The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 28, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, TUESDAY. ‘Cat’s Paw’ and ‘Bulldog Angelo Herndon Replies Drummond’ Examples AUGUST. 2°, 198 to Co A Page Five wardly Insult of George Schuyler, Pittsburgh | GOING EAST : A Novel of Proletarian Life Of Cultural Stagnation . ee ; 1p? s; 3a nck ees if] olumnist, That “fle Will Skip Bail: ese cok tetas 4 ee Ge ' Reviewed by old Lloyd in this comedy, a mere | is on his way t to look for work. In a small town on the TOM BRANDON tailpiece of bourgeois culture, be- | -—— —— ~~ _ 3 a way he gets a job in a wire factory. At Sunday dinner in the comes a “dictator” for 24 hours and ee J ‘ rs r 5 , ir 7 where Cliff has , the other workers “The Cat’s Paw” |resorts to the sword to “clean up"| Repeatedly Knifed the I Will Never Desert the) —Pe*rding house, where Cif! has a 5 coms waits | the gangsters. We may be sure of a} ‘ Mea. aoe pple oo aegis [ES ¥ea08 now since Harold Loyd | turn soon, from mere “reverbera- Scottsboro Boys | Struggle,’ Says He ‘lonely and wants amusement. Leute, fallon-work rs stopped running up and down the | tion” of the capitalist political at- in the Back Herndon the shop invites Cliff to a party. At the party Cliff drinks a little side of skyscrapers and generally | mosphere, to films of a more pains- eae too much.) = iy wallenging the law of gravity. In| takingly “directive” nature. oe pe oe . iticaie: + ¢ ¥ his latest “hilarious” photoplay he * #8 | ie of ae ie Raa. are Shag acc aioe ae Per ss v. again on the floor. She rested he? * rostitutes g his tra in Es la I - 4 = Taek oe ¥ pe m is almost run over only once or “Bulldog Drummond the Negro ieee ie an indiedioat longs to the Negro majority, not to _He slipped his arm arou! head on his shoulder. He agra red twice—nothing startling for metro- ° ” s eae eve. | waist and tried to kiss h Th vith his lips. He bumped politan pedestrians—but the effects Strikes Back named George Schuyler, regular | the white ling-class minority girl yelled, “Be yerself, now,” and| in columnist for the Pittsburgh | This is r of our demand for the | 8 « i a of his old escapades are still there. | «our United Artists | Gouri | full equality of the Negro people| freed herself from his arm. Shi The blank and sheerly brainless | © vests = Ag0 caries. 2 = ae. ans lack Belt and | Jumped up and wal led, happily. look on his map as he plays the cleaned up somewhat more than| Throughout the fight for the lives | everywhere, in the Black Belt and ane: Ealtites fatten curt od AE “eeney nie hah “cat's paw” without doubt is due|@ Cool million on the popular per-|of the Scottsboro boys, a fight! outside it. How is the Mh £00 hed & Bah, hut Be. dian like ber ° ws age the frequent connections made |formance of Ronald Colman in/|which is s# profoundly stirring the! equality to be achieved in the pplancat aii was tanny : oe He a ‘etween his head and pavement, | “Bulldog Drummond.” This bit of | Negro and white masses of the en- | Black Belt, if the white landlord a Hahah ape ata ‘se Wan ae \yne-walis and girders in “Safety | happiness no doubt influenced them | tire world, rousing them to struggle} continue to rule? pieger pean : ind is my es : a ist” and the earlier films to prolong the life of both Ronald |in united action, this lackey of the | | “Yet you deliberately say that a eecanew a Sade aiue | ; that blew softly, [fe Fs gt and his screenic self, Hugh Drum- | bourgeoisie has stopped at nothing | this slogan means segregation, that ee agp sy Donate NbN They str in arm under ‘ fig cer Pie plomiaree ae mond. It may well be hazarded|in his attempt to disrupt the gi it i ‘worst type of race chau- hats the mat tun’ an’| large, orange-colored moon tha’ e time he rinks } ther's mission in China to Stock- n, America, to find a wife for his ren, or as his father’s Chinese Pee Long, puts it, “To get broadening.” For a little strei_h you'll have a glimmer of hope that the hardboiled cynical in- troduction to Stockton, of which in a short time he becomes mayor, will prevail throughout, maybe resulting in a gentle kidding of “reform” mayors, “reform” political parties and the like. But your glimmer of hope goes out like a busted mazda bulb. In just no time the goof gets wrapped in that ancient gag of stage, screen and story, and be- comes the “man who became mayor by mistake.” It is decidedly interesting to note that the audience, almost com- pletely petrified with silence throughout, succumbed and laughed at the early kidding of the corrupt political machine’s endeavors to get and support a “reform” candidate who would secure the reform votes and give a semblance of democracy to the election. When the film gets to the neighborhood houses, many workers will undoubtedly recognize the outlines of the proclivities of the gangster-political parties of capitalism. In the end the goof “cleans up” the town. And his method, as he says, “an old Oriental custom,” has helped clean-up China, The meth- od is the free and easy use of a large evil looking axe-like sword, which is used by the goof to fright- en the city’s criminals. (Very much unlike its use in China where the victims of the axe-sword are the rebellious peasants and workers who fight not only to rid China of the Japanese imperial robbers, but their own corrupt exploiting ruling class in order that they might truly cre- ate a life free from bandits, cor- ruption and exploitation.) Even if you are not impressed by the dead pan expression on the face of the goof, you will be impressed once again with the fact in the “Cat's Paw,” like in all other evi- dences of cultural decay in the floundering society of capitalism, there are distinct reverberations of the prevailing political atmosphere. With the world capitalist class pi- loting around for a forceful, mili- tary way out of the crisis, even Har- sor a that in the present crisis of waning box, receipts and considerably shriv- eled scope of ideas in Hollywood, United Artists will proceed to give us “The Return of Bulldog Drum- mond,” “The Son of Bulldog Drum- mond,” “The End of Bulldog Drum- mond,” ete. In the present film you will find, if you simply must go to the movies, Ronald, despite all these years, very youthful and agile. Of course he hasn’t got Clark Gable’s ears, but he makes a harmless, playful was- trel who wants to give up adven- turing and settle down to be a coun- try gentleman at ease with a pipe, a dog, a good book (any book), just busy raising hollyhocks. He does nothing of the sort, you well ima- gine even before he starts solving the mystery, burning a shipload of diseased and almost safely smug- gled furs. At the end he gets a start on what we have pointed out may be his next story by marrying Loretta Young, whom he saves sev- eral times along with her aunt and himself. The film is adroitly handled: there is no attempt to maintain the Mlusion of reality; the mystery is somewhat farcically developed and a bit more farcically solved. There is, however, the strong likelihood, that the melodrama was not inten- tionally farcical, re test IRPHAN DAY,” the Mickey ‘Mouse short, interested us a bit more than the feature, we must confess, Although we have not been exactly a close observer of the re- cent developments in our revolu- tionary dance movement, we have a notion that Walt Disney has chosen the New Dance Group (or maybe it’s only one or more of the Red Dancers) for the subject of a vicious satire in what looked like a rural dance. But far more impor- tant is the fact that the little or- phans in this animated cartoon have devised the most ingenious tactics for inflicting sharp criticism on stage or movie performers. The booing squads recommended by Ed. Rolfe last week are mild compared to the indignant behavior of the audience that attends Mickey Mouse’s little show put on for or- phans. We recommend this comedy as @ manual for the movie and the- atre audience. What’s Doing in the Workers ' Schools of the U. S. New York Workers School to Open Largest Program in History of the School. The Workers School is now ready to begin \ogistration for the fall term. The coming school year, which is the 12th year of the Work- ers School, will oven with the larg- est program in the history of the school. The announcement of the courses is now ready and the print- ed catalogue can be obtained at the office of the Workers School, 35 E. 12th St., third floor. Not only has the program been increased by the addition of a num- ber of courses, but an improvement has been made in the courses given heretofore also. In addition to the three term course in Political Econ- omy as given last year, the school is introducing a course in the Ele- ments of Political Economy, which will give beginners an opportunity to study and acquaint themselves with the most important phases of Political Economy with relation to the present day problems. This course will take up the study of the following main themes: Production of Surplus Value; Wages and Ac- cumulation of Capital; Theory of Crisis; Imperialism; General Crisis of Capitalism. Parallel with all these subjects. the study of the Soviet economy will be made. This will be conducted in such a manner as to enable the beginner to grasp the important principles involved, and will enable those who want to make a thor- ough study of Political Economy to continue with the full three term course. The course in Marxism-Leninism, has now been arranged on the ba- sis of three terms. It will be known as Marxism-Leninism, Parts I, II and III. Due to this arrangement it will be possible to go into the various problems of Marxism- Leninism in a more thorough man- ner, and the study of the above problems will be linked up with the immediate tasks and policies of the Communist movement'in the United States. In addition to the many courses that were given last year the fol- Jowing new courses are being added this term: History and Role of the Soviets in China, Elements of Po- Jitical Economy, History of Econom- ic Theories, Decline of American Capitalism, Speech Construction, Shop Paper and Leaflet Prepara- tion, History of Science and Tech- nology. Origin of Man and Civiliza- tion, Social and Political Gcogra- phy, Problems of Socialist Construc- tion in the U.S.S.R.. Revolutionary Interpretation of Modern Litera- ture, as well as special short term courses to be conducted by out- standing leaders in the revolution- ary movement and special courses for workers’ organizations, such as the International Workers Order and the Associated Workers Clubs. Registration starts Tuesday, Sep- tember 4. We advise applicants to register early as the classes fill up very quickly. . * The Workers School dedicates this 12th year of its work to the great revolutionary leader of the German_ proletariat, to Comrade Ernst Thaelmann. The Workers School pledges to carry on an un- tiring struggle for the liberation of Comrade Thaelmann and all other class-war prisoners. Cae erat: The Harlem Workers School calls attention to a new course on Colo- nial Problems and to one in Marx- ism-Leninism, taught by A. Mar- koff. Students are urged to register early. Registration begins Sept. 4, The office will be open from 3 to 10 p.m. eae aT Registration at the Brownsville Workers School has already begun. Workers, students, professionals and other sympathizers of Brownsville should register immediately because classes fill up rapidly. 4: gus. ce Los Angeles Workers School Completes Successful Summer Term In spite of the fascist terror, the Los Angeles Workers School has had a most successful summer term. Two hundred and thirty-two stu- dents enrolled, the majority of whom are workers from basic and light industries. The most popu- lar classes, judging by their great attendance, were: Party Organiza- tion; Political Economy A and B; State and Revolution; Fundamen- tals of Communism; Development of Trade Unionism in the United States and the Political Develop- ment of the American Working Class. The attendance has held up well, the terror of the Vigilantes notwithstanding. The school is making preparations for the Fall Term. Registration will begin soon. Watch for further notices. Sa ERS The Aim of the Friends of the Workers School The Friends of the Workers School is an organization consisting of students, former students and sympathizers of the Workers School, whose purpose is to upbuild the Workers School and help to spread working class education. The Friends of the Workers School en- lists the support of all veonle who can heln in these important activi- ties: (1) To popularize the Waxkers gantic protest movement waged by; the International Labor Defense and supported by the Communist Party. | Unable to dampen the indigna- | tion aroused by the case and the enthusiastic support it has evoked, Schuyler now thrusts his poisonous fangs into the young working class hero, Angelo Herndon, who by his heroic defiance of the southern lynchers has captured the hearts | and minds of millions of Negro and | white workers. In_his column, appearing on Aug. 25, Schuyler, after a scurrilous at- tack on the Communist Party, re- plete with distortions and outright lies, makes the following statement: “Herndon is out on bail, and will probably skip it, like all the rest. This cowardly insult was in- stantly challenged by Angelo Hern- don, who has written to Schuyler demanding a public retraction. Herndon’s letter follows in full: “Mr. George Schuyler: “During the 26 months T spent in | Fulton Tower prison. in Georgia, I followed—as regularly as my tor- mentors would allow—the Negro press. Week by week, reading the Pittsburgh Courier, I was amazed and angered by the viciousness of your attacks upon the working class, both Negro and white, and espe- cially by your attacks upon the} militant section of that class. What Scottsboro Means | “I had taken active part in the; Scottsboro fight, and I knew what that fight means to the Negro peo- ple and the working class. I knew that when the International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights took up the fight for these boys, every Negro worker and sharecropper, esvecially in the South, breathed easier and held his head higher. I was particularly an- gered by your repeated attempts to knife the Scottsboro boys in the back. You sneered at the people who massed to save those boys; you did everything you could to dis- courage the fight; you gloated over the repeated death-sentences. “Today I picked up a copy of your paper, and found that just as you have repeatedly knifed the Scotts- boro boys, so you have attempted to knife me also. “After thousands of workers and sympathizers have labored, sacri- ficed and actually suffered to get together the $15,000 that the Geor- gia lynchers demanded for my bail, you announce to the world at large that ‘Herndon is out on bail. and will probably skip it like all the rest.’ You make this statement without one iota of evidence to sup- port it. You have never spoken to me, or written to me. You can know nothing of my feelings or inten- tions. Yet you dare to tell. the world that I intend to betray the struggle, that I will play the Negro people and the working class false. You say this knowing that the peo- Ple who contributed to my bail did so feeling that I would not desert the struggle. “You know very well that without the continued support—financial, organizational, political — of the Negro people and the working class, my case cannot be fought further, and I will inevitably fall into the clutches of the Georgia lynch-rul- ers. I am facing a sentence of 18 to 20 years on the chain-gang—a sentence equivalent to death—and my only hove is in the masses. And you, stabbing me in the back in this crucial moment of my fight, at- tempt to destroy the confidence that the people have in me. This is an action worthy of a police agent. Good Standing with White Rulers “Mr. Schuylet, you have already won your spurs with the lynch- rulers of Alabama. Your latest at- tack on the Scottsboro defense, first printed in the Spectator, has been reprinted with hearty anproval by the Jackson County Sentinel, home- town paper of the Scottsboro lynch- ers, the same paper which whipped up lynch-spirit against these nine bovs when they were first arrested. “Your attack upon me should ex- ; tend your reputation as ally of the School among the masses of work- ers, farmers, students and profes- sionals and to increass the member- ship of the Workers School. (2) To establish closer relations between the workers’ organizations and the Workers School. (3) To secure fi- nancial and other suport for the Workers School and tn establish Scholarship funds. (4) To assist in establishing hrsnches of the Wo-'s- ers School. (5) To build up the Ru- thenberz Library of the Workers School, (6) To establish branches of the Friends of the Workers Schocl wherever possible. In order to fulfill these sims, every worker, student and intellec- tual and all friends of the Workers Schools are urged to join this or- Ranization and participate actively to help the growth of the only Workers School where the theories of Marx. Engels, Lenin and Stalin are taught. The importance of tho- cretical training has been pointed out by Comrade Lenin. who said: “Without revolutionary theory thers can be no revolutionary practice.” The new headquarters of the Friends of the Workers School are located at 116 University Pl., New York Cit lynchers. The white ruling-class of Georgia will take you to its heart, just as the ‘white ruling class of Alabama has already done. “You pretend to represent Negro people. You have high + tion. You have an important place one one of the largest of the Negro newspapers. You are a_ leading member of the National Associa- tion for the Advancement ef Co!- ored People. And each time that the Negroes move to better them- selves, to organize in order to gain their rights, you appear on the scene to make your barbed attacks, to sneer at their efforts, to dis- courage them whenever possible. “Mr. Schuyler, you have in any case one gift: the gift of consis- tency. You have never missed your opportunity to b: y the struggles of the Negro people. the “Today you make another attack upon the unity of the Negro and white workers. You say that the Ku Klux Klan elements are the ‘prole- tarian majority.’ To me the unity of the Negro people and of the white workers is a living reality. I have seen this unity in action, and know that without it both the Negro peo- ple and the white workers are head- ing for a blind alley. You have never missed a chance to try to smash that unity. “You have said repeatedly—and you say again in your column to- day—that for the Negro people to \ peers Comrades: get any letters from the I. L. D., he got our letters. I also talk to Norri them fixing the paj Norris to feel like he was alone. and told you write to him, make sure I don't talk secret, “tal for no secret. course I could not tell him what Herndon. He said he had read he get out and help protect too. member who I was. He told him mother. It looked like he “was kiss, then Haywood told me in fr and he knew that you all write to Si EAR Comrades: I am writing for mother. but not able to sit up. Besides workers, by sticking together wha’ I hope Comrade Patterson is Give all the other comrades time. So I will close— Unity of Negro and White Toilers | Scottsboro Mothers Write To LL.D. Expressing Joy at Angelo Herndon’s Release I got home today at 11:05 from Montgomery. Haywood was looking good, but he said he was not treated good, he said he did not to send them to Washington. Haywood seid he does not get your letters, but he xnows that | The warden toid me I could go in there and talk to my boy but there can hear every word you say.” I told him that I was not there I was there to see my boy and talk with him. The warden took me up there, he asked Haywood could he re- locked the door, told him to come on out and hug and kiss your | hospital and has had to have a doctor. is to hear that Comrade Herndon is out on bail. Angelo Herndon greeting 15,000 cheering workers gathered to wel- come him on August 22, in the Bronx Coliseum, | y ‘radical’ movement is to |commit mass suicide. I have worked | }as an organizer among the Negro | people, and I can tell you that the jonly way in which we can keep from committing mass suicide today is to organize and struggle. The |N.R.A. and the cotton-reduction |program are tearing our people out | of the very fabric of economic life. Destruction stares us in the face. If We make no resistance, as you ad- vise, then we are truly following a Policy cf su: “You have consistently supported every measure of the white ruling- class against the Negro people. your mouthpiece, the ’ you have sung hymns of praise to the N.R.A. and the ‘new deal.’ There is not a Negro in the | United States that does not know that the ‘new deal’ takes bread from our mouths, throws us out of jobs, is an actual death-warrant against us. But you, George Schuy- ler, praise the N.R.A. You kiss the hand that is squeezing the life out of the Negro people. The Slogan of Self-Determination “You attack the slogan put for- ward by the League of Struggle for Negro Rights and the Communist Party—the slogan that no other or- ganization of Negroes has dared to raise —self-determination for the Black Belt. What does this slogan mean? By it we proclaim that the |land which the Negro people- have tilled must belong to them, and 1928 Cedar St., Chattanooga, August 17, 1934, they won’t give them to him, but them all about Herndon and about | I did not want | k loud so that the other man right ot I wanted to tell him, because the | warden wanted to hear every word, but I did tell him about Angelo | about it and was very glad when | | of San Francisco in connection with | : “Yes this is my mother.” | He un- very glad to see me, he hug and ‘ont of the warden that he was not freated good, for him not be guilty and he also said in the presence | of the warden that he did not get no letters from nobody but me | him, and the warden drop his head. incerely, JANIE PATTERSON, . . Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 17, 1934, She is sick in bed. She is been in | She is a little better now, she wants to express how glad she That shows that it they can do. up again. my regards. I'll write more next MAMIE WILLIAMS, 2202 Read Ave. 7:00 P.M.-WEAF—Beseball Resum> WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Stamp Ciub—Capt. Tim Healy WABC—Beale Street Boys, Songs 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Siketch WOR—Comedy; Music Ws7%—Jeck Parker, Tenor WABC—Wayside Cottage—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Darny Malono, Tenor WOR—Talk—tarry Hershfield WJZ—Housing and Slum Clearance— E. J. Bohn, Pres. National Assn. ot Housing Officials; Sir Raymond ‘Unwin, British Housing Ofcial WABC—Biljo Orch. 1:45-WEAF—Sitsers of the Skillet WOR—The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Frank Buck's Adventures WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orch.; Phil Duey, Baritone WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—King Orch. WABC—Concert_ 0: Tenor; Muriel V 8:30-WEAT—Weyne Kinz Orch. WOR—Van Duzer 0: WiJz—Dear Old Ditby—Sketch WABC—Lymen Orch; Vivienne Se- gal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Treasury Finances—Henr: Morgenthau Jr., Sec, of Treasury WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—Edgar Guest, Poet: Concert Orch.; Charles Sears, Tenor i Frank Munn, Soprano TUNING IN WABC—Same as WEAF 9:15-WEAF—Russian Symphonie Choir WABC—Treepers Band 9:30-WEAFP—Drametic Sketch WOR—To Be Announced WdZ—Symphony Orch.; Isidor Philipp. Piano WABC—Himber Orch. 9:45-WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin 10:09-WEAF—Opercita—The White Eagle, With Gladys Swerthout, Soprano, John Barclay, and Others WABC—George Givot, Comedian; Rich Oreh.; Edith Murray, Sones 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—Lane Orch. WJZ—Right Hon. Lord Tomlin, Brit- ish Legal Expert, Speaking at American Bar Assn. Meeting, Mil- waukee WABC—Melodie Strings 11:00-WEAF—Wireless Amateurs—Sketch WCR—Whitemen Oreh. WJZ—Orlando Ore! WABS—To Ee An’ 11:15-\WEAP—Berrer Orc WdZ—Robert Rovee, Tenor WABC—Jcnes Orch. 11:30-WEAF—Hof Orch. WOR Dantzig Orch. Wwiz—Vall ch. 11:45-WABC- amen Oreh. “It happens that I have been sen- tenced to the chain-gang largely because I dared to raise the slogan of self-determination. fy prose- cutors, in their appeals that I be sent to the death-chair, reverted again and again to the slogan of self-determination. If this slozan can arouse so much hatred among | the white rulers, then it deed be a slogan of great benefit to the Negro people. I ask no higher tribute to myself than that the white rulers shall hate me. When they hate me, knowing that I am dangerous to them, then I know that I am on the right track When a demand or slogan arouses fear and anger in the hearts of the lynchers, then I know that that slo- gan is a correct one. “On every question, without ex- ception, the worst enemies of the Negro people will find you on their ide. There is a march of Negro and ite workers to demand that the starving be fed; while the govern- ment and its police bring out their machine-guns and their tear gas, you bring forth your verbal poison and attack the marchers in your most vicious language. “Who Is the Uncle Tom?” “You, who have never known a sincere moment, call the Negro leaders of our movement ‘Uncle Toms.’ You cannot conceive that men like Otto Huiswoud, William Patterson and James W. Ford, whom you single out for special must in- | mention, can be sincere in their de- votion to our movement. “Who is the Uncle Tom? It is you, George Schuyler, belittling the program of struggle, advising sub- Get ahold of a gal an’ an’ do snoozin’? like them other y seem to ve stuck these dames around here, compiained. up, IST then he noticed a girl who had. sat down opposite him. She | was sure pretty, he thought. Her face milky white, her hair black and combed back, that’s the girl he'd like to know. He stared at her. DANIEL HORWITZ | Her black eyes met him half way. | He got up, circled around the room |then stopped near her. Hesitatingly, he asked her to} |dance. She said that she was tired, | | but when she took a good look at/| |him she got up and put her arm} jon his shoulder. They turned into the thickness of the crowd. | Cliff couldn’t dance and stepped | on her feet. She would have left} him on the floor, but she liked to Clift |” had just shouldered out from the back of the mountains and hung in the da blue sky. They talked the party “It sure was a swell blowout,” Cliff said. u said it, boy.” “But it wouldn't have been so swell without you, Edna.” She smiled, Cliff began to tell her how beautiful she was. Edna felt flattered. They stopped and kisssd. They came to her house and sat down on the porch. Cuddled toe | gether, they sat bubbling over, feel- the birth of love. Somebody onened the door. It was her father. Edna said that she ought to go in. She made a move, but still clung in his arms. They arranged again to meet. Parting with a long kiss, Edna ran inside and Cliff walked to the boarding house. He wondering if she had really kissed him. He touched his lips with his fingers. “Yes, she sure did.” he said to himssif.. He smiled happily. “Say, how can a guy get to Bank Street?” he asked a man when he bumped into him. “This town ain't big enough for a feller to get lost. It’s right around the corner,” the man said. “Hell, if I ain't been around this spot half a dozen times.” “You had a bit too much, I guess.” “You said it. Never had that much before,” Cliff laughed, de- liriously. “So long.” a ee RS. PORSON was up already, filling the pots, when Cliff sank into sleep. A painful nightmare woke him up. He dreamed of having a fight with the man who directed him ordination and submission in the | have him hold her in his arms. He|home. And a mob chased after him face of attacks by the white rulers, knifing in the back the fight to free the Scottsboro boys and my- self. “While I lay in jail, did you move a finger to help me? Did you ever write a line to speed the collection of my bail? Did the organization to which you belong, and in which you have influence—the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—contribute one pen- ny to my release? No! But now that the masses have taken me cut o? the Georgia hell, you come for- ward to say: ‘Angelo Herndon is out on bail, and will probably skip it like all the rest.’ “I will not skio the bail which the Negro and white workers have so self-sacrificingly collected for me. I will not desert the struggle. “I demand that you make a pub- lic retraction of your statement | concerning me. “ANGELO HERNDON.” Destruction of Book Shops in California Proiested by Authors NEW YORK.—The following let- ter has been sent to Governor Mer- riam of California and Mayor Ro: the recent illegal destruction of workers’ bookshops and lending libraries: Dear Sir: The cultured people of the United States grected with dis- gust the “burning of the books” by the Hitler government in Ger- many last yoar. It was charac- terized as a crime against civi- lization, We, the undersigned, authors been available at the Workers’ Booskhops and lending libraries of little choice between the reac- | tionary campaign of the German Nazis against cultural freedom and the officially encouraged sup- pression of the bookshops belong- not only of San Francisco but of the whole State of California. We protest emphatically against the illegal destruction by law- breaking bands unmolested by the police, of these booksnops, their equipment and the whole libraries contained therein. We urge you to repudiate, in an official statement, this assault on freedom of expression in litera- ture, and to take vigorous ateps to repair the damage and prevent further outrages of the sort. Allen, Jain, Cowley, Dahlberg, Robert James T. Farvell, Waldo Frank Lamont, John Howard Lawson. Scott, Nearing, Samuel Ornitz, Walter W. Pelakov, Paul Peters, Jr., Isidor Schneider, Seldes, A. Trachtenbezg, Mary Heaton Vorse, John Wexley, Walter Wilson. (Pascal Covici, Robert Rau, seph A. Margolies and Don: 12:00-WMCA—Dence Music {Also WEAF, WOR, WJZ, WABCO, WEVD) ters of their own.) whose books and pamphlets have | San Francisco County, Calif., see | ing to the workingmen and women | (Signed) Louis Adamic, James S. Arnold B. Armstrong, Earl Browde:, John Chamber- Jack Conroy, Malcolm Dale Curran, Edward W. Dunn, Josephine Herbst, Granville Hicks, Grace Hutchins, Corliss Anna Rochester, William Rollins George Jo- | a | publishers sent p°otesting let- was a good looking chap, fairly tall} and lean and his white teeth flashed | lat her pleasantly. | They rocked slowly, softly. | music cooed, wailing, yodeling cow- | |boy songs mixed with jazz, driving | |the hilarious youngsters into an| | eager, passionate mood, Cliff pressed | | the girl tight. It seemed that their | bodies melted together as they| swayed and shuffled to the banjo| |and the barbaric beauty of an old} drum. They danced till their legs | couldn’t move any more. “Gee that was great,” she said, wiping the perspiration off her face. | “It sure was,” Cliff smiled. | “Say, what's your name, boy?” “My name is Cliff, Cliff Mulligan. And what's yours, girlie?” | “My name is Edna “That's a fine nar “You like it?” She smiled.. | “Sure do.” “Gee, I got an awful headache,” | she said. They sat down, She threw her head up. Cliff put his arm around jher waist. “Gosh, she’s beautiful, but no rough stuff,” he said to him- self. Yet his body was moving | closer to hers. He put his other arm jaround her. He put his lips to her | cheeks and kissed her. “Oh you,” she smiled, “you're too | fast about it.” He withdrew. She looked into| | his passionate blue eyes, They were! and he climbed on a pole and the pole began to shake and he was about to fall down. “Gee, I feel lousy.” he said to himself, when the landlady was waking him up for breakfast. He got up with a splitting headache and felt a pain in the pit of the stomach. “Must be the rotten booze,” he thought. He lay in bed groaning the entire day. “How was the blowout?” Lentz greeted him, in the morning. “It sure was a swell blowout,” Cliff said, “but the booze was rot- ten. I was sick as a dog.” “Yep, the stuff we had was bad. IT was sick, too. I know a guy who kicked the bucket from this stuff, it just burned the guts outa him. But what the hell, a feller is got to have some fun once a week, or you can go nuts. But what about them gals that were around? They were peaches, weren't they? An’ you sure picked on a swell lookin’ dame, Cliff. Dunno how she ever turned up to this blow out. She used to hang out with a guy that used to spend plenty of dough on her. I guess she is a stuck up kid. But what the hell, you might make her. You're a handsome lookin’ guy.” “Oh, stop throwin’ the bull, Lentz,” Cliff smiled, feeling proud, however, at having made friends with a good looking girl like Edna, (To Be Continued) “Errant Lady” Coming to | | Fulton Theatre, Sept. 17) “Errant Lady,” a new comedy by} Nat N. Dorfman, will be presented | by Harry Albert at the Fulton The- \atre, Sept. 17. Principals in the cast | include Leona Powers, Dodson Mit- |chell, Donald Foster and Edward | | Racquello. | Charles “Chic” Sale, well-known | stage and screen comedian, will play |a leading role in “The Elephant} | Shepherd,” a comedy by Vernon Smith, which the Shuberts will pro- | duce. | Eva Le Gallienne, who has just returned from Europe, will start re- hearsals in September in “L’Aigion,” | jby Clemence Dane, the first pro-/| duction of her season. | A wide interest is being shown in the forthcoming engagement of the | D’Oyly Carte Opera Company from | the Savoy Theatre, London, who’ STAGE AND SCREEN will present a brief season of Gil- bert and Sullivan operettas at the Martin Beck Theatre, beginning Sept. 3 with “The Gondoli:rs.” The complete English company and its ensemble will be seen here. Six Artists’ Recitals For Workers and Students The People’s Symphony Concerts announce a series of six artists’ re- citals for workers, students, teach- ers and artists at the Washington Irving High School. The series in- cludes: Oct. 28—Felix Salmond; Cellist; Nov. 23—Harold Samuel, Pianist; Dec. 22—Mischa Levitzki, Pianist; January 26—Toscha Seidel, Violinist; Feb. 23—Mieczyslaw Munz, Pianist; and March 17—Ernest Hut- cheson, Pianist. Subscriptions to the above six concerts are $1, and can be secured at the office of the People’s Symphony Concerts, WHAT'S ON Tuesday Tae | OPZN HOUS NIGHTLY! Chess, check- | rs, ping-pong. other games and music. Friendly discussions and what friends of the Workers School, 118 Uni- | versity Place, corner 13th St., two flights up. Open at 6 P.M. Wednesday +| NEW THEATRE and FILM & PHOTO LEAGUE presents “Ivan.” New School, 66 W. 12th St. Showings at 7 and 9:30 P.M. 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