The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 4, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE —— | WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD K Base were, strangely enough, thousands of “liberals” and Jeffersonian Democrats in the South during the Civil War period. They were bitterly self-persuaded that they were fighting, not for slavery, but for freedom—for the principle of local autonomy as against a huge and tyrannical central for states’ rights verSus federal cen- tralization. power, Oh, no, they said with gehuine passion, Negro slavery is not the Teal issue. The federal government is trying to set up a dittator- ship over us, This government was fourided as @ voluntary union of free states, each of which has a constitutional right to secedé at any time. We mean to exercise this right. We dre fighting for the tradi- tion of American democracy. They believed this, and shed rivers of blood for their belief. But history now seys they were really fighting te preserve feudalism and chattel slavery. All their indignation, honor and self-sacrifice were poured forth vainly as a libation to a cruel and vicious god. * . * Faseism Is a Growth Toe are thousands of unhappy “liberals” in every capitalist land today who will défend “democracy” in much the same spirit. It is they who repeat the empty parrot slogan that Fascism and Com- munism are both dictatorships, and that they alone are saving the world for democracy. it is noteworthy that they are more artent in the fight against working-class rule than they are alert in percéiving the growth of fascism in their democratic lands. In France, in England, in America, and in Germany before Hitler ‘was handed the power by the candidate of the Socialists and liberals. ‘Von Hindenburg, these people actually helped fascism by their pdsition. Fascism isn’t a static system born ovérnight out of the sick brain of a pervert like Hitler or a murderous renegade like Mussolini. It is the product of a social evolution. As capitalism reels to its death, sinking deeper and deeper into decadence, it becomes more brutal and frenzied in its attempts to presérve itself. It abandons the “demo- cratic” forms by which it has ruled So long, not in a night and a day, but by a series of political maneuvers. Fascism is not a new theory of government, it is not a revolution, It is only capitalism showing its skeleton face openly, and ruling by martial law. The steps by which it reaches this final suicide have always won the approval of the democratic liberals. How can one explain such folly? How can one explain the really sincere Southern liberals who fought and bled for “state’s rights’? Yet there are the facts; the Southern liberals fought side by side with slave owners, and the modern liberals and Socialists fight in the ranks of a capitalist democracy which is rapidly evolving into fascism. The Son of Woodrow Wilson AS AMUSING example of this indirect aid to fascism is contained in an article in the magazine Common Sense, for August. It has for its title, “Is Fascism Possible in America?” and its author is that minor clown of Union Square, Mr. Leon Samson. Mr. Samson, in the face of the vigilante terror in San Francisco, the growth of Ku Klux and Silver Shitt fascist groups, all the fascist centralization of the power of monopoly-capitalism under the N.R.A., and other such recent developments in América, opens hié arhazing confession with the following thesis: “Anyone who talks of fascism in América is simply talking non- sense. Fascism is impossible in America for many reasons. First of all, our essential democracy. The Americans are the most democratic people on earth. Democracy here is not as in Europe, a mere political form. Democracy is the very marrow of Americanism. Democracy is all that the American people have. It is theif art, their éulture, their one raison d’etre. To expect that America will give up democracy is to expect that Americans will céase to be Americans. “It is true that democracy in America is superimposed upon an undemocratic system of capitalistic relations. But it is democracy none-the-less. There is more democracy in spirit between an Ameri- can capitalist and workingman than there is even between a Soviet Commissar and peasant.” And so on. Mr. Samson has been praised as a highly original thinker and Marxist by such authorities as Sidney Hook, Max Eastman, V. F. Calverton, John Dewey, Bertrand Russel, Mahatma Ghandi, and Mae West. We will not refute them here, Let’s not maltreat their Sam- son. Yet, the above statement doesn’t sourid very ofiginal to me. Many Socialists and liberals spoke the same false, treacherous phrases in support of Woodrow Wilson during the late war. They led thou- sarids of honest workers into the bloody trenches of a capitalist war with the same glittering lie, . That Old Lesser Evil Again Me. SAMSON is a thinker of vast unimportance, it seems to me, but the fact that he is printed in Common Sense and has gained the Order of Merit from some of the generals of literary Trotzkyism and Lovestoneism in this country, shows that he is expressing something that is at the back of their minds, but which they haven’t as yet the bragenness to confess. And there are millions of rank-arid-file Americans who labor under this delusion; Mrs. Samson is also speaking for them, And he is speaking for them when, with ingenious and Byzantine logic, he tries to prove in the same article that President Roosevelt already repre- sents the middle class that the demagogues in the pay of big business lure into their fascist armies. “The President is the tribune of the people... Now the mass in America is the great middle class whose philosophy and politics the President represents as he overrides the special interests of the classes as such. It is precisely in his role as spokeman of the mass against the class that the American President performs the functions of fascism without assuming any of ifs forms... .” And so on. In brief, President Roosevelt alone can and will prevent the rise of Hitlerism in this country, argues Mr. Samson, in his own twisted style, and speaking for thousands of other “liberals.” Certain Tories have accused Roosevelt of being the Stalin of America. Others have called Kim the Kerensky. He is neither; he is the Von Hindenburg of our land, worshipped, admired and trusted by millions of simple people who look to him blindly for hope. So, Mr. Samson,, like the German Social-Democrats, really asks us to support our Von Hindenburg because he is the only practical bulwark against violence and open fascism. It is the old and treach- erous policy of the letser evil. And we know where it led to in Germany. It was the presidential candidate of the lesser-evil Socialists who installed Hitler into power, without the faintest struggle. Our own Von Hindenburg may be counted to do the same, under similar circumstances. And it is the liberals who will have given him the opportunity to do so, Thus is history moving in our time; it is the liberal democrats who really sign the death-warrant of democracy. * * . Contributions received to the credit of “Change the World” in its Socialist competion with Harry Gannes and the Medical Advisory Board in the Daily Worker $60,000 drive. Quota, $500, R. Abrahams Previously received Total to date DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 19: Page Five Stirring Labor Play ‘Stevedore’ Reopens at Civic “Stevedore” | Reviewed by | PHILIP STERLING | “QTEVEDORE,” the Paul Peters-; Georgé Sklar play which made | @ deep impression on last Season's | theatre world, reopened on Monday night at the Civic Repertory Thea- tte, to the greater glory of the) Theatre Union and Michaél Blank-| fort, who took advantage of the| seasonal interlude to revise His di-| rection of the play. | For the benefit of those who are | not yet familiar with the play, its} subject matter must be sketched here. “Stevedore” tells the story of | the struggle of Negro dock workers | to achieve unity in organization with white workers on the docks of | |New Orleans. The play centers| about the ancient manner in which | the white bosses on the docks use a false rape charge to incite a} lynch mob against the leader of the | Negro longshoremen. It pictures the final breaking down of the barriers of prejudice between the Negro and white dock workers when they find themselves side by side behind a barricade successfully fighting off the lynch mob which has come to sack the Negro quarter of the city. Several changes in the cast have not detracted from the excellence of the performances although this reviewer noted with regret the ab- sence of Rex Ingraham from the tole of Blacksnake Johnson. The Carrington Lewis (above) and Ray Yeates (below), two of the Negro dock workers in “Steve- dore,” militant working-class play which has re-opened for a brief ehgagement at the Civic Repericry Theatre before going on tour to Chicago, regret, however, is expressed with all due credit to the merit of Canada Lee, the current incumbent of the part. The changes in the directing have given some of the play’s high spots a More subdued and consequently more intense pitch, as for example, the scene in which Lonnie Thomp- son is dragged by his friends from his hiding place under the wharf. See ae) NE cannot see any Theater Union play, without thinking of its current political implications, and “Stevedore,” it happens, re- opens at a significant moment. There is a marine worker’s strike impending, and the play could be- come a serious factor in welding the unity of the marine workers’ ranks if enough of them could see it. How many marine workers will see it, depends on how much finan- cial support can be mustéred for the current run of Stevedore at the box office and away from it. Despite two outstanding hits in the past year, the Theater Union has started its current season with a bank account the lightness of which is balanced only by the size of its hopes and ambitions. I make no apologies for mentioning the matter. Any friendly reviewer can certainly afford to be propagandistic in writing of plays produced by so frankly a propagandistic theater as the Theater Union. The moral is that “Stevedore” will have only a limited run and those who have not yet seen it, or want to see it again, and the latter classification includes a large num- ber of persons, should make the most of this final opportunity, TUNING IN| 7:00 P. M.-WEAF—To Be Announced WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABO—Myrt and Marge—Sketch -WEAF—Géhe and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—To Be Announced WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch WsZ—Armand Girard, Baritone WABC—Jack Smith, Songs :45-WEAP—Prank Buck's Adventures WOR—Studio Music WJ2Z—Skirley Howard, Songs WABO—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee’s Varieties; Fannie Brice, Comedienne; Lou Holtz, Comedian, and Others WOR—Little Symphony Orchestra, Philip James, Conductor; Jeanette Scheerer, Clarinet WIJZ—Grits and Gravy—Sketch WABC—Easy Aces—Bketch |-WABC—Pats Waller, Songs ‘30-WJZ—Ruth Lyon, Soprano; Charles Seats, Tenor WABO—To Be Announced 9:00-WEAF-—Capt. Henry’s Show Boat WOR—Pauline Alpert, Piano WJ2—Death Valley Days—Sketch WABO—Gray Orchestra; Annette Hanshaw, Songs; Walter O'Keefe 9:15-WOR—Larry Taylor, Baritone 9:30-WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch ‘WJZ—Mixed Octet; Larry Larsen, Organ; Robert Childe, Piano; Joan Blaine, Narrator WABC—Waring Orchestra 9:45-WOR—AI and Lee Reiser, Piano WJZ—The American Legion and Its Critics—Edward A. Hayes, National Commander 10:00-WEAF—Whiteman’s Music Hall, with Helen Jepson, Soprano, and others WJZ—Canadian Concert WABO—Forty-flve Minutes in Holly- wood; Music; Sketches 10:18-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:80-WOR—Variety Musicale WJZ—Need for Economic Education— W. ©. Mitchell of National Bureau of Economic Research; W. E. At- kins, New York University; Isador Lubin, U.8. Commissioner of Labor Statistics; Levering Tyson, Direc- tor National Council on Radio in Education The Request Is So Small, The Cause So Huge, Says Dahlberg, In D. W. Drive | DO NOT KNOW what I would do in these distraught and harrow- ing times without the Daily Worker. Without this intransigent, work- ing-class organ of truth, pitilessly X-raying the oetupus lies and dirtiness of the “co-ordinated” scavenger press for us, we would. be held incommunicado in t country. And how true this is of all who only the day before yestez7ay did not know wheve and to whom to turn! Whom and for what and toward what end to write, paint, think and be! I see, today, the American Thyssens, the dollar prophets of state and church, trampling underfoot everything that we cherish and desire. Only after reading the first-hand reports gotten at great hazards by Communist function- aries and Daily Worker correspondents do I take heart again and know that I am not alone: Troops Fail to Open Mill .. . Flying Squadrons Spread Strike ... or Earl Browder’s defiant mes- sage to Governor Green of Rhode Island: “You know that your talk about Communist insurrec- tion is conscious lying to hide your responsibility for ordering cold-blooded murder of textile pickets . . . Your attacks against Communists who give all efforts to help win strike for more tions is part and parcel of whole strike-breaking pro- gram which now breadens to include fascist denial of élementary civil rights .. .” Soon the American capitalist state will be demanding your arms, legs, eyes and blood for another imperialist war. But the Communist Party says: Keep your bodies and build with it. Struggle and build with us, the hand and brain workers of the whole world. The Daily Worker asks for your support, for money. The request seems so negligibly little, the cause so huge and desirable. War and fascism are suffocatingly imminent in this country, Besides, the fate of many of our brothers in Nazi Germany has been too terrible—the uprooting of a whole social group, artists, writers, doctors, journalists, lawyers. The lesson has been too obvious. We writers and professionals know now that if we do not give what sup- pott we can io the workers who are today standing between us and the bayonets, gas and machine guns, that it will be taken from us and poured into the coffers of the American Hitlers and Goerings. Let us make our choice while we can so that tomorrow we will not be [Waiter Petras is on the Execu- tive Board of the American In- dependent Textile Workers Union, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Dur- the three weeks of the textile strike he kept notes, which are Teprinted below.—Editor’s Note.] RIDAY the textile workers here were unorganized in either union. Laran and Wayposen mills were first out. group of organized loom fix brought out all workers in these plants. After they came out near- by towns were visited by cars and brought out: Albion, Asd ht ville. Tried to call out Finishing Mill, but weré defeated by police, Friday the 7th three work- ers were shot. Cay tinea) ONDAY a big fight between sher- iffs and workers occurred. Scabs were locked in the plant and had to sleep and eat there. Governor Green told guards to be ready. ot ele DAY workers outside Saylesville mill were shot by sheriffs; an old lady 72 years old and two middle aged fellows. Shooting made the work- ers sore. They closed down evéry damn mill in the district. Broke every window in the power house at Saylesville. Broke down gate. Turned over watchman’s cabin which contained fite hose. Used hose against shériffs and they began shooting again. At 4 o'clock Green sent guards- men. Workers went into the ceme- tery and began to throw rocks at guards in defense of picket lines, Guardsmen began putting up wire and stakes in the streets. Fighting began again Tuesday night and lasted till midnight. Guardsmen tried to split workers off into small groups. Workers took over cemetery as headquarters. An amature chemist made tear gas bombs for workers to throw at guards. Used chips off monuments to throw at guards. The workers also had big tire tubes fas- tened to stakes to hurl rocks, Tomb- stones were barricades. At night workers made everv car put out lights, or busted them. Busted street lights in all strike areas. As fighting went on workers or- ganized into squads. One squad would rush into the bayonets of the guards, while another squad would attack from the side with rocks and sticks. Thousands in Pawtucket were made sick by tear gas. Many workers had to vacate houses be- cause of fumes. secs DNESDAY at 3 o'clock, 5,000 workers gathered near the mill This department appeats on this page twice a week. All ques- tions should be addressed to “Questions and Answers,” Daily Worker, 35 East 12th St., New York City. Question: Why hasn’t something been done about a boycott, a na- tional or even an international boy- cott of merchandise produced and distributed through unfair means? Let the workets know that such and such’ a brand of products was manufactured for some bloodsucker by victimized and no-union labor— J.D. Answer: The boycott can be ef- fective only within limits. Essen- tially, the boycott, in order to be effective against any particular enemy or group of enemies of the working-class, must be reinforced and supplemented by more direct forms of mass action, such as strikes etc. In any case where the boycott is put forward as a cure-all for abuses of capitalism or oppression it finally boils down to the fact that the people advocating it have no real intention of fighting the ene- mies of the working class. For example, many of the wealthy liberals and A. F. of L. top officials 11:00-WEAF—To Be I WOR— 10:45-WABC—Playboys Piano Trio Announced Trini Orchestra who spoke so feelingly for a boy- cott of Nazi goods, actually never Small | Questions and Answers ashamed of what we supported and stood for today. EDWARD DAHLBERG. Walter Petras’ Strike Diary with 2,000 holding the cemetery. They started to rush the mills. They yelled at the guards and scabs and threw rocks. Guards turned loose tear gas and opened fire. The patrol wagon took two bodies away. So much confusion workers did not know who the bodies were. One | was Gorcynski, aot, ee ‘THURSDAY morning Green or- * dered arrest of all Communists, Communist Party headquarters in Providence raided. Sixteen suspected Communist were arrested. Dozens of nickets were arrested on charge of: being Communists. Homes of foreign-born were visited by Police. i are ATURDAY, as usual, went to union meeting. Discuszed funeral march for Gorcyuski. Vice-presi- dent and president of union went |to the home of the dead worker. Family had béen threat- ened with loss of insurance and money if they allowed funeral march. Family admitted that the superintendent of the Guyan Mills had told the family that the oldest boy would not get his job back if | march was held. Polish Chamber of Labor visited Saturday night, Still did not consent to march. Workers at the church the day of the funeral. They wanted to march, So we went over to the West Side and gathered all the workers and went back to the church. Two thousand. four abrevst. marched down the main drag; 5,000 walked after the marchers. The cops wanted some of us but were afraid to come after us. At the cemetery Jos. Sylvia, leader of the U.T.W., drove up in his new Plymouth. We asked him to speak. He said he did not want to excite the crowd. Really, he was afraid they would throw rocks at him. After the funeral we held a meeting at the Polish Hall. Editor of the Polish paper and I spoke to the workers. * 8 FTER the strike the workers who were on the picket line in Saylesville were blacklisted. When they went back to work the bosses asked them all: “You were in Saylesville, weren’t you? You must be sick from all that tear gas. I think you better go home and rest and see a doctor.” This is the third strike I have been around. After all the others the workers said: “What the hell’s the use of striking?” This time it is different. They say now: “Next time, by God, we'll know what to do.” They are enthusiastic. carried the boycott out except in those cases where it was to their interests as American capitalists. Only the workers are sincere in really carrying through an effective boycott through strikes and other militant mass actions. As for hurting “distributors who are guilty of unfair means,” it is impossible to decide which capitalist is “fair” and which “unfair!” Capi- talist exploitation remains capitalist exploitation no matter how “fair” the employer may pretend to be. The fight is against all employers. Of course, we support the fight for such things as union labels, and boycott as much as possible non- union products. But this, like any other form of boycott. can be effec- tive only if other militant class ac- tions are combined with it. To insist only on the elementary boy- eott without fighting for militant class struggle policies at the same time, as the liberals and A. F. of L. bureaucrats do, is to hinder the fight against the exploiters. A revolutionary boycott aimed at shipping all munitions shipments, such as is advocated by the Commu- nist Party, would be a blow at war. But all those who talk loudly of boycott, such as the A. F. of L. leaders, would be the first to fight such a real boycott, |Chinese Red Army ‘Devoted Defender \Of Soviet China | ABOUT the Chinese Soviets, the | | °" Lytton Commission, organized by | the League of Nations to investigate | the Japanese invasion of China in| 1932, was compelled to report: | “Communism in China not only | means, as in most countries other than the U.S.8.R., either a politi- | cal doctrine held by certain mem- bers of existing parties, of the or- ganization of a speeial party to compete for power with other po- | litical parties. It has become an | actual rival of the National gov- ernment, It possesses its own law, army and government, and its own | | this state of affairs there is no | parallel in any other country.” Of course, the Lytton report damentally opposed to the Sovie and all they stand for, could not| explore the sovial bases of this for midable “law, army and govern- ment,” One sixth of China, a vast area} |more populous, is in the ha of | Soviets and defended by a devoted |Red Army, which is fighting to ex- | jtend its power throughout the country, Whence its strength? “Revolutionary progress made in the Chinese Soviet regions is the explanation for the new successes of the Chinese Red Army,” answers Agnes Smedley in her latest book, “The Chinese Red Army Marches,” | (International Publishers, $1.50). “The anti-feudal, agrarian land revolution had been carried to com- pletion. A sound economic and| financial policy had consolidated | Soviet Power and won the most pas- sionate support of the masses with- in the Soviet regions and even in the Kuomintang areas beyond, Whose populations are bent under the fearful burdens of feudal and capitalist exploitation. The laws passed at the first Congress of the Soviets have been put into effect and drastically improved the con- raping of all workers and peas. ants.” Orr. . 1 ed devotion of the Red Soldiers | is dramtically expressed by Smedley in the sketch, “Days in the Red Army.” The Reds had beaten back an assault of the Hunan Pro- vinelal Army, commanded by a Left Kuomintang militarists. “You can | go home if you wish,” the Red Com- mander had told deserters from the Whites and peasants and coolies who had lined up with the Red fighters. “We can give you each | One dollar only and a little rice for jthe trip, for we have not even enough to feed ourselves.... Or, if you wish, you can fight with us for the Revolution.” Most of the soldiers said they would stay and fight. Tire and famished, the Red sol- diers trudged towards the village of Mientow. Now and then a man with low- ered head muttered under his breath: “Rape my ancestors, but I’m hun- “When we get to Mientow we'll eat. In Mientow live the landlords who own all this land and these miserable villages. They're feeding the Whites there—rape their souls!” There was not need to fight. The Whites had fled. The Confiscation Committee of the Red Army seizes the homes, riches and property of the landlords. The Committees’ notices rally the villagers: “The Chinese Red Army of workers and peasants, fighting for the agrarian and anti-imperialist revolution, has on this day con- fiscated rice, salt, medicine, shoes, silver money and war clothing from the rich who oppress and loot he oilers. I has taken the. loot of the oppressors as a dona- tion to the revolution! Signed: The Chinese Red Army, Mientow, on the last day of March, 1928.” Other proclamations were written and pasted on the homes of the people by the Political Department. None of the poor homes were mo- lested, no bar across their doors touched. On the walls of the towns, high up so they could not be easily reached and washed off, big slogans were written in white paint: “Down with the landlords and rich merchants, looters and de- ceivers of the poor!” “Land to the peasants!” “Eight hour day for the workers!” “Down with the Kuomingtang, Running Dogs of the Imperialists!” “Long Live the Peasant Unions!” “Pay No Rent, No Debts, No Taxes!” “Long Live the Red Army of Workers and Peasants!” The Red fighters ate, washed, and slept the night in town. Arising in the late afternoon they ate again, and shod the wounded swollen feet in new cloth shoes or sandals. Then, gathering up their new supplies, their printing press and arsenal machinery, they marched forward. No wonder Communism in China, in the language of the Lytton report, “has become an actual rival of the National Government!” Music Notes Klemperer Opens Season With Philharmonic Tonight | The ninety-third season of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York opens tonight, with Otto Klemperer conduc‘ing the Bach- Schoenberg prelude and Fugue in E-flat major, Paul Hindemith’s symphony “Mathis der Maler,” and the second symphony in D major by Sibelius. This vrogram will be repeated Friday afternoon, Satur- day evening and Sunday afternoon. The Hindemith work is being} heard for the first time in this | country. Mr. Klemperer, who will conduct the first four weeks of the new sea- son, is the noted German musician whom the Nazis persecuted during ja territorial sphere of action, For |%"4 damning silence. We voicing the interests of a body fun- | ta casualties are as hard to obtain as 1 13 larger than Germany and a third | } | Team Criminal Negligence And Poisoned Food Kill Vets on Coast LOS ANGELES nitely pois S whelming eviden ther deaths from t was due to ham improperly Ten days ago a y of shocking nearly a thi; § ci eee m meal mi grounds and in the battlefield. The capit carried headlines for one only, giving the Ss afic 350. After that th Tn Wo er correspondents with great culty learned that the actual ber of those stricken was n 700. The causes of the poisoning were then being investigat the t clear to th ; died, his body swelled in the manner typical of this sort r. cts, Fifteen of those poisoned are still in the hospital. ¥, ! pes quent! tack | selves | ing >| Co were @ jail, Tt is bed t sb h his |to heart failure: bu h When he inqu'=-d sist that he had no hear WHAk Had ‘Hapoend lorie oe the fae or illness of any kind |erans replied heatedly, “He fell out And certain the total number of des as eleven. It is customary for the | but I guess they w grave diggers at the Sawtelle ceme- beds until somebody kills hi tery to be ordered to have an extra) The doctor merely a grave or two dug in atvance. Im-| eyaciyely. mediately after the poisoning, how- ever, the grave diggers were ordered | to prepare ten, The followinz Fri- | day there were eleven funerals. | a Se: DDITIONAL evidence indicates that the poisoning of these 70 |of bed—he's one of those poo: }lows who ought to Two days ago Ed Simpson, of t he same company, during an epileptic attack fell out of bed, suff concussion, and died at 4 th morning Now at last the low beds been installed have WHAT’S Thursday eae, THE First Report of the Chicago Con gress. Louise Snyder, delegate to Chicago reports on the Congress; Dr. ‘Tredweli | N8 recently returned from the Soviet| yt The’ ot reports on his trip; Red Vodvil| , SYMPOSIUM Present new skits. Stuyvesant Ca. P. 8. 63, East Third St, and Avenue A, held by sino, 140 Second Ave. 8 p.m. Adm. 15c.| Auspices, Stuyvesant Br. A.W.F. MAES RALLY { ort of Marin Workers Strike. Plazs, 16th SI and Irving Place, Hudson, Earl Bro ward Russel, Hay; Speakers: Roy | ae Jack Stachel, Ed-| Red Spark “4 day, Oct. 6, Adm, 250.” Aus- | a3. Oct. of M.W.LU. oe « in the: Soviet | gee ereea Dawa Hotel New-| 415 Lenox Ave ton, 95th St., 6:30 p.m. | 15 Club, From 8:30 unemployed free. Auspices: ¥.8, | Wve rrom 8:30 P. U, West Bide Wet jist Culture” by D: HANSU CHAN lectures on ‘‘Semi-Feudal- | ism in China.” Friends of the Chinese People, 168 W. 23rd St., Room 12. Ad- mission 15c, 8:30 p.m ie ELECTION of Officers Meeting. Edith Berkman Br. LL.D. at Boi ‘k Work Club, "1850 52nd St., Brooklyn, 8:30 p.m TOM MOONEY Br. I. L. D. members! Section meeting Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Special Meeting Sunday, 2:30 p m. at 108 E. 14th St. MOVIE “End of St. Petersburg’ at Rus- sian Home, 120 Glenmore Ave., Brooklyn, 1th BSt., Sunday, Oct. 9, Student Review. CLARENCE HATHAWAY will lect eh for this course. JACK STACHEL lec! on “The Pre- sent Wave of Strike Struggles and the | Tasks of the Trade Unions School Forum, 35 E. 12th St., Oct. 8, 8 pm. Adm. 365c. 8:90 p.m. Auspices, P.5.U. THE ARTISTS UNION is offering Gila JOSEPH ARCH lectures on “The Goal m4 curday, of the Soviet Union,” 1380 Wilkins Ave. | cere oi ee eee Saturday, Oo tober 6, at 11 W. 18th St., from 8:40 on, (Freeman, Street Sta.) 8:30 p.m. East! united Week Dance’ is the slogan, Ad- Bron xF.8.U. mission 25¢. Friday MOVIE-SOUND “Road to Life,” als Boston, Mass. e e i, fe,” also] LECTURE by Merle Colby, Browder-Hathaway’’ talkie. Office Work-| and Workers Press,” 451 Cross St., Malden, ers Union Hall, 114 W. 14th St., Priday,| Sunday, Oct. 7,8 p.m. ‘Benefit Daily Oct. 5, 8 p.m. Adm. 250. single ticket; $i] worker Subscription 15¢ series of 5 pictures. Auspices: Workers Lab. Philadelphia, Pa. 1s le Theatre. Proceeds to Daily Worker FRIDAY Forums, opening lecture; Oak-| ANGELO HERNDON, Mother Ida Norrie ley Johnson speaks on “Youth and Crisis," | and Richard B. Moore will speak at the Boro Park Cultural Center, 1280 56th St.,|Mass Meeting of the I.L.D. on Priddy, Brooklyn, Oct. 5, 8:30 p.m. Auspices: Harry | October 12, Broadway Arena, Broad and Christian streets. Sims Br. LL.D. RECEPTION—Parewell Dinner and Dance} OPENING Dance, Saturday, Oct. 6, bY West Phila. Workers Club, i130 N. 40th for Edwin Seaver, New Editor of Soviet Russia Today, Liston N. Oak, Retiring|St. Excellent Band and Entertainment, Adm. 35c, ine. wardrobe, “Capitalist ee ae Editor. Friday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., at Roger | Smith Grill, 40 E. 4ist’ St. Subs. $1.25 Binghamton, N. Y. Bear SEP vooee be ery ee io"| BANQUET for the Daily Worker at the don Club, Lillian Shapiro in a dance, | rer iees Hall, 315 Clinton 8t., Saturday, ‘Good Morning, Revolution,” and Esthe oo - . Hall and Abbie Mitchell from “Stevedore, Detroit, Mich. at Civic Repertory Theatre, October 7.| AFFAIR for Daily Worker arranged by Matinee and evening. Reserve seats now. | Sec. 2 CP. at 2113 Lycaste St., Saturday, 25e to 99c. Oct. 13. Chicago, Il. GREET the New York Daily Worker.| GENERAL Victor A. Yahkhontof? speaks Delegated Mass Meeting, Sunday, Oct. 7,]on “Soviet Russia in the Far Erste 105 § Bm. Central Opera House, 67th St. and | North Wabash, Sth floor. Adm. 39¢. Aus- 3rd Ave, Clarence Hathaway, James Casey,|Noee: Pee James W. Ford, Louis. Hyman, Charles : Ne Krumbein will speak, W.L.T. and W.LR. Omaha, Neb. OPEN FORUM at Worlters Cultural Cen- Band will perform. Adm. 25¢. MAX BEDACHT speaks on “The Life| ter, 2404 Parket St. Oct. 7, Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Harris Fredericks speaks on ‘“Com= and Teachings of Karl Marx and Prede- munist Party in the Struggle for Negro Liberation.” Amusements. | Stage and Screen GILBERT & Doyty carte suseers OPERA COMPANY from London OPERAS:~ This Entire Wk.-Bvs.8:15. Mats, Wed&cSat2-18 WEEK oe THE, GONDOLIERS” EEK Oct. 8 (Mon.to Wed.)-‘Cox and Box”? The new Owen Davis play, and “THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE” “Spring Freshet,” opens tonight at | Thurs. to Sat. (By Request)—“PATIENCE” the Plymouth Theatre. This piece | MARTIN BECK THEA., 45 St, W. of 8 Av. is being staged by Lee Shubert and | ——— Presents Elizabeth Patterson and a ONLY 4 WEEKS noteworthy cast. “Spring Freshet” Opens Tonight to see Ts> Most Thrilling Piny in N. Y, stevedore | Special Reduced Rates for Parties Eves. 8:45. Prices: Mat, Tues. & Sat. 2:30 30c to $1.50. NO TAX NEW THEATRE MAGAZINE PRES EaLS { CAN YOU HEAR the IAEK LONDON CLUS of JEWARK-A PLAY BY HALLIE FLANAGA Sones FROM THE WHITAKER CHAMECRS @LILGIAR SHAPIRO wa davce- | - Ti wa doves cottsaccorateane Ss + | AFTERNOON-2.495 Evening BAP Warren Coleman, who plays a SUNDAY OCT. 7 leading role in Paul Green's new eC 5 3 “symphonic drama of the Negro | C4WIG REP ERT: BP ts people,” “Roll Sweet Chariot”| TICKETS: AFT. 25¢ W7St EVE 26 9V which opened Tuesday night at the’ anew Mw WINER Cort Theatre. Hailed by Paris, London, Rome! CHEERED IN NEW YORK OSTROVSKY’S “Thunderstorm” Soviets Greatest Fiim Directed by Viademir Petrov EISENSTEIN’S, PUDOVKIN'’S REALISM! SOVIET SUPER TALKING FILM Dostoyevski’s “Petersburg Nights” (English Titles) The DAILY WORKER says: Russian film worthy addition to wt.” “New Soviet the early stages of the Hitler terror, SCSTSNEKH ACME ith street & Union Sa. | Civic Repertory Theatre, ith St. & 6th Ay, — THEIR VOICES” |