The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 21, 1934, Page 5

i [ WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN TUDENTS of the University of Michigan who partici- pated in the May Day demonstration in Detroit car- -tied a huge placard: “WE GRADUATE INTO UNEM- -PLOYMENT.” For their foresight they were rewarded by “@ police beating and a threat of expulsion from the uni- -versity. These students were among several hundred who the “other day listened to a commencement address delivered at the Uni- York Herald Tribune. ‘xersity of Michigan by Walter Lippmann, special writer for the New They must have gotten cold comfort indeed from Mr. Lippmann’s address, which the Herald Tribune headlined, “U. S. Hopes Rest on Education, Lippman Says at Ann Arbor—Address to Graduating Class Shows Need for Preparation for Unforseen.” Lippmann, you must understand, is one of the special writers for the Herald Tribune who has the privilege of expressing any opinion jhe desires; but I am sure that an fhvestigation by, say the research committee of the Pen and Hammer, would reveal the fact that his opinions have clashed with the fundamental editorial policy of the Herald Tribune on .000 occasions. Several weeks ago, for example, Lippmann was impelled to address himself to the problem of labor and capital by the turbulent strike wave as manifested in Toledo, Minneapolis and elsewhere. The growing strike wave, Lippmann averred, was simply Labor's desire to participate in “the problem of Recovery.” Profound economics, He Means to Say 1 Rieter eel was no less profound in his commencement address at Ann Arbor. “The necessity of resorting to intellectual processes rather than of being able to depend upon familiar habit and practical knowledge is one of the greatest changes in human behavior to which modern men are compelled to adjust themselves. It is an important part of the explanation of the difficulties of the past 25 years. In at- tempting to make peace after the great war, in attempting to recon- struct the economic system which was broken down by the war, the old practical knowledge of politicians, business men and bankers was not enough to make a good peace and safe reconstruction, and our intellectual knowledge was not reliable enough nor trusted enough to guide us... .. My generation, therefore, is struggling with the problem of making practical knowledge enlightened and of making theoretical knowledge practical.” Translated into simple English, Mr. Lippmann means to say that {| the pitfalls of the past resulted from the absence of collaboration be+ { tween politicians and professors which now distinguishes the Roose- ® velt regime and its alleged “Brain Trust.” Remember Woodrow Wilson? ‘UST how would Mr. Lippmann explain away the fact that his patron saint who took a leading part in the Versailles sell-out was none other than the distinguished professor of American History who led the crusade to “make the world safe for democracy.” The rhetoric of the famous Fourteen Points was even more ornate than the heavily- upholstered style of Mr. Lippmann. Yet when it came to putting over the Versailles treaty Mr. Wilson, representing as he did the same in- tests as Mr. Roosevelt does today, abandoned his pretenses and joined the “old practical . . . politicians, business men and bankers.” The fact is that commencement day speeches are pretty hard to make, unless you want to lift your stuff out of last June’s papers or from the Encyclopedia Britannica, and therefore one shouldn’t be too hard on Mr. Lippmann. In any.event the graduates.of the University. of Michigan, after four years of study, athletics and various divertissements, now have the job, as Mr. Lippmann suggests of getting “the wisdom required to make our society stable and prosperous... . It must be acquired by per- sistent work. It must be wrested from chaos by the will of men. It must be refined by experience. It must be clarified by debate. It must be animated by an imperturbable fait! What We Call “Social Composition” h.” THAT fine .words, Mr. Lippmann, but consider the fix of the young graduates who listened to your speech. For the most part they are the sons and daughters of Michigan farmers, small business people and 8 sprinkling of working class children, who by working as furnace ten- ders, domestic servants and soda-jerkers, managed to finish their courses. They studied Soe 22 (sociology) in order to understand the processes of society; they studied Chem 6 (chemistry) in order to get jobs in manufacturers’ laboratories; they studied Eco 8 so that they could qualify as “industrial managers.” Some of them studied journal- ism so that they could participate in this ancient, though not so honorable, profession. * The point is, Mr. Lippmann, that the majority of these youngsters -Will not get jobs. And if they do, they will have the experience of the young woman I heard about when I was in Ann Arbor several weeks. ago while on a lecture tour of the New Masses. way through college by waiting on table for her meals, and after graduation she considered herself fortunate to be able to hold on to the job! “Tt must be wrested from chaos by the will of men. . refined by experience. must be animated by an imperturbable faith.” What hollow bunk! Faith in whom? In what? Jobs, unemploy- ment insurance, the menace of fascism and imperialist war—why “don’t you save a few chill words for these burning issues, Mr. Lipp- mann? But that wouldn’t be a commencement day address for those “going out to make their voyage through life over a calm and peace- tul sea”! * * Memories of Harvard Yard She had worked her «+ Tt must be Tt must be clarified by debate... . It LE WAS in 1910 that Walter Lippmann heard some writer for the Tribune, or perhaps some visiting dignitary from abroad, deliver the commencement address to his class at Harvard. Full of the fiberal notions of Prof. Graham Wallas, Lippmann graduated from Harvard determined, apparently, to help “wrest the world from chaos by the will of men.” A short time later George R. Lunn was elected mayor of Schenectady on the Socialist ticket and young Lippmann became his secactary. Greater things called, however, and he soon thereafter be- came an editor of The New Republic, founded with the cash con- tributed by the Willard Straight family (made in China), Wilson, the Messiah, arrived on the scene, and Lippmann hailed the man “who kept. us out of war’ and who was “too proud to fight.” But a few months later the Manifest Destiny of Wall Street pointed in the oppo- site direction and the liberal editor went the way of his master from Princeton. More, Who's Who in America provides a few rather ob- scure but significant facts regarding Lippmann's checquered career. For example, that the great “liberal” editor served as assistant to the “pacifist” Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, from June-October. 1917; captain in the U. 8. Military Intelligence (the stoolpigeon sec- tion of the War Department). Back from the dust and grime of battle on Capitol Hill in Washington, Lippmann returned to the editorial sanctum of the New Republic to continue writing his ponderous, high- sounding editorials and “liberal” pronouncements until Frank Cobb of the Morning World died and Lippmann accepted the bid to take his swivel chair in the gilded dome in Park Row. ‘ a . . hes rosy picture drawn for the Harvard class of 1910 by the com- mencement speaker seems to have come true to life for Mr. Lipp- mann, for his career in the world has been in the real Harvard sense “successful.” When a certified check merged the Morning World with the New York Telegram, several hundred employees of the World were unceremoniously “let go,” but Mr. Lippman had better luck than the copy readers, re-write men, reporters and copy boys. The Herald- ‘Tribune negotiated for an article a day to be called “Today and To- morrow.” The agreement cinched, Mr. Lippmann, free from the cares which beset the other men on the deceased World, set off on a Medi- terranean cruise with a friend—Thomas J. Lamont of the House of .3, P. Morgan. However, I must not forget the point of the whole column: where will the boys and girls of the University of Michigan, class of 1934, Bet jobs? DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934 “Impartial” Head of NRA Labor Board MR. WISHNIAK (no relation to the business manager of the Daily Worker) is now the chair- man of the impartial arbitration board of the silk mill section of N.R.A. Regional Labor Board in Paterson, N. J. He is taking the place of Haynes, member of the editorial staff of the Paterson Eve- ning News, one of two dailies against which the members of the Typographical Union are on strike. and which are being boycotted by the labor movement. Wishniak’s qualifications for chairman of the impartial labor board are: (1) He ig the head of the Wishniak Silk Company, which, when worlfing to capacity, operates 140 looms and employs 35 weavers, (2) He runs an open shop, refus- ing even to allow the Associated Silk Workers, whose local member- ship, headed by Eli Keller, Love- stonite, recently put over a 3 per cent cut on its own membership, to organize his employees. Mr. Wishniak is a sterling friend of la- bor as long as labor allows the question of unionizing his shop to lie in abeyance. The rugged individualism of Mr. Wishniak is not considered by his fellow employers as a handicap to his administration of the New Deal in the Paterson silk industry. Fk oie Baltimore lady of that liberal . personified perfectly by Miss Frances Perkins, the best Sec- retary of Labor since William Nuckles Doak, who runs the unem- ployment relief bureau in that prin- cipality of the Bethlehem Steel, has just announced some rather sweep- ing changes in its practice. It is believed that some 25,000 people, workers and their dependents, will be affected directly by these changes. They are designed to re- duce the unbearable burden placed on the tax-payers by the recent ex- travagance of raising the relief al- lotment per family from $1 to $2 per week. The lady relief chief has ruled: First, that all single men shall be dropped from the relief lists. This ruling coincided with the advent of the threat of the strike in the steel industry. Second, that all families who have one or more persons with rec- ords as domestic servants shall be dropped from the relief lists. The reason for this, it is stated, is that the enormous number of 130 calls for domestic help have been re- ceived by the employment bureaus recently. Third, all families who have one or more members with records of casual employment—such as berry picking—are to be dropped from the relief lists. Baltimore is one hour's ride: from the White House. Its occupant promised that no one should starve. Baltimore is a good example of how that pledge is being kept. Ser Sa Om Re through fields where Negro workers are hoeing corn for 10 cents an hour—and pay the water boy out of their wages—s glance at an article entitled “Out of the Red” in Collier’s Weekly proves that per- manent unemployment and hun- ger relief are merely illusions. The introduction says: Jersey Mill Owner Is| “This articie is the result of a ticular purpose of the people who personal survey which covered ev-| pay them: Mr. T. R. Ybarra, Mr. |ery populous section of our coun- try.” The survey was made by the Walter Davenport, Mr. Owen P.| White, Mr. Frank Condon, and that following gentlemen of the press, | champion of press agents who sold known far and wide for their | the World War, 270,000 young men ability to twist facts for the par-|killed and wounded, and a moun- The Forging of Hee And Steel in Asiatie Siberia By WALT CARMON HAD to pick our way carefully to get to the meeting hall. To | | and work in a land where man is master of his own destiny. Chenishov is an udarnik, (shock our right the blast furnaces of the| Drigader) at Kuznetsk. Worked on Kuznetsk Steel plant rose against | the sky like black sentinels. Here and there pouring metal threw a red glow against the dark sky. Four years ago this was a distant valley hidden in the mountains of Asiatic Siberia. Today a city .of 180,000 people lies around a modern steel plant like a proletarian guard of honor. And it is not finished. New roads are being built in Stalinsk now. New factories. New homes. New schools. Trenches lime the streets. The earth is up- turned. A new socialist city is in birth, And a new socialist litera- ture. Mi Se 'HE meeting is arranged jointly by “Bolshevik Steel,” the daily of Kuznetsk; by the Writers of Kuz- netsk; and the readers of “Siberian Lights,” whose editor Comrade Itin has come from Novosibirsk. Comrade Itin speaks of Soviet literature, its history, its service in socialist construction. He speaks of the more than 50 active literary groups in Siberia. The latest dis- cussions of the Organization Com- mittee of Soviet Writers come to the audience now like ripples on the water into which a decision has been cast in distant Moscow. Yampolsky, an editor of ‘“‘Bolshe- vik Steel,” speaks warmly on the work of two young poets of Kuz- netsk. One of them tells his story. IHENNISHOV is the son of a peasant. Born near Moscow. In his village he wrote songs for the} peasants as long as he can remem- ber. When his mother died he came to| Moscow “with a piece of bread in his pocket.” All his wordly posses- sions. These were bitter days of adjustment. For 18 months he was a bezpri- zhorni (waif). He disliked work. He could not fit himself into the new order driving ahead steadily like a motor toward classless society. Then he entered a factory school. In this period his first verse ap: peared in “Komsomolskaya, Pravda. He wrote verse and hated work. Within a year the wanderlust in his blood again drove him out of the factory. For a year and a half he roamed to all corners of the U.S.S.R./ In 1930 he arrived in Vladivostok, He made friends, got a job as sea- man. This was his post-graduate course, completing his education. He saw foreign ports. He speaks about this with a bitterness for the exploiters, and a deep sympathy for his foreign comrades whom he saw under the lash. From then on, Chernishov tells his audience, he did not want to see more. He wanted to come back construction. He was leaving in a few days to join the Red Fleet. The sea still calls to him, and the >en who work on ships. He reads one of his poems: “Udarniks of the Sea.” Then “A Flower in 2 Workers’ Room.” Evidently the audience knows this well. As he reads I can see the lips of the audience repeating it after him. Visual tribute to a poet who speaks their language. The audience shouts “No!” when he asks if they are tired. So he reads one more piece, from an unfinished work called “Metal Worker.” cloud of applause. How proud these workers are of one of their own! Chernishov’s first volume of verse is being published now in Novosi- birsk, Soviet literature grows! MRADE Shupletsov gets the floor. He works on construction. A vigorous, hardy worker who comes in his working clothes. He is covered with cement, a decoration of labor. After this, whenever anyone tells me that workers don’t love litera- ture, can’t appreciate it, I'm going to answer them with Shupletsov. He speaks on literature as some- thing of his own. A something he treasures, and a something he holds 88 a weapon in the struggle for socialism, He talks of literature and the civil war. And of Gorky. And then he criticizes the com- rades who have arranged the meet- ing. It’s true, there are many peo- ple here. Workers, teachers, party functionaries. But there are no members of his brigade. Ordinary “black workers.” common laborers. He fiays the comrades because no one invited them. He himself only heard of the meeting by chance. There is a lot of applause in sup- port. Comrade Smirnoy, on the staff of “Bolshevik Steel” is in the chair. He calls on a brigade of visiting foreign writers. Here we are: from Australia, America, Denmark and Spain—in | Stalinsk, on the border of Asia, We find common problems with the workers and writers of Siberia. Working class problems. We talk about the workers and writers of our countries, —- and the class struggle. From the outside we hear the rumble of the blast furnaces. An- other 80 thousand tons of pig iron has been tapped from the furnace to enter into the service of human- ity. When we leave, Bolshevik steel glows in the darkness. Tons and tons more of it, day and night, to take the load of human shoulders. VI. ‘Karl August Wittfogel HERE was a time, not so long ago, when a historical work from the pen of Dr. Karl August Wittfogel was hailed as “monu- mental,” as “masterly,” as “fas- cinating” by the entire press, re— gardless of political direction, Uni- versity professors who today have long since made their private peace with the fascist regime, vied with each other in recognition of the sci- entific achievement of Wittfogel. Today this man is incarcerated in ® prison in Frankfurt on the Main. Appreciation of the forces which have shaped world history in the past, means at the same time rec- ognizing and supporting the ten- dencies which will form the future. But the sort of task now assigned to the German_historian—namely, sublimation of Prussian militarism as the meaning and substance of world events, of the dizzying in- toxcation of the national myth, of the childish eocentricty of the Nazis —all signifies complete destruction of sound methods of scientific thought. Slowly, very slowly, outside of the State universities system, a historic point of view began to win through in Germany, which took over the latest results of the thought of all other branches of science, and tried to bring the knowledge of the past into 4 meaningful relation with the vital forces of the present. To the historical works of this time belong the writings of young Wittfogel— “Primal Communism and Feudal- ism” (Urkommunismus und Feud- alismus); “History of Bourgeois Society” (Die Wissenschaft der buergerlichen Gesellschaft). This man, descendant of an old family of teachers and preachers, seemed called to personify a dyng epoch’s ideal of the student. His road through doubts, recognitions, and scientific achievements, into the concentration camp, is, symptomatic of the development followed by the best portion of the bourgeois youth of Germany in the last two decades. An ay and despairing gen- eration, filled with a romantic and rather musty youthful instinct for revolt, made for itself an outlet in the Youth Movement. The name of Karl August Wittfogel has a good ting in the history of the German Youth, Movement. It was he who brougt4 to a close the most impor- tant epoch of this movement. His flaming speech on the “Hohen Meissner,” introduced the decay. of the old forms and the activizing and politicalizing of the intellectual youth; in point of fact, it repre- sented the end of the bourgeois Youth Movement. Wittfogel’s studies in Germanics and history, to which were added early the study of Sinology (China), did not lead him into the well- trodden bourgeois careerism. Al- ready in 1920 he had overcome in himself the last remainder of such personal ambitions. From this time forth he stood in the workers’ movement. During only one stage of his life did he receive a regular, as- sured salary: He taught in a public high school (Volkshochschule). His entry into the German Communist Party brought this to a speedy end. The combination of theory and practice, usually the ever-distant aim of a life devoted to science, was his from the very beginning. In innumerable, brilliant and learn- ed reports, given all over Germany, Wittfogel always and again called on the intellectual workers to unite their fight for cultural progress with the political struggle of the advancing working class. In addi- tion to infinite burdening with such tasks, in addition to speeches in mass meetings, travels, and educa- tional courses, Wittfogel managed to find enough time for his own scientific work. In his special field, the history of Eastern Asia, the young historian who is today only thirty-seven years old, early reached a summit. Edit- ing of the writings of Sun Yet Sen was followed by the work which made Wittfogel’s name and achieve~ ment known and acknowledged far beyond limited circles of specialists —the book was “Economy and So- ciety of China” (Wirtschaft und Gesselschaft Chinas). It s a mon- umental achievement of history writing on which dozens of special- ists in all lands and 1 es are building their own works. Wittfogel is a Marxist, a consistent Marxist. In a time in which, with all con- ceivable means Marxism is being defamed or sneered at as madness, it is doubly significant that the Marxist method of thought which is the foundation and presupposition of Wittfogel’s work, had to be rec- ognized only a few months ago even by non-Marxist and anti-Marxist specialists, as convincing, inecon- testable, and productive of new, basic historical knowledge. The political geography (Geo- politician), Professor Haushofer, whose ‘World-political Survey” is now broadcast every month by all Brains Behind Barbed Wire! A Collective Report on Persecution in Nazi Germany radio stations of fascist Germany, wrote without reservations of the “brilliant, basic knowledge” and of the “uncompromising, captivating presentation, clear as woodcut” of this great work of Wittfogel. Yet not a voice was raised among ali the scientists and savants of Ger- many to save the historian, Karl August Wittfogel, from the most bestial humiliations of the concen- tration camp. At the beginning of 1933 Wittfogel had arranged to make a journey of several years duration in China. He had the ticket in his pocket, but he continually postponed his departure. It seemed unworthy to him to de- sert the German workers at that moment when the critical fight against fascism was coming. A few weeks after the Reichstag fire he was arrested and put in the con- centration camp in Heuberg. The newspapers reported laconically, “A Communist agitator by the name of Wittfogel has been arrested... .” (To Be Continued) Form National Negro Group in New York NEW YORK.—Inspired by the Success of “Stevedore.” a group of Negro actors and actresses. as well as a number of white theatrical people interested in the project, held a meeting recently and laid the foundations for the formation of the National Negro Theatre. A board of managers was created, composed of J. Homer Tutt, Cecil Boulton, Hayes Pryor, Peter Mo- rell, and Dr, Reuben §. Young. The following were elected to the Ad- visory Board: William L. Patterson, Richard B. Harrison, Rey, William Lloyd Owen, Rey. Lorenzo King, Rev. Adam C. Powell, Jr., Will Ma- rion Cook, Andy Razaf, Rev. A. C. Haines, Dr. Melville Charlton, Charles Winter Wood, Dr. Willis N. Huggins, Mrs. Cecelia S. Saunders, Knolly Mitchell, Dr. Gertrude Fade, Cecil McPherson and Laura Bow- man, Clubs are being organized, com- posed of Negroes and whites, in the various parts of the metropolitan area to support the National Ne- gro Theatre. Several have already been formed in New York, and a club of 40 members has been or- ganized in Jersey City. A series of concerts, one of which will be held at the Lafayette Theatre. at mid- night on Tuesday, June 26, are scheduled to raise funds for organ- izational purposes, Then he sits down in a| Conducts a Weird ‘Investigation’ tain of debt burden weighing down the working class, to America—the | peerless George Creel, who put Gold | Stars on the breasts of 50,000 Amer- | | ican mothers whose sons went forth |to “war to end war” and “to make | | the world safe for democracy.” | One item catches the eye—a bold- face subhead: “Where Jobs Go Beg- ging.” Tt turns out that this work- ers’ paradise is Detroit. The he- roine of the little sketch is Sally: | “Sally is a Pole. She is young| and neat and smiling. For several | years—to be exact, since 1929—she worked as a domestic. Her em- ployer, the wife of an executive in| one of the big automobile factories, | | approved highly of her diligence |the struggles of other strata of the | and was so proud of her appear-| | ance when decked out in a maid's | apron and cap that she liked to | have friends come around to the| house—Sally, she thought, was a/ real credit to her establishment. | “Sally's wages were $3 per week. During the depression she and hun- | dreds of other girls, both foreigners | | and native-born daughters of Mich- igan and other states, were glad to) | work for that and Sally’s employer was so pleased with her that, with- | out any urging, she raised her pay to $4.” (Pardon our emphasis. We |don’t want you to overlook this | startling proof of the pampering of labor by well meaning but mis- fuided employers.) “But a few months ago smiling Sally suddenly informed her em- plover: “Tm going to leave you.’ ““‘Aren’t you happy here?’ “Very happy, but I’m going to| leave.’ “Then why are you going?’ | “Because I have got my old job | back at the automobile factory.’ “‘How much will you get?’ “Fourteen a week!’ “And Sally went back to the work |... which thousands of other girls |... are now resuming in steadily increasing numbers—sorting, pack- ing, upholstering jobs in body plants. Operating small machines.” Men used to get $36 per week for these same jobs. Do not sorrow over this fact. Save your sympathy for the wives of “ex- ecutives” in the “big automobile factories,” who are left flat by the ungrateful girls th unselfishly assisted through the “depression” that now has passed into history, according to Oollier’s collection of New Deal boosters. “Business SMELLS better,” says | Colliers. | Let us be of good cheer. There are only 14,000,000 still unemployed, |onky about 60 per cent of the farm- |ers are ruined and New Deal crop restriction followed by drought and | burning winds has created a dan-| gerous decrease in cattle, hogs, hay, wheat, corn, rye, barley and milk | | that should raise prices and bring back prosperity. Were it not for the outrageous demands of workers and the de- structive strikes fomented by Red agitators, the boom would be back now. We are “On Owr Way,” says President Roosevelt and Collier's band of ballyhooers. But there seems to be a great difference of opinion between New Dealers and workers as to the direction in which the way out leads. The survey which the Daily | Worker conducts constantly through its army of worker corre- spondents does not tally with the results of Collier's “investigation” as published. In fact, they differ so widely that it is clear that some- one is lying. It is not the Daily | Worker. Syiss Workers Demand Release of Thaelmann BASLE, Switzerland, June “14. Tessin Section of Socialist. workers of this city adopted a resolution “demanding the immediate release of Ernst Thaelmann, of all anti- fascist fighters and of the victims of Nazi class justice.” The resolu- tion was transmitted to the Ger- man Consulate in Basle. TUNING IN 1:00 P.M.-WEAF—Baseball Results WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick "_Andy—Sketch Proos, Songs 4. Gienn—Sketeh WOR—Comedy; Music ‘WJZ—Ed Lowry, Comedian 8 WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio WOR—Ray Perkins, Comedian; Nov- alty Orch. ‘WJZ—Do You Want to Be « Lawyer? —Morgan J. O’Bien, Attoney, and 3 Students of Horace Mann Schoo! WABO—Serenaders Orch. 1:18-WEAF—The Goldbergs—-Sketeh WJZ—Loper Orch. soll WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orch.; Soloists WOR-—Little Symphony Orch., Phil- Conductor; William ip James, Bowers, Baritone WIJZ—Grits and Gravy Sketch WABC—Rich Orch 8:15-WABC—Easy Aces—Sketeh :30-WJZ—Gale Page, Songs ‘WABC_Raffles—Sketch 8:48-WJZ—Igor Gorin, Baritone 9:00-WEAF—Capt. Henry's Show Boat WOR--Rod and Gun Club WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch WABC—Warnow Orch.; Claude Reis, Tenor; Evelyn MacGregor, Contral- to; John Corigliano, Violin 9:15-WOR—Della Baker, Soprano; Wil- lam Hargrave, Baritone 9:30-WOR—To Be Announced WJZ—Duehin Orch.; Edward Davies, Baritone WABO—Waring Orch. 9:45-WOR—The Witch’s Tale—Sketch 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman Orch.; Breen and de Rose, Eleventh Anniversary Celebration WJZ—Canadian Concert WABC—Conflict—Dramatic Sketch 10:15-WOR—Gov. Lehman, Speaking at Testimonial Dinner of Brooklyn George WABC—Fray and Braggioti, Piano 10:30-WJZ—Archer Gibson, Organ WABC—Even Frans, Baritone 10:48-WOR—Studio Musicale WABC—The American Constitution in the Light ef Today—Dean Ros- coe Pound, Harvard Lew School 11:00-WEAF-Your Lover, Songs Moonbeams Trio WSZ—Cavaliers Quartet WABC—Vera Van, Contralto Jewish Community at Hotel St. | % Page Five ~ A Few Field Notes on the “New Deal” |New Issue of “The Coal ‘Collier's Magazine Digger” Reveals Spirit Of Struggle in Mines THE RANK AND FILE COAL DIGGER, Published at Room 202, 929 Fifth Ave., Pitteburzh, Pa. 3 cents a copy; 50 cents a year, Reviewed by TOM MYERSCOUGH ITH both content and make-up reverberating struggle and stamping it as the outstanding pub- leation of the day for miners, the Rank and File Coal Digger, official organ of the opposition in the va- rious miners unions, makes its sec- ond appearance. Filled with timely material on the situation in most of the mining sec- tions, it is none the less mindful of working class. Particularly true of the steel oppressed workers are again tast- ing the bitter pill of A. F. of L. betrayal. However, the rank and filers of these giant twin industrie: steel and coal, have had many things in common and _ because these interests and relationships still exist, a good account of either can be looked forward to in the struggles that are just ahead for both miners and steel workers. (Here, of course, it must be said that Mike Tighe, of the Amalga- mated, and Bill Green have not stopped the steel strike; they have merely delayed it!) The Coal Digger expresses well and in a readable way the desires of those who toil within the earth’s recesses for # real One Union in the industry to replace the many and varied ones now existing. It needs waste little time or spaee on Lewis and his U.M.W. forces. In fact, the caricature of John L. on the front page does this job well, but. to the rank and file of the U.M.W.A. and especially to those who are entirely new to unionism, the Coal Digger becomes a real voice. With regard to the many other unions, a different problem is con- fronted, for these all exist as a re- sult of the expressed determination . “to have no more of Lewis and his forty thieves.” (The “for- | ty” should read three or four hun- dred.) Among these other miners’ unions is the N.M.U. (Nati6nal Miners Union) whose record of struggle is well known and which was the first to see the need for that kind of action which will fill the miners’ needs. Then comes the Progressive Miners Association, which has its base in Illinois, but which, despite the oft shown desire for rank and file action, finds it- self held back by the Pearcy's, Kecks, Goetas, and Piceks. With the P.M.A., the Coal Digger must accept the task of exposing the true role of its leadership. My W. I. R. Protests Arrest Of Cameraman Lester | Balog in California) NEW YORK—The Workers In- ternational Relief has sent the fol- lowing letter of protest to the Mayor of Tulare, California, follow- ing the arrest of Lester Balog, cameraman of the Film and Photo League: Sir:— The Workers International Re- lief, in the name of thousands of the members, vigorously protest the arrest of Lester Balog, a member of the Film and Photo League, sec- tion of the Workers International Relief. We demand his immediate and safe release. We further declare that the arrest of Lester Balog is a veious attempt to suppress and to stop him brutal police attack on strikers, who are fighting to better their condi- tions and the right to organize. We demand the right to show the films of the real conditions in America today. Hands off our workers’ camera- men! Hands off workers’ movie shows! We hold you responsible for this suppression of the workers’ news, and the arrest of Lester Balog. We demand his immediate liberation. Workers International Relief, New York District, Pauline Rogers, Secretary. Stage and Screen “Dr. Monica,” Opens At Strand; “Murder On The Blackboard” At Rialto “Doctor Monica,” a new Warner Bros. picture starring Kay Francis, opened last night at the Strand Theatre. Veree Teasdale, Jean Muir and Warren William are in the sup- porting cast. The film is based on the play in which Mme. Nazimova appeared here some months back. The new film at the Rialto Thea- tre is “Murder on the Blackboard,” in which Edna May Oliver, James Gleason and Bruce Cabot play the leading roles. John Wexley, author of ‘They Shall Not Die,” the Scottsboro play seen here this season, and “The Last Mile” has joined Columbia Pictures as one of their staff of witers. “White Heat,” a film story of the South Seas, is the new film now showing at the Gaiety Theatre. Mona Maris heads the cast. from photographing | | personal observation has been te | see and hear Pearey desperately trying to emulate John L. Lewis, not only in manner of speech and |gesticulation, but also in sartorial |splendor. The fact is that the only | Teal quarrel between the leader- |ships of the UMW.A. and the |P.M.A. is on the question—who shall collect the dues and assess« | ments? | The membership of the new Ane |thracite Miners Union must also be |reached through the medium of the Coal Digger, for the AM.W.U. can- |not meet the needs of the miners of that poverty-ridden territory with such leadership as is given it by the pyromaniac Cappele Justice of the Peace Mae | loney. | er tae: Ir IS agreeably noticeable thab some of the independent miners’ unions are in accord with the Coal | Digger, and it is to be hoped that |they will not be frightened away |by the charge that can soon be ex- pected—that the Rank and File | Coal Digger is a Moscow-inspired | Sheet. But after all, the “red here ring” has been dragged out so long |that it has now lost its smell and | workers are demanding “bread and | butter” and other actions that will | bring material and social improve- ments to them. In general, there is a noticeable |improvement over the first issue and I am sure that with the further | penetration of the mine fields by jthe Coal Digger there will come an |avalanche of miners’ correspond jence which must and will come ta serve as its outstanding feature in subsequent issues and thereby re- |flect the real moods of the miners im all coal fields. The work of the Labor Research Association is given much space in the current issue and it can be tak- en for granted that the L.R.A. will continue to serve, but, despite this valuable service and the fact that the Coal Digger is published in Pittsburgh, its greater volume of jarticles and letters reflecting the workers’ struggles must come from the many battle fronts. Only in this way can it do its job well. And only in this way can it gain what must |be its objective—that of becoming a weekly, instead of a monthly a@ it is now. Miners! Order a bundie for sal¢ and distribution. WHA | Thursday | LECTURE by Conrad Romorowsk! on | “Soviet China —French Imperislism China and the Far East” a¢ Priends of | Chinese People, 168 W. 28rd Bt, Room 12, 8:30. | "BYMPOSTUM at Pen and Mammer, 14 W. Zst St 8:30. Topic ‘Vocational Guidance, Clinical Psychology and Mented | Hygiene in U.6.A. and U.8.8.R.” Adm. 18¢ 20-50 PER CENT Discount Sale at Workers “Bookshops begins Friday, June 22, ends Saturday, July 7 Join the Cire | culating Library, 50 FE. 12th &., M-Y.C. Friday SENDER GARLIN, Staff writer of Daily Worker, on “Do You Believe What You Read?" with pictures of Amerios Today. Mara Tartar, the Revolutionary Blues Singer. Drama Section of Workers Club, Friday, June 22, 8:30 p.m. at Coney Island | Workers Center, 27th and Mermaid Ave. | Adm. 26c. Auspices, Rose Pastor Stokes | Br. LL.D. and Workers Club of Coney Island SUMMER FESTIVAL, 52 W. 18th Bt, Friday, 8:30. Auspices, Theatre Collective Program includes Lanny Ross, Richerd Huey and others. Dancing, refreshments. Adm. 38¢. GENERAL Assembly of Workers School students Friday, 8:30, at 36 FE. 12th 8, 2nd floor. In addition to awarded prizes there will be s musical program rendered by “American String Quartet” and Rose Renard, Dramatic Soprano. A. Markoff, Director, will address students. Adm. free. All welcome. FILM SHOWING “Road to Life” ab | Workers Lab. Theatre, 42 E. 12th St» Priday, 8:30. Benefit “Shock Troop” W | GT. “Adm. 0c. Air cooled quarters. | FIRST SUMMER Frolic at Pierre De- | geyter Club, 5 K. 19th At, Priday, 8:30, | Edward Kogin of Unity Theatre, Willy | Deixel of Monte Onrlo Ballet, Mordecal | Baumann, baritone, Also musical noveltios and B-piece dance band. Entertainment starts at 10 p.m, Subscription 28¢. Cool off on roof. Saturday 5 CONCERT and Dance aé Irving Plaza, Irving Place and 18th St., Saturday. 8:30, Auspices, Branches 2 and 182 LW.O. and Comm. of Needle Trades W.1.V. CARNIVAL. sports, dramatics, chorus of | $00 singers. Dancing at Ulmer Park. West End Train stop 25th Ave. 2 p.m. till 9 a.m. Auspices, Jewish Workers Clubs. WEEK-END OUTING arranged by Dress Gutters Group to Camp Nitgedaiget. $3.50 includes round trip bus fare—three meals, nights’ lodging. Bus leaves June 28rd, 11 a.m. from 140 W. 36th St. For tickets and further information call at 140 W, 36th St. Room 101. BANQUET June 23rd at Ambassador Hall, 3675 Third Ave., celebrating 9th Ane niversary I.L.D. Leon Blum, guest of honor. Speakers, R. B. Moore, Allan Tuad and others. Entertainment. Hot supper. Admission 50 cents. Auspices Bronx Sece tion LL.D. Sunday BOAT RIDE and Picnic, Sunday, June ' 24th to Hook Mountain on 8.8, Islander, Dencing, games, baseball. Buffet at city prices. Tickets $1.00 on sale at FSU. 799 Broadway, Room 233. Boat. leaves Piet A, Battery Park, 9:30 a.m. Return 11 p.m OUTING to Camp Unity by Harlem Prog. Club, Sunday, June 24, at 7:30 a.m. Register In advance at 1888 ‘Third Ave, te assure seat Round trip 81 Madison, Ill. ek FIRST INTERNATIONAL PICNIC AND DANCE, Sundar, June 24th at Eagle Park. guspices United Front Committee Against ‘'ascism. Music, dancing, games. General admission: Adults 5c, children free, Bene efit Daily Worker and other presses. Chicago, II, JUNE PLAYPEST, League of Workers Theatres, Blue Blouses, Wynchevsky Club, and Nature Priends will perform Friday, June 22, at 8:30 p.m. at Cafe 3854 West Roosevelt Road. Admission tbe, AMUSE MENTS MAXIM GORKT’S Last 5 Days! “MOTHER” (“1905”) A PUDOVKIN Masterpiece with BATALOV (of “Road to Lite”). “ ACME THEATRE 14th STREET and UNION SQUARE —RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL- S0th St. a 6th Ave.—Show Place of the Nation—Opens 11:30 A. M. DIANA WYNYARD CLIVE BROOK in “Let's Try Again” AND A GREAT STAGE SHOW —— THE THEATRE UNION Presents — ‘The Season's Outstanding Dramatic Fi CIVIC REPERTORY THEA, 1 Eves. 8:48. Mats. ‘Tues. & 800-40¢-G0e-75¢-31.00 a