The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 18, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE | —-THE— || WORLD! | ~—— By SENDER GARLIN | [ IS clear that Elmer Rice, in his new play, “Judgment Day,” has familiarized himself with the outward char- acteristics of the Reichstag trial and even with some of | the more recent events in Germany, such as the growing | disintegration of the Storm Troopers. | But he has given us only the shadow and not the sub- | stance of fascist rule. In his desire to avoid the charge that he Is | writing “propaganda,” he has substituted “a Slavic country in South- | eastern Europe” for Nazi Germany. He has substituted a vague, amor- | “ phous “People’s Party,” for the heroic vigorous Communist Party of Germany with its concrete program for the fight against fascism and for the liberation of the German masses. This so-called “People’s Party” has no program other than a vague appeal for “justice” and a / pathetic plea in the face of “tyranny.” | Instead of a towering Dimitroff we find a pallid Khitov, who acts | like a bellicose college boy; his chief characteristic an almost exhibi- tionistic matching of wits with the witless prosecutor. Dimitroff in the Hands of a Playwright KODE from all other considerations, there is no doubt’ that the trial of Georgi Dimitroff and his comrades provides more dramatic ma- terial than can be found. in all ihe courtroom scenes of the American Theatre for the past 20 years. For this reason, if for no other, it is | easy to understand why one should have looked forward with such | eager expectancy to Elmer Rice’s new play. Rice is an expert theatre man. His previous plays have shown an increasing political consciousness. Joseph Freeman, in concluding a thoughtful analysis of Rice’s work, in an article in the current issue of New Theatre, observed that “it is worth considering now, whether Rice, who has grown so steadily, if unoriginally, from the clever melo- drama of ‘On Trial,’ to the honest, burning social indictment of ‘We, the People,’ will grow still further.” . | | ) A Melodramatic Plot 'HE plot—Three people are on trial for their lives, in “Judgment Day,” charged with conspiring to assassinate the Minister-Presi- dent, also called the “Dictator.” The action is laid in the chamber of the High Court of Justice. The defendants are George Knitov, fa- shioned presumably on Georgi Dimitroff. The other is Lydia Kuman, the wife of Kuman and a co-worker of Khitov. The third defendant is Kurt Schneider. The first two defendants, Khitoy and Lydia Kuman, are members of the “People’s Party,” while in Schneider you immedi- ately recognize Van der Lubbe, the Dutch imbecile and provocateur, who was the tool-of the Nazis in the Reichstag fire trial. In the first act you find a weird courtroom scene in which five members of the High Court of Justice are listening to testimony against the defendants. One of the chief witnesses is a down-at-the- heel waiter, who testifies that he overheard the three defendants, in- | cluding imbecile Kurt Schneider, plotting the assassination of the | Minister-President, one evening in the cafe in which he worked. | Following the testimony of the waiter, Lydia Kuman takes the stand. She acts the part, not of a revolutionist conscious of a class purpose, but of.a woman unjustly accused. The exaggerated “poig- | nancy” of her acting was oftentimes almost embarrassing. * * . Goering in Full Regalia NE of the high points of the play is the appearance of General Michael Rakoyski, the Minister of “Culture and Enlightenment,” | who undoubtedly represents Goering, judging by his fine plumage and his demoniacal manner. He takes the witness stand against the de- fendants of the People’s Party, and arrogantly demands to know why the judges find it necessary to take his valuable time in the trial of such creatures as the defendants. (Shades of Goering at the Leipzig trial.) The audience xnew that the curtain was about to fall in the first act when the woman defendant is told that her husband, Kuman, hanged himself in his cell. Piercing shrieks from the woman who at- tempts to shoot one of the guards standing nearby, a medley of noises and terrific confusion, end the act. Later we see the justices of the High Court of Justice deliberating on the verdict. As two of the judges (liberals of the old school) re- veal their unwillingness to order the defendants executed, the Minister of “Culture and Enlightenment” appears and demands a unanimous death verdict in the interests of national security.” One of the dis- senting judges caves in, but the other, after making a passionate speech on behalf of “liberty” and “justice,” persists in his decision and says that he is willing to face the consequences. Besides, says he, he has lived long enough. * The last act is brought to a dramatic climax by the appearance of the Minister-President himself (the “Leader”), who is brought in on a wheel chair. Like the “Minister of Culture and Enlightenment,” he stalks to the witness stand and roars the charge that the defendants tried to kill him, A moment later, Kuman, the leader of the “People’s Party,” who according to the prosecution, had committed suicide in his cell, makes his appearance after several of the green-uniformed guards, apparently sympathetic to the “People’s Party,” had helped him enter the place disguised as a priest. “Shoot him!” demands the “Leader.” The guards remain unmoved. One of the judges—the Man Friday of the Minister of Culture and Enlightenment, whips out a revolver. His “liberal” colleague struggles for the weapon, In the scuffle, the Leader himself is shot, and my vague impression is that the “liberal” judge then committed suicide. Curtain. * * Elmer Rice's Advance , N THE basis of “Judgment Day,” I think it is fair to say that Rice has advanced, from the viewpoint of showing sufficient political sensitivity to realize the dramatic possibilities of a bold play against fascism. But I don’t think he has succeeded for a number of reasons. Tt is easy to accuse a playwright of being conscious of box-office receipts, but I don’t think that will explain the inadequacy of “Judg- ment Day.” Elmer Rice has shown that he is willing to fly in the face of the commercial traditions of Broadway. He produces his own plays and often loses money on them, something which he might have avoided if he joined the Broadway twaddle writers. I believe that the fatal flaw in Rice’s approach lies in his insistence on being a mere insurgent in the theatre. In going to social issues for his plays, he reveals his fundamental liberalism, This is painfully clear in his play, “We, the People,” which deals with the disintegra- tion of a lower middle class family in Detroit in the face of the crisis, The Trap of Liberalism ICE shows great insight in character delineation, in portraying the | habits and petty-bourgeois viewpoint of the auto foreman and his family. He is masterly in depicting the increasing disillusionment of this family in the face of unemployment and hunger. But when, in the final act of “We, the People,” Rice shows the unemployed fore- man’s son facing a framed murder charge growing out of a demon- stration, the playwright turned the play into a mild “protest” meeting of the Civil Liberties Union variety. In “Judgment Day,” too, Rice has shown his unwillingness or his inability to portray characters as representatives of contending classes. In “We, the People,” the dismissed liberal college instructor pleaded for a return of the “principles of the Declaration of Independence.” In { “Judgment Day” the Dictator is shot by a member of the High Court of Justice, whose principles of bourgeois liberalism prevented him from approving the death penalty for the accused leaders of the “People’s ] Party” on the technicality that they had not been indicted for treason. f - . . Evasions Are Fatal ‘HE real heroes of the play are not the defendants of the “People’s Party.” The hero is a liberal member of the High Court of Justice —the dead spittin’ image of Supreme Court Judge Brandeis—who shot the “Dictator” dead and then immolated himself upon the shrine of the “People’s Party.” This, I think, shows the nature of Rice’s thinking and indicates where his hopes for the future seem to lie. As in “We, the People,” Rice fails to see the political logic of his own sharp-eyed observations, so that in his latest play we find’ him writing about “dictatorships” and blandly ignoring all the basic po- litical and economic issues out of which dictatorships arise. I have no doubt that Elmer Rice intended “Judgement Day” to be a weapon in the world fight against fascism, But his evasions of con- erete class alignments weakens what might have been a sreat play. ‘ Called by LOWT DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1934 Elmer Rice | | Rice’s new play, “Judgment Day” | is discussed today by Sender Gar- lin in “Change the World!” Regional Festival and Conference Is, NEW YORK —The League of} Workers’ Theatres is calling its sec- ond Eastern Regional Conference | and Festival, to be held here on} Sept. 21, 22 and 23. On Friday night, the 21st, a gala opening of the festival and confer- ence will take place with out- standing Eastern Theatre groups performing at the Civic Repertory Theatre. Saturday morning the conference proper will take place, with reports by all groups on their activities and plans for future work with all delegates participating in the discussion, and winding up with a special night show for dele- | gates. Sunday will be devoted to committee meetings and a lecture on playwriting and repertory by George Sklar, co-author of “Peace on Earth” and “Stevedore,” on di- | of the Group Theatre's “Gold! Eagle Guy,” now in rehearsal, and on stage technique by Mordecai Gorelick, scenic artist for the pro- | duction “Men in White.” i All theatre groups, both Negro and white, are asked to elect dele- gates to this conference. Individ- ual professional theatre workers actors, directors, etc., will be seated as guest delegates. All organizations and individual | workers, intellectuals, students, | professionals, etc.. to turn out en masse to the opening of the festi- val, Friday, Sept. 21, to greet the| delegates and participati: groups. | | TUNING IN) | | 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n' Andy—Sketch WABC—Jerry Cooper, Songs 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music ‘WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. Tim Healy WABC—Mountaineers Music 1:30-WEAF—Westchester County Looks at Its Government—C. H. Pforzhei- mer, Mrs. W. H, Lough and Bruce Bmith, of Westchester County Com- mission on Government WOR—Talk—Harry Hershfield ‘WJZ—Edgar Guest, Poet; Charles Sears, Tenor; Concert Orchestra WABC—Jack Smith, Songs 1:45-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures | WOR—Studio Music WABC—Hoake Carter, Commentator | 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestra; Phil Duey, Baritone WOR—Campaign Telk—Judge Wil- liam Dell WJZ—Froshman Murders—Sketch WABC—Concert Orchestra Munn, Tenor; Hazel Glen 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orc! WOR—Dave Vine, Comedion WJZ—Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone; Concert Orchestra; John B. Ken- | nedy, Narrator | WABC—Lyman Orch.; Vvienne Segal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Expose of the Veterans Lob-} by—Henry G. Leach, Editor the | Forum | WOR—Dance Orchestra | WABC—Bing Crosby, Songs; Boswell Sisters Trio; Stoll’ Orchestra 9:15-WEAF—Russian Symphonic Choir WJZ—The Monetary System, the De-| pression and the New Deal—Pro- fessor Irving Fisher of Yale, at Controllers Institute Dinner, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria 9:30-WEAF—The Ethics of Pig—Sketch WOR—Eddy Brown, Violin Frank | Soprano | a Franklin D. Roosevelt; son Orchestra WABC—Himber Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Operetta—The Fortune Tel- ler, With Ann Jamison, Soprano WOR—John Kelvin, Tenor WJZ—Battle of Clef Dwellers WABC—George Givot, Comedian; | Rich Orch,; Edith Murray, Songs 10:15-WOR-—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—That’s Life—Sketches WJZ—Tim and Irene, Comedy WABC—Melodie Strings 11:00-WEAF—The Taxpayer end the State Convention—M. K. Hart, Executive Director, New York State Economic Council ‘WOR—Whiteman Orchestra WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs WABC—Kavelin Orchestra 11:15-WEAF—Berger Orchestra WJZ—Robert Royce, Tenor WABO—Dailey Orchestra What’s On Tuesday ATTENTION! “Hell on Earth” last day t 28th St. Theatre, 28th St. and Continuous from 9:30 to 11 p. ing 18¢; afternoon 25c; after 5 “The greatest of anti-war films, m. p.m. 35¢. says Henri Barbusse. Auspices Film and) Photo League and American League Against War and Fascism. ATTENTION —— “Ernst Thaeimann,” a film smuggled out of Germany; shows Hit- ler terror end fight against it; released for first time anywhere in New York City four days—Wedne; Thursday, Pri Saturday of this week ‘at 28th St.’ Theatre, | 28th and Broadway. Continuous 9:30 to| 11 PM, REGISTRATION for fall term now going on at Workers School, 35 E. 12th Room 301. Register now. seriptive catalogue. REGISTER at Mosholu Progressive Club, 3230 Bainbridge Ave. (207th) for classes. Principles of Communism and Political Ask for de-| the Lull Before the Storm Drought Notes By H. L. ' Central Nebraska has had rain. The landscape is green egain—some of the cottonwood trees had lost all their leaves; now young leaves are coming out, as though it was Spring. | Already they have had a light frost —the growing season is about done. Cattle are doing well enough graz- ing in the canyon bottoms, but the corn cribs are empty and there is no hay in the barns. The farmers are facing winter with no feed for | the stock, and no cash to buy groc- eries. Relief for man and beast is an absolute necessity throughout the} immense territory from the spring| wheat lands of North Dakota to} south of the Panhandle of Texas. | The Roosevelt administration is| stepping into the picture with relief | offers—at a price. He who receives | relief feed shall reduce his stock down to 10 units. A unit is defined by the A.A.A. as one horse, or one cow, or two hogs, or two sheep, or 100 chickens. A 10-unit farm might} | be two horses five head of cattle) and six hogs. This is a subsistence farmer, an American peasant. Thir-| teen years of low prices, and now) absolute crop failure, gives the Dem- ocratic administration the oppor- tunity to dictate such ruthless terms to the farmers. , patty: A farmer who reduces to 10 units ed $25 a month to feed his A ton of hay costs over $20 and will be higher later. One ww requires half a ton a month $25 just won't bring the ten units through for hay alone without men- tioning grain feed. Maybe the brains of the A.A.A. are counting on farm- ers piecing out wih some Russian thistles cut along the roadside, and wheat straw from last year's stock, which is of very slight food value. The fact of the matter is that thousands of farmers are being forced to seriously consider reducing to the peasant 10 unit level in order to get the $25 a month, but know full well that next spring their stock will be thin and weak and their cows permanently ruined as milkers. These are the hard terms which capitalism offers American farmers —with a broad smile. Last night at the farm table, after helping milk a line of fine cows, I asked: “What have you in the mow and the crib?” “Just nothing,” the farmer said. His wife spoke up, “What are we going to do?” These were the exact words in the mouth of a crying woman that started action in the Arkansas drought three winters ago. is today co} Nearly 6,000 farmers and unemployed workers gathered before the foreclosures, interest, and for lower What's Doing i taxes and immediate relief, n the Worker Schools of the U. S. New York Workers School —Last Week of Registration | According to present indications | the New York Workers School was fully justified in preparing an ad- ditional floor with six more class rooms for the fall term. Fourteen | hundred studenis have already | registered. The tremendous rate at which s nts are now registering | lead us to believe that when the school opens its classes Sept. 24, from 2,500 to 3,000 will have reg- istered. Principles of Communism and Elements of Political Economy are | the most popular courses, half of the students enrolling for them. | There have been many new and} interesting courses added to the| curriculum such as: History of Sci- ence and Technolog: Origin of Man and Civilization; History of Econcmic Theories; History of Chi- | z Workers’ School To Open In Seattle, Wash. A Workers School is to open in Seattle on Oct. 15. The location of the school will be determined at a later date. The courses to be given are: Marxism-Leninism, Theory and Tactics of the Trade Union Movement, History of the Labor Movement, Negro Problems and Marxian Economies. Shorter courses will be offered in conjunction with | these. In addition to this, the John Reed Club will give a series of lec- tures covering a range of subjects including Revolutionary Literature, | Revolutionary Art, and a class in| Lettering and Posiering. Chicago School Expands On Third Anniversary The Chicago Workers School will | ‘Mass Struggle’ AtAcme Is Film “Mass Struggle’—A Soviet Pro- duction of Soyuzkino made by Ukrainfilm, Oddessa, in the Comsomol Studio. At the Aome Theatre, 14th St, and Union Sq. Reviewed by PHILIP STERLING «AfASS STRUGGLE,” now show- ing at the Acme, is far from being the highest type of Soviet film, but the simplicity with which} it tells its story gives it some degree of distinction as does the almost uniformly good acting. The film deals with the 18th cen- tury struggle of the Ukrainian serfs who overthrew their Po querors under leadership ri their own midst, only to be enslaved anew by the Ukrainian landowners. The story is a simple demonstration | of the historic manner in which the ruling classes of all countries and many epochs have climbed to power on the backs of the oppressed pro- | ducing classes. | As is usual with films produced jin the Soviet Union, “Mass Strug- gle” is probably historically accurate and certainly ethnographically cor- rect down to the smallest detail. The film’s simply avowed prop- agandistic purpose provides a thrill | { Lael Page Five Hathaway Shows Stand COMMUNISTS IN THE TEXTILE STRIKE. By C. A. Hathaway. Introduction by Alex Bittelma: Price 2 cents. Reviewed by MILTON HOWARD This pamphlet by the editor of the Daily Worker, written during the first week of the present tex- tile strike, constitu an authori- tative statement of the position of the Communists in the present strike. opposite from that which the ca talist press and the U.T.W. officials are trying to paint for the workers. The purpose of Hathaway's pam- phiet is to prove to the textile workers that the Communists are the best defenders of their day to day interests, their wages, their fight against the against the company union, and in defense of the health and welfare of their families. Further, Hathaway proves that it is Gorman and his officialdom, who despite all their blustering talk, are which one never experiences in 7 i i really faithless and 1 stworthy looking at ordinary movies made as leaders of pe nae for “entertatinmont. ‘fight against the employers be- Soviet movies can be so effectively propagandistic because they have no need for the distortion of his- torical fact or perspective. Thus, when the leader of the peasant re- volt, facing execution, turns on his jlandlord captors and tells them that some day someone will rise to |make them answer for the oppres- |sion and torment they inflict on| their serfs, he is making no melo- | | dramatic prophecy. Viewed in his- torical perspective, his utterance is @ mere statement of fact. And the |Sscornful incredulousness with which ‘his captors regard the statement, | gives it literary, if not dramatic! | value, | recting by Lee Strasburg, director | Capitol in Lincoln, Neb., demanding a moratorium on farm mortgage | Cuban Workers Wire | Support of General | Textile Strike in U. S. NEW YORK.—The Textile Work- ers’ Union of Cuba, in a telegram} | through the Daily Worker yester-| | day, pledged the support of its 4,000 members to the general textile strike | in the United States, The telegram in full follows: | (Special to the Daily Worker) | “HAVANA, Sept. 14.—We, 4,000/ Cuban textile workers pledge sup- port to our striking brothers in America and demand the American} government to halt its terror and to} immediately meet the demands of the strikers. Large sections of the proletariat and many revolutionary | organizations join with us in hailing | the heroic textile strike of the North.” | “THE TEXTILE | WORKERS’ UNION.” | | STAGE AND SCREEN | LES SERDINK | | | cause of their fundamental support of capitalism. Hathaway's pamphlet escapes most of the pitfalls which make a gocd deal of our agitation and propagnnda still too highfalutin,’ | too technical, too distant from the | immediate, hourly needs workers and their families. Hathaway down deep into the most “trivial” ideas, the “little things,” which are too often ignored in our agitation because we want to impress people with our superiority. He gives to every reader a com- plete set of the most practical, concrete and detailed instructions as to how to act in the strike. He shows them how to organize the of | greatest strength of the workers to) win the definite demands for which the textile workers are fighting. His arguments and directives leave They not only argue against the ideas spread by the Gormans, but they show the workers themselves how to argue with others. One can see the ideas in it, so simply and reasonably expressed, take fire as a picket reads them aloud to his fellow-strikers on the | picket line. Every one of the arguments of Gorman against the “Reds” is torn apart, showing the most backward worker exactly what these ideas of German & Co.. lead to as it con- cerns the workers’ pay envelopes and the welfare of his family. It reveals a position exactly | stretch-out, | the | is not afraid to go| nothing unsaid or assumed. | Epic of Ukraine Of Communist Party In Textile Struggle 'HESE writings of Comrade Hathaway are a model of Com- munist journalism. As such they have a more than passing value, more than their great value in the present strike. They are valuable because they are a model for all our agitation and propaganda in all ov daily fights against the treachery of reformism This pamphiet reveals the main link which we must seize in winning the masses for the path of revolutionary struggle— the driving home ef the idea th: it is the Communist Party, pre- | cisely because it is a revolution- | ary * party, which is the most loyal, and ablest defender of the | day to day interests of the work- ers, their wages, their working conditions, their health and wel- | fare. In the most practical way, Hath- away answers the slander the “Red Scare” bogey and the slanders of the U. T. W. offi thet the Com- munists are not interested in win- ning the demands of the workers, but are interested “only in using the strike for their own purposes, for the purpose of Revolution.” Hathaway shows that the Commue nist Party fights for one basic thing in the present strike, namely that those policies are pursued in the | Strike that will guarantee to the workers better wages and an end to the stretch-out, the demands specified in the recent U. T, W. convention. A single copy of Hathaway's pamphlet placed by a Communist in the hands of a militant worker on the picket line has possibilities of influencing scores of workers onto the correct path of struggle in the fight against reformist treachery, | And if hundreds of thousands of copies of Hathaway's pamphlet are | placed in the hands of textile pi ets by well-organized distribution in the strike areas, then we will be striking powerful blows against the U.T.W. officials like Gorman who are leading the strike only that they can protect the basic inter- ests of the employers and restrain the workers from recognizing the class character of their struggles against the employers and their |capitalist government. Here is a clean, powerful weapon. It contains an excellent preface by Comrade Bittelman One copy costs two cents. Let us place it into the hands of the striking tex- tile workers! The excellence of the pamphlet is a real challenge to the initiative of the Party units upon whom rests the immediate respon- sibility for distributing it. Investigation of Armament Makers Farcical, Marxist Writings Prove NEW YORK.—Another Senate investigation—they crop up every time some scandal has to be pub- licly acknowledged so it can be quietly covered up—has finally dis- covered that there is a wicked in- ternational trust of cause they are compelled by the |pressure of the crisis to shout with |the unemployed millions: All war |funds. to the unemployed! ILEARLY the fight against impe- rialist war is a nese Soviets; Revolutionary Inter-| be opened this year at 505 8. State pretation of Modern Literature and | st, close to the heart of the main j others. A special short-term course | center of the city. To do this has is being given this term on the Eco- | bcen the hope of all leaders, teach- nomics and Politics of Fascism andjers and students of the Chicago Social Fascism, by Clarence Hatha-| workers School for the last few w This lecture will be given years. The Workers School build- every Saturday, from 3 to 5. Classes are filling up rapidly |Meny are already closed. It is therefore imperative that those | wishing to registe English Dept. To Meet Workers’ Needs | The struggles of the working | class in the United States today | make it imperative that active | workers be well esuipped with the | knowledge of English so as to be able to express themselves clearly.) to their fellow workers. Therefore, the English Department of the New | York Workers School has been or- | r do so at once. | so | _| ganized this term with the definite aim of meeting the day-te-day | needs of the students in their de- | sire to speak, write and read Eng- jing is located on State and Con- + | gress Sts., opposite the famous Sears-Roebuck department store, It is an excelient building with a great deal of light. The second and third floors are being remodeled, repaired for class rooms, study rooms, an assembly hall, a| library and bookstore. The fall term will open the &th of October with the following courses: Political Economy, Marx- ism-Leninism, Fascism, Social-Fas- | cism and the Capitalist State, | Wars and Revolutions, Principles | of Communism, Trade Unionism | and Strike Strategy, Negro Colo-| nial Problems, etc. | In order to be able to keen up the Workers School, Expansion Stamps | were issued, which should be sold | Talented Soviet artist, who plays one of the principal roles in “Mass Struggle,” the new Soviet talkie now showing at the Acme Theatre. Ben-Ami In “A Ship Comes In” At Morosco Wednesday Jacob Ben-Ami reiurns to the Broadway stage tomorrow night in armament | seven-day makers, | week task to be constantly exposed The cleverly-publicized hearing,)}as an inevitable, not unthinkable | trifling with effects and not with | product of capitalist society. “For | basic causes of the race for arms, |capitalism,” says Lenin in his "So- |is arousing the enthusiasm of the |cialism and War,’ “... has now, | pacifists and liberals who hail the jin its imperialist stage, become the | event as an example of a watchful | government zealously avoiding the | danger of war. This widespread | publication of scandals of the arm- ament makers, because in most cases it accompanies pacifist prop- | oganda which lulls, rather than awakens mass struggle against war, jis not without its dangers for the | working class movement is Hell,” was rather more descrip- tive than educational]. Much nearer the truth was the statement of an- | other militarist, the German Gen- eral Clausewicz, quoted by Lenin in | his work, “Imperialism, the Highest | Stage of Capitalism”: “War is poli- tics continued by other—i.c—more forcible means.” | Thus Sarajevo was only the | spark, not the basic reason, for the Sherman’s famous phrase, “War | | great oppressor of nations.... It |has developed the productive forces to such an extent that humanity imust either pass over to Socialism, or for years, nay, for decades, wi’ |ness armed conflicts of the ‘great’ |nations for an artificial mainte- |mance of capitalism by means of \colonies, monopolies, privileges and all sorts of national oppression.” Systematic presentation of such Marxist theories will help arouse the workers to the dynamics of im- |perialist war and the futility of \gentlemanly “investigations.” There {is no lack of excellent pamphlets |which present the Marxist-Leninist analysis of the war danger. A few |taken at random from Interna- tional Publishers’ list alone, for ex- |ample, would include such classics as Lenin's “Imperialism, the High- ‘to friends and sympathizers of the | school. | lish correctiy. The texts are drawn from the examples of proletarian | stories, news artic'es rnd plays. | The expansion of the Workers * me * School of Chicago consists also in Registration Now Going | the opening of many branches in different parts cf the city. On the On at Los Angeles School | Northwest Side a branch will be A special two-year course cover-|opened among the railroad work- ing the main fields of revolutionary |ers—on the South Side among the theory and practice has been estab- | stockvard workers and also two lished as part of the curriculum of | schcols among the steel workers, the Los Angeles Workers School, |one in South Chicago, and one in the fall session of which will start | Gary, Ind. These branches will Sept. 24. |take into consideration the neigh- Students enrolling for the two-|borhcod, industries and questions year course will be sent into regu-|in relation to the needs of the lar basic classes of the school, but | population of the different parts will be given special work and re-|of town. quired to report at a special weekly half-hour session for check-up. This new program does not de- tract from the variety of basic and specialized courses taught in the school. A new course during the coming fall term will be Leninism. Courses in trade unionism, workers’ self-defense (I.L.D.), specialized subjects such e@s women’s work, children’s work, youth work, Negro and national minority problems, will take their reguiar places on the schedule. . This is the last week of registra- tion for the fall term in the Brownsville Workers School, 1855 Pitkin Ave. Classes in Principles of Communism, Political Economy. Marxism-Leninism, Trade Union Organization, Negro Reeister now. Raa en | Registration is now going on at the new and enlarged headouar- | ters of the Harlem Workers School, A now feature will be a weekly | 415 Lonex Ave. Clas. begin the course in “News of the Week,” ana-|24th of September. Students are lyzed from a revolutionary point} ured to register as early as pos- of view. ‘sible. Brooklyn. Dinner served from 1 to 5 p.m. worth of pampzaiets entitles you to a Adm. 35¢. Children 15c. | PREE ticket. Tickets 15 cents in advance; Friday |25 cents at door. Only 175 seats. Problems, | | . etc., will begin the week of| Saturday At Centre Theatre| “A Ship Comes In,” a new play by Joseph Anthony, opening at the Morosco Theatre. Others in the supporting cast include Nana Bry- ant, Calvin Thomas, Virginia Stevens and Ann Lubowe. “The Red Cat,” a Continental play by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler, adapted by Jessie Ernst, will have its delayed opening ‘omorrov Frank Lister, Ruth Weston, Rex O™Malley and Florence Edney head the cast. “Kill That Story,” which played recently at the Booth, reopened last night at the Ambassador Theatre. “Tobacco Road,” Jack Kirkland’s play based on Erskine Caldwell's |movel, was transferred from the Theatre last night. James Barton plays the leading role. “The Great Waltz’ Opens | “The Great Waltz,” an operetta based on the lives and works of Johann Strauss and his son, will be | presented by Max Gordon on Sat- urday night at the Center Theatre |in Radio City. Principals in the large cast include Guy Robertson, Marion Claire, H. Reeves-Smith, Marie Burke and Ernest Cossart. |The production under the title of | “Waltzes From Vienna” ran in ; London for over 600 performances. night at the Broadhurst Theatre. | Forty-Eighth Street to the Forrest | holocaust of 1914-18; wars are bred jest Stage of Capitalism “The by the capitalist system itself, not |War and the Second International.” only by the evil machinations of | “The Foundations of the Commu- | capitalists who operate under the | nist International,” “A Letter to system and are enabled by it to| American Workers”; Donald Cam- reap such bloody profits; the war eron’s “Poison Gas and the Com- danger is weven into the very fab- ing War’; Samuel Weinman’s “Ha- ric of capitalism—in the class | wali”; Luis Monte’s “Bananas,” all struggle between employer and em- in the International Pamphlets se- | ployed, in the struggle for markets | ries, More valuable than superfi- etween rival capitalists, in the un-/cial exposures of arms interests is ceasing hostility of the capitalist the chapter on the War Danger in powers against the workers’. state,|the Labor Fact Book, II. prepared | the Soviet Union. |by the Labor Research Association Few strikes today have been iso-|and published by International. jated from the question of war|This chapter not only exposes the preparations. What strike has not|rise in arms purchases by every jfaced the war machinery of the | capitalist government but traces | government, the N.R.A.,, the tanks|the bases for the drive for armed jand machine guns of the capitalist | conflict and presents the program state? How many hungry men and/of the American League Against women are brought into the ele- | War and Fascism as a fighting pro- | mentary struggle against war be- gram against imperialist slaughter, AMUSEMENTS “New Russian film worthy addition Soviet movie art.”"—DAILY WORKER, |DOSTOYEVSKI’S | “PETERSBURG | NIGHTS” The Birth of Internationalism! First American Showing “MASS STRUGGLE” A Soviet talkie in 4 languages: Russian, 8 i INSTALLATION Branch Brighton p Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, oe Lap tcan iene ae ver GALA OPENING of Eastern Theatre Yorkers Center, at 3200 Coney Is-| The American adap‘ation was done | SOVIET SUPER TALKING FILM Produced by First Odessa Comsomel SOcOAEN E190 4 1050 Sept. 19) sival at Civic Repertory T Brooklyn, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m.|by Moss Hart. (English Titles)—2nd BIG WEEK | Studios. Special musical score of Ukrain- WORKERS LAB THEATRE NIGHT, at|5® st, 8:30 p.m. Quintetts, Dance Band. Mex! 2 | yl . | tan folk melodies (English Titles). Hinedele Workers Youth Clad, 57% Sutter |L0nGon Club of Newark and others. A . Eenst Thael-| eranar ee aa R Cy @ VRUaIL) | Tia Stee Bren Brooklyn BAY pme Hull ening Nes Leage of Workers "Theatres, 164 W.) mann Re sss TWO” Cosmopolitan Opera Coming ||| G MABE O cunin Cot |ACME THEA, 1%, revolitionary plays, ‘Ernst Thastmann,” | 404 St. CHelsea 2-9523. Admission 2¢) Spring Valley, N. Y. To Hippodrome October 8th seat ‘ iilige maple euarisi Ace tet rars Saturday at nit ee ne Hey ae tave—cani ines of th Nation “Blue Eagle Quarte mission 25¢ in 7 | * ‘Ny, Tueiey . tak r " t. Ave.—Show Place of the Nation ‘advance; 30 cents at dsor. REGISIR ali once fon “special: course Walley "Unus| ,, The Cosmopolitan heavier iron | WALTER HUS TON | Doors Open 11:30 A.M. r dan : 4 | tion, a new grou? under the direc- tn SINCLAIR LEWIS’ s vane ok Hunger—How We Willi ino se. Aare a ne Denver, Colo. tion of Max Rablnoff, have taxen | ODSWORTH GRACE MOORE Fight 1, lecture by Herbest Banjamin, at| $1.50, ‘Asada "| DAILY WORKER Banquet and 16th An- OVer the Hippodrome and will pre- | | in “One Night of Love” 11 W. 18th St., 8:30 p.m. Auspices Auxili-| ADDRESS of Michael Gold's lecturs| niver: Celebration cf Communist Party) sent a repertoire of Grand Opera | Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD swithTullie Carminati-A Columbia Picture ary Committee Os, Uarmolorment Coun-| changed. He will sps2k om Literature and| Sunday s 28 at Lyesum. 165 /-beginning “Monday, Oct. & ‘The; SHUBERT, West 44th Bt. 400 seats $1.10/) “s “Peentiar Pai ‘ ciel, Adm. 10c, unemplared f. Intion on Sat Sept. 22nd. 2 pm.| Julien, Banquet 6 p.m. Ceiebration § D.m.| -enedule and cast will be an- | 2vs: 8:40 sharp. Mats. Wed. a& Sat. 2:80) alse Wa rea Posi es nguins WOMEN’S Council 18 and 25 will have, at 116 University Place cor. 12th St.) Adm. 35c. including Dinner. Auspices,| * : | rar i plus s Masie Hall Revne & Yomkipur Dinner at 1109 45th Street, Auspices Workers Bookshop. 75 cents, Workers Press Conference nounced shortly, 4 OO —ea—————>>>>——— eee