The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 27, 1934, Page 5

| | | | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1934 |! & Page § || CHANGE —§THE—- || WORLD! By MICHAEL GOLD 42OSTON, MASS.—If any worker still thinks the N.R.A. was designed by philanthropists who love labor the way the stockbrokers of America love their Peggy Joyce, he ought to take a look in at Haverhill, Mass, some fifty miles from Boston. Massachusetts has been the home of the shoe industry. Now the industry is rapidly moving out of the state, and all the local Parasites are as alarmed as the workers. Haverhill is a big shoe town. During the past few months 28 Haverhill shoe factories have either failed, liquidated, or moved from the city, leaving, the press reports, at least ’,000 shoe workers without employment, Reason: the N.R.A. shoe code. It has what is called a differential that allows scab wages to be paid in small towns. So New England states, are making goo-goo eyes at the Massachusetts shoe factories. They are offering low tax rates, free land, and “cheap, contented” labor in the form of farmer’s boys and girls in the small towns. The South did the same thing a few years ago in textiles. Now it is fostered officially by the N.R.A. Well, it’s like the story of the man who killed his brother for fifty cents. The Judge asked him why, and the murderer shrugged his shoulders, and said confidentially, “Well, Judge, you know how hard these days it is to make a living—so every- thing helps—fifty cents here, fifty cents there—” * A Nazi Holiday Y has Boston officials invited a Nazi gunboat to visit their fair city a few months ago. It was the Karlsruhe, and the Hitlerites were given a royal welcome by their American brothers. Boston, you must know, is the cradle of the. American revolution, It has always had the most wonderful traditions of American free speech, free press, free assembly, abolition of slavery, etc., etc. This is the place where Emer- son and Thoreau and William Lloyd Garrison thrived. This is where the first guns were fired in the Revolutionary War. 3 So the Hitlerites, who spit on democracy, who hate and murder their opponents, Communists, Socialists and liberals, when Nordic, are considered to have a Jewish taint), these Hitlerites who have made a shambles of free speech and assembly for the masses, were invited and feted here by the guardians of the revolutionary Boston tradition. It would have been a swell piece of Nazi propaganda if all democracy had died in Boston. But it hasn't; it has merely changed its address. It has moved from Beacon Hill, the State House, the Mayor’s city hall, and the dwellings of the bourgeoisie, into the dingy meeting halls of the marine workers, the shoe workers, the John Reed Club, the student councils, and the Communisi Party. So, though it is true, there were squads of pot-bellied, whisky- flushed political racketeers in top-hats to greet the Nazi boat, there were also present 10,000 delegates of working-class democracy to boo and jeer and protest against these visiting assassins of liberty. And official Boston proudly vindicated the new tradition that has taken the place of its old one. The police made it a Nazi holiday, and slugged and clubbed like the hireling thugs they are everywhere. And 16 workers and students, who happen to believe sincerely in democracy for America, got in the way of those Nazi clubs and were arrested for it. Now they are on trial, and their accusers are these same Nazi cops. It is the usual farcical trial, a joke on justice. * * Politicians and Decadent Snobs ANOTHER group of students and workers are already serving a six- month sentence for the demonstration against Hanfstengel, when Hitler's dainty boy friend was corrupting Harvard. The Boston papers give such trials scarcely a line. They suppress all labor news. They are the most provincial and commercialized papers, I think, on the American continent. World events that spell a new war danger never are noticed, but every other day these stupidest of journals will print enormous headlines such as: “Mrs. John Quincy Adams Sprains Left Ankle.” It is a very backward and peculiar city, divided between sordid Irish politicians and decadent Yankee snobs. It is hard to figure out which group of the ruling class here is worse for the workers. They fight for power between themselves, and one could only wish a grand and mutual annihilation. . . . The Sky Pilot’s Bread and Butter b Bee Catholic Church is the biggest religious-political machine in the world, It is not satisfied with a “spiritual” domain over its millions; it goes after real, concrete power on this earth. Look at the reaction- ary Catholic party in Spain, which is trying to set up a fascist dicta- torship under Robles. Look at the Catholic fascism in Austria. Look at Boston. They want to burn every modern book, and destroy science. They preach race hatred in Austria, they shoot down workers and peasants in Spain, where they have executed thousands. Here, in Boston, they can’t quite work so openly, but they did unite with the Back Bay Yankees in the lynching of Sacco and Van- zetti. They have the most bigoted censorship in America on books and theatres, and you can’t hold a street meeting here, or picket in a strike, or walk with a placard of protest, without being clubbed and jailed by this Catholic machine. Organized religion is a branch of the capitalist state, and most priests, rabbis and clergymen are the spiritual police of this murdering profit system. When has the church ever led a fight against war, or poverty, or illiteracy. Here and there, a liberal may attempt it, but his bosses soon get rid of him. Most sky pilots soon’ learn on which side their bread is buttered. It is the capitalist side, of course. * * * The Laundry Is Short-Handed HEARD a little story from one of our comrades here. She has spent some time for picketing in one of the women’s jails. She says that the women’s jail here have steam laundries where the women must work hard. . These laundries do most of the work of ail the local politicians and their henchmen, she alleges. A little minor graft, probably, nothing much when measured up by the big graft that goes on. What is mean and horrible about this petty racket, however, is this: whenever these jails haven't enough inmates to slave in the laundries, are short-handed, the inmates say to each other: “Well, there'll be new raids now. And the girls will get stiff sentences this trip. The laundry is short-handed again.” . * WHERE IS HIS FORMER POWER? For days, now, Gold has not been able to gather his supporting fotces sufficiently to maintain his usual leading position. Today he steps aside to yield first place to Harry Gannes, who raised $6 more, Wm, J. Boda Previously received Mrs. A. P. To the highest contributor each day, Mike Gold will present an autographed copy of his novel, “Jews Without Money,” or an original autographed manuscrine of his “Change the World” column, por pie caf John Reed Club Will Open Writers School The John Reed Club Writers Group will conduct a Writers School, Phelps, Edwin Berry Burgum. The Poetry, Fiction and Report- WORLD of the THEATRE A Bitter Drama THE CHILDREN’S HOUR—A play in three acts by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin; staged by Mr. Shumlin at the Maxine Elliott Theatre, Reviewed by LEON ALEXANDER 'T is a good thing for a reviewer to come across a play like “The Children’s Hour” to counterbalance the puerilities of such concoctions as “The Farmer Takes a Wife” or “Ladies’ Money”—to mention only two of the current Broadway shows. It serves to remind him that playwriting may be a mature art, playgoing an adult entertain- ment, and reviewing an occupation of some meaning. The play is laid in a private school for girls, run by Martha Dobie and Karen Wright, who have spent eight years of struggle and self-denial building the school. The younger of them, Karen, is en- gaged to marry Doctor Cardin, the uncle of one of the pupils and the nephew of the rich Mrs. Tilford, who had been of considerable help to the two teachers in their early difficulties. The child, Mary Tilford, is neu- rotic, spiteful, unbalanced, domi- neering, selfwilled, scheming. Pam- pered at home by her grandmother she cannot fit into the discipline of @ school, and she imagines that she is the special object of the teach- ers’ persecution. Intent upon revenging herself for @ mild and well-deserved punish- ment, she runs away to her grand- mother. To avoid being sent back to school, she accuses the two teachers of having homosexual re- lations. Grandmother Tilford is horrified, and even before she has probed into the accusations of her grandchild, she telephones to all the mothers to get their children out of the school. The two teach- ers, faced with economic ruin, sue her for libel and lose. 'HE third act finds the two teach- ers alone in the now abandoned school, a week after the trial, help- less before the stigma of homo- Sexuality, persecuted by the towns- folk, their life’s work shattered, their future without hope. Doubts have crept even into the doctor's mind, and in a tacit understanding the marriage is broken off. And only now, face to face with the problem, Martha Dobie realizes that there is truth in the accusa- tion of homosexuality; that she has been in love with Karen since their college days. This realization drives Martha to suicide. There the final curtain might have fallen, but the author adds an- other drop of acid. to her brew of bitterness. She brings back Mrs. Tilford, contrite, heartbroken, who has learned that Mary had lied. While the dead woman is in the next room, there is a long, unnec- essary and painful scene between the two women; unnecessary be- cause the bitter, ironic point of the play had already been too com- pletely brought out. excellencies of this play do not lie in its situations. Not that they are theatre-worn and emotionally threadbare; but the play is mmnnecessarily overcompli- cated and sensational. The homo- sexual theme is almost dragged in by the ears; almost any other scandal would have served the same purposes of the play. There is also a lack of a clear dramatic line; the emotional tension veers from one theme to the other, and the point of view of the audience must be changed at least three times—the story being by turns that of the neurotic child Mary Tilford, of the conflict between the wrongly accused school teachers and the grandmother of Mary, and finally of the homosexual passion of one of the teachers for the other. As a result, though gripping in individual scenes, the play appears rather pointless in spite of its bit- terness. The virtues of the play are in the author’s uncompromising atti- tude toward her characiers. She has drawn them with unsparing keenness and savage honesty. There is some slight show of sympathy in the play, but rarely any tender- n ess. Miss Hellman has been impelled by no social motive; if she had been, she would have done a more significant job of Mary Tilford, the neurotic child. Nevertheless, be- cause of the author’s honesty of observation, certain social facts, certain class characteristics become clearly evident in the play. In the scene between the two teachers and Mrs. Tilford there is a world of class implications. The two teach- ers are fighting desperately for their very existence; the rich Mrs. Til- ford remains unmoved in her self- righteousness, her upper-class sense of justice, her lack of sympathy for those she considers her menials, coldly condemning them without THE § MOSCOW NEWS, November ‘th, Anniversary Issue, 24 pages, with | retogravure supplement, Five cents, | Reviewed by I, CASEY | HE November 7th Anniversary issue of the Moscow News marks 17 years of Socialist construction and the entrance of the Soviet Union into Socialist manhood. The 24 well illustrated pages, and the special four-page rotogravure sup- | plement on contemporary art, is the most outstanding achievement thus far of the Moscow News. It is the largest, best written, and most care- fully edited edition that Borodin and his associates have yet put out and sells at the regular price of five cents. Every article is written by an authority on that phase of Socialist construction, Arctic exploration is described by Rusov, chief of the Chelyuskin Cape Polar Station; education by Pinkevich, head of the American Russian Institute; and Socialist construction in the Uk- raine by Khramov, Assistant Rep- resentaive of the Ukrainian Repub- lic in Moscow. No less an authority on Socialism than the others, is V. A. Kazakov, a turner, who in a simple eloquent way describes what Socialism has meant to him. He describes his existence both before and after the creation of the Soviet Union and finds that the Soviet Union has meant not only greater security for him, but also security and new ben- | efits for his children. His children are receiving an education which | he and his wife were denied. His oldest son is a Red Commander, | his second a foundry engineer, his third a student in mechanics. His oldest daughter is a physical train- ing instructor, his second an en- gineering student, and his youngest a draftsmen. Those who are stu- dents and those who are working are all earning their living. And rightly the turner sees in the prog- 7:00-WEAF—Kings Guard Quartet WOR—Sports Resume—Ford Frick WJZ—Amos 'n’ Andy—Sketch WABC—Myrt and Marge—Sketch 1:15-WEAF—Gene and Glenn—Sketch WOR—Comedy; Music WJZ—Tintype Tenor WABC—Just Plain Bill—Sketch recourse, acting both as judge and beginning January first, at the headquarters of the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave. Four courses will be given: Poetry, Fiction, Re- portage and Criticism. Each course will be led by three instructors and several guest lecturers will address each class from time to time. Each course will last three months, from January first to April first, and will include twelve lectures. The instructors and guest lecturers will be: Granville Hicks, Joseph North, Michael Gold, Mary Heaton Vorse, John Spivak, Isadore Schneider, Alfred Hayes, Edwin Rolfe, Sender Garlin, Leon Dennen, Orrick Johns, Edward Newhouse, Kenneth Fearing, ‘Myra Page, Gertrude Diamant, John Mitchell, Stanley Burnshaw, Jerre Mangione, Philip Rahv, Wallace age courses will be workshop classes, emphasizing writing by the students, The wide demand for this type of instruction indicates the interest of many workers and intellectuals in Problems of craft. The classes will be given at the following times: Poetry, Saturday afternoon, 2:30 to 4; Repo , Monday evening, 7:30 to 9; Fiction, Wednesday evening, 7:30 to 9; Crit- icism, Wednesday evening, 9 to 10:30. The fee will be $4 a term for each course. Reductions and scholarships will be offered to quali- fied members of trade unions who find this fee too large. Registration for the school is now going on from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at the John Reed Club, 430 Sixth Ave. Registration with the accompany- ing fee may also be mailed in. executioner. Then there is the child Mary Tilford. In the very intensity of her protrayal, and because the author has given us no other explanation for her neurosis, she becomes a symbol of evil, of the meanness, the hysteria, the sadism of a dying Little Lefty LOOK WHRT t Gor FoR va / f Gosu! \musra ¥ BEEN DRERMIN'- WHERE “He HECK 7:30-WEAF—Forty Years of Progress— Murray Seasongood, President Na- tional Municipal League, Speaking at League's Fortieth Annual Mcet- ing, Pittsburgh WOR—Harry Stockwell, Baritone; Basil Ruysdael, Narrator WsZ—Edgar Guest, Poet; Charles Sears, Tenor; Concert Orchestra WABC—Jack Smith, Songs | entering TUNING HOCK WORKER - HERO OF SOCIALIST LABOR Periodicals P]_ OTTING the and Bulletins | |THE NEW ORDER—International | | Workers Order—November, 1934— | ee This is the final instalment MURIEL RUKEYSER 'HE New Order has become one of the most ambitious of magazines, attempting to touch on the fields of a number of others, tying them up through the International Work- ers Order. It proves, with this | latest number, what it can do com- | pletely on its own. Last month it | relied on cuts from the New Masses, this time it illustrates its own art cles and stories. Turning the pages the reader will recognize what this | sort of ambition has done for a publication which might easily have | remained confined to organizational | news and still would have been strong. The New Order ranges now from jan effective piece of reportage by @ | Grace Lumpkin, through poems and Izotov, champion miner, famed for his ability to teach his skill to others. (Drawing by N. Avvakumov for cover of anniversary issue of Moscow News.) ress of his children, the meaning of Socialism to the masses. oF ign e W Nag this is the most striking fact brought out in the pages of the Moscow News—the Soviet Union is into Socialism. Every phase of life illustrates this. The achievements of industry and of peace with the entrance of the So- viet Union into the League of Na- tions illustrate the internal and external Union. The significant feature of the new Moscow subway that is being built and which Ed. Falkowski eloquently describes, is that it is being built of Soviet materials, and largely by Soviet men, and all of Moscow is participating in its build- ing. Even descriptions of Soviet exploration cannot escape this fact. For not only are the explorers’ lives Socialist lives, but in times of danger as in the case of Cheluyskin, the whole of the Soviet Union par- ticipated in its rescue. The progress of art, science and education further reveal that So- cialism is being built. For they have abandoned their previous aloofness from life and are part of Socjalist conStruction. One major purpose of Arctic exploration, often considered romantic, is to find new routes to the Bering Straits. The Academy of Science has been trans- ferred to Moscow to better aid the State Planning Commission in building Socialism. Education has abandoned bourgeois novelties of the Dalton Plan and progresses in removing illiteracy and building Socialist citizens. The participation of Soviet artists in the Moscow subway, the turn to discussion of the Socialist realism are also birth- marks of Socialism. In the biulding of Socialism there is also the building of a new So- cialiss man. The shock-brigader, Pictured in the front cover by Av- vakumoy, is not only building So- cialism, but himself is being trans- formed in the process into the new Socialist man of the morrow. IN 1:45-WEAF—Vaugn de Leath, Songs WOR—Dance Music WABC—Boake Carter, Commentator 8:00-WEAF—Reisman Orchestra; Phil Duey, Baritone WOR-—-Eddy Brown, Violin WJZ—14 Karat Lead—Sketch WABC—Concert Orchestra; Frank Munn, Tenor; Hazel|Glenn, Soprano 8:30-WEAF—Wayne King Orchestra WOR—Variety Musicale WiZ-—Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone; John B. Kennedy, Narrator; Con- cert Orchestra ‘WABC—Lyman Orchestra; Vivienne Segal, Soprano; Oliver Smith, Tenor 9:00-WEAF—Ben Bernie Orchestra WOR—Hillbilly Music upper class—the last descendant of the inbred, patrician Tillfords. ws FLORENCE McGEE’s per- formance as Mary Tilford is a Temarkable achievement; in a quieter key, Katherine Emery and Anne Revere give two beautiful performances. Mrs. Robert Keith performs smoothly, but his acting lends no conviction and no stature to the part of the doctor. Of the test of the cast, I also wish to com- mend Miss Barbara Beals who plays an important part a sthe girl who is cowed into testifying against her teachers by the devilish Mary. Miss Aline Bernstein’s settings are workmanlike. Mr. Shumlin’s direction is at times brilliant and illuminating, at times routine, at times forced and unconvincing. For- tunately, the moments of brilliance are frequent enough to make you forget the others. . 1S LEFTY? BETCHA THOSE IS) HIS FOOTSTEPS ON “TH' SIDEWALK WABC—Bing Crosby, Song: Sisters Trio; Stoll Orche: 9:15-WJZ—Story Behind the Claim—Sketch 9:30-WEAF—Ed. Wynn, Comedian; Duchin Orchestra WOR—Lum and Abner—Sketch WJZ—Westminster Chorus, John Finley Williamson, Conductor WABC—Jones Orchestra; Lee Sims, Piano; Tlomay Bailey, Songs 9:45-WOR—Weems Orchestra 10:00-WEAF—Operetta—The Pink Lady, with Gladys Swarthout, Soprano; John Barclay and others WOR—Sid Gary, Baritone ‘WJZ—Sea Sketch—Cameron Ging, Narrator WABC—Gray Orchestra; Annette Hanshaw, SongsM Walter O'Keefe 10:15-WOR—Current Events—H. E. Read 10:30-WOR—Wallenstein Sinfonietta WJZ—Tim and Irene, Comedy ‘WABC—George Givot, Comedian 11:00-WEAF—The Grummits—Sketch WOR—News WJZ—Campo Orchestra WABC—Haymes Orchestra 11:15-WEAF—Robert Royce, Tenor WOR—Moonbeams Trio 11:30-WEAF—Osborne Orchestra ‘WOR—Dance Music WJZ—Davis Orchestra WABC—Busse Orchestra 11:45-WABC—Sabin Orchestra Boswell The Dreamer waar ceust lf i's | HE LANDLORO/ PASSING BY / { Sronl/ crows! \ a strength of the Soviet) articles on Scottsboro and the at- tack in the South on the I. W. O. to a large well-made youth section. It takes over the material of the Working Woman, the Labor De- fender, the Young Worker, and the New Masses, profiting by its organi- zational outlook. * The suggestion is that fresh ma- terial be used—that organizational news need not repeat the history of Scottsboro in each issue, that every discovery need not be that of a new Fascist step. In the last two issues of the New Order, the arti- cles, with the exception of those on workers’ insurance, discriminations and on the raids in Georgia, have been blanket news reports of fam- ous or obvious material. But this has been offset by features like the excellent correspondence columns and the women’s page, balancing the magazine as a strong, growing expression. 3 = THE MONTHLY REVIEW — De- cember, 1934—Fifteen cents. “{F, HOWEVER, I am required to make an additional declaration, it means that I am requested to make a patriotic demonstration, a patriotic gesture, and this I refuse to do.” Moissaye Olgin made this statement to the New School for Social Research when he was required to sign the “Oath of Al- legiance.” He has not heard from them since, and his interview is featured in this fifth issue of The Monthly Review. With its emphasis on culture and all the struggles of culture today, The Monthly Review reports the librarians’ strike, the P.W.A-P. in Washington, and includes a monthly economic survey by the Labor Research Association. On the literary side, there is an Un- employment Council story by Clara Severn, a story by Fred Miller, and poems by Kenneth Fearing and Philip Cornwall. Isidor Schneider continues the “Who's Who in Jail” paragraphs that used to appear in Political Prisoners, and which is an excellent news-digest form in the fight for the defense of those “readers behind bars.” Short, crackling summaries, reviews, analy- ses, have the virtue of being able to stand up separately. The Monthly Review, as con- trasted with a magazine like The New Order, points the situation of the extra-organizational publica- tion. Here we lack the strength of a movement to drive home its literature like a driven wedge; but here additional care has been taken editorially to make each item stand on its own feet, not depending on the organization to back it up. Frankly a white-collar magazine with a white-collar appeal, having as its aim the unification of all white-collar workers against capi- talism, The Monthly Review sup- plments the workers’ publications. It has a good chance of reaching offices and homes where workers’ magazines have not yet penetrated and of opening those doors for the others; and, on the basis of its platform, it is impossible for it to fall into the mucilage liberalism which impedes many magazines of the same form and a parallel ap- peal. Such a news article as “Lebanon Hospital Workers Organize,” by Mildred Stock, is the immediate, factual sort of news story that the organizations need to publish in their magazines. Their part here is to follow up the work among the pro- fessionals that The Monthly Re- view proposes, to come into the place made by this magazine, forc- ing the attention of professionals and white-collar workers on the unions, clubs, and organizations ready for them. In the meantime, The Monthly Review makes a healthy start. LITTLE LEFTY BEATS BURCK TODAY With today’s contribution, Del reached the $200 line—40 per cent of his $500 quota. These colored portraits are diverting some of Burck’s customers to the support of Littie Lefty, if one is to judge by figures! Allen Shields ..... Previously received Total . of Del will present a beautiful colored portrait of his cartoon characters avery day to the highest contributor. deck! wr WAS JUST “WARY FAT FALSE aLaRM| OUTA HERE! BagK // YoU BIG STIFF \'LL ts. sae ae rsaae *s | of the last article of John L. ontgoren. By, | Spivak’s series, “Plotting the American Pogroms,” which have appeared weekly in the New Masses, and have been reprinted | in the Daily Worker. In these | articles, Spivak has prodiced overwhelming proof of widespread | and organized anti-semitic ac- | tivities in this country, closely linked up with Nazi Germany, operating under various disguises. He has uncovered the anti-semitic | propaganda of organizations such | as the Silver Shirts, Order of "76, | the Paul Reveres, and individuals | like former Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Ralph M. Easley, | George Sylvester Viereck, Viola Iima and others. In Part One of this article Spivak proves that | Milo Reno, leader of the Farmers’ | Holiday Association, worked with | the “Crusaders of Economic Lib- erty” to spread anti-semitism among the discontented farmers, until advised by Secretary of Ag- riculture Wallace to break this open connection, In carrying on their vicious activities the Cru- saders, or White Shirts, are aided by Chicago under-world gang- sters. By JOHN L. SPIVAD iil F course this sort of stuff sounds a little insane and we could ignore it were it not that Hitler’s activities in Germany before he got into power were as fantastic and as mad as this Crusader’s letters. But insane or sane, the inten: ganda carried on by Jeaders working in close cooperation with Nazi agents in this country is making a profound effect upon the attitude of Gentiles towards the Jews. The anti-semitic activities not only of Fulliam’s propaganda de- partment but of Milo Reno before he was told to “lay off” by the Sec- retary of Agriculture, have fallen on rich soil, In the business world, the result of this propaganda against the Jews has already reached the stage where word is being quietly passed to take protection away from them in such matters as insurance policies, for instance, solely because holders of policies are Jews. Let me illustrate the effect of Milo Reno's and the White Shirts’ propaganda in Iowa. The Iowa Mutual Liability In- surance Company, with the home offices in the Insurance Building, 512 Second Avenue East, Cedar Rapids, Ia., wrote to J. Max Goar, manager of the J. Max Goar In- surance Agency, 505 Plymouth Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn., on Dec. 11, 1933, as follows: Dear Sir: In re: FC No. 406108 Our inspection of this risk in- dicates that the truck covered by this policy is driven by a young man twenty years of age who has the reputation of fast and reck- less driving. Although our policy | AMERICAN POGROMS has been in force since May 5th, and we have not been presented with any claims, we cannot help but feel that to continue this policy will sooner or later involve us in a claim because of the driv- ing habits of the chauffeur. Under the circumstances, we are obliged to issue cancellation of this policy and sincerely trust that you will encounter no difficulty in picking up this policy promptlyy If, for any reason, you are unable to secure the return of the policy. within the next seven days, notice of cancellation will be directed to the assured from this office. We might incidentally mention. that this risk covered a Jewish assured which our experience has. indicated as undesirable risks and for that reason we would appreci- ate your assistance in declining further risks for people of this type in view of the unfavorable records. Appreciating your prompt coop= eration and thanking you for ac- Knowledgement of this letter, we are Very truly yours, Iowa Mutual Liability Ins. Co. (Signed) G. J. vidence of the nitism now sweeping tes, guided and di- rected by open and secret Nazi agents. We have already seen in these articles the amazing netwdpk of anti-sem hate woven by these Hitler agents. We have seen the international intrigue, the hook-ups with nationally known American “patriotic” organizations, the far= flung spidery web of hate reaching into and out of every walk of life, desperately fostering hatred of a people in an effort to make it-the scapegoat for a crumbling econoriic system even as Hitler used Jews and Communists as scapegoats. In the first of this series I listed twelve points which I undertook “to prove. I think I have proved them and many, many more. The evi dence is now in, open to the public. What can be done with it to stop the further spread of the “Hate- the-Jew” creed will be discussed editorially later. I do not think the destructior “of Hitler in Germany will solve*ths lem here. The seeds of anti- ism have fallen upon rich soil. ik we in this country may well prepare ourselves for a period in which the propaganda will be carried on for a long time to come and it is only a question’ of time-be~ fore talk and the printed word will produce overt acts, open attacks on the Jews and inevitable pogroms, The Jews, if they think anything at all of the evidence presented, would do well to start preparing to defend themselves, their homes, and their cultural heritage. I do not think they have long to prepare before the avalanche of Nazi-di- rected hate will be upon them, DRIVE .WILL GO OVER THE TOP tion that the National Training School Daily Worker Drive would go over the top. With one more week to go, already $1,400 has been collected. This has been made possible because of the enthusiasm and interest of the students and the excellent work of the commit- tee. The class in Principles of Communism, Charles Epstein, in- structor, is still in the lead with $56.03, with several other classes closely behind. To wind up this successful drive, a dance will be given Saturday, December 8th at the School Auditorium, second floor. The main feature of the evening will be the distribution of prizes to the Shock Brigaders and Shock Brigade classes. The recent expulsion of twenty- one students from C. C. N. Y. for participating in an anti-fascist demonstration has created a stir among the students of the New York Workers School. They adopted the following resolution: “The student body and the instructors of the Workers School protest against twenty-one students of the college of the City of New York and de- mand their immediate reinstate- ment. We greet the militant and courageous demonstrations of the student body of the College of the City of New York against the Fas- cist representatives of Mussolini and heartily support the militant protest actions of the students and endorse the demand for immediate removal of Dr. Frederick R. Robin- son.” The New York Workers School is extending free scholarships for the winter term to these expelled students. 2 BRS RECORD REGISTRATION Beginning its second year, the by del ‘We were correct in our predic-| the high-handed explusion of the| What’s Doing in the W orkers’ Schools of the U. S. Cleveland Workers School operied its Fall Term with a registration of 345 students, the largest in the | history of the school. This big reg- | istration followed on the heels of a |scare article which appeared in the {September issue of tive super- | patriotic National Republic published in Washington, D. C. describing the | Cleveland school as a “boiling pot of Communism.” With a staff of 17 |instructors teaching 24 courses, the School has succeeded in establish- ing itself as a center of revolution= ary education in the city. The composition of the student body for the Fall Term shows that jover half of the students are em- |Ployed in the basic and light in- jdustries. An outstanding feature |of the student body is the fact that the overwhelming majority are youth between the ages of 20 and 29, the average age being 26 years. The Cleveland Workers School has set itself the goal of helping to establish schools in at least four |other important industrial cities of |Ohio. The first of these has al- ready been established with the opening of the Youngstown Work- ers Schoel on October 14th, Prep- arations for the opening of. the | Cincinnati Workers School are now | going on. | wee | WORKERS SCHOOL |IN SAN DIEGO The opening on December 2nd of the San Diego Workers School will | be celebrated by a banquet at 7 |p. m., Saturday, December 1st, the night before the school opening. The school will be held at the | Social Problems Forum, 852 Eighth Avenue, every Sunday during the three months’ course from Decem- ber 2nd to March 3rd, All indicae tions point to a large attendance, ‘The courses to be given are: Pune damentals of Communism, Organi- zation and Trade Unionism, His- tory of the American Working Class, and Public Speaking. Fees for the three months’ term, including ail the courses, are: employed $2.00; unemployed 25c. ree) * REGISTRATION NOW GOING ON AT DETROIT WORKERS SCHOOL gs: | The Detroit Workers School has | started its second year at its new headquarters, 5969 14th Avenue, | near McGraw. Evening courses ate | being held in Mrinciples of Com- munism, Trade Unionism, Political | Economy, Principles of Communiat Organization, Marxism - Leninism, Problems of the Negro Liberation Movement and-others. * = The school NOW LESSEE- WHERE WAS | 2 OW YEAH! LEFTY WAS BRINGIN' ME is also conducting at the Finnish Workers Hall, 2 34th Avenue. | The School Library is greatly need of books, pamphlets and zines and is appealing for tributions from all friends o Workers School, | forums every Sunday at 2.30 p. i.