The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 28, 1934, Page 5

| CHANGE | || ———THE— || | WORLD! | By JOHN HOWARD LAWSO? GOOD deal has been written about the recent success- ful strike of office workers against the Macaulay Company, but I want to say a few words about it from the special point of view of the writer. Many comrades seem disposed to regard the Macaulay fight as a special case— admittedly important because it represents one of the first concrete vi tories achieved by white collar workers—nevertheless they point out” that only eleven employees were involved and that the effective collaboration of writers as pickets was an amusing and spectacular side issue. Of course the most vital thing about this strike was that it showed the increasing militancy of white collar employees: New York’s sky- scrapers are really prison-like factories in which the stenographers and clerks are often as ill-paid and as inhumanly treated as factory workers. The eleven men and women who defied Macaulay showed a fighting spirit which will have an effect on thousands of other city workers. { But it also seems to me that the participation of writers in this activity has a unique significance—and indicates directives for fur- ther_activity which should be considered and followed up. Of course authors have been on picket lines in other cases; but in the Macaulay strike their presence was not strictly as sympathizers, but in a pro- fessional capacity dealing with conditions in their own field. Another important point is the varied composition of this picket-line, involving people of such different points of view as Dashiell Hammett, Malcolm Cowley, Tess Slesinger. More than two dozen writers rallied eagerly and quickly to sup- port-the Macaulay workers. Many more were ready to respond if the strike-had continued. This shows a very real sense of responsibility on the part of authors, when issues concerned with their own occupation are involved. A great deal can be accomplished by writers: the Macaulay situa- tion showed the effectiveness of action and pressure by a compara- tively small group. Similar pressure on a somewhat larger scale might be of great further use in assisting workers to organize for recogni- tion and decent conditions. This applies not only to the narrow field of publishing, but to many other fields in which the writer's prestige and special qualifications give him influence: offices of magazines, motion picture companies, booking offices, film exchanges. Great numbers of white collar workers are exploited in these en- terprises; the Macaulay victory will undoubtedly exert a powerful in- fluence in extending the organization of the Office Workers’ Union. Thus the continued and increasing solidarity of authors with their fellow workers’can become a big factor in winning the rights of em- ployees in a whole network of offices. Capitalist Propaganda Becomes Louder and Cruder Y igo is another way in which writers who are aware of the matur- ‘tng crisis can exert their influence; they can be active in fighting andvexposing the flood of lying ruling class propaganda which issues from books, magazines, newspapers, movies, the theatre, the radio. The large-scale literary output of the United States, is of course, en- tirely supported by finance capital. As capitalism becomes more des- perate and more insanely brutal in its efforts to maintain itself, it goes without saying that the organs of capitalist propaganda become louder and cruder. The present year will see a big increase in rank chauvinism and slimy Fascism. The movies will redouble their slan- ders against the working class. Magazines and newspapers (and books) will whip up the-red scare; oily voices over the radio will plead fr dictatorship. ~The Saturday Evening Post has already printed an article which openly praises the “orderliness” and “charm” of Hitler’s bloody regime. I am told that Liberty, which competes with the Saturday Evening Post for the honor of being the most reactionary and most moronic periodical in America, is about to publish a serial depicting the juicy horrors of a coming war between the United States and Japan. This story (specially ordered by the editors and cut to their mea- syre by a high-priced hack) starts with the Japanese blowing up a ship in the middle of the Panama Canal, thus block the canal at a time when the American fleet is maneuvering in Atlantic waters and leaving the Pacific open to attack. Thus Liberty does its bit to prove that we must arm to the teeth and additional millions must be spent on war preparations. * A Task for Honest Writers (ONEST writers can do a great deal toward showing up this sort of propaganda. One can’t expect to stop the filthy lies which come from. all the organs of capitalist publicity—because the spreading of lies is the sole real function for which the movies and magazines and the radio exist—but a militant fight can accomplish a lot in exposing, limiting and counter-acting the lies, I am sure an increasing number of authors are beginning to see the necessity of taking part in such a fight. I don’t wish to appear foolishly optimistic. A majority of writers are certainly going to stick to their flesh-pots and ivory towers, grate- ful for the sheltered prostitution which Capitalism offers them. But there are others (and these are necessarily the more intelligent and the more talented) who gradually realize that the revolutionary path is the enly path open to the intellectual who dares te use his eyes and his brains. This is often a difficult decision for the confused intel- lectual—it means a bitter fight with himself and his own confusion. Many writers are honest enough to make this fight—and to accept the militant discipline of Communism. These have serious tasks; it seéms to me one of these tasks is to exert a militant influence on their own profession, and in those industries to which they sell their services. ‘The Macaulay walk-out suggested the effectiveness of such action. Fur- ther organization and activity seem to be needed. * * John Reed Clubs Must Lead the Cultural Front THIS connection, one would suppose that the John Reed Clubs °'sH6uld exercise a far wider influence than they at present possess. Tei hot sufficiently familiar with the structure and organization of the John Reed Clubs to discuss them intelligently. But, being the American section of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers, it seems clear that these clubs should lead the cultural front in the class struggle. It seems equally clear that, although the John Reed Clubs are active in the struggle, it cannot be said that they furnish adequate leadership or that they represent a solid front of revolu- tionary wrifers. I don’t know where the fault lies. It is partly due to the fact t) at many left-wing authors are not members; others have joined pe inctorily but take no active part in the clubs’ work. Ine auveness and vigor of the John Reed Clubs is demonstrated inthe magazines which they publish. Partisan Review, issued by the NéW York club, strikes me as being of extraordinary value. The stories if! the last issue, by John Wexley, Edward Newhouse, Barney Conal atid Arthur Pense, are exciting creative material; for that matter, so is everything else in the magazine. Partisan Review is an important contribution to revolutionary culture. I don’t know what its circula- tion may be, but I feel sure it should have a ten times wider circulation. +) The writer who wishes to serve the working class must, of course, uihesitatingly enter the class struggle. The only way in which he can Write intelligently about the world around him is to take part in the life-and-death fight in which the future of the world is being decided. One phase of this struggle relates to the writer’s special field; he must stand shoulder-to-shoulder with other workers; he must fight the forces of reaction and Fascism which degrade profession. In fac- kos these problems, organization and contact among writers ought to Sead value: isn’t this the essential function of the John Reed * EB] __ In response to Michael Gold's plea for help’ for the Irish Workers’ Voice, M. Vetch, of the Pen and Hammer, has sent a $1.00, and we E.L. _ Of Cleveland, has sent in fifty-cents, ee og 1 RRR ONE abr \ y What’s Doing in The John Reed | Clubs of U.S. | By ALAN CALMER In the Thaelmann Campaign 'HE Philadelphia John Reed Club | is active in the ‘Thaelmann | |campaign. A resolution by the club |} | Which was sent to Hans Luther was | | printed in the Philadelphia Record. | Members of the club were arrested for picketing the German Consu. |late. A “Free Thaelmann” meet- |ing was held recently, and stories poems, etc, on German Fascism | were read on this occasion. Members of the Boston club have also picketed the local consulate. A mass meeting was held at the clubroom with Eugene Gordon, leading Negro writer, as the main | speaker. At the Indianapolis J.R.C., William Galatsky, secretary of the Chicago Committee to Aid the Vic- tims of German Fascism, addressed a large crowd on Thaelmann. John Reed Macazines 'HE second issue of The Cauldron organ of the Grand Rapids John Reed Club, has just appeared. It is an excellent illustration of how ef- fective a local publication can be— if it puts its emphasis on local prob- lems. The first number contained @ survey of the Grand Rapids fur- niture industry. The leading article in this issue deals with a recent case in the city in which workers protesting against a cut in relief were arrested. The article is not written in an ordinary fashion, but is a breezy piece of reporting, with dialogue and description. The club joined in petitioning the governor for the release of the prisoners, and the Grand Rapids Press featured the story. A biographical sketch of David C. DeJong, a resident of Grand Rapids and author of the novel, “Belly Fulla Straw,” is also included in the magazine; the ar- ticle is written by DeJong’s brother. edits The Hammer, a mimeographed magazine. The current issue con- tains a piece of revolutionary in- trospection, “Spring Night in Hart- ford,” by Miriam Clark, an analy- sis of recent strikes in the city, and movie reviews. New issues of Left Front, organ of the Midwest John Reed Clubs; Left Review of the Philadelphia J.R.C., Partisan Review of the New York club, as well as of Blast and Dyna- mo, have just appeared. They will be reviewed on this page. Indianapolis Club Starting Library TT Indianapolis J.R.C. is estab- lishing a circulating library. Its librarian pleads for contributions of suitable books: “I am sure a lot of people have such books idle in their bookcase doing no one any good; we'll guarantee to put them to good~use.” Contributions should be sent to John Reed Club, 318 Co- lumbia Securities Bldg., 143 E. Ohio St., Indianapolis, Ind. The club will gladly pay the postage. Recent lectures at the club— which boasts of the only regular forum in the city—include Joseph Friend on “The Novels of Dos Pas- sos,” Warren C. Huddlestone on “Culture and the Profit Motive,” and R. B. Davis on the Economic Crisis. The club has just started a 12-week study course in Marxism. fea) Negro Intellectuals in Cleveland J.B. C. Cleveland club has been suc- cessful in winning Negro intel- lectuals, students, and professionals to the revolutionary movement. Members of the local Negro drama groups and publications are joining the J.R.C. The club has put most of its stress on mass work. Like many clubs in the “provinces,” the J.R.C, has served largely as a means of drawing white-collar elements into active revolutionary work. Its members help to edit shop papers. Individuals in the club prepared a manual for leafiets that is very ser- viceable to the whole revolutionary movement (the Indianapolis J.R.C. has also done excellent work in conceiving of simple, but effective devices for mass leaflets). A mural project for a workers’ center in Cleveland is under the di- rection of B. Limbach, well-known revolutionary artist, who painted the first murals for the Joint Coun- cil of Industrial Unions and Hun- garian Workers Center in Cleve- land. Chix bee Chicago Club Holds New Elections Re WRIGHT, young Negro poet, has just been elected ex- ecutive secretary of the Chicago John Reed Club. Morris Merlin, on the art staff of Left Front, is the new organizational secretary. Edith Margo, who has contributed a se- ries of sketches entitled “The South Side Sees Red,” is secretary of the writers’ group. Recent activities of the club in- clude the following: An art exhibi- tion will be held on Chicago's South Side; this is an effort to draw in Negro artists and writers. A dele- gate was sent to the No-Jury Art Society to aid in formulating plans for a housing project for artists. Plans for artists’ and writers’ schools are going ahead. A defense committee has been elected to work in behalf of Jan Wittenber, a Chi- cago J.R.C. member, who was ar- rested in Southern Illinois and is on a hunger strike in prison. Plans are being made for an art exhibi- tion and unity ball to aid the LL.D. in its defense work. Detroit Dramatic Group Active dramatic group of the J.R.C. has been formed into a “Theatre of Action.” It holds classes in act- ing, as well as in the political sig- nificance of the theatre. It has performed regularly before audi- ences of the Ford Local of the Auto Workers Union, etc. The club participates in cultural events at the local Workers Camp, contributing drama and dance pre- sentations, and discussions on sub- jects appearing in the revolution- ary press. A literary class, to which outsiders are invited, has been formed. American literature from a Marxian viewpoint is the subject for study. ietee eect | Hollywood Club Members at Work [ARRY CARLISLE, authcr of In Hartford, a small J.R.C. group | Workers, Cry Out Free Thaelmann By FANYA FOSS “Nice day, today,” the butcher smiles, running the red meat through the grinder, “a little warm, still a nice day,” says the butcher, wrapping the cheap cut in a small brown bag. DO YOU KNOW THEY’RE KILLING THAEBLMANN? beating his flesh, grinding his body | as you grind the meat, till it streams his red tortured blood. do you know they are killing ‘Thaelmann? “20 cents, please,” says the butcher, “a very nice day.” “Pretty flowers,” calls the huckster, “lilacs, cheap, and snake-leaf plants, but nothing under 50 cents.” DO YOU KNOW THEY’RE KILLING THAELMANN? twisting whips around his body as sharp as the edge of your snake plant, beating his skin purple as your lilac, still he utters no complaint. “Pretty flowers,” calls the huckster, “tulips, pansies, red rose plants.” | “Rooms to rent,” the landlord says, sitting in the warm noon sun. “apartments are much cheaper if five people squeeze in one.” DO YOU KNOW THEY’RE KILLING THAELMANN? that he’s rotting in his cell, | in a deep, damp hole he’s waiting... | Do you know they’re killing Thaelmann? | “Reduction, all improvements, heating,” | says the landlord in the sun. | LISTEN, WORKERS, THIS IS YOUR BATTLE! | Thaelmann’s fighting for his life and yours! | They who withhold this world from you Are killing THAELMANN—Killing you. THAELMANN ... who is part of you, part of your WILL, part of your LIFE! WORKERS, FREE HIM. “Brains Behind Barbed Wire”-German Writers, Scientists Persecuted League of New York, at a special} King, Inc., New York, 1934. $2. meeting held at its headquarters. * Ha * The Film and Photo League, Reviewed by |made up of amateur and profes- SI GERSON sional workers in the medium of LFRED H. KING, INC, may | raphy, decided to send a delegation | York and to picket the Consulate | | with petitions demanding the re- | arouse all sectors of the United] | joined in the League’s call for all| | of many successful plays and movies | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934 Page Fivé. ~ Sidney Howard [Novel of West Point | Urges Fight to | Free Thaelmann' NEW YORK. — I Immediate en- trance into the world-wide fight to free Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the German working class, from the Trends in Life Reflee ts Social U.S. Today clutches of Nazidom, was the unani- # ae mous decision of the general mem-|TIN SOLDIERS, by Robert Wohl- bership of the Film and Photo| forth. Published by Alfred H still and motion picture photog-| . = us designed “Tin Soldiers” for summer resort and drug store tr: but they did not prev |Robert Wohilforth some genuine social criticism West Point novels are a a ways the story of the poor boy fro down East, who enters the A emy, thrills to the parades and 21- gun salutes, graduates with h |Probably a football hero, receives | his commission in the army and the to the German Consulate in New) lease of Thaelmann. The League will immed iy begin work on a | film that {ay be used widely to | States to join in the struggle to| liberate Thaeimann. Sidney Howard, world famous | playwright and scenario writer and member of the National Committee | ; of the Film and Photo League, | ‘Wohlforth, however, has done something totally different. Not | only has he accomplished a neat }and unobtrusive job of debunking the gray-stoned castle on the Hud- son, but he has indicated some of the social basis of West Point, some of its whys and wherefores, workers in the movie and theatre industry to wire the German Con-|} sulate, the German Embassy in| Washington and Chancellor Adolph | Hitler, demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann. Howard, author and adaptor of Sinclair Lewis’|wititary Academy, as any grad ; rade “Dodsworth,” concluded the appeal | school boy can tell you, is to pro- with the following: m |duce officers for the United States ‘Oppression, in whatever na or | Army. General U. 8S. Grant, Black- it appears, is the concern of all | jack Pershing and Douglas McAr- humanity. Thaelmann’s confine- | {pyr (the Bonus Marchers will re- ment in a Nazi gaol is a stigm@ | cal] him) all are West Point prod- upon all men and women who | ucts, nd this is precisely its social, give more than lip service to the / function—to produce a corps of men ideas of freedom and justice.’ | drawn mainly from the upper mid- dle class to whip the worker and farmer soldier masses into those 7 ‘ IN military actions that the Wall Street Washington government feels are necessary. While formally the Academy is open to all qualified citizens, actu- 1 M.-WEAF—Baseball Results : rt ¢ a 00 lal wo Resume—Ford Frick | ally, as Wholforth indicates, by a WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch process of tacit selection, the most WABC—Music in Mental — desirable officer material are chosen. atk Sate Ae NOR aeeich Desirable officers are people, of rie WOR—Comedy; Music course, who think little, are not WJZ—Ed Lowry, Let niga me over - sensitive, have some social WABC—Just Plain Bil etic ali i 7:30-WEAF—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio ie casiad and are NOL Negroes WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield or Jews. “ ‘WJZ—From Geneva; Talk—Dr. W.A. Wholforth, referring to Le Pere, Riddell, Canadian Delegate to La-/ the one Negro student, writes with wor jCanterence Grataers feeling of the position of the col- 1:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketeh WOR—The O’Neills—Sketch ored cadet: “He went down the iron stairs, inevitable beautiful girl along with lt XL BALANCE SHEET OF HITLER FASCISM 'UCH are the fates of 21 intellec- tual workers. This constitutes only a tiny drop in the ocean of misery being suffered by thousands of other intellectual workers and a hundred thousand workers “of the fist,” in the concentration camps of Hitler Germany. 100,000 victims in the concen- tration camps. 1,400 murdered victims 16 executed by decapita- tion. Decapitation—their heads chopped off according to the new German manner preferred by the Nazis: the axe does not strike the back of the neck, but falls in front, cleaves from the throat back. Four decapitated on one morning in Hamburg. Six decapitated on one morning in Cologne. The youngest of them was 21, and the “oldest” —28. Sixty additional sentences of death have been handed down. Six- ty young German workers await the hour when Hitler’s executioner’s axe shall flash past their eyes into their throat. For one Nazi slain in self-defense the Nazis exact not one, not two, not five—but ten death sentences in_ revenge. No end to the concentration camps. No end to the torments. No end.to “shot while trying to es- cape.” No end to the legalized mur- ders. On the contrary, the more des- perate the situation becomes for the Nazi regime, the more bestially does it command that heads shall roll in the sand. Bas ee WHAT SHALL WE DO? new that your attention has been drawn to the situation in Ger- many, you, the reader, may turn to z on the question: What shall we lo? dealing with the labor movement in England, is working on a second novel. Grace Clements, who has ex- hibited at the California Legion of Honor and the Los Angeles Muse- um, has contributed sketches to re- cent issues of the New Masses. Lo- ren Miller, Negro writer, who has travelled in the Soviet Union, is at work on a book on Negro culture. New York Club. Discusses Ben Field’s Farm Sketches ou of the most interesting meet- ings of the writers’ group in New York took place recently. At this meeting a bookful of farm sketches by Ben Field was dis- cussed. The manuscript had been read by a number of members be- fore the meeting. Field opened the evening with an exvlanation of key passages in the volume, in order to indicate the development of his point of view toward his agrarian subject-matter. The book is divided into three sections, and progresses from rather aloof sketches to pieces showing the revolutionary role of the farmers. Many of these sketches have appeared in the liberal and revolutionary press. Walter Snow presented a lengthy report on the volume; Sender Garlin, Wallace Phelps, and others also contributed pertinent criticism. The book is a mixture of literary reportage together with personal comments on the revolutionary de- velopment of the author, as well as directly agitational material em- bodying the demands of the revolu- tionary farmer. It was pointed out that the book would have to be carved into some kind of a unified whole in order to be effective. Field’s agrarian figures of speech came in for criticism. The author is leaving for the Soviet Union, where he will work on the collec- Is all that which has been going on in Germany for more than a year a purely German affair which has nothing to do with the social structure of other countries, which is essentially alien and impossible for other countries? The official statesmen, the poli- ticians, and legislators of your countries take the same attitude on the question of fascism as they take on the question of war; they exert themselves to prove that neither war nor fascism are part and par- cel of a bourgeois social system— the social system which exists not only in Germany, but in all the big western democracies. The stench of decay is given off too distinctly by war and fascism, they are too obviously embodiments of barbarism, for any democratic politician to dare not to dissociate himself from them at the moment. On the first page of our little book we touched the question of whether the events in Germany might not tomorrow or day after tomorrow be repeated—on your own persons, on your own works of lit- erature, art, and science. Tua res agitur—your own case is concerned when you work in behalf of the German intellectual workers who have been persecuted, tor- mented, driven to suicide, by fas- cism; and when you work for all those who, in spite of the brutal terror, fight on against that fas- cism, . OW should you fight against fas. cism in your own country? That is a question which cannot be an- swered here, since it goes beyond the boundaries of the definite aims we have set for. ourselves in this booklet—to help our friends in Ger- many, What can you, should you, do for them? Be sure that your voice has an echo and your name a weight in Fascist Germany. Give up your si- lence, your passivity in political af- fairs—use the sole weapon which you have, the weapon of the word. Use it where is it effective and where it cannot be denied you. The saying “Whoever holds his peace shares the guilt” is well-worn. But it is true! It was never so true as it is today! What can one protesting voice ac- complish? Or ten? Not very much. Hundred, thousand, hundred thou- sand, mean more. Do you think that the Nazis would have permitted Dimitroff to use the Leipzig court- room for three months as his own accuser’s rostrum, had they not felt on them the pressure of these thou- sands, millions of voices? Write—wherever a piece of print- able paper is at your disposal! Speak—wherever you possess for a moment the attention of people! Protest— wherever you get to- gether with professional colleagues from Nazi Germany! Demand an accounting from the official representatives of the new Germany who are so brazen as to appear at international congresses and conventions. And not least: Try to get in touch with our tortured brothers and assure them of our sympathy by encouraging them: Look—your fight, our fight, is going on! Gather funds! Not one writer or journalist. living in Germany can earn a cent unless he “Hitlerizes” himself completely. Our friends are slowly starving. Gather funds and send them! With the money you will help not only their phys- ical existence—with the money you send you will help to build up and spread the underground anti-fas- cist literature. Don’t let the itmelsip. .gg Don’t let the time slip by unused. The fight against fascism is the fight for your own intellectual ex- istence, the fight for culture, for ee. WJZ—Lopez Orchestra WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orchestra; Soloists WOR—Symphony Orch.; Lucille Col- lette, Violin and Piano WJZ—Grits and Gravy—Sketch WABC—Rich Orchestra 8:15-WOR—Rod and Gun Club WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:30-WOR—New York Philharmonic-Sym- phony Orch. at Lewisohn Stadium, Jose Iturbi, Conductor WJZ—Gale Page, Songs WABC—Drama—Twenty Crowded Years (Review of World Events Since 1914) 8:45-WJZ—Igor Gorin, Baritone 9:00-WEAF—Captain Henry's Show Boat ‘WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch 9:30-WJZ—Goldman Band Concert, New York University Campus ‘WABC—Waring Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman Orchestra ‘WJZ—Canadian Concert WABC—Conflict——Dramatic Sketch 10:15-WABO—Fray and Braggiott!, Piano 10:30-WOR—The Witch’s Tale WJZ—Father Finn's Choristers WABC—Evan Evans, Baritone 10:45-WABC—Future of the American Na- tion—Senator William G. McAdoo of California 11:00-WEAF—Your Lover, Songs WOR—Weather; Dance Orchestra ‘WJZ—Cavaliers Quartet WABO—Vera Van, Contralto WHAT’S ON Thursday DANCE-Farewell Party to active mem- bers of F.S.U. going to Soviet Union. Speakers. Gertrude Hutchinson and Susan Woodruff at Irving Plaza, 8:30. Excellent entertainment. Delicious refreshments. | Valhalla Club Orchestra for dancing. SOVIET CHINA—Discussion on current events led by John Phillips at Friends of Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd St. Room 12, Adm. free. A NEW BRANCH of the I.W.O. is be- ing organized at Dr. Wm. Ovstrich’s of- fice, 843 E. 172nd St. near Boston Road tonight 9 p.m. All interested in being charter members should come to that of- fice. MASS MEETING Against War and Fas- cism, 8 p.m., 4 W. 18th St. Prominent speakers. Added feature: Stirring motion picture, May Day Demonstration. Auspices Cafeteria Workers Comm. Against War and Fascism. PRESS LEAGUE has arranged very im- portant meeting, ‘Reporters’ Fight to Tell the Truth” tonight 8:30 at Manhattan Trade School Auditorium, 129 E. 22nd St. Speakers: Hiram Motherwell, Harry Ray- mond and Frank Palmer. BENEFIT Showing Experi- mental sound and narrative film, “Who Shall Inherit the Earth,” at 12 E. 17th St., 11:30 p.m. Adm. 25c. MEETING Film and Photo League, Film Section, 8 p.m. sharp. DISCUSSION on press censorship at short membership meeting Mt. Eden Br. F.8.U., 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx, 8:30. MASS MEETING Against War and Fas- cism tonight, 8 p.m. at Public School 210, Rochester Ave. and Park Place, Brooklyn. Speakers: Rabbi Bokser, Dorothy McCon- nell and Mrs. Shavelson. DO NOT Make Any Engagements for July 4 if you do not want to miss the annual picnic of the Communist Party, N. Y. District to be held at North Beach Picnic Park, Astoria, L. I. Sports, games, theatre, dancing. Lots of fun. WORKERS BOOK SHOP, 20-50 per cent Discount Sale ends July 7, Saturday. Take advantage now. Write for catalogue. Join circulating brary at 50 E. 13th St. Many specials available. OPEN MEMBERSHIP MEETING Tom Mooney Br. T.L.D. at 311 E. 12th St., 8:15 p.m. Carl Hauptman will speak on 9 Years Mass Defense. Also other speak- ers, entertainment. Refreshments. Admis- sion free. Friday PAGEANT and Mass Meeting in celebra- tion Ninth Anniversary International La- bor Defense at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St, 8 pm. Film of Sacco-Vanzetti wili be shown. Speakers: Allen Taub, Joseph Brodsky, F. Biedenkapp, John Howard Lawson, James Ford. Adm. léc, BUILD a Telegraph Messengers Union. Attend en masse gala dance-entertainmént Friday, June 29, at Office Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St., 8:15 p.m. Adm, 25 cents. Tickets at O.W.U. and Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. ORIENTAL NIGHT, Entertainment and Dance, Chinese music, boxing, Japanese folk dance, songs. Speakers on Chinese Revolution. Also jazz band. Auspices, Chinese Workers Center. Will be held at 22 W. 17th St., 8 p.m, Subscription 25c. Saturday GALA SPORT Dance given by Boro Park Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave., Brooklyn. To be held at Pythian Hall, 2864 W. 2ist St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. N.P.G. Dance Orchestr®. Refreshments. Entertainment. Adm. 45c. DAILY WORKER Section 15 C.P. Con- cert-Dance (Roof Garden-Open Air) at Bronx House, 1637 Washington Ave. near 17and° St. 8:30 p.m. Auspices, Sect. 15 Daily Worker Office. Sunday PICNIC of Bronx Workers Clubs, Pleas- ant Bay Park Sunday, July 1, In ad- vance 15c. At gate 25c. Tickets at Pros- pect, Bronx, Jerome, Allerton, Middle tives and write about the Soviet “Darkness at Noon” a novel farmer, humanity. (THE END) .\ crossed the area and out through a sallyport. Girls and cadets were walking, laughing together. Maybe | they were laughing at him, maybe they were too mad to laugh. A nigger at West Point! Why I | didn’t know they let niggers in | West Point! Oh, sure, it’s a gov- | ernment school. Everybody pays | for it in his taxes. Niggers, too.” | IN SOLDIERS” is cast in a not unusual mold. A group of ca- dets are followed through the course | of their four years. The group is, we feel, an authentic one. John class boy, ot too stu- the big Italian ed the ce of his Cedric, on of a military must become an iddle ng go through the sense- pline year after year, get attering of mi nimum of —heavy doses s and regulae eticism is the The function of the United States | *” version SE is found. speak: f t making of his novel 'HE roar of the Toledo and Mine neapolis class battles make themselves heard even behind the turreted walls. Emil Kranz, the All-American back, discovers among fan mail a letter from an aunt of his, telling him that: “Military men, Emil, have only this one function in the modern world: to defend the vested in- terests. Some day you may find yourself aligned against the work- ers, and, perhaps, shooting them down in cold blood. In my young er days I once witnessed this done by the National Guard.” The boys discuss the aunt’s let- ter. Some of them object. The old dame is nutty, they insist. Others defend her. “All right, have it your way,” said Art. “Some day it'll be the way your aunt says. We'll wake up and find out what’s going on. We'll find out they’ve sold us pa- triotism so that we'll be the white hopes for Wall Street, just uni- formed gangsters collecting the interest. Stiff-necked men of the Washing- ton army clique will not like this, In fact, Mr. Wolhforth may be at- tacked as a Red very soon, unless we miss our guess. But discerning workers will see in “Tin Soldiers” & reflection of some of the social cur- rents in the country, currents that cannot be deflected even by the walls of the mightiest citadel of American imperialism. “Samson. and Dalila’ At The} Stadium Friday The first opera performance | scheduled for this season at the Stadium, Saint-Saens’ “Samson and Dalila,” will be presented on Fri- day and Saturday night under the direction of Alexander Smallens. Paul Althouse, Margaret Metze- nauer, Alfredo Gandolfi and Louis D'Angelo will sing the chief roles. The Metropolitan Chorus and Bal-| let, the latter headed by Rita De! Theatre. STAGE AND SCREEN Leporte and Arthur Mahoney, wiil | take part. Symphonic programs for the bal« ance of the week, under the direc- tion of Jose Iturbi, follow: Tonight, “Scheherazade,” Rimsky-Korsakoff, Pavane Pour Une Enfante Defunte, Ravel, Dans les Steppes d’Asie and the Polovetzian Dances from “Prince Igor” by Borodin; Sunday evening, “Pathetique” Symphony, Tchaivove sky, Prelude and Love Death from istan and Isolde” and Prelude “Die Meistersinger” by Wagner, to < THE RED ARMY ON GUARD Scene from the 1934 May Day Parade, a feature of the new Soviet picture “In the Land of The Soviets,’ now showing at the Acme AMUSE MENTS AMKIN: ’S First American Showing! IN THE LAND OF THE SOVIETS-1934 See | COMPLETE MOSCOW MAY DAY and | KOLKHOZ (Life on Cooperatives); CHELYUSKIN EXPEDITION; MOS- }~ H. COW 1934; STALINGRAD and GORKI Plants; SNOW and ICE CAR- |- ear | NIvat, ete., ete. 14th STREET and r x ACME THEATRE yion square NOW te AVANTA FARM Ulster Park, N. Y. Workers resting place. Good food. Q asa ae $12 per week; $2 per 0 A. M. Boat to Poughkeepsie. 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