The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1934, Page 7

—-THE— || WORLD! —— By MICHAEL GOLD HE rumors are that the Nobel award for literature this year will be granted to the American playwright, Eugene O'Neill. Last year’s award went to that expatriate and white- guardist, Ivan Bunin, whose novels and short stories are filled with a melancholy fatigue and a spiritual yearning for the good old Ozarist days of the knout, the dungeon and the landowner. It was a significant indication of the politics of the Nobel Com- mission that this award, granted for outstanding work in literature in the cause of “peace,” was given, not to a fighter for social progress and a man of world-wide literary reputation like Maxim Gorky, but to that historical ghost and world-weary habitue of the Riviera, Ivan Bunin. | A Successful Playwright ND this year the same estimable crities of literature are, according to the oméns, about to place the laurel on the brow of Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill is forty-six years old this month. He has ‘behind him some of the outstanding plays of the modern American theatre. Works like “The Emperor Jones” and “Anna Christie” have become operas and movies. He is regarded as America’s foremost dramatist. When “Strange Interlude” ran on the Broadway stage, the critics buzzed and the smoking roomis of the Theatre Guild titivated with exclamations of “genius!” and “a remarkable play, really!” It was compared to the old Elizabethan dramas, it was hailed as a remarkable step forward in dra- matic technique, it was acclaimed as a profound piece of work that re- vealed hitherto unknown depths in the human mind. And when “Mourning Becomes Electra” ran, a trilogy, a play that took longer than any previous play to perform, so that the audience jad to retire for supper before the last section of the play went on, the drama pages of the news-sheets rang with the critical boys’ hurrahs. As a playwright, O’Neill has acquired a handsome fortune, a charming wife, a yacht and a home in the country. He spends his an- nual winters abroad, he has his servants, his Park Avenue home, and a comfortable complacent feeling that whatever he produces will immedi- ately be put into rehearsal by his guardian angel, the Theatre Guild. From any point of view that you may choose to take, Eugene O'Neill is a success. There may be a couple’ of disconsolate, malcon- tent young playwrights going around Broadway with a damning, burn- ing, indictment of the social order under their arm, trying to get a couple of producers to put thé thing on for them, and being turned away—these young misfits may occasionally lift the razzberries when they see a new O'Neill masterpiece, but any critic of the American drama can tell you they’re just jealous. . . . The Bitter Young Men KNOW a few of these bitter young mén. And I feel that O'Neill would experience séveral moments of actual embarrassment were he ever to get within range of their vituperous remarks. Their critical opinion of “Strange Interlude” and “Days Without End,” O'Neill's last work, would be completely summed up in a four letter word, of ancient origin, which they use with extraordinary force. You can see them sitting up in God’s Gallery during the performance. They watch the play with a mixture of hatred and passionate contempt. For example, they were particularly brutal in their treatment of Mr. O’Neill’s last work, “Days Without End.” “Days Without End” is a play that aroused the greatest admira~ tion among the subscribers and patrons of the Theatre Guild. It told the story of John Loving, who for three of the four acts was divided like an amoeba into John and Loving. Loving was John’s evil self, who mocked and hated the world and God. John was John Loving’s good self, who wanted to love and pray to God. And after three acts, dur- ing which John and Loving is writing a novél, and Loving makes John practice adultery on a neighbor, and cause his wife to run out into a rainy night, get influenza and start to die, John finally runs into # church, kneels at the foot of thé Cross, and prays to God to save his wife, Elsa, And God hears, and Loving dies and John becomes once more John Loving. Elsa, by the way, recovers. ‘That’s the play calléd “Days Without End.” You should have heard the razzberries those young men in the gallery gave America’s fore- most playwright, Eugene O'Neill. 7 is * Hauptmann and O'Neill UT Mr. O'Neill, I’m afraid, wouldn’t pay much attention to those young men in the gallery who were giving him the critical razz- berries. After all, why should he? He's going to be the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature this year, and that makes him a great man. As great as Gerhart Hauptmann who sat with him in the audience during the showing of his “Mourning Becomes Electra.” Gerhart Hauptmann once wrote a magnificént play called “The Weavers.” It was a passionate protest against the Ife of oppression and hunger the weayers of Germany lead. It was a play filled with social truth and an earnest yearning for social justice. But, when Ger- hart Hauptmann was sitting with O’Neill in the first rows in the Thea- tre Guild, he was no longer the same Gerhart Hauptmann. He was a different man; a defender of the Nazis, a betrayér of his own “weav- ers,” an artist who had sold himself to fascism for a house in the coun- try and a steady income. O'Neill could sit beside him there in complete comfort. He himself was a different O'Neill. The O'Neill of the Provincetown Players, who had written “The Hairy Ape,” was as dead as the Hauptmatin of “The Weavers.” Mr. O’Neill had sold himself to the Intelligentzia. The Thea- tre-Guild had made a big success of him for the fat ladies and the prokers and the bankers who are the subscribers to the Guild. The realism, even the unclear social passion of the early plays, was gone. No more Hairy Apes for O'Neill. “Days Without End” now; pale, mys- tical pastiches; sophomoric yelps for faith; cries for a “Leader,” a nice little strongman fascist leader, was sounding on the boards. Hé was doing the thinking now not for the oppréssed and the ex- ploited sailors of his youth, but for the rich dames and the fat dis- traught bankérs, who wanted a little faith and more political and social control of their workingclass slaves. This is the O'Neill on whom the Nobel Commission will place the wreath of laurels. * . . Contributions reéeived to the credit of Mike Gold in his Socialist competition with Jacob Burck, David Ramsey, Harry Gannes, Ann Barton, del and the Médieal Advisory Board, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. Members of former Prog. Club. Burchan Wonders .. S. Recio & R. DeLuna . Previously received . Total to date ... TUNING IN 7:00 P. M.-WEAF— Deposit Insurance— ‘Munn, Tenor; Vivienne Segal, Songs nty B. Steagall WOR—Selvin Orchestra ot aint an ane 8 Omg ve Orch.; Leah Ray, Songs ‘WOR—fports Resi ra Pritk _ WABO—Mareh of Time—Drama ‘WdZ—Amos 'n’ An ia ee ee Pic and WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketcli Ree: Carag ee re eee 3 Contralto; Belasco Orch. ‘WdZ—Plantation Echoes; Mildred Bo pees ciate ae Briley, Songs; Robison Orch. Mi he wit ust Plain Bill—6k With Dick Powell, Rowene 1ab-WRAP—Unele Eare—Sketsh pak Vipinee 0 Weall eSB |! eee Se oten ce” ‘WJZ—Red Dayis—Sketch WABO—Paul Kéast, Baritone 9:45-WOR—Frank and Flo, Songs _WEAF—Fran} T:48-) ik Buck's Adventures | 10:00-WEAF—Death Has a Visitor—Dra- matic Sketch woR— ‘Talks — Governor Lehman, Lieut. Gov. M. William 8: Bray, Senator Royal 8. Dragonette, Soprano; Male Quar- Potmer ernor Alfred E, Smith, tet; Football—Grantland Rice at Brool WOR—Lone Rabger—Sketeh a War anastrel relies WJz—Jewels Enchat — | 10:30- ris Sketch, with Irene Rich, Actress Witte Be Ww. sy Aces—Sketch WABC- Issues—Controller 8:15-WJZ—Dick Liebert, Organ; Arm- _ Joseph D. MeGéldrick bruster and Kraus, 0; Mary | 10:45-WABC—Kate Smith, Songs Quartet R. Holmes, Chief Courtland, Songs; Mal ABC—1 11:00-WEAF—George Bawin 0. Hil, Oonmentetor ‘Wash Bureeul.. & lo 8:30-WOR—Katzman Orch.; Luci ts onbeams Tri son, Songs; Choristers Quartet WsZ—Davis Orchestra wiZGoodman Orchestra; Dwight A? 7 Orchestra Fiske, Piano 11:15- dinando Orchestra urt of Human Relations ws 11:30-WMGA—Dance Music (Also WEAF, 9:00-WEAF—Lyman Orchestra; Frank WEVD) DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934 This is the sixth article by John L. Spivak on “Plotting the American Pogroms,” appearing weekly in the New Masses, through whose courtesy the Daily Worker has been given permis- sion to reprint them simultanc- | ously. In his first five articic John L. Spivak has produced overwhelming proof of widespree«: and organized anti-Semitic ac- tivities in this country, closely linked with Nazi Germany. Under various disguises, the Order of 16, the Silver Shirts, Congress- man Louis T. McFadden, are all agents of anti-Semitic prop- aganda. In the present article, Spivak turns his guns on Ralph M. Easley, chairman of the Exec- utive Council of the National Civic Federation, and George Sylvester Viereck, active Nazi propagandist. By JOHN L. SPIVAK 3 iE long arm of Nazi anti-semitic propaganda in this country works cunningly through hidden hands. I have already uncovered some of these mysteries under- of the Jew. Now I shall present evidence that the prominent one hundred and twerty per cent “pa- triot,” Ralph M. Hasiey, chairman | tlomal Civic Federation, 570 Lex- \ington Avenue, New York City, has secretly distributed anti-semitic Ipropaganda as well as reported confidentiallly to George Sylvester Viereck, paid Nazi agent, on, the efforts of the “patriot” to stop the Jewish boycott of German goods— an act which, if successful, would jbe of incalculable service to Nazi | Germany, The National Civic Federation is the largest’ and most influential of the “patriotic” organizations, so many of which are flooding the jcountry with the “hate the Jew” creed. The Federation is close to the federal government. Mr. Easley himself makes frequent and mys- terious trips to Washington to con- \fer with Labor and State Depart- ment officials, either bringing them “information or “patriotically” try- jing to peddle forged document for a price—as he tried to peddle the now notorious Whalen forgeries four years ago. When he could not sell them to Robert Kelley, chief of the Far Eastern Division of the State De- partment, he tried to peddle them to a Hearst newspaper correspond- ent. And failing in that, Easley finally stuck former Police Com- missioner Grover Whalen with them so that the latter rushed into \print only to have the documents a little later proven as forgeries, i mention this so that the reader \will understand how the “patriot” |Ralph M. Easley works. On the National Civic Federation executive council we find very in- fluential men. Its ramifications and influence are wide. There is, jfor instance, the acting president of this organization: Matthew Woll. Woll is vice-president of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, which went on iecord as favoring the boycott of German goods. Then there is Archibald Steven- Insurance Racket Exposed in Nov. “Economic Notes” NEW YORK.—The “Private In- surance Racket” is one of the 14 articles which feature Labor Re- search Association’s monthly “Eco- nomic Notes” for November, 1934, Other items include full-length ar- ticles on the little-known conditions among workers employed in Wall Street and an analysis of housing conditions in the United States as a whole and in six key cities—New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Washing- ton, Minneapolis and Homestead, Pa. There is also factual material for speakers, writers and other active workers on the real effects of the “New Deal” farm program; on the reduction in wages between 1931 and 1933; on conditions of employ- ment and payrolls of workers in Tetail trade; and on the serious lack of milk for working-class families. How relief needs are increasing throughout the country as the av- erage amounts paid to unemployed families decrease, and why unem- ployment is a permanent feature are subjects of other articles in the current “Economic Notes.” Review of the current business situation includes data on retail sales, increase in retail prices, and on declines in employment and pay- rolls. Another important item deals with the proposed anti-strike law which the National Association of Manufacturers intends to introduce in Congress this winter. Labor Research Association’s 10- page bulletin, chock full of facts workers want to know, sells for 5 cents a copy in Workers’ Book Shops. “Economic Notes” may also be obtained by mail for 65 cents 4 year, Write to Room 634, 80 East 11th Street, New York City. Litde Lefty GOING INSANE WITH ALL THiS ground sources for nurturing hatred | of the Executive Council of the Na- | “Patriotic” Ralph M. Whalen Forgeries Fame, Reports to Nazis son, chairman of the Department of Subversive Movements. Mr. Stevenson achieved a lot of promi- nence years ago by his activities in whipping up a “Red” hysteria for the notorious Lusk Commitee. He succeeded in developing a “Red” scare which resulted in Socialist | Assemblymen being kicked out of the legislature just because they |Were Socialists. Then there is James W. Gerard |former Ambassador to Germany. |who is in charge of the Commis- | sion on Industrial Inquiry. It was {former Ambassador Gerard who, after this series of articles began hysterically warned the Jews that if they did not abhor Communism |they would have in the United | State pogroms “the like of which the world has never seen.” JEWS and gentiles, scared by the Communist bugaboo raised by these men, contribute heavily to the National Civic Federation's jwell filled coffers. So far as the jworld at large knows, Easley’s life jhas been devoted to fighting Com- jmunism or any other form of lradicalism which appeared in this country. When the Communists ‘were not around, he grew apoplec- jtic about the I.W.W.’s. When that | scare passed and the country ! somehow still survived, he goa choleric over the Socialists—whom | he now views with a mild tolerance. Easley alWays manages to get a/ jcause to scare the propertied class. | There is a great deal that I could say of this professional “patriot’s” \past, but space forbids all but the mention that he was closely con- nected with Boris Brasol, who was largely responsible for the wide- spread disemination of the noto- rious “Protocols of Zion.” This fact of his past is little known— especially to the wealthy Jews who | ‘give money to his organizations. This, though, was in his past. Let me now tell of his present activities, when while offering to help and work with wealthy and prominent Jews interested in coun- teracting anti-semitism, he was actually distributing anti-semitic | propaganda, working to stop the! boycott and all the while secretly reporting to George Sylvester Vie- reck, shrewd high pressure Nazi propagandist. { Se ae IN my first article in The New Masses, I announced that I By JACK jane were three. The woman) | 4 hadn’t achieved twenty, the man! | Surpassed her by two brief years. | | As far as that goes, the “old man” | | wos hardly old, being scarcely forty. | |He looked old, he looked dead, | ; bones covered with drawn skin, and | his eyes were glazed. He would die | | Seon of silicosis, and dying was slow | | when lungs were turning to stone. | | It was a great night. The valley |was so green and a light becam~ discernible in the watchman’s hut at the quarry. The woman watched @ couple coming up the hill. There was @ young woman like herself, and also a man about her hus- | band’s age. They were going into every house, and the man carried | some papers. The air Was cool and , smelled of green stuff. | She looked at her husband who |sat on the porch steps. He smoked | |a cigarette and was very quiet, as was his wont. She could never | look at him without comparing him | with the old man. For her husband | was straight and his face strong and lean, He was a great man. So | hhad her father been a great man. In ten years It brought furrows to her brow to think of it. But they | all went that way. Ten years and | Granite Dust CHANGE Plotting the American Pogroms Easley, of Notorious JOHN L. SPIVAK ‘would present evidence to this ef- Jct in the course of this series and é >parently Mr, Easley’s “patriotic” conscience is not altogether at ease, |judging by the fear he had of | seeing me. I telephoned him for fn appointment, “Who's calling?” asked. “Mr. Spivak—of The New Masses. Is Mr. Beasley in?” “Yes, just a minute and I'll get him for you.” The minute stretched out to four by the watch—just long enough, judged, to trace the call and get several people listening in on ex- tension wires. Then— “Hello,” said a sharp voice, “Mr. Easley?” “No, this is Mr. Stevenson—” “Not Archie Stevenson of the old ‘red-baiting fame?” “This. is Mr. Archibald Steven- son,” the voice said with dignity. “What is it you wish to see Mr. Easley about?” “I should like to see him about his anti-Semitic activities, I know, of course, that he does not like Com- munists, but what I want to know is why he is carrying on anti-Sem-,| itic work—what that has to with | his hatred of Communism.” “Mr; Easley is not carrying on anti-Semitic work—” his secretary WILGUS Her husband reached out his hand and took the -paper without a word and got to his feet. He went indoors and she saw him bending over the table as he signed his name. Then she went in and signed also. “Is your man a she asked the girl. “Yes, he cuts stone over Barre,” the girl answered. As the two went out of the yard and started toward the next house, the girl looked back and smiling | called, “Good night.” | “They're about our age,” she said to her husband, “Yes,” he said, lighting another cigarette. It was very quiet. All day long it had been noisy with the sheds so close, but at night there was no noise. “They want a revolution, don’t they?” she asked. Her husband was always slow in answering. At last he said: “I guess they'll get it.” “How soon?” | “How should I know? Someday, I guess. It'll come to that yet.” Pa aoe stonecutter?” in =| At ten the next morning I tele-|«yoscow Daily ‘large sums of money. |larger sums available, Page 7 ‘Soviet Ru — Offers Viv “I should like to know why Mr. asley, representing the ulti triotic National Civic has been reporting George Sylvester Viereck, Nazi SOVL. RUSSIA TODAY, offi- “Mr. Easley has not been report- cial u.gan of The Friends of the ing to Mr. Viereck,” Archie Steven-| son exclaimed indignantly. Soviet Union, 80 E. 11th St., New “I am sorry. I have Mr. Easley's York City. November issue. Ten letters to. Mr. Viereck,” I assured cents. him. Reviewed by “Well—” there was silence for a} ALEXANDER TRACHTENBERG moment. “Mr. Easley is not in at! the moment. . Perhaps you had bet- tet see him.” “That's why I called. makb an appointment?” “Please call tomorrow at ten.” NNA LOUISE STRONG. editor of thé “Moscow Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of Ne Could I'¢ Jat one time ne N editor of | Robert W. Dunn, dii e@|}bor Research sociation; - Corliss aid | Lamont, A. A. Heller, Liston M. Oak phoned. A girl's voice answered! Onan, when I gave my name. “Oh, Mr. Spivak,” it said. “I ha & message for you. Mr. Easley that on advice of counsel he would |and Edwin Seaver are rather not see you. He thinks it|contributors to the Nove: would be better if you submitted|of “Soviet Russia Toda the quesitons you wish to ask him | devoted to the 17th anniver: and he will give them due consider-'the Russian Revolution. | ation.” How great the demu “You mean Mr. Easley is afraid| handsomely illustrate: to answer personally propounded | magazine may be | questions. That he wants time to|fact that the circulation of “Soviet think over the answers?” Russia Today,” which in October “Well, it’s on advice of counsel,”|reached an all-time high of 27,000, his secretary replied. ree Sore the last month climbed “Tl send him the questions this |‘ 39,°0°, bi seligcepe os afternoon by registered mail. I hope | f@cilities in all the leading cities | 4 | throughout the country. jhe and his counsel will enjoy an- A ms g swering them.” | Anne Louise Strong, whose boo lectures and articles on the Sovi | | Union are well known in the United T= list of questions are appended | States, begins a series of monthly to this article. I éxpect that on| letters exclusive to “Soviet Russia |“advice of counsel” Mr. Easley will|Today” in the current issue. Writ- {not answer them. I am appending /ing on “A New World in the Cau- |them only so that the reader will|casus,” she tells in a fascinating ar- know what questions Mr. Easley has ticle of a mumber of new develop- been advised not to answer. ments in the mountain region, ob- servations We thus have an idea of the sort bate mela tis lar Arad oa rey of person this professional “patriot” |s:6- trip included three weeks in| ih Tat ut. now, sitoe they: Worked | tne heaith resort of Kislovodsk a 80, closely together, see what sort /mriet trip to Mt/ Elbrus and @ tour of person George Sylvester Viereck | through the fam: lieniien tare is. Mr. Viereck is an author, Jour- | feos di as ne ee |nalist and editor. I will not go into|° “y es ree area EN writes his literary history which has noth- “ Pou is z a . r " Strong, “collectively owned, whose ing to do with this article. I will/j, | ; mcubators produced 140,000 chicks jmerely say that he is one of the| +); ‘ . . |this season and distributed them to |Snrewdest propagandists I know. He | other surrounding farms. I saw himself does not commit himself to] .1. farms which have hired archi- writing. However, Mr. Easley did | +, | tects from. the capital Nalchik to enough writing for both of them. |repian their whole village as a| Viereck’s past nas shown him|‘farm-city.’ This is the new slogan |prominertly as a German propa-|in Kabardino-Balkaria—farm- |gandist. Since Hitler got into pow-| cities,’ with avenues of trees, and er, he has been an active Nazi prop-/|fine central buildings, with a hotel| agandist. His receiving $1,750 a|for guests and a rest-home for their month—$1,000 of which was his/members in some selected grove or} “cut” for getting a fat contract for}on some stream. The inhabitants Carl Byoir (a Jew) to handle pub-|of these new farm-cities are really | licity for German railroads, and $750 | becoming new people. Their ideal} a month for “service” he was to|is now that of the organized city render Byoir—has already come out.| worker, instead of the accumulating | I do not think it is necessary to) peasant.” | devote more space to proving him} In his article “After Seventeen a Nazi propagandist. It is much} years,” Moissaye J. Olgin reviews! more important to examine his| the achievements. of the Russian financial condition before Hitler got! Reyolution since 1917, and A. A.| into power and after Viereck took| Hitler gives a chronological account a trip to Nazi Germany in 1933. of the history of this pericd, year | ie he * by year. Together, the two contrib- | ERECK lost almost his whole|Utions afford considerable value as| fortune in the 1929 crash as a|eference. result of large and unwise specula- | * # 4 tions. In March ahd April, 1933, i hg present year not only marks; | after Hitler got into power, his bank the seventeenth anniversary of | accounts show that he suddenly had | Soviet Russia. It also is the third! Early in|year of Soviet China. Dr. Hansu October he returned from another | Chan’s article reviews what has hap-} trip to Germany and he had still | pened in China during these three! years, the triumph of the Chinese Red Army against the combined forces of Nanking and the imperial- ist powers, and how the Chinese So- | viets have organized the 90,000,000 / free people in the land wrested from | ° ’ ‘Working Woman the Nanking bandits and their over- . . lords. | Offers Prizes in garThe imperais attempt to ern et Ina and to suppress the} Letter Contest ent he anti-Japanese movement,” he! NEW YORK.—A letter received | recently from a working-class woman in a small industrial town by the Working Woman magazine has formed the basis of a contest - | We publish today the first of which is featured in the November | several letters with mpanying issue of the Working Woman, which| answer in connection with the has just come off the press. The) discussion in this department on | letter asks the Working Woman) Qct. 18 on the question of what is | (To be continued) Questions a the correct attitude for the work- with new | distribution | ; }marks a milestone in our revo! ssia Today’ id Articles zee By Well-Known Writers at book on the U. position in, his press c the focus of soi fi Robert. W. Dunn, director of the Labor Research Association, writes @ comprehensive account of the “Re- organization o Soviet Unions,” and trasts the wor unionization and viet steel workers in the United Stat States, in 1932, only 62.8 per cent Since then, two fi have occurred; still another one due for:the coming month, ac- ty g conditions, ge rates of So- ith steel workers . “In the United steel wi for steel roximately CCOMPANYING a full page photo-montage by John Gilmore on the subject: of national minori- ties in the Soviet Union, is a beau- tiful piece by the woman president of the’ village Soviet “Stalin” in Da- ghestan, entitled “We Did Not De= pend on Alla Myra Page con- tributes her regular feature page on questions to some the prevalent questions asked b‘ ders of the magazine about the So Union, and Corliss Lamont reviews the Second American Congress of the League Against War a with special reference of the Friends of Liston M. “Soviet New is & by a full page of latest pictures from the U.S. 8. R. rom the unusually attractive cover to the last page, the Novem- ber issue of “Sovie: Russia Today” tionary publications. No one will want to miss seeing a co; and reading it from cover to cove: Contributio: credit of Da ms received to the y in his Socialist competition with Jacob Burck, Mike Gold, Harry Gan- del and the nes, Ann Barton, Daily Worker: Quota—S250. Gro. of Detroit Chemists Bio-Chemists & Students $ 5.00 Previously received 4 Total to date nd Answers whereas the one neurosis carries with it no handicap in the execu- tion of one’s Communist duty, the other (and it merely so happens) implies a grave political faux pas, their lungs turned into stones. She if the stoneshed they were speed- | knew he worried about it too, for a |4 ing up all the time. Men were man who is very strong doesn’t like | pushed until they could go no to go fast. | faster, and then they were fired. If There were so many widows. And they found new jobs, they went | the widows were young, not 50 faster and faster. Dust clouds rose young as she, but not old women. |about them densely as they worked. Sometimes she would sit close to| And they breathed in the dust, him, and run her hand into his) open shirt front, just to féel how | strong he was. And then he would | turn about and put his own big, calloused hand on hers. But to- night she felt unusually sad. The | old man was in a bad way. She got to her feet and went inside to light the lamp and see how he was. He sat there motionless and piti- fully childlike. But he had been a big man. é ; \ ee she came out atter light- ing the lamp, the couple were coming across the dirt yard. The | young man was smiling, and so was the girl. “Would you sign our petition list to put us on the ballot?” the man asked her husband. He was smok- | ing and all he asked after the man had said a few words was: “What party are you collecting signatures for?” “The Communst Party,” the girl said brightly, smiling. Their faces were barely discernible in the dusk. while all about were the cool, green smelling hills, and heady Vermont air. Ten years, it was said, and a stonecutter would die. Modern ma- chinery without safeguards claimed such sacrifice to greed. She edged closer to him, and put her arm about his shoulders. They were broad shoulders attached to arms. as big as her thighs, and he sat very straight, and his face was clear-cut. How could such a man get to be like the one inside? He could. There were widows all up and down the street whose men had been cut as great as hers. Pretty soon the couple who were collecting signatures for théir can- didate came back down the street, and they were laughing. It seemed odd at first that they should be so jolly, if he cut stone and his wife | knew what it meant. Suddenly, she | could not say why, she called after them and they stopped. “Did you get many names?” “Oh yes, neatly everyone on this magazine to solve the vital prob-/ lem of what she should do in order to attend working-class meetings, and become active in the worxing- class movement. | The letter, which has been repro- duced in the current issue of the magazine, says she has worked “ten years in the two mills of our town.” She would like to join a working- class organization, but, she says, “my husband won't let me.” She says her husband has many inter- ests outside his job. “But when it comes to me, that‘s different.” Realizing that this question is deeply involved in the basic problem of drawing more working-class women into activity, the Working Woman throws the pages of its magazine open to letters from all over the country, answering this question preferably on the basis of personal experience. The sixteen | best letters received will be awarded handsome prizes. All replies must be addressed to the Working Woman, 50 East 13th) Stzeet, New York City, and must be | at the office of the Working Woman before midnight, January 25, 1935. “Mother” Bloor, Clarence Hathaway, Margaret Cowl, Williana Burroughs and Rose Wortis will judge the street,” the girl said. AGGRAVATIN’ PAPA! letters, ing class on intermarriage be- tween Negroes and whites. We are printing only . those letters taking exception to the position of the revolutionary’ vanguard on this fundamental question. Dear Comrades: | According to the. laws of logic | your official answerer lost an argu- ment today. The asker put a} Proposition before you as follows: | I draw the line against marrying | red-headed people, or people over | six feet-two in height. Why does | not the party permit me to draw| the line against marrying Negroes? | You practically evaded the question as put and proceeded to bitterly at- | tack the evil of chauvinism. | The Negro Race (not nationality) | possesses marked distinguishing | physical charaeteristics, ¢. g., black, | extremely curly hair. Let-us not argue the question of whether these | characteristics are intrinsically | beautiful or ugly; the matter is| purely one of individual, subjective | judgment; it ‘finds its origin in the | same formative period as gave birth | to an aversion toward red-headed | people; if you will admit the justi- | fiability. of the one, you must, ipso | facto, admit the other. What the) Daily Worker really means is that, | by del |and puts the Party, so to speak, in an embarrassing position. You have | @ dislike for red heads? What does |it.matter! There are legions who like such very people. The only honest answer to the comrade who asked the ticklish {question is to keep his opinion— and his mouth—shut. BENJAMIN MILLER, ao Pa ie Answer: Serious people are not interested in one’s personal dislikes for “red heads” or “black heads.” This is not a political question. Op- position, however, to intermarriage between Negro and white persons |or between Jews and “Aryans” (as in Hitler Germany) is a political question, because it denies the in- dividual’s freedom of action in the matter and gives expression to the false race theories of the ruling class: “Nordic” superiority, and ine feriority of Negroes, Jews, etc. I€ is no accident that this poisonous ideology finds its sharpest expres- sion in Fascist Germany, or that precisely in the South where white chauvinism is strongest the condis tions of both the white and Negro toilers are far worse than even in_ other parts of this country. ‘This ideology is the typical degrading ex< pression of a tottering system, de« veloped by capitalism in its decays jing stage in proportion as the class and national struggles grow acute, The raising of the question of in= |termarriage by readers of the Daily “ANOTHER DELEGATION MO SeE You, MA. POUGUBAGS, I'M GOING OUT “TE BACK WAY: I'M REO OF ALLTHIS” HULLABALOO/ : ANO DELEGATIONS |! “HANK HEAVEN, & MAN'S HOME IS aT LEASY- A HAVEN FROM THESE. J INFERNAL PHONE CALLS” J | AND WIRES, DEMONSTRATIONS : J | = Sav ono! wHar's | “We DER OF TRYING F at TO EVICY HOSE POOR NEGROES | Worker certsinly has not “embar- rassed” the Party, which has time and again boldly declared its posi- tion on this question. Only a white | chauvinist could define the ques- tion as a “ticklish” one. Contributions received to the credit of Del in his Socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, the Medical Advisory Board, Ann Barton, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—$500. Members of former Pro- B. Johnson . John Reed Club Student. Richard Warren Previously received Total to date .....