The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 13, 1934, Page 5

= DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1934 Page Five = WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD ODAY, if one is to survive, one must clarify one’s mind. Political issues have become a form of life and death. This is not a hyperbole, but a simple fact. Certainly, in Germany, Hitler has put the gun to everyone’s forehead and said: what do you believe in? And the answer must be yes or no, as on a witness stand; it is no longer possible to take refuge in the vague hemming and hawing, hedging and equivocating, that is the tradition of flabby liberalism. But it isn't always easy to see such great issues plain. It is difficult for the workers, befuddled by years of capitalist demagogy and trai- torous labor leaders. And it is just as hard on the intellectuals, with all their heavy baggage of the libera} past, their wistful dreams of the “happy” days of capitalism, when it gave people a little rope of “free- dom,” and had not yet entered its last fascist stage. CHANG UT what is the way in which ideas can be clarified? There is only one way; endless criticism, controversy, action, attack and counter- attack. A Communist must be as ruthless in challenging every weakness and untruth as was Socrates, He is like a navigator in the midst of a storm. He must keep his compass true, and never compromise on his mathematics. The general line of Communism is not easy to under- stand. It is not something that originates in one mind, but is a social product of thousands of minds. It varies in every shift of the storm, yet it always leads in one direction—to the Socialist world. This goal is what it never compromises; this is what it fights for. It is a popular charge among the enemies of Communism that Communists are perpetual trouble-makers for the sake of trouble. They are said to be sour-bellies, frustrated mischief-makers, and what not. One needn’t repeat all the familiar charges; they were brought against Marx, they were brought against Lenin, who was called by the Men- sheviks a splitter, a dictator and luster after personal power; they are being brought against Stalin, and against every other Communist fighting on a thousand obscure battlefields for the uncompromising general line that alone can lead us all out of the present horror into the sunlight of a socialist world. 'HERE are no super-men, and human beings are human, even if they are Communists, The personal note does creep in, yet there is some~ thing glorious in the discipline of Communism, which takes much of the personal fever out of the minds of its adherents. Communist criti- cism is harsh and unyielding, because it must be; but it is never petty or malicious; it is pain inflicted by a surgeon who wishes to save life, and not to destroy it. IKE others of our critics, I have had to attack many people against whom I entertained no personal enmity. This is our job in the world, and let us do it. When one attacks, one is sure to be fought ih return, and sometimes hurt. One expects that. But one does not expect the kind of answer that was made by the playwright, John Howard Lawson, whose work I analyzed unfavorably some weeks ago in the New Masses. Lawson's amazing reply was to go to the Alabama strike, a dan- gerous spot to be in, and report it for the Daily Worker! He was ar- rested and run out of the state, but now he is active in other places. Surely this is the finest answer ever made to a literary criticism, and one that is better than thousands of words. And it heaps coals of fire on the head of the critic! . ee 18 like the reply made by Lincoln Steffens, that famous pioneer of * social journalism in America. When his memorable autobiography appeared some few years ago, it was severely criticized in the Com- munist press because in its concluding chapters it displayed the most. unforgivable tolerance to fascism. The mind of Lincoln Steffens was formed in another and differ- ent century. One might have expected him to go the way of his con- temporaries, but with a wonderful resilience this grand old fighter has gone on with his studies. He has answered our criticism. Now he is one of the leaders of every battle against fascism that goes on in Cal- {fornia, a pillar of light in that state that has well been called “beauti- ful and damned.” -Lincoln Steffens has agreed to report some of the events there, and here is his first letter to the Daily Worker; . NOTES FROM CALIFORNIA, by Lincoln Steffens coe nice innocent college boys were urged to go intoa strike district to see for themselves what nobody could tell them, that the law officers were different things to different classes. They went and they called upon a sheriff who was very cordial in his hospitality, very. They were so well-dressed, modest, young and bourgeois. He boasted ® bit about how firm he was about these damned strikers, abditt how unreasonable these damned strikers were in their demands. “Well, but,” asked one gentle boy, “do you think 20 cents an hour is too much to ask?” “Oh, I see!” said the sheriff, transformed, “You are Communist agi- tators.” And, he said, and he showed, those students some things no Communist could put over on them. But what I am trying to put over on you, here, is the fact that ® sheriff or any other keen police officer knows how to spot a Com- ‘nunist on sight and sound. And that’s more than all your Commu- nists can do. Tf a man speaks of constitutional rights for a worker, that man is a Communist. Not if he shouts about it on a platform; they can tell when it’s bunk and meaningless and therefore all right. But {f you put it seriously as a demand for a worker who hasn't any rights anyhow, then they see so red that they color you with the shade. Any show of intelligence is a give-away, too. If you put it into a speech or a letter—if you let any reason into what you say, you are detected, often accused and liable to conviction, But this is only per- sonal. What Communists should look out for is mass guilt which might affect the moyement. The dock strike in San Francisco, for example. That is supposed by labor to be an A. F. of L. strike; it was called by an A. F. of L. union and an international A. F. of L. official was sent out to settle it. A fine, fat, imvortant person, he was, too, and the Chamber of Commerce. respected and waited a few days for him. But he was different, and the Chamber, and the police, the reporters and—and everybody knew why. Do you? Well I'll tell you. Ill whisper it. That strike is Communist-led. Now don't go asking Communists about it. They don't know how to tell. The Chamber does, and the cops, and the press. The proof is that it's a good strike, well-led and solid, determined, confident and; surest proof of all, it is utterly “un- reasonable.” Maybe you don’t know what that word “reasonable” means out of the dictionary. A “reasonable” labor leader is one that has some sence, who can be reached somehow, who will listen to reason or—or som¢thing, so that a plaih business man can somehow, anyhow sit down and do business with him. He has to have full power from the men to function thus “reasonably.” And that’s what’s the matter with the international leader who came out here. He learned right away that the rank-and-file knew what they wanted and were perfectly willing to have him settle with the bosses, provided, however, that he report back to them what he got for them and provided further, that what he got from the bosses was what they wanted. Now my present propaganda is that that is intelligent and there- fore proof pcsitive that Communists have had something to do with this here dock strike. If there is wisdom in the conduct, loyalty and fight in the leadership, solidity and confidence in the rank-and-file, and rage and consternation among the bosses, cops and Chambers of Commerce, then anybody but a Communist can tell from a mile away that it is a Communist strike or, anyhow, un-American. |ARY HEATON VORSE closes a review of “The Shadow Before” with Ma writer’s salute to William Rollins, Jr. “See,” she says handsomely, “how much more of the reality of a labor conflict and of a labor trial he has managed to pack into his pages than the rest of us.” US is the grand word and “we” all have thought it. Writers who have tried to do what Rollins did bow to him as Mary Vorse does. No prima donnas among the new proletarian writers! They want the job done, no matter who does it. What we want to know, however, is, whether Rollins did it; and the strikers, the workers, the audience has to de- eide that for “us.” ‘Chelyuskin Heroes! 'Greeted in Moscow Do You Know Thaelmann? By Soviet Masses MOSCOW, June 10 (By Radio).— | | “The whole U. 8. S. R. is following | | with strained attention the arrival | | of the valiant Chelyuskin expedi- | tion,” declares “Pravda,” central or- | gan of the Communist Party on the | occasion of the arrival in the Soviet | Union of the arctic expedition after | its eventful and historic exploits. | | Tens of thousands of workers and | | collective farmers enthusiastically | | greeted Professor Otto Schmidt, | head of the expedition, on his ar- | rival in Moscow several days ago. “Why do the life stories and the | struggles on the drifting ice of the Chelyuskin expedition stir everyone | to their depths?” asks “Pravda.” | “Why are the reports of the heroic | deeds of the Soviet fliers who res- | jcued them taken so near to the heart of everyone? The small Chel- yuskin detachment, marooned the most difficult conditions of the | | Arctic, proved that in Soviet citi-| |zens, led by Lenin's Party, brought | | up by Stalin, there is the most un- limited love and loyalty to their | proletarian country. This love. of | |the workers’ fatherland, and loy-| |alty to the cause of the working | jclass has inspired them in the| | struggle with nature. Yesterday “Pravda” published a letter signed by the seven fliers who rescued the Chelyuskin crew. The newspaper commenting on this let- | ter, writes: Know Why They Struggle | “The Red fliers know what they | are struggling for. Therein their guarantee of victory—heroes of the Soviet Union, Slepnev, Lapi- | | devski, Doronin, Kamanin, Molokoy, | Levanevski, Vodopianoy —ready at the first call of Party and Govern- ment to man our airplanes, at any moment ready to ascend the air in defense of the inviolability of our boundaries. “The best traditions of the civil war, of the struggle against inter- vention when the armed workers and peasants defended their right for a new life, will multiply now on the most advanced technique, on a new socialist culture. “Tt is precisely for these reasons that the Soviet Union became an inaccessible fortress capable of smashing everyone attempting to violate its boundaries. For the workers’ fatherland—this slogan is fanning the flame of heroism, the flame of creative initiative in all fields and in all branches of the va- riegated life of the US.S.R. “For the workers’ fatherland— this appeal is arousing tens of mil- lions of toilers in defense of their great fatherland.” “Pravda” further points out the decision of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. regard- jing treason against the country, and says: “The Soviet country is dear to the workers and collective farmers. They have spent much blood and suffering in the struggle with the exploiters and interventionists, and they will not allow anyone to betray their. workers’ fatherland, or to trade in its interests.” The decision of the Central Executive Committee gives the toilers of the great Soviet | Union a new weapon in the strug~ gle of the enemies of the prole- tarian dictatorship. “Over 175,000,000 toiling people for whom the Soviet land is their fatherland, having with their mar- row nurtured its remarkable growth to a new, happy and cheerful life, will know how to deal with traitors of the workers’ fatherland.” Nazi Hoodlums Disrupt Meeting in Ridgewood NEW YORK.—An organized gang | of 75 Nazis disrupted an Anti-Fas- cist. street meeting, held under the auspices of the American League Against War and Fascism in Ridge- wood, Friday night. They yelled “Jude” (German for Jew) in chorus, at a German speaker and at one from the Com- munist Party, and kicked and punched several workers. A meeting against Fascism will be held at the same corner, Onder- donck and Myrtle Ave., next Fri- day night, June 15, in which both Communists and Socialist workers will take part. WHAT'S ON Wednesday HERNDON PROTEST MEETING —Im- perial Elks Hall, 160 W. 128th St., 8 p.m Speakers: Don West, Ann Burlak, Richard Moore, Allan. Taub, chairman. | Auspices Herndon Defense Committee, ‘MRS. MA: STEWARD speaks on “Education in the Soviet Union as Against the .8.A.” EaUst Side Br. F.8.U. at Clin- ton Hall, 151 Clinton &., near Grand St. SPECIAL SHOWING of “Potemkin” at Finnish Workers Hall, 13 W. 126th St. Auspices Film and Photo League. Adm. 10e. MEMBERSHIP MEETING. Book Publish- ing Section of O.W.U., 114 W. 14th St., 8 pm. Thursday “CRISIS IN EDUCATION” discussed by Dr. F. E. Williams; “Education in S._U." Dr. J. BE. Mendenhall; “Progressive Edu- cation in U.S.A." C. A. Hathaway; “Role of the Teachers in the Crisis.” Thursday, June 14, 8 p.m. Man. Industrial Trade School. 29nd St. & Lexington Ave. OPEN FORUM “War and Fascism in the Current Movie, “No Greater Glory,” “World in Revolt,” “S. A. Mann-Brand.” Film & Photo League, 12 BE. 17th St. No admission charge. SYMPOSIUM, Pen & Hammer, 114 W. Ast St., 8:30 p.m. “Revolutionary Poetry in America.” Speakers: Vetch, Maddow, Wood, Thomas. Adm. 15c. OPEN FORUM, Isidore Begun on “Crisis in Education.” ‘Boro Park Cultural Cen- ter, 1280 S6th St., Brooklyn, 8:30 P.M. Auspices Harry Sims Br. LL.D. SOVIET CHINA—The relations between the U.88.R. and China—tecture by John Phillips at Priends of the Chinese, People, 166. W. 23rd St. Room 12, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 150. FRANCIS GOHAM speaks on the “J. B. MacNamara Case.” Auspices Wesley Ever- est Br. I.L.D. Maries, 97 Henry St. Bklyn. Adm. free. * HARLEM SECTION 4 Spring Festival, mish Hall, 15 W 126th St.. Fridzy, June , 8 p.m. Celebrating the growth of the ©. P. in Harlem. SUMMER MUSIC Festival and Dance. Irving Plaza, Irving Pl, & 15th St., Sun- day, June 17th, 8 p.m. Auspices Workers Music League. JUNE 23rd—Ambassador Hall, 3675 Third Ave. Banquet celebrating the Ninth An- niversary cf the LL.D. Leon Blum, guest ot honor. Speakers: R. B. Moore, Alien Taub and others. Varied entertainment— hot supper. Adm. 50¢c. Auspices Bronx Section I.L.D. JUNE SALT ON EPECIALS NOW ON AT WORKERE£ BOOK SHOP & CIRCULA’ | LIBRARY, 50 F. 13th 88 Iv. The militant worker must know. But know what? Not the whole complicated and multicolored en- | cyclopedia. with which the mind of the schoolboy is stuffed for a while. But he must know men. He must know life. He must know the events of history. He must know the teachings of the forerunners and the fathers of the revolution. He must know theory, in order to guide his practice. Why did Thaelmann let him- self be taken, and how? First of all had been mobilized, from one end of the Reich to the other, to seize him: 15,000 uniformed police, 5,000 in civilian clothes and 60,000 Steel Helmets. A 5,000-mark reward had been offered to whoever turned him over. One hundred thous- and photographs had been dis- tributed. . . . But if Thaelmann was taken, it was not merely because of that. It was because he wanted to re- main in Germany. He was urged to leave. He refused. He recalled the words whch Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemberg had said in January, 1919, from Grmany: “When the white terror bursts, when it is neces- sary to gather strength, the lead- ers must remain close to the Party and close to the masses.” A Horrible Plot ND ever since Thaelmann was thrown into the secrecy of the catacombs of the Reich, where so much suffering has eried out and so many lives have been destroyed, the most monstrous and atrocious judicial plot that has ever been perptrated is being con- coted. The Hitlerites have ‘never known how to build up and or- ganize anything but a judicial farce on the lines of a grand spec- tacle, but in their single positive speciality they have exceeded all precedents. The charges against him are not yet known, All that is known is that the State Police have gone to the managers of all the houses of ill fame in Berlin and Ham- burg, to all the keepers of brothels and gangsters’ hangouts, to buy false testimony from them, with | which they can publicly spatter Thaclmann with mud. The search | for documents of disgrace, at a price, has been practiced in the most methodical manner. At the same time, the Ministry of Propaganda has hired a num- ber of political renegades and has ordered some literary works from these scoundrels, which are sup- sed to soil the private life of mst Thaelmann by cleverly in- vented “revelations.” One of these | books has already appeared. But it does not seem that this filth is worth what it cost the German | taxpayer, The series is being continued, Mass Meet to Open 7th National Y.C.L. Convent’n, June 22 Browder, Green, Gold To Speak at Opening at St. Nicholas Arena NEW YORK.—The Seventh Na- tional Convention of the Young Communist League will open with a huge mass meeting on June 22, @t St. Nicholas Arena. Thousands of workers will turn out to greet the delegates coming from all parts of the country for the convention. The program includes prominent speakers and good entertainment. Earl Browder, secretary of the Com- munist Party of U. 8. A., Gil Green, National Scretary of the Y. C. L., and Ben Gold, leader of the N. T. Ww. I. U. will be the speakers for the evening. Besides speechs, there will be performances by the I. W. O, sym- phony orchestra, Ukrainian Folk Dances, a United Youth Chorus, and a sport exhibition. Admission is twenty-five cents, tickets in block can be secured for only fifteen. Tickets are on sale at all section headquarters of the Com- munist Party and Y. C. L, and the Workers Bookshop at 50 E. 13th St. pe Bete Wisconsin District Meet June 15 MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A mass meeting opening the first Y. C. L. District, Convention ever to be held in this city is scheduled for June 15th at Liberty Hall, 726 W. Walnut Street. A program has been arranged for the mass meeting at which there will be prominent speakers and en- tertainment. The main speakers will be M. Childs, District Organizer of the Communist Party of Mil- waukee and Jack Kling, District Or- ganizer of the Chicago Y. C. L. Sha (ea Connecticut Holds Convention NEW HAVEN, Conn—The Dis- trict Convention of District No. 15 was held here, Sunday, June 10th and carried on a spirited discussion of the problems facing the district. The main question before the con- vention wag the discussion of con- centration on the munition plants in Connecticut. A district committee of eleven was elected the majority of whom are Shop workers. Three delegates were nominated by the convention as representatives to the National Convention to be held in New York June 22nd. The composition of the conven- tion showed that delegates had come from six cities in Conn. Twenty-one of these were regular delegates, five of which were girls and sixteen, boys. The entire rep- resentation was made up of four Negroes, fifteen shop workers, five unemployed, four functionaries, and two students. There were eight fraternal del- because an entire multitude | to their friends | who likewise urged them to flee | By Henri Barbusse And besides this “moral” cam- paign, another campaign is being | | prepared, a “purely” political one | (our times put words to a strange | test). It is a regular prosecution | which has its purpose making the | Communist Party, and Thael- mann, its leader, responsible for everything that has happened during the last ten years, that is everything blameworthy. If a Nazi was kilied during this period, then Thaelmann is his “intellectual assassin.” If some shop was pillaged (even by the | Nazis), he is the robber If some | one got hold of a weapon, it is | Thaelmann who “is preparing the | | | armed revolt.” If the soldiers pro- test, if the workers discuss, if they burst all the barriers of ‘respect” by striking, Thaelmann | is personally resonpisble. And the memorandum on the Communist Party, laboriously written by spies, or under their supervision, to be distributed sec- | retly to the judges, contains a | whole concocted list of the chiefs | of high. treason. | In the face of such crude stag- ing, such ignominious stage-tricks, | one must not say: “Who wishes to | prove too much proves nothing,” | or “Who grabs too much holds | nothing well” For the authors of | these grotesque and idotic products | | of madmen and perverts are at | the same time those who hold the | power of the State. One can place no confidence in the common sense—I will not say in the jus- tice—of judges who are terrorized or fanaticized, Thaelmann’s counsel will prob- ably be a proved informer, of the sort with which Dimitroff was flanked. And we know, too, from @ reliable source, that everything has been arranged so that a | picked crowd, massed at the entrance to the court, will intervene in the same man- | ner as is done in certain parts of the United States, in order to lynch the accused, in case the judges of the Empire should de- fault. ++. And that is what is sup- | posed to happen in a few weeks, Perhaps in a few days. The Saving of Thaeimann Is Our Victory HAELMANN is the head and heart of the German prole- tariat. Thaelmann is the man of the German proletariat. The Ger- man worker has a right to Thael- mann. But so also has the class- conscious worker of any other country—the brother of the Ger- man worker just as much as an- | other German worker. The life | of this man is sacred to all. | The workers of the whole world fought vigorously for Dimitroff, for Taneff, for Popoff, for Torg- ler; and the first three are al- ready saved. But the danger which threatens Thaelmann is greater. He is not accused of some melodramatic ST, PAUL, Minn., June 12—The American Newspaper Guild at its second national convention which} ended here last Friday, declared its full support of the Workers’ Unem-)| ployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). Delaying its decision on whether or} not to affiliate with the American} Federation of Labor, the Guild un- dertook to support and cooperate with other workers in the newspaper industry, organized and unorganized. | | The convention went so far as to | offer to help unorganized workers | in departments other than the edi-| | torial rooms in forming a union of their own. | More than 70 city guilds were! represented hy 100 delegates at the four-day convention, at which for the first time newspapermen began to talk of the idea that whatever | they can get they will have to get | through their own efforts, ; One of the features of the | convention was a documentary re- citation of the Washington run- | around the Guild had been sub- jected to in its efforts at recogni- tion, When the convention demanded that General Johnson oust George Buckley, deputy administrator in charge of the daily newspaper code, because he was a “tool of the | publishers,” Johnson wired back that! he would “not be dictated to.” The| Guild now plans to lay its case be-| fore Roosevelt. | ‘The hundred-dd newspaper men | attending the convention received an | object lesson in capitalist press journalism, Judging from the man- ner in which the convention was reported by the New York Times the first day was devoted to hurrahing the President's message and Gover- egates, four from the I. W. O., two from the A. L. W. F., one from the S. M. W. I. U., and two representa- tives of the Communist Party. The average age of the delegates Was around twenty years old with a two year standing in the league. ia Ween Western Young Communists Meet OMAHA, Neb.-An_ enthusiastic district convention of the Young Communist League was held here last Sunday, June 3rd. The discus- sion centered particularly on the lessons of the recent Iowa packing house strike and the concentration work of the Y. C. L. in the packing house industry. Valuable contribu- tions were made by the delegats in the discussion on the anti-war work of the League. The convention decided to hold a summer children’s camp in August in Western Nebraska as an impetus to building the organization of a mass Pioneer movement. The discussion brought out as among the main weaknesses of the Y, C. L. insufficient carrying out of | struggles to win the Negro youth, and grotesque outrage. In his case there is nothing of the Reichstag trial, or of anything else of that sort. His head is wanted because it is the head of the German Communist Party. He is accused of that directly, and that is called his crime, He is officially con- demned, I have said. That does not mean that he will be con- victed. His life depends on the world proletariat, which must seize it, which must win it as a vic- tory. The people ef the world are strong enough to gain this victory. At the Bullier Hall, Thaelmann said to the Parisian workers: “Our cause is your cause.” It is true, It is true of the final vic- tory. It is true of the temporary defeat. Our cause is his, his cause is ours. The solidarity of the workers makes all this one tragic whole. RNST THAELMANN threw himself eagerly and with all | his force into the defense of all the victims, of all the martyrs of the workers’ cause. He defended the men of the Russian Revolu- tion at the moment when the im- perialists surrounding them tried to kill them and their work. He defended the Rueggs, handed over to reactionary China by England; he aroused feeling for Sacco and Vanzetti, for Tom Mooney; he roused the wrath of the workers against the assassin of Matteotti and the torturer of Gramsci; he revealed and delivered to the hatred of the masses Pilsudski and Horthy, procurers of the gal- lows and the torture chambers; and Tsankoff, who massacred 20,000 Bulgarians and plotted the destruction of the Cathedral of Sofia behind the scenes. And if he were not buried alive today, his strong voice would be raised against the fascist murderers of Vienna—and also against those of Pa. In behalf of the pure Commu- nist Ernst Thaelmann, of the German anti-fascism which is part of him and which has not surrendered, I appeal not only to the Communists, but to all work- ers, without regard to opinions and tendencies. In behalf of the emancipator of the exploited and the oppressed, I appeal to all the exploited and all the oppressed, To the youth who will some day profit by his work. And may the social-democratic workers help to save him—they whom he would have saved if they had listened to him. All you who toil in the hope of a just society, arise! This moment is very grave and very solemn, The supreme chal- Jenge is thrown to you. Know how to act. Know how to cry out. “No!” And know how to live that cry! Be worthy of our cause, Thaelmann must be freed! THE END. ld Meet Raps Press, Endorses Bill H. R. 7598 nor Olson’s mocking speech, the second day to hitting the Rayburn Communications Bill, and the third to the election of Heyward Broun. A resolution was passed sharply | condemning the press for the dis- | honest and distorted manner in which the activities of the conyen- | tion were reported. The false argu-| ment of the publishers that the | communications bill did not rep- resent an attack on the freedom of| the press in time of war or “na- tional peril” was not accepted by the convention. Despite the fine report of the contracts committee which set forth the essential provisions to be contained in local contracts with publishers, in which a loud warning was issued against the trap of arbi- tration machinery, there was a shining failure to indicate what the next step will be in forcing pub-| lishers to meet guild representatives. This is in fact the crux of the present situation. Newspapermen will have to begin forcing publishers to meet them, through demanding concessions on the basis of indivi- dual shop strength. They will have to abandon the idea that their leaders can win demands merely on the basis of friendly or unfriendly conversations with publishers or publisher organizations. -_-_————_—_____, Stage and Screen New Shaw Play May Be Staged By Theatre Guild Coming Season There may be x new George Bernard Shaw play next season, according to word received from the Theatre Guild. Law- rence Langner, director of the Guild, who has just returned from England, states that Shaw has promised a new pl haps in time for next season. Other plays which may be produced by the Guild the coming season include a new comedy by St. John Ervine and “The Sleeping Clergyman,” by James Bridie. “Hide and Seek,” a comedy by Lawrence Schwab and Richard Flournoy, will be placed in rehearsal next month by Mr, Schwab. Barton MacLane, Harold Flick, Frank Conlan, Jane Seymour and June Martel are in the cast. “Her Majesty, the Widow,” a comedy by John Charles Brownell, is announced for next Monday night at the Ritz Theatre with Pauline Frederick in the leading role. Other players include Charles Mitchell Harris, Thomas Beck and Alexander Bell Katherine Cornell is presenting “The Barrets of Wimpole Street,” the Rudolf Besier. play, at the Shubert Theatre in Newark this week. Next Monday Miss Cornell and her players will come to Brooklyn. { Althouse and Matzenauer In “Samson and Dalila” Paul Althouse and Margaret Matzenauer of the Metropolitan Opera House, will sing the principal roles in “Samson and Da- iila,"" which will be presented at the Stadium concerts on June 29 and 30. This will be the first production in the series of operas to be presented this season at the Stadium. Others in the cast include Alfredo Gandolfi, Louis D'Angelo and Harold Kravitt. The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Ballet will be @ feature of Mer operas, Alexander Smallens will con- heh. OUT OF CHAOS, By Bya Ehren- bourg. Henry Holt and Co, $2.50. Cp ge Reviewed by NICHOLAS WIRTH 5 ees fight against chaos is Fhren- bourg’s theme. On “wastelands,” cities and huge steel plants are be- ing built. It is an uphill fight. with | hundreds of thousands of men par- | ticipating to build socialism. It is man’s fight against nature and na- ture yields a few yards every day To Kusnetsk where a “giant” is | under construction come men leav- ing behind an environment which had become a part of their lives. In Kusnetsk these men forget the past jand forge a new'point of view. Among the many who come here | lis Kolka, a bored, aimless youth, who becomes a man of brain and will. Here Vaska. the son of a ku- |lak, finds the Young Communist | League, which becomes to him the | guide in reconstructing his life out |of the past. He comes to under- stand why he is building, why he is suffering. He lives in mortal fear that his parentage will be discov- ered and that he will be expelled from the League. He has forged | documents. “At night I lay and thought What if they suddenly find me jout? I was afraid they would ex- pel me from the Young Commu- jnist League. Where could I go? You see, Kolka, I lost one family. | Now they are driving me out of the | other.” Volodia Safonov comes to Kus- | |Netsk chiefly because he is in love | with Irina, who teaches the chil- |dren of the workmen. Here “the |expropriates were also building the | plant, but they built with anguish | |and bitterness. None of them was | guilty of anything, but they were |members of a class which was | guilty of everything.” | There are many. other charac- ters and they move through the | Pages of Ehrenbourg’s book, some |consciously, others again by a | greater will than their own with| | but one aim: the success of the| | Five-Year-Plan. | a ha | | [HRENBOURG deals with indi- |™4 viduals, yet he does not isolate |them from the rest of the popula- | | tion. The lives of Kolka, Irina, Vo- | |lodia influence the lives of others, | jand in turn their lives are moti- | |vated by the struggles of all the | people at the construction works. |Even Volodia who belongs to an |epoch of the past and who is out |of place among the people here, | Wavers between his own cynicism |and the solidly rooted hove of the | |men struggling for the future, He | is in continual search after the| | non-existent and is at all times de- | Stroying that which is within his | grasp, that which gives joy to most | | people working at Kusnetsk. His | nihilism leads Tolia to sabotage | | and himself to suicide. |. But even under capitalism Vo- | |lodia. would die by his own hands, | | for he is not rooted in life. In the | |chaos which generates the energy |for greater achievements than the | | world has ever known, he yearns | for the past which he believes has | been peaceful and more conducive |for living. Kolka, the counterpart |of Volodia, who expresses the phi- | |losophy of the revolutionary work- | ing class, is moulded out of the very | life which is the only hope of hu- man kind. And because of this | Kolka is convincing while Volodia | | flutters aimlessly in and out of the | pages of Ehrenbourg’s novel. Ehrenbourg treats his characters | in terms of their intimate personal | problems. His approach is interest- ing, for these problems of be- | havior in society are essentially new | | Problems, which are being solved | | by the continual striving after or- | | der. In chaos a new social order is born. In this chaos people find | | new elements in love, in birth and | \in death, | . . |KUSNETSK is but a stopping |*% place. From here men push for- | TUNING IN |ward to Mondy-Bash and from Mondy-Bash on to Temir-Tau, “Out of Chaos” Tells Story of the Struggle | For New Life in USSR “Shukhaiev made & speech: ‘Tha Bolsheviks have changed the facs of Siberia.’ On “waste-lands” now im huge furnaces ore is smelted; across unruly rivers bridges are bee ing built. Where no man could live, now locomotives carry train-loads of wealth that men with machines forced the bowels of the earth ta yield On the first of May Shukhaiey, delivering the principal address, said: “We must remember the words of Lenin: Lenin said that iron was the chief foundation of our civilization.” After Shukhaiev. steps on the platform “He was no expert at speech« making. He faltered his sentences, stammered, mopped his forehead with his sleeve. But he spoke with feeling and the workers listened ta him.” He concluded his speech: “As an old Red irregular, I say to you that now I can die in peace, bee cause, comrades, we have real men.” Hold “Liberator” Conference Sat.; Delegates Urged NEW YORK.—The League of Struggle for Negro Rights issued @ call to all workers’ organizations yesterday urging them to send dele egates to the “Liberator” Confer ence that will be held Saturday, June 16, 2 pm., in the St. Phillips Church Auditorium, 215 W. 133rd St. The conference following plans: 1. Building the “Liberator” into a bigger and better newspaper with a nation-wide cireulation in order to rally the Negro people to action against lynchings, Jim- Crowism and the rising tide of fascist reaction. 2. To raise a $1,000 sustaining fund for the paper. 3. To secure 1,000 new smb- seribers by July 15. The L. 8. N, R. which is calling the conferenc urged organizations to provide delegates with a cash paid greeting for the special edition that will be off the press June 22, Shamushkin will discuss the 1:00 P. 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