The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1934, Page 5

f Vivid Description of Future Soviet France x Given by Famous Poet By LOUIS ARAGON (Translated by Paul Green) NOTE: This is the last of a se- ries of articles written by Louis Aragon, the French revolutionary Poet for L’Humanite, the central organ of the Communist Party of France.—Translator.) Pees ae “WELL,” say the skeptics, “what will the Soviets mean to France? Shall we be any the hap- pier?” It reminds me of an answer which was given to me at Tcheliab- kop, in the Urals, by an old miner who had worked there for the last ) years, when I asked him if he as happier now: “What do you an?” said he. “Do you know that e used to work 12 hours a day wnder the Tzar’s regime and now under the Soviet regime we work nly six hours a day?” As the bourgeois State is crushed, fend the true workers’ democracy established, the Soviets will reign everywhere—from the factory to the government, and they will ef- fect the socialization of the means of production and exchange, they Will give the soil to those who till it, they will abolish unemployment and will improve the lot of all toil- ers. Following the events of February, 1934, the Central Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Party of France proclaimed: “We will mercilessly put an end to the domination of the bank- magnates new ruling France. “We will dispossess the capital- ists, without indemnity, of facto- ries, banks, real estate and of big business. “We will introduce social insur- ance against all hazards (unem- ployment, disability, sickness, old age, accidents) for all workers at the expense of the State. We wiil assure and improve the lot of the old workers, of the pensioned and the war victims. “We will combat pitilessly the high cost of living. When we are in power we will put an end to the underhand practices of the kings of commerce and specula- tion. “We will install the workers and poor population of the cities in the houses of the rich. “We will reduce to a minimum, the cost of rent, gas, water, elec- tricity, transportation and of all pubiic services, in proportion to the salaries and according to the class principle.” Is there any one who does not see that those, who, in the face of such a program, ask: Shall we be any happier? ask this because they are happy as they are today, be- cause they are benefitting in one way or another from the under- hand practices of the kings of com- merce and speculation, because they have something to lose from the proposed expropriation? eee 'URN your eyes toward the Soviet Union, which has been able to exocute such a program, and dare tell the workers that they would be just as happy with bosses, a cari- cature of true social insurance, with no clubs, no houses of rest, no pen- sions, and with unemployment! This disgrace of capitalism has disappeared from one-sixth of the globe, and all the workers know well that it is not a vain promise that they find in the program which our Central Committee set forth in Feb- ruary: “With the introduction of the seven-hour work day, by a close economic alliance with the Soviet Union and by the increased pur- chasing power of the masses, we will abolish unemployment. “We will guarantee to the work- ing women, to the toiling youth, to the foreign-born and colonial workers, equal pay for equal work. “With a Bolshevik tenacity we will apply to all bourgeois do- nothings the principle: He who does not work, shall not eat!” “Well and good,” concede the skeptics, “the power of the Soviets, which is the dictatorship of the pro- letariat will grant to the workers many excellent things. But what about the peasants? What about the petty-bourgeoisie? What about the intellectuals?” They have a broad idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, but an incorrect one. Is there anyone better qualified to answer what the dictatorship of the proletariat is, than Lenin? Let us recall once more what he said: “The dictatorship of the prole- tariat,” said Lenin, “is a peculiar form of class alliance between the proletariat (the vanguard of all those who labor) and the various strata of non-proletarian Jabor- ing masees of the petty-bourgeoi- sie, small business men, peasants, members of the intelligentsia, etc., cr with the majority of these; it is an alliance against capital; an alliance aiming at the complete overthrow of the capitalist sys- tem, at the crushing of bourgeois resistance and frustrating of any attempt at a bourgeois restora- tion; an alliance designed for the estabiishment and the definitive consolidation of socialism.” * A ee HAT will the Soviets of France offer to the peasants? “Soli to those who till it! “We will overthrow the rule of the big land-owners, we will ex- propriate their land without in- demmity and we will hand it over to the working peasants; we will abolish mortgage-debts which weigh on the poor peasants; we will bring to the agricultural pro- letariat the same working condi- tions as those of the city, we will win over the mifiions of peasant workers to the cause of socialist construction.” The Soviets of France will abol- ish the antagonism between city and country. They will abolish the conflicting cultural differences. And for the tyranny of the range-keever, the gendarme and the prefect, they will substitute the collaboration of the workers and peasants in the So- viet_ assemblies. What will the Soviets of France offer to the petty-bourgeoisie? Has not the depression taught it what the rule of big capital means? What privileges .does it wish to re- tain todav against the proletariat? Steeped in debt, on the brink of bankruptcy and ruin, the petty- bourgeoisie dreads its imminent proletarianization. Under the domination of capital, its sons cannot find a market for the so-called liberal professions which they have chosen. They are called upon to vegetate or become “declassed.” Let them work with the proletariat for the establish- ment and maintenance of a Soviet France! If the youth had precise knowledge of what the Soviets are, it would begin today to rally to it “en masse.” The Soviets of France will offer to the petty-bourgeoisie the cancel- lation of its debts, as the Commune did for the merchants, shop-keepers and business men of Paris, “the rich capitalists excepted” (Karl Marx, “Civil War in France”). The Soviets of France will offer to the members of the middle class in- stead of these jobs which make capitalists’ valets ont of them, work which will enable them to prove their attachment to the cause of all workers. The engineer, the architect, the writer, have in the land of the So- viets assumed a place which the bourgeoisie, knowing no law but the one of cold cash payment, has granted only to those among them who were not only engineers, archi-. tects, writers, but also, and above all, capitalists or the servants of the money dictatorship. poy ita ND among the middle class, as among the peasantry. the idea of the Soviets is also taking shape. Haven't we seen in a number of quarters of Paris on the 12th of February, the small business men close their stores in sympathy with the General Strike? Are they not the middle class element—those functionaries who demonstrated on Jan. 22 on the Chatelet Sq. to the ery of “For a World Soviet’? Are they not middle class elements— those intellectuals, already number- ing more than 3,000, who, facing the fascist menace. have placed them- selves at the disposal of the work- ers’ organizations, and whom I saw applaud at the cry “For a World Soviet!”? For a World Soviet. This cry sums up the hove and combativeness of all classes which join with the revo- lutionary proletariat, for the over- throw of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. «For a World Soviet! This cry is the cry of confidence in the prole- tariat and its vanguard, the Com- munist Party! It is the cry which is raised against the poisonous swamp of the depression, which emerges from the industrial prisons, from the misery of the country, from the inferno of French colonial imperialism. For a World Soviet! This cry is also that of United Action, because it is the voice of the masses de- manding the creaticm of the most widespread organizations of the United Front, the Soviets—the So- viets which knew how to lead the revolutionary workers of Russia to victory and without which this vic- tory could never have been pos- sible. For a World Soviet! Long live the Soviets of France! *Leninism, by Stalin. p. 25; In- ternational Publishers, 1928. Puppets To Electioneer; Prizes Offered For Skits NEW YORK.—Five prizes, the first of which will be a set of Lenin’s works, are offered by the Election Campaign Committee of the Communist Party for the best short pleys built around election is- sues and current political events. These plays must be suited to a new medium, to be used in street corner meetings for the first time— the puppet show. For centuries lusty Punch, made out of a chunk of wood, @ bit of paint, a patch of hair and a piece of cloth, animated with a few strings, tore aside the smirking masks of hypocrite. de- generate and plunderer, with sharp- lv pointed barbs. Today Comrade Punch is being enrolled in the revo- lutions ry scvemert +4 show up the enemies of the working class. ‘Thr placs mist bs short. They should reauire a maximum of 15 minutes to perform, but preferably half that time or less. Dialozue should be crisp and sentences sharp. Current events must he so handled. that issues raised in the! tory Theatre. election platform are developed. The platform can be secured for one penny in the Workers Book Store. The play form is preferred, but the short story form with a maximum of dialogue will be ac- cepted. The contest will close Sep- tember 15. Everybody is eligible for this con- test, not only professional writers. Scripts should be sent to Puppet Contest, Room 500, 50 E. 13th St., New York City. Comrade Punch and Company will make its revolutionary debut at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Pl. on Friday night. The Runin Brothers, Yosel Cutler, Ben Yano and other puppet masters, will dem- onstrate the part puppets can play in agitprop work. This all-puppet program will inaugurate the first permanent revolutionery puppet group in America, under the direc- tion of the foremost puppeteers. Bumin and Cutler, organized under the banner of the Workers Labora- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSD. AUGUST 23, 1934 Visit of Sir Henry Deterding, British Oil Magnate, Coincides With Japanese War Provocations Against Soviet Union : — ® J. P. Morgan, Du Ponts, | Supplying Munitions To Japan | By H. G. | N AMERICAN military specialist, | one with a first-hand acquaint- | ance with the situation in Manchu- | ria, General William 8. Graves, re- cently wrote in Current History on American support of a Jananesc| imperialist war against the Soviet | Union, as follows: | “For the prosecution of a war | with a first class power, Japan must | have financial assistance and sup- | plies. I anticipate Japan will have | no difficulty in getting all the aid) she needs. There are many people in the United States who would be glad to assist in the destruction of | a Communist state, and similar sentiments are to be found in Eng-| . land.” The leading expression of Eng- lish capitalist sentiment on this question, namely, Sir Henry Deter- ding, is already in the United States conferring with the Rocke- feller Standard Oil officials. De- terding’s rare visit to the United States coincides with Japanese war provocations against the Soviet Union. Recently the Daily Worker pub- lished the fact (obtained from the well-informed China Weekly Re- view) that Japanese officials re- cently held conferences with J. P. Morgan & Co. partners in Wall Street, particularly with Thomas W. Lamont, in which Japan was promised support for its special in- terests in Manchuria. The China Weekly Review sees in this ‘alliance of Morgan & Co. with the Japanese imperialists a lever for bringing the United States into war against the Soviet Union, once Japanese troops are mobilized at the Soviet border. “There is an element in this sit- uation,” writes the Review, “which is reminiscent of conditions prior to America’s entrance into the World War, when it was shown that Morgan loans to Britain had much to do with dragging America into the conflict.” ee ae IORGAN’S war industries, air- planes, chemicals, ete., have al- ready made millions supplying Jap- anese imperialism with war ma- terials. The most outstanding instance is the construction of a huge nitrate plant by the E, I. Du Pont de Ne- mours & Co. for the manufacture of materials for explosives in Ja- pan. The plant was built for the Mitsui Mining Co., a war muni- tions concern heavfly subsidized by the Japanese government. U.S. war patents, which are not supposed to be given to any foreign power. were handed over to Japan by the du Pont Co., to speed the war prepare- tions against the Soviet Union. At first the U. S. government objec’ but later it withdrew its objections. The excuse given was that if the du Pont Co. did not supply the ni- trate explosive patents, they could be obtained from Fascist Germany. Du Pont engineers at first in- quired why so large a nitrate unit was being built in Japan, and the Japanese officials answered “for the manufacture of fertilizer.” The fer- tilizer, of course, in the spirit of the Tribune cartoon reproduced here, is to be the workers and peas- ants of the Soviet Union. The Mi sui officials told the du Pont en- gineers to spare no expense in mak- ing the plant the most efficient of its kind—and to complete the job in a hurry. The job is about done. During the last world war, the du Pont firm made hundreds of millions of dollars supplying ammu- nition to the Czarist government, receiving at one time the largest single check on record, $60,000,000. Aided by Mr. William Green, Mathew Woll, Ralph Easley, and such other strikebreaking gentry, the Tribune now is propagandizing the American people in favor of a war to destroy the Soviet Union. In the cartoon they show how easy the job is; merely topple the proleta- rian dictatorship over into its grave. The Chicago Tribune has made itself the spokesman and chief or- ganizer of war propaganda against the Soviet Union, and in support of TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. Tim Healy WABC—Belaseo Orchestra 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Martin Orchestra WABO—Wayside Cottage—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—Danny Malone, Tenor WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield WJZ—Kings Guards Quartet WABO—Cl ‘WJZ—Frank Buck's Adventures WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orchestra WOR-—Little Symphony Orchestra; Philip James, Conductor; Georgene Carcl Marnie, Piano Ww. WABC-—Kate Smith, Songs it Topics—Dr. Walter B, Pitkin, Author 8:30-WJZ—Gale Page and Charles Sears, ir XX Days etch -WOR—Pauline Alpert, Piano '30-WOR—Tex Fletcher, is ‘WIZ—Westminster Choir WABC—Tito Guiaar, Tenor 9:45-WOR—Stuart Orchestra WABO—Fats Waller, Songs 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman Orc.; Al Jolson, Songs; Helen Jepson, Scprano WdZ—Cansdinn Concert WABC—Forty-Five Minutes in Holly- wood; Music: Sketches; June Knight and Russ Columbo 10:15-WOR—Curvent Fvents—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—Bamett Orchestra WJZ—Archer Gibson, Orzan 19:45-WABO—This Double’ Deel—Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota *1:00-WEAP—Your Lover, Dantzig Orchestre ITLL BE THE DEATH OF HIM YET | The above cartoon, published on the front page of the Chicago Tribune, expresses the hope of capitalists the world over. Japanese imperialist invasion of the workers’ fatherland, ‘ eee IN THE above wishful cartoon, pub- lished on the front page of the Chicago Tribune as the news points to rapid war thrusts against the So- viet Union by Japanese imperialism, the most jingoist, red-baiting sheet of American imperialism expresses the real hope of all of the American capitalists. If only the workers’ fatherland could be pushed into its grave. If only Japanese imperial- ism would strike! How happy all of the capitalist hounds would be! The Tribune, by the way, is at the same time the most vicious and outspoken representative of Ameri- can imperialism in the conflict with Japan. In other words, it most clearly expresses the bitter contra- diction between the Japanese trusts and the American trusts for the domination of the Far Eastern mar- kets. Yet, when the Japanese war lords shine their swords for a lunge at the heart of the proletarian fatherland, when the tramp of hun- dreds of thousands of soldiers rings through the plains and hills of Manchuria, the Chicago Tribune forgets for the moment its chauvi- nist hatred of Wall Street’s impe- rialist rival to join in the common objective of wishing and fighting for the entombment of the land of socialism. However, hopes of the American enemies of the Soviet Union are not, entrusted alone to the skillful pen of a prostitute cartoonist. Those wishes for the destruction of the workers’ fatherland are by no means merely the suppressed de- sires of the Chicago Tribune and the great host of capitalist blood- suckers in the United States. It is not sufficient for the Tribune to peddle the scurrious “plot” lies of the Japanese war lords. American ‘bankers, munitions makers, and other capitalists are already making money out of helping Japanese im- perialism prepare for war against the Soviet Union. C paar Oa ‘HE Japanese and American bank- ers know that for war against the Soviet Union, Japanese impe- SILICOSIS VICTIMS BRUTALLY EVICTED By a Worker Correspondent STATEN ISLAND, N. Y.—Having read your article in the Daily of August 9th concerning the terrible conditions existing in Vannetta, W. Va., due to suffering and deaths caused by silicosis, con- tracted from working in a tunnel near there, I would like to state that what you report is true. I worked on the penstocks after the tunnel was completed. I was deeply affected by the in- tense suffering of the Negro and white workers who had worked in the tunnel for the wages of 25c an hour, Hundreds of them have died, and are dying almost daily. I don’t believe that any building project, regardless of its magnitude, has cost so many lives (unnecessarily) as this one has. Rhinehart and Dennison Con- tracting Co. of Charlotte, N. C., did the excavating. They had an agree- ment with an undertaker there to bury the workers who were killed at $35 per head. It was said that the undertaker used the same cof- fin (pine box each time, merely taking the corpse to the grave in it, and emptying the corpse into the grave. When the widows or other de- pendents asked for compensation they were told that the company had gone into the hands of the re- ceivers, and couldn't pay. Up until the time I left there, no one, to my knowledge, had received any form of compensation. The crowning insult of all was the eviction of families who lived in the miserable shacks owned by the company, In some cases men were bedfast, dying from siliébsis, but it made no difference to the company. The tunnel being com- pleted, the dying workers were of no further use to the capitalists. The fruits of their labor, in the form of big profits, go to Wall St. The workers get agony, then death. It is instances like those I have quoted here which make me won- der why every working man, woman and child isn’t a Communist. WHAT SPORTS, Games, Entertainment, Danc- ing, Fun Galore ct the Daily Worker Pic- nic, Sunday, Aug. 26, at North Beach Park, Astoria, L. I. Don't miss iti Thursday WEEKLY INTERNATIONAL Lecture at United Front Supporters, 11 W. 18th St. Austin Hogan on ‘De Valera ys. Ireland,” 8:45 p.m. Adm. 15¢. MARIA HALBERSTADT, German refugee and former German high school teacher, will speak at Hotel Newton, Broadway, near 94th St. Auspices: West Side Br. F.8.U. Adm. 15¢. Unempl 3 ALBION HARTWELL, on "Fascist Ten- dencies in U.S.A.” at Stuyvesant Br. A. W.F., 140 Second Ave., 8 p.m. Adm. EDWARD AMDEN will lecture on chology of Personality” at Pen and Ham- mer, 114 W. 2ist St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices: Psychologic Comm. Pen & Hammer. Dis- cussion on Freud, Adler, Watson, Jugn, and introversion, habits, inferiority. ANTI-WAR Forum, to raise fare for delegate to U, S. Congress. Hear report by del te to Paris Congress. Speskers from A.W.F. Auspics: Office Workers Union, 114 W. 14th St., 8 p.m. Subscription 15c. CLAS3 cn Political Bcsonomy at Red Sparks Club, 64 Second Ave., 8:30 p.m. Instructor. Comrade Chese, Adm. free. FR Mandolin Orchestra rehearsal at 8 pm. at 106 B. 14th St. This is the cpening of the season. Every member must be present. Beginners ciass will open soon. T.W.O. Br. 521 (English speaking) meets at Paradise Manor, 11 W. Mt. Eden Ave., Bronx, 8:30 p.m. Important matters will be eaken up. MILTON HERNDON, brother of Angelo Herndon, will be main speaker at Scotts- boro-Herndon Mass Meeting, at 4199 13th Ave., Brooklyn, 9 p.m. Adm. free. Aus- pices: Boro Park Ella May Br. LL.D. Frida HOU! ARMING Party, new headquar- ters New York Covnty Unemployment Council, 11 W. 1 Dancing, refresh- Ments, enteriainment. Adm. 18¢. Auspices Auxilisry Committee. CLARSNCE EATHAWAY will speak cn “Eurspe on the Eve of the Proletaricn Revcluticn,” $0 F. 14th St., 2nd floor. Auspices: Workers Bookshop. The pur- chase of $1 worth of pamphiets entitles you to a free ticket. Tickets are 25¢ in advenee. Only 100 tickets left! WOPKETS LABCRATORY Th-stre pre- sents Yosel Cutler's inimitable Puppets; ts ON Bunin Brothers’ clevre Marionettes, Work- ers Lab. “Comrade Punch.” Guests of Honor (?) Pres. Roosevelt, La Guardia, Gen. Jobnson, The Blue Eagle, Friday, Aug. 24, 8:30 ‘p.m., Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. Adm. 30¢, “RED HEAD," Midnight Movie Show, Friday, Aug. 24, 11:15 p.m., Allerton Thea- re, 744 Allerton Ave., Bronx. Proceeds for’ Childrens Camp Wo-Chi-Cha. Adm. 20c. SONG Recital, Pierre Dogeyter Olub p sents Nora Halfant in a program of lieder; Shumann. Schubert, Brahms, 5 B. 19th St. Dancing, refreshments. Adm, 25¢. 8:30 pm. MOVIE showing of Soviet classic “Frag- ment cf an Empire.” Prumkin's Villa, Surf Ave. and Beach 47th St. Sea Gate, 8:30 p.m. Auspices: I.L.D. Rose Pastor Stokes Br. Recitations by Ruth Kovi. Sub- scription 2$c. In case of rain postponed for following evening. * . GALA Social given by New Culture Club, 2345 Coney Island Ave, near Ave. U, Brighton Line, Saturday, Aug. 25, 8:30 p. m. Dancing, enterteinment, refreshments, chorus. Adm. 25c. DANCE, Entertainment and Movie Show- ing of Workers Newsreel and a Cheplin Comedy. Brownsville Youth Center, 103 Thatford Ave., Brooklyn, Saturday, Aug. 25, Preceeds to Sect. 15. Adm. 25¢.’ Music by Ben Posner Orchestra. Auspices: Unit 2, Gect. 16, Boston, Mass. STUDIO Party given at 5 Allen St. West End. Movies, snogs, games, music, refresh- mente, Friday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m. Coniribu- tion 0c. Auspices: Provisional Comm. for the International Seamen's Club. adison, Ill, ANNUAL Picnic and Dance given by Madison and St. Clair Counties C.P. Elec- tion Comm., Sunday, Aug. 26, at Eagle Park. Di tion: Street car, bus or auto vie U8. end Illincis Nos. 3 end 4. Dramatics, Refreshments. 2 from 12 a.m. Aye, 13th and Sunday, (Greens La A. B. Magil, main spraker, Dancing, swimming, gemes, refreshmenis, besr. Trucks end cars will leave from Delawar and Division St, (Campau Park), Ukrinian Hell, 89 Seward A\ L. Hil, 1056 Hamilton Ave, N.W., at | ders. | Of | neath an overcast Anti-Soviet Sentiment! Being Whipped Up By Jingo Press | meen | rialism will rely heavily for finances on Wall Street. Financing has al-/} ready been arranged through J. P.} Morgan & Co., and the pawerrit) munitions trust, the du Pont Co. Ancther of Well Street's bitter- est competitors, Great Britain, has also recently become extremely ac- | tive in aiding Japanese imperialism in its war ventures against the So-| viet Union on the Manchurian bor- | The Federation of British Indus- | tries has decided to send an indus- trial mission in the immediate fu- | ture to Manchukuo for the purpose of “studying conditions in that country and of ascertaining whether British industry can co-operate with | Jocal interests in its development.” course, the object is profits. Since the most flourishing “local interests” are war preparations against the Soviet Union, British imperialism will profit most in this direction. On this commission is an indi- | vidual connected with an important war banking firm in Wall Street, namely, Sir Charles Seligman, se- nior director of Seligman Brothers, and a relative of the Wall Street bankers, who was given a handle to his name for his meritorious war service in the counting house. Another is one who has a close tie with the Japanese war lords, Mr. Julian Ito Piggott (born in Japan), representing the leading British arms industry, the British Iron and Steel Federation; manager of the British Steel Export Association. He has been on similar missions before, as for example, the D’Abernon Eco- nomic Mission to Argentina and Brazil in 1929, which helped speed the Anglo-American antagonisms into the Paraguay-Bolivia war over the Gran Chaco. In short, the imperialist bandits under every flag are hoping, wish- ing and striving for the destruction of the Soviet Union. Here, more clearly than ever, we can see the truth of the fact that the sharper the contradictions grow between the robber powers (between the United States and Japan, between Japan and Britain, between Britain and the United States), the more they strive to lull their conflicts into the greater battle against the victo- rious proletarian revolution in the Soviet. Union. The rapid forward strides of so- cialist construction, the unprece- dented victory of the Bolsheviks over the drought, the growing strength of the Soviet Union, its iron determination to protect the workers’ fatherland, its revolution- ary peace pficy, are driving the imperialist scoundrels into a frenzy. They look on with the greatest hope as the Japanese militerists arro- gantly plot war, waiting to join the fray for the attempted destruction of their chief enemy, the victorious workers and peasants. The war danger against the So- viet Union is alarmingly great. All of the imperialist bandits, in some form or other, are helping Japanese imperialism in this venture, The workers everywhere must stand guard, be vigilant, fight against the anti-Soviet plans of their own im- perialist robbers, and stzive to de- feat the imminent war thrust of Javanese imperialism. The Communist Party of Japan, subjected to the most brutal terror, is carrying on a most heroic strug- gle against their own imnerialist ex- ploiters, and it is our task to dem- onstrate our international solidarity with the Japanese oppressed work- ers and peasants, fighting side by side with them against Japanese imperialism and for the defense of the Soviet Union. STAGE AND SCREEN “The Gondoliers” To Open D’Oyly Opera Season Sept. 3 “The Gondoliers” will open the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company sea- son of Gilbert and Sullivan operet- tas on Monday, September 3, at the Martin Beck Theatre. The famous English company, of the Savoy Theatre, London, which is here for a limited engagement, has arranged its schedule for the first four weeks, during which it will offer ten operas, Besides “The Gondoliers”, the group will present “Cox and Box”, “The Pirates of Penzance”, “Iolanthe”, “Trial by Jury”, “Pinafore”, “The Mikado”, “Yeomen of the Guard”, “Ruddigore” and “Princess Ida”. “Keep Moving", the new revue with Tom Howard, originally sched- uled for Monday night, will have its premiere this evening at the Forrest Theatre. “As Thousands Cheer”, the Irving Berlin-Moss Hart review, is now in its final three weeks at the Music Box. By ILIFF lay low on cold grass be- sky waiting for @ freight. He shivered. He had been lying on that same s; a couple of hours and ¥ restless. He let loose a shower of curses. Finally he heard the li moan of a locomotive. He j to his feet. The black belly in with a ma ing up a maze of ruddy Cliff threw himself forward ders got into his eyes and him. When he opened his train was disanpearin: bend. “Where in hell is this limo rushin’ to? An’ may be I'm gettin’ to be too damn slow. But a fellow could kiss himself good-bye tryin to make it,” he muttered. He looked up. It'll rain soon “What am I going ’ he asked himself, scratching his head. Should he go back to town? Blackwell was no soft spot for ho- boes. The handouts were poor and the cops were tough. He had to go far out of the station to hop a train. He hated like hell to go back. But he hadn't tasted any food since early morning and now dusk was snooping down on the wide fields, His stomach ached with a burning pain. He must go and pick up some grub. He dragged his benumbed feet over muddy fields, shivering, clutch- ing his hands in his pants pockets. Small flakes of snow began to roll in the air and a cold wind was coming from the West. Cliff wish he could get a place to stay over night; at least some good hot chow. He got into town. There was use trying a decent-looking hou He was sure he wouldn’t get any- spa around a house. A lanky, gray-haired man opened the door. “Any chance of pop?” Cliff asked eyes begging mutely. Pop peered at him through his spectacles. He saw before him a tattered, lean-faced, sandy-haired young tramp. He opened the door wide. Cliff hunched in and was as- sailed by the heat coming out of a small stove, A shrivelled, old warming trembling, up, his woman came out from the back room. “Poor boy, must be all frozen an’ hungry, eh?” she said. Cliff rubbed his hands at the stove. Tears were blearing his eyes. He couldn't speak. He nodded. “Tl make you some hot coffee,” she said caressingly, and hurried off to fill the pot. os ae HERE you headin’ to, lad?” the old man asked. “Oh, well, I'm goin’ East,” Cliff mumbled, looking down. “What you doin’ in this town?” Cliff thought for a while. “Thought maybe I'd get a job.” Pop stood smoking, letting out thick clouds of smoke. He didn’t like Cliff's answer. He glowered: “You ain’t lookin’ for no work. my lad, I can see that. A man don't look for no work in this part of town.” “I'm up against a cranky old guy. I better keep my mouth shut,” Cliff thought. The old woman put some food on the table. He sat down to eat. Si- lently, head lowered, he munched and gulped. Pop felt sore. Why should this lad put one over on him? He clutched his pipe; his eyes glis- tened. Suddenly he bellowed: “You fellers roamin’ the roads runnin’ wild, you never want to work.” “ Why don’t you let’m alone?” the old woman cut in. “When you were young you didn’t want to sit and squat on one place, I bet.” “What'd you know?” Pop raged, “Them fellers are loafin’ an’ turnin’ thieves.” “They never took anything off International Survey Given in Weekly Forum NEW YORK.—An unusual survey of the international situation has been given by the United Front Supporters in their Thursday night forums. During the past four weeks events in Germany, Italy, Spain and China have been ana- lyzbed by Oakley Johnson, Jose Cal- deron, H. 8. Chan and others. The remaining lectures will include Au- stria, Ireland, Cuba, France, the Soviet Union, Brazil and India, to be covered by equally authoritative speakers. GOING EAST A Novel of Proletarian Life DANIEL r|to steal,” thing. He picked on a shabby, old| ~ Page Five HORWITZ you, did they? An’ what right you got to talk about them like that? Maybe th e lookin’ for work. An’ don't fret, Ed. There ain't nothin’ she yelled, waving her skinny hands. A LIFF found a defender in the old woman. There was a chance to |stay over night if he could quiet the old guy. He thought of telling a hard-luck story, maybe that would | work, If I'd get somethin’ to do feel lucky,” he said. For a day or two,” Pop snarled, matter to him whether nted to work. He was just rd get a job, Mister Ed; I sure would stick to it. Been kick« in’ aroun’ since I was. a kid tryin® | to make a livin’ He stopped, thinking what else to y. The old woman stood shaking er gray head, pitvingly. ~ He continued: “Things are pretty. |slow now. It's darned hard to pick |up a job. I couldn't get a thing in jhome town. People said that down | Bast there is a lot of work, Well, I'm goin’ there. Meanwhile I try to nick up somethin’ to do to make my expenses. Gee! If I could get some- | thin’ to do. Do you know of any | thin’?” There was silence. Cliff's story. sounded true to Pop. It was straight. |from the shoulder stuff. He knew jlots of fellows that were out of | work. There was talk going on that. there might be a lay-off in his shop, too. He was likely to be in the sama boots as this fellow, having to hunt for a job. He began to think dif- |ferently about this lad. He loosened | up. “Well,” he said, puffing at his pipe, “I don't know where you can ; get a job now. Don't know if they'd | put anybody on at the Macks, where |I work. But maybe Burk could use 2 boy some place. We'll go up in |the mornin’ an’ see.” | “That'll be fine. It sure would be a big lift for me if I could get on | there,” Cliff said. ae | one old woman was bustling about, bringing in old coats and spreading them on two wooden | benches, making a bed for the lad. | _ Cliff's bones ached. He lay down. He thought he was lucky to meet |this woman, She bothered about | him as if he were her own son. He liked her. It seemed to him that she wes like his mother. He be- gan to think about her. Where could she be now? What was she doing? He hadn't seen her since he ran away from home, He had become tired of hanging around the smail town, being an er- rand boy for Greenfield’s Real Es- tate Corporation. He wanted to go jon the road and see things. He told his ma that he wanted to go to a big city and get somewheres in the world. Ma wouldn’t let him. He 's too young to go by himself, only fifteen, she said. But Cliff had been on his own since his old men died. He didn’t listen to her. With two bits in his pocket he set | out to satisfy his urge for adven- | ture. Ma yelled and cried. From the thought of his mother he began to think of the four years that he had been tramping. He |had combed the roads, riding |freights, speeding by widening fields, dotted with some stacks; | Slowing steel mills; mine tipples; | large pasturing flocks of the great | Texas steppes. He had been in |cities large and small. He had | dodged bulls and once spent three months in a ven, He had slept in |many a flophouse and boxcar, and under the bare skv on cold ground. When he thought of the cold night a shiver passed through him. If not for the old woman he might have had to spend another night. in the street, and the wind outside howling with a moan. He was glad that he was under a roof. With a feeling of contentment, he sank into sleep. 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