The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 9, 1934, Page 5

4 aa ee ee ee CHANGE —— THE—— | WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN HAVE seen Angelo Herndon on two occasions. The place of our first meeting was inside the gray walls of the Fulton Towers Prison in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was awaiting transfer to a chain gang to which he had been sentenced to serve 18-20 years. I saw Herndon again Tuesday evening amidst sur- roundings that were much different. It was inside the rotunda of the Pennsylvania Station, where thousands of cheering, singing New York workers gathered to welcome the 20-year old Negro youth. In another place in the paper you will find a description of this wonderfully inspiring gathering, and of the spontaneous parade which followed. Here I simply want to put down some of the random thoughts that flew through my mind as I stood in the Pennsylvania Station waiting for Herndon’s arrival. It was in 1932, a little more than two years ago, that another young Communist was being awaited in the terminal. He, too, had been an organizer in the South, and had faced the dangers which go with the struggle to organize the Negro and white workers, Herndon is a Negro, the other young Communist was white. Two years ago in the Pennsylvania Station the train from the South brought back the bullet-ridden body of Harry Simms, member of the National Executive Committee of the Young Communist League, who was murdered by hired gun thugs of the Kentucky coal operators. Tuesday night the train from the South brought back Angelo Herndon, who was virtually snatched from death on a Georgia chain gang. eee . . They Couldn’t “Break” Him OR nearly two years Angelo Herndon had sat in his prison cell. From the moment of his arrest he was subjected to the refined tortures reserved for militant Negro workers in the South, When I saw him in Fulton Towers Prison in April of last year, he told me how Atlanta detectives had tried to terrorize him with threats of an electric chair, The “electric chair” was rigged up in a small, darkened room on the third floor of the Atlanta police station. On the floor old skulls were strewn about—the police were speculating on the mythical “superstitions” of Negroes in order to frighten Herndon. The police have “scientific” theories for everything, you know. So, working on the assumption that the young Negro organizer of the Atlanta Un- employment Council was a “pawn” in the hands of a “master mind,” the cops, convinced that the latter must be a white man, tried to force Herndon to tell who was “hiring” him. . . . . Never Lost Faith In Workers 'HE campaign to free Herndon was not always at a rapid tempo. Sometimes the fight for his release was not as energetic as it might have been. But Herndon never lost faith. In this column several months ago appeared a letter from Herndon in which he wrote: “Since getting out of solitary confinement I have been very ill. In fact I have been so weak that I could hardiy pick up a book; and all of this comes as a direct result of my continued imprisonment, to say nothing of the tedious and excruciating days that I have been subjected to for 22 months. I am suffering from constant violent pains in the stomach and incessant vomiting caused by intolerable prison food. Through the sickness I am gradually losing the sight of both eyes. “You must realize that I’ve been in here for a long time now, and as long as we let the case lag on, so much the better for the capital- ists and their framers of me. Keep them on a merry-go-round where they will be forced to keep their feet to the fire, and we can surely look for much speedier action, with the resultant of some achievements that we might not have seriousiy anticipated.” ’ . Waited For Two Years ND now Herndon is out of prison, free on bail raised by the valiant efforts of workers and sympathizers of the revolutionary movement all over the country. For two years Herndon sat in his cell and waited. And then one morning Joseph Brodsky, the fighting lawyer of the ‘International Labor Defense came down to Atlanta, He posted bond for Herndon, never sure that the Georgia authorities would not put still another stumbling block in the way of Herndon’s release. When Brodsky emerged from that Southern bastille, he took Herndon with him. That night Herndon, for the first time in two years, slept in a clean bed. The next morning he ate a breakfast that didn’t turn his stomach, and he breathed air that did not carry the heavy prison odor. Tuesday night at the Pennsylvania Station Herndon’s face showed a rare joy. It was a joy brought not alone by release from a prison cell, but by that magnificent demonstration of love and solidarity of thousands of Negro and white workers who had fought for his freédom. But Herndon is free only as long as the working class will permit him to be. The chain gang still stares him in the face, and he will be dragged back to Georgia unless the workers, by an organized de- fense moyement that is invincible, refuse to relinquish him. . . . . The California Lighthorse Ve McLAGLEN, the film star with the burry voice, takes parts in the. movies that require what is vaguely known as male quali- ties, In “What Price Glory,” Lawrence Stalling’s pacifist play, McLaglen took the part of Captain Flagg, as hard as nails and a man who could hold as much liquor as the best of ‘em. Hollywood has always seemed a rather pallid place for Mc Laglen, and for a long time he had few outlets for that excess of energy said to be so characteristic of those bad, rough men in the movies. And if the movie sets in Hollywood seemed so fragile and unreal, some- thing new has come into Victor Mc Laglen’s life—as they say in the pictures—which has given real aim and purpose to his existence. It’s the newly-organized “California Lighthorse” which has enabled Mc Laglen to try out in real life some of the intrepid roles he has played on the screen. Details about this new California organization are found in a recent issue of the Los Angeles Times. “Lancers Who Right at Night” is the significant title of the article by E. C. Van Aiken which describes the origins and activities of the “California Lighthorse.” Their motto, says the writer, is “once a soldier, always a soldier. They are a strange and colorful body of Los Angeles men—veterans of a thousand battlefields, scattered over the face of the earth, heroes of deathless charges. This is the story of dragoons, Jancers, hussars and Yankee doughboys—known as The California Lighthorse.” * * “Chiefly, They Are Interested . . .” UST what is this “strange and colorful body of men” after, anyway? The author is charmingly candid. “The regiment,” he writes, “is mounted patrol for any and all emergencies which may arise in this area, Chiefly, they are interested in putting down Communistic demon- strations—they don't like Communism.” These vigilante organizations simply thrive on colorful plumage and grandiose titles. So we find that Mc Laglen is “commander” of the California Lighthorse, and our friend Arthur Guy Empey is brigade adjutant. Empey’s chief claim to distriction is that he wrote a jingo book called “Over the Top” which the newspapers helped sell by the hundreds of thousands as part of the war propaganda campaign. He also led raids on the old New York Call immediately after the war and helped beat up scores of defenseless workers who had gathered to celebrate the opening of the new building. The military aspects of British as well as American countries are blended to provide the uniform of the California Lighthorse. “The blouse, coat and tie are American, the shoulder chains of the Indian army and the Northwest Mounted Police, the Sam Browne belt 1s universal but it showed the American influence,” By the “American” influence the writer apparently means the influence of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. But the militant workers of California have already shown that Vigilante bands, whether uniformed or otherwise, will not halt the onward march of the Com- munist Party! : Negro W ake Affected) By Deadly Dust On Power Project (A confidential research bulle- tin of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, in which Leon Brower, F.E.R.A. statistician for West Virginia, reported the conditions among the jobless Ne- gro workers of Vanetta, has been made the basis for the following article.—Ed.) May eae S EARLY as the fall of 1930. thousands of Negro workers had died from silicosis contracted while in Vanetta, West Virginia. The tun- nel was completed in 1932. How many Negroes died from the neg- lect of the contracting company to provide any safety devices against breathing in the deadly dust from silicate rock is not known. Today, Vanetta is an abandoned village. Forty-four Negro workers, 34 of whom are dying of silicosis, live there with their wives and children. Those who are not dy- ing with diseased lungs are slowly starving. Thirteen of the Negroes walk 18 miles every day to work on a road project. Many, because of their ill- ness, must lay off work every other day, and are frequently too: weak to lift a sledge hammer. Leon Brower, statistician for the Virginia Emergency Relief Admin- istration, in a confidential report to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration on July 19, graphic- ally tells of the starvation and misery of these Negro workers, how the one white worker living in the village saved many of the Negroes from starvation. ee toe IN THE early months of 1930, large numbers of Negro workers were brought to Vanetta to work in the drilling of a three-mile tunnel re- quired by an electrical power proj- ect. The mountain through which the tunnel was to run was found to be of pure silicate. Warnings were made even by the West Vir- ginia Department of Mines, so high did the death rate run, yet the contractors took no _ precautions against the breathing of the dust. Breathing of rock dust, and espe- cially rock which contains a high percentage of silicate, causes sili- cosis, a disease which destroys the lung tissues and ultimately causes death by suffocation. Within a few months after the project was begun thousands of ficially called “pneumonia,” but exact figures are unavailable, since the sick were turned away. An indication of the number that were affected is shown in the figure of the. contractor which indicated a 300 per cent labor turnover on the Job. When the job was completed in September, 1932, Vandetta became an abandoned village. Now, 101 persons live there, one a white worker, the other Negroes. They occupy 41 tumble down hovels— all have been served with eviction notices. Forty-three men, 44 women, and 14 children make up the popu- lation. $e ee EON BROWER, statistician for the Virginia Emergency Relief Administration, describes their pres- ent condition: (The material was confidential with the F.E.R.A., and not intended for publication —Ed.) “Coupled with all these hardships is starvation, Relief has always been spasmodic and irregular, and more irregular than is warranted Every family related the lack of food, and for days at a time during the last winter, they had nothing to eat. One white person living in Vanetta kept many from starving. Many of the Negroes went to Gauley and begged for food and work. Several white people in Gauley contributed regularly to the support of some families. Clothing was always inadequate and there were numerous cases of slightly frozen limbs; also several families were evicted during the winter, and nearly every family was served with eviction notices. “Upon coming to the village,” Brower remarks with probably un- intended irony, “the people were accustomed to three meals a day. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R.—Do you want to see how 104 Arctic explorers, sea- men, scientists, women, and yes, even children, act while they watch their ship sink and leave them stranded in Arctic ice? Would you like to see the epic voyage of that ship, its magnificent battle with the ice before it suc- cumbs to the grip of a polar winter? Do you want to witness the actual look on the face of Commander Schmidt of the Cheluskinites when he glimpses the first rescuing plane, Liapidevski's big two motored mono- plane, as it circles over his camp and settles down for its first load of Chelyuskinites to be carried to safety? ‘What would you give to watch the rescue of the marooned men, day by day, and to see the mechanism back of this, the whole organized rescue apparatus of the Soviet Union, based on its magnificent new industries and new technique, il- lumined by the spirit of collective effort, guided by the leadership of the Communist Party? It is an inspiring sight, and you will probably be able to see it. For on the Chelyuskin was the photo- grapher Shafran, who took moving Pictures of every stage of the trip, shipwreck, camp life, and rescue. I have just seen these pictures at their first showing in the Udarnik The- atre here. Tbey wii be shown all over the Soviet Union, and without doubs in al She prindipal cities digging a tunnel for a power project | Negroes had died of what was of- | DAILY WORKER, Entire Village in West Virginia Dying Of Silicosis, Confidential Report Shows Where Negro Unemployed Families Have Their “Homes” During the last two winters, if they had one meal a day they considered themselves fortunate. The food consisted of white and red beans, corn bread and syrup. Occasionally they had sowbelly, ‘white meat’'— that is, the cheap white pork. No variety existed even for the sick and children. Milk had been un- heard of for at least two years.” Yet even this starvation diet, this steady diet of red beans, white beans and corn bread, was not in large enough amounts to give each one meal a day. Brower continues in his report: “Several men, gathered in a group, related how at first the older folks would economize on food so that the children could have more. And then the men would cut their al- lowance to practically nothing so that the women could eat.” C.W.A. meant little for the Ne- groes. In the South, wealthy land- owners had whole families on C.W. A. at the higher categories of pay. Even those Negroes who did get jobs, found that the jobs lasted for only a few weeks. Harry Hopkins, federal relief administrator prom- ised the plantation owners that C.W.A. would end early in the South in order that a large labor market would be available for early spring planting. “Direct relief was seldom given. Many families received commodities, but very irregularly,” and then speaking of C.W.A., Brower adds, “just three men were given C.W.A. work, and these worked a few weeks only.” The relief office is 14 miles from the community. These people would get up at four o'clock in the morn- ing and trudge through the heavy snow to the office inadequately clothed and hungry. Too often they found that the relief agency was in no position to give assistance.” Pudhee aelee 'HE present policy of the Federal Relief Administration is to deny all relief to “unemployables,” as in Louisiana, 15,000 sick, blind and lame workers, and mothers and children were cut off all relief on August 1, these Negroes too, are to be denied all relief. Brower states the case in the language of the relief worker: “Since these persons are not nor- mally unemployed employables, they will not remain under the F.E.R.A.” He proposes that the relief for these Negroes should be thrust en- tirely upon the West Virginia Re- lief Admnistration, which, he de- clared in a few previous paragraphs had in the past denied them relief, stating, that after they had walked 14 miles to the relief office, “too often they found that the relief; agency was in no position to give assistance.” Their work is done. They have made millions for the power utili- ties trusts. Whom the bosses have not killed, the Roosevelt regime has starved to build up more profits for the bosses. Brower advises that the Transient Bureau should take a hand, “At any rate,” he ends, “it is socially inadvisable to keep a community of dying persons intact.” Wedlesne to Angelo Herndon By ALFRE Penn Station. Big clock jerks a minute. D HAYES High girders loom. Passenger, perplexed— Ticket seller, say— Whose are the crowded banners? Who's coming home today? Fly swiftly, Southern Limited, pistons speed the hour! Track, leap! Whistle, wail! Open throttle, Engineer! Up from Fulton Tower Hurry Herndon here! Big clock jerks again. Terminal trembles. From wall to wall— Photographer, flash! shaking the. timetables— Vacationist’s valise— our voi ces—up the stair On comrades shoulders borne— he comes— And a roar like drums! Angelo In the press of shoulders, We could not greet you— O International Herndon, in the crowd, your taxi starts— Others have gripped you with their hands— O fighter from the South— From far back in the crowd— we grip hands with our hearts! By VERN abroad. By all means see them; in an hour and a half you will catch more of the spirit of the Soviet worker than you can in any other way. ge a Hes film begins with the scenes Surrounding the departure of the Chelyuskin, an ordinary freighter. not an ice breaker, sent out to test the possibility of regular freight traffic through the Arctic Ocean from Leningrad to Vladivostok. It was an important trip, and the Chelyuskin got a big send-off in Leningrad. The next thing that most people do not realize, the events of the rescue overshadowing them, is that the Cheluskin crew very nearly suc- ceeded in their trip and put up a really splendid struggle with the ice. Time after time when they were frozen in, they chopped and blasted their way out, retreated, and tried again. A moving white dash on the map of the ocean north of Kamchatka shows how again and again they assaulted the ice barrier that lay between them and open water of the Pacific. The track of the Chelyuskin at that point looks like a snarl of string, so energetic- ally did they try. Finally they were caught, however, and the ship began to sink. You see the hurried, but orderly unload- ing of the vessel—all instruments, useful goods, and even their airplane The Pictorial History of An Epic Voyage SMITH being placed on the ice. The Chel- yuskin slips down through the ice, in @ snow storm—her plunge is clearly recorded on the screen. Did it leave despair and misery in the camp? Indeed no! A wall paper appears almost as soon as the barracks are erected—‘No Surrend- er!” is the title of the paper. You see the scientists calmly continuing their observations, collecting data. You see the whole crew making an airplane landing field for the rescue they were sure the workers of the Soviet Union, its government and the Communist Party would send them. There is never the slightest confusion or panic. Schmidt steps out of his place in the morning, washes his face in the first snow bank, and the day begins, The “fac- tory kitchen,” the communal cook- ing place on the ice, serves hot meals, No one freezes, though even- tually Schmidt falls ill, conceals his condition, continues to lead, when discovered, refuses to be rescued un- til last, and finally is ordered to accept rescue by a message from the heads of government and Party, and only then does he leave his post. Rescue continues unabated, Pilots Molokov and Kaminin practically establishing a ferry service running on schedule, and the other pilots not far behind them, Finally all are saved every human being, every dog, even, all the scientific records, much other material, and this film of the STAGE and SCREEN “Stevedore” Reopens Oct. 1 At the Civie Repertory Thea. “Stevedore” is announced to re- open at the Civic Repertory Theatre on Oct. 1 for a limited engagement of four weeks. The play will then go on tour visiting Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia and Cleveland. The Theatre Union, which will make its home next season at the Fourteenth Street Playhouse, is planning to produce three new plays there, Mary Phillips, Kenneth MacKen- na, Walter Abel and Cecilia Loftus will have important roles in “Mer- rily We Roll Along,” a drama by George S, Kaufman and Moss Hart, which will be presented here in September by Sam H. Harris, “Soviet Close-Ups” In Last Days At Acme Theatre “Soviet Close-Ups,” a comprehen- sive study of the USS.R., is now in its last two days at the Acme Theatre. Beginning Saturday, the Acme will present the first Amer- ican showing of “House of Greed,” a new Soviet talkie based on the famous Russian novel “Gentleman Golovlev” by Saltykov-Schedrin. The film was produced in the Soviet Union by Soyuzfilm and the lead- ing role is played by V. Gardin, who had the role of the old worker in “Shame.” ‘The Paramount Theatre will close tonight for one week, in prepara- tion for the opening there on Au- gust 16, of Cecil B. DeMille’s new production, “Cleopatra.” Claudette Colbert, Warren William and Henry Wilcoxon head the large cast. Short subjects at the Trans-Lux Theatre this week include James Barton in a short comedy, “Roping Wild Bears” and a Walt Disney car- oon, “The Wise Little Hen.” whole trip. It ends with the tre- mendous reception given the Chel- yuskinites on their way to Moscow— and it is especially significent not only that hundreds of thousands flocked to do them honor in every city from Vladivostok to the capital of the U.S.S.R., but that the peas- ants, collective farmers, lined the railway track to catch a glimpse of them as the train sped over the plains from one town to another, re sider 3 ND how do the Cheluskinites feel now? Here are two paragraphs from their letter to Stalin, sent on arrival at Moscow: “When ships, dirigibles, motor- sleds and tractors, crowded the Chu- kotsk and Kamshatka, when the motors of the planes began to hum over the ice floes—then, as never before, could be clearly seen the magnificence of the Five-Year Plan, the victorious Five Year Plan, that was created by the Party, led by you, the wise and bold leader, Stalin. ... “Our lives belong to the Party, to | hood movie chapels where workers You See in Reviewed by SAMUEL BRODY OME weeks ago a worker wrote a letter to the “Daily,” e: his anger and profound di a film he had seen: “The Frinks.” Last night I saw the “Merry Frinks” in one of those neighbor- sit in hypnotic semi-darkness, im-| bibing Hollywood's celluloid concep- tions of life, at a quarter a throw What makes it so difficult to ap-| proach a filra like “The Me Frinks” with dispassionate criti objectivity? What mak sible to treat it with an serious analysis? Ma of the viewers in the “Daily” have beer accused of being too icanatia: rubber-stampy,. and uncompromis- | ingly severe towards the films they | review. Well, degree o} dear reader, make a little | test one of these days, Drop in to see any one of the Hollywood films which concefns itself with social or political events, any one of the so- “topical theme” films. There choose from: in called is a long list to “Golden Harvest,” You,” “Heroes for Greater Glory,” “Gabri ington-Merry-Go-Rouw ten Commandments,” “World in Revolt,” “Come On, Marines!” “Hal- lelujah, I'm a Bum!” “Shanghai Madness,” etc., etc. If there is a single drop of class- consciousness in your veins (just plain consciousness, I was tempted to say!)—if your mind is in but the least degree open and aware of the realities that surround you eyerv day of your life, you will revolt against the wild distortions of truth that are being offered you on the screen. To quote the worker who wrote the “Daily,” your “blood will boil,” and you will be tempted to stand up in the theatre and call the foul stuff that is being offered on the audience to revolt against them at a price. And that is pre- cisely the reaction of those of us who go to see these films. The abysmally low artistic and intel- lectual level of these films cramps your efforts to analyze them seri- ously and in detail. Who can deny that the average Hollywood film nowadays ranks anywhere above the level of the comic strip? And I believe that Comrade Burck in| a recent article set the proper tone | and critical approach towards comic | strips. “I Believe Sal “Forgot- eo ea IN “The Merry Frinks” there is a Communist whose treatment and characterization draws even closer our parallel between the mental level of the bourgeois film and comic strip. This version of a Com- munist is in no wise less carica- tured, less grotesque, less unlikely than the Red in the comic strip re- produced by Burck to illustrate his article. Would it not be a condescension to unnecessary concessions to reply to H. T. Webster, by saying that Communists are not bewhiskered monsters who prey on god-fearing home-loving American “timid souls”? In the case of “The Merry Frinks” one feels almost embarassed even to retell the story, so consis- tently slanderous, so _ insistently idiotic and unreal is its content! Perhaps those who have had the misfortune to see “Heroes for Sale” will get a faint idea of what we mean when we say that the Com- munist lawyer in “The Merry Frinks” is by far more half-witted, repulsive and pathological than even the “Red” depicted in that film! However, hopelessly idiotic as is the “Red” in this film he still manages to proclaim the superior- ity of the capitalist system in the end! (The slimy Hollywood insects who made this film have introduced a huge portrait of Stalin to em- phasize the Communist fervor of the aforementioned moron who is offered to us as;a typical “Red.” The actor who interprets the part of the Communist is Frankie Mc- , | stand, of course. The fra’ Hugh, who until this film had acted “Merry Frinks”, Or the Wild-Eyed ‘Communists’ the Movies rts almost exclusiyely.)> Hollywood producers have beer complaining that most of their “topical” films are box ures. Something they ca id and fale sification in these films is becoming increasingly transparent to movie audiences. Their own every-day exe periences no longer check with what is shown them on the screen. More and more they are learning to yee < Ty | ject he Hollywood version of Come mr S as deranged individuals: nfine their activities to wild- shoutings of “Down with thing!” and “After the revo- you'll eat strawberries and and like it!” (Merry Frinks.) more they are beginning. to see Oo ommunists as highly class- conscious workers from their own num 10 fight heroically in the | battles against unemployment, war, fascism; who lead them in strike struggles, who are in the forefront of the struggle for bread. Reality fails to check with the movies and workers stop going. +) oe T think it is fitting in this connec- tion to quote from a recent article by the revolutionary playe wright, Friedrich Wolf, in Inter- national Literature: . the raw stuff of reality turns against the purpose and ideology of the producers. . . . Further- .-- more, the newest Western sound films in the extreme variations of the American and the Hitler German films, in themselves in- tuitively express the dialectic premise of how with irresistible force an extremely false thesis shifts to a correct antithesis; of how, irrespective of the will of producers and directors, yes, even against their will, (note the Nazi films), out of the material itself, a correct synthesis is made on the spectators. “But all these things will de- velop still more, the ‘material’ ~ the contradictions between ap- pearance and that which is, be- tween what is represented and the true reality; and the move- ment will also develop with power like a creator to remove these contradictions.” TUNING IN 7:00 P, M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. Tim Healy WABC—Belasco Orchestra 7:15-WEA—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; ie WJZ—Martin Orchestra WABC—Wayside Cottage—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—To Be Announced WOR—Talk—Herry Harshfield WJZ—Ed Lowry, Comedian WABC—Olift Edwards, Songs 1:45-WEAF—Irene Bordoni, Songs WOR—The O’Neills—Sketch WIZ—Frank Buck's Adventures WABO—Boake Carter, Commientator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orchestra; Boldists WOR—Rod and Gun Club WJZ—Grits and Gravy—Sketeh WABC—Kate Smith, Songs 8:15-WOR—Pauline Alpert, Piano WABO—Current Topics—Dr. B, Pitkin, Author 8:30-WOR—New York Philharmonic-Syme phony Orchestra, Willem van Hoog- at Lewisohn _ Walter straten, Conductor, Stadium WJZ—Dorothy Page and Charles Sears, Songs WABOC—Studio Concert 9:00-WEAF—Captain Henry's Show Boat WJZ—Death Valley Days—Sketch WABC—Carson Robison Buckaroos 9:30-WJZ—Goldman Band Concert, New York University Campus WABOC—Tito Guizar, Tenor 9:45-WABO—Fats Waller, Songs 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman Orchestra; Al Joe. son, Songs WJZ—Oanadian Concert WABC—Forty-five Minutes in Hollys ” wood; Music; Sketches 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. B. Read 10:30-WOR—Stuart Orchestra ‘WJZ—Archer Gibson, Organ 40:45-WABC—Playboys Trio (1:00-WEAF—Your Lover, Songs a WOR—Dantaig Orchestra ‘WJZ—Holst Orchestra WABC—Sosnik Orchestra 11:15-WEAF—Berger Orchestra WABC—Grofe Orchestra 11:30-WEAF—Berren Orchestra WOR—Van Duzer Orchestra WJZ—Dance Orchestra ee KEEP Sunday, August 26, Open! Daily Worker Picnic at North Beach Park. Splendid program being arranged. ee et Thursday JAMES ALLEN will lecture on “History of the Negro in America” at Harlem Work- ers School, 200 W. 185th St., Room 214-A, 7:30 p.m, Adm. 25c. RAE RAGOZIN, Teacher of English in Moscow Academy, will speak on “My Ex- periences in the Soviet Union” at 1071 panne, ta near Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn. Adm, 15¢. RABBI BEN. GOLDSTEIN speaks on “Danger of Fascism’? at Hotel Newton, 2528 Broadway, near 95th St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices: West Side Br. F.8.U. Adm. 5c. Unemployed free. EMERGENCY Scottsboro, Herndon, Thaelmann Defense Conference called by West End Section ILD. at 4109 13th Ave., Brooklyn. Richard B. Moore, main speaker. All mass organizations are urged to send delegates to this conference. Visitors admitted. RECEPTION for Helen Lynch at Char- lotte Street Center, 8:15 p.m. Subscription 15 cents. INTERNATIONAL Survey on “China To- day” by H. 8. Chan. United Front Sup- porters, 11 W. 18th St., 8:45 p.m. MEMBERSHIP Meeting New York Dis- trict International Labor Defense at Spartacus Workers Club, 269 W. 25th St. Vital matters to be discussed. All mem- bers urged to attend. TOM MOONEY Br. I.L.D. Br. member- ship meeting postponed until Priday, 8 p.m, due to the District membership meet- tae at the Spartacus Workers Club, 269 W. 25th St. All members are urged to attend. y ANTI-WAR Symposium at Washington Square College, N.¥.U., Room 703 (Play~ house), University and Waverly Pl. Speak- ers: I. Amter and two others to be an- nounced. Auspices: Anti-War Comm. En- dorsed by N.Y¥.U. chapter of N.S.L. and the Karl Marx Society. Adm. free. LECTURE “Schools of Psychology.” This course is @ collective endeavor by the eee a Ss On Psychology group of the Pen and Hammer, Subject: “The Dialectical Materialisti¢ School,” by I. Casy, Nations! Student League, 114 W. 14th &t,, 6:30-8 p.m. Adq mission 15¢. ~ Friday CHAMBER MUSIC, Haydn and Schubert Quartets, Mozart, Clerenet Quintet. Dancing, refreshments. Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St., 8:30 p.m, Adm. 25. WORKERS Laboratory Theatre presents a second helping of revolutionary drama _ to all those who were turned away on our theatre night on July 28. A new repertoire of plays will be presented “Pree ‘Thaclmann,” reat Marriage,” nen Three Witches,” and others, 42 E. 12th Sty” Adm, 25¢. a aN JACK STACHEL will review Lenin's _ “Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile. Disorder” on Friday, Aug. 17, 8 p.m. at 50 E. 13th St. 2nd floor. Auspices of Workers Book Shop. Adm. 25¢, or by chase of $1 worth of literature Workers Book Shops. pe GRAND PICNIC at Paschak’s Grova,, — Jerusalem Ave. near Uniondale Ave. E, Hempstead, L. I., Sunday, Aug. 12, 11 a.m. Dancing, sports, games, refreshments. Aus= "> pices: CP. of Nassau Country. Tickets 25c..- Buffalo, N. Y. in DAILY WORKER Picnic, Sunday, August 12—all day—at Finnish Ground, Sixth Bt. Woodlawn, N. Y. Refreshments, games. Adm. 5c. Free transportation for M.W. LU. Hall, Ellicott and Eagle at 11 a.m, and 1 p.m, Philadelphia, Pa. RED PRESS Picnic of Daily Worker and Labor Defender, Sunday, Aug. 19 at Old Berkie’s arm. OPlarence Hathaway, editor of Daily Worker, will speak. Fr Gesangs Farein, Labor Sports Union, and entertainment. You may be the one to get a week's vacation! DAILY WORKER Activists Meeting Thursday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m. at 913 Arch St. Activists of mass organizations are urged to attend. Member of Daily Worker Edi- torial Staft will be present. : AMUSE MENTS. the work of the Party—socialism. We are awaiting with enthusiasm the orders of the Party and Govern- ment to throw ourselves into new struggles with the elements of the LAST 2 DAYS! “Soviet Close-Ups” Arctic, or into the fire of battles, whither the Party. may lead us, whither you, Stalin, the captain of our country of the Boviews, may lead ur” 2th. 3 “Well worth seeing, thoroughly enjoy- able” —Daily Worker See What One-Sixth of the World Is 9 | American Premiere New Soviet ‘Talkie “House of Greed” —Starting Saturday—AMKINO Presents | Based on Russian Novel “Gentlemen © Golovier” by Saltykov-Schedrin Doing (English Titles) | coreeree ACME Thea, 1ith St. and Union Sq, — Always Coo with V, Gardin (of Shame’)