The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 19, 1934, Page 7

ae Page Seven ~ “Times” Music Critic ~ | —-THE | WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN | (Mooney Meditates in San Quentin) ‘OUND a piece of newspaper on the floor of the prison kitchen where I work. .. . The headlines seemed familiar. ... They talked about the Reds threatening to seize "Frisco and agitators planning violence, and Mayor Rossi said that “This will remain an American city,” and that “We won’t stand for revolution.” And it all reminded me of Fickert, who framed me back in 1916.... In the paper, too, was a picture of Market St., with no trolley cars or automobiles running. ... Sure enough, Market St., where that Preparedness Day parade took place that June after- noon in ’16, paid for out of the million-dollar fund raised by the Cham- ber of Commerce to smash the ’Frisco labor unions.... My wife, Rena, had a music studio on that street, too, and Billings, Ed. Nolan and the other boys would meet me there from time to time when we were ) trying to organize the street-car men. ... And now the old town is tied up, tighter than a drum. ... I had suspected it for some time, | because when I’d take my walk in the prison yard I’d notice that San Francisco Bay was quiet, and hardly a boat could be seen... . I guess that was the beginning of the General Strike. ... That strike must be burning up Paul Scharrenberg of the State Federation of Labor and his gang. . . . He begged the governors more than once not to let me out of prison on the ground that I was a “dangerous character.” ... I guess I am pretty “dangerous” to Paul's plute friends. ... I wish I could be out there on the Embarcadero right now.... I’d make it dangerous enough for ’em. . . . Those ratty papers in ‘Frisco that helped frame me sure must be working every minute to smash this strike. ... Things are different now, though... . Maybe this time the workers will see who control those sheets... . A REAL General Strike ought to bring the printers and pressmen out, too, and then the Industrial Association would be in a hell of a fix for propaganda in their newspapers. . . .. The papers are prob- ably now yelling for more troops, but the military can’t man ships and do the rest of the work of the city.... The police and soldiers can murder strikers.... But they can’t run machines with bayonets. ...+ It took me a long time to learn to become an iron molder, longer than it took my father to become a coal miner out east in Indiana. . .. My mother had to sell his tools when my father died after an accident in the mines. ... Thinking of iron molding reminds me that I’m a couple of months behind in my union dues. ... I’ve been a member of the iron molders’ union for more than 30 years, but the stinkin’ officials in that union haven’t as much as sent me a post- card, ... One of the boys here tells me that my old mother marched in that funeral parade for those two lads shot to death by the national guardsmen. ... I haven’t seen her for a while now, I guess she must be feeling pretty low again. ... Maybe the march was too much for her at her age. ... I wonder if McNamara and Matt Schmidt know what's happening across the bay? ... “Mac is pretty busy now, what with his job of feeding the condemned men who are waiting to be hanged)... They sure feed a guy they’re out to kill swell . . as if they want to fatten him for life instead of death... . It seems that the heavier the prisoner, the easier it is to break his neck... . Well, that’s their civilization for you. ... Millons of people starvng to death in this goddam country, too... . And the papers scream about the J strikers starving the city. . Well, Mac, I guess, would sure like | to be in ’Frisco right now. ... His fighting Irish would sure make } the labor fakers hop in case they try any of their dirty stuff... . . | . ’LL bet the Russians must be following this situation pretty closely. ... We're no foreigners to them. ... I’ll never forget those won- derful people for the fight they put up for me, demonstrating for my release in Petrograd when the noose was around my neck.... I'd have been dead by this time if it weren’t for them... . Wonder what Billings thinks out there on the rockpile in Folsom.... The Southern Pacific doesn’t mind having Billings there. ... That’s one way they get cheap gravel for their road beds. ... That’s why they had the State of California build: the prison there... . Warren was a shoe worker... . I guess he’s forgotten his trade by this time... . And Matt Schmidt was a machinist before they got him and McNa- mara in 1911. ... Matt's still working at his trade here in Quentin. ... Too bad Bill Foster isn’t well enough to come out here in the strike. ... Understand he’s still pretty sick, but that boy sure knows the Labor Movement and has his fingers on its pulse... . I'll never forget the fine organization job he did in 1919 in spite of the double- crossing of the fat boys of the A. F. of L.... 1919... yes, not only the Great Steel Strike, but the Seattle General Strike, too, and the Winnipeg General Strike. ... I had already been in San Quentin three years at the time. ... Then the railroad shopmen came out in 1921, and the coal miners—nearly a million of them—in ’26 and ’27, and there've been big strikes all over the country since that time. . .. ND all this time I’ve been in Quentin. ... What I would give to be at a union meeting where a fellow could slash out at the lying crooks and pull the men together for a fight against the corporations! Fleischhacker and his gang knew what they were doing all right when they flung me into a 7x8 cell, with just enough room for my head, and the iron door with a slit in the upper part, and that patch of sky... . It’s 18 years now and I’m getting on in years, past 52 already, but they can’t break me, nor can they buy me off... . They’ve tried it more than once by offering to bribe me with a parole. . + Keep it, I told ’em, you'll need it yourself some day when you're going to be in and I’m out, .. . Trying to make me look guilty, eh? . ». Guilty of sending ten innocent men and women to their graves and maiming more than forty others! ... I'll rot here rather than go free with that on my soul. ... A General Strike in Frisco... and it’s all along the coast. . . . Not a wheel turfing . .. the men are in the streets and up on their hind legs . . . and here I sit in the guards’ mess peeling potatoes. . . . Sometime maybe I'll get out when more like those outside make them let me out... . TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick ‘WJZ—Martin Oreh. WABC—Belasco Orch. 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music : ‘WABC—House Beside the Road— Sketch 1:30-WEAF—Shirley Howard, Songs; Trio WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield ‘WJZ—Ed Lowry, Comedian WABC—Grofe Orch. 1:48-WEAF—Sisters of the Skillet WOR—The O'Neilis—Sketch WJz—Frank Buck's Adventures WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator .; Soloists liam Hargrave, Baritone e Alpert, Piano York University Campus WABC—Stevens Orch. 9:45-WOR—The Witch's Tale Comedian ‘WJZ—Canadian Concert WAS3C—Conflict—Dramatic Sketch 10:18-WOR—Ourrent Events—H. E. Read ‘WABC—Symphony Orch.; Howard Barlow, Conductor 10:30-WOR—Davis Orch, WdZ—Archer Gibson, Organ 10:45-WABC—Fats Waller, Songs 11:00-WEAF—Your Lover, Songs WOR—Weather; Kahn Orch, WJZ—Davis Orch. WABC—Vera Van, Contralto 11:15-WBAF—Berger Orch. Orch. ‘WJZ—Grits and Gravy—Sketch ‘WABC—Kate Smith, Songs 8:15-WABC—Current Topics—Dr. Walter B. Pitkin, Author WABC—Childs i 11:30-WEAF—Press-Radio News 8:30-WJZ—Dorothy Page and John Fo- WOR—Dantzig Orch. | CHANGE | | pulses of all those who realized the | quotations from London's pioneer- | |geois notions of humanitarianism | ldman Band Concert, New 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman Orch.; Al Jolson, Jack London’s “The Dream of Debs” @ By PHILIP STERLING UST as the San Francisco gen-| eral strike has quickened the measureless, all-embracing power of a working class organized for ac-| tion, so Jack London must have/| been moved when he wrote the “Dream of Debs” some 20 years ago. The bourgeois press, marshalling | all its forces against the West Coast | strike, has already seized upon| ing piece of proletarian fiction to add color to the threats of famine and “violence” with which they are preparing the ground for an armed assault against the strike. But read London’s story today, to the accompaniment of newsboys crying, “General strike, general strike,” and read it armed with an understanding of the author and his times — and you know that he has remained true to his working class origins. Jack London came from the pro- letariat and he never ceased to feel the power of the working class puls- ing through his own massive frame, no matter how thoroughly magazine publishers may have succeeded in beguiling him with money, flattery, and literary honors. To Jack Londony as to many others of his day, Socialism was not incompatible with petit-bour- and individualism. London, con- fused by his contradictory beliefs, sometimes ‘expressed regret for the “cruelties of the class struggle.” He was abnormally influenced by Nietsche’s psuedo-biological ap- proach to social questions. The result, in most of his writings is an ideological confusion, which somehow, never married the pris- tine purity of his feeling of unity with the working class. In the light of such understand- ing it is possible to find in “The Dream of Debs” an inspiring tribute from a lion-hearted man to the vast power of the class from whose loins he came. | Te «] AWOKE full an hour before my | customary time . . . The hum} of the great live city was strangely | silent.” Thus London’s hero begins | his narrative. Reading the last) newspaper, he is to see for some/| time, he discovers that a general strike has been called all over the! United States. “But I laugh, as I read, at the | journal’s gloomy outlook, I know | better. I had seen organized labor | | worsted in too many conflicts. It would be only a matter of days when the thing would be settled. This was a national strike and | the government wouldn’t take long to break it.” oe Here we have a hint of London's | method in the story. It is not Jack | London laughing at the general| strike. It is his hero, the rich,| smug clubman who has been born ‘to the blind belief that the work-| ing class can never shake him off) its back as long as he controls the VI Clergymen and Teachers MONG the prisoners was a clergyman from the neighbor- hood of Sonnenburg. This man had an excellent reputation in the Protestant Church and was a zeal- ous organizer of missions in South Africa. But he had refused to adhere to the “German Christians,” the new religious movement created by the Nazis. The Oppositionists, that is, the followers of this clergy- man, were greatly persecuted dur- ing the elections. In spite of this, they elected fourteen representa- tives (60,000 votes), while the Nazis elected only eight, As a direct re- sult the clergyman was imprisoned at Sonnenburg. The Nazis were delighted to get their hands on him. “We'll take care of him,” they said. They had him carry their night-pots to the garbage- wagons and shook with laughter at the spectacle. He often witnessed the tortures of the other prisoners. On one occasion, he said that it would be terrible if the seeds planted by the Nazis “would blossom and arise from the earth to punish those who are guilty of all these atrocities.” The Nazis considered him danger- ous and isolated him by putting him in another wing. A teacher from the neighborhood of Sonnenburg, who had no in- terest at all in politics, was also kept in captivity for many months. He was ill, suffered from gout. Of what crime was he guilty? He wrote a letter to the local govern- ment demanding action against a Nazi clergyman who, he charged, had raped several young girls be- hind the pulpit of the village church in the municipality where! the teacher lived. He was taken| to Sonnenburg. The Nazi clergy- man, on the other hand, retained all his honors and duties until October and was able to prevent the release of the teacher. One evening, the proprietor of the dance hall at Sonnenburg in- vited the warden and all the Nazis of the camp to come to his estab- lishment and drink at his expense, He drank a little too much him- self and sitting behind the bar calmly announced that after all, Adolf Hitler “was an idiot.” He was immediately arrested and taken to the concentration camp. The same evening a waiter from the restaurant of “Waldfrieden” (situated near the water at Son- nenburg), and another, a national | Imaginative S | ; ©’ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1934 Holds Inspiration for Embattled Workers of San Francisco and West Coast EUGENE V. DEBS Photographed while in Atlanta | JACK LONDON Whose “Dreams of Debs” envis- tory of Nation-Wide General Strike given right to work ... or not to work; you can’t escape the corol- lary..., You've got labor down and gouged it, and now labor’s got | you down and is gouging you, that’s all, and you're squealing. ‘How many strikes have you won by starving labor into sub- mission? Well, labor’s worked out a scheme whereby to starve you into submission. It wants the closed shop, and if it can get it by starving you, starve you sall.’ “ HROUGHOUT his narrative, London refers repeatedly to the orderliness of the strikers and the iron proletarian discipline they maintain and the fact that the violence comes from the panicky ruling class. ‘Though he pictures in his story | Scenes of disorder attendant on any class conflict of major proportions, he does so not to indict organized | proletarian action, but the better | to portray the indomitable courage of the workers in the face of dan- gerous obstacles, Near collapse from hunger, Cerf finds his way into the home of a In Attack o By ARLINA McMAHON IONOR among eves mi been disproved as dishonor among bo and intellectuals is blood bond! The demic Mr. Olin Downes, through his review in the New York Times Book Review, of Sunday, July 8, co-operates somnambulant composer Ra inoff in as se us an at little, middle class gentlemen can be capable of. Mr. Down s the composer's biography, achmaninoff's Recol- lections,” as told to Oskar Reisemann and published by Macmillan Company, as a spring- board for airing his own anti-Soviet | Views. He fondly recalls “the sad day when Rachmaninoff arrived in America for the second time in {1918, and shook his head and growled, ‘there is no Ru *.” Mr. Downe's far from pointing out the error of this fallacious statement, | seems to fall a willing victim to it, himself! It is hard to imagine, ev: | though a favored child in the cosy | womb of a bourgeois society, that The Sonnenburg brown plague.” All three of theseprisoners had to scrub his organs | ioned present general strike 2 | striker’s family where he is re- septa xyes ou vived by food and kind treatment. | this eminent journalist and famous | composer is totally unaware of the| government which has the guns, Mr. Cerf, London‘s hero, goes into the street. “Tt was all so unusual, and | withal, so peaceful, that I found | myself enjoying it. “It was not until I arrived at | the Club that afternoon that I began to feel the first alarm. There were no olives for the cock- tails... .” | Here is irony worthy of Mark| Twain. | London’s own attitude toward his | fictional general strike is indicated through the character of Bertie| Messener in the following scene: “At the other end of the smok- ing room, I ran into a group of men bunched excitedly and angrily around Bertie Messener. And Bertie was stirring them up and prodding them in his cool, cynical way. Bertie didn’t care about the strike. He didn’t care | much about anything. He was blase—at least in all the clean things of life; the nasty things had no attraction for him. He was worth twenty millions, all of it in safe investments, and he had never done a tap of productive work in his life—inherited it all | from his father and two uncles. And he didn’t care about any- thing, had no ambitions, no pas- | sions, no desire to do the very | things he did so much better than | other men, “This is sedition!’ one man in the group was crying. Another called # revolt and revolution, and another called it anarchy. | “TF can’t see it, Bertie said. T have been out in the streets all morning. Perfect order reigns. ¥ never saw a more law-abiding | populace. There’s no use calling | Kscape from the Nazis! Torture men were beaten unmercifully. Upon their release they were told that they knew what would happen if they divulged what they had seen or what they had _ experienced themselves. One can imagine that they said nothing, but strange as it may seem, their experiences were soon common talk in the whole vil- lage. Sick Man Beaten and Hanged IN SEPTEMBER, 200 political prisoners were transferred from the concentration camp of Oranien- burg to that of Sonnenburg, @ tragic cargo composed mostly of old, broken men, many of them very sick, Those who used crutches were obliged to run through a veritable gauntlet of Nazis who hurried them with slaps and blows. As they fell to the ground, fainting, they heard, “Hey, there, get going. Forward march .. .” The prisoners from Oranienburg were lodged in the east wing. It was already September, and very cold. But there were not nearly enough blankets for those already there. Naturally those who arrived had none at all. ‘The newcomers, in spite of their various physica? infirmities such as crippled legs and varicose veins, were not at all exempt from the regular routine. They too had to practice the marching formations, the exercises, the Nazi songs. They were not given uniforms immedi- ately but drilled in their own clothes in the dirt and filth of the courtyard, The prisoners were, moreover, dirty, infected and diseased be- cause of the conditions under which they had lived at Oranienburg. This camp is infested with vermin, is supplied with but few toilets for the hundreds of men imprisoned there. The prisoners had to sleep on damp, rotten straw. It was the barracks of men whose wretched condition was the excuse for the most outrageous and-~ the most shameful display of Nazi sadism. All those who had lice were obliged to stand completely naked near the wall of the east wing. One of them was forced to pull out all the hair around his sexual organs, All of them stood for more than an hour in the cold, shivering and chilled to the bone. There was one syphilitic who had been taken out of a home for the aged because he had said that the condition of the poor had not im- | hand.’ jae | ernment or not.’ While he is fed, he is informed} that all the strikers’ demands have been granted and that normal course of life is being restored. it names. It’s not any of these | things. It’s just what it claims to be, a general strike, and it’s ‘ your turn to play, gentlemen.’ : . Everywhere the employers’ | “‘And we'll play alright!’ cried | #SS0ciation had given in .. . Har-| Garfield, one of the traction mil- | ‘ison is still my chauffeur. It was | lionaires. ‘Well show this dirt , Part of the conditions of the I. L. where its place is—the beasts! | W. that all of its members should Wait till the government takes a | be reinstated on their old positions . the rest of my servants are | “‘But where is the govern- | with me ... they were pretty hard | ment? Bertie interposed. ‘It might | Pressed when they deserted me | as well be at the bottom of the | with the food and silver. And now | sea so far as you're concerned. | I can’t discharge them. They have | You don’t know what’s happen- jail been organized.” ing at Washington. You don’t | London concludes the story with know whether you've got a gov- | Mr. Cerf's observation that: Camp——_— va A ” “The tyranny of organized labor Pra uke: a aak. about that!’ | 5. petting beyond human endur- | “‘T assure you I'm not worry- ance. Something must be done.” ing’ Bertie smiled languidly. But let no careless reader “But it seems to me it’s what you | imagine that London ever shared | fellows are doing. Look in the | ‘bis sentiment with his hero, It is glass, Garfield’ | the only ending such a narrative Garfield did not look, for had | COUld have at the hands of a pro- | he looked, he would have seen a | J¢tarian author who was fond of very excited gentleman with | Olympian laughter. | rumpled, iron-gray hair, a flushed ee | face, mouth sullen and vindictive, |Lenin’s “Left Wing | and eyes wildly gleaming. eee x of | “It's not right, I tell you, tittle | Communism” Is Ready| Hanover said; and from his tone * sas I was sure that he had already In A Revised Edition | said it a number of times. “Now, that’s going too far, | “The revolutionary class, in or- | Hanover,’ Bertie replied. ‘You fel- | der to fulfil its task, must be able | lows make me tired. You're all | to master all forms or sides of s0- | open-shop men. You've eroded | cial activity without exception (and | my ear-drums with your endless | complete after the capture of po- gabble for the open-shop and the | litical power, sometimes at great right of a man to work. You've |Trisk and amidst very great dangers, harangued along those lines for | What it did not complete before the years. Labor is doing nothing | capture of power); second, that the wrong in going out on this gen- | evolutionary class must be ready eral strike, It is violating no law | '0 pass from one form to another of God nor man. Don’t you talk, | 2 pte quickest oar et unex- Hanover. You've been ringing the | Pected manner,” Lenin declares in . |his famous classic, “Left-Wing” seanbee:: te clone on. the ed Communism: An Infantile Disorder, | ———— | just. off the press of International Publishers, This text against sectarianism in the labor movement, packed with the finest examples of Lenin's revo- lutionary teaching, steered thou- | sands of militants in the direction of the Communist arty, especially in the post-war period. Written in 1920, it was out of print for some years, although several inadequate and erroneous versions of the Eng- with a soap brush until the blood| lish translation were published in ran. the United States. International Not satisfied with this, they Publishers’ edition is based on the dressed him in a thin shirt that| ‘xt of Lenin’s manuscrivt now in| only reached to his navel. He stood | Possession of the Marx-Engels-) this way for three hours in the| Lenin Institute at Moscow. The} 9 sae ( | book can be obtained from the pub- biting cold, while the Nazis. shook |}; 1er< 38) Fourth Ave. Workers’ with laughter. During the whole | Sooxshop, Box 148, Station D, New time, groups of these barbarians you or workers’ bookshops. | walked by to look at this frightful | | WHAT’S ON Spectacle, exchanging obscéne stories and pleasantries. Even this was not enough. The same evening several Nazis went to achievements of the Soviet Union. These well-read gentlemen don’t Seem ever to have heard of Mag- nitogorsk, the White Sea Canal, Dneiperstroy, the development of Siberia and the other great accom- plishments of the Russian people since 1918. Or perhaps Mr. Rach- maninoff was mourning his coun- | try estate on the banks of the Vol- | chov River. In that case, even a| composer-landlord is in for a per manent period-of mourning, for the workers and peasants of Russia have driven the capitalists and landowners out forever. Mr. Downes then continues his review in a nostalgic vein and de- clares “This biography shows us the | Russia of the past, so beautiful to | those who knew it.” The slightly sadistic beauty of famine, illiteracy, | pogroms and brutal suppression of | all human rights may appeal to the | exquisite Mr. Downes, but then, he was many miles and a whole class, removed from a cold, bare peasant | hut or a stinking Czarist prison. Most of all the reviewer com- ments sadly on Rachmaninoff, the exile, the expatriated genius, who | mourns his lot in a well set up| summer home, La Pavillon, in| Clairefontaine, France. If Rach- | maninoff longs for his native land, | this sentiment has hardly shown its | head in his music. Years before the Russian Revolution, he was bitterly | opposed to the Nationalist move- | ment among Russian composers and | he refused outright to assist in ar- | | maninoff ranging concerts to be given in honor of the modernist Scriabin, Is Tribute to Power of General Strike 4"¢ Rachmaninoff Join“ nU.S. S$. | who died in 1917. Bis work om never been of the flesh and blood of the How could tt ff the to Dresdi forth the defeatist i born “Isle of the Dead,” so beloved of Car- negie Hall box-holders. Mr. Downes, eois critic and radio commen- pictures Mr. Rachmaninoff reading with incurable melancholy ’s estimation of his landowner, “—the author of works h in their emotional and men- effects are bour through and through the manufacturer | of fox-trots Rachmaninoff was and is the servant and tool of the worst enemies of the proletariat, the we bourgeoisie and world capitalism!” HAT the Russian press has seen fit to say regarding Rache maninoff is more than borne out by this petty, carping, personalized at- tack on the Workers’ Fatherland in his recollections. Mr. Downes is guilty in his zealous |hatred of the Soviet Union of a | pair of extremely odd statements. He says, “His own peasants, whom he often had directed or even worked with in the fields of his es- had turned against him, or at became discourteous and un- following the Lenin revo- after which, his property lution, confiscated, he was permitted, as an artist the people had loved, to leave the country. He escaped into Scan- dinavia and prepared for an American tour.” These two sen- tences, in the first of which, Rach- is “permitted” to leave = the country and in the second of which “he escapes” are a bit startl- - = ing to those who have always im- agined Mr. Downes a master of caus tious writing. The self-contradic- tions in these two sentences have that same slight whiff of asofetida that is shared by that other collec tion of White Guardist misinforma- tion known as “Escape from the So- viets” and sponsored by the Book- of-the-Month Club. The discourtesy of Mr. Rachman- inoff’s peasants is brought by Mr. Downes, perhaps, as a timely warn- ing to other landowners in other countries. It may be that he is warning Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rocke- feller, et al., of how the working class will react te their present masters here in America, If so, his zealous, almost wifely, considera- tion for the sensibilities of the capi- talist class had better be rewarded now. It won’t be later. To paraphrase an American ac- tress who is better known for her bizarre behavior than her talents— “It’s just too, too tragic about Mr. Rachmaninoff and his discourteous peasants!” hicago Council Comes er Homeless Dogs, ‘Files’ Plea of Jobless By BILL ANDREWS (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO. — Homeless dogs re- ceived the attention of the Chicago City Council Wednesday, while homeless men and women had their problems “filed” by that august body. Alderman who had promised to speak for the endorsement of H. R. 7598 (Workers Unemployment In- surance Bill) failed to act when the | matter was brought up, but the coun- | cil was very voluble on the subject | of the anti-vivisection fight organ- ized by rich society women. | When the Workers Unemploy- | ment Insurance Bill was sub- mitted to the council in a com- munication from the Federation of Fraternal Organizations, it waa passed over, and ordered filed, in other words thrown in the waste basket. is concerned. ent ordinances on the handling of stray dogs by the pound. Meantime, of course, human strays will continue to sleep in the parks, or will be herded into filthy flop houses a good bit worse than the dog pound as far as sanitation Unemployed are probably expected to find some con- solation in the fact that they don’t have to buy a license for themselves or wear a muzzle, The Federation delegation, led by Zwolinski, candidate for Congress in the Eighth District, and Sam —~. Hammersmarth, candidate for state treasurer on the Communist ticket pledged their organizations to re- new the fight for the Workers Bill (H. R. 7598), and force aldermen to bring the question before the council after it readjourns for the fall sessions in September. " Stage and Screen his cell and performed the most un- | speakable acts of indecency on him. | Then they beat him until he| gasped his last breath. To make| it look like a suicide, they hung him up, and put his hand against | his organs. The next day they told the prisoners and the other Nazis, giggling and laughing at their, humor, that the “suicide” had mas- | turbated until the last moment. Some of the prisoners who were carpenters, made a black coffin, and six of them were obliged to carry it through the village to the cemetery in their prison uniforms. After them, walked the warden of the camp dressed in an evening suit and a top hat—a mute demonstra~- tion of the Third Reich that dis- gusted even the inhabitants of Son- nenburg. (To Be Continued) N. S. L. School Opens Tts Second Term With 7 Important Courses NEW YORK.—The second term of the National Student League School opened Monday with seven courses which will continue for four weeks. Subjects include: Genetics and Eugenics, by Dr. Mark Grau- bard of Columbia University; His- tory of the American Labor Move- ment, by Charlotte Todes, educa- tional director of the Trade Union Unity Council and instructor in the New York Workers School; Race Problems, by Dr. Bernhard J. Stern of Columbia University; Ne- gro Problems, by James Ford of the Harlem Workers School; Schools of Psychology by the Pen} and Hammer Psychology group; Advice to Revolutionary Play- wrights by Will Ferris of New York University; the Social Approach to Linguistics and Folklore, by Mar- garet Schlauch of New York Uni- versity; the Confusion and Revolt in the Romantic Poets, by Benja- Thursday GARDEN PARTY, given by Stuyvesant Br. American League Against War and Fascism, Childrens Center, 311 E. 12th St., 8:30 p.m. Pitot, piano; Kozekevitch, sons “Prof.” Machey doing his stuff. Dancing, iced refreshments. Subscription 20c. (In case of rain party will be held indoors.) Y¥. ©, L. SECTION 2, Open Membership Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Spartacus Club, 269 W. 25th St. Report by Gil Green, National Secretary Y.C.L., on 7th National Con- vention and tasks of the Young Commu- nist League. Everybody invited. Adm. free. NEGRO SLAVERY IN AMERICA, lecture by Otto Hall at Harlem Workers’ School, 200 W. 135th St., Room 214-A, 7:30 p.m. Adm. 25¢. OAKLEY JOHNSON speaks on Wha! Happening in Italy?” United Front Sup- porters, 11 W. 18th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 5c, OPEN MEMBERSHIP and Mass Meeting of the Coney Island and West End Sec- tion of the LLD., at 3200 Coney Island Ave., 8:30 p.m. Workers and sympathizers are welcome. R. B. Moore will speak on “The Class Struggle.” GE MEMBERSHIP MEETING, Film & Photo League, 12 E. 17th &., p.m. EMERY JOHNSON speaks oh “N.R.A. and the Worker” at the Ernst Thaelmann Br. 585 I.W.O., 2345 Coney Island between Aves. T & U, 8:30 p.m. Friday MIDSUMMER GARDEN PARTY by Provisional Committee of the N.Y. County ‘Unemployment Council, at Children's Cen- ter, 311 E. 12th St. Entertainment by National Negro Theatre, Mara Tartar, and others. In case of rain party will be held indoors, OPEN AIR MOVIES— ‘The Patriots” and “Eskimo Boy” at White Plains Theatre, 2171 White Plains Ave. Pelham Parkway. 8:30 p.m. Pelham Parkway Workers Club. Adm. 15c. MOVIE AND DANCE at Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St., 8:30 p.m. Important film showing Bloody Memorial Day in Los Angeles. Refreshments, Adm. 25c. STUDIO PARTY and Concert given by New Duncan Dance Group, 108 W. 14th St. Rose Feldman, Willy Daxell, musical saw player, refreshments, dancing, Cool Off on the roof. Subscription 2Se. * OPEN AIR CONCERT and Biro Bidjan Celebration at Frimkin’s Villa, 4724 Beach 47th St., Sea Gate, on Saturday, July 2ist at 8:30 p.m. Celebrated artists will par- ticipate. Subscription 35c. Auspices: Icor of Brighton and Coney Island and F.S.U. of Sea Gate. In case of rain the follow. ing evening. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY! The Work- ers Book Shop, 50 B. 13th St..-N.Y.C.. will close daily at 8 p.m, and Saturday near Auspices: Alderman Sonnenschien, son-in- law of former Mayor Cermak, who had promised to urge consideration of the bill, failed to make any pro- test. Spokesmen of the Federation were refused the floor, and the whole question of the Council's en- dorsement of the bill shoved aside | situation in San Francisco are now |for the summer. | | being shown at the Acme Theatre, | The council, after) considerable | These pictures were taken by a spe- _ | discussion, decided that Chicago's| cial Acme representative on the dogs need better treatment, and | coast. New pictures of the strike voted to hold a series of open | situation will be added daily as soon | hearings during the summer to de-| as they reach New York from the _ pee whether or not to revise pres- coast. | AMUSEMENTS || —UNCENSORED SAN FRANCISCO STRIKE NEWS!. (New Pictures Daily—Taken by Special Acme Representative on Coast)—ALSO San Francisco Strike Pictures Now Showing at Acme Uncensored pictures of the strike |BROKEN SHOES An Epic of Children in Politicalily-Torn Europe |ACME THEATRE ‘WNon'savane --Now! SOVIET TALKIE ENGLISH TITLES | | ENTERTAINMENT - BAR | | REFRESHMENTS || New Masses and F. S. U. Moonlight Sail and Dance TICKETS in advance at New Masses, F.S.U., Workers | Bookshop, 75c — at Boat $1 Saturday, July 21st, at 7:30 P.M. | | Arranged through S.S. Ambassador leaves from Pier 1, South Ferry | | World Tourists a ITY MUSIC HALL - : Bee GC anee Pins or ite Nation {| ||" TONIGHT FoR ES WARNED EAx reel): CRAND OEE | Motorcycle Races in “GRAND CANARY” Innisfail Speedway MADGE EVANS-MARJORIE RAMBEAU and a great Music Hall stage revue BROADWAY & 240th STREET Beginning at 8:30 P.M. 18 STIRRING EVENTS |}——_ JAMES W. FORD Says: ——, “By all means Negro and white workers should see = 5 3 ig 8 S AY Fi : ‘3 - 3 garty, Songs Ee ni int ogy eg socialist were also arrested. The} proved under the reign of Hitler. at 5 p.m. till Labor Day. Shop early for WABC—Philadelphia ‘Orch. Concret, Jose Iturbi, Conductor, Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park 9:00-WEAF—Captain Henry's Show Boat WOR—Rod and Gun Club wJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch 2:15-WOR—Della Baker, Soprano; Wil- { WJZ—Johnson Orch. 11:45-WABC—Busse Orch. 12:00-WEAF—Dance Music WMCA, WOR, WEVD! waiter was arrested because of an incident with some of the Nazis (Also. WABC, ) ‘WJZ—Milwaukee Philharmonic Or- chestra, Frank Waller, Conductor who had refused to pay for their drinks. He lost his temper and said, “We ought to wipe out this He was destined to become the butt of much of the savage wit of the Nazis. They pushed him under the water-pump. One of the lowest, most criminal types of the other min Gamzue of New York Uni- versity. Registration fee is 50 cents per| course. Registration now going on at National Student League, 114 W. the many special now available. | MOONLIGHT SAIL and Dance sponsored | by the New Masses and Friends of the | Soviet Union, Saturday night, July 21, on 8.8. Ambassador, leaving from Pier -1,|| CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. Eves. 8:45. Mats. Tues. & Sat. 2:45 14th St., New York, South Ferry, at 7:30 p.m, Tickets 75¢ in| advance, $1 at the Pier 30¢-400-60¢-75e-$1.00 & $1.50, No Tax | 48 CRACK RIDERS | General Admission 40c and 5c Reserved Seats $1.10 and $1.65 Take Seventh Avenue Broadway Line | Subway to 238th Street