The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 21, 1934, Page 5

Page Five ‘How the Russian Revolution N. R.A. from Within Influenced Me As a Writer’ Revealed in Recent, CHANGE ——THE— |Author of Books | On Red China Is | Veteran F ighter { ~ AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1934 | “ | eee, ¢— --—-—_-...--_-__—.¢ ee . Agnes Smedley’s Own , » Ns ee : Pe | 8 i Y |Author of ‘Exiles |‘Writers Here Work k ; | i| € Experiences Used , : | ‘ | Return’ Replies | for Small Group ai A eee a in Her Books | To Questions | of Snobs’ THE N.R.A. FROM WITHIN, by| Miss van Kleeck has since be« | ¢. William 0. Thompson, Mary V: ome m t he By SENDER GARLIN IS easy to understand the deep —— | | —— | Kieeck, Earl Browder, Cecnpling | asi preceeding ‘i Foimatiie foe th On the occasion of the recent | ting novels written in the first flush inti ork. ane & ie Grn ae oe _ and passionate sympathy for the | - . by Labor Research Association. | Work nen LEARN from an editorial in Mr. Hearst’s New York | oppressed of the earth that makes| Soviet Writers Congress, the Sec- | of the five-year plan—and we aren't) International Pamphlets No. 41,|cial I HR "s “China’ y| retariat of the International | getting enough of them | « "| nat Z . Agnes Smedley’s “China’s Red Army | 5 cents. national chi Journal that a happy school teacher is more successful | Marches” something more than bril-| Union of Revolutionary Writers | Paes I have read give me the “2g ees professional Assoc! ' H ‘ "pee liant reporting of Soviet China. For| addressed three questions to | | idea that Soviet writers have a Reviewed by Tasuraniek whieh. * than a gloomy one. I shouldn’t be surprised if this were | ones Smedley is no bored tourist | prominent writers in a number of permanent advantage and a tem- JOHN IRVING aie msg eas true, particularly since the Journal cites as its authority rect ane RUG aecinae ie Wists ne rehone. (esi eat ceteris ee Be et ~ Menoeiaien | ts satiny . | d, 7 s - | %4 Ss 5 a great) 2 deserves the credit of bringing x ¢ ig a principal of P. S. 189, Brooklyn, whose name is Dr. | the fight to free the east from the| vik Revolution had upon your | and young society from which they | together in this 23-page mipiet MIR. W. O. THOMPSON has had : stranglehold of a rapacious impe-| work? What do you think of So- can draw stzength, and a feeling|the reactions to the theory and through a longe Alexander Fichandler. rialism, viet literature? What problems that their books mean something| workings of the NRA. of th usionment before . a In his introduction to her latest| imterest you most at this time? | and will be read; over here writers persons of three different. ori dance? of the That name Fichandler seems familiar to me. In fact I recall | novel (Agnes Smedley: China’s Red| Among the American writers to | are forced to do their work for ajorientations. Mr. Will ° es pire ts i | that in those days when I looked tipon August Ciaessens, the comic ees Marches, erry ago whom these questions were ad- | sal sualenee of snobs. This ad-| Thompson, a Chicago attorney of Fe ee Biork } ‘i ; a % ishers, New York, $1.60), Robert| dressed are Joseph Freeman, | Vantage already has made Soviet | liberal tendencies; Miss Mary van Ce th Socialist spelibinder, as a profound political thinker, Fichandler was Morss Lovett relates how he first} Theodore Dreiser, Malcolm Cow- | literature the most vital that|Kleeck, a well care economist, bbe pane fs ae \h Hnown as a prominent Socialist met Agnes Smedley. A young Tn-| Jey, Lou's Adamic, Tsidor, Schnel- MALCOLM COWLEY | Teaches us. The disadvantage is the | who has specialized in Inbor-capi- |", iy Ov See , ian had been held in the Tombs ‘ 3 lt Soviet life, iters Naticnia? Rgsce atl hat was ostensibly esiab- { Tt seems that during all these years the educator has managed |in default of bail of $10,000 arising elgg dee ge ateiaar ore more to me now than any other| foe esioese rit ee eae aot ered and (Gomrade “Earl |, :heq to ‘asoertain’ Whisker? Sate to maintain a cheerful composure despite the crisis for, according to |from anti-British activities after| Steele. In yesterday's issue we re, |CYCRt im history. And it doesn’t| today by ‘the time ‘they have di-| As early as July 7, 1933, when the | C°d® or codes, of fair competition ; the Journal, he suggests that “school supervisors urge teachers to go |the World War. Agnes Smedley| printed Joseph Freeman's answer. | MeTelY mean October, or the long| gested them, things are changed.|N.R.A. was still in its swaddlinz are designed to promote mo- ecoming clothes.” 2 | swer of Malcolm Cowley, author Senge pte hts ,_| ators in the U.S.S.R. are at pres-|true perspective of a Marxist- Te ee . . . ts ge ane iene fuer to! of “Exile’s Return.” In subse- He ia speed that ee support-/ ent the workers, the engineers and|Lerinist, analyzed the implications that: dtectindis it ae pie es ' His Soug of India prevents leportation of Indians con- quent issues of the Daily Worker - em. i a revolution is still] the Party leaders. They are mak-|of the Roosevelt “Recovery” pro- rasta Ss — ” went to ie we will publish the answers of the Barone Geene alberta ing a new world—the writers nave| stam, declaring, “T! t sayy cca Aare y i ¢! *3.— Edi f a Story | to scrambi t ing carried out a cle th Sore I = a pees is ae yeanioad : ~ same rupees | other writers—Editor Note. but sn current affairs, |The bette ii cag orereriesn tre | mais asin meee meee ieee oe who, at a public meeting of the Teachers Union, Local 5 of the | for the liberation of the working| mm march toward F. the growth of the power of the big |" 1m the codes alte SOWLEY re : } a 'ascism and powe: e big | 4 h. i American Federation of Teachers, reported on his impressions of Be COMLE class in other countries is being if | ise eS India following a world tour, Conditions are so hopeless in India, the learned Socialist educator asserted, that the only solution is to let the poverty-stricken population die off, as the only merciful thing to be hoped for. The Journal says that Dr. Fichandler is not alone in advocating these extra-curricular activities for the school teachers, Its editorial asserts that “the same idea is brought out by President Constance Warren, of Sarah Lawrence College,” and concludes that “this simple idea-is important not only for teachers but for everyone.” The editorial, written with the characteristic vacuous vigor of the Hearst press, concludes with the following injunction: “Study what gives you pleasure. It may be concerts, baseball, books, golf or a number of other things.” I know at least one teacher who would like nothing better than to take Dr. Fichandler’s advice. She, too, comes from Brooklyn but that’s the only thing she has in common with Fichandler, for while the principal's job seems to be quite secure judging by his cheerful advocacy of more hobbies for teachers, the girl I have in mind is very much out of a job. Her name is Sylvia Ettinger. Several weeks ago in this column I described the manner in which she was fired from the relief job in the New York public schools because she fed hungry children who had no tickets. It made no difference that for six weeks Miss Ettinger sought in vain to obtain tickets for her starving pupils who came to school wearing rubber beach slippers. Her activity in the Unemployed Teachers Association, combined with the fact that she had “violated” the rules which prevented hungry children from being fed unless they were properly ticketed, was sufficient to drive her from her job. Suggestions Are Welcome | geet Dr. Fichandler and the New York Journal can suggest just how Miss Ettingr, who is the sole support of a father, mother and an invalid brother, can arrange to go to more “parties, theatres, dances, sports, take up hobbies and wear more becoming clothes.” Perhaps Miss Ettinger has long ago developed a fondness for “con- certs, books, golf or a number of other things,” but I doubt that she has either the wherewithal or the ‘peace of mind to indulge in” these pleasant activities at the present moment. Nor is Miss Ettinger alone in this situation. Those teachers who have been given jobs on “projects” by the Works Division of the Public -Welfare Department of the City of New York remain there only b ysufferance. Despite the fact that they are licensed teachers, they are considered charity cases. They must swear under oath before a notary that they are paupers before they can get. jobs. Moreover, the applicant must certify that all relatives, friends or acquaintances who could possibly assist the family, are also without funds. Should it be discovered that any member of the family has the sum of $5 in the bank, the applicant is considered to have com- mitted a misdemeanor and is liable to a jail sentence of one year! Marriage is penalized; if the husban of a teacher earns $10 a week, the teacher is fired. So much for equality of rights for women! During the summer, when teachers were’ on vacation, and their organizational activities were necessarily limited, the Legislature put over the Ives Bill, compelling teachers to swear to a “Loyalty” oath, as part of the war propaganda campaign in the schools. The Ives law enables educational authorities to ferret out’ militant teachers, and those fired automatically have their licenses revoked. Does Dr. Fichandler know that several hundred teachers on Project 69 have recently had their hours lengthened and that the threat is made that wages will be further slashed? With families to support, it is quite doubtful whether these teachers can afford to arrange an extensive program of parties, theatres, dances, sports, take up hobbies and wear more becoming clothes, as Dr. Fichandler suggests. * . * The Bursted Bubble 'HE situation in which the teachers of the entire country now find themselves is symbolic of the general disintegration of the educa- tional system, and bares all the hypocritical bunk that hes so long gone with it. There was a time when a college degree was considered a lifelong passport to economic security. Nowadays college graduates are. lucky to get jobs as ushers in theatres and busboys in cafeterias. It is generaily known that hundreds of doctors, lawyers and other professional men drive taxis at night in New York City in order to supplement their incomes! The fond hope of the petty bourgeoisie . has even been to “educate” their sons and daughters and so save them from falling into the working class. Five years of the crisis have dashed these illusions upon the rocks of reality. Nor were these fond hopes limited to the bourgeoisie alone, Thousands of workingclass families scrimped and saved in order to put their sons through college. These graduates are now walking the streets, hunting jobs that are not to be found, and their diplomas have become an ironic taunt. I know a factory worker who has toiled in one shop for nearly 40 years. Imbued with those illusions that die hard, he slaved to put two.of his sons through college in the hope that they would support him when he could no longer work. Today he is still at his machine, although past 60, while his sons are unable to get jobs as office boys. * . . The Market Is Glutted 0 of the chief reasons for this debacle among the professional workers is the fact that they like all other commodities, are trained not for service but for profit. When there is no market for goods, there is likewise no market for workers, whether they be manual or prefessional. In Odessa, U. S. S. R., several years ago, a Russian student was amazed when I told him that students in the United States not only have to pay tuition, but that sons and daughters of workingclass fam- ilies have to make the greatest sacrifices to obtain so-called higher education. It amazed him, because in the Soviet Union students are not only freed from tuition costs, but are paid wages while they study. Why? Because the Soviet Government considers education a social right of all workers. Moreover, education in the U. S. S. R. is not that magic formula for economic security which it has for a long time been in capitalist countries. Schools and higher universities in the U. 8. S. R. train their citizens on the basis of the needs of the country. The result is that they become useful members of a society in which the good things of life are the property, not of a favored few, but of the entire working population. In the U. S. A. more and more of the dissnchanted professionals are learning that their place is in the ranks of the revolutionary move- ment, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the working class. AGNES SMEDLEY victed on a charge of shipping arms | to their native land. “She was the mainspring of our efforts,” Lovett says. “Indefatigable, resourceful, magnetic, she met every crisis with intelligence and courage.” In 1920 the author of “China's Red Army Marches’ worked her way to Germany as a stewardess on a liner. She studied six months in the Soviet Union, returned to Germany where she remained till 1928, and then went to China as corresponsdent of the Frankfurter Zeitung. Immediately she aroused the ire of British officials. They schemed to deprive her of her American passport. Compelled to keep clear of American consulates, |Smedley travelled through North hina. Here she learned of the Kuominiang’s butchery of the revo- lution. Lovett quotes a personal letter of this period: “There were times when I thought I would lose my sanity, because not only workers and peaasnts captured in battle were | killed like animals in the streets, but intellectuals of overy kind in the cities were dragged from the universities, or from their beds at night, tortured and beheaded in the streets. ... Some of my own friends were killed in this man- ner.” rear nat 'HE Nanking government did not like her correspondence to the Frankfurter Zeitung—it was ac- customed to the services of hired liars. Perhaps she would like an Office job as adviser to the De- partment of Labor? Smedley re- fused. And she refused when the German consul-general demanded that she write “inspired” reports on China to encourage exports’ from Germany. Arrested in Canton by British Secret Service police, who charged her with representing the Commu- nist International, Smedley was saved by the intervention—the case was open to them—of German and American consuls. “I must say,” she wrote, “that the American Con- sul General seemed to resent this necessary duty very much. He was an old colonial official and regarded my ideas about the independence of Asiatic countries as treasonable.” When the Frankfurter Zeitung, instructed by the German Foreign office, fired its correspondent, she helped Madam Sun-Yat-Sen or- Sanize the China League for Civil Rights. Its object was to fight for free speech, press and assembly and against secret tribunals which tor- tured and killed political prisoners. “Bolshevist principles,” said the Kuomintang. And the League's General Secretary was murdered. Madam Sun was forced to hide. Meanwhile Agnes Smedley, her health broken by the relentless hounding of imperialist and Kuo- mintang officials, had been com- Ppelled to seek refuge at a sana- torium for heart trouble in the Caucasus. Here she began “China’s Red Army Marches.” ae aie = crowded life of activity on behalf of the freedom of the colonial oppressed inspired Lovett to write in his introduction: “It seems a far cry from the frontiers of American civilization to Indian politics, Russian social ex- periments and Chinese revolution, but in her revolutionary cosmo- Ppolitanism, Miss Smedley has re- mained true to a conception cf Americanism finer than that of her young fellow-countrymen who guide the bombing planes of Chiang Kai- Shek. . . . In the face of the in- (difference and disapproval of her time-serving countrymen, and the insidious and dangerous hostility of an enemy on whose malevolence the Sun never sets, she has kept the faith and told the truth. There is nothing inspiring in this struggle of @ woman with no official .position or backing against an empire. It is something to be proud of that She is our countrywoman .. .” “It is too much to hope,” Lovett concludes, “that a single-handed struggle will be successful in de- feating a world enemy, but at least her faithful report should arouse Public opinion in this country to a new evaluation of social forces in the Far East, to a new appre- ciation of the system which we are helping to force upon China, a system which is equally cursed by the terror of the siave and the Shame of the robber.” was so raw that no other course | | pHE October Revolution meant very little to me in 1917. I was on a slow boat from Liverpool to | New York, and was passing through | the submarine zone nozth of Ire- land when the ship got two wire- les flashes: near Cambrai the Brit- ish had advanced on an eight-mile front, and in Petrograd there had been another revolution. One dis- patch meant scarcely more to me than the other. That was sixteen years ago, and it’s hard to believe now that I once came out of the ship's smoking room whistling hap- pily because several thousand Eng- lishmen and Germans, had killed each other in a war of which they knew neither the real cause nor the results. The Russian Revolution means fought today chiefly in Russia. When it has been wen there so| thoroughly that the cotton mill handss in North Carolina and the tenant farmers in Alabama know all the success of it and cannot any longer be filled up with lies about | famines and collapse in Russia— then will come a new stage of the revolution in the rest of the world. ee | NOBODY here in the United States | who doesn’t read Russian knows | very much about Soviet literature. A good many Soviet novels are| translated, but they are always the | |novels read four or five years ago| jin Russia—thus, during the first | five-year plan, we were getting the disillusioned books written during the NEP, and at present we are get-| In 1931 apd 1932, because “lax” internal revenue agents had allowed the J. P. Morgan Company “to avoid paying income taxes by a variety of methods,” not a single partner of the richest banking firm in the world paid a cent in income tax, the Senate Banking Commit- tee charges in another investiga- tion. News? Not at all! Enabling rich bankers and capitalists to dodge taxes, whether by open government proclamation or by the convenient laxity of the revenue agents, is a necessary feature of the New Deal, which shoves the burdens onto the shoulders of the great mass of con- sumers. Figures prepared by the Labor Research Association and published |in its Labor Fact Book II by Inter- national Publishers prove this. Federal income’ “from corporations, Morgan Co. Tax-Dodging Reveals New Deal’s Kindness to Bankers wealthy individuals and the mid- die class” has declined from $2,331,- 000,000 in 1928-29 (representing 59.6 per cent of the total govern-| ment income) to an_ estimated} | $864,000,00 (representing only 26.7 | per cent of total income) for the | year 1933-34, Thus the corporations slice of the New Deal means that they pay in income taxes in 1933 a sum of 43 per cent less than they paid in 1928. But workers and consuming masses must pay in taxes in 1933, 53 per cent more than they paid| in’ 1928. On the other hand: “To| jhim that hath shall be given,” the | government says to the corpora- tions. It gave to “banks, corpora- | tions, wealthy individuals and farm | jowners $6,343,000,000 in 1933-34) | (estimated—a trifling 43 per cent| |more than was given to the same [class in 1928-29.), | James Wechsler, war is the central event in capi- talist countries today. But the cul- tural process that inte-ests me most is the decline of individualism in| art. Its own defenders have be- | trayed it—they raise weak little| shouts about the importance of} being real individuals, but their ac- | tions speak louder. Their actions are helping to prepare for a sort| of slave collectivism which is the! opposite of Communism. It is ihe Fascist writes, and not the Com- | munists, who surrender their in- dividuality to the State. \j Meanwhile the move towards} Communism on the part of other American writers is not imaginary. | In spite of its being deserted by | some writers of whom much was hoped, it is growing stronger month | by month, STAGE AND SCREEN | Midnight Show of Thaelmann | Film at 28th Street Theatre A special youth midnight show- | ing of the stirring anti-fa% vist | film “Ernst Thaelmann — Fightor Against Fascism,” will be held on} Saturday night, at the 28th Street Theatre, 26th St., at Broadway, editor of the “Columbia Spectator” will speak at the performance. Tickets are 40 cents and can be purchased in ad- vance at the Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St., and at the Ameri- can League offices, 213 Fourth Ave. Blocks of tickets for oganizations | can be bought at special rates. TUNING IN] 7:00 P.M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick Friday 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, Friday, 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 &t., |Room 301. Register now. Ask for de- | seriptive catalogue. | REGISTER at Mosholu Progressive Club, | 3230 Bainbridge Ave. (207th) for classes. Principles of Communism and Political | Economy. Instructor C. Ellstein of Work-| ers School. Registration nights—Sept. 19 to 26th. 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. a REGISTER for courses at Workers Dancé League, 80 E. llth St. starting at once. Fundamentals of Class Struggle (special course for dancers). | GALA OPENING of Eastern Theatre Fes- | | London Club of Newark and others. | pices League of Workers Theatr: 14th St. CHelsea 2-9523. Adm! to 99 cents. “SNIPER,” Soviet anti-war film, will be from Downtown Sec. of I.L.D. to Second U. S. Congress Against War and Fascism Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. éth St., 8:30 p. m. Prominent speakers. Adm. 15c. LECTURE by Lahn Adomyan on “Music and Revolutionary Movement Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave., 8:30 p.m. LECTURE on “Changing Human Nature in Soviet Russia” by R. Casey, at 1401 Jerome Ave., Bronx. cor. 170th St., 8:30. Adm. 10c, Auspices Mt. Eden Br, F.S.U. SYMPOSIUM John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave. 8:30. “Art and the Revolutionary Front.” Speakers, Wm. Siege, Jack Kainen and Louis Lorowick. Chairman, H. Glin- tenkamp. Adm. 20c. DANCE-ENTERTAINMENT at Kingsway Manor, 1207 Quinton Road, Brooklyn, 8:30. Auspices, American League Against War and Fascism. Proceeds to send delegate to Congress in Chicago. Adm. 35c. MOVIE, “Road to Life,” also play, Strike Secrets, and speaker. Com. Gordon, at I. W.O. Br. 615, Brighton Beach Center, 3200 Coney Island Ave. Adm. free. Saturday SECOND Series of Experimental Shorts at New School for Social Research, this Saturday, at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Splendid selection of experimental films will be shown. Tickets 50c in advance at Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St. Workers Bookshop, 50 E. 13th St. Auspices Film and Photo League. ADDRESS of Michael Gold's lecture changed. He will speak on Literature and Revolution on Saturday, Sept. 22nd, 2 p.m. at 116 University Place cor. 13th St. Auspices Workers Bookshop. 75 cents worth of pampniets entitles you to a FREE ticket. Tickets 15 cents in advance; 25 cents at door. Only 175 seats. INSTALLATION of Branch Brighton Beach Workers Center, at 3209 Coney Is- land Ave., Brooxlyn, Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. Symphonic Quintette, Dance Band. Max Bedacht speaker. Auspices, Ernst Thael- mann Br. 585. I.W.O. BAZAAR and Rummace sale at 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- wick, Lafayette 3-1924 GALA Send-Of 2nd Dance to official delegates to 54th A. F. of L. Convention, | and 15th St. Adm. 35e. HARVEST Festival at Office Workers Union, 114 W, 14th St. W.L.T.. Jazz Band. Auction Block, Country Bar. Come dressed in your cottons. Harvest atmosphere. Sub- scription 35¢. FIRST Showing ef new Soviet Film “Sen- tenced to Health” at Cli-Grand Club, 380) Grand t., 8 p.m. Auspices, F.S.U. East Side B-. CONCERT-DANCE, Fleborate Program at tival at Civic Repertory Theatre, Friday, | | Sept. 21st, 8:30 p.m. W.L.T., Artef, Hee us: shown at mass meeting-to elect delegates | at Tremont | tonight at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Place; Tremont Prog. Club, 866 E. Tremont Ave. Chorus, Paul Glass, violinist, Jack Kainen of John Reed Club, Chalk Talk, W.L.T. Swell time promised. E. DE SANTES Rally. Chorus, Dram Group, Dancing, frolic, refreshments, 8:30 at Boro Park Cultural Center, 1280 56th St., Brooklyn. LAST DAYS of registration for Fall Term, 1855 Pitkin Ave., Brownsville Work- ers School. APFAIR, Entertainment. benefit Elec- tion Campaign at Red Sparks Club, 64 Second Ave. 8 . Plenty of entertain- ment and dant spices, Post 191 W.E. | SL. Hat check 25¢. WEST SIDE Br. F.S.U. announce open- ing fall season. Gala Entertainment, Dance at 8:30 at Hotel Newton, 94th and Broad- way. Adm. 35c. Sunday “WAR Clouds in Far East,” 8:30 at Central Opera House, 205 E. 67th St. | Speakers, General Victor A. Yakhontoff, | former General in Czarist Army, author of | Chinese Soviets; Corliss Lamont, Dr. Han- su Han, editor China Today; Frank Pal- mer of. Federated Press, Chairman. Adm. 25¢e.. Auspices, Friends Soviet Union. LEWIS COREY speaks on “The Decline of Modern Capitalism” at Student Review headquarters, 114 W. 14th St., 8 p.m. Adm, 20c. Auspices, Student Review. Boston, Mass. HARVEST Picnic at Weinekenen Estate, Cushing St., Hingham, Mass. Route 3 from Quincy, Mass., Sunday, Sept. 23. Cars leave International Hall, Wenonah &t., Roxbury, 11 a.m. Transportation 25¢. Aus- pices John Reed Br. LL.D. Philadelphia, Pa. MASS MEETING and send-off of Phila- delphia Delegation to Chicago Anti-War Congress. Speakers, Maxwell S. Stewart, Foreign Policy Ass'n.; Mary Winsor and others. ¥.M.C.A. Building, 1425 Arch St., Tuesday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m. WINGDING (meaning damned good time) Film and Photo League, 136 8. 8h St., Sunday night, 8:30 p.m. Also film showing, entertainment and refreshments. Adm. 20¢. Come and have 1 time. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER Friday DAILY WORKER Entertainment at Bush Ave. Hall, Mariners Harbor, Staten Island. Auspices, Sec. 19 Unit 1, 8:30 p.m. MEETING and Daily Worker Talk, 8 p. m., at Red Spark Club, 64 Second Ave. Saturday DAILY WORKER Affair at 82 Graham Ave., Brooklyn, 8 p.m. Auspices Sect. 6, Unit 22. DAILY WORKER Affair at 818 180th St. 8:30 p.m. Auspices I.W.O. Br. 132. Enter- tainment, Concert, Red Vaudeville, Re- freshments, 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 Pheto League, 12 E. 17th St, Adm. 25c. Fine time promised. HOUSE Party at 243 E. 13th St. Apt. 15, 8 p.m. Jolly time promised. Benefit Daily Worker. WELCOME Party to Dr, Weinstein, re- turned from Soviet Union, 8:30. Auspices and Dance at LW.O. 132. 813 E. 180th St., Shule 5. Proceeds Daily Worker. Sunday DAILY WORKER Affair and 15th Anni- versary Celebration at Svi Ave., West Brighton, St pices Sec. 19 C.P. Promi Cartoonist, and cthers; i DAILY WORKER Concert and Dance at 432. Claremont Parkway, Bronx. Auspices, Middie Bronx Werkers Clib, 8:30 p. m Program: Artef, Max Gorky Orchestra, | speakers and others. Adm. 10c. DAILY WORKER Affair at 82 Graham ‘WIZ—Amos 'n' Andy—Sketch | WABC—Round Towners Quartet i} 7:16-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketeh WOR-—Front-Page Drama W5Z—Johnson Orchestra WABC—Tito Gulzar, Tenor 7:30-WEAF Irene Bordoni, Songs WOR—Mystery Sketch WJZ—Grace Hayes, Songs WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone 1:4$-WEAP-=Frank Buck's Adventure WOR-—Studio Music WJZ—Honti and Brenner, WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orci: Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quartet | WOR-—Selvin' Orchestra; Al and Lee | Reiser, Piano | WJZ—Larry Larsen, Organ; Robert Childe, Plano; Mixed Octet WABC—Fray and Braggiott!, Piano 8:15-WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WOR—Novelty Orchestra; Slim Tim- blin, Comedian; Cavaliers Quartet WJZ—A Great Deal, Much of It New —Dr. Claudius Murchison, Director | Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, at National Industrial Advertisers Ass. Dinner, Cincinnati WABC—Court of Human ‘Relations 8:45-WJZ—King's Guard Quartet 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Orchestra; Prank Munn, Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Songs WOR —The Witch's Tale WJZ—Harris Orch.; Leah Ray, Sone WABC—Green Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Bonime Orchestra; Pic and Pat, Comedians ’ WOR—Brokenshire Orchestra WIZ—Ployd Gibbons, Commentator: | Irene Beasley, Songs; Shield Orch.: Donald Novis, Tenor WABC—California Melodies 9:45-WABC—Current Problems—Walter B. Pitkin 10:00-WEAF—Doctor's Orders—Sketch WOR—Frank and Flo, Songs | WJZ—Marlo Cozzi, Baritone; Lucille | Manners, Soprano | WABO—California Melodies 10:15-WOR—Ourrent Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WEAP—Jack Benny, Comedian; Bes- tor Orchestra; Frank Parker, Tenor WOR—Gorodensky Orchestra WsZ—Isidor Philip, Piano; Sascha Jacobsen, Violin WABC—Carltle and London, Piano Duo; Warwick Sisters, Songs 11:00-WEAF—George R. Holmes, Chief ‘Washington Bureau I. N. 8. Piano capitalists and the intensification cf all the social and economic con- | tradictions.” The Communist Party. of which he is general secretary clearly foresaw that the reflatio: economy ‘and taxation program of the Roosevelt government could mean but one thing—the general cutting down of the living stand- ards of the masses as the capitalist way of “solving” the crisis. ge gee TO Miss van Kleeck, the essential fascistic tendencies of the New Deal came as an awakening. Early the organizational steps taken | by the “Recovery” administration | in 1933, Miss van Kleeck accepted | The denunciations that were heaped by the N.R.A. bureaucracy on the “Darrow Report” are still fresh in memory of most cf us, And Mr. Thompson resigned, hurle ing at the President the charge that: “The trend of the National Re- covery Administration has been and continues to be toward the encouragement and development of monopoly capitalism in the United States. . . . Its develop- ment, day by day, reveals more clearly a marked trend toward fascism. in the United States.” Mr. Thompson's resignation in membership in the Federal Advis-|dated June 14, 1934. ory Council of the U. S. Employ ment Service. The very next day, The pamphlet concludes with a review of the “Struggles Against the President's hand was shown in| the New Deal” by Earl Browder, as his calling upon Labor to avoid | contained in his Report to the strikes or “any aggressive action | Eighth Communist Party Conven- through his unconcealed efforts to emasculate the collective bargain- | ~ ing clauses of the N.LR.A. as dis- closed by his stand toward the Pennsylvania miners’ collectivé bargaining through trade | unions. The N.R.A. set-up was al- ready openly playing the tune of the company unions. Miss van Kleeck promptly re- signed her membership, declaring: “My investigations .. . and expe-/| rience . . . have led me to the| conclusion that only genuine col- | lective bargaining through trade | unions with the right to strike pre- | served and not discouraged can in- | sure the self-government in irftius- | try to stabilize employment and | raise wages.” (Miss van Kleeck’s emphasis.) This resignation 1s dated Aug. 6, 1933. struggle for| _ ~~ |d@uring the recovery program,” and | tion in April, 1934, Film and Photo League presents SECOND PROGRAM OF EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS made up of productions of independent amateurs and experimenters SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Two Performances: 7:15 and 9:30 P. M. at NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH 66 West 1%th Street Tickets 50c in advance at Film and Photo League, 12 E. 17th St.; New Masses, 31 E. 27th St.; Workers Book Shop, 50 F. 13th St. ‘Tickets at door 75c FIGHTER First Film Showing of “ERNST THAELMANDN AGAINST FASCISM” — A Film Smuggled Ont of Nazi Germany — At 28th Street Theatre at Broadway Only 4 Days in New York—Wed., Thurs., Fri., and Sat., September 19, 20, 21 and 22 Continuous Performance from 9:30 A.M. to 11 P.M. “New Russian fil Soviet movie art. worthy addition to! '—DAILY WORKER. | DOSTOYEVSKI’S “PETERSBURG NIGHTS” SOVIET SUPER TALKING FILM (English Titles)—2nd BIG WEEK [Ca THLLIDM EXCSATSUN SHOE |Produced by 2h} ACME THEA. The Birth of Internationalism! First American Showing “MASS STRUGGLE” A Soviet talkie in 4 languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish. First Odessa Comsomol Special musical score of Ukrain- (English Titles). 1th Street & Union Sq. Studios. ian folk melodies HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY}! WORKERS B OOK SHOPS 20-50% Discount Sale NOW ON — Ends Saturday, September 29 at 50 East 13th Street, New York City 699 Prospect Avenue, Bronx 369 Sutter Avenue, Brooklyn JOIN OUR CIRCULATING LIBRARY! WOR—Weather; Dance Orchestra | Wiz Dinca Orobastre eS RR SE IE WABC—Vera Van, Songs | 11:15-WEAF—Sterney Orchestra WABC—Belasco Orchestra Ave., Brooklyn, Auspices, Sec. 6 Unit 20. Fine program. New Haven, Conn. DAILY WORKER Affair at 222 Lafayette St., Satu ‘YY, Sept. 29 at Ukrainian Hall. Program: Banquet, Play by Unity Players | Group, Dancing. Speaker, Bill Taylor, of | Hartford. Auspices, New Haven C.P. and Daily Worker Committee. Chicago, Ill. | DAILY WORKER Affair given by Com- | munist Party Unit 407, Friday, 8 p.m. at North Side Center, 548 Wisconsin St. (1990 | N. Larrabee). Fine music. Dancing. Re- freshments. Tickets 10¢. At door 15c. Superior, Wis. | DAILY WORKER Affair, Sunday, Sept. | 23 at Vasa Hall, 11th and Jobn Ave. Pro- | Sram: Musical selections, individual and) group numbers, speakers, games, dancing, refreshments, Adm. 15c. Philadelphia, Pa. | DAILY WORKER and 15th Anniversary | of the C.P. Affair, Friday, Sept. 28, at Turngemeinde Hall, Broad and Columbia. | Speaker, Pat Toohey. Earl Browder and Clarence Hathaway will eppear on screen. Bell Dorfman of Artef, Freiheit Gesangs Ferein. 1 New Britain, Conn. DAILY WORKER Affair at Workers Cei ter, 53 Church St., Sunday, Sept. 23, 7: p.m. Speaker B, Taylor, Hartford Sec. org. Denver, Colo. BANQUET at Labor Lyceum, 1545 Julian ‘St. benefit Daily Werker and C.P., 15th Anniversary. Adm. 35c, 6 p.m. After ban- quet 15¢. Combination 40¢, GALA OPENING PERFORMANCE of the Eastern Theatre Festival and Conference FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE, 14th St., near 6th Aye, See the Workers Laboratory Theatre, Artef, Coney Island Jewish Theatre, Jack’ London Club of Newark, Daily Workers Chorus, New Dance Group and others IN“ ACTION! St., CHelsea 2-9523. Tickets 25c to 9c. Auspices: League of Workers Theatres, 114 W. 14th “ICOR” The Great NORMAN SATURDAY, SEPT. 8:30 P.M. 22nd Workers Book Shop, 50 F. 13th 8t., CONCERT SIDOR BELARSKY In a Program of Soviet Folk Songs NATIONAL NEGRO THEATRE Will present DONALD HEYWOOD and his NEGRO DANCE GROUP from ‘AFRICANA’ In African and Modern American Nezro Dances Famous Piano Soloist in a Program of Classic, Modern and Soviet Compositions Tickets 50c, 75¢ and $1.00, Tax Exempt, at “Icor,”” Town Hall Box Office On Day of Concert t Basso CAZDEN TOWN HALL 113-123 W. 43rd St., Near B'way 799 Broadway, N. Y¥., Room 514,