The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1934, Page 5

| | \ i | ee eer ei ees DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1934 Page Fivé CHANGE | io ae || ' WORLD! | _____________ By JOSEPH NORTH ———_—____' T FIRST I hesitated to raise the question in this column. I wondered. Would the “Daily’s” readers be interested in the problem discussed? I decided Yes, I thought: Work- ‘ers are interested in all kinds of machinery—whether it be mechanics of steel or the mechanics of words. The gadgets atid springs in the machinery of revolutionary literature are somewhat less tangible, harder to put your finger on, than the gadgets in a Ford motor. But we need technicians of the word, too. I can only pose the question here: its answer will develop in the coming swift days. The question 1g revolutionary reporting. I don’t think xt nas been getting a break. The particular phase of revolutionary reporting I want to discuss is reportage. Many American working-class journalists I know have a contempt for that term. It sounds high-toned; Frenchy. The provincialism that characterizes Americans in many things applies also to this. But let's call it by any name—I don’t care. I mean the kind of reporting John Reed did. I mean the reporting Agnes Smedley did in Chinese Destines. It includes the kind of reporting John L. Spivak did in some of his “Portrait of America” sketches in the New Masses; for example, some of the things Erskine Caldwell, Sender Garlin and Ben Field have done in the Daily Worker. That’s the kind of reporting I mean. The Soviet writers call it Reedism. They call it afier an American. It belongs to this continent by rights. But I think it’s more than North American. I think it’s revolutionary. What it. really is is three-dimensional reporting. It not only an- swers the classic queries of who, when, where, why. It not only gives the facts of a situation. It gives you the feel, too. You report in images—with the statistics to verify your images. These images should have typical connotations. I want to speak up for this kind of writ- ing. There’s not been enough of it in our movement. In fact there's been a snobbery toward it. Our best writers consider the novel, the play, the poem, more important. They are important. No doubt. Let’s have more novels, more plays, Moré poems. But let’s have more good reporting. . * . Wanted—A Proletarian Shakespeare! a= GOLD recently wrote what we need in America is a William Shakespeare to report the epic struggles of the workers of today. Good. If we get a proletarian Shakespeare—hurray! But I don’t think we need worry about that so much. I'd like to see more John Reeds today. John Reed was good enough. His Ten Days That Shook the World gave you the facts of revolution. I also gave you the feel of it. John Reed was no Shakespeare. But he was a revolutionary reporter. That was good enough. I wish we had more writers like him here. I wish we had some more like Agnes Smedley. Like Spivak. Writers like Tretyakov in the US.S.R. Writers who fit the tempo of the times. Sure. We need the novel—the proletarian novel—I have no brief against it. It has been a most important literary form. It will con- tinue to be one. But let’s consider a moment. Who reads novels today? Who's got the itme? Who's got the dough? Can workers shell out two bucks for novels as good as Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread? Or Robert Cantwell’s The Land of Plenty? Or Conroy’s The Disinherited? Or any of the considérable number of proletarian novels with fine prom- ise and achievement today? I believe the novel is being read by students, by white-collar work- ers, professionals. That is important, too. Occasionally workers here and there throughout the country can lay hands on a novel. Don’t get mé wrong. I’m not proposing to our writers to abandon the novel form. I’m working on one myself. Nor to abandon the play. That's a powerful medium. Nor the poem. Leét’s sing revolution, too, . . - * Good. Reporting Must Pack a Punch! | THINK Comrade Granville Hicks was wrong when he said recently we can always have good reporting. Can we? Have we? This thing nalled reportage looks easy. It’s a short form. But good reportage, re- nember, has three dimensions. It’s got to leave you with knowledge— it the same tithe pack # punch. Spivak did it in that Open Letter to ihe President in a recent issue of the New Masses. He did it in Wildcat Williams; he repeated in Silver Shirts Among the Gold. The way Spivak tells it is reportage wh@ther he likes that name or not. Agnes edley did it in her inimitable The Fall of Shangpo. One of the most wwerful pieces of writing in recent years. Reportage—creative revolutionary journalism—Reedism—whatever ou want to call it—is no cinch. A writer has to know his stuff to get ¢ across. For one thing he’s got to know the revolutionary movement. de’s got to study, be up on all political factors, so that the specific event 8 illumined in the light of its larger implications. If he goes out to sover ‘a steel strike he’s got to know the policy of the Trade Union Onity League. He has got to know what Mike Tighe stands for; what the A. A. is. He's got to bé able to portray the general, through the specific. He’s got to know a lot about many things—wages, hours, working conditions—the dialectic of events. In short, he's got to know the. Workers—to know the working class and its role in its historic destiny. Now his job only begins. Next he must portray a situation dra- natically. .He must know how to paint characters in a few swift ‘rokes, He hasn't got 300 pages and half a year to do it in. It’s hot off > griddle. If you think it can’t be done read some of the things tten by these journalists I’ve mentioned. When you're through with a piece of this kind of writing you not only know what happened. You must feel it. That's creative lism. That’s the way John Reed wrote. . . * New Masses Needs No “Angel” A W me to gét off on a related subject which I think hasn’t re- ceived enough consideration by out press as yet. That's the New M I bélieve one of the great services the New Masses will per- form, is performing, is the development of revolutionary journalism. It is developing new John Réeds, new Tretyakovs, new Smedleys, We've seen some evidences of this already in the weekly New Masses. This kind of writing accounts for some of the reasons why the weekly has more than twice the number of readers per week than the monthly had a month. That’s why more than 16,000 people read the New Massés. It’s part of the reason why we gét issue after issue out on time: and without that “angel” Max Eastman sheers about. Max Eastman can’t figure the American masses supporting the magazine. It’s hard to figure anything about the Américan massés when you're spending your days talking r-r-revolution to adoring ladies in Women’s Clubs. The New Masses has been hitting in the right direction I think. ‘We haven't hit the bel! yet. By no means. But we are hitting in the tight direction. I get that from the reactions of hundreds of letters streaming into the office. Of coursé, mostly professionals, intellectuals, white collar people, read the magazine. But workers are reading it, too. I want to quote from a typical letter we get in the office. It’s from a farm-hand whose namé I can't give. But it’s a good old Svensk nathe like Olsen. I can’t give his address except that it’s in the big state of Minnesota." Here it is: “Dear Comrades: Enclosed you will find a money order for five dollars, for which please send me New Masses for ohe year and thé “Coming Struggle for Power” by John Strachey. Will you send the book to -——, Minnesota? The postoffice is used as a spying organ- ization out here. I used to go in and buy some money orders to Daily Worker. When the postmaster found out they were Commu- nists organization he rapported it to the department of Labor. One of their officials came up and asked all kinds of foolish question. As I happen to be foreigner born and not yet citizen he warned me if I am catch distributing or making propaganda for communism I will be send back where I came, because this is a free country. . . . ib “Hope you jor ‘ will be successfull in building up a large circulation the New Masses. In the possision I am not able to much for the moment, but will use the time increasing my knowledge in Marxisin- Communism. I am a young farm worker, working from five in the morning to seven-eight at night and for this work I receive the great sum of twenty-five dollar in a month and room and board. But the small farmer is not to blame as they don’t get anything for their own work either. With comradely grectings. . . . The New Masses is written for him, too. Not alone for the white- collar workers, professionals, intelléstuals. Tie job of the magazine is to show all these workerc—in office, feotory, And farit—the fight is a common fight. We're all in the army now; the army of the dis- possessed Don Basin---Heart of Soviet Heavy Industry | Produced 70% of Coal for Soviet Union Last Year (Editorial Note: This is the first of a series of articles on the Don | Basin.) | $2 6 Le | By VERN SMITH | STALINO, US.S.R.—This city is | the capital of the Donetz “Oblast,” | or province, in the Ukrainian Re- | public of the Union of Socialist So- viet Republics. Donetz Oblast co- |incides with the industrial area | known as the Don Basin, since the Don River flows along its eastern border. The “basin” lies directly north of the Sea of Azoy. It is the primary center of heavy industry in the Soviet Union, about equival erfiin size and economy to the Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Eastern Ohio indus- trial field in U. 8. A. In the Don Basin some 400,000 miners and above-ground workers connected directly with the coal in- dustry produced last year 44,500,000 tons of coal, which is 70 per cent |of the coal hoisted in the Soviet | Union. This year they plan to dig | 53,100,000 tons from the Ukrainian Donbas, and 7,000,000 more from a} patt of the coal field that runs over | into the Northern Caucasus. It may be thought that the percentage of total Soviet production will drop for the Donbas, for new coal fields are being rapidly developed in Si- | | beria, in Central Russia, in other | parts of the USSR. This is the} only country where coal mining ex- pands, where production leaps month by month, where new fields appear each year. But the Don Basin will remain for some time the main coal bin of the Soviet Union. | Tt is also the main smelter. Over 100,000 workers in huge steel mills, working with pig iron from their own blast furnaces, are to be found in the Stalin mill at Stalino, in the Tomsky mill at Makeivka, in the high grade steel production mill “Azovstall” at Mariuple, in the Voroshilov mill at Voroshilovsk— producing over 42 per cent of the pig iron, nearly 30 per cent of the steel and about 35 per cent of the rolled steel made in the Soviet Union. The Don Basin is likewise the main coke oven. Over 40 per cent of the coke used in the Soviet Union comes from here. There are coke ovens and the allied chemical industries that go with coke, dotting the landscape throughout the coal fields. The Don Basin is also the center of machine building—the primary center, for there are others. In Gor- lovka, @ coal town near the center of the area, is a factory which makes all the coal cutting machin- ery used in the mines of the Soviet Union, and those mines are now 70 per cent mechanized, the most mechanized coal field in the world. The same factory produces most of the conveyors and other machinery used in the mines. Mining machin- ery is not imported any longer, and next year they expect to have the mines 90 per cent mechanized. In addition, the biggest heavy machine building plant in the world was opened last year at Krama- torsk, in this afea, only a few miles from Goflovka. Further east, just outside the coal field, but still in the Don Basin, is the huge Lugansk Locomotive. works, producing now WHAT’S ON LAST WEEK of Registration for Summer ‘Term. Brownsville Workers School, 1865 Pitkin Ave. Classes begin July 9. | REGISTER NOW for Summer Classes, | | John Reed Club School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave. Evéning and week-end classes in| drawing, painting, cartooning, fresco, etc. | Exhibition of student work July 1-15. YOOKSHOP, 50 F. 13th St., will conduct its 20-80% dicount sale on July 4th (tn-| dependence Day) till 3:15 p.m. All work- ers urged tO take Advatitage of this “holl- day” and get their literature at @ dis-| count. BROWNSVILLE WORKERS BOOKSHOP and Ciréulating Library announces its re- moval to larger headquarters at 369 sut- ter Ave. Latest revoltitionary pamphlets and books in English, Jewish and Russian now on sale at discount of 207% to 50%. onstrations against pro-war Greater Glory,” at following R.K.O. The- atres: Proctor'’s, 143 W. 23rd St., Man- hattan; Franklin, 887 Prospect Ave., Bronx; Albee, 7 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn. Time, 7 p.m. Demonstration at Albee ‘Theatre at 12 noon also. Auspices Amer- fean League Against War and Fascism and Film and Photo League. GALA DAY TODAY! Annual Picnic of Communist Party, N. ¥. District, at North Beach Picnic Park, Astoria, L. I. Sports, games, theatre, dancing. Come and have a swell time. ALL MEMBERS of Film and Photo League requested to report at 12 E. 17th 8t., 5:80 P.M. sharp, to make final plans for “No Greatet Glory’? Demonstrations. Attendance and assistance of non-mem- bets partictlarly welcomed. ‘TEENTION Brooklyn Comrades. Bus A to Party Picnic July 4. Leaving Section 7 headquarters, 118 Livingacn St., 10 a.m. Round trip $c. Proves: to ©. P. Sec. 7. ‘MEMB! MBETING Sacco-Vanzetti Br, LLD,, postponed. Will take place Thursday, July 5th, 8:30 p.m., at 702 E. Tremont ‘Ave., Bronx. PICNIC at Bohémian Park, 29-19 24th Ave, Astoria, 2 fim. Ausploss Burden: Jaender Workers Club. Take Second Ave. L to 57th St. Change to Astoria train to last stop. “Walk two blocks back. SEVEN-COURSE DINNER for 75 cents at Brighton Beach Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave, Brighton. Twenty-five per cent of | rofits for ‘Voice of West Bid.” Auspices roméh’s Cowhell No. 17, Brighton Beach. Thursda; NATE BR Secretary of the Inter- national Labor Defense, speaks on ‘‘Poli- tical-Cultural Aspects of the Scottsboro Trial,” at the Gotham Book Mart Garden's tegilar weekly “Dog Star Evening,” 51 West 47th St, at 8:15 p.m. Lecture in a Adm. 25c. All proceeds g6 PUBLIC TRIAL of German Fascist ter- ror, Friday, July 6th, 8:15 p.m. at Garrick Theatre, Chesthiit neat Broad. Kurt Rosenfeld, Mrs. Amabél, Wm. Ellis, Aruh- del Bearon, principal witnseses. Arno R. Mowit, Gétman consul, invited to defond Hitler regime. IST THAELMANN' GRAND PICNIC by Daily Worker and Trade Union Unity Leagué, July 4, at Old Berkies Farm. Take Broad St. Subway of oar 65 to end of line; transfer to car 6, ride to Washitigton Lane, walk’ two blocks west. JOINT PIGNIC of A. FP. 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’ affliated and sympa- thétle Organizations requested to keep date open and assist us to carry affair throigh succeffsstully. PICNIC AND OPEN AIR BANQUET ¢iven by Section 6 Commtinist Parti, Wednesday, July 4th, at Strawberry Mansion Park. a3rd & Cumberland Sté. Excellent food and drink. ehtettainment and fine com- radély spitit. All Strawberry Mahsion who have transformed the Don Basin into the center of heavy industry. Two mining engineers—proletarian technicians of the kind # almost entirely the powerful “Felix- Dzerjinsky” locomotives, larger than any other in Europe, excelled by only one model in the United States. Cea ea HOSE industries: coal, steel, coke - chemical and machine - Building, are the main occupation of the Don Basin’s 1,300,000 work- ers. The Don Basin forms an eco- nomic unit of those industries. The coal not shipped elsewhere is turned into coke and chemicals. The coal fields of the Ukraine and the iron ore field almost touch each other. The cars that carry ore to the Donbag go back loaded with coke for the blast furnaces of Krivi Rog, and never have to run empty. Part of the pig iron is shipped away, but right alongside the blast furnaces are the open hearths, mak- ing steel—with iron still hot from the blasts. And without even cool- ing, @ lot of this steel goes into the often from their own special mills attached to the machinery factory. Nor does the process stop here. Even most of the food of the work- ers is grown near the mines and mills. And this is something very new. In the pre-revolutionary Don Basin a theory prevailed that such a region must consume food, never produce it. The bleak character of the landscape perhaps helped to form such a theory; it is a great rolling treeless praitie with winds that howl 40 miles an hour over it. It is cold in winter and hot in summer. A gang of rich landlords and “kulaks,” employer-peasants, used these steppes for grazing pur- poses, and discouraged farming, oes Se YOU should see the Don Basin now: everywhere tractors pull- ing gang plows, turning up the soil. By plowing it deep, they found that it produces well after all. This year 4,635,000 acres of land is planted, i e mo | | A Rich Cultural Life Is | shallow lakes, is an almost miracu- | lous remedy for rheumatism; a big | hospital at Slavyansk uses it, and AND Enjoyed by the Don Basin Miners dreds of thousands of acres of veg- etables planted this year by the workers themselves, in their own Science Goes To Bat for Big little kitchen gardens. The miner Business and steel worker here doesn’t mind, | FEW weeks ago at the Chicago any more than he would in Ameri- Pair more than 300 important ca, if he could get the land, spend-/| scientists and educators put on a ing a few hours a day in spring | big show for General Motors. As a planting, in order later to have his| publicity stunt they conducted a own new potatoes, radishes and / symposium which attempted to pre- fresh tomatoes and lettuce growing | dict how life in America would be By DAVID RAMSEY |near his house. Since here it is| changed by science and technology. his government and the government | The scientists had to compete w owns the land, he gets what ground | fan-dancers and sword-swallowers, he needs for the garden, without | and the real object of their discus- question. sion was to ballyhoo General Mo- | tors’ products. But both of these h * * . ‘THERE is a story in itself around | are unimportant. What is important | ! the clay and other sorts of mud/are the facts they disclosed about | of the Don Basin, For a couple of|the state of American technology weeks when the snow melts in| today. At present, American work- spring, it makes the stickiest mudjers and farmers could enjoy the I ever saw, and a campaign of hard | highest standard of living in the | road building is going on full speed | history of mankind if... . If they to insure no more bogged down | would cut the fetters that capital- autos or wagons. The mud of thé| ism has clamped upon technologi- Don Basin is on the one hand, an-| cal change other of those obstacles that work- | A technological revolution is ma- er-farmer energy is conquering, and | turing which would ensure plenty | can conquer because no capitalist | to all of mankind, but this revolu- | up| system interferes. | tion in technique has come But on the other hand, Don Basin | against the barriers of capitalist mud, particularly that from the | Social relations. It cannot come to | fruition unless it is preceded by | the overthrow of capitalism. This is the logic of the facts that the | entists related, but it j | with but one or two exceptions they carefully avoided. It is ironic that it is shipped to Kharkov and other places hundreds of miles away. Then, clay brought up from the LABORATORY Notes on Scienee and Technology -| White House, i a week to supesintend the opening of the port by force and strike- workers and their friends are urged to some and of this 4,325,000 is planted col- Jectively, by state farms and collec- tive farms, mostly collective farms. Over two million acres of this is in in, the rest is flax, sunflowers, (for ‘feeding cattle, for the blooming and rolling mills attached to the blast furnace-open hearth ageregate. The Soviet engineer and the So- viet worker has learned the art of | gra’ making tools and other. high grade | hay. steels and steel alloys, The ma- chine building industry of the Don Basin gets its raw material directly from the steel mills there, Highlights on the West Coast Longshore Strike 1 bed following telegrams sent on Juné 24, from the West Coast long- shore strike area tell an interesting story: Hon. Frances M. Perkins, Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. Til tell you how to settle the dock strike stop make the employers | grant everything the workers demand every single thing stop they don’t | ask half enough you know stop if they had the dumb greed of their bosses they would demand what the bosses now posses colon the whole works. miner and steel worker must have his meat) and vegetables. The 385,> 000 acres of vegetables included above, does not includes the hun- Lincoln Steffens. (Of course, the Workers will eventually not only demand but take over “the whole works.” But not from “dumb greed”—they made it, | it is theirs —Hditor). President Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. Longshore situation is not so bad as United Front of Owners make cut stop their wails to you, to the legionnaires, chambers of commerce, service clubs are demogogic signs of a desperate willingness to call out their fascist mobs stop it never seems to occur to them that they can settle the strike and avoid bloodshed and the class action now being entered upon by granting all the demands of the workers who don't ask half enough for the purposes of your recovery policiés. Lincoln Steffens. Governor Merriam, Executive Mansion, Sacramento, California We call to your attention that use of foree with police protection for employers and none for strikers or union men means Class action on behalf of employers against workers stop we though Americanism es- chewed class action. National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. 580 Market St., San Francisco, California. Mayor Rossi, : San Francisco, California y Our organization consisting many hundred influential California citizens deplores your support employers and police in opening port by force stop longshoremen have proven themselves willing to make peace any minute their demands are met stop force does not bring justice and thousands California citizens greatly deplore yout one-sided state- thents: threatening aid to employers using force. National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. 580 Market St., San Francisco, California. * Facts from the Shipping Front 1—The employers have a fleet of 400 trucks manned by strike- breakers and machine guns inside, lined up ready to “oven the port by force.” 2—Mayor Rossi, Chief of Police Quinn and other authorities have promised stipport and protection from the State With armed guards accompanying scab trucks, 3—The employers have hired a man whom they ate paying $1,000 breakers. 4—A government mediator came out of & conference with shipping men with these words: “The employers are bastards.” 5—Telegrams have flooded Washington télling the Federal Govern- ment that longshoremen and striking sympathetic utiions do not wish to end the strike on any terms. This is a conscious falsehood. The strikes have stated on every conceivable occasion that they will return to work a& soon as their demands are granted. 6—The shipping men have collected funds from many industrial | companies which havé nothing to do with thé strike. These are to help break the strike. They complain that they wish to deal with no onc | but the longshe:smen in the waterfront strike. They thus deny to work- | fs the right to a united front whith they have formed among thé i employers mines unavoidably, turned out to ‘be super-excellent for use in moulds in the iron and steel industry. Clay from certain areas was so very good for this purpose that chemists were prompted to analyze it, and found these men, whose lives are sup- | posedly devoted to the discovery and | SHOP j no discovery will pe made available, | unless it can roll up profits. Fifty per cent of American machinery and plant equipment is obsolescent, The equipment is not being replaced ery because Ameri+ could not operate them profitadl; These are questio! understand more easil lectuals at wor than i In the factor} ier to compre! acterize capitalist ‘oduction. ntists doing research -in such matters are hard to grasp. The great majority of them are kept carefully wrapped in | cellophane by bourgeois society. They are filled with nonsense abous the sacredness of their work. The more respectable are used as paid propagandi: With the decay of organized religion new faith- ts being preached to the masses—Sci- ence. But it is a science that is wrapped in mystical veils, a teche nology that is not used to lighten the burdens of humanity. - T IS not strange, therefore, that at Chicago the scientists did not rise and challenge their capitalist masters. They did not confront their bosses with the fact that prof- its stand in the way of a technical revolution that would transform the life and customs of mankind. In- stead the scientists went to bat for application of rational truths, shut | C@Pitalism. Their solution for the themselves up in logic-tight com- | problem of starvation in the midst partments whenever it becomes a question of bucking the powers that a huge percentage of aluminum in| be it~so now the Don Basin has an aluminum industry starting up. Someone remembered an old ac- count, of how the Empress Cathe- rine II gave a gold mining con- cession to an Englishman in the Nagolny range. The capitalist found gold, but so mixed with zine that he didn’t know how to extract the gold, and abandoned the job. A lit- tle prospecting found rich zinc mines, and that makes another new industry for Donbas. There is also gold. And there is cement. They have electricity, too. They are located between the inex- haustible water power of Dniepro- ges, and the just developing hydro- electric power of the Caucasus. They are also building their own power stations, using coal for fuel. And you must not get the idea that all this is static, everything found, and only diminishing with the years. Twenty years ago they thought the Donbas mines were worked out. But every mine in the Donbas, almost, has within the last couple of years found new deposits of coal, either below the old work- ings, or near by. * r A capitalist country such a i aon Holby would be Sliced up every ion by private prop- erty lines. Grim and dirty Toma pany towns would house the min- ers; smoky steel towns would swarm with workers half dead from 12- hour shifts. The law would be the whim of coal and steel barons, ch- forced by their armed guards. Ex- ploitation, hunger, bitter class struggle, arrests, jailings and mur- der would be the order of the day. I have just spent a month among the workers of the Don Basin, see- ing everything and talking to ev- eryone. I have seen them at work, at play, at study, governing them- ae | selves in their Soviets, running their trade union, at their Communist Party meetings, in their homes sur- rounded by their families, at their meals in mine and factory dining rooms, and engaged in a whole sys- tem of useful and pleasurable ac- tivities that, unless explained in de- tail, mean absolutely nothing to the American miner and steel worker, he has had absolutely no contact with such things, doesh’t even know they are possible. aes ee yUsT as I finish this account, the newspapers report the formation of a new trust known as Donbas “Polymetals” to mine recently sur- veyed deposits of lead, zinc, cadmi- um, téllurium, gallium, germanium, pichlorine, antimony, zirconium and Platinum; all fare metals very use- ful in industry, especially some of them, for alloys with steel. Stage and Screen “The Land of the Soviets” In Second Week at Acme “In the Land of the Soviets,’ the new Soviet film released here by Amkino for its first American show- ing, will be continued for a second week at the Acme Theatre. The film covers a wide field, but in do- ing so it presents a most interest- ing picture of Soviet Russia as it is today. Especially so in its pres- entation of the Kolkhoz, the life on _the collective farms. The heroic Chelyuskin expedition, with its leader, Prof. Otto Schmidt, i8 an important feature of the film. From its start in Leningrad to the Behring Strait, the arrival at the Island of Solitude and the fight against the elements—the picture tells a thrilling tale. This is fol- lowed by the expedition to Kara Kum, which presents the heroic trip actoss the desert. May Day in Moscow, shown here for the first time in complete form, is thrilling. Close-ups of Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, Voroshiloff, Ord- jJonikidze ate caught by the camera. The Austrian Schutbund, the Ital-| ian workers and the ‘thousands of | workers and the Red Ariny are seen marching in Red Square. The Daily Worker says: “If you miss a hun- dred other films, don’t fail to see ‘In the Land of the Soviets.’ ” “Boris Godunoff” At The Hippodrome Tomorrow Nite ¢ Chicago Opera Company, under thé direction of Alfredo Sam- Jaggi, Will present the first Russian Opera, “Boris Godunoff,” at the Hippodrome tomorrow night. opera will be sung in Russian. Max Pantéleiff will sing the title role in Moussorgsky’s opera. Eugene Plot- nikoff will conduct, The | * We elt | A SUMMARY of the revelations of the scientists gives us the following picture of what life in America could be like, if there were @ workers’ and farmers’, and not a bankers’, state. There is already available a mod- ern house that could be fabricated in the millions, like so many auto- mobiles. It has 5 or 6 rooms, is equipped with every article of fur- niture, utensils, garage, sewers, pavements, lawns, trees, etc. workers’ society that would not be interested in “adequate” profits for |manufacturers, or in perpetuating the hygienic and social evils slums for still more profits, could jmake these houses available to ev- |ery farmer and worker in need of decent housing. By eliminating profits these houses could be pro- duced for about $1,000 apiece. Under capitalist conditions the cost runs from $2,000 to $5,000 per | house. And no unemployed worker, no employed worker struggling to earn $10 or $15 a week, can afford such “luxuries.” Consequently, the anti-union A. O. Smith Corpora- tion of Milwaukee displays pretty models of such houses, and Ameri- can workers have to live in what bourgeois experts describe as “ptob- ably the worst slums in the world.” All homes, offices, factories and schools could be ait-conditioned. Temperatures and humidity could be controlled and healthful condi- tions maintained all year ‘round. Every home could be completely electrified, and all household drudg- ery eliminated. All routine indus trial and office tasks could be made completely automatic. There could be hundreds of new materials — synthetic stuffs that would replace wood and metals and other natural products; glass as hard 46 steel, and metals as elas- tic as rubber; new textiles. Increased productive efficiency could satisfy all needs and the working day be reduced to two hours. ee ra ae 'HIS list of inventions and discov- eries that could be utilized for benefitting mankind can be extend- ed indefinitely. Why then must Amiefican Workers and farmers live in ratholes, endure mass’ starvation, be broken by a merciless speed-up? The answer, worker and intellectual knows. It is a@ matter of profits! Every day in the United States metal shears cut off hands; punch presses stash fingers; machines teat off arms; giant rolls cripple bodies, chemicals blind eyes. Ac- cording to the United States Bu- reau of Labor Statistics, the num- ber of industrial deaths in America is estimated to be 25,000 annually, and the number of hoh-fatal in- dustrial injuries totals around 3,000,000 a year. deaths and injuries are due to fail- ure to install proper safety methods the hatids and legs, the arms and eyes, and éven the lives of men and women. They are the inevitable concomitants of production for profits. By how it must be pretty clear that ho invention will be marketed, ALL OUT TONITE! Demonstrations and pickéting will be conducted by the Film and Photo Leagué ata American League Against War aiid Fascism, tonight at 7, against the pro-war film “No Greater Glory,” at the following theatres: ATTAN—Proctor’s R.K.O., 2rd St. and 7th Ave. BROOKLYN—Albee, R.K.O., 7 De- Ralh Avi RO! Franklin, R.K.0., 887 Pros- every class-conscious | Most of these | and devices. Capitalism demands |. . |of plenty was the creation of an | “elite group” which would develop | “social consciousness on the part | of leaders in science and industry.” | They indulged in wish-fulfillment | to the extent of maintaining that | prosperity was lurking just behind |@ General Motors frigidaire, and | could be coaxed out of its retire-= |ment by the development of some new fabulous industry. It was a bit |of magical incantation combined | with the fervent hope that the oré> | ation of a new industry would mean | additional scraps from the capital- |ist’s table in the form of larger | budgets for research. This pious | prayer was offered up to the bosses: | “We cannot hope but feel fread: | hope and pray] that in a very short | time we are going to break loose an- | other great piece of basic informe- | tion which will keep us industrially busy for a great many years “to come.” | However, the 1,600 industrial lab- | oratories, the 100 university labora. | tories, the 75 trade association lab- | oratories and the 40 government technical bureaus, for all their mar- | velous achievements, cannot patch up the capitalist scheme of things | so that it wili function even in tis | old wasteful fashion. Every new j invention and discovery will only accentuate the irreconcilable diffi« culties of capitalism. If they are put on the market at all they will only increase (sooner or later) the exploitation of workers and farti- ers. zi Capitalism cannot push through the revolution in technique. It calls a halt on scientifie advance; it di- verts science into the channels of war. The complete technologital revolution can only take place in the Soviet Union. It will take place in America only under a Soviet sys- tem. The workers and farmers must first readjust the political and s0- cial structure, before they can také full advantage of the age of free= dom and plenty that technology | and science holds in store for them. | TUNING IN 7:00 P.M.-WEAP—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resune—Ford Prick | WJ%—Grace Hayes, Sones | WABC—Enzo Alta, Songs 7:18-WEAF—Gene and Gienn—Sketoh = WOR—To Be Announced 34 | WJZ—To Be Announced : WABO—Just Plain Bili—sketeh 7:30-WEAF—Lilliah Buckham, Soprano WOR=The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Jewels of Enchantment— | Sketch, with Irene Rich WABO—Jimmy Kemper, Songs | 7:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—sketeh WOR—Joseph Mendelsohn, Baritorm | WJZ—Amos ‘n’ Andy—Sketeh WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian WOR—Kahni Orth. WJZ—Guy Fawkes Jr—Sketch WABC—Maxine, Songs; Spitalny Bis semble : 8:15-WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:30-WEAP—Wayne King Orch. WOR—lone Ranger—Sketch Wd2—Igor Gorin, Baritone WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone. 8:45-WJZ—Basoball Comment—Babe Ruth 9:00-WEAF=Pred Allén, Comedian WOR—Footlight Echoes WI2—Pageaht of Indepéndence— | Drama and Music - | WABC—Nino Martini, Tenor; Koste: lahet Orch ‘ | 9:30-WOR—Tex Fieteher, Songs | WJZ—Young People and Old Bvils~ Skeich, with Vitginia Cherrill and Douglas Montgomery WABC—Looking at Life—Roy Helfom | 9:45-WOR—Dramatized News see WABC—Eméry Deutsch, Violin 10:00-WEAF—To Be Announced WJZ—Lopez Orch. WABO—Rebroadcast Byrd Expedi- tion * 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read | 10:30-WEAF—Other Americas—Bdward Tomlinson, Author r WOR—Robison Orch. 5 Wd2—Denny Orch.; Harry Richman, Songs —- WABC—California Melodies 11:00-WEAF—Meyers Orch. WOR—Davis Orch. WJzZ=Pickens Sisters, Songs AMUSEMENTS - “Don’t Fail to See This of the | Sovie | ACME THEATRE “In the Lamd ‘“oscow may pay $9 —=1934 14th STREET and UNION SQUARE Film.”=DAILY WORKE! (FIRST COMPLETE SHOWING) « TION; MOSCOW 1981; SLALINGRAD and GORKI ants: SNOW and ICE CARNIVAL, ete., etc. | ND BIG" CHICAGO Maestro Salmaggi, Dir. “Nida? Thurs. F: — Fifst Russian Opera ORIS GODOUNOFY” 50¢ BM 350 Butt 95¢ | 1000 Res, | Seats |HIPPODROME “i AvAUE ‘ A few seats at 9% — NO HIGHER! WEEK | JAMES W. FORD Says:| ——, | “By all means Negro and white | workers should sce i |stevedore | || CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 195 W 14 St, ives. 8:45. Mats. Wed. & Bat. & 30¢~406-606-75¢-81.00 & $1.50. .No Tex ?