The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 3, 1934, Page 5

ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1934 ‘4 Fe a» me £ Page Five | CHANGE ——THE-— WORLD! By MAXWELL BODENHEIM HE relation of intellectuals, particularly writers, te the revolutionary movement, has never been established, in its deepest and more expansive ramifications, by any professional, radical critic of our present day and coun- try. The chaos of opinions on this subject, ranging from unconscious compromise to distorted narrowness, conveys every pos- sible shade and attitude of personal bias, indirect snobbishness, veiled genuflection ‘to skillful, lauded drug-merchants, both part and pres- ent, and, verging toward the opposite extreme, the insistence that the revolutionary viewpoint must dominate the characters and state- ments of fiction and verse to such an extent that they become pup- pets manipulated against shifting, limited backgrounds. The situa- tion in question demands an illuminating plainness «nd breadth, which it has not hitherto received from the radical critics of this country. Many of them bow, in secret, to writers such as Ernest Heming- way, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, T. 8. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce, and strive to explain and diminish the obeisance—with a dexterous stubbornness scarcely aware of it- self—by asserting that the techniques and deft devices of these writers can and should be borrowed by revolutionary creators, transformed and heightened to serve an entirely different purpose and direction. “The problem of borrowing’ engrossés these critics—a problem which does not exist, in actuality, outside of the desire to hide a woebegone but intense admiration for certain writers in the opposite camp by refusing to recognize that their styles cannot be separated from their content-matters, and that the styles themselves represent an immense amount of agility, minute irrelevancies, surface clarities, and tricky blindness, far apart from the pliable simplicity and the red-hot dredging, which revolutionary literature requires. The revolutionary writer travels on a road abounding in pit- falls, doubts, obscurities, and lures, all of them seeking to divert the straight militancy of his stride, and on such a journey he needs every new and edged weapon which he can possibly devise, every rigorous stripping and concentration, and an absolute refusal to loiter in any way, to turn his head toward any single one of the methods and sub- stancés combined, which are, to him, an inevitable part of the distance and death behind him. Subtle Capers and Puny Disdains IS impossible to divide the style from the motivated flesh-and- blood of Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Proust and James Joyce, unless one is determined to perform an artificial operation with the intention of giving them a greater admiration and attraction than they deserve in our present.time. It cannot be denied that their minds and hearts, secluded and inverted in a false vision of scope, are nevertheless cap- able of plausible and often accurate details pertaining to minor psy- chology and to sexual contention, confusion—the painstaking adept- ness of men clinging to illusions of thoroughness in the comparative inches of their worlds. They must also be granted a certain efficiency in “selling” their convictions, in conveying, to creduloug and less articulate human be- ings, an impression of reality, depth, and ardor. But here again, their styles are inevitably ingrained in their contents. Self-warped, essen- tially tenuous, and adverse to admitting, or facing, the fundamental scourges and results of a capitalistic system, these men were literally forced into the polished discrepancies, the subtle capers and puny disdains, of these styles because less involved and more elastic styles would have led them, gradually, to a straight and overwhelming stare at the misery and degradation obtaining in the majority of men and } women surrounding them. The cruel, self-ridden fatalism of Hemingway, glorifying physical | death for its own sake, reckless,in the pride of an animal never more than surfacely cultured, and employing sentimentality only to tone down the rougher edges of the composite, blended, naturally, into an awkward, athletic, choppy style, a flow of profane and sensual con- versation, and an erraticism—in syntax, arrogant tumble of verbs— fully in tune with the whims of a darkly enclosed ego. The attempted mysticism, the urbane snobbishness, the brilliantly abortive intuitions and brooding contortions of Proust beckoned to a style replete with subtle jugglings of social conduct, with fleeting grimace and condescension, with little, leisurely measurings and peer- ings through the lavender lenses of a microscope. James Joyce, on the other hand, in Ulysses—that encyclopedia of the sub-conscious sexualities, prejudices, and sensory adulterations existing in all petiy-bourgeois men translated to the language of one named Bloom—could not have adopted a style other than that of a deliberate hodge-podge, an infinitesimal welter of simile and metaphor. eles na Disciplined Hatred for the Ruling Minority revolutionary writer, however, should regard these united styles and contents as nothing more than real, or imaginary, immersions.in the bacteria of pretense, escape, futility, and decay! He cannot-—use stylistic subtleties in a task which demands a firm, red-glowing, high construction, a patience and disillusioned optimism incarnate, a straight sledge-hammer against shrewd lies and shoddy evasions, and a disci- plined and sweeping hatred for the virtuously protesting wolves and pigs of a ruling minority. § < He must evolye his own styles from a bitterness practiced and open-eyed enough to disregard the temptations of spluttering, rant- ing, and personal excitement. He must always remember, also, that he is at the opposite extreme from isolation, that his style should be free from vagaries of introspection and make itself ever clearer and more persuasive to the masses whom he is striving io reach, not with a conscious resort to cruder and less original wording, but with a spontaneous readiness to sacrifice cherished acrobatics and unnecessary complications of expression to a simpler and more embracing devyo- tion to the eventual, militant emancipation of the working class. In this connection, he does not need to become less original and artistic, in a material and revolutionary definition of these words, but rather, less apprehensive in regard to any violation of the outworn elegances and decrepit subtleties of style infinitely prized by bourgeois writers. : . * Away with Embellishments and Obscurities! [7 IS often contended that the radical, intellectual writer has only two choices—that he must mold his style for the better-educated men and women of the working class, or change it to a heavier and more obvious propaganda designed to meet the limitations of other workers deprived of an adequate education by the indifferent, dis- sembling, capitalistic system in which they were reared. This contention is a false one. Outside of the plain dictates of grammar and reasonably efficient syntax, a revolutionary novel, short- “story, or poem, can rid itself of embellishments and obscurities to an extent sufficient to make it, at least, a sharp inducement, impelling less- educated workers to understand part of it and to struggle for a greater comprehension of the wordings in the other part. Such a novel, short- story, or poem, on the other hand, can be a source of discovery and delight to workers with larger vocabularies and more developed in- sights, workers in a condition able to receive and assimilate, more immediately, the elements of relatively simple challenge, remedy, and _ truth, within the creation itself. _ Revolutionary propaganda written by intellectuals in this country ‘can never attain potency and confine itself, in style and content, to a demand for subtlety on the part of certain intellectual, pro- 1, or white-collar, members of the working class. In essence and approach, it must reach and penetrate ever-increasing numbers among the toiling masses desperately in need of the rescue and con- which words of truth, words of preparation for the eventual 1g of the proletariat, alone can convey. . | Jan Wittenber, Chicago artist, jailed with 11 others in Hillsboro, TiL, for leading an unemployed demonstration. | Earl Browder Praises |**New Masses”; Second Quarterly Issue Out NEW YORK.—The second quar- terly issue of the New Masses, dated | July 3rd, and now on the news- stands, in addition to an article by Ilya Ehrenbourg on “Civil War in Austria,” a symposium on criticism | entitled “Authors’ Field Day,” in| which John Howard Lawson, Erskine Caldwell, Jack Conroy, | Josephine Herbst, Lauren Gilfillan, Edward Dahlberg, Robert Gessner, James T. Farrell, Robert Cantwell, Virgil Geddes and others partici- pate, also contains a letter from zine. Browder’s letter follows: “Your announcement of the quarterly reminds me that the weekly New Masses is now six months old. I have followed your excellent publication during this period with much interest. I want at this time to congratulate the editors of the magazine for their product: with each issue the pub- lication proves itself a strong com- rade-in-arms of the revolutionary movement. These are months into which history crams years. of epochal events. These events the) New Masses has portrayed and analyzed for the white collar work- ers, the intellectuals, the strata of the middle class that have been thrown into the army of the dis-| Possessed. The New Masses has in this short period won a place for | itself in the regard of thousands: I understand it has almost trebled its circulation as compared with the | monthly New Masses. | It is gratifying to see that the| magazine does more than depict and expose capitalist decay: like a ltrue revolutionary magazine it/| | reaches out towards becoming a col-| lective organizer welding the thou- sands of its readers as supporters and fighters in the revolutionary | movement of which the proletariat is the vanguard. EARL BROWDER.” Resolute Peace Stand Is Basis of Foreign Policy of Soviet Union Provocative anti-Soviet campaigns in the Japanese press again em- phasize the need for widespread knowledge of the resolute stand for Peace which is the basis of the So- viet’s foreign policy. Stalin, Molotov and Litvinoff clearly explain the Soviet fight for peace in the ten-cent pamphlet, “Our Foreign Policy,” distributed by International Publishers in U. 8. A. The booklet reproduces Stalin's famous interview with Walter Duranty, former Moscow corre- sspondent of the New York Times, on the meaning of Soviet-American recognition. LAUNCH DESTROYERS IN ENGLAND LONDON, July 1. — Three new destroyers were launched Friday They are all of similar construc- tion to the Forester whose specifica- tions were contained in the report of the launching. The vessels dis- place 1,375 tons and can do 35 knots. They carry four four-inch guns and several anti-aircraft guns and are equipped with 11 tor- pedo tubes. TUNING IN| 1:00 P.M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs ‘WABC—Morton Downey, Tenor 7:15-WEAF—Gene ‘and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music ‘W3Z—Jack Parker, Tenor WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Brad and Al, Comedians ‘WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield WJZ—The Summers-Wilcox Munici- pal Bankruptcy Law—Rep, J. M, ‘Wilcox, Florida; William Hard, Publicist ‘WABC—Russell Gwch. ‘WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch 1:45 Edgar WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator -WEAF—Reisman Orch. WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—Guy Fawkes, Jr.—Sketch WABC—Concert Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor; Muriel Wilson, Soprano 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orch. WOR—Minevitch Harmonica Band WJZ—Goldma Bann Concert, Pros- ect Park, Brooklyn Ww. yman Orch.; Vivienne Se- gal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Ben Bernie Orch. WOR—Variety Musicale ‘WJZ—Alice Mock, Sopra Guest, Poet; Concert Orch. Ww: fe Givot, Comedian 9:30-WEAP—Ray Perkins, Comedian; Gale Page, Contralto; Stokes Orch. WOR—Michael Bartlett, eTnor WJZ—Tim Ryan's Rendezvous WABC—Himber Orch. is-WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin -WEAF—Operetta, Robin Hood, with Gladys Swarthout, Soprano WJZ—Radio as a Means of Public Enlightenment—M. H, Aylesworth, President, NBC; Youth Challenges the Nation—Newton D. Baker, For- mer Secretary of War; Visions and Voyages—Jessie Gray, President, at N. E. A. Convention, Washington WABC—To Be Announced 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—Davis Orch. WABC—Melodic Strings 11:00-WEAF—Wireless Amateurs—Sketch WOR—Stewart Orch. Earl Browder congratulating the | editors on the scope of the maga-| Its possibilities are even greater.) | FIRST LESSON —— By EDWIN ROLFE Our burden has hardened with summer. Winter’s snow meant freezing but not this rotting heat invading the body’s core. More than the pangs of cold and the tissue’s drying, more than the spirit’s slow congealing do we suffer now, in summer. Heat is a slow asi relentlessly drives dull blunt bullets of decay into flesh of stern ssin. Heat strong-molded texture; and we must turn in vain to winter’s sleet which causes equal pain. And all the while | inherited poverty, | ing the International! ironically willed us by fathers of a richer brood (who need not writhe in heat breeds in its squalor eyes through which we see the path ahead, the path to struggle again. or cold nor want for food) Gautier Worle Tien 2 To Visit Workers Book Shop By MURRAY BLYNE When the Socialist Party leaders celebrate Independence Day in Union Square on July 4th, the So- cialist workers and students who| gather to hear them speak will re-| ceive an unusual leaflet. This leaf- let, issued by the Workers Bookshop, | will invite them to visit the book- shop at 50 E. 13th St. that same day, where they will find literature by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin; analyzing the counter-revolutionary character of the policies of the leadership of the world Socialist Parties, and exposing their inter- national betrayals of the working| class, For this special occasion, the book shop will remain open from 9:30 am. until 3:15 pm. A corps of young workers have volunteered to distribute 5,000 such leaflets. The growth in the sale of work- ing class literature in the past six months through the Workers Book Shop has been little short of phe- nomenal. The average income of the bookshop before November 1933 was about $50 a day. Now the aver- age income is more than $150, al 200 per cent increase in the sale) and distribution of literature. What | | has caused this tremendous jump in sales? The bookshop attributes it to a number of factors, chief among which is the persistent drive of the Literature Department of the Com- munist Party, constantly urging workers to arm themselves with theoretical knowledge as an indis- pensable weapon in the class strug- gle. Then there is the reduction in the prices of books, pamphlets and periodicals: Two sales have been ‘conducted by the Workers Bookshops recently, and a third is in full swing at the present time, to last until July 7. During these sales, workers are entitled to a 20 to 50 per cent discount on all their | 369 Sutter Ave, and 4012 Eighth | Ave. purchases. During such a sale} | period, the average income of the| #80 When a film for which he w: | shop: jumps to twice the amount|*eSPonsible was released (by Para- | taken in on ordinary days. “Newsette,” the bookshop bulletin | advertising the literature in the shop, has been of enormous aid in| acquainting workers of the latest | | books and pamphlets obtainable,| by Amkino and last, but very important, is the | individual attention given to work- ers coming into the book shop. | The growth in the sale and dis- | tribution of literature also reflects | itself in the increase in the number | of bookshops throughout the city. In Brooklyn there are two shops: | In the Bronx there is a shop at 699 Prospect Ave., and in Yon- kers, there is one at 27 Hudson St. | The I.W.O. headquarters, at 80 Fifth | Ave., also has its book shop. | The central bookshop at 50 E.| 13th St. as well as the Bronx and | Brownsville shops, operate circulat- | ing libraries, where books may be By LENS oe for the record,” writes X. “the riext Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur picture to be made for Paramount out on Long Island will be a comedy about the Russian Revolution. It will star Jimmy Savo, of Earl Carroll ‘Vanities’ | fame, and the feminine lead will be @ ‘toe dancer not over 15 years old | who must have the face and figure | of a chaste Diana.’ Five thousand | White Russians have been tested for minor parts. Slavko Vorkapich and his unit disturbed this mob of ‘tal- | ent’ quite a bit the other day when they marched into the studio sing- “Only possible thing in the pic- ture’s favor ig that the scenario being written by Mrs. Ben Hecht, who does have a sympathetic atti- tude toward the Soviet Union. | een starts about Aug. | 1 OMRADE IRVING LERNER for- | wards the information that Vor- | kapich is the real author of “The Death of a Hollywood Extra” on which film the overrated Robert | Florey rode to fame. .. . Outright thieving is an old Hollywood cus- |tom. . . . Emanuel Essman expe- rienced a sample of it a few years ;mount, I believe) under someone else's name. . . . . . ORRECTION: Ermler’s “Counter- | Plan” was released in America | under the rather | strangely revamped title of| “Shame.” . . . | . ] HEAR that Comrade Jay Leyda, | a@ member of the New York Film and Photo League, who has been studying in the Moscow State In- stitute of the Cinema for over a year, has been assigned to make a| film in Siberia in collaboration with the highly capable young Dutchman, Joris Ivens. . . . ats ‘HE International Institute of Ed- ucational Cinematography has undertaken the production of films intended for the “visual education” of illiterates.... The rather amus- | through the Soviet Un | FLASHES and\"U.S.S.R. Political and CLOSE-UPS) Himan World Center,” Says J. Waterman Wise By JEROME ARNOLD “Everywhere else in Europe you feel things are declining. But in the Soviet Union there is a steady upward movement—you get a feel- ing of irresistible progress. Soviet Russia is the political and human center of mankind.” This was the sweeping stateraent of James Wate itor of the Je’ jou: returned yesterd: t Berengaria from a two-month t yn and Eu- pe. “The time that I the Soviet Union ing the collective impul constructive lines. The an adjusted and satisfactory life are implicit in the planful and far- seeing program of the Russian gov- ernment in establishing conditions of permanent secu ‘ . EATED amid the luxurious sur- roundings of the Berengari main salon, Wise outlined briefly some of the notable achievements | of the First Five Year Plan and the progress made under the second plan. “You know,” he said, “the stand- ard of living is constantly rising This is my first trip to the US.S.R and I couldn’t compare the situa- | tion today with what it was a few years ago, but I've heard from for- eigners there and from native Rus- sians just how great the improve- ment has been. “One of the things which im- pressed me was the exhibition ‘Our of the accomplishments under the First Five-Year Plan. The exhibit presented a graphic record of the success of economic planning un- der the Soviet system.” Wise leaned over toward me and in a confidential tone said: “We are supposed to be the most advanced country in the world in- dustrially. I've heard about tele- vision, but would you believe it, the first demonstration of television I Achievements’ in Moscow—a review | 8. R. mainly to investigate the sta« tus of the Jew in a Soviet society, And in expressing his findings he spoke enthusiastically about the fullness of equality for Jew ahd Gentiles alike and for all minority peoples. “The great difference of the sta- tus of the Jew in Europe and in Soviet Russia is that in Europe the ho| great problem is what to do to the - | Jews, while in the Soviet Union the great Jewish problem is what to do for them. “It is perfectly clear now that and Communism are opposed. For anti- an ecoonmic scapes goat of the Jew, whereas Commu- nism represents the determination to end economic scape-goatism, whether of the Jew or any other race or people.” Although Mr. Wise admitted he did not have the opportunity of making an investigation of Biro- Bidjan, he stated that “the pre- limir work already done reveals @ prospect of peace and decent liy- ing conditions which no Jew who has the interest of his people at heart can afford to ignore. This is particularly true in view of the tragic fate of Jewry in Germany jand Eastern Europe,’ where Fas- cism—official and unofficial—daily contrive to make the lot of the Jew more insupportable.” ANSWER to a question about gimentation” in the Soviet Union which capitalist sources have hurled as a method of slandering the great strides toward Socialist construction in the USSR. Wise |appeared doubtful. “T know this,” he replied. “The mental attitude and emotional con- dition of the Soviet workers and | farmers seems more stable and op- timistic than in any other country iin, Europe. | “The Russian workers show “a | profound concern about the lot of | workers in other countries. Also | incredulity, that in the so-called advanced countries of Western Eu- borrowed at the nominal sum of 15c | iN assumption in the projection of a week, The New York shop has/ Such a program is that the pres- | 450 members in the Circulating Li-| ®t output of films in the Holly- brary alone. | woods of the capitalist world is During the coming Fall and Win-|#2Ything above what might be in- | ter months, the New York Workers | nde for illiterates.... Only re- Bookshop plans to conduct an in- cently a Hollywood film manufac- teresting series of lectures to be| ‘turer boasted that the present trend known as Oral Book Reviews. Books | in Sims showed signs pf presenta by Marx, Engels; Lenin, Stalin and | Pility to ‘a 15-year-average intelli- | others will be reviewed by leading | Sence) audience. . .. A rather de- | members of the revolutionary move- atabie estimate as ry see ment every Saturday at 3 p.m. in| the New York Workers Center. The first reviewer will be Earl Browder, who will discuss the “Poverty of | Philosophy,” by Marx, and “Dia-| jectical Materialism,” by Adoratsky. Among the others scheduled to re- view books are V. J. Jerome, Max Bedacht, Clarence Hathaway, Geo, Siskind and Michael Gold. Further details in connection with the Oral Book Reviews will be published in the revolutionary press and in “Newsette.” 'What’s Doing A LUNCHEON conference for the entire faculty of the Workers’ | School in New York took place on | Saturday, June 23, where about 45 | instructors and representatives of the students were present. Com- rade Browder delivered a very in-/} | Structive address to those present, |in which he emphasized the im- portance of bringing about a real Bolshevik result in the teaching of | Marxism-Leninism at our schools, | He stressed the importance of the unity of theory and practice, and pointed out that the general theory must be linked up with the immedi- ate problems and developments of today. A discussion from the floor followed, and many valuable sug- | gestions were made by the speakers. During the summer months the Workers’ School in New York is not conducting any classes, but the comrades of the school are utilizing the time for the preparation of an elaborate program for the next year, beginning with the fall term in September. This program will include, in addition to the regular curriculum, new features in the form of short term courses, of four to five weeks’ duration, in which special topics will be taken up. Leading comrades of the Central Committee have agreed to participate as lecturers) and instructors in these courses. | These short term courses will also include other comrades. During the summer months the Workers’ School expects to revise a good deal of the material used heretofore, such as outlines and reading references. | Ratan saat eer ° The School On Wheels We have recently received a very interesting report from the Farm | School On Wheels. Due to the lim- ited space we are not in a position to print the entire report. During the past ten months the travelling school for farm organizers has held four-week sessions in Seven districts, with a total of 98 students from 17 states. The report tells us further that “the travelling school is a complete unit in itself, with tents, cooking equipment, library, a truck (which is used to transport equipment be- tween stops, and as a bus during school sessions) and a staff of three instructors and a cook. In each district a leading farm organizer participates in conducting the dis- cussion of organizational problems.”’ | During these ten months the| comrades in charge of the school have gathered a good deal of ex- perience which will help them in! overcoming many of the shortcom- | ings with reference to the curricu- | lum, to the selection of students, | etc. There has not been sufficient active interest displayed by the ¥ in the Workers Schools of the U. S. workers in the various districts, especially in the agricultural sec- tion of the country, in the work of the school. In the travelling school we have @ great opportunity of training cadres for work among the farmers, as well as among workers in in- dustrial sections. The school, therefore, should receive the fullest support from the comrades in the field. It is essential that the School On Wheels establish closer and more systematic relations with the Work- ers’ School in New York, the Na- tional School, as well as various schools existing in the territories in which the Travelling School oper- ates at certain times. The co- ordination betwen the School On Wheels and our stationary institu- tions will help to improve the work in both fields. In spite of the difficulties and the shortcomings we can record the work conducted by the Travelling | School as a real achievement, and | we trust that with the co-operation | of the Party the school will progress | and will do even better work in the | future. | Summer School At Mohegan Colony Comrades who visit or spend their summer at Mohegan Colony should not neglect their revolutionary de- velopment. Every Monday evening at the Mohegan Colony School a class in the Fundamentals of Com- | munism is conducted by Comrade This class is conducted under the auspices of the Workers’ School Summer Circuit. Visitors are welcome to individual lectures or may sign up for the entire course. . Workers Cultural in Los Angeles The following is a very intcrest- ing communication received irom the Los Angeles Workers’ School on their activities of thei Cultural . Center Center. | meeting hail. It seats 600 and our Among the social, cultu. nf! arti aave decorated it with educational accomplishments . .. » that show the only way out New Cultural Center, establishea | oi the crisis for the workers, intel- | but three months ago, the Workers’ School comes first. There were 240 student courses and 160 students. The courses ran for 12 weeks. New courses for the Summer session will begin June 18, Hundreds use the library at the Center. Here, reference copies of all current working-class literature and many Communistic classics may be obtained. With the addition of more volumes the library will soon start a circulatjng library. The Labor Sports Union Gym- nasium, which will be the home of all youth, has just been opened. It ITTLE SHIRLEY TEMPLE earns $150 a week... . Not much, you say? . . . Well, she’s only three years old, God bless her. . . . The | Hollywood Casting Bureau has re- moved 2,000 more extras from its lists. .. . Louella Parsons “feels that there are times when the whole film industry should be taken to task. . . .” My, my, Miss Parsons, how | terribly radical of you! .. . Miss | Parsons’ main objection to Holly- | Wood is the fact that it uses such old-fashioned titles (!) . . . What | brand of paralysis except the in- fantfle type could anyone expect Hollywood to be struck by? . . .| The doctors are blaming it on the over-use of swimming pools, just to be polite, I guess. ... Mrs. Bel- mont is at it again.... Trying to reform the motion-picture for you and me. .. . What an indefatigable | soul! . . . Reminds me of a news- paper headline Ralph Steiner once | brought to my attention which | read: “Clean Film Crusade Absorbs Mrs. Belmont’s Energy.” ~ ae | horses can’t and bridge won't, ma: | be the movies will. ... But, serious- | ly, unless a powerful counter-attack | |4s launched immediately to expose | the essentially political aims-of the | present so-called “clean movie” campaign being organized and di- | rected by the most conscious reac- | tionary elements in church and pa- triotic organizations, we may ex- pect a crystallization of all the fas- cist tendencies which we have wit- nessed in Hollywood in the past two years, into an intensely and consis- |tently organized output of anti- | Working class films... . The real aim of the Mrs. Belmonts is cov- ered by a thick smoke-screen of “de- cency-morality-educational” bunk in which capitalist politicians are | the general staff and the “gentle- | men of the pulpit” the holy-crusad- | ing “front.” . ‘AS General Hugh S. Johnson hissed and booed, or was the General hissed and booed at the/ Embassy last week! ... Such popu- + larity! . . . On the same program Dimitroff and Gorki reviewing the | Moscow May Day demonstration jwere roundly cheered and ap- | plauded. . | is fairly well equipped and there are | | showers. | pee of the Center| | reached the high of $100 sales last | month. The stock is constantly be- | ing increased to meet the demand | and soon will be complete, perhaps | | as complete as the New York Work- | | ers’ Bookshop. There is the League of Workers’ | Theatres and workers are urged to join up and build the theatre move- | ment. | The Gymnasium Hall is used for | meetings, on the nights that it is| not used as a gym, | The Auditorium has grown from | an empty hall into a truly workers’ lectuals and middle class. | Overnight, the building has been | transformed from nothing into a beautiful fairly well equipped Cul- | tural Center of which we may all be proud. | Dr. Maximilian Cohen | | Dental Surgeon ‘| 41 Union Sq. W., N. Y. C. After 6 P.M. Use Night Entrance | 22 EAST ith STREET Suite 103—GR. 17-0135 ever saw was in the Soviet Union!” | rope and America they continue to be . r4 tolerate oppression and injustices inevitable under a capitalist re- gime.” * S$ EDITOR of a Jewish maga- zine, Wise had gone to the U. 8 ~~ drawing, painting, cartooning, fresco, se, Tuesday Exhibition of student work July 1-15. SHORT TALK on ‘New Soviet Morality”) BOOKSHOP, 50 B. 13th St., will conduct by Marshall Shaw. Dancing to follow—| its 20-50% Discount fale on July 4th free lemonade—at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx | (Independence Day) till 3:15 pm. All (corner 170th St.) Adm. free. Auspices | Workers urged to take advantage of this Mt. Eden Youth Br,, P..U., 8:30 p.m. “holiday” and get their literature at ‘a | discount BARN PARTY AND DANCE at Hinsdale | BROWNSVILLE WORKERS BOOKSHOP Workers Club, 572 Sutter Ave. 8:30 Pm. and Circulating Library announces its re Auspices ¥.C.L. Unit 3 East N. ¥. Ice| moval to larger headquarters at 369 Sutter Cream free, Costumes optéonal. Adm. 15¢.| ave Latest revolutionary pamphlets and Fine time promised books in English, Jewish and Russian now LAST WEEK of registration for Summer | on sale at discount of 20% to 50%. Term. Brownsville Workers School, 1855] DO NOT make any engagements for July Pitkin Ave. Classes begin July 9. | 4th if you want to make the annual pienie REGISTER NOW for Summer Classes, | of Communist Party, N. ¥. District, to be John Reed Club School of Art, 430 Sixth | held at North Beach Picnic Park, Astoria, Ave. Evening and week-end classes in| L. I, a success. Sports, games, theatre, | dancing. Lots of fun. | Thursday NATE BRUCE, Secretary of the Inter= | national Labor Defense, speaks on “Poli« | tical-Cultural Aspects of the Scottsboro | Trial," at the Gotham Book Mart Garden's | regular weekly “Dog Star Evening,” 51 | West 47th St., at 8:15 p.m. Lecture in he open air. Adm. 25c. All proceeds go 0 the ILD. Philadelphia, Pa, PUBLIC TRIAL of German Fascist ter- ror, Friday, July 6th, 8:15 p.m. at Garrick Theatre, Chestnut near Broad. Kurt Rosenfeld, Mrs. Amabel, Wm. Ellis, Arun- del Bearon, principal witnseses. Arno R. Mowitz, German consul, invited to defen, Hitler regime, FREE ERNST THAELMANN! GRAND PICNIC by Daily Worker and Trade Union Unity League, July 4, at Old Berkies Farm. Take Broad St. Subway or car 65 to end of line; transfer to car.6, ride to Washington Lane, walk two blocks west JOINT PICNIC of A. F. of L. Tratie Union Com. for Unemployment Insurance and Relief and Rank and File Group of LL.G.W.U. Sunday, July 15, at Sand and Parkside Ave. All’ affiliated and sympa- thetic organizations requested to keep | date open and assist us to carry affair | through succeffssfully, PICNIC AND OPEN AIR BANQUET given by Section 6 Communist Party, Wednesdey, July 4th, at Strawberry Mansion Park, | 33rd & Cumberland Sts. Excellent food and drink, entertainment and fine com- radely spirit. All Strawberry Mansfon workers and their friends are urged to | come. GIUSEPPE BAMBOSCHEK Conductor of the Chicago Opera | Company at the Hippodrome. AMUSEMENTS | OF FN. LAND-3-SOVIETS-1934 See and Hear MOSCOW MAY DAY CELEBRATION conty complete Showins) STALIN, MOLOTOV, ORDJONIKIDZE, KALININ, VOROSHILOFF, KAGANOVICH — AUSTRIAN SCHUTZBUND — DIMITROFF and his MOTHER, MAXIM GORKI, BULLITT—THE KOLKHOZ (the cooperatives) —CHELYUSKIN EXPEDITION with PROF. SCHMIDT, KARA KUM EXPEDITION, SNOW AND ICE CARNIVAL—MOSCOW, 1934—Life in the Soviet Capital Today, ete., ete. SEE and HEAR the ROMANCE of the U.S. S. R.! - | ACME THEATRE 14th STREET and || UNION SQUARE | | ND BIG i WEEK CHICAGO Maestro Salmagsi, Dir. | PER TONIGHT, 8:15 JAMES W. FORD Says: “By all means Negro and white workers should see stevedore La Traviata | We Bee: ak eet : 5 CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. tae he ag fear sea esa Eves. 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Sat. 2:45 | oheces 50c¢ Mere BDC sae 25¢ 800-400-600-75e-$1.00 & $1.50. No Ta i cen HIPPODROME “fA 43rd STREET A few seats at 99¢ — NO HIGHER! Lewisohn Stadium, Amst.Ave.&138 St., PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY ~~ Sate CONCERT! ADVERTISEMENT _ | Symphonic Programs: | Sunday through Thursdey Nights, 8:30 Conducted by ITURBI 4 Opera Performances with Star Casts , Friday and Saturday Nights at 8:30» | Conducted by s . }-PRICES: tpessoe-$1 00 cebrele. ‘7-7575). Native African : Folk Drama ; *KYKUNKOR’. Playin; ig at oe LITTLE THEATRE - 244 W. 44th St. Cut out this announcement and: Camp Unity Is Overcrowded We wish to announce that registration in Camp Unity has been closed until after July 4th for lack of space. We suggest that all those who intended to spend the July 4th holiday in Camp Unity patronize either Camp Nitgedaiget or Camp Kin- derland where there are still ac- commodations available and where, we are sure, they will have as enjoyable and interest- ing stay as in Unity. THE MANAGEMENT. seat for 40c. secure a $2.20 orchestra seat for’ 83c; or a 55c to $1.10 balcony?)