The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 16, 1934, Page 5

— ——THE — || WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN HE crime of the century has been discovered by the authorities of the city of New York. Fortunately, however, the culprit was discovered before too much damage was done. The criminal is a 23-year old school teacher named Sylvia Ettinger; her crime consisted in feeding hungry children who had no relief tickets. This was a very serious offense to Robert Dixon of the Works Division of the Public Welfare Department, who immedi- ately ordered the teacher fired. “I understand she gave out food to any child who came along,” Dixon is quoted as saying. Miss Ettinger, the sole ‘support of a mother and father as well as an invalid brother, explains that she fed 225 children with tiokets and 25 without them. Feeding those 25 without tickets—that was the thing which just burned Mr. Dixon up! It makes no difference that those children of the unemployed came to school wearing rubber beach slippers instead of shoes, that doctors found them sick and underweight—the fact is that they had no tickets! The téacher who was fired for her “insubordination” is one of thousands in New York City who spent years in a training school or university in order to become equipped to teach in the public schools. Many of them completed their courses at the expense of tremendous sacrifices by their parents. Licensed to teach in the public schools, thousands of them have been on the unappointed lists for years. Miss Ettinger is one of those unemployed teachers who have obtained jobs ‘on the relief projects, at much lower wages than she would have re- ceived on a regular teaching appointment. . Even With Tickets! W koe and again the students in P. S. 36 complained to Miss Ettinger about the rottenness of the food that was served them. “Write to Mr. Chatfield of the Board of Education; he won't believe me if I complain about the food.” The children’s letters, copies of which Miss Ettinger showed me, describe the situation with an amazing vividness. Here are some of them: I have a ticket. and yesterday and today Miss Fair (a lunch- room worker who acted as a tool of the Board of Education—Ed.) chased me out because I went to a meeting with my mother and she said all the children who go to the meet cann’t have lunch so I didn’t have no lunch. Sadi Tagaste. 241 Stagg St. I have a. ticket and I didn’t get a banana today. Many children didn’t get any bananas today, Louis Trocchiano, Anna Shebilli, Buddy Lagiridro, Rose Shebelli, Joie Lagiridro. * * Today Miss Ettinger went to call up because there wasn’t enough bananas. They didn’t send more bananas so many children didn’t have any bananas. Some children didn’t have vegetable soup. [Signed by: Anna Stein (lunchroom worker, who, incidentally, was transferred because of her sup- port of Miss Ettinger); Rose Valenti, Frau D'Angelo, George Ehrenhardt, Joseph Ehrenhardt, Onofrio Rufrano, Fanny DiPaul, Carmela Monti- celli, Fannie Sacco, Eleanor Foisette, Sarah Sacco, Catherine Margiotta, Frances Tagaste, Josephine Saceo.] Tuesday I didnnt get an egg and I didiint getgno icecream. Sadie Tagaste, FranSes Tagasti. * . There wasn’t enough food for the children some of them didn’t get vegetables, soup, icecream, milk, bananas, eggs because there wasn’t enough to go around. The milk was sour and the vegetables were sour. When we came for seconds Mrs. Fair chased us away. So many times we couldnt get seconds, Some time children didn’t get one cup of milk. Mrs. Fair gives the janitor pitchers of milk, loaves of bread and boxes of ice cream and apples. She is very fresh to the children, Miss Ettinger is very good to the children. Frank D’Angelo. 213 Meserole St. * The other day when I ate in the lunchroom they gave me an egg that was rotten. Today there wasn’t enough bananas ané soup DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1934 Minor == By Joseph Freeman A Tribute to Robert “Workers Everywhere | ol Know and Love Him as a Fighter” gs ra ! I AM writing these lines, greeting Robert Minor on his fiftieth birthday, near the painters’ colony at Woodstock. Here you will find the last votaries of that mythical “pure” art which is imagined to be above the struggle of classes. Yet among these talented, isolated, even conservative artists one hears Rob- ert Minor’s name mentioned with profound respect. There is general regret that this man of enormous |Ban quet Celebrating 50th Birthday on August 30th with the bourgeois culture which he rejected in youth. It was, on the contrary, carrying the battle from the studio and the press-room to the platform and the street. The abandonment of a great gift in its exercise was followed not by flight, but by heroism. The thousands of workers from coast to coast, Negro and white, who have heard Minor speak burning words of revolt against exploitation Page Fi Gallagher, Workers’ | Nominee, Gives Views On Court “Justice” SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.—The, | ruling class in San Francisco is to- day attempting, in Judge Ther | Meikle’s court, to convict Lot | Todd, Communist Party Campaign ;|Manager, and Ida Rothstein, | woman Communist organizer, on trumped-up charges of “vagranc: | Leo ‘Gallagher, world-renowned de- | fender of militant labor, is defend- |ing them. Question: What is your reason for | opposing Judge Seawell? esa | : Judge Seawell was the L judge who sat in the trials of Rena Mooney and Weinberg. He saw jue ries acquit these so-called conspirae tors after the frame-up of Fickert and the public utility detective, Martin Swanson, was exposed. He knows that if Rena Mooney and Weinberg are innocent, Tom Moo- plastic gifts has abandoned his crayon. There is the vivid memory of his work in the cartoon, those vast massive black and white fig- ures full of muscle, action and an internal spiritual power, which im- pressed itself indelibly on all who saw it. Artists ignorant of Minor the revolutionary leader, recall with pleasure and admiration his origi- nal contributions to a field of art which is pre-eminent in America and in which America leads the world. Here, too, Minor was a revo- lutionist. The newspaper, in this land of super-technology, is genu- ine mags literature; and the car- toon, capable of being reproduced in millions of copies, is a mass art. In the hands of a capitalist class in- tent upon maintaining its tyranny through fraud as well as force, the cartoon is corrupt; it is either out and out political falsehood or, as in the case of the comic strips, infan- | tile evasion. Into this field, exercising 80 pow- erful an influence over the masses that publishers spend millions on it and politicians have sought by law to suppress critical cartoonists, | Minor brought a number of inno- vations. The technical methods of drawing cartoons in line and repro- ducing them as drawn—a method used today by the entire American press—is his contribution. He also introduced a style so vivid, so mighty in its simple masses that it already has developed a school. When one sees the work of such ' f j | something to say, something to;nor, “to read of your decision to go whieh the class-conscious workers| back to your drawing. When you} and the progressive intellectuals of | write articles, they are always well- | all countries listened because it | informed, clear, striking; but there | spoke their thoughts. are a number of theoreticians who | ° . . can apply their Marxian formulas | HEN Minor, following the logic | Cqually well. When you draw, you | W ok his entie daveloument rofaed | stand up like a mountain above the | | remember him as the artist; |tarian fighter, | champion, who fears neither police- | to those conditions, but always and and oppression, the thousands who have worked with him in various revolutionary campaigns may not they know and love him as the prole- the working class men’s clubs nor prison, who does | not coddle himself as an “intellec- tual,” who struggles in our ranks on the same terms as other com- rades. IGNIFICANT, too, is the fact that Minor, born of “100 per cent” American stock, nurtured in the language and culture of this coun- try, part of its people, a “Nordic” from the heart of the Klan plains, has understood so deeply the mean- ing of the international aspects of ' | the proletarian revolution. He has | repudiated those elements who, less at home in this country than him- self, have sought to cover up their sense of insecurity and their in- cipient chauvinism, by attempting to “Americanize” Communism. He has understood that in every coun- try the workers fight under specific conditions and adapt their tactics above everything, stands the soli- darity of the world’s proletarians | | regardless of race or nationality. For this reason his 50th birthday will be an occasion on which he will | § be honored not only by workers and revolutionary intellectuals in the United States, but also by those of Europe, Latin America, Asia, wher- Gallagher recently defended Har- ry Jackson, Pacific Coast org: of the Marine Workers Indi | Union, against similar char }to the anti-working class spirit worked up in Northern California |by the strike-breaking capital’ ress, Jackson was convicted and | Sentenced to six months in jail. His | case is being appealed. | Gallagher was interviewed by a | Daily Worker correspondent on his | opinions on the pending “vagrancy” | 7 ney and Billings, convicted before r the exposure of the frame-up, are likewise innocent; yet he particie pated in the hypocritically and mae liciously dishonest decisions of the Supreme Court refusing to recom- mend a pardon for Billings. Question: Does your definition of Americanism include fighting for free speech, a free press and freee dom of assemblage? Answer: I recognize free speech, & free press, and freedom of asseme blage as nothing but illusions, ine tended to deceive the workers into believing that they ‘really manage the government. In times of crises these so-called liberties are abro- gated by the authorities as has been demonstrated here in San Frane cisco the last few weeks. We must, however, fight for these privileges, otherwise we surrender without a struggle to fascism, which is gov- ernment by terror by the capitalist class, no longer able to control the | workers through the forms of dee mocracy in the epoch of finance im- perialist capitalism. Question: Have you ever known a period in recent United States history when the ruling class was more brutal in its attacks on the workers? Answer: The history of the United States is a history of bloody sup- | pression of the working class when- ever they have organized to im- prove their economic condition. At the present time the brutality used against workers is more open and widespread because the threat to the Communist Party in 1921, many men and women of your generation. | &Ve™ his name and work are known. bourgeois cartoonists as Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or Rollin Kirby of the Scripps-Howard Syndicate, or the gifted work of revolutionary cartoonists like Fred Ellis and Jacob Burck, one sees defifittely and permanently the styl- istic influence of the artist of genius which Robert Minor is, UT Minor’s significance as an artist lay not alone in his tech- nical gifts; it lay rather in the use to which he put those gifts. A giant in the world of graphic art, a suc- cess by all the bourgeois standards in the capitalist newspapers, he re- nounced all this, the money and the glory which the bourgeois world of- fered him, and placed -his gifts at the service of the revolutionary working class. Nor was this in any sense & “sacrifice.” Minor’s gifts as an artist were an integral part of a complete revolutionary -personality; they were part of his equipment, not his whole being. Art was for him only one of the instruments which he employed for the cause nearest his heart, the cause of the revolutionary proletariat. When necessary, he could, even in the days when he was primarily the artist, lay aside the crayon and take up the pen or ascend the rostrum. Drawing, writing, public speaking, organizing, these were all means to an end. an end which Minor first saw, as was natural perhaps for an artist before 1917, through the blurred prism of anarchism; but which he saw clearly after the Oc- tober Revolution through the arch- way of Bolshevism. At no time, after he reached in- 60 a lot of children didn’t have any. The other day there was not enough milk and lot of children didn’t even get one cup of milk. One time the milk was sour, and a lot of children also said the eggs were rotten and the vegetables sour and taste bad. Rose Valenti, 7168 Grand St. I was on the lunch line but I had no ticket. I told Mrs. Fair that I didn’t have a ticket so she said I must get at the end of the line. Then I went at the end of the line. When I was going in she said “you can’t eat lunch unless you have a lunch ticket.” Then I said to her “if the other children could have lunch why can’t I?” I went in and I had my lunch. When I got my lunch I found that I had a rotten egg. The egg looked greenish and had a bad smell. I was going to take the egg to Miss Ettinger at the club and she wasn’t there so I threw it away. * . J.B. The following letter came te Miss Ettinger from an unemployed Italian worker: 80 Varet Street, Brooklyn, N, Y. Dear Sir: Will you kindly give my little son some lunch my wife is in the hospitle and I am looking for a job. Yours truly, Frank Samartino. * . . The -following letter, Miss Ettinger explains, is typical of the situ- ation of both parents and children in the neighborhood: Mr. Chatfield. Dear Sir: My son Samuel has a ticket to the lunch room and ate his lunch in school yesterday. He ate an egg which my boy told me it smelled very bad and got very sick over it. The soup is not fit for the children to eat. All my children as hungry as they are cry when they have to eat their soup. Then they come home very hungry looking for eats. Where am I going to get the food for them that they need. My husband is unemployed. The children need shoes and clothing, you can not buy them on what the Home Relief gives the family. How am I going to buy clothing without money. I’m hening vou will take an interest in these matters, Yours trully, Mrs. Mary De Paul 202 Stagg St., Brooklyn, N. ¥. . . (t’s Not Over [sete ale revealed in the above letters are 4 pital of hundreds of schools throughout New York City, as evidenced by the letters from teachers received by the Associate’ Office and Professional ymergency Employees. The A.O.P.E.E. has already led many struggles Jor the improvement of conditions for both teachers tnd pupils and promises the Board of Education a hot fight for the reinstatement of Miss Ettinger as well as for the ‘provement of conditions of unem- ployed workers and thelr childrem ) tellectual maturity, did he sink into} the morass of “pure” art. You will find him as early as 1902 a member of the United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners of America; as early as 1907 a member of the So- cialist Party. The diverse elements of his being, his versatile gifts were unified by the proletarian revolu- tion, For this reason there was something in his cartoons which his imitators in the bourgeois press could not take over, which only the young revolutionary cartoonists could grasp and assimilate: their revolutionary content. Minor not only had the genius for speaking powerfully with the crayon; he had TUNING IN 1:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume ‘WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Fri WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. 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These arguments, heard so frequently in the past few years when the eco- nomic crisis has been pushing in- tellectuals to the Left, were current a decade ago, too. Similar situa- tions produce similar ideas: But Minor never does things by half; he has never been content to be a “fellow-traveller”; from the day he understood the meaning of the proletarian revolution he has given himself to it without reserve. ‘The dilemma which faced him upon joining the Communist Party was very much like that which con- fronted John Reed: how to co-ordi- nate art and revolution. For a while Minor was active in the Com- munist movement both as cartoon- ist and as politician. Still young in the movement at that time, and still too much under the influence of aesthetics, I was among those who was pleased by this ‘solution. I take the liberty of citing a letter I wrote to Minor in 1923 only because it typifies the problems which confronted the artist. and writer in the movement, problems which Minor, because of his unusual gifts, dramatized for 1s. “I was delighted,” I wrote to Mi- The 30th anniversary of Anton Chekhoy’s death, which falls this month, finds the inimitable master of the short story enjoying a stead- ily increasing popularity, not only among his fellow countrymen, but also among discriminating readers in all parts of the world. Considering the perfection of his technique, this is comprehensible enough. But, even in the Soviet Union, which has set itself to root out the very philistinism which Chekhoy above all else portrayed, the reasons for his hold go beyond his purely literary excellence. Though the Soviet reading pub- lic has ever accorded Chekhov a front place, it is only a few years since the fashion of the literary critics was to underrate him. They represent Chekhov as a lachry- mose author, preoccupied with the theme of futility. Today there is increasing recog- nition that Chekhov’s work was saturated with social meaning, al- beit unknown to himself. The petty cringing people he described, those straggling actors and close-fisted merchants, stand as @ monument, it is realized, to Chekhov's abhorrence of incipient Russian capitalism. His “Three Sisters,” with their dream of moving to Moscow, and “Uncle Vanya,” with his tearful deploring of the disappearance of common decency among his fellows, ex- pressed the dissatisfaction with which Chekhov himself viewed the growing power of capitalism and the harm it wrought to human be- ings as such. Chekhov's Epigrams One of Chekhov's much-quoted epigrams is that the business of the artists is to pose problems, not to solve them. This answer to the ever recurring question—“What is art?” —had its roots surely in Chekhov's own failure to see a way out of the surrounding social and moral chaos. Not that there were no signs of a way out. Even as Chekhov drageed out his Jast painful years, the storm was gathering which burst with such force in the revolution of 1905. As regards the outer facts of his life, there is little to tell. Son of a smell trader, he studied to become a doctor, but did not practice long. His first stories, written under the influence of the satirist Saltykoy \ Soviet Masses To Celebrate Chekhov Anniversary Soon | Politicians an statesmen and or-| ganizers are necessary; so are ditch- | |diggers, street cleaners, and sub- | | Way guards. None of us can do all |the things which society requires; and I am happy to think that you are once more going to do the thing | at which you are greatest and | which has made thousands of peo- | ple the world over love you.” Ee Sole, JN the eleven years that have | | ™acsed since that letter was writ- | |ten, I have, of course, fundamen- | | tally altered my views about peli- | | tics, though I still believe that each | of us serves the revolutionary | movement best by doing that for which he is by nature best fitted. | Minor is an exceptional case; his | energies express themselves as well in political action as in the graphic arts. And being a man whose na- ture requires complete concentra- tion, he abandoned art for action. The choice was his, so were the rea- |sons. If it is an enigma, it is of a | personal nature. Let no one be per- verse enough to blame the Com- munist Party for it. The Commu- nist Party has again and again asked Minor to draw; it under-| stands and appreciates the value of art. The renunciation was Minor’s; the regret is ours. But the phe- nomenon of a great artist renounc- ing his art for action is not specifi- cally Communist. Let the thinking intellectual recall the classic case of Arthur Rimbaud. What distin- guishes Minor from Rimbaud is/ that his action was not that of es- | cape, of an evasive reconciliation Schedrin, appeared in various lit- erary magazines and were quick to win attention for their author. Hav- ing lived to see his fame rising, he died from consumption at 44. The most. prominent features of his literary methods are his com- pactness and use of detail. The two are well exemplified in a remark he once made that a gun should never be mentioned in the first act of a play unless it goes off by the time the curtain falls. Today, when the struggle for better writing occupies so much of the attention of Soviet men of letters, these aspects of Chekhov's technique are coming in for special attention. “Crocodile” and Chekhov A curious token has been paid to Chekhov’s memory by the humor- ous magazine, “Crocodile,” which has issued a special number devoted to the 30th anniversary of his death. The picture on the cover shows the writer in the center of a/ sroup of young Soviet workers. He has evidently been expostulating to them, when one reminds him that once he wrote that after some two or three hundred years human life would be a grand thing. “Well, what of it?” Chekhov is made to explain. “I simply failed to reckon on Bolshevik tempo.” “Crocodile” takes the titles of Chekhov's books and stories, as well as a number of his best known pas- sages, to provide material for car- toons, sketches and short stories, and “Literaturnaya Gazeta,” in its commemoration issue did the same. Chekhov's humor and sarcasm are made to scourge contemporary de- fects—in “Literaturmaya Gazeta,” contemporary defects in the literary | scene. Of special interest is a parody by Michael Koltzov on the writer's famous notebooks. Adhering to the style and peculiarities of the note- books, Koltzov lampoons the kind of person that Chekhov, were he alive, would surely have put in his books. Here is one entry: “Anxious to learn Dos Passos’ | technique, a certain writer studied Spanish, spending considerable time | on this. Only on having mastered the language did he discover that Dos Passos is an American. The writer in question had not an idea what to do with his Spanish.” From “Moscow News,” I should like to add my voice to theirs in sending warm comradely greetings to Robert Minor —and| wish him many more years of life, health and energetic combat in the revolutionary cause. Minor To Be Honored at Banquet, Aug. 30th NEW YORK.—Workers, artists and intellectuals will honor | Robert Minor, member of the || Central Committee of the Com- munist Party and veteran labor fighter, at a banquet at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl, Thursday evening, Aug. 30. The occasion is the celebration of Minors 50th birthday and his many years in the revolutionary movement. Representatives of scores of trade unions, fraternal and cul- tural organizations are expected at the banquet, Film-Photo League Protests Expulsion of Hughes from Carmel | NEW YORK.—A wire of protest to the Mayor of Carmel, Cal., pro- testing against the illegal and fas- cist-like attack on Langston Hughes in an attempt to drive him out of Carmel, was sent by the Film and Photo League in the name of the National Board of the League, of which Langston Hughes was a member, along with Margaret Bourke-White, Sidney Howard, Ralph Steiner, and others, The National Organization Com- mittee called upon branches throughout the country to forward protests demanding non-interfer- ence with Langston Hughes’ right to stay in Carmel, and to rally writers and followers of the Film and Photo League to protest against this attack. STAGE AND SCREEN “Life Begins At 8:40,” At Winter Garden, Aug. 21 ‘The new John Murray Anderson revue, “Life Begins at 8:40,” will be presented by the Shuberts at the. Winter Garden next Tuesday night. Music and lyrics are by E. Y. Harbur, Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin and the large cast is headed by Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, Luella Gear and Frances Williams. The production is now playing in Boston. “Keep Moving,” a revue, with book by Newman Levy and Tom Howard, music by Max Rich, and lyrics by Jack Scholl, which is scheduled to open next Monday: at the Forrest Theatre, is playing this week at the Boulevard Theatre, Jackson Heights. Tom Howard is featured. 4 “Cleopatra,” Opens At The Paramount Theatre Tonight Cecil B. DeMille’s production of “Cleopatra” will have its premiere this evening at the Paramount Theatre. Claudette Colbert, War- ren William and Henry Wilcoxson play the leading roles. Following the run of “Cleopatra,” the Para- mount will present “She Loves Me Not,” a new film with Bing Crosby and Miriam Hopkins; “Now and Forever,” with Shirley Temple and “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch,” with Pauline Lord. John Dos Passos is now in Holly- wood working on his story, “Caprice Espagnole,” Marlene Dietrich’s next picture for Paramount. Josef von Sternberg will direct. “Lovetime,” a Fox film based on the life of Franz Schubert, the | famous composer, now nearing com- | pletion, will have Pat Patterson and Nils Asthez in the leading roles. “Imitation of Life,” the new Uni- versal film, based on Fannie Hurst's story, will have Warren William and capitalism is greater than it has ever been before. | Question: Do you find the ma- | jority of capitalist judges sympa- | thetic to the workers? Answer: The majority of judges before whom I have tried cases LEO GALLAGHER cases and other matters relating to the courts and the working class. | . | His: answers follow: | have betrayed bitter animus toward Question: What is your opinion of | workers and have been unable to the $1,000 vagrancy charges lodged | disguise their blas and prejudice. against San Francisco and other| Question: When and how can Bay Region Communists during the | members of the working class get Police raids of July, 1934? Answer: Setting a blanket bail charge of $1,000 against these de- fendants without investigating their | capacity to raise bail shows a co- | operation between the police and | certain judges that demonstrates a | reckless disregard of law. Public Officials indicted for bribery or em- bezzlement are released on their | own recognizance, Gangsters are | released on no bail. But $1,000 is fixed for workers. fighting to im- | prove their economic conditions. | Question: Are the July Bay Re- gion vagrancy cases against Com- | munists tried on the Jaw or by} prejudice? | Answer: As an attorney in some | of these cases, I cannot well an- | swer this question, because of re-| strictions placed upon me, but just | as Mooney was framed largely as a| result of hysteria, caused by false | statements in the press, so has a} hysteria been created by the press } against innocent Communists. | Question: Is the move of certain | Los Angeles lawyers to “outlaw” the | Communist Party constitutional or | unconstitutional? Why? | Answer: The effort to outlaw the | Communist Party through court ac- | tion demonstrates that a democracy | in reality tolerates freedom of | speech only to the extent that free | speech does not jeopardize the in- | terests of the propertied classes. The | Communist Party, if not at this time, certainly in the not distant fu- ture, will be outlawed either by le- gal means or by vigilantism with the co-operation of the authorities. justice? Answer: There is no possibility of perfect justice under a-class so- ciety. Only at a time when classes have been abolished will it be pos- sible to have a system of laws which will actually achieve a fair measure of justice. Writers To Protest Terror on Coast at Meeting on Friday NEW YORK.—Heywood Broun, Prof. Bernhard J. Stern, Milton Howard, Orrick Johns and Will- liam Browder will be the speak- ers at a meeting to protest the terror in California and the per- secution of revolutionary writers. The meeting, arranged by the John Reed Club, will be held this Friday evening, Aug. 17, at 8:30 at the Club’s headquarters, 430 Sixth Ave., near 10th St. Following the lead taken by the New York organization, John Reed Clubs throughout the country are rushing telegrams of protest to Gov. Merriam of Cal- ifornia as well as local officials, protesting against the terror. Wires have also been sent to Carmel, Cal, authorities de- nouncing the expulsion of Lang- ston Hughes, noted poet and novelist, and president of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights. WHAT KEEP Synday, August .26, Open! Daily Worker mic at North Beach Park. Splendid program belng arranged. * Thursday | FILM Showing, New Theatre and Film | & Photo League on “Kameradschaft," | “Soviets Sing and Dance,” and Charlie Chaplin in “The Count.” New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12th St. Showings | at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Adm, 35c. | THE Strike Wave in America and Con- | ditions and Tactics in New York, Forum | and discussion at Pen & Hammer, 114 W. 2ist St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 15c, VILLAGE Musicale and Dancing Party; 30 Gansevoort, bet. 12th and 13th St, west of Hudson St., 8 p, m. Beethoven Quartet, refreshments, drinks. Adm. 150. | Auspices: Greenwich Village Br. American League Against War and Fascism, WEEKLY International Lecture. Harry | Martel, Workers School, on “The Crisis | in Austria,” :45 p.m. United Front. Sup- | Porters, 11 W. 18th St. Adm. 15c. | OPEN Membership meeting Edith Berk- | man Br. LLD., at Boro Park Workers| Club, 4704 18th’ Ave., 8:30 p.m. | TOM MOONEY Br. LL.D. Open Mem- | bership and Social Meeting at 220 E. 14th | St., 8 p.m. Entertainment. Everybody wel- | come. Adm. free. | HARRY SIMMS Br, LL.D. will hold a| Party at the home of A. Rosalsky, 1845 | 18th Ave., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. i ANGELO HERNDON Scottsboro Confer- | ence at Boro Park Cultural Center, 1280) Séth St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices: Coney Is-| land and West End Sections I.L.D. All| delegates are urged to be present. ' "Ss ON Friday JACK STAQHEL 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. 26¢, or by pure chase of $1 worth of literature from Workers Book Shops. SHOW BOAT CRUISE up Long Island Sound on “SS Ambassador” Friday, August 17, 8 p.m. Entertainment — dancing. Leaves Battery Park, Pier 1, Tickets cents in advance, 90 cents at pler. NIPER,” Soviet Movie; re 3 * workers’ newsreel, chalk talk by 1" at entertainment and dance of N. ¥, Red Builders, Sat. August 18, 8:30 p.m, at United Front Supporters Hall, 11 W. .. 3rd floor. Adm. 206 in advance, 25¢ at door. Obtainable from Red Builder, and Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St, Daily Worker Office, 35 B. 12th St. THE RED Spark Club Outing to Cam Nitgedaiget. Leave clubroom 10 a.m. 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at 64 Second Ave. Outing to include 3 “meals, night's sleep and transportation. Registration now going on at above address. MOONLITE DANCE — Festival given by Brooklyn Sect. Associated Workers Club at Frank's Inn, 1307 E. 92nd St., bet, Ave. p.m. Ben Posner and His Music. Anti J and K, Canarsie, Sunday, Aug. 12, 1:30 War Track and Field Mest. Workers Lab, ‘Theatre in, “Three Witches,” * drinks, best. Line to Ave. K, Canar: AMUSE MENTS GREED The fight a capitalism and ——ACME Thea., 14th St. and HOUSE OF Novel, First American Showing of Soviet Talkie. BASED ON FAMOUS RUSSIAN “GENTLEMAN GOLOVLEV” By SALTYKOV-SCHEDRIN With V. GARDIN (OF “SHAME") ENGLISH TITLES Union Sq. — Always Cool——— ‘| Charlie Chaplin in “The Claudette Colbert in the principal roles, of the U.S. S. R. “SOVIETS SING AND DANCE” Folk songs and dances from all sections TONIGHT (Thurs.) 3 BIG FILMS New Theatre and Film Photo League present || “KAMERADSCHAFT” | Pabst’s stirring anti-war film at the NEW SCHOOL 66 West 12th Street 2 Showings 7 and 9:30 P. M. Tickets 35 Cents in advance at Workers’ Book- shop, 50 E. 13th St. Count”