The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 30, 1934, Page 7

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1934 A ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND RED FR ONT FIGHTERS TAKING THE OATH OF ALL Page Seven EGIANCEBEFORE ERNST THAELMANN AT THE THIRD — The Fighting Spirit of the German Working Class Lives On! NATIONAL MEET OF THE RED FRONT FIGHTERS MASSED TO HEAR THAELMANN SPEAK AT THE THIRD CHANGE a | WORLD! | By JOSEPH FREEMAN Peasant Correspondence COMRADES THROUGHOUT the world—Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America— permit us to address you; we are not please writers; we are peasants; workers on the collective farms served by the Bezenchuk Machine Tractor Station; collective farms called, for instance, Lenin, Chapayev, Iskra, Comintern ... Excuse, if you must, our style; we want to tell you in our way about the gifts the great October brought us; perhaps you may be interested; and why not be _ these days when you are dying of starvation with wives and children in the lands of pain, the countries of the landlords and the bankers. 2. NOW, COMRADES, LET us tell you to begin with what we were in the olden days, so you might better understand what we are now. Once we were Russia’s pariahs, poor peasants who groveled in poverty, furrowed the earth with wooden plows, and harvested the grain f with scythe and sickle; threshed the corn with flails ; and we were bondsmen of the kulak, cunning and greedy neighbor with a horse who tilled our little plots long after his were done, taking all from us as his reward; we never knew the taste of chaffless bread, our children starved for food and clothes and knowledge; and over all the czar, landlord, priest rode our backs, kept our heads in darkness, “put our eyes out” since we could not read, hurled us into battlefields to die. 3. THE GREAT OCTOBER, comrades, as you know, kicked czars, nobles, bankers, landlords, priests into history’s ashcan; gave us land; put the workers at the helm of power; and after the wars, after things cleared up, they started to collectivize the farms; g now, comrades, we propose to tell you something about our farming; we shall tell you now a little of our lives on the collectives. 4, THE VILLAGE POOR who lived in homeless squalor now live in decent houses; we who had no animals to call our own, now have cows, calves, lambs, horses, pigs and fowl; we have and our children have good bread; our future is assured ; we are not slaves. How we sweated without horses in old days, with our naked hands, our wooden plows ; today we have our tractors, our machines; we work together; and, comrades, working so is pleasant work, more joyful than the grunting by yourself on a lonely barren plot. Now we have time to study; the dark people has learned to read; the light of thought and wisdom now comes to us. And look at our women: what beast of burden they were once; today our public kitchens, nurseries and creches free them from the stove and from the cradle. And, comrades, look at our children; they who starved for food, who shivered in the cold today have milk and bread and shoes and coats; and they have schools to which they go in winter en our collective horses; and they work as Pioneers who do their share to build a world of wealth and freedom for us all. 5. DID WE IN old days ever dream such life? No, comrades; we admit we never did; and we are growing; not so long ago our Leader said: let’s put the muzhik on a tractor and the country on an auto, then let the capitalists try to overtake us. Well, comrades, would you believe it, we who never had horses in the olden days, can now ride and use the tractor. Of course we need self-criticism, so we frankly say we're still poor hands at it; but we shall strain our knuckles, heads and hearts to master tractors; and even today, permit us to assure you, we've got the kulaks and the wreckers licked. 6. NOW LOOK AT our villages. Have you read of or seen their former filth and darkness? You . would never know them, comrades; for the twenty collectives of the Bezenchuk Machine : Tractor Station bloom with new-*milt houses; our villages ? i estates, an eee a eam Soviet Workers at Sport and Play in Newsreel at Acme “IN THE LAND OF THE SOVIETS” | Reviewed by DAVID PLATT | i haces new Amkino release playing| at the Acme Theatre presents between the scenes of a newsreel | compilation, what capitalist movie| reviewers are over-fond of calling, | “the happier side of the Russians,”| the “less propagandistic side” of | sport, play and adventure. | “In the Land of the Soviets” is| its title and it is a film to be seen. | It is not even important that it is badly assembled without much rhyme or reason. The picture ex- hales so much genuine spirit of ; Play and joy that breething it in from the screen is like being trans- ported, and participating in ¢ scenes of action. No other movie| can have this effect upon the movie- | goer. The Hollywootl newsreel is| dull andestale and usually leaves | you feeling the same way. You know | that seventy-five per cent of the} Picture is devoted to the pleasures | of the leisure class and knowing| this makes you doubly anxious to| get on to the cartoon or comedy that is to follow. 5 | A compilation like “In the Land | of the Soviets”. which shows the| masses at play and at work, is an| unforgettable experience, any way it is presented. It’s alive and robust and vibrates always true to pitch. And almost every scene unreeled of workers going through perfect mass physical exercises, performing ex- pertly.on the ice, skiing, sledding, boating, bathing, is a matter of re- joicing. At least we can say in one part of the world, the part where workers rule, winter sports, which we in America have been accus- tomed to place in the category re- served for wealthy parasites only, are indulged in by factory workers, coal miners, bakers and trolley con- | ductors. This alone is enough to| put the film in a class by itself.| Imagine Pittsburgh steel and iron| Workers vacationing at Lake Placid, | N. Y., and you have a true picture | of workers’ leisure in the Soviet| Union during winter months. _ Finally what a deep and lasting impression is left by this simple newsreel, of the boundless strength of the new Russia of workers and Peasants. Whether at work, building industry or at play, building health, the same contagious delight and enthusiasm at doing purposeful work. A good section of the picture is) devoted to the May Day Parade which in the Soviet Union every year is a growing expression of mass power and spirit hitherto unknown to history. Here there are all too short flashes of Dimitrov conyers- ing with Gorki, Dimitrov with Stalin and Kalinin, scenes of the| Red Army on parade, of the power- ful air force and then the great masses of Moscow, gloriously dem- onstrating their solidarity with the working class of the world. Also included in the picture is a remark- able photographic account of the auto expedition to the Kara Kum Desert, as well as the story of the heroic Chelyuskin Expedition to} Behring Strait. | If you miss a hundred other films don’t fail to see “In the Land of the Soviets.” Besides, it will give you) a pretty good idea of what your own country will be like after the workers capture power in the near future, , | | Theatre Workers Join Free Thaelmann Drive NEW YORK—To demonstrate the solidarity of theatre workers with the drive for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, the Workers Labor- atory Theatre of New York will go on the picket line before the Ger- man Consulate for three hours to-} day at 10 a.m. “He’s Goin’ Free!” Cry Detroit Workers In New Song About Jas. Victory DETROIT, Mich., June 28.—A song about the frame-up of James Victory, Negro worker now being tried on a charge of having slashed and robbed a white woman, has been written by Maurice Sugar, Inter- national Labor Defense attorney who is defending Victory. It is now being sung by Workers’ organizations throughout this city. Sugar wrote both the words and music of the song, which is patterned after a Negro spiritual. The song is as follows: Bosses and judges, list’n t’? me Bosses and judges, list’n t’ me You ain’t goin’ t’ jail James Victory I'm tellim’ you He’s goin’ free He’s goin’ free. Black workers, white workers, lis'n t’ Black workers, white workers, lis’n t’ They ain’t goin’ t’ jail James Victory I'm tellin’ you He's goin’ free, He's goin’ free. me me Black workers, white workers, joinin’ Black workers, white workers, joinin’ They ain’t goin’ t’ jail James Victory I'm tellin’, you He's goin’ free, He's goin’ free. with me with me Black workers, white workers, fightin’ with me Black workers, white workers, fightin’ with me They ain't goin’ t’ jail James Victory Tm tellin’ you He’s goin’ free, He's goin’ free, TUNING IN ander Smaliens, Conductor ‘Tenor, at Lewisohn Stadium, Alex- 7:00 P.M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume WdZ—Flying--Captain A. 1, Williams | WJZ—Lights Out—Sketch WABO—Jones Orchestra | 8:45-WABC—Fats Waller, Songs 7:15-WEAF—Hor-spun—Dr. William H. | 9:00-WEA\ ne Man's Family—Sketch Foulkes WOR—Lenny Dee, Commentator WJZ—Pickens Sisters, Songs 7:30-WEAF—Himber Orch.: De Marco Sisters, Songs; Eddie Peabody, Banjo; Joey Nash, Tenor WOR—Hudson Courty American Legion Band ‘WJZ—Bestor Orchestra WABC—Betty Barthel, Songs; Melo- deers Quartet 7:45-WABC—Childs Orchestra 8:00-WEAF—Teddy Bergman, Comedian; Betty Queen, Contralto; Mill Smith Baritone; Stern Orchestra WOR—Dance Orchestra ‘WJZ—Spanish Musicale ‘WABC—Rich Orch.; Morton Downey, Tenor; Mary Eastman, Soprano 8:15-WOR—All-Star Trio WJZ—Baravian Band 8:30-WEAF—To Be Announced WOR—New York Philharmonic-Sy: phony Orch.; Opera, Samson Delilah, With Margaret Matz auer, Soprano; Paul Althouse, WJZ—Voriety Musicale WABC—Grete Stueckgold, Soprano; Kostelanetz Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Real Life Problems—sketch; Beatrice Fairfax, Commentator WJZ—Goldman Band Concert at Prospect Park WABC—Detroit Symphony Orch., Director, Victor Kolar, From A Century’ of Progress 10:00-WEAF—Ray Knight's Cuckoos WJZ—Tim Ryan's Place—Sketch WABC—Broadcast From Byrd Expe- dition to National Education Asso- ciation Convention at Washington, Auditorium; Speakers, Jessie Gray, President N. E. A; Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, President University of Chicago, ‘and Others 10:15-WEAF—Lombardg Orchestra 10:30-WOR—Organ Recital WJZ—Barn Dance WABO—Michaux Cong. gation 45-WEAF—Siberian Singers WOR—Weather; Dance Orchestra WABC—Sflvia Froos, Songs WHAT’S ON | seven-year old singer & player. Adm. 25c. LAWN DANCE and Movie at 8665-2ist Ave., near Bay Parkway Sta. (B.M.T.), Saturday GALA SPORT Dance given by Boro Park Fascist Groups in Militant S U.S. Exposed In| pirit in Secret | Letter from German Worker Labor Fact Book II | ‘THERE are over a hundred fascist 'HE letter printed below was sent to the Daily Worker from a United | Hamburg longshoreman, who g¢ organizations in the tt} y Jit to a seaman on an American dosh! Seer hecin ahd aad Fact | ship for secret transmission to Book II by Labor Research As80-| New York | ciation, just published by Interna-| ‘The fighting spirit displayed in | tional Publishers. These “budding | this letter, the determination and | ‘storm troops’ are being prepared 0 | confidence that no Nagi terror can be used when necessary by the cap-| choke off the anti-fascist strug- | italists.” Detailed descriptions of the| gle in Germany, prove how the activities of the best-known fascist | teaching and heroic leadership of outfits, the Khaki Shirts and Silver| Ernst Thaelmann have forged an Shirts, are followed by an account| unconquerable steely corps of of the anti-labor activities of other! militant fighters in the dock such organizations. | workers of Hamburg. “There is The Order of 76 which | oe ee ee Ae ae eect operates secretly in and around New| pice dip tae aula Bete on York City. Tt claims to be enrolling| continue in their struggle for the 2G members & Gay snd sacle final overthrow of fascist rule, | tasks of petty espionage to each in- through the establishment of a dividual. It is anti-Jewish and at-| Soviet world tempts to expose the Jews as a fac- ~ : Hamburg, May 22, 1934. tor in American banking. | Dear Pte ge ™ “The Crusaders for Economic; At the suggestion of Comrade Liberty, also called White Shirts, led| R. I am sending you a short re- by W. Christians, maintain head-| port on our present situation here. quarters in Chattanooga, Tenn., and| As you know, the Nazis’ praise are strong in Idaho, Oregon and| Of their own successes still goes Washington. The organization | on; they never stop telling the claims two mfllion members and has| Workers the lie that everything is | recently announced a possible| fine in the Third Reich. merger with the Silver Shirts,| TO give the American workers | Christians is praised by Oscar C.| 4M idea of what they are really Pfaus, commander of the German| doing, I want to mention a few Alliance, a fascist organization, and | ¢xamples. : i another Nazi representative is re-| The amount of margarine sup- ported as greeting Christians with| Plied to the unemployed has be | the following: ‘Let me salute you as| CUt in half since last year—from 4 & ‘ ‘ |two pounds *per month to the ant saluted in the days to| sound. We now get only a quarter ORES | of a pound of margarine (not good “National Watchmen ted by F. M.| butter) weekly; if we use any Cox, ‘national commander,’ present| more, we must pay dearly for it @ seemingly radical program called | out of our tiny cash relief a ‘Plan for Economic Rehabilitation] The unemployed are being put in the United States.’ It talks about |} —-—— nationalization of property and al 100 per cent tax on incomes above | | $10,000 a year. Is is reported as pen- |etrating the factories, where workers were addressed with the permission} of the management. | “Nationalists, with headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., are directly in the tradition of the Ku Klux Klan, with Colonel William Simmons, founder of the Klan, as their com- mander-in-chief. It issues a call to ‘any truly white American citizen’ to join, and claims that 200,000 members ‘have quietly organized brigades in the chief cities of the United States ... formed with the greatest secrecy in the past 12 months,’ i.e., during 1933.” “The American Blue Corps has distributed fascist literature among the steel workers of Youngstown, Ohio, with the statement: ‘The American Blue Corps is opposed to the diabolical sabotage of our United States government and the rights of its Christian Gentile American citizens by the detri- mental and traitorous underhanded activities of all the unscrupulous Out Mas hy Quarterly - Civil War in Austria A Masterpiece of Historical Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave. Brooklyn. To be held at Pythian Hall, 2664 W. ist | St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. N.P.G. Dance Orchestra. Refreshments. Entertainment. Adm, 45¢. 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. DO NOT MAKE Any Engagements for July 4 if you do not want to miss the annual picnic of the Communist Party, N. ¥. 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| 9 specials available. THAELMANN Party given by Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St. Puppet show. Latest Newsreels; Daily Workers Chorus. Refreshments. Dancing. Subscription 20c. Benefit Thaelmann Defense Fund, 8:15. BALLOON DANCE at 108 W. 24th St., 8 p.m, Auspices, Social Youth Club, Br. Jugoslav Workers Club. Subscription 26c. ENTENTAINMENT-Dance, 8 p.m. at 20 St. Marks Place, given by Russian Bala- laika Orch. of F.S.0, Special attraction— of our Soviet land the people No, you would not recognize with power stations, pouring and all our own; this mighty the produce of the earth and making a clesrigss world of j belong to us as do the million others owns. our land, now roaring with new factories, alight from its mines rich seas of mineral; its fields traversed by trains and tractors, and its streams by ships its skies by airplanes faster than the birds flying above new cities we’ve just built; mass of wealth, our toil, not for the banker and the priest to drain, but ours to grow on, to become new men oy a Brooklyn. Auspices, Professional Com. for Support of Struggles on Waterfront. Sub- scription 50c., 8:30. FRIENDS OF WORKERS SCHOOL, Roof Garden Party at 816 E. 9th St. § p.m. Come and hear John Valente, musician extraordinary. Adm. 25¢. Proceeds to National Training School Fund. MOUSE PARTY siven by Clarte, French Workers Club at 304 W. 58th St., 8:30 p.m. Good time guaranteed. LAWN PARTY and Dance, entertainment at 1009 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Auspices Youth Builders I.W.0. Br. Y-61. Refreshments free. UNITED FRONT SUPPORTERS present a mock “Junior Prom” and “Graduation Exercises,” followed by dancing. Usual refreshments. U.F.8. Hall, 11 W. 18th St. p.m. WORKERS BOOKSHOP 20-50% Discount Sale ends Saturday, July 7th, Take ad- vantage now. Write for catalogue. Join circulating Ubrary at 50 E. 13th St. Many specials available. 10 NOT MAKE ANY ENGAGEMENTS for July 4th if you do not want to mits the annual picnic of the Communist Party N. Y. District at North Beach Picnic Park, Astoria, L. 1, dancing. Lots of fun. (More “What's On” on Page 3) NOTE: Due to technical regsons the feature “Laboratory © and Shop,” which appears every Wed- nesday and Saturday, has been omitted today. It will appear on this page on Monday. Sports—games—theatre— | “The Awakener is the name of an} openly fascist monthly paper, pub- lished in New York City and edited by Harold Lord Varney, Lawrence Dennis, Col. Milford W. Howard and Joseph P. Kamp. Dennis, the intellectual spokesman for fascism in the United States, is a Harvard graduate, formerly employed by J. & W. Seligman, New York bankers, and for seven years a representa- tive of the U. S. diplomatic service in Nicaragua, Haiti and Honduras. The Awakener announced itself as ‘for the Americanism of the “right” and ‘against the socialism of the “left”.’ The executive editor, Kamp, is the head of an anti-labor racket, the Oonstivutional Educational League, which Hold ‘patriotic’ meet- ings in front of plants where work- ers are on strike. Kamp was active against the strikers at the I, Miller & Sons, Inc., plant in Lon, Island City in 1932, and has recently dis- tributed leaflets against the Na- plundering worshipers of the golden Criticism calf, the international and un- by Erskine Catpwet, Jack American Jews, Politicians and eee % 5 i MMonopollsta, ‘breeders “of Réd-Con- Conroy, Ropert CANTWELL, munism, Crime and War.’ Jsmes> T. Farrect, Epwarp others. 10c $1 for 15 weeks | tional Textile Workers Union in Connecticut.” L \IN THE See and cow Hear | Sivan, ete, ete. ACME THEATRE 1at AMKINO’S First American Showing! LAND OF THE SOVIETS-1934 COMPLETE MOSCOW MAY DAY | KOLKHOZ (Lite on Cooperatives); CHELYUSKIN EXPEDITION; MOS- v STALINGRAD and GORKI Plants; | UNION SQUARE || SNOW and ICE CAR- || h STREET and Danuperc, Myra Pace, LAUREN GiLFILLAN, Vinci, Geppes, and Three Radical Poets An Essay on Spender, Auden by Epwin Berry Burcum Provocateur - in - Chief of the New Deal by Witxiam Francis DUNNE to work at wages which are no e average than the ce, out of which we even a good meal, much do work on it. is our “creation of work.” is “Socialism in Gere, ais is having its own re- hat af no time so rapidly. - the swindle ig today. Even it, as s of the Storm Troop- and the Special Hitler Guards, m the government is bes uder and louder. With s they are in Germany, much more than it es in your country, for a single. rd is enough over here to send you to the concentration camp. Comrades, I have mentioned only a few of many hundreds of examples; I am purposely making. this short—but I want to add a- few words on the fighters of the Party. - Here in Germany the comrades are working with redoubled en- thusiasm. Dangerous work is done. every day in spite of the brutal. suppression. We reach out our con this means hands to you, as to all our Class brothers all over the world, and ask you to keep on fighting until. the final victory of the world pro- letariat. Be worthy of Lenin's You who are new if , become real Bolsheviks; and then enter the masses—then no one will be able to conquer Us Until my next letter — when ft will tell you more about conditions here. With revol Comrade W. ionary greetings, RED FRONT. This Week! | Ses 48 Pages Reportage Itya EnreNnourG e ei Authors’ Field Day A symposium on Marxian and Lewis e Moley: (Conclusion) Special Book Reviews— Editorials, Cartoons TADIUM CONCERTS Lewisohn Stadium, Amst.Ave.&138 St. PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY Symphonic Programs Sunday through Thursday Nights, 8:30 Conducted by ITURBI Opera Performances with Star Casts Friday and Saturday Nights at 830 Conducted by SMALLENS NOR? |-PRICES: 25e-50e-§1,00—(CItele 7-7575)—* JAMES W. FORD Says; —— 1 “By all means Negro and white | workers should see stevedor¢ | | CIVIC REPERTORY 105 W 1! 5! | i Eve: 45. Mats. Sat ‘Wed. 80c-400-600-75e-$1.00 & $1.50, ih