The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 10, 1934, Page 5

| CHANGE -—THE— ix WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN OULD it interest you to know that “despite poison gas and airplanes, the doughboys in France fought in the safest great war in history”? Yessiree, this fact is put down in black on white in a recent issue of the Readers’ Digest, a little magazine popular with librarians and social science teachers in the colleges. The Readers’ Digest has condensed an article from the Saturday Evening Post, entitled “Debunking Mars’ Newest Toys,” which proves to the hilt just how safe the imperialist war had been. It’s really one of the most consoling articles I've ever read. And it makes all this radical talk about the criminal destructiveness of the military conflict (for profit) seem just a wee bit alarmist, and oh 80 exaggerated! Do you demand proof? Facts and figures? The author of the article is right on tap with evidence sufficient to bowl over the most skeptical. “In the Meuse-Argonne, with 1,000,000 Americans in battle,” writes Mr. Thomas R. Phillips, ‘18,000 were killed in 18 days of hard fighting, or about one soldier out of each 1,000 engaged in a day.” Whereas, at Gettysburg, “the most deadly battle of the Civil War, 2,834 men from the Union Army were killed in three days of fighting, with approxi- mately 82,000 engaged, or about one out of each 87 a day.” * . . Ss ea “Take Any War . Wee you think the Civil War of 1861-65 is too close at hand for a proper perspective. Maybe you’d rather argue about the Revolu- tionary War of 1776. All right. Mr. Phillips informs us that “storm- ing Bunker Hill, one out of each 11 British soldiers was killed, in three charges.” Or, if you want to shoot even farther back into history, “in 216 B. C., 70,000 Romans, out of an army of 76,000, lay dead on the field after the battle of Cannae; one-seventh of the Romans of fighting age had been slain in a single day.” The explanation is simple, according to Mr. Phillips, for in the old pre-imperialist warfare where men clashed in hand-to-hand combat it resulted in the death ‘of one of the other. Nowadays, however, it is oftentimes possible for soldiers to escape machine gun fire. In fact this has sometimes even happened! Strange as it may seem to naive people, “as guns have improved, they have, like warfare, become less deadly.” Moreover, this historian of war declares comfortingly that “the civil population has fared even better than the soldiers.” Much better, for example, than the Chinese who were attacked 700 years ago by the Mongol, Jenghiz Khan, ‘the greatest conqueror that ever lived.” The Saturday Evening Post analyst chides those who write books with the “central thesis that the next war will ‘destroy civilization’.” This is absurd, he points out, because, since the World War, anti-air- craft guns have been immensely improved. Mr. Phillips also has little sympathy for those folks for whom “bomb has become a terror-inspiring word.” For, he points out with admirable lucidity, “a bomb is exactly the same thing as a shell, but one is dropped and the other is fired with velocities up to 3,000 feet a second.” Really, nothing to fear! . . * ” Bigger Bombs Did the Trick | NCLE SAM, i.e., the War Department, has made some interesting | experiments which ought to cheer everybody up, according to Mr. | Phillips. “The United States Army, in an experimental bombing of the condemned Pee Dee River bridge in North Carolina, found that 600- pound bombs dented the bridge, but left it passable." But you can’t discourage Uncle Sam with his U. 8. Army. Uncle Sam is strong enough to defeat any of “our enemies,” and he doesn't take it lying down either. “Finally,” reports the ever-optimistic Mr. Philips, “1,100- pound bombs had to be used to break a span.” ~ The writer also has little sympathy for those chicken-hearted individuals who have let Big Bad Scientists frighten them with tales of poison gas. For, if you knew the real facts, you'd feel entirely dif- ferent about things. Mr. Phillips assures us that “most military gases can be smelled before they are strong enough to be harmful. Garlic, wafted over a field of battle, indicates mustard gas. The odor of green corn or musty hay comes from phosgene. Lewisite gas is sweetly aromatic, like Chinese incense.” So if you have sensitive, dilating nostrils and know the difference between the smell of green corn and musty hay and Chinese incense, you really should have no trouble. Moreover, even if your sense of smell is a little deficient, you needn’t be perturbed, for Mr. Phillips, who apparently has made an invensive study of his subject for the Saturday Evening Post, declares categorically that “gas is a weapon of limited use,” and that its impo- tency as a death-dealing instrument can be judged by the American hospital statistics of the World War. It seems that “only” 70,000 soldiers were admitted to the hospitals on account of injury from all gases, but deaths amounted to “only” 1,399, really an inconsequential number to Mr. Phillips! The writer then proceeds to lie like hell by saying that “since the | World War, no new and more deadly gases suitable for military use | have been discovered.” And even if they have been discovered, “gas masks have been perfected so that they render all military gases harmless.” Mr, Phillips concludes his analysis with the calm prediction that “the next war, if it comes, will be won—not by the new toys of Mars, but by @ man with a knife in his hand. Call it a bayonet and put it on the end of a gun—but it is a knife, just the same as was used by the warriors of 5,000 years ago.” * * * “Only” 10,000,000 Were Killed : E The imperialist war was so safe, Mr. Phillips, what kiiled the 10,000,000 soldiers sent to slaughter by the capitalists of the warring nations? And why does the Roosevelt-Wall Street government find it necessary to appropriate $600,000,000 for the Army and Navy for a single year, excluding the extra millions for the Vinson Bill, P. W. A., etc., which brings the total to $2,000,000,000? The object of Mr. Phillips’ article is clear. He is making his little contribution toward allaying any fears of impending conflict, while the capitalist class spends millions of dollars in war preparations. In fact, his article is one grand piece of apologetics for the imperialist war- mongers! At the same time it is well to bear in mind that Marx and Engeis, those great teachers of the working class, pointed out that the develop- ment of modern military technique, while it strengthens, can also weaken the capitalist class. For modern warfare becomes increasingly dependent on industry; action by the workers behind the lines—in the munition plants and centers of food supply—can cripple any army. Moreover, by placing guns in the hands of its working class sent to war, the capitalists face the risk of finding those very guns aimed at themselves! This alone can do away wih the destructiveness of imperialist warfare, and not the heiferdust schemes of Mr. Thomas R. Phillips. . . . The Monthly Review “With Raymond Moley’s ‘Today’ and a host of other new magazines addressing themselves to the middle class to win them for fascism, it’s highly encouraging to run across such a magazine as “The Monthly Review’,” writes Philip Sterling. “The magazine presented its first issue in June and then suspended publication for the summer. However, another issue is to appear some time this month and I’m writing this in the undisguised hope that you'll be able to give the magazine somie notice. It deserves it. “The magazine, under the managing editorship of Oakley Johnson, is an independent venture. It addresses itself to the sections of the middle class that can be won for the struggle against fascism by lucid discussions of American and world social and economic problems, “The departments of the magazine are useful. These are foreign news of professional men and women, an economic review of the month, a review of the monthly and weekly publications which seek to infiu- ence the middle-class in the cultural and political fields. In ‘The Liter- ary Legion,’ Joseph Koven, editor-in-chief, gives caustic, clever charac- terizations of Archibald MacLeigh, Lewis Mumford, Eugene O'Neill and half a dozen others, “4 a good magazine. It meets the less intellectually active mem- the middle-class on their own ground, and despite its some- ved tone it doesn’t pussy-foot on any issue of the least im- 2 portance.” Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Nazi Press 7 tory of the United States.” CROSS Kearney Street from Portsmouth Square, unkempt and littered with old newspapers, squats the Hall of Justice, dirty grey, un- kempt and littered with cops, bail- bond brokers, judges, stool-pigeons, cheap crooks, cheap politicians, and added to these now a sprinkling of would-be vigilantes and American Legion toughs. Upstairs in the city jail are 500 “vagrants.” There are 115 bunks in the city jail for the 500 “vagrants”; after the bunks were taken they still had to sleep somewhere so they slept on the iron floor. They have been sleeping on the iron floor upstairs for four days, some of them for five. The lieutenant in charge of the jail boasts that there have never been so many people here at one time, even during the war. For most of them the bail has been set at $1,000 cash or $2,000 bond; some have even been booked as “en route to Los Angeles,” a neat arrangement which makes release on bail impossible. The cases finally commence to sift through the Municipal Court. The first defendants are appearing before Judge Steiger, San Fran- cisco's Webster Thayer. Behind his horn-rimmed glasses Steiger’s eyes light up. When he smiles it is a dead giveaway that the sentence will be the limit. “Order must pre- vail,” is Steiger’s motto. George Anderson, the attorney for the International Labor De- fense, is demanding an early jury trial for one of the defendants. Steiger looks down at him and then says to Anderson: “I thought this man would he a client of yours, he looks so defiant.” Anderson again demands a jury trial for the de- fendant. “Sit down,” snarls Steiger. Anderson again makes a demand for trial. Again and again he is ordered to sit down. Steiger ap- parently notices for the first time that Anderson is a blond. “Where were you born,” he snarles, “in Denmark?” Anderson answers that he was born in America and once more demands an immediate trial for the defendant. The case is con- tinued until the following week and the defendant goes back upstairs to the iron floor to wait. The judge is now considerably annoyed. He looks around the court room and spys Elaine Black, sec- retary of the ILL.D. Since the early days of the strike she has haunted the courtrooms of the Hall of Jus- tice, and for good reason. Now she is out on bail after having spent four days in a cell in the Hall of Justice, “What are you doing here?” Steiger shouts. “I see you here every day.” With a fine flourish he orders the bailiff to remove her from the courtroom, so that the sight of her won't bother him for a while at least. Three men are being brought down to the courtroom; they are met in the corridor just outside by Steiger who is leaying after hav- ing adjourned a session. “What’ll I do with these three,” their escort starts to ask the judge. The judge is in a hurry. “They're all three Reds,” he says, “lock ’em up again. Ninety days piece.” IN Lazarus’ court it is slightly dif- ferent. The defendants are “re- spectable but poor, not Commu- nists,” and rounded up by mistake, He attempts to buy them off at fifty cents a head: trying to make them forget that they’ve been stuck in jail for four days for standing on the street’ corner; finally run- ning out of silver, he sends out a clerk to change a bill for him. “We must be calm,” he announces, “the sheep must be separated from the goats—the goats being the known agitators with records. They're the ones who will be punished. We have held them this long in order to al- low time for a thorough investiga- tion of their activities.” For this display of judicial “im- partiality” he is immediately re- buked by the Chronicle and Hearst's Examiner, The next day at court, reporters from the Examiner corner him before the session opens and when he finally takes the bench he is mopping his forehead nervously. “I can’t sentence these people just for being Communists, can I?” he appeals to the courtroom. “You'll have to get something more definite that can be proved: against them.” The session gets under way and at last a witness for the defense is allowed to say something. “The raids on the Workers School were an outrage,” the witness says, “and there are two thugs in this court- room today who took part in those raids—and I can identify them.” He swings around and points straight at them. “There they are.” Lazarus looks at the two men and then at Police Inspector Lucy. He gets no help from the inspector. “Bring the men forward,” Lazarus orders. When the two thugs are standing in front of him he looks over at the inspector again and makes a request: “See if there is DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934 Cartoon from “Voelkischer Beobachter,” Nazi newspaper, over the caption, “His- | Such propaganda seeks to conceal Nazi terrorism. The ’Frisco Courts Grind Out ‘Justice’ for Jailed Workers’ By LEON DORAY {any ground for the witness's charges against these two men.” “He's just making wild state- ments, Judge,” responds the inspec- tor. “It wouldn't do any good for me to question him. That witness is not of sound mind anyway, Judge.” The police inspector catches the eye of the judge and the two thugs are dismissed. They walk back to their seats in the courtroom, grin- ning at each other. “fT am aware of the Bill of Rights,” Judge Golden admits to the de- fendants. “But what I want to know is if there is any evidence pointing toward the overthrow of the gov- ernment by force.” He picks up some literature that he has in front of him: a copy of the Labor De- fender, a magazine that ‘appears to be the New Masses, riffles the pages cautiously and nods his head. “This is inflammatory literature, all right,” jhe says. He peers down at the defendants again. “Communism in America,” he says, “is an effusion of halfwits.” “Are you a Communist?” he de- mands of one of them. “Not yet,” is the answer. “But after being kept in your prison—” The judge interrupts. “All of you snaps, . Art Lesson 'OWARD four o'clock one after- noon three plainclothes men from the red Squad invade the Art- sts qd Writers Union just as one of the artist members is about to close the building for the day. “We're from the police depart- ment,” they inform the artist. “We want to ask you a few questions.” They come in to the office and nose around for a time first. Then: “Do you run this place?” “No.” “Who does run it?” “Nobody runs it. It’s an organi- zation of artists and writers.” “You have Communist meeting here, don’t you?” “No. “The Communists support this place, though?” “No,” “Who does support it then? Who puts up the money for all this? Who pays the rent?” “The members themselves do.” The red squad men walk out in the hall again. “What's upstairs here?” one of them asks, pointing. “Some more rooms.” “We'll just take a look.” In one room some half-finished scuptured heads covered with sacks are resting on workstands. The plainclothes men lift the sacks to make sure they do not cover bombs or explosives. One of them goes out and roots around in the wash- room and the toilets. At last they are satisfied and go downstairs again to inspect the pictures hang- ing in the main room of the build- ing, They carefully regard the still- lifes, the nudes and the abstracts for hidden Communistic meanings and finally stop accusingly in front of a painting in one corner of the room. It is a picture of a May Day parade. One of them notices the name scrawled across the bottom of the canvas and beckons peremp- torily toward the artist. “This is yours, isn’t it?” ‘T painted it, yes.” “That's a Communist parade, you “Were you ever in one?” “No. But I've seen lots of them.” “You know,” the spokesman for the three cops says, “you shouldn’t paint pictures like this one. This is propaganda. It’s the sort of thing that breeds trouble, don’t you see? It gives the impression that there's some people who have no place in society.” “Well, there are, aren’t there?” “Even if there are you shouldn't call attention to it.” “Why not?” “It breeds trouble. prop- aganda.” “I just painted what I saw.” “Well, it’s still propaganda from our side of the fence.” The red squad man who has been acting as spokesman takes another look at the picture. One of the others asks him for an opinion on art. “Don’t you think we should tear up this picture?” he says. “We ought to tear it up, all right,” the spokesman says. “Not now, though. We'll tear it up next time, with a few more for good measure.” He looks at his watch and then glances back at the picture. “Well, we have to go,” he says reluctantly. He stops at the head of the stairs after the other two have started down. “Shall we leave our cards?” he asks the artist. “Oh no,” the artist replies. “That won't be necessary. Just drop in any time. Goodbye.” It's have a twisted mental outlook,” he | The Waste Land URING the first day of the gen- eral strike the employees of the American Trust Company — were forced to sign petitions requesting that San Francisco be put under martial law to protect the citizens from violence inspired by radicals and Communists. There are re- ported to be only five employees who refused to be terrorized into signing the petitions, one of them a girl. They were immediately hauled off to the city jail and given the third degree by the police, who tried in every way they could to make them admit they were Com- munists. When they couldn't prove anything the five were released and allowed to return to work. There they were reprimanded severely and told they were guilty of insubor- dination and that if anything of the sort happened again they would lose their jobs. This incident was not reported in the press. About ten days ago the employees of the Emporium, the largest de- partment store in this part of the state, were herded together one eve- ning and addressed by a. represen- tative of the San Francisco Cham- ber of Commerce on the danger of the red menace. They were inform- ed that there are a million radicals in the United States; that $3,000,000 a year were spent for Communist propaganda, most of the money coming from Russia, it was up to them as red- blooded American citizens to com- bat these subversive influences. After the meeting. they were all given cards to sign which would Pledge them to defend the City, County, State and Federal: govern- ment against attacks from any ‘source. At the bottom of the pledge cards was appended, of course, this sweet little sentence: “This I do of my own free will.” Pledge cards are now being printed by the thousands to be signed by the employees of all corporations and business of any kind in the bay area. In the interior of the state, as everyone knows by this time, open violence has been the method of procedure for over a year. At Sac- ramento, Pat Chambers and Caro- line Decker, organizers of the Can- nery and Agricultural Workers In- dustrial Union, as well as several others, are being held.in jail under charges of criminal syndicalism. In the Imperial Valley, Stanley Han- cock, another organizer of the C. A.W.LU., was kidnapped one night by a gang of growers and leading citizens. He was taken to a lonely spot off the highway where a gal- lows had been erected in front of a newly-dug hole, grave-size. “Here’s where you're going to be hanged,” he was told, “and here’s where you're going to be buried, the next time we catch you. Now get the hell out of here.” These forms of bludgeoning are only a sample of what is to come. But what has happened in San Francisco should serve as an object lesson. Wien the police terror com- menced here the liberals, as usual, either scurried to cover or openly whooped it up for the attacks on workers and Communists. From July 17th, the day of the first raid on the Marine Workers Industrial Union, there was not a word spoken publicly against the terror until July 23rd when the Scripps-Howard News ran a timid meal-mouthed little editorial vaguely condemning the “vigilantes” for their attacks on property and civil rights. This edi- torial was followed by another on the 25th that was not much better. A few resolutions were passed by various groups. Finally even the reactionary San Francisco Building Trades Council issued a statement cautiously protesting the “curtail- ing of free speech and the unlawful interference with individual rights.” (The Council waited until the 3rd of August. until they thought it was safe to come out of hiding). But the finishing touch is this: the anti- Communist racket is so flourishing that the Better Business Bureau sent out a release to the papers warning people to investigate the status of red-baiting organizations before contributing any money, to make sure that their money was really being spent on the righteous pursuit of Communists and radicals. If there can be any doubt left as/ to the effectiveness of liberal “pro- test” against wholesale terroriem, | the last three weeks in San Fran- should dispel this doubt forever. For this has just been the prologue to open fascism. When the real thing comes the liberals will be there in goose-step. But the strikers have not for-| gotten. A group of teamsters were talking together in a corner store) one night shortly after the strike had been broken. “Well,” one of them said, “we learned one thing in this strike, anyway. And that is that the Communists were the only ones that didn’t sell us out.” and that/ | Foster and Bill Dunne In Feature Articles In New “Labor Unity” NEW YORK.—The August issue of “Labor Unity,” official organ of the Trade Union Unity League is now appearing on newsstands fea- turing articles by William Z. Foster. Bill Dunne, C. A, Hathaway and A. Losovsky. Bundles may be or- dered from Labor Unity, 799 Broadway, New York City. This issue of Labor Unity con- tains material that every worker, | and especially every trade union member and functionary must be- come acquainted with. Following are some of the articles: The San_ Frameiseo General Strike, its background, struggle, be- trayal and lessons. By William F. Dunne. The Minneapolis Truckers Strike, and role of the Trotskyist rene- gades. By C. A. Hathaway, Editor of the “Daily Worker.” | The Milwaukee Carmen Strike }and role of the Socialist city offi- cials by H. Y. | Toward the A. F. of L. Conven- tion. Issues and problems facing the rank and file, tasks facing the militant workers. By A, Peterson. How the Soviet Miners Live and Work. By N. I. Smirnov, President of the Soviet Miners Union. } Where and How to Apply the | United Front Tactic, By A. Losoy-| ! sky. Theory and the Trade Unions. By | John Ballam. | For an Independent Federation of Labor. By F. Herron, Joint {Council of Industrial Unions, Jamestown, N. Y. Housework Evil in the Needle | | Trades. A. Hoffman, manager of | |the Custom Tailors Industrial | Union. | Lessons from Steel History. By | William Z. Foster. Also editorials, | workers correspondence, book re-/| views, etc. |Famous Professionals’, | Views on War Feature |Of “Labour Monthly”) LONDON—A whole group of names famous in the scientific, literary and professional world as well as throughout the labor move- ment contribute their views on war | to the August issue of the Labour Monthly, 7 John Street, W. C. 1) (6d. each; 7d. post free). | These names | include those of | Lord Marley, James Maxton M. P., Tom Mann, Laurence Housman (author of “The Shropshire Lad” | and other poems), Ernst Toller (the | exiled German dramatist), Pro- fessor Gardiner (Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge), Maurice Dobb (Lec- turer in Economics at Cambridge), Harry Adams (Building Trades Fed- eration, London Organizer), as well as a number of trade union branch chairmen, Trades Council officials, Labour Party secretaries, students, | writers, etc. All these replies, some 80 in all, were in response to a question- |naire organized by the Labour Monthly. on War. These replies are analysed and commented on by the Editor (R, Palme Dutt). In addition to this invaluable fea- ture the August issue contains other material on war such as an article by R. Page Arnot on “1914 and 1934,” and the “War from the Air” by T. H. Wintringham. The number is made still more indispensable to all interested in current events by a special and searching analysis into the events of June 30 in Germany by Ernst Henri, the author of that important recent exposure of the Nazi regime | “Hitler Over Europe?” The Labour Monthly can be ob- tained at any workers’ bookship | Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. | | STAGE and SCREEN | Saray | New Soviet Talkie, “House | of Greed,” Opens Tomorrow | At The Acme Theatre “House of Greed,” a new Soviet talkie, produced in the U. 8. 8. R. by Soyuzfilm, and released here by Amkino for its first American show- ing, will open tomorrow at the Acme Theatre, The picture is based on Saltykov-| Schedrin’s famous satirical novel, | “Gentlemen Golovlev.” This Rus-| sian satire was written in the late) seventies and reflects the transition of Russian society from feudalism} to commercial capitalism. This historic process is symbolized, on the one hand, by the gradual de- genaration and decay of a rep- resentative family of feudal nobility, the Golovlevs; and on the other, by the relentless rise of the crude, aggressive, efficient, and self-con- fident middle class, especially the merchant class. One economy is superseded by another, one society, by another, one dominant class, by another. Porfiry Golovlev, nicknamed Judas the Bloodsucker (played by V. Gar- din, of “Shame” fame) is the per- sonification of pettiness, spiteful- ness, selfishness, sensuality, hypo- lerisy and greed. Around this char- lacter and his family the story is unfolded, and it developes into a gripping and engrossing drama. Other important roles are played by Begdanov, merited Artist of the |Republic, T. Bulach, N. Latonia, and M. Zarubina. The picture was directed by A. V. Ivanovsky and nas a special musical score by A, F. Paschenko. “Mme. Butterfly,” To Be Given at the Stadium Tonight Puccini's opera, “Mme. Butterfly,” will be presented at the Stadium \this evening and tomorrow night under the direction of Alexander Smallens with a cast drawn from | the Metropolitan Opera. The chief roles will be sung by Thalia Saba- nieva, Ina Bourskaya, Philine Falco, Paul Althouse and Alfredo Gan-| | dolfi. On Sunday evening, Willem Van) | Hoogstzaten will direct the follow-} ing program: Academic Festival) | Overture, Brahms; Symphony in G jminor, Mozart; Three Excerpts from| |*Gotterdammerung” Wagner, “The! Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dukas and) the Overture to “The Bartered \Bride,” by Smetana, \ Organizer of Pilots on Page Five i 1 the Ohio River Is Red _ Candidate for Governor” OLEVGLAND, Ohio — It is the boast of the Communists that their | | leaders come from the ranks of the workers actively engaged in indus- try who know from their own bit- I, 0. FORD ter experience just what are the vital needs of the working class and how they must be filled T. O. Ford, Communist candidate | for Governor of Ohio, is typical of | such leadership. Since he was old enough to work his experience in| struggle has been continuous. He} knows what workers want and just how they are prepared to fight for their wants because he’s been a worker, @ thinking one, all his life. Ford started his experiences as/| Save Thaelmann By RADICOUS & wage-earner by cubbing for three years without pay on Ohio River boats. He became a full-fledged pilot. At this late date, the occupae tion of a river pilot has been ro- | manticized out of all semblance to an ordinary occupation, but the pilots and other river workers were worried much more about wages than about adventure. Ford organ- ized the first pilot’s association on the lower Ohio River, called a suc cessful strike, and was blacklisted through the efforts of the Lord Tug Con y. That, of course, didn’t stop him; He ht work in other trades and his fellow. continued to organize workers In 1917, he was arrested as a wat resister and was sent to a nome combatant camp in Panama for the duration of the war. Like all real class leaders, Ford was convinced-- more deeply of the need for ore ganization by every blow that the bosses struck against him. In 1927- | he joined the Communist Party and since that time he has been active in organizing the work of the une employed and defense organiza- tions. Ford was one of the leaders in the movement for a general strike in Toledo during the Autolite strike there. ia Toledo and the murderous mo- , bilization of National Guardsmen against the strikers which he wit- nessed there, was just another of the many experiences which cons firmed Ford in his revolutionary principles. It's a dead certainty that™”’ if Ford becomes Governor of Ohig¢ no troops will be sent against worke - ers anywhere in the state. és Loosed from darkness, out of night, Shod in vengeance, winged with light, Bursts a cry of thunderous Save Thaelmann! Mill to mine, sea to land, might— Soythe and hammer, brain and hand, Grimly forge the steel command— Save Thaelmann! Whispered in the prison camp, Vibrant to the captive’s tramp, Echo through the death cell's damp— Save Thaelmann! Challenge to a fascist world, Gauntlet to the Nazi hurled, Flames a blood red flag unfurled— Save Thaelmann! —_—> WHAT ‘a KEEP Sunday, August 26, Open! Dally Worker Bienic at North Beach Park. Splendid program being arranged. ees SE Friday CHAMBER MUSIC, Haydn and Schubert Quartets, Mozart, Clarenet Quintet. Dancing, refreshments. Pierre Degeyter Club, 5 E. 19th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 25¢c. WORKERS Laboratory Theatre presents @ 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 | Thaelmanp,” “Great Marriage,” “The | Three Witches,” and others, 42 B. 12th St. Adm. 25c, “WHAT Is Happening In Germany To- | day,” lecture in Yiddish by M. Kate, edi- tor’ “Preiheit,"» at Stuyvesant Hall, 2nd | Ave. and $th’ St., ground floor, Auspices: | Br. 9 T.W.0, Adm. 10c. | TOM MOONEY Br, LL.D. Regular mem- Important discussion. All members should | attend without fail. JOHN REED OLUB Forum. Harry Mar- | tel, of the Workers School, on “What Is Dialectical Materialism?” 430 Sixth Ave., 8:30_ p.m. OPEN Air Party given by Unit 208 Y.C.L. | at 132 E, 28th St. Dancing and entertain- ment. Adm, lic. i PARTY and Dance given by Ella Reeve | Bloor Br. 1.L.D, at 524 Hudson St. near West 10th St. ‘Take 7th Ave. Subway to| Sheridan Sq. Subscription 15¢. | LECTURE on “Contemporary Proletarian | Art” by Jack Kainon, Exec. Seo. John Reed Club, at 1009 Winthrop St,, near E. 9and 8t., Brooklyn, 9 p.m. Auspices: Youth Builders’ I.W.O.-¥-67. AMY IGS, teacher and journi recently returned from the Soviet Un! it, TUNING IN| | 1:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WJZ—Johnson Orchestra WABC—Theodore Ernwood, Baritone | 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Front-Page Drama WABC—Irene Bordoni, Songs 1:30-WEAF—Martha Mears, Contralto WOR—The O’Neills—Sketch WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs | WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 7:45-WEAF—To Be Announced WOR—Larry Taylor, Baritone WJ2—Frank Buck's’ Adventures WABC—Boake Catter, Commentator | 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orch.; Jessica Dra- gonette, Soprano; Revelers Quartet WOR—Selvin Orchestra; Al and Lee Reiser, Piano WdZ—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Ethel Shutta, Songs; Dolan Orch, WABC—Kate Smith, Songs 8:15-WABC—Columbians Orchestra 8:30-WOR—Novelty Oreh.; Slim Timblin, Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet WJZ—Cost ‘of Local Government—| Roger 8 Baldwin, Attorney WABC—Oourt of Human Relations | 8:45-WJZ—To Be Announced | 9:00—WEAR—Lyman Orch.; Frank Munn, | Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Songs = | WOR—Italics—H. & Lott Jr. WJZ—Harris Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs WABC—California Melodies 9:30-WEAF—Bonime Orchestra; Pic and Pat, Comedians WOR—Brokenshire Orchestra WJZ—Phil Baker, Comedian WABC—Green Orch.; Sylvia Proos, Songs 10:30-WEAF—The Cat's Paw—Sketch With June Meredith, Dan Ameche and |- Clift Soubier WOR—Eternal Life—Drama ‘WJZ—Mario Cozsi, Baritone; Lucille Manners, Soprano; Concert Orch. WABC—Young Orchestra; Everett Marshall, Baritone; Frank Crumit, | Songs; Stoopnagle and Budd 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian; Bes- tor Orch.; Prank Parker, Tenor WOR—Robinson Orchestra WJZ—Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Henry Hadley, Conductor will speak on “Surprises in Soviet yeas at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx, cor. 17 8:30 p.m. Adm. 100, Auspices:: Mt. Edeh. Br. FSU. COME to mass meeting at Film Center, 44th and 9th Ave. 18:18 Noon today, 10°: acquaint workers ‘ni film industry with anti-Jewish discrimination by Nazis fp movie industry. Saturday ENTERTAINMENT and Dance at United Front Supporters Hall, 11 W. 18th St., 9 pm. Revolutionary songs by Mara Tatar and other attractions. Refreshments. Ade, mission 20c. Auspices: Waterfront Auxil. STUDIO Party at 5 Washington Mews (Dr. Luttinger’s Studio). Dancing, enter- tainment, refreshments. Subscription 350. Auspices: Bail Fund for Political Prisons ers. SPEND & cool evening at = Mid-Sume- mer Dance at 1993 Jerome Ave., neat Burnside, Bronx. Dancing, entertainment, refreshments. Fordham Br. F.8.U. Adm. and in New York at the Workers | bership meeting at 220 E. idth St., 8 p.m. | 150, ROOF Party, Entertainment, eats at~ home of Dr. Wallman, 66 Stone Avenue,..... Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m, Auspices: Brownsville Workers School. Adm. 10c. OONLIGHT Dance and Entertainment at Neighborhood Playhouse Roof, 466” Grand St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices: Downtown - Br. F.8.U. Subscription 35c. Grand St, crosstown to Pitt St. or 14th St, cross="~ town to Clinton and Delancey. HOUSE Party at 1071 Bergen St., Brook lyn, near Nostrand Ave. Refreshments, — dancing, games. Auspices: Prospect Park Br. F.S.U. Adm. 150. FRIENDS of the Workers School are ~ proud of their new quarters. Special Pree view Party, Unusual. Come, 116 Univere sity Place. ~y GRAND Picnic Sunday, August 12, af” | Catlin's Park, Coney Island. All Day and, | Night. Swimming, dancing, sports. Tickets Night. Swimming, dancing, sports. Tickets 25¢e. Direction: BMT Subway West End Line to 20th Ave. Station, and follow the right hand direction. Given by Tobacco Workers Ind. Union and Spanish Workers Center. JACK STACHEL will review Lenin’! “Left-Wing Communism, an _ Infantil Disorder" on Friday, Aug. 17, 8 p.m. at 50 E. 13th St., 2nd floor. Auspices of Workers Book Shop. Adm. 25c, or by pur- chase of $1 worth of literature from —* Workers Book Shops. 2 GRAND PIONIO at Paschak’s Grove, . Jerusalem Ave. near Unionds » B Hempstead, L. I, Sunday, Aug. 12, 11 Dancing, sports, games, refreshments. pices: ©.P. of Nassau Country, Tickets 250., Buffalo, N. ¥. DAILY WORKER Picnic, Sunday, August’ 12—all day—at Finnish Ground, Bixth Sty Woodlawn, N.-¥. Refreshments, games: Adm. 15c, Free transportation for M.Ws LU. Hall, Ellicott and Eagle at 11 am. and 1 p.m. Philadelphia, Pa. ba RED PRESS Picnic of Daily Worker and’ Labor Defender, Sunday, Aug. 19 at Old Berkie's arm. CFlarence Hathaway, editor of Daily Worker, will speak. Pretheit Gesangs Farein, Labor Sports Union, play’ and entertainment. You may be the one to get a week's vacation! Pais ANNUAL Picnic of United Workers Ore — ganizations of Sect. 3 (West Phila.) om® Sunday, Aug. 12 at 52nd and Parkside. CARNIVAL and Picnic given by Phila. Jewish Workers’ Club en Sunday, Aug. 12, at Old Berkies Farm. Sports,’ Play By Philart Club. Lots of fun, POLISH Workers Club Picnic, Sunday, Aug. 12, at Cheltenham Swimmi Cottman St. Ave., Forest Church ‘Roads Amusements TADIUM CONCERT: Lewisohn Stadium, Amst.Ave.&138 St. PRILHARMONIC-SYMPHONY Symphonie Programs “ Sunday through Thursday Nights, 8:30 Conducted by VAN HOOGSTRATEN Opera Performances with Star Casts Friday and Saturday Nights at 8:80 Conducted by SMALLENS Prices: 25¢-50e-81.00(BRadburst 2-2626): Starting Tomorrow—— AMKINO Presents New Sovirt Talkte i “HOUSE oF GREED” Based on Famous Russian Novel “GENLEMAN GOLOVLEV” by Saltikoy-Sehedrin with V. GARDIN (of “Shame”)—English Titles LAST DAY: “SOVIET CLOSE-UPS” pete ACME Thea., 14th St. and Union Sq. — Always Cool———— | American Showing! .