The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 13, 1934, Page 5

| CHANGE —-THE || WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN UR staff artist was hard at work on the cartoon which you will find on the next page, when he suddenly dropped his brush and exclaimed, “The thing that burns a guy up is the way the capitalist press always refers to scabs as ‘workers’ and to strike pickets as ‘outside agita- tors.’ And the workers generally as ‘the mob,’ ‘And the worst part of it is,” Jack Burck continued, “is that they get away with it so often!” Jake’s proletarian indignation is real, as you can see from his car- toons, All of us ought to get sore about it more often, as a matter of fact, and bring these things out into the clear light. It is true, how- ever, that many of our propagandists often take too many things for granted, and fail to call attention to these apparently “little” things in the capitalist press which are so harmful to the workers during any struggle. Take, for example, the opening paragraph in Wednesday’s New York World-Telegram, which carries a United Press despatch from San Francisco on the great marine strike. “San Francisco, harrassed by a waterfront strike since May 9, when longshoremen brought ocean shipping to a halt, today prepared for renewed violence after President Roosevelt's board of mediators failed to bring peace in an all-night session with leaders in the dispute.” San Francisco, it appears, is préparing “for renewed violence.” But who is going to create this violence? Who has done so in the past? It was the National Guardsmen, private gunmen and San Francisco police who murdered two workers last week and who injured scores of men, women and children; and it will be these same forces who will “re- new the violence” in the strike. Clearly, however, the United Press des- patch leaves the inference that the strikers are the real enemies of the community. Somebody's Face is Red IN THIS connection, it is revealing to see how the New York Times and the Herald-Tribune contradicted each other in reporting the sell- out attempt of the Bridgeton, N. J., farm strike by a travélling stool- Pigeon of the United States Labor Department. Says The Times: “Donald Henderson, former economics instructor at Columbia University, who has been active in the strike leadership as an organizer of the Agricultural Canners Industrial Union, tried to persuade the strikers to reject the settlement. Apparently anxious to go back to work, the strikers mobbed Henderson and handled him roughly....” Says the Herald-Tribune: “A group of Deerfield potato growers, anxious to get back to their potatoes, and away from strike patrol duty, rushed at Henderson and shouldered him around, at the same time shouting to each, ‘Lynch him!’ ‘Throw, him off the farm’ and ‘Run him out of the country.’ A few pummeled the former professor, who stood his ground defiantly.” In other words, The Times declares that Henderson was attacked by strikers (which the strike committee itself brands as a downright lie), whereas the Herald-Tribune reports that farm bosses who were on “patrol duty” against the strikers, “rushed at Henderson.” Well, no further talk about prize winners for the 1935 Pulitzer award is necessary; the Times will undoubtedly win hands down! . . . . Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes THERE are all kinds of professors. Donald Henderson was one for a time, and so was Dr. Hatty Elmér Barnes. Henderson got fired from Columbia University because he really tried to teach, economics in- stead of bed-time stories. Dr. Barnes used to be a don in a girls’ col- lege in Massachusetts, until he got the knack of writing innocuous pieces for the liberal press, and now he conducts a regular department for the Scripps-Howard press. This feature used to appear under the head of “The Liberal Viewpoint,” but I notice that the World-Tele- gram has discarded that trade-mark, By far one of the frankest statements ever made by a liberal in support of capitalism is found in a recent essay by Dr. Barnes, entitled “Industry’s Acid Test.” The writer asserts that “American industry is today strong enough to reject labor unionism and collective bargaining, provided the gov- ernment does not step in to support the cause of labor [Fat chance!— 8. G.] But any such suppression can be purchased only at the price of ultimately wrecking the capitalistic system.” What is even more interesting, Dr. Barnes issues the solemn warn- ing that: “Looking at matters in long-time perspective, the present tactics of American employers are really playing into the hands of radical labor.” All this is crystal clear: Permit your workers to organize into unions which you can control, Dr. Barnes warns the capitalist class in effect, or you will have to reckon with powerful revolutjonary unions which will stage real assaults against capitalism! . . . “Rush Those Blue Eagles!” = current issue of the Saturday Evening Post (July 7) carries a long article by Gen. Hugh L. Johnson. It is called “Organization of NRA. and the Blue Eagle.” lt contains the familiar ballyhoo of the Roosevelt press agents. I had put the issue aside, but yesterday a reader visited our office and created for me a somewhat warmer interest in the article. “See that picture illustrating the article which shows a factory making Blue Eagles? Well, it’s the Ever Ready Label Company at 145 E. 25th St., New York. I work there with about 35 others. It’s one of the worst sweat-shops in the city, and we’ve had three strikes there during the past few months. Complaints have been sent to Gen. Johnson about N.R.A. violations in this place, but I understand the boss got a letter from Washington which completely whitewashed him.” ” . An Appeal from a Chicago Teacher AX APPEAL for help in carrying on activity among children comes from a Chicago school teacher, who writes: “It’s uphjll work being an ‘insidious influence’ in the public schools and I need some help. There must be hundreds of teachers who are class-conscious workers who would and could get the message of a better world in birth to their classes without losing their jobs in the process. No doubt many are attempting it, but there is no method, to my knowledge, by which these teachers can compare notes, pass on ideas and exchange material, and no source from which the teachers can draw stories and plays. “Youngsters listen raptly to tales of the Scottsboro boys, the Gran Chaco war, the strikes in San Francisco—in tact burst out in delighted grins at the point where the workers picked up the gas bombs and threw them back at the policemen. They are an eager and fresh audi- ence and thousands can be reached that the Pioneers often do not find. “The Senior Civics class teacher found too many anti-imperialists among his classes that I had the year before and desided that some- thing had to be done. A very clever ané jingoistic war play for Memo- tial Day was the result. Bandages soaked with mercurochrome, blank caps and realistic trench warfare completely charmed them with its excitement and romance and at the moment he is one up on me. “That is the reason for this call for help. Will some one please write me a few one-act plays, innocent enough to be produced in the public schools by and for awakened workers’ children on the themes ot war, strikes, unity of workers, etc. ‘Strike Me Red,’ by the late Harry Alan Fotamkin, though excellent, is not practical for the purpose. “Sincerely, “A CHICAGO SCHOOL TEACHER.” . * . . “Putzy” Was Social Flop I SEE by the tabloids that “Putzy” Hanfstaengel, Nazi agent here re- cently, was a social flop in Newport, famous society center. As re- ported by Mettie Cattell of the Daily Mirror, he danced with the 16- year-old daughter of former Gov. Charlés S. Whitman of New York, ‘and his attentions were so marked that Mrs. Whitman felt called upon to break it up.” . That is pretty serious, at that. Ii is evident, however, that the Newport parasites get more indignant at “Putzy’s” social indiscretions on a smooth dance ficor than they do at Hanfstasngél’s part in jailing and torturing thousands of working class victims in Nasi concentration _ camps! DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934 George Schuyler: Portrait | Writer for “Pittsburgh Courier” Jibes at | Scottsboro Fight By EUGENE GORDON 4] NOTICE from the newspapers that the Supreme Court of Alabama has affirmed the convic- tions of Patterson and Norris,” exults George S. Schuyler, in the Pittsburgh Courier of July 7. He gibbers gleefully: “Only the Su- preme Court of the United States stands between them and death, and there is little likelihood that it will reverse the sentences. . . . When the boys march to the elec- tric chair, which is most likely to occur on Aug. 31 as scheduled ... they can thank the Interna- tional Labor Defense, the Com- munists and Dr. Liebowitz for their plight. ‘Mass pressure,’ in- ternational ballyhoo and stupid legal defense did the trick, as I prophesied would be the case.” Who is this George 8. Schuyler, that he can be so happy over the “march” of the Scottsboro boys to the electric chair, as he “prophe- sied would be the case”? Why did the prophesy that they would burn, and why ts he so joyous about it? Is he a member of the Ku Klux Klan? A member of the Silver Shirts? A Nazi? What is this Pittsburgh Courier, that it carries Schuyler’s attack on the Scottsboro boys? Is it one of the mouthpieces of the fascists? Tee eee The Slaves of “Gentlemen” || aes the most flourishing pe- riod of chattel slavery in the South a lawyer named D. R. Hundley wrote a book called “So- celal Relations in Our Southern States.” It was an effort to inter- pret for the North the “true” Southerner, including the Negro slave. Explaining how the mas- ters created caste differences among their slaves by giving them different kinds of work (so as to keep them from uniting against the slave-owner), Hund- ley Sneers at the Negroes who, having been made overseers or valets or carriage drivers, looked down with scorn upon the com- mon “darkeys” of the fields. “The slaves of a gentleman of good family (we mean those who are accustomed to come into daily contact with their master) are not only more intelligent than the thass of blacks,” said Hund- ley, “but are both polite and well- bred, andin a measure, refined and aristocratic. They scorn,” sneered Mr. Hundley, “to asso- ciate with common darkeys, and are given to all the airs and stately mannerisms of a Yellow- Plush or @ Jenkins.” ‘These ‘were the favored in- and Out-door slaves, Negroes whose corresponding type today are rep- resented, among other places, in Stich venal politicians (Robert Vann, owner of the Courier; Os- car De Priest, Congressman from Illinois; Julian Rainey, assistant corporation counsel of Boston, and other elements of the colored lower bourgeoisie (George 8. Schuyler, William Pickens, Robert R. Moton), as gratefully receive an occasional little handout for remaining “good darkeys.” A “good darkey” today, as then, is a Negro who sticks loyally by the ruling class oppressors of the masses of blacks. Their ideology today, a8 in the past, is that of their masters. It would be incor- rect to say, however, that Kelly Miller, George S. Schuyler, Gor- don Hancock, Walter White, W. E. B. Du Bois, Julian Rainey, Oscar De Priest, and Robert Vann are exact historical parallels of the deluded slaves once owned by Yellowplush and Jenkins. Condi- tions which created those ancient servitors and chattels do not par- allel exactly the conditions which create the slave psychology of the men I have named. The “master’s waiting-man or valet”today is, nevertheless, the effect of the same fundamental causes which produced the Uncle Toms of the old South. It is the vestiges of actual slavery still ex- isting in the old South; vestiges which only the class-conscious, militant Negro worker or intel- lectual in the North is able to throw off. Slaves who belonged to the very Tich identified themselves with that stratum, reflecting its man- nets even to the extent of snub- bing the slaves who, owned by “Heavens! Imagine Mortimer's Pic- ture in a Communist Newspaper!” This sketch is by Louis Fern- ctadt, one of the srtists aiding ‘he Daily | Worker circula- lion drive, EUGENE GORDON Noted Negro Writer selves, their miserable interests, with the persons and the inter- ests of their masters. George 8S. Schuyler and Robert T. Vann, as antitypes of Mr. Yellowplush’s “good darkey,” ape the manners of such “civilized” misanthropic diletantes as George Jean Nathan and Henry L. Mencken, even to the pathetic attempt of “making fun” of Negro workers who, hav- ing become class-conscious, are absolutely devoid of Vann’s and Schuyler’s slave psychology. Schuyler’s and Vann’s identifica- tion with their masters means, of course, identification with their masters’ class, the oppressing class, “Me, Too, Boss” FIRST knew George Samuel | Schuyler in 1917, at the jim- crow Negro officers’ training camp, at Des Moines, - Iowa. Schuyler entered the school as a corporal from the regular army —one of the jim-crow Negro regi- ments—and I from a jim-crow | prep school in Washington, D. 0. We both suffered as members of an oppressed national minority, you see. Schuyler was clever, superficial, cynical, and opportu- nist. These early traits are more marked in him today. He is a good reporter, from the point of view of the bourgeois “liberal” newspaper editor, when he reports what he “thinks” he seés, without attempting to interpret what he “thinks” he .sees. As an “inter- preter” of events, he is superfi- cial when he is “liberal,” and is biased in favor of the side that pays him when he writes for money, In other words, he is an ideal tool in the hands of those who de- sire his services enough to pay for them. Yet he is not constant. Once out of the services of Tam- many, for instance, he will attack ‘Tammany. One of his ways of be- ing sure of a good supply of mauve-colored spats, derby hats, silk shirts, and fancy walking sticks (appurtenances he craves, now that he is no longer inhibited by army regulations), is to hire himself out to do the thuggery of gentlemen with money, but who are themselves too respect- able to do the dirty work. He has proved himself invaluable also to interests who needed a good blood-hound to smell out corners into which they could not con- veniently or expediently go. For instance, the New York Post (with Stage and Screen Soviet Film In Last Days At Acme; “Broken Shoes” Coming Next Tuesday This is the last opportunity to see “In the Land of the Soviets,” which is now in its last four days at the Acme Theatre. The picture, which gives an insight of what's doing in the Soviet Union today, will close on Monday. Beginning Tuesday, the Acme will bring back the Soviet talkie, “Broken Shoes,” for a limited run. The film shows how the children are affested by the strugles of their fathers. It is enacted by children and was directed by Margarita Bar- skaya. Double Opera Bill At Stadium Tonight “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pa- gliacci” will be the operas this Fri- day and Saturday evenings at the Stadium under the direction of Alexander Smallens. Bruna Cas- tagna, Anna Kashas, Dimitri Ono- frei and Alfredo Gandolfi will sing in Mascagni opera and Rosa Ten- toni, Frederick Jagél and Claudio Frigerio will appear in the opera by Leoneavallo, “Whom The Gods Destroy” At Radio City Music Hall “Whom the Gods Destroy,” a new Columbia picture, screened from a story by Albert Payson Terhune, is now playing at the Radio City Music Hall. Walter Connolly heads the cast, which also includes Robert Young and Doris Kenyon. Walt Disney’s newest Silly Symphony, “The Flying Mouse,” is on the same program. The stage presentation this week includes “Moods In Music,” with Felicia Sorel, Demetrois Vilan, Nina Whitney, Roy Barnés and Margarét Daum. “The Man With Two Faces,” starring Edward G. Robinson, is the new film at the Strand Theatre. ‘The picture was adapted from the stage play “The Dark Tower,” by George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott. Lesli¢é Howard, in “Of Human Bondage,” is now playing at the Palace Theatre. The stage show is headed by Pappy, Ezra and Zeke. The Jefferson Theatre, beginning Saturday, will present "Let's Talk It Over,” with Mae Clarke and Shester Morris and “A Man’s Gamo,” staring Tim McCoy and. Evelyn Knapp. Of a “Gentleman’s” Negro Schuyler Backed Rule of Harvey Firestone In Liberia the approval of the Firestone in- terests) sent him to “interpret” Liberia. Returning, Schuyler said that imperialism was good not only for Liberia, but for every other oppressed nation which happened to be getting a dose of it. The Pittsburgh Courier, owned by a corporation of which Robert T. Vann, assistant to an assistant attorney general in the Roosevelt administration, is head, is unoffi- cial mouthpiece of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and one of the wealthiest Negro papers in the country. It used to be Repub- lican, just as Schuyler used to be “socialist”; but the Democrats of- fered the sheet a bigger subsidy and the Republicans were de- serted. These are the facts in the case of Schuyler and the Courier, and, possessing them, you can un- derstand why they both hope to see the Scottsboro boys lynched. Schuyler and Cann reflected the wishes of their class bosses, The “Bad” Negro UOTING Hundley further: “The worst slaves, however, the most degraded, thieving, im- pudent, and utterly worthless, are those who belong to men in mod- erate circumstances . . . Such slaves in the main enjoy greater liberties than other Negroes, are over-familiar with their masters, do not begin to work as hard as the latter, and the consequence is that. they grow up to be sleek, and rascally. They never feel the lash, even in infancy, are per- mitted to leave home at all times without a ‘pass,’ and to run about at night pilfering from hen-roosts, pigeons, and dairies... And the worst of it is, just among such a class of slaves, in the mountain- ous districts . . . the emissaries of Northern fanaticism are cast- ing broadcast their incendiary firebrands, deluding the poor simple-minded blacks that, by murdering their masters and mis- tresses, they shall be raised to the condition of ladies and gentlemen themselves, with plenty of lands and money, and nothing to do but eat and sleep.” There is not space enough to take us into a detailed analysis of Hundley’s blend of falsehood and truth. We can only say hastily that these “most degraded, thiev- ing, impudent, and utterly worth- less’ Negroes either took pigs, chickens, eggs, butter, and milk from the wealthy planters (and nobody else had any of these foods in abundance), or they did not eat. Certainly their masters, being in “moderate circums- tances,” could hardly feed their own families. Thrown thus upon their own resources, these slaves developed such wit and cunning as were unknown among the re- latively favored Negroes of the rich. Laxity of discipline was a part of the poor slaveholders pay- ment to his chattels for his nec- essarily shabby treatment of them. Jt was, moreover, his method of humoring them, a method which did not differ, in intent, from the rich man’s method of treating his slaves: each acted toward them in a way to make them contented and happy and to in- sure his own security among them. Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey, stalwart black leaders of slave revolts, belonged to that “most dograded, thieving, impudent, and utterly worthless” lot. These blacks were the forerunners of- Negroes who today have helped force the lynch courts of Ala- bama to stay the execution of the innocent Scottsboro boys, in spite of Schuyler’s jubilant “pro- phecy” that they would march to the electric chair on August Sist “as scheduled.” TUNING IN E .-WEAF—Baseball Resume 7:00 Tee eporta Resume—Ford Frick ‘WsZ—To Be Announced ‘WABC—Thecdore Ernwood, Baritone 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Front-Page Drama ‘WJZ—Choosing a Career in Adver- tising—Gilbert Hodges, Chairman Executive Board, New York Sun WABC—Playboys Trio 1:30-WEAF—Three X Sisters, Songs ‘WOR—The O'Neills—Sketch WsZ—Sport Stories Of the Record —Thornton Fisher WABO—Paul Keast, Baritone; Hud- WEA To Be Announced -45-WEAP— TS-Vor—Larry Taylor, Braitone wsZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABO—Boake Carter, Commentator $:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orch.; Olga Albani, Soprano; Revelers Quartet WOR-—Selvin Orch. ‘Wsz—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel Shutta, Songs; Dolan Orch. Rf Ree gd Eastman, aoe $:15-WABO—To Be Announce! $:30-WOR—Novelty Orch; Slim Timblin, Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet WwsZ—Probléms of Taxation—Alfred q n Jr., Pres. General Motors; A. T. Byles, Pres. American Petro- Jeum Institut ‘WABC—Court of Human Relations 8:45-WJZ—Baseball Comment—Babe Ruth 9:00-WEAF—Lymen Orch.; Frank Munn, ‘Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Soprano WOR—Italics—M. 8. Lott Jr. WJZ—Hartis Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs 9:15-WABO—To Be Announced 9:30-WEAF—Bonime Orch.; Pic and Pat, Comedians WOR—Dance Orch. ‘WJZ—Phil Baker, Comedian WABO—Green Orch.; Sylvia Froos, Songs Me aa he win: ‘Sketch WOR—Dave Vine, Comedian ‘WIZ—Stories That Should Be Told— Pulton Oursler, Author WABC—Yotng Orch.: Everett Mar+ shall, Baritone; Frank Crumit, Songs: Stoopnagle and Budd 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read WJZ—Mario Cozzi, Baritone 19:38-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian: Grier Oreh.; Frahk Parker, Tenor WOR—Robison Orch. WiZ—hicago Symphony Orch. WABC—Business and the New Deal— Rep. Hamilton Fith Jr. of N. ¥. 11:00-WBAF—George R. Holmes. Chief 10 |complains to the other about the Hollywood Seeks to Show Glory of War In “Managed Money” “MANAGED MONEY” Reviewed by JULES ROFFMAN HE movie producer speaks of the trend in motion pictures, in terms of “cycles.” At one time it Page Five A Realistic Picture of Cossack Life in “And | Quiet Flows the Don” is detective story pictures. At an-|AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON,|machine-gunner, and his Jewish other it is gangster films. At still another it may be adventure | movies. Today, in accordance with the in- | creasing momentum of war prep- arations, the “cycle” is definitely “pro-war.” And no more illustra- tive example is needed than the | picture “No Greater Glory,” the | most subtle of this new cycle of war | propaganda films. Not content with |impressing war, more war and still more war upon the minds of the | public, through feature pictures and | newsreels, the producers have in- jected their, treacheries into the | short features. These seven-to-ten- |minute movies, formerly used to fill in a program, now, apparently, serve a different purpose. Riding on the crest of this wave of pro-war short feature films, is a Warner Brothers Vitaphone pro- duction, “Managed Money.” Like “No Greater Glory” it deals pri- marily with boys. Only here the presentation of the subject is more blatant and less subtle. | The story is about two boys, both | by Mikahil Sholokhoy. Trans- lated by Stephen Garry. Alfred | A. Knopf. $3, | By LEON DE 'OUNG writers who strive to cre- | ate a revolutionary literature in | America should read Sholokhov’s | novel about Rus notorious Don Cossacks. In fact, they should read it carefully. For in nd Q | Flows the Don” Sholokhov demon- strates once more tha is possible to depict great social conflict with- out being hysterical about it; | One can write about the class s\ | gle without resorting to cliches and that it is not essential to invent | new literary forms in order to pre- sent a revolutionary situation. “Friends” of revolutionary litera- ture who are still trying to solve the mysterious relation between art and propaganda should also read this trug- | Novel, For Sholokhov is both artist j and revolutionist — revolutionary artist. And although he deals to a great extent with revolutionary struggle (“Propaganda”), he does sons of typical American bourgeois families, One of them is going to| | Military Institute and his infantile | joy at wearing a uniform is un- | bounded. The other boy, however, | is unable to go. His father cannot | spare the $2,000 per annum for his) son’s education as trained cannon fodder. Between ourselves, how~- ever, the friends decide to go and look for gold, to enable the poorer of the boys to attend school. One fine motning they leave in an automobile, and, to escape de- tection by their parents, they use & smoke screen around the car. Al- though this device has no place whatsoever in the story, note the insertion of war tactics in this | surface-innocent picture. It so happens that the little sis- ter of one of the boys has stowed away in the rumble seat (of the car), During the drive through the desert, in search of gold, one lad stifling sand. Immediately after, a} scene of the little girl wearing aj gas mask is shot upon the screen. | This, too, has no connection with | the picture, yet it has been injected, | maybe, for laughs. The gitl might | just as well have used a handker- chief to shield her eyes and nose from the sand. | To wind up the story the boys rescue the head of a military in- stitute in the middle of the desert. The last scene shows our little he- roes, spic and span in uniforms, marching along to the martial music of blaring bands, while their parents beam proudly on. NE TORE TIES Ss 5 WHAT’S ON Friday CONCERT AND DANCE — Quartets by Haydn and Mozart, other numbers. Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St. 8:30 p.m. . 25. ‘SON ‘VOYAGE Garden Party to send off Office Workers Union Delegate to the Women’s Congress Against War and Fas- cism. 1417 Noble Ave., Bronx, N. ¥. St. rence Ave. Station. OAKLEY JOHNSON on “N.R.A. and the Worker.” Stuyvesant Casino, Second Ave. and 9th St., room $2. Adm. free. Cold refreshments. Auspices Br. 9 T.W.O. FRANK WARD, movie critic, lectures on “goviet versus Hollywood Films.” Mt. Eden Br. F.S.U., 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor, 170th St 0 p.m, Very cool. lemonade. Adm. 10c. MEMBERSHIP MEETING, Boro Park Cultural Club, 1280 56th St. Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. All members must be present— important. Saturday HARLEM STUDY GROUPS of United Front Supporters— Midsummer Party at 2040 Seventh Ave, Apt. 6. Air-cooled apartment—dancing—refreshments. Contri- bution 25¢, for L.S.N.R. CONCERT AND DANCE at Brighton Beach Center, $200 Coftey Island Ave. Double Jazz Band. Auspices: West End Brooklyn Workers Club. Subscription in advance 25¢, at door 35er BEER PARTY and Entertainment cele- brating the championship of Metropolitan Workers Enccer League by Red Spark Club, 84 Second Ave., 8:30 p.m. : JAMAICA AND VICINITY ATTENTION! Concert and Dance, given by I.W.O. Br. 620, Sunday Eve.) July 15th, at the Pythian le, 153-14 90th Ave., Jamaica. Pro- : Max Bedacht, Eugene Nigob, Work- ers Lab, Theatre. BUS OUTING, given by Isaac Meyers Br. L.@.N.R., which has been postponed from July 8th, will take place on July 15th. at 8 o'clock sharp. OUTING to Camp Kinderland by Har- lem Progressive Club on Sunday, July 15th at 2 a.m. (early morning). Register any evening thsi week at 1888 Third Ave., near 104th St. Round trip, $1.00. SLAVKO VORKAPICH, rofmeost Holly- wood technical advisor and assistant, will speak on “Principles of Effective Cinema.” Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St., Monday, at 8:30 p.m. YOU MUST WRITE for the Special Summer Catalogue of the Workers Book Shop and Circulating Library, 50 E. 13th St, N.¥.0. Save money on literature. Come in and see our specials. Philadelphia, Pa. JOINT PICNIC, A. P. of L. Trade Union Committee for Unemployment Insurance and Relief and the Rank and Pile Group of LL.G.W.U. Sunday, July 15, ab 52nd and Parkside. PICNIO of Office Workers Union, Sun- day, July 15th, at Sand and Parkside Ave. Entertainment, games, refreshments. Harry Raymond, Daily Worker Staff, will speak. Th case of rain, the affair will be held at Office Workers Hall, 130 S. JOHN REED CLUB WRITERS GROUP present Red Literature Night, Sunday, July 15th, at 8:30 p.m. Reading, discus- sion from floor. John Reed Club, 136 8. 8th St. Stamford, Conn. RED PRESS PICNIC given by United Working Class Organizations for the ben- efit of the Workers’ Press on Sunday, July 15th. Pulaski Park on Pepper Ridge Road. Dancing, entertainment, Workers Lab. Theatre. Adm. 25¢. New Haven, Conn. PICNIC of the Freiheit Geseng Gesang Farein and International Workers Mando- lin Orchestra, Sunday, July 15th, at Wol- odkavetch’s Farm, Milford Turnpike. Oars will leave for the place of picnic from the Labor Lyceum starting 12 noon. (ONTO of the Jewish and International Womens Councils will be held July 22nd at Bolish’s Farm, Milford Turnpike. New Jersey District STATE SOLIDARITY PICNIC, given by New Jersey District of the LL.D., Sunday, Jwy 15th at Willicks Farm, Linden, N. J. Sports, swimming, dancing, refreshments. Adm, 25¢. Buses and cars leavé from 289 Market St. from 10 a.m. on. Milton Herndén, brother of Angelo Herndon, will speaks ‘Washington Bureau, I. N. 8. WOR—Weather: Duffy Orch. Ws%—Kahn Orch. WABC—Edith Murray, Songs Order a bundle of the Daily Worker. Canvass friends and not for a moment lose sight of the human element, the living people who are engaged in this struggle Indeed, his characters are real and alive. (Isn’t that what we call art?) A Cossack himself, he succeeded in presenting a realistic and lyrical their famous Don River. For centuries these Cossacks, at one time escaped serfs, criminals, who later became hireélings of the Tsars and committed notorious deeds of cruelty, lived on the banks of the Don River. The Don flowed quietly. The life of the Cossacks, too, apparently flowed quietly. A primitive people, they were kept in a state of ignorance and supersti- Tsar. Their code of morals were the primitive Cossack taboos and customs. The truth is, however, that the Don does not always flow quietly. Neither did the life of the Cossacks, They, too, had their social and eco- nomic problems and struggles. They too, had their kulaks and poor peas- ants, landlords and exploiters, their well-fed and hungry. All this was brought to the surface by the war, the Revolution and the Civil War, hens: Basar ae 4s Gregor Melekhov, for instance, the son of a poor Cos- sack. From the very outset he be- comes interested in revolutionary ideas. Of course, he is a Cossack, bound by the chains of century- old Cossack traditions. It takes him a long time to make up his mind. At the decisive moment he vacil- lates between the Bolsheviks and the White Guardists. Mitka Kor- shunov, on the other hand, son of a kulak, at once joins the counter- revolutionary forces. The same is true of the rich landowner, Listnit- sky. Bunchuk, a Bolshevik - Cossack that | | comrade and sweetheart, are the most interesting characters in the book. Both are revolutionists. Both | eventually die defending the revolue tion in which they passionately be- |lieved. The story of Bunchuk and | the Jewish girl is one of the finest | revolutionary love stories that I | have ever read. | In addition to the above-mene | tioned, there are many other welle | devéloped characters, a whole array of them—vital details of Sholo« khov’s monumental revolutionary | landscape. The story ends with the early | days of the Civil War. The Bolshe- | Viks are defeated and the reviewers jot the Capitalist press run dry of | adjectives with which to praise the |author’s objectivity and literary | Skill. The Bolsheviks are defeated! Here at last is great Soviet literae | ture. [AT THIS point I am tempted to | ask @ question. Towards the jend of the novel Sholokhov deé- | scribes how a group of counter- revolutionary Cossacks are about to | Shoot @ group of Bolshevik Cos- | Sacks, among them a sergeant who jcame over to convert the White Guardists to his revolutionary point |of view. Before being exectited he jis permitted to say a few words to | the assembled Cossacks. portrait of the Don Cossacks and | Z nro “See,” he says, “how few are left |who wish to look at our death. Their consciences have pricked them. On behalf of the tolling péo- ple, in their interests we have struggled against the rats of gen- erals, not sparing our lives, And now we are perishing at your hands! But we do not curse you! You have been bitterly deceived. The revolutionary government will |come, and you will realize on whose tion by the Tsarist regime. They | side was the truth. The finest sons tilled their soil and served their | of the gentle Don you have laid in that hole... .” What would have happened if this Bolshevik had succeeded in pere suading the anti-Bolshevik Cossacks not to shed their brothers’ blood? Such things happened during the revolution. General Budionny, for instance, was only a low ranking Cossack officer before the revolu- tion and he sueceeded in swaying many Cossacks towards the revo- lutionary point of view. Wouldn't it have been just as true to life and just as good art if the novel ended With the victory of the Bolsheviks? But the question I want to ask is what would the bourgeois reviewers have had to say had Sholokhov's Bolshevik been victorious? To ask the question is to answer it. They would have cried in ome voice: PROPAGANDA! Incidentally, this great novel, written in 1928, at a time when, ac- cording to some “all-knowing” American critics art was dead in Soviet Russia, is, I believe, just Part of a larger work. Gregor Mele- khov may yet become a Bolshevik ne the novel as he had become in e. A Prayer N.R.A. me down to sleep and pray John D. my codes will keep, and should I starve before I wake A. F. of L. my pants will take. —A. B. 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