The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 8, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1934 Page Five ! ‘CHANGE | ‘a | WORLD! | | By MICHAEL GOLD | OMETIMES, when a proletarian novelist describes the conversation of capitalists in his fiction, the bourgeois critics accuse him of biased caricature. They don’t mind caricature in Dickens or Dostoievsky ; that is art, of course, since it deals with issues of the past, in the main. And they don’t object to caricature of the most vicious and stupid kind if it is directed against Communism; they praised, for example, the stale uneducated carieature of Aldous Huxley in his “Brave New World.” It was an attack, don't you see, on all these foolish dreams that a better system than capitalism might be evolved to feed and civilize the masses. But the critics are very stern with proletarian writers. This is cari- cature, this is propaganda, this isn’t truth, they say, when one tries to describe some of the more basic horrors of the capitalist mode of thinking. It really can’t be caricatured. It is so cruel, so shortsighted, so greedy, so bitterly determined to crush labor at any cost, that nobody could ever hope to caricature it, The truth itself sounds like a cari- cature on humanity. . . . A FRIEND of mine, a shrewd young racketeer whose contacts take him among tke captains of American industry, had the following to say: “You find real class consciousness only in two groups in America— among the revolutionary workers, and among the really big shots of industry and baking. “It's the middle swarm of liberal hangers-on and intellectuals, who buzz outside the real battle front, who deny the sharp lines on which the conflict is fought. “The big shots don’t kid themselves, even though they use the preachers and Walter Lippmanns as their front. When they get to- gether with each other, they are class conscious, and they know and name the enemy, and make plans to destroy him physically. It makes your hair curl, if you are a little soft and believe some of the things you read in the Nation.” . . They Want Blood ERE is a little item from “Steel,” which is the trade organ of the steel bosses. It was in the issue of May 7. It is a report from their correspondent in Detroit. Could any capi- talist make a plainer confession that he is willing to drown the workers in their own blood, rather than give up a penny of profits? The automobile barons openly say here that they are forming the company unions to act as armed fascist. bands to kill off by vio- lent means any attempts at honest trade unions formed by the workers. They call them “nuisance unions,” and have no desire even to pre- tend they are anything but attempts to destroy trade unionism. But General Johnson and the N.R.A. haven't heard of all this, it seems. The bosses also gloat over the fact that there is a let-down in pro- duction, and that increasing layoffs “are sobering labor” out of its demands for higher wages. Really, this item is only a mild sample of the way in which capi- talists think habitually. I hope no bourgeois critic will read it and tell us it is a caricature: From the Detroit Battle Front ‘The “Innocent” Co , Innocent in Its Anti-Red FP ropag Webster's Portrayal of a Communist Organizer | E first lesson in drawing the | capitalist world gives the artist | | when he first starts out to live by | | the sweat of his brush, is to teach | | him what sells. The head of a big | | Newspaper feature | By JACOB BURCK syndicate ance | informed me with one of those “for | your own good” airs, after I startled | \him by refusing to do a drawing, | |that the newspaper syndicate game is a business, like any other busi- | ness, and that the idea was to learn | to please the man who buys your | stuff. not yourself. Expanding with solicitude, he continued to describe in detail for my special benefit how the business functions. That a syndicate cannot afford to offend any of its customers—the editors of the papers which use its feat- ures. These editors in turn must consider the feelings of their cus- tomers — the advertisers in their papers: the banks, manufacturers, and big merchants. “. .. S0 you see. young man. we are all part of a big machine.” When I told him that I didn’t like the machine and hoped to see it wrecked some day, he blew up and waved me out with an exas- perated gesture. . HE comic strip cartoon is a newspaper syndicate’s biggest staple. These funnies coin millions of dollars for the “machine” and allow the favorite artists to live in fantastic luxury. The banke' in the end control the nature of the product. Since they are the ones whose sensibilities the artist is warned not to offend, they can either throttle the humorous brain- child or let it live and prosper ac- cording to their wishes. They in reality form that mysterious animal called the PUBLIC which the edi- tors would have the readers believe are themselves, and the final judges of what they publish. How often does the artist hear an editor say, “No, I don’t think that'll go. or “There is no public for that stuff.” It would be extremely bad taste to assert that the public is made up of the big advertisers and politically interested parties, and that “Mr. Reader Public” has no comeback. He can take it or leave it. No, the almighty public is made up of you, and you, and you, whose average intelligence the editor of the New York Evening Journal es- timates between that of the 6 and 14 year old. manufacturers and big merchants | The public won't take to it,”| mic Strip Is Not So THe Timp Sour | | | | | the New York Herald Tribune \A Reformist anda Events During Swedish: General OUR DAILY BREAD. Py Gosta Larsson. 382.50. New York: Van- guard Press. Reviewed by REN FIELD ) aes is the story of a worker's family during he great Swedish general strike of 1909 Peter Hammar lacema Hanna, his wife fice cleaning to keep bread on the table. The oldest of the five chil- dren, Briand, has to leave elemen- is a ker must 0 do of- tary school and is apprenticed to a candy-maker. The tax collector gets ready to sell the furniture of the Hammars. Erland lo: his job. Hanna Hammar begi siting the pawnbroker. Strikebreakers to break the dock strike are imported from England. There is bombing The General Strike flares out Prices soar skyhigh sandbagging |the workers lower to the ground Peter's wages drop to 20 kronor a week, or about $5. The children go hungry. And Peter finally joins the strike. |. Bound up with the story of the Hammar family are the stories of |their neighbors and friends in the {tenement district. There is Frid- man, the carpenter, a great blower, |Krok who becomes a scab and is | killed in a pit after a chase by the strikers, Uncle Hasse, a hawse car- rier with his weakness for telling sea stories, “little Aunt” with the harelip, Hjalmar Stromberg the mechanic, ete. And these charac- jters offen stand out more vividly, give us a better taste of what Swedish workers are than the mem- ;#ers of the Hammar family because | the author pats around them less. | “Our Daily Bread” does give us a picture of the hard life of a Swedish workers’ family. But it is a picture that is weak, fragmentary, | showing little understanding of the nature of the struggles of the work- ers. The writer is handicapped Probably because he has been away |from the country for the last 11 years. Also because he seems to see his characters through the steam of the past colored with Christian piety and sentiment. The book reeks of & yearning for that past, for the old | home, and appears to be autobio- graphical. The story suffers chiefly because the writer lacks those fine sociological instruments which |measure circumstances, characters, classes and when applied by a true | literary hand give the full circle j}and depth of such a struggle as the Swedish general strike. Novel On rike in 1607 plots of ground on which the works ers are to graze on dele phi s, ete. But the Swede ish workers quicker than the writer now realize t lure them as to whether so backward quipped writer have that Hanna on her Lord, fold her her cap able lap, and the world through the of teard when the strike out. Burt he can also face the tax collector like a fighter. Erland, the dreamy sensitive lad, ean attack the praiser and so stop the selling the furn e. Peter in his way feels that it is wrong to out of the strike and does begin talking organization and strike. we have the stuff out of whi proletarian material can be knead- ed. But no, the writer has his el- bows in a holy kneading trough for which he is preparing “Our Daily Bread.” Hera real NE mazed at a writer's state> ment to handle a theme like a general strike without giving the real reasons for the workers’ re- volt, without showing how the class struggle must become a vital ale- ment of the workers’ lives before victory can be grabbed. Nor is there anywhere in the book evident an appreciation of the true role of the Social Democratic leaders. After the bombing the Social Democratic paper writes: “Violence and forea are foreign to the principles of So- cial Democracy. Only constructive, intelligent, and untiring action of ® well-organized labor class will Wl- timately rear a sound social strue= ture " And the book ends with the strikers in People’s Park doing & little social service toward them- selves by returning two-thirds of their relief under the guidance of their Brantings, ete. This is the |height to which Social Democrats |want the workers to go and the | Peak to which the writer brings his | readers! | The book is a true picture-of |the nerves, fears, and confusion 6f |the writer, who in his projection into the character of Erland reveals |the petty bourgeois in all his |makedness. Its weaknesses shdty |that as the struggle becomes more |intense more writers will be throw- jing out sour lumps with religious yeast under the guise of bread for That is the mental level at. which Mr. William Ran- dolph Hearst is straining to keep | “THE blue of the law far outshone the communistic red on May Day week in Detroit's parade-ground for disgruntled orators and | workers. The book with its picture | 2 isputable truthfulne: f ae snciepuianle yen inom a |of the Social Democrats shows why Webster's portrayal of a certain body in the the cartoon “right” | little fellow, Skippy is the person- deals | ification of one of the most deadly | thing and ev place; or el ETER and Hanna Hammar have aes : vitt 25 i y ve | kind of capitalist propaganda, class | middle class type is used here to} the Communist Party of Sweden labo: azitators—Grand Circus park. ihap-readate ot yikes “for | With things entirely removed from | : ; ei scatcant : , Papers “for | ty like Tarzan, Mickey Mouse, | collaboration. There are others of |lend weight to the flimsy lies which |" all the weaknesses of workers | has more than 17,000 members now. eat ThE An. eeiat WEARS Haye, bean! unbridled viclenos on May | people whb <think.”-—thq better -t6 | MIuV on “eta: “atamor tush neve | the amide cireck prosching mepe Uke |Soaee epkocy, Bont eal rorboee |cauight in. the pauegoin Oncuees THAIN DATE TW, 4 Alley Oop, ete. | i + ie Day passed for naught this year because actually some 900 Detroit | fool’ them, my dear. a goat il something or somebody | “Orphan Annie,” “The Gumps” and | organizations. jelly. Picture after picture of and~that this is the party which Policemen showed their teeth by keeping would be rioters nearly out- |that furnishes the butt of the|others, who prattle about honesty,| Compare the truthful character- | drawn-out domestic scenes cloy one | ¥ill win real daily bread for the numbered, and therefore in charge. INE of the most effective, most | joke, These butts are always re- | equality, love of the poor and other | ization of “Mr, Milquctoast” to the |and stick to the fingers. Now it |Swedish masses when their goaded “Fighting fire with fire, showing troublemakers some trouble, and Subtle and painless mental poi-| crnited from the “lower classes.” | Eddie Guest virtues, But “Skippy’s” | deliberately slanderous portrayal of | eruld he idiotic to insist that a/|blood and brains sweep aside the returning medicine dose for dose, really went deeper last week in De- | S05 is the capitalist. comic cartoon.| They are “drugstore cowboy effectiveness depends mainly on|the “revolutionary types” in the | Writer concern himself merely with |Social Democrats and finally crush 4 5 Its effect 1s similar to the laughing flappers, middle class families, kids, | the fact that “Skippy” is made to| reproduction on this page. Such a|Class conscious workers. But the troit than the throttling of a possibly rampant May Day celebration. | gas used in war. That is in this Negroes, stenographers, truck driv-|be a living character, marvelously |comparison immediately convicts | point to he made is that the writer |th® last defenses of capitalism, “Motor car manufacturers themselves have found that a little phys- ical stiff-arming of what they term ‘huisance unions’ has recently talked more convincingly than a gesture at friendly parlance across the arbitration table. “There appears to be no surer cure for treating bothersome labor agitators than organized strike-breaking on the part of the automobile manufacturers themselves. The past week to ten days has seen several of the district’s labor sore spots eradicated as if my magic through the appearance on the scene of trouble-breaking squads, whose oecupation, while professional, might be termed hazardous, yet who talk the same forceful language as strike fomentors. “That strike threats are subsiding even of their own inertia, how- ever, is quite commonly accepted today in Detroit. If, for no other reason, with signs of automobile production being on the late spring wane, automobile employment offices soon, if not already, can pick and choose their workmen. “January's and February’s frantic scurry for skilled laborers has left the Detroit scene. With the first layoffs of this season coming through, of which Hudson’s last week was typical, a month hence likely will find employment here directly in step with automobile assemblies— that is, at anywhere from 10 to 20 per cent less than each is today. “Little wonder then that a workman's job has regained some of its attraction and has ceased to be flouted. Typical of the underlying trend was the novelty of 28 Fisher Body workmen at Cleveland last week asking for an injunction in the courts to restrain the American Federation of Labor from preventing them from working, or the case im Detroit last week of 35 recalcitrant tool and die strikers suppliantly asking their former boss in one shop for work. “Incidentally, Detroit agrees that M.E.S.A., the tool and die union, has lost more than considerable ground through its own internal dis- sension plus the outside threat that automobile concerns will not make any die changes this year, {f threats continue,” Barbusse Series on Thaelmann Tomorrow | peeaay tomorrow the Daily Worker will present to its readers the stirring story of Ernst Thaelmann, heroic leader of the Com- munist Party in Germany, now in prison and facing imminent execn- tion at the hands of the Nazi regime. In a series entitled, “Do You Know Thaelmann?” Henri Barbusse, distinguished French author, whose name is known to millions of readers throughout the world, describes the eventful life of Thael- mann, his leadership of workers’ struggles in Germany as well as the activities of the underground German Communist Party at the present moment. “Do You Know Thaelmann?” by Henri Barbusse, begins on this page tomorrov! STAGE AND SCREEN “Sisters Under The Skin” At Radio City Music Hall; “Heart Song” At 55th St. Elissa Landi, Frank Morgan and Joseph Schildkraut play the leading roles in “Sisters Under The Skin,” a new Columbia picture now show- ing at the Radio City Music Hall. The screen program also includes the latest. Walt Disney Silly Sym- phonies, “The Wise Little Hen.” “Heart €ong,” a screen operetta, with Lilian Harvey, Mady Christ- jans and Oherles Boyer, with music by Jacques Offenbach, is the new picture at tne 55th Street Play- house. “Fog Over Frisco,” a First Na- tional film, based on a play by George Dyer, is now showing at the Strand Theatre. Edwin Carewe’s new film, “Are We Civilized,” will have its pre- miere on Wednesday, June 13, at the Rivoli Theatre. Carew directed “Resurrection.” Pudovkin Acts In Own Film “Mother” At Aeme — - V. I. Pudovkin, the noted Soviet director of “End of St, Petersburg” and “Storm Over Asia,” and creator of “Mother,” the new production now showing at the Acme Theatre, Plays the part of a mild, bespec- tacled officer in the historical film based on Maxim Gorki's famous novel of the same name, case the mentality dies with'a grin. Rube Goldberg, the “Boob McNutt” artist, writing on the funnies in the Saturday Evening Post some years ago gave a list of don'ts the comic strip artist is to observe to make his work acceptable to the syndi- cate boss. The list is so extensive that what is allowed the funny artist is practically the real es- sence, the pure poison. In these articles Goldberg reveals a cen- sorship over the comics which is more stringent and autocratic than that wielded by our famous movie czar Will Hayes. All for very ob- vious reasons. The comics reach everybody of every age—even the practically illiterate. Whole fam- ilies read and follow them. This fact gives the impression that the comic belongs to the masses. To heighten this impression, the Rit- zies look upon the comic page as something belonging to the common people, though they themselves en- joy reading it, for nothing objec- tionable or perturbing would ever be found in a capitalist comic car- toon to offend their class interests. Life in the funnies is pictured as a capitalist paradise with every- ers and so forth. Never from the | ruling class itself—the Four Hun- dreds. I. Klein once had a comie strip turned down because the main character was a fat rich old gentle- man who lavished his gold on the ladies. Although the editors thought | it extremely funny and a good strip, they were afraid it would of- fend some of their readers. As if the circulation of a paper depended mainly on these few gentlemen who | scan the financial page. It wasn’t because of that. It was humor at | the expense of those who own and |control the paners, the bankers, the big manufacturers and merchants | whose avocation is usually that of | a “suggar-daddy.” . HE entertaining character of the comics hide their vicious cap- italist preaching. Some of the most. venomous are among the most cleverly drawn and the funniest. “Skippy” is the rich little boy whose favorite pals are the workers’ kids on the other side of the railroad. Funny as if may seem, because Skippy is such an innocent, lovable TUNING IN 1:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Theodore Ernwood, Baritone 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Front-Paga Drama WJZ—Approach of the U.S. to World Atfairs—Ogden Mills, Former Sec- retary of the Treasury WABC—Just Plain Bili—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Trappers Music WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WiJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Armbruster Oreh.; Kemper, Songs 7:A8-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—Jack Arthur, Baritone WSZ-—Sketeh--Max Baer, Boxer WABC-—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orch.; Olza Albani, Soprano: Revelers Quartet WOR—Jones and Hare, Songs WiZ—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian: Ethel Shutta, Songs; Dolan Orch. WABC—Mary Eastman, Soprano; Evan Evans, Baritone &:15-WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:30-WOR—Novelty Orch.; Slim Timblin, Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet WJZ—Commodores Quartet WABC—Court of Human Relations 8:45-WJZ—Baseball Comment—Babe Ruth 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Orchestra; Frank Munn Tenor; Vivienne Segal, So- prano ‘WOR—Brokenshire Orchestra WdZ—Harris Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs 9:18-WABC—Little Orchestra 9:30-WEAP—Bonims Orch.; Pic and Pat, Comedians . WOR—Dance Orchestra WJZ—Phil Baker, Comedian Ll ee ed Orchestra e WOR—Dorothy Miller, Songs WJZ—Stories That Should Be Told. Fulton Oursler, Author WABC—Variety Musicale 10:18-WOR—Current Events—H. F. Read Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Lucille Manners, Soprano Jimmy 10:00-1 10:30-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian; Grier Orchestra WOR—Walter Ahrens, Baritone; Marie Gerard, Soprano WdZ—String Evmphony WABC—Mexine, Songs; Ensemble 10:48-WABO--Edith Murray, Sonrs 11:00-WEAF—George R. Holmes, Spitalny Chief Washington Bureau 1".8. ‘WOR—Weather, Moonbeams Trio REMEMBER June 9, Daily Worker Day and Moonlight Excursion to Hook Moun- tain, Glorious time, get your ticket now. | On sale at all Workers Bookshops. | Friday SPRING Dance given by Unemployed Teachers Association, Webster Hall, 119} E. lith St., 9 p.m. Mayers Harlem Band. Subscription 40c. ANTI-NAZI_ Symposium —Elsmer Hall, 284 BE. 170th St., Bronx, 8 p. Auspices: League Against War and Fascism. Speak- ers: American Jewish Congr Anti-Nazi Minute Men; Carl Brodsky; Norman H. Tallentire. Adm. free. MASS TRIAL in Workers Court, Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place, 8:30 p.m. to try a framed up worker and educate workers in_ self-defense. Rabbi Ben!. Goldstein, judge; Joe Gilbert, do- | fendant; Joseph Brodsky and Fanny Hor- | owitz, defense counsel; Ed, Kunts and Joseph Tauber. prosecuting attorneys. Mass organizations and unions partici- pating. Benefit Michael Hagopa Defonse. SYMPOSIUM “Getting the News,” Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 15th S&t., 215 p.m Auspices: Film and Photo League. Speakers: John Howard Lawson, Playwright, on “Alabama Strike Tergor,” Seymour Waldman, Washington corres- pondent, Si Gerson, City Editor, William Fuchs, on Sports. E. A. Schachner, Editer | A. F. of L. Rank and Pile Federationist, Leo Hurwits, carmeraman, Scottsboro Trial. Frank Palmer of Federated Press, chairman. ROBERT SILVERSTZIN lectures on “War and Fascism,” 2179-2 White Plains Road, Bronx, 6:30 p.m. Auspices: Upper Bronx Sect. Women's Council. Adm. 5c. JOSEPH ARCH speaks on ‘“‘The Second a Five-Year Plan” Br, 500 I.W.0. Workers Sehcol, 35 B. 12th St. Room 204. Adm. free. LECTURE on “The Soviet Jewish Re- public-Biro Bidjan" at 1491 Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor, 170th St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices! Mt. Eden Br. F.S.U, Adm. 10c, H. 8. CHAN lectures on_ ‘Imperialism and Oivil War in China.” Chinese Work- ers Center, 22 W. 17th St., 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission free. UNIT 20 Sect. 15 asks all mass or; zations and workers in Sastion to attend demonstration in front of Con: Frank Oliver's home, 204 and Perry Ava. 6 p.m., to demand that he approve and push the Workers Unemployment Teur- ance Bill H.R. 7598 in Cong! BENEFIT Dance end En Harlem Sect w os ment for 4 at Washington Heights . Broadway and St Good orcheatra, Work sles xb 17st jcent as “Skippy Lab, Tehstre, Subscription 28¢. Auspices Unit 425, accurate as far as the psychology of a petty bourgeois child goes. The best comic strips depend on such realism to support their cap- italist message. One such comic is the “Timid Soul” by Webster. He is a beautifully complete picture of the igndrant petty bourgeois type, which shies at meeting even the shadow of a contradiction of cap- italist philosophy and reality. He is easily duped by everyone because jhe takes capitalist morality and customs seriously. He is as inno- and because of that almost as lovable. But these very virtues make him the vehicle for the vilest capitalist poison. On this page we publish a reproduction of Webster's “Timid Soul” in last Sunday's New York Herald- Tribune. Those who are under the illusion that comics are merely in- nocent, amusement should read it carefully. ‘The lies and slander di- rected at the working class move- ment that usually appear on the front pages of the yellow journals, are cleverly dramatized for your en- tertainment by this very funny, real character “Mr. Milquetoast.” 3. ON DANCE and entertainment for the bene- fit of the Macauley Publishers strikers. Famous authors will speak, O.W.U., 114 W. 14th St., 8:30 p.m., S-piece Jaax band. | PIERRE DEGEYTER Ciub, § EB. 19th St. Gala concert, benefit Angelo Herndon De- fense Comm. Strange Funeral in Brad- dock by M. Gold, music by E. Siegmeister, Sylvia Sapiro, Eula Gray. Adm. 35c. Secretary of War Resisters League will speek on the ‘W'ar Menace” at Magnet Youth Club, 1083 Bergen St., Brooklyn, $:30 p.m. All welcome. DR. JAMES C. MENDENHALL, Ph. D. will lecture on “If War Is Declared Can| We Prevent It?” Boro Park Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Ad- mission 10¢. NAVY Party given by Ella Reeve Bloor Br. LL.D., 524 Hudson St. near West 10th St. Dancing,’ refreshments and entertain- ment. Subscription 18¢, MAC WEISS, editor of Young Worker, will speak on “Youth and War’ at Post | 191 W.E.S.L., 69 F. 3rd St. Adm. tree, p.m. FORDHAM PROG. Club, 1993 Jerome Ave., near Burnside. Lecture by Conrad Komoro: ole of the Snetalist Party i * 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15e. Unemploved tree JOSEPH GREGG speaks at Clarte, French Workers Club, 304 W. Sath &t., 8:30 p.m. on “War, Fascism and Women.” Adm. free. All welcome. WLR. Movie and Dance, W.LR. Jazs Band Movie Review of America Today 11 W. 18th St. Adm. 25c. ice haa Saturday SOVIET NIGHT and Dance, Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave. Around the Samovar, balalaika orchestra, Soviet folk songs, Soviet dancers; dancing till dawn. TRIAL of five members of the Social Youth Culture Club at 9 a.m. at Bridge Plaza Magistrates Court. Get off at Marcy Ave. Sta., Buooklyn. All workers pack the court. HOUSE Party given by Bay Ridge Br. Amer. League Against War and Fascism. Entertainment, refreshments, dancing. No admission charge, 8721 Ridge Bivd., Brook- lyn, HEAR Sean Murray in an informal talx around the campfire ab Camp Niteedaiset, Beacon, N. ¥., before he returns to Ire- land BANQUET and Reception for Leon Blum, &: Holl, 27 W. 116th St, 8:30 p.m Laundry Workers Industrial Weshingtoen, D, C, GEN. V, A, YAKHONTOFF speaks on | Webster as a downright liar di- rectly inspired by the insane slan- |ders the capitalist press constantly spews at the Communist move- ment where ever it is found. The whole aim and intent of this car- toon which is just one of a flock of similar ones by other cartoonists, is to discredit the ever increasing in- fluence of the Communist Party, which is showing the working class the only possible way out of the crisis by fighting for Soviet Power. And Webster must bend completely backward in his attempt. Just as during the war every category of artist, from the vaudeville clown up, was used to put over the lies and treachery of that greatest of hy- pocrites, Woodrow Wilson, and seduce the workers into giving their lives for the bloody profits of Wall St., Franklin Roosevelt is beginning to resort to the same means to bolster up his attack on the work- ing class as is shown by Webster's lying cartoon and those of other comic artists recently. We may | prepare ourselves for a constantly increasing flow of this anti-labor excrement, sugar-coated with humor, “Bolsheviks Discover Siberia,” Is Story of the |Former Cazarist Prison NEW YORK.—Once a tsarist prison camp, now a free land of socialist construction. That's the | story, recounted by 8S. Besborodov in a vivid style worthy of the theme in The Bolsheviks Discover Siberia, eleased today by International ‘ublishers, 381 Fourth Ave. Bound in cloth, the volume is fully illus- trated and costs 40 cents. Volume on Dialectical | Materialism Published hy International Soon NEW YORK.—An exposition of |the groundwork of Marxism-Lenin- ism is given by A. Adoratsky in Dialectical Materialism, now in In- ternational Publisher's press. The of the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute at Moscow. “The Far Eastern Situation,” Odd Fel- lows Hall, 419 7th St., 8:15 p.m. Auspices, | F.8.U, Friday, June 8 Atlantic City, N. J. | SUPPER PARTY and Entertainment celebrating the 12th Jubilee of the Morn- ing Freiheit, Sunday, June 10, & pm. Moose Hall, 18 Atlantic Ave. Adm. 28¢. Auspices: LW.O. Newark, N. J. TRI-COUNTRY Grand Picnie, Union and Middlesex at Willicks Farm, Linden, N. J., Sunday, June 19, Adm. 25¢. Unemployed 0c. Sport events, prizes, deneing, refreshments. Trucks and cars leave 7 Chariton St., Newark, at 19 a.m., | 12 noon, 2 p.m. on day of picnic. Gloversville, N.Y. DANCE and Cabaret Party Hap Wond- ley and his Marmeny Kings Pntertain- ment Auspices: Wer 3 and Workers Edue. Seel 4 Arutta Hall, Bleecker St, , Essex, June B50, Friday Adm. author is the distinguished director | | Should not be a worshipper and de- fender of the backwardness of such workers. But here the writer buries himself above the belly, savoring all this saying of grace, making the family the center of all the action when the time and the story de- | mand the workers’ struggles become the storm center, chucking just a | few bits like the death of the scab, |the meeting of the strikers, etc., is no understanding that such fam- ily relations make the members over-emotionalized and act to ham- string all attempts on the part of the strongest members to put class allegiance above family allegiance. Because the family under such cir- cumstances is one of the deadliest Weapons of capitalism. In much the same way the writer goes into ec- stasies over Peter Hammar’s ko- used like the German ruling class to make the workers forget their troubles. These koloni are small AMUSE like raisins into the bread. There | Joni, which the Swedish ruling class | Anti-Nazi_ Paintings in Phila, JRC Exhibr PHILADELPHIA.—Two paintings |by Isidore Possoff, of the John | Reed Club Art Group, one a power- ful attack on Roosevelt and his | Blue Eagle, the other an attack on | Fascism, created a slight furore among park guards at the annual “clothesline” exhibition of the Phil- adelphia Art Alliance at Ritten- house i t The fascist picture, the Philadel- phia Record reports, was protested by the German Consul, but the }guards could not make Possoff | withdraw it. The attack on the | Blue Eagle they would not permit to hang under any circumstances. “with young children running about, the Square is no place for such things,” they ruled. MENTS meeps MAXIM GORKT’S “ACME —-THE THEATRE GUI presents— JIG SAW A comedy by DAWN POWELL with ERNEST TRUEA—SPRING BYINGTON || ETHEL BARRYMORE Theatre, 47th Streat, W. of Broadway Evgs. 8:40, Mts. 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