The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE —— THE — : WORLD! ——__————_ By SENDER GARLIN Y HAT is in the ring. I don’t mean as a candidate in the present election campaign. For some reason that I cannot fathom I have not been nominated for any office on the Communist ticket, although I should like nothing better except, of course, being elected. Perhaps the comrades of District 2 feel that I would not make a vigorous campaign, but then they probably do not know that as far back as 1918 I was nominated for District Attorney on the Socialist ticket in an upstate county. I didn’t make much of a campaign, it is true, largely because I had very little free time left after my school homework was finished, with the result that the Re- publican nominee won hands down. . . . ji Accept the Challenge |AVING been barred from appearing before the electorate as a can- didate for office, I will nevertheless make my contribution to the Communst eleciion campaign anyway. That is to say, as soon as the. Daily Worker Medical Advisory Board arrives at some decision re- garding my appendix. Which brings me to the subject at hand. The aggregation of doctors which is conducting the “Workers’ Health” column has announced that, in a spirit of Socialist competi- tion, they undertake to raise the neat little sum of $1,500 in the Daily Worker's $60,000 financial drive. And with that air of belligerence characteristic of professional men, they challenge the artists and col- umn conductors of the “Daily” to shake up a similar sum. I'll let Burck, Gannes, Del, Ramsey and Luke talk up for themselves, but as far as this department is concerned, I pledge to raise $500 as my share in the campaign. And if I don’t raise the full sum, I'll count on Mike Gold to finish the job, since unconfirmed rumors persist in revolutionary literary cir- cles that Mike is about ready to return to the job, of carrying on this column, . . . A Lurking Danger lip ACCEPTING the challenge of the medicos I am not unmindful of a-number of handicaps. In their announcement last Saturday they asserted that they are now in the process of repairing 14 of my cylinders. It is therefore obvious to me that if financial returns to this DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1934 Sharecroppers Driven | Off the Land by Owners By HOWARD BOLDT CTUAL peonage exists on the FER.A. projects in Savannah, |Ga., according to authoritative in- formation received here. In the | month of August, many of the relief workers were handed two cuts, one jof 25 per cent, and another of 10 per cent. Out of the starvation re- | lief budgets to each family is taken | the price of milk to babies. In the past Spring, the unemployed were urged to plant backyard gardens— and the price of seed and fertilizer was taken from the work relief pay. Most of the unemployed on the | relief lists are forced to work on the FER.A. projects for their relief budgets, which on the average are $7.20 a week. In the case of smaller | families, work is staggered every other week. An average family here | usually numbers about seven. The relief workers are packed into trucks, anywhere from twenty-five | to fifty in a truck, are charged fif- | teen to twenty cents each for the | ride, and driven from five to fifteen miles to work. If he hasn't the cost of the truck ride, the worker loses the day's work, since the project is too far to walk. Farmers Driven off Land A SURVEY made of hundreds of relief workers here tells one story . . . large families, many of them driven off the land by the owners who found it more profitable to reduce acreage under the A.A.A, “crop-reduction”. program. Driven from their shacks and cabins, the sharecroppers were forced to come to the city and apply for relief. e— ( | | | Peonage Conditions on F.E.R.A. Jobs Revealed in Savannah, Ga. Survey fate Page Five AND SHOP |Revival of Slavery By DAVID KAMSEY -—————__— | Conditions on | Poison Ivy Toxic Isolated the second from the left, the third ° rom the left, and s til \ Plantations | Sufferers from poison ivy will be | found the correct box. | | this figure cut to $11.95 average re-| interested to learn that the toxic | each family in December, 1933 was agent in the dreaded three-leaved scourge has been isolated and iden- tified by Professor G. Albert Hall of Wesleyan University. He re- | ported to the current meeting of the American Chemical Society that the $12.26. The month of January saw lief to each family. In February this was further slashed to $11.12, and in March, the latest available i fi sor FER.A. complete reports show that | Laaeany ot ee | average relief to a family was $10.72. | paliscc apie adellac Included in these figures, of course,|DCKers is urushiol | || is the graft, inefficiency, and need-| 44. Saiaricioied tac tee less expenditures by relief officials.) C@™S’ Majima iso) Secale ear Because of this, the actual amounts aunt Senet a 24 an oe put ve received by each family is in no way| jon o sy ray a tee fe ae represented by the above figures, | J°D8 craze in the late twenties quite A typical southwestern farm family—hard hit by the drought and the Roosevelt crop-destruction program. four dollars weekly relief. Most of) the workers answered the questions | and added remarks on the back of | the questionnaires showing their re-, sentment to the relief standards. with the promise of being put back on. They never did.” One unemployed worker who has a wife and child is empoyed thirty- six hours a month at 30 cents an For obvious reasons, the names of | hour—$10.80 a month work relief.| able by the relief administration a number of persons were poisoned In this same period, the numbers by the lac used on their imported | on the relief lists in the state have | sets. | increased month by month. Thus, | in December, 1933, 141,043 persons in the state were on the relief lists. By January this had risen to 202,769; in February, 235,867, and in March, | 1934, the F.E.R.A. reports show | 298.788 persons in the state on the/muel Division of the American | F.E.R.A. relief lists, Wholesale | chemical Society meeting that by denial of any form of relief leaves | 5 S\heating crude oil under pressure other thousands absolutely destitute. | ranging from 360 to 600 pounds to C.W.A., which was terminated in|the square inch, they were able to| Georgia weeks before it was else- )“crack” the raw product and ob- where as the large plantation o |tain higher yields of various liquid | ers brought pressure on the federal| fuels. The latter, they declared, | | relief administration, offered little |had from 5 to 12 per cent more to the workers. Wage differentals|heat units per gallon than the oil were set up by the C.W.A. adminis- | fuels obtained by the usual methods. | tration whereby C.W.A. workers re-| “Cracking” consists of breaking ceived thirty cents an hour, The| down complicated oil molecules into fat plums were plucked by the poli-| products like gasoline and kerosene. | ticians for friends and relatives. The | By cracking one barrel of crude oil \history of that brief interlude in| you can obtain twice as much gas- | Georgia when C.W.A. was being/Oline and kerosene as you can made the football of the large land-| get from two barrels of crude oil if| owners and the politicians to the| Only the usual methods of distilla- denial of work to the destitute will| tion are used. undoubtedly never be made avail-| The cracking of petroleum prod- ucts has been used for more than a | New Products | Obtained from Petroleum Drs. Gustav Egloff and L. A. Mekior of Chicago reported to the decade Dr. Milton C. Fi University, reported Panzee responds as quickly to a sige nal as a child and almost as quickly as the human adult. The problem was to release a telegraph key as soon as possible after seeing a light fi hon. In the second problem, a buzzer was substituted for the light. In both ways the animal was a close rival for speed to the human being, Another report was made by Dr. Theodore A. Jackson of Yale, on the cleverness of chimpanzees in of tools to obtain food place: their reach. These animals can use an ordinary stick to pull f towards them from outside their cage. They can also assemble a three-piece instrument from the 5 tate parts to be used for the same purpose. Some were also able to learn how to push an orange around in a blind alley maze, find the single exit and roll the orange out to within reach Spectrum Analysis Of Vitamin E Scientists at the Dunn Nutri tional Laboratory of the University of Cambridge have discovered that the fertility vitamin E will absorb light in a'distant and characteriste fashion, thus making possible its positive identification. The discov- ery was made with the aid of a spectrum analysis. The latter is the method in which light is passed through either a prism of glass or a ruled metallic grating, so that its origin colors are separated out into a rainbow-like image of the original slit. Every the workers cannot be disclosed.|“Out of this,” he writes, “I must| However, case numbers and names! pay rent and buy food and clothing.’”’| given by all the workers testify to|For some reason which he does not | the unquestionable accuracy of the state, this worker adds: “The back survey. | rents musi be paid before the citrus Under the present relief adminis- Slave Conditions Revived in the gasoline industry. ITHIN a month after C. W. A, But the latest application of the ; heavy fuels is of great began, land-owners, eager to| Process to ‘ have a large army of unemployed | ‘portance to oll- burning ships. substance, it has been found, has its spectrum lines at particular posi- tions. Thus elements like iron or oxygen can be identified with cer- column become menacing, the doctors might not be averse to a little | trator, Rose Marie Smith, a former sabotage which might put me out of the running for a few wecks. |Minnesota school teacher, many This is a minor worry, however, in view of the fact that the Daily | unemployed white workers are being cracked fuels, it is Se Worker Medical Advisory Board consists of doctors who are at the same time comrades. Whether this is a guarantee of fair dealing one cannot be entirely certain, since there are certain hazards involved in a too great political consciousness on the part of the doctors. However, I will confess that I am a little disturbed about some- thing else. I encountered one of the more politically active medicos the other day on my way to work. I grew faint as he assured me that an appendix operation “is not merely a medical question; it is also a political question.” The full import of his solemn declaration is still not entirely clear to me, but I hope it doesn’t prevent me from obtaining an airtight and fool-proof diagnosis. And if the Medical Advisory Board can work out some method which will rid me of a pestiferous appendix by means of a thorough discussion, I pledge to put all my efforts behind the Daily Worker's $60,000 drive with results that are predictable with almost scientific accuracy. . . . Thirty Against One : 'N FACT, no sooner did the 30 doctors make their challenge than two readers of this column came through with contributions for the “Daily” fund. One was a dollar donation from a reader up in Blue Mountain Lake, and the other was 25 cents from a comrade in In- dianapolis who suggested that I take a potshot at Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur and the Du Ponts. This comrade, after paying his respects to Gov. Green of Rhode Island, ends with this plea: “May these fakers run up against a stone wall with nice red bricks all around them. Enclosed is 25 cents. Use it where it is needed most.” The Indianapolis comrade didn’t specify where he wanted the quartes so go, but I don’t know a single place in the entire world where it is needed more than in the Daily Worker. ® * * Those Yacht Races “oes conspicuous waste, these yachts, whether the pleasure cruise variety or racers,” writes El. “Worse if they're racers. Take all the | bright work, for instance, which means brass and varnish work. It all has to be polished and mopped up scrupulously at a certain time each morning, too late for more dew to mar it and early enough that the sun won't dry the drops in spots on the precious decks and rails. There's always lots of bright work on yachts. “Bright work helps. keep the crew busy, of course, when the mas- ter’s aboard. The crew may be only two, or between 80 and 90, as on Mr. Pirate Morgan’s ‘Corsair.’ Often the crew stands by the year round, waiting for several voyages a year, whether crossing the Atlantic for the Scottish grouse season or a conference with Sir Montague Nor- man. The ‘Corsair’ can almost equal a big liner in a quick crossing. “Many a master may spend only a week or two aboard his yacht each year, although some spend most of the summer cruising. The longer he stays, the worse for the crew. There are always parties to cook and shake cocktails for and clean up after. And there are all sorts of flags and pennants to run up and down: ‘Master Not Aboard,’ ‘Master Dining,’ his yacht club insignia, his private signal, etc. Mor- gan used to let a skull and cross-bones pennant be his personal flag, but changed to a slightly more discreet star and crescent. “Yachts cost a darn sight to buy or build and more to maintain. To build a really good racer runs up into the fancy thousands, of course. Harold Vanderbilt has an unused racer boarded up with tar- paper on the ways at Greenport, L. I-—there for two ycars. He built the half-million dollar racing ‘Rainbow’ to meet the new British chal- lenger, ‘Endeavor,’ in a game of rich men’s toys. It's a race of Vander- bilt’s railroad, shipping and real estate millions against the war-time and post-war British aircraft millions of T, O. M. Sopwith. “The workers will have a lot of fun with the yachts in Soviet America and Soviet Britain, but what will we do with the bright work?” We'll keep that, too, El. Tustice to Poets 1OHN ADAMS, Chicago marine organizer, wno was recently released on bail from the Hillsboro jail, has had something on his conscience for months judging from a note I received from him today “T just got out of the Hillsboro jail,” Adams writes, “and I want to take the opportunity to extend, through your column, my apologies to an unknown poet. “Sometime ago you published a poem on ine West Coast Strike by John Adams. Having a lively news sense, you carried an editorial note stating that the author was now in the hoosegow in Hillsboro, Fact is, it was a swell poem (judging by the innumerable compliments I have received), but unfortunately I was not the author. “In all fairness to the real author of the poem, I should like you to publish this correction.” TUNING IN Elizabeth Lenox, Contralto; Arden Orch.; z4ixed Chorus. 8:45-WJZ—Off the Record—Thornton Fisher :00-WEAF—Baseball Resume 7.00 WOR Sports Resume-—Ford Frick ‘wdz—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch ‘WABC—Mountaineers Music +98 WEAPGene and Glenn—Sketch wOR—Vegghin de Leath, Songs wwea—Johnson Orch. WABC—Vera Van, Songs 7:30-WAF—The Business Man and the ‘New Deal—Malcolm Muir, President McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. wsz—Jewels of Enchantment— Sketch, with Irene Rich WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 1:45-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures WOR—Studio Music WJZ—Shirley Howard, Songs ‘WABEC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Jack Pearl, Comedian; Van Steeden Orch. WOR—Dance Orch. WiZ—The Freshman Murders— Sketch ‘WAEC—Maxine, Songs; Spitalny En- semble i -WABC—Fdwin C. Hill, Commentator -WEAF-—Wayne King Orch. WOR—The Lone Ranger—Sketch WJzZ—Igor Gorin, Brritone ‘WABC—Everett Marshall, Baritone; 9:00-WEAF—Fred Allen, Comedian; fiong- smiths Quartet; Hayton Orch. WOR—Footlight Echoes WJZ—20,000 Yearsr in Sing Sing; A Phantom Reform—Sketch, with Warden Lewis E, Lawes ‘WABC—Basevall—Mickey Cochrane, Manager Destroit Tigers 15-WABC—Deutsch Orch. 9:30-WOR—Hysterical History—Sketch ‘WJZ—Johhn McCormaci, Tenor WABC—Gcorge Burns and Graccie Allen, Comedians 10:00-WEAF——Lombardo Orch. WOR-——Larry Taylor, Baritone WszZ—Dennis King, Songs WABC—Broadeast ito and From Byrd Expedition; Warnow Orch. 10.15-WOR--Current Evyents—H. E. Read WIZ—A Message from President Reesevelt cn the Federal Housing Situation—James A. Moffet, Fed- eral Housing Administrator 10:30-WEAF-—The Other Americas—Ed- ward Tomlinson WOR—Variety Musicale denied relief which is being given) to the unemployed Negro workers.) Against this direct act of provoca- tion many of the backward elements are openly talking of arming against the first object of their resentment— the Negro workers. The more class- conscious Negro and white workers | fare secretly meeting together, lay- | |ing the basis for closer fraterniza-| | tion and for joint struggle of Negro| and white workers in the fight for increased relief. The survey made among the Te- | , lief workers and the unemployed} | listed eighteen questions on work conditions on the F.E.R.A. jobs— wages paid, how long a period of! investigation before relief is granted, | number of persons in the individ- | ual families, cost of transportation | to the jobs, the number who are transported in each truck, supple- mentary relief, medical aid, etc. In} all, the principal problems raised by | unemployment and the work condi- | tions on the F.E.R.A. projects were listed. One worker writes: “I have two in, my family. I was crippled on the job | in——. My rent has been paid twice in four months. No clothing, no flour at all, only four dollars a week relief plus two pounds of meat.” | Another, a Negro worker, who has| been out of work since April, when I was cut off C.W.A. I need help. I need winter clothing, shoes, socks, shirts, underwear and food.” Family of Four Gets $1 Weekly NOTHER worker writes: “In the month of a doctor. It took my wife three) sick. We are a family of four,and are badly in need of food.” Another . -“My wife was sick In all the returns, identical an-| swers were given. Two skilled work- ers listed higher pay than the others. | Workers disabled while working on | the relief jobs were getting two to| at all. At the clinic there was no help . other doctor never came.” lief in the state, have been cut, the State relief officials have set at| “I am disabled,” writes another.|month by month. Thus, for thej about thirty-five cents a family “Blind. I was taken off relief in—— state as a whole, average relief to|a day. Publisher Brea ks| ‘Union Agreement, Fires 4 Workers |. NEW YORK.—Office employes of| the Macaulay Publishing Compeny} are again on Strike, following the! breaking of the agreement wrested from the company following the first strike early this summer. The company discharged four members of the Literary Trades} Section of the Office Workers Union, | completely ignoring the Shop Com- mittee which had been recognized following the ending of the first strike, The workers charge that in an attempt to forestall strike action, the company attempted to buy off the remaining employes by a prom- ise of a $3 a week wage increase. Yesterday nearly 100 office work- ers and writers picketed before the Macaulay Company’s office et 381/ Fourth Ave. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Wednesday ANTI-RELIGIOUS Dinner at Novy Mir Club, 2700 Bronx Park East, Women’s Council 23. Proceeds to ‘Daily’ 2 p.m. | ANTI-RELIGIOUS Banquet and Concert | at East Side Workers Club, 25 Essex St. Good food served all day. Comrades asked to come and enjoy a good dinner. All Proceeds to Daily Worker. Friday DAILY WORKER Entertainment at Bush Ave. Hall, Mariners Harbor, Staten Island. Auspices, Sec. 19 Unit 1, 3:30 p.m. MEETING and Daily Worker Talk, 3 p. m., at Red Spark Club, 64 Second Ave. Saturday MOVIE, entertainment and dance given by Sec. 2 Unit 9 C.P. for the benefit of the Daily Worker at the headquarters of the Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St. Adm. 25e, Fine time promised. New Haven, Conn. DAILY WORKER Affair at 222 Lafayette St., Saturday, Sept. 29 at Ukrainian Hall. Program: Banquet, Play by Unity Players Greup, Dancing. Speaker, Bill Taylor, of Hartford. Auspices, New Haven C.P. and Daily Werker Committec. Chicago, Iil. DAILY WORKER Affair given by Com- munist Party Unit 407, Friday, 8 p.m. at| North Side Center, 548 Wisconsin St. (1900 N. Larrabee), Fine music. Dancing. Re-| freshments. Tickets 10c. At door 15c. | Superior, Wis. DAILY WORKER Affair, Sunday, Sept. 23 at Vasa Hall, 11th and John Ave. Pro- gram: Musical selections, individual and_ group numbers, speakers, games, dancing, refreshments. Adm. 15c. WJJZ—Denny Orch.; Harry Rich- man, Songs WABC—True Crime Drama 11:00-WEAT—D'Orsey Orch. WOR—Dance Orch. W5Z—Comedy Sketch WABC—Nick Lucas, Songs 11:15-WJZ—Robert Royce. Songs WABC—Nichols Orch. 11:30-WEAF—The New American Navy— Henry L. Roosevelt, Assistant Sec- retary.cf the Navy WOR—Dance’ Orch. WJZ—Bestor Orch. 11:45-WABC—Busse Orch, if i \ | | The city morgue claimed him. 'UNDAY, Sept. 16, was a dull day in Brooklyn, There were no| bank hold-ups, no three-alarm | fires, no kidnappings and no steam- ship disasters. In the next day's metropolitan newspapers you looked in vain for police news from Brook- lyn. But for the sake of the rec- ord here is a chronological account of some of the things which hap- | pened in Brooklyn on Sunday. At 2:30 am. a 15-year-old girl tried to end her life by drinking iodine in her tenement home on W. 29th St. in Coney Island. The police report listed the suicide at- tempt as due to unsatisfactory | home conditions. | Five hours later, at 7:15 a.m. a destitute and shell-shocked war veteran, James J. Fitzgerald, 35, leaped to his death from his fourth floor furnished room at 148 Sixth | Ave. Papers found in a trunk in his room disclosed he lived alone, had no family and was penniless. | The morgue claimed two more | victims in the next six hours. A patrolman on beat at 11 o'clock found the body of an unknown white man floating at the foot of Division Ave., the East River. The | other body was fished out of the waters at the foot of Bowne &t.. Atlantic Basin, shortly before 1 p.m. The body was that of a 35- year-old Chinese, clean-shaven and } neatly dressed. WHAT Wednesday ATTENTION -— “Ernst Thaelmann,” & 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, Friday, Saturday of this weck et 28th St. Theatre, 28th and Broadway. Continuous 9:39 to 11 P.M. REGISTRATION for fall term now go on at Workers School, 35 F. 12th Reom 301. Register now, Ask for dee} seriptive catalogue. REGISTER at Mosholu Progressive Club, 3230 Bainbridge Ave. (207th) for classe: Principles of Communism and Politi Economy. Instructor ©. Elistein of Wi icons Pie saar ee nights—Sept. LECTURE by Theodore Bayer. political | 0 26th. 3:30 to 10:00 p.m. | economist, who helped prepare the Second WORKERS LAB THEATRE NIGHT, at) pive-Year Plan in Soviet Russia. Subject: Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 572 Sutter Ave., Brocklyn, 8:30 p.m. revolutionary plays. “Ernst Thaelmann,” “Great Marriege,” “Hollywood Gees Red,” “Blue Eegle Quartet.” Admission 25c in| advance: 30 cents at door, | SIXTH Year of Hunger—How We Will Fight It, lecture by Herbert mir 11 W. 18th St., 6:30 pam. A ary Committee Co. cicl. Adm. 10c, unemployed 5 WOMEN'S Council 13 and Full evening 25 will heve a Yomkipur Dinner at 1109 45th Street, | Brooklyn, Dinner served from 1 to 5 p.m. Adm. 35c. Children 15c. REGISTER for courses League, #0 F. 1th St. Pundementels ef Class course for drncers). at Workers Dane starting et one: Struggle (special ELECTION Symposium at Artists Union,! Friends of Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd’ wick, Lafayette 3-1924 By HARRY KERMIT fruit season starts in the Winter.” “When we apply for work,” one | writes, “we have to carry a letter of | creased wages, brought a storm reference. They then s ‘We'll see about it; come back about a week.’ After a while I was given work for which I receive $7.20 a been denied relief, writes: “I have| week. There are seven in my family.| week and $2 a week for fuel. We got no government flour, meat or butter. No clothing is given. We tried to was working on the relief. I tried Attached to eacli of the question- transportation to and from work. Relief Slashed relief in Savannah, federal relief UICIDES, however, did not mo- nopolize the police blotter. 3 o'clock a girl employed as a housemaid reported to the Crime Prevention Bureau that her sist Helen Plo: 16, had been missing for the three weeks. th girls and a third sister all worked as maids in New York City. Their home town was a mining commu- nity near Uniontown, Pa. At the time of her disappearance Helen worked in a Bronx home. Minor hold-ups were reported during the day. In the early hours two taverns were held-up and robbed. A tailor had $30 snatched |from his cash register on Utica Ave. An armed bandit held up 2 dairy store owner on Prosvect Park West and rifled $40 from the regis- ter. The newspapers dismissed these | happenings as routine and lacking in news value. Routine they were and lacking in news value in a so- ciety which accepts plenty for the few and privation for the many as normal. But these individual happenings have point and something else—a war veteran out of work, lost hopes dig- nifying a river grave for two men. a young girl weary of a household slavery existence, jobless men turn- ing to small-time hold-ups to fill their stomachs. Routine events of a dull day—and an eloquet plea for a new kind of society. rS “ON 11 W. 18th St. All interested in political problems of the artist invited. PHOTO Section meets at Film and Photo League Wednesday 8:15 p.m. Film Sec- tion meets Thursday 8:15 p.m. All inter- ested invited beth nights, 12 E. 17th St. DAILY WORKER. Chorus Rehearsal to- night 8 p.m. at Irving Plaza, 15th St. and Irving Place. Preparing for Friday ap- pearance at Civic Repertory Theatre. Conductor, Giovanni Camajani. New mem- | bers welcome. ROUND table discussion at Fordham Prog. Club, 1993 Jerome Ave. (near Burn- side). Current events including strikes, po- litical developments, ete. Bridge, checkers, chess afterwards. Adm. free, All wel- History of Russian Revolution, 8:30 p.m. at 2874 W. 22nd St. Adm, free. NEW MOVIE “Sentenced to Health” at. rospect Mansion, 722 Prospect Ave., 8:30 Auspices, Lower Bronx F.S.U. Satire on Ife of a Peasant in Soviet Union. DANCE at Hinsdale Workers Youth Club, 72 Hinsdale St., 8 p.m. Fine orchestra. Fi ance of sezson. Come and have a swell time. Thursday CONCERT-DANCE given by Crown eights Workers School, at Elks Hall, 1058 ulton St., Brooktyn, 8 p.m.. W.L.T. Red Dancers, Nigob-Pianist, Del-Cartoonist. Fine jazz band. Adm. 40c. LECTURE by Hansu Chan, 8:30 p.m. at At} the stories behind | for cheap labor on the plantations, | and mill owners, fearing that the shop workers would demand in- of | protest around the head of the re- | lief administration. Thus C. W .A. | workers, about 80 per cent of whom were paid less than ten dollars a as compared with higher | Out of my check I must pay rent/| wages elsewhere, were cut off C.W.A. | At the end of March, not one person was employed on any form of | work relief in the state. With the | get government cloth from the Red | introduction of the slave conditions | Cross; but they said ‘no’ because I| under which each unemployed family | must work for the barest minimum I was taken sick|to get them to pay my school fee| relief needs, rapid strides were made on the job with fever and needed for three children, but they refused.”| in the state in introducing forced labor. Thus, on April 5, in the days to get a doctor. Although the/ naires are the same bitter remarks,|state which on the week previous | FER.A. is the only means we have | Supplementary relief in all form is|had no workers employed at work, | of getting anything to eat, we got a/ refused, All get the miserable work | 4,214 were working for their barest check for only two dollars for relief| relief checks out of which must|needs. Within a week, on April 12, during the two weeks that I was|come food, rent, fuel, clothing and|the figure had swollen to 11,274 | working for “budget needs,” the re- | lief adiministration’s term for forced |labor. Today, each family on’ the and we couldn't get any medical aid| YJITH the increased demand for | relief lists, if there is an “employ- | able” person in the family, must . too many he said, and the! grants, which constitute the only re-| work for its “needs,” a need which InternationalPlay | A Dull Day in Brooklyn | Competition for | Children’s Theatre NEW YORK.—The Secretariat of | the International Union of the | Revolutionary Theatre, with head- | quarters in Moscow, sends word of ;an international contest to be held for the best play, skit or scenario suitable for both professional and amateur children’s theatres. Themes for this contest may be taken from the life of workers’ children in the U.S.S.R. as well as in capitalist countries. The plays must be written in lively and popu- lar language understandable to children lacking cultural develop- ment. It is desirable that they be amusing, and done in such form as to involve the audience in the ac- tion. The first prize, for foreign au- thors, is a free trip to the Soviet Union and a three-week stay. Sec- ond prize is a free trip and a ten days’ stay. The LU.R.T. rescrves the right to publish any play, skit, test. If published, the author will be paid in accordance with the | publisher’s scale of payment. The last day of the contest is Jan. 1, 1935. The author's name and the title should be enclosed in | a sevarate sealed envelope, only the |title appearing on the original | manuscript. All material for the | |contest should be forwarded to the International Union of the Revo- |lutionary Theatre, Moscow, Petroy- | |ka 10, Suite 69, care of Children’s | | Contest. | St. Room 12, Subject: “The Chinese East- | ern Railway Situation.” Adm, 15¢. Friday GALA OPENING of Eastern Theaire Fes- tival at Civic Repertory Theatre, Friday, Sept. 21st, 8:30 p.m. W.L.T., Artef, Jack London Club of Newark and others. Aus- pices League of Workers Theatres, 114 W. 14th St. CHelsea 2-9523. Admission 25¢ to 99 cents. “SNIPER,” Soviet anti-war film, will be | shown at mass meting to elect delegates jfrem Downtown Sec. of I.L.D. to Second) U. 8. Congress Against War and Fa: Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., |. Preminent speakers. Adm. 15c. | Saturday | REGISTER at once for special course |for dancers on ‘“Fundementals of Clas: Struggle,” at Workers Dance League, 80 Jith St. Course, Fridays 7 to 8:30 p.m. $1.50. ADDRESS of Michael Gold's lecture} | changed. He will speak on Literature and | | Revolution on Saturday, Sept. 22nd, 2 p.m. | |nt 116 University Place cor. 13th St.| | Auspices Workers. Bookshop. 75 cents | worth of pampz entitles you to a | PREE ticket. Tic! in advance; | [25 cents at dos ts. | | _ INSTALLATION Brighton ach Workers Center, at 3200 Coney Is-| nd Ave, Brooklyn, Sep mphonic Quintette, cht speaker. Av: j monn Br. 585. T.W.O. BAZAAR and Rummage sale 25 Chauncey St., Brooklyn, from now until| Saturday. Donations of’ used clothing or | any article will be accepted. Benefit Crown ; Heights Workers School. Phone Dr. War- at scenario, etc., submitted to the con-| pointed out, can be stored in tanks and used as part of the ship's bal- last. As the oil is consumed by |the engines, sea water can be pumped into the tanks to main- \tain the same ballast. Formerly, there had been a tendency for the oil and water to form an emulsion | which caused much damage to the boilers. But since the cracked oils are so heavy. there will be but little mixing of oil and water, and con- | sequently the boilers will not be | harmed, Radio Therapy Two young Frenchmen, Drs. A. |Halphen and J. Auclaire, recently demonstrated to the American Con- gress of Physical Therapy the use |of radio apparatus to transmit heat ‘in the treatment of certain diseases. Electrodes are placed under the pa- | | tient’s bed; at a distance, sometimes | jin an adjoining room, is the gen- | erator. The French scientists explained that this method avoided the use of any wires or cable. If an artifical fever is needed, the temperature can be raised to the desired level by means of the radio wav In cer- | tain cases of paresis which respond! to heat treatments, the patient's temperature was raised to 104 or 105 degrees and kept at this level for 100 hours. A single treatment ef- fected a cure although ordinarily this disease takes at least six weeks | to cure, | An American short-wave ap- paratus was also demonstrated. It differs from the Frenchmen’s device in that the electrodes are applied) directly to the patient. It can be used for electro-surgery, electro- coagulation, and the induction of artifical fever. | Animal Psychology | The scientfic study of intelligence and personality owes a great deal to animal psychology. The latter field supplied many of the facts which | were used by scientists to lay the} foundations for a materialistic in-| terpretation of the learning process and the quirks and kinks of the | human mind. At the meeting of the American | Psychological Association evidence | was presented of the chimpanzee's cleverness in solving prob!ems. Mr. | Kenneth Spence of Yale Universit: j claimed that a chimpanzee in try jing to solve a problem goes to work! |in a systematic manner. He doesn’t go about the matter in any random slip-shod fashion. A banana is placed in one of many | boxes. The animal in trying to lo-| jcate the coveted prize followed a| Cribbing and tainty through their spectrum lines, The British scientists dissolved vitamin E (prepared from wheat germ seeds) in alcohol and shone light through it. At a e length in the invisible ultraviolet region near the actinic rays which produce | sunburn, a characteristic absorption took place. The wave length which produced this absorption, also had a biological effect when given to animals. This was the key test in the positive identification referred | to above. Personality Having nothing else to do, Dr. Donald W. MacKinnon, of Bryn Mawr decided to make a psycho- | logical study of the way in which his students cribbed during examina- tions. He left the students alone with a book of answers temptingly near on the deck. Meanwhile he had stationed himself behind a one-way vision screen where he was able to observe those who cribbed and these who left the answers alone. Dr. MacKinnon made the following startling discoveries: 46 per cent of the students to his horror turned out to be cribbers, These villains swore, pounded on the table, stamped their feet and even kicked the table leg. When questioned about it later these scoundrels ad- mitted having no feelings of guilt. On the other hand, the 56 per cent who were noble and did not crib showed more repressed signs of ner= vousness. They bit their na: pulled their own hair, fidgeted ‘most uneasily, crossed their legs nervously, hunched their shoulders and looked worried. The professor is now looking for an explanation as to why the cribbers have the more aggressive person: Record Registration ‘in N.Y. Workers’ School NEW YORK.—The third week of enrollment already indicates a rec- ord registration for the fall term of the New York Workers School. Among the courses given are? Problems of the Negro Liberation Movement; Trade Union Strategy and Tactics; Marxism-Leninism; Political Economy; History of Science and Technology; Origin of Man and Civiliation; Shop Paper and Leaflet Preparation; Revolu- tionary Interpretation of Modern Literature and many others. This is the last week of registra- tion. Comrades are urged to regis- ter as early as possible. Registra- tion takes place daily from 11 a. m. definite pattern. For example. if it to 9 p. m., Saturdays, from 10 a. m, chose the first box on the left end to 4 p. m. at the Workers School, of a row of boxes, out found it 35 E, 12th St. New York City, empty, the animal would then try Room 301. AMUSEMENTS First Film Showing of “ERNST THAELMANN Fighter Against Fascism — A Film Smuggled Out of Nazi Germany — AT 28th ST. THEATRE AT BROADWAY Only Four Days in New York — Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 19, 20, 21 and 22 Continuous Performance from 9:30 A.M. to 11 P.M. “New Russian fil thy addition to| Aer ee Ae nek Sete | The Birth of Internationalism! First American Showing DOSTOYEVSKT'S = «yas “PETERSBURG STRUGGLE” NIGHTS” | A Soviet taikie in 4 languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish. SOVIET SUPER TALKING FILM rst Odessa Comsomol (English Titles)—2nd BIG WEEK musical score of Ukrain- LCBwEQ cs elodies (English Titles). EXC SAT SUN 9HOL 251 ACME THEA, 1s & Union Sa.