The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1934, Page 5

CHANGE | ——THE— | WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD Roe the war, a favorite argument against Socialism yas that it was a German invention, and not adapted to other lands. The liberal intellectuals of Russia used this argument against Lenin, for example; in their view- point the Czardom was truly national, but socialism was foreign. We are hearing the same stale rubbish repeated today. Now the words are the same, though the tune is different. The capitalist liberals who hate the working class say over and over again in France, in Germany, in Japan and China; Communism is not for us, it is a purely Russian thing (yes, now they say it is Russian), It cannot and should not be allowed to enter our beautiful and peaceful lands; it is foreign to the soul of our people. In one form or another, this false cry is heard in America. It may take the form of poetry like that of Archibald MacLeish or Paul Engle, or incarnate itself in a political group like the American Work- ers’ Party. It is often heard in the addresses of Herbert Hoover and Ralph Easley.and Matthew Woll and John Dewey. However this argument is embellished with “spiritual” rhetoric, the limburger smell of decaying capitalism reeks through all the wrappings. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, said Sam Johnson; and this kind of talk is the last refuge of those’ who will ultimately fight in the White Guard regiments against the Red armies of the desperate American workers, J. P. Morgan is a true American, according to these people; but Earl Browder and Bill Foster are not. Starvation is a good American tradition they can accept; but Soviet plenty and mass-lugury would be against the American tradition. They do not argue in such simple terms as those I have used, but their anti-Communist fight is really as simple as all that. Objec- tively, anybody who says Communism is un-American has already en- listed under the banners of an embattled Wall Street. Pai * * Dollar Patriots = of the many answers to these patriots who are more loyal to the American dollar than to the American people may be found in the new revolutionary songs that are being written in America. A new balladry is being created under our noses, actually the only authentic folk music of this period. Joe Hill was a pioneer of this balladry. So real was the work of this folk singer of the working class that some of his songs, like “Hallelujah, I'm a Bum,” have been stolen and vulgarized by the bour- geoisie, robbed of their militant I. W. W. content. Anyone who ever heard Aunt Molley Jackson of the Kentucky min- ers, sing her Hungry Miners’ Blues, would never doubt she was Amer- ican, This fine, militant mountain woman, with her courageous laughter and the deep proletarian love that shines in her black Indian eyes, ought to be sent around the country to sing her Ballads, as a living demonstration to the dollar-patriots of how truly American this Communism can be; in fact, how any other Americanism is only a fascist lie of the upper-class, with no real roots in the American folk. The Real America I AM grateful to the John Reed Club of Cleveland for the great news they have just sent about the advent of two more such native singers. They are Ray and Lida Auville. The Club has published a little pamphlet of their ballads, with words and music. They are about the best things I haye seen in the way of workers’ songs, and should be immediately taken to the heart of the movement, and sung from coast to coast. Ray and Lida Auville are descendants of the American pioneers who broke the mountain ‘trails'across the Alleghanies and laid the base for the westward migration. Ray was born in the hills of West Virginia, and Lida is the daughter of Kentucky mountaineers. Ray further boasts of a strain of Cherokee Indian, which all the more strengthens his claims to being a better American than Hamilton Fish. Both were born musicians, and toured the country singing their own songs. And both loved their own people, the pioneers who have fallen into the hands of the Wall Street thieves. They joined the Socialist Party in the belief that this party really meant what it said, and would lead the workers to socialism. But in the course of active participation in the Socialist ranks the Auvilles discovered the conservatism of the Socialist leaders, and joined the Communist Party. They have not regretted their decision; indeed, it is Communism that has inspired them to their new lyricism, the revolutionary courage and hope in their ballads. Only eight songs are published in their little pamphlet, and it 4s a small edition. If our movement learns about this, and buys up all the copies, a larger edition of all the songs will be made. Certainly this must be done. Here is the real proletarian art, here is the real America, And Comrades Ray and Lida should be toured around the country by the workers’ clubs and unions. Arrange- ments can be made with the John Reed Club, 1524 Prospett Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, who are planning such a tour. And now here are some of the songs: If they aren’t the best we've had since Joe Hill, then I’m the Grand Duchess Marie. The Miner’s Son Just a boy without work, I decided Along with some pals of mine, To answer the call of our country And with the home guards to sign We thrilled to the to’t of a uniform And the “army makes men” we were told So I went to my father to tell him Before I made ready to go. He stood with his face to the window And listened to every word ‘Then after a moment of silence These were the words that I heard: “T have worked all my life as a miner My hands are all gnarled and worn; If you give your young strength to the bosses I'd rather you’d never been born. The miners must strike from starvation, I'll be on the old picket line; The Home Guards will be called to break us, If you're with them you're no son of mine. I returned to my buddies and told them What father had told to me; , We went straight to him with our promise | That strike breakers we'd never be; How grateful were we that we first found out Before our names we had signed; The meaning of true patriotism, “The cause of the Workers is mine.” How many young men in the Home Guard Would never the boss defend If only their fathers had spoken And given this message to them: “TI have worked all my life as a miner My hands are all gnarled and worn If you give your young strength to the bosses Ud rather you’d never been born—“etc, (To be continued tomorrow) DETROIT COMRADE’S DEATH COMMEMORATED IN DRIVE When a $9 contribution from Ben Kapeton of Detroit was recently sent through this column, {t was to commemorate the death of a sincere comrade, Joe Faumlaro, who died a year ago, A staunch Democrat, his contact with a Marxist study circle impelled h’m to come to the side of the workers. Soon thereafter, he contributed con- siderable clothes to the unemployed councils, and funds to the Daily Worker, The $9 was a tribute from comrades, one of whom is on wel- fare relief himself. J. Logano .. . $1.00 N.L. . 1.00 Vv. S. Ware . M.D. . 10 Vance M. Ardeune. Smax 1.00 Louis Eugenides ... Eugene Mann . 1.50 Richard Mikkola Previously receive: 552.39 BB. ss Weeeeee nes OOO RIBS Ss OPER pik: ve B56R24 To the highest contributor each day, Mike Gold will present an autographe copy of his novel, “Jews Without Money,” or an original autographed manuscript c his “Change the World” column DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THU! Scottsboro Boys’ Freedom By HARRIET SILVERMAN 'O years have passed since the Communist Party of the U. 8. A. and the Communist International lost a splendid fighter and leader in the class struggle, J. Louis Eng- dahl. His loyalty withstood the test of all situations, In the face of the enemy he was fearless. November 2ist marks the day Engdahi the Bolshevik died in the shadow of the Kremlin Wall in Mos- cow, the heart of World Revolution. If there had been any choice as to time and place, Engdahl would have chosen to spend his last hours in the Workers’ Fatherland where all that the enslaved workers of the world are struggling for, has already been achieved, where there | is no hunger, no idle millions starv- ing in the midst of plenty, no cap- italist misery and oppression and above all no brutal exploitation and | torture of workers whose skin is j black. | Engdahl’s death in the prime of life tore a deep wound in the rev- olutionary ranks. His devotion to the historic struggle of the working class for the overthrow of capitalism came from his revolutionary hatred of capitalism and all its institutions. ‘Thirty years of such intense devo- tion to the struggle on all fronts, can hardly be called common even | in the revolutionary movement. Of Engdahl, his comrades have written: “He kept the longest hours. He was almost never late. On the] Daily Worker of which he was the first editor, we know of weeks at a! stretch when because of the small and inadequate staff, he worked fully 18 to 20 hours a day. Comrades fifteen years younger than he wailed at the pace and relaxed, but Eng- dahl would be in at nine in the }morning and at two the next morn- ing he would be reading the news to prepare his editorials.” Unceasing Work for Scottsboro Boys Engdahl died exhausted by his unceasing labors in the momentous class battle of Scottsboro, As the national secretary of the Interna-! tional Labor Defense he proved him- elf a magnificent fighter in the defense of all class war prisoners. In the Scottsboro case he was the Communist fighter, applying the Communist Party line in the great ‘struggle for Negro liberation, for ‘complete social and political equal-! tfon in the black belt. The nine innocent Negro working- class youth, caught in the most monstrous frame-up in history, be- came the international symbol of the Communist Party's program, uniting Negro and white workers for com- mon revolutionary struggle against’ jthe capitalist class. Every step in the case became the means of mak- ing the Negro masses conscious of their tasks, conscious of their role as the allies and_ revolutionary brothers of the white workers, who ean only win lasting freedom! together through revolutionary! struggle and under a proletarian) ;embassies and a granted for the Scottsboro boys, ie Louis Engdahl saw the pitfalls ity, for the right to self-determina- | DAY, NOVEMBER 22, have established in the U. S. S. R. Engdahl sought and found ese jmeans to drive home these ideas in the day to day practical tasks in-' PECT NOTHING FROM THE CAP- volved in the case, Engdahl had no|ITALIST COURTS. illusions about capitalist courts, or|WITH THE STRUGGLE ON NEW capitalist justice. While organizing, FRONTS, UNTIL THE SCOTTS- in the early stages of the Scotts-| BORO NINE ARE FREE.” boro struggles, the force: liant legal defense he, at the same boro case was perhaps best illus- for a bril-| time involved tre- mendous masses of workers with- out whose pres- sure and splendid fighting power, the Scottsboro boys would long ago have been lynched. He died on the field of battle while on tour with the Scotsboro mother, Mrs. Ada Wright with whom he covered 16 European coun- tries and more than 200 meetings in the fight to snatch the boys from the hands of judicial lynchers. Of the world ap- peal of Scottsboro for the workers,: Engdahl wrote: “The raising of the name of | ‘Scottsboro’ from the isolation of the name of an unknown Ala- bama hamlet to an international by-word of infamy, but at the same time a militant cali of work- ing-class struggle, is anothe: chap- ter in the world-wide defense struggles of the International Red Aid (LL.D.) ... When the judicial lynching of the Scottsboro boys was being carried through in Alabama, the Third Plenum of the International Executive Com- mittee of the International Red Aid was in session in Moscow. Immediately after the world pro- test was launched, and in many countries and consulates, the | American dollar magnates began at once hearing the protests of aroused working-class masses.” | When the tremendous roar of mass protest began to crash against the walls and ears of the European new trial was J. LOUIS ENGDAHL Died in Battle for dictatorship such as the workers:ahead despite the victory won. His |warning to all of us was “DON'T RELAX FOR AN INSTANT IN THE STRUGGLE. NO ILLUSIONS. EX- FORWARD The class character of the Scotts- trated in Bulgaria : and of Fascist brutality, and where our heroic comrade Dimitroft was born, Engdahl wrote of this Bul- garian hell hole as follows: “But it was in this land where the Scottsboro Negro mother found one of the Scottsboro Com- mittees, ready and eager to give her every possible assistance. They came—men, wo- men and children —to the railroad station upon her arrival and show- ered her with red flowers and the greetings of the workers and peasants, On the reception com- mittee one would show the hor- rible sears of red .hot needles driven through the fingers under the nails, the Bulgarian third de- gree method of forcing the con- fession the Bulgarian fascist state desired. _ Unsuccessful, it had hurled this victim into prison for three yeats; not a worker or pea- sant—but a writer. Another could show the wound of the gendarme’s bullet that had pierced his shoul- der. Hatred for the Bulgarian murder regime! Burning hatred for the judicial lynch murder sys- tem that seeks to burn alive in the electric chair the Scottsboro Negro children in Alabama, almost on the other side of the world.” Thrown into Prison Into the teeth of the fascist mur- derers of other countries, and fearless, Engdahl organized the mighty invincible bonds of inter- national working-class solidarity. For this he was thrown into urison repeatedly during the European tour. Scene in Morgan County court! ‘house in Decatur, Ala., just before opening of Scottsboro trial, showing National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets, JRC Bi-Monthly Organ, Partisan Review, for Sale on News Stands, | The November-December issue of Partisan Review, a bi-monthly of revolutionary literature published by the John Reed Club of New York, is now on sale at newsstands and bookshops. The current issue contains a leading article by N. Bukharin on socialist realism in literature and one by Johannes Becher, foremost German proletarian writer, on the fight of literature against fascism; stories by Meridel Le Sueur and Peter Quince and poems by Edwin Rolfe, C. Day Lewis, Philip Corn- wall and Robert Halpern. Two Other interesting features are Samuel Putnam's article on “Andre Gide and Communism” and Edwin Berry Burgum’s survey of recent fiction under the title, “Six Authors in Search of Their Future,” dis- cussing such writers as Edward Dahlberg, Waldo Frank, Maxwell Bodenheim, Albert Hoper and James T. Farrell, Partisan Review sells for 20 cents a single copy, a dollar a year’s subscription. Address commmunica- tions to Partisan Review, 430 Sixth Ave., New York City. The Young De“enders of the Hay- wood Patterson Branch cf the I. L. D. in Corona, L. 1, held a party recently and contributed $1 to the $60,000 “und (as well as $1 to the Scottsboro defense), By charging a low <idmission for children and a high-> price for adults, every Young Defender group could arrange an affai: and help the Daily Worker. Little Lefty best functioning | defiant | 1934 J. Louis Engdahl: A Bolshevik Leader, Feariess Fighter for Negro Liberation Warned Against Any Relaxing of the Struggle For this, the lynchers henchmen, the National for the Advancement of Colored People, have today once more turned their energy, not into the life and death struggle to free the Scottsboro boys but into a new at- tack against the International La- bor Defense and the Communist Party. These misleaders of the Negro people, and their allies, know full well that the Communist Party will never relax in its drive to wrest | unconditional freedom for the Scottsboro boys, and, on the basis of the class issues of this crucial battle to win over the toiling masses for | the revolutionary mavement. Scottsboro is the turning point and rallying call to action in the , Struggle for Negro liberation. The lynehers and their lickspittles see |the handwriting on the wall. The jlynchers cannot be fought without \fighting the very roots of the economic and social system-capital- ism out of which lynching springs— out of which spring the misery and |degradation of the masses, Fascism looms ahead, The working-class |Sirds itself for new and tremendous j¢class battles. Through and in the | Scottsboro case, we can and must |forge the united front of all toilers, }who must be made to see that only through united struggle can their class interests be defended. Scotts- boro is one link in the defensive struggle against Fascist terror. Reservoir of Strength Engdahl, during the two years which began the momentous struggle for the lives of nine unknown Negro boys demonstrated what a tremendous reservoir of strength lies hidden in the ranks of the toiling masses, waiting to be or- ganized, Among the last letters he wrote one finds the sharp warning to meet the challenge of Scottsboro with relentless struggle. “Today, whatever the decision, starts new battles for us in the Scottsboro campaign. The Inter- national Red Aid supported by the many tens of millions in all coun- tries, demands the overturn of the electric chair verdicts of the Scottsboro and the lynch courts.” We have lost a resourceful and valiant Communist fighter who combined to an inspiring degree the characteristics of the revolutionary vanguard of the infernational working class.” He died fighting in a campaign which has convinced great masses of workers of the sincerity of the Communist Party ‘and its program as the only real 'champion of Negro liberation. Eng- dahl gave his life to mobilize, to train, to lead the workers towards | the final conflict that will sweep capitalism and its fascist tools off the face of the earth. The greatest \tribute we can pay to Engdahl, the beloved revolutionary leader, is to win over fresh forces of Negro and white workers, young workers, men and women, out of which to cement the Red Battalions that will one day establish a Soviet America! and their Association TUNING IN 7:00 P.M.-WEAF—Himber Orch WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Prick WZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 7:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy Music ‘WJZ—Concert Orch. WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketeh 7:30-WEAF—Minstrel Show WOR—Larry Taylor, Tenor WABC—Jack Smith, Songs 7:45-WEAF—Russian Symphonic Choir ‘WOR—Dance Music , WJZ—Shirley Howard, Songs WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Vallee's Varieties WOR—Little Symphony Orch., Philip James, Conductor; Israel Senitzk: Violin WJZ—Dramatic Sketch WABC—Easy Aces—Sketch 8:15-WABC—Fats Waller, Songs 8:30-WJZ—Charles Sears, Tenor; Ruth Lyons, Soprano WABO—Johnson Orch.; Edward Nell, Baritone; Edwin C, Hill, Narrator: Speaker, H. W. 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WABC-—Family Welfare Speaker ® 11:15-WEAF—Jesse Crawford, Organ ‘WOR—Moonbeams Trio 11:30-WEAF—Dance Music (Also on WABC, WJZ, WMCA, WOR, WEVD) Aitention Radio Hams and Commercials Beginning on Friday a regular feature on short wave radio will appear on this page. C@ CQ CQ WRKRS-HAMS. QRA? QRU? QSO ANBDY? QSW? QTU? QUA ANY WRKR HAM? HVE U QSL DE USSR? WHAT SAY YE HAMS ET CMMRCLS RE WRKRS BPL? PSE QSL, °OM. 73. Dah dit dah. -THE NEXT SPEAKER IS & FELLOW-WORKER The Nort-Aryan! SOME GooF HECKLING ME INA FOREIGN LANGUAGE, | Mid-West Conference of Workers’ Theatres Will Open in Chicago CHICAGO. — More than forty workers’ theatres of the Midwest will send delegates to this city for the {second midwest conference of the League of Workers’ Theatres, which will open at People’s Auditorium November 23rd. The conference will take up the vital problems that confront work- ers in building a new type of theatre in America. Both English- speaking and foreign groups will be represented by dele- gates. Included in the delegation from out of town will be workers from Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Tri- Cities and Gary, The latter group is coming to present its “Scottsboro Radio Broadcast” at the Theatre Festival that will open the con- ference. The festival will serve as one of the bases of discussion at the con- ference, which will hold its sessions at the new John Reed Club head- quarters at 505 S. State St. Ten groups will present revolutionary Plays at the festival, which will give Workers’ Theatres is doing. The N. Y. Film and Photo League is arranging a _ large housewarming party at its new headquarters, 31 E. 21 St. Thanks- giving Eve for the benefit of the Daily Worker and will do their utmost to raise their $200 quota, What are the other Film and Photo Leagues of other cities doing? SURE / HE'S “TRLKIN' MY MOTHER Is 00 Nou KNow WHAT HE'S SAVING? Alabama | [Frisco Gen The Great San Francsico General Strike, by William F. Dunne, 38 | pages. Workers Library Pub ers. Ten cents. Reviewed by HARRY RAYMOND E great San Fran strike was unquestionably nost outstanding episode in rec bor history in the United St Events of this tremendous which involved 125,000 workers a: brought industry in San Franci and the Bay Counties tstill for four days, cont jout like powerful bea Piercing the N.R.A. fog and showing Amer- ylcan working men and women the way to fight against the New Deal Capitalist offensive on working con- | ditions. | Day-to-day accounts of the strike in the press were innumerable, ‘Hundreds of thousands of words were writteen at the scene of the jaction and telegraphed to every city lin America and to every country in the world. All of these accounts yhowever, except a few, had one Purpose in view—to defeat the strike. The capitalists were in a |frenzy. Workers had halted in- dustry and commerce in a principal Seaport. So the poison pen artists of the capitalist press were put to jwork painting distorted word pic- tures of the big event. | But just as the rank and file of the San Francisco unions smashed down the barriers set up by the New Dealers and the top official family of the A. F, of L. and brought about the strike so the ;workers’ press hurdled the smoke ‘screen of capitalist journalism and brought the truth of the strike to the workers. FHE best accounts of the San Francisco general strike which {appeared in the workers’ press were | written by William F, Dunne, vet- eran labor leader who worked on the West Coast throughout the period of the strike as a special correspondent for the Daily Worker. Dunne’s reports on the strike giv- ing a day-to-day analysis of events have now been published by the | Workers Library Publishers in an jeighty-page pamphlet entitled, “The Great San Francisco General Strike.” Included in the pamphlet jis the resolution of the Central |Committee of the Communist Party on “Lessons of Recent Strike |Struggles” which gives a thorough analysis of events on the West Coast, mistakes made in the strike and (Presents concrete directives to the | working class for present and future struggles, } This little pamphlet, well-printed and carefully edited, can be read |during one sitting and is extremely | Page 5 eral Strike : Brilliantly Analyzed | in Pamphlet by Dunne nt because it not only de- he highlights of the daily treackerous r ichael head of the incisco ers’ Union, Vandeleur, Joseph dwell and oth ¢ A. F. of L, y Dunne in such a manner as tc leave no doubt in the mind of is re rank and file of the situation in ace of the greatest odds and how the reactionary leaders, who were later defeated by the rank and file i e Frisco longshoremen’s Local, ned the upper hand long ad the movement and f the dangerous N.R:A, channel—all this told in an-ine active and interesting manner. The San Francisco strike bears out the Communist thesis that “in the p: it period of capitalist de- cline, a stubborn struggle for even the smallest immediate demands for the workers develops into general cla. UNNE'S shows the Communists in action in the ke. At no time, even, during the lod of the utmost terror against Party and militant unionists, pamphlet the was the Communist Party absent from the strike front. It was the ;Communists who lead the work of building that militant opposition in the San Francisco longshoremen’s local, which was the leading force in the struggle and which now leads jthe union. ! Bolshevik work, work like that jdone by the California Communists |before, during and after the great general strike—such work developed even to a higher level is urgently {needed in every industrial section’of jthe United States today as the whip ;of the New Deal falls heavier on jthe backs of the toiling masses, | There will be more San Fran+ ciscos. We are advancing into a period of greater class battles. But as we move forward we must learn the lessons that the battles of the past have to offer us. Dunne’s pamphlet brings these lessons out sharply and clearly, Every worker should read it. | IT’S GOOD TO LIVE | Lab and Shop moves up today to 34.5 per cent of its $250 quota, _ |] That's why Ramsey is wearing a butionniere today! Class conscious workers..$ 1.00 || Lab & Shop 1.00 {| Previously received uu... 84.23_ | TORY ssssssenseiseesonsoseeyessecl GOB T EVOLUTIONARY class struggle is the only way to smash im- perialist war, Lenin declares in “The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky,” a work which has just been brought out in an authentic translation by Interna- tional Publishers. The pamphlet, the classic Marxist examination of bourgeois and proletarian democ- racy, is a polemic against Kautsky’s book, “The Proletarian Revolution.” j. Lenin gives the fundamental Marxist approach to imperialist war in his chapter, “What Is Interna- tionalism?” “An imperialist war,” he says, “does not cease to be an with a gala festival Friday evening, |imperialist war when charlatans or phrasemongers or petty-bourgeois philistines put forward sentimental ‘slogans’; it ceases to be such only when the class which is conducting threads (and sometimes ropes), is language |the imperialist war, and which is MUSIC Efrem Zimbalist gave his first recital of the season at Carnegie Hall last Sunday evening for the benefit of the Anti-Nazi fighting fund. The program, though popular, was made interesting by Zimbalist’s presentations, which were musicianly jin the highest degree, The difficult Scotch Fantasy by Bruch, Kreisler’s Chicago workers an opportunity to|pootativo-s # for vio- see the work that the League of | Recitativo Scherzo-Caprice for vio: lin alone and the Poeme of Chaus- son revealed the virtuosity and dignity of conception which is Zim- balist’s, Theodore Saidenburg is an accomplished and sensitive accom- panist. The audience responded warmly to the music and Mr. Zim- balist played a number of encores. An appeal for funds was made ne- fore the recital opened, to carry on the work of Anti-Nazi propaganda and relief among victims of German fascism—S. F, by del —\F You REDS DONT LIKE “THiS COUNTRY WHY DONTCHR GO BACK WHERE You Only Revolutionary Struggle Can Smash Imperialist War, Says Lenin bound to it by millions of economic overthrown and is replaced at the helm of state by the really revolu- tionary class, the proletariat. There lis no other way of getting out of |an imperialist war, and out of.an imperialist and predatory peace, \ “Every war is the exercise of vio- lence against nations, but that does not prevent socialists from being’ in favor of a revolutionary war. The class character of the war—that is the fundamental question which confronts a socialist (who is not-a renegade), ... ~ | “The character of the war (whether reactionary or revolution- ary) is not determined by who the aggressor was, or whose territory. the ‘enemy’ has occupied; it is deter- mined by the class that is waging the war, and the politics of which ; this war is a continuation. | “If the war is a reactionary, im- perialist war, that is, if it is being waged by two world coalitions of the imperialist, violent, predatory reactionary bourgeoisie, then every bourgeoisie (even of the smallest country) becomes a participant in the plunder, and my duty as a rep- resentative of the revolutionary pro— letariat is to prepare for the world proletarian revolution as the ofily escape from the horrors of a world war.” PERIODICALS LEFTWARD, John Reed Club, Bos- ton, November, 10 cents. Rebecca Farnham fires the. big guns in this issue, which is twice as large and at least twice as good as ‘the former ones. She exposes the Patriotic Page of the Boston Trans- script, which has no further’ use jfor her. Alongside is an article by Merle Colby on the textile strike and the bosses’ tactics in it, and an editorial which opens hys- terically, but matures into a report of the jailing of seven demonstta- tors against the presence of Hanf- staengel at Harvard. The poems and stories and an article on. the Sharecroppers Union lift the level of the magazine, which has made rapid improvements, and with this issue reaches at once good standards of format, material, and reporting. —M. R. LITTLE LEFTY’S ON GOLD'S HEELS oe Today, Little Lefty almost. equals Mike Gold in popularity, 7 and puts it all over such giants - as Burck, the Medical Board and: Gannes, who couldn't even mus- ter a copper penny to his cdl- umn! Hi S$ 1.00 + Warsham , Previously received Total ... . Del will present a beautiful colored ; portrait of his cartoon characters*| every day to the highest contributer. ~