The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 9, 1934, Page 5

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1934 l WORLD ofthe! WIRT TAYLOR CH ANGE THEATRE | ; White Angelo Herndon Se i HE —- |ROLL SWEET CHARIOT, a “sym- | By DAVID KINKEAD phonic play of the Negro people,” | | pegrage 7, 1932, was a cold, a Page 5 3 Well-Known Writers Add Their P L O TY N G the Bit to D.W. Drive AMERICAN POGROMS come necessary to amputate his foot | “THE Dally Worker is, so far as I) a or even his entire leg. It might} know, the only daily voice in| have resulted in death. The jail| America that consistently and with- officials, however, refused his re-|0Ut deviation constantly calls for the infection had been allowed to go on unchecked it would have be- by Paul Green, with an incidental | wet day in Alabama. Thousands score by Dolphe Martin, staged|of Negro and white workers and by Em Jo Basshe, Stanley Pratt, | Sharecroppers — whole families, old and Margaret Hewes. At the Men, women with babies in their By JOHN | (Reprinted through the courtesy of the L. SPIVAK f west for medical attention. The —— , one left of the main aisle on Cort Theatre. jarms—trudged through the mud |@ " | = | New Masses) ort side of the ship towards | By MICHAEL GOLD are ee |and the rain from a radius of ten| Intemational Labor Defense organ- | | ‘i iiwo, of Soa bent cL tive thook ° jmiles around Birmingham. ‘They 7 OUtSICS. Fis | és tails, but I imagine that before "PHE news out of all the capitalist countries today is bad eagle! jcame to demand unemployment, re- | fellow prisoners organized a protest | “When did you see Duquesne |rederal guthorities can examine ews out of all the capitalist coun’ y LEON ALEXANDER |lief, free lunches for their school|‘MSide. They beat tin cups and tin | Ei i —? here, 6 will Mr, Paul Green, writing once | children. plates together, they kicked the steel » A . | | inst?” Europa on her next news, evil, disgusting and inhuman news. They came j whatever may be in that clos to. protest |. “I haven't seen him since he was The news out of the Soviet Union is sometimes news of misfortune, but mostly, it is great news, inspiring news, news of hope for the human race; news that is, in the Profoundest sense of the word, GOOD news. By their fruits shall ye know them. The American newspapers depress one with a record of daily horror and defeat. Negroes are being lynched and tortured in this land of capitalist “freedom.” Mil- lions of workers are paid a starvation wage, like the textile workers, who earn an average of $10.17 a week, and are murdered by soldiers and boss-thugs when they dare to strike A steamship is sunk and 300 lives lost, because of the filthy greed of the capitalists. A baby is kidnapped and killed by one of the numerous money-maniacs. Dozens of jobless Americans die every week by suicide; death has become easier than to live in this inferno. But the newspapers of the Soviet Union are filled with reports of great construction. There is no unemployment in that country. The farmers are organized, and are bringing in the greatest crops in their history. At last, after seventeen years of fighting against the capitalist world for the right to live, the Soviet people feel secure. The girls are beginning to dress up. Thousands of new modern apartment houses are being built, There is a demand for luxury among the people. The country has the highest birth rate in Europe; nobody fears the future. More books are published than in any other country in the world; good books, not trash, The people are educating them- selves; there is no more illiteracy, or hunger or fear. If this Soviet land of workers isn’t switched off its main track in the next few years by another military invasion of bloody capi- talitm, it will soon be a land of wealth and culture such as the world has never seen before—wealth and culture that everyone will share equally. Yes, it is all good news and one feels deeply as one reads it, that the human race is fundamentally good. Crime, poverty, war, and the other familiar evils are only capitalist evils, and can easily be wiped off the earth. That is what they are busy doing in the Soviet Union; they are proving that the human race is good—given the chance to be, under Communism. * * * An Army of Liars 'HERE are so many fancy liars about the Soviet Union, that many Americans are confused. They don’t know what to believe, and it is hard to blame them. When a seemingly genial, good-natured, “folksy” clown like Will Rogers begins to lie about the Soviet Union in his innocent way, as he did récéntly, how is the average man to know his motives? But it should be very easy to test such people. They always lie because their sympathies are with the rich class, and not with the workers, Watch these people closely in any big American situation. They are sure to be on the side of those who lynch and hate Negroes, Jews, Irish or other national minorities in this country. When there is a strike, they are always on the side of the scabs and the boss- gunmen. The people who lie about the Soviet Union, do the same dirty work when the American common people are concerned. Look at the stand taken by Will Rogers in the recent reign of terror in California. Will was on the side of the capitalist butchers, of course. He gloated over the fact that free speech’ had been denied the strikers, and their people shot down, Will Rogers is a wealthy clown these days and has many invest- ments to protect. He moves among only the “best people,” and is the favorite wise-cracker of every Babbitty millionaire. Keep it up, cowboy, you'll be a crooked congressman yet! ‘We mustn't allow these liars to mislead us about the Soviet Union. A mountain of facts has piled up during the years, and any Amer- ican worker can find them, They will teach him that it is possible to create something better than the capitalist system so béloved of Will Rogers and Will Durant. Give Us Our Daily Lie FOOL can ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in a week. And a really good liar, rolling up his sleeves and sweating cheerfully at his work, can invent more assorted lies in a day than a hundred truthful men can dispose of in a life-time. Every one of these lies has been answered dozens of times, but the liars roll merrily along. It’s their job, just as raising a bad smell More of the Negro in the South— | against starvation. but this time, alas, without the sym- They ‘came to | Protest against evictions and against pathy and the understanding that | cutting off their water. was in “In Abraham’s Bosom”—had not assumed the prophet’s cloak and wrapped himself in seeming profundity, I might have found his new play “Roll Sweet Chariot” merely a dull and banal melodrama. But Mr. Green has a thesis, his play is a parable of the Negro peo- ple, and through the symbolic fog it | emerges as a vicious slander upon the Negro. The locale of the play is Potter's Field, a Negro settlement in the South, on the edge of a white man’s town. There the Negroes live in squalor and promiscuity; ignorant, physically and morally degraded, content to wallow in filth, unrebel- lious. Two at least of the depicted | characters are congenital idiots, and the level of intelligence of most of the rést is not much higher. a eae To melodramatic story, there is of it, centers around a woman whose husband has been sent to the chaingang, and who is now living with another lover. To this settlement comes John Henry, the hero of song and story, the Paul Bunyan of the Negro ia America; but he also has become | degraded and depraved, an escaped | convict from the chain gang, garbed in the fake dress of a minister, Planning to prey upon the ignorance and the superstitions of this com- munity. He impresses the people with his strength and his magic, and plots deeply and darkly a sad fate for Potter’s Field. He engineers the husband’s escape from the chaingang; he helps the husband best the lover and overcome his wife. The lover comes back and kills the husband. And now swift retribution strikes the folk of Potter's Field. A dyna- mite blast from the road which the chain gang has been building to go through the settlement shakes its ramshackle huts to the ground. A sepulchral voice from the height of the second balcony—police or god?—condemns John Henry and the lover to 20 and 10 years on the chain gang. . * i he last scene opens on the now destroyed settlement. We see the overseer of the chaingang, brutal, wielding a whip, and an armed guard; we hear the chaingang ap- proaching. They come in, a dis- pirited, suffering group, singing a work song in the second best man- ner of Mr. Baillieff’s performers in the “Volga Boatmen” tableau. The lover is ill and near exhaustion; he drops to the ground. The brutal overseer whips him, and the gang rises up and overpowers the guard and the overseer. Now the play is resolved, and the meaning of the parable becomes suddenly clear. John Henry, bad man, does not join in the rising; instead, with the guards disarmed, he raises his voice louder in the worksong, swinging his pick lustily while the overseer gapes; and the rest of the chain gang, then the whole population of Potter’s Field— men, women, children, the halt, the The bosses of Birmingham were afraid of these desperate people who came to them asking for bread. They had good reason for their fears. the This was the first time in history of Alabama that Negro what | ; f i WIRT TAYLOR and white workers had joined to- gether for their mutual interests. They were afraid of them and they answered them in the same way | that bosses all over America and all over the world answer desperate men who demand the right to eat. They answered them with terror. The police mounted machine guns in the old court house overlooking the square where the demonstration was to take place. The National Guard, called out in plain clothes, was supplied with a truck load of pick handles by the Birmingham Electric Company. The Ku Klux Klan threw leaflets from buildings on either side of the line of march warning the Negroes to keep away from the “Reds.” The marchers were broken up time and again by tke police and the National Guard armed with pick handles, Each time their lines were broken up, they re- formed them again. Ried Bg ie \ as TAYLOR, Unemployed Council organizer, got up to speak. Before he had finished his first sentence he was seized by the Police and taken to jail. In jail every resource of sadistic jail keep- ers was used to break his spirit. His life was repeatedly threatened. He was moved around from cell block to cell block. He was kept in a cell with dope fiends. He con- tracted blood poisoning in his foot from the filth in the jail toilet. If doors, they rattled the iron bed-| | here. I haven’t any knowledge of steads, they shouted and sang and | whistled. They made the jail a \bedlam. The jail officials did not | mind a man losing his leg—quietly. But they could not stand so much} noise. They sent a doctor. Taylor, together with Alice Burke, | white International Labor Defense | organizer, arrested at the same |meeting was charged with “block- | ing traffic,” “disturbing the peace,” and “holding a meeting without a permit.” He was tried in a Bir-| mingham court and sentenced to| six months on the Alabama road | gang, $100 fine and costs. Because | he has no money to pay the fine| and costs, this is tantamount to a 13 months sentence on the road| gang. His case has been appealed | to the higher courts and has been upheld by them. His last appeal| will be before the Alabama Supreme | Court. | URING the textile strike Tay- lor’s earlier training in the Un- }employment Councils stood him ia/ good stead. Unionism is new in Alabama. The U. T. W. called the strike but they gave the workers | |no leadership. Wirt Taylor and others like him, supplied this lead- ership. He organized strike com- mittees and flying squadrons. Ne- groes and whites joined together in their common fight. The southern | women and children relieved their | men on the picket lines. The strike | steadily gained momentum until | Gorman called it off at the time of its greatest strength. Wirt Taylor, 26 years of age, is one of the finest examples of the| young militant working class lead- | er being developed in the South| jtoday. He was born in Tennessee, He worked as a lineman for the| |Bell Telephone Company in Texas | and Missouri and. for the Postal! |'Telegraph Company in Alabama. In 1931 his friend Harry Simms was | killed by the Kentucky mine com- | pany thugs. Wirt Taylor decided that his place was on the side of his murdered friend. Since that time he has devoted himself entirely \to_revolutionary work, | | In November, next month, his| case, pending for two years, comes | |up for final appeal before the Ala-| |bama Supreme Court. This is the| same court which recently upheld jthe death sentence against the| | Scottsboro boys. His lawyer refuses | |to present his case, and refuses to turn the records over to any other lawyer, until he receives $175 in | fees. Unless Taylor is also to raise this money he will be condemned in November to 13 months on the Alabama road gang. LANGSTON HUGHES the complete liberation of the Negro masses, and works for their full and equal place in American life. Every Negro receiving a regular salary in this country should subscribe to the Daily Worker, and share it with his brothers who are unemployed.” LANGSTON HUGHES 8 eo captain of the Morro Castle may have thought sincerely that the fire could be put out and the insurance, if not the liner, saved. Even then it was tough on the passengers to be left asleep, It was fierce. And so unnecessary. ELLA WINTER everybody aboard that doomed ship. Well, on our good |ship, the Earth, the crew knows, and here it is shouting “Fire!” We are not asleep, nor are we very drunk. I suggest that we stop, look and listen, passengers, crew and captains too. Send funds for the defense of Wirt Taylor and Alice Burke to the I. L, D., 80 E, 11th St. N. ¥. C. Send protests to the Alabama Supreme Court, Montgomery, Alabama. What’s Doing in the Workers Schools of the U. S. WORKERS’ SCHOOLS EVERYWHERE TO TAKE UP CHALLENGE The Workers’ Schools of the U. S. are faced with a most serious prob- and the Western Worker and, if they are not as ‘good’ technically as they should be, contribute some capital goods to them, and make ‘em right—I mean Left.” ELLA WINTER those who desire to register should! do so without delay. The list of | courses is now complete, as follows: | Problems of the Negro Liberation “THERE seems to be nothing I can add to the appeal I made in connection with the drive for sub- scriptions to the Daily Worker. The “Read and heed the Daily Worker| Y°TK and Baltimore on the East | | jused to carry secret reports to and | |from the propaganda minister and | him at all!” Gulden swallowed and scratched the gray hairs on his temple. “You've been in tou itk at 51 West 46th Street recen “Forty-one—” Gulden sai ly, and caught himself d. him have been removed). A thin pack- age is taken from its hiding place and quickly slipped to Orgell, who covers it with his newspaper and leaves the ship promptly. German been sent secret “That's right,” I laughed. of the feder: Gulden’s pale face turned a Most G n ships entering the purplish hue. He livid with |Port of New York arrange social fury. evenings on board when anywhere “If you want to talk to me any|from several hundred to several more, you'll have to show thousand pe: are entertained. authority or take me into court he shouted. “I've said all I intend to say. I’ve said enough!” “Yes, you've said enough,” I agreed and rose. IT is this man Gulden’s organi- zation of super-patriots, whose membership includes federal, state and city government officials, which cooperates with paid Hitler agents in the distribution of anti- semitic propaganda. On February 6, 1934, there was |@ great deal of publicity about 300 | which had been discovered on the German freighter Este. The prop-| aganda was in burlap bags, ad- |dressed and ready to be mailed as soon as it was smuggled off the ship. It was confiscated, but neither customs officials nor the federal secret service knew or know who is behind and directing this smuggling nor how widely read it is, | And at this point in our rev- jelations we come to the head of the German foreign secret service in this country, a man sent to the| | United States by the US.CH.LA,, the German secret political police. |He was one of the best operatives | in the German secret service. Not even Col. Edwin Emerson, who was | sent here to organize anti-semitism | | in this country on a national scale, | | knows this man’s fullest impor- |tance. All he knows is that when |he commands they are supposed to | obey—quickly. | This man is Guenther Orgell of |606 West 115th Street, New York | | City, ostensibly employed by the| |Raymond Roth Co., 25 West 45th | street, as an electrical engineer; | and his official connection with the | German groups in this country is | only as secretary of the United German Societiés. This head of the | Hitler secret service in this coun- |try keeps his records and instruc- | |tions from abroad in a well hidden | The crew knew and could have | house at Great Kills, Staten Island.| George Washington. warned |Zhe telephone number, in case fed- | |eral operativés want to communi- cate with him, is Honeywood 6-2137. That Nazi, anti-semitic prop- jaganda is befng smuggled into the United States has been known for | some time. The propaganda enters | chiefly through the ports of New Coast_and through San Pedro, Cal.,| and Portland, Ore., on the West | Coast. At the same time these German ships on which propaganda is sent to this country, are being the U.S.C.H.LA. | | * . . | eke me take the reader on a trip| in which secret reports on the| |pounds of anti-semitic propaganda | ;New York City At the conci on of these parties S- many people leave that it is impossible to keep track of them and in that crowd much of the Propaganda is smuggled off by spe- cially chosen Nazi agents. At other times, the propaganda comes con- signed to “respectable” addresses. Each ship has a specific address or collection of addresses to which material is sent. The §,S. St. Louis, which docks at Pier 86, for instance, in case customs officials are inter< ested, has its anti-semitic propa. ganda wrapped up in neat pack- ages and consigned to the German Book Import Co!, 27 Park Place, , or to A. Bruder 15 W. 45th Sty hausen Bookst New York City. 3 'HE German ministry of Propa- ganda, however, does not always ~ dare to take a chance on being caught by addressing anti-semitic Propaganda to respectable book shops. It prefers to have it smug- gled in in the dead of night when customs officials are asleep on the job. And this procedure is under the Personal direction of Guenther Orgell, foreign secret service agent for the German Foreign Office. Whenever Orgell needs trusted men to take messages to and from the boats as well as to smuggle off material he usually calls upon the American branch of the Stahlhelm; or Steel Helmets, which drills se- cretly in anticipation of Der Tag in this country. Only when he feeis that he may be watched, or only in the event of the most important messages does he go aboard the ships personally. Orgell’s liaison man in the smuggling activities is Frank Mutschinski, a painting con< tractor of 116 Garland Court, Gar- ritson Beach, N. Y. . . . | arenides MUTSCHINSKI fiirst en- tered the country on June 16, 1929, from Germany on the SS. He was come mander of one of the American branches of the Stahlheim, which had offices at 174 E. 85th St., New. York City. While he was in com- | mand, he received his orders direct | from Franz Seldta, at present min- ister of labor under Hitler. Seldte at that time was in Magdeburg, Germany. Branches of the German Stahlhelm, all of which are inten= sively carrying on anti-semitic’ Propaganda, were established by him and Orgell in Rochester, Chi- cago, Philadelphia, Newark, N. J; Detroit, Los Angeles and even one in Toronto. The various branches are in constant communication with one another, disseminate the hate- the-Jew propaganda in unison, though each one operates autono-. mously on direct orders from Gere | ti-semitic plotti e| Movement, Marxism - Leninism,| P2Per seems to me to be growing |Prerss er ae P ng are | many. is the career of a skunk. lame, the sick, the blind—hypno- , Take the lie so much favored among American intellectuals: that the Soviet Union is a land of machine-worshippers, who, like Henry Ford, care more for production than they do for human beings. You are probably familiar with this ripe-smelling old lie. One has heard it scores of times from the quivering lips of Joseph Wood Krutch, Seward Collins, the fascist, Isaac Don Levine, Bishop Manning, Herbert Hoover, Emma Goldman, and many others. It so happens that the Soviet Union is precisely the first land in history where the value of human beings is being placed far above that of the things they produce. It is simply a fact that the first charge on industry there is the health and happiness of the workers. No factory or collective farm is allowed to operate or show a profit until all the workers have been protected by every form of insurance. If they are sick, doctors take care of them without charge. They are given yearly vacations of a month at the expense of the industry. It is obligatory that the in- dustry provide them with housing, food supplies, clothing, nurseries, clubs. The women are paid for four months while bearing a child. Every truthful traveller who returns from the Soviet Union testi- fies to this amazing system of social insurance. American engineers who have gone there to work have often marvelled that industry could be made profitable with such an enormous overhead for the welfare of workers. But this is the basic law of the Soviets—men come before machines, And the liars stand this fact on its head and make of it a charge against: the Soviet Union. Soviet Prison Schools R TAKE that other stale lie about the harshness of Soviet prisons. , Recently there was finished the great White Sea Canal, built en- tirely by prisoners. They were the worst criminal elements—thieves, murderers, incendiary kulaks, prostitutes—human unfortunates such as clog all the American jails, Thousands of them were shipped to the north under the leadership of a few G.P.U. men. It was an experiment, With this dangerous material the Soviets proposed to build a great canal and change also the hearts and minds of the criminal. In capitalist lands they tell us they believe in Christ’s mercy, but where in these “christian” lands has such mercy even been shown to criminals as by the atheist Soviets? For the canal was built, and most of the criminals have become new men and women—sincere, serious and loyal. They have learned the great lesson of useful work. They have been socialized. Most of them were set free—some even awarded honors by the Workers’ Re- public. The prison system of the Soviets is based no on punishment or vengeance, but on the principle of re-education. They regard a criminal as a sick individualist who needs to be cured by socializing him, Every jail there is a school, not merely a cage for confining human un- fortunates. ‘ And the capitalist liars stand this great new fact on its head, also, The most humane and rational prison system in the world is called the worst. What can you do with such determined liars? Maybe a term of re-education in a socialist jail is the only remedy. May the day come soon when it will be possible to save the liars from their own sordid and criminal careers, * ° * * Contributions received to the credit of “Change the World” in its Socialist competition with Harry Gannes and the Medical Advisory Board in the Daily Worker $60,000. Quota, $500. Anonymous Previously received $2.00 2.00 tized, raise picks and contirfue to dig with increasing frenzy “The Road” that is to destroy the settle- ment. And a regenerated Potter's Field marches off, picks swinging, into the glory of a glaring amber spotlight, left stage. Now the deep and significant thesis that Mr. Green has been wrestling with in the past three scenes be- comés apparent: That the problem which confronts the Negro is not to overthrow the rule of those who exploit and oppress him, but to Strive first for his own moral re- generation. It is to propound this old bromide that the author has set into motion his choirs, his orchestra, his actors, and his sepulchral off- stage voice: that man (in this par- ticular case the Negro) cannot im- prove his lot on earth until—through retribution and suffering—he has improved his moral character. eit Sa direction, the settings, the lighting are on a par with the playscript. The acting and the di- recting swing confusédly from stiff stylisation, melodramatic posturing to slow-dragging realism; the true-to-life set, crowded inside a cheese cloth sky cyclorama, is con- stantly at odds with the intended mood of the play; the lighting re- minds us of the worse atrocities of the high school auditorium. Returning to the play, it is also quite possible that I have misin- terpreted the purposes of Mr. Green. Perhaps his only serious intention had been to write a higher-browed musical opera. At any rate, for those who want a realistic picture of Negro life, there is still “Stevedore,” the exciting production of the Theatre Union at the Civic Reper- tory Theatre. lem and challenge. During the re- cent reign of fascist terror in Cali- fornia, the teachers of the Sacra- mento, California, Workers’ School who were in the forefront of the struggle against the fascist cohorts were arrested and charged with criminal syndicalism. They are charged with having “organized and assisted in organizing and knowingly having become a mem- ber of an organization known as the Workers’ School’—and of also belonging to other organizations such as the Communist Party, etc. This charge is clearly an attack, not only as teachers as such but also against academic freedom, free speech and dissemination of work- ing-class knowledge. It is also a sharp attack on all Workers’ Schools. The challenge should be taken up at once by Workers’ Schools every- where. Concretely in what manner? First, an intensive campaign must be organized at once for the political rights of the Communist Party, the union rights of the Can- nery and Agricultural Workers’ In- dustrial Union. But for the Work- ers’ Schools there is the specific task of waging a campaign also for academic and teaching rights. Secondly, all Workers’ Schools should start a publicity campaign, draw up resolutions, and send pro- tests at once to Neil McAllister, District Attorney, Sacramento, Cali- fornia, and to Governor Frank F. Merriam, Sacramento, Calif. QUEENS WORKERS’ SCHOOL OPEN FOR REGISTRATION The Queens Workers’ School, at 5820 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, L. I, is now open from 6 to 9 each evening for registration. Courses begin on Monday, October 15, and | Principles of Communism, Social | History, History of the American |Labor Movement, Organizational | Principles, Youth Under Capital- ism, English and Russian. Prominent lecturers will conduct | a series of Sunday evening forums, | and a series of Wednesday evening lectures on “The Role of the Intel- lectual in the Labor Movement” will be given by Oakley Johnson. Write or call for thé official bul- letin containing a complete cata- logue of courses. On Sunday evening, October 14. the day preceding the opening of the school, there will be a banquet for the benefit of the Workers’ School at the Woodside Labor Temple, 4132 Fifty-Eighth Street, better in every department, and its | |and Political Forces in American | importance at the present time can- | Tt is twenty minutes to ten on the evening of March 16, 1934. Ger- many’s Queen of the Seas, the North German Lloyd sh*p Europa is pre- paring to sail at midnight. The men and women, many in evening |dress, séeing friends off to Europe. |German stewards, all of them mem- |bers of the ship's Nazi Gruppe, stand about bowing, smiling, but watching every passenger and visi- tor carefully. Many visit the library on the main |promenade deck, which has a Ger- man post office. There is a great \gaily illuminated boat is filled with | People wander all over the boat.| |. In Orgell’s smuggling activities |he needs aid and his chief assistant, Carl Brunkhorst, was supplied ‘by~ Mutschinski. It was Brunkhorst’s job to deliver the secret letters. The smuggling in of Nazi uniforms in this country, as well as the job of |handling the secret letters, is in |the hands of Paul Bante of 186 E. | 98rd St., New York City. Bante is |@ member of the 244th Coast Guard as well as the New York National | Guard! There is much more about the smuggling into this country of anti- | Semitic propaganda, the ships, the |men who participate in them, the GRANVILLE HICKS enthusiastic about the plan for three editions, and I am eager to seé it put into effect. You can Woodside, L. I. * ee | The class in Political Economy B | | at_the Brownsville Workers’ School, | | 1855 Pitkin Avenue, did not ma- | terialize because of the small regis- tration. However, since the open- assistance I can give. “I enclose a check for $10 as ray own contribution to the drive.” always count on me for any kind of | deal of laughter and chatter and|Smuggling and distribution, but into this scene, dressed in an or-|Space must be saved for other and dinary business suit, strolls Guen-| equally startling evidence in the ther Orgell, carrying a folded news-| nation-wide web being woven by paper in his hands. He catches the post office steward’s eye. Not the) slightest sign of recognition passes | between them or shows on either | face. Orgell casually takes four | letters from his coat pocket and| hands them to the steward, who casually slips them into his pocket | Nazi and American agents. (To be continued in next Friday's issue) TUNING IN ing of the Fall term a sufficient GRANVILLE HICKS There are no stamps on the letters, number of workers and students | f American Labor Movement, have brought pressure to hear for | political Heonomy. History of the the ‘school ‘to begin the class on /t; s,s. R. Historical Materialism, Wednesday, October 17. All those + Trade Union Strategy, Negro Prob- who were told that the class WaS| tems, Origin of Man and Clviliza- discontinued and all others inter- | ested should come in and register | at once, REGISTRATION GOING ON AT PHILA. WORKERS’ SCHOOL For the first time a Workers School has been established in Phil- adelphia. The School is situated in the heart of the city, 908 Chestnut Street. Registration is now going not be exaggerated. I am very on for the Fall term. Students are urged to register early. The courses given are as follows: Principles of Class Struggle, His- Russian. Special Courses are be- ing given in Workers Defense, Par- liamentary Procedure, Sign, Poster and Leaflet Making. In addition, the School will conduct a series of Friday night Forums, oo 8 The Los Angeles Workers School, 230 S. Spring Street, will celebrate the opening of the Fall Term by conducting a Symposium on Work- ers’ Education, Saturday afternoon, October 20th, followed by a supper and dance. tion, Current Events, English andj} Still so casual in manner that the average observer would not even have noticed the passage of the letters, Orgell wanders over to a desk in the library and rapidly writes another letter—so important, apparently, that he dared not car- |ry it with him in the event of a mishap. The letter is sealed and |handed to the steward. Siar yates His library has a great many visi- tors. No one seems to be paying any attention to this visitor or pas- senger talking to the steward. With a quick glance around him, Orgell takes in everyone in the library and seems satisfied. Again he catches the steward’s eye. This time he nods. The steward opens @ closet in the library, the second Little Lefty GEE WINNIKERS! | NEVER INNEROUCED ANYaooY AND NOW \6oTrA INNEROUCE ALL OF Us/ . Meet the Family! 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