The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 12, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE | a. oe WORLD! a By SENDER GARLIN ROM Michael Quin, the author of that fine working-class poem on the shooting of two pickets in the Frisco strike, “To Our Class-War Dead,” which was printed on this page several weeks ago, comes a long and vibrant letter describing the funeral of Mother Mooney in San Francisco the other day. Tam sure that readers will agree that this description of the proletarian tripute to the brave mother of a brave son deserves to be printed in full. FAREWELL TO MOTHER MOONEY HEY would not let her body into prison. We carried the coffin te the gates of San Quentin, but twenty armed guards blocked the Pathi. Tom was watching from the window of the officers’ mess where i at work peeling potatoes. He saw the flower strewn coffin in | | | | | | | a the/ distance, In it was his mother. She had visited him less than a wefk before. They talked, embraced, then she returned home and died. She was to have appeared in the Labor Day parade on the following merning. The appeal to allow Tom to attend the funeral was refused, This would have been her last visit. The tired hody of a working-class mother who had entered these iron gates so often in life, was barred in death: The funeral procession circled the prison and tried another gate. In panic the guards rushed to the new point of attack. Perspiration - poured down their faces. A strange franticness dominated their ac- tions, They were afraid of this small dead body—afraid of the flower- strewn coffin, The newsreel men and photographers were busy on the nearby hillside, The guards charged up the hill and seattered them in all directions. There must be no pictures of the coffin at the iron gate. The procession returned through Marin County to Sausalito and across the ferry to San Francisco. For hours the workers had been massing at the Embarcadero, The famous battle ground of the marine strike was again thronged with people. They were seriously forming themselves in columns for the march. Everywhere, workers were help- ing each other pin-black bands bearing the words Free Tem Mooney on their arms. Late-comers were scurrying up and down in search of places. Young Communists in blue uniforms with sam brown belts and the red insignia of the hammer and sickle on their shirts were straightening out the ranks. Tough faced cops cruising up and down on their motorcycles eyed them with apprehension as a new authority which had usurped their posts. These were the same youths whom they had clubbed and shot down during the youth day demonstration on the waterfront during the strike. The notes of a band were heard above the clanging of trolleys and the roar of traffic. There was a quick, final scurrying and the columns straightened out solid and unbroken. From the Ferry building marched the band followed by the hearse and the cortege. Heads were uncovering all over the waterfront. Slowly the band circled the Em- barcadero and led the way up Market Street. ' * The Tread of Marching Workers HE long columns of workers began to move, Market Street felt the tread of marching workers for the fourth time in six months, There was the angry march of 8,000 marine workers tramping te Civic Cen- ter to shout their defiance of police terror against the granite walls of the bosses administrative palaces. There was the grim march of 50,000 behind the coffins of the workers murdered on Bloody Thurs- day, Sperry and Coundeorakis (a Communist), There was the dressed up and betasseled Labor Day march of 40,000, when tHe bosses’ hench- men Ied the mighty strength of San Francisco labor up Market Street like a giant in paper chains and the betrayers of the General Strike nmiouthed eulogies of class collaboration from a flag-draped platform to an unconyinced and restless sea of workers, Now labor marched behind the coffin of an 86-year old working- class mother. Gaunt workers from the breadlines trudged side by side with employed workers in their pressed up Sunday best. Young boys and girls who were not born when Mooney was first imprisoned, marched with serious faces. ‘This was no sentimental march of super- stitious moaners, They marched behind a symbol of the bondage of their class—a symbol of their own struggle. The dead woman in the coffin that led them was not smiling. Her jaw was set firmly in deter- mination. Her face was lined with the marks of a long struggle. She was born in the County of Mayo in Ireland and came to America 60 years ago. She came with the legions of workers that were brought from Europe to shoulder the picks, swing the axes, guide the plows and build America. In Holyoke, Massachusetts, she met and mar- ried Brian Mooney, a miner. He was a leader in the struggle of his class and one of the first members of the Knights of Labor. ‘They had three children; Tom, John and Anna. Brian died in the coal mining town of Camelburg, Indiana, when Tom Mooney was about 11 years old. They gave him a mass working class funeral and his fellow-miners hewed a giant statue out of coal and set it as a. monument over his grave. They all chipped in to send Mary and the children back to Holyoke to her sisters. There were no widows’ pensions in those days and she had to fight bitterly to prevent the authorities from taking her children and dividing them up among farmers, She worked in the filthy rag rooms of the famous Holyoke paper companies, sorting out dirty scraps to be made into elegant stationery for the daughters of the rich. She earned four to five dollars a week on which to support her family of four. . . The Record of a Fighter ye ‘Tom was old enough he served an apprenticeship in the mould- ers’ trade and got a job in Boston. His record as a fighter in the ranks of the class struggle is known to workers over the whole world. In 1916 he organized the streetcar workers of San Francisco and led them in a strike. The bosses wanted him out of the way. They framed him on perjured evidence and sent him to San Quentin for life on charges of having bombed the Preparedness Day parade. His inno- cence has been proved a thousand times over. Witnesses have con- fessed their perjury. The judge who sentenced him and the jury that found him guilty have implored the authorities to pardon him, declar- ing that they were tricked into condemning an innocent man. But ‘Tom Mooney remains in fail, a living indictment of the class against which he raised his voice and his fist. The cry of Free Tom Mooney has echoed round the world. It is shouted by every tongue, printed on banners in every language. It is one of the battle cries of workers in every corner of the globe. In 1933, ill, weak and warned that the effort would prove fatal, Mother Mooney toured America and Europe with Ada Wright, mother of one of the Scottshoro"boys, addressing the huge throngs of workers that turned out in every city, calling on them te join hands in the struggle to win freedom for class war prisoners. Mother Mooney never separated in her mind the freedom of her son from the victory of ‘her class. To the organized strength of the workers she looked to get Tom free. “Let the funeral of my mother,” sald Tom Mooney, “be the funeral of a brave soldier in the class struggle who died in action. Let every speaker at my mother's grave, let every tribute to her heroic life bring out that she was a part of the struggle of the workers.” ” ’ . The Final Tribute THOUSAND workers followed the coffin up Market Street to the Civic Auditorium. Thousands more uncovered and held their hats to their chests on the sidewalks that lined the march. Fourteen thousand packed the enormous hall in final tribute. There was no preacher and no religious moaning. The uncovered coffin rested at the foot of the speakers’ platform. In back a streamer ran the whole width of the Auditorium, reading: Mother Mooney, We Will Finish Your Fight. Young Communists wtih hammer and sickle emblems, arms folded, heads erect, were statigned at the entrances to every aisle. Henry Schmidt, militant rank and file leader of the In- ternational Longshoremen’s Association, was the chairman. The speakers were Robert Whitaker, Leo Gallagher, attorney for the Inter- national Labor Defense, who defended the Reichstag frame-up prison- ers in Nazi Germany, and Harry Bridges, longshoreman, member of the I.L.A., and rank and file leader of the great marine workers’ strike. At the conclusion of the services, the audience stood and saluted Mother Mooney with upraised fists. This was the funeral of a working class fight>r who died at her post. She wanted to se6 Tom cleared and freed. She wanted to see the victory of her class, The task is now in our hands, We must finish the job! ; 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, New Russian Film| Worthy Addition to Soviet MovieArt| “Petersburg Nights” Reviewed by ‘TOM BRANDON | 'HE Cameo Theatre on 42nd St. Te-opened under new manage- | ment Saturday with the new Soviet sound film, “Petersburg Nights,” whieh, aceording to the program note, was “acclaimed an outstand- | ing masterpiece of cinema art at the World Exhibition of Cinma- tography, held in Venice several | weeks ago.” ' The Cameo closed for many months because of failure, due to} having abandoned its former suc- | cessful policy of showing foreign | and principally Soviet films, now reverts to the old policy and may | once again hold capacity audiences. With the proper admission prices it | could no doubt attract that great | masses of movie-goers whase reac- | tion to bourgeois films and te the bourgeois film “purifiers” may be expressed, with appropriate ges- tures, as being “A plague on both your houses!” | “Petersburg Nights,” directed by G. Roshal, is based on the Dosto- yevsky novel “White Nights,” and dramatically develops the tragedy | of an honest, creative musician who is almost completely crushed in the Philistinism of old Czarist Russia. Egor, the serf, playing clarinet in the private orehestra of his master, becomes a self-taught violinist whose genius propels him in the direction of St. Petersburg fer ere- | ative freedom, great audiences, | fame. He escapes to the city of } “white nights” and courageously | and honestly attempts to create musie “not for the sake of counter- point, harmony and form, but to | express the people, the people I know so well.” In the vise of Philistine Russia, erushed by the lifeless aristocracy, he sinks into the spiritless morass of the fettered and frustrated ar- tist—broken, degraded, drunk: a symbol of the creative artist in| Czarist Russia. | ear ee IT seems to me that Director Roshal has been vastly more ef- feetive in recreating a cection of life in feudal Russia than Director Ivanovski in House of Greed—at Jeast on one major count. Both films are sustained by distinguished acting; both are essentially charac- ter portrayals. While in Hous of Greed the character of Iudishka the Bloodsucker is developed within the narrow canvas of the one feu- dal family, in the new film Egor, the central character, is developed not merely by his acting, but by showing him in struggle with tho class forces of the particular pe- riod as the framework, In “Petersburg Nights” the full character of Egor, as an individual and as a@ symbol, is heightened and brought to life because his strug- gles are seen in relation to the class forces of the particular period; he meets and is influenced by a band of nihilisis. In this way, with the class forces definitely polarized, the struggle of Egor takes on meaning; the stultifying nature of the bour- geoisie is more clearly divined. When ali but life is crushed from Egor, he falls upon an amazing sight: the masses of workers from a nearby factory are marching by on strike—singing the yery music he created with them in mind, the music the beurgeoisie would not ac- cept from him! And BHgor, the crushed artist, sings with the mili- tant workers who have put blood and flesh into his music. He sings the words the workers have created for his song. * eae] 'OMPLEX and controversial as the | problem of adapting novels for the sereen may be among cine esthetes, we must state emphat: cally that “Petersburg Nights” cred- itably brings the genius of Dosto- yevsky to the screen, constituting, with the singularly appropriate mu- sic by D. Kovalesky and the mag- nificent performance of the entire cast, 2 worthy addition to the Ae ad array of Soviet works of art. On the same program fs a de- cidedly interesting example of powerful lens photography some- what idiotically devoted to filming a flea juggling a dumb-bell: also an animated cartoon that thinks Negro “nicaninnies” are a very fun- ny subject. TUNING IN | 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resum WOR—Sports Resume—Terd Frick WJZ—Johnson Orchestra WABC—Mountaineers Music 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Boys’ Club ‘WABC—Summary, Men's Amateur Golf Championship, Brookline, Mass. 7:30-WEAP—Male Quartet WdZ—Jewels of Enchantment—Sketch with Irene Rich WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 1:46-WEAF-—Cleaning up’ New York—Paul Blanshard, Commissioner of Ac- eounts WOR—Studio Music WJZ-—Frank Buck's Adventures WABC—Lucrezia Bori, Soprano, of Metropolitan Opera ‘Company 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian WOR—Dance Orchestra WdZ—Plain-Clothes Girl—sketch WABC—Maxine, Songs; Spitalny En- semble -WABO—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator -WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—The Lone Ranger—Sketch WsZ—Igor Gorin, Baritone WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone; Elizabeth Lennox, Contraito; Arden Orchestra; Mixed Chorus; Lew Pol- Composer che -WIZ-—Off the Record—Thornton Fisher :00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian; Song- smiths Quartet; Hayton Orch. WOR—Fooilight Echoes WJZ—Ruth Lyon, Soprano; Cyril Pitts, Tenorr; Shield Orch.; Joan Blaine, Narrator WAEC—Beseball—Mickey Cochrane, Manager Detroit Tigers -WABC—Detusch Orch. -WOR—Hysterical History—Sketch WJ2Z—Whebre Do the Trolley Tracks Go?—Sketch WABC—Fray and Braggioti, Piano 10:00-WEAF—Lombardo Orch. WOR—AI and Lee Reiser, Pitno Wie _Denints King, Songs; Katzman ren. WABC—Broadcest to and rom Byrd Expedition; Warnow Orch. 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read Wd%—Pendarvis Orch. 10:30-WEAF—The Other Americas—Ed- ward Tomlinson WOR—Verieiy Musicale e WiZ—Denay Oren.; Harry Richman, Songs WABC—Crusade Against Crime— Sketch Bar Cortege at San Quentin |News of the John’ aR e oe | a | | | 2 symposium on “For w ; tionary | first | ward Hall: SEPTEMBER 12, 19 Reed Clubs of the U.S.A. With the Revolutionary Little Magazines Left-Frent, organ of the John Reed Clubs of the Midwest, plans to publish a symposium on “pro- letarian regionalism” in literature. | The New Quarterly, edited by Jay | du Von from Rock Island, Il., runs | m do you! number. | write?” in its current | Many left-wing and liberal writers | answer this question. | Leftward, New England reyolu- | magazine, edited by the| JRC., will inelude in its issue: “Strike Front,” by Ed- Boston \ ee ie | =JOANIEL HORWITZ (Synopsis: Cliff mustgan, 19-year old unemployed worker, is on his way east to look for a job, In a small town on the way he finds work in a wire factory. There is a lay-off and wage-cut, causing dissatisfaction among the workers. Max Harris, union organizer, comes to town. Cliff and another worker are fired after heading a committee demanding the reseinding of the cut. A strike is called. The local paper raises the “red scare,” which Harris expicdes. The men throw a picket line around the plant. Pelice and troopers break it up, beating Cliff badly. The wage- cut is rescinded, and the men decide to go back to work.) . . XVHIT thought they should’nt let him tall, “We're from Alabama,” by Ben Field; “As Eggs With Ham, a Salute to Ford Hall Forum,” by Several times Cliff tried to ge | Out of bed and go to the headquar- | ters, but he eouldn’t raise his head ere Seaer SRN eae | It felt like a log of wood on his oor allie ail 88! shoulders and ached constaatly. Fired from the Transerivt,.” by Re- But when Weber's wife told him |beeca Farnham; ‘‘Counsellor-at- |." 3 Me eo obi ‘s Law,” by Stanley Kirk, as well as that the men were deciding to cail reviews of books, movies, and plays | off the strike, he dressed and stag- A feature of the magazine will be gered to headquarte:s. No one was “Letters from New Engisnd.” Sub-| tere. Bverybody was at the meet- seriptions (19 eents a copy; $1 a| : Harris that he couldn't be pree Cliff was too popula: y opened the meeting. Cliff determined for the first time to oppose the o! er, Brothers, we have carried on a splendid gle,” Harris began.” and we won it. It’s true we didn’t win all the demands. We didn't win the increase in wages, but we won the cut baek. And in face of all | year) should be sent to Leftward, 12) the difficulties, in the face of the The funeral cortege of Mary Mooney, 86-year- id mother of Tom Mooney, which was denied admittance to San Quentin prison. Warden Helchan kept workers and members of the Mooney family from taking the body in after Mooney was deni funeral in San Francisco, letter to Sender Garlin today, Michael Quin describes the funeral in a ied permission to attend the mass | | | | LABORATORY — | AND SHOP RAMSEY | By DAVID Health Hazards 1934—$26,866,900 (First seven| in Taduat months), MA ABGUBIEY: The August issue of Chemical and The problem of of nal dis- | Metallurgical Engineering reports eases is a very gr country. Health hazards but comparatively little this many, being is done to climinate needless deaths | and suffering. During the years of! |Dysentery Threatens | National Health the crisis safeguards have been let down and research on these prob- lems has come to a dead end. To counteract the undoubtedly large increase in eecupational dis- eases, the bourgeoisie have brought out the time-worn argument that health hazards in industry are few and easy to control. Last week at the meeting of the American Public Health Association in Pasadena, California, Dr. R. A. Jewett, a ba lyhoo artist employed by the Ge: eral Petroleum Corp., tried to attr bute the dangers in the oil industry to exposure to the elements. He also claimed that they were few in number and thus easy to control. The inaccuracies of Dr. Jewett’s statement, were indirectly exposed on the y same day by Dr. Henry F. Smyth of the University of Penn- sylvania. The latter, in another Paper, pointed out that distinct | health hazards did exist in the oil} industry, and these could by no means be blamed upon neture. reporied that acute and chronic poiscning from gasoline and ben- | zine were common in the industry. These substances acted as nareotic | poisons and injured the nerves in chronic cases. It is necessary to emphasize that thesc hazards arise from the present methods employed in the industry, which are as waste- ful of men as they are of natural resources. Another occupational danger was brought to the attention of the Public Health Association by Dr. Smyth. He announced that an- thrax is increasing among agricul- | tural workers and is also exacting | its toll from workers in the wool industry. Except in a few states, the death rate for this disease is not declining. On the conirary, the death rate is actually among agricultural wor: enti-anthrax serum is : ’ Health Insurance The crisis caused an apvalling breakdown in the public health ma- ehinery. Working men and women and their children have been the chief sufferers. Billions are given to bankers and manufacturers, but only pennies are spent for health purposes, although many diseases could be prevented by the expendi- ture of but little money. What should be the first. concern of society, is never even discussed, | It is significant that at the meet- ing of the Public Health Associa~- tion there was no denunciation of the government’s criminal health policy. Instead one health officer boasted that the field of public health unlike indusiry had “not broken down (!) and had not re- quired special government codes for regulation.” The answer to this bit of fluff is that the failure of public health service in this country is so catastrophic that the only thing left to regulate are mounting death rates and an unprecedented increase in malnutrition. An Index of War Preparations The chemical industry is prob- ably the most important industrial factor in modern warfare. i therefore, highly significant that new chemical factories are being built as rapidly as possible while construction of other industrial plants stagnates. The following figures are based on F. W. Dodge * * |Health Association, |O’Connor of Columbia University | He |" | that more than $100,000,000 has been | spent or set aside for the building | |of new factories by the chemical in- | dustry. From six to twelve million persons in the United States have or carry dysentery according to Dr. Alfred C. Reed of the University of Cali- | fornia Medical School. Dysentery is usually a disease of wars, of ms and of crowded living. . It is spread by the bowel discharges of infected people. Faulty sanita- | tion causes outbreaks like the epi- demie in Chicago last year. There is a double danger from | | dysentery carriers. They spread the | jdisease to other persons who may | become seriously ill, and the car-| riers themselves may develop the} disease in a malignant form at any time. At the meeting of the Public pointed out that the development of | a liver. abscess is a complication | which threatens the so0-ealled ealthy” carrier. He also empha- sized the grave danger of a relapse in patients who had apparently been cured. Since sanitary condi- tions among workers and farmers | are growing steadily worse the} threat of a new epidemic is con- siderable, . A Scientific Salesman For Monopoly * . Lenin once characterized hour- geois economists as scientific sales- men for capitalism. They give spe- cial privilege a scientific front. The current meeting of the British As- sociation for the Advancement of Science listened to H. M. Halls- worth, president of the Economic Science Section, plead thot the English railways be given special g | consideration, The railroads in England have * been hard hit for a long time. Be tween 1923 and 1933 their revenues jfell 26 per cent. To remedy this sad state of affairs (for the bank- ers) Mr. Hallsworth proposed that. | the railroads be given the monovoly over all transportation facilities. ch as docks, canals and air and| |bus service. In other words, in-| | crease their profits by giving them | a bigger field to exploit. Boy A ce | Thunderstorms Shatter | Radio “Mirrors” In the ionosphere there are radio \“mirrors” which reflect radio waves and thus make transmission over long distances possible. Hach mir- |ror consists of an ionized layer of jair; that is, the air atoms are split apart and consequently are elec- trified. Radio waves bounce off the |lower side of these layers and are jthen reflected back to earth. J. A. Ratcliffe of the famous | Cavendish Loboratory in Cam- | bridge reported to the British As- sociation for the Advancement of Science that thunderstorms shatter these radio mirrors and cause poor reception. Mr. Ratcliffe used radio signals to determine the height of | these electrical layers during thun- | derstorms. | Just as the depth of the ocean is | determined by sending dovm sound | |Wwaves and measuring the time thet | it takes for the echo to return, so radio waves were used to mess! nt by the same echo method. Mr. Rotcliffe found that suring an elecirieal storm the re- \dio ceiling was 65 miles above the earth. Aftcr the storm the ceilinz ‘rose to 78 miles, | mer, mimeographed magazine of the | in |communications from revolutionery | Midwest Regional Newbury St., Boston, Mass. Partisan, orgen of the Hollywood | JRC. has been temporarily sus- | pended, but plans are under way for a new publication to appear in magazine format. | The fourth number of The Ham- | Hartford J.R.C,, has just appeared. It's hard to pick up any little |Meagazine today without finding et} 4 least one good revolutionary story it. “A Class in English,” by | Louis Lerman, in the current Blast; “My Kid Brother,” Saul Levitt in| The Magazine; “St. Louis Idyll,” by | Jack 8. Balch, in Partisan Review, | are recent examples. Pollen, pub- lished in San Francisca, alsa con- tains some examples of revolution- ary literature. *. . New J.R.C. Groups j A group of revolu including Mark Marvi roy, Jay du Von, and field, have formed a JRC, Davenport. Local peinters and sculptors have organized a J.R.C. in Oklahoma City. | A J.R.C. group in Seattle plans to | issue a publication of their own. | They also contribute to Voiee of Lebor, northwestern newspaner. | Meridel LeSueur, Solon Barber and George Salvatore, contributors to numerous little magazines, are corresponding members. The na tional office has recently received | writers in Utah, Oklahoma, Minne- sota and Honolulu! J.R.C. Members at Work Bertha E. Powell, of the Chicago | JIRC., is writing a novel to be en- | titled, “When Sterms Blow Loud.” Among other members who are writing or who have just finished novels are Mark Marvin, John Al- roy, Edward Newhouse, Nelson Al- | pren, Tillie Lerner, etc. The last | three will be issued by bourgeois | publishers. Others will be submit- | ted to the New Masses-John Day proletarian novel contest. Harry Carlisle, who orgenized many cul- tural grouns on the West Coast. is finishing his second novel in a sani- tarium in California. Members of the Grand Rapids JR.C. have been commissioned by | the Forriture Werker to prepare a pamphlet on the furniture strike of 1911 in the city. Philip Stevenson. author of four novels, has completed a trilogy of one-act revolutionary pleys: “The Gentleman from Hooverville,” “God's in His Heaven.” and “Road Closed.” One of them won first prize in a Theatre Union contest. riage Siew Meeting of Midwest Regional Board Among the resolutions of the | Board of the J.R.C.’s, which met during August, is one calling for the establishment of a commission to take up the problem of how the J.R.C.’s can ring Negro intellectuals into the revolutionary cultural movement, The Chicago club recently held a symposium on “The Negro and the Revolutionary Movement,” at which Dewey Jones, city editor of the Chicago Defender, and Richard Wright, Negro poet and executive secretary of the J.R.C.. spoke. Other resolutions call for a Wit- tenber Defense Committee to be set up in every JR.C. in the United States; for an uncompromising struggle against the N.R.A., par- ticularly against those sections which apply to the J.R.C., such as the Public Works of Art Projects; for the pzeparation of pamohlets to include a History of the Communist Party in the’ Midwest. by the Chi- cago J.R.C.. a pamphlet on the Ford Massacre, by the Detroit J.R.C., one on the Socialist Party and Commu- nist Party in Milwaukee, a booklet of proletarian songs by the Cleve- land club, an anthology of proleta- rian short stories cf the Midwest by St. Louis, ete, Jan Wittenber Defense Postcards The well-known Chicago artist | and others are still confined in the Hillsboro jail. The Jan Wittenber Defense Committee has issued post- cards addressed to Governor Horner of Illinois, calling for the release of the prisoners and the quasking of the Criminal Syndicalist Lew under which they are held. The cards may be ordered in quantities (50 cents a hundred) from the John Reed Club, 505 S. State St. Chi- cago, Ill. CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OFFERS REWARD Reports of continued violence in the textile strike drew frem the Civil Liberties Union anneuncemens of 2 rex $ for information leading to the ar- rest and conviction of police sher- iffs, hired guards or other officials for criminal acts committed against the striking workers. The offer war | to decide about the strike. ing. He dragged himself to the hall stopping every few paces. The meeting hadn't begun yet when he came in, He met Harris at the door. “Cliff, how did you come here?” Harris stared at him in bewilder- ment. “Hell, I just couldn't lay there when I heard the fellows were going What's the idea? Why did you hold out on me?” “Hell, Cliff, the doctor told you to stay in bed.” “I don’t give a damn, I got to be here. Tell me what's going on. Are they really going back?” “There's no way out. We won the put back and that’s about all the men will fight for now.” “You're talking out of your head, Max. What do you mean? You shouldn't let them,” Cliff was yell~ ing hysterically. “Please, Cliff, don’t get excited. You can't see things as they are be- cause you have been laid up, and you don't know the sentiments of the men. I say you beiter go home and I'll be up later to see you and will talk about it at length. some fellows to run you up. What do you say?” “Rot. All your talk is rot. going to stay here and talk. Damn it, I will!” ’ ARRIS begged and coaxed and tried to convince him, but Cliff stuck to his own. The meeting was held up for half an hour. Nelson ee: Wednesday COME and hear report ef International Women's Congress Ageinat Wat end Fas- | eism held in Paris, st Ambassador Hall, 3875 Third Ave. 8 p.m. Olera Bodian, one of the delegetes, will report. SYMPOSIUM ‘The Sculptor Today.” dealing with the technical and economic struggles of sculptors ig’. present dey Tl get | I'm) WHAT’S ON terror of the police and troopers, in the face of the slanderous provos''- | cative campaign carried on by the | Sentinel, I say that we won a vice tory.” “Hooray!” | “But the fight isn't over yet, brothers. The fight is ahead of us. | The fight is to hold our gains. This | We can only succeed in doing by organizing ov lves into a union j and affiliating with a larger body, ‘The Metal Worker's Union’.” | This was the first time that Harris | remembered that he represented a | higher body, He hammered away. | on the necessity of building a union | to fight for still better conditions. | There was hand-clapping and | cheering when he finished | Nelson, in introducing Cliff, said | that the secretary didn't agree to | the proposal of the strike committee | for calling off the strike, but this | was because he had been laid up ; and didn’t know the situation. | “But I hope,” Nelson said, “that | brothers Harris's speech made him change his mind.” When Cliff rose to speak he got. | a tremendous appiause. He felt weak j and rather uncertain about what to | say. Yet he couldn't reconcile him- | self to the idea of the men going | back to work without winning all | the demands | “Brothers,” he began in a low voice,” Harris says that we won. I say that’ we lost. We lost,” he- shouted, hysterically, grabbing hold of the table to hold himself up. | “Yes, if we go back to work with- out getting a raise, then we lost j out, We put up a fight and Barnes | had to give back the cut. If we keep out of the shop, he'll give in to work, we are just a bunch of cow- ards. We have no guts in us.” | “What are we going to eat? Where is the relief? How in hell. can we stick it out?” came from | different parts of the floor. Nelson banged the gavel. “Order! Order men!” (To Be Continued) | Friday 4 FILM and Photo will present first League, 12 E. 17th 8t., showing of three reel | films, “Sheriffed.” made by a member of the League, besed on struggles of Amer= jiean Farmer for equitable living condie tions and against mortgage foreclesures. | Followed by daneing, refreshments, drinks, ete., 8:30 p.m. seeiety. Artists Union, 11 Ww. 18h St, 3| Saturda, p.m. | LECTURE by A. Markoff. Director Works ROUND TABLE Discussion at Pordham | srg sehool at Priends of Workers School, Prog. Club. 1903 Jerome Ave. on Current | 116 University Place, 8:80 p.m. Subject: Events, including, strikes, menace of war | “workers Education.’ 8:30 p.m. in the Far Bast, etc. Checkers, chess and | Z bridge after aibéuasign. “Adm. free. All wel- Chicago, Ill. come. GENERAL Membership Meeting Film and} OPEN Book Review, Sunday afternoon Photo League, 9 p.m., at 12 E. 17th St.| Sept. 16, 3 p.m. at North Side Workers Photo Section Meeting 8 pm. Production | Center, 648 Wisconsin St., 1900 North, cor. Comm. 7 p.m, All members please be| Larabee. Adm. 0c. Subject: “Toilers present. | Against War,” by Clara Zetkin, reviewed everything. But if we go back to-> IMPORTANT membership meeting Sacco | by Eugene Bechtold, instructor Workers” Vanzettt Br. LL.D, at 792-E. Tremont Ave. | School. Arrangements to be made for Sept. 29) MUETING of representatives of all IL, affair. All members present | D., LW.O. and other mass organizations, REGISTRATION for Pall Term now go-| Section and Unit Daily Worker Agen’ ing on at Workers School, 25 E. 12th St.,| Friday, Sept. 14. 8 p:m. at Peoples’ A' Room 301. Register now. Ask for descrip- | ditorium Room 302. tive catalogue. | of setting up Ci JUST OUT! “United Action for Social | mittee, Security,” formerly The Hunger Fighter. | >er 1 nizations and sym-. Agents wanted to sell the paper and get | oathetic organizations asked to send repre- ads, Bi-weekly, 3¢ per copy. Liberal com-| sentatives to meeting. Sympathizers and mission, Bee Lou Douglas, 11 W. 8th St.,| readers invited to attend, nd floor, immediately. That ws amy ep, AMUSements OPEN Meeti; | Boro Park Cultural Genter, 1280 Séth St. | L. B. Swift, noted composer, main speaker. 8:30 p.m. | COME, Hear Report International Wo- men’s Congress Against Wer and Pasism | at Christ Churh House, 344 W. 36th &<., 5 p.m. Adm. 10c. Bring shop mates and friends, Prominent speakers SYMPOSIUM on Textile Btrike at Web- }—— Rapio city MUSIC HALL 50 St. & 6 Ave. —Show Place of the Nation Doors Open 11:30 A.M. GRACE MOORE in “One Night of Love” ster Hall, 119 F, 11th St., 8:30 p.m. Speak- || *ithTultio Carminati-A Columbia Picture ers: Olarence Hathaway, John L. Spivak, || also Walt Disney's “Peculiar Penguins’, Manning Johnson, Ella Reeve Bloor. Chair plus s Musie Hall Revue ~| man, Paul Peters, noted playwright. Au pices, Southern Strike Relief Committee. | “SOV and BIG WEE! IETS GREET. % | Dovyry carTe suerte! NEW ‘TU ha OPERA COMPANY from Lendon OPERAS | T RKEY Mat. Tedey & Tonight. “YOLANTRE" || Prod. by the Leningrad Cinema Trust Thors., Fri. & Sat. Nights & Sat. Mat., in cooperation with the Ti “TRIAL BY JURY,” followed by j “HM. 8. PINAFORE” MARTIN BECK THEA., 45 St., W. of & Av. | Soviet Talkie with En, Also: MOSCOW DERBY DAY ACME THEATRE, 1/th St. & Union 83.— RE-OPENING OCTOBER FIRST Theatre Union’s Outstanding Dramatic Hit! STEVEDORE You Will Want to See It Again and Again! For Benefit Theatre Parties Call WAtkins 9-2050 SPECIAL REDUCED RATES for Parties of More Than 50, are: 90¢ for $1.50 seats; 60c for $1 seats; 50c for 75c seats; 40c for 60c seats; 3Cc for 45c seats; 23c for 30c seats You may have your choice of any combinstion CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE, 14th St. & 6th Ave. DOSTOVEVSKiS ‘PETERSBURG NIGHTS” SOVIET Super Telking File (Brattice) Union At. Loce! 305 Crow | chemical plants. leter to 93 miles. Boccuise of this 1932—$1,927,100. |up and dawn mation of the coiline. 1935—$11,964.500 ($8,298,300 for | radia recention aries during a the first seven months), thunderstorm, ued over the signature of Harr: F, Ward, chairman, | CAMO + 25! inci. BS