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By AGNES The following are selections from Agnes Smedley’s dramatic beck, “China’s Red Army Marches,” published by Interna- tional Publishers, 381 Fourth Ave. —Hditor’s Note, Ii. Bi Weer of you show by your faces and the way you stand that you are strange fellows of some kind. This must be changed! When you t develop a hang-dog look, Try emember how you walked and acted before you entered the Red CHINA’S RED ARMY MARCHES SMEDLEY | custs, eating everything, leaving it | bare and desolate, often capturing | able-bodied men as transport ani- |mals. Never had they heard of an | army that protected and fought for the poor, for peasants and work- ‘ers. Never had they heard of an | army that paid for its rice and left women unmolested. All these vil- lagers knew was that they were al- hungry, always laboring, al- | sunk in squalor. If the Army | spoke to them of a worker-peasant | government they replied that they re too base, too humble, to as- e to rule themselves. Only the rulers were alw cruél and merci- les These peasahts did not wish to pay the rents, to pay the usuri- AIL “Y WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1 934 News of Events In the League of Workers Theatres Eastern Conference and Festival The most successful regional con- ference ever héld by the League of | Workers Theatres (L.O.W.T.) tool | place last week-end in New York. Sixty three delegates representing 52 groups attended, as did five guest delegatés and forty visitors. Cities as far east as Boston and as far west as Cleveland sent representa- tives. Reports, experimental dem- onstrations, and lectures on theatre arts by distinguished theatre crafts- men were featured. First “Acted” Movie America’s first revolutionary dra-!| |matic film—a tén-minute satirical |short—is being made by Ralph | Steiner, Leo Hurwitz and Irving go into the camp of the enemy, YOU yich and powerful ruled, and the| Lerner, all of the New York Film jand Photo League, with actors from} | the Shock Troupe of the Workers Laboratory Theatre of New York. Amy. Droop your shoulders, hang | ous debts and the taxes that were | Alired Saxe of the Shock Troupe is your heads, don’t look officers oF |jioaded upon their backs; but when | directing. Soldiers straight in the eye and eep silent, but complain to them nd ask intelligent questions in a stupid manner. ... ” The Red Army gave the scouts silver and some of them went days in advance of the Army. They would huy a few eggs ot chestnuts, or yarn and thread in a market town. A few of the scouts turned | scouts told them the Red Army was |wiping out the landlords, they merely asked: “Then from whom shall we bor- |vow money and rice when we need | them?” | aoe | "PHERE were scouts who went into | other villages where the entire | village of hundreds of people be- ear-cleaners [the cleaning of is a profession in China] and they could go right among the soldiers and clean their ears for them, talk- ing and gossiping. It was a clever profession for a scout. Others, with baskets of eggs, chestnuts or dried fruit, would trot amongst the enemy troops, offering their w: for sale. They would sduat on their haunches and gossip idly, tossing coppers and asking questions that ignorant but curi- ous men might ask. Curiously, with gaping mouths, they handled the cneniy guns, examining them. Their rough hands ran along the strange machine guns that could “shoot a myriad bullets a minute.” The sol- a would guffaw at their aston- ished. questions. Then the scouts would leave the town, meandering nless}y, cr trot along under thei voles singing rhythmi Hai-ho! Hei-ho!” eer ae CSS ee the town cease Singing, meet some com rade, or run back over the hills and report on the number of enemy men and guns and bullets, on their location in the town and the way the soldiers spent their tinie. They would tell of how the soldiers were afraid of the Red Army; if they had beer paid their wages or not; how they what they thought of their officers. ys they nt of the White r slavish servitude soldiers, under scouts walked warily. For the peas- ants there knew nothing of the Revolution, nothing of the Red ‘Army. Not even a ripple of revolt had reached them. They would either speak not at all, or they would talk to everyone, telling all they knew. A stranger in their midst was a rare and interesting thing, and of him they talked far and wide to everyone. These unconscious villagers were ready to flee to the mountains when armed men came their way. It mattered not who or what the army was. To them, an army meant soldiers who swevt through their village like a swerm of lo- 1:00 P. M,-WEAF—Baseball Resume WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WdZ—Amds 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Round-Towners Quartet 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Front-Page Drama WiJZ—Weeks Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30-WEAF—Irene Bordoni, Songs woR—Mystery Sketch wJ2—Eugene Frey, Baritone WABC—Paul Keast, Baritone ¥:45-WEAF—Frank Buck's Adventures WOR—Studio Music WJZ—Legion of Decency Talk WABC—Boake Carter, Comméntator $:00-WEAF—Bourdon Orchestra; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quartet; Speaker, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe WOR—Selvin Orchestra; Al and Lee Reiser, Pieno WiZ—Larry Larsen, Organ; Robert Childe, Piano; Mixed Octet WABC—Fray and Braggictti, Piano $:15-WAZ—Sirzlers Male Trio WABC—Edwin C. Hill, Commentator 8:30-WOR—Novelty Orch.; Slim Trimblin, edian; Cavaliers Quartet ce Hayes, Songs of Human Relations Guerd Quartet an Orchest WJ2—Harris Oreh.; Leah Ray, Songs 9:15-WABC—Green Orchestra 9:30-WEAF—Bonime Orchestra; Pic and Pat, Comedians WOR—Brokenshite Orchestra WJZ—Floyd Gibbons, Commentator; Shield Orchestra; James Melton; Toward the $500 Quota— CITY... they would | were dressed and fed, | would renort on the} sees» AMOUNT ..., the same clan name—Chang, Hsiao, or Chu. Here lived the rich head of the clan branch, a landlord and usurer, holding the poor members in servitude. Bound by clan loy- alty assiduously preached by thé rich clan heads, the poor and desti- tute were willing to support and defend the rich men of their own blood. When the rich men fied be- fore the oncoming Red Army, the | poor villagers remained behind. But | of their rich relatives they would | say nothing. Amongst the scouts there were also | armed men. These went always but |@ short distance in advance of the | Red Army, and they used their pis- tols to signal. When necessary they |fought. Such were the six scouts | Who went before the Army by a li or more when a White regiment came from the north along a jmountain path hidden by shrubs and overhanging cliffs. ut a Red scout shouted to his comrades: “The signal—right at them!” One scout raised his pistol and fired the signal—right into the midst of the enemy. They all dashed for cover and the battle of six men against a whole regiment |begen at the crosspaths. ae oak HE Red Army heard the firing and knew its meaniny, but by \the time it had atrived the six | scouts were The pistols of jall lay by their sidés or grasped in their stiff hands. Not a bullet ivas left, and the pistols had been at last used as clubs. To the living scouts, Chu Teh then said: “Who will take the he came of the six?” La Sit Peet DE ARN! ORR GND Uy from the men, until not a scout but had volunteered. So six were chos- en by lot and given the pistols of | the dead. They wined the blood from thé handles and loaded them. Then, barefoot and ragged, with squared shoulders, they saluted their comrades and commander, turned and marched swiftly for- ward, over the mouhtains to the east. | | deat “EEMANG IN Tenor; Ruth Lyon, Soprano WABC—California Melodies 9:45-WABC—Current Problems—Walter B. Pitkin 10:00-WEAP—Dramatic Sketch WOR—Frank and Flo, Songs WJZ—Mario Cozzi, Baritone; Lucille Manners, Soprano WABC—Callfornia Melodi¢s 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WEAF—Jack Benny, Comedian; Bes- tor Orch.; Frank Parker, Teror WOR—Gorodensky Orchestra WJZ—Isidor Philipp» Piano; String Quartet 10:45-WABC—Carlile and London, Piano Duo; Warwick Sisters, Songs 11:00-WEAF—George R. Holmes, Chiet Washington Bureau I. N. 8. WOR—Weather; Dantzig Orchestra WJZ—Davis Orchestra WABC—Football: Summary, Du- quesne-West Virginia Night Game, Pittsburgh 11:15-WEAF—Sterney Orchestra WABC—Belasco Orchestra 11:30-WEAF—Martin Orchestra WOR—Lynch Orchestra WJZ—Dance Orchestra 11:45-WABC—Barnet Orchestra 12:00-WMCA—Dance Music (Also WEAF, WOR, WJZ, WABC, WEVD) Our Readers Must spread the Daily Worker Among the Members of All Mass and Fraternal Organ- izations As a Political Task of First Importance! Credit to “Change the World!” Column, Both sides were taken by surprise, | Pageant To Be Stagéd The L,O.W.T. in New York has been invited to prepare amass |pageant commemorating the 17th Anniversary of the Russian Revolu- tion. It will be presented at a huge | celebration on November 7th. | A short play by Lester Erlman | dealing with the textile strike was miméographed by the L.O.W.T. and | Seht out to workers’ theatre groups. | The National Bxecutive Commiitee |ef the L.O.W-T. algo issued a call | to all dramatic groups to support the textile strike by arranging per-| formances at strike meetings and by participating actively in all affairs) | fer the moral and financial support | |of the strikets. The L. 0. W. T.! |Dlans for intensive activity along | | these lines in future struggles. Prizes for Plays | Three contests for revolutionary| plays of various types are now tak-| ing plate. New Theatre and New) Masses jointly are offering a total of | $100 in ptises for short plays. The} International Union of the Revolu- tionary Theatre, of which the L. O.| W. T. is the American section, is | offering two prizes, both including | | free all-expenses trips to the Soviet) Union, for the best plays for chil- dren. The third contest is for short | suppet plays dramatizing the New ears | longed to the same clan, and bore | York election campaign issues. This contest is being conducted by the New York State Election Campaign | | Committee of the Communist Party, | 799 Broadway, New York City. First | prize is a complete set of the works }of V. I. Lenin. All three contests | are open to everyone, In the National Office |_ The Repertory and Publications | | Service of the L.O.W.T. is now func- | tioning with efficiency under the | technical direction of Sarah Dona. |New short plays and bulletins are) | constantly being mimeographed, and| |are available te individuals and or-| ganizations at small cost. A new edition of the “Handbook of Réci-| tations,” the first two editions of | which were quickly sold out, will | soon be ready . . . Increased or- ganizational assistance to workers’ dramatic groups is being given since | the recent a pointment of Anne, | Howe, National Organizational Sec-| retary, to full-time work... . Vic-| | tor Cutier, popular organizer of the Western Distriet of the L.O.W.T. is just back from a trip to the U. 8.| 8. R. He is for the present, working with the N. O., organizing a Direc- tors’ and Speakers Buro . . . The, Dramatic Department of the Federa- tion of Jewish Workers Clubs has| | Affiliated nationaliy with the L. 0.| |. T. A number of professional} | tors, directors, artists, playwrights, | Cte. have joined the L.O.W.T. and| [Will help give attistic training to | Workers theatre groups. The L. O. |W. T. welcomes individual memier- Ship on this basis... . A Manual of the League of Workers Theatres is in preparation by Comrades Elion, Blake ahd Howe of the National Ex- | ecutive Committee. Every phase of | the work of the L.O.W.T. and of| individual groups will be treated... New Theatre's circulation is already | the largest of any revolutionary cul- tural publication ih this country. The October issue will reach 8,500. Against War and Fascism Endorsng the Second Congress of the Amétican League Against War| and Fascism, to be held in Chicago, | |the National Executive Committee | |of the L.O.w.T. has named Alice | | Evans of Chicago to represent it at| | the Congress, \ W orkers! Support Your Own Press! Urges Writer In $60,000 D. W. Drive We are @ nation of 120,000,000, practicaily’ all of whom can read and do read. Yet there is, to my knowledge, exactly one newspaper published in English, in our entire country, which gives the basic facts, and tells the truth, about the national and world-wide economic crisis, This paper is the Daily Worker; and this fact about it points, without further words, to its supreme importance. The weakening of the Daily Wotker today would be a disaster to the cause of mankind in America, and, since America is so pivotal a nation, to the cause of mankind in the world. Indeed, the failure of the Daily Worker to grow strofiger, in this crisis, would be disas- trous. Consciousness of the need of fundamental change in modern society, and cofistiousness that this change must be in the final direction of Communism—lest it be fatally in the direc- tion of Fascism, war and death, is growing rap- idly among the people. Practically all the news- papers in the land are the property of the small property-owning class which reyoltitionary change will destroy; and are in consequence net against this change. Alone among the news- papers, the Daily Worker is paving the way for this change, is assembling and preparing the forces which must bring this change about. Therefore, the Daily Worker must grow, as the need which it represents grows, and as the con- % sciousness which it fosters grows. Waldo Frank The Daily Worker is far indeed from being a perfect paper. But when an experienced man weighs its immense difficulties—difficulties of finance, and of scattered revolutionary and cultural support—he must conclude that the “Daily” is doing mighty well—surprisingly well: and, moreover, it is s’eadily improving. Many years ago, Walt Whitman, our national bard, said: “There can be no great poet without great audiences.” This is true, no less, of an organ like the Daily Worker, whose “poetry” is the life-and- death business of helping the people to create for themselves the décent, livable world which our capacities and resources justify our having. The “Daily” must have a “great audierice’—it must be made great by a great body of readers. This calls, in our economic system, for money. Without cash and without security from money-troubles, the writers of the “Daily” can- not build the full, sttong, popular organ which the growing army of class-conscious Ametican workers require. Capitalist newspapers are built by capitalist money—and serve Capital. A revolutionary news- paper of the people must rely on the resources of the people, in order that it may fitly serve the people. WALDO FRANK. How Michigan Township Paid a $10 I. L.D. Fee DETROIT. — The Michigan Dis-)4t Lansing. Determined to keep trict of the International Labor | his campaign pledge and taxing the Defence has received a _ check |rich to raise funds with which to from the township of Gladwin, a) provide relief for the hard-hit tarm- farming community in Gladwin ers of Gladwin, Wright proposed to County, Mich. The check is marked | the Board of Review that they seek | “For Legal Advice.” This is how the advice of ‘he Intérnational the I. L. D. erme to get the check.| Labor Defense. The board agreed. Las‘ year the people of Gladwin| The I. L. D., through its attorney, elected Ele: Wright, Communist /I. Smullin, went into the légal as- p One of the | pects of the case and then advised planks in his platform was taxetion|the Board of Review to demand of the rich. Wright immediately from the State Tax Commission proceeded to make good on his/that an open hearing be held in pledge. He discovered that the | Gladwin and to rally all the farmers Northern Power Co., which had high |in the community to attend the tension wires running through | hearing. Gladwin township, was paying an| The State Tax Commission, on assessment tax of only $500 per mile, | recciving this dem nd, decided it whereas in another county it was | would be best not to face the mili- paying more. Wright immediately tant farmers of Gladwin Township had them asseséd $1,000 per mile.|and advised the Northern Power The company let out a howl and Co. to pay the assessment this appealed to the Gladwin Board of year and to take the matter up Review, but the board supported again next year. Wright. | On motion of Wright, the Board The power company then ap-/| of Review then voted $10 to the I. L. pealéd to the S‘ate Tax Commission | D. “For légal advice.” Friday “JOLY 14," Rene Clair's masterpieces shown at 26th St. Theatre at Broadway, from 5 to 11 p. m. Committee for the Support of Southern Textile organization. Prices 25¢-35¢. MOVIE “Road to Life’ shown at Hun- @arian Workers federation, 642 Southern Bronx, 8:30 p.m. Adm. 1f¢ in ad- ec at door. Proceeds to Daily MOON Cake Party, Nows reel, speak on “Chinese Revolution,” Dante, at 22 W. 17th St., 8 p.m. Auspices: Chinese Work- ers Center. Subscription 25¢. CONCERT of Chamber Music at Pierré Program: Degeyter Glub, 5 E. 19th St. Fantazia (1560), Locke; vinsky; Viola Quintet in G, Mozart, p.m, LECTURE on “Role of the Press Against War and Fascism” at 2918 W. 30th St, Coney Island, 9:30 p.m., by Comrade Wein- Steln. Auspices: I.W.O. Br. 122, benefit Daily Worker. RED VAUDEVILLE, dancing, refreshments Dance, 197 W. Houston 1se, Auspices, Unit 33. WHITE Collar Carhival end Dan Webster Manor, 119 E. 11th St., Ninety miniites of sonts. Del, cartoonist, _ at’. Watérfront 8t., 8 p.m. Adm. p.m. sketches. Aus- . a . Lecture on “The Peace Policy of the Soviet Union,” by Joseph Arch, 9 p.m. , Adm. free. “JUSTICE IN SOVIET RUSSIA AND IN THE U. 8." Lecture by Robert J. Siiber- stein, well-known authority on the Soviet Legal System. 1401 Jercme Ave., Bronx, cor. 170th St., 8:30 p.m. Adm. 10c. Aus- pices Mt. Eden Br. F.8.U. LAHN ADOMYON iectutes on “Music and the Revolutionary Worker.” Tremont Progressivé Club, 866 E. 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Boro) PARTY at Unity Theatre, 124 W. 50th Park Workers Club, 4704 18th Ave., 8:30| St. opposite Roxy Theatre. Broadway stazs. p.m. Adm. free. Prominent Violinist and others. Dancing MASS PROTEST MEETING Against Per-| and drinks. Subs. 35c. 9 p.m. secution of Class War Prisoners. Speakers) REGULAR VANGUARD PARTY, 235 W. from “Prisoners Club,” Leon Bhim, Sam| 135th £4. 10 p.m, Music, dancing, inter- Genshak, Otto Popovitch. Report of dele-| esting entertainment, refreshments. Adm. gation to Attica State Prison. Joe Tauber, | 2c. chairman. ‘Terrace Dé Luxe Hall, 434/ PRIENDS of the Workers School, 116 Hopkinson Ave., Brooklyn. Adm, 10c. Aus-| University Pl. cor. 13th St. Gale Opening. pices Brownsville Section LL.D. | Entertainment, refreshments. Dancing to ELECTION SYMPOSIUM. Prominent | Pierre Degeytcr Band. Subs. 35c. speakers from Demoerati¢, Republican,| “CHINA EXPRESS,” Soviet film, fol- Sceialist, Communist Parties. Progressive| lowed by dancing at Spa:tacus Club, 229 Workers Culture Club, 134 Tompkins Ave.,| W. 26th St., 8:30 p.m. “C. H, Wong speaks Brooklyn. Adm. 10c, on “China Today." Auspices I.L.D. Mid- MEMBERSHIP MEETING, Magnet Youth | town Sec. & N. Spanondakis Br. Coat- Club, 732 Nostrand Ave. cor. Park Pl.,|room check 2c. Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m. Students and workers) DANCE and Puppet Show, 11 W.. 18th cordially invited. | St. Adm.» 25c, Auspices Unemployment REGISTER NOW for Fall Terni of John | Councils. Reed Club, School of Art, 430 Sixth Ave.| SACOO-VANZETTI Br. 1.L.D. First An- Full time day and evening classes under| nual Vetcherinka and Reunion. prominent artists in all branches cf draw-| Tremont Ave. Adm. 13c in adv., ing, painting, sculpture. Office Hours 11/ at door. am. to 5 p.m. | UNUSUAL ENTERTAINMENT and Dance REGISTER for course at Workers Dance} at Fordham Br. P.8.U., 1293 Jerome Ave. 192 EB. 20 Leaguc, 114 W. 14th St. Fundamentals |%:30 p.m. Room of the Class Struggle. Special course for|| STUDIO PARTY—Daneing, ref dancers, | Theatre Group, 1945 E. 1 REGISTRATIONS | still Term Brownsville open for Fall| Auspices Harry Simms B: Workers School, Low fees. Register now. . LL.D., 8:30 p.m. ims) OPEN NIGHT PARTY of Brownsville wi ‘orkers School, 1835 Pitkin Ave. Refresh- Saturda | ments and admission free ‘ ; HOUSE PARTY of Bill Haywood Br. PurPer ow and Dance, refresh-| 11.p., 2120 Coney Island Ave., Apt. 4C. ments. Auxiliary Committee County Un-| RECEPTION—Dance and Entertainment employment Gouncils, 11 W. 18th St. 9| 3cnn Bovingdon will dance, Pm. Adm. 25c. oe ter 01 is 5 BS ve., VICTORY DANOE of the Young Liber- |e Om, pieee Be ee hve? Bronx ators of Harlem. 119 Lenox Ave.. Section!” CONCERT and Dance given by LUD. headquerters. Jazz bend, crtertainment.| aitred Levy Br., Hin: e ay Refreshments, Lindy contest lebrate! s72 Sutter’ Ave. the victory at the Bmhpire Cafet ‘ i le chee : LANTERN PARTY and Danes, * 5 hile ef Morro Castle crew will speak. Photo League, 12 E. 17th St. Kats: uneay ers, ritzy entertainment, — refreshme! PALL DANCE and Entertainment for ton Shop Bulletin. | benefit “L'Unita Operata” given by Iteclian t and Danes for | Worker's Center. ugosiavia W. C., 108 at Conttibuticn, ladies lsc, man |by Alited Heves at 103 ‘Thetford Ave,, int Schocl of | W. 24th st: near Pitkin |Ave., Brooklyn, — Auspices 14 W. 14th Bt. | S50 Brownsville vouth Ceriter. Adm. 15c. ranged by the] STUDIO CONCERT and Party, 124 Ww. CARL BODSRY cpepk$ en “Th Im-| ¥: Ste Jloppocit> Roxy's). | Program: DAN Boys and Shipping Cl endered by the Floor | Pe! é S Den}, of the! clutionary ndolin Quartet, Violinist, Rev- aheer, Unity Theatre Players, aie Newark, N. J. Page Seven Journalists and Writers Protest Story of Bonus March Fascist Torture Records Heroic Fight NEW YORK.—A group of prom- inent writers and journalists repre- senting nine countries have issued the following declaration of protest against the fascist torture of | Gramsci and Hofmeier by the Mus- solini government | For the Liberation : of 394 pages, $1. Gramsci and Hof meier — Reviewed by Veterans on the March? by Dougias, with foreword by Das Pas20, published by Jack Gramsci, the heroic leader of the Italian p at and one of PHILIP STERLING the most learned men in Italy, ns ition in the life of this ar has been suffering for eight years in the fascist prisons. Condemned to 21 's of prison, the anti- fasci as been completely broken down in health and he is now at the end of his physical strength. The Swiss revolutionary Hof- meier, has endured a monstrous system of penalty in an Ita italist Not only the pa prison for the past seven years. | capitalist exploitation to whict | His physical condition has also | have been subjected. e very serious—! Ne igus raat Ray he ia fall n True, in some Eur i eau oot eae eat * this) onganiesbion® critical condition. Gramsci and Hofmeier are stil! st uses, as in Germany helm being held in prison, although | ganizations in t condition is such as to come | Poland. under the fascist criminal code But ot article ragarding the liberation of | playéd th opposite role prisoners on account of illness: Instead of freeing them, however, the fascist government utilizes their serious condition in order to | exert pressure upon them and bring them to submission to fas- cism. But the criminal measures taken by the fascists meet with the unconquerable steadfastness of Gramsci and Hofmeiér. These criminal fascist measurés must arouse the indignation of the workers of hand and brain all | over the world. Gramsci and Hof- | important revolutionary German; meier must be set free! The soli- darity of the intellectuals and toiling masses must rise like a | wall of protection against the Mussolini government te:ror. We must protest and demand the im- mediate liberation of Gramsci and Hofmeier. | We revolutionary writers signal the alarm and call upon all anti- fascists to render active solidarity for the liberation of the two brave revolutionary fighters and of all the prisoners who are paying the | penalty in Mussolini's prisons for their couragéous struggle against fascism. Patil Nizan (France) Andre Malraux (France) Aragon (France) Viad Pozner (France) Rafael Albert (Spain) D. Glinos (Greece) Jose Vacas (Rodriguez) Emi Siao (China) | Hou Lanchi (China) | N. V. Vezwel (Czechoslovakia) L. Fisher (U. 8. A.) Costa Varnalis (Greece) | Otto Luihn (Norway) M. Teresa Leon (Spain) Jean Richard Bloch (France) A contingent of Michigan and Ohio veterans led by the Work- ers Ex-Servicemen’s League tie up the Cleveland Railroad yards demanding transportation to Washington. (An illustration from Veterans On the March.) (Cuba) of European masses following the World War came to a head. In the United States, the final role of the veterans as an organized \group is still in the balance | Whether the majority of them will throw their weight to the growing | forces of Fascism or to the rising Moa Martinson (Sweden) |revolutionary movement of the Harry Martinson (Sweden) working class is still to be finally decided, HIS is the moral of Jack Doug- Magazine Editors to Attend National 1.8.C. las’ -story of the great bonus . : march. Douglas’ book is a thor- Meet Opening Today ougily documented and simply written record of the travels of the CHICAGO.—Among the magazine | more important bonus contingents, editors who will be present at the | life and day to day struggles of the John Workers’ Of Impoverished ‘Vets’ for some under Libs political s S. mentions in sing, later commander of America and still later Shirts of victed perjurer and accessory to It is significant that one of the few other books written on the Bonus march is a ridicul fa ciful piece of fiction d role of the bonus army an imaginary Fas One thing stands out ir rative, the colossal, Gibral determination of the veterans to get to Washington, to Id tk ground, fight, to win the bonus, Little been written about the bonus march save by the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, and about the role of this militant group, Douglas has much informative and little known materi In pective it is possible to understand, from reading “Veterans on the March” how such a spon- taneous movement could reach such cribing t building vast proportions and how it could survive all the tortuous alleys of treachery through which it was forced, often at T= movement was able to grow and survive despite its sp taniety because it won immediate! the mass support of the working class. The veterans did not win the bonus, but the entire working class made concrete gains as a result of the march. The consciousness among veterans of their jobs in the class line-up began to grow. And most ir tant of all, the march and the sieg of Washington was in itself one of the most important actions of the working class in shaking the go ernment out of its murderous re- fusal to provide relief funds for growing army of America’s job! Douglas’ book, which deals y the facts of the Bonus March, not only records an important page in the history of the American working class—it makes that page thrilling and highly informative reading. the points of guns. naiional meeting of the John Reed | Clubs, opening here today at the | Club headquarters, 505 S. State St., | are: Joseph North of the New STAGE AND SCREEN Masses; Edwin Seaver of Soviet | | Russia Teday; Jack Conroy, editor of the Anvil; Wallace Phelps Hayes, and Philip Rahv of Partisan Re- view; Bill Jordan, Richard Wriht, and Mark Marvin of the staff of Left-Front; and Eugene Clay of Left-Revie Judith Anderson Opens Next ‘ Tuesday in New Play Judith Anderson will return to | Broadway next Tuesday night in | Guthrie MeClintic’s production of “Divided By Three,” a new play by Margaret Leech and Beatrice Kauf- man, opening at the Ethel Barry- |more Theatre. Others in the casi |include James Rennie, Hedda Hop- | per and Jamés Stewart. Beginning next Monday the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company will |begin a second four weeks of Gil- {bert and Sullivan repertoire. A. K, TARASOVA, Honorary artist of the Moscow Art Theatre, appearing in the new Ostrovsky film “Thunder Storm,” | which opens. tomorrow at the 2 — | Cameo. dancing. Adm. 25¢. Auspices Anti-War Moma st ; sot. (ore: We rele “Roll Sweet Chariot,” New Paul Green Play, Opens NEW THEATRE will present Newark Tuesday at Cort Theatre John Reed Club in “Can You Hear Their | Voices” and Lillian Shapiro in “Good Morning Revolution.” Civic Repertory| nn ee Theatre, Oct. 7, matinee 2:30, evening 8:40. | ‘Roll Sweet Chariot,” a ‘symphon- | Reserve seats now—26e to s8c. ic drama of the Negro people,” ENGLIGH SPEAKING BR. I.W.O. being!) a | s the \tormea at Boro Park Cultural Center, 128) 2Y Paul Green, will cpen at th 56th St., Brooklyn. Next meeting Monday,, Cort Theatre on Tuesday evening, Cet. 1, 8:30 p.m. Comrade Johnson of October 2. Staged by Emjo Ba she, with a musical background | MAX BEDACHT speaks on “The Life composed by Dolphe Martin, the work is sponsored by Margaret Hewes. Frank Wilson, Rose Mc- Clendon and Warren Coleman have leading roles in a company of sixty. This is the fourth of Mr, Green's plays to reach Broadway. The first, “In Abraham's Bossom,” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927. “The Field God,” and “House of Con- |nelly,” both from his hand, were subsequently produced here. “Roll Sweet Chariot,” was ori- ginally shown in_ Boston last Spring, and during the past week hhas played in the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee. Amusements RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL—, 50 St. & 6 Ave.—Show Place of the Nation Doors Open 11:30 A.M. “CARAVAN? with Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Jean Parker, Cast of 3000 AND A SPECIAL STAGE Prologue devised by ERICK CHARELL Staged by Leonidoff “Romany a Max rax GordonW AT. TER HUSTON in SINCLAIR LEWIS’ ODSWORTH matized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, West 44th St. 400 seats $1.10 Evs. 8:40 sharp. Mats., Wed. & Sat. 2:30 D: | City Comm, will spea | and Teachings of Karl Marx and Frederick | Engels,” Sat., Oct. 6th, 2 p.m., at Friends of the Worker's School, 116 University Pl AmkinosAmericanPremiere Beginning Today @ | Get free tickets by buying 7c worth of | literature at all Worker's Book Shops. : 2. | 20-50. DISCOUNT SALB cf Workers Beginning Today 8 ? Book Shops ends Sat., Sept. 29th. Notice 3 % a [the cancellation of lecture by George Sis- Daring Indictment!! kin for this Gat. Tickets will be honored ||] ATainst Clats Dissrimination, Religious at future lectures. 4 tan SOVIETS GREATEST Cinematic Achievement Eisenstein-Pud> De nko in one | Saturday HOUSE PARTY—Dance—Entertainment. | Dr. Littman, 220 Central Park fouth, 3 | p.m. Given ‘by Unit 13 See 1. Subs. 25¢. SARTY GIVER Uy Unie (9 Bee, 11, at 0 dee | 17th Ave. and 47th St., Brookiyn. s) rsky’ s | CONCERT and Dance by Red Star Band | FE OUSICY § | at Progressive Workers Center, 134 Tomp- ||] @¢! kins Ave., Brooklyn. Adm. 25c | } BANQUET and Conce ven by Sec. 15 Unit 5 and Unit 1. 1472 Boston Ri Bronx. Adm. tse in adv., 20c at do | Boston, Mass. | DOROTHY ADLOW, Art Critic recently returned from the Soviet Union, will speak jon “Soviet Art." John Reed club, 12) Newbury St., Sat., Sept. 29th, 8 p.m. ‘Also | Textile Strike Movies. Adm. 25c. HOUSE-WARMING PARTY for the ben- 422°STE copway, TILL IM, Rov VS 0 ena 25 STORM” “PETERSBURG NIGHTS” | SOVIET SUPER TALKING FILM (English Titles) The DAILY WORKER says: “New Russian film worthy addition to Soviet art.” ACHE 1th Street & Union Sq. Jefit of the Dally Worker at 1199 Tremont St.. Committee for the Sup ARTY at 83 Ellington st., Dor- ter, near Franklin Park, Sunday, Sept . Refreshments, games, cancing. Adm. Auspices Workers’ Dance Group. RENE CLAIRE'S STUDIO PARTY of the Rebel Danesrs cf the Jack London Club the vel ani “Red Vaudeville of the Workers,” &: 23, 30 p.m. . Adm. 15¢. | Detroit, Mich. | CONCERT and Danes. Election Cem- | paign Rally of the 16th Congressional) |Comm.. Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m. Martin Hall, | 4950 Martin, Speakers: Anderson for | Governor. > . For the First Time at Popular 28th St. Theatre * Bros way Organizetion. Presents FILM MASTERPIECE “JULY 14th” “LET US HAVE PEACE’—Soviet Animated Cartoon | FRL, SEPT, 28 |) port of Southgg Textile ‘with English Titles) Prices @ Fot One Night Only Continuous from 5 P.M. %e-35¢