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J — DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1984 Page Five mee By AGNES following are selections The from Agnes Smediey’s dramatic book, “China’s Red Army Marches,” published by Interna- tional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave. —iitor's Note. Scouts PEASANT wearing grass san- | dals and with a conical-crowned hat down his back wandered into a small town in eastern Hunan. His clothing was clean and his trousers patched with bright new, patches. Halting at a street stand where a man was baking sweet potatoes in a@ clay jar with a fire burning hrivhtly mnder it, he bought a po- tato and began eating. Aiter gossiping for a time with the potato vendor, he passed down jthe street and entered the village tea-house. He seated himself at a Jone rough table and looked ‘about the dim little room. There were about a dozen men at the other tables. Some were drinking tea or eating watermelon seeds and throwing the shells on the hard mud floor. All had turned to stare suspi- ciously at the stranger. Was he a spy for the landlords and milita- rists? No, surely not. Such spies came as small travelling mer- chants, priests, or as fortunte-tell- ers. The landlords no longer needed these spies, for Kuomintang troops had already reconquered this vil- lage and the landlords had re- tuned with them. ma table where three peas- 5 sat, a man politely greeted the ve you eaten rice today?” 2 stranger replied that he had and he hoped that they also had been so fortunate. On invitation, he moved over with them and fell into conversation. Questioned, he said his humble name was Wang, thet his native village was in Cha- ling district and that he was going over the hills to the west to visit a relative. His land was good, he owned five “mau” [A “mau” of land is 1-6 of an acre.], and the autumn harvest had been good. He had so and so many members in his fam- ily, he belonged to family so and so, he had three sons and one daugh- e for his autumn rice * * Ae so on ‘and on went the polite gossip about his personal affairs until he was interrupted by a ques- tion from one of the peasants at a neighboring table. Did he know a certain relative, Chou Tien-i, in a village near his native place? The stranger hesitated. He thought he knew Chou Tien-i, but could not remember exactly. “The village is some distance from my native place,” he explained. The assembled men observed him cautiously. Then an _ impulsive young peasant remarked: “Well, if you ar really from Cha- ling—and that I do not know—you can tell us if it is true that Kuo- mintang troops have recaptured Chaling city. The landlord here says they haye, and the Reds all Killed.” Thy stranger looked the young peasant in the eye and remarked dryly: “The militarists have not cap- tured Chaling. The workers and peasants are very strong and the Red Guards protect the city with guns captured from the Min Tuan and the White troops.” The peasants looked in astonish- ment at each other. The stranger used the words “white” and “red.” * ; \JRC Art School CHINA’S RED | 79 Open Fifth ARMY MARCHES Season October1 NEW YORK.—The John Reed | Club School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave., SMEDLEY | opens its fifth season October Ist, | with a complete schedule of morn- “White” for the militarists and|ing, afternoon, evening and week- |landlords! and “red” for the peo-| end classes. The school now offers | ple! full time instruction in painting, | They began to pour questions | drawing, sculpture, fresco and other |upon him, The other men in the tea-house gathered about. The | woman who kept the place came ver and stood listening. She was branches of mural painting and po- litical cartoon, and is the only art school in the country that trains students to take a practical and ac- tive part in the development of an art which will advance the interests of the working class. In addition to the large faculty of last year, which includes such artists as Nicolai Cikovsky, H. Glinten- kamp, Louis Lozowick, Hideo Noda, G. Piccoli, Anton Refreiger, and Raphael Soyer, the following names have been addded to the teaching Staff for this term; Aaron Goodel- man, James Guy, A. Harriton, Ben Shahn. In addition to the regular instructors there will be guest in- structors in the various classes | throughout the year. These will in- clude Phil Bard, Jacob Burck, Ken- swered directly, saying: |meth Chamberlain, Hugo Gellert, “There are no spies of the land-| William Gropper, Edward Laning, jlords here! We know every man/B. Limbach, Robert Minor, Walter in this village!” Quirt, William Siegel and others to “But spies came here before the | be announced later. troops and the landlords returned!” | 4 feature of the school is the well the little woman insisted, nodding | equipped fresco room where profes- knowingly. : sional artists are offered thorough “Yes,” the young peasant replied. | training in this and other branches | “We were stupid and let them pass. | of mural painting. This class will One had a gun. But when he went | he under the direction of Hideo Noda and Ben Shahn, and will be con- | ducted as a workshop class, with the | studios open to members of the class all day and evenings. The growth of the school from one small class four years ago, mir- rors the progress of the John Reed Club in producing and encouraging revolutionary art. Through contact with the members of the artists groups of the club and through the lectures by well known artists and revolutionary leaders, the students are brought into the front ranks of the class struggle and feel for them- | Selves the force of the vital healthy | revolutionary art in contrast with the sterile decadence of bourgeois | culture. The John Reed Club School of Art invites all those who are in- | terested to write or stop at the |a stocky woman in black trousers and a blue cotton jacket. Her black | hair formed a glistening surface and was combed back from the | forehead and knotted at the nape of her neck. A metal pin was stuck | through the knot. On one side of |her head was a little red four- petalled cloth flower lying so flat that it looked as if it were pasted on her hair. . | THE stranger replied carefully to | the questions put him, accom- | anying his answers with questions about those present. To such cau- tiousness, the young peasant an- | Poet Foresees Healthy F On the occasion of the recent , Soviet Writers Congress, the Sec- | retariat of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers addressed three questions to prominent writers in a number of countries. The questions were: What influence has the Bolshe- vik Revolution had upon your work? What do you think of So- viet literature? What problems interest you most at this time? Among the American writers to whom these questions were ad- dressed are Joseph Freeman, Theodore Dreiser, Malcolm Cow- ley, Louis Adamic, Isidor Schnei- der, Granville Hicks, Corliss La- mont, Joseph Kalar, James Steele. We have already reprinted the answers of Joseph Freeman, Malcolm Cowley, and Louis Ada- mic, ‘Ipday we are publishing the answer of Isidor Schneider, author of the novel “Doctor Tran- sit,” the volume of verse “The Temptation of St. Anthony,” and other books, The answers of others of the writers mentioned will appear in subsequent issues of the Daily Worker.—Editor’s Note. poe tee By ISIDOR SCHNEIDER THEN the news of the October Revolution came te America, I was tremendously enthusiastic. Not once in all the years since then did I lose my feeling of joy that social- ism had at last come to realization, that in Russia a happier future for humanity was being shaped. How 1917 Revolution Influenced Him Told By Isidor Schneider uture for Writers Whose Audience Consists of Revolutionary Workers of its pits. Sinclair Lewis believed that reducing idealized American types to absurdity would draw at- tention to the artist as somebody it would be healthy to imitate. H. L. Mencken sought to save us with cynicism and exaggerated hedonism to the abundant corruptions of the | system and to hand over sex and) jart to business exploitation. * | | | MAY of the men of my own age— | men fifteen to thirty years younger than those I have men- tioned above—took a different stand. | They had, without realizing it, no | faith in our system, no hope for it. |They did not want to reform it, to bother with it. In effect they | seceded, culturally, from the bour- | geois capitalist society that they de- |spised so deeply; and it is signifi- cant that of two of the leading magazines of the movement, one | was named Secession and the Broom | | (with a motto to the effect that it |intended to sweep clean the scene). | They issued manifestos which, when we read them today, sound absurd |because they struck’ at the wrong | thing like an animal who bites the arrow, instead of attacking the bow- man. It was not till the capitalist crisis occurred that these writers began to |understand the situation. Their hopes of an island of safe exile |within bourgeois society went to |pieces. The rich people whom they | turned anxiously to |had amused. | their own affairs. The only serious eee of their audience, the self-| jeducated workers, no longer had ISIDOR SCHNEIDER | thirty years of literary training were | of value to the revolution. In the revolutionary movement I am finding subject matter that draws out of me energies and emo- | tions that before have been stag- | mating and fermenting into poisons. |Some of my writing of that period, }as I read it now, has a tainted | quality. In the revolutionary movement I find a living, reacting audience. Having made my living as a worker in a publisher's office and as a book reviewer, I know what the bourgeois audience was. It was a dead audi- ence, an uninterested audience, anxious only to be in fashion. But the workers’ audience knows what it wants and gives to its read- ing the ardor that it gives to all its activities. To write for these read- ers is to enter a current of commu- nication that vitalizes both the writer and his audience. The above is a reply to two of the questions contained in your letter—j the first and third. To the second question, to give an opinion of So- LABORATORY AND Defense Against | Poison Gas It is a grim paradox that re- search scientists in the munitions |factories are seeking to perfect |newer and more poisonous gases for use against strikers or against |mon-combatant civilian populations, while other research technicians are at work on devices designed to counteract or neutralize these de- | structive inventions. | Behind the desperate search for S def is not only the desire the enemy's gas at- but also the great fear of 2 cie that the poison S, unless kept under some con- | trol, will be as injurious to the in- habitants of ritzy apartments along Park Ave. as to the workers on the East Side. It is true that gas masks are effective enough as safeguards, but after all they are a nuisance to wear to teas or to banquets or to “victory celebrations.” Much more convenient would be equip- ment which could be installed in mansions or office buildings with a guarantee to produce a fresh and chemically pure atmosphere for their occupants. Since there are large profits to be made in selling such protective devices to those who can afford to tacks, pay for such protection, the air- | conditioning manufacturers, ac- cording to confidential reports, are beginning to turn to the market which is being drummed up for them by the armament concerns. Nor are the chemical manufactur- ers asleep to the fact that they can profitably enlarge their present | business volume by selling. as a sideline, products which will neu- | tralize their noxious gases. Federal | Laboratories, Ine.. the concern By DAVID KAMSEY At the time I was a member of/time to waste on literary and ar- the Social Problems Club in the) tistic experimentation, which grew College of the City of New York.) more and more fantastic as it left Many of the members of a social-|its base of reality. The repudiation democratic stamp even then re-|of contemporary realities was then gretted the Menshevik defeat and) seen to be not a concession, but an predicted the fall of the Bolshevik| explosion. What it blew up was a government first in days, then in| section of the cultural morale of the weeks, then months, I had daily de-| system, and to that extent it served bate with them, viet literature, I am not competent| which has been selling the tear gas | to make a reply because I have not| used in the textile strike, is said read enough of that literature. ia be utilizing research findings x shoWng how the harmful quali- Sie TN 2 postcript you ask for a descrip- | nated, oer ‘ i tion of the conditions of intel-| The elimination of such noxious lectuals in the United States. Econo- | Clements depends upon three prin- mically, conditions are deplorable.| “ples. im the first place, the toxic ties in the atmosphere can be elimi- | nearer to Chaling someone killed him and took his gun!” The stranger asked: “What did he want to know?” | | The woman answered: “He | wanted to know about the Peasant | League here and in the other vil- lages. He asked about the Red) bandit: The stranger looked up. Red bandits?” “He called them that. the Red Army.” “What did he ask about the Red Army?” The assembled men looked at each other and crowded nearer. An old fisherman, as lean as a skel- eton, answered: “What did he ask? I, Chang Po- ling, will tell you! He asked the location of the Red Army, and I told him it was to the west over there someplace. But I knew it was there to the south. I told him there were myriads of men in the Red Army and they are without fear of death and leave no land- lord or militarist alive. Then I said to him: ‘Tell me, why do poor men fight for the Generals?’ He re- plied piously: ‘To serve one's chief with unswerving fidelity is proof of the highest principle.’ I said to him, I said: ‘You serve Ts’ao Ts’ao! Against the people!’” “My neighbor,” began a peasant, “told him that the Red Army had captured fifty thousand soldiers of the Generals in Leiyang and took all their guns and bullets. He de- nied that this was true. But my neighbor declared in strong words that the Red Army has guns that can shoot ten li. He teld him that Chu Teh is Kwang Yeu, the God of War himself. That is true! I have heard it from many men! Last week a southerner passing this way told me the same.” The old fisherman interrupted: “I have heard that Chu Teh once went into battle wearing a long ishang. [The long Chinese robe, or gown.] The sleeves reached the very earth. When the battle be- gan he walked out to meet the en- emy fanning himself with a feather fan ... like this. He had no fear of death and the fire from his eyes terrified the enemy so that they canes and ran back to Chang- sha.” “The I mean (To be Continued) High Treason Trial, by the Bulgarian Marxism and a revolutionary movement. and the trial. 381 FOURTH AVENUE Toward the $500 Quota— NAME ADDRESS Credit to “Change the World!” Column, DIMITROV By STELLA BLAGOYEVA A biography of George Dimitrov, the hero of the Leipzig The best book out on Dimitrov Cloth, 75 Cents Available in Workers Bookshops or direct from INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS (Write for a full descriptive catalog) daughter of the founder of fellow leader of the Balkan NEW YORK AMOUNT school for more detailed information. Up to October 1st the school office will be open daily from 11 a. m. to 5 p. m. and Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7 p. m., to 10 p. m. TUNING IN| The speech of Theodore Dreiser, famous novelist, at the Mecca Temple Anti-War and Anti-Fascist rally, will be broadcast tonight over station WEVD from 10 to 10:15 P, M. 7:00 P.M.-WEAP—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick ‘WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Jerry Cooper, Songs 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Stamp Club—Capt. T. Healy WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 1:30-WEAF—A New Deal in Civic Educa- tlon—Professor A. N. Holcombe, Harvard University WOR—The O'Neills—Sketch WJZ—Edgar Guest, Poet; Charles Sears, Tenor; Concert Orch. WABC—Jack Smith's Songs 7:45-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures WOR—Studio Music WABC—Bocke Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orch.; Phil Duey, Baritone WOR—Campaign Talk—Judge Wil- liam Dill WsZ—Thicker Than Water—Sketch | VABC—Concert Orch.; Frank Munn, Hazel Glenn, Soprano fayne King Orch. ve Vine, Comedian WiZ—Lawrence ‘Tibbett, Baritone; Concert Orch.; John B. 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WJ2—Grace Hayes, Songs WABC—Kavelin Orch. 11:15-WJZ—Robert Boyce, Tenor WABC—Dailey Orch. 11:30-WEAF—Jesse Crawford, Organ WOR—Madriguera Orch. WJZ—Dance Orch. WABC—To Be Announced v STAGE and SCREEN } “Thunderstorm” Coming To Cameo Theatre Friday Ostrovsky’s “Thunderstorm,” a new Soviet talkie, will be presented by Amkino on Friday for its first American showing at the Cameo Theatre. The picture, which was Produced in the U. S. S. R., was acclaimed one Of the outstanding masterpieces of cinema art at the World's Exposition held in Venice. The film hes a Moscow Art Thea- tre cast. “Petersburg Nights,” now §| current at the Cameo, will be ‘rans- ferred to the Acme Theatre on Saturday. “Count of Monte Cristo” To Open Today at Rivoli “The Count of Monte Cristo,” based on Dumas’ famous tale, will have its premiere today at the Rivoli Theatre. The title role will }|be played by Robert Donat. Others in the cast include Elissa Landi, Sidney Blackmer and Louis Cal- hern. Rowland V. Lee directed the Reliance production. “Gift of Gab,” a new musical film, a Universal picture, is now showing at the Riaito Theatre. Ed- mund Lowe. Ruth Etting, Phil Baker and Gene Austin head the large caste My enthusiasm, however, for the} USS.R. did not lead me to par. ticipate in the revolutionary move: ment in America beyond a period of | mild activity in the old Socialist| Party. I left a better-paying job for a place on the staff of Soviet Rus-/| sia, which gave me six happy weeks, | cut short by suspension of the| magazine during the 1921 famine. I became absorbed by my personal ambitions and yielded to the com- fortable doctrine that a man could separate his political beliefs from his functions as an artist.. When I voted, it was for the Communist Party: and when, among the people with whom I had my social life, the question of revolution came up, I was its advocate; but the question came up seldom and my advocacy} was merely that of the cheering} spectator, I hated the society in which I lived, as the whole generation hated if. Dreiser thought he could lead it to a reform from within by show- ing how it made monsters out of its masters and hunted rabbits out of its multitudes. Sherwood Ander- son felt that it could be cured by a flight to the primitive, by a mud bath of animal freedoms. Winston Churchill thought that condescen- sion to leadership on the part of the aristocracy, a genteel and presum- ably honest minority of the upper classes, could guide our society out the interests of the revolution. It was in the capitalist collapse hat once again our eyes turned to ussia. There the Five Year Plan, which even its enemies, by the tone| of their criticisms, considered to be the boldest, wisest and noblest en- terprise ever undertaken by men,| showed an ascent when all life around it was in descent, in plunges into ruin and despair. Then we realized that the foul- nesses we had avoided were not the exhalations of a filthy, but lusty and healthy organism, but the odors of decay, the smells of death. Then we understood that as artists we could never find here fulfillment, even in exile; that there was no room for artists and writers except as betrayers, those who took pay for | using the resources of art to corrupt) and demoralize and anaesthetize the masses. Many of the big names in American literary life committed this treason. Others, accepting the Marxian in- terpretation, became participants and collaborators in the revolution- ary movement, . C58 Lr. took me a long time and involved a strong personal conflict for me to make my decision. What held me Professionals and scholars are job- less. Their morale is weakening. The intellectual level is lowering visibly. The writers with whose conditions I am most familiar face an impasse. Many not only expect no earnings from their works, but cannot even have them published. Poets of a status which, I am told, would as- sure them of collected editions of their works in Russia, fail to have their books printed unless they can afford to do it at their own ex- pense, and then they reach an au- |dience of two hundred readers, | Those writers who appeal to bour- geois audiences and deal with com- mercial publishers have an almost hopeless future if they are honest men and want to use their talents without perversion. But the writers who want to reach the revolutionary workers audience | have a healthy future. They cannot | live, of course, on their writing, but they can get a fine audience for it. The New Masses, Partisan Review, Dynamo, Blast, and other magazines, well printed and alive, exist for |them. There is a nucleus of pro- |letarian culture that grows in ex- | tent and weight, and is in heart- ening contrast to the contracting, back was my fear that to make| weakening bourgeois culture which myself a revolutionist I would have|it is displacing—(Reprinted from to unmake myself as a writer. It) International Literature No. 3, was my old error in another form.| American distributors, International In time I learned that my nearly ‘ Publishers, Inc.) ‘No. 17 of ‘Communist International’ An Arsenal of Revolutionary Theory Communist International No. 17, published by the Workers Library Publishers, New York. Price 10c, Reviewed by SI GERSON one form or another it has been repeatedly pointed out that the struggle for the proletarian revolu- tion in the United States is at one and the same time the struggle for Marxism-Leninism, for dialectical materialism, the struggle against vulgar empiricism, the struggle, if we may put it this way, for theory. For a series of historical reasons there had developed in the United States a contempt for theory. This rule-of-thumb conception has seeped into the labor movement and finds its reflection even within the ranks of the Communist Party and its sympathizers. (Recently, especially since the development of the economic crisis, the capitalist class and its apologists have been groping with theory and attempting to answer the accurate Marxist predictions which have ma- terialized with the force of an earth- quake in the United States, In these clumsy attempts at theory, there has been no little effort expended to muddy the crystal stream of Marx- ist-Leninist teachings.) All the more important, there- fore, is the struggle to generalize upon whe rich political experiences of the American and international working class, to deduce from these class battles the special lessons of their developm: Of all the more importance, therefore. is the fight— and fight it is!—for theory—and for theoretical clarity—in the American revolutionary movement. poe manor this fight the Communist Inter- national, official organ of the Executive Committee of the Com- munist International, is of inestim- able value. No. 17, now off the press, | illustrates with especial brilliance the Leninist idea of theory as a summary of the practical experience of the revolutionary struggle and a ‘eacon that lights up the future! path, The article by O. Piatnitsky on 0 ) the united front, a continuation of that in No. 16 of the Communist International, deserves the attention of every class-conscious worker. Dis- cussing the united front movement in France Piatnitsky shows that the struggle Sf -Proves that the Commu- nists were able to bring about the united front in France only after they had demonstrated in practice that they are able to struggle and are capable of starting this struggle in time.” Manifestoes and registration of rejections of united front offers are insufficient, Piatnitsky declares. There must be a constant struggle for the united front, expressed not only by formal offers for united action but principally by the organi- zation of struggle and the participa- tion in mass struggles. “If the Com- munists had not fought side by side with the Schutzbund, I think that they could not have achieved the success they have done,” says Piat- nitsky referring to the gains that the Austrian Communists are making. Nor can united fronts be formed around the maximum program of the Party, d&clares Piatnitsky. In this respect he discusses some of the mistakes of the first letter of the Cc. P. U. S. A. proposing united ac- tion to the Socialist Party and shows how by not concentrating the pro- posal for united action on a few fundamental issues we make it easier for the reformists to evade the issue of united action. * 'OMRADE SAM BROWN contrib- utes an extremely important ar- ticle on “The Sirike Wave in the United States.” Discussing the strikes in San Francisco, Toledo, Milwaukee and Minneapolis, Com- rade Brown makes it clear that the fundamental tendency of present day strikes movements is towards the local general strike; that the strikers very quickly see the need of drawing up their reserves, the em- ployed and unempioyed workers not directly involved in the industry on strike Comrade Brown indicates very clearly the difference between the situations in San Francisco on the one hand and Toledo, Minneapolis jand Milwaukee on the other. In | ‘Frisco the Communist Party had an active and functioning fraction in was not true. Brown stresses, par- ticularly, the necessity of working “within every single local of the A. F, of L, labor unions. It is neces- sary to conscipusly strive to gain strategic offices and positions in the local unions.” We must work towards gaining admittance to the various Central Trades and Labor Councils which are especially important in view of the growth of the tendei~ies towards local general strikes, Com- rade Brown points out, a statement which the recent one-day general strike in Hazelton, Pa. and the movement towards one in Passaic County bear out fully. one, Fiete alysis of the San Francisco gen- eral strike, its strength and weak- ness, the high points and pitfalls. V. Chemodanov, secretary of the Young Communist International, discusses the united front and goes into detail on the communications ;of the Young Socialists of Austria and the Y. C. I. on united action. Of special interest is the editorial on the struggle against provocation in Japan, where the police, through skillful use of stool pigeons, have created a critical situation in our brother Party. Here, however, the years of experience of the Bolsheviks in combatting the provocations of Czarism are a veritable arsenal of strength which is helping the Jap- anese Party overcome the police- spawned, factional strife. We cannot urge too much the careful reading of the Communist International. Be you carpenter, furrier, miner, steel puddler, or- ganizer or lecturer, the Communist International is an aid not only to the daily, bread-and-butter battle but establishes that perspective without which one cannot be a good, consistent fighter for Communism, the decisive unions, the waterfront | unicns, while in the other cities this | | . SHERMAN has an extended an- | f+ Penne tact = be filtered out even with a relative- | ly coarse cloth screen since the Particles are trapped by the fuzzy | threads. Other harmful elements can be washed out with some sim- | ple solution like caustic soda, or they can be absorbed by passing ac- tivated carbon through the polluted | air, From a technical point of view all of this can be done without much difficulty. The chief problem is making the buildings and rooms | so airtight that no atmosphere | other than that which is artificially | conditioned can penetrate. In Eu- |rope, where the sale of protective | devices against gas attacks from | the air has been going at a strong | pace for several years, | tight metal compartments are al- ready available to that part of the civilian population which can af- ford to pay for protection against | death. They can be easily installed |in the rich man’s home. They are jlarge enough to hold two persons jand have facilities for producing | their own supply of air for approxi- | mately four hours. The demand for vices is reported to be reaching boomlike proportions as the next imperialist war looms large on Eu- rope’s horizon. In general. poisonous gasses be- have much like other air pollutants | such as street dusts, smog (mixture lof smoke and fog) and especially like the atmospheric sewerage belched forth from industrial plants with the usual capitalistic | disregard for the welfare of other human beings. Like these atmos- | pheric pollutants, poisonous gases | are heavier than ordinary clean air. | ; Consequently they tend to cling close to the ground, rolling down |hili very much like thick, heavy small air- | this contraption and similar de-| SHOP They finally eliminate themselves by gradual dissiptation into space and by absorption into the ground | (which produces an acid condition in the soil) or into the exterior sur- faces of buildings, particularly those constructed of limestone. | Rarely do these gases go higher than 50 feet of their own momen- |tum. Workers who are attacked should seek the comparative safety of hill tops or the upper floors and roofs of buildings five stories oF more in height. Avoid low places like valleys, subways and cellars, A Truth Tester When you question a person he may not tell you the truth, but his involuntary muscle movements will betray his falsehoods. Soviet psy- chologists have utilized this fact to develop a psychological method of trapping liars. When a subject is questioned he is also asked to press an electric key at the same time. If the ques- tion relates to some guilt on his part, the fact is often revealed in the record of his muscular reactions as he presses the key—or as in his preoccupation he may forget to press it at all | Broadcasting Train Power Experiments are being conducted | on a branch line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, | which open up the possibility of | propelling trains by means of power | broadcast through the air. Two en- | gineers erected a small broadcasting | station at Boise City, Oklahoma. | They coupled a few pushcars to- | gether, and built small antennae 7 or 8 feet above the deck of the cars. | The receiving apparatus on the cars transmits the power received from | the broadcasting station to the axles, With this power the cars were pro- | pelled a mile. | The engineers are confident of their ability to propel trains by broadcasting through the air on short wave lengths. They claim they can increase their range of opera- tions by increasing their power. As yet they have not tackled the ques- tion of the large loss of power that may be involved in their broadcasts, since the experiment is still in the early stages of development, | Liquid Rubber New developments in the anotse | Process of manufacturing rubber | articles from the liquid latex with | the aid of an electric current, are | revolutionizing many sections of the rubber industry. Rubber latex is obtained from the rubber tree. More than a hun- dred years ago scientists tried to | use it in its liquid form. But the | chemical problems involved in the utilization of this complex mate- rial were too great to be overcome. Consequently the present method of coagulating latex to form rub- ber in biscuit-like shape was devel- oped. In the middle of the 19th century the biscuit was crushed with steel rollers, compounded with dry powders and finally manufac- tured into sheets which were later used to make a limited number of items from rubber. The growth of the automobile in- dustry created a tremendous de- mand for rubber and _ scientists were forced to turn their attention to the problem of fabricating ‘ar- ticles directly from the latex. The foundation for the modern anode process was laid by Professor Henri at the Sorbonne in 1906 when he found that the latex had a nega- tive electrical charge and therefore traveled toward the positive elec- |tron when a current was sent through it. The work of subsequent | investigators finally led to the for- |mation in 1926 of the American Anode, Inc., a subsidiary of the Goodrich Rubber Co. Today liquid rubber is as important industrially | syrups, unless pushed elsewhere| as rayon—and like the latter “Is \ by the wind. Bt, | exploited by a monopoly. a , WHAT’S Of MOVIE “Road to Life’ shown at Hun= Wednesday garian Workers Federation, ¢42, Southern | LEFT WING Group of L.L.G.W.U. open- | ing class of “The History of the American | Labor Movement. Comrade Bimba, in- | structor. Every Wednesday at 6 p.m 140 W. 36th St MEETING and Round Table discussion at Fordham Prog. Club, 1993 Jerome Ave., Bronx. | THEODORE BAYER, economist. jon “History of the Russian Revolution,’ | Coney Island Workers Club, 2874 W. 27th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. free. | GENERAL Membership Meeting. Bronx Sec. LL.D. Very important matters to be | discussed, 3919 Third Ave. (172nd St.) j .m. SACCO-VANZETTI Br. LL.D. members attend section membership meeting at 3919 | Third Ave. Branch meeting postponed for | tomorrow, at 792 E. Tremont Ave. | REHEARSAL of Daily Worker Chorus, at new headquarters, 47 E. 12th St., 8 p.m. Conductor, comrade Camajani. We wel- | come new members. MACAULAY Strike Comm. Symposium at | Ofce Workers Union Hall, 114 W. 14th | St, 8:30 p.m. Subject, “Industrial Or- | ganization in the Literary Trades.” Vari- ous branches of the trade such as the | Newspaper Guild, Screen Writers Union. ig Six, authors, and [book as well as publishers will present their point of views. Adm. 25c. | LECTURE “Two Shipwrecks—the Morro | Castle of the U. S. and the Chelyuskin |of the Soviet Union” by Marshall Shaw t 1401 Jerome Ave., cor. 110th St., Bronx | Adm. free. Auspices: Mt. Eden Br. F.8.U. | JOHN RESD CLUB Party and Dance. | Send-off of delegates to National Confer- Michael Gold, ence of John Reed Clubs. | speaker, 430 Sixth Ave. | Thursday i | _ NEW Soviet film, “Sentenced to Health,” j dancing and refreshments to follow at |Fordham Br. F.8.U., 1993 Jerome Ave., | near Burnside. 8:20 p.m. Adm. || JACOB DAINOFF Memoriel at 2700 | Bronx Park East Speakers from John | Reed Ciub and I.W.O. on the life of Dainotff. * Pe NEW THEATRE will present Newark John Reed Club in “Can You Hear Their Voices” and Lillian Shapiro in “Good Morning Revolution.” Civic Repertory Theatre, Oct. 7, Matinee 2:40, evening 8:40. | Reserve’ seats now 25c to 99. 1 speaks | | Bivd., Bronx, 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23. | Adm. 15¢ in advance, 20¢ at door. Pros ceeds to Daily Worker. CONCERT and Dance given by LL.D. | Alfred Levy Br, at Hinsdale Workers Club, 72 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn, Saturday, Sep- ember 29, 8 p.m. Two members of Morro Castle crew will speak. “JULY 14,” Rene |Clair’s masterpiece |shown at 28th St. Theatre at Broadway, | Friday, Sept. 28, from 5 to 11 p.m. Come mittee for the Support of Southern Tex- tile organization. Pri¢es 25¢-35¢. REGISTER now for Fall Term of John Reed Club School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave. Full time day and evening classes under prominent artists in all branches of draw~ ing, painting, sculpture. Office hours this week, 11 am. to 5 pm. and Tuesdays and Thursday evenings 7 p.m. to 10 p.m, Amusements | I ) "LY GILBERT & |LFVOYLY CARTE $Uetvan | OPERA COMPANY from London OPERAS | Matinee Today and Tonight 'UDDIGORE” @ Sat. Evs, and Sat. Mat, ‘PRINCESS IDA” MARTIN BECK THEA., 45 St., W. | | Thurs., Pri. Committee for the Support of Southern Textile Organizations Presents Rene Clair's Masterpiece | | “JULY 14th” and New Soviet Mickey Mouse Cartoon 28th ST. THEATRE at Broadway Fri., Sept. 28, 5 to 11 P.M. 25c-35¢ Max Gordon WALTER HUSTON sents in SINCLAIR LEWIS" ODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, West 4ith St. 400 seats $1.10 Evs, 8:40 sharp. Mats., Wed. é& Sat. 2:30 ||] “New Russian film worthy addition tc |]] Soviet movie art."—DAILY WORKER. || Dostoyevski’s “Petersburg Nights SOVIET SUPER TALKING FILM ” i The Birth of Internationalism! A Soviet talkie in 4 languages: Russian, | Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish. “Mass Struggle” Prodyced by First Odessa Comsomob| Studios. Specie! musical score of Ukraiti- grswcbe wn, iat) | ian folk melodies (English Titles). j | th § LAST | NO MAREO | iis 25 ACME Rus | ihe aaa —