The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 22, 1934, Page 5

il DAILY WORKER, W YORK WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22, 1934 “Change the World” Column Temporarily Suspended Due to the illness of Sender Garlin, the “Change the World!” column is temporarly suspended. Other features will replace it. Starvation Conditions Among Beet Workers Revealed in U. S. Dep’t of Labor Report By HARRY KERMIT ES apologists for American im- Perialism have been forced to concede that semi-feudal working conditions are the rule on the sugar and coffee plantations in Latin America. But it is not as popularly known that practically similar con- ditions exist in the beet sugar fields of Colorado, Utah, Michigan, Ari- zona and California. A report which has just been completed by the Committee on La- bor Conditions in the Growing of Sugar Beets under the auspices of the United States Department of Labor tears the veil from the se- crecy which has hitherto cloaked the picture of plantation conditions in the Southwest. The outstanding findings of the committee were the wholesale existence of child labor, Starvation wages and general ex- ploitation of workers to an astound- ing degree. According to the committee re- port, published in the official Monthly Labor Review, “Living con- ditions and standards are those commonly found where agricultural laborers are housed in groups in or near the premises, The usual quar- ters of a family of beet workers consists of a tent, a shack or an adobe house of two rooms, each 12 feet square. Surveys which have been made have found families av- eraging six persons, and occasion- ally as many as 12, living in these overcrowded and inadequate quar- ters, with scant attention being paid to sanitation or cleanliness.” The picture of child exploitation found by the committee was even more indicative of the remorseless exploitation of agricultural workers and their families. In the summer of 1933, children under 16 num- bered 14,743 out of a total of 110,- 354 contract. workers employed on the 1933 beet sugar crop. “Child labor has always been an outstanding feature of beet work,” the committee is forced to concede. “Rarely does an individual without a family undertake a contract. These studies all show that much of the work is done by children, that children as young as 10 and 11 years of age work regularly in the beet fields, for the same hours as adults, and are kept out of school for this purpose. In 1920, 85 per cent of the children were found to be working 9 to 14 hours in pulling and topping. ... Children of these families miss a great deal of time from school. In Colorado numbers leave school in the middie of April to do the thinning, and do not re- turn until the middle of Novyem- ber, after the harvest is over.” ee eer ‘AGES in the beet fields are ac- tually starvation in character. Moreover, the low-wage condition is aggrayated, according to the com- mittee, “by the difficulty which workers have in collecting them.” Rates as low as $8 an acre were re- ported in the 1933 survey made by county agents of the Department of Agriculture. Since it is computed that an experienced adult man can- not handle more than 10 acres, it can be seen that many men were earning $80 for seven months’ work (Avril to November). While the sugar-beet crop plays a small part in the agricultural economy of the United States as a whole, it is of vital importance in some States and in certain areas of other States. In 1933, sugar beets represented 21 per cent of the value of all farm crops in Colorado and Utah, and in some counties in Col- orado they constituted more than half the total crop value. After setting forth its findings, the committee suggests slight wage increases and the inclusion of sugar as a basic commodity under the A.A.A., with consequent crop re- duction to boost prices. There is no doubt but the present survey was undertaken mainly as a result of the militant struggles for better working conditions which have been waged by the agricultural workers in the past two years under the fighting leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union. Novel of Workers’ Life Begins in ‘Daily’ Tomorrow The Daily Worker will begin the serial publication on this page, beginning tomorrow, of proletarian novel entitled, “Going East.” The author of the novel is Daniel Horwitz, a 29-year-old plumber, who began writing two years ago. “Going East” is a short novel, with the main character, a youth driven to hoboing by unemploy- ment finally finding a job in a small town. The story shows the speed-up in the shop. The work- ers finally go out on strike, with the main character taking a lead- ing part. A short story by Horwitz en- titled, “Nothing Can Stop Us!” ap- peared in the May Day edition of the Daily Worker. DANIEL HORWITZ STAGE AND SCREEN Philharmonic Orchestra To Feature Wagner Programs The Philharmonic-Symphony Or- chestra, under the direction of Bruno Walter, will present a series of special Wagnerian programs this season with a group of Metropolitan Opera singers, including Lotte Leh- mann, Paul Althouse, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List and Marek Windheim. Mr. Walter, who is plan- ning to give in concert form the entire acts of “Siegfried” and “Die Walkuere,” will direct the Philhar- monic for six weeks this season. “The Problem of Fatigue,” Soviet Film, Coming To Acme Theatre Saturday Beginning this Saturday, the Acme ‘Theatre will present the first thea- trical showing of “The Problem of Fatigue,” a Soviet production, for a limited engagement of one week. “The Problem of Fatigue,” is an illustrated study of fatigue in in- dustry and in nature, revealing its nature and prevention. The picture was produced in the Soviet Union under the supervision of the Rus- sian Academy of Science. The film has a special musical accompani- ment, “Szostakowez,” No. 1, Opus 10, by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. “House of Greed,” the Soviet talkie based on Saltykov-Schedrin’s novel “Gentleman Golovloy,” is now in its final three days. The film will end its two weeks run at the Acme on Friday. Short subject at the Trans-Lux Theatre this week include an Edgar Kennedy comedy, “Love on a Lad- ——TRIAL SUB OFFE) DAILY WORKER 50 E. 13th &., New York City Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose $1 (check or money order) Name... Address .... » State .... City Note: This offer does not apply to re- newals, nor does it hold good for Man- hattan and Bronx. BOOST “DAILY” DRIV) der’; Burns, Allen and W. C. Fields in “A Trip to Hollywood,” anda Mickey Mouse cartoon, “Mickey's Steamroller.” The newsreels feature pictures of the Soviet Military Flyers on their good-will trip to Paris. Guy Kibbe and Aline MacMahon will be co-starred in the First Na- tional production of “Babbitt.” The Sinclair Lewis novel has been adapted by .Tom Reed. ‘Stevedore’ to Play in London With Paul Robeson in Lead The Theatre Union has received word from Charles R. Walker, its treasurer, who is now in London, that arrangements have been com- pleted for a production of “Steve- dore” there in October with Paul Robeson in the leading role, played here by Jack Carter. Andre Van Gyseghem, who di- rected Robeson in “All God’s Chil- Jun” and other plays, and who is director for The Left Theatre, workers’ theatre in London, will di- rect the play. The play will open for~ a limited engagement of two weeks at the Embassy Theatre, “Stevedore” in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.—"Steve- dore,” the sensational proletarian dramatic hit of the New York The- ater Union, will be produced full length in Los Angeles. Rehearsals are now going on with a full cast. and the first presentation will probably take place in the middle of September. Already the dramatic second act of two scenes has been given here. The full-length production is being York. He is being persuaded to play the same role in Los Angeles, but in any event, he will assist the pro- duction in an advisory capacity. Other assistance, both in acting, directing and scenic arrangement, is coming from professional thea- ter workers in Hollywood and Los Angeles, although the cast will be made up chiefly of amateurs. The first performance of the full play in Los Angeles will be given to a limited audience of workers and intellectuals, who will be asked to criticize the production. Then a downtown theater will be secured for an indefinite run. A coastwise tour is also anticipated Foreign ‘iad Nativ Writers Fill Great Trade Union Hall (Special to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW, Aug. 20—In opening the Congress of Soviet Writers! here, Maxim Gorky called it the} first congress in the history of world literature, and the congress of the youngest, the most ideological and | the most advanced literature in the history of mankind, and therefore the judge of a world doomed to de- struction. This congress began its work with | great simplicity and restraint. On| panels surrounding the historic hall in Moscow of the Dom Soyusov— the House of Trade Unions—in which the country paid its last honors to the great Lenin, hung portraits of those whose classics and whose heritage has been accepted and multiplied by the proletarian dictatorship, and whose creative heritage has a right to a decisive voice at the congress—Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Bal- zac, Heine, Puskin, Tolstoi, Sherni- sheysky and Chekhov. Soviet literature is not only the literature of the Russian language. In the hall, writers from all the So- viet Republics of the Soviet Union —and therefore the languages of many nations—could be heard; and among the European costumes could be seen the national robes of Uzbekistan, Caucasian costumes, etc. In the hall of the first con- gress in the history of world litera- ture sat representatives of foreign literature, its living forces strangled in their own countries, and believ- ing that “Moscow exists in the world.” They came here not to be put on literary parade. but to bring | back a creative revort of the pro- duction of Soviet literature to the} working class. Pore Be Congress Opened by Gorky | Bpiscras GORKY opened the con- gress as the senior proletarian writer, of whom Lenin said that he “strongly connected by his great | artistic productions the workers’ | movement in Russia with the en- tire world.” An ovation of greeting | __ lasted for several minutes before Gorky began his introductory re- marks. “The significance of the congress is that the literature of many tribes and of many languages of our Re- publics comes before the proletariat of the country of Soviets and before the revolutionary proletariat of of all countries as one whole. We speak demonstrating, of course, not only our geographic unity, but demon- strating the unity. of our. aims, which naturally does not deny handicaps in the variety of our creative methods and desires. We actin an epoch of general savagery. brutality and despair’ on the part of the bourgeoisie—despair caused by the consciousness of their ideo- logical helplessness, their social bankruptcy in this epoch, and their bloody attempts to turn back to the bestiality of feudal medievalism | through fascism. We act as judges in a world doomed to destruction and as a people announcing the genuine humanism of the revolu- tionary proletariat, the humanism of a force destined historically to liberate the entire world of toilers from hatred. greed, vileness, foolish- ness, from all the distortions which for centuries have crivpled the peo- ple of labor.” “We are enemies of private prop- erty, the terrible and despicable goddess of the bourgeois world; en- emies of animal individualism, which announced this goddess by its religion. We sveak in a counjry where the proletariat and the peas- e ants led by the Party of Lenin have won the right to the development of all abilities and talents, and where the workers and the collec- tive farmers show every day by va- rious methods their ability to use these rights. We speak in a coun- try enlightened by the genius of Lenin, in a country where the steel will of Stalin js working tirelessly and magically With the close of these words, the silence of the hall was broken by a storm of applause. Cries of pleasure and applause continued for a long time. After the introductory speech Maxim Gorky, dean of Soviet Congress now taking place in Moscow, shown addressing the Commu- nist Party Congress in 1953. Motion Picture Worker” Calls for Unity Among Movie Stu LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.—“In- dustrial Unionism Points the Way!” This is the central slogan of a well-written journal, the Motion Picture Worker, published in Holly- wood by the Association of Motion Picture Employees, and now in its second issue. This publication is taking the ini- tiative in calling for unity among studio workers, a unity badly need- ed among workers still confused over the factional fights among the craft unions which broke the last strike in the industry. The Motion Picture Worker's cur- rent issue features a list of de- mands for studio workers which are offered to all unions for their con- sideration. Aiready arrangements have been made to introduce them to the membership of the Motion Picture Workers Industrial Union. The demands are: 1, A 30-hour week with no reduc- tion in the present weekly wage. Part-time workers to be paid pro- rata on this basis. 2. Elimination of the present “on- call” system. This is to be acgom- plished with a 12-hour notice given to the worker. 3. A minimum of two days’ con- secutive work guaranteed on every call, 4. Abolishing the practice of hir- ing at the gate. 5. Setting up of a central call bu-! MERCHANT MARINE (A Worcorr Poem based on corre- spondence to the Daily Worker and the Marine Workers’ Voice) Six donkeymen we hired on West Street by shipping master of merchant marine. The job that was ours was keeping the steam in auxiliary boiler of proper sea-vessel venerable vessel of merchant marine. Graftmaster took us set us to work keeping the steam up keeping the steam up. Made no agreement, graftmaster said: “There’s a depression, haven't you heard? wages we pay you are English in scale.” Scaled English wage to mercantile men is set to a rule, as we understood: for overtime hours an extra is paid. We asked for our pay in a donkeymen’s way. We called on the purser, he tightened his purse and he pursed his lips: “All right mister donkey men you try and get it just you try and get it, I wish you success.” We went to the consul the consul of Britain, the agent of Britain he said “I am sorry, you have no agreement, you haven't a claim.” The graft game is current as flow of the sea as flow of the river into the sea, everywhere save in the U. S S. R. We find it on West Street, American harbor, we find it in London, Liverpool, Cobh, the Fink Halls of ‘Frisco their scabs and their spies and their pitch-blacklist, in Bremen and Bari, in Bari and Brest, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Havre and Naples, on the rock of Gibraltar, The greasepot they feed us, the hash and the spuds, the fish from the barrels, the stink of the bilzes, go hungry to work. And after the trick the pennies are gone, you're kicked a dead dog from Church Institute by Gorky, the Congress elected its leading organs. At the proposal of the Leningrad writer, Tikhanov the Congress elected as their hon- orary Presidium, the Political Bu- reau led by Stalin of the Commu- nist Party, Thaelmann, Dimitrov, | | } letters, who opened the Writers’ dio Employees reau under rank and file workers’ control. 6. Enforcement of payment “for overtime: a minimum of four hours’ pay when a call is cancelled. The August issue of the Motion Picture Worker also analyzes the significance of the church boycott on the workers in the film indus- try. It points out that the boycott is actually costly to the employers and that “... they will do pre- cisely what all bosses do when their profits are threatened. They will shift the burden of the whole mess squarely on’ to the backs of the workers. They will cut the wages of the studio workers. “That will be the inevitable out- come unless the workers immedi- ately start to prepare for such a wage cut.” poe Ee HE maritime strike, which studio workers followed with intense in- est, is subjected to a keen analy- ‘is showing the role of the leaders of the American Federation of La- bor and the Roosevelt administra- tion, their use of the red scare and splitting tactics. The position of the Motion Picture Worker was re- stated as believing that craft union- ism cannot possibly serve workers as well as industrial unionism, but supporting all workers’ struggles and exposing all misleaders of labor. Another article presents a series t “First Congress in the History of World Literature,” Says Maxim Gorky Opening Writers’ Congress in Moscow “Bourgeoisie Living in Epoch of Savagery and Despair” and Gorky. The proposal to elect to the honorary presidium the lead- er of the German proletariat, now pining in fascist dungeons, was greeted by unceasing applause from the Congress. The appli arose again from all the delegates when Gorky was elected the chairman of | the first Congress of Writers of the Soviet Union. . 7 6 Zhdanov Brings Greetings IN THE platform, the secretary of | manufacturing codes have clauses the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Zhdanov, warmly greeted by the Congress. On behalf of the Central Committee of the C. P. and the Soviet People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union, he gave greetings to the Congress. “You have gathered at the mo- ment when the basic difficulties of Socialist construction in our coun- try have already been overcome,” said Zhdanov. “The Communist Party has led the country to final victory.. The U.S.S.R. is the country with a foremost socialist c\\ture The great banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin has conquered. Without these victories there could have been no Congress. The suc- cesses in our literature reflect: the achievements in the Soviet Union. The literature of the Soviets is the most ideological and the most ad- vanced literature in the world. It has already created many excellent works.” Zhdanov characterized the hope- AND By DAVID | j Salonen and Jobs 'T IS fairly well known by now that even if production could | | was | less position of the bourgeois writ- | ers who have nothing to write about and have no confidence in the mor- “Pessimism ‘s the theory and the practice of the literary art of the modern bourgeoisie. But at the same time, western literature is producing advanced writers who have come to the point of view of the proletariat. These writers we e gladly at the present Con- * 8 Literature Must Liberate 'HE hall replied to Zhdanov loud applause. Explaining Sta- lin’s definition of writers as “en- gineers of the human soul,” Zhda- nov said: “To be ‘engineers of hu- man souls’ means to describe people in their development and to devict the motion of reality itself. Our literature is tendacious because our tendency is to liberate mankind from the yoke of capitalist slavery. Organize your work so that it will harmonize with the epoch. Occu- py the foremost positions in the struggle for a classless society.” The Congress greeted ZhGanov with thunderous applause. Before the sounds died away, another wave of loud applause began. Chairman Mikitenko, Ukrainian writer, called en Maxim Gorky to report on the first point of the agenda of the Congress. For a long time he could not begin his report owing to the continuous loud ovation. with class issues. These questions are submitted not only to the readers but to the Utopian Society itself. An analytical article on the answers is promised in the next issue. Certainly the Motion Picture Worker is making itself an organ- izational instrument for studio workers. When it gets more sup- port it might be able to enhance its already neat appearance by the use of zinc engravings. But aren't there any cartoonists among the Hollywood workers who can utilize those inexpensive linoleum blocks? The address of the Motion Pic- ture Worker is Palmer Building, Hollywood, Cal. A Red Builder on every busy street corner in the country means a tremendous step toward the of questions regarding the position of the Utopian Society on working «= By Harry for landlubbing seamen, the shipowner's den for rats of the beach and water-lice, We're through with this going single like fools or petty in number to scavenger ship, tricked on the sea, cheated of fee and never say no. We have seen in Marseilles the bolshevik ship, boom and spar varnished, rigging and gear sure and stout as clean are the quarters large and airy, lamps for the tables linen and bedding, showers for cleansing— this is a home! Astern the Red Corner easy chairs, tables, radio, reading, winter steam-heated, ice-water in summer. Care for the men in weather and illne: ship meny-m and none overburdened, vecaticns with pay and food to our liking, Captain to mate and mate to man say Comrede and Comrade’s dictatorship of the proletariat! Alan Potamkin Donkeyman’s wise to ways of the game, he’s conned of the answer, he’s written it down, tattoced its mark where the mind can hold it: seaman and bos’n, passer and. wiper, messboy and steward, men of the ships— men of the barges men of the lighters scows of gravel, ‘scows of rock, tugs of the river, hoisters and derricks, men of the pier and men of the dock, Atlantic, Pacific, Lakes and the Gulf, men of all colors men of all tongues, join in Red Corners not whispering corners join in Red Unions, turn ships of disaster to ships of Comrade, bolshevik ships whose harbor is home! Note: Harry Alan Pstamkin, who wes the first to use Werkers’ Correspondence as themes for poctry, wrote Merchant Marine almost two years ago. He was actively engaged in other literary and Communist activity when his untimely death occurred about a a word doesn’t claw year agq jzeaes the levels of 1929 there would still be eight to ten million perma- Pes unemployed workers. This fact has led to the emergence of | a) two opposing schools of bourgeois | thought. One school of theo: reflecting the interests of capita in the indu which are | overdeveloped in relation to the| capitalist mi t, clamor for a} moratcrium on science and inven- tion. According to them, science | takes away jobs and is at the root of our economic and social ills. This idea of the nec for } nical retrogression in to} make jobs has alreedy had certain | practical effects. Several of the| designed to stifle further technical | improvements. In connection with | projects. labor saving | frequently not used, in order to “make” work. A couple of | years ago a western state passed a road construction bill which pro- | vided that no machinery should be used. An amendment was offered vhich proposed that the workers ould be equipped with teaspoons | instead of shovels so that the maxi- mum number of jobs could be Pro- | vided. The crisis, needless to say, was not the product of the advance of technology. The latter plus the in- creased productivity (exploitation) of the workers during the twenties widened the gap between produc- tion and the consuming capacity of the capitalist market. During the years of the crisis, although produc- tion moved downwards, the produc- tivity of the workers increased 27 per cent in five years, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. This increased exploita- tion is continually narrowing the consuming powers of the capitalist | market and will produce new and | more acute phases of the crisis. | Technology is thus a factor that ac- celerated this fundamental contra- diction of capitalism. To call a moratorium on science | will not solve the crisis or provide jobs for the permanently unem- ployed. The popularity of the idea among the bourgeoisie is, on the one hand, a reflection of the deep- seated capitalist crisis; on the other hand it represents an attempt to solve the problem by throwing the burden on the workers through making them share work. Obvi- ously the capitalists will not scrap the machinery they need for war, or that part of technology that is still profitable. . ee IN opposition to those who call for “a science holiday” of indefinite duration is a school of bourgeois theorists who to a large extent rep- resent manufacturers who would like to launch new industries such as pre-fabricated housing, stream- lined locomotives, television, etc. This group maintains that only new inventions will make more jobs and lead to the restoration of prosperity. Included in this school are many scientists who are becoming worried about the continual decreases in laboratory and research budgets. When capitalism was on the up- grade, technology, as Marx pointed out, continually revolutionized the methods of production and led to the creation of, new industries. These created employment for workers (allowing for the normal Page Five LABORATORY SHOP KAMSEY growth of a reserve army of unem- ployed). But today in the period of capitelist decline there are no pro- spects of inve.*.ions that would lead | to the creation of gigantic new in- dustries. The only technical changes that apparently are profitable are ll of a minor nature, in the sense that they will not revolutionize the methods of old industries or create new ones. Most of the possible technical changes come into con- flict with vested interests. What few are put into operation result in e us displacement of work- ich only further aggravates the course of the crisis as the gap between roduction and employ- ment increases: Thus te ology in the period of capitalist decline rums up against the barrier of capitalist maladjust- ers | ments, and in turn because capitale ism is stifling its progress, it ace centuates these disturbances, Tech- nology cannot free capitalism from the s. nor provide jobs for the perm: ntly employed. It can jisplace workers in those itt- ustries which are re-equipping themselves with more efficient ma- chinery. a Beets A Vaccine for Infantile Paralysis HE development of a successful method of immunizing people | against the scourge of infantile pae ralysis has been announced by Dr, John A. Kolmer of the Temple Medical School. A vaccine was de- veloped by Dr. Kolmer and his as- sistants from the spinal cords of monkeys, after the disease had been artificially induced in the animal. The vaccine is treated with sodium ricinoleathe, which is obtained from the castor bean. This chemical, ac- cording to Dr. Kolmer, does not kill the virus but devitalizes it. For two years the vaccine was tried on monkeys until the results became almost 100 per cent success+ ful. Previously ell attempts to vac- cinate monkeys with a completely killed or sterile vaccine bf! failed. Apparently the vaccine must con= tain a small amount of devitalized, but living, virus to be really ef- fective. A few months ago the vaccine was tried on Dr. Kolmer and his tech- nical assistant. They experienced no ill effects “except a slight sore- ness at the sites of the injection.” It is the belief of the scientist that “eventually” vaccination against in- fantile paralysis will become as routine as immunization against smallpox and diphtheria. If the vaccine should prove of value, it will add an important weapon to the physicians’ arsenal in their fight against infantile paraly- sis, which only this summer reached the proportions of an epidemic in California. The first important test is confirmation of the validity of Dr. Kolmer’s experiments. Sec- ondly, one wonders how long it will take before all children are immu- nized, if the vaccine should prove to be successful. This last question is in order, since the research institute where Dr, Kolmer works has been operating since the war. on funds it made from the sale to the Public Health Service of a preparation developed there. And already Dr. Kolmer speaks of charging $2 or $3 for the vaccine per person, although he ad= mits that it costs only 30 cents to prepare. This will mean another fat endowment for the institute, but what unemployed father will be able to immunize his children? 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—From London; Andy Speaking to Amos in San Francisco WABC—Kardos Orchestra 7:18-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Al and Lee Reiser, Piano WABC—Belasco Orchestra 7:30-WEAF—Martha Mears, Contralto WOR—The O'Neilis—fiketch WsZ—Jewels of Enchentment— Sketch, With Irene Rich WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 7:48-WEAF—Sisters of the Skillet WOR—To Be Announced WJZ—Frank Buck's Adventures WABC—Boake Carter. Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian WOR—Dance Orchestra WJz—Madriguera Orchestra WABC—Maxine, Songs; Spitalny En- semble 8:15-WABC—Emery Deutsch, Violin 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—The Lone Ranger—Sketch WJZ—Mario Cozzi, Baritone WABC—Everett’ Marshall, Baritone Elizabeth Lennox, Contralto; Arden Orchestra: Mixed Chorus; Cissie Loftus, Songs KEEP Sunday, August 26, Open! Daily Worker Sp! Picnic at North Beach Park, id program being arranged. - 2 Wednesday rtists in the Soviet Union" at Artists’ Union, 11 W. 18th St., 9:30 p.m. Speaker, Charles Ferlin, former Moscow Correspondent for the New York Sun “A GERMAN Refugee Spekas Out’ at Hotel Newton, Broadway, bet. 94th and 95th St., 8:30 p.m. Speaker, Maria Hal- herstadt, a German refugee. Auspices, West Side Br. F.S.U. ALBRION HARTWELL on “Fascist Ten- "at 140 Second Ave., 8 ; Stuyvesant Br. A.W.F. Ad- dencies in U.8. p.m. Auspices fon free. ED HEAD,” Midnight Movie Show, , Aug. 24, 11:15 p.m., Allerton Thea- 744 Allerton Ave., Bronx. Proceeds ni-Cha. Adm. 20c, iro, ‘or Childrens Camp Wo-t * ae WORKERS LABORATORY Theatre pre- sents Yosel Cutler's inimitable Puppets; Bunin Brothers’ clevre Marionettes, Work- ers Lab. “Comrade Punch.” Guests of Boner (?) Pres. Roosevelt, La Guardia, Gen, Johnson, The Blue Eagle, Friday. Aug. 24, §:30 p.m., Irving Plaza, 18th St. and Irving Place. Adm. 30¢. * 8 Aberdeen, Wash. RED BALL at F.W.A. Hall, 110 N.P. St. Scturday, Sept. 1, 8 p.m. Dancing. Wall's 4-Plece Orchestre. Adm. 26¢. Auspices: Grays Harbor Sect. of C.P. TUNING IN Z—Oft Fisher 9:00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian: Songs smiths Quartet; Hayton Orch. WOR—Pootlight Echoes WJZ—Ruth Lyon, Soprano; Cyril Pitts, Tenor; Shield Orchestra; Joan Blaine, Narrator WABC—Baseball—Mickey Cochrane, Manager Detroit Times 9:15-WABC—To Be Announced 9:30-WOR—Tex Fletcher, Songs WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Fourth Annual Scholarship Award Dinner of Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild, Chicago 9:45-WOR—Dramatized News 10:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orchestra WJZ—Dennis King, Songs; Orchestra WABC—Broadcast to Byrd Expedie tion; Warnow Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. EB. Read WJZ—Duchin Orchestra 10:30-WEAF—From Rio de Janeiro: Other Americas—Edward Tomlinson WOR—Stuart Orchestra WJZ—Denny Orchestra; Harry Rich= man, Songs WABC—Mary Eastman, \ Soprano; Mixed Chorus; Symphony Orch. 11:00-WEAF—Meyer Orchestra WOR—Van Duzer Orchestra WJZ—Pickens Sisters, Songs WABC—Nick Lucas, Songs the Record—Thronton Katzman Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance! Amusements _ PUNCH GOES RED! Workers Laboratory Theatre presents Lou Bunin’s Marionettes Yussel Cutler’s puppets in a program of new political satire ® “Schnozzle,” “Durante Interviews Hitler” “The Shamus” “Hang the Hangman” and others CAR}, BRODSKY. Chairman IRVING PLAZA Irving Place ard 13th Street 4 Friday, Aug. 24, 8:30 p.m. Admission 30c. Tickets at W.L.T., 42 E. | Adm. 30¢. Tickets at W.L.T., 42 E. 12th | 3t,, Workers Bockshop, 50 E. 13th St. .| sacs eras its —— LAST 3 DAYS! ‘HOUSE of GREED’ Based on Saltykov-Schedrin's novel “Gentleman Goloviev” with V. GARDIN famous (of “Shame") English Titles ACME THEATRE, l4th ST. & UNION SQUARE — Always 5 3t BEGINNING SATURDAY! _ “The PROBLEM of FATIGUE” | an iMustrated study of fatigue in in- | dustry and nature Under the supervision of the Russian Academy of Selenee. (English Titles) ]