The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 17, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE | | —-THe— || WORLD! -- By SENDER GARLIN HE scene is Columbus, Ga. The time was on a Sunday morning, long before the present textile strike. Wil- liam D. Anderson, president of the Bibb Manufacturing Company, and one of the biggest mill owners in the South, called together 1,200 of his workers in the local school- house. ; Perhaps there were less than 1,200 workers, for it is doubtful if that number could find places in the kind of schoolhouses | they have in mill towns in Georgia, as the publicity department of the | United Textile Workers suggests in releasing the story of Mr. | Anderson’s eventful gainering. { The mill owner had a message for his workers. A fine breakfast (ghuthern-cooked) in his belly, freshly shaved, Mr. Anderson was in a ‘hellow, optimistic mood. He wanted to have a few words with his em- Ployees. He had heard that some of his “hands” had been speaking words of discontent. Loyal foremen (bossmen, the workers call them) had brought to Mr. Anderson the disturbing report that some of the mill -workers were “steamed up” because of the stretch-out system, & new-fangled s¢ientific method by which workers tend three times | &s many looms as formerly for less wages than they had received be- fore th -out was instituted. * 1 He Faces the Issue Squarely ORST of all, Mr. Anderson, the president of the Bibb Manulactur- | ing Company, had been told by his foremen (they are also called | (stoolpigeons) that there was talk of strike because the workers were unable to feed themselves and their families on the wages they were getting. Moreover, most of them were working part-time and could barely keep body and soul together with the few pennies that Mr. An- derson was paying them. The president of the Bibb Manufacturing Company decided to face the issue squarely. He decided to have a heart-to-heart talk with his “hands.” No use, he thought, to be bellicose on this fine Sunday morn- ing. Why not take the bull by the horns and show how foolish is this | talk about low wages in the mill? | Mr. Anderson Was not like those “poor whites” who didn’t know enough to get the advantages of a sound education. Most of them, poor devils, had never gone to school in their lives. But Mr. Anderson wouldn’t hold that against them. The Lord, Mr. Anderson always felt, had rewarded those who were worthy and punished those who were | unworthy. The fact that he, Mr. Anderson had had opportunities for more than “plain larnin’” was part of. the pattern which the Lord | meetings to discuss the problems of |and cultural centers, |for the foundation of a single | Union of Soviet Writers to unite all | himself had designed. It also explained. why. he-was president of the Bibb Manufacturing Company and not just a mill hand. a * s Science That Is Profitable THE word “science” had even seeped down into the deep South in spite of the anti-evolution trial in Tennessee and the fact that hundreds of schools were shut down for lack of funds. Mr. Anderson, who prided himself on the fact that he was no provincial, subscribed to the Atlanta Constitution and thought that the Rev. Hudson, the Georgia prosecutor who demanded the electric chair for Angelo Herndon and “all reds caught south of the Mason and Dixon line,” was a mighty fine, educated and upstanding man. Of course, Mr. An- derson didn’t believe in the kind of science that made men skeptical regarding the inscrutable ways of the Lord, but on the Sunday he called his workers together he, felt that there were certain sciences that were sometimes useful to mankind. It was the notion of a “balanced diet” which seized Mr. Ander- son’s imegination on that fine Sunday morning in Columbus, Ga. His workers were already on short time and he knew that many of them felt that cotton mill wages even on full time are pretty scanty. But Mr. Anderson had a solution for their troubles—which, he explained, were. not confined to. themselves, but ta all mankind. The problem, he said was to make ends meet. But the textile workers, he explained, would have no trouble in caring for themselves if they only bought the right foods. Here, according to the U.T.W. press service, is a list of supplies which he set forth as an example for a textile workers’ family. of four persons for a week: 24 pounds of flour... . . . 60 cents | 4 pounds of Jard . . . . » » . 35 cents — i 8 pounds of potatoes. . . . + . 16 cents ' 1 peck of corn-meal , . . « « . 25 cents TOTAL . «w+ + oo o, SLES Now, there, no further cause for discontent! Of course, said Mr. Anderson, you always have chronic grumblers and bellyachers who wouldn't even be content in Paradise. But nowadays, with so many people out of work, and with the market for cotton being so poor, folks have to be satisfied with whatever the Lord has provided. * * ° . Some Concessions, Too F COURSE, the president of the Bibb Manufacturing Company, con- ceded, if folks from to time hankered for a little luxury, he was prepared to be a reasonable and human man, ever guided by that fine human principal of “live and let live.” His mill hands might have in addition to the flour, lard, potatoes and corn meal, one package of ; coffee a week at 12 cents, and two pounds of fatback at 20 cents. The total cost for this “balanced diet” for four persons works out, in cheap stores, at $1.68 a week. Now, isn’t that sensible? If folks would only be reasonable and listen to the advice of such thoughtful men as Mr. Anderson, there’d be no need for strikes and all kinds of trouble that give the commu- nity a bad name outside the state. But it seems there was a rub somewhere. For in the “balanced diet” suggested by Mr. Anderson no salt is provided, no sweetening, no vegetables except potatoes. Not only were vegetables missing, but also fresh meat, and most important—fresh milk. > It appears that some enterprising Individual called up the United 1 } States Public Health Service and read the Anderson “balanced diet” to them. i “What do you think of it?” asked the inquirer, when he had fin- ished. “I don’t think you could find a more perfect prescription for pro- ducing pellagra,”’ was the answer. e They’d Rather Not Diet ELLAGRA is a disease caused by malnutrition. It isoa disease which | members DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1984 Greater Knowledge of Past Culture Urged | by Maxim Gorky | Red first All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers opened in the House of Trade Unions in Moscow on Aug. 17. The congress, which marks the consummation of two! years’ organizational work in cre- ating the ‘new Union of Soviet Writers, was preceded by local literature in all parts of the Soviet Union. Thousands of literary cir- cles in the factories and collective farms took part in this nation-wide literary movement, as well as the professional writers of the cities Over 500 delegates attended the congress, from all parts of the So- viet Union and from its varied na- tional groups. A large number of lelegates also came from other | fields of activity. The presidium of 52 members in- cluded such well-known Soviet lit- erary figurés as Demyan, Biedny, Gladkoy, Fadeyev, Panferoy, Ehren- bourg, Marietta Shaginian, Koltz- ov, Ivanov, Novikoy-Priboi, Leon- ov, Alexey Tolstoy, Illesh, Paster- nak, Serafimovich, Lydia Seifulina | and Sholokhoy. Looking down on the congress from the columns all around the great hall were the pic- tures of Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Molliere, Cervantes, Balzac, Heine, | Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Chek- | hov and other giants of world lit- | erature. The idea of this gathering goes back to April 23, 1932, when the Central Committee of the Commu- | nist Party passed a resolution dis- | solving the RAPP (Association of | Proletarian Writers) and providing the novelists, poets, dramatists and literary critics of all the peoples of | the U.S.S.R., party and non-party alike, “fellow-travelers” as well as Communist writers. RAPP had committed many blun- ders through its narrow dogmatic attitude, through insisting that all | writers hew to a definite line, and had a stifling effect on creative ac- tivity in literature. The April deci- Sion put an end to the inner divi- sions in the Soviet literary groups and threw the gates open to all Soviet writers united by the com- mon literary idea of “Socialist real- ism.” After two years’ preparatory work the Congress met to complete the organization of the Union of Soviet Writers, to define and am- plify the method of “Socialist real- ism” and to raise the standards by which Soviet literature of the pres- ent is judged. Opening Speech of Maxim Gorky ee opening speech was made by Maxim Gorky, greatest ana most popular of Soviet writers. He urged a greater knowledge of the literary heritage of the past and a revalua- tion of cultural history. He spoke of the tasks before the Soviet writ- ers of today, discussed their short- | comings and defects, urged a} greater attention to beauty and purity of style as well as greater use of the rich and vital subject matter offered by the tumultuous life of the present. He defined the | purpose of Socialist realism as fol- | lows: “Socialist realism intervrets life as activity. as creation, the aim of which is the constant development of the richest individual abilities of man, for the sake of his victory over the forces of nature, for the sake of health and long life, for | the sake of the great joy of living on the earth—every bit of which he wants to cultivate, in accordance | with the ceaseless growth of his| needs—as a beautiful dwelling, place for humanity, united into one family.” In the concluding section of his speech, outlining the accomplish- ments of Soviet writers, and the tasks before them, Gorky said: “This is not the time nor the place for me to dwell on the sharp differences between our literature and that of the West—that would | require long and painstaking labor —and is partially dealt with by Radek in his saliv report. As to the What’s On Monday ATTENTION—‘“Hell On Earth,” today Some of the delegates at the recent Soviet Congress of Writers held in Moscow—Left to right, Karim Zade, writer of Tadjikistan; Maria-Theresa Leon, Spanish author of children’s books; achievements have already had a great deal to! say, and that very joyously in an article printed in 1930 in the book ‘About Literature’ as well as in many other articles. Since that time four years of strenuous work| tion, traditional for realistic writ- | have passed. Does that work give me the right to raise my estimate ef the achievements of our litera-| ture? That right is given by | the high estimation in whi a great many books are held by our main body of readers—the workers and collective farm members. These books are well known to you and therefore I shall not mention them, but will only say that we already have a solid group of word artists —a group whom we may recognize | as leaders in the process of devel- oping an artistic literature. “In this group are united the most talented of both our party and non-party writers, and the lat- ter are becoming ‘Soviet’ not just | in words but in fact, becoming ever more deeply convinced of the im- portance for all humanity. of the heroic work of the party and of the workers’ and peasants’ govern- ment. It must not be forgotten that Russian bourgeois literature— if we count from the end of the 18th century—required almost a hundred years in order to enter powerfully into life and have a definite influence on it. Soviet rev- olutionafy literature has achieved this influence in fifteen years, “Great demands are being made on literature by the swiftly chang- ing reality and the cultural revo- lutionary work of the party of Lenin—the extent of these de- mands is explained by the high value which the Party puts on the art of word painting. There has never in the world been a state where science and literature have been given so much help, where so much concern has been expressed over raising the professional quali- fications of the workers in the realms of art and science. “The state of the workers must train thousands of distinguishéd ‘masters of culture,’ ‘engineers of the spirit.’ This is necessary in or- der to return to the mass of the workers their right to develop their minds, abilities and gifts—a right | such a huge garden. Raby, a peasant-poet of Tajikistan; Alibertti, Spanish poet, and Djalil, poet from Tadjikistan. of our literature I;denled them everywhere in the world, This plan, which is prac- | ticably realizable, places on us writers the deepest respcnsibility for our work and social conduct. It places us not only in the posi- ers, of being ‘judges of the world and people,’ ‘critics of life,’ but gives us the right to direct partici- pation in the new life, in the pro- | cess of changing the world.’ Aims of the Writers’ Union “WJHY was this congress of writ- ers organized and what is the aim which the future Writers’ Union will set for itself? If only for the professional welfare of the literary workers it would hardly have been necessary to fence in It seems to me that the Union should have as its aim not merely the professional interests of the writers, but the in- | terests of literature as a whole. The | Union of Writers must in some measure take upon itself the direc- tion of this army of beginning writ- | ers, must organize than, help dis- tribute their forces into different fields of work and teach them to| work with the material of both past | and present. “We do not know the history of | our past. It has been proposed, and | Work has actually been begun on |a history of cities. This work | should illuminate for us in sketches | and tales of life of feudal Russia, the colonial policy of the Musco- vite princes and Tsers, the develop- ment of trade and industry, should | | give a picture of the exploitation of the peasantry by the princes, governors, merchants, petty bour- geois and clergy, and conclude all this with the organization of the collective—an act of real and com- plete liberation of the peasantry |from the yoke of private owner- ship. “We should know the history of | the past of the Union Republics. | To this and much other collective | | work the hundreds of new writers | | should be attracted, and this work | will afford them the widest oppor- tuni for self-education, for in- creasing their own skill by collec- | tive work with the raw materials of | history and by mutual criticism. We must know all that has happened By STEVE FOSTER The meeting hall is crowded with dye workers from the nearby United Piece Dye plant in Lodi, New Jersey. Ann Burlak, National Textile Work- Lodi Must Strike!’ Stirs |to go on strike when called and a) strike committee is chosen. | Before the meeting is adjourned, | |the dyers stand bareheaded for a! |few moments in silent commemora- Highlights of the Recent Congress Of Soviet Authors | Writers and Artists Are | ‘Engineers of the | et | in the past, not as it has already minated by the teachings of Marx, | Lenin and Stalin. | “This jof the Union of Writers. Our con- gress must serve not merely as a | report to cur readers, as a parade of our talents, but it must upon itself the organization of lit- | erature, the work of training young writers in the task, so important to the whole country, of achieving a thorough knowledge of the past and present of our country.” The Soviet Press and the | Writers’ Congress | (THE importance of the congress found its reflection in the | amount of space devoted to it not jonly by the literary publications, | like the “Mescow Literary Gazette,” but also by the general press. Be- low are given extracts from an eci- | torial devoted to the congress by the Moscow “Izvestia. “Today the All-Union Writers’ Congress opens after long prepara- tions. Behind it trails a long string of congresses, conferences and | meetings in the different national republics and regions of our coun- \try. From the West and Hast have | come foreign writers, those who have felt most strongly the mag- netic attraction of the new centers | of world socialist culture. The .en- | thusiasm of the response of the workers and collective members to the calling of the congress is a not- able symptom of the tremendous growth of mass culture. “The mysticism and pessimism— all the ‘shades’ and ‘nuances’ of the ideological refiexes of the old world—have to a great extent al- ready been outlived, and the main ranks of our writers march boldly forward along their great historic path, vigorously repulsing every re- |Japse into bourgeois ideology. The more urgently, therefore, does the question of literary. mastery now come to the fore, the quality of literary production, the technique of literary creation, the mastery of our whole cultural heritage, the thorough portrayal of the epic his- torical period of today through the single. great style of the present— the style of socialist realism. “Recent years have given an ex- ceptional impetus to the develop- ment of culture. With the raising of the material levels of culture, with the tremendous growth of technical knowledge and practice, the spiritual horizons of the masses have widened in all directions. The natural sciences, art of all kinds, the products of the highest func- tions of the brain, which under ex- ploiting forms of society have fall- en to the share of the few, have re- cently become,;>with fabulous swift- | ness, the vital cultural requirement of the masses. That is the real cultural revolution, and its impet- uous development means the plac- ing of exceptional tasks on the shoulders of all cultural workers and more particularly, workers. Literature has come for- ward in our country as a powerful, active force. The circulation of books of all kinds is immense. The needs are inexhaustible quantita- tively, and with each hour they grow qualitatively as well, “All nationalities are included in this great transformation Process. | And this congress, which knows no precedent in history, must sum up this process, must critically ana- lyze the pluses and minuses, in- dicate the further prosvects of de- velopment, raise our whole litera- ture to higher levels. This great epoch in the history of humanity must produce the greatest literature —a literature vivid, shining, power- ful, heroic, bold, a literature of ets Union organizer, and the “Joan|tion of their ten brother textile | hich technical production, a litera- of Arc” of thousands of textile workers, addresses the dyers. Her speech is clear, simple and forceful. It has an emotional impact which strikes a sympathetic and under- standing response ‘in the hearts and minds of her listeners. The dye workers are in a strategic Position in the textile strike in Paterson. Strike action on their part would help insure the victory of the strike in Paterson. It would be an excellent opportunity to im- prove their own conditions. A strike now would force the employers to grant their demands. To wait un- workers murdered in the South. | M. Giro, of Garfield, N. J. a| }Lodi plant worker, when inter- |viewed, declared: “We could not live any more under the conditions |we had, and we have to go on strike \in order to keep the family to- gether.” He feels that he must go ture that will lie across the cen- turies like a great ideological moun- tain range, and that will be a mighty inspiration to the people of today and of the future. We aré still far from this goal. But we are going toward it. We must at this congress give an example of tena- Crate Hs ee eenitions—not | cious labor, bold thinking, vivid worked for seven months for ‘an | Perception. The congress must average of $5 a week. In order to support a family of six it was neces-| sary to be put on relief and re- |ceive $2 a week from the state. He |is four months behind in his rent. Benny Casimiro, also from Gar- field, states: “We get 57% cents an hour. But we work two or three mark a new stage in this struggle for culture.” STAGE AND SCREEN “Petersburg Nights” In been told, but as it has been illu- | in my opinion, is the task | take | literary | rots away the bones and which ultimately kills the victim. It is @ disease which is caused by the lack of essential foods in the [pices Film and Photo League and Amer- » diet, such as milk, butter, fresh vegetables and meats. In view of this fact it is not surprising to learn that the workers in the Biby Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ga., have turned down Mr. Anderson’s “balanced diet” ideas and have instead joined the hundreds of thousands of other textile workers in a fight which is now shaking the entire country. TUNING IN 1:00 P, M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Dorothy Miller and Charles and tomorrow at 26th St. Theatre, 28th and Broadway. Continuous from 9:30 to 11 P.M. Morning 15¢; Afternoon 25¢: After 8 P.M. 35 cents. “The greatest of anti-war films” says Henri Barbusse. Aus+ ican League Against War and Fascism. ATTENTION —- “Ernst Thaelmann,” a film smuggled out of Germany; shows Hit- | ler terror and fight against it; released for | first time anywhere in New York City for four days—Wednesday, Thursday, Priday, Saturday of this week at 28th St. Theatre, 26th and Broadway. Continuous 9:30 to 11_P.M. REGISTRATION for fall term now going | on at Workers School, 38 E. 12th £.,| Room 301. Register now. Ask for de- scriptive catalogue. | REGISTER at Mosholu Progressive Club, 3230 Bainbridge Ave. (207th) for classes. | Principles of Communism and Political til the expiration of a contract with |days, Sometimes eight hours, some- the employers, a contract which|times four or five. But the work means that the dyers cannot go on|has been speeded up.so that it is strike before Oct. 24 unless 40 per cent of the nation’s mills are on strike, would be fatal to the success of the dye workers. In the Lodi. plant no such contract exists be-! tween workers and employers. No| such contract was signed to hamper action on the part of the workers. Rank and file committees dealt with the grievances of the workers di- rectly with the Lodi employers. It was the United Textie Workers which signed such a contract with- out the approval of the dye workers. The contract is really nothing but} completed in six hours instead of eight.” The 57!9¢ an hour was won in the last strike, which was led by the N. T. W. Mr. Casimiro has a family of six to support. The most G. Fernando earned in two weeks was $16 to $17. He was fired because he complained against the stretchout, Emidio Lopez works in the Lodi dye house and lives in Lodi. He has a family of three to support. He has made soven to eight dollars a week, and at the most ten dollars. He hasn't been able to pay the rent Second Week at the Cameo The Cameo Theatre, which is now ‘under new management, is holding | over the new Soviet talkie, “Peters- burg Nights,” for a second week. The picture which is based on Dostoyev- ski's famous novel, “White Nights.’ |has been highly received by both | press and public. The Daily Worker | calls the new talkie, “A worthy ad- | dition to Soviet Movie Art... . ‘Petersburg Nights’ creditably brings the genius of Dostoyevski to the | screen... magnificent performance | by the entire cast.” Current ‘Ne Lt Page Five w Theatre’ Held in Moscow Prevides Guides for Workers’ Drama Groups NEW THEATRE, organ of the League of Worker's Theatres, Sep- tember issue, 10¢. Reviewed by ALBERT MALTZ HE September issue of “New The- atre” is the first J have read in four months. AlthSugh I knew | of the steady improvement in the magazine, I didn’t know how tre- |mendous that improvement has been. Reading it now I am not surprised to discover that from Ma to September the circulation of the magazine jumped from twenty-five hundred to sixty-five hundred Perhaps the most outstanding quality of “New Theatre” as con- trasted with bourgeois theatre mag- azines is the sense of activity it gives. Like the worker's theatr? movement itself, it is going some- where—it has a goal, it has a di- rective, it is fighting for somethi This is a far cry from the bour- geois magazines — theatre gossip, silly, sugared articles on polite play- wrights, dull, acedemie cfiticism— the whole thing selling for fifty cents. “New Theatre” is the expression and discussion of a problem—the problem confronting the workers’ theatre movement—the problem of internal growth, of broadening the field of its activity, of raising :ts | artistic level. In facing this prob- lem, therefore, the magazine must | analyze the technique and expose | | the ideology of the bourgeois the- atre, it must discuss the financial, technical and ideological problems of the worker's theatre and it musi information and suggest new me-| diums of expression, This is pre-| “New Theatre” does. . * E FIND on the one hand an| in the simple observation that the purse strings of the movies are heid | by the business men and not by | the artists, a Hollywood director has j exposed the whole machinery of Broadway and Hollywood, has ex- plained the romantic slop, the in- tellectual dzivel, the chauvinistic themes that pass for art. And, on the other hand, Stephen Karnot, continuing a series of ar- ticles called “From a Director's | Notebook,” has been concerned with |a method for play production by | Worker's theatres—perhaps the most |important article in the magazine because it can serve as a guide to workers inexperienced in play pro- duction. In Toledo, for instance, during the recent strike, a group of young workers discussed the unable to proceed without some sort of instruction. Articles of this Sort should be a regular feature of the magazine. | There is an excellent article by Joseph Freeman on Elmer Rice, who is traced as early melodramat- ist (“Within the Law”), as petty- bourgeois humanitarian (“Adding Machine”), as able, sincere drama- | list who until now has been con- fused in his understanding of the forces of society (We the People”). And though this new season of plays will probably answer” Pree- This department will appear on this page twice a week. All ques- tions should be addressed to “Questions and Answers,” care of Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York. Question: What should our atti- tude be toward motion picture thea- tres which are being picketed by \either A. F. of L. Local 306 Motion Picture Operators’ Union or their competing Independent Union? Should we ignore these pickets, be- cause they represent racketeering unions, which as we read in the | newspapers, charge each operator | $1,000 to be permitted to work, or | should we boycott these theatres because they employ scabs? What are the facs; of the controversy? We ate trying to be class conscious and to help working conditions — | B.S, * Answer: As a maiter of principle, class-conscious workers should never patronize shops, stores, restaurants, |or theatres in which the employees ‘are on strike, irrespective of our at- titude to the leadership of one or another union, This attitude must be basic. In the specific situation at hand, | | there are two bona fide unions, Lo- | cal 306 of the Motion Picture Oper- | ators Union (A. F. of L.), and the) Empire State Operators Union. Both of these unions are fighting the em- | ployers, who are using a company | | union, the Allied. The Communist | constantly draw on new sources of |!nVentiveness to enri cisely what the September issue of the rest article by King Vidor where, | need for a theatrical group but felt | man’s question as to whether or not Rice will continue his growth, there are already some indications that he will not. In “We the Peo- ple” Rice attempted to sit on a fence and the results were not too successfut Now he seems to be trying it again, because he has already sad- dled himself with a Broadway the- atre, rumored to cost some foriy thousand dollars—he must make it pay—and he has already dec that his a nee will be a bour- geois audience—his price scale is ‘om a dollar ten to th:ee-tftirty. ng done this he must either jose financial failure or else wrile Pleys which will please a bourgeois audience. ‘The Broadway Theatre has already demonstrated, with few exceptions, the sort of play that the bourgeois audience will ap- plaud HERE is an article on Meyerhold by Lee Strassburg of the Group Theatre, made interesting by Strass- bur; tement over Meyerhold’s production methods. Could there be more on Meyerhold? I, for one, do not know what Meyerhold is really about, what his contribution to the theatre really is, Strassburg states that Meyerhold’s methods fol- low from his purpose and his pur- pose is “to explore life more fully by means of the theatre.” What does this mean for us? I'm sure, for instance, that in di- recting “Men in White,” Strassburg himself tried to do this. To a cer- tain extent any intelligent director tries by means of his own technical the mean- ing of a play. Is Meyerhold just cleverer and moze imaginative than or is there something else to his work? Could we have an article in which a Well known play were imaginatively produced in the Meyerhold manner? The September issue also contains several articles on the movies and the dance—too many, in fact, to | review all of them here, lion's | article on the dance, in its emphasis | upon content, cannot be considered too important. There is no point to a worker's dance movement or literature or theatre if they are unjntelligible to workers. Too many | “proletarian writers’ employ the highly technical, _intellectualized style derived from James Joyce, tco many dancers follow the bourgeois mode of highly abstract, formalized | dancing. There is, of course, no | “one proletarian form.” But there |is a proletarian standard and that is intelligibility and meaning. | Breines, in an article on “The Shadow Dance” contributes an ex- cellent suggestion for a new mode | of expression by dance groups. He \is mistaken, I believe, in thinking that the shadow dance will remedy | the defects that haveioften marred | Worker's dances. “Worker's dancing }can be made meaningful if tho | dancers will have something to say |and forget any “method” that in- | terferes with their saying it. The Shadow Dance is something else be= | sides, But it too will suffer if danc- | ers use it only to posture. Bour- | seois dancers have made the art of | the dance into a meaningless ges- jture. Our workers’ groups must not make the same mistake. Questions and Answers , Party in Section 1 (downtown) has extended its aid to the two first- mentioned unions, Local 306 and the Empire, in picketing struck thea- tres and combatting the company | union. As to the question of racketeer- jing in the union. This does not change the situation insofar as the rank-and-file of the union is con-- jcerned. The rank-and-filer is still striking, and to patronize a theatre where he is picketing injures the strike. Our problem is on the one hand to aid the rank-and-file by picketing with them; on the other hand to aid the militant opposition to fight the racketeering elements | within the union, Edwin Seaver Is New Editor of FSU Organ, ‘Soviet Russia Today’ | —— NEW YORK.—With the current issue, Edwin Seaver, novelist and critic, becomes editor of “Soviet Russia Today,” Herbert Goldfrank, national secretary of the Friends of the Soviet Union announces. Seaver is the author of a novel dealine with officer workers called “The Company,” and has written literary criticism ever since his graduation from Harvard in 1922, He was at one time literary editor of The New York Call. | tre this evening. The opera will | run through Wednesday night. | Amusements | ee WOR—Sports Talk—Ford Frick Massinger, Songs Economy. Inst: f \for two months. ‘Errant Lady’ Opens Tonight, “First Episode,” a comedy by Ter- \_ Rapio city MUSIC HALL ai Andgonieeeon wou Minatrel Sho y._ Instructor ©. Elistein of Work-|@ scrap of paper. nths. | 04 } D ct . sie HABA uae abs totaten WABC—Evan Evans, Baritone pei haaary diye lee a 19) “Why is it.” Ann Burlak asks sig-) | Joe Dominguez, a dyer at the| 4¢ The Fulton Theatre; | Cee Rattigan and Philip Heimann, | % at. & 6 Aves arid Face of the Nation *WoR—William Larkin, Tenor 9:15-WABC—Fray and Braggiott!, Piano | “GALA OPENING of Eastern Theatre Fes-|Mificantly, “that at the U. T. W. Ledi plant, declares that, “Ever , he Street Ported from London, will open, } wsz-—Martin Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Joe Cook, Comedian: tival at Civic Repertozy Theatre, Friday,|Convention [the recent convention |since the contract the U. T. w. ‘Alley Cat’ At 48th Stree ‘tonight at the Ritz Theatre spon- GRACE MOORE : WABC—Nick Lucas, Songs Donald Novis, ‘Tenor; Frances Sept. ist, 8:30 p.m. W.LT., Artef, Jack|of the U. T. W. in New York City—|made with the company officials hubert Patrick in “One Night of Love” 7:30-WEAP—Arlene Jackson, Contralto Langford, Contralto; Voorhees London Club of Newark and others. Aus-/Ed.] rank and file committees were| Without proposing it to the work- P inion as eerie thTullio Carminati-A ia Pi WOR—Mystery Sxeten Orchestra pices League of Workers Theatres, 114 W.| nos ots eters, ‘thehe has ‘bee! discrim-| _“Brrant Lady,” a new comedy by| waddington, Haddon Mason, Max || *ithTullio Carminati-A Columbia Picture 1 eee Woe—tme acini: Lavescouiu h io 6 Gore ee ethera’ i Wrteporn thavapers Hive inetion than ever against the otk Nat N. Dorfman, will open this ante ana ‘Leona Maricle play the | * Walt Disney's “Peculiar Penguins” Orchestra ‘JZ—Imperial Love—Skete cents. | j 1 -| Nat N, Palen thence. Phe plus a Music Hall Revue E ":45-WEAF—Frank Buck’s Adventures WABC—Gluskin Orchestra; been dyeing scab goods from the ¢rs in the shops. Very few work| evening at the * ape | leading roles. ) WOR—Dinner Music aoe ana aein auada Tuesday LAB THEATRE wionT, at| South. It was this that helped|the full 40-hour week. Many are) cast is headed by Leona pean’ WABC Boake Gatter, Commentator | 9:45-WoR—dene Froman, Songs Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 572 Sutter|break the last textile strike in|siven work for only 15 or 20 hours pun Soe nea Parr AaLEGRALE TR “WATE Auld aj oo so Ae yh cb yg ll ita “ “4 Kg i i hl Wane ” = | Frist American Shwi Waz—Jan Garber Supper Club WORPrank thd Flo, Songs Ble Bagler tetete ee ee, ces Res.” | Paterson, If Lodi strikes, every dye | Pany, Broo) plgtons work ft time") aey eRe mercer tte DOSTOYEVSKI’S | - . \BC—} esta vs or | 5 vi i ominguez has a family of six t ‘awrenct 3 | re Lett: - = advance; 30 cents at door, house in Paterson will strike. If wears i ly 0 x 4 8:15: oe Naan as ee inianie WABO—Wane Kinz Orchestra Sitindhs | the dyers walk out the whole silk|Support. “I haven't paid the rent) man, will have its promiere this rT; St HERPES) CUAL -WOR—Current Events—H. F. Read 7] i and rayon industry in the Passaic|in four months and don't earn|evening at the Forty-eight Street PETERSBURG Gladys Swarthout, Soprano; phil ar ees sae annem 2. ras brett Valley and the metropolitan area/cnough to support my family.” | Theatre, with Alan Dinehart, who | ” pee rceveda WABO—Tie Constitution and the | Revelutien cn Saturday, Sept. 2nd. 2 p.m,| Will be at a standstill. A walkout). A dye worker pulls at the sleeve | has been absent from the Broadway ” STRUGGLE ree utente tenor Modern Trend in Pelities—Former| at 116 University Place cor. 13th st.| Will adsure the success of the of my coat. “Remomber,” he says,| stage for three years playing in NIGHTS Bat er SHS miro ae apie ohn ERE oS ae Suones coe eg eaakshep. 75 eents|Paterson strike and greatly “You tell the truth. Other news-| pictures, in aN eee See rare | A Soviet talkie in 4 languages: Russian,| WdZ—Bainbridge Colby, Secretary o: m Chicas phiets entitles you to */ strangthen the nationwide strike of Paper tell lies.” in the supporting cast include Aud- | [ israinian, Jewish, Polish. Cabinet, Speak :00-WEAF—Meeric PREE ticket. 7. 15 eants in advance; | SUT ; i y i i . SOVIET SUPER TALKING FILM | xrainian, 5 4 Philadelphia WJZ—Bestor Orchestra ke! § . “ r week, vO} 3 . 2nd BIG x . tt = ea 5 ee Edward WABC—Tats ae Songs Spring Valley, N. ¥. Ann Burlak concludes her speech | shifts instead of threc, no split; The D'Oyly Carte Opera pie . : ian folk melodies (English Titles)< Neil Jr. Baritone; Dance -WABO—Grry Orchestra ENTERTAINMENT for benefit amid a storm of applause and wild Shifts, no stretchout, recognition of | from London will offer another Gil-| AgSTE AEO TILL Ore ~ 14th Street, Orehestrs -WEAF—Hoff Orch > Fs Valley, N. ¥., Tuesi ‘ 2 peengeol maf se “ : A 7 : 0:00. WEAP--Ospeics Orchestra; Frank Won tens Geeneate Boot tet, Fertarione mening Shine o |eheering. She urges a strike vote.|the union, and they are determined bert and Sullivan operetta, The | CAME | caruesene | AC ME THEATRE & tnion Sa. ee Barker, Tehow hs W32—Fields Orchestra Cie The dye workers yote unanimously ‘o win their demands, | Mikado,” at the Martin Beck Thea- ‘ } :