The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1934, Page 5

By MICHAEL GOLD pe’ WEST, the proletarian poet of Georgia, has written a little picture of life down there which should be read in connection with a letter I have received from an Irish worker, and which follows Comrade West's sketch. As the condition of the American worker grows more And more impossible, as he sinks deeper into the abyss of capitalist | despair, and as he desperately breaks forth in such amazing events as the récent Minneapolis and Tolédo strikes, we may expect more and more open fascist class-conscious propaganda on the radio and the moving pictures, and other capitalist-owned organs of communication. Read this little sketch of West's and then read what the radio picture is Of working class life as reported to us by Comrade Glynn. BROTHER I SAW him last between the plow handles along the corn rows, I watched his broad shoulders bent over the plow beam. They were browned from a Georgia sun. He plows stripped to the waist. He is strong with the wiry strength of the southern mountaineer. He is young. But his face carries old and bitter seams. His eyes are hard like forged steel. He rents land. I don’t know my brother. He speaks few words. They never tell what's inside him. I see him toil. I leave him between the plow handles. His wife walks with me to their home. The house is a log cabin. Stands high on a mountain side. We pick our way along the foot-path. It’s new. My brother's feet Have worn ft carrying water from the spring up the lonz mountain side to the cabin. His wife stumbles along the trail. It’s dark to her. One eye is gone. The other is fast losing its daylight. T carry the baby. It is a beautiful little girl. She waves her arms and goos at her blind young mother, She doesn’t know her mother can’t see her smile. The baby has two lovély good eyes. The country is a joy to the. T love the feel of rocky soil under my soles. It reminds me of other days. But my brother's wife is silent. She feels for a sapling to pull herself up by. She is solemn. T try to bé cheetful. The baby swings its hands and grabs at its mother’s hair. We trudge on up the mountain side. The cabin has two rooms. One has a home-made table, a “cat scorchér” stove And & few shelves. Nails are drivén along the wall to hahg pans and buckets. THe other room has thé bed and an ancient phonograph. Books are stacked on a shelf in the corner. My eyes fun over their titles. Who reads them? My brothér’s wifé. She tells me she read 48 books from our Workers’ Library before her eyes went so bad. Hours she sat pouring over the pages. Her face was pressed down within an inch of the letters. She knew her sight was going. She must read many books before darkness settled down. She had read novels—Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, Fielding Burke. She read poetry of worker poets crying otit against miséty, She read the Communist Manifesto, the Communist Position on the Negto Qués- tion, Capital, and scores of others. I am impressed. T ask her ques- tions, She answers with interest. Her face brightens, Almost if sééms there is fire comes to those blind ayes! She goes to the book shelf. Her hands trace along the stack. They are familiar to her feél. Shé picks out “To Make My Bread.” Her fingers puill otit “Gathering Storm.” She slaps them together. There is our picturé. That's our life. Like Grand-pa, dead from a mill. Three aunts and an uncle killed. Look at Mother. Look at Dad. Coughing up blood—limping through the etave yard! God, théte must be a better day for little Barbara... ! My ‘brother tromps hore of nights. He milks the cow. She cut her teat on a barbed wire. It must be doctoréd. Hé féeds the pig. Thé othér ohe diéd when it was worked on. The mule stretches its sweaty neck for fodder. An old hen clucks to her chirping biddiés as they ‘croug under h#® wings. It’s another day. ... He comes into the cabin. There is some cold sow belly. Corn bread. Bike tried to fix something to é4t. He knew that. It’s dlways dark when you're blind. He eats his food in silence... . Once I heard my brother curse, Hér eyés might havé been saved. ‘There was a doctor who could have done it. Money! He was a share- cropper. Eves got worsé. Worse! He felt chains bindifig his strong arms. He wanted to strike, Fight, curse! My brother read of hospitals in the Soviet Union, She would have been cared for theré. Daylight would have come to hér éyes again, Doctor bills wouldn't have taken all of last year's éarnings and mort- gaged next year's crop. He went 30 miles to hear Clarencé Hathaway speak in Atlanta, He came back to the crop, He follows his plow. His hard jaws are square and set, Eyes are keen like pointed stéél. Fierce fire glows down in théir somber depths, Between the plow handles, that’s where I saw him last... . DON WEST. + yes COMRADE GOLD: A littié crudé afiti-striké propaganda was broadcast from WOR récéntly in a program éntitiéd “Book of Italics,” a régular féaturée of WOR (80 thé annolmncer said), “diréctéd by H. Stokés Lott, Jt, and présenting dramatizations of books, current events, etc.” Heéré is a brief outline of the “masterpiece” in question, ACT I —Two workers are discussing a strike and ways and means of enforcing their demands. Thé first tells his mate that they havé hit upon a suré-firé plan—to damage thé light plant and cut off all lights in the city. ACT II —Fitst worker goes to his home where his wife is attending to their child who is seriously ill. Thére follows a sentimental scene over the sleeping child’s bed, duting which the wife rails against strikes, speaks of their hapviness now that the child is anparéntly recovering and coridemns her husband's complaints about his work. There is mitich talk of how well off they aré, of a little house in the subiiths (no mention of @ mortgage) and a little bank account. Husband finally tells her he must go to a union meeting and leaves the housé amidst his wife's protests against strikes, unions and agitators, ACT III—Thé two workérs meét and set off on the mission of sabotage. ACT IV —Back at thé first worker's home, his wife and a neighbor aré watching the child and discussing their husband’s stipid political idéas. Child suddénly becomés worse and the doc- tor is sent for. The doctor artives and proceeds to operate on the child’s throat. Just as hé miakes the incision the i 20 out and béfore a candie can be found, the child 1 Well, description of the final act is stiperfluovs—the wife’s accusa- tion of “murderer of my child” and the hushands self-réeriminations. And the bourgéois préss talks about “crudé” Communist propa- ganda! During the course of the vroftam, I explainéd its méaning to my tén-"ear-old coh. Here was His reaction: “Tf if wasn't for the capi- talifts they wouitin’t havé fo sttiké and wouldn't heré {6 cut of the lights” He i6 learning! J. G, GLYNN. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934 Lola Ridge, Noted Poet, Backs Fight] Do You I ae Thaelmann? toSaveThaelmann | : | Lola Ridge, famous poet, has is- Po By Henri Barbusse |sued the following appeal to in- | | m1. handsome, and he ended with the | tellectuals to join in th test movement against the isicabant E SHOULD stop for a while at | Twin, the Bleeding and the slaten- | e. t ter of these people. execution of Ernst Thaelmann by the Nazi government. Her state-! ment follows: “That Thaelmann should be in |danger of losing his life at the | jhands of the gang-leadérs of Ger- | | many is not surprising. His heroic jand unfaltering devotion to the |eause of the workers makes him a puye menacé to their masters. The | Fascists whéther they aré supreme jas in Germany or without direct | power as at present in America | wish not only to enslave the work- |ers but to so corrupt them and} | undermine their morale that they | Shall cease to function as an or-| | ganized mass. | “Men like Thaelmann, instil fresh courage into the wavering and the} weak. They |cades which the oppressors can- |not pass; they must be killed off | at all costs! | “As for us in America, here in} our own country are the very men |who will, if they get the chance, destroy the entire American work-| ing-class movement and abolish all liberty of tongue and press as come achieved it in Germany. Thaelmann is fighting our fight and | vital to all of us who are on his} side. LOLA RIDGE.” June “Labor Defender” Vividly Portrays Nine Years Work of I. L. D. LABOR DEFENDER, organ of the International Labor Defense, June, 10 Cents. . Be Reviewed by HELEN SHERIDAN FE June Labor Defender is out in a blaze of blue. color blue is Ordinarily associated with passivity, halcyon calm, etc., this fighting paper of a fighting or- ganization succeeds in imparting as aggressive a quality to this tender color as if it had been a flaming red. This issue célebrates the ninth annivérsary of thé International Labor Defense. Nine years of in- tensive struggle. Nine years of in- workérs, irrespective of race, creed, color, or politi¢al affiliations, who have min afoul of capitalist lew and justice. These niné years have seen some major struggles of the American working-class. The num- ber of cases fought valiantly by the I. L. D. are too many to list. Among the best Known are the Mooney case, Sacco-Vanzetti. Scottsboro, Gastonia, Imperial Valley, Utah miners, Greceo and Carillo, Angelo Herndon, etc. The I. L. D, has a heroic record, and is éasily the most beloved mass organization in the country. Thru- out its work, that excellent maga- zine, the Labor Defendér, has been its right arm. A pictorial sheet primarily, it reproduces scenes taken right out of the class-war front, making them moré vivid and real than any number of articles can do. We are shown workers being beaten by cops, picket lines smashed, demonstrations broken up, and other actual events photographed on the battle field of the class struggle. In this June issue we have pictures of the present long- shorémen’s strike in San Francisco, thé attack of thé police on the Anti-Nazi_démonstration in York- ville, the Los Angéles C. W. A. pro- test demonstration, the marine workers march on Washington, the Alabama mine strike, and scenes workers’ struggles in Poland, France, Cuba, Austria. A double spread is devoted to pictures of Prominent class-war fighfers and victims: young Harry Sims, Joe York, Louis Engdahl, Eugene Vv. Debs, Ann Burlak, Edith Berkman, Wm. Patterson, Ada Wright, Ralph Gtay, Mother Bloor and others. ‘ $27 ¢ work of the LL.D. for the past, nine years is réviewéd in an ar- ticle by Rosé Baron; William L. Pattérson, National Secrétary of the L.D., writés about the perspec- tives of the organization, pledging more inténsive activity in defénse of all class struggle victims and for a réléntléss battlé against every agency of ruling class justice which is a rule of terror, forcé and vio- léneé; Sam Stein relates an inci- dent during the National Scotts- boro-Thaelmann tour when an at- tempt to Jim-Crow Ada Wright, mothér of Andy and Roy Wright, two of thé Scottsboro boys, by a Cleveland restaurant was smashed by the rousing of a powerful mass protest and the formation of a pick- 6f line of énragéd workers. There aré other equally interesting arti- clés by Mother Bloor, Léo Galla- ghér, Sam Strong. 8. K. Davis, Géoreé Hart. M. Stern, Maraterite Young. Jacob Hurwitz and Irving Goodman. A unique standing feature of the Labor Defender is a page devoted to Voices from Prison. Angelo Hern- don, young Negro worker sentenced to 20 yédrs on the chain gang for leading a demonstration of the un- employed in Atlanta, writes one of his stirring letters from behind prison. bars, with courage, defiance, and an arena faith ih the working Class. There aré also letters from M. Hagopa, Mary Burman and Granville Vaughn, whosé tortured lives are made more bearablé by the material and moral hélp supplied by the LL.D, To read the Labor Defender is to participate in the struggles of the working class all over this country and abroad. Keép informed of the world-wide struggles by the working class against unempleyment. hunger. fas- eism and war by ré2ding the Deily Workér. Buy it ot the newsstands. Three cents a copy. sérve as living barri-| pletély as their fellow-Fascists have | Ernst | the question of his life or death is | Although the | defatigablé work in defense of all| the election campaign of 1931 if we were not limited by the scope of this study, which s only an appeal for help, hastily mus- tering together some of the sa- lient characteristics of a great figure. Indeed, this campaign shows the remarkable conviction Which led Thaelmann to call for revolutionary action, as the only remedy and cure, not only for the working class, but also for other such as the peas- es, and the white collar employees. At the same time that he was particu- larly interested in the youth, he busied himself particularly with leading the women workers along the revolutionary path, Thaelmann, who had so often shown by his initiative and his deeds that he had all the qualities of @ soldier, also showed that he had all the qualities of a leader, He was the mobilizer of the so- cial rebels. He trained these reb- els to maké revolutionaries of them. To demonstrate to all the non-proletarian social strata who aré prolefarianized by the bank- ruptey of thé social order, that their interests are the same as those of the urban manual work- ers, and that all these interests ate opposed to those of capital- ism. (and of the more or less cam- ouflaged politicians who do the work of capitalism by means of teformist democracy and a re- actionary nationalism)—this is, in principle, an easy task; but, in actual fact, it is difficult because of the age-old traditions, the dis- tortions which have been ac- quired, and the hidden forces. In any case, it is a necessary task. The international revolution will not come about until these great general problems are sufficiently | clarified by Marxian dialectics so | that a unity of action by all the | exploited and all the oppressed ean take place on a large scale, and so that the Socialist bloc will squarely confront the capitalist | bloc, which is swiftly turning to imperialism and war, to fascism and the worst sort of social re- action. For the Social and National Emancipation of the German People T WAS he who, in 1930, wrote that-beautiful statement which remairis the charter of the na- tional and social emancipation of the German people. We must stop a little while be- fore this great charter. It per- mits us to front the fundaméntal honesty of the Communist. pro- fram with the other political programs. When Wilhélm IT came to the throne, he gave the people all sorts of promises, high, wide and 'HE New York Workers School Drive for $1,009 is nearing a suc- céssful conclusion. In a trué spirit of Socialist competition the vari- Ous classes are racing neck to neck to see which will collect the most. To date the Shock Brigade Class of Carl Brodsky, in Principles of Com- munism, has accounted for thé col- lection of $46.55. Thé highest indi- vidual collection ($26.45) has been made by Shock Brigader Claire Wachtel. With close to $800 already collected the racé continues with unabated enthusiasm and the chance of going over thé top is a certainty. * A General Student assembly will be held Friday, June 22, at 8:30 p.th. Prizes will be awarded to the Shock Brigaders of the $1,000 Drive at this assembly. In addition to the awarded prizes, there will be interesting enter- tainment and «prominent spenen, ‘ Mone Harlem Workers School Plans Summer Term During the summer, the Harlem | Workers School will conduct two lecture courses of six weeks éach, beginning the week of July 9, Wednesday and Thursday eévenings. One ccurse will be the History of the Negto in America, to be given by James Allen and Otto Hall, both prominent labor atithors and re- search workers, The other course will be Drama from the Point of View of the Worker. This course will be given by individual lectur- érs of the John Rééd Club in co- operation with the Pen and Ham- mer Club. The lecturers will be outstanding writers of proletarian works, such as Mike Gold, Paul Pe- ters, John Howard Lawson, Charles Burroughs and John Wexley, for each évening. These groups will also help with the publicity. The growing interest in the history of the Negro Peonvle, and the wide sup- port given during the past yéar to plays such as “Stévédore,” ‘Peace oh Earth.” “They Shall Not die.” proves that the topicé chosen are very timély. The commiftee working in this summér project asks every one to help by sending in. the names of all students and teachers who are in the city for summer study and who would be interésted in these courses, to the scheol office at 200 W. 135th St., Reom 212-B. | . Chicago’s Summer Schools The elaborate preparations by the Executive Committee of the Chica- #6 Workers School for the ¢onduct of six new neighborhood schools has resulted in the following: One June 4, Sections 5 and 8, failfoad cOncéniration sections, aré opening their joint school, with 35 sthdents, They will condtct if four nights a week in order to enable shop workérs to attend. Séetions 7 and 11, all of which combdente O%. (96 Stor*rards. ere ridarins to When the Weimar Constitution | took its place in the European | chorus, what did it not promise in terms of liberty, of progress, of trué democracy—and it has col- lapsed in the shame and slavery of fascist banditry. When Hitler slipped into the chancellory through the breach which was opened for him by the medal-bedecked old torso of Hin- denburg, what did he not prom- ise for the general welfare, for the lot of the workers against capitalist exploitation! And the lot of the German workers has become worse—wages have fallen 50 per cent—while at the same time the most frightful of perse- cutions has fallen upon them. In one year—let us call the account to mind — 200,000 révolutionary workers seized like animals and maltreated, tortured, 15,000 of them maimed for the rest of their lives. Hundreds have gone mad under the blows and the cruelty. One hundred and_ seventy-five thousand people in prisons, in concentration camps, at forced labor. HIS is what thé Communist Party says: “After the collapse of the fas- cist dictatorship and capitalist rulé, we Communists will establish the | power of the Soviets of workers and peasants, the power of the huge majority of thé German people as against an insignificant | minority of parasites. “In the Soviets, freely elected by all the workers, peasants, totl- ers, and employees, by all the workers of hand and brain of the cities and of the country, we, the Communists, will request your ap- proval in order to put into prac- tice the following principal méas- ures, which are designed to As- sure the power of the working | class, in the interests of the lib- erty and the welfare of all the ex- ploited and all the oppressed. “1. Immediate expropriation without any indemnity of all the banks, the important industriés, the railroads and department stores, from the capitalists for | the profit of the Socialized State. “2. Immediate expropriation without indemnity of all the holdings of the landlords, the churches and convents, the Ho- henzollerns and other princes, as well as all other land and es- tates, and their free division— with all their inventory—among the farmers and the agricultural workers. “3. The annulment of all the debts of workers, peasants, and the petty bourgeoisie to the banks, the capitalists and the big What's Doing in the Workers. Schools of the U.S. jies and Politics of Fascism”; “The 2,\idle factories and plan production landlords. Exemption from all the taxes introduced by the Wei- June, with about 33 students. Spe- cial attention will be givén there to capable Negro comrades and espe- cially Stockyards workers. Séction 4, concéntrating on an important war plant, is opening its school on the 19th of June with 30 students. Two more schools are being plenned at a rather late date, due to the fact that the sections did not get started early enough, but | they will be held at the latest the 25th of June. All of the séctions | are financing themselves. A Workets School Expansion Conference will be held oh fhe 24th of June at 209 W. North Ave. All mass organiaations and trade unions have réceived a call for thié con- | ference. riba rea To Stage Pienie July 4 for Pittsburgh Book Store | The first event of a campaign to | raise funds for opening a Workers | School and Book Store in Pitts- burgh this fall, has béen announced | by the commiftée in charge. It will by a picnic at Sugar Grove July 4./ Revolutionary workers and intel- |lectuals in the district aré extended an invitation by the committee to spend the holiday, commemorating as it doés the ftiumph of the bour- gédis révdlution, in helping to fur- ther 4 cause which will hastén the | éstablishmént of a Workérs Inde- | pendénce Day. A program of prom- inent speakers, tefreshménts, | games, dancing in the pavillion to the music of a hot band, will fea- | ture the day’s entertainment, The | book store committee can be reached at 1532 Center Ave,, Pitts- burgh. San Francisco School Expects Big Registration Opening the drive for the sum- mer séssion, the San Francisco Workers School announces that a record registration is expected. Close to 500 students régistéred for the Spring Session and a consid- erably greater number is expected in the coming term. A wide variety of popular coursés is offered answering the dquéstions which all thinking workers aré now asking thémsélvés. Thé s¢hool is making special artangeménts to provide courses Which will také up the probléms of organization of workers in basic industries, particu- larly railroad and marine transpor- tation, oil and agriculture. The following courses have been added: Economics and Politics of the “New Deai”; “World News” (a weekly Marxist Review) ; “Ecohom- Pacific—Next Thestte of War” and “Why Corimunism?” The lattér course should be especially intet- esting as it deals with the causes of the present economic crisis, how a Workers and Farmers Govern- mént can be established in the United States. and what steps stich a government would immediately take to solve unemploymicnt, open for the us¢ of the whole of sociéty instead of the profit fer a small open their school on the 18th of number of large a mar Republic or by the Hitler government. “4. Participation by all the toilers in the government of the country, through proletarian dé- mocracy and by means of the So- viets. Immeédiate control of the banks, of industry, of railroads, and of the large agricultural es- tablishments. “5. Expropriation of all homes, apartments, and villas of the rich, including théir furni- ture and All other fixtures, for thé badly housed toilets, workers, em- Ployees, artisans, etc. “6. Expropriation of all private or public stocks of food products and othér nécessities of life for | the behefit of the poor. Com- mittees of the unémployed will bé in charge of the distribution of these goods. “T. Absolute freedom of organ- ization, of assembly, and of the press for the workers. The large halls, the printing pressés and the supplies of papér will bé put at their disposal for this purpose. “8. A_ fraternal alliance with the 7.S.8.R. Arming of all the workers and thé creation of a powerful Red Army. Organiza- tion of defense against Attempts | to restore finance capital and the domination of the Junkers, with the co-operation. of the working Masses of the U.S.S.R., of Poland, France, Czechoslovakia, and Eng- land. “9. Taking possession of all the means of production by the pro- letarian government will give & strong impetus to the economy of the country, will causé an unpre- etdented advance whose entire benefit will go to the laboring masses, And will favor the déevel- opment of foreign trade, espe- cially with the U.S.S.R. The com- bination of these factors will re- sult in a powerful revival of the labor market and the employment of all the unemployed. “10. Clothéd with the supreme authority of the State, freed from the yoke of its own capitalists, the working people of Soviet Ger- many will declare the Treaty of Versaillés null and void. “With the co-operation of the international proletariat and of the powerful Union of Soviet So- cialist Republics, the triumphant proletarian Republic of Germany will sweep away all the repara- tions, all the treaties imposed on Germany by force with the inten- tion of excluding every possibili- ty of its regaining equal rights. “The Soviet government of the overwhelming majority of the people will prevent the exploita- tion of man by man 4nd national oppression, and will work for the coming of Socialism. “There i one Socialism and one only, the proletarian Socialism which is realizéd by proletarian dictatorship, by the Soviet gov- érnmeént in thé Socialist U.8.6.R." The Gamé of Transferring Power AELMANN was the first pres- idént of the Rad Front, which he popularized. In 1932 he waa candidate against HUNGEADURS tar thé presidenisy bt | millions has grown up. The local) the republic. These facts, still so recent, are well known. The ad- | vance of revolutionary will among the massés in Germany was still dominant fhén over thé fascist elements, fot whom the absurd and iniquitous Treaty of Versailles | had done such good service. But the support given to Hindenburg, the famous imperialist trooper, by the social-démocrats under the pretext that his election would mean thé défeat of fascism (such “mistakes” aré tod gross to be merely mistakes), misled and sidetracked a large part of the population. The gold-striped trai- tor had searcely come to power when hé openéd the door to Hit- ler, Thaélmann in Prison UCH i& the man whom Hitler has attacked ever since Hin- denburg let him climb up on his shoulders—the man whom Hitler now holds in his claws; the work- er who is the incarnation of the workers’ movement owing to his moral and intellectual honesty. The légénd of thé intelléctual leader of “the mob” is time worn; it has suffered much from the ev- idence of facts, and a little from ridicule. But that does not méan that the proletarian leader should be tgnofant or evén that he can be ignorant. (To Be Continued) TUNING IN M.-WEAF—Raséball Résume Sor sper 8 Resume—Ford Frick jos 'n' Andy—Sketch ¥ .BC—Morton Downey, Tenor 11S \Gené and Glénn—Sketeh we Comedy; Mase WJZ—The Voter ant Local Govern- ment—Kétheriné Ludington of NA- tonal Lédgué of Women Voters: Frank R, Kent, Vice President Bal- timoré Sun WABG—Just Plain Bill—sketep 7:30-WEAF—Brad Browne and Al Liewél- lyn, Comedians WOR—Footlight Fthoes WABC—Serenaders Orch, 1:45-WEAF—The hd ee apa WiZ-Grace Harés, WABC—Boake Carter, Comimentator 8:00- Woe gene Usinc a OR—Variety, Musical Waz_Ghoet Upon. the Ploor—skatch WABO_trogs Deja sabes at net Es BH Hasricntés Band WaROtomen or Vivienne Sé- we wit Senet, Oh Ouvér uid ‘Ténor Wor —Bromiaaire San: WIZ—Alice Re ha, a or Edgar rie ator; cert faury Comins ra ge!- WABC—M: Paul, Marte ee Orch; Fray and o.s0-WEAR—Ray pecking, Comedian; Gale Page, Contralto; Stokes Orch. Michaél Bartlett, Tenor; String Trio WJZ—Diichin Orch.; Edward Davies, Baritone WABO—Himber Orch. 9245-1 ‘Motintdih Musie 10:00-WEAP—Ofpéretta, Rio Rita, with IG ia ee ay James Méltoh, Téendr; and others WOR—Bddy Brown, Violin “Srmphons Orch.; Speaker, Alex- ander Trovenovsky, Russian Am- hagsador to United States ‘ WABC—Confiict—Dramatic Sketoh 10:18- rént Brenté—M. Z. Red w. an Bravs, Rartténe; Do ‘Me Trio —Iehsston Orch.; Davé Vitis, ediar 7:00 & 10:30- Wor Com the | « Page Five For 10,000 | 80 Lan guage THOUSAND newspapers in 80 different languages, with a tot drealation Of 36 million—such is Soviet préss today. It is 4 far cry. | indeed, from tsarist Russia of 1914 with its total of 859 newspapers and their 2.7 million readers But the rapid growth of Soviet | newspapers, striking though it is, is far from being their most uniqu | feature. Lénin long ago po’ that the press should be “r | the collective propagandist and ag tator of the masses, but the collec- tive organizer.” In ¢artying out this orga | function, in mobilizing the to’ of thé Soviet Union for the building of Socialism, the Sovet rf | struck out on new lines. A glance | the central newspapers, like “Prav {da" and “Izvestia,” is eno show what a unique sort of pre: | being built up in the U.S.S.R. These | papers dre calls to action. They stat | concrete tasks and point the way to fulfillment. They frankly and | scathingly criticize defects. They speak directly to. the workers, the | collective farmers, the. whole t population of the Soviet. Union | Through 4 vast atmy of worker | Peasant correspondents, they | tain a living contact with the prob- | lems and successes of the m Thousands of Newspape UT “Pravda” and “Iavestia papers for the whole of the | vist Union. The problems they tack aré national in scope. It is | physically impossible for them to | deal with every factory shop, with | every field brigade on the collective farms. Thus, to provide 4 tribune for the masses, to carry on the work | Of collective organization in every cornér of the land, the Soviet Union | has devélopéd thousands of news- | papers of 4 new sort—the local, fac- | tory and collective farm press National republics and minority | language groups have newspapers in | their own tongue. Hundreds of prov- incés and districts publish their ow | local organs. In the factories, in th | political sections of state farms and machine-tractor stations serving collective farms. in the railway po litical sections, printed newspapers of several hundred to many thou- sand circulation deal with the day- to-day problems of their readers. The figures are impressive. At presént, exclusive of the central newspapers, 2,326 districts publish their own papers. Over 2.500 are published by factories and other en- | terprises. The newspapers of the | Political sections, a comparati | new feature, have spread rapidiy. From the first 25 papers of this kind | which appeared in January, 1933, thé political séction press has grown | until there are now 2,505 papers in the machine-tractor stations, 828 on | the state fatms of the Commissariat ess | a | and 500 on the railroads. An Army of Cotrespondents SUPPLY these papers with T news, an army peasant correspondents numbered in | préss, like thé enterprises it sérvés, has its shock workers; mén and | women ftom the factory bench atid | the fleld brigade, théy write with in- | timate understanding. They are true | organizers, people with initiative | and faith in the cause of the work- ing class. local préss catriés on an unceasing drive for coficreté improvements, for | definite steps in “overcoming the survivals of capitalism in econothic | life and in the minds of men,” for toward labor as a matter of honor and valor. What are the specific tasks and functions of this local, factory and fatm préss? The strength of stich papers ob- viously consists in their close con- | nection with their readers. The fac- VERA BARANOV SKAI A Brilliant artist of the Moscow Ari Theatre, who plays the role of the Théatré. Pudovkin ditected the pro- duction. |of State Farms, 130 on the state! farms of thé Commissar of Suppliés | of worker and| With their assistance the | | building up & Communist attitude | | bridge on W | Jer | Br. ¥.3.0. | pam, | mother in “Mother—1905,” a sereen version of Maxim Gorki’s famous | novel, now showing at the Acme 36 Million Readers Papers in in USSR tory paper Stories are d by name heir shorts Good workers are singled examples by which other e factory. problem in the ore and ate AMO) Auto Red Putiiov e political Plant Plant séction of Len Tractor St gion a Decisive Role Papers Play papers ugh the colum out how the central governm be put into pr ers call ctice, attens ues of the day and stimulate discussion and organ ization In response to Stalin's call for mastery of téchnique, the Staline grad Tractor Plant and the Krase noye Sermove Locomotive Works have not only devoted special pages of their newspapers to technical.~- problems, but went on to found technical publitations. At thé Gorki Atito Plant a whole isstie of the Plant's newspaper: was devoted te the workers’ supply department, fol- lowing Stalin's statements at the 17th Party Congress on the neces- sity of developing Soviet trade. Examples could be fi throughout the length and breadth of the Soviet Union. Directing and-- mirroring the growing political ac- tivity of the masses, the local, farm and factory press is one of the most powerful forces in the steady drive toward a classless, socialist society mw In the June Issue of “The Communist” The of May Day Editorial Some Problems of our Trade Union Work...By Jack Stachel What Is to Be Epected of the Socialist Party Con |] _ vention By Martin Young The Imperialist Scramble Tm the Colombian - Peruvian | Conflict By Marina Lopez Japan Bares Its Imperialist Sword By G. The Farmers Are Getting Ready for Revolutionary Struggle. By H. Puro The Black Belt: Area of Ne- gro Majority James S. Allen Figures On the American Economic Crisis. By Labor Research Association Rook Reviews Red Flags Fly from 2 Former Ford Ships Lessons ™M. DETROIT.—For the first time in history (but not the last) red flags with the hammer and sickle waved from two ships in Dearborn, the, ~ empiré of Henty Ford. That was _ on the day recently when the So« viet Government purchased two ships from the Ford Motor Co. As the ships passed under the Fort St. a great crowd of people gathered. Many began to applaud and to wave to the ships, and the Soviet séatien waved back, | WHAT’S ON Tuesday Soviet Russia me Ave, Br Adm. free Speaker 170th St.) 8:30 Auspices Mt. Eden. Youth Marshall Shaw p.m HOUSE PARTI Sec. 7 14 87th &t Refi mts—entertain: COTTSHORO.ANGELO HERNDON Mass | Méeting. Alfred Levy Br Cleveland St., Brookly Batés, spéaker, Adm, free FILM & PHOTO LEAGUE has spi on the Film lable any day in week. 12 E St Wednesda HERNDON PROTEST MEETING — tine ks Hall, 160 W. 129th St. 8 p. Don West, Ann Burlak, Richart Allan Taub, chairman. 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