The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 20, 1934, Page 5

ee, CHANGE ——THE-— ‘| WORLD! an eetlimcecine HEN you see a little golden key dangling from a vest, and if its owner habitually toys with it in public, you will know that it is a Phi Beta Kappa key. This signifies that the owner of the key was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society because of high scholarishp and good deportment while in college. It is customary for students to get this distinction as an award DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY Open Hearing in Jersey Farm By SASHA SMALL RIDGETON, N. J. is a very or- open hearing indicting Seabrook, two justices of the peace and a few of the vigilantes, was largely in progress at the Moose Hall last Sunday when we arrived. The hall was jammed to the windows in spite of the terrific heat. About 700 people. In the front rows sat mothers with wriggling babies. Along the sides sat the young people. Boys and girls of about 17—Italian Town Reveals Low P | — ay, Terror = tered among the orchards and the, | vegetable fields and can houses are walis. The windows are like great wounds in the broken sides. Glass doesn’t exist. Between the huts Tun open sewers. The kids jump over them like flies. No lights, no water in the houses. When it rains, the workers tell you you might as | | well stay outside. There's no keep- | beaten dozens of times for insti- gating strikes. Men like this are (July 14). “ATTENTION CITI- | ZENS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY —after this follows John Howard Lawson's description in the N. Y. Post of the activities of the White Legion in the South. Says Mr. Seabrook: “Do you know that in addition to fomenting strikes, disorder and riots in Alabama the Communists JULY 20, 1934 FLASHES and | CLOSE-UPS } By LENS AVE you attended a performance | of the Portable Theatre of the | Works Division of the Department of Welfare of the city of New York? ; Mayor and your Commissioner of | Welfare. Show your appreciation |for what our great City Adminis- tration is trying to do for you. Take |the wife. Take the kiddies. The | DRAMA brought to your very door- | step, folks. I HAVE sat throufh a few of the performances given in broad day- Page Fivé Unemployed Insurance just entering the field often de- lude themselves into thinking that they are important cogs in the shaping of society. The more hon- est among them soon recognize that | this is nothing more than a delusion te hide the ugly fact that social work- | ers have ia prettify the stench and evils of a decaying social order. Social workers must sanction and render homage to the existing poli- and that he the conference that the Workers’ Bill was drawn up by people who knew nothing of the principles of social insurance.” The people sup- Porting the bill were fools, he con- tinued. On the basis of his 30 years’ study and experience, Mr. Rubinow urged the conference to reject the resolution. If the resolution were endorsed, the conference would be for excellence in their studies, but in the University of California the eee tia ioe coe. ing dry on the inside. sent New York attorneys to that | light by these portable stages. In| tical and economic system. Any op- | Com of professional other day. the faculty handed one of these golden keys to a man for helped along by questions from Is-| And for these hovels they state from the Communist Inter- | ‘*®ickly populated working-class) position, any challenge leads to dis- RUILY, making a blood-thirsty fascist speech. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, head of Roosevelt’s strikebreaking NR.A., did not burn the midnight oil in order to be elected a member of the | Phi Beta Kappa. Nor did he pore over scientific studies, or contribute an original thesis on Beowulf or Chaucer. All Johnson did was to make a lynch-incitement speech against the Pacific Coast strikers and Particularly against the radical workers involved—and, presto, he be- came an honored scholar in the eyes of the University of California serman, Ingernational Labor De- fense attorney. Tom Crawford, tall and lean, very black, worked on Seabrook Farm since 1928, describes how he and a few other strikers were locked up in the refrigerator box which the deputies just changed into another jail house. He tells of the so-called pay | $4.8 month. Charles Seabrook rules | over this domain like a Jord. If | you are caught eating anything that | grows on Seabrook farm you are | immediately fired. Behind the huts | are piles of rusty cans—remains of | the meals these agricultural work- ers must live on. national Labor Defense to defend and act as counsel for eight Ne- groes tried for rape of two white girls. Two of the Negroes are to be hanged next month.... Do you know that right now in Cumberland County lawyers from this same Communist Interna- tional Labor Defense are trying | neighborhoods these huge | fore a bewildered audience of men, ;women and children. Into these foul and unwholesome canyons of proletarian misery the city brings | its circuses. |_ At a performance |Park on the lower East Side an in Corlears stages | mounted on trucks are set up be-| missal. The tone for social work is set by those social agencies that actively participate in breaking strikes, or like the C. O. S. of Lon- don claim that workers who fight for unemployment insurance are suffering from an Adlerian “lion- taming” complex. We shall not record here how the Rank and file sentiment was not shaken by this peroration. The res- olution wouid have passed, if taken to a vote. The second move of the executive was to declare that the whole future of Jewish Social Work was at stake. They said that fav- orable action on the resolution would mean that rich contributors Misleaders Among Socket" + Workers Block Fight for dinary town—it might be any- never satisfied unless they are 4 9 rs os By A RELIEF WORKER | 7598 discussed first. : wretched barracks and huts—gray, Why not? It’s free, you know, shed k he luti 7 where in the United States and the | ¥™* »| being arrested and beaten by |, e 1 work 5 wished to speak on the resolution, By SENDER GARLIN broken, wide gaps in the roofs and | angry citizens... .” “e © |with the compliments of your| YOUNG social workers who are |i)°s) sunbiased” manner, he told.ro faculty, trials held right in Seabrook’s of- 0 | to obtain release of outside Com- | trish worker exclaimed while watch-| more radical social workers are| to the agencies would withdraw 9 ver in a corner is a if unist arrested ; t Discussing the General Strike, Gen. Johnson sald: “t have lived ae by Justin 3, Ellswority Tons werd sic Chile cottagen: Aireicon ae yey etic el pera |ing the idiotic “Mr. Cox and Mr. | fighting this tradition and how they | their support. in this community for many years and know. If the federal govern- |him. He tells of the three armed | Village, the workers call it. That’s| trust that no White Legion or | 20%. ‘not the play nh the same | are identifying themselves with the) since this did not seem to ment did ane eee the le would act and it would act to wipe out | th b ad on the where the foremen and the other| any other elope pageantry | name once produced by the Work-| fight for the Workers’ Unemploy- frighten the conference, the execu- oh as Beck lugs Seabrook hi premises | ner li Th y Le peat /ers’ Laboratory Theatre, heaven| ment Insurance Bill and other mass “ » this subversive element as you clean off a chalk mark on a blackboard |and hid in the cellar when other | 4mericans live. ey get hardly| what is going on in Alabama | forbid!): “Why don’t them bastards struggles. We merely intend to teil | “v°S pulled $08; toda cee \ with a wet sponge. But this is primarily a duty of the community, much less a duty of the National Government. ... It is the duty of patriotism. It must erase this sinister bar from the escutcheon. It must run these subversive rats from its ranks like rats if it is to retain strikers arrived with warrants for their arrest. Mrs. Helen Beterrelli took her two kids up on the platform with her. any more wages and they have to pay high rent for these places—but the discrimination system does its work, They never came out on Strike with the Italian and Negro| against Communist agitators and advocates. . . .” For days these broadsides, lynch | incitements flowed from the pen |feed us unemployed instead of | spending dough on this—!” | E most repulsive brand of vari- of the actions of a famous social | worker who may one day be called upon to administer whatever social insurance scheme the Roosevelt ad- declared that. the conference was packed with New York radicals who did not truly reflect the opinions of the people in the field. When this also failed, the executives tried In very broken English she related | trati 3 “2 the respect and support of the American people and the power of the |how tear bombs were thrown by Mitaetel They remained loyal to [ade ae, : | 4 ety and kitschy swill is dished| aides Jeet ping phere aashe to claim that the conference could i i Be 5 " ie is not over on the Sea-| out on these truck-stages. Skits in| if 2 id + because there was no National Government which otherwise is its to command. elford Seabrook, son and heir of R rape becohe EARine “The enckers won, thet Bes. |farmers. The story is a good il-|2Ot ae No Mere “Theorist” ND while the doughty general was delivering his “scholarly” dis- course, “six offices of Communist organizations were invaded, furni- ture smashed to splinters under hatchet blows, rocks sailed through windows, and pictures and Communist placards were torn from walls. More than 300 alleged Communists were arrested on vagrancy charges.” (Daily News.) Here we see illustrated the unity of theory and practice. Gen. Johnson speaks in the ivy-covered halls of the University of California in Berkeley, while “vigilantes” organized by the Industrial Associa- tion, aided by National Guardsmen and city police, wreck the office of the Communist Party which is a legal party and/on the ballot of the Charles Seabrook, right up on the porch on top of the two kids. Those bombs were peculiar gas bombs. They made the two kids sick for a@ couple of days and when Mrs. Beterrelli went to get the doctor for her kids, more bombs were thrown into the house and set fire to the bed (she had the sheets with her with big holes burned in them). When fellow strikers tried to put the fire out cops chased them away and threw more tear gas. Dr. Fairchild, professor of eco- nomics at Bry Mawr, testified. She described her conferences with Sea- Hs lordy manner is made very clear in the ads he issued in the | Bridgeton Evening Press. samples will suffice: (July 7th) “Beatings and ar- rests in labor troubles mean nothing to Henderson and the other Communists. From infor- mation from federal authorities he has been arrested probably a Two wage inrease. The won the point about no discrimination—but i t's taking a stiff fight to enforce it. | But they shouted their confidence in the leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Indus- trial Union into the teeth of the lying accounts in the press and they are ready to continue their battle for the right to a decent hundred times and has been life. which Negroes are ridiculed, Jews and Italians slandered in so-called “dialect” pieces. Embarrassing but- terfly dances. Before these sicken- ing exhibitions are half over the audience leaves in disgust and only a handful of curious kids remain to gaze upon these weird spectacles which are palmed off on workers | under the guise of city governmen- tal patronage of the drama, culture, |ete., for the “peepul.” | Bnet ee T Battery Park a few days ago a crowd composed of several hun- lustration of how social workers are | used to bolster up the existing | scheme of things, and why they are | |So dangerous to movements that | |fight for economic security and a better society. | Pi ai Se | ECENTLY the Conference of Jewish Social Service held its | 1934 meeting at Atlantic City. Sen- | timent among the rank-and-file was | quorum present. EN the executives pulled the last trick out of their bag. They announced that no vote could be | taken, since such a vote Was uncon- stitutional. When reminded that in 1931 the conference had gone on record calling on Hoover to help the unemployed, one executive replied that two wrongs did not make one right. The executives were finally. | strong for the passage of a resolu-/ successful in their efforts to send =: jtion urging Congress to pass the/| the resolution to a committee where | Workers’ Bill for unemployment in- | it died, due to the pressure of other | Surance, (H.R. 7598). The executive| business “that could not be de- “Negroes Don’t Mind Misery,” Says dred unemployed were drowsily| seeneeenen State of California; they smash the headquarters of the Western Worker, the fighting Communist paper which had been the official organ of the striking longshoremen, And as dignified members of the (7:00 University of California listen in an ecstasy of servility to the gangster speech of Gen, Johnson—later decorating him with the Phi Beta Kappa key—the “Vigilantes” raided the Ruthenberg House, which “quartered the Workers’ Theatre, the Film and Photo League, the Labor Sports Union, the Workers School and the Workers Book Shop.” (Associated Press.) What stinking hypocrisy for Gen. Johnson to pretend to be “shocked” at Hitler methods when he himself condones these fascist raids. In fact, the very N.R.A. strikebreaking apparatus contains the embryo of the Nazi “Labor Front.” The University of California is a nest of reaction which proudly accepted cash from the war-monger, William Randolph Hearst, for the construction of a Greek Theatre. Such are the patrons of “art and culture” in the United States! At the Leland Stanford University in Palo Alto (made famous by the fact that Herbert Hoover was once manager of the football team there when an undergraduate), the son of California’s leading banker and jailor of Tom Mooney—Herbert Fleischhacker, Jr.—recently tried to recruit strikebreakers from among the students, offering them $20 a day. How about a Phi Beta Kappa Key for Fleischhacker? * * * That Column on Tom Mooney Ts need for explicit statement was never brought home to me more forcibly than when I received a note from a reader last night who wrote: “I liked your column called ‘Mooney Meditates in San Quentin,’ but I am afraid it was somewhat ambiguous to some people. At least two comrades with whom I spoke were puzzled by it, and couldn't make up their minds whether you or Tom Mooney had written it. I think it would have been much better if you had put the word ‘imaginary’ somewhere high up in the column.” ‘Thanks for the word of caution. I'll remember it in the future. Obviously, however, if that column had been written by Mooney, we would have displayed it with an eight-column headline on the front page. Elsewhere in the paper, incidentally, readers will find a report of the efforts we've been making to get a telegram delivered to Mooney, and the snarling wire sent us by the San Quentin warden who declines to send “disloyal” messages to this famous labor prisoner. . - . Tom Mooney and a ’Frisco Zoo “1T MGHT be worth reminding folks,” writes El, “that the Fleisch- hackers, Crockers and others in the San Francisco Industrial Asso- ciation, who are so busy trying to break the splendid marine strike and solidarity of labor on the West Coast are the same gang of pirates who put Tom Mooney in prison and keep him there now. “Once as young hitch-hikers in the California mountains, several of us camp waitresses were picked up by two specially equipped Pierce- Arrows of the, Fleischhacker-Lilienthal (related) families. Before the ride was over, out came a fancy silver hip-flask (Prohibition days then) and a gold collapsible drinking cup to dazzle us, who had known only Andy Mellon’s aluminum or Lord Melchett’s nickel for such contrap- tions, The chauffeur-valet-camp-man-of-all-work complained to us considerably when the Ritzies decided to fish one of the Weaver River forks, because he had to delve into the deep kit-box and dig out all ithe gear—rods, reels, creels, flies, hip-boots and what-all goes with Ritzy fishing of lazy millionaires. “You may have noticed a sad story in the cap press about the lions going hungry at the Fleischhacker Zoo (not the zoo in Gelden Gate Park), because the strikers won't deliver the 400 pounds of raw meat the King of Beasts and his family consume daily. Fleischhacker, as I recall, gave only the land for the zoo (not too much land). He had the city fix up the park and build an extension of the municipal car- line miles out to it; so that he and his preferred list could make a few more millions cleaning up on real estate all the way out from town. They let a swell big orang-outang die of flu at Fleischhacker'’s zoo by cooping him up in a small concrete cell (about the size of Mooney’s at San Quentin), where the chilly winds and damp fog swept around him. He (the orang) had a sad look for us humans when I last saw him. “As a native daughter of the Golden West, I know who wiil make it a country worth living in—and it’s not the Fleischhacker-Lilienthal- Crocker crowd. More power to the West Coast longshoremen, seamen and all the great rank and file of workers who have been making such TUNING IN 8:45-WJZ—Jack and Loretta Clemens, S01 ngs 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Orch.; Frank Munn, Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Songs WOR—Italics—H. 8. Lott, v.. WJZ—Harris 15-WABC—Friend of the Family—Sketch ‘WEAF—Bonime Orch.; Pic and Pat, P.M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume ‘WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick ‘wiz—Hall Orch. WaBc—Theodore, reo -15-WEAF—Gene ant 718-Wor_rront-Page Drama WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Playboys Trio “we PEAP—Three X Sisters, Songs *OR—The O'Neill's “Sketch 'JZ—Grace Hayes, es WABOCPaul Keast, Baritone; Hud- son Orch. 7:45-WEAF—Sisters of the Skillet “woR—Larry Taylor, Baritone wiz—Frank Buck's Adventures ‘WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orch.; Olga Albani, “Soprano; Revelers Quartet ‘WOR—Selvin Orch. wiz—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian: Ethel Shutta, Songs; Dolen Orch. ‘WABC—Kate Smith, Songs 4:15-WABC—Columbians Orch. 8:30-WOR—Novelty Orch.; Slim Timblin, Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet ‘WiZ—Taxes or Tribute—Colonel W. ™. Chevalier. Vice-Pres., McGraw- HL Publishint Company ‘ABC—Court of Human Relations Baritone ch els, Contralto Baker, Comedian ‘WABOC—Green Orch.; Sylvia Froos, 10:00-WEAF—The Black Box—Drama, with Cliff Sourbier ‘WOR—Eternal Life—Drama ners, Songs shall, Baritone; Songs; Stoopnagie and Budd 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. EF. Read cert Orch; Frank Parker, WOR —Robison Orch. Delamarter, Conductor 10:45-WABC—Warwick Sisters, Songs; Carlile and London, Piane Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs Comedians WOR—Dilworth Orch., Helene Dan- June Meredith, Don Ameche and ‘WJZ—Mario Cozzi and Lucille Man- ‘WABC—Young Orch.; Everett Mar- Prank Crumit, 10:30-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian; Con- Tenor ‘WJZ—Chicago Symphony Orch.; Eric| W. 126th St., 8 brook and her attempt to stop the tear gas attack by calling the at- tention of those who were throw- ing it to the children. She described the whole attack that started with an attempt to drive a truck load of beets into the cannery. When the truck was driven up on the scales, three young Negro women Pickets ran up to it and began to pull a few bunches off. with their hands. They were fallen upon by thugs. Young Ella Roberts had had her forehead split open with a Pick handle wielded by Jack Saun- ders, the most degenerate and bru- tal of the thugs. This Saunders was fired as a deputy of Cumberland County for his bad record. But the Upper Deerfield township committee made up of farmers like Seabrook ap- pointed him as special constable to handle the strike. gts Cie (NLY a stenographic record could do justice to the testimony of the youngsters who told about cut- ting down the electrified barbed wire set up by Seabrook to keep strikers away from the cannery, of how they used to work for 17 cents an hour before the first strike, be- fore the Union, and now they get 25 cents and 30 cents an hour and how they abolished child labor which used to pay five cents an demeanor for holding court in the boasted of the $10 a day they were getting and how they pointed out strike leaders to the cops, how Sea- brook announced that the best method for breaking strikes is clap- ping all the leaders in jail. The hearing was militant and spirited. It found all five de- fendants, who were called upon to defend themselves, guilty. A war- rant was sworn out for the arrest of Charles Seabrook. Charge: mis- deamor for holding court in his own office, violating the laws of the State of New Jersey. The flagrant violations of all laws and all constitutional rights on Sea- brook Farms would take columns to list. People were sentenced to jail without hearings. Dpulicate war- rants were issued for the same charge. Vivian Dahl was arrested five times; three times on identical warrants of disorderly conduct and twice for conspiracy. ieee fo | UT it is only after you see Sea- brook farms that you realize how all this terror is possible. It is a feudal manor in every sense of the word. Its 3,500 acres stretch over about 15 miles. You ride and ride over bumpy roads and it is still Seabrook farm. Scat- White Head of Harlem Health Center watching a children’s dance entitled | “Dance of Joy.” The sound of the} dilapidated piano was drowned out} of the big agencies were aware of | layed.” this feeling, and decided to use one At the same conference the ranke of their biggest guns to kill the res- | and-file urged the support of the olution. Their big-bertha was Mr.| Principle of collective bargaining By CLARINA MICHELSON Dr. Arthur I. Blau, white doc- tor, at the head of the Depart- ment of Health Center, in the heart of Harlem, in an itterview today, while admitting that un- dernourishment, infant mortality, tuberculesis, and maternal mor- tallty were from two to thres times as high as in the rest of the city, stated: “Negroes do nut mind end are not as much af- fected by overcrowding, utemploy- ment and lack of su*ficiens nour- ishment, as other people, ac they are more used to it.” ‘This brazen statement cas made in Dr. Blau’s pleasant and spacious Oflice at 108 W. 136th St., while hundreds of Negro men, women anc children were in the waiting rooms, suffering from tke very Giseases that Dr. Blau said, “Ne- groes are used to it and do not mind.” Dozens of charts mocked at the undernourished patients from the walls, with colorful, ap- Petizing pictures of oranges, to- matoes. lettuce, bottles of milk, and other absolute necessities to health, which the great majority of Harlem children and their par- ents are doomed to do without. Dr. Blau, in one of his radio talks over Station WMSG, stated: “At no period of life is proper food so essential, both as regards quality and quanvty, as it is in early childhood. Many are the diseases and disturbances for which faulty nutrition is directly re- sponsible. Important as improper food may be in the causation of, diseases, it is equally important as a predisposing factor of disease, brought about by diminishing bodily resistance and vitality.” When asked if the City Health Center made any provision for providing milk or the other foods essential to the health of the un- dernourished children of Harlem, Dr, Blau said blandly: “Oh, no, but most of the people who come here are taken care of by the Home Relief Buros.” This “care” and “cure” for undernourishment by the Relief Buros is well known to be a sentence of slow starva- tion. Startling admissions regarding the physical condition and death rates of the people of Harlem, were made by Dr. Blau, who said that the Health Center had about 1,000 new cases each month, and of the 50,000 visits paid in 1933, over 1,000 were babies, and 1,700 pre-school children. Practically all the patients are Negroes, with a small scattering of Irish, Italian, Spanish and a few other nation- alities. Out of 500 children ex- amined in 1933, almost 200 were undernourished. Infant mortality is almost twice as great in Harlem as in other parts of the city—90 infants out of every 1,000 dying compared to 53 in the rest of the city. Two years ago, 97 out of every 1,000 babies born in Harlem were doomed to early death and almost every child suffered from the malnutrition disease, rickets. About 80 per cert of the total adult population of Harlem is out of work, resulting in lack of proper food, and, because of the high rents, in overcrowding. As a re- sult, there is three times as much tuberculosis in Harlem as in the rest of the city. In 1931 there were 555 cases out of every 100,000 and in 1933, 458 cases, compared to 136 cases out of every 100,000 in the rest of the city. Maternal mortality is also twice as high in Harlem, 115 of every 1,000 mothers dying, compared to 6.41 in the rest of New York City. Dr. Blau, who had to admit that “Tuberculosis is more prevalent in Harlem, because of economic con- ditions, lack of nourishment and overcrowding,” carefully stated sev- eral times: “We do not want to think of Harlem as a segregated area. We do not want to look at the colored people as different from other people. We look on them not as Negroes but as peo- ple.” Dr. Blau, representing the City Administration, spoke as a true agent of the LaGuardia gov- ernment, and the white ruling class, attempting to whitewash the vicious Jim-Crowing of Negroes into the segregated area of Har- Jem, where high rents are gouged from the Negro people, overcrowd- ing is inevitable, there is more un- employment, lower wages, and un- dernourishment, high mortality and tuberculosis, the direct results of the policy of segregation and ex- Ploitation of the Negro people. WHAT 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. near Pelham Parkway, 8:30 p.m. Auspices: Pelham Parkway Workers Club. Adm. l5c. MOVIE AND DANCE at Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St., 8:30 p.m. Important film’ showing Bloody Memorial Day in Los Angeles. estiments, 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 25c. FAREWELL PARTY for Comrade Sha- velson, delegate from the United Council of Working Women to the International Women's Congress Against War and Fas- cism in Paris, at home of Comrade Pa- dolsky, 3020 Ocean Parkway. Auspices ‘Women’s Council No. 17. ANTI-NAZI MASS MEETING at Coney Island Workers Club, 27th St. and Mer- maid Ave., Brooklyn. Rabbi B. Goldstein will speak on “The Present Slaughter and Actions of Hitler.” 8 p.m. Adm. 15c. DANCING — Entertainment by Negro stars at cool terrace of Lido Ball Room, 160 West 146th St., to send children to camp and delegate to Paris Anti-War Congress. Adm. 50c. JAY ARCH will lecture on “Improved Conditions in the U.8.8.R. Since the Rev- olution.” Brooklyn Labor Lyceum, 947 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, 8:20 p.m. Adm, free. Williamsburg Br. F.8.U. RECEPTION in honor of the Summer Session students and friends of The Van- guard, at Finnish Mall Roof Garden, 25 m. Paul Peters, Louise ‘Thompson, and Aaron Douglas will speak. Dancing, entertainment by Stevedore Trin. Refreshments, Subscription 25¢, =. Oy ALFRED HAYS will lecture on “Prole- tarlan Literature.” Rugby Youth Club, 84 EF. 52nd St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. PAT TOOHEY, editor of “Labor Unity” will speak on “Recent Events in Ger- many.” Boro Park Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave., Brooklyn. Adm. 10c. Unem- ployed free. ILLUSTRATED LECTURE on “An Amer- ican Engineer Look at Soviet Russia,” by 1. Granich, at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor, 170th St., 8:30 p.m, Very cool, free lemonade. Adm. 10c. Auspices: Mt. Eden Br, F.8.U. IRISH READING CIRCLE, 107 McDou- gal St., 8:30 p.m. Talk: The New Revo- lution in Ireland, Poetry reading, party after. Adm. 5c. Proceeds for Irish Workers Club. NEW THEATRE “Terrace Party,” 237 E. 20th St., Penthouse B, 9 p.m. Dancing to ate Music—Entertainment, Refresh- ment Saturday BEACH PARTY and Dance given by Tremont Prog. Club at “Villa,” Vincent and Schley Aves. Directions: ‘Tremont Trolley east to last stop. Bush to Schley. From downtown: Pelham Bay Local to Buhre Ave. Bus to stop. All day bathing—at night, dai Sub. 50c, ROOF GARDEN PARTY given by Int- wor Youth Club and Sparts Youth Club LW.O., at 1956 Crotona Parkway, cor. Tremont Ave., Bronx. Dancing, enter- tainment, refreshments. Adm. 15c. MOONLIGHT SAIL and Dance spon- sored by New Masses and Friends of the Soviet Union on 8.8. Ambassador, leaving from Pier 1, South Ferry at 7:30 p.m. Tickets 75¢ in advance, at the boat $1. CONCERT AND DANCE given by Bridge Plaza Workers Club, celebrating Third Anniversary at the Coney Island Workers Center, 27th St. & Mermaid Ave., Brook- lyn, Adm. 25c in advance, 30c at door. OPEN AIR CONCERT and Biro Bidjan Celebration at Frimkin's Villa, 4724 Beach 4ith St. Seagate, 8:30 p.m. Celebrated artists will participate, Subs. 35c, Aus- 4 HUGO GELLERT EXHIBIT NEW YORK —An exhibition of original lithograph by Hugo Gel- lert, illustrating “Das Kapital,” by Karl Marx, opened July 12 at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. The folio of 61 lithographs is a gift of Lincoln Kirstein to the mu-) seum's permanent collection. These | lithographs were published in book | piye-year Plan will increase still form by Long and Smith in Janu- ary of this year, under the title, “Karl Marx’s ‘Capital’ in Litho- gaphs,” in a trade edition which contained all of the 61 lithographs of the museum collection. pices: “Icor” of Brighton and Coney Island and F.S.U. of Seagate. In case of rain postponed for the following evening. BUS EXCURSION to Camp Wocolona. Leaves Saturday 1:30 p.m., 50 E. 13th St. Return Sunday night. Round trip $1.50. GARDEN PARTY arranged by Unit 2, Section 17, at Skopps Garden, 8665 2ist Ave., Brooklyn, Sunday, July 22nd, 8 p.m. Entertainment and refreshments. PRESS LEAGUE will hold open mem- bership meeting Monday, July 23rd at Root of Hotel Allerton, 57th St. & Lex- ington Ave., 8:30 p.m. Guest speaker, Otto Durick, former editor “Der Arbeiter,” will discuss the German situation. FIFTEEN PER CENT of the Workers Book Shop and Circulating Library, 50 E. 13th St., will go to the re-establishing of the demolished book shop in San Francisco. We challenge all other book shops to do likewise. Boston, Mass. LL.D, DISTRICT PICNIC and Confer- ence, Sunday, July 22nd, at Olympia Park, Shrewsbury, Worcester. Richerd B. Moore, main speaker at Picnic and Conference. Also Robert Lee Minor, seaman just re- turned from the Soviet Union. Scottsboro- Herndon-Thaelmann Conference ‘starts at noon. Direction: Turn south off Boston- Westchester Highway en Route 9 at White City Park, Drive two blocks. intermittently by traffic noises and harbor whistles. The pathetic farce of the whole thing had never been more obvious to me. Suddenly, at least a dozen be- draggled and emaciated men dashed out of their seats and fell upon a big brown bag which someone had tents of the bag, stale bread and mouldy swiss cheese, had been picked to ‘pieces and distributed among these walking ghosts, hun- gry as wolves, How perfectly this little incident symbolized the monstrous hypocrisy involved in the attempts of La- Guardia’s administration to bring music, the dance and the theatre to hungry masses. My dear Mr. Mayor, you are add- ing insult to injury when you at- tempt to turn the stomachs of working-class audiences. Remember, those stomachs are empty. eke a Te tion carried on by the Film and Photo League against “S. A. Mann Brand” has succeeded in causing the patronage of the Yorkville The- atre to dwindle to such a point that the joint is now practically on the rocks. Here, read and rejoice: “Theatre did fairly well for a while, in fact it began rolling up slight profits. Then along came ‘S. A. Mann Brand,’ a purely Nazi propaganda picture and one which no other theatre in the U. S. wanted to see. But this Jewish proprietor of a film house booked it and played it .. . some- one (the Film and Photo League, my dear Variety editor—Lens) had a lot of handbills printed up pointing out that the exhibitor of the pro-Nazi picture is a Jew. These handbills were distributed widely to all prospective Yorkville customers. Result was that Jew- ish and liberal-minded patrons were through with the theatre be- cause of showing the film . . . THE THEATRE HAS LOST WHAT LITTLE BUSINESS IT HAD. (My emphasis—L.) On the night of the 10th, third day of the film’s date in New York, with 40,000 avowed Nazi sympathizers in New York and environs, there were only 31 people in the the- atre. It was a cool evening, too. Admission is 25 cents. .. .” And now you tell me, does it pay to fight! ! |! And how! Molotoy’s Report On Second Five-Year Plan Now Out in Book Form “The fulfillment of the second further the importance of the U. S. S. R. as a bulwark of struggle of the international proletariat,” V. M. Molotov, chairman of the Council of the People’s Commis- sars of the U. S. S. R., states in his “Tasks of the Second Five- Year Plan,” now being distributed by International Publishers. Through improving the well-be- ing of workers and collective farm- ers and completing the technical reconstruction of the national economy, the second plan will help “destroy the causes which give rise to class distinction and ex- ploitation; overcome the survivals of capitalism in economy and in the consciousness of people; trans- form the whole working population of the country into conscious, ac- tive builders of a classless, So- \cialist society.” The 140-page book constituted Molotov's report to the 17th Con- gress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The report costs 15 cents and can be obtained from International Pubdlishers, 381 Fourth Ave., New York, or from Workers’ Library Publishers, Box 148, Sta- tion D, New York, 1 ‘ARIETY reports that the agita-| | I. M. Rubinow. between social work employes and | Mr. Rubinow’s Social Insurance is | the big social agencies. Mr. Rubi- the standard text-book for college | OW, who is always in the forefront |instruction. He has attacked the | °% nv fight against the lowering of | Wisconsin plan for unemployment pine ek estima) ret spies insurance drawn up by Professor! lution. ‘He pointed out that he | John R. Commons, which is one of believed in collective ba | K 2 rgaining and |the most vicious substitutes for | had fought for its principle for over purposely deposited against the| genuine unemployment insurance|30 years. But in social w e) Ps r years. ork—well, iron fence of the park. In less} vet devised in America. But while|it was different. The principle time than it takes to wink, the con-| Mr, Rubinow’s negative and verbal| couldn't apply in a field 80 | record may be good, his positive| thoroughly fenced with ethics, 90 | achievements are very bad. He is| thoroughly sown with professional | the author and sponsor of the Ohio| standards... He omitted to add, plan for | Which on the surface differs from | ¢St sophistical manure. | the Wisconsin farce, but in actuality; The rank-and-file social workers is just as bad as far as workers are | Who witnessed Mr. Rubinow's fight concerned. He is the bitter enemy | t© kill the resolution learned more of the Workers’ Unemployment In- | from Mr. Rubinow than from their surance Bill, about which he liter-| YeaTS in social work schools. It ally foams at the mouth, and which behee ee ae to them that so- causes him to forget’ his usual| (i@l Work helps gloss over the evils supply of pointless anecdotes. piles posta tented bg | At the Atlantic City Conference, | an, ‘ si A and that it is one of the most dan- Mr. Rubinow got up and said that|gerous enemies of working class he wanted the resolution on H. R. programs and movements. ‘STAGE AND SCREEN | “Grand Canary” At The Bruna Castagna, Aida Do Paul Althouse and Mostyn Thoma: Radio City Music Hall) oi ang ths seating ee “Grand Canary,” a new Fox film,| On Sunday night, Eugene Ore with Warner Baxter, Madge Evans,/Mandy has arranged an all-Schu- |Marjorie Rambeau and Zita Johann |bert-Strauss program which in- |in the leading roles is now playing | cludes the overture to “Rosamunde” |at the Radio City Music Hall. The | and Symphony No. 8 in B minor by picture was adapted by Ernest Pas-| Schubert, the overture to “Fleder- |cal from the novel by A. J. Cronin. | maus,” “Tales from the Vienna The stage show is headed by| Woods” and the “Blue Danube |Leon Leonidoff. Leading players in- | Waltz” by Johann Strauss. {clude Robert Weede, Lita Drew, ers of |Nina Whitney, Nicholas Daks,| Music School For Workers jSunny Rice and Tony Sarg’s| And Farmers In Armenia | marionettes. . | New additions to the San Fran-| MOSCOW.—For the first time in cisco strike pictures, now being|the history of Armenia, music shown at the Acme Theatre, will be added as they arrive from the} coast, “Broken Soes,” the Soviet talkie on the same program will be shown until Monday _ inclusive. Starting on Tuesday, July 24, the) Acme will present “The Unknown Soldier Speaks,” a plea against war. James W. Ford appears and talks | in the picture. The Jefferson Theatre, beginning | Saturday, will present “The Hell |Cat” with “Robert Armstrong and |Ann Sothern and “Call It Luck,” |with Pat Patterson and Herbert | Mundin. |_ Loew’s State is now showing “Dr. |Monica” with Kay Francis and Warren William. “The Cotton Club Revue” with Adelaide Hall heads the vaudeville bill. “Carmen” At The Stadium Tonight and Saturday schools are being opened for work- ers and collective farmers in many districts of central Armenia. Each school will be divided into three classes; piano, violincello and violin. Study hours will be arranged so that the class work wil not inter- fere with any other work of the students. On completion of the | work in the music school, students showing exceptional talent will be sent to a conservatory of music in the larger centers for further stury, SymphonyConcertsF eatured At Gorki Rest Park MOSCOW—No less than thirty symphony concerts will be given this summer by the symphonic or- chestra of the All-Union Radio Committee at the Central (Gorki) Park of Culture and Rest. The concerts will be directed by Hauok, Ginsberg, Anosov, Mikaladze and week-end at the Stadium. Alexan-| other Soviet conductors as well as der Smallens will direct the opera |™many noted foreign musicians, in on Friday and Saturday nights and ' cluding Frid, Zweig and Sebastian, AMUSEMENTS co FRISCO STRIKE NEWS| also-BROKEN SHOES 2:25.22 ENGLISH TITLES: ACME THEATRE ‘wow’ savant “Carmen” will be the opera this UNION SQUARE # -Now! TADIUM CONCER’ ‘Lewisohn Stadium, Amst.Ave.&138 St. PHILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY Symphonic Programs Sunday through Thursday Nights, 8:30 Conducted by ORMANDY Opera Performances with Star Casts Friday and Saturday Nights at 8:30 Conducted by SMALLENS prices: 25c-50c-$1.00(BRadhurst 2-2626) AVANTA FARM Ulster Park, N. Y. Workers resting place. Good food. Quiet. Bathing; $12 per week; $2 per day; 10 A. M. Boat to Poughkeepsie. Ferry to Highland; 3:20 P. M. Train to Ulster Park. Round Trip $2.71, RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL ~ 50 St. & 6 Ave.-Show Place of the Nation Doors Open 11:30 A.M. WARNER BAXTER in “GRAND CANARY” MADGE EVANS-MARJORIE RAMBEAU and a great Music Hall stage revue JAMES W. FORD Says: “By all means Negro and white workers should see |stevedore CIVIC REPERTORY THEA. 105 W 14 St. | Eves, 8:45, Mats. Tues. & Sat. 2:45 300-400-600-75¢-$1.00 & $1.50. No Tax unemployment reserves | and so thickly spread with the rip- :