The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 29, 1934, Page 5

By | CHANGE | —— TF HE— WORLD! OAKLEY JOHNSON N\HE New York Evening Journal has found space in re- cent issues—along with Max Baer’s “Life & Loves” and Sheila Graham’s “Do Sailors Make Good Husbands”— for a series of articles on the condition of our public schools during the crisis. With a great show of indignation the TJournal’s education expert, Marguerite Mooers Marshall, makes some teresting admissions: “Salaries are cut, and cut again with payless furloughs. New ppointments are not made, because using ‘substitute’ teachers saves eney. Classes are overcrowded, because that’s even cheaper than hiring a substitute teacher. Appropriations for services and supplies y é are slashed, so that the teachers must do their work with inadequate materials, or, as often happens, use their own money to supply deficiencies. “Along with the skimping goes the sniping—somebody Seaver popping up to blame the teachers. They ate branded as ‘selfish’ for protesting against more pay cuts. One eminent medical authority talls them ‘crackpots.’ An indignant he-man denounces the ‘socially unjust’ practice of paying women teachers as much as men. “The Board of Aldermen wants to fire every teacher who com- mits the crime of living outside the five boroughs.” The thousands of half-hopeful teachers who seized upon this be- lated recognition of “problems” in the school system must be excused if they were a bit disappointed at the lack of statistical concreteness in the setting forth of the situation. But the situation was at least brought to the surface. The Journal went so far as to demand edi- torHall¥ that “physical examination of public school pupils must go on’ regardless of economy, for the “health of children cannot be sacrificed.” Many over-worked and under-paid teachers, and many unem- ployed. ones, must have thought, despite past experience with Hearst demagogy, that now at last a good many facts would be aired that had brought no response but firings and police clubs to those who had tried to air them before. Besides, Mr. William Randolph Hearst, in his announcement to his stockholders on June 15, proudly declared that the Hearst Publications had made a profit of $3.45 per share on 2,000,- 000 preferred shares which was “particularly gratifying in view of the economic chaos ... bank failures, unemployment,” etc. Perhaps Mr. Hearst, himself so fortunate during the crisis, would be just the man to tell the world what to do with the schools. . . * How ts Do Business and Make Money chief accomplishments of our school system, it seems, are the “free courses in Home-making” (including “home-making classes for men”) dress-making classes for prospective brides (“dresses of Swiss organdie, with a color scheme ranging from peach to lavender, each dress a reproduction of a Patou model”), instruction in the use of the “new leisure” (the graduates especially must be prepared for “Jeisure,” though most of them would prefer jobs), and encourage- ment of “thrift.” The latter is especially played up by the Journal, which, ignoring the fact that it was the bankers who forced upon New York City schools the “economy” that it condemns, complacently states that 56 banks are “lined up” to accept children’s savings, thus giving the children “valuable training in economics.” Another article describes the Metropclitan Junior Achievement or- ganizations, designed for young people of school age “to show them how to do business and make money”; the Journal does not mention that the petty business training thus received would not, according to the Darrow report, fare particularly well under an N.R.A. big-business regime. Neither do the pictures of school children holding aloft “Pledge cards supporting N.R.A. Drive” say anything about the Darrow report. ‘When we compare these slight “accomplishments” with the actual failures in education—the 3,500,000 school-less children in the United States, a fact which the Journal itself vouches for, and the statement it quotes (June 14) from Commissioner of Education George F. Zook in regard to the 3,000,000 youths from the ages of 18 to 20 who are out of work, that “This situation is bad for boys and girls’—when we make even the most casual comparison of this sort we are likely to be nause- ated by Hearst logic. “Ours to endure,” the Journal quotes approv- ingly from some teacher who “resents” being called “crackpot” (though her willingness to endure makes her a deserving target for several epithets!). “Don’t Cheapen Your Husband’s Dignity!” exclaims Mar- guerite Mooers Marshall, cheapening even a poor series on schools by an article not even remotely related to education. Some of the com- ment is pedagogically vicious, as in “Law Hampers Teachers in ‘Gang- stexs’ Nursery’,” “Corporal Punishment Forbidden by Law.” “Bitterest Sting of Poverty Is Refusal to Adapt Self to Limita- tions” says the well-known Hearst philosopher, Dorothy Dix, as advice to college girls. “Though you stood at the top in your classes, You must start at the bottom now,” carols the clairvoyant Hearst poet-laureate, Edgar A. Guest, address- ing college men, (Poetic license? or just freedom of the press?) ... The 250,000 American boy and girl tramps—‘many from New York City,” the Journal confesses, coyly (June 19)—are starting at the bottom all right, and adapting themselves to such minor limitations as having no job, no home, and no chance in life... . . * . Student Peace Strike Called “Partisan Propaganda” \ ea of all is the Hearst war propaganda inserted as a part of profound educational discussion. After quoting Zook about how bad it is to have unemployment and lack of schools, the Journal goes on to demand “that American youth be given an opportunity to train with the colors for national citizenship in citizens’ military training camps.” Editorially the Journal exults (May 25) because “airplane equipment for city schools is to be provided by the Army and Navy.” A characteristic headline says of the fleet which recently propagan- dized New York, “A Fine Navy, But 101 Ships More Are Required.” The chief objection to overcrowded classes seems to be that under such conditions it is harder to teach patriotism! ‘When students at the James Monroe High School asked the prin- cipal, Dr. Henry Heim, if he would close school for one hour so the student body could participate as a whole in the nation-wide student peace strike on April 13, he refused on the ground that the strike was partisan propaganda. When they then said, according to his own account in the Journal’s articles, “Let us have a speech for peace at that hour in every classroom,” he said it would disrupt the school work, and tried to palm off on the students an elocution-drilled censored student-speech over the school radio. . . * Those Troublesome Reds! ONE of Marguerite Mooers Marshall’s brightest passages we find that in a certain school “the right sort of internationalism—not po- litical, but an internationalism of culture,” is taught. Indeed, any sort of internationalism beyond a knowledge of flowers and pottery is quite definitely taught against. To decry internationalism is of course not Propaganda, in ‘he Journal’s preferred-stock philosophy. “Reds Sub- dued by Teachers” says one non-partisan headline. “‘Red’ Teachers Face Ouster in Warning from Campbell” says another. , +++ It begins to be clear at last. These articles aren't published to help the schools, the teachers, or the pupils, for they do none of these things. They're written to attack Communists, who dare to pro- test against the conditions which the Journal, after teacher-student demonstrations have grown in size and frequency, is forced to admit (though it covers up the admissions with sentiment and idle talk). “The Reds Again, Ho-Hum,” says the Journal editorially, remark- ing with elaborate boredom that “you can’t accuse them of lack of energy” on account of the red flag which waved from the flagpole in Madison Sq. for some hours. But, says the Journal, “we don’t see why they keep it up.” Nonetheless, “Communistically-inclined youngsters + .. tty to turn a history or civics class into a Communist debating society by controversial statements or questions.” Yes, there’s “a small but mischief-making percentage of teachers,” despite the fact that teachers have to take an oath of allegiance; and a few “boy and girl agitators” are “extremely troublesomte.” They're always a “small minority,” you know. But so troublesome! ... The Journal is not very educational even when it writes about education, but it's educational to contrast the new low of its content with the continued high of its income, both against a W. R. Hearst- R. M. Easley-Hamilton Fish background of demagogic political reaction, 2) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934 SIX NEW ANTI-HITLER LEAFLETS “Strike 2 Blow Against Fas- cism in Germany—Free Thael- mann” is a large four-page leaf- let which contains the call to action and program of tasks for the national campaign. It con- tains a picture of Thaelmann and should be widely distributed. Price: $5 per thousand, “Fascist and Nazi Activities in America Exposed” is a four-page leaflet which tells about Ameri- can fascists and Hitler agents in this country and how they are connected, Price: 50 cents a hundred, $3.50 a thousand. “The Man Behind Hitler” is a four-page leaflet which proves that Hitler is the agent of the rich barons of industry who for years have contributed millions of marks to his campaign funds. Price: 50 cents a hundred, $3.50 a thousand, “Who's Who In Nazidom” is a four-page leaflet exposing the Nazi leaders of Germany. Price: 50 cents a hundred, $3.50 a thou- sand. “Nazi Plague Spots of Europe” tells how the fascists of Ger- many are worming their way into many European countries for the purpose of encouraging fascism. Price: 50 cents a hun- dred, $3.50 a thousand. “Nazis Make Charges But What Are The Facts” exposes anti-Semitic propaganda of the Nazis in this country, and an- Swers the charge made by Hitler agents that there are no atroci- ties committed in Germany. Price: 50 cents a hundred, $3.50 @ thousand, These leaflets should be on hand at every meeting, should be distributed in shops and neighborhoods. They can easily be sold for one cent each, pro- ceeds to go to furthering the Free Thaelmann campaign. Writers’ Union Expels Robert Whitcomb for Disruptive Activities NEW YORK—All worker's’ groups and intellectuals are warned, in a Statement of the Executive Com- mittee of the Writers’ Union, that Robert Whitcomb has been expelled from the organization for disruptive activities, and for making connec- tions with a Fascist group in the name of the Writers’ Union. Whitcomb was recently expelled York for similar acts of disruption, The full statement of the Writers’ Union follows: “The Executive Committee of the Writers’ Union. (Unemployed Writ- ers’ Association) announces the expulsion of Robert Whitcomb, ‘The reasons for this action are that in spite of a resolution of the com- mittee not to be in any way con- nected with the National Writers’ Club, a Fascist organization, Rob- ert Whitcomb is trying to ignore the action of the committee by keeping in touch with MacNichol of the National Writers’ Club, who Openly solicits funds ‘to care for newer writers of talent, since so many influenced by radical associa- tions, tend to become spokesmen for subversive propaganda” The Executive Committee voted to sus- pend all activities until Fall, and Whitcomb has taken the oppor- tunistic step of representing him- self as the Writers’ Union, calling 3 conference of writers, which Mac- Nichol attended, without the knowl- edge of the Executive Committee or the membership of the Writers’ Union. He also maneuvered him- Self into a position as a paid offi- cial of the organization, exhaust- ing its meagre funds. He has told numerous people of his intention to use the Writers’ Union to further his own advancement and connec- “In view of this conduct and Rob- ert Whitcomb’s expulsion from the John Reed Club of New York for disruptive activities, we wish to warn all workers’ organizations, in- tellectuals and writers that Robert Whitcomb is not authorized to speak or act for the Writers’ Union.” Executive Committee of the Writers’ Union: Gilbert Dougles, Valentine Erskine, Fanya Foss, Leon Srabian Herold, Myra Marini, John Mitchel, Fred Smilow. Smashing Broadside Against the N. R. A. NEW YORK —Short shrift is made of official optimism in The N.R.A. from Within, a smashing broadside against the New Deal, latest addition (No. 41) to the In- ternational Pamphlets series. The booklet contains the famous Darrow-Thompson report which ex- posed both the monopolistic charac- ter of the N.R.A., its fascist ten- dencies, anc its sweeping anti- labor attitude. This was the reason which compelled Mary Van Kleek to resign from the N.R.A. Labor Board. Her letter of resignation is included. vention this year. The N.R.A. from Within, costing 5 cents, can be obtained from Workers’ Book Shops, or direct from International Pamphlets, 799 Broadway, New York, i {the facts are. James Victory, Framed Negro | Relies on Mass Protest to Free Him ‘Partisan Review’ JAMES VICTORY (Drawing by Ben. Miller, John Reed Club of Detroit) By A. B. MAGIL DETROIT.—A worker since the age of 13, a participant in strike struggles, a World War Veteran who went over the top three times, @ man conscious of the persecu- tion of his people and his class— this is James Victory, 39 years old, half Negro, half Indian, now on trial here on a trumped-up charge of having slashed and robbed Mrs. Carl Kaye, southern-born white woman, on the night of May 12. Tall and lithe, he sat opposite me in the visitors’ room of that sec- tion of the county jail where the Negro prisoners are jim-crowed, and told the story of his life. When in- formed I was representing the Daily Worker, his eyes lit up. He has been a reader of the “Daily” for several years, he said, and in 1929 subscribed to it. “The Daily Worker is the best paper in the United States,” he said. “It gives you facts. That's why they try to down it. I ought to know be- cause I got some experience in Eu- rope in the war and I know what The Daily Worker tries to draw all the working class people together, and they sure are fighting for me.” Born in Florida in 1895, the sev- | from the John Reed Club of Now te of 14 children, his father a full-blooded Indian farmer, his mother a Negro who had been born in Africa and taken to this coun- try as a slave, Victory started to work at the age of 13 in the Mc- Keesport Tin Plate Mill, McKees- port, Pa. While there he took part in several strikes that won wage increases. He worked there ten years till he was drafted in 1918. He went across with the 543d En- gineers, Medical Corps, and was un- der fire on several fronts. Honor- ably discharged in 1919, he re- turned to his old job in McKeesport Several months later he went to Gary, Ind., and worked in a tin plate mill there till 1922. He worked in Toledo till 1925 when he took sick and had to spend nine months at a government hospital in Dayton, O. Victory here told how the government has been trying to cheat him out of his dis- ability pension. While in the army he had a bad case of influenza; as a result of this he developed in | 1925 tuberculosis of a gland in his neck. This was the original diag- nosis. However, in order to keep him from getting a pension, the government hospital changed the diagnosis to chronic bronchitis. Ever since, Victory has been fight- ing for his pension, but the Roose- velt government has given him no better deal than the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. pear 1926 Victory came to Detroit and worked almost continuously till his arrest, being at various times @ garage mechanic, porter, car washer and bootblack. In 1933 he again had to go to a government hospital, this time in Milwaukee. For the past six years he has | worked in the same neighborhood jand was well known to workers, as {well as white business and profes- sional people, many of whom have vouched for his excellent character. Victory was arrested in connec- | tion with a hysterical man-hunt of Negroes, organized by the Detroit police department and whipped on by the capitalist press, especially the Hearst sheet, the Detroit Times. For a time every Negro seen in a white neighborhood was arrested and many of them beaten. “I guess they have it in for the colored peo- ple,” Victory said. He was overjoyed when told of the mass protest movement to win his release that has been organized by the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. “If I get out,” he said, “I’ll work hard to build up those organizations.” He was also greatly pleased at the work being done by the Communist Party and the Daily Worker to smash the frame-up against him. He knew the splendid fight these militant organizations and the “Daily” have been making to save the Scottsboro boys and was. gratified to learn they were fighting for him, too. As I arose to go, he shook my hand warmly and said: “Tell the readers of the Daily Worker and all the working people that I appreci- ate what they’re doing for me and hope they will continue. And when I get out, I’m going to show in ac- tion that I know what it all means.” WHAT Friday DANCE-Farewell Party to active mem- bers of P.8.U. going to Soviet Union. Speakers: Gertrude Hutchinson and Busan Woodruff at Irving Plaza, 15th and Irving Place, 8:30 tonight. Excellent entertain~ ment. Delicious refreshments, Valhalla Club’ Orchestra for Dancing. ENTERTAINMENT-Dance by Scandina- vian Workers Club and Unit 420 at 2061 Lexington Ave., Harlem, 8:30, Hat check MSEARTY-DANCE at 107 McDougal _8t. Italian Workers Club, 8:30. Benefit Irish rs Voice. WERGTURE ‘by I. Granich, recently re- turned from the Soviet Union on “An American’ Engineer Looks at Soviet Rus- sia” at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor. 170th at 8:30. Adm, 10c. Auspices, Mt. Eden Br. PORCTURE by A. L. Sugarmann, 8:30, at Clarte, French Workers Club, 304 W. 58th St., “President Roosevelt. ‘vs. Working . Adm. free. CUSOTURE by Joe Gilbert on “Strike Wave in U.S.” at Rugby Youth Club, 84 E, 52nd St., Brooklyn. Adm. 10c., 8:30. PROTEST Meeting Against Fake Inde- pendence Bill for Philippines, tonight 8:30 at 240° Columbia St., Brooklyn. Speakers: E. P. Greene, Anti-Imperialist League and others. PAGEANT and Mass Meeting in celebra- tion Ninth Anniversary International La- bor Defense at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 F. 4th St. 8 p.m, Film of Sacco-Vanzetti will be shown. Speakers: Allen Taub, Joseph Brodsky, F. Biedenkapp, John Howard Lawson, James Ford. Adm. 15c. BUILD a Telegraph Messengers Union. Attend en masse gala dance-entertainment Friday, June 29, at Office Workers Union, 114 W. idth 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 25¢. 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 Orchestra. Refreshments. Entertainment. Adm. 45c. DAILY WORKER Section 15 C.P. Con- cert-Dance (Roof Garden-Open Air) at Bronx House, 1637 Washington Ave. near 172nd St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices, Sect. 15 Daily Worker Office. 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 library at 50 E. 13th St. Many specials available. ‘THAELMANN Party given by Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St. Puppet show, ‘atest Newsreels; Daily Workers Chorus. Nefreshments. Deancinz. Cubscrintion 20¢, Benefit Thaelmann Defense Fund, 8:15. IN DANCE at 108 W. 24th St, 8 >5 ON p.m, Auspices, Social Youth Club, Br. Jugoslav Workers Club. Subscription 25c. ENTERTAINMENT-Dance, 8 p.m. at 20 St. Marks Place, given by Russian Bala- laika Orch. of F.8.U. Special attraction— seven-year old singer & player. Adm. 25c. LAWN DANCE and Movie at 8665-2ist Ave. near Bay Parkway Sta. (B.M.T.), Brooklyn. Auspices, Professional Com. for Support of Struggles on Waterfront. Sub- scription 50c., 8:30, 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 Bronx Clubs. Entertainment. Dancing. Sports. Refreshments, LECTURE by Norman Tallentire of American League Against War and Fas- cism, 8:30, at Coney Island Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th, St., cor. Mermaid Ave. Sub- ject: “War Prep: ions Under Guise of National Recovery.” Adm. 15c. Philadeiphia, Pa. JOINT PICNIC of League of Struggle for Negro Rights and International Labor Defense, Sunday, July 1, at Burnholme Park. FILM and Photo League of Phila, First still exhibition “Men at Work” opening Friday, June 22 to July 9 at John Reed Club, 136 8) 8th St. Week days: 12 a.m, to 6 p.m. PIONIC of South Sect. of Unemploy- ment Council at Burholme Park, July 1. Take cat 50 on Sth St. and ride to bur- holme Park, Phila. PROTEST’ Agaii relations between U.S.A. and Soviet Rus- sia. Hear Maxwell Stewart, former edi- tor Moscow News, speak on this question. Also others. Will be held Friday evening, 8 p.m. at Gewerbe Hall, 2530 N, and 8t. Adm. 10c. Auspices F.8.U. Phila. District, GRAND PIONIC by Dally Worker and Trade Union Unity League, July 4, at Old Borkies Farm. Take Broad St. Subway or car 65 to end of line; transfer to car 6, Fide to Washington Lane, walk two blocks west. JOINT PIONIC of A. F. of L. Trade Union Com. for Unemployment Insurance and Relief and Rank and File Group of LLG.W.U. Sunday, July 15, at 52nd and Parkside Ave. All’ affiliated and sympa- thetic organizations requested to keep date open and assist us to carry affair through succeffssfully. ANTI-FASOIST Symposium at John Reed Club, 1836'S. 8th St., Sunday, July 1, 8:15 p.m. Speakers: Eugene Clay, Morris Ginn, H. H. Horowitz and Harry Wicks. NINTH ANNIVERSARY of LL.D. Friday, June 29, 8 p.m. at New Garrick Hall, "07 8. 8th St. Main speaker, Richard B, Moore. Auspices, I.L.D., 49 N. 8th St. PRI Demonstration, Friday, 5 p.m. at Eastern Penitentiary at cor. Fairmount and Corinthian Ave. Truck and auto pa- rade will proceed from there to 507 8. 8th St., where Richard B. Moore will be main speaker. Auspices LL.D. Boston, Mass. NEEDLE Trade Workers Industrial Union Picnic at Camp Nitgedeiget. Franklin, Mass., Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and uly 1. Cars leave Roxbury, Dorchester, Chelsea, Revere and West End. For fur- ther information call Devonshjre 8204, t_breakdown of trade rker, Marked by Hig Literary Level PARTISAN REVIEW, No. 3, pub- | lished at 430 Sixth Ave. 26 cents | a@ copy, $1 for six issues. Go oe Reviewed by OBED BROOKS 'HE third number of the Partisan Review, carefully edited and with a high literary level for all the contents, is particularly: interesting, | I think, for its criticism. In the} book section David Ramsey takes | Mumford’s Technics and Civiliza- tion to pieces with scholarly and Marxist thoroughness. Edwin Berry Burgum contributes an exceedingly keen understanding of what Mal- raux has done, psychologically and | politically, in his two novels on the | Chinese Revolution. The other crit- | ical material includes two sharp | polemic pieces against Max East- man, and a long, considered state- |ment of editorial policy. In a few deft and ironic para- graphs Boris Pilnyak knocks over | all Max Eastman’s fabricated gossip about his “humiliation,” Max East- | man “the man under the table,”| who across 11 years and 4,000 miles knew more about Pilnyak’s most in- | timate feelings than Pilnyak him-j} self, and wept, going away from} the masses, at Pilnyak’s “humilia- | tion” in going toward them. This is | complemented by a_ review of} Artists in Uniform by Leon Dennen | with more examples of the patch- ing and cutting, omission and dis- tortion that make up the particu- lar Eastman brand of Truth. In an editorial preface called Problems and Perspectives in Rev- olutionary Literature, © Wallace Phelps and Philip Rahv consider the great developments in creative revolutionary writing in the past year, and try to mark out a criti- cal line which will be at once Marx- ist, and profitable to reader and writer. They plot their line be- tween the oversimple Left of mech- anists, sloganists and ultimatists, and the Right of emotional revo- lutionaries who are dominated by bourgeois values and forms, and are afraid of the dialectic. Their survey raises important problems in the relation of the revolutionary writer to the various strata of his audience, in the class struggle within revolutionary lit- erature, in the attitude toward lit- | erature of the vast, in the union of sensibility and ideas. erat Sees | ‘HE short stories in this number of the Partisan Review are all good to read, but they illustrate some of the points discussed by the editors. They tend to be fragmen- tary or marginal; they don’t take a significant conflict and develop it intensively, give it individual com- pleteness within the frame of the larger struggle. Observation seems more important than theme or de- velopment, and most of the writer's revolutionary energy goes into vig- orous description. In the often un- successful violence of imagery, I think this emphasis becomes a dis- equilibrium, a diversion of power. It is true, for instance, of Ben Field’s sketches, although those included here, are, I feel, some of the best of his recent work. The stories, however, are all alive in experience and character; there is no question of dogma or dis- tortion. Two are particularly na- tive in feeling: John Wexley’s study of the relation between a drifting white worker and a Negro, although its wisecrack ending is a let-down, and suggests even an amused ac- ceptance of the status quo in its detachment; the other, Barney Co- nal’s “Notes on a Character,” which is one of the most understanding “conversiory’ stories I have ever read. The section from Edward Newhouse’s novel, although it deals with familiar material, is rich sub- jectively. Arthur Pense’s “The Ka- marihskaya Comes to the Shop” manages skillfully and lightly an almost poetic pattern of exploita- tion, melody and revolt. ee 8 1 verse is less satisfactory. I liked best Lloyd Collins’ blank verse “Out of This House.” There are two polemic pieces, one by Al- fred Hayes against Archibald Mac- Leish, and one by Herman Spector on the Objectivists. The method used seems questionable. In the first place, the mood and techniques of most modern poetry makes it. ill adapted to the kind of critical con- troversy that Dryden and Pope en- gaged in. In the second place, both these poems adopt the manner of those whom they are opposing. Since manner and imagery are much more considerable in poetry than explicit statement, a criticism that uses the quakities critiaized without being a parody, reveals the mixed state of mind in which revo- lutionary poets often find them- selves, Such poems are really struggles within the consciousness of the poet between revolutionary intention and a particular poetic sensibility, and since it is a poem, the sensibility comes out on top. A poem like that of Hayes seems to say, “I could write the way Mac- Leish does, but...” But the “but” is weak, and there is no reason for writing that way. Spector's poem is firmer, but it has some of the vio- lence of imagery I spoke of in con- nection with the short story: The phosphorescent worms emerge like vacant jangling trolley cars. “The Ballad of Tampa,” by Joseph Freeman, a kind of condensation of his recent articles on Florida, is broken up into lines, but seems otherwise to be a somewhat emo- tional prose. In as few as three numbers I think the Partisan Review has de- fined and achieved standards of quality and kind in revolutionary writing, and its present editorial position suggests an interesting de- velopment in the direction of a more active and dialectic literature, Boston Bookshop Uses | and red striped awning. Workers stop to read the titles |; Window Di Thaelmann Campaign BOSTON, June 22—"Free Thael- mann! Force Open Those Prison Bars!” The blazing red letters seize the eye of every passerby at the busy working class intersection of Broadway and Washington S'! Boston. Ernst Thaelman sive plaster head, stares out the black bars painted bold! plate glass front, beneath the gr of pamphlets and books flanking the rocklike figure of Thaelmann “Do You Know Thael in?’ “Murder in Camp. Hoh tein,” “Four Weeks in the Hands of Hit- | ler's Heil Hounds,” “The Bro Book of the Hitler Terror,” e Communist Party of Germany Lives | and Fights,” “We Are Fighting for a Soviet Germany.” In the opposite window, N.R.A. is traced in bright-covered pam- phlets—'"70,000 Silk Workers Strike for Bread and Unity,” “Our Chil- dren Cry for Bread,” “Dangerous Jobs,” “Trade Unions Since the NRA,” “Your Dollar Under Roosevelt,” “What Is the New Deal?” and “The Way Out.” A little woman comes in. “I want that ‘Your Dollar Under Roose- velt’.” She stays to buy “What War Means to the Workers,” “What Is the New Deal” and “The Commu- nist Position on the Haverhill Strike.” A young worker strides in to buy “Graft and Gangsters” and “How Mellon Got Rich.” Children clamor about the door. “Have you any books for a penny?” They can hard- ly believe that the answer is “Yes,” Their penny buys “Our Children Cry for Bread.” “Oh, that’s just the one we want!” @ little girl shouts and they dash away to read and look and wonder about this strange new kind of pen- ny book. “Have you got the Daily Work- er?” a middle-aged Negro worker asks, “I’ve been buying it aroun the corner. I didn’t know you wer here. . . . Yes, sure, I read the Lib- | erator.” He buys “Free Angelo Herndon.” “You're doing a wonder- ful work,” hhe says. “I’m happy to see you here.” He keeps repeating, “I’m so happy, so happy.” chee Sear 7. Bs A. F. of L. member looks for | the latest book in the “Labor and Industry” series, “Women Who Work.” “I have all of these books,” he explains. “There's nothing like them for real facts. I've been tell- ing the A. F. of L. fellows they've got to get on to themselves. Here the Central Labor Union was in this section and didn’t do a thing, had to move out to a high-hat sec- tion, and here the Communists are able to have a school with workers’ classes and open a bookshop like this. You should see the literature they hand out from the A. F. of L. Dull. Nothing with the punch of the stuff you've got here. If they don’t wake up they won't have a union in a few years. I tell them that.” A woman feature writer comes in to get a story for the North Shore Breeze, a society summer colony sheet. “How interesting to find such a place in Boston! Are there really any Communists here? And what are you—college girls?” One visitor wants to know if this means that the Communist Party has come out from underground. Another asks if the working people are going to be on top now. She thinks it's about time. An Irish worker asks if it was the Socialist Party that staged the protest dem- onstration in Charlestown against the Nazi warship Karlsruhe. He is told that it was the Communist Party whose members took a lead- ing part in the demonstration. “Then I want to join that party,” the worker declares. A card is pro- duced and he signs it then and| there. | wanted bookshop has splay in the Questions, answers all day long. derment, hope. Ts comrades themselves Cam hardly believe that the long= become s0 ht and beautiful a reality. 36 ‘ang into being almost overnight, literature department grown its quarters. From ix or eight months ago, lite ure sales had grown to $200 @ tiny corner of the lelegated to literature, uried beyond sight It was necessary to a bookstore to display litera= ture properly and the bookstore Was pen Quarters were rented in a fairly |new block which the crisis in Bos= |ton capitalism had left with only one tenant. It is across the street from the Party of- fice, the Workers School and the ¥.C.L. and not far from the Needle Trade Woi Industrial Union, jthe Inter ional Labor Defense and the Unemployment Councils. A sculptor, who had come to rec= ognize the capitalist crisis in art, jdesigned and made the book shelves. A wood craftsman fashe ioned a table, combined screen-ande | Surprise wo! All in light, unstained wood, they give the shop a bright, clean appearance that never fails to jinvoke comment from newcomers. An artist-sign-painter lettered the windows and doors in black and gold. The writer of a couple of | successful novels tackled the prob- |lem of orders and stock-taking. A professional window decorator, a | lawyer and a poet did the first win- | dow displays—guns and helmets for | Memorial Day. From the first the bookstore at- . |imagination that the. Boston |ment had to offer. Each day the |interest is renewed through the ar= | Tival of new pamphlets, books or papers. Proletarian and profes- sional artists. bring their revolu- tionary art for sale. A jartist comes to get “Russian maga- |zines for the color effects.” He |heard of the shop from an uptown | store, : International Book Shop in three |short weeks has put itself on the |map. It has stimulated the sale of |literature in other stores and cen- \ters, and the prospect of opening | branches in other parts of Greater Boston within the year is almost sure of realization. | TUNING IN 1:00-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch = | WABC—Theodore Ernwood, Baritone | 7:15-WEAB—Gene and Glenn—Sketch \ WOR—Front-Page Drama . WJZ—Merchandizing—Edward A. | Filene, Merchant and High School Students WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch | :80-WEAP—Trappers Music WOR—The O'Neilis—Sketch WJZ—Arlene Jackson, Songs WABC—Armbruster Orch; Jimmy Kemper, Songs 7:AS-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—Jack Arthur, Baritone WJZ—Sport Stories Off the Record— Thornton Fisher, Writer WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orch.; Olga Soprano; Revelers Quartet WOR—Italics—H Stokes Lott Jr. WJZ—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel Shutta, Songs; Dolan Orch, WABC—Mary Eastman, Soprano 8:15-WABC—Easy Ace: : 8:30-WOR—Novelty Orch.; Slim Timbltn, Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet ‘WJZ—Commodores Quartet WABC—Court of Hyman Relatoins 8:45-WJZ—Baseball Comment—Babe Ruth 9:00-WEAP—Lyman Orch.; Prank Munn, Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Soprano WOR—Brokenshirq Orchestra WJZ—Harris Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs 9:15-WABO—Little Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Bonime Orch.; Pie and Pat, Comedians; R. Kirbery, Baritone WOR—Dance Orchestra WJZ—Phil Baker, Comedian WABC—Green Orchestra | 10:00-WEAF—Sketch—Tourist Camp WOR—Dave Vine, Comedian WJZ—Stories That Should Be Tola— | Pulton Oursler, Author ‘WABC—Young Orch.; Everett Mar | shall, Baritone; Frank Crumit, Stoopnagle and Budd, | Comedians; Male Octet | 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read WJZ—Mario Ozzi, Baritone 10:30-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian; Grier Orch.; Prank Parker, Tenot WOR—Robison Orchestra ‘WJZ—String Symphony; Doris Doe, 10:45-WABC—Carlile and London, Piano; Contralto Warwick Sisters, Songs 11:00-WEAF—George R. Holmes, Ohief Washington Bureau LN.8. WOR—Weather; Dance Orchestra WJZ—Kahn Orchestra WABC—Edith Murray, Songs Songs; AMUSE MENTS AMKINO’S First American Showing! N THE LAND OF THE SOVIETS-1934 See | COMPLETE MOSCOW MAY DAY and Hear | sivat, ete. ete. ACME THEATRE US Qreieree KOLKHOZ (Life on Cooperatives); CHELYUSKIN EXPEDITION; MOS- COW 1934; STALINGRAD and GORKI Plants; SNOW and ICE CAR- h STREET and |Now! TADIUM CONCERTS. Lewisohn Stadium, Amst.A’ PHILHARMONIC-SYMP! Symphonio Programs Sunday through Thursday Nights, 8:30 Conducted by ITURBI Opera Performances with Star Casts Friday and Saturday Nights at 8:30 Conducted by SMALLENS PRICES: 25e-50c-$1.00—(CIrele 7-7575)— WORKERS 2700-2800 BRONX PARK EAST COOPERATIVE COLONY has reduced the rent, several good apartments available. Cultural Activities for Adults, Youth and Children. Direction: “exington Ave. White Plains OMice open daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Priday und Saturday 9 a.m. to $ p.m. Sunday 10 a.m, to 2 p.m. Telephone: Estabrook 8-1400—8-1401 Trains. Stop at Allerton Ave. station JAMES W. FORD Says: ——— “By all means Negro and white workers should see stevedore CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W114 St, Eves. 8:45. Mats. Sat. & Wed. 2:45 80e-400-60e-75e-81.00 & $1.50. No Tax | i | NOTICE You are urged to make =,- conveniently ~~ tracted the best in energy and