of the Decisions of the Thirteenth Plenum of the Execu- tive Committee of the Communist International; from the Editorial Board (two documnets from the Austrian events); The American Socialist Party and the Austrian Events, by E. Green and B. Boo- ker; How Not to Struggle Against Fascism, by R.; The Struggle of the Chinese Red Army, by Chan- Shi. Price 10c. Published by Workers Library Publishers, P. O. Box 148, Station D, New York| City. DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM—| An exposition of Marxist philos- | ophy by A. Adoratsky, director of | the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of Moscow. Price 50c. Published by International Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave, New York City. (Ready June 10). LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF V. I. LENIN. A popular outline of Lenin’s theories by R. P. Dutt, ed- itor of the British Labor Monthly. Price 50c. 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Read Baritone; Edgar Publishers, Box 148, Station D., New York City. 10:30-WOR—Johnston Orch.; Davie Vine, Comedian | guardsmen were not c | the National Guard had been cal Page Five * Detroit: school of Prosiution Employes of Sidelights on the Recent Minneapolis Strike By SENDER GARLIN 11. tiated ment with tion clause > Re Wee Guard. hief claim to di same time members of however, is that he served Guard received not port for duty at the armories tion; it might not have been such happy situation for the boss into action against the trv in Minneapolis zkyites appear as tame as Methe with strikers amor mari During the men! e Congressman Three regiments of the National a Guard had been mobilized and held ahried ne ee ready for action by Floyd B. Ol-| their deputies oemaker's ‘topie Son, Farmer-Labor governor of| was “How Laws Are Kept from Minnesota—the 151st field Being Made.” Some of his utter- and the 135th infantry of Minne-| ances show why the Farmer-Labor apolis and the 206th infantry of| forces in Minneapolis are able to St. Paul. Elaborate excuses were} pose as a pa of workers and offered for this action not onl fi the Farmer-Laborite but ultra-“revolutionary” Trots! the Strike Committee. By r ing the National Guard, Olson's apologists declared, the governor was forestalling the calling out of federal troops “who would take situation out of Olson’s hands.” Trotskyites were equally energetic in excusing the strikebreaking ac- tion by the Farmer-Labor Gover- nor. “You must differentiate be- tween the National Guard and the militia,” Grant Dunne, one of the leaders of the strike told me when I talked about the militia being called out against the strikers. called out against the si “The National Guard is a regula body whereas the militia consists able-bodied citizens of the state of Minnesota who can be called out by the Governor at any time.” A few minutes later, however, he airily acknowledged that “of course, we all know what the purpose of the National Guard is.” IMMEDIATELY following Gov. Ol- son’s mobilization of the National Guard, the Young Communist by dies,” declared the leaflet, “you have been given the order to be in readi- ness to go into action against the truck drivers strike of Minneapolis. Have you stopped to think who these truck drivers are? What are they striking for? Why you are being called to break this strike?” “Many of these strikers,” the leaf- let went on, “are your friends and relatives. were forced to slave and try keep families alive on such low crime is fighting against their mis- erable conditions and for a decent standard of living. “Hundreds of them have been But this has not stopped their fight. They have the support of the thou- sands of Minneapolis unemployed CALLED IN! “You have the guns! Refuse to use them against the workers! Re- fuse to take any part in helping to break the strike! Refuse to pro- tect any of the scab-driven trucks!” 'URIOUS bed-fellows: F. H. Shoe- maker, the noisy, swashbuckling, demagogic Farmer-Laborite Con gressman and the Trotzkyite lead ers of the truckmen. No talk here about Fourth Internationals and ‘Thermidors. On the night the sell- out agreement was put over, Grant Dunne, one of the members of the ors with Congressman Shoemaker in the job of persuading the strik- ers to accept the stranglehold agreement which Gov. Olson was putting over on the men. Shoemaker had been arrested a couple of days previously and many of the strikers looked upon him as somewhat of a friend. A husky fel- low, his shirt sleeves rolled up, Shoemaker bellowed at the strikers: “Leave your fighting forces intact; this time: But if you vote yes, it don’t mean you go back to work. The bosses have to O.K. the agree- ment before the strike is over.” Shoemaker had been arrested near the City Market where picket- ing was hottest. When the strikers had gone through the deputies, all the police squad cars were ordered to the scene by radio. A special detachment of 100 firemen were also sent out. The strikers took complete command of the market area for nearly a half hour; win- dows of buildings were smashed, League of Minneapolis distributed | leaflets among the guardsmen. “Bud- | s They are workers who| to! wages as $9 per week. Their only | jailed. Numbers have been injured. | THAT IS WHY YOU HAVE BEEN | Strike Committee, divided the hon- | we're putting the bosses on the spot | 1,” Shoemaker de clared, “is the New Steal. J. P, Morgan is the boss of the Repub- lican Party . President R ed a lot of alpha- ions which ll end r en we pay the bonds, as plain 1.0.U.” Moreover, that “the Farmer- Labor platform, instead of being Communistic, was a modern vere m of the system adopted by the ews thousands of years ago, when every seven years they forgave per- sonal debts and every 49 years re« distributed the land.” Concluding, Shoemaker announced that “the money interests back East are ready to md $50,000,000 to defeat the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota.” AY 18, William Brown, president: of the General Drivers and Helpers Union declared that “we feel that the strike has now reached the point where it is impossible for the rest, of organized labor in Min- nesota hot to participate. We feel |confident that the continuation of this particular strike will shortly develop a general strike affecting all the industries of the city. We are aware that the future of the movement in Minne- ke; We are prepared to fight it out. One week later—Under Trotzky- ite leadership, the strike is stran- |gled by a series of truces followed by an agreement which forces come pulsory arbitration uvon the men. N MAY 15 the strikers demanded that the bosses gn a written contract which would bind them to abide strictly by the provisions of Section 7-a of the N.R.A. and would Pledge them not to discriminate against workers because of union membership,” the trucking bosses came through with the declaration that they saw no need of signing an identical agreement with the union, and that in any event they preferred to be parties to an agree- ment with the U. S. government rather than with the union. FTER the “Battle of Bulls’ Run,” Chief of Police Johannes asked Dr. E. T. Boquist, commander of the Fifth District of the American Li n posts, to enlist 1.500 men as special deputies. This was after a | batch of uniformed cops and depu- jties had been sent sailing to the | Minneapolis General Hospital, so it | wasn’t a bit surprising to hear that after a short delay Boquist ine |formed the police chief that the | Legionnaires couldn't serve as dep- uties because it was “against the | constitution of the American Le- | gion.” eh ee oe Shows the Way,” Militant,” organ of |the Trotzkyites. Yes, the workers | Showed the way to victory by their unexampled courage and militancy, ;but the Trotzkyite leaders showed | the way to surrender by shameless | collaboration with the A. F. of L, | bureaucrats and the Farmer-Labor |government which had mobilized | the National Guard in an effort to | force the strikers back to their jobs! — THE END — WHAT’S ON REMEMBER June 9, Daily Worker Day jend Moonlig! Excursion to Hook Moune | tain. Glorious tme, get _your ticket now, On sale at all Workers Bookshops. Tuesday LECTURE on “Soviet Youth — Student and Worker” at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx (170th St.), 8:30 p.m. Auspices: Mt. Eden Youth Br. F.S.U. Adm. 10c. WORKERS pack court room. Protest arrest of two workers at home relief bu- reau, 25 Snyder Ave. 9 a.m. Ella May Br. LL.D. | “Minneapolis jannounces “The AMUSEMENTS “STIRRING DRAMA. . STORY OF THE MAXI STRUGGLE OF THE RUSSIAN WORKERS UNDER CZARISM,"—DAILY WORKER. M GORKI’S RELEASED HERE “Mother”’ AS “1905” f Directed by PUDOVKIN—with BATALOV (of “Road to tife”) ACME THEATRE, 14th Street and Union Square THE THEATRE GUILD presents— JIG SAW A comedy by DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEX—SPRING BYINGTON ETHEL BARRYMORE Theatre, 47th Street, W. of Broadway Evgs. 8:40. Mts. Thurs. & Sat. 2:40 MAXWELL ANDERSON'S New Play “MARY OF SCOTLAND” with MARGALO STANLAY HELEN GILLMORE RIDGES MENKEN GUILD ‘Thea., 52d St., W. of B'way Ev.8.20 Mats. Thurs. &Sat.2.20 RADIO CITY MUSIC HAL 50th St. & 6th Ave—Show Place of the Nation—Opens 11:30 A. M. Marcarer SULLAVAN in “Little Man, What Now?” From the Novel by HANS FALLADA On the Stage:—FIESTA MEXICANA j———- THE THEATRE UNION Presents —— The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Hit stevedore Tonight, 4:90 |] CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 st Eves. 8:45, Mats. Tues. & Sat. 2:45 PE BARBER of |! “‘s0c-40c-60e-75¢-81.00 & $1.50, No Tax SEVILLE Wed. Eve. FORZA DEL DESTINO i merges eee ROBERT A Pasquale Amato, Director 25° 35° 55° 83° 99° Re HIPPODROME, 6th Ave. & 48 St. VA. 3-4266 WABC—Confict—Sketc) St re A New Musical Comedy by JEROME KERN & OTTO HARBACK NEW AMSTERDAM, W. 424 St. Evgs. 8.41 Matinees Wednesday and Saturday 2.50