The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 6, 1934, Page 5

| ——THE— || WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN ARDEN J. B. HOLOHAN of San Quentin prison re- fuses to permit Tom Mooney to leave his cell for a few fours to attend the funeral of his mother. The warden Says there is “nothing in the law” which enables him to nt such permission. And so, while thousands of workers in San Francisco nor Mother Mooney at a mass funeral that promises to be one of the greatest in the city’s history, Tom Mooney will be pacing around the Corridors and cell blocks in San Quentin prison. eae eae | . Vengeance ‘and Fear EANCE and fear are the mainsprings for the warden’s action in tring Mooney from the fuaeral, Vengeance because those who put Tomif Mooney in prison for life hate him because he is an incorruptible la ' leader; fear because they dread the mass outpouring of workers e San Francisco streets who would join Mooney in the funeral stration. Warden Holohan says that there’s “nothing in the law” which Permits him to free Mooney for a few hours. But a child knows that the warden and those he serves are craven liars. More than once have Prisoners been granted permission to leave jails on similar occasions. But such rights are not reserved for a labor fighter like"Tom Mooney. I saw Tom Mooney in San Quentin in 1932, aNd at that time he told me that he was the only prisoner out of more than 4,000 who was discriminated against in the matter of visitors. Special permission from the warden had to be obtained to see Mooney; such barriers were not Placed in the way of the most hardened criminals in the penitentiary. Mother Mooney was the only person who was excepted from this brutal rule of the prison authorities. But while Tom Mooney was able to see his mother in life, he is not allowed to see her in death... . San Quentin prison is a great pile of buildings on the very edge of San Francisco Bay. First you take a ferry boat to Sausalito, and from there a train takes you to San Rafael, and then you go by bus to the outer gates of the prison. Filipino prisoners tend the gardens of the prison officials, and you get a totally false impression of life in the prison if you gaze too intently on those flowers and fail to see the guard with the rifle in the turret at the gate entrance. Practically every day for 18 years Tom Mooney’s old mother passed this on the way to the reception room of the prison. She sat in a little waiting room, bare except for a case full of trophy cups. The recep- tion room is a rectangular affair around three ‘sides of which a table runs continuously. A breast-high partition separates the visitor from the prisoner. It is this partition which has separated Mother Mooney from her son for the past 18 years. Pate * 8 * * « The “Freedom of the Prison” ND now she is dead, and Tom Mooney is barred from her funeral. Self-confessed murderers, forgers and highwaymen have been given similar “privileges,” but not Tom Mooney. But the San Quentin warden is generous. He will have the “freedom of the prison” during his period of mourning for the death of his mother. In other words, Mooney will not have to peel vegetables during those few hours, but will be permitted to wander around the cell blocks in that dungeon which is called San Quentin prison. Hypocrisy has long been one of the conspicuous characteristics of the capitalist press as well as all bourgeois institutions. The death of Mother Mooney prompts one of the editorial writers of the New York Mirror to say a few maudlin, grossly insincere, words about this brave mother of a brave working class fighter. Says the “Mirror” editorial: “Mary Mooney is gone. “In the heat of bitter dispute, in the struggle between conflicting social forces, the world pauses to pay its tribute to mother-love, the greatest force of all. “Whatever may be the rights or the wrongs, the justice or injustice ‘Soviet Writers on! CHANGE | Capitalist Versus) Soviet Literature | _ The following by V. Kataev and F. Gladkov, leading Soviet au- | thors, was written in connec- | tion with the recent Congress of Soviet writers just concluded in Moscow.—Ed. By V. KATAYEV HE fame of Russian literature abroad has been created mainly by our greatest masters. Dostoievski and Leo Tolstoi. Their books are known to all men of culture in all countries of the world. Our Soviet literature has not yet created its Tolstoi. The great sig- nificance of the novels of the bril- liant Russian writer lay in the fact that he castigated the old world in all its manifestations. The force Vv. KATAYEV Leading Soviet Author of artistic truth in Tolstoi’s books was such that the writer, possibly without desiring to do so, under- mined the foundations of the bour- geois family and all that is funda- mental in capitalist society. There will be a Soviet Tolstoi. Perhaps he is already born, In contradistinction to Leo Tolstoi, the Soviet Tolstoi will be not destruc- tive, but constructive, an artist who strengthens the new world, who strengthens the will for labor, who strengthens the love and joy of life. Herein is the difference in prin- ciple between the literature of the| old arid that of the new world. pS ea By F. GLADKOV HAT is the fundamental dis- tinction between a Soviet writ- er and men of letters in capitalist | countries and the writers of pre- Revolutionary Russia? The writer abroad, like the writer in tsarist Russia, created in the quiet of his study. By the light of @ green-shaded lamp he tugged at his hair, and without leaving his writing table, tried to perceive life in all its diversity and to reflect it in_his works. Full-blooded life with all its pas- sions and social conflicts passed by the doors of his home. The writer would go to his club, to a restau- rant, to his acquaintances, to the theater. He would not look into the workers’ districts, the cheap eating houses, the factories and workshops. And if he did appear in those places it was in the ca- pacity of a guest. Inventiveness and Song for the Ceasing of the Looms By SAMUEL PUTNAM Let all the looms in the land this day be silent and let no Shuttle move, no spindle wind but let the weavers weave a web of silence which shall hang upon the gate and let them know that as they wait Jet them know that they are weaving, weaving still on the very warp and woof of the mighty Workers’ Will ever seen fairer than any tapestry with brighter sheen | to hang upon the Mcrrow’s gleaming wall i] and there before the silent gate - | hung with the web of silence which they themselves have spun let them know that they are weaving, weaving all Jet them know that they are weaving on the dark pall for which Injustice and the Robber wait | and that before the day is done, before the setting of the sun the web shall come down from the gate shall open and the spindle wind js | the shuttle once more hum for the weavers shall be weaving, weaving’ still the wart and woof of the mighty Workers’ Will a bright new garment for all humankind. off the gate Organized Lynching Mob By J. RING (NOTE: The following is an eye-witness story of the attack on a farmers’ meeting on Aug. 21, told by the State Organizer of the Michigan Farmers League.) ee oe MEETING of about 500 farm- ers was broken up by a well- organized lynch-gang assisted by deputies and constables under the direction of the Roach Canning Co. officials, at the Custer Town Hall, on Tuesday, Aug. 21. For several months the farmers of this district have been organizing and negotiat- ing with the canning company for a price increase. Elected farmers’ committees were to make their re- ports. An unusual number of business people from neighboring towns, some of whom had assisted in in- terrupting previous farmers meet- ings, and many strangers were evi- dent in the crowd. Hardly had the meeting been called to order by] committee, saved his life. They had him sur- | rounded in a yard where he had} hidden in a pile of lumber. Under } continuous shouting of “Bring a rope,” they went through the yard. Failing to locate him, they began searching and circling through the neighborhoods. This gave Casper a | chance to get further away. The | man-hunt continued all night. Cas- per succeeded in getting to a farm- er's house toward morning, from where he was taken to his own) farm, TRU ee | IT HAS since been revealed that | the Roach Canning Co., makers | of “Hart” brand canned goods, had | organized the lynch-mob and at- tack, weeks in advance. Hoodlums were brought in from a wide area. | They met at the factory in the eve- | ning and proceeded in a parade to} Custer, after stopping at various | beer joints. Many rode in com-/; pany trucks. When the farmers’) including Casper, met | | us, ‘You are a brave fighter for the Michigan Farmers’ Meeting | Viciously Broken Up by DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1934 Art Young and Lozowick Hail On the occasion Robert Minor’s 50th bi day anniversary, greetings continue to come hailing Minor's work as an artist and rev lutionary leader. Among the nu- merous greetings received are mes- sages from Art Young and Louis Lozowick, prominent American artists. of Art Young’s greeting follows: “I recall the many powerful | working class cartoons produced by | Robert Minor. | “This was before he became even more active by speaking and wri ing on his return from Ru: where he had seen the new go ernment of Socialist Soviet Repub- lics planning and working for the future. “He saw a new order, a new hope | coming to life where once had ruled a decadent monarchy. With the same power and feeling that he put into his early work, Bob Minor con- tinues to fight for the working class | and against the Monarchy | Money—whose other name is Capi- “After it is all over we say of a} man, ‘He put up a good fight’ and to Bob we say while he is still with working class!’ “Yours for the united front, “ART YOUNG.” * . * Louis Lozowick’s message follows: | “To Comrade Robert Minor, art- | ist and revolutionary: warmest | fraternal greetings on his fiftieth | birthday. | “Proletarian art is now a topic of universal discussion. Even bour- beois critics are forced to take note of it if only to attack it. Before the expression was used even in revolutionary _ circles, Comrade Minor was creating works of prole- tarian art—excellent works that | have come to be known interna-| tionally, understood and loved (in Lenin’s expression) by the working | masses everywhere “Many gifted artists have since grown up in the revolutionary | movement, active in the working class press and _ organizations. Minor has shifted his point of at- tack to the printed and spoken word. It is still, however, the same | unrelenting fight he is waging: class against class! “Whether as artist or as politi- cal leader Comrade Minor’s ex- ample gives courage and helps ce- ment the solidarity of the revolu- tionary fighting ranks, and is at the same time a persuasive call to those still outside to join in the} final conflict towards final victory. | “LOUIS LOZOWICK.” STAGE AND SCREEN | Dostoyevski’s “Petersburg | Night,” Soviet Talkie, at Cameo Theatre Saturday | “Petersburg Night,” a new So- of) do now but | | | "Page Five (Synopsis: Cliff Muiligan, 19-year old unemployed worker, ts on his way east to look for a job. he finds work in a wire factory. In a small town on the way At a dance he meets Edna, daughter of a local shop-keeper, and falls in love with her. There is a lay-off and wage-cut at the wire works. Max Harris, union organizer, comes to town and organizes the men. A com- mittee, with. Cliff as spokesman, see the boss and demand the rescinding of the wage-cut. XI “What good will that do out of the shop? Who is gonna to the fellers? Why d’you they sacked us?” “Til get inside,” Cliff said surediy, “even if Barnes puts on a hundred guys to watch me. A way, there ain't no use to talk about it. Let’s go see Harris.” “There sure ain’t nothin’ we can to get the men to you bein alk think strike.” “That's talkin’, Weber. Remem- ber you tellin’ me that once we get the shop tied up we can win all we ask for? No use worryin’. We sure will win the strike, an’ get our jobs back.” * HEY went to see Harris. nO the way they were figuring how long the strike ought to last and how much money they would be getting with an increase of 10 per cent, ex- cept the cut. When they came in, Harris was surprised. “What happened?” he asked. “We got canned,” Cliff said. “Damn, I thought Barnes wouldn't fire you, the way he spoke. It looked as though he was trying to maneuver. Well, it's no use wor- rying, men. We have to put the shoulder to the wheel and pull off a good strike. We'll show them yet,” Harris said cheerfully. Nelson and Cottilo came in and | they held a meeting, making plans | for the strike. Every proposal that Harris made was discussed and ar- gued. He made a mistake once, the committee, thought, but they'd | watch him now. Weber couldn’t see why it was | viet talkie, will be presented by| necessary to have the strike called fr They get no definite answer, but the next day Cliff and another worker are fired. Edna turns Cliff down, accusing In the meantime, him of being a tramp.) which Cliff was to report on the the delegation that went he rescinding of the Harris was drawing up @ Nelson, the Swedish cran: and Cottilo, the Italian floore turned clerical workers. Weber and Cliff were working on the mimeograph machine. When they were about to leave for the Macs, Harris called Cliff aside. He ask “Where are you going tonight?” hy, I'll be right back. Am just going to hand out the leaflets.” Harris looked at him, biting his lower lip meditatively. “Listen, Cliff. You know we're in for a big fight. We got to work hard in order to win.” “What are you driving at, Max?” “I mean that you'll have to be more responsible about things. You can't leave everything and run away to your g¢' Cliff took a deep breath and said slowly: “I guess I'm through with her. I had a fight with her last night, and it's busted off. It feels like hell, but what’s the use? I guess it’s her folks made her do that or she has another guy. Any- way, there ain’t no use.” There was pain in his voice. “I know how it feels, Cliff. Ev- ery fellow goes through it and sometimes you just lose your head and don’t know what you are doing. But you are more than a friend to me. You are the stuff that makes a real strike leader. Especially at this time you must play a big role in the strike. The men like you.” “You don't have to tell me that, Max. I'm darned interested to see that the Macs get tied up and we win the strike. It ain’t so much }the job that counts to me. It’s something—I don’t know what to say. I just want to show Barnes that he can’t make slaves out of us. I can see now why you give up leverythin’ and go out to organize the working men, as you put it. I guess it’s because it a guy to see things run this way. | Harris smiled. He caught Cliff's hand. They shook “I'm darned glad to hear you | talk like that.” . { “Let's go,” Cliff said. (To be continued) leaflet Our Readers Must Spread the Daily Worker Among the Members |of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- | izations As a Political Task of First | Importance! Amusements for Monday noon. He agreed on/ the day, but why 12 o'clock? | “It’s better for the men that feel | ——— | Amkino for its American premiere |on Saturday, September 8, at the |Cameo, 42nd Street and Broadway.) imagination replaced for him an of Tom Mooney’s long years of imprisonment in a California peniten- authentic knowledge of reality. tiary, his mother believed him innocent. “As age is reckoned, Mary Mooney was an old woman when her son was convicted of a Preparedness Day bombing and sent to jail for life. She was 67 then. The twilight of her life was spent in efforts here and abroad to clear his name. “Eighteen years. And then Mrs. Mooney’s brave old heart could carry her no further. May she rest in peace.” Poisoned Gifts from the Enemy Whee working class will spurn these hollow words from the enemy. Behind the tarnished phrases of “mother love,” the Mirror conceals the murderous frame-up of Tom Mooney. Mother love! What does the Mirror and the class it serves care about “mother love.” What has the Mirror done about the hundreds of thousands of boys and girls torn from their mothers by the crisis—those homeless waifs who live in freight cars and along the roads of the land? What has. the Mirror done about bringing Tom Mooney back to his mother when she was alive? It has done less than nothing, for it has at all times joined in describing this innocent worker as “a con- victed bomb-thrower” and a “dangerous agitat oz.” Tom Mooney and the working class spurns the gratuitous, unfelt sympathy of those who help keep him in prison. . Mother Mooney was a real proletarian mother. Like the mother of Dimitroff, that great working class hero, Mother Mooney was barely literate, for the “mother love” extolled by the capitalist class meant for Mary Mooney only constant toil both as a girl and as a coal miner’s widow with the burden of three dependent children. “Whatever may be the rights or the wrongs, the justice or injus- tice of Tom Mooney’s long years of imprisonment in a California peni- tentiary,” the Mirrer says with deliberate evasiveness, “his mother be- lieved him innocent.” Here is a sly attempt to reduce the whole vicious frame-up of Tom Mooncy into an ordinary criminal case where the proverbial mother always believes in her son’s innocence to the last. . * ‘ Let not the “Mirror” forget that millions of working class mothers | all over the world are convinced of Mooney’s innocence and are aware of the class forces—including the capitalist press—which flung him into jail! ‘ WEAT §.-ON Friday SYMPOSIUM: ‘The First American Youth Congress AND APTER.” Speakers, Alfred Bingham, Editor Common Sense; Gil Green, Young Communist League; ‘Theodore Draper, National S:udent League. | Monroe Sweetland, League for Industrial Democracy, Chairman, James Wechsler, Editor Columbia Spectator. Labor Temple, 14th St. and Second Av :30 p.m. sharp. Adm. 25c. SPEND a four-day holiday at Followers of Nature Camp for a flat rate of $6, fare included. Register at 11 W. 18th St. FIRST GREAT New Theatre Night at ivic Repertory Theatre, 14th and 6th Ave., 8:45 p.m. W.L.T, in 2 plays, Bunin’s New Puppet Show, Jane Dudley in two dances. And many’ others. George Sklar, Master of Ceremonies. Tickets 25c to B9c Thursday ‘ FIRST SHOWING—New Soviet Movie, at 1330 Wilkins Ave., Bronx, 8:30 p.m. Title: vgentenced to Health.” Auspices East Bronx Br. F.8.U, Refreshments served and ~ entertainment provided. IMPORTANT Film Section meeting 8:30 sharp at Film and Photo League, 12 E. jith St. Production problems to be dis- cussed, All members present. Others cordially invited, e OPEN Forum at 1993 Burnside Avenue, ronx. Room 1, 8:30 p.m. Auspices, Ford- ham Br. FSU, Speaker, Conrad Komo- rowski, Subject: “Soviet China and Its Sienificance to the Soviet Union.” Adm. 15e. OPEN membership meeting Stuyvesant . A.W.F., 140 Second Ave., 8 p.m. Local Biganizetions invited to send delegates to assist. in campaign for Second Congress | at Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. Saturday NATURE Friends of N. Y., international Against War and Fascism, INAL talk on International Series ugrime of Cuba” by Eugene Blondel ot ‘Anti-Imperialist League. Auspices. United Front Supporters Hall, 11 W. 18th 8t., 8:45 p.m. ae: pe ECTURE on “Far Eastern Question,’ ai ictel Newton, Broadway, bet, 94th and asth St, 8:30 p.m. Auspices, West Side Ae ebration at Post 1 RTH Annual Celebration at Post 1. wast. 23 B. 1th €., commencing 7 workers hiking organization have a work hike to Nature Friends Camp at Midvale, N.J., Saturday and Sunday. WORKERS Laboratory Theptre Reunion Party. A hilarious nite with the Shock Troupe at W.L.T., 42 E. 12th St. In- timate floor show. Puppet skits. Impro- visations. Dancing to jazz band, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 35c. Sunday ese Center, 3rd floor, 22 W. 17th St. Pro- : Beer.” Entertainment| gram, ‘Tea Party, Dance, Refreshments. pam Supper erdser “All welcome, Gone Speakers. Subscription 25¢., incl. Chinese ti . refreshmen’™. us tribution 25¢. : ’NSVILLE WORKERS SCHOOL an- paagiet tie of registration for Fall 1855 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn. Classes Snidiy. Register now. Low fees. TIHEIT Mandelin Orehestra rehearsal at 106 F. 14th St. 8 p.m. Comrade Schae- fer will conduct, New music studied, Roxbury, Mass. BANQUET end Danes to celebrate open- ing Americcn Workers Club headquarters Friday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. at New Interna- tional Hall, 42 Wenonah St., Roxbury. Good time assured all who come. Subscription ie JOSE WONG, Memorial Meeting at Chin-} There were of course, in old Rus- sia, as there are at present in coun- tries abroad, exceptions to this rule, there were and are writers who studied and study life. But the lit- erature of the bourgeois world may, on the whole, be characterized as a literature invented in the writer's study. An Active Builder The Soviet writer has come out | of the confined limits of the study. He is not an occasional observer, but an active builder of the new life. The Soviet writer is insep- | arably connected with our reality. | You see him in the collective farms, in the state farms, in the factories and workshops. He spends a large part of wis time in the very thick of life. He often meets his readers. The Soviet writer is an active participant in socialist construction. By his artistic works he helps the Party and government to recon- struct the world. This firm bond with the problems of the day of a great country is one of the sources of the force and _vic- tories ef Soviet literature. This is why Soviet literature has become their very own literature for the English and the Japanese, the German and the Italian prole- tariat, the proletariat of all countries. TUNING IN] 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WABC—Variety Musicale WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. Tim Healy 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music ‘WJZ—Martin Orchesrta WABC—Wayside Cottage—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Summary, National Men's Singles Tennis Championships, Forest Hills, L. 1. WOR—Telk—Harry Hershfield ‘WsZ—Armand Girard, Baritone WABC—Cliff Edwards, Songs 17:35-WEAF—Danny Malone, Tenor 1:45-WEAF—Irene Bordoni, Songs WOR-Studio Music ‘WJZ—Frank Buck’s Adventures WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee Orchestra; Soloists WOR—Little Symphony Orchestra, Philip James. Conductor; Cyril Towbin, Violin WJZ—Grits and Gravy—Sketch WABC—Kate Smith, Sones 8:15-WABC—Current Topics—Dr. Walter B. Pitkin, Author 8:30-WHN—Ability of the Taxpayer to Pay, Peter Grimm, Chairman Citizens Budget Commission WABC—Studio Concert pt. Henry’s Show Boat WOR—Pauline Alpert. Piano WsZ—Death Valley Davs—Sketch WABO—Ber X Days—Sketch 9:15-WOR—Lazry Taylor, Baritone 9:30-WOR—Tex Fletcher, Sorigs ‘WJZ—From Buenos Aire7; Symphony Orchestra; Ortiz Tirado, Tenor WABC—Tito Guizer, Tenor 9:45-WOR—Stuart Orchestra WABC—Fats Waller. Songs 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman Orchestra; Helen Jepson, Soprano WJZ—Canadian Concert WABC—Porty-five Minutes in Holly- wood: Music; Sketches 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. 10:30-WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—To Be Announced 10:45-WABC—Playboys Piano Trio 11:00-WEAP—Talk—J, B. Kennedy 9:00- Read WOR—Dantzig Orchestra ‘WIZ—Bestor Orchestra ‘WABC—Vera Van, Songr George Casper, of the secretary Michigan Farmers’ League, when a deputy sheriff declared the meeting closed on the excuse that the per- mit had been revoked. Immediately all official and un- official gangsters worked hand in hand. Constables and deputies or- dered the audience out of the hall, while a group of company gangsters surrounded and attacked Casper. Farmers jumped to his defense. The company bosses, under the leader- ship of Ph. Palmer, superintendent of the canning factory, incited the mob. Cries of “Get Casper,” “Get that b———, here is the rope,” “Hang Casper,” could be heard from the drunken hoodlums all over the hall. * Wet had started as a peaceful orderly farmers’ meeting had been turned into the most brutal lynch-mob attack in Michigan against organized labor. The crowd was being moved from the second floor hall. A ‘blood-thirsty mob of gangsters had the hall surrounded. At least 50 were at the entrance, waiting for Casper to step out and throw a rope around his neck. Farmers. and company gangsters were fighting on the stairway. All lights were turned off. The congestion gave Casner a chance to get through a window out of the hall. Crashing through and outdistancing the mob, he got out of sight. The mob then tried to take vengeance on F. Zukas, one of the farmers who had aided in Casper’s escape. Amidst shouts of “Lynch him!”, “Get the rope!”, etc., they got him to the ground. A group of farmers routed the gangsters. Zukas fled to a farmer's home. The mob kept on fighting, mercilessly beating up ev- ery person in their midst. A cry went up, “I'm stabbed!” Someone jn the mob recognized the voice. In the dark they had beaten up and stabbed one of their own gane. The mob then tried to storm the farm house and get Zukes. Af- ter failing to get in they called the sheriff from Ludington, who came and arrested Zukas on the charge of stabbing and breaking a gang- ster’s nose. Three other farmers were arrested later on the same charge. } * RA news could be had from Cas- IV per all night. In the morning a committee called on the sheriff's devartment. They refused to as- sist. in any way to lceate Casnver. Later, as a result of protest tele- grams, the State Attorney General ar’ nolice department dispatched a ittee to Custer. In the mean- tim-. Casper had returned home. Only the fact that the mob had been too drunk and_ blood-thirsty * * With company officials negotiating for the price increase, one of the officials stated that Casper needs to get a rope around his neck, where- upon the town marshal from Scott- ville, who had been called in by the company, said, “Yes, that’s | what he deserves.” After Casper had escaped the | lynch mob, Ph. Palmer urged that Casper must be found and done away with. The day after the fight, the sheriff stated that if the farm- ers don’t stop organizing there will be plenty of roping and killing. Al- most every foreman and boss in the factory is either a deputy or constable. Several women workers got fired the day after the mob at- tack, because they or their parents had assisted Casper. Officials of the company had in- structed one: woman worker to lure Casper from the meeting for which she was to receive good pay. A farm wife -herself, understanding the exploitation, of farmers and workers by the Roach company, she revealed the plot to Casper, and militantly aided in his escape. ee ae THE State Attorney General’s in- vestigation committee immedi- ately got to work whitewashing the company and local officials, in spite of all evidence connecting them directly with organizing and inciting to lynch. When various evidence of the nature was brought before them, they stated that no action can be taken without the Prosecuting Attorney. Later on the Prosecuting Attorney refused to consider the matter at all. They are now investigating Communist activities in the county. Adverse weather conditions, drought during the summer sea- son and frost during the last week, have added immensely to the ex- isting bad circumstances of the farmers in’ this part of Michigan. For a number of years, prices paid by the canners for beans, pickles, fruit, ete. the merket on which they have a monopoly, has been far below cost of preduction. This year’s price for green string beans, 100 pounds, is from $2.50 down; yellow waxes, 100 pounds, $1.50 down. On the average 30 per cent of the beans delivered are declared waste, which’ the company keeps, but deducts from the farmer's pay. Pickers are paid unesnett cent per pound: This open fascist terror instituted by the Roach Canning Co., mak- ers of “Hart” brand canned goods, | has opened the eyes of many farm- ers and workers in this district. Al- | though they were taken completely | eff guard by the well organized | lynch-mob attack of the company, many farmers stated that from now | Russia, | both here and abroad. The theatre is now under new management. “Petersburg Night” has a scena- rio by Roshal and Stroyeva, and is based on Dostoyevs! famous novel. It is the story of Yegor Ef- | mov, a serf on an estate in old| a sensitive and brilliant musician of great native talent. It is the story of his escape from the | feudal estate—and his struggle to make a name for himself. Directed by D. Roshal, “Peters- burg Night” is regarded as one of | the outstanding films produced by the Soviet studios. P. Debronra- vov, Honored Artist of the Repub- lic, plays the leading role of Yegor | Efimoy. Others in the cast include A. Goriunov, K. Tarasova and L. Oriova. The film was produced by the Moscow Studios of Soyusfilm and has complete English dialogue titles. | Grace Moore Film Today at Radio City Music Hall “One Night of Love,” with Grace | Moore of the Metropolitan Opera |committee and Cliff secretary, House as the star, will have its pre- miere today at the Radio City Mu- sic Hall. The film is based on a story by Charles Beahan and Doro- thy Speare. Tullio Carminati, noted stage jand screen player has the principal male role. Miss Moore, who has sung at the Metropolitan for three years, has appeared in the chief opera houses of Europe and has also»given many concerts Shirley Temple’s next film for} Fox will be “Bright Eyes,” and will | be directed by David Butler. It goes in production about Oct. 1. Maurice Chevalier will be fea- | tured in the Twentieth Century Pictures production of “The Red} Cat.” The film is based on the play | by Rudolph Lothar and Adler, | which A. H. Woods will present at the Broadhurst Theatre next week. “The Affairs of Cellini,” starring | Constance Bennett and Frederic March, opened yesterday at the} Rivoli Theatre. The film is based | on the play, “The Firebrand,” shown on Broadway some years back. Gregory La Cava directed the production. “Pirates of Penzance” And, “Cox and Box” At Beck Thea. shaky about going down on strike. | i ‘When they see lots of men walking "OYLY CARTE porrrcsy out, they join in,” Harris explained. opera comrAaNy from London OPERAS <The committee, trisisted on /8'| “PMG Tih. Bele Une Gab. Mae o'clock. Harris talked himself rag- | ‘The Pirates of Penzance” ged till they agreed. There was a | MARTIN BECK THEA., 45 St., W. of & Av. lot of arguing who should be treas- | - > SE RET Oar 4 urer, though there was no money. Everybody agreed that Harris should be chairman of the strike | “SOVIETS GREET NEW TURKEY” Prod. by the Leningrad Cinema Trust in cooperation with the Turkish Gov't Soviet Talkie with English Titles Also:-MOSCOW DERBY DAY -ACME THEATRE, 14th St. & Union $q.- . WHEN the strike apparatus had | been set up, the committee got | busy preparing for the meeting at’ DOSTO SEPTEMBER 8- AMKINOS PREMIERE DOSTOYEVSKIS ‘PETERSBURG NIGHTS’ SOVIET Super Talking Film CEngTitles) Union AFI. Loco! 306 Crew 4&2 ST. EAST OF B’WAY TILLIPM. Cc LAEO e 25 EXC. SAT. SUN.ENOL. AremkArionac eu WEW MANAGEMENT RADIO CITY Cae ‘THE NATION-ROCKEFELLER CENTER ¢ Better Pictures are Shown World Premiere Today Doors open 11:30 a. m. The most glorious musical time! 7 MAUS SHOWPLACE OF Wi at romance of all (Coch ee | ‘ONE NIGHT OF LOVE’ with TULLIO CARMINATI . LYLE TALBOT MONA BARRIE . Directed by Victor Schertzinger A Columbia Picture ON THE STAGE: A smartly paced modern revue"’SPOT-LIGHT"...featur- ing the Music Hall Rockettes, Glee Club, Corps de Ballet, "12 Grands” Music Hall SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The second of the Gilbert and | Sullivan operettas to be offered by | the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company of London wiil be “The Pirates of Penzance” and will be presented | this evening at the Martin Beck | Theatre. The opera will be preceded by “Cox and Box,” a short work which has music ty Arthur Sul- livan, and a libret*o by Francis Burnard. “Papua and Kalabahai,” a travel film of New Guinea; Charlie Chap- | lin in “Behind the Screen,” and | “The Flying Mouse,” a Walt Disney | on they will be more solidly with the Michigan Farmers League, cartoon, are now showing at the Trans-Lux Theatre. FRL, 14th St. & 6th Ay. Tickets 25¢ to 99 at Workers Book- || shop, 50 E. 1 Sept. 7 @ SEASON'S FIRST GREAT sony “NEW THEATRE NIGHT” crvic REPERTORY THEATRE JANE DUDLEY in two Dances: “The Life of a Worker” & “Comintern” Geo, Sklar, master of ceremonies Workers Lab.Theatre in New Revolutionary Plays Bunin’s “New Puppet Show” 13th W.L.T. “Red Vodeville”