The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE ——THE— WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD Tt professional intellectual, the middle class writer, the social critic, has always been the articulate spokesman for the psychic worries of his class. These psychic worries that haunt the middle class soul are numerous. But one of the most persistent that seems to dog the intelligentsia is the problem of the relationships of the individual to the collective society. Alone with his soul, the intellectual cries, what will the Soul of Man Be Under Communism? What will become of the careful per- sonality I have cultivated as my distinctive mark in the world? Will I also be just a number? Will I be one of the vast nameless mass? An anonymous atom among anonymous atoms? . . . A Crop of Souls . 'OR example, this week has witnessed a sudden crop of worried souls. In the Nation, Mr. Lionel Abel is acutely concerned with how Andre Malraux, the French revolutionary writer, has treated this” Problem. In the New Republic, Mr. Robert Herrick, an old timer, has & second youth when he thinks of himself and the future. “Will individuality be lost?” queries Mr. Abel. “There may evolv2 a mass civilization where the individual counts for little except as an interchangeable factor in the whole .. .” som- berly prophecies Mr. Herrick. This nightmare that haunts the bourgeois intellectual is not new in literature. Oscar Wilde popularized it during the nineties in his “The Soul of Man Under Socialism.” Nor is it especially characteristic of middle class writers who have sympathies with the Left. Some of the literary gentlemen who are rapidly taking the road that leads to fascism and historic death have Written pretty fantasies of the future as metaphors for their hate, Amazing Stories Mm: ALDOUS HUXLEY, for example, in his “Braye New World,” drew a portrait of socialism as he would like to see it. This petty bourgeois with scientific pretensions imagines the classless society of the future as a pure form of capitalist rationalization carried into all forms of social life. Eugene Zamyatin, one of Mr. Max Eastman’s favorite geniuses, did an incomparably better nightmare many years ago in a novel called “We.” To put the matter in a few words, the classless society of the future, in these Amazing Story novels, emerges as a cross between a scientific laboratory and a Ford factory. In this state, men are not men, but itemized numbers. Houses are made of glass and are all identical. Love is destroyed, and in its place is substituted scientific mating by appointment. Everybody is, so to speak, a-happy, that 1s, he feels neither love nor hate, nor any emotion, since emotion is ir- rational and endangers the State which runs like a machine. But it is important to note that these nightmares of future hor- ror, that this distortion of Communism, is not the property of reaction- ary litterateurs alone, but also of those middle class intellectuals who are sympathetic to the reyolutionary movement. For example, W. H. Auden, the English radical poet, can still so misunderstand the nature of the Communist collective society, that he will describe it as a place where life is ordered “like a naval school.” Still Hamlet Walks . . . NE sometimes becomes annoyed with the deliberate phantoms the bourgeois intellectual invents. There is an old story of three men who were walking in the forest. One was a poct. When a bird flew overhead, he was looking at the ground. When a rock tripped him, he was looking at the sky. When he fell into the river, his eyes were closed. Something of the same irrelevance exists among bourgeois writers. When the masses of the workers are moving along the steep and bloody road of revolutionary action, they, far behind the most back- ward worker, are still profoundly agitated by the questions of should one “believe” in something or is scepticism the rightful function of a “rational” mind, Like Hamlet, with sword in hand, they hesitate; there must be another thought to quibble over before the sword is plunged. They still suffer from that paralysis of judgment, that inability to decide what is “wrong and right” that has cursed the bourgeois in- tellectuals of post-war Europe and America. A Bit From Lenin Bee how shall we account for the persistent and perverse concern with the question of the survival of the personality in a world of socialism? It is only necessary to contrast an attitude like Lenin’s to one of the principal demons of the intellectual's sub-consciousness to see the limitations of thought and the falseness of the bourgeois intellectual’s understanding of the process of historical evolution, The Taylor system was the father of the modern system of in- human speed-up and rationalization which the tools of the capitalists, the efficiency experts, use to squeeze greater profits out of the work- ing class. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1934 ‘Scrap Fascist | | Movie, Demands _ NY FilmLeague | NEW YORK.—The National Film | }and Photo League, through its| | Secretary, David Platt, has released the following statement in answer |to a letter just received from the | General Manager of Columbia Pic- tures Corp., Hollywood, Cal., criticiz- | ing the League’s proposed cam-| | paign against “Call to Arms,” fas- jcist Columbia film in process of production: (See Daily Worker— | | Flashes and Close-ups column, issue | | October 18, for Columbia’s letter— | Ed.) | “You ask us to point out precisely | what portions of Call to Arms a! susceptible to criticism upon the | grounds enumerated in your wires. | This is simple. All we have to do is quote from a studiogram dated Oct. 4th sent out by Columbia Pic- tures Corp. which states: .. . ‘story most timely telling as it does of a | civil war veteran whose two sons | become involved in communistic | activities stop Willard Mack in part of old soldier recruits services of veterans at Sawtelle Home and Succeeds in quelling ‘red uprising and strike stop different and chuck full of pathos thrills romance stop.’ “If this alone is not sufficient ground for organizing a national campaign of protest against Colum- bia Studios, please tell us what is. | Here you are actually producing a | film which openly incites to riot | against organized labor, a film | which lyingly presupposes that every | militant strike for better living | conditions for American workers is @ red uprising, and yet you ask us to define our grounds for action against it. “Let us state emphatically that the Film and Photo League is not going to sit peacefully back and permit your studios to fish out a! fetid red-herring, which you con- | sider timely only because it falsifies | the real issues of hunger, war and fascism, against which battles are being vigorously fought here in America and everywhere—on every front. “Aside from the Studiogram which baldly contradicts your as- sertion that our information con- cerning the film is erroneous, we have unimpeachable information from Hollywood that the film you are producing is viciously detrimen- tal to the interests of the American workers, and the Film and Photo | League, which functions solely in the interests of the workingclass, demands that you cease production on Call to Arms or bear the con- sequences of a campaign of enlight~ enment: which will definitely estab- | |lish Columbia’s position on Labor with millions of American workers who attend Columbia pictures. “As to deletions, any cuts that you might make in the film in deference to the moyiegoer, could not possibly alter the fundamental nature of Call to Arms, the very | title of which is fraught with dan- | ger. We therefore demand unequi- vocally that you stop it altogether. | “In conclusion, you state you are disinclined to distribute any picture | designed to help bring on fascism and destroy civil liberties. This | |is a curious statement in the light | of recent events involving Colum- | bia Pictures Corporation. If any recent film was calculated to pro- duce just such propaganda for |fascism, vigilantism and against civil liberties, it is Columbia’s No Greater Glory, a film which dares to inculcate in the minds of Ameri- | can children the thought that there is no greater glory than dying for your country. “Your prompt action in stopping | Producticn of Call to Arms will prove the correctness of the policy you claim to have. If in the next | few days you fail to publicly express | ;your determination to stop produc- | tion of the film, the Film and | Photo League certainly will know | what policy to pursue with regard | to your organization.” cinema, | Each division is made up of | numerous charts, posters, models, Photographs, albums, and books, Full statistical material accom- panies ¢ach subject, as well as ex- | amples of the children’s artistic | Memorial to Fred B. Chase Garlin to Return to Active Work Shortly De A group sympathizers—F. 8. U. N.S. L and A. L. A. W F. members—have asked me to write to uire about the health of Sender Garlin. We have all searched diligently for any news of him, but in va asking too much to carry a report from time to tim t we can’t send any- ur fund drive at the present time, but are bring- ing it up befor various groups and you pect re- sults by next week COMRADES ALL. Woul th Comrade Garlin, who was recently operated on for ap- pendicitis by Dr. Daniel Cas- ten, has recovered and will re- turn to active work on the Daily Worker in a few days.— Editor’s Note. Bookshop in Boston Starts Successful Book Talk Series BOSTON.—Reading in the Daily Worker of the booktalks held by the New York Worker the International Bo ton has adopied the e method of popularizing books and publicizing the in among intellectual and middle- jelements in G : Boston. The first booktall by - Eugene Gordon 6n October 5, was so pop- jular that a whole series is now |being planned at two-week intervals jfor the fall and winter months. | Gordon, outstanding Negro jour- |malist, chose Guy Endore’s new |novel, “Babouk,” for the first review. |He pointed out the one defect he had found in the book, the confu- sion in the author's mind between the issues of class struggle and race war, as shown in the last chapter. Although throughout the story of | the horrors of the slave trade and of slavery in Haiti during the 18th century, Guy Endore showed his This granite shaft was erected to the memory of Fred B. Chase, one of the leaders in the Communist movement in New England, and Communist candidate for governor of New Hampshire two years ago. It was unveiled on Sunday. The shaft was built by granite workers of New Hampshire as a testimony of their esteem for their comrade and their devotion to the cause he represented. Fred B. Chase was born on a farm in Keene, N. H., in 1881, member of a family whose ancestors settled in New Englarid more taan 300 years ago. He at- tended school and farmed, when a boy, and at the age of 18 went to Worcester, Mass., to learn the trade of machinist. He worked for several years at the Boston Navy Yard as a machinist, during which time he joined the Socialist Party. In 1915, he returned to New Hampshire where he again took up farming. In 1928 he joined the Communist Parity, and was nominated as candidate for the U. S. Senate the same year, and for governor in 1932. He attended the first Farmers National Reiief Conference in Washington, D. C., the same year, and was a member of the executive committee of the Farmers farmers at the first Congress of the American League Against War and farmers at the first Cngress of the American League Against War and Fascism. The granite shaft, to mark the graye, was given by mem- bers of the New England Communist Party. Elba Chase, Comrade Chase’s wife, is now running for governor on the Communist ticket. The Hour Is Drawing Near! Save Thaelmann! By W. RUST of all that is best and finest in the USK was closing in and the great; Working class. it ‘ audience in the Neukoeln 'HAELMANN is a true son of the working class in action, language and appearance. He is a product of our revolutionary age. Every year he grew stronger, tested in the fires of class struggle. At the meetings of the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist International his voice became more and more | authoritative; an honored name, a powerful influence. How often have we heard him forcefully explaining and arguing. There he stood, sometimes coliar- less and perspiring, driving home his points with a sweep of his arms and a snap of his strong jaws. “Listen to Teddy grinding Stadium looked like a limitless dark mass when the news flashed round that Thaelmann had arrived. The audience was agog with excitement, it pressed closer to the raised ter- | race which served as a platform. | The police reporters, comfortably | seated at a table, fingered their notebooks. The occasion was the final gen- eral election rally of the Commu-/ nist Party in the summer of} 1932 shortly after the overthrow| of the Prussian Social-Democratic | Government by Von Papen. The situation was tense, and the Communist Party was prepared for illegality, The leaders were no hympathy for-all oppressed peoples and his understanding of economic forces, he wound up his book with a shout of vengeance against the white race at the same time utiliz- ing the revolutionary slogan, “Black and White, Unite and Fight.” The International Bookshop is continuing its policy of devoting at least one of its two window displays to current working class struggles At present, literature on the marine |industry occupies one window, tak- jing the place of the textile litera- ture displayed during the recent strike. TUNING IN 7:00-WEAF—Ray Perkins, Songs | WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick | WJZ—Amos 'n' Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch | 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch | WOR-Comedy; Music WJZ—Harold von Emburgh, Baritone; Hirsch Orchestra WABC—Just Plain Bill Sketch | 7:30-WEAF—Local Government from the | Ground Up—Prof. John M. Gauss, | University of Wisconsin WOR—McGoldrick Campaign Talk | | ‘WJZ—Edgar Guest, Poet: Charles | Sears, Tenor; Concert Orchestra | VABC—Jack Smith, Songs | 7:45-WEAF—Prank Buck's Adventures | WOR—Studio Music | VABC—Boake Carter, Commentator | | 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orch.; Phil Duey, | Baritone | WOR—Campaign Talk—Judge, wil- | liam L. Bill, Candidate for’ Gov.| | of | wuz. New Jersey ‘The Fog Has Ears—Sketch Prank Glenn, WABC—Concert Orch.; Munn, Tenor; Hazel | 8:30-. | WOR—V | WJzZ—Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone; Concert Orch.; John B. Kennedy, N or Ww ‘Lyman Orch.; Vivienne Se- , Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor | 9:00-WEAF—Ben Bernie Orch. WOR—AI and Lee Reiser, WABC—Bing Crosby, Songs; Sisters Trio; Stoll Oreh. 9:15-WOR—Talk—Controller Joseph D. cGoldrick WJZ—Story Behind the Claim— Boswell Sketch 9:30-WEAF—-Ed Wynn, Comedian; Duchin Piano | 3. Page 5 Halper Evades Class Conflict in Second Novel ‘The Foundry’ THE FOUNDRY, by The Viking Press ee ae’ Reviewed by PHILIP RAHV ,BERT HALPER's “Union Square,” si such a bad light that angered by his d subject-matter, he e n target of much heated critici: In that novel Communism and Com- munists were seen through the camera-eye of a picture-snatcher for a tabloid newspaper. The con- clusion seemed to be that the men and women consciously engaged in the proletarian class struggle were either cranks and degenerates, or pitiful specimens of ineffect On the subjective side one felt the author's strain to prove something | to himself, to convince himself that | nothing was real save the ego in its separateness and self-interest. The feeling grew that Halper was a young man trying very hard to be ‘successful” in the literary game. and that the revolutionary move- ment, in itself the y negation of he type of seeking, touched him o: t where he resented its and feit compelled to ward it off through mockery and mud-slinging From such a viewpoint, of course, his theme could be easily adapted for commercial exploitation, in that it illustrated all the pet conceptions of Communism advertised through bourgeois sources. And naturally. bourgeois critics, among them Edmund Wilson, a_ self-styled | “Marxist,” hailed the book as the kind of proletarian novel they like to encourage. In reading Halper's new novel, | however, one seems that the devel- opment of proletarian literature and criticism, and the heightening | of the class struggle in this coun- try, have had a certain effect on He seems to have largely overcome his refusal to face class issues on their material level and his rancorous, philistine attitude to revolutionry thought and action | But this novel too, despite the wealth of ideology implicit in its story of a factory and of relations between workers and bosses, is by no means a revolutionary work. It lacks precisely those qualities which make a revolutionary novel: hatred of capitalism, a firm understanding of the role of the working class in modern society and an emotional attachment to its values. The advance which it shows is an advance from subjective dis. | tortions toward a large measure of | Social-minded realism. But as a | method of conceiving a theme and developing it, realism as such, in | the accented sense of the term, | lends itself to a static, unpartisan | mode of perception, rather than to | @ revolutionary approach. Halper is still afraid to abandon the tradition of surface objectivity | and to show the bias of the prole- tarian philosophy; hence he fails to reveal the true depth of the social contradictions and the tene dency of their resolution. His em- on rie the foibles of worker and alike and on dramatic dent no matter where it takes ve nature of his sen- , which gives us the aroma of existence at the expense of its development—all combine to pros nage of humanity in gene t that of class aflict phasis phas “humanity” in general is @ pernicious abstraction, and a lit~ erary platitude besides. pee” gear HERE is much in book that is admired by the editors of booke clubs and the uptown literary promoters, and one need not won- der w Many chapters read as if they wrote themselves. Mix tl froth of Sinclair Lewis with dashes of vulgarized Anderson and you have the kind of humor and tragedy which can be ladled out like punch at a party. All the standardized “human angles” so popular in lywood are here: people bawling and n then they e, are eople about to become parents, girls pining for husbands, and strong men who make their way in the world. The workers are big and lusty fellows, inarticulate, crude, but good fellows at heart, The bosses may be a little more genteel, and hence they are really funnier, The two “classes” fight each other, but it’s all in the day's work—their common humanity rece onciles them. I think that the clue to the author's basic outlook cannot be found in the formal denouncement of the plot. Its real features can be discerned, rather, in the characters of August Kafka, the shipping clerk who keeps himself apart from the struggle in the shop and who is destined to find his way to the upper classes through a musical career, and in Epstein, a whirlwind of a young man, slated for the chair of a big executive, These people seem real to Halper, whereas Karl Heitman, the shop radical, re- mains as boring and stunted at the end of the story as when we are first introduced to him. The phi- losophy of bourgeois individualism makes Halper say (perhaps despite himself): There is no future for men of vigor and talent if they are to stay and fight with their class. And this is a false reply, a reply which we must ruthlessly combat. Halper possesses many saving virtues: the pace of action plebeian gusto and appetite, and a caressiy feeling for everyday things. But with his present ideological limita- tions it would be impossible for him to write a revolutionary novel. To do that it is necessary to quit the i¥usions of individualism and, hence, the conception of writing as a game. ‘What's Doing in the W orkers Schools of the U. S. D. W. AND NATIONAL TRA’ NING SCHOOL DRIVE ASSUMES TEMPO |_ With one week of the National |School and Daily Worker Drive for $1,500 over, the following facts can be recorded: 1. Close to 2,000 students have already accepted contribution lists to raise money among their friends and elsewhere. 2. One hundred fifty dollars ($150); has already been turned in. ‘The Socialist competition among the students for the prizes to be awarded to the shock brigad- ers is very keen. Several have al- ready raised between $10 to $20 each. All workers interested in taking courses are urged to register early, so that the school will be able to open on schedule. Fees for students Will be $1.00 a course—and 50 cents for each additional course. All Classes will be held in the evening during the week, The Co-op Colony Shule is of= fering courses in Political Economy, Negro Problems, ‘Trade Union Prablems and ABC of Communism for Youth. The courses began Mon- day, Oct. 22nd. Registration goes on every night in the Shule on Brit- ten Street corner Bronx Park East, The fees are very low. All further and technical work. the bourgeoisie,” whispered a Orch. | 4 The instructors are actively | inf ti i j It regimented the workers, it instituted the horror of the modern Further information regarding Ra ag ag ee German pa itiens i to me. Hs wee Lum and Abner—-Sketch | particivating in the Tarive. Once fapleteation sees yee pie factory, it accomplished the final divoreement of the laborer from all |the exhibit may be procured | oer ‘ To the German comrade he is! WABO—Jones Orch; Evan zvans,|SUggestion of Comrade Pet Toohey. | after 7:30 p.m. se contact with the finished product of his labor. ones the American Russian | Thacimann’s presence at the | always “Teddy,” a friendly comrade | pide wontons rf At |instructor in Trade Union Strategy nstitute. : ’ : s - ly Brown, Violin In the Taylor system the bourgeois intellectual sees only destruc- tion, misery, inhumanity. And it is true. Under capitalism the Taylor t system has become the instrument of industrial death and exploitation. jand Tactics, there is Socialist com- | petition within the classes. Timely |pamphlets and hooks will be given meeting electrified the audience, which strained to catch every word coming from that powerfully enjoying a great prestige. | During one meeting of the Execu- tive two of us from Britain met FRIENDS OF BROWNSVILLE 10:00-WEAF—O, tta—fari, ith Glady: ” Leigh atgn sins WORKERS SCHOOL ORGANIZED Swarthout, Soprano; John Barclay, and Others Soviet Educational ‘ , 4 WOR—Campaign Talks—Gov. Leh-|in every class to the stucents in| The Brownsville Workers School, 4 But how did Lenin look at the Taylor system? In “The Soviets | Exhibit to Be Shown Rape cork: pae f Sn ie | aaa: to alestim the sroncaienie ot | mankeeton 8. Copeland, trom | each class raising the most money. | 1855 Pitkin Avenue, has succeeded { at Work,” he writes: “The last word of capitalism—the Taylor sys- ees} ean ad Sat Haaiiah'ana | the retationsh{y- between’ tHe }Oom- | Wsz—Sea Sketch, Cameron King,| in making a beginning in organiz- tem—combines the refined cruelty of bourgeois exploitation and a At Teachers College f Wicubiy stinks tent for a Soviet | munist Party of Germany and| Sa oreh.; Annette Hane| Cat! Brodsky, State Election oa oe et Supporters into a number of most valuable scientific attainments in the analysis of - ——— Germany. Again and again the | Britain. shaw, Songs; Waiter Okeefe” |Campaign Manager, ©. P., will aa ee ee mechanical motions during work, in dismissing superfluous and use- less motions, in determining the correct methods of work, the best systems of accounting and control... .'The Soviet Republic must adopt valuable and technical advance in this field. The possibility of So- cialism will be determined by our success in combining the Soviet tule and the Soviet organization of management with the latest progressive measures of capitalism. .. .” . . . Socialism and Personality K brief, Lenin recognized a two-fold nature to capitalist technology. Its destructive, exploitative nature in the hands of the manufactur- ers and its genuine scientific use as part of the system of Socialist management. What the intellectual fails to recognize is the change that takes place with the destruction of capitalist private property and the estab- lishment of Socialism. When the Soviets expropriated the national bank of Russia, it ceased to have the character of a financial money house of the Rus- sian bourgeoisie and became an instrument of Soviet policy. So with the question of regimentation. The intellectual transfers the evils of capitalism bodily into the system of Socialism. He does not recognize that qualitative change that takes place when the pur- pose of the instrument changes. So also with the question of personality. Socialism does not mean the extinction of personality. It means the extinction of bourgeois comprehensive exhibit on “Education in the Soiet Union” has been received in this country and is being prepared for its first show- ing at Teachers’ College, New York, The exhibit consists of the fol- lowing nine divisions: 1, The general system and or- ganization of education in the U. 8.8. R. 2. Pre-School education. 3. Primary and. intermediate schools. 4. Education of the minor nation- alities. 5. Extra-curricular mass work with children. 6. The teacher in the U.S. S. R. 1. The training of teachers. 8, Adult education and cultural activities, 9, Art—theatre, painting and graphic art, music and the dance, audience broke into enthusiastic cries of “Rot Front! Rot Front!” This was the last time 1 saw Thaslmann and I have recalled this scene to myself many times since that sad day when the news came that he had fallen into the hands of the Fascist jackals. I was in Moscow at the time. “Can it be true?” we asked ourselves. ‘We hoped on for better news, but) finally all of us, comrades from many countries, had to cease hop- ing and to concentrate on doing. Thaelmann could only be rescued by the organization of a vast inter- national campaign. Today Thaelmann has become more than a name to those masses of people who are joining in the worldwide fight for his release, he has become the living embodiment i: 10:30-WJZ—Tim and Irene, The meeting was arranged on WABC—George Givot! the initative of Thaelmann, who Rich Orch. wanted to help us in our work and | 11:00-WEAF—Robison Orch. to get closer to the problems of the bi tisha ane British working-class movement. WABC—Salter Orch. We had a pleasant, helpful meeting | 11:15-wEAF—Robert Royce, Tenor with our comrade, but unfortunately | 11:30-WEAF—Hoff Orch. he was not able to come to Eng- land as hoped. | As I write these lines and the rec- | ollection of Thaelmann’s person- | ality becomes ever more vivid, so doe3 the knowledge that he is now) at the mercy of*depraved criminals | ever more horrifying. | The hour is drawing near. Thael- | mann can only be saved by a} mighty united protest echoing throughout the world. Save Thael- mann! This is the task of every worker, of every human being worthy of the name. Comedy Comedian; Contributions received to the credit of Del in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500, S. P. member Bessie S. .... Previoucly received -$1.00 50 - B75 Total to date speak at the New York Workers School Forum, this Sunday, Oct. | 28th at 35 East 12th Street, 8:30 ;pm., on “The Election Issues of |the Communist Party.” A WORKERS SCHOOL IN MILWAUKEE | | For the first time, a Workers | School is being established in Mil- waukee, Wis. The school will be situated at 113 East Wells Street which is centrally located, making | it easy to reach from all ends of | the city. Registration for the school will begin November ist. Courses will be offered on Marxism-Lenin- | ism, Fundamentals of Communism, History of the Three Internationals, American History, Russian, English and others. A full list of courses will be published shortly. Little Lefty THE NEGRO FOLKS ‘ROUND NOY a eee The Lowdown THE WATER COMP'NY —You Ber 171s! BUY NOT HE KINO by del i This Saturday, Oct. 27th, the Friends of the Brownsville School are showing a Soviet movie in order to raise money and to bring the students together socially. HELP CROWN HEIGHTS WORK- ERS SCHOUL LIBRARY The Crown Heights Workers School, 25 Chauncey Street, opened ions on Oct. 8, 1934 with in: Pundamentals of the ‘truggle, Political Economy, Current Problems of the Negro People, Organizational Principles and others. The establishment of a Workers School in Crown Heights has been a real achievement for Section 16 and the mass organiza- tions in that territory. The extent of anti-Jewish and anti-Negro sentiment made finding a location extremely difficult. This problem fired the enthusiasm of the workers, and every effort was made to secure suitable quarters to be the fortress from which these pre- vailing prejudices must be destroyed, “THESE PHPERS Want’ US ~T'RERO— THEY FIGURE “HAT IF WE SHOULD READ ABOUT EVICTIONS, STRIKES, AND SUCH, INSTEAD OF d MOIDERS,N'SCRNDALS, S WE'D REALLY SyaRr -TX THINKIN’ - Nest HM ‘MAGINE “H' HELL CUT'EM OFF FROM EVERY DROP o'wATER HOLY SMOKE/ RINT HET , NEWS? & “HE BLocK IS ABOUT BE EVICTED NTHEY DON'T EVEN wetre tr up / personality. It means the destruction of bourgeois modes of thought, bourgeois habits of life. It does not mean the destruction of all life. Qn the contrary, Socialism means the lifting of personality to a higher plane, the creaticn of new freedoms, the birth of new horizons of intellectual effort. j . . © Contributions received to the credit of Mike Gold in his Socialist competition with Jacob Burck, David Ramsey, Harry Gannes, Helen Luke, Del and the Medical Advisory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—s502. ABOUT 1 3 The weekly forums of the school, HRs emter/ f held in its auditorium on Sundays at 5 p.m., with an admission fee of ten cents, is part of the campaign to root the school firmly in the neighborhood. The school occupies an entire three story building and the third floor is dedicated to the Louis Engdahl Memorial Library. Efforts | JUST GoT AN EYEFUL OF “THE Box ScoRE Next “To ME— AND Boy IS ME FACE RI FOLKS I'M LUBLE '8E Evicreo NESE iF are being made to open this library \ L. Berman .. - $2.00 “H"DAILY! DON’ on the 2Ist of November, the sec- Frances Grasso ...... » 100 ond anniversary of the death of Bessie Si .ssece eee + 50 Engdahl. The library committee appeals to all workers and intel- Previously received .......cccsececcececee sees e+ G136,23 lectuals to make this library pos- sible with donations of books and funds which may be addressed to © the Library at the school’s address, Total to date + $159.73