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

J oe \ } ——THE— || WORLD! By ISIDOR SCHNEIDER HE phrase, “What the people want,” has always had a sad sound to my ears. For twenty years I have made my living in industries organized to ‘give the people what they want,” and it is notorious that in capitalist countries the people always seem to want the worst. Sometimes a good book becomes a best seiler; and a sensible style takes among fashionable women; and a sound, honest play becomes a CHANGE hit. But the big shots in these industries will always tell you that | these are flukes. Popular taste must be low. I have wondered and worried about it for a number of reasons, one of them being that it was unpleasant work giving the public what it wanted, when it wanted, ete. And the bosses in these industries are, oh, very democratic. They insist on giving the public what it wants. In fact, they consider themselves the slaves of the public. Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do—and collect the profits. Whenever I asked a boss to define popular demand he would throw up his hands. “If I knew,” he would say, “I would be richer than Henry | Ford.” The situation was this. He was in business to give the public | what it wanted. But he didn’t know what the public wanted. To put it plainly, he was producing he didn't know what. It does not, however, work out to quite such simple nonsense. The bosses of the magazine, movie, theatre, newspaper and radio industries don’t like to say out loud what they know and the principles they op- erate on, because it would not sound so good. It is much nicer to use phrases like popular demand, and what the people want, by which they really mean what they can make people want. A “Pash” Expert to “Heat Up” Scandal ‘Stories y hashed know human weaknesses and they concentrate on them. They play on these weaknesses in the way that dope peddlers exploit drug addicts. They work on the jealousies, vanities, and lusts of hu- man beings with wonderful and ruthless skill. One big newspaper chain has a “pash” expert to “heat up” its scandal stories. When science is called in it is usually for the purpose of finding a new method of ex- ploiting human weakness. Watson, famous Behaviorist, was hired to dig up a new weaknes< to be exploited by advertisers. He did. He rec- ommended the sex appeal of handsome men in the same way that alluring women were used. There is a theory, I understand, that piracy was the beginning of large scale trade. Some of the clever pirates discovered that there was @ bigger loot in profitable trade than in raids which chased people far inland where neither their persons nor their goods could be grabbed. This theory seems very reasonable to me. I have never seen a business yet that does not reveal piratical traits. What is profits but a form of loot? And what is much of business but a taking of advan- tage of the weakness of the customer, socially, just as in a battle the victor takes advantage of the military weakness of his enemy. Business Is a Guerilla Warfare OME time ago I read the Cambridge history of New Zealand, a very solemn book, The British conquered tne islands chiefly to make it easy for their traders. The goods carried by these traders, reverently described by the historian as fine, upright men, not at all the beach- comber type, were whiskey, guns and died human heads. No doubt the traders insisted that they were only meeting the popular demand: When I read that I felt that it was an illustration of the basic prineiple of trade. The Maoris, as customers, remained an enemy to be robbed. In trade their social weaknesses were being taken advan- tage of exactly as their military weaknesses had been in war, Pub- lishers and movie magnates in reality think of their public in the same terms as the English traders selling goods to the conquered Maoris. The English traders winked and were thankful for the weaknesses of “savages.” The entertainment and reading industry bosses wink and are thankful for the weaknesses of “morons.” And so almost every business transaction one sees has the nature of an ambush. Business is a never ending guerilla war of capitalists against their worker customers. Capitalism knows that this war has reached a stage where it is wracking society to pieces. But capitalism, avoiding the only solution, that of surrendering the profit system, does nothing but hide from Teality. Rotary and Kiwanis and hundreds of other high sounding clubs have been organized; slogans of service, golden rules, codes of ethics, have been formulated; millions of words have been penned, all to obscure and soften the harsh truth that capitalist business is run on the basis of social enmity. In the lines of business that I have heen associated with this is particularly the case, and the consciousness of this enmity is very strong. Advertising writers, pulp magazine authors, and the editors and publishers whom they work for, have a dirty feeling of contempt for their audience, the very people whose servants they declare them- selyes to be when they are editorializing. They gloat over the tricks they have pulled, exactly like soldiers who have to put. something over on an enemy. » : Opiates and Drugs for the Publie §° LONG: as the profit motive, rather than the motive of social value, is foremost, business, no matter whaé its character is, will be pirati- cal. The class war has a double front. Business wages its battles against the workers within the factories and against them again as customers. Business men will probe and play upon human weaknesses rather than human strengths. Popular taste will always be low, and the intellectual goods offered to the public will weaken and corrupt it—all kinds of dope, opiates of sentimentality, and drugs of sex stimulation. The press, radio, and the moyies, have, of course, the ordinary reason for their exploitation of the weakness of human beings. They make money by it. The profits are large and are won with extra- ordinarily little effort. The screened sex-dreams, the day dreams put into authoritative words in success stories, lured quick fortunes out of the doped American public. And the writers who brewed the dope, and the publishers, editors, directors, and film magnates, got together at their own swanky parties and laughed at the “booboisie,” the deluded, great American public whom they were exploiting. When any of the writers or editors got sick of their dirty work they were given doses of very effective medicine—more money. The money, they knew, was extracted out of the “morons.” One writer, for in- stance, went to Hollywood with two ambitions. One was to save $40,- 000 oyt of his excessive salary, to be able to retire and write what he wanted; the other was to elevate the standards of the films. When last heard ‘from, he was waiting till he had amassed his first million, end he had become an expert in suggesting new lows in cinema smut. But both consciously and unconsciously, the historical capitalist role of these industries has been to keep the masses weak, and deluded. This was not admitted, of course. But as capitalism finds itself threat- ened by the upsurge of the workers it seeks to make direct and con- scious use of these industries to lull the masses, ‘Thus, the Macfadden publications have issued a book to show how the doped up stuff in True Siories and their Confession magazines al- layed the spirit of discontent, Thus big capitalists who had backed Prohibition in the boom years because sober workers gave them bigger production per man-hour, turned around and backed repeal because booze would dope the workers. . ° . . “What the People Want” in the Soviet Union Rigaaned the output of books, newspapers, movies, and magazines of a capitalist country like America, England, or France, with the out- put of Soviet Russia, and the difference overwhelms one. On the one hand we have filth and degeneracy presented with great skill and ob- viously devised to corrupt readers and make them the yictims'of their weaknesses; on the other hand, we have expanding knowledge and strength. In that contrast one can read the future. In the inevitable confiict, how can a system that lives on class oppression, that preserves a set up in which one class profits on the weakening and corruption of the masses, hope to stand up against a system in which class oppres- sion is ended, and every agency is used to build up, unite and strengthen the masses? In the Soviets when they speak of “what the people want,” nobody snecrs. Appealing to the strength of the peopie, they give them the \ best in the world of science, music, art, literature, ‘There is no newspaper in the United States which is so essen- tial as the Daily Warker. I am one of the “Daily's” severest critics but I certainly | not think of missing an issue essential! JOHN L. SPIVAK. It ii revolutionary Way out. to double “Daily” its 2 drive towards MIKE GOLD I am very glad to support the campaign of the Daily Worker indispensable who wishes to keep in- CORLISS LAMONT. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 193% | T am convinced th circulation. ‘The for potential buyers of t Worker. It doesn't 1 much to make peopl starting right is to read the the that it gets them. GRANVILLE are more then half a million that only we can do—to see at there The drive to double the cir- culation of the “Daily” and to} get 20,000 new readers in the next two manths is a reflectio of the trem&ndous battle he Daily ake very je realize on the working class that it is their paper. The when all st and I earnestly urge movement. Tt is indispensable “Daily ought to have its 20,- e son who wants to w for a ch 2 additional subscribers; no- every means at ti the political and e presen bady who reads it can doubt mand to strengthen events which are so nd of the that. The only question is of the revolutionary changing Yais coun’ h capil whether we are willing to do A broadening of the world, to read the ‘approsi the work that we can do—and of the “Daily’ EVERY day. I find it absol front for the figh italism through the revolutionary art HICKS. LIMBACH. Coney Island — Hot Dogs — ~ Strikers — And By N. H. '‘AKE the Brighton Beach line at Union Sq., go to the end of the line, and directly across the street you are confronted with the daz- ling four-story facade of the world’s biggest hot-dog stand, out- shining everything else that you can see with its tungsen and neon lights. “This is the original Na- than’s Famous, Inc. Others immi- | tate; this is the original.” Mr. Nathan started his career in Russia as a shoemaker. He came to America about 20 years ago and worked in the Fulton St. fish mar- ket, but he was fired from there for stealing fish, so they say inj Coney Island. From there. he went to Max's Busy Bee on Sixth Ave—| Busy Bee is respectable for hot dog stand, and after all, if you make millions out of hot dogs you have te make them respectable. From here he managed to take $200 over to Coney Island and rent a stall just 19 years ago. His present loca- tion cost him $250,000. The “Walter Winchell” of Coney Island Mr. Nathan has quite a repu- tation around the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce, of which he is vice-president, of being a local Walter Winchell. His reputation for wit among the strikers, however, probably rests upon Mr. Nathan's classic Winchellette: he always asks an applicant for a job if he is| crazy. He repeats the question sev- | eral times, and if he cannot make | the neophyte admit that he would | have to be crazy to work as hard| and long as Mr. Nathan’s men work, | he will not hive him. | HE story & Soiaha rise to po- is one that Roosevelt should have the Brain Trusters incorporate into the grade schools in order to liven up the tempo of fascization of America. In the early days he used to instruct the countermen not to give anything to the policemen, but he soon began to see the yalue of political power, and told the boys to be generous with the cops. Then he got acquainted with the police sergeants and instructed the men to confine their generosity to sleeves with stripes on, but soon he man- aged to meet the police captain so- cially and was thus enabled to keep all political gifts in his own sure hands. Mr. Nathan is not a senti- mentgl man. He used to use his brother as a speed-up man, till he went on strike against him, and the strikers, not Mr. Nathan, pro- vide his brother with unemployed relief. Fifty Countermen on the Picket Line For five years the countermen in Nathan’s have wanted a union of | their own, but since Nathan makes | all workers admit they're squealers as well as crazy when he hires them they were unable to organize he- cause of mutual distrust. A year ago they tried to organize, but Na- than got wind of their plans and smashed them. This year they were more careful, They organized their own strike secretly for two weeks, and then called a meeting of all the workers at which they decided to TUNING IN 7:98 P.M.-WEAF—Basebell Results ‘WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—To Be Announeed WABC—Syiyia Froos, Songs 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch ‘WOR—Comedy; Music WSZ—Ed Lowry. Comedian WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield WSZ—Lopez Orch. WABC—Serenaders Orch. 7:45-WEAF—The Goldbergs—Sketch WOR—The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Amos 'n'’ Andy—Sketch Songs; McIntyre and Heath, Comedians, and others James, Conductor; Baritone; Bernard Ocko. Violin WJZ—Grits and Gravy—Sketch WABC—Rich Orch, 8:15-WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8: pees ey ‘Page and John Fogarty, Philadelphia S45 -Wse—lgoe Gorin, re Bh ae 9:00-WEAF—Captain Henry’s Show Boa WOR—Rod and Gun Club WdzZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch 9r15-WOB——Delle “Baker, soprano: jam Hargrave, Baritone 9:30-WOR Paul e Alpert, Piano WIZ—G York University Campus WABO—Waring Orch. 9:45-WOR—The Watch’s Tele ‘WABC—Conflict—Dramatic Sketch 10: gist mua tae Events—H. E, Read ‘ABC—Pray and Bragsiotti, Piano 10: a0-WOR Berens Orch, WZ—Archer Gibson, Orcan ‘WABC—To Be Announced 11:00-WEAF—Your Lover, Songs WOR-—Weather; Van Duster Orch. WIZ—Davis Orch. WABC—Yera Van, Contraita’ litical power in Coney Island | 7:30-WEAF—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orch.; Beatrice Lillie, WOR—Little Symphony Orch., Philip John Quine, WABG. Philadelphia Orch. Concert, Alexander Smeliens, Conductor, at Robin Hopd Dell, Fairmount Park, wil- joldmen Bend Concert, New Mr. Nathan, of Nathan’s Famous, Ine. call in Jack Lipschitz to give them the help of the Food Workers In- dustrial Union and the Communist Party. Immediately after the first meet- all walked out before their new union could issue a strike call. On April 5, some 50 countermen began to picket Nathan’s Famous, Inc. It never occurred to these workers | to appeal to N.R.A. Code Sec. 7-A, the New Deal to the workers for the lie that it is. Nathan's countermen .worked one nine-hour shift, and then he told business and made each worker tortured chairman of the strike committee. Patsy Augustine, to organize, and asked of each worker $200 as security for the promise. Mr. Nathan favors Henry Ford; he has a speed up system even though he cannot hook his men to a conyeyor belt. He pays his “craziest” man $10 a day to break his neck over a hot grill setting an example and bullying the $2 men into a faster pace. Sil iS | THEN one knows a few facts about the inside of Nathan's set up in Coney Island it is not so hard to understand that the strikers’ only demands were a nine- hour day and a six-day week. Na- han always told the countermen, in his Winchellish way, that he was doing them a favor by letting them work for 14 hours a day, because that was the only thing that saved them. from spending their money foolishly. They believed this for a while, but ill health on the part of all workers, and just before the strike, due, the doc- tor claimed, to 17 years labor under the great link man, crystallized ing 14 workers were fired so the rest | thanks to Mr. Nathan, who exposed | them thaf the N.R.A. would ruin his | promise not to report him, and not} the event of one worker going stark mad and dying their resentment against being vas- sals of the hot dog king, and made them ardently desire to have just a little time to breath the sea air down by the beach. The strikers would also like to have something a little better than the four by six | pantry which they all have to use nine-hour day and a six-day week. | To maintain an effective picket line in the face of O’Ryan’s uni- the efforts of both the reformist and the gangster elements in the A. FP. weeks of successful picketing by this handful of workers assumes heroic aspects. Tries to Buy Union Leader | First Nathan tries to buy off Jack Lipschitz with the promise of a trip around the world. This plan does not work, but undaunted Mr. Nathan hires one Hyman Link to follow him and threaten his life if he does not send the workers back, Jack says, “Well, you will just have | to kill me then, because I will never | lie to the workers.” When Mr. Nathan finds he can- not bribe one union he tries an- other. He calls in J. Paranous, and Max Lehman, business agents of Local 325 of the A. F. of L. Cook and Countermen’s Union. They bring him a aretaier agreement and promise to supply scabs. The! president and secretary of this lo- | cal refuse to place their signatures on this agreement, and are beaten up and spend some time in the hospital for their honesty. Then Max Lehman pulls wires through his brother in the International of the union and the president and the secretary are forced to sign by pressure applied from above. The strikers send a committee to the A. F. of L. local to exnose these things before the members. The tank and file vote down the agree- ment, but this is ignored and the agreement referred back to the ex- ecutive committee. The two husi- ness agents come to the strikers and offer to give them back their jobs at $200 a crack. iis an iite IR. NATHAN manages somehow to get his scabs from the A. F. of L., but despite the co-operation | of the police in intimidating the strikers he is unable to break up the picket line, so he thinks up a scheme to give the picketers a lit- tle unfayorable publicity. He hires a photographer and tells him that in a couple of hours the police are going to stir un the picket line and show everybody what unruly citi- zens the strikers are. The photo- conscious worker, takes pictures they show the police in their true role as proyocateurs. He gives copies of the pictures to to wash, change clothes and eat in, | but they would be satisfied with a| formed and plainclothes thugs, and | of L. to smash the pickets, the nine | he wants some pictures that will) grapher, however, is also a class- | and when he he has no use for such dirty moi Mr. Nathan Gets Out an Injuncti | After nine days the police again | come to Mr. Nathan’s aid with an| | injunction prohibiting the strikers | | from picketing within ten blocks of his establishment. Jack Lipschitz rallies all the strikers and about 500 Coney Islanders to a meeting on unemployment insurance. The po- lice arrive on the scene immedi- ately and try to use the injunction to disband the meeting, but Jack explains that they are not picketing |; and that the meeting has nothing | |to do with Mr. Nathan, that the) meeting is held to explain the new unemployment bill, H. R. 7598. | The cops say the injunction for- | bids this, that it means that not even one striker can be seen walk- | |ing within ten blocks of Nathan's. Jack explained that this would make it impossible for them to go to New York because the last sub- way station was within a block of Nathan’s. The cop told them to swim or fly—anyway they wanted— but they wouldn’t be safe within ten blocks of Nathan’s. During this | period some 30 arrests were made of strikers trying to get to the sub- way to go to New York. The picket line, almost in de- spair, finally decided to hold their picket lines along the beach about a mile from Nathan’s in order to get the masses of the people to help support their strike and join their | fight against this vicious injunction. | |For five weeks the seaside picket | line, assisted by Y.C.L. rowboats | with placards, has been successful in gaining wide support for the | strike in money, food, clothes, and shelter for the unemployed of Coney | Island, Torture of Patsy Augustine On June 5, Patsy Augustine and five members of his family were all routed out of bed sometime after 2 o'clock in the morning and taken to the 60th Precinct Station without a warrant, and held until the fol- lowing afternoon when the family was Teleased, but Patsy, the young strike chairman, was held. Detec- tives burned his feet with matches, threw lighted matches on his face. |beat his face until it was black | with blood, left nine bloody stripes |on his back, and pulled out hand- fuls of hair, and threw boiling water | jon him. This torture lasted eight | hours, until friends made such a row that the police were forced to| | release him pa $5,000 bell. N June 9, the National Committee | for the Defense of Political | Prisoners made a formal protest against police brutality before Dep- uty Commissioner Fowler, and were | informed that, although many so- cialists are quite sane, those reds | who participate in demonstrations ; are always looking for trouble and | the police, fortified with this knowl- edge are prepared to take drastic ¢| all the other bo; action. The Coney Island Red Hot Men | met at an open air anti-fascist meeting, pledged themselves to the strikers and the $10 which Na- than paid him for the pictures he gives to the strike fund saying that “Lohengrin” at the Stadium Friday and Saturday “Lohengrin” will be the second opera to be offered at the Stadium this season under the direction of Alexander Smallens. The Wagner work will be presented on Friday and Saturday nights with Frederick Jagel, Anne Roselle, Chase Barome, Carl Schiffeler and Cyrena yan Gordon. This evening Jose Iturbi will di- rect the following symphonic pro- gram: Schubert's “Unfinished” Symphony, Debussy’s Danse Sacre et Danse Profane, Ravel's Introduc- tion and Allegro by Liszt; Sympho- nie Espagnole by Lalo, with Ste- phen Hero es soloist; Excerpts from “Bl Amor Brujo,” De Fall and Ca- pricei Espagnol, Rimsky-Korsakoff. Theatre Guild To Present Bein’s “Let Freedom Ring” “Let Freedom Ring,” a new play by Albert Bein, has been acquired by the Theatre Guild and will be presented here next season. The play is based on Grace Lumpkin’s novel, “To Make My Bread,” which deals with life among the southern mountaineers. Francine Larrimore, who has been playing in London, will appear here next season in “Spring Song,” a new play by Bella Spewack which Max Gordon will produce. Arthur Hopkins will direct the production of “The Old Folks at Home,” a nlay by A. H. Harwood, now showing in London. It is scheduled for the Plymouth Theatre in September. “The Crystal Gazer,” a musical satire by Sydney Kuller, with a STAGE AND SCREEN struggle for the freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, and to build up a real fighting Industrial Union all over the Island. Legislation of 73rd Congress Analyzed by Labor Research Assn. | ‘The most important legislation of the 78d Congress, just ended, is sub- jected to a labor analysis hy Labor | Research Association in its Eeo- nomic Notes for July. The housing, railway and labor disputes acts, the revenue and farm bankruptcy acts are summarized as legislation in the interests of the capitalist class. This list is an effective answer to Roose- | velt’s radio speech of June 28. | The state of business activity, construction, retail sales and prices | are surveyed on the basis of the lat- | est figures. Feature articles are also | deyoted to the milk situation, on | farmers’ conditions, Japan's trade | war, and an expose of recently pub- lished figures alleging a loss by the United States in its foreign trade for the past 38 years. Profits of New York City transit companies for the 10-year period ending June 30, 1932, totalled $465,- | 995,036, according to Economic Notes, While the average pay rate of the highest officers of the com- panies increased between 1923 and 1932. the article shows, wages of the workers dropped. The issue is completed with the | regular monthly survey of strike? in Greater New York, with figures on successful struggles led by the va- | rious unions. | Organizers, speakers and other workers have testified to the value of Ecenomiec Notes. It is obtainable a group of unemployed Negro actors, have banded together to produce a serlee of plays dealing with Negro life. “Keep Moving,” a reyue with a book by Newman Leyy and Tom Howard, music by Max Rich, and lyrics by Jack Scholl, is now in re- hearsal at the Forrest Theatre. “Tosca” at the Hippodrome Friday | “Tosca” will be presented at the Hippodrome on Friday everng with Marguerite Ringo and Alessandra Granada in the leading roles, “Otello” is the opera for Saturday night. with Lafuente and Garroito and “Il Trovatore” on Sunday eve- ning, with Buska and De Muro. Robeson Possibility For Lead In London Production OF “Stevedore” Paul m, eminent actor, probably will play im Europe the heroic role of Lonnie Thompson, made famous by Jack Carter in the current production of “Steyedore.” Mr. Robeson has cabled the Theatre Union that he is interested in a/ London production and the “world rights,” excluding America, of the play which all critics have hailed as a magnificent contribution to the litereture of the Negro race. Jack Carter, known to thousands of theatregoers as the juvenile lead of the Lafayette Players, and the “Crown” of the Theatre Guild’s “Porgy,” will continue in the lead- ing role of the American produc- tion. It is planned to send the play | Writers and Artists Join “Daily” Drive ge Hunger Strike Brings Better Con Hillsboro Prisoneré The folowing letter was received ) S) from the wife of Prank Prickett,| visitors to see the boys one of the Hillsboro workers im- prisoned for taking part in a dem- onstration of the unemployed. Hillsboro, Tl. June 27, 1934. EAR Comrades: Your kind let terday and we sur your thoughtfuln husband and Coi ed yes- y thank you for of our dear ik and jail Also thanking you agai money for which I am a@ receipt. We do need r the defense fund. T I are all well, bu without our dear one, he’s in jail for a good ca nding you fight- ing for our rights and for food for our three children. Now I will try and answer the 1 questions you have asked... No. In regard to the comrades rec | mail. No! They will not let |have any daily mail except Daily Post from St. Louis, and the two Hillsboro papers. I took up a bundle of Daily Workers and asked | | the turn-key if he would give them | to the boys which he said he would but did not, and we wives asked him why and he said the sheriff took them. Also the letters are all opened before given to the Also John Adams said he had re- ceived only one letter from his wife since being in jail. He ask me to| write to Chicago and ask if they | had been sending his mail down | here, or not and I did but haven't received any answer. But if you} want to you can send the literature and I will take it up and ask if they will let them have it. If not I could let others read it here. No. 2. ¥es, they will receive | money for eats and cigarettes. The | two Franks, our two town boys, have stopped smoking but the others all | do yet. No. 3. The conditions in jail are now very much better than before the boys went on the hunger strike. | My husband told me Monday the eats were better and plenty of it. | They were giving them fresh milk | and broth also some fruit. So you} see the hunger strike did do good. ditions To paw No. 4, The question of allowii Monday was the first time they were allows to come into the office to see thet wives and children. Before that we were only allowed to see them through two large iron bars and-& heavy screen. It was almos' possible to tell which was wt unless th poke. We were glad to visit with them. one of the demands started the hunger hey won both been so but it real est is impos most impossible in real estate property must be vauled over as that amount is taken o: homestead exemption. and what is over the $1,000 is a to count on the bond. I am much afraid we will not be able.to. raise even enough for one of our boys here. No. 6. As to what yeu can do to be most helpful I hardly know how. to answer that, as you have already sent in so many protests also tele- grams. I think they have helped, as the sheriff keeps telling us abou’ a the protests he has been re our State Attorne: is the one who is stubborn about lowering the be If the bail was a reasonable one * yould haye had ou’ a ig Ww at to do nexte We have presented before our County judge a petition of hae. beas corpus to see if he will lower ~ he bail. We will hear by noon to=— y. Iam going out this P. M. ta some farmers about bail. = Well, I must close now and g& mail this. We are still hoping we can do something to get our boys out of the hands of this outrageous: bunch of officers we have herevite Hillsboro. Hoping to hear from you again soon as it gave me new hopes to know so many good comrades. are backing us up in this big ‘Aghd we are in. st Comradely, MRS. FRANK PRICKEIT,.. Kaganovitch Reports on Soviet Construction | Searching analysis of the prob-| loms of Socialist construction in the | USSR. is presented by L. M. Ka-| ganovich in his “Revort on the Or- | ganizational Problems of Party and | Soviet Construction,” which he de- | livered to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet | Union and which is now published | ;in complete text by International | Publishers, Kaganovich discusses such prob- lems as the reorganization of Soyiet business organs of management, | light and heavy industry, food and lumber, socialist agriculture and im- provement of commodity circula- tion. This 156-page report, crammed with necessary information on so- cialist progress, costs 15 cents and | can be ordered from the publishers, 148, Station D, New York, or from Workers Library Publishers, Box 148, Station D, New York, or from workers’ book shops and branches. Just Off the Press || THE COMMUNIST, July, 1934. || (Special Strike Struggles Issue). 128 pages, 20 cents. CONTENTS | The Darrow Report, Editorial. || The Socialist Party Convention || —A Communist Estimate, by || V. J. Jerome. The Lessons of the Toledo Strike, by John Williamson. Unify the Forces of All Stcel Workers for Aggressive Union- ism, Statement of the Central || Gommittee of the C.P.U.S. A. The Great West Coast Mari- time Strike, by Sam Darcy. The Communjst Party in the Birmingham Strikes, by Nat Ross. | For Improving the Work of the Party Among the Foreign- | Born Workers, by F. Brown, Check-Up on Control Tasks in || the Chicago District, by Bill || Gebert. | The I. L. D. Faces the Future, || by William L. Patterson. Figures on the American Eco- nomic Crisis. as of Mav, 1934 by John Irving and. Phil Mayer (Labor Research Asso- ciation). Book Review. | from | Ave.; | Workers ‘Bookshops. | July 7, 7 p.m. | 8t., | Farb, Wenger. | meet tonight at 8:30, | del Bearon, principal witnseses. | Mowitz, German consul, invited to defend Hitler regime. FREE ERNST THAELM, | Robin Hood Portrayed As Folk Hero in Noyel- So effectively does Geoffrey Trease, in his book, “Bows Against-- the Barons,” present Robin Hood + for boys and girls as a revolution=. ary folk hero, instead of an anti- social outlaw, that the New York) Times considers “There seems -no reason why such books should not... develop into powerful weapons for. Communist propaganda in Amere, ice.” The book is just off ternational Publishers Press. Trease depicts Robin as the leader of oppressed serfs resisting the Jand-robbing barons of “Merrie England.” The book costs 85 cents.- the publishers, 381 Fourth. Workers Library Publishers,. - Box 148, Station D, New York, or from workers’ book shops and branches. WHAT’S ON G Thursda:; NATE BROCE, Secretary of the Intere 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’ ii the open air. Adm. 25c, All proceeds. go = to the LL.D. : LAST CALL for 20-50% discount sale. af Bale ends Saturda: Join Circulating Libra: 699 Prospect Ave., Bronk: ‘ooklyn Rito “Magazines the Masses at Pen and Hammer. 114 W, 218i" 8:45 p.m. Speakers: Vetch, Wedd," Adm. 18¢ SACCO-VANZETTI Branch membership 792 EB. Tremont~* All members urged to’ bs” at 50 E. 13th St., 389 Sutter Ave., SYMPOSIUM Read,” PARTY AND DANOE at Vanguard Céise’*- ter, 235 W. 136th St., 6:30 pam. to 1 amy Augpices Harlem Women’s Anti-War Gome. - mittee. Adm. 10c Saturday MOONLIGHT DANCE and Entert: |at Manhatian Beach Hotel Garden, 168. West End Ave., 8:30 p.m. Auspices Ocean Bide Br. F.3.U. Fine program will be® presented including Workers Lab. Theatre and Jean Phillip, Paramount Theatre. performer. ‘te Philadelphia, Pa. _ PUBLIC TRIAL of German Pascist tere Tor, Priday, July 6th, 8:15 p.m. at Garrick _ Theatre Chestnut near Broad. Kurt Rosenfeld, Mrs. Amabel, Wm. Ellis, Arun, Arne -R, - JOINT PICNIC of A. F. of L. Trade” Union Com. for Unemployment Insurance and Relief and Rank and File Group..of,. LL.G.W.U. Sunday, July 15, at 52nd and Parkside Ave. All’ affiliated end symbi thetic organizations requested to date open and assist us to carry affaig through succeffssfully. AMUSE MENTS “Im the Land of the Soviets —1934 ACME THEATRE (ih “Don't Fail to See This Film."—DAILY WORKER UNION SQUARE MOSCOW MAY DAY . (FIRST COMPLETE SHOWING) ... KOLKHOZ (Life on Cooperative: CHELYUSKIN EXPEDITION; MOSCOW 1984; STALINGRAD and GORKI plants: SNOW and ICE CARNIVAL, etc, eté. STREET and |; ul JAMES W. FORD Says: “By all means Negro and white workers should see i} stevedore CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. Eves. . Mats. Sat. & Tues. 2:45. ‘B0e-400-G0e-75e-$1.00 & $1.50. No Tax Maximilian Cohen Dental Surgeon 41 Union Sq, W., N. Y, C. | After 6 P.M. Use Night Entrance 22 EAST 17th STREET Suite 703—GR. 17-0135 } on tour to leading cities after the|at 5 cents a cony from Incal work- | close of the New York run, which | ers’ bookshops. or from Labor Re-| i definite. The Civic Reper- | ch Ascocirtion. 80 E. 11th St.,} are has brn equipped with New Yors City. Annual subscrip: | cooling devices for the summerrun. tions are 65 cents, | | Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome | | | De Luxe Cafeteria }94 Graham Ave, Cor. Siegel St. i EYERY BITE A DELIGHT — WORKERS WELCOME NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Tasty Chinese and American Dishes PURE FOOP — POPULAR PRICES 848 Broadway vet. 13th & 14th st. 106 EAST r uth STREET. Near Fourth Are., N. \ the hag | \! 3 4 4