The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 11, 1934, Page 5

$$ | CHANGE | ——-THE-— WORLD! By SENDER GARLIN HE other night at the Civic Repertory Theatre I saw for the first time what might be called “revolutionary vaudeville,” and it was fine stuff. True, it was rather rough-hewn, but it brought the laughs; what’s more, it brought home some pointed political lessons The dramatic critics of the bourgeois press will per- haps smile amusedly at this and suggest that it must be pretty poor vaudeville to have revolutionary value, but I can assure you that if you saw “Greek Tragedy,” with the cloaked courier bringing the message of strike to the boss of an earlier erd, you'd agree that this type of vaudeville was hilariously funny. At the same time it hit the bull’s tye -more than once with its rollicking satire on the contemporary methods of strikebreaking. This seems to me to be a dramatic form which has hitherto been very much neglected in the revolutionary theatre movement. Those of us who have applauded even the tepid satire of shows like “Of Thee I Sing" must have longed often for the kind of real biting satire that is more than skin-deep, and which by its devastating humor unmasks all the pretense and hypocrisy surrounding every bourgeois institution. Many undoubtedly recognized this fine quality in the Workers Laboratory Theatre production's of “Whose Got the Baloney?” and its sequel, “La Guardia’s Got the Baloney.” It Brought a Crowd Out 'HE “revolutionary vaudeville” which excited me so much the other evening was part of a “Theatre Night” presented by the Workers’ Laboratory Theatre for the benefit of New Theatre, the official organ of the League of Workers Theatres. Those who are still in the habit of snickering at the cultural activities of the movement would un- doubtedly be startled to see the Civic Repertory Theatre filled to ca- pacity by an audience which displayed tremendous enthusiasm through- out the entire evening. The first skit which the Workers Laboratory Theatre put on, for example, was called “The Great Marriage,” por- trayitig the union of “John Worker” and “Mary Boss” and the for- mer’s attempt ‘to obtain a divorce thwarted by a court consisting of General Hugh Johnson, Bill Green and Frances Perkins. I'll admit that oftentimes one had a feeling that from a political viewpoint, the skit was a little schematic and crude—particularly in the portrayal of the Socialist Parfy—but it nevertheless had a gusto and freshness which ought to have splendid propaganda value. Some years ago I met an able young artist named Louis Bunin, who was absorbed in the art-of puppetecring. Bunin had just come back from Mexico where he had put on puppet shows based on plays by O'Neill, J. M. Synge and other playwrights for the delectation of the Ambassador to Mexico, the late Dwight W. Morrow, and his guests at Cuarnevaco. At the performance the other night I found Bunin and his ma- rionettes in a deadly satire on Hitler—as deft a job as one could want. It portrays Schnozzle Durante as a foreign correspondent, representing a paper whose policy is “all the news we print to fit,” eee Hitler, or as Schnozzle calis him, “Furore.” Bunin and his group aré preparing some special election skits for open-air preséntation which ought to be extremely effective during the present campaign. . . . Dramatizing the Fight for Thaelmann ‘HE “Free Thaelmann” skit. presented by the Workers Laboratory Theatre was without doubt the most impressive thing of the eve- ning. The action never lagged, the direction was vigorous and original. The “Free Thaelmann” act is what some of the theatre comrades call a “collective report.” It is more clear to say that it is in the nature of a dramatized speech. A Communist or 2 Communist sympathizer would undoubtedly be stirred by the presentaion, but I doubt whether it would be so effec- tive when presented to relatively .mdeyeloped workers. The “Free ‘Thaelmann” play summarizes {n a new dramatic form the incidents of ‘Thaelmann’s life, the struggles of the. Communist Party fer unity in the fight agdinst Gétman fascism and the present danger in which Thaelmann now finds himself. My feeling is that the play takes for granted the general political sympathies of the audience as well as its intimate knowledge of the events. Politically advanced audiences will be inspired by its artistic force, but I am sure that others will not respond so readily to its po- litical meaning, although they carmot fail but be impressed by its artistic genuineness. The authors apparently tried to overcome this defect by citing fascist acts in the United States during the West Coast strike, Toledo, etc, in an effort to convince the spectator that his in- terests lie with the defense of Thaelmann, Despite this criticism, I am convinced that this method of dra- matic presentation on the whole provides our revolutionary theatre with a splendid vehicle for driving home to the workers many basic political questions. Songs of Betrayal and Revolt HE vaudeville team the other night sang several songs whieh scored big with the audience. I wish I had space to print all of them. The following is called “Write Me Out My Union Card” sung to the tune of “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane,” and it goes some- thing like this: Ob, write me out—my union card Oh, write me out—my union card Oh write me out my union card Organize? We'll all fight hard Time to fight those hunger blues away Oh the N. R. A—she DATLY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934 R. Palme Dutt’s Book Is a Brilliant Marxian Analysis of Fascist Menace FASCISM AND SOCIAL REVOLU- TION. By R. Palme Dutt. Inter- tional Publishers. 296 pp. $1.75. * . . HARRY GANNES BSOLUTELY accurate is John Strachey’s characterization of R Palme Dutt’s book on fascism—‘In- comparably the best book on fas- cism that has yet been written.” For us in the United States this masterly work comes at a very op- portune time. With bolder and bloodier steps the Roosevelt regime treads the road to fascism. The ob- jective economic and political forces drive the dictatorship of American finance-capital towards the brutal, savage suppression of the working class. Even Francis T. Gorman in | the textile strike, and the Chicago Federation of Labor, are forced to ery out against the murderous and | brutal attacks on strikers and A. F. of L. members. Class battles be- com> sharper. At the same time, from every avenue of the oppress- ing class, the fascist forces con- sciously take shape, loom into the reality of every day life. We have lacked a well-rounded, Marxist-Leninist exposition of fas- cism within the bounds of one vol- ume, summing up the broader background of fascism. its concrete | historical development in Italy, Germany and Austria; the class forces involved, and above all, the role of social democracy and the tasks in fighting the advent of fas- cism by the united front and by the path of proletarian revolution. Dutt's book supplies that lack and does it splendidly. It is a tren- chant weapon which not only pene- trates to the etonomic and histo- rical roots of fascism, but in its brilliance flashes as a revolutionary weapon in the struggle against fas- } | Reviewed by | proletarian revolution. Analyzing the economic roots 0: fascism, Dutt points out that fas cism appears on the political hori. revolution, in the period of decaying imperialism. He writes: “It is this culminating stage of capitalism thet we are at present living through, the stage of im- perialism or capiialism in decay, and, more particularly now since 1914, the stage of the general cri- sis of capitalism, or final phase within imperiaiism, when the forces of production are in ever more violent conflict with the cramping fetters of the existing property relations of production, when capitaliam in more and more obvious decay is faced with the advance to victory of the pro- letarian social revolution, and when capitalism in decay is re- sorting to every device and expe- dient te maintain its power.” In this. situation, the world is faced with two alternatives: one is } and conquers.” cism and for the victory of the! zon on the eve of the proletarian | o Stents How Social- Ressaniie Landis 4 in Various | has raised demagogy to a fine art. | | To Come jine of Reformism Italy, etc.) there stage fascism at a certain invariably grows The petty-bourgeoisie does not follow an independent ro! but, driven to frenzy by the is, swings between the forces cf pro- letarian revolution and the dema- | gogy of fascism. The social democ- | racy’s resistance to the revolution- ary way out, drives the petty-bour- geoisie into the camp of fascism. Dutt devotes the major part of an excellent chapter on “What is Fas- cism?” to this question. I found the most valuable portion of the book the chapters on: “How Fascism Came in Italy,” “How Fas- cism Came in Germany,” “How} Fascism Came in Austria.” In these | chapters Dutt sums up in his in- cisive style, the basic factors in the ishment of fascism in these | r drawing invaluable les- sons from the concrete course of the history of fascism and social democracy in fascist lands. He shows how the “liberal” Giolitti in Italy played the same role as Brue- ning and Von Papen in Germ pression in Dollfuss in Austria. stead of fighting fascism, the So- (cialist Party executive in armed the workers and paved the way for Mussolini with the corpses of the Italian workers. In Germany, the seeds of Hit-| jJer’s victory were shown in 1918.} The Socialists, Ebert and Scheide- mann, began the work Hitler now is attempting to finish. | ee 'HROUGHOUT, Dutt shows a re- | markable flair for convicting th | Social Democrats out of their own Leninist analysis by copious docu- mentation from speeches, letters, | articles, resolutions of the socialist | leaders. He traces the rejection by the so- |cialist ‘leaders of the united front from April, 1932, up to March 1, |1933, after the burning of | Reichstag. | will to resist,’" he writes, “was ac- | complished, not by fascism, but by social democracy.” After rejecting | the united front with the Ccmmu- |nists, the German Soci-l Mema- jeratic leaders, headed by Wels, | pleaded with Hitler to use them in the Fascist state. He quotes the Labor “Daily Herald,” which says }on this score: “The union leaders have sealed their reconciliation with the new rulers of Germany.” It is only today that Mussolini | and Hitler find it necessary to ac- (Germany, | tools when the task of still further | cutting wages in the face of rising | proved abilities. |rich and the best record of the ad- |sections of the socielist leadership the role which reached its best e: st In-} Italy | signed a “peace” treaty which dis- | mouths, supplementing his Marxist- | the'| “The ‘naralyaing of the’ the throttling of productive forces, | cept the overtures of these willing and an attempt to maintain decay-| ing and degenerate canitalism by | the most violent, savage means, by butchery of the revolutionary work- ing masses, and by criminal wars; or, the breaking of the death grip | of capitalism, and the organization of a socialist society, achieveable only by the road to proletarian rev- olution under the leadership of the Communist Parties. caine eee 'HE capitalist way out, typified in its most insane form in fascist countries, and growingly evident in the United States) “is organized col- | lective destruction of wealth and the productive forces." We now have a combination of Mammen | and Juggernaut. This proeess is aided by the Social Democrats, where they share power with the capitalist rulers. Dutt cites the ex- ample of the Danish social demo- cratic government voting credits for the destruction of cattle. ‘The working out of all the “new” Policies of capitalism under the stress of the world crisis is the major destruction, “the advance to & second world war.” The trend of all capitalist powers in this period is towards fascism, and within the womb of capitalist democracies the infant fascist brat kicks with more or less vigor in England, France and the United States. When the proletarian revo- lution threatens to prevent its birth by destroying capitalism, the Social Democrats hold back the assault of the unified proletariat, to allow its delivery. But here our simile is weak be- all capitalist: countries (particularly | | Registration for Fall Term | Continues at N.Y. School Registration for the fall term ot | the Workers School, 35 East. 12th | | St., started Tuesday, September 4. | | Already, during the last three days, | more than 350 students have regis- tered for various courses. The. regis- | | tration is unusually heavy this year, |and we can safely predict that the | classes will be filled to capacity | within a very short time. It is therefore essential that those who | intend to register do so as carly as | Possible. There are many classes provided for ea0h, subject. | New. Seagacs in Shop Paper r and Leaflet Preparations | We want to call to the attention | of the Party and League units and especially the shop units, that we have introduced a class in Shop Paper and Leaflet Preparation. The shop units should assign comrades to take this course in order to im- prove the work on’ shop papers and | \leaflets. We are providing a special | rate for this class, a fee of $1.00. This fee is extremely low but was jestablished in order to enable our jcomrades to take this important class. In order to obtain this special to Power |revoluticnary upsurge requires their | | The chapter on. Austria, which is) |s0 fresh in our minds, is extremely |vent of Austrian fascism that we j have seen in Le To all readers of the Ame: “Nev ‘Pod where Otto oi now is writing @ seriés of articles attempting to just- | ify his own treachery by the blood jof the Austrian proletariat, we urge a reading, if not of the entire book, |at least of this chapter, a third of | which consists of quotations from UTT devotes an entire chapter, i after relating events in Italy. | Genttany and Austria, to “Social Democracy and Fascism,” a verit- ! able branding iron that sears into! | the rotten hide of the socialist lead- jers who helped fascism win a vic- tory in these countries. He shows how in Czecho-Slova- kia. France and England, certain impatiently swing, into the very path of the fascist advance, as Mosley in England, and the Neo- Socialists in France. We may add that the outright Fascist Shartz is still a member of the Socialist Party of the United States as are Cahan and the other avihcrs of “Héar the Other Side,” which ranks with Leipart and Wel's sup- port to Hindenburg and Hitler. Delying into the so-called “theo- ry” of fascism, Dutt shows that fas- cism in ‘reality has no theory, the “theory” of fascism in Italy being ordered by Mussolini two months efore the holding of a national eongress in 1921 Hitler deliberately cooked up what he called a theory | of fascism. “The reality of fascism is the violent attempt of decaying | capitalism to defeat the proleta- rian revolution and forcibly artest the growing contradictions of its whole development. All the rest is decoration and stage-play, whether | censcious or unconscious. . Behind the ranting megalomani- acs, bullies, drug flends, and broken |down bohemians, stands the hard- |headed finance-capitalists who pull the strings coolly. ene |THE real aims and objectives cE fascism are not to be found in| | Hitler's, Mussolini's or Goebbels | speeches or other rantings, but in| the wishes and needs of the | Krupps, Thyssens, Deterdings, | | Fords, Morgans, which rarely gets | written expression. To cover these objectives fascism What’: s Doing i in the Washers Schools of the U. Ss. Regicitation’ is is now open. ter early. Peoria, Iil. From Peoria, Ill., we have news that the local Worl:ers School com- mittee is considering the establish- ;ment of a Workers School, to be conducted the coming fall and win- ter. Among the proposed subjects for the Workers School classes are Public Speaking, Working-Class Journalism, Newspaper Drawing, Trade Union Organization, Strat-| |eay and Tactics, Principles of Com- | munism, and perhaps a class in the History of the American Labor Movement, All these interested should communicate with the| School Committee, 725% South | Evan St., Peoria, i. . Registration at Cleveland Workers School Registration at Workers School, 1524 Prospect Ave., has already begun. The School is growing rapidly. We {note from \the catalogue sent in, that a great | | many now caurses have been added | for the fall term. In addition to the courses already given, the fol- lowing new courses have been in- cluded: Self-Defense in Court, Leaflet Making, A Symposium .on/ {I Countries Aided the Fascists | | “The -capitalist view | nance jsummer of 1923 in Germany. Regis- | the Cleveland | t has written it into its program | as bait to hook the petty-bourgeois discontented masses. Even the New | York Times publication, Current | History, prints articles now show- ing how everyone of the demagogic points of the fascist program has | been ditched for the real objec- | tive of fascism, the program of | ! Mess rs. Krupp and Thyssen. Dutt tells of the two earnest | students and devotees of the Mazis asking Goebbels to explain famous peint eleven in the Naai presram which calls fot the “Breaking: of Interest-Siavery.” The only breaking likely to take Place, Geebbels advised his in- | terrogators, would be the heads of those who tried to understand it. The section-of the book headed: v of Social De- | |the works and writings of Otto! mocracy and Fascism,” is worth the | | Bauer. price of the book to every student | . * . of fascism. to every worker who can possibly buy the book. Here} Dutt quotes from the Deutsche Pu- | rerbriefe, “Letters to Leaders” of | German industry, written in the | critieal year of 1932 for confiden- | tial cixculation to the heads of fi- | capital, organized in the! German Federation of Industries. | Space prevents us from quoting juicy morsels, | Dutt's beox shows his encyclope- | lic knowledge of world events, gives | the cream of his omniverous read- | ing, probably not excceded by any living man. I remember the most | unbelievable extent of his reading | in my only contact with the man. | It was in the critical days of the} We | were on our way from Moscow to} Stettin. I occupied a cabin with | Dutt. When I went to bed he would | be reading, with books stacked up | on his berth. Should I wake in the | dead of night, he still read. Karly in the morning, there he wes read- ing. The voyage was rough. Sit- | ting in a deck-chair he read, | | though white with sea-sioknesses. | He takes only a few moments to lean over the rail, and then goes on with his book, | In the fight against fascism. Dutt | clearly shows the decisive factor of the united front. To the socialist leaders who reject the united front, claiming they are carrying on the | fight against fascism, declaring that they will countenance an armed | uprising when “democracy” is en- | dangered, Dutt declares: “The pres- | ent policy determines the future) action.” The present policy of the | American socialist leaders is to re- | ject the actual establishment of the | d front with the Communists | while actually establishing it with such open fascist forces as Green | and Woll. ie Seeber | E HAVE one criticism to make of the book with regard to the analysis of the Roosevelt regime. \“The signal marks of the Roose- | velt policy are: 1) State eapital- ism,” writes Dutt. In the August, | 1933, issue of the Labor Monthly, Dutt made the same designation. | jonly a little fuller: “Four essential characteristics may be singled ‘out as marking Roosevelt's policy. The first is State Capitalism, carried out with a completeness only previously approached in war-time.” This is erroneous, The Socialists in the| United States, like Norman Thom- | as, on the advent of the N.R.A. ar- sued it was State Capitalism, open- | ing the road to a peaceful develop- | ment to socialism, This tune was| quickly dropped when if, clearly de- veloped that Roosevelt's aim was | not State Capitalism, but a strengthening of individual menop- | olies, and the utilization of the state, not to take over industry, but | | to prevent monopolies from going | bankrupt, to maintain their profits | and prices at the expense of mare | | intensive exploitation of the work- | ers. The first signal mark of | | Rowsevelt’s Policy, as so clearly ex- pressed in Dutt's book, is towards | fascism. Throughout the book has the in- cisive, jewel-like stvle fer which Dutt has become famous in his Notes of the Month in the Labour | Monthly. It is an-arsenal of: facts land theory against fascism, and | against the splitters af the proleta- | rian fighting front that every read- | er of the Daily Worker who wishes to make an intensive study*of fas- | cism must read to understand the | most important political task be- | | | fore the whole working class. | i, geee CLIFF and Nelson ing a large ——, (Synopsis: on his way east to look for a job. he finds work in a wire factory. causing dissatisfaction among t organizer, comes to town, after heading a committee demanding the rescinding of the cut, Cliff muungan, A strike is called. The local pa: Harris explodes. Xvi. at the head of the line, one man carry Amergean “flag, they started out-for the Macs. They climbed up a smell hill that led to the shop and ‘began to-circle around | the gates. They tramped around the | large, red bricked siructure be- neath the talt smokestacks shooting up into the dark cloudy sky: The men were silent. Everything in the shop was silent be heard rattling away. Clitt going was into happy the Nobody was shop. However, a couple of chimneys began to smoke, and men in small groups began to drift through the gates. The line moved closer. Someone yelled, “Scabs,” The rest of men caught it up, yelling, “Scabs! Dirty scabs!” They shouted and yelled in an increasing, threatening cry. They raised Police and. troopers grasped their clubs, ready to charge. “Let's not go too near,” said, fearfully. “Hell, we got. to stop them scabs from going in,” Cliff cried, citedly. “But the troopers are wild.” “Don't be yellow, Nelson. They wouldn't hit. They're only tryin’ to seare us.” “T ain't yellow, Nelson but they'll break | up the line.” “They have no right. We got the! flag ahead of us,” “Come on, get back.” the troop- |ers yelted, CHarging. They swooped down from two sides, swinging their clubs, hitting with the butts of the) guns. The line broke up. The men fled for safety. Cliff wresiled with a trooper, holding on to his club.) But soon two more husky troopers ING rise Waa a » nly a train could | the, clenched fists. | ex- | Page Five 43-year old unemployed worker, is In a small town on the way There is a lay-off and wage-cut, he workers. Max Harris, union Cliff and another worker are fired per raises the “red scare,” which The men decide to picket the piant.) . . . with it. Then he carried him down the hill, Nelson himself was weal and dizzy. Near the hill, he slipe ped and fell, dropping Cliff to the g:ound. Down below, the troopers were still wildly chasing the strikers far away from the Macs. HEN they went back to tite gates the strikers came to pick up the wounded. Cliff was rushed te the hospital. The short squatty doctor yelled when he saw the flag around Cliff's: head “What's that, haven't you any respect for the flag’.” Cliff was siowly sciousness. The doctor raged. He tore off the dirty rag that was stuck to the wounds. “Damn you, go easy,” Cliff cused There was no room in the hose pital, and Cliff’s landiady wouldn’s regaining cone have him. They took him to | Weber's house Toward evening, Cliff came to sufficiently to be aware of what had | happened to him. When he recog- nized Harris, tears bleared his eyes, “what's the use, Cliff, don’t let | yourself feel down. You'll be all | right.” “I'll get even with them bastards.” Cliff muttered. “Them lousy goril- la. 's not only with them that we got to get even, Cliff. It's Barnes |and the sheriff and the Sentinel. that we'll have to tackle some day. Don't worry. Just get well.” “Did many fellows get into the shop?” “No, just a few. As soon as the ; cops began to break up the line alt that were about to go in turned back.” “How do the men feel about the strike?” “Fine, Cliff. The way things stand now I believe that the company will have to give in.” ie Clif felt more cheerful. The” thought of haying the strike won made him forget the pain a bit. But at night he groaned. Once he jumped out of bed and began to” fight with Weber, thinking he wes attacked by the troops. Weber was sick too, he had been hit on the | shoulder, but he managed to put Cliff back into the bed. The kids woke up and began to bawl. It wag a tough night for everyone. M: Barnes couldn't get the shop operating with scabs nor could |he break the stfiké. The“then stook | solidly behind their leaders. The company made a retreat. Word” reached the strikers to return to | work en the old scale. The cut had been rescinded. The men rejoiced. | But the strike committee said that |earried in front of them. |In Last Week; “Mass Strug-| |Cinema Trust, no one must go back to work until all the demands had been granted. The company refused. Barnes stated. in the Sentinel that there would. be no negotiations and no Nelson was beaten and knocked | agréements signed. down, too. He managed to get up. |He saw Cliff lying with his face in| TRE men were confused. mud, blood streaming out of his| mouth and head. He lifted him up. jumped upen him and he went down. They kicked him in the face, and stomach as he was lying mo-} tionless. They were fighting against the cut and they had won. They didn’t expect Cliff was unconscious. Nelson | Sanheiie coe aa ed Died |looked around for something with | PI 7 oe ane eee oe ‘ which to badasé Cliff's head to io ‘relief that Harris promised step the blead from flowing. His/ swe wen, Iet's go back,” they said. j eves fell on the flag that ne ue | There was no use holding them | atrty and spotted with blood. There | back. The strike committee decided was nothing else. Nelson tore off a| (6 call Of ‘the strike. wee piece and wrapped Cliff's head up| (To Be Continued) i “STAGE AND SCREEN “Soviets. Greet New Yavi Turkey” | Anatolia. The contrast between the jold and the new—including scenes of old and ancient ruins—some of Coming To Acme Sat. |these dating ‘back to old Roman | days—is very interesting. The chief” “Saviets Greet- New Turkey,” a | cities, Angora, Stamboul and Smyf- Soviet talkie, will be held over this|na, are presented here with clear- week at the Acme Theatre. The |nees and understanding. The film Picture {s a product of Leningrad | has @ special musical score by noted produced in ea- | Turkish and Russian musicians. miriam; | Operation with the Turkish govern- | ment. It was made on the occa-| a new Soviet” gle,” “Mass Struggle,” Oh the N. R. A—she cut Oh the N. RB. A.—she cut i: > We'll all go Time to fight th Oh the government destroyed our crops cause fascism does not come into power at one major stroke, but de- velops and is nurtured by capital- ist democracy. Dutt takes the Workers Health, Dramatics, Agita- tion and Propaganda, Clurrent Events and Imperialism. (ede Sacag fee the comrade assigned to this class by the unit should bring a| credential from the unit signed by | sion of the Tenth Anniversary of | production, a five language talking® the Turkish republie, when the dele- | film, will have ifs American pres. es away | gates of the Soviet Union, headed |miere on Saturday at the Acme. i TUNING IN | Oh the government destroyed our crops Oh the government destroyed our crops We asked for bread they gave us cops Time to fight those hunger blues away So come with me—on the picket line ‘ome with me—on the picket line picket line ses sign to fight those hunger blues away In ‘seventeen—we went to war enteen—we went to war eventeen—we went to war We're wiser now in ‘34 ‘Time to turn those guns the other way In bosses’ war—the worker gots In bosses’ war—the worker gets ts Time to turn those guns the other way Se write us out—our union card (Ete, as above) * * * An Old-Fashioned Melodrama | age I conclude I want to express what I am sure is the mood of the masses by showing a little irritation at the inclusion of an act from an old Spanish melodrama, “Alma Negra,” on the program. I have-no doubt that the comrades of the Spanish Art Workers Club are able and conscientious, but since the program was so long it seemed irrelevant to have it on the program. Moreover, the content of this good, old-fashioned melodrama was so much at variance with the rest of the program that its presentation almost anes the edge of the entire evening. But this is a minor point. The important thing is that the Work- ers Laboratory Theatre has not only shown devcticn to the revolution- ary movement by its activity among the masses, but is displaying a maturity of form which combines vigorous agitational methods with a sensitive use of movement, voice and stage grouping. And this is the time to ask the revolutionary writers of the John feed Clubs when they are going to get Weed and help out in the writing af effective plays and skits , os % greatest pains to analyze clearly and ‘historically the class-basis and the class-role and aims of fascism. The June 30 blocdy events in Germany have made clearer what the Communist International main- tained years before. That while fascism recruits its forces from the petty-bourgeoisie and declassed ele- ments, driven ‘to an insane fury by the erisis, its class content is that of the most chauvinist. the moat brutal and desperate finance capi- talist striving by murder and sav- agery to save capitalism from over- throw. The slaughter of Roehm & Co., and the disbandment of more than 2,000,000 Storm Troovers in Germany. shows the contradiction between fascism and its mass bass. eee ‘ASCISM, Dutt shows, does not “eenauer dower,” but is grocmed for its ruling tesk. on the one hand, by the leading finance capitalists and the democratic sovernments, and on the other, by the class cpl- laboration of the Social Democrats. In Italy, fascism was vlaced in nower by the Kine, Mussolini mak- ing the “conquering” journey in a Pullmen, In Germenv faceism wes placed in vower by the President. lected with the aid of the conial democratic leaders. Ip Avstria, the defend-= of fcmorracy (with ths helm of Bauay & Co.) became th* facets dictator. “Where the majerity of the workin= elacs has followed the Ung ef eemmanicm (the Sovi-t Thien), fascism has not been ab'e to onnenr, ‘where the maiority of the working class has followed the the secretary or the organizer. eh mes. All units of the Party and the |League and all mass organizations heve already received the creden- tials for scholarships. This must be attended to at once. The question should be taken up at the nox meeting. While oniy three appli- cation credential blanks have been sent to’ each organization, addi- tional credentials can be obtained at the Workers School office. * nenaers Harlem Workers Sehool The Harlem Workers School will open its fall term in new head- | quarters, 415 Lenox Ave. The build- ing is being renovated at the pres- ent time and it will provide suffi- cisn reom for the various classes | given at the Harlem Workers: School. Registration opened Szp- tember 4, and the prospective stu- dents in the vicinity of the Harlem School are urged to register early. ‘New courses have been added, such as: History oi American Labor Movement, Labor Journalism, Pub- lic Speaking, a Course for Children Group Leaders, and Voices of Re- volt—A Symposium. o78 Browrsville Workers | Scheol | The comrades in Brownsville in- form us that, > addition to the eur- riculum they announced, they adding ne'v classes, such as a class lin Revolutionary Dramatics, a class for Pioneers and other children, and one ¢lass in Principles of’ Com- munism in the Yiddish language, Nat. Training School The National Training School, | loriginally scheduled to open in! | September, has been postponed un- til October. Many workers, active in the great class battles now tak- jing place, will receive intensive training in this school. The Na- | tional ‘Training School will serve to fill one of the burning needs of the movement, tl need for trained |functionaries in the revolutionary movement. Workers from basic in- |dustries, workers active in the great strike struggles now taking placo,| will receive a systematic training | to prepare them for leadership in the revolutionary movement. Funds are urgently recded for \this purpose. Some time ago an jappeal was. made to ail units of the | Party, various wor! organiza- tions, snd groups of individual sym- pathizers, who promised their sup- ‘port for the school. In spite of | this, funds have been very slow in) coming in, The opening of the Na- | | tional Training School issnear, The | | National School Committee is once more sending cut an appeal for fianancial support. All those units | that have not yet sent in their) |quata are urged to do so at once. j All. individuals hay.ng lists should jturn in all me: coilseted imme- diately. All individuais and grouns {working to raise ids for the jechocl must redouble their efforts | jab this time. Additional lists fer the | 5 | National Traininz Scheol can be seoured at the New York Workers School office. Rush all funds with- out delay to A. Markoff, Treasurer, 35 East 12th St., New York City. 7:00 P. M.-WEAP—Baseball Res WOR—£o0ris Resumé—Fers WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. ‘WABC—Jerry Cooper, Sons: 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch | WOR—Comedy; Music | ‘Wi%—Jack Parker, Tenor | WABO—Wayalde Cotinge—sketch | 7:20-WEAF—Danny Malone, Tenor | | Prick | WOR—Talk—Harzy Hershfield WisZ—County Home Rule—Prefessor | G. W. Spicer, Chairman, Virginie | Commission.on County Government WABC—Jack Smith. Songs 1:45-WEAF—Sisters of the Skillet WOR-Studio Music WdZ—Frank Buck’ WABO—Boake Oa 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestra; Duey, Baritone WIZ—Plain Clothes Girl—Sketch WABC—Concert Orehestra; Frank Munn, Tenor; Hazel Glenn, Soprane 8:20-WEAF—Wayne King Oreheztra WOR—Dave Vine, Comedian WJZ—Tim and Irene, Comedy | WABO—Lymen Orchestra; Vivienne} foqal, Soprano; Cliver Sm: Teno 9:00-WAP—Dr. Adventurs r, Commentator Phil Irvin Stewart, terviewed, WOR—Dance Orchsstra | WJE—Baser Guest, Poet: Concert | Uzch,; Charles Sears, Tenor WABC—Fray and Brazgiotti, Piano | 9:15-WEAF—Russien Symphonic Choir WABC—Rhythm Club 9:30-WEAF—Darnum and Jenay Lind— Sketen WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin | WdZ—Ourrent Rvenis—Mrs. Franklir | D. Roazevelt; Robison Orchestra WABO—Himbe? Oreleat an-Americen Concert: U.S anaes Rosaria de Orélinna, WABO_-Georze Givot., Comedisn; Rich Oreh.; Edith Murray, Songs 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E, Read 19:30-\WOR—That's Life—Skevches WABC—Melodic Strings | 11:00-WEAP—Berger Orehectra WCR—Whiteman Orchestra Rank and Pile A. val | A Communications Commissioner, In- | ad | pices, Ernst Taeeimen: | Turkey. “Boviets Greet New Turkey,” pre- sents an intimate close-up of the picturesque and Primitive life in What’s On Tuesday KEEP September 22 open! Dance at Irving Plaza for delegates to! F. of L. Canferense in| fan Franeiceo. Get tickets et 1 Unien | Square or f: local rat and file Secre- taries, Pi Wm. Gre: “Red Scare” by supperting Rank and Fils. REGISTRATION fer Fall Term now go- ing on at Workers heel, 35 B. 12th St., Rocm 301. Reg: now tive Bee. svsT OUT! “United Action for n. See Lou Dovglas, 11 W. 1@th St, Qn iloor, immediately. INSTALLATION ci | Beach Werkers Center, Cone: Breskiyn, Saturday, fp pen. Drame, Symphon! Quin- totte, Danes Band. Philadelphia, Pa. RED PRES Outing Nature Friends 4 23. Benefit | Send-of | ‘Ask for descrip- | Branoh - Brignion Max Bedaent speaker. | \by Budenny and Vecroshilov, Visited | The Picture, which was produced ‘by Ukrainfilm ef Odessa, is a his-" torieal revolutionary film with tha” |characters speaking Russian, Jew- lish, Polish, Ukrainian, ete. A spe= ‘cial musie soore, in the main Ukrain- ian folk melodics, is a feature’ lof the Soyuzkino talkie. The pic- iture was released in the Soviet | Uni on. under the title “By Water |and Smoke.” Amusements — |;—— Rapio city MUSIC HALL —= |] 90 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation Daors Open 11:30 A.M. | GRACE MOORE : in “Ore Night of Love” . |: ) withTullio Carminat!-A Columbia Picture ymeriy The Hunger Pish' also Welt Disney's “Peculiar Penguins” | to goll the paper and get WF ease man hove weekly, 3c per copy. Liberal com-| 2nd BIG WEEK! “SOVIETS GREET NEW TURKEY” the Leningrad Cinema Trust ten with the Turkish Gov't, Soviet Talkie with English Titles Also:—MOSSOW DERBY DAY -ACME THEATRE, 1éth St. & Union Fa~ SOVIET Super Talk AMKINO'S AMERICAN PREMIERE! DOITOYEVIKTS “PETERSBURG NIGHTS” (bag Wiles) Union Afh Aviggg ov FAO “25 Ti I Bec iat Suh m4 cer coccinea aanasammgpeecagag