The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 24, 1934, Page 5

RE | | j By AGNES The following are selections , from Agnes Smedley’s dramatic book, “China's Red Army Marches,” published by Interna- tional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave. —Editor’s Note, The Death of Li-Kwei THE battle was ended and the red | “banners hung at rest, On the blood-stained mountain slope stood | the lad, Yu-kung, silently looking | down on the still face of the boy, | Li i. Where the head had buried | itself in the snow was a pool of | dark frozen blood. The feet were} wrapped in dried grass, bound by old rags. Near the frail, out- stretched hand lay a bamboo flute. Both hands, and one end of the flute, were covered with fresh earth, Yu-kung drew a sopbing breath and looked beyond. Down below, on the mountain path where the Red Army had met the White regi- ment coming from the north, lay other still bodies. They Jay in the very midst of the enemy, still grasp- ing their spears, knives, and bay- onets. Some lay outstretched over the rifles they had captured. Chu Teh and a group of members of the General Staff were passing Suet them, bending low, talk- Ing. To Yu-kung’s ears came the sound of shovels, digging, scraping. They would soon come for Li-kwei and Place him by the side of his com- rades in the shallow graves, Here, on a barren Hunan mountainside, would lie forever the frail boy whom ‘Yu-kung had called Di-di—“younger brother.”* Brother. No, not by blood. But from babyhood the two boys had played together. Yu-kung, the older by two years, had always protected, comforted, and guided little Li-kwei. Always they had Played at cooking and eating food. Only once had they pretended to be their fathers, working in ‘the mines, An older lad had played the boss. When he had cracked a whip and yelled, Li-kwei had only stood and sobbed miserably. Yu-kung had forced the older boy to go away, and the game was never played again, But when he was seven, little Li- kwei learned the reality of the| bosses’ whips. His frail, childish | body, his weak hands, his. tender childhood, had seemed no hindrance to the owners of the mines, For he was the child of a worker, a miner, Wi eat, AS Yu-kung stood looking down on the still face of his Di-di, these memories formed a dark picture, sweeping by swiftly in little pic- tures. They seemed to march to the thump of the shovels digging the graves on the slope below. First there came the memory of Li-kwei’s hand in his as the two of them had walked to the hovels they called home after twelve hours of work in the ore-sheds of Shuikoushan. Then came mass meetings of miners, struggles, killings of workers. On January 4th of this year, 1928, came the Shuikoushan uprising, Yu-kung taking a part, Li-kwei following. There followed hard partisan fight- ing as the revolting miners fought their way to Leiyang. There both boys became buglers in the Red Army. But Li-kwei often lay aside his bugles to play a bamboo flute given him by a peasant in Leiyang. | Through Yu-kung’s mind there passed in swift succession memories of days and nights of marching as the Red Army fought its way from Leiyang toward Chaling, the revo- lutionary mountain city to the east. The Arniy had left Leiyang at mid- night. The moon was high. The wooded ravines to the east lay in still darkness, the moonlight car- essing the trembling leaves of the aspen. Clumps of bamboo stood in dark beauty, their long slender fingers reaching sadly toward the earth. Sharp, precipitous cliffs taught the glint of the moonlight. Yu-kung and Li-kwei had march- ed with Chu Teh and with two companies of peasant scouts. The girl Chang, leader of the Women’s Union of Leiyang, had married Chu Teh in Leiyang, and now marched with them. She was a member of the Political Department of the Army. Yu-kung recalled the clank of the machine guns, The machine gun- ners hed taken them apart and took turns carrying them and the bullets. They bent under their bur- dens, but since all were forbidden to speak, they neither spoke nor sang. Right in advance of them had walked the few little ragged mountain ponies, as nimble . as. mountain goats, loaded with the Army's small cannons. When Li- kwei had wearied, Chu Teh had swung him astride one of the ponies. There, sitting astride the cannons of the Revolution, Li-kwei played soft, wistful folk melodies on his bamboo fiute. * boa wal recalled also the masses of Leiyang. Brave, heroic, filled with love for the Red Army. The feng yin tui—‘sewing-cutting corps” —of women and girls had never rested until the last uniform, the last coat and trousers, had been washed, repaired, patched, When *Used often in addressing young lads. ee CHINA’S RED ARMY MARCHES SMEDLEY they finished, the clothing of the Army resembled a mosaic of all shades of blue patches. Other wom- en, girls and men had made cloth DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1934 7 Soviet Authors in ‘Daily’ Interview | | Congress Served As the Clearing House For Ideas By VERN SMITH ® | shoes and straw sandals so that no | man might go barefoot. So the Army walked easily, shod in sandals or soft shoes. The peasants had woven the broad bamboo or straw hats with conical crowns that hung down the back of each man—a_ protection against rain, snow, or the sun. The tailors had made a coarse sack for each man, and the Peasant Leagues filled these sacks with five or six catties* of dry rice, two catties of salt, and a handful of dried vege- tables. And the people of Leiyang had seen that each man had a hand towel, and some covering for the night—a robe or a blanket of some AGNES SMEDLEY kind. Some of the men even had cups, and a few of ihe older revo- lutionary soldiers carried flashlights for rare occasions. There followed a series of con- fused pictures of battles on the mountainsides as the Red Army fought its way to Chaling. The stu- pid, terrified faces of Kuomintang troops and the hard, cruel faces of their officers became mingled with the rattle of machine guns. Through the confusion sounded the steady crack, crack of Red Army rifles in the hands of sharpshooters, They wasted not one bullet, From behind stores, trees, walls,’ grave mounds, they fired with careful, deadly precision. The voices of lo- cal peasants attacking the Kuomin- tang troops with them sounded: “Kill! Kill!” The shouts of Red Army men sounded clearly as they called to the enemy: “Running dogs of the landlords! Running dogs of the militarists and the imperialists! Shame! ... We are poor peasants and workers! ... Land to the peasants and soldiers! . +. Pay no debts! Pay no taxes! Pay no rent! ... Eight hour day for the workers! ...” 'HE enemy troops heard these slo- gans, more deadly than bullets. What kind of war was this? they asked one another. They had been {Sent to destroy “bandits,” but in- stead they found themselves fight- ing peasants and workers in every village or town, and an army of guerrilla fighters made up of work- |. ers and peasants. Themselves poor peasants who had joined the army to earn their rice, they heard the cries, “Land to the peasants and soldiers!” They had been sent into a war which they thought to be like all others—they would not shoot to kill, and the enemy would not shoot to kill, But here they faced an Army that fought with deadly earnestness, every bullet finding a man. Such a war had never been heard of by the ears of man! Sul- lenly, confused, they obeyed the command of their officers, but fear- fully they looked at each stone, each tree, each hut, each grave mound. Some fired into the air to make a noise that would please their land- lord-officers. Some just picked up their rifles and bullets and went over to the Reds, and others ran. Yu-kung recalled the bitter com- plaints of these captured or desert- ing soldiers, and the complaints of the men who had deserted from the “transport troops” of the enemy. “Look at me, Sze Yu-tang,” one of the “transport troops” had said, “I am a Changsha man... a peas- ant. One day soldiers and one officer came to the market. They pointed their guns at us and cap- tured us... roped us together, many tens of us. They. drove us away to carry their bullets and their rice... A neighbor of mine tried to escape but they shot him dead and left him lying by the path... he worried about his family ... I worry about my family! ...I have walked a thousand li, a prisoner... Now I bring you some of their bul- lets—I will carry them for you and help you fight the Generals... rape their mothers!” (To be continued.) “A catty is 1 1-3 pounds; a Chi- nese pound. Toward the 3500 Quota— seeeees AMOUNT Credit to “Change the World!” Column. fj all the Soviet writers even before | Style will think his is best. MSSCOW, U. S. S, R.—“What did the First All Soviet Union Con- gress of Writers accomplish?” I asked Leonov on the last day of its | two-week session in Moscow. Leonov | is known to American readers as {| the author of “Soviet River.” “It's main accomplishment was | to provide a clearing house for ideas and problems,” said Leonov. summarized everything in lit-| erature both here and abroad that | has been written in the last 13/| years, and gave a chance for a) thorough discussion of all theories. More important even than any |formal decision was the fact that | |as a result of the discussion the | vast majority of the writers came | |to a common understanding, a | knowledge that the basic type of | literature is socialistic realism, | within which every experiment in | | Style and any choice of theme is ,| Possible, But it must ring true, is must really interpret life, and since our life is new and socialist, it must | interpret some or all of the many | ‘| sides of our struggle for socialism, | it must concern itself with the new }| Socialist man. | “The formal decisions are along | this line, the aims of the Writers’ Union agree with this, and it was actually the feeling of practically the congress, only the congress helped them to clarify it. Natur- ally not all problems were solved. Each writer who has a distinctive And it is better for him that he make the best of it. The congress will not re- sult in a more uniform literature, but in a more varied, and, I am sure, a still better literature.” Leonoy gave some illustrations of what he meant by clarifying. “Take my example,” he said. “I joined the army of Soviet writers as a simple private, fresh from the Red Army. The army of writers was marching through a desert at that | time, The book of widest circula- tion was Tarzan. Since then much has been done. Not only has there |been a tremendous revival of the | classics, the old Russian masters of | literature being read by many | times more people than ever be- fore, but there has developed an insatiable demand for new litera- ture, and a pretty general notion |among the masses of worker and |farmer readers as to what they ex- | pect of that literature.” Leonov disclaimed any intention jto call the congress a climax, It is in his opinion but a step on the way. “We are living in a house | without a roof,” he said. “The | building is still going up.” . oe Se IOMEWHAT similar was the opin- ion of Babel, whom I interviewed |the same day. Babel is known to English readers from translations of his “Red Cayalry.” He put a little more emphasis on the neces- sity of each writer developing that approach to the common problem of interpreting and stimulating so- | cialist society which would be akin ‘to the writers’ personal tastes and abilities. He followed Gorki in emphasizing | the usefulness of hard work, of the | writer's thinking seriously on his | method of presentation, and on just. what he wants to present. He |agreed with Leonov, that probably Russian classics were the best read of all literature. “But the new classics that will be produced in | this epoch can not be a mere con- tinuation of the old,” he said, “though of course they can use the old as a basis. This is a new time.” TUNING IN 7:00 P, M.-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Talk—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Martin Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketeh 7:30-WEAF—Arlene Jackson, Contralto WOR—Mystery Sketch WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone; Orch. 7:45-WEAFFrank Buck’s Adventures WOR-—Dinner Music ‘WJZ—Mario Cozzi, Baritone ‘WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Himber Orchestra WOR—Senator Kean Campaign Talk WJZ—Jan Gerber Supper Club WABC—Mountaincers Music 8:15-WOR—Wallenstein Sinfonietta WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8;30-WEAF—Symphony Orchestra; Gladys Swarthout, Soprano; Margaret Speaks, Soprano; Frank Chapman, Tenor; Fred Hufsmith, Tenor WJZ—Kings Guards Quartet ‘WABO—Grace Moore, Soprano; Con- cert Orchestra 8:45-WOR—Gorodensky Orchestra ‘WJZ—From Schooner Seth Parker, Of Panama; Sea Chanteys 9:00-WEAF—Gypsies Orchestra; Frank Parker, Tenor WOR—Dorothy Miller and Charles ‘Massinger, Songs WJZ—Minstrel Show WABC—Lillian Roth, Songs; Edward Neil Jr., Baritone; Dance Orch. 9:30-WEAF—Joe Cook, Comedien; Donald Novis, Tenor; Frances Langford, Contralto; Voorhees Orchestra WOR—To Be Announced WJZ—Off to Buftalo—Sketch WABO—Gluskin Oreh.; Block and Sully, Comedians; Gertrude Niesen, Songs; Chiquito, Songs 9:45-WOR—Jane Froman, Songs 10:00-WEAF—Eastman Orchestra; Lady; Male Quartet WOR—Frank and Flo, Songs WZ—Concert Orchestra Lullaby WABC—Wayne King Orchestra 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. EF. Read 10:30-WEAF—Other Americas—Edward Tomlinson, Author WOR—Variety Musicale WABC—Care and Feeding of Hobby Horses—Music and Sketches 10:45-WJZ—The Republican Viewpoint — Welter E. Edge, Former Ambassa- dor to France * 11:00-WEAF—Danny. Malone, Tenor WOR—Woedworth Orchestra WJZ—Bestor Orchestra WABC—Fats Waller, Songs 11:15-WEAF—Madriguera Orchestra WABC—Gray Orchestra 11:30-WEAF—Hof Orchestra WOR—Lane Orchestra WJZ—Fields Orch 11:45-WARO—Light zi 12:00-WBAF—Dence Music (Also WABC, WMCA. WOR, WJZ) { Struggle tapecial cou Tell What Writers’ Congre BABEL He does not agree with Vish- nevski, another popular writer on similar themes, that “with five- | sixths of the world still hostile to | us, the time has not yet come for writing about moonlight and flow- ers.” “Flowers,” said Babel, “and writing about flowers, had their | place even in the heat of the revo- | lution. Perhaps I don’t write any more about flowers than does Vish- nevski. So somebody else will have to,” N example of the divergence of opinion on purely stylistic mat- ters that can exist is shown in the replies of these two well-known | writers to a question asked them by | the American delegate, Ben Fields, | known to the readers of the Daily | Worker and New Masses by his | stories of American farm life. “What do you think of the Ameri- | can writers?” | Both Babel and Leonov fixed at | once on Dos Passos, probably, | Babel said, “because he is beauti- | fully translated.” | “I like Dos Passos,” said Babel, “and his influence is growing.” “I don't like Dos Passos,” said Leonoy. “I don’t like literary tricks. | And when a writer comes out in {| public, I think he should have his clothes buttoned up; h should have thought out his ideas.” | I asked, since the congress made much of help, training, to be given National Negro Theatre Plans Plays of Struggle HE first recorded case of Negro discrimination in the theatre hap- pened about 1821, in the city of New York. It was then that a Negro company of players directed by one known as Hewleit, first name un- known, gave a series of Shakesperi- an plays in a theatre situated at African Grove, at the corner of Bleeker and Mercer Streets. The annals of theatrical history report that it was a brilliant season, with, “Richard the Third” as the out- standing performance, But such histrionic triumphs on the part of Negroes was altogether too illuminating an example of what the Negro was capable of if permit- ted free development of his talents. The good city burghers were shock- ed, Such display of ability threat- ened to explode the white superior- ity myth. The entire cast was hauled before the authorities and released on the promise that they would never perform Shakespeare again, Since then the Negroes have been forced to play only those roles in the theatre, movies and on the radio, that would contribute directly to the white superiority hoax. In fact, were one’s knowledge of Negroes de- pendent upon the theatre, movies, or radio, one could not but conclude that the Negroes were all menials and buffoons. Thus the history of the theatre has proven conclusively that as a cultural weapon in our present so- cial system, it is employed by those whites and Negroes who profit by the super-exploitation of the Negro in the theatre, to further the white superiority myth, chauvinism, lynch- terror, segregation and discrimina- tion, not only in the realm of the cultural life, but also in the social, economic and political life of the Negroes. Against this chauvinistic, cultural weapon, the N. N. T. has been forged | into a weapon, composed of Negroes | and whites, that will fight against | the oppression of national minority | groups; and fight for the full eco-| nomic, social and political equality | of the Negro people, as well as to Monday CLASS in Club Organization under the auspices of the Associated Workers’ Clubs at Workers fchool begins today. Students may still register today at 11 W. 18th St. and in the evening at the school, room 205. Class begins at 7 p.m. MASS Meeting, 4109 13th Ave., Brooklyn, 9 p.m. Ella May Br. LL.D. to protest dis- charge of two Jewish nurses from Isracl Zion Hospital and arrest of four young workers. Prominent speakers. Adm. free. IMPORTANT Meeting Exec. Comm. Film and Photo League, 12 B. 17th St., 7:30 p.m. sharp. Members present without fail. CANCELLED, Lecture by George Siskind on “International Importance of Stalin's Foundations of Leninism.” Tickets will be honored at any of subsequent lectures. Please take note of this. Take advantage cf 20-50 per cent discount sale now going on_at all bookshops. ESPERANTO CLASS for beginners will be started tonight from 7 to 9 in tho Hungarian Workers Home, 350 E. 8ist St. Room 5. Join this class today, and learn the International Ianguage in 12 weeks’ course with cne lesson every Monday. 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. REGISTER for course: League, 114 W. 14th St starting at once. Pun ‘d floor (moved) rentals of Class @ for dancers) SSES begin today at Workers School,! hy WHAT Workers Dance | si | | LEONOV young writers by older ones, what their advice was to young prole- tarian American writers, “Let them stop worrying about being different and just do a lot of hard thinking about how they are going to really present the true pic- ture of the struggle and the emo- tions that exist around them,” said Leonoy. “Let them | possible,” said Babel. find their own way and judge them by the results.” And in this connection one might quote Radek’s speech on Western literature: “We say to our friends, the foreign writers: the best help you can render is to walk side by side with the working class of your countries, with the revolutionary minority for the struggle against all the dangers which have taken the blinders from your eyes and deprived you of asthetic quiet. The writers who do not understand this will inevitably turn out to be in the camp of fascism....and.... there never was a period in our literature when such bad works as fascism produces were possible. Ij} speak of the artistic value of these By - When a writer can have e attitude toward reality he is able to give a truthful pic- | ture of this reality.” | HE congress was long and thor- | ough. It had its main sessions on | writing in general, then ended with | fight to materialize the Proclamation of Emancipation, and the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Con- stitution of the United States, into a living, breathing fact. To date the N. N. T. has organized N. N. T. clubs in most of the sub- urban communities surrounding New York City, Williamsbridge,| Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, White | Plains, Yonkers, Paterson, Newark, the Oranges, Jersey City, Staten Is- land, Jamaica, several clubs in| Brooklyn and a dozen in Harlem. In| the suburban communities the clubs) are being developed into cultural centers with the theatre as only part of their activities. There will be classes in Negro history explaining the cause for oppressed national minority groups in the present social system. Plays, lectures and cultural activities of every kind will be ro- tated over this wheel of clubs. Lang- | ston Hughes’ “Scottsboro Limited,” and “Mother and Child.” are at present being rehearsed by two of the Jersey clubs. Negro playwrights, who have here- tofore written for the Broadway theatre, have now grasped this op- portunity to work on plays that will be a militant contribution to the) fight for full equality of the Negroes. To help finance these various ac- tivities the N. N. T. is giving an all Negro recital at The Town Hall, on Saturday night, Oct. 6th, at 8:30 p.m. This is an attempt to smash a certain type of Negro discrimination in the theatre, in that we have chosen the best of the Negro talent, and have invited the critics and pro- | ducers to show them that the talent | of the Negro is more than equal to any demands, that the opero, thea- tre, or the concert stage may make on him. Immediately after the concert the N.N. T. will begin rehearsing a full length play, “Turpentine,” by Gus Smith, author of the play, “Louisi- ana,” and the picture, “Drums of Voodoo.” This play, based on the life and death struggle of the Negroes in the Florida turpentine camps, will, no doubt, be the first revolutionary play by a Negro to see production. "Sa 35 E. 12th St. There are still a few classes open. Philadelphia, Pa. MASS MEETING and send-off of Phila- delphia Delegation to Chicago Anti-War Congress. Speakers, Mexwell S. Stewart, Forcign Policy Ass’n.; Mary Winsor and others. ¥.M.C.A. Building, 1425 Arch St., Tuesday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m. PROVISIONAL COMM. organizing Work- ers English Chorus. Purpose of Chorus to encourage, teach and lead masses in pro- letarian songs. Membership open to work- ers and friends, barring no race, creed, color or political afMiliations. Knowledge of music is not require: First rehearsal tonight 8 p.m. (Monday) at 329 Pine St. BROADWAY Arena, Broad and Christian Sts, has been engaged fer Scottsboro- Herndon-Thaeimann meeting Oct. 12. This historic meeting will be addressed by An- gelo Herndon, Mrs. Ida Morris, mother of Clarence Norris, Scottsboro boy, and Rich<} ard Moore. AFFAIRS FOR THE DAILY WORKER New Haven, Conn. DAILY WORKER Affa Se: 29 ss Achieve American “Writers Must Do Hard Thinking, Says Leonoy a couple of special sessions, one on paywrighting and one on poetry. There were also special meetings of | thousands mark another ballyhoo| Soviet critics, ete. It discussed at times quite heatedly such questions as choice of themes, where opinions varied as I have indicated above be- tween those who stick to “struggle” topics and those who are ling to take up some of the new problems for workers of the realization of the | fruits of victorious struggle. It solved that problem by its def- inition of socialist realism—all phases of the new life must be por- trayed, and all the emotional re- actions that go with them. An even flerce debate raged over the question of style, a debate that began even before the congress with the pubic criticism by Gorki of the reckless language and improvised new words of such authors as Glad- kov (“Cement” and still more his later works) and to some extent of Sholokhov (“And Silent Flows The Don”). There was some discussion of the methods of collective work, set off by the talented French writer Mal- raux, who doubted whether collec- : | tive writing made the best litera- booklet which even a bourgoise eco-| “Give them as little advice as| ture. And here the general opinion | Nomist could not overlook is that collective writing can pro- duce good literature, though cer- tainly no one is going to force any writer to do his work collectively. At the critics’ conference an ar- gument took place as to whether | a third-rate critic should be allowed to criticise a first-rate writer. It | was reduced to an absurdity and laughed away by someone who solemnly proposed a scale of critics, each opposite the writer of his own ais y Page Five ‘ComingAmerican Boom’ Wall Stree | Reviewed by | | DAVID RAMSEY HE publication of its subsequent sale in the tens of booklet and triumph for the hustling Messrs. Simon and Schuster. For weeks be- fore it appeared, the financial pages ran special cables from London dis- cussing its prognostica When the prophecy was final. here, the Wall Street br it by the thousands and sent ii all the suckers on their special lists; Scripps-Howard syndicated throughout the and; and a le tour has been arranged that w Major Angas a pretty mess of pen- nies. Now Major Angas, to put it mildly is about as much of an economist as that other great discovery of Messrs. imon and Schuster—Will Durant— is a philosopher. So the fuss that has been raised over the booklet is not due to the keenness of its au- thor’s analysis of the developing| . crisis. In fact, Mr. James Warbury the well-known Wall Street banke: has listed a long series of misstate. ments and contradictions in th if he} wanted to give a realistic evaluation | of Major Angas’ competence | Behind the private little boomlet| fabricated by Messrs. Simon and| Schuster is the stagnation of the stock market throughout the sum- mer. With production and business | activity falling more than the usual) seasonal amount, the market was in the doldrums, waiting for Roosevelt to give an inflationary signal for a | The congress fully approved the es- | ut. | Theatre. pre-election speculative boomlet Partly because of the internal fight within the ranks of the bourgeoise as to how much social demagogy should be ladled out to the work-| ers, Roosevelt did not resort to the |major inflationary steps demeanded by the speculators. . Tae “weight” whom alone it would be fair for him to criticise. Apparently the majority feel that this problem can be left to editors and readers to Settle, Te congress called more sharply ee before to the attention of | all the contrast between the = te al ress of the new Socialist literature |[N this situation, Major Angas step- and the decadence of capitalist lit- “ ped in and applied the first law erature, particularly of fascist lit-| Of gambling: convince the suckers erature. It emphasized the enor-| that they can’t lose, and then you mous and vital growth of the lit-|get them coming and going. First, erature of the minority nationali- | you sell them tip sheets, and then ties of the Soviet Union, developing | you cash in on the money they lose for the first time in an atmosphere | by betting on your phony tips. Ac- of freedom. It gave one more ex- | cordingly he announced towards the hibition of the close ties that bind | end of July that a new boom would the worker and peasant masses of | the Soviet Union with their writ- era and their literature. | It also had its organizational side. tablishment of the new Union of Soviet Writers, which now appears with 2,500 members and 500 can-| didates for membership and with a} poicy that was expressed in a single sentence at the congress by P. Yu- din, secretary of the Writers Or- ganizational Committee, that car- ried through the technical task of creating the Union of Soviet Writ- | ers. He said: “We welcome all into | our ranks whose creative work can/ serve the growth of our new Soviet! I know that Marx says that “re- eae feealh sicenietae sts | sion is the opiate of the people,” final resolutions called eaane Mod. | 008 tet men like Father Cotigniin ing organs of the Union to: “work | justify such a stand, but how about out on the basis of the reports and|the thousands of liber2]-minded exchange of opinions at the con- clergy in the U. S. today, who are ress practical measures for coop-| convinced that capitalism is dying erating with Soviet writers in their| and must be replaced by some sort creative work, for rendering aid to o¢ collectivism? oe enie Soviet writers, and | At a ae conference of the aed hee ya iad ee nee clergy here, much time was spent in of the Union of Bovlee eta it | sliuation “and there’ was. nob ons of Soviet Writers may | ‘ = “sh insure further rise of creative sien that did not believe that the world in all fields of Soviet literature and | Was travelling toward Socialism. the creation of works of high qual- |The consensus of opinion was that This department appears on this page twice a week. All ques- tions should be addressed to “Questions an@ Auswers,” e27> of | Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York. Question ity of art, permeated with the spirit | the Socialist Party did not have the of socialism.” right program, that Socialism would collaboration, etce., but the confer- {ence would not endorse the Com- | munist Party because under such a | regime the clergy would be hounded | into giving up their beliefs. .C. Stage and Screen “Ruddigore,” To Be Offered By DOyly Carte Opera At Martin Beck Thea. Tonite Answer The working class dictatorship, headed by the Communist Party does not abolish either religion or | churches by flat. It does confiscate the property of the churches that has been used for profit making pur- poses, and church property schools, hospitals, auditoriums, even some churches, etc., that are needed The D'Oyly Carte Opera Com- pany, the English group presenting Gilbert and Sullivan's repertoire, | will present “Ruddigore” at the Martin Beck Theatre this evening. The operetta will continue through Wednesday. On Thursday the Lon- don players will offer “Princess never be achieved ky the ballot, class | | | like | d's Sucker Bait for the t Broke begin before of 1934.” Major Angas had not and everything to gair cipitated a boomlet, ther ulator he would benefit le did not ma d cash in on t booklet. lectures, etc and Schuster have t rs he end ummer s already some i shows no bou and drastic IN the first place, he points out that Roosevelt's program is not merely It a series of haphazard actions. to restore alists through asizes Secondly, inflation jpre- since that not failed increases in profi (T! “new deal” to this fact.) He sa truth is that it (inflation) only just begun. It has, in fact, taken a year to prepare the ground- work for the great and necessary expansion of credit which is now being maneuvered.” In this last statement, Major An- gas is correct. The Roosevelt regime is inevitably headed for inflation in its more violent forms. The govern- ment debt today totals over 27 bil- lion dollars, and will be in the was la | neighborhood of 32 billion dollars by July 1, 1985. Already govern- mental expenses (federal, state and municipal) amount to between 25 and 30 per cent of the national in- come of the country. These devel- oping factors must lead sooner or later to the printing press stage of. inflation. How long it will taken before this last stage is reached depends upon a great number of factors. But we must remember that already Roose- velt can at any time, hout even going through the motions of asking further authority from Congress, issue around six billion dollars in. paper notes. Questions and Answers by the government, in conformity with the policy of nationalizing all big property, including land. The working class dictatorship. makes a complete separation of church and state as soon as it comes to power. It abo! not only the direct methods of its connection with the state but the thousands of indirect and concealed ties. All di- rect and indirect subsidies to churches are abolished. All educa- tional institutions and processes are taken out of the hands of the clerics. Churches are not forbidden to op- erate. If their congregations wish to continue to support their pastors they are allowed to do so. But un- der the preletarian dictatorship min- isters of thousand and fifty-seven varieties of religion have no social standing. They are deprived of the franchise. (Under certain special conditions this restriction might be relaxed for individuals but the prin-. ciple would remain.) te The Communist Party at the head. of the proletarian dictatorship car ries on a continual effort to substi- tute science for religious supersti- tion. As this basic cultural task proceeds, the more or less forcible measures taken under capitalism to. instill religious superstition inte the minds of the masses have been wiped out, the economic basis for. religion having been destroyed, ree ligion itself and all its accompany- ing superstitions which developed as a result of man’s fear of and ate tempts to explain natural phenomee na, tends to disappear. The liber- ated masses no longer feel the need for such narcotics, Ida,” which will continue until Sat- urday night, inclusive. Leading players in the operas include AMUSE Doyzy CARTE GILBERT & SULLIVAN OPERA COMPANY from London OPERAS Tonight &:15, Tues. & Wed. Nishts & Wed. Mat, 3:15 Eileen Moody, Marjorie Eyre, Mu- | riel Dickson, Dorothy Gill, Martyn Green and John Dean. i “The Distafft Side,” by John Van Druten, an importation from Lon- don, will open Tuesday evening at the Booth Theatre with Sybil secaees te : Thorndike, noted English actress, MARTIN Reo Teean as, Ww Mee AY: MENT WALTER HUSTON” nresents in SINCLAIR LEWIS’ ODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, West 44th St, 400 seats $1, Evs, 8:40 sharp. Mats., Wed. & Sat. 2:36 heading the cast. Other principals include Estelle Winwood and Viola Keats, “Small Miracle,” a melodrama by Norman Krasna, is announced for the Golden Theatre (formerly the Royale), opening on Wednesday night. Joseph Spurin-Galleia, Ika Chase, Myron McCormick and Rob- ert Middlemass head the cast. “Mass Struggle’ Held Over “New Russian film worthy addition tc Soviet_mevie art."—DAILY WORKER. Dostoyevski’s “Petersburg Nights” SOVIET SUPER TAUKING FILM (English_Titles)—2nd BIG WEEK ounce A CM The Birth of Internationalism! A Soviet talkie in 4 languages: Russian, Jewish, Polish. “Mass Struggle” Produced by First Odessa Comsomol Studios. Special musical score of Ukrain- tan folk melodies (English Titles). 14th street | OND & Union Sq. | @ WEEK H For Second Week At Acme “Mass Struggle,” the Soviet talkie produced by the First Odessa Comsomol Studios, is being held over for a second week at the Acme Theatre. The film, which is in four languages—Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish and Polish, is a gripping story dealing with the 18th century struggle of the Ukrainian serfs against the Polish and Ukrainian landowners. The Daily Worker, in its review, calls it “a film epic of the Ukraine.” The picture is enacted by many well-known screen and stage artists of the Soviet Union. “Petersburg Nights,” the Soviet talkie based on Dostoyevski's fa- mous novel “White Nights,” is now in its third week at the Cameo Directed by Roshal, ihe ing class.".—HARRY GANNES “Incomparably writton."—JOHN STRACHEY 296 pp., $1.75 Ayailoble in Workers Bookshops or direct from INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS 381 FOURTH AVENUE ker, Bill Taylor, of E w Haven C.P, and| Daily Workes Committee. 5 picture tells a graphic story of Yego Efimov, a serf on an estate in old Russia, me BTR FASCISM AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION | By R. PALME DUTT “Every reader of the Daily Worker must read this books to un- derstand the most important political tasks before the whole work- the best book on Fascism that has yet been NEW YORK (Write for a full descriptive catalog)