The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 4, 1934, Page 5

[i ———————————————————— ‘CHANGE —— THE—- || WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN —___ READER takes exception to my recent column on Upton Sinclair. What is more, I am accused of “un- consciously slurring the California workers” when I ob- served that “large numbers of workers, ruined members of the middle class and small businessmen evidently sup- ported Sinclair on the naive theory that any change is Preferable to the status quo.” The writer of the letter of complaint, S. L. Schuster goes on to Say “What you say of Upton Sinclair is certainly correct. He is either an unbelievable ass or else he has let himself in for the most consummate demagogy in order to catch the main chance by the Sjeeve before senility and death whisper ‘Finis,’ and in either case e*has capitalized on his extraordinary talent for self-dramatization. ‘Owever, to say that thousands of workers and other oppressed gave him their vote merely because he was something different in politics, is . . . to underestimate the startling political significance of his ¢ nomination. f “And as for the vote for Sinclair, for me at least it was an | occasion for joy of a sort. Not that Sinclair is not as much a snare J and a delusion for the workers as any German social-democratic mis- leader, if not worse. But it did show that the workers of California were angry, steaming angry about the rising wave of Fascism in their state. Otherwise, Gallagher could not have polled 180,000. votes as he did, and the Communist candidates many thousands. It showed, moreover, that the workers were beginning to look at the programs of the different candidates. Of course, the workers hesitate about accepting a program of revolutionary Communism for a period and for a while are prone to follow the ‘lesser evil,’ as you said. But the vote in itself remains a startling indication that the American workers are at last on the move politically as well as ecomomically and indicates where part of our task as Communists lies. “In general, your column is a crackerjack, beating anything in town.” Illusions About Sinclair letter that I have quoted is important, I believe, because it reflects the type of illusion that undoubtedly prevails in the minds of many regarding Upton Sinclair's candidacy. “And as for the vote for Sinclair,” writes Comrade Schuster, “for me at least it was an occasion for joy of a sort.” How this vote can be “an occasion for joy of a sort” when the writer goes on to say—“not that Sinclair is not as much a snare and a delusion. for the workers as any German social-democratic misleader, if not worse”—it is difficult to understand. Certainly, the large vote for Sinclair revealed the fact that thousands of California workers were showing their intense bitter- ness against the fascist terror surrounding the General Strike. But this does not mean that it is a step which will aid the workers in their fight against the California capitalist class. On the contrary. Mr. Ernest K. Lindley, a staff correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, writing from President Roosevelt's Hyde Park home the other day, told about the advice that the president was getting from prominent California Democrats regarding Upton Sinclair. “The tenor of this advice,” said Lindley, “was that Mr. Sinclair should be surrounded with practical New Dealers who could keep him from going too far and too fast. It was pointed out that he was bringing into the Democratic Party a great many thousands of votes which otherwise would go to a more radical candidate outside of both major parties.” Just who are these candidates outside of both major parties? The Herald Tribune correspondent goes on to say that “according to this analysis of the “California political situation which was cir- culated several days ago among important members of the Admin- istration, Mr. Sinclair is a powerful deterrent to the breaking away of large blocs of votes, especially among thé unemployed, into the arms of Communism.” * * Is It Realiy “An Occasion For Joy?” Cae SCHUSTER, is it possible for you to consider the vote for Sinclair “an occasion for joy of a sort’\ in the light of the statement that “Mr. Sinclair is a powerful deterrent to the breaking away of large blocs of votes, especially among the unemployed, into the arms of Communism?” The Herald Tribune correspondent provides additional insight into the Sinclair situation. “The argument presented’ in this analysis [by the California politicians—Ed.] was that nobody more conserva- tive than Mr. Sinclair could prevent many thousands of workers and unemployed from moying much farther to the left and seeking their objectives by direct action under Communist leadership rather than by Democratic progress.” * ) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934 Textile Strike Rises Against Misery Of the Squalid, Company Mill Towns | Wages in Old Citadel | of Wage Slavery By MILTON HOWARD | rebellion against as terrible a wretchedness and exploitation to be found anywhere in the hellholes |of capitalism, 1,000,000 textile work- | ers, the greatest labor army in his- |tory, are now marching forth in a national strike. Textiles have been an old fortress of capitalist plunder and working class misery. It is now almost a century since the then young Fred- erick Engels, co-worker of Karl Marx, showed the world in his clas- sic “Condition of the English Work- | ing Class” what a weight of misery and degradation English capitalism | was placing upon the men, women eTextiles is still a fortress of piti- less capitalist plunder. Roosevelt, jthat past master of trickery and \false promises,. fixed his N. R. A | codes first upon the textile workers At last, he promised them, their burdens would be lifted. But the past 18 months have | been hell for the 1,000,000 or more and Roosevelt bears the responsi- bility. . average weekly wage is not more than $8 a week. The codes were to have fixed weekly minimums of $12-$14. But the minimums have become the maximums. No family can live on this wage. No person can buy sufficient food and shelter with this wage to keep body and soul together. Roosevelt's N.R.A. code “shortened hours” to an eight-hour work day. But the work load was raised ac- jcordingly and every textile worker now has to produce in eight hours what he used to do in 12 hours. The stretch-out is murderous. The workers have to fake their time cards to keep their jobs, maintain their “work ‘schedule” and at the same time obey Roosevelt's. benign N.R.A, code. | ‘We have been warned from the must produce a heavier work load in eight hours,” a textile worker states. “Since we cannot do it in the eight hours no matter how furiowly we drive ourselves, we ‘have to work five to twenty addi- tional hours every week without any pay, and these extra hours we John Reed Club Will Present Art Works to Biro-Bidjan Museum and children who stood before the | looms in Manchester and Liverpool. | textile workers who spin the looms, | } Page Five : |Killing Speed, Meagre | ANN BURLAK | Leader of the National Textile | Workers Union, which is propos- ing unity in the textile strike with the United Textile Workers and | the rank and file. are not allowed to register on our | time cards in order to keep the | records straight for the N.R.A.” In 1932 ten workers did the work} now required of only four—almost | a tripling of the production load| per worker. The distances traversed by every worker rushing madly| ‘from loom to loom grow all the |time. Every ounce of strength, }every drop of blood is drained to feed the whirring spools at the cheapest cost to the mill owners, . HEY start young in the textile towns. And they can never escape. “Once a mill worker, always a mill worker” is a common saying in the textile shacks. Boys and girls in working class‘femilies in the tex- | | tile towns reached the mills before | |the age of 17, Many get there at | 12 and 14. | The codes were to have abolished | child labor. Where it was profit-} |able to get rid of the kids whose} young bodies could not feed the | mercilessly whirring looms fast | enough, the bosses made a virtue of again—at the same wage, most of | |the time, or maybe at a slight in-) |crease nullified by a tremendous | increase in the hated stretch-ont. | REGISTRATION FOR FALL | |SCHOOL OPENS TODAY) E last week’s column we announced | some of the new courses added At | to the Pall term of the schocl. this time we address ourselves pri- | marily to the members of the Com- munist Party, Young Commur League, trade-unions and mass or- ganizations. The recent struggles in San Francisco, Toledo, Minnea- polis, the present strike of the tex-| tile workers and many other im-| portant struggles of the workers in the United States demonstrates con- clusively that the revolutionary movement in the United States has | |now entered a higher stage in its | The mills specialize in exploiting women. They spend their whole lives in the mills. They marry and bear children. But they are forced. in the end, to go back. The earnings of a whole family are needed to buy bread and pork and pay the rent. lling pressure of need idbirth a quick incident between running the never-ending looms. It is common practice in mill towns for women to work until two or three weeks before child birth, then to return five or six weeks later. They cannot afford to Stay away longer. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, | there is a textile worker, Julia Han- lon who started at the age of 7 and has given 64 years of her life to one textile factory. The N.R.A of the refined cruelty of the “effi- ciency expert.” These experts, trained in bloodsucking for their profit masters, watch every move the workers make, If a worker takes a drink, goes to the toilet, waits for more ma- terial, etc., the time “Jost” is duly recorded and more work is loaded on him to make up for the “time leakage.” It requires iron nerves and a giant's trength to stand up under the killing speed of the stretchout for any length of time. Textile workers get less than they did two years ago, due to Roosevelt's N. R. A. code. Unem- ployment has grown enormously, thanks to the N. R. A. stretch-out. Under capitalism a job is all the difference between life and death. He who owns your job owns you. So the textile workers are now being tricked into buying their jobs. The | employers are profiting from the oversupply of wage slaves. Every N. R. A. inspector knows of this practice whereby textile workers are forced to pay the mills from $25 to $150 for a job, paying it off in work. There is the “scientific” robbery of fines. Workers are “docked” for countless reasons. This robbery goes on all the time. Nobody stops it because it is all perfectly “legal.” It eats like a huge rat into the scanty bread supply of textile fam- time the code took effect that we | necessity and hired the “older folks’’| jjjes, The “mill hands” are marching against their Wall Street masters. The “mill hands,” despised of the What's Doing in the Workers Schools of the U. S. increase in the number of classes and the number of courses, the | TERM AT N. Y.. WORKERS |School expects to have a regisira- | tion of 3,000 or more this term. We hope that our comrades and sympa- thizers will help the school by pop- ularizing it among their friends and shop-mates. . * EGISTRATION also opens at the Harlem Workers’ School where a number of important courses are given. We urge the comrades in Harlem, Yorkville and near-by ter- ritories to utilize the school for the purpose of training their members. The School is located at 415 Lenox | Avenue, corner 131st Street, eal STAGE AND SCREEN York City. reo 7 ‘HE Brownsville Workers’ School at 1855 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, has introduced more N. R. A. Has Intensified the Crushing Poverty of the Workers There are 19 different ities among the tex with French Canadia: Polish and Hungari the major e tex From Maine through to N Hampshire and New England to the shack towns of Alabama the spiri of Gastonia, of Passaic and Pat son rises once again. A million men, women and chil- dren from the squalor of the com- pany towns and the tenement are fighting for bread, for better for an end to the exploiting y that coins their lives into profit for the mill owners. Head: Will s peak Tn Nationwide Tour For Defense Struggle | was NEW YORK. The first of a Series of meetings to be addressed by Angelo Herndon, Mrs. Ida Nor- jtis, mother of Clarence Norrs, and Richard Bi Moore, national field organizer of the International Labor Defense, in a tour which will |take them as far west as Nebraska, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 8, in Boston, Mass., it was announced here yesterday. The Boston meeting will be held at Dudley Opera House, 113 Dudley | t. | | The tour, under the joint aus- | pices of the I. L. D. and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, will | be a mobilization for the mass fight | | to free the Scottsboro boys and| | Herndon, whose cases come up for re-hearings in the Alabama and Georgia Supreme Courts this fall, jand for raising the $15,000 fund |mecessary to carry these appeals. The second meeting of this tour wlil be held in Syracuse, to be fol- {lowed by meetings in Rochester, | Buffalo, Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, | Detroit, Chicago, Gary, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, Mo. and Kan- | sas City, Kans., St. Louis, indisn-| apolis, Cincinatti, Columbus, Akron, | Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Washing-| ton, Baltimore, Reading, Philadel- | \phia, Trenton and Norfolk, Va. | aes Paris Subway Workers |Unite To Win Demands PARIS, Aug. 31.— United trade | | union sections have been formed | |here at the Subway stations Porte | Champeret and Maillot. At the | Etoile and Dauphine stations simi- lar sections are being formed. Trade union unity is being realized among the Paris subway workers | on the basis of a program of de-/ mands including the 40-hour week | without reduction of wages. The | | united struggle is to be carried on for this program. New Soviet Film, Maxim| | Gorki’s “Mother,” Opens At Me Synopsis: Cliff Mulligan, 19- on his way east to look for a job. he finds work in a wire factory handsome daughter of a local with her. There is a lay-off an A union organizer, Max Harris, active in the organization. workers to a mecting. There is out.) xi. ARRIS followed H toppe cuts el led 1 uggestion of sen o demand that ied. no company will gran without a fight i prove to the men to be the spokesman. Weber tried to decline, but when he-saw that| there wefe a lot of volunteers, he accepted, too. | After the meeting Cliff and a committee got busy the men’s names as they were leav- | ing the hall. Somebody tapped him on the shoulder. It was Pon. Cliff! | hadn't seen him for a couple of| months. The old man looked weary, | his eyes sunken. | “Never expected you to stay here. | I’m damn glad to see you turn out to lead us fellers,” said Pop, with a) broad smile on his face. When everybody was gone the! committee held a short meeting. GOING taking down | the EAST G Novel of year old unemployed worker, is In a small town on the way . At a dance he meets Edna, shop-keeper, amd falls in love d wsage cut at the wire works comes to town. Cliff becomes Leaffets are distributed caliing the a large and enthusiastic turn- excited realize ” He sudden: 1 Mr, von't get us ¥ company _ didn’t we had to but ent here tonight ;We can stop th | And not only thi fight, we'll make t company the speed-up and increase ou The men applauded. | one of th You speeded up, ¢ f < “ life out of us. e got to do two HEN he had finished a commit-|days’ work one t that tee of six was elected. Cliff was|cnough? An’ I don't see you fellers broke.” Another one supported him ou heard what we had to say, what is your answer?” said , you must consider things as are. You know that the co! pany could get men at price it's paying you now, “We want to know what to say about taking back the cut. “Well, we'll consider it,” Barnes said, biting off the end of his cigar. “But we want to know for how much we're working.” “So far things stand as they are,” Barnes replied, slowly. “In other words you won’t tell us yes or no?” asked Cliff. Here you have the peculiar service rendered by Upton Sinclair. Were not the German and Austrian Social-Democrats recommended in precisely the same way? The capitalist class is utilizing ¥, Y., has opened registration for| in| every means in order to combat the | ee ee, pulbaacatey ee eal militant struggles of the workers: |Zconomy, Marxism-Leninism, Trade Lucky Star Thea. Tomorrow) Harris told them not fall for any promises. “Just demand a clear-cut answer,” he said. Then the com-| “You aren’t a business man, young fellow. I just want to tell you that whatever the company is Begining Tuesday, September 4th, And Sinclair himself, in a statement issued immediately after nomination, boasted that “we have persuaded some 333,000 new persons | to join the Democratic Party in the year 1934, and more than 400,000 went to the polls yesterday and made our epic. candidates nominees of the Democratic Party.” The Real Leaders of the Workers rE astonishing that one. as politically conscious as you seem to be, Comrade Schuster, should fail to understand the sinister significance of the Sinclair movement. Far from viewing it as an “occasion for joy,” it is rather a portent of extreme danger. It is not necessary for the workers to pass through such “in- termediate stages” as the pernicious “lesser evil” process. The tragic experience of the workers of Germany and Austria should prove this. Although’ there is no doubt that thousands of workers sup- ported Sinclair because of their bitterness against the murderous ruling regime in California, the thing to remember is that the eco- nomic freedom which Sinclair promises is only a mirage. His success in correlling thousands of workers into the fold of the Democratic Party is, as even the Herald Tribune testifies, a means of weaning away support from the Communist Party which through its leadership of scores of struggles’ in California has eloquently dem- onstrated that it is the only leader and spokesmen of the workers and farmers of the state. There is no doubt that the large vote for Sinclair is indicative of the rebellious mood of the California workers. On the other hand, Sinclair and his associates in the Democratic Party have shown that they know how. to divert this resentment into safe channels. The Sinclair movement is calculated to neutralize the militancy of the California workers, and its our job—the job of the Communist Party— to expose ruthlessly this demagogy. % There is no doubt, too, that thousands of California workers and they were voting for a way out of the capitalist crisis. fraudulent “Epic Plan” is not a way out of the crisis, but rather a means of perpetuating the life of capitalism, of which the former Socialist has now become a servant. * * * “Comic” Propaganda by Naa ALLEN, radio comedian advertising Bristol-Myers Co. products, presented a venomous anti-Communist sketch on his last program,” writes Albert Pross. “In this ‘humorous’ brainchild of his, Mr. Allen is editor of a paper which carries a write-up of a city hall demonstration. A hoarse voice with a heavy Russian accent demands a retraction of the re- port that he was wearing a collar. It rasps out that Mr. Allen is a symbol, Arthur Brisbane’s dog, a capitalist tool. (How many a truth is spoken in jest!) The ‘comedian’ states, ‘You could use a shave.’ ‘The voice threatens to throw a bomb. Mr, Allen threatens to throw a bum—out of the office. ‘Get out, you dog!’ shouts Fred, Fred, the anti-Red. ‘Ouch! You're biting my leg!’ screams the hoarse .Rus- sian accent, as his receding voice signifies his exit. ‘Quick!’ shouts the victorious editor to his secretary, ‘Get out an extra with the head- line: “MAN BITES DOG"! “Thus Mr, Allen implies that a demonstrator is an uncouth, un- i shaven, bomb-throwing, Russian bum of a dog. The psychological effect, of this insidious suggestion is intangible and cannot be accur- ately calculated, but it is therefore all the more dangerous. Un- joubtedly, this bit of ‘funny’ mental poison contributed to building yma buttressing many a vicious prejudice. Mr. Fred Allen has proved himself faithful to his capitalist environment.” unemployed voted for Sinclair naively thinking that in this way But Sinclair's The John Reed Club in New York will represent to the Jewish Pio- works of art (paintings, etchings, sculpture, etc.) Reed Clubs throughout the country to participate in this collection. formed the Icor that only works of the highest standing will be ac- tion will be exhibited during the jubilee convention of the Icor which York on Dec. 28, 29, and 30, 1934. The exhibition will then be taken go to Biro-Bidjan. TUNING IN | WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. Tim Healy 1:18-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WABC—Wayside Cottage—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Summary, National. Men's est Hills, L. I. WOR—Talk—Harry ‘Hershfield politan County—Russell Sprague, Chairman, Boerd of Supervisors, WABC—Biljo Orchestra 7:35-WEAF—Danny Malone, Tenor WOR—Studio Music W5Z—Frarkk Buck's Adventures 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestra; Phil Duey, Baritone ‘WJZ—The Death Guard—Sketch WABC—Concert Orchestra; Frank prano 8:30-WEAF--Wayne King Orchestra WJZ—Symphony Orchestra WABC—Lyman Orchestra; Vivienne Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Trained Minds—J. F. T. neers in Biro-Bidjan a collection of The club issued a call to all John The John Reed Club has in- cepted and that the entire collec- is to be held in the city of New to Moscow and from there it will 1:00-WEAF—Baseball Resume ‘WABC—Jerry Cooper, Songs WJZ—Jack Parker, Tenor Singles Tennis Championships, For- ‘WJZ—Reconstruction in a Metro- Nassau County 7:45-WEAF—Sisters of the Skillet WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator WOR—Variety Musicale Munn, Tenor; Muriel Wilson, So- WOR—Dave Vine, Comedian Segal, Soprano; Aliver’ Smith, O'Connor, Controller of Currency, Addressing Graduates of Amer- ican Institute of Banking WOR—Dance Orchestra WJZ—Edgar Guest, Poet; Concert Orchsetra; Charles Sears, Tenor WABC—Fray and Bragiotti, Piano 15-WABC—Troopers Band 9:30-WEAF—An Old Man's Folly—Sketch WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin ‘WJZ—When Will a Woman Be Pres- ident?—Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt; Robison Orchestra 9:45-WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin 10:00-WEAF—Operetta—Count of Luzem- bourg, With Gladys Swarthout, So- prano; John Barclay, and Others WJZ—Silver Candlestick—Sketch WABC—George Givot, Comedian: Rich Orch.; Edith Murray, Songs 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—Lane Orchestra W3Z—Tim and Irene, Comedy WABC—Melodic firings 11:00-WEAF—Wireless Amateurs—Sketch WOR—Whiteman Orchestra WdZ—Sterney Orchestra WABC—Kavelin Orchestra 11:15-WEAF—Berger Orchestra WJZ—Robert Royce, Tenor WABC—Dailey Ozchestra 11:30-WEAF—Hoff Orchestra WOR—Danzig Orchestra WJZ—Vallee Orchestra WABC—Party Issues—Representative Robert Bacon of New York 11:45-WABC—Reichman Orchestra 12:00-WMCA—Dance Music (Also WEAF, WOR, WJZ, WABC, WEVD) WHAT’S ON TWO WORKERS arrested in raid on So- cial Youth Culture Club coming up before Special Sessions Court, Smith and Scher- merhorn Sts., Brooklyn, Tuesday, Sept. 4. ‘Workers urged to pack court, a the use of the armed forces of the government in San Francisco, To- | ledo, Minneapolis and other places, the action of the vigilantes in at-| tacking and destroying the trade | union headquarters, Party head- quarters, Workers School, etc., the attitude of the leaders of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor who came} out with a call for an attack on the Communists, within the unions, the | use’ of demagogy on the part of the Roosevelt N.R.A. administration, the actions of the leaders of the Social- | ist Party, and the renegades, Love- | stoneites and Trotskyites, which re- | | sulted already in the betrayal of the strugeles- of the. workers in Minne- apolis and other places. ~ All this makes it essential for every worker to have a clear. under- | standing of what is taking place. This can only be achieved on the basis of the teachings of Marx, En- gels, Lenin and Stalin. The Worke: School in its program for the Fall term has a number of courses which | will aid the workers in acquiring a/| clear political understanding of the | revolutionary movement and the} tasks confronting the working class | today. | The following, courses are espe- | cially important: Principles of Communism, Organization Prin-| ciples for Party and League mem- | bers, the class in Trade Union problems, the History of the Amer- ican Labor Movement, the class in Shop Paper and Leaflet Prepara- tion, and of special importance is the class in the problems of the Negro Liberation Movement. We urge members,of the Party and League, members of the trade unions and other mass organiza- tions, to study the problems of the Negro Liberation Movement in order to get a clear understanding of the importance of the unity of the Negro and white workers in the struggle against capitalism in the United States. We are unable to jenumerate all the courses given in the fell term in the School. Catalogues containing the de- | seriptions of the various courses at! the School may be obiained at the | | School office, Room 301, 36 E, 12th Street, da‘ly from 11 a.m. to 9 p. and Saturday from 10 a.m, to 4 Although the number of class jin. the various subjects have been |increased, in view of former experi- ences we urge everyone to register | early as classes fill up very) quickly. Last year in the fall term the school had a registration of close to 2,000 students. With the ) | development. Union Strategy, Negro Problems and other subjects will be given. CaaS WORCESTER WORKERS SCHOOL LANS for the establishment of a permament Workers’ School have been completed in Worcester, classes to be conducted in a new manner. The instructor will be the supervisor of the class, assigning topics to individual students who will prepare, organize, and lead the discussion r each class. This |method will insure the participa-| tion of the entire student body and, it is hoped, develop teachers and leaders among the workers. Classes will begin September 5th |}at the Workers’ Center, 3 Harrison | |St., Worcester. Students are urged to register early. cane EGISTRATION at the Cleve- land Workers’ Schoo}, 1524 Pros- pect Avenue, has already begun. Many new courses have been added for the fall term such as: National Question, Self-Defense in Court, Dramatics, Radio, Leaflet Making and a series of short-term sym- posiums, one dealing with Current Events, the other on Workers’ Health, * * Buffalo Workers’ School has | been definitely established. Reg- istration begins today at Labor Edu- cational Club, 760 Main Street. Courses in Principles of the Class Struggle, Political Economy, Union Strategy and Organization, Negro Problems, Elementary English, will be given. * WORKERS SCHOOL AT LOUISVILLE, KY. WORKERS SCHOOL in Louis- ville, Ky., has been organized and is now in its fifth week of ac- tivity. Thirty-five Negro and white * * workers, students and intellectuals | have enrolled in the School and at- tend classes regularly. The courses given are: Economics, Funda- mentals of Leninism and Negro Problems. A comrade was sent there by -the National Training} School Committee and together with the co-operation and hard work of the comrades from Louis- ville, the establisment of a Work- ers’ School has been made possible. We congratulate the comrades in Kentucky and trust that they will continue their good work and make it possible to establish Workers’ Schools throughout the state, mittee decided upon the demands: | 5th and 6th, the Lucky Star Thea-|1) To rescind the cut. 2) To put | tre, First Ave. and Fifth St. N. Y./ more men on. 3) To increase the | City, will present Maxim Gorki’s| wages 10 per cert for all the men |“Mother—1905”. The Soviet film,|in all the departments. | after many years of suppression by fait y at lunch time | the authorities, has “been finally |sne"ommittee, lumbered into. the | Passed by the censors, and without! omice, Mr. Barnes was closeted with any eliminations. ‘The ‘picture WS | the president discussing the situa- produced in the U.S.S.R. by Mejrab-| tion“ They knew about the meeting conn: F that had taken place the night be- “Mother—1905,” is screened from fore and that the men were getting | the famous novel of the same name | regqy to fight. Mr. McDermott was jand has a scenario by N. A. Zarkhi.| ror a strong policy; just fire the | V. I. Pudovkin, creator of “The End | jeagers and anyone that would re- of St. Petersburg,” “Storm Over) suse to accept the cut, but Mr | Asia,” ete., directed the production. Barnes suggested | maneuvering. | The cast is headed by Nickolai Bat-| «Perhaps the talk of a. strike will aloy, who played the collective lead-| plow over.” \er in “Road to Life,” Vera Baran- | esi and the directors ovskaia, noted artist of the Moscow mete bate Tees : Art Theatre. A Christiakov, and) “Rarmes came out of a side room Pudowkin, who has the role of 8! and greeted the committee smil- Toung omicsr: ingly. Cliff handed him the writ- |_In “Mother—-1905,” the director, | ten paper with the demands. Barnes Pudowkin, who does not approve} sianced at it. using of professional actors in his!” «what is your name, please?” he films, has gone to the people for his acked, ‘softly | actors. He has taken his types from! «qt's not a personal matter,” said) | the street, from the factory, and|cuiff. “We are giving you the de- from the offices, in order to make| mands presented by the commit- his people live the roles. He makes! tee, elected at a meeting of the | use of montage to gain the filmic men in the shop. We want you to | effects that the actors do not give|take back that cut and then w him. “Mother—1905,” is in sound | talk about the rest of the dem and accompanied by English titles. | “Listen, young #ellow, there AMUSE doing, is for the sake of the com- pany itself as well as for the men.” “O. K., let’s go,” said Cliff, cute ting Barnes short. aR HEY filed out into the street. Harris was waiting for them. Cliff told him what Barnes had an- swered to the demands. The or- ganizer said that he had expected that, but that there was nothing to. worry about. The committee would __ meet in the evening and make final _ preparations for the strike. The whistle blew. They went into the” gates. Cliff was a bit confused and dis- appointed. He had expected a clear-cut answer from the boss, and. a good one at that, so that he could have come to the meeting ready to, tell the men that he had argued it out with the company and won the rescinding of the cut. Now, Barnes~ had cheated him out of it. He thought that the director was @ darned shrewd fellow, who didn’t give a definite answer just to keep them on the string so that the men wouldn't know what to do. Cliff began to think that it might have’ been the wrong thing to go to the company. (To be continued) MENTS | | “SOVIETS GREET Preduced by the Leningrad Cinema Trust |] (A Soviet Talkie with h Titles! —RUDENNY—BOUBNOFF—THE. Sovil Music by the Leninzraa Phithormonic Orch. also MOSCOW DERBY DAY ACME THEATRE, iith St. & FIRST AMERICAN S! NEW TURKEY? | in Coop. n with the Turkish Govt.— nd HEA’ ROSHILOV—KARARKHAN STAMBOUL, SMYRNA, ANGORA, ete. | mposed by Zeki Bey and Shostakoviteh. in U.S.6.R.—Sovict Children Build ce Autos — Native Songs é& Dances, ete. Union Square—Always Cool FIRST TIME AT MAXIM GORKI'S Story of the = Historical Drama of “MOTHER” Sta | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, September 4th, 5th, 6th LUCKY STAR THEATRE Ist Avenue corner 5th Stree! 1c, 15e AND 20¢- Russian Revolution of “1905” f the Bloody Days cf Gzarism RADIO CITY N 50 St. & 6 Ave.—Shot ee of the Nation Doors Open 11:30 A.M. ANN HARDING in “THE FOUNTAIN” also “La Cucaracha” a melody drama in color and a merry pageant on the world’s largest stage SIC HALL 4) ANN HARDING Featured played in “The Fountain,” | a new RKO-Radio picture based on the Charles Morgan novel, now play- ing at the Radio City Music Hall. A GILBERT & © Dory carte quaeere | OPERA COMPANY from London OPERAS | This Wk. Mon. to Wed. 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